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Euphoria by Lily King
A Magical Girl Retires by Park Seolyeon
The Sorcerer of the Wildeeps by Kai Ashante Wilson

The Kraken Wakes or The Chrysalids by John Wyndham

Sheepfarmer's Daughter by Elizabeth Moon
Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
The Lies of the Ajungo by Moses Ose Utomi

The Invisible Library
Leonard and Hungry Paul
The History of Bees

If I Don't Have You by Sareeta Domingo
6. Sing for the Coming of the Longest Night by Katherine Fabian and Iona Datt Sharma
The Final Revival of Opal & Nev by Dawnie Walton

8. The Blue, Beautiful World by Karen Lord

The Stories of Ibis by Hiroshi Yamamoto / At the End of the Matinee by Keiichirō Hirano / Twinkle Twinkle by Kaori Ekuni / What You Are Looking For Is in the Library by Michiko Aoyama

Raising the Stones by Sheri S. Tepper
Infinity Gate by M.R. Carey

Outdrawn by Deanna Grey / The Duchess's Bodyguard by Drea C


The Pillar / Motel. Pool. by Kim Fielding
Brothers Across Time by Brad Boney
A Surplus of Light by Chase Connor / HappyHead by Josh Silver
Lord of the Last Heartbeat by May Peterson
Fireland: Jimmy Loves Rob by Sam Burke
Oh! You Pretty Things by Jane Hadley
Small Joys by Elvin James Mensah
Fidele by Jenna Lynn Brown


The Color of Distance by Amy Thomson
Arboreality by Rebecca Campbell
The Employees by Olga Ravn
The Man Who Folded Himself by David Gerrold / The Postman by David Brin
Sheri Tepper / Tanith Lee

2. Life Underwater by Matthew J. Metzger
The Hidden Moon by Jeannie Lin
Death in the Stocks by Georgette Heyer
3. Hester by Mrs. Oliphant
Documenting Light by E.E. Ottoman
5. Elysium by Jennifer Marie Brissett
11. Luck in the Shadows by Lynn Flewelling

The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro


Planetfall by Emma Newman
A Country of Ghosts by Margaret Killjoy














The Tiger’s Daughter by K. Arsenault Rivera


Lord of Light by Roger Zelazny
Take a Hint, Dani Brown by Talia Hibbert
Dead Collections by Isaac Fellman


would have to buy
Finders by Melissa Scott

2026 new releases

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2026 GR choice eligible + on GR lists


2027
Imps! by Gerardo Samano Cordova
Brick Wall by Katie Cotugno

manga-manhwa
poetry
self-help
cookbooks
reference
essays
stephan king
self-improvement
true-crime

The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
1 mystery
2 thriller
3 crime
4 mystery-thriller
5 murder-mystery
6 suspense
7 mystery-suspense
8 mystery-crime
9 crime-mystery
10 murder
11 horror
12 gothic
13 detective
14 crime-thriller
15 crime-fiction
16 suspense-thriller
17 horror-thriller
18 dark-academia
19 dark
20 historical-mystery
21 death
22 halloween

A Madness of Angels
1 mystery
2 horror

Small Joys
1 literary-fiction
2 literature

Sisters in the Wind
1 young adult
2 ya
3 teen
4 race
5 social justice
6 coming of age
7 family
8 realistic-fiction

The Long Past & Other Stories
1 anthology
2 short stories
3 steampunk
4 western

Another Place in Time
1 short-stories
2 anthology

Non-fiction/biography/memoir/biography-memoir/autobiography/graphic-novels/comics
The Talk (comic)
Mexikid: A Graphic Memoir
They Called Us Enemy (book club/manga/made me cry)
The Best We Could Do (manga/comic)
March: Book One (comic)

1001 books
Legend
Animal Farm
The Remains of the Day
Persuasion
I, Robot
The Once and Future King
The Forsyte Saga
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Slaughterhouse-Five
Heart of Darkness
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
Kitchen
A Suitable Boy
The Midwich Cuckoos
Evelina
Camilla
Cecilia
The Female Quixote
Excellent Women
Quartet in Autumn

Africa
After the Flare
Redemption in Indigo
Zoo City
The Prey of Gods
David Mogo Godhunter
Go, Went, Gone
The Girl in the Road
War Girls
The Lies of the Ajungo

The Seep
The Second Death of Locke
Dead Silence
Slayers of Old
The Autumn Springs Retirement Home Massacre






Moon of the Turning Leaves

Stephen King
A Gun for Sale
Where I'm Calling From: New and Selected Stories
The Improbable Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
The Stand: Captain Trips
American Vampire, Vol. 1
Charlie the Choo-Choo
A Suitable Boy
Hocus Pocus
Heart of Darkness
A Brief History of Time
The Stand: The Graphic Novel Omnibus

dnf
book-club
summer-reads
inspirational
pal
Dark Rise
Persuasion
Animal Farm
Dune
The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
Beach Read
Carry On
Flowers for Algernon
Piranesi
What You Are Looking For Is in the Library
interesting

comedy
humor
funny
fun

war
wwii
military
action

classics
historical-fiction
history
american-history
literature
literary-fiction
literary
19th-century
20th-century
21st-century
fiction
realistic-fiction
contemporary
contemporary-fiction
adult

relationships
single-parent
family
friendship
parenting
home

american
american-literature
modern
usa
western

adventure
animals
art
business
drama
economics
music
philosophy
school
travel

mental-health
health
psychology

food
nature
writing
education
sociology
academic
leadership
action-adventure
abuse
cozy
finance
work
mc
summer
culture
design

photography
social-justice
grief
medical
film

agatha-christie
death
crime-fiction
detective
true-crime

cozy-mystery
historical-mystery

dark
halloween
mystery
horror
thriller
crime
mystery-thriller
suspense
mystery-suspense
mystery-crime
murder-mystery
murder
crime-mystery
crime-thriller
psychological-thriller
suspense-thriller
horror-thriller

non-fiction
biography
memoir
biography-memoir
autobiography

personal-development
self-improvement
self-help
essays
cookbooks
reference
plays
poetry

short-stories
anthology
collection

novella

part-of-a-series
first-in-series
favorite-series
series

spirituality
theology
spiritual
christianity
faith
religion
christian

5-stars
4-stars
2-stars

favorites
favorite-authors
recommendations
read-more-than-once
booktok
1001-books
botm
made-me-cry
meh

2024
2025
2023
2022
2021
2020
2019
2018
2017
2016
2015
2014
2013
2012
2011
2010
2008

youth
childhood
childhood-favorites
high-school
young-adult
ya
coming-of-age
ya-fantasy
teen

comics
graphic-novels
comic
manga-manhwa
manga

science-fiction
science
dystopian
time-travel
speculative-fiction
post-apocalyptic
zombies
litrpg
space-opera
survival
anthropology
technology
space
aliens
sci-fi-fantasy
royalty
politics

epic-fantasy
fantasy
urban-fantasy
magic
mythology
supernatural
gothic
dragons
magical-realism
high-fantasy
retellings
fairy-tales
steampunk
witches
fae
ghosts
demons
fantasia
dark-academia
superheroes
fantasy-paranormal
medieval
angels

star-wars
star-trek
doctor-who
marvel
dc

Mate
vampires
werewolves
age-gap
shifters
(forced-proximity)
omegaverse
(slow-burn)
(spicy)
smut
alpha-male
steamy
erotica
(new-adult)
(enemies-to-lovers)
fantasy-romance
romantasy
paranormal-romance
paranormal

Great Big Beautiful Life
(drama)
friends-to-lovers
spicy
new-adult
slow-burn
forced-proximity
enemies-to-lovers
chick-lit
rom-com
small-town
(summer-reads)
(summer)
(made-me-cry)
(grief)
(writing)

billionaire
romance-historical
love-triangle
emotional
harlequin
insta-love
romance
contemporary-romance
historical-romance
dark-romance
sports
christmas
reverse-harem
bdsm
mafia
romantic-suspense
sports-romance
college
love
holiday
romance-contemporary
erotic-romance
angst
adult-romance
regency
dual-pov
hockey
mf
menage

m-m
mm-romance
lgbtq
sapphic
lesbian
found-family

translated
french
england
british
Japan
race
roman
europe
africa
German
asia
china
russia
canadian
india
uk
russian
african-american
cultural
japanese

female-author
women
women-authors
female-protagonist
feminism

james-patterson
nora-roberts
stephen-king
harry-potter

insta-love
The Other Side of Disappearing (some mystery type tags)

zombies
The Iron Duke (alpha-male/regency/dark)

dragons/demons
Rhapsody: Child of Blood

dark-romance/india/regency/angst/dark/military/alpha-male
The Duke of Shadows

romantic-suspense/regency/
The Spymaster's Lady

botm
You Between the Lines
Beach Read
Kaikeyi
Georgie, All Along
Beasts of Extraordinary Circumstance
The Final Revival of Opal & Nev
Get a Life, Chloe Brown
The Teller of Small Fortunes
Severance
One-Star Romance
Piranesi
An Absolutely Remarkable Thing
An Academic Affair
The Philosopher's Flight
The Everlasting
The Remains of the Day
Wayward Son
The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
The Name of the Wind
Flowers for Algernon
The Golem and the Jinni

hp
Carry On
Oath Breaker
Running on Air

2008
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Persuasion
Animal Farm
Slaughterhouse-Five
Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return
American Born Chinese
The Remains of the Day
And Then There Were None

Scifi Project
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The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham, 1951
Star Rangers by Andre Norton, 1953
A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr., 1959
Nine Princes in Amber by Roger Zelazny, 1970
The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia by Ursula K. Le Guin, 1974
Kesrith by C.J. Cherryh, 1978
1980
Downbelow Station by C.J. Cherryh, 1981
Merchanter's Luck by C.J. Cherryh, 1982
Forty Thousand in Gehenna by C.J. Cherryh, 1983
1984
1985
1986
Dawn by Octavia E. Butler, 1987
1988
1989
1990
1991
Ammonite by Nicola Griffith, 1992
Hunting Party by Elizabeth Moon, 1993
Foreigner by C.J. Cherryh, 1994
I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman, 1995
Remnant Population by Elizabeth Moon, 1996
Finity's End by C.J. Cherryh, 1997
1998
Precursor by C.J. Cherryh, 1999
Valor's Choice by Tanya Huff, 2000
Defender by C.J. Cherryh, 2001
Explorer by C.J. Cherryh, 2002
Trading in Danger by Elizabeth Moon, 2003
2004
A Brother's Price by Wen Spencer, 2005
2006
2007
Anathem by Neal Stephenson, 2008
2009
2010
2011 (Ready Player One by Ernest Cline / Embassytown)
2012
Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie, 2013
The Best of All Possible Worlds by Karen Lord, 2013
The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August by Claire North, 2014
(Red Rising by Pierce Brown, 2014)
Binti by Nnedi Okorafor, 2015
Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky, 2015
2016 (We Are Legion (We Are Bob) by Dennis E. Taylor)
All Systems Red by Martha Wells, 2017
Fandom for Robots by Vina Jie-Min Prasad, 2017
The Secret Life of Bots by Suzanne Palmer, 2017
The Calculating Stars by Mary Robinette Kowal, 2018
The Freeze-Frame Revolution by Peter Watts, 2018
Moon of the Crusted Snow by Waubgeshig Rice, 2018
Do You Dream of Terra-Two? by Temi Oh, 2019
To Be Taught, If Fortunate by Becky Chambers, 2019
The Space Between Worlds by Micaiah Johnson, 2020
The Book of Koli by M.R. Carey, 2020
Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir, 2021
Firebreak by Nicole Kornher-Stace, 2021
A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers, 2021
A Prayer for the Crown-Shy, 2022
The Never-Ending End of the World by Ann Christy, 2023
Those Beyond the Wall by Micaiah Johnson, 2024
The Javelin Program / The Antarctica Conspiracy by Derin Edala, 2024
Automatic Noodle by Annalee Newitz, 2025 (hide spoiler)]

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Would have to purchase physical copy:




Available in Everand+ upgrade:
The Outside (also available ILL)

Next round of PBT Top 100 Fiction TBR




Indigenous authors



Grea Alexander
Christina Berry

Classics

Fanny Herself
Address Unknown
Animal Farm
The Best of Everything
Crossriggs

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*The Half Sisters

Shirley by Charlotte Brontë
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

Excellent Women
Some Tame Gazelle
The Ladies' Paradise
The Female Quixote
A Simple Story
The Cloister and the Hearth

The Makioka Sisters by Jun'ichirō Tanizaki
The Scarlet Pimpernel

A Struggle for Fame

The Pursuit of Love
The Diary of a Provincial Lady
Wild Strawberries
Pomfret Towers



Augustus

Sultana's Dream

The Picture of Dorian Gray

Anthony Trollope
*The Vicar of Bullhampton
The Claverings
Dr. Wortle's School
Lady Anna
The Three Clerks
**The Small House at Allington


Gloriana: or The Revolution of 1900
The Story of a Modern Woman
Young Anne
The Beth Book

Anne Bronte
Agnes Gray

Thomas Hardy
The Return of the Native
The Woodlanders
*Far From the Madding Crowd
The Trumpet-Major
The Hand of Ethelberta
Desperate Remedies

Wilkie Collins
Miss or Mrs.?

In the Roar of the Sea by Sabine Baring-Gould
The Wild Irish Girl: A National Tale

Varney the Vampire; or, The Feast of Blood
After London: or, Wild England by Richard Jefferies

Allen Raine
*Love and Mr. Lewisham by H.G. Wells

Her Mother's Darling by Charlotte Riddell
The Wood Beyond the World by William Morris
Agatha's Husband by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
The Hour and the Man, An Historical Romance by Harriet Martineau
Phantastes by George MacDonald

The Heir of Redclyffe
The Semi-Detached House
Deerbrook
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12 sci-fi classics project

On my TBR:
The Machine Stops by E.M. Forster, 1909
The Kraken Wakes by John Wyndham, 1953
The Chrysalids by John Wyndham, 1955
Lord of Light by Roger Zelazny, 1967
Roadside Picnic by Arkady Strugatsky and Boris Strugatsky, 1972
The Man Who Folded Himself by David Gerrold, 1973
The Postman by David Brin, 1985
Hyperion by Dan Simmons, 1989
Raising the Stones by Sheri S. Tepper, 1990
Mars by Ben Bova, 1992
Permutation City by Greg Egan, 1994


Farewell, Earth's Bliss by D.G. Compton, 1966
?The Furies by Keith Roberts, 1966 (would have to buy/ebook)
Past Master by R.A. Lafferty, 1968
The Sheep Look Up by John Brunner, 1972
The Space Machine by Christopher Priest, 1976
Nor Crystal Tears by Alan Dean Foster, 1979
The Family Tree by Sheri S. Tepper, 1997


Tanith Lee -- Electric Forest / Night's Master
The Silver Metal Lover by Tanith Lee, 1981



I, Robot by Isaac Asimov, 1950



Rogue Queen

The Eye of the Heron by Ursula K. LeGuin

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Roger Zelazny
This Immortal by Roger Zelazny, 1966
Doorways in the Sand by Roger Zelazny, 1976
The Dream Master
Isle of the Dead



More Than Human by Theodore Sturgeon, 1953
Venus Plus X by Theodore Sturgeon, 1960
Star Man's Son, 2250 A.D by Andre Norton

The Inverted World by Christopher Priest, 1974
The Glamour by Christopher Priest

Clifford D. Simak
Destiny Doll, 1972


Joanna Russ -- The Adventures of Alyx (short stories)
Dreamsnake -- Vonda N. McIntyre
Earthlight by Arthur C. Clarke
Stanisław Lem -- The Star Diaries: Further Reminiscences of Ijon Tichy, 1971
The Invincible
Return From the Stars

1960s Hugo winners
Stand on Zanzibar
Robert Heinlein
Start with: The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
Starship Troopers

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