Nonfiction

• The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz, by Erik Larson, 2020
• The Accidental President: Harry S. Truman and the Four Months That Changed the World, by A. J. Baime, 2017
• Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, by Frederick Douglass, 1845
• A Terribly Serious Adventure: Philosophy and War at Oxford, 1900–1960, by Nikhil Krishnan, 2023
• The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession, by Michael Finkel, 2023
• Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins of the Internet, by Katie Hafner & Matthew Lyon, 1996
• Meditations, by Marcus Aurelius (translated by Gregory Hays), 167 (translated 2003)
• Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World, by Mark Kurlansky, 1997
• Everything She Touched: The Life of Ruth Asawa, by Marilyn Chase, 2020
• The Common Reader, by Virginia Woolf, 1925
• The Voyage of the Beagle, by Charles Darwin, 1839
• How Infrastructure Works: Inside the Systems That Shape Our World, by Deb Chachra, 2023
• Slouching Towards Bethlehem, by Joan Didion, 1968
• The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, by Thomas S. Kuhn, 1962
• The Fabric of Civilization: How Textiles Made the World, by Virginia Postrel, 2020
• Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar, by Simon Sebag Montefiore, 2003
• Inventing the Renaissance: The Myth of a Golden Age, by Ada Palmer, 2025
• The Coming of the Third Reich, by Richard J. Evans, 2003
• Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty, by Daron Acemoglu & James A. Robinson, 2012
• The Years of Lyndon Johnson volume 1: The Path to Power, by Robert A. Caro, 1982
• The Book-Makers: A History of the Book in Eighteen Lives, by Adam Smyth, 2024

Fiction

• The Bright Sword, by Lev Grossman, 2024
• The Age of Innocence, by Edith Wharton, 1920
• The Grief of Stones, by Katherine Addison, 2022
• Medea, by Euripides (translated by Gilbert Murray), 431 B.C. (translated 1912)
• Glorious Exploits, by Ferdia Lennon, 2024
• Lent: A Novel of Many Returns, by Jo Walton, 2019
• Grief Is the Thing with Feathers, by Max Porter, 2015
• Tuyo, by Rachel Neumeier, 2020
• Gilead, by Marilynne Robinson, 2004
• Middlemarch, by George Eliot, 1872
• Alien Clay, by Adrian Tchaikovsky, 2024
• Julius Caesar, by William Shakespeare, 1599
• Yvain, the Knight of the Lion, by Chrétien de Troyes, 1180
• Ajax, by Sophocles (translated by Francis Storr), 442 B.C. (translated 1919)
• Dogs of War, by Adrian Tchaikovsky, 2017
• Mrs Dalloway, by Virginia Woolf, 1925
• Children of Memory, by Adrian Tchaikovsky, 2022
• Penric’s Mission, by Lois McMaster Bujold, 2016
• Moby-Dick, by Herman Melville, 1851
• The Touchstone, by Edith Wharton, 1900
• The Dagger in Vichy, by Alastair Reynolds, 2025
• House of Open Wounds, by Adrian Tchaikovsky, 2023
• The Haunting of Hill House, by Shirley Jackson, 1959
• Wolf Hall, by Hilary Mantel, 2009
• The Orb of Cairado, by Katherine Addison, 2025
• Sanctuary, by Edith Wharton, 1903
• Saturation Point, by Adrian Tchaikovsky, 2024
• Bring Up the Bodies, by Hilary Mantel, 2012
• Half a King, by Joe Abercrombie, 2014
• Making History, by K. J. Parker, 2025
• Moonbound, by Robin Sloan, 2024
• Where the Drowned Girls Go, by Seanan McGuire, 2022

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Nonfiction

• Super-Infinite, by Katherine Rundell
• Becoming, by Michelle Obama
• Why You Should Read Children’s Books, Even Though You Are So Old and Wise, by Katherine Rundell
• The Disappearing Spoon, by Sam Kean
• The Education of an Idealist, by Samantha Power
• A Midwife’s Tale, by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
• The Wager, by David Grann
• The Power Broker, by Robert A. Caro
• Young Stalin, by Simon Sebag Montefiore
• An Immense World, by Ed Yong
• Medieval Horizons, by Ian Mortimer
• The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini, by Benvenuto Cellini
• The Small and the Mighty, by Sharon McMahon
• The Notebook, by Roland Allen
• Brunelleschi’s Dome, by Ross King
• Skunk Works, by Ben R. Rich & Leo Janos
• The Dark Queens, by Shelley Puhak

Fiction

• Station Eleven, by Emily St. John Mandel
• I Capture the Castle, by Dodie Smith
• The Heroes, by Joe Abercrombie
• The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi, by Shannon Chakraborty
• The Hallowed Hunt, by Lois McMaster Bujold
• The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion, by Beth Brower (all eight volumes so far)
• The Big Score, by K. J. Parker
• The Witness for the Dead, by Katherine Addison
• The Redoubtable Pali Avramapul, by Victoria Goddard
• The Butcher of the Forest, by Premee Mohamed
• Komarr, by Lois McMaster Bujold
• Witches of Lychford, by Paul Cornell
• The Thursday Murder Club, by Richard Osman
• City of Last Chances, by Adrian Tchaikovsky
• Over Sea, Under Stone, by Susan Cooper
• The Lost Child of Lychford, by Paul Cornell
• The Tusks of Extinction, by Ray Nayler
• The Warden, by Anthony Trollope

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Nonfiction

• The Perfectionists, by Simon Winchester
• The Soul of a New Machine, by Tracy Kidder
• First, by Evan Thomas
• All the President’s Men, by Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward
• The River of Doubt, by Candice Millard
• Caste, by Isabel Wilkerson
• Convictions, by John Kroger
• Indigenous Continent, by Pekka Hämäläinen
• When the Heavens Went on Sale, by Ashlee Vance
• Let’s Talk About Race and Priesthood, by W. Paul Reeve
• Leadership, by Doris Kearns Goodwin
• Avid Reader, by Robert Gottlieb
• Ways of Being, by James Bridle
• In the Garden of Beasts, by Erik Larson

Fiction

• Memory, by Lois McMaster Bujold
• The Justice of Kings, by Richard Swan
• The Goblin Emperor, by Katherine Addison
• Paladin of Souls, by Lois McMaster Bujold
• The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, by Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows
• The Will of the Many, by James Islington
• In the Woods, by Tana French
• Blood Over Bright Haven, by M. L. Wang
• Cage of Souls, by Adrian Tchaikovsky
• Memories of Ice, by Steven Erikson
• The Return of Fitzroy Angursell, by Victoria Goddard
• Chosen, by Benedict Jacka
• Made Things, by Adrian Tchaikovsky

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Nonfiction

• The Golden Thread, by Kassia St. Clair
• The Cubans, by Anthony DePalma
• The Dawn of Everything, by David Graeber & David Wengrow
• Stretching the Heavens, by Terryl L. Givens
• This Changes Everything, by Naomi Klein
• The Invention of Nature, by Andrea Wulf
• The Sixth Extinction, by Elizabeth Kolbert
• The Plantagenets, by Dan Jones
• How the Word Is Passed, by Clint Smith
• Human Errors, by Nathan H. Lents
• I Wish I’d Been There, edited by Byron Hollinshead
• Extra Life, by Steven Johnson

Fiction

• Ring Shout, by P. Djèlí Clark
• Network Effect, by Martha Wells
• The Curse of Chalion, by Lois McMaster Bujold
• Binti, by Nnedi Okorafor
• The Hands of the Emperor, by Victoria Goddard
• Babel, by R. F. Kuang
• Ogres, by Adrian Tchaikovsky

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