The Winter King
A Novel of Arthur
1st of three, retelling of Arthurian legend
So many books, but these are ones that strike me as potentially interesting when I first encounter their descriptions.
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The Keeper
I've enjoyed all her books so far
Hollow Bones
The Calamity Club
All the rage around here
Kin
The Secrets We Hide
A North Falls Thriller
The Sun Also Rises
Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil
Recommended horror fantasy
Miss Lambert Steps Aboard Danger
Ishiguro. That's all.
Shaman's Crossing
I'd love to find these. Love Robin Hobb
Forest Mage
Second, after Shaman's Crossing
Renegade's Magic
Third in series
Enemy of God
A Novel of Arthur
Second in the Arthur series
Land
Vagabond
A Memoir
Excalibur
A Novel of Arthur
Third in the Arthur series
The Things We Never Say
The Astral Library (Deluxe Limited Edition)
Dead But Dreaming of Electric Sheep
His stuff is scary, or has been so far at least
How to Be Okay When Nothing Is Okay
Tips and Tricks That Kept Me Alive, Happy, and Creative in Spite of Myself
King Sorrow
Partita
River of Bones and Other Stories
The Beginning Comes After the End
Notes on a World of Change
The End of Everything
The Hidden Life of Trees
What They Feel, How They Communicate--Discoveries from a Secret World
Translated by Jane Billinghurst
Hope in the Dark
Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities (Updated)
The Fire Next Time
The Spanish Holocaust
Inquisition and Extermination in Twentieth-Century Spain
Secrets
A Reporter's Memoir
Our Towns
A 100,000-Mile Journey Into the Heart of America
The Woman Behind the New Deal
The Life and Legacy of Frances Perkins, Social Security, Unemployment Insurance, and the Minimum Wage
Exit Party
The French Illusion
Giving Grisham another chance after backing off for a few years
Other Worlds Than These
A Talisman Novel
Wrapup of The Talisman story
The Witches of Cambridge
She wrote Practical Magic. Why would I not want to read this?
The River Is Waiting (Oprah's Book Club)
Paperback
Whistler
We the Women
The Hidden Heroes Who Shaped America
Nobody's Girl
A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice
Enshittification
Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do about It
The Lion Women of Tehran
Stolen Focus
Why You Can't Pay Attention--And How to Think Deeply Again
The Old Ways
A Journey on Foot
John of John
These Truths
A History of the United States
Paperback
Regime Change
Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump
I Hear a New World
Seek the Traitor's Son
Dystopian fantasy sci-fi with romance? I dunno. Roth is the Divergent writer
The Silverblood Promise
The Last Legacy, Book 1
First book of The Last Legacy series. 'A ribald, swashbuckling tale of lies, treacheries and characters. Gritty and cutthroat.' Compared to Robin Cobb
South to America
A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation
The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI
How to Think about Artificial Intelligence--Before It's Too Late
Unruly
The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
The Demon of Unrest
A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
Finally paperback
The Red Winter
The first werewolf? Compared to The Witcher and Susanna Clarke
Empire of Silence
The Sun Eater: Book One
First book of "Sun Eater" series. Compared to Frank Herbert, Gene Wolfe, Patrick Rothfuss
Seasons of Glass and Iron
Stories
Short story? Winner of Nebula, Hugo, Locus awards. "explores the power of women's friendships to rewrite—or at least expose—misogynist ideologies" "undermines the logic of [Tabitha and Amira's] self-imposed martyrdom" and "invites introspection"
The Lost Trees of Willow Avenue
A Story of Climate and Hope on One American Street
The Poet Empress
Fantasy novel in a world inspired by ancient China. A young rice farmer learns poetry magic in a society that forbids women from reading. Court politics, survival, and the power of words.
A Fever in the Heartland
The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
The Worst Hard Time
The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl
The Invisible Life of Addie Larue
Yesteryear
The Perfect Moment
God, Sex, Art, and the Birth of America's Culture Wars
Eve
How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution
Grief Is the Thing with Feathers
Seven Brief Lessons on Physics
Maybe a more graspable - and brief - explanation of some truly difficult things
Train Dreams
A Novella
Absolutely love the movie, and the book's supposed to be even better
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Translated by H T Willetts
Kick the Latch
Inside horse racing; What's not to love?
Promise Me, America
The Disappearers
Tower Hill
A Plantation on the Edge of Rebellion
About Nat Turner's rebellion. Plantations, slavery, and the evil that men do
Renaissance Men
Agents of Medical and Cultural Modernity
More things we need to know. Maybe for library?
| # | Title | Subtitle | Author(s) | Year | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Winter King | A Novel of Arthur | Bernard Cornwell | 1997 | 1st of three, retelling of Arthurian legend |
| 2 | The Keeper | Tana French | 2026 | I've enjoyed all her books so far | |
| 3 | Hollow Bones | Jodi Picoult | 2026 | ||
| 4 | The Calamity Club | Kathryn Stockett | 2026 | All the rage around here | |
| 5 | Kin | Tayari Jones | 2026 | ||
| 6 | The Secrets We Hide | A North Falls Thriller | Karin Slaughter | 2026 | |
| 7 | The Sun Also Rises | Ernest Hemingway | 2022 | ||
| 8 | Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil | V E Schwab | 2025 | Recommended horror fantasy | |
| 9 | Miss Lambert Steps Aboard Danger | Kazuo Ishiguro | 2027 | Ishiguro. That's all. | |
| 10 | Shaman's Crossing | Robin Hobb | 2006 | I'd love to find these. Love Robin Hobb | |
| 11 | Forest Mage | Robin Hobb | 2007 | Second, after Shaman's Crossing | |
| 12 | Renegade's Magic | Robin Hobb | 2009 | Third in series | |
| 13 | Enemy of God | A Novel of Arthur | Bernard Cornwell | 1998 | Second in the Arthur series |
| 14 | Land | Maggie O'Farrell | 2026 | ||
| 15 | Vagabond | A Memoir | Tim Curry | 2025 | |
| 16 | Excalibur | A Novel of Arthur | Bernard Cornwell | 1999 | Third in the Arthur series |
| 17 | The Things We Never Say | Elizabeth Strout | 2026 | ||
| 18 | The Astral Library (Deluxe Limited Edition) | Kate Quinn | 2026 | ||
| 19 | Dead But Dreaming of Electric Sheep | Paul Tremblay | 2026 | His stuff is scary, or has been so far at least | |
| 20 | How to Be Okay When Nothing Is Okay | Tips and Tricks That Kept Me Alive, Happy, and Creative in Spite of Myself | Jenny Lawson | 2026 | |
| 21 | King Sorrow | Joe Hill | 2025 | ||
| 22 | Partita | Barbara Kingsolver | 2026 | ||
| 23 | River of Bones and Other Stories | Rebecca Roanhorse | 2026 | ||
| 24 | The Beginning Comes After the End | Notes on a World of Change | Rebecca Solnit | 2026 | |
| 25 | The End of Everything | M John Harrison | 2026 | ||
| 26 | The Hidden Life of Trees | What They Feel, How They Communicate--Discoveries from a Secret World | Peter Wohlleben | 2026 | |
| 27 | Hope in the Dark | Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities (Updated) | Rebecca Solnit | 2016 | |
| 28 | The Fire Next Time | James Baldwin | 1992 | ||
| 29 | The Spanish Holocaust | Inquisition and Extermination in Twentieth-Century Spain | Paul Preston | 2013 | |
| 30 | Secrets | A Reporter's Memoir | Bob Woodward | 2026 | |
| 31 | Our Towns | A 100,000-Mile Journey Into the Heart of America | James Fallows and Deborah Fallows | 2019 | |
| 32 | The Woman Behind the New Deal | The Life and Legacy of Frances Perkins, Social Security, Unemployment Insurance, and the Minimum Wage | Kirstin Downey | 2010 | |
| 33 | Exit Party | Emily St John Mandel | 2026 | ||
| 34 | The French Illusion | John Grisham | 2026 | Giving Grisham another chance after backing off for a few years | |
| 35 | Other Worlds Than These | A Talisman Novel | Stephen King and Peter Straub | 2026 | Wrapup of The Talisman story |
| 36 | The Witches of Cambridge | Alice Hoffman | 2026 | She wrote Practical Magic. Why would I not want to read this? | |
| 37 | The River Is Waiting (Oprah's Book Club) | Wally Lamb | 2026 | Paperback | |
| 38 | Whistler | Ann Patchett | 2026 | ||
| 39 | We the Women | The Hidden Heroes Who Shaped America | Norah O'Donnell and Kate Andersen Brower | 2026 | |
| 40 | Nobody's Girl | A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice | Virginia Roberts Giuffre | 2025 | |
| 41 | Enshittification | Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do about It | Cory Doctorow | 2025 | |
| 42 | The Lion Women of Tehran | Marjan Kamali | 2025 | ||
| 43 | Stolen Focus | Why You Can't Pay Attention--And How to Think Deeply Again | Johann Hari | 2023 | |
| 44 | The Old Ways | A Journey on Foot | Robert MacFarlane | 2013 | |
| 45 | John of John | Douglas Stuart | 2026 | ||
| 46 | These Truths | A History of the United States | Jill Lepore | 2026 | Paperback |
| 47 | Regime Change | Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump | Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan | 2026 | |
| 48 | I Hear a New World | Alan Moore | 2026 | ||
| 49 | Seek the Traitor's Son | Veronica Roth | 2026 | Dystopian fantasy sci-fi with romance? I dunno. Roth is the Divergent writer | |
| 50 | The Silverblood Promise | The Last Legacy, Book 1 | James Logan | 2024 | First book of The Last Legacy series. 'A ribald, swashbuckling tale of lies, treacheries and characters. Gritty and cutthroat.' Compared to Robin Cobb |
| 51 | South to America | A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation | Imani Perry | 2023 | |
| 52 | The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI | How to Think about Artificial Intelligence--Before It's Too Late | Cory Doctorow | 2026 | |
| 53 | Unruly | The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens | David Mitchell | 2024 | |
| 54 | The Demon of Unrest | A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War | Erik Larson | 2026 | Finally paperback |
| 55 | The Red Winter | Cameron Sullivan | 2026 | The first werewolf? Compared to The Witcher and Susanna Clarke | |
| 56 | Empire of Silence | The Sun Eater: Book One | Christopher Ruocchio | 2023 | First book of "Sun Eater" series. Compared to Frank Herbert, Gene Wolfe, Patrick Rothfuss |
| 57 | Seasons of Glass and Iron | Stories | Amal El-Mohtar | 2026 | Short story? Winner of Nebula, Hugo, Locus awards. "explores the power of women's friendships to rewrite—or at least expose—misogynist ideologies" "undermines the logic of [Tabitha and Amira's] self-imposed martyrdom" and "invites introspection" |
| 58 | The Lost Trees of Willow Avenue | A Story of Climate and Hope on One American Street | Mike Tidwell | 2025 | |
| 59 | The Poet Empress | Shen Tao | 2026 | Fantasy novel in a world inspired by ancient China. A young rice farmer learns poetry magic in a society that forbids women from reading. Court politics, survival, and the power of words. | |
| 60 | A Fever in the Heartland | The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them | Timothy Egan | 2024 | |
| 61 | The Worst Hard Time | The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl | Timothy Egan | 2006 | |
| 62 | The Invisible Life of Addie Larue | V E Schwab | 2023 | ||
| 63 | Yesteryear | Caro Claire Burke | 2026 | ||
| 64 | The Perfect Moment | God, Sex, Art, and the Birth of America's Culture Wars | Isaac Butler | 2026 | |
| 65 | Eve | How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution | Cat Bohannon | 2025 | |
| 66 | Grief Is the Thing with Feathers | Max Porter | 2016 | ||
| 67 | Seven Brief Lessons on Physics | Carlo Rovelli | 2016 | Maybe a more graspable - and brief - explanation of some truly difficult things | |
| 68 | Train Dreams | A Novella | Denis Johnson | 2012 | Absolutely love the movie, and the book's supposed to be even better |
| 69 | One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich | Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn | 2014 | ||
| 70 | Kick the Latch | Kathryn Scanlan | 2022 | Inside horse racing; What's not to love? | |
| 71 | Promise Me, America | Joe Biden | 2026 | ||
| 72 | The Disappearers | Marlon James | 2026 | ||
| 73 | Tower Hill | A Plantation on the Edge of Rebellion | Alan Taylor | 2026 | About Nat Turner's rebellion. Plantations, slavery, and the evil that men do |
| 74 | Renaissance Men | Agents of Medical and Cultural Modernity | Harriet A Washington | 2026 | More things we need to know. Maybe for library? |