Pick-a-Shelf discussion

This is the thread for October. Some of the instructions are posted below as well for your ease of reference.

B. Your Books
Pick your 3 - 5 top reads from August 2025 reads.

C. Like for Like (L4L)
For each of Your Books, pick one shelf from their top 3-5 shelves (aside from "to-read", "currently-reading"). (they may end up being duplicated if you are a genre reader).

You will read a book from each of these shelves (preferably those already on your TBR).

D. Your Options

For this section, you may choose to either read purely from your TBR or new books* or BOTH! There are separate tasks as per below options:

*the definition of new books here is quite liberal; it could literally be a new book you've brought home or newly published book which you've put on your TBR last year or new-to-you... whichever works for you

Each of the books you read for L4L are to be used as starting point for each of below prompts (ie. 1 book cannot be used for more than 1 prompt per option).

D.1. Your TBR
1. Date: Using one of your books, read from closest date added (could be the month and even if it was a new book you read/added in January 2025, read another book you added in January 2025)

2. Series (maybe): Using one of your books, read the next book in the series or (for stand alone book) read another book by the same author

3. Author: Using one of your books, read a book from an author with the same initials (first & last only in the same position)

4. Title: Using one of your books, read a book with an identical^ word in title
^we're not going to be super strict here, it could be exactly identical, found intact or just of similar nature (eg. monster - monstrous is acceptable)

5. Pages: Using one of your books, read a book with at least 50 pages more.


D.2. new books
1. Date: Using one of your books, read a book published in the same year.

2. Series (maybe): Using one of your books, read a book from a series by a new-to-you author OR (for stand alone book) read another book by a new-to-you author

3. Author: Using one of your books, read a book from an author with the same initials (first & last only in a flipped position)

4. Title: Using one of your book titles, read from a shelf with a word* in title
www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/[INSERT WORD IN TITLE HERE]
*word cannot be articles, preposition, or connective

5. Pages: Using one of your books, read a book where the first number of pages is that of your book's last number of pages

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TBR Bender October 2025
Completed 20 Oct 2025

B. Your Books
Pick your 3 - 5 top reads from August 2025 reads.
1. The Book Club for Troublesome Women, Marie Bostwick
historical fiction, book club, books about books


2. The Spoon Stealer, Lesley Crewe
historical fiction, fiction, Canada


3.The Woman They Could Not Silence: One Woman, Her Incredible Fight for Freedom, and the Men Who Tried to Make Her Disappear, Kate Moore
nonfiction, history, feminism


C. Like for Like (L4L)
For each of Your Books, pick one shelf from their top 3-5 shelves

1. (The Book Club for Troublesome Women, historical fiction
The Company Daughters, Samantha Rajaram, 8 Oct 2025


2. (The Spoon Stealer, fiction)
The Disappeared, C.J. Box, 5 Oct 2025


3. (The Woman They Could Not Silence: One Woman, Her Incredible Fight for Freedom, and the Men Who Tried to Make Her Disappear, nonfiction)
A Bookshop in Berlin, Françoise Frenkel, 4 Oct 2025



>D. Your Options

For this section, you may choose to either read purely from your TBR or new books* or BOTH! There are separate tasks as per below options:

*the definition of new books here is quite liberal; it could literally be a new book you've brought home or newly published book which you've put on your TBR last year or new-to-you... whichever works for you

Each of the books you read for L4L are to be used as starting point for each of below prompts (ie. 1 book cannot be used for more than 1 prompt per option).

D.1. Your TBR
1. Date: Using one of your books, read from closest date added
(A Bookshop in Berlin, both added to TBR 9/25)
The Retirement Plan, Sue Hincenbergs, 11 Oct 2025


2. Series (maybe): Using one of your books, read the next book in the series or (for stand alone book) read another book by the same author

3. Author: Using one of your books, read a book from an author with the same initials (first & last only in the same position)

4. Title: Using one of your books, read a book with an identical^ word in title
^we're not going to be super strict here, it could be exactly identical, found intact or just of similar nature (eg. monster - monstrous is acceptable)

5. Pages: Using one of your books, read a book with at least 50 pages more.
(The Disappeared, 388 pp.)
The Girl in the Woods, Camilla Läckberg, 17 Oct 2025, 580 pp.

D.2. new books
1. Date: Using one of your books, read a book published in the same year.

✔2. Series (maybe): Using one of your books (for stand alone book), read another book by a new-to-you author.
(The Company Daughters)
The Way of Beauty, Camille Di Maio, 20 Oct 2025

3. Author: Using one of your books, read a book from an author with the same initials (first & last only in a flipped position)

4. Title: Using one of your book titles, read from a shelf with a word* in title
www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/[INSERT WORD IN TITLE HERE]
*word cannot be articles, preposition, or connective

5. Pages: Using one of your books, read a book where the first number of pages is that of your book's last number of pages

My October plan:

B. Your Books
Pick your 3 - 5 top reads from August 2025 reads.
1. The Paris Novel
2. Project Hail Mary
3. In the Night of Memory

C. Like for Like (L4L)
For each of Your Books, pick one shelf from their top 3-5 shelves
1. Historical Fiction, Food, Travel: Clanlands: Whisky, Warfare, and a Scottish Adventure Like No Other
2. Fantasy, Space, Adventure: Ruin and Rising
3. Contemporary, Native American, Literary Fiction: The Pony Wife

D. Your Options

D.1. Your TBR
1. Date: Using one of your books, read from closest date added

2. Series (maybe): Using one of your books, read the next book in the series or (for stand alone book) read another book by the same author

3. Author: Using one of your books, read a book from an author with the same initials (first & last only in the same position)
Ruin and Rising by Leigh Bardugo (LB)
Hearse and Buggy by Laura Bradford

4. Title: Using one of your books, read a book with an identical^ word in title
The Pony Wife (Wife)
The Saturday Wife

5. Pages: Using one of your books, read a book with at least 50 pages more.
Clanlands: Whisky, Warfare, and a Scottish Adventure Like No Other has 297 pages
Lady Tan’s Circle of Women has 352 pages

B. Your Books
Pick your 3 - 5 top reads from August 2025 reads.
1. Beautyland science fiction, literary fiction
2. Flashlight historical fiction, mystery, literary fiction
3. Heartwood mystery, thriller, nature

C. Like for Like (L4L)
1. science fiction, literary fiction On the Calculation of Volume I✔️
2. mystery, historical fiction Bog Queen✔️
3. thriller, mystery The Vanishing Place✔️

D. Your Options


D.1. Your TBR
1. Date: Using one of your books, read from closest date added
Bog Queen == added July 2025 == The Name of the Sister✔️

2. Series (maybe): Using one of your books, read the next book in the series or (for stand alone book) read another book by the same author
On the Calculation of Volume I==On the Calculation of Volume II✔️

3. Author: Using one of your books, read a book from an author with the same initials (first & last only in the same position)

4. Title: Using one of your books, read a book with an identical^ word in title
The Vanishing Place == place == A Sunny Place for Shady People✔️

5. Pages: Using one of your books, read a book with at least 50 pages more.

October TBR Bender
Read: 4/6

Top 3 August Reads:
* Hemlock & Silver - Fantasy, Retellings, Horror, Romance
* The Magic of Found Objects - Romance, Chick Lit, Magical Realism
* The Husbands - Thriller, Mystery, Contemporary

Like for Like (L4L):
* Hemlock & Silver - Fantasy
✅1. When the Moon Hits Your Eye - Fantasy - 11/12/25

* The Magic of Found Objects - Magical Realism
✅2. North Woods - Magical Realism - 9/10/25

* The Husbands - Contemporary
✅3. Sing, Unburied, Sing - Contemporary - 9/16/25

TBR:
Date:Sing, Unburied, Sing - added Feb. 2025
4. Untangled: Guiding Teenage Girls Through the Seven Transitions into Adulthood - added Mar. 2025

New:
Date: When the Moon Hits Your Eye - 2025
5. The Morgue Keeper - 2025

Pages: North Woods - 372pp
✅6. On the Calculation of Volume II - 208pp - 11/30/25

October Spot

B: My Books - August
1. And Then There Were None - Mystery / Favorites / Classics
2. The Odyssey - Classics / Fiction / Poetry
3. The Well of Ascension - Fantasy / Favorites / Owned

C. Like for Like
1. The A.B.C. Murders Shelf: Mystery Added: Jan 14, 2022
2. The Hunchback of Notre-Dame Shelf: Classics Added: Jan 11, 2012
3. Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption Shelf: Favorites Added: Dec 28, 2024

D.1. Your TBR
1. Date: Using one of your books, read from closest date added (could be the month and even if it was a new book you read/added in January 2025, read another book you added in January 2025)

2. Series (maybe): Using one of your books, read the next book in the series or (for stand alone book) read another book by the same author
Murder in Mesopotamia (using: ABC Murders)

3. Author: Using one of your books, read a book from an author with the same initials (first & last only in the same position)
Mozart's Starling by Lyanda Lynn Haupt (using Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand)

4. Title: Using one of your books, read a book with an identical^ word in title
^we're not going to be super strict here, it could be exactly identical, found intact or just of similar nature (eg. monster - monstrous is acceptable)

5. Pages: Using one of your books, read a book with at least 50 pages more.
The Vicomte de Bragelonne (768 pages, using Hunchback of Notre Dame, 510 pgs)

Read: 0/6

October - DONE!

C. Like for Like (L4L)
1. You Killed Me First - thriller
A Killer's Mind - Completed 10/17/25

2. Northwest Angle - mystery
Her First Mistake - Completed 10/1/25

3. The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir - 2024
The Silent Watcher - Completed 9/28/25

4. Finding Dorothy - historical-fiction
The Absolutist - Completed 9/13/25

5. The Boomerang - kindle
The Art of Hiding - Completed 9/28/25

D. Your Options

D.1. Your TBR
1. Date: Her First Mistake - added August 9, 2025
Read from closest date added
The Twist of a Knife - added August 7, 2025 - Completed 10/13/25

2. Series: The Silent Watcher
Read the next book in the series
The Night Collector - Completed 10/4/25

3. Author: The Absolutist by John Boyne
Read a book by an author with the same initials (first & last only in the same position)
The Brothers Hawthorne by Jennifer Lynn Barnes - Completed 10/12/25

4. Title: A Killer's Mind
Read a book with an identical word in title
A Killer's Code - Completed 10/26/25

5. Pages: The Art of Hiding (290 pages)
Read a book with at least 50 pages more
Off the Grid (371 pages) - Completed 9/30/25

D.2. new books
1. Date: A Killer's Mind - published Aug 1, 2018 Read a book published in the same year
From Lukov with Love - published Feb 1, 2018 - Completed 11/1/25

2. Series (maybe): The Absolutist (stand alone book)
Read another book by a new-to-you author
Autumn Bleeds Into Winter - Completed 9/4/25

3. Author: Her First Mistake by Kendra Elliot
Read a book by an author with the same initials (first & last only in a flipped position)
The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova - Completed 9/13/25

4. Title: The Art of Hiding
Read from a shelf with a word* in title
www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/hiding
Not Our Daughter - Completed 9/29/25

5. Pages: The Silent Watcher (363 pages)
Read a book where the first number of pages is that of your book's last number of pages
The Broken Girls (336 pages) - Completed 10/19/25

Goal: 3 books
Read: 4/6

August Books
1. The Forever War
2. Buried Deep and Other Stories
3. In Other Lands

L4L
1. Nonfiction - Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East 11/22
2. Short stories - Collected Ghost Stories 10/20
3. Fantasy - A Marvellous Light

Options: D.1 TBR
1. Title - The Black Tides of Heaven 12/6
2. Date - both added 2025 July 4th - The King in Yellow and Other Horrors: The Best Weird Fiction & Ghost Stories of Robert W. Chambers 11/25
3. Series - sequel?

TBR Bender ❱❱ October ❱❱ COMPLETE
October - December 2025

My October TBR Bender (msg 10)

August Books
🔺Yellowstone Vows ❱❱ romance; time travel; historical fiction
🔺Consort of Fire ❱❱ fantasy; romance; dragons; lgbt
🔺Danger Close ❱❱ romantic suspense; military fiction; romance; suspense; contemporary fiction

Like for Like



☑️historical fiction ❱❱ Yellowstone Vows
🔺Lady Susan ❱❱ 09.11 ★★★★
☑️fantasy ❱❱ Consort of Fire
🔺The Zillionaire Vampire Cowboy's Secret Werewolf Babies ❱❱ 09.05 ★★
☑️romantic suspense ❱❱ Danger Close
🔺The Woman Left Behind ❱❱ 09.14 ★★★★

Options - TBR



☑️Date ❱❱ The Woman Left Behind ❱❱ added Dec 2024
🔺Happy After All ❱❱ 09.28 ★★★★
☑️Author ❱❱ Lady Susan ❱❱ initials JA
🔺Death at the Crystal Palace ❱❱ 09.08 ★★★★
☑️Title ❱❱ The Zillionaire Vampire Cowboy's... ❱❱ Cowboy
🔺A Cowboy in Paradise ❱❱ 09.09 ★★★

Options - New



☑️Date ❱❱ The Woman Left Behind ❱❱ published 2025
🔺On Loverose Lane ❱❱ 10.03 ★★★★
☑️Series ❱❱ The Zillionaire Vampire Cowboy's... ❱❱ new author ❱❱ Blair Bancroft
🔺Belle ❱❱ 10.08★★★
☑️Author ❱❱ Lady Susan ❱❱ initials JA
🔺Hal ❱❱ 09.23 ★★★★

October
2/6

Your Books
Pick your 3 - 5 top reads from August 2025 reads.
1. An Elderly Lady Is Up to No Good by Helene Tursten ★★★★ 7 August 2025 mystery, Humor, Crime
2. The Naturals by Jennifer Lynn Barnes 16 August 2025 ★★★★★ Young Adult, Thriller, romance
3. A Dream of Stone & Shadow by Marjorie M. Liu 31 August 2025 ★★★★★ Paranormal, Magic, witches


Like for Like (L4L)
✔ 1. Humor - The Guncle by Steven Rowley 31 October 2025 ★★★★★
2. Young Adult - Red, White & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston
3. Paranormal - Desire Unchained by Larissa Ione



D.1. Your TBR
✔ 1. Dare added: November 2022 - the Guncle
Regency Christmas Parties by Annie Burrows 29 December 2025 ★★★★★
2. Author: (CM) Red, White, & Royal Blue
Lady Olivia's Forbidden Protector by Christine Merrill
3. Title word: Desire - desire Unchained
Desire by Amanda Quick

OCTOBER

My Top 5 Reads in August & shelves:
✔Fool's Assassin: fantasy, fiction, epic fantasy, high fantasy, audiobook
✔The Final Gambit: mystery, young adult, romance, fiction, mystery thriller
✔Tug of War (Joe Sandilands #6): mystery,historical fiction, historical mystery, fiction, british literature
✔The Nature of the Beast (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache #11): mystery,fiction, audiobook, canada, crime
✔Bloodchild and Other Stories: short stories, science fiction, fiction, fantasy, horror

Like 4 Like : a book on one of the 3-5 top shelves
Top Shelf: https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/... (Fool's Assassin)
✔Book 1: The Queen of Nothing - fin 11/3

Top Shelf: https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/... (The Final Gambit)
✔Book 2: Out of the Deep I Cry - fin 10/19

Top Shelf: https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/... (Bloodchild and Other Stories)
✔Book 3: Rose/House - fin 10/11

Top Shelf: https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/... (Tug of War)
✔Book 4: The Bookbinder - fin 10/16

Top Shelf: https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/... (Nature of the Beast)
✔Book 5: The Satapur Moonstone - fin 8/22

D1 Your TBR
1. Date: Using one of your [Like 4 Like] books, read from closest date added
✔The Bookbinder, added 4/27/25
✔Ghostdrift, added 4/23/25 - fin 10/3

2. Series: Using one of your books, read the next book in the series or another book by the same author
✔Rose/House, Arkady Martine]
✔A Desolation Called Peace - fin 12/5

3. Author: Using one of your books, read a book from an author with the same initials (first & last only in the same position)
✔Out of the Deep I Cry, Julia Spencer-Fleming
✔All the Names, José Saramago - fin 10/5

4. Title:Using one of your books, read a book with an identical^ word in title
✔The Queen of Nothing word: nothing
✔Nothing Ventured - fin 8/27

5. Pages: Using one of your books, read a book with at least 50 pages more.
✔The Satapur Moonstone, 360 pages - fin 8/22
✔Leviathan Wakes, 561 pages - fin 6/14/25

COMPLETED 12/5

October
Goal: 3 Books
Read: 0/9

August Books
1. The Boy Who Cried Bear by Kelley Armstrong
Shelves: Mystery, 2024, Thriller, 2025, Netgalley
2. Deep Dark by Laura Griffin
Shelves: Romantic Suspense, Romance, Mystery, 2016, Contemporary
3. Notorious by Minerva Spencer
Shelves: Historical Romance, Historical Fiction, 2023, DNF, Romance

Like for Like
1. Netgalley - Six Graves by Angela Marsons
2. Mystery - The Night Woods by Paula Munier (320)
3. Historical Romance - Sins of a Wicked Duke by Sophie Jordan

Options - TBR
1. Date (March 2025) - The Falcon at the Portal by Elizabeth Peters(March 2025)
2. 50+ Pages (370+): Outrageous by Minerva Spencer (371)
3. Series: In Scandal They Wed by Sophie Jordan

Options - New
1. Publication year (2022): Remember Love by Mary Balogh
2. Title (Shelf-Woods): What Lies in the Woods by Kate Alice Marshall (P.5)
3. Author: It Had to Be You by Jill Shalvis

. Your Books
Pick your 3 - 5 top reads from August 2025 reads.
One Good Knight
Closer to Home
Closer to the
Heart
C. Like for Like (L4L)
For each of Your Books, pick one shelf from their top 3-5 shelves (aside from "to-read", "currently-
reading"). (they may end
up being duplicated if you are a genre reader).
Sun in Glory and
Other Tales of Valdemar
D. Your Option

For this section, you may choose to either read purely from your TBR or new books* or BOTH!
There are separate tasks
as per below options:

*the definition of new
books here is quite liberal;
it could literally be a new
book you've brought home
or newly published book which you've put on your TBR last year or new-to-
you... whichever works for
you

Each of the books you read for L4L are to be used as starting point for each of below prompts (ie. 1 book cannot be used for more than 1 prompt per
option).

D.1. Your TBR
1. Date: Using one of your books, read from closest
date added (could be the month and even if it was a new book you read/added in January 2025, read another book you added in
January 2025)

2. Series (maybe): Using one of your books, read the next book in the series or (for stand alone book) read another book by the
same author

3. Author: Using one of your books, read a book from an author with the
same initials (first & last
only in the same position)
4. Title: Using one of your books, read a book with an identical^ word in title
^we're not going to be super strict here, it could
be exactly identical, found intact or just of similar nature (eg. monster - monstrous is acceptable
5. Pages: Using one of your books, read a book with at least 50 pages
more.
[book:Valdemar 10/6/25
D.2. new books
1. Date: Using one of your
books, read a book published in the same year

2. Series (maybe): Using
one of your books, read a book from a series by a new-to-you author OR (for
stand alone book) read another book by a new-to-you author
More Than the Game
She's a Mad Hatter
Completed 10/1/25

3. Author: Using one of your books, read a book
from an author with the same initials (first & last only in a flipped position
Anne's House of Dreamsby L.M. Montgomery
4. Title: Using one of your book titles, read from a
shelf with a word* in title
www.goodreads.com/shelf
/show/[INSERT WORD IN TITLE HERE]
*word cannot be article preposition, or connective

5. Pages: Using one of your books, read a book where the first number of pages is that of your book's last number of pages
Dead as a Doornail

My Top 5 reads & shelves
Once a Villain (Monsters #3) by Vanessa Len : fantasy, young-adult, 2025, wishlist, series, romance
The Rainfall Market by You Yeong-Gwang : fantasy, 2025, magical-realism, cozy, dnf
The Vanishing Cherry Blossom Bookshop by Takuya Asakura : 2025, wishlist, physical-tbr, owned, cozy
So My Ex-Boyfriend Is a Serial Killer by Kylie Scott : audiobook, audible, romance, mystery, suspense
Run, Rose, Run by Dolly Parton : 2022, 2023, mystery, book-club, thriller

Like 4 Like

Top Shelf: japanese-literature
Book 1:

Top Shelf: romance
Book 2:

Top Shelf: netgalley
Book 3: 8]

Top Shelf: adult
Book 4:

Top Shelf: romance
Book 5:

D.1. Your TBR (all these books are on my TBR)
1. Date: Using one of your books, read from closest date added


2. Series (maybe): Using one of your books, read the next book in the series or (for stand alone book) read another book by the same author


3. Author: Using one of your books, read a book from an author with the same initials (first & last only in the same position)


4. Title: Using one of your books, read a book with an identical^ word in title
^we're not going to be super strict here, it could be exactly identical, found intact or just of similar nature (eg. monster - monstrous is acceptable)


5. Pages: Using one of your books, read a book with at least 50 pages more.


D.2. new books
1. Date: Using one of your books, read a book published in the same year.


2. Series (maybe): Using one of your books, read a book from a series by a new-to-you author OR (for stand alone book) read another book by a new-to-you author


3. Author: Using one of your books, read a book from an author with the same initials (first & last only in a flipped position)


4. Title: Using one of your book titles, read from a shelf with a word* in title
www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/[INSERT WORD IN TITLE HERE]
*word cannot be articles, preposition, or connective


5. Pages: Using one of your books, read a book where the first number of pages is that of your book's last number of pages

Pick a Shelf October

Goal: 3/6 books
Read: 0/3/6

August Books:
Boyfriends of Dorothy - nonfiction, short stories, audiobook, romance, memoir
The Guide - fiction, thriller, mystery, audiobook, mystery thriller
Last Breath - horror, short stories, fiction, audiobook, adult

L4L
1. Short Stories - Pop Art
2. Mystery - Body in the Belfry
3. Horror

D1. Your TBR
1. Date: Read from closest date added
2. Series: Next in series or same author
3. Author: Same initials
4. Title: Same title word
5. Pages: 50 more pages

D2. New Books
1. Date: Published same year
2. Series: New to you series or author
3. Author: Same initials (inverted)
4. Title: Shelf with title word
5. Pages: First number is last number of pages

OCTOBER PAS BENDER

TOP AUGUST BOOKS:
1.Midnight at the Well of Souls
2.Chapter and Curse
3.The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared

Like 4 Like
1. AUGUST BOOK - Midnight at the Well of Souls
2. AUGUST BOOK - Chapter and Curse
3.AUGUST BOOK -The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared

D.1. Your TBR
1. Date: Using one of your books, read from closest date added
2. Series (maybe): Using one of your books, read the next book in the series or (for stand alone book) read another book by the same author
3. Author: Using one of your books, read a book from an author with the same initials (first & last only in the same position)
4. Title: Using one of your books, read a book with an identical^ word in title
5. Pages: Using one of your books, read a book with at least 50 pages more.

D.2. new books
1. Date: Using one of your books, read a book published in the same year.
2. Series (maybe): Using one of your books, read a book from a series by a new-to-you author OR (for stand alone book) read another book by a new-to-you author
3. Author: Using one of your books, read a book from an author with the same initials (first & last only in a flipped position)
4. Title: Using one of your book titles, read from a shelf with a word* in title
www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/[INSERT WORD IN TITLE HERE]
*word cannot be articles, preposition, or connective
5. Pages: Using one of your books, read a book where the first number of pages is that of your book's last number of pages

I hope I’m doing this right, Good chance I won’t finish last 5 options though or even 3! Can try it in November maybe
October
Books read in August
1.Mrs. Lincoln's Dressmaker
His Fic, Civil War, Am Hist
2.The Secret Life of Walter Mitty and Other Pieces
Humor, short stories, literature
3.The Buffalo Hunter Hunter
Indigenous, Fantasy, Horror
4.Oil!
His fic, politics, classics
5.The Wedding People
Lit Fic Romance, Contemporary

✅ 1.The Names by Florence Knapp Hist. Fic
✅ 2.After the Quake by Haruki Murakami Short Stories
✅ 3.The Dream Hotel by Laila Lalami- Fantasy
✅ 4.No More Tears: The Dark Secrets of Johnson & Johnson by Gardiner Harris- politics
✅ 5.Good Dirt by Charmaine Wilkersonliterary fiction

D
1. The Names by Florence Knapp - A Place Called Freedom by Ken Follett F.K. - K.F
2. After the Quake - The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle Same Author
3.The Dream Hotel - What Kind of Paradise both pub 2025
The Names by Florence Knapp - A Place Called Freedom by Ken Follett
4.No More Tears: The Dark Secrets of Johnson & Johnson - Death of the Author 464 pgs & 448 pgs
5.Good Dirt - All Good People Here