Fiction
- Circe by Madeline Miller
- Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro
- Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
- Piranesi by Susanna Clark
- Light by M. John Harrison
- Howl’s Moving Castle by Diana Wynn Jones
- The Stars are Not Yet Bells by Hannah Lilith Assandt
- Fall, or Dodge in Hell by Neil Stephenson
- The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers
- A Closed and Common Orbit by Becky Chambers
- The Department of Rare Books and Special Collections by Eva Jurczyk
- The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2021 edited by Veronica Roth
- Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
- Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
- All Systems Red: Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells
- The Searcher by Tana French
- Artificial Condition: Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells
- Record of a Spaceborn Few by Becky Chambers
- The Trespasser by Tana French
- Rogue Protocol: Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells
- John Dies at the End by David Wong
- Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood
- Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel
- The Secret History by Donna Tartt
- Beren and Luthien by J. R. R. Tolkien
- Network Effect by Martha Wells
- The Testaments by Margaret Atwood
- The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
- Bone Shard Daughter by Andrea Stewart
- The Thin Man by Dashiell Hammett
- The Employees by Olga Ravn
- The Poppy War by R. F. Kuang
- The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides
- The Hangman’s Daughter by Oliver Potzsch
- The Three Body Problem by Cixin Liu
- A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. LeGuin
- The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
- The Mirror and the Light by Hilary Mantel
- The Razor’s Edge by W. Somerset Maugham
- Recursion by Blake Crouch
- All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
- The Last of the Moon Girls by Barbara Davis
- The Dragon Republic by R. F. Kuang
- The Burning God by R. F. Kuang
- The Invisible Library by Genevieve Cogman
- Salvation by Peter F. Hamilton
- Ice by Anna Kavan
- Leviathan by Paul Auster
- Salvation Lost by Peter F. Hamilton
- Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir
- Harrow the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir
- Go Set A Watchman by Harper Lee
- A Strange and Stubborn Endurance by Foz Meadows
- The Emporer of Ocean Park by Stephen L. Carter
- Night Film by Marsha Pessl
- The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
- East of Eden by John Steinbeck
- The Gunslinger by Stephen King
- The Abominable by Dan Simmons
- I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream by Harlan Ellison (short story collection)
- Daisy Jones & the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid
- The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid

Short Stories/Essays
- Goodbye, My Brother by Elliot Ackerman
- Hope and Home by Rabih Alameddine
- Peak America by Sam Anderson
- Why Should a Melon Cost as Much as a Car? by Bianca Bosker
- My Mother and I Went Halfway Around the World to Find Each Other by Jennifer Hope Choi
- Traveling While Black by Camille Dungy
- The Foxes of Prince Edward Island by Matthew Ferrence
- The Digital Republic by Nathan Heller
Non-fiction
- The Impossible Climb by Mark Synnott
- Alone on the Wall by Alex Honnold and Dave Roberts
- The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
- Dessert Can Save the World by Christina Tosi
- Swim, Bike, Bonk: Confessions of a Reluctant Triathlete by Will McGough
- The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
- The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness by Meghan O’Rourke
- The Resistance Training Revolution by Sal Di Stefano
- The Puzzler by A. J. Jacobs
- Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explains the Hidden Side of Everything by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
- Until the End of Time by Brian Greene
- Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond
- When Einstein Walked with Godel: Excursions to the Edge of Thought by Jim Holt
- The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion by Jonathan Haidt
*This page will be updated as books are read. Books I did not finish will not appear on this list.