TBR

Let’s begin with monthly book club reads:

(April) (28) One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez (contemp)
(18) Paradise, Gurnah (lit)
(August) (21) The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea (YA)
(November) (16) Stones for Ibarra (lit)
(December) (8) Playground, Richard Powers (Reg.)
(15) ~~Real Americans~~ (contemp)
(18) An Ember in the Ashes (YA)
(21) ~~poetry~~ (lit)
(?) TBD (contemp)
(2026) (January) (12) Beautyland (LEAD Reg.)
(18) ~~Demon Copperhead~~ (LEAD lit)
(22) The Surviving Sky (S/F)
(25) James, Everett (contemp)
(23) Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow (contemp)
(?) TBD (YA)
(?) The Wayfinder (so&so)
(February) (9) Night Watch (LEAD Reg.)
(15) ~~Martyr!~~ (lit)
(?) TBD (YA)
(23) The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (contemp)
(26) Amina al Sharif (S/F)
(?) TBD (so&so)
(March) (9) There Are Rivers in the Sky (LEAD Reg.)
(?) TBD (YA)
(23) ~~Hamnet~~ (contemp)
(26) ~~Never Let Me Go~~ (S/F)
(?) TBD (so&so)
(April) (13) Tell Me Everything (LEAD Reg.)
(?) TBD (YA)
(?) Lula Dean’s Little Library (contemp)
(23) Just City (S/F)
(?) TBD (so&so)
(May) (11) God of the Woods (LEAD Reg.)
(28) Some Desperate Glory (S/F)
(?) TBD (YA)
(31) American Dirt, Cummins (contemp)
(?) TBD (so&so)
(June) (?) TBD (LEAD Reg.)
(?) TBD (YA)
(?) God of the Woods, Moore (contemp)
(25) A Spear Cuts Through Water (S/F)
(?) TBD (so&so)
(July) (?) TBD (LEAD Reg.)
(?) TBD (YA)
(23) Goliath (S/F)
(?) TBD (so&so)
(Aug) (?) TBD (LEAD Reg.)
(?) TBD (YA)
(27) Wild Seed (S/F)
(?) TBD (so&so)
(Sept) (?) TBD (LEAD Reg.)
(?) TBD (YA)
(24) Hammajang Luck (S/F)
(?) TBD (so&so)
(Oct) (?) TBD (LEAD Reg.)
(?) TBD (YA)
(22) White Is for Witching (S/F)
(?) TBD (so&so)
(Nov) (?) TBD (LEAD Reg.)
(?) TBD (YA)
(19) Bone Season (S/F/YA)
(?) TBD (so&so)
(Dec) (?) TBD (so&so)

Seasonal Reads:

Ashley Poston books (summer)

ARCs (some past date, but usually a free copy):

*The Phoenix Pencil Company
*We Do Not Part, Han Kang
*The Emperor of Gladness, Vuong
*Alice Chen’s Reality Check
*My Friends, Backman
*Theft, Gurnah
Looking Up
The Secret Market of the Dead
Wifedom, Anna Funder?
*We All Live Here, Moyes
Sweetness All Around
*The Baby Dragon Bookshhop
Death by Cheesecake
Flashlight, Choi
Maid for It
*The Hounding, Purvis
*33 Place Brugmann
The Savage Noble Death of Babs Dionne
What We Kept to Ourselves
Gryphon King, Omer
Dark Tales of the Eno River
Second Chance Cinema
*Let Us Descend, Jesmyn Ward
Elemental Logic series, Marks
*How to Learn to Be Brave, Budde
On Tyranny
To the Moon and Back, Eliana Ramage
Consider the Consequences
Good and Evil, Scheweblin
Resting Bitch Face, Ryan
A Land So Wide, Craig
Speaking in Tongues, J. M. Coetzee
Life, Death & Giants, Ron Rindo
Ghost Fish, Stuart Pennebaker
Crux, Gabriel Tallent
Your Final Moments, Jay Coles
How to Commit a Postcolonial Murder, Nina McConigley
*Raising Hare, Chloe Dalton
Isabella Nag and the Pot of Basil, Oliver Darkshire
That’s All I Know, Elisa Levi
*Don’t Sleep with the Dead, Nghi Vo
*Incandescent, Emily Tesh
*The Floating World (The Floating World #1), Axie Oh
Happy People Don’t Live Here, Amber Sparks
What Remains After a Fire, Kanza Javed
Girl Warrior, Joy Harjo
Fate So Cold, Foody and Herman
We Love You, Bunny, Mona Awad
The Intentions of Thunder, Patricia Smith
Hot Wax, M. L. Rio
The Belles, Lacey M. Dunham
*Hot Desk, Laura Dickerman
*The Girls Who Grew Big, Leila Mottley
Endling, Maria Reva
*The Knight and the Moth, Rachel Gillig
*The Raven Scholar, Antonia Hodgson
*Creation Lake, Rachel Kushner
*The Mobius Book, Catherine Lacey
59 Minutes, Seddon
Suicide, Eduoard Leve
The Book of Homes, Andrea Bajani
The Magic Kingdom, Elkin
*Fever Beach, Carl Hiaasen
The Far Edges of the Known World, Owen Rees
The Orange Notebooks, Susanna Crossman
Black History Is for Everyone, Brian Jones
*Writing Creativity and Soul, Sue Monk Kidd
The Ghosts of Merry Hall, Heather Davey
Convent Wisdom, Ana Garringa and Carmen Urbita

Immediate TBR:

MEANWHILE SPIRITUAL: ?
MEANWHILE HEALTH: ADHD Is Awesome, Holderness; The New Menopause, Haver; ADHD 2.0, Hallowell.
MEANWHILE WRITING: Save the Cat YA, Brody; Essential Guide to Getting Your Book Published, Eckstut; Refuse to Be Done, Bell; Get Signed, Halpern; Before and After the Book Deal, Maum.
MEANWHILE COOKING: One Tin Bakes, Salad Season, The Choi of Cooking, Six Seasons, Tenderheart.
TO FINISH: Solito, Zamora; One Hundred Years of Solitude, Garcia Marquez; To Shape a Dragon’s Breath, Blackgoose.
The Road to Tender Hearts, Annie Hartnett
Run for the Hills, Kevin Wilson
Children of Solitude, Michael G. Williams
The Familiar, Leigh Bardugo
The Fraud, Smith
Ghost Roast, Gibbs
Thornhenge, T. Kingfisher
Hemlock & Silver, T. Kingfisher
A Sorceress Comes to Call, T. Kingfisher
Creation Lake, Rachel Kushner
Raven Scholar, Antonia Hodgson
Brightsword, Lev Grossman
The Magicians, Lev Grossman
The Likeness, Tana French
Nothing More to Tell, McManus
My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, Ferris
Yellowface, Kuang
Freewater, Luqman-Dawson
Iron Flame and Onyx Storm, Yarros
The Cemetery of Untold Stories, Julia Alvarez
Lady Tan’s Circle of Women, Lisa See
The Wisteria Society of Lady Scoundrels, India Holton
Arm of the Sphinx, Josiah Bancroft
The Last of August, Cavarallo
The Knight and the Moth, x
Fun House, Alison Bechdel
Spent, Alison Bechdel
Babel, R. F. Kuang
Gideon the Ninth, Tamsyn Muir
The Goose Girl, Hale
The Spellshop, Sarah Beth Durst
Heartsopper, Alice Oseman
The Mobius Book
Night Watch
The Women
Sabriel
The Saint of Bright Doors
Honey Witch
Adeventures of Amina al-Sarafi
Will Grayson, Will Grayson
The Snowy Day

Books I’ve Come Across Over the Years and Written Down Here:

Deadly Animals, Marie Tierney
The Floating World, Axie Oh
I Might Be in Trouble, Daniel Aleman
Out of Love, Hazel Hayes
Good Morning Midnight, Brooks Dalton
The Bandit Queens, Parini Shroff
Weyward, Emilia Hart
The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother), Rabih Alameddine
The Most Wonderful Crime of the Year, (Christmas) Ally Carter
Murder at Gulls Nest, Jess Kidd
The Kamogawa Food Detectives, Hisashi Kashawai
Staircase in the Woods, (Halloween) Chuck Wendig
The Split, Kit Frick
The Names, Florence Knapp
Wild Dark Shore, Charlotte McConnaghy
The Correspondent, Virginia Evans
Dreamdark, Laini Taylor (or another one)
Victorian Psycho, (Halloween) Virginia Feito
Let’s Call Her Barbie, Renee Rosen
Stone Yard Devotional, Charlotte Wood
The Loneliness of Sonia & Sunny, Kiran Desai
The Director, Daniel Kehlmann
Angel Down, Daniel Kraus
Whale Fall, Elizabeth O’Connor?
The Sisters, Joan Kassen Hamiri
The Audition, Katie Kitamara
Trip, Amie Barrodale
A Marriage at Sea, Sophie Elmhirst (followed by A Severe Mercy, Sheldon Van Auken)
There Is No Place for Us, Brian Goldstone
I’m Glad My Mom Died with Mother Mary Comes to Me with The God of Small Things
This Is How You Lose the Time War, Amal al-Motar
The Odyssey translation by Emily Wilson
Quicksilver (Fae & Alchemy #1), Callie Hart
Nearly Departed, Lucas Oakley
The Salt Path, Raynor Winn
Girl on Girl, Sophie Gilbert
The Comfort of Crows, Renkl
My Brilliant Friend
The World of Yesterday, Stefan Zweig
Beware of Pity, Stefan Zweig
Miss Rumphius, Barbara Cooney (picture book)
Daughter of Latin America (anthology)
1000 Words, Jami Attenberg (writing book)
Truth Is the Arrow, Mercy Is the Bow, Steve Almond (writing book)
Spent, Alison Bechdel
Dungeon Crawler Carl, Matt Dinnaman
Knife, Salman Rushdie
Life of a Cactus trilogy, Dusti Bowling
Designing Worlds, Tim Burton
Blessings, Ibeh
Native Nations, Kathleen Duval (history)
The Seven Year Slip, Ashley Poston
Green Teeth, Molly O’Neill
Blindness, Jose Saramago
By the Book (Meant to Be #2), Jasmine Guillory
Tangled Up in You (Meant to Be #4), Christina Lauren
Vera Wang’s Unsolicited Advice for Murderers, Jesse Q. Sutanto
Saint Death’s Daughter, C. D. E. Cooney (necromancy)
Life After Life, Kate Atkinson
The Luminaries, Eleanor Catton
Beautyland, Marie-Helene Bertino
Raven Sholar, Antonia Hodgson
Broken Country, Clare Leslie Hall
Hum, Helen Philips (?)
The Wedding People
Solomon Gursky Was Here
Tigerman, Nick Harkaway
Tooth and Claw, Jo Walton
The Jane Austed Book Club
Good Dirt, Charmaine Wilkerson
Olympus Texas, Stacy Swan
Cross Purposes, Jonathan Rausch
Piranesi
The Cerulean Sea
The Forty Rules of Love, Elif Shafak (and other books)
Hello Beautiful, Ann Nepolitano
The Writer’s Guide to Beginnings, Paula Munier
Before and After the Book Deal
Black Sea, Caroline Eden (and the ones after that)
The Impossible Us, Sarah Lotz
The Spell Shop, Sarah Beth Durst
I Cheerfully Refuse, Enger
An African History of Africa
Battle Royale, Koushan Takami
Myth America, Kruse and Delizer
Shark Heart, Emily Habeck
The Funny Thing About Norman Foreman, Julietta Henderson
Solomon Gursky Was Here, Mordecai Richler
Tiger Man, Nick Harkaway
Tooth and Claw, Jo Walton
Good Dirt
The Jane Austen Book Club
Olympus, Texas, Stacy Swan
Cross Purposes, Jonathan Rausch
The Mediterranean Dish Simply Dinner
The Writer’s Guide to Beginnings
Crumbs (cookbook)
Dear Writer, Maggie Smith (and other books)
Before and After the Book Deal
Love and Saffron
Writing in the Dark, Tim Waggoner
Liturgy for Writers
Get Signed, Lucinda Halpern
Before and After the Book Deal, Courtney Maum
The Art of Revision, Peter Ho Davies
How to Write Short Stories and Get Them Published, Ashley Lister
Don’t Murder Your Mystery, Chris Roerden
Flash!, John Dufresne
Thriving with ADHD Workbook for Teens, Allison Tyler
Mindfulness Prescription for Adult ADHD, Lidia Zylowska
Study Strategies for Teens, Charlie Haven
How to Keep House While Drowning, KC Davis
Yes! You Will Understand Your Teen with ADHD, Jaycee Donovan
Women with Attention Deficit Disorder, Sari Solden
Learning How to Learn, Oakley and Sejnowski
The Queen of Distraction, Terry Matlen
Smart but Scattered Teens, Guare, Dawson and Guare
The Divergent Mind, Jenara Nerenberg
The Disorganized Mind, Nancy A. Ratey
Refuse to Be Done, Matt Bell
The Inklings, the Zaleskis
Eerie Appalachia
Priory of the Orange Tree, Samantha Shannon
Persuasion, Jane Austen
ADHD Workbook for Women
Finding Your Way in a Wild New World, Martha Beck
Purple Hibiscus, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Children of Blood and Bone, Tomi Adeyemi
Where the Footprints End, Cutchin and Renner
Becoming Mrs. Lewis, Patti Henry
Sex, God, and the Conservative Church
Winter’s Promise, Christelle Dabos
How to Make a Living with Your Writing
Write the Poem journal
What I Wore Today, Gemma Correll
I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter, Erika L. Sanchez
Sasquatch: Legend Meets Science, Jeff Meldrum
Salvage the Bones, Jesmyn Ward
A Swim in the Pond in the Rain, George Saunders
Write the Story, Picadilly
How to Bake, Paul Hollywood
Good Christian Sex, Bromleigh McClennighan
The Bigfoot Book, Nick Refern
The Color of Magic, Terry Pratchett
Norse Mythology, Neil Gaiman
Story Engineering, Larry Brooks
God and the Gay Christian, Matthew Vines
Dear Mothman, Robin Gow
Over Sea, Under Stone, Susan Cooper
Flavor Thesaurus, Niki Segnit
Portable MFA in Creative Writing
Creative Writers Notebook, John Gillard
Travelling Mercies, Anne Lamott
Sasquatch Hunter’s Almanac, Sharma Shields
Simon Versus the Homosapiens’ Agenda, Becky Albertralli
Something Wicked This Way Comes, Ray Bradbury
Gregor the Overlander, Suzanne Collins
This Book Is Anti-Racist, Jewell and Durand
How to Grow a Novel, Sos Stein
Mensa Brain Games
Super Natural Cooking, Heidi Swanson
Akata Woman, Nnedi Okarafor
Pocket Scavenger, Kerri Smith
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, Taylor Jenkins Reid
Modern Writer’s Workshop
365 Days of Nature
365 Sketches
The Broken Way, Ann Voskamp
Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow, Gabrielle Zevin
Bigfoot: The True Story, Loren Coleman?
The Bee Sting, Paul Murray
I’m Glad My Mother Died, Jeanette McCurdy
Yellowface and Erasure and Victim
Plot and Structure, James Scott Bell
The Art of Caligraphy
Babel, R. F. Kuang
Warcross, Marie Lu
Mothman’s Merry Cryptid Christmas, Andrew Shaffer
Man in the High Castle, Philip K. Dick
Pride and Prejudice and Mistletoe, Melissa de la Cruz
Ninth House and Hellbent, Leigh Bardugo
Aventure of Amina Al-Sarafi
A Court of Thorns and Roses, Sarah J. Maas
Air Awakens, Elise Kova
One Dark Window, Rachel Gillig
Legendborn, Tracy Deonn
The Serpent & the Wings of Night, Carissa Broadbent
The Witch Collector, Carissa Weaks
Spark of the Everflame, Penn Cole
The Familiar, Leigh Bardugo
Fable, Adrienne Young
Daughter of the Pirate King, Tricia Levelseller
This Must Be the Place, Maggie O’Farrell
Let Us Descend, Jesmyn Ward
The Brides of High Hill, Nghi Vo
Everything Sad Is Untrue, Daniel Nayeri
The Valley of Amazement, Amy Tan
The Art of War
Invisible Armies, Hollow Earth
A Swim in the Pond in the Rain
Story Engineering
The Portable MFA in Creative Writing
The Modern Library’s Writer’s Workshop
Louise Erdrich (The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse, Tracks, Love Medicine, Books & Island in Ojibwe County, The Plague of Doves, The Birchbark House, The Roundhouse)
A Discovery of Witches
Carter Beats the Devil
The Miniaturist
Legends & Lattes (Legends & Lattes #1), Travis Baldree
All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries #1), Martha Wells
Allana: The First Adventure (Song of the Lioness #1), Tamora Pierce
Watership Down, Richard Adams
Underland Chronicles
Discworld
Furies of Calderon
Mistborn
Snow Crush
How to Make a Living with Your Writing
Thrill Me
Steering the Craft
How Fiction Works
Craft in the Real World, Matthew Salesses
Dreyer’s English
How High We Go in the Dark, Sequoia Nagamatsu
The Hummingbird’s Daughter, Urrea
Where the Forest Meets the Stars, Verdana
Meet Me in Another Life?
The Immortalists, Chloe Benjamin
The Singularities, John Banville?
Sea of Tranquility, Emily St. John Mandel
All the Salt in the Sea?
The Last Cuentista, Heguera
Haunted Healthcare, Richard Estep
Educated, Tara Westover
Loot, Tania James (writing group)
Verity
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo (Windsor)
How to Novel Using the Snowflake Method
Lonely Castle in the Mirror
The Emotional Craft of Fiction
The Cat Who Saved Books
Mating in Captivity, Esther Perel
Why We Love, Helen Fisher
The Night Circus
The Business of Writing for Children, Aaron Shepherd
Writing Picture Books, Ann Whitford Paul
Writing Down the Bones
Paper Girls, Bryan K. Vaughn
Mythos, Stephen Fry
Pity the Reader
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
Slaughterhouse Five, Kurt Vonnegut
Hello, Molly!, Molly Shannon
The Liturgy of Politics, Kaitlynn Schiess
Breaking Free from Body Shame, Jess Connoly
The Midnight Library
Nobody Wants to Read This Sh*t
A Court of Thorns and Roses
Bible Infographics, Harvest House
The Outsiders
Howl’s Moving Castle
The Prince and the Pauper, Mark Twain
The Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison and Recetitif
The Road, Jack Kerouac
Americanah, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 0
Chasing Lincoln’s Killer
50 States, 5000 Ideas
The Bean Trees
Farm Anatomy and Ocean Anatomy, Julia Rothman
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime
The Big, Bad Book of Beasts and Botany, Michael Largo
The New Jim Crow, Alexander
Selected Writings of Gertrude Stein (writing conference)
Open Page, Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing (writing conference)
Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell, Susanna Clarke
Younger Next Year, Crowley
Crying in H Mart, Michelle Zauner
The Creative Writer’s Notebook, John Gillard
The Green Ember series (original 4, or all 8)
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, Rebecca Skloot
Food, Dr. Mark Hyman
Making Shapely Fiction, Jerome Stern (writing conference)
The Art of Fiction, John Gardner (writing conference)
The Describer’s Dictionary
Imaginative Writing, Janet Burroway (writing conference)
“Where the Face Becomes a Plant” (writing conference)
Vex Hex Smash Smooch, Constance Hale
“The Crane Wife,” C. J. Hauser (writing conference)
The Kite Runner, Khaled Housseini
The Body Keeps the Score, Bessel van der Kolk
Craft in the Real World, Matthew Salesses (writing conference)
The Case of the Missing Moonstone
Best Remembered Poems, Martin Gardner
“How to Talk to Your Mother,” Lorrie Moore (writing conference)
If On a Winter’s Night a Traveler, Italo Calvino (writing conference)
The Night Circus, Eric Morgenstern (writing conference)
Winter Birds, Jim Grimsley ? (writing conference)
The Fifth Season, Jamesin ? (writing conference)
Cross Stitching Guide for Beginners, Faye Fetters
Heavy: An American Memoir, Kiese Laymon (writing conference)
A Pagan Place, Edna O’Brien (writing conference)
Deep Work, Cal Newport (writing conference)
A Raisin in the Sun, Lorraine Hansbery (with daughter)
The Life, Carrie Fountain (writing conference)
Before and After the Book Deal, Courtney (writing conference)
The Essential Gwendolyn Brooks, Gwendolyn Brooks
A Pop-Up Guide to Hogwarts
Exhalation, Ted Chiang (Goodreads)
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, Stieg Larrson (added from bookstore)
Fool’s Talk (Goodreads)
Every Riven Thing: Poems, Christian Wiman
They Called Us Enemy (Goodreads)
Four Thousand Weeks (the Times)
In Love, Amy Bloom
Calling for a Blanket Dance, Oscar Hokeah (SA follower)
Human Anatomy for the Artist, Sarah Simblet
Pipi Longstocking, Astrid Lindgren
Matilda, Roald Dahl 0
Emperor of All Maladies, Sidhartha Mukerjhee
Inkheart, Cornelia Funke 0
Les Miserables, Victor Hugo
The Writing Life, Annie Dillard
Burnout, Emily Nagoski
The School for Good Mothers, Chann
Ottolenghi Simple, Ottolenghi
Overwhelmed, Bridget Schulte
Pug, Actually, Matt Dunn
The Surprise Date Challenge: Home Edition, Dana Lam
The Color Purple, Alice Walker (social passion series, movie)
Writing Down the Bones, Natalie Goldberg
The Absolute True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, Sherman Alexie
The Broken Way, Ann Voskamp
Alias Grace, Margaret Atwood
The Greatest Gift, Ann Voskamp
The Road Back to You, Ian Morgan Cron
The Kindness Challenge, Shaunti Feldhahn
Full Catastrophe Living, Jon Kabat-Zin
[World Travel, Anthony Bourdain]
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead, Olga Tolkarczuk (writing group)
Foster, Claire Keegan (writing group)
The 1662 Book of Common Prayer (wishlist)
Bossypants, Tina Fey
Funster 500+ Word Search Puzzles (wishlist)
Marine Biology, Mladenov (wishlist)
Reef Life, Callum Roberts (wishlist)
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, Skloot (science)
Astronomy, Moche (wishlist)
18 Miles, Dewdney (wishlist)
Field Guide to the Weather, Henning (wishlist)
The Devil in the White City, Erik Larson
The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood
Get Out of Your Head, Jennie Allen (wishlist)
I Wrote a Book About You (wishlist)
The Color of Water, James McBride
NET Abide Bible (wishlist)
John Everett Millais, Rosenfeld (wishlist)
Before We Were Yours, Lisa Wingate (wishlist)
Earth Children Are Weird, Kim Smith (wishlist)
Ocean, Dinwiddie and Eales (wishlist)
Middlesex, Eugenides
Behind the Beautiful Forevers, Katherine Boo (2010s)
The Kingdom of Fungi, Petersen (wishlist)
Walking the Bible, Bruce Feiler
Snow Art, Simon Beck (wishlist)
The Story, Max Lucado etc (wishlist)
Thou Spleeny Swag-Bellied Miscreant (wishlist)
The Philosophy, Shakespeare and Literature Book, DK, Canton, Buckingham (wishlist)
Gadsby, Wright (wishlist)
Feelings Flash Cards, Todd Parr (wishlist)
Story, Robert McKee (wishlist)
Murder on the Orient Express, Agatha Christie (mystery)
Cold Comfort Farm, Stall Gibbons (comedy)
Wayfarer, K. M. Weiland (wishlist)
Good and Beautiful and Kind (wishlist)
The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett (childrens)
Glass Sentence (wishlist)
Serafina and the Black Cloak, Robert Beatty
Nature Anatomy Notebook (wishlist)
Johnny Tremain, Esther Forbes
The Jane Austen Book Club, Karen Joy Fowler
The Brothers K, David James Duncan
A Swim in the Pond in the Rain, George Saunders (writing group)
The Nightingale, Kristin Hannah (historical fiction)
She’s Come Undone, Wally Lamb
Eleanor and Park, Rainbow Rowell (YA)
Kafka on the Shore, Haruki Murakami (2000s)
Sing, Unburied, Sing, Jesmyn Ward (2010s)
Tell It Slant, Miller and Paola (writing)
The Secret Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Junot Diaz
Sherlock Holmes Puzzles, Brain Games (activities)
The Eyre Affair, Jasper Ffjord (book lovers)
The Penderwicks, Jeanne Birdsall
My Amish Story, Rebecca Borntrager Graber
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIHM, Robert C. O’Brien (childrens)
The Strange Case of the Alchemist’s Daughter (mood-chosen)
“Because I Could Not Stop for Death,” Emily Dickinson and “Seasons in the Sun,” Terry Jacks
Let the Dead Bury Their Dead and Black Folk Could Fly, Randall Kenan (Jill McCorkle)
In the Dream House, Carmen Machado (b/c recommend)
The Mists of Avalon, Marion Zimmer Bradley
A Broom of One’s Own, Nancy Peacock
The Food Lab, J. Lopez Kenji-Alt
The Key to Extraordinary, Nathalie Lloyd
Catch Your Death, Feel the Fear, Pick Your Poison, and Blink and You Die, Lauren Child
The Wizard of Once series (4), Cressida Cowell
Aurelia’s Colors
The Greek Myths, Robert Graves
House of Leaves, Mark Z. Daneilewski
I’m Just No Good at Rhyming, Chris Harris
The Great Alone, Kristin Hannah
What Luck, This Life, Kathryn Schwille
Station Eleven, Emily St. John Mandel
Dreamland, Sam Quinones
The Woman in the Window, A.J. Finn
Spinning Silver, Naomi Novik
The Book of Heroes, Miyuki Mayabe
The Overstory, Richard Powers 0
The Goose Girl, Shannon Hale (and the rest of the existing series)
Reading Lolita in Tehran, Azar Nafisi (biography and memoir list)
The Farm, Haven Kimmel
A Game of Thrones series, George R.R. Martin (fantasy list)
Coraline, Neil Gaiman
Mysteries, Knut