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.
Enemy of God
A Novel of Arthur
Second in the Arthur series
The Things We Never Say
The Astral Library (Deluxe Limited Edition)
Kin
Land
Excalibur
A Novel of Arthur
Third in the Arthur series
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
Exit Party
Looks like I'll just be reading all her books. Maybe.
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!
Other Worlds Than These
A Talisman Novel
Wrapup of The Talisman story
The End of Everything
King Sorrow
The Spanish Holocaust
Inquisition and Extermination in Twentieth-Century Spain
Most-recommended book on the Spanish Civil War
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?
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
Whistler
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
John of John
Regime Change
Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump
Seek the Traitor's Son
Dystopian fantasy sci-fi with romance? I dunno. Roth is the Divergent writer
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
Magic Lessons
Book #1 of the Practical Magic Series
The Rules of Magic
Practical Magic
Deluxe Edition (Special)
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 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
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.
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
The Demon of Unrest
A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
Finally paperback
Eve
How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution
A Fever in the Heartland
The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
The Red Winter
The first werewolf? Compared to The Witcher and Susanna Clarke
Grief Is the Thing with Feathers
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
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?
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
Jamaica Inn
I need to read this because I love "Rebecca"
The Little Stranger
It made Stephen King nervous. Hard to beat that.
Number Thirty-Two
In Memoriam
Weyward
The Girls
Thinly disguised Manson Family story?
Under Story
A GMA Book Club Pick
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)
Kiss Slay Replay
I've enjoyed some Rachel Harrison before. Why not try a new one?
The Reformatory
Award-winning horror by black female author. And sounds scary.
The Three Graces of Pearl Street
Possibility for book club?
Yesteryear
Mad Eden
| # | 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 | Enemy of God | A Novel of Arthur | Bernard Cornwell | 1998 | Second in the Arthur series |
| 8 | The Things We Never Say | Elizabeth Strout | 2026 | ||
| 9 | The Astral Library (Deluxe Limited Edition) | Kate Quinn | 2026 | ||
| 10 | Kin | Tayari Jones | 2026 | ||
| 11 | Land | Maggie O'Farrell | 2026 | ||
| 12 | Excalibur | A Novel of Arthur | Bernard Cornwell | 1999 | Third in the Arthur series |
| 13 | Dead But Dreaming of Electric Sheep | Paul Tremblay | 2026 | His stuff is scary, or has been so far at least | |
| 14 | 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 | |
| 15 | Exit Party | Emily St John Mandel | 2026 | Looks like I'll just be reading all her books. Maybe. | |
| 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 | Other Worlds Than These | A Talisman Novel | Stephen King and Peter Straub | 2026 | Wrapup of The Talisman story |
| 19 | The End of Everything | M John Harrison | 2026 | ||
| 20 | King Sorrow | Joe Hill | 2025 | ||
| 21 | The Spanish Holocaust | Inquisition and Extermination in Twentieth-Century Spain | Paul Preston | 2013 | Most-recommended book on the Spanish Civil War |
| 22 | 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? |
| 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 | Whistler | Ann Patchett | 2026 | ||
| 30 | The Lion Women of Tehran | Marjan Kamali | 2025 | ||
| 31 | Stolen Focus | Why You Can't Pay Attention--And How to Think Deeply Again | Johann Hari | 2023 | |
| 32 | The Old Ways | A Journey on Foot | Robert MacFarlane | 2013 | |
| 33 | The Silence of the Girls | Pat Barker | 2019 | ||
| 34 | The Raven Scholar | Antonia Hodgson | 2025 | ||
| 35 | John of John | Douglas Stuart | 2026 | ||
| 36 | Regime Change | Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump | Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan | 2026 | |
| 37 | Seek the Traitor's Son | Veronica Roth | 2026 | Dystopian fantasy sci-fi with romance? I dunno. Roth is the Divergent writer | |
| 38 | South to America | A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation | Imani Perry | 2023 | |
| 39 | The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI | How to Think about Artificial Intelligence--Before It's Too Late | Cory Doctorow | 2026 | |
| 40 | Unruly | The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens | David Mitchell | 2024 | |
| 41 | Magic Lessons | Book #1 of the Practical Magic Series | Alice Hoffman | 2021 | |
| 42 | The Rules of Magic | Alice Hoffman | 2018 | ||
| 43 | Practical Magic | Deluxe Edition (Special) | Alice Hoffman | 2026 | |
| 44 | The Book of Magic (Practical Magic 2) | Alice Hoffman | 2022 | ||
| 45 | The Invisible Life of Addie Larue | V E Schwab | 2023 | ||
| 46 | 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 |
| 47 | 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 |
| 48 | The Lost Trees of Willow Avenue | A Story of Climate and Hope on One American Street | Mike Tidwell | 2025 | |
| 49 | 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. | |
| 50 | The Worst Hard Time | The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl | Timothy Egan | 2006 | |
| 51 | The Perfect Moment | God, Sex, Art, and the Birth of America's Culture Wars | Isaac Butler | 2026 | |
| 52 | The Demon of Unrest | A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War | Erik Larson | 2026 | Finally paperback |
| 53 | Eve | How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution | Cat Bohannon | 2025 | |
| 54 | A Fever in the Heartland | The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them | Timothy Egan | 2024 | |
| 55 | The Red Winter | Cameron Sullivan | 2026 | The first werewolf? Compared to The Witcher and Susanna Clarke | |
| 56 | Grief Is the Thing with Feathers | Max Porter | 2016 | ||
| 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 | Seven Brief Lessons on Physics | Carlo Rovelli | 2016 | Maybe a more graspable - and brief - explanation of some truly difficult things | |
| 59 | Train Dreams | A Novella | Denis Johnson | 2012 | Absolutely love the movie, and the book's supposed to be even better |
| 60 | One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich | Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn | 2014 | ||
| 61 | Kick the Latch | Kathryn Scanlan | 2022 | Inside horse racing; What's not to love? | |
| 62 | Promise Me, America | Joe Biden | 2026 | ||
| 63 | The Disappearers | Marlon James | 2026 | ||
| 64 | 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 |
| 65 | Renaissance Men | Agents of Medical and Cultural Modernity | Harriet A Washington | 2026 | More things we need to know. Maybe for library? |
| 66 | 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 |
| 67 | Jamaica Inn | Daphne Du Maurier | 2023 | I need to read this because I love "Rebecca" | |
| 68 | The Little Stranger | Sarah Waters | 2010 | It made Stephen King nervous. Hard to beat that. | |
| 69 | Number Thirty-Two | Cassie Steward | 2023 | ||
| 70 | In Memoriam | Alice Winn | 2024 | ||
| 71 | Weyward | Emilia Hart | 2024 | ||
| 72 | The Girls | Emma Cline | 2017 | Thinly disguised Manson Family story? | |
| 73 | Under Story | A GMA Book Club Pick | Chloe Benjamin | 2026 | |
| 74 | 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. |
| 75 | The Midnight Feast | Lucy Foley | 2025 | ||
| 76 | All the King's Men | Winner of the Pulitzer Prize (Harvest) | Robert Penn Warren | 1996 | |
| 77 | Kiss Slay Replay | Rachel Harrison | 2026 | I've enjoyed some Rachel Harrison before. Why not try a new one? | |
| 78 | The Reformatory | Tananarive Due | 2025 | Award-winning horror by black female author. And sounds scary. | |
| 79 | The Three Graces of Pearl Street | Elizabeth Wellington Rollins | 2026 | Possibility for book club? | |
| 80 | Yesteryear | Caro Claire Burke | 2026 | ||
| 81 | Mad Eden | Morgan Thomas | 2026 |