Book List

November 2025

Heart of the Country by Greg Matthews | FireWoman

Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan | Violet

Nuclear War: A Scenario by Annie Jacobsen | Sierra

The Midnight Library by Matt Haig | KitKat

If Cats Disappeared from the World by Genki Kawamura | Zoe

October 2025

Love Tales of Ancient Japan by Kyoto Ko | FireWoman

James by Percival Everett | FireWoman

The Witching Hour by Anne Rice | Zaida

The Bomb: Presidents, Generals, and the Secret History of Nuclear War by Fred Kaplan | Sierra

Tilt by Emma Pattee | Veyot

Future Home of the Living God by Louise Erdrich | Veyot

The Hike by Drew Magary | KitKat

Ghosts of Old New Toulouse | Nyx

The Entirely True Story of the Fantastical Mesmerist Nora Grey by Kathleen Kaufman | Zoe

September 2025

The Gate, the Girl, and the Dragon by Grace Lin | FireWoman

Where the Mountain Meets the Moon, Starry River of the Sky, and When the Sea Turned to Silver by Grace Lin | FireWoman

The House of Dies Drear by Virginia Hamilton | FireWoman

Scattergood by H.M. Bouwman | Veyot

A Line to Kill by Anthony Horowitz | Veyot

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak | Stina

The Correspondent by Virginia Evans | Zoe

August 2025

Bomb Shelter: Love, Time, and Other Explosives by Mary Laura Philpott | Veyot

The Library at Hellebore by Cassandra Khaw | Sierra

The Last Heir to Blackwood Library by Hester Fox | Zoe

The Specimen by Jaima Fixsen | MAC

Strange Pictures by Uketsu | Sofia

July 2025

Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer | FireWoman

Awake in the Floating City by Susanna Kwan | Veyot

The Names by Florence Knapp | Veyot

The Measure by Nikki Erlick | KitKat

Calculating God by Robert J. Sawyer | Sierra

Miss Benson’s Beetle: A Novel by Rachel Joyce | Zoe

June 2025

Somewhere Beyond the Sea by TJ Klune | FireWoman

Akin by Emma Donoghue | Veyot

The Decline and Fall of the Human Empire: Why Our Species is on the Edge of Extinction by Harold Gee | Sierra

Smothermoss by Alisa Alering | Dani

Are You There God, It’s Me, Margaret by Judy Blume | Emm

My Friends by Frederik Backman | Emm

The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce | Zoe

The Tokyo Suite by Giovana Madalosso | Zoe

The Names by Florence Knapp | Veyot

May 2025

Mornings on Horseback by David McCullough | FireWoman

Three Souls by Janie Chang | FireWoman

The Decline and Fall of the Human Empire by Henry Gee | Sierra

All Systems Red by Martha Wells | Sierra

Cat’s People by Tanya Guerrero | Veyot

The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead | Veyot

Swordheart by T. Kingfisher | KitKat

Things Become Other Things by Craig Mod | Zoe

April 2025

Everflame Series by Penn Cole | Jamie

The Which Way Tree by Elizabeth Crook | FireWoman

Charley Davidson Series by Darynda Jones | XSU 80-9275

This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone | Sierra

The King in Yellow by Robert W. Chambers | Violet

The Bacchae by Euripides | Violet

Lazarus by Richard Price | Veyot

March 2025

Prison Writings: My Life is My SundanceI by Leonard Peltier | FireWoman

Sipsworth by Simon Van Booy | Veyot

Three Days in June by Ann Tyler | Veyot

Hang the Moon by Jeannette Walls | Veyot

The Norths Meet Murder by Frances and Richard Lockridge | Petronella

The Notebook: A History of Thinking on Paper by Roland Allen | Sierra

The School of Magical Animals (Die Schule der Magischen Tiere) by Margit Auer | sútha

How to Age Disgracefully by Clare Pooley | Zoe

In the Buddha’s Words: An Anthology of Discourses from the Pali Canon by Bhikkhu Bodhi | sútha

February 2025

The Vanishing Tower (The Elric Saga #6) by Michael Moorcock | Babycham

The Life of Herod the Great by Zora Neale Hurston | FireWoman

The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune | FireWoman

In the Garden of the Beasts by Erik Larson | Veyot

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens | Laura

James by Percival Everett | Petronella

Northbridge Rectory by Angela Thirkell | Petronella

Scholomance Trilogy by Naomi Novik | Iskrin

Fire and Blood by George R.R. Martin | Georgina

Architectural Digest (magazine) | Valentina

Sunrise on the Reaping by Suzanne Collins | Laurel

Cher: The Memoir, Part One by Cher | Georgina

Be Ready When the Luck Happens by Ina Garten | Zoe

Moab is My Washpot, The Fry Chronicles and More Fool Me by Stephen Fry | Iskrin

The Woman in Me by Britney Spears | Zoe

Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood | Laurel

I’m Glad My Mom Died by Jeanette McCurdy | Georgina

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald | Georgina

Z. A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald by Therese Anne Fowler | Georgina

How to be Old: Lessons in Living Boldly from the Accidental Icon by Lyn Slater | Zoe

Zelda Fitzgerald: Her Voice in Paradise by Sally Cline | FireWoman

January 2025

Black Hole: How an Idea Abandoned by Newtonians, Hated by Einstein, and Gambled on by Hawking Became Loved by Marcia Bartusiak | Sierra

West with Giraffes by Lynda Rutledge | Veyot

Cowboy Poetry: A Gathering compiled by Hal Cannon | FireWoman

The Life of Herod the Great by Zora Neale Hurston | FireWoman

Cheerfulness Breaks In by Angela Thirkell | Petronella

Family Romance: John Singer Sargent and The Wertheimers by Jean Strouse | Petronella

Human Acts by Han Kang | Connie

The Notebook: A History of Thinking on Paper by Roland Allen | Zoe

October/November 2024

Beethoven: Biography of a Genius by George R. Marek | FireWoman

The Cautious Traveller’s Guide to the Wastelands by Sarah Brooks | FireWoman

Philosophy for Passengers by Michael Marder | Sierra

Why I Read: The Serious Pleasure of Books by Wendy Lesser | Sierra

What You Are Looking For Is in the Library by Michiko Aoyama | Sierra

Rethinking Geopolitics by Jeremy Black | Sierra

The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune | Zoe

Green Witchcraft: Folk Magic, Fairy Lore and Herb Craft by Ann Moura | FireWoman

My Staggersford Journal and Days with Smoke: A Minnesota Boyhood by Jon Hassler | Veyot

Sweet Land by Will Weaver | Veyot

The Backyard Bird Chronicles by Amy Tan | Veyot

The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett | Irisse

Under the Whispering Door by TJ Klune | Zoe

September 2024

Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee | FireWoman

That Librarian: The Fight Against Book Banning in America by Amanda Jones | FireWoman

Librarian Spy by Madeline Martin | Veyot

The Library of Broken Worlds by Alaya Dawn Johnson | Cold

Anarchist Cybernetics by Thomas Swann | Sam

No Two Persons by Erica Bauermeister | Veyot

House Lessons: A Memoir in Essays by Erica Bauermeister | Zoe

Secret Voices: A Year of Women’s Diaries edited by Sarah Gristwood | Zoe

Our Hideous Progeny by C.E. McGill | Zoe

Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell | Zoe

August 2024

Annie Leibovitz at Work by Annie Leibovitz | Sierra

Annie Leibovitz Portraits, 2005-2016 by Annie Leibovitz | Sierra

Wonderland by Annie Leibovitz | Sierra

Cemetery of Untold Stories by Isabel Allende | Veyot

Beautiful Losers by Leonard Cohen | CK

Killer Weed by Manning Wolfe | FireWoman

Horror Tales of Japan: 21 Japanese Folktales Not to Be Read to Children by Kyota Ko | FireWoman

Words Without Music by Phillip Glass | Veyot

The One in a Million Boy by Monica Wood | Zoe

July 2024

The Jungle by Upton Sinclair | FireWoman

The Jaipur Trilogy by Alka Joshi | FireWoman

The Library of the Unwritten by A.J. Hackwith | Sierra

Irving Penn: Centennial | Sierra

The Executioners Song by Norman Mailer | Vivian

The Weatherman by Steve Thayer | FireWoman

With the End in Mind by Steve Thayer | Tiordan

Only Forward by Michael Marshall Smith |Tiordan

The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating by Elisabeth Tova Bailey | Zoe

Extraterrestrial Languages by Daniel Oberhaus | Sierra

How to Read A Book by Monica Wood | Zoe

Plant Spirit Medicine: The Healing Power of Plants by Eliot Cowan | Ananda

The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis | Betzi

June 2024

Fourteen Days edited by Margaret Atwood and Douglas Preston | Zoe

Half Life of a Secret by Emily Strasser | Zoe

May 2024

The Jungle by Upton Sinclair | FireWoman

Burn Book by Kara Swisher | Sierra

No Land in Sight by Charles Simic | Sierra

Scribbled in the Dark by Charles Simic | Sierra

The World Doesn’t End by Charles Simic | Sierra

Keep Going: 10 Ways to Stay Creative in Good Times and Bad by Austin Kleon | Veyot

Wish You Were Here by Jodi Picoult | Veyot

April 2024

Loving Eleanor by Susan Wittig Albert | Veyot

The Fox Wife by Yangsze Choo | FireWoman

The Ghost Bride by Yangsze Choo | FireWoman

Excession by Iain M. Banks | Sierra

Abandoned Places by Henk Van Rensbergen | Sierra

Signs: The Secret Language of the Universe by Laura Lynne Jackson | Veyot

March 2024

Midlife: A Philosophical Guide by Kieran Setiya | Sierra

Someone Always Nearby by Susan Wittig Albert | Veyot

Number the Stars by Lois Lowry | FireWoman

Practical Magic by Alice Hoffman | FireWoman

The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver | FireWoman

A Year in Nature: A Memoir of Solace by Clare Walker Leslie | Zoe

February 2024

The Words in My Hands by Asphyxia | FireWoman

Warrior Girl Unearthed by Angeline Boulley | FireWoman

The Face: A Time Code by Ruth Ozeki | FireWoman

Case Study by Graeme Macrae Burnet | Kal

The New Magdelene by Wilkie Collins | Kal

Birnam Wood by Eleanor Catton | Veyot

Como Flats by Mike Dougherty | Veyot

If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino | Sierra

The World According to Joan Didion by Evelyn McDonnell | Sierra

Against a Dark Background by Iain M. Banks | Sierra

January 2024

Sounds Like Titanic: A Memoir by Jessica Chiccehitto Hindman | Veyot

Dead by Proxy and Hunted by Proxy – a series by Manning Wolfe | FireWoman

Birnam Wood by Eleanor Catton | Fleming

frank: sonnets by Diane Seuss | Fleming

System Collapse – part of the Murderbot Series by Martha Wells | Sierra

Kissa by Kissa: How to Walk Japan and Things Become Other Things by Craig Mod | Zoe

November 2023

Dead by Proxy by Manning Wolfe | FireWoman

Nothing More Dangerous by Allen Eskens | Veyot

MacArthur Park by Judith Freeman | Veyot

The Honeys by Ryan LaSala | FireWoman

Shadow of the Fox by Julie Kagawa | FireWoman

What You Are Looking For Is In The Library by Michiko Aoyama, translated by Alison Watts | Zoe

Days at the Morisaki Bookshop by Satoshi Yagisawa | Zoe

October 2023

Falling in Love with Joseph Smith: My Search for the Real Prophet by Jane Barnes | Veyot

Glovemaker by Ann Weisgarber | Veyot

The Outlander Series by Diana Gabaldon | Roslyn

Footprints of the Welsh Indians: Settlers in North America Before 1492 by William L. Traxel | Roslyn

Underdogs of Japanese History: 11 Iconic Characters Who Prevailed Against the Odds…Or Didn’t by Kyota Ko | FireWoman

Goodnight Racism by Ibram X. Kendi | FireWoman

Magnolia Flower by Zora Neale Hurston and Ibram X. Kendi | FireWoman

Chinese Menu: The History, Myths, and Legends Behind Your Favorite Foods by Grace Lin | FireWoman

I Never Promised You a Rose Garden by Joanne Greenberg | Lomesse

A Woman’s Story by Annie Ernaux, translated by Tanya Leslie | Zoe

The Bookshop of the Broken Hearted by Robert Hillman | Zoe

September 2023

Weyward by Emilia Hart | Zoe

Legends and Lattes by Travis Baldree | Zoe

Armageddon Averted: The Soviet Collapse (1970-2000) by Stephen Kotkin | Sierra

The Loom of Time: Between Empire and Anarchy, from the Mediterranean to China by Robert D. Kaplan | Sierra

The Ghost at the Feast: America and the Collapse of World Order, 1900-1941 by Robert Kagan | Sierra

The Milky Way: An Autobiography of Our Galaxy by Moiya McTier | Sierra

August 2023

Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende | FireWoman

Soviet Fates and Lost Alternatives: From Stalinism to the New Cold War by Stephen F. Cohen | Sierra

The Quickening: Creation and Community at the Ends of the Earth by Elizabeth Rush | Sierra

The Soviet Century: Archaeology of a Lost World by Karl Schlogel | Sierra

Inseperable by Simone de Beauvoir | Zoe

July 2023

A History of the Soviet Union: From the Beginning to Its Legacy, 3rd Edition by Peter Kenez | Sierra

Armageddon Averted: The Soviet Collapse, 1970-2000 by Stephen Kotkin | Sierra

The Autobiography of Mrs. Tom Thumb by Melanie Benjamin | FireWoman

The Wind Knows My Name by Isabel Allende | FireWoman

The Little Prince by antoine de Saint-Exupery | FireWoman

The Electricity of Every Living Thing: A Woman’s Walk in the Wild to Find her Way Home by Katherine May | Zoe

June 2023

Zelda Fitzgerald: Her Voice in Paradise by Sally Cline | FireWoman

Desert Solitaire by Edward Abbey | FireWoman

The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab | Alas

An Attempt at Exhausting a Place in Paris by George Perec | Sierra

Sensitive: The Hidden Power of the Highly Sensitive Person in a Loud, Fast, Too Much World by Jenn Granneman and Andre Solo | Zoe

The Way Through the Woods: On Mushrooming and Mourning by Long Litt Woon | Zoe

May 2023

A Snake Falls to Earth by Darcie Little Badger | FireWoman

Elatsoe by Darcie Little Badger | Firewoman

My Invented Country: A Nostalgic Journey Through Chile by Isabel Allende | FireWoman

The Cockroach by Ian McEwan | Sierra

No. 91/92: A Diary of a Year on the Bus by Lauren Elkin | Sierra

The Words in My Hands by Asphyxia | Zoe

How Romantics and Victorians Organize Information by Jillian M. Hess | Zoe

March 2023

The Folded Clock: A Diary by Heidi Julavits | Veyot

Let Me Tell You What I Mean by Joan Didion | Sierra

Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of Africa America, 1619-2019 by Ibram X. Kendi | FireWoman

Toussaint Louverture by Charles Forsdick | Callista

The Hole by Hiroko Oyamada | Zoe

All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me by Patrick Bringley | Zoe

February 2023

The Spare Man by Mary Robinette Kowal | Sierra

The Philosophy of Modern Song by Bob Dylan | Veyot

Shadows on the Rock by Willa Cather | FireWoman

The Wind Done Gone by Alice Randall | FireWoman

Folk Tales of Japan: 28 Folk Tales with Cultural Commentary by Kyota Ko | FireWoman

Other Birds by Sara Addison Allen | Zoe

Old Age: A Beginner’s Guide by Michael Kinsley | Zoe

January 2023

There, There by Tommy Orange | Marly

Problems with People by David Guterson | Veyot

Dumb, Dumb, Dumb by Mary Jo Pehl | Veyot

A Christmas Courtship by Shelley Shepard Gray | Zoe

The Death of Vishnu, The Age of Shiva, The Age of Devi by Manil Suri | Bernice

Queen Lucia by E.F. Benson | Scout

The Long Dark Tea-time of the Soul by Douglas Adams | FireWoman

Firekeeper’s Daughter by Angeline Boulley | FireWoman

E.F. Benson’s Ghost Stories | Kal

Heatwave by Victor Jestin | Kal

November 2022

The Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams | Zoe

The Book Eaters by Sunyi Dean | Zoe

The First New Testament by Jason D. BeDuhn | Stella

The Wise Men of Schilda | Serena

Going on a Dig by Velma Ford Morrison | FireWoman

Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco | Josiane

The Hunter by John R. Erickson | FireWoman

The Cow-tail Switch and other West African Stories by Harold Courlander | FireWoman

Exit by Belinda Bauer | Mieke

A Nice Cup of Tea and Sit Down by Stuart Payne | Mieke

Rules for Visiting by Jessica Francis Kane | Veyot

Prep by Curtis Sittenfeld | Kal

The Music of Chance by Paul Auster | Kal

Nature Doctors: Pioneers in Naturopathic Medicine by Friedhelm Kirchfeld | Scout

October 2022

Recollection Creek by Fred Gipson | FireWoman

Hound Dog Man by Fred Gipson | FireWoman

Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton | FireWoman

Prisoner of Tehran: A Memoir by Marina Nemat | Mieke

Diary of a Void by Emi Yogi | Zoe

How to be Eaten by Maria Adelmann | Zoe

September 2022

The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa | Bernice

The Locked Room by Elly Griffiths | Bernice

The Hunt by Faye Kellerman | Bernice

The Man Who Died Twice by Richard Osman | Bernice

Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China by Jung Chang | Mieke

How Civil Wars Start: And How to Stop Them by Barbara F. Walter | Sierra

The Swimmers by Julie Otsuka | Fleming

Hurricane Season by Fernanda Melchor | Fleming

Seeking Fortune Elsewhere by Sindya Bhanoo | Zoe

The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt | Veyot

The Cellist of Sarajevo by Stephen Galloway | Tallulah

The Orphanage by Serhiy Zhadan | Fleming

August 2022

Church of the Old Mermaids by Kim Antieau | Bernice

A Divine Language by Alec Wilkinson | Mieke

Light a Penny Candle by Maeve Binchy | FireWoman

Black Water by Joyce Carol Oates | FireWoman

Gray Mountain by John Grisham | Veyot

Still Life by Louise Penny | Poppy

Orlando by Virginia Wolff | Poppy

Portrait of a Marriage by Nigel Nicolson | Poppy

52 Ways to Walk: The Surprising Science of Walking for Wellness and Joy, One Week at a Time by Annabel Streets | Zoe

July 2022

By the Sea by Abdulrazak Gurnah | Fleming

The Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood | Mieke

The Poetry of Strangers: What I Learned Traveling America by Brian Sonia-Wallace | Veyot

The King Arthur Case: A Brittany Mystery by Jean-Luc Bannalec | Bernice

The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa | Sierra

The Book Woman’s Daughter by Kim Michele Richardson | Zoe


June 2022

How to Be Human: An Autistic Man’s Guide to Life by Jory Fleming | Zoe

The Authenticity Project by Clare Pooley | Zoe

The Improbability of Love by Hannah Rothschild | Mieke

The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman | Bernice

The Butterfly Lampshade by Aimee Bender | Veyot

The Whistle Blower by Robert Peston | Poppy

State of Terror by Hillary Clinton and Louise Penny | Poppy

The Last Bookshop in London by Madeline Martin | Poppy

White Tears by Hari Kunzru | Fleming

The Books of Jacob by Olga Tocarczuk | Fleming

Light Chaser by Peter Hamilton and Gareth Powell | Sierra

Strange Hote by Eimear McBride | Sierra

Redhead by the Side of the Road by Anne Tyler | Veyot


May 2022

The Spoils of Poynton by Henry James | Bernice

Charles Lenox mystery series by Charles Finch | Alas

Victorian Steampunk Erotica genre by Robinette Waterson | Alas

Music is History by Questlove | FireWoman

Driving Miss Norma by Tim Bauerschumidt and Ramie Liddle | Zoe

The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek by Kim Michele Richardson | FireWoman & Zoe


April 2022

Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr | Sierra

M Train by Patti Smith | Bernice

Dog Dish of Doom by E.J. Copperman | Veyot

Leonard Cohen on Leonard Cohen by Jeff Burger | Veyot

Librarian Tales by William Ottens | Zoe

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo | Zoe


March 2022

The Mermaid, the Witch, and the Sea by Maggie Tokuda-Hall | FireWoman

Fearless Girls, Wise Women, & Beloved Sisters by Kathleen Ragen | FireWoman

Anxious People by Fredrik Bachman | Bernice

American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins | Veyot

Heaven by Mieko Kawakami | Zoe

Seeing Gender: An Illustrated Guide to Identity and Expression by Iris Gottleib | Zoe

Iggie’s House by Judy Blume | Zoe

Are You There God? It’s me, Margaret by Judy Blume | Zoe


February 2022

The Last Bookshop in London by Madeline Martin

Charles, The Alternative Prince: An Unauthorised Biography by Edzard Ernst

Ma’am Jones of the Pecos by Eve Ball

The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman

The Sentence by Louise Erdrich

Station Eleven by Emiuly St. John Mandel

The Binding by Bridget Collins

Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem

Too Much and Not the Mood by Durga Chew-Bose

Little Eyes by Samanta Schweblin

The Midnight Library by Matt Haig


January 2022

A Rule Against Murder by Louise Penny

Cultish by Amanda Montell

Arilla Sun Down by Virginia Hamilton

The Feathered Serpent by Scott O’Dell

Angelina by Patricia Lynn Spears

Her Own Way: The Story of Lottie Moon by Helen Albee Monsell

Beren and Luthien by J.R.R. Tolkien

The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yoko Ogawa

Pushing Ice by Alastair Reynolds

Across the Universe by Amor Towles

No One is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood

Lord of Light by Roger Zelazny

False Alarm by Bjorn Lomborg


November 2021

Pleasures by Bertolt Brecht

Quiet Contemplations: Photographs by Jan Bell by Jan Bell

Her Smoke Rose Up Forever by James Tiptree (aka Alice Bradley Sheldon)

Penelope Gilbert and the Children of Azure by Emily A. Steward

Mystery of the Egyptian Mummy by Scott Peters

Spectacular Stories for Curious Kids by Jesse Sullivan

Lord Byron Series by Gretta Curran Brown

Drood by Dan Simmons

Victoria & Abdul: The True Story of the Queen’s Closest Confidant by Shrabani Basu

Dune by Frank Herbert

Dark Star by Alan Furst

The Travelling Cat Chronicles by Hiro Arikawa

Cozy Zine by Grace Stafford


October 2021

Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times by Katherine May

Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teaching of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer

The Anthology of Scottish Folk Tales by Donald Smith

House Made of Dawn by N. Scott Momaday

Life Itself by Roger Ebert

Boomerang: Travels in the New Third World by Michael Lewis

The Artificial Silk Girl by Irmgard Kuen

Sweet Bean Paste by Durian Sukegawa

The Last Bookshop in London: A Novel of World War II by Madeline Martin

Packing My Library: An Elegy and Ten Digressions by Alberto Manguel

Metamodernism and Changing Literacy: Emerging Research and Opportunities by Dr. Valerie Hill