So many books, but these are ones that strike me as potentially interesting when I first encounter their descriptions.
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Hollow Bones
The Keeper
I've enjoyed all her books so far
The Calamity Club
All the rage around here
Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil
Recommended horror fantasy
Miss Lambert Steps Aboard Danger
Ishiguro. That's all.
The Things We Never Say
The Astral Library (Deluxe Limited Edition)
Kin
Land
Dead But Dreaming of Electric Sheep
His stuff is scary, or has been so far at least
Jamaica Inn
I need to read this because I love "Rebecca"
How to Be Okay When Nothing Is Okay
Tips and Tricks That Kept Me Alive, Happy, and Creative in Spite of Myself
Exit Party
Looks like I'll just be reading all her books. Maybe.
Big Little Truths
Reese's Book Club: A Novel: The Sequel to Big Little Lies
I really enjoyed Big Little Lies, so why not this?
The Witches of Cambridge
She wrote Practical Magic. Why would I not want to read this?
Ordinary People, Extraordinary Times
How to Reclaim Your Power, Fight for Freedom, and Reimagine Democracy
Looks good!
John of John
The End of Everything
Other Worlds Than These
A Talisman Novel
Wrapup of The Talisman story
King Sorrow
The Spanish Holocaust
Inquisition and Extermination in Twentieth-Century Spain
Most-recommended book on the Spanish Civil War
River of Bones and Other Stories
Hope in the Dark
Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities (Updated)
The Fire Next Time
Secrets
A Reporter's Memoir
The Woman Behind the New Deal
The Life and Legacy of Frances Perkins, Social Security, Unemployment Insurance, and the Minimum Wage
Frances Perkins - a hero who deserves more recognition
Old Man's War
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
The Silence of the Girls
The Raven Scholar
Regime Change
Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump
South to America
A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation
Unruly
The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
The Rules of Magic
The Book of Magic (Practical Magic 2)
The Invisible Life of Addie Larue
Empire of Silence
The Sun Eater: Book One
First book of "Sun Eater" series. Compared to Frank Herbert, Gene Wolfe, Patrick Rothfuss
The Lost Trees of Willow Avenue
A Story of Climate and Hope on One American Street
The Worst Hard Time
The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl
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
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"
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
The Little Stranger
It made Stephen King nervous. Hard to beat that.
Kick the Latch
Inside horse racing; What's not to love?
The Disappearers
Weyward
The Girls
Thinly disguised Manson Family story?
Murder at the Grand Alpine Hotel
The New Miss Marple Mystery
Somebody's been handed Agatha Christie's legacy. It's worth considering.
The Midnight Feast
All the King's Men
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize (Harvest)
Miss Wolcott's Ghost
Mestra
A Short Story
The Antidote
The Reformatory
Award-winning horror by black female author. And sounds scary.
Kiss Slay Replay
I've enjoyed some Rachel Harrison before. Why not try a new one?
Whistler
The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI
How to Think about Artificial Intelligence--Before It's Too Late
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
In Memoriam
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.
Renaissance Men
Agents of Medical and Cultural Modernity
More things we need to know. Maybe for library?
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Translated by H T Willetts
Under Story
A GMA Book Club Pick
The Demon of Unrest
A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
Finally paperback
Grief Is the Thing with Feathers
The Red Winter
The first werewolf? Compared to The Witcher and Susanna Clarke
Number Thirty-Two
Catch the Devil
A True Story of Murder, Deception, and Injustice on the Gulf Coast
2026 Kirkus Prize non-fiction finalist. Sort of a "catch me in you can" serious criminal on the Gulf Coast
Mad Eden
The Three Graces of Pearl Street
Possibility for book club?
Tower Hill
A Plantation on the Edge of Rebellion
About Nat Turner's rebellion. Plantations, slavery, and the evil that men do
A Fever in the Heartland
The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
Yesteryear
| # | Title | Subtitle | Author(s) | Year | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Secrets We Hide | A North Falls Thriller | Karin Slaughter | 2026 | |
| 2 | Hollow Bones | Jodi Picoult | 2026 | ||
| 3 | The Keeper | Tana French | 2026 | I've enjoyed all her books so far | |
| 4 | The Calamity Club | Kathryn Stockett | 2026 | All the rage around here | |
| 5 | Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil | V E Schwab | 2025 | Recommended horror fantasy | |
| 6 | Miss Lambert Steps Aboard Danger | Kazuo Ishiguro | 2027 | Ishiguro. That's all. | |
| 7 | The Things We Never Say | Elizabeth Strout | 2026 | ||
| 8 | The Astral Library (Deluxe Limited Edition) | Kate Quinn | 2026 | ||
| 9 | Kin | Tayari Jones | 2026 | ||
| 10 | Land | Maggie O'Farrell | 2026 | ||
| 11 | Dead But Dreaming of Electric Sheep | Paul Tremblay | 2026 | His stuff is scary, or has been so far at least | |
| 12 | Jamaica Inn | Daphne Du Maurier | 2023 | I need to read this because I love "Rebecca" | |
| 13 | 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 | |
| 14 | Exit Party | Emily St John Mandel | 2026 | Looks like I'll just be reading all her books. Maybe. | |
| 15 | Big Little Truths | Reese's Book Club: A Novel: The Sequel to Big Little Lies | Liane Moriarty | 2026 | I really enjoyed Big Little Lies, so why not this? |
| 16 | The Witches of Cambridge | Alice Hoffman | 2026 | She wrote Practical Magic. Why would I not want to read this? | |
| 17 | Ordinary People, Extraordinary Times | How to Reclaim Your Power, Fight for Freedom, and Reimagine Democracy | Skye Perryman | 2026 | Looks good! |
| 18 | John of John | Douglas Stuart | 2026 | ||
| 19 | The End of Everything | M John Harrison | 2026 | ||
| 20 | Other Worlds Than These | A Talisman Novel | Stephen King and Peter Straub | 2026 | Wrapup of The Talisman story |
| 21 | King Sorrow | Joe Hill | 2025 | ||
| 22 | The Spanish Holocaust | Inquisition and Extermination in Twentieth-Century Spain | Paul Preston | 2013 | Most-recommended book on the Spanish Civil War |
| 23 | River of Bones and Other Stories | Rebecca Roanhorse | 2026 | ||
| 24 | Hope in the Dark | Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities (Updated) | Rebecca Solnit | 2016 | |
| 25 | The Fire Next Time | James Baldwin | 1992 | ||
| 26 | Secrets | A Reporter's Memoir | Bob Woodward | 2026 | |
| 27 | The Woman Behind the New Deal | The Life and Legacy of Frances Perkins, Social Security, Unemployment Insurance, and the Minimum Wage | Kirstin Downey | 2010 | Frances Perkins - a hero who deserves more recognition |
| 28 | Old Man's War | John Scalzi | 2024 | ||
| 29 | The Lion Women of Tehran | Marjan Kamali | 2025 | ||
| 30 | Stolen Focus | Why You Can't Pay Attention--And How to Think Deeply Again | Johann Hari | 2023 | |
| 31 | The Old Ways | A Journey on Foot | Robert MacFarlane | 2013 | |
| 32 | The Silence of the Girls | Pat Barker | 2019 | ||
| 33 | The Raven Scholar | Antonia Hodgson | 2025 | ||
| 34 | Regime Change | Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump | Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan | 2026 | |
| 35 | South to America | A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation | Imani Perry | 2023 | |
| 36 | Unruly | The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens | David Mitchell | 2024 | |
| 37 | The Rules of Magic | Alice Hoffman | 2018 | ||
| 38 | The Book of Magic (Practical Magic 2) | Alice Hoffman | 2022 | ||
| 39 | The Invisible Life of Addie Larue | V E Schwab | 2023 | ||
| 40 | 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 |
| 41 | The Lost Trees of Willow Avenue | A Story of Climate and Hope on One American Street | Mike Tidwell | 2025 | |
| 42 | The Worst Hard Time | The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl | Timothy Egan | 2006 | |
| 43 | The Perfect Moment | God, Sex, Art, and the Birth of America's Culture Wars | Isaac Butler | 2026 | |
| 44 | Eve | How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution | Cat Bohannon | 2025 | |
| 45 | 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" |
| 46 | Seven Brief Lessons on Physics | Carlo Rovelli | 2016 | Maybe a more graspable - and brief - explanation of some truly difficult things | |
| 47 | Train Dreams | A Novella | Denis Johnson | 2012 | Absolutely love the movie, and the book's supposed to be even better |
| 48 | The Little Stranger | Sarah Waters | 2010 | It made Stephen King nervous. Hard to beat that. | |
| 49 | Kick the Latch | Kathryn Scanlan | 2022 | Inside horse racing; What's not to love? | |
| 50 | The Disappearers | Marlon James | 2026 | ||
| 51 | Weyward | Emilia Hart | 2024 | ||
| 52 | The Girls | Emma Cline | 2017 | Thinly disguised Manson Family story? | |
| 53 | Murder at the Grand Alpine Hotel | The New Miss Marple Mystery | Lucy Foley and Agatha Christie | 2026 | Somebody's been handed Agatha Christie's legacy. It's worth considering. |
| 54 | The Midnight Feast | Lucy Foley | 2025 | ||
| 55 | All the King's Men | Winner of the Pulitzer Prize (Harvest) | Robert Penn Warren | 1996 | |
| 56 | Miss Wolcott's Ghost | Louise Penny | 2026 | ||
| 57 | Mestra | A Short Story | Madeline Miller | 2026 | |
| 58 | The Antidote | Karen Russell | 2026 | ||
| 59 | The Reformatory | Tananarive Due | 2025 | Award-winning horror by black female author. And sounds scary. | |
| 60 | Kiss Slay Replay | Rachel Harrison | 2026 | I've enjoyed some Rachel Harrison before. Why not try a new one? | |
| 61 | Whistler | Ann Patchett | 2026 | ||
| 62 | The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI | How to Think about Artificial Intelligence--Before It's Too Late | Cory Doctorow | 2026 | |
| 63 | 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 |
| 64 | In Memoriam | Alice Winn | 2024 | ||
| 65 | 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. | |
| 66 | Renaissance Men | Agents of Medical and Cultural Modernity | Harriet A Washington | 2026 | More things we need to know. Maybe for library? |
| 67 | One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich | Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn | 2014 | ||
| 68 | Under Story | A GMA Book Club Pick | Chloe Benjamin | 2026 | |
| 69 | The Demon of Unrest | A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War | Erik Larson | 2026 | Finally paperback |
| 70 | Grief Is the Thing with Feathers | Max Porter | 2016 | ||
| 71 | The Red Winter | Cameron Sullivan | 2026 | The first werewolf? Compared to The Witcher and Susanna Clarke | |
| 72 | Number Thirty-Two | Cassie Steward | 2023 | ||
| 73 | Catch the Devil | A True Story of Murder, Deception, and Injustice on the Gulf Coast | Pamela Colloff | 2026 | 2026 Kirkus Prize non-fiction finalist. Sort of a "catch me in you can" serious criminal on the Gulf Coast |
| 74 | Mad Eden | Morgan Thomas | 2026 | ||
| 75 | The Three Graces of Pearl Street | Elizabeth Wellington Rollins | 2026 | Possibility for book club? | |
| 76 | 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 |
| 77 | A Fever in the Heartland | The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them | Timothy Egan | 2024 | |
| 78 | Yesteryear | Caro Claire Burke | 2026 |