For September, I monitored 39 active clubs. Those clubs gave me 74 rows for consideration, representing 60 new books for the database. Of the 60, I said Yes to 9, Maybe to 8, and No to 43.
I also considered Bestseller lists, which generated 116 other titles for possible consideration. Of those I said Yes to 13, Maybe to 10, and No to 93.
This brings the year-to-date totals for 2026 to 1,289 books tracked, with me saying Yes to 19.3%, Maybe to 14.8%, and No to 65.9%. This compares with 2025, where Yes was 28.8%, Maybe 15.2%, and No 56.0%.
I clearly have no willpower (including generally saying yes to cookbooks without much consideration first). But the big change will come next month. All of the retired clubs that I was still gathering for fun and giggles and some low signal-quality ones are now going to be officially dead to me — Stacks, Audacious, Zibby’s, Service 95, Jeselnik, Library Science, and Natalie Portman. For the Best Seller lists (I’m still tickled pink that I shorten that to BS lists in my notes!), is much more massive. They were adding way too much noise and volume for manageability. So I’ve killed
- Amazon: Sales Kindle · Sales Print · Sales NF · Read NF
- G&M: Bio · Can F · Can NF · Gen · HC F · HC NF · PB F · PB NF
- NYT: HC NF · Gen · PB F · YA
- Indie: HC NF · PB F · PB NF · YA
I kept Amazon’s Fiction lists (read and sales), NYT HC fiction and advice, and the Indie HC Fiction and General. So I’ll still see big releases, indie releases, and everything Amazon-y.
For my reading this month, I’m hoping to do better, though I’m at mid-month and have only worked through one of this month’s offerings so far. I chose The Ferryman’s Daughter as my Amazon First Reads book of the month and I’m only about 60% of the way through. The plot is awesome, the delivery and writing okay, but there are a bunch of red herrings that don’t fit very well, so I’m really curious to see if the author can stick the landing. It doesn’t seem like a five-star, but if she lands the ending, maybe 4; if not, it’ll likely drop to a 2. There isn’t much middle ground left on this one. I’m also looking forward to Not Quite Dead Yet, as one of the mystery styles where the sleuth is solving their own murder.
And I’m 95% done a major ebook library project, that I hope to blog about soon. Almost 10w of slogging to accomplish something that didn’t need doing. lol I’ll explain when I get there. But hopefully it means more time to read!
Current month — Book clubs
| Book Club | Title & Author | Genre | Description | Me |
| Amazon First Reads | Always Be My Pumpkin, Linda McEvoy | Romance | Librarian’s fake Halloween romance with returning childhood friend turns real | NO |
| Book Club Confidential, Julie Hatcher | Contemporary Fiction | Three friends vow to live boldly as heroines of their own stories | MAYBE | |
| Death by Misadventure, Jane Bitomsky | Historical Mystery | Elizabethan coroner investigates a mutilated corpse found beneath a village waterwheel | YES | |
| The Back Bedroom, Gregg Olsen | Narrative Nonfiction | A self-proclaimed prophet’s followers beat a boy deemed possessed to death | NO | |
| The Daughters of Rosebud, Sonny Buttar | Literary Fiction | Estranged sisters fracture over a life-altering choice in small-town Rosebud | NO | |
| The Ferryman’s Daughter, Yasmin Angoe | Mystery | Forensic teacher hunts a copycat mimicking her serial-killer father’s murders | YES | |
| Trust No One, Mary Burton | Thriller | Public defender returns to family estate after cousin’s cyanide poisoning | NO | |
| Turkey’s Fall Fumble, Wendi Silvano | Children’s | Turkey and friends celebrate the fall festivities | NO | |
| Watch Her Run, Jennifer Moorhead | Thriller | Runaway influencer wakes captive in a Louisiana swamp cabin | NO | |
| Audacious | Reality TV for Snobs, Ali Barthwell | Nonfiction | Guide to twenty influential reality shows, from Real World to Traitors | NO |
| Barnes & Noble | Under Story, Chloe Benjamin | Literary Fiction | Antarctic biologist and her ex-husband confront a portal to a parallel world | NO |
| BBC Radio 2 | Agrippa, Robert Harris | Historical Fiction | Agrippa’s rise from commoner to Rome’s mightiest general under Augustus | NO |
| Ghost Month, Simon Wroe | Contemporary Fiction | Four strangers await departed loved ones during a supernatural annual Ghost Month | NO | |
| Belletrist | Life of M, Rachel Cusk | Literary Fiction | A stranger writes the biography of a famous, reclusive film star | NO |
| Black Men Read | Pulling the Chariot of the Sun, Shane McCrae | Memoir | Poet recounts being kidnapped as a toddler by his white grandparents | NO |
| Book of the Month | Before You Were Anne, Emiko Jean | Mystery | Detective probes a murdered woman’s hidden Japanese past and missing daughter | MAYBE |
| Fallow, Sarah Anderson | Literary Fiction | A woman becomes the world’s first in-house corporate surrogate | NO | |
| If Not You, Ellen O’Clover | Romance | Rival copywriters fall for each other during a monthlong resort-pitch road trip | NO | |
| Kiss Slay Replay, Rachel Harrison | Horror | A wedding guest relives a massacre in an inescapable time loop | MAYBE | |
| The True Confessions of First Lady Freeman, Deesha Philyaw | Literary Fiction | A megachurch pastor’s wife sees her hidden past explode into public scandal | NO | |
| The Wretched Divine, Adalyn Grace | Fantasy | A knight allies with a demon to end an angel-demon war | MAYBE | |
| Elle Cordova | The Three Body Problem, Cixin Liu | Science Fiction | Earth encounters an alien civilization amid a virtual game and conspiracy | NO |
| Everyday Reading | The Lion Women of Tehran, Marjan Kamali | Historical Fiction | Class issues in 1950s Tehran | NO |
| Good Housekeeping | Under the Falls, Richard Russo | Literary Fiction | Ex-musician returns to hometown for benefit concert; a crime exposes betrayals | NO |
| Good Morning America | Hawk & Sparrow, Ayana Gray | Romance | Orphan reporter and accused sorcerer fake a courtship to solve a murder | NO |
| Under Story, Chloe Benjamin | Literary Fiction | Antarctic biologist and her ex-husband confront a portal to a parallel world | NO | |
| GoodReads Mystery | Everything I Never Told You, Celeste Ng | Literary Fiction | Chinese-American family unravels after favorite daughter Lydia found dead in lake | NO |
| The Redbreast, Jo Nesbo | Crime | Harry Hole hunts a neo-Nazi sniper linked to wartime Norwegian collaborators | MAYBE | |
| Jack Carr | Biological War, Annie Jacobsen | Narrative Nonfiction | Journalistic scenario of a catastrophic biological weapon attack unfolding | NO |
| Jeselnik | The Glass Hotel, Emily St. John Mandel | Literary Fiction | Siblings’ lives unravel around a financier’s collapsing Ponzi scheme | RETIRED |
| Katie Couric | Hollow Bones, Jodi Picoult | Literary Fiction | Woman who lost her mother on 9/11 confronts marriage and buried lies | NO |
| Library Science | East of Eden, John Steinbeck | Literary Fiction | Two families entwine across generations in California’s Salinas Valley | RETIRED |
| Main Street Reads | A Resistance of Witches, Morgan Ryan | Fantasy | A witch races to seize a dangerous grimoire before the Nazis | NO |
| Not Quite Dead Yet, Holly Jackson | Thriller | D.O.A. and gives the victim a week to solve her own murder | YES | |
| Older, Jennifer Hartmann | Romance | A teenage survivor and a much older man fall into forbidden love | NO | |
| The Bewitching, Silvia Moreno-Garcia | Horror | Three women across eras face witches in New England and rural Mexico | NO | |
| Mocha Girls Read | Mexican Gothic, Silvia Moreno-Garcia | Horror | 1950s Mexican socialite confronts ancestral horrors in cousin’s haunted Anglo-colonial mountain mansion | NO |
| Natalie Portman | Beginning Middle End, Valeria Luiselli | Literary Fiction | Mother and daughter journey to Sicily after a marriage collapses | RETIRED |
| PBS Books | Hollow Bones, Jodi Picoult | Literary Fiction | Woman who lost her mother on 9/11 confronts marriage and buried lies | NO |
| Poisoned Pen | A Game of Cat and Killer, Jiro Akagawa; Haydn Trowell | Mystery | A timid detective and his clever cat solve college campus murders | NO |
| Apple Pies and Poisoned Lies at the Cider Falls Festival, Traci Hall | Mystery | Returning to her family orchard, Macki investigates a festival baking-contest murder | NO | |
| Death Writ Large, Susie Dent | Mystery | Oxford lexicographers decode runic graffiti linked to a lecturer’s death | NO | |
| Nearshore, Steve Hawk | Thriller | A surfer-lifeguard and math prodigy uncover Silicon Valley’s nuclear-terror secret | NO | |
| Tear the City Down, Andre Hardy | Crime | A San Diego fixer’s photo assignment plunges him into deadly corruption | YES | |
| The Bookseller, Tim Sullivan | Mystery | DS George Cross investigates a murdered bookseller amid rival dealers | MAYBE | |
| The Lost Perfumes of Paris, Christine Wells | Historical Fiction | A young perfumer enters a Paris competition to save her family’s business | NO | |
| The Pirate Queen, Ariel Lawhon | Historical Fiction | Grace O’Malley risks everything to defend her Irish clan against England | NO | |
| The Sleeping Sisters, Jennifer Givhan | Horror | A mother and a detective collide as desert murders awaken buried horror | NO | |
| Read with Jenna | The Witches of Cambridge, Alice Hoffman | Fantasy | Two 1950s Radcliffe students join a secret witch society as girls vanish | NO |
| Reader’s Digest | The Women in White, Sarah Pekkanen | Mystery | Carer for an elderly woman uncovers 1960s psychic experiments’ secrets | MAYBE |
| 2010: Odyssey Two, Arthur C. Clarke | Science Fiction | Soviet-US crew investigates the Jupiter monolith and derelict spaceship Discovery | YES | |
| Among the Burning Flowers, Samantha Shannon | Fantasy | Human resilience through gripping, tragic events set in the Priory world | NO | |
| City of Illusions, Ursula K. Le Guin | Science Fiction | Amnesiac man journeys across alien-ruled Earth to recover his true identity | NO | |
| Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, Philip K. Dick | Science Fiction | Bounty hunter pursues rogue androids in post-apocalyptic Earth, basis for Blade Runner | YES | |
| Ficciones, Jorge Luis Borges | Short Stories | Labyrinthine tales of infinite libraries and forking, imaginary worlds | NO | |
| Hungry Ghosts, Kevin Jared Hosein | Historical Fiction | 1940s Trinidad farmhand becomes watchman after a landowner vanishes | NO | |
| Katabasis, R.F. Kuang | Fantasy | Cambridge grad students journey into Hell to rescue advisor | YES | |
| Parisian Days, Banine | Memoir | Young emigre flees forced marriage for freedom among 1920s Paris artists | NO | |
| Platform Decay, Martha Wells | Science Fiction | Murderbot must extract a group of humans from a ruthless corporation | YES | |
| Shattered Gods, Katee Robert | Romance | Hermes seeks revenge when murdered Circe resurfaces alive in Olympus | YES | |
| Sweet Berries, C.M. Nascosta | Romance | Event planner falls for a charming mothman who watches at her window | MAYBE | |
| The Blue Castle, L.M. Montgomery | Romance | Misdiagnosed spinster abandons her stifling family to finally live freely | NO | |
| The Moonstone, Wilkie Collins | Mystery | A cursed Indian diamond vanishes the night it’s inherited | NO | |
| The Mysterious Affair at Styles, Agatha Christie | Mystery | Poirot investigates the poisoning of a wealthy heiress at an English estate | YES | |
| The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Robert Louis Stevenson | Horror | London lawyer uncovers the deadly secret linking Jekyll and Hyde | NO | |
| The Trouble With Peace, Joe Abercrombie | Fantasy | A fragile peace collapses into conspiracy, betrayal, and rebellion across the Union | NO | |
| The Vegetarian, Han Kang | Literary Fiction | A woman’s refusal to eat meat unravels her family | NO | |
| Reese | Big Little Truths, Liane Moriarty | Contemporary Fiction | Monterey mothers face new threats as their children reach high school | NO |
| Richard & Judy | The Cove, Lj Ross | Mystery | Trauma survivor flees to Cornish bookshop, gets pulled into local murder | NO |
| Service 95 | Martyr!, Kaveh Akbar | Literary Fiction | Iranian-American poet addict’s existential quest through martyrdom and family secrets | NO |
| Stacks | Brother, I’m Dying, Edwidge Danticat | Memoir | Haitian-American writer mourns her father and uncle amid immigration tragedy | NO |
| Sunriver | Bel Canto, Ann Patchett | Literary Fiction | Hostage taking, mitigated by music | NO |
| House in the Cerulean Sea, Tj Klune | Fantasy | Uptight caseworker inspects an orphanage of magical, dangerous children | YES | |
| Marble Hall Murders, Anthony Horowitz | Mystery | Susan Ryeland reads a manuscript that encodes clues to a 20-year-old poisoning | MAYBE | |
| TeaTime | Hello, Limerence, Momo Yamaguchi | Contemporary Fiction | Turning twenty-five, Mika chases desire through a Tokyo summer | NO |
| Zibby’s | Dad, Love Me, Matthew Quick | Memoir | Memoir confronting his aging father’s dementia and their fraught bond | NO |
| When Lemons Give You Life, Anna Johnston | Contemporary Fiction | Retired Michelin-star chef secretly cooks in his nursing home kitchen | NO |
Bestsellers
| Book Club | Title & Author | Genre | Description | Me |
| Amazon Bestsellers | A Court of Mist and Fury, Sarah J. Maas | Fantasy | Traumatized Feyre, now High Fae, drawn to the Night Court’s ruler | YES |
| Complete Book of Home Preserving, Judi Kingry; Lauren Devine | Cookbook | 400 recipes for canning jams, pickles, and preserving food at home | NO | |
| Complete Canadian Curriculum Grade 4, Popular Book Company | Nonfiction | Grade 4 workbook covering math, English, social studies, and science | NO | |
| Cross Check, Chelsea Curto | Romance | NHL assistant coach and rookie player hide a forbidden romance | MAYBE | |
| Everything Delish, Jamie Milne | Cookbook | 100+ simple recipes for confident, crave-worthy everyday home cooking | YES | |
| First Day Jitters, Julie Danneberg | Children’s | Nervous newcomer dreads her first day | NO | |
| Greek Out, Maria Koutsogiannis | Cookbook | 120 Greek-rooted Mediterranean recipes bursting with sunshine and flavor | YES | |
| How the Light Gets In, Louise Penny | Mystery | Gamache investigates a woman’s disappearance while besieged within his own department | YES | |
| L’ Art de conjuguer, Collectif | Nonfiction | Reference dictionary conjugating twelve thousand French verbs | NO | |
| La societe-chalet, Jerome Blanchet-Gravel | Essays | Essays on risk-aversion and conformism in post-pandemic Quebec and Canada | MAYBE | |
| Our Class is a Family, Shannon Olsen | Children’s | A classroom where kids feel safe, included, and loved together | NO | |
| Protocols, Andrew D. Huberman | Self-Help | Science-based protocols for sleep, focus, exercise, nutrition, and personal growth | MAYBE | |
| The Boy Who Drew Auschwitz, Thomas Geve | Memoir | Child Holocaust survivor’s illustrated testimony of Nazi concentration camp horrors | NO | |
| The Daddy’s Girl, Sara Cate | Romance | Woman falls for her godfather, her father’s best friend | NO | |
| The Knave and the Moon, Rachel Gillig | Fantasy | Captive Sybil, now the king’s bride, plots to vanquish him | NO | |
| True Colors, Maya Alden | Romance | Silent data analyst falls for new CEO amid betrayal and healing | NO | |
| Amazon Sales Kindle | Burn of the Everflame, Penn Cole | Romance | War engulfs Emarion as mortals move to eradicate the Descended | NO |
| Face Off, Chelsea Curto | Romance | NHL’s fiery new woman player clashes with the star captain | NO | |
| Long Shadows (Memory Man Series), David Baldacci | Thriller | FBI consultant Amos Decker investigates a slain federal judge in Florida | YES | |
| Mac Meyers Needs Me, Helena Hunting | Romance | College fake-dating with her unattainable crush turns into real feelings | MAYBE | |
| Monstrous Serpent, E.V. Olsen | Romance | College hockey rivals fall for each other | NO | |
| Nobody Told Me Thrift Shops Sell Stolen Dragon Heirlooms, Lindsey Devin | Romance | Half-dragon shifter and law intern chase his stolen family heirlooms | NO | |
| Peaks and Promises, Claire Kingsley | Romance | Single mom’s tattooed diner regular shields her from a biker ex | NO | |
| Play Nice, Rachel Harrison | Horror | Renovating the childhood home her mother swore was possessed | NO | |
| Savage Truce, Michelle Heard | Romance | Bratva heiress must wed the ruthless pakhan she once knew | NO | |
| Spark of the Everflame, Penn Cole | Romance | Village girl Diem uncovers secrets in a world ruled by god-descended magic | NO | |
| The Bones Beneath My Skin, TJ Klune | Science Fiction | Journalist and ex-Marine protect a girl with an extraordinary secret identity | NO | |
| The Colony, Annika Norlin | Literary Fiction | Burned-out woman discovers a secretive seven-member forest commune in northern Sweden | NO | |
| The Girl Who Cried Bigfoot, Hazel Marie Wilde | Romance | Woman’s fake Bigfoot hotline for her lodge summons a real Bigfoot | NO | |
| The Incendiary, Lj Claren | Romance | Ary discovers her past was lies and wields untamed magic | NO | |
| The Pumpkin Spice Cafe, Laurie Gilmore | Romance | Woman inherits a small-town cafe and starts over in Dream Harbor | NO | |
| The Silent Patient, Alex Michaelides | Thriller | A psychotherapist unravels why a woman shot her husband then stopped speaking | NO | |
| The Silversmith, Lj Claren | Romance | Orphaned heir with royal magic falls for her forbidden warrior trainer | NO | |
| Vengeful, V. E. Schwab | Fantasy | Marcella Riggins wields deadly new power over Merit | NO | |
| What About Us, Kristen Proby | Romance | Injured hockey player and childhood-friend physical therapist rekindle romance in Montana | NO | |
| Wrong Room, Right Billionaire, Mia Mara | Romance | Naked run-in with an older stranger becomes fake engagement to her boss | NO | |
| Amazon Sales Print | 2:00 PM: Building Under Pressure When Success Doesn’t Feel Like Success, Dwight Fraser | Memoir | Building 400 Subway restaurants under relentless pressure, hardship, and family loss | NO |
| Absolute Batman Vol. 3: Devil’s Workshop, Scott Snyder | Graphic Novel | Batman faces the fallout after his explosive battle with Bane | NO | |
| Brooke’s Kitchen, Brooke Ervin | Cookbook | Approachable comfort-food recipes for weeknight dinners, baking, and special occasions | YES | |
| Collins Robert French Dictionary, Collins Dictionaries | Nonfiction | Bilingual English-French dictionary derived from the Collins Word Web | NO | |
| Complete Canadian Curriculum Grade 1, Popular Book Company | Nonfiction | Grade 1 workbook covering Math, English, Social Studies, and Science | NO | |
| Complete Canadian Curriculum Grade 2, Popular Book Company | Nonfiction | Integrated Grade 2 workbook covering math, English, social studies and science | NO | |
| Complete Canadian Curriculum Grade 3 Complete Canadian Curriculum 3 (Enriched), Popular Book Company | Nonfiction | Grade 3 all-in-one workbook covering math, English, social studies, science | NO | |
| Cozy Countdown, Coco Wyo | Nonfiction | 24 mini advent coloring books of cozy Coco Wyo illustrations | NO | |
| Dog Man, Dav Pilkey | Graphic Novel | Dog Man foils a Robo Chief and word-erasing villain schemes | NO | |
| End Times Fascism, Naomi Klein | Nonfiction | Argues today’s fascists welcome ecological collapse rather than preventing it | NO | |
| Gruffalo Granny, Julia Donaldson | Children’s | The Gruffalo’s mother appears in the deep dark wood | NO | |
| Little Blue Truck’s Halloween, Alice Schertle | Children’s | Little Blue Truck and animal friends celebrate Halloween in costume | NO | |
| My First Library, Wonder House Books | Children’s | Ten board books introducing first concepts for babies and toddlers | NO | |
| Piano Adventures, Nancy Faber | Nonfiction | Beginner piano method teaching notes, rhythm, and sight-reading | YES | |
| PlantYou Quickies, Carleigh Bodrug | Cookbook | Speedy plant-based recipes, many doable in 30 minutes or less | NO | |
| Spooky Cutie, Coco Wyo | Nonfiction | Coloring pages of cozy ghosts, grim reapers, and zombie cats | NO | |
| The Altar of Pergamon, Jonathan Cahn | Thriller | A skeptic’s global quest uncovers dark mysteries of Pergamon’s ancient altar | MAYBE | |
| G&M Can NF | Plants of the Pacific Coast, Jim Pojar; Andy MacKinnon; Leigh Joseph (styawat); Jamie Fenneman | Nonfiction | Field guide to 700-plus coastal plants from Alaska to Oregon | NO |
| G&M HC F | Delusional, James Patterson; James O. Born | Thriller | Bennett and Trilling chase anti-government bombers across New York and Montana | NO |
| G&M HC NF | Pardon My Book, Big Cat; Pft Commenter | Nonfiction | Ten-year anthology and guide to the Pardon My Take sports podcast | MAYBE |
| Seventy, Ian Brown | Memoir | Journalist chronicles his seventy-first year, refusing to age quietly | NO | |
| The One Who Broke You Can’t Heal You, Najwa Zebian | Self-Help | Guide to releasing toxic relationship bonds and building healthy ones | MAYBE | |
| Too Sensitive, Sasha Hamdani; William Dodson | Self-Help | Reframes emotional sensitivity as a responsive nervous system, not a flaw | NO | |
| Where Do You Feel That in Your Body?, Simone Saunders | Self-Help | Somatic guide to reading your nervous system beyond talk therapy | NO | |
| G&M PB F | Not a Word, Linwood Barclay | Thriller | Man finds his parents dead, then his mother phones alive | NO |
| The Black Wolf, Louise Penny | Mystery | Gamache hunts an invisible foe after a terror attack proves diversion | YES | |
| Indie HC F | Blacktail, Scott Hawkins | Fantasy | A wolf avenges his slain mate on her human owners | NO |
| Daggerbound (Swordheart), T. Kingfisher | Romance | Disillusioned scholar frees an immortal warrior bound to an ancient sword | NO | |
| Daggermouth (The Heart Duology), H.M. Wolfe | Romance | Masked presidential heir and mercenary forced into political marriage | NO | |
| God’s Country, William Kent Krueger | Mystery | Ominous visions shadow Cork O’Connor’s Boundary Waters family trip | NO | |
| Paper Ghosts, Sarah Addison Allen | Contemporary Fiction | Granddaughter returns to unearth the Wester women’s family secrets | NO | |
| Scion, James Islington | Science Fiction | Enhanced assassin who kills the immortal confronts her past | NO | |
| Slewfoot, Brom | Horror | Outcast Puritan widow allies with an awakened ancient forest spirit | NO | |
| The Birthing Tree, Amanda Peters | Literary Fiction | Mi’kmaq woman returns home to confront long-buried family secrets | NO | |
| The Disappearers, Marlon James | Literary Fiction | Gay theatre troupe copes with aftermath of a homophobic attack | NO | |
| The Knave and the Moon (The Stonewater Kingdom), Rachel Gillig | Fantasy | Sybil fights to defeat the king as a mysterious knave rises | NO | |
| There Is No Antimemetics Division, Qntm | Science Fiction | Agents battle antimemes—ideas that erase memory and identity | NO | |
| Indie HC NF | Ain’t Nobody’s Fool, Martha Ackmann | Biography | The life and times of country legend Dolly Parton | NO |
| American Scoundrel, Kai Bird; Susan Goldmark | Biography | Roy Cohn’s ruthless rise from McCarthy to mentoring Donald Trump | NO | |
| Guinness World Records 2027, Guinness World Records | Nonfiction | Annual compendium of world record-breaking feats and facts | NO | |
| Homemaking with Babs, Barbara Costello | Nonfiction | Practical cleaning and homemaking routines for keeping a home | NO | |
| Humble Power, Ethan Willis | Self-Help | How humility multiplies personal growth, connection, and influence | NO | |
| I Eat the Stars, Sarah Wilson | Self-Help | Finding joy and meaning amid climate breakdown and dread | NO | |
| No Prophets, Jared Huffman | Nonfiction | Congressman exposes Christian nationalism’s threat to church-state separation and democracy | NO | |
| Nobody Broke Your Heart, Jamie Fisher | Biography | Biography of tragic 1990s singer-songwriter Elliott Smith | NO | |
| Notes to New Mothers, Rebecca Knight (ed.) | Essays | Sixty-five writers capture the raw reality of early motherhood | NO | |
| Profits, Prophets, Coaches, and Kings, Jared Diamond | Nonfiction | Whether great leaders shape history or circumstances shape the outcome | NO | |
| Situated, Angela Duckworth | Self-Help | Find the people and places that bring out your best | NO | |
| The Best Dog in the World, Alice Hoffman (ed.) | Essays | Fourteen authors’ essays on the dogs who shaped their lives | NO | |
| The Castle, Jon Ronson | Narrative Nonfiction | Investigating the modern crisis of unraveling masculinity | NO | |
| The Final Solution to the Jewish Question, Dara Horn | Nonfiction | Confronts antisemitism’s myths and charts a path to a shared future | NO | |
| The Little Frog’s Guide to Hope, Maybell Eequay | Self-Help | Illustrated affirmations and comfort for keeping hope alive | YES | |
| The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State, Jill Lepore | Nonfiction | A historian’s warning against replacing democracy with artificial intelligence | NO | |
| The Wreck of the Mentor, Eric Jay Dolin | Narrative Nonfiction | Shipwrecked whaleship Mentor’s crew survives among Palau’s Indigenous Micronesians | NO | |
| This Is About Running. This Is Not About Running., Chris Bennett | Self-Help | Nike’s head coach reframes running as a practice for life’s starts | NO | |
| Why You Should Read Children’s Books, Even Though You Are So Old and Wise, Katherine Rundell | Essays | A spirited defence of reading children’s books as an adult | NO | |
| Indie PB F | A Time of Witches, Madeline Martin | Historical Fiction | Dual-timeline: a 17th-century Suffolk witch trial echoes a modern woman’s haunting | NO |
| Back for Blood, Shane Hawk (ed.) | Horror | More Indigenous dark tales of blood, monsters, and haunting | NO | |
| Demon Copperhead, Barbara Kingsolver | Literary Fiction | Appalachian boy endures poverty, foster care, and addiction seeking belonging | NO | |
| Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury | Dystopian | A book-burning fireman awakens and rebels against censorship | YES | |
| The Frozen River, Ariel Lawhon | Historical Mystery | 1789 Maine midwife investigates a body found in frozen river | MAYBE | |
| The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion Vol. 2, Beth Brower | Historical Fiction | 1883 London: witty Emma Lion’s journals of eccentric neighbours and kin | NO | |
| Indie PB NF | Coming Up Short, Robert B. Reich | Memoir | Robert Reich’s memoir reflecting on his life and America | NO |
| Crossing the Wine-Dark Sea, Emily Wilson | Nonfiction | Essayistic journeys through the great works of ancient Greek and Roman literature | NO | |
| Dark Renaissance, Stephen Greenblatt | Biography | Chronicle of Shakespeare’s dangerous, brilliant rival and his fatal genius | NO | |
| John & Paul, Ian Leslie | Biography | The Lennon-McCartney relationship that changed the cultural history of the world | NO | |
| Replaceable You, Mary Roach | Nonfiction | A tour of the engineered and replaced parts of human anatomy | MAYBE | |
| The Backyard Bird Chronicles, Amy Tan | Memoir | Amy Tan’s illustrated daily journal of backyard birdwatching and nature | NO | |
| The Unsettling of America, Wendell Berry | Nonfiction | Critique of industrial agriculture’s damage to land, culture, and community | NO | |
| What in the World?!, Leanne Morgan | Memoir | A Southern comedian’s humorous take on life’s curveballs and blessings | NO | |
| Indie YA | Our Strange Duet, Erin A. Craig | Fantasy | Soprano Christine caught between Raoul and the masked Phantom beneath the Opera | NO |
| The Gods Will Sing Our Song, Autumn Krause | Fantasy | Interned Japanese American teens must free a god from their WWII camp | NO | |
| NYT Advice | Everyday Eats, Alex Snodgrass | Cookbook | Fewer-ingredient, low-stress recipes from breakfast to after-dinner sweets | YES |
| Ordinary People, Extraordinary Times, Skye Perryman | Nonfiction | How ordinary Americans can defend democracy and rights in their communities | MAYBE | |
| The Fast Cookbook, Caroline Chambers | Cookbook | 100 complete-meal dinners each made in 30 minutes hands-on | YES | |
| The Protein Meal Prep Plan, Cassy Joy Garcia | Cookbook | 30 weekly plans of high-protein, high-fiber meals from three ingredients | YES | |
| NYT HC F | Daggerbound, T. Kingfisher | Fantasy | A timid scholar frees an immortal warrior from an enchanted sword | NO |
| NYT PB F | Lights Out, Navessa Allen | Romance | Trauma nurse’s masked online obsession turns dangerous when a stalker emerges | NO |
| NYT YA | Barbie: Dreamscape, Alex Aster | Fantasy | Left Fateless, Barbie journeys across magical realms to find her destiny | NO |
| But I Hate Him, Page Powars | Romance | A perfectionist plots to make his academic rival fall for him | NO |
Until the next book…do you see anything that interests you? Or that you have already read?
