| Category | Books |
|---|---|
| Literary Fiction |
Kairos (Jenny Erpenbeck) Never Let Me Go (Kazuo Ishiguro) The Café With No Name (Robert Seethaler) Rules of Civility (Amor Towles) Audition (Katie Kitamura) Small Things Like These (Claire Keegan) Orbital (Samantha Harvey) The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue (V.E. Schwab) The Nix (Nathan Hill) My Friends (Fredrik Backman) Stone Yard Devotional (Charlotte Wood) A Gentleman in Moscow (Amor Towles) Erasure (Percival Everett) |
| Horror / Dark Fiction |
The Only Good Indians (Stephen Graham Jones) I Was a Teenage Slasher (Stephen Graham Jones) The Buffalo Hunter Hunter (Stephen Graham Jones) Survivor Song (Paul Tremblay) Prophet Song (Paul Lynch) |
| Mystery / Crime / Thriller |
City Primeval (Elmore Leonard) Close to Death — Hawthorne & Horowitz #5 (Anthony Horowitz) In the Woods (Tana French) The Searcher (Tana French) Fever Beach (Carl Hiaasen) In Too Deep — Jack Reacher #29 (Lee Child) American Dirt (Jeanine Cummins) El Dorado Drive (Megan Abbott) The Secret of Secrets — Robert Langdon #6 (Dan Brown) |
| Science Fiction |
All Systems Red — Murderbot #1 (Martha Wells) Project Hail Mary (Andy Weir) |
| Classics |
David Copperfield (Charles Dickens) Thérèse Raquin (Émile Zola) Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoevsky) The Crucible (Arthur Miller) |
| Poetry |
Felicity (Mary Oliver) The Best American Poetry 2018 (Dana Gioia, ed.) The Best American Poetry 2024 (David Lehman, ed.) Settlement (Ada Limon) |
| Books About Poetry / Poetics | Ten Windows: How Great Poems Transform the World (Jane Hirshfield) |
| Essay Collections / Literary Nonfiction |
Upstream (Mary Oliver) The Anthropocene Reviewed (John Green) The Gastronomical Me (M.F.K. Fisher) Draft No. 4: On the Writing Process (John McPhee) |
| Nature, Environment & Deep Ecology |
Braiding Sweetgrass (Robin Wall Kimmerer) Gathering Moss (Robin Wall Kimmerer) The Dream of the Earth (Thomas Berry) The Light Eaters (Zoë Schlanger) The Salt Stones (Helen Whybrow) Is a River Alive? (Robert Macfarlane) The Lost Words (Robert Macfarlane) The Comfort of Crows (Margaret Renkl) |
| Philosophy, Mindfulness, Psychology |
On Becoming a Person (Carl R. Rogers) Standing at the Edge (Joan Halifax) Four Thousand Weeks (Oliver Burkeman) In Praise of Slowness (Carl Honoré) Saving Time (Jenny Odell) |
| History & Politics |
The Passage of Power — LBJ #4 (Robert A. Caro) The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder (David Grann) |
| Music, Art, & Culture |
But Beautiful: A Book About Jazz (Geoff Dyer) How Music Works (David Byrne) John & Paul: A Love Story in Songs (Ian Leslie) Gropius: The Man Who Built the Bauhaus (Fiona MacCarthy) |
| Science, Technology & Future Studies |
Breakneck: China’s Quest to Engineer the Future (Dan Wang) When We Cease to Understand the World (Benjamín Labatut) |
| Food, Craft, & Making |
The Zero-Waste Chef (Anne-Marie Bonneau) Ingrained: An Uplifting Memoir About Woodworking (Callum Robinson) |
| Reading, Writing & Book Culture |
The Notebook: A History of Thinking on Paper (Roland Allen) Index: A History of the (Dennis Duncan) The Instructional Playbook (Jim Knight) |
| Memoir |
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius (Dave Eggers) Life Itself (Roger Ebert) Arbitrary Stupid Goal (Tamara Shopsin) Twenty-Four Seconds From Now (Jason Reynolds) |
| Young Adult |
Patron Saints of Nothing (Randy Ribay) The First State of Being (Erin Entrada Kelly) |
On This Day (12/26):
- 2025-12-26: 2025 Books Sorted into Categories
- 2025-12-26: Books Read 2026 (table view)
- 2024-12-26: Time well spent
- 2024-12-26: Books Read 2024 Table
- 2023-12-26: Grateful 2023
- 2023-12-26: Books Read 2023 Table
- 2022-12-26: Today I thanked her
- 2021-12-26: What do you bring to the table
- 2020-12-26: Books You Should Write
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