7/26/2026

fiction
1
yesteryear
Caro Claire Burke
Natalie Heller Mills, a privileged tradwife social media influencer, wakes up to find she is living in the comparatively difficult reality of 1855.
2
whistler
Ann Patchett
Decades after their time together, a woman reconnects with her stepfather and they look back at the directions their lives have taken.
3
the calamity club
Kathryn Stockett
As things get tougher during the Depression, several women look for ways to improve their circumstances.
4
the exquisite torment of loving your enemy
Brigitte Knightley
The second book in the Dearly Beloathed series. Boundaries weaken between an assassin and a healer.
5
love you more
Emily Giffin
Shortly after becoming engaged, Billie receives a call from her first love that compels her to return to Wisconsin.
6
the correspondent
Virginia Evans
Letters from someone she used to know push Sybil Van Antwerp toward revisiting her past and finding a way to forgive.
7
carl's doomsday scenario
Matt Dinniman
The second book in the "Dungeon Crawler Carl" series. Carl and Donut confront an ancient spell and heightened dangers.
8
the shampoo effect
Jenny Jackson
When Caroline Lash is pushed out of a social circle in a small seaside town, she exposes secrets that rile up the residents.
9
the dungeon anarchist's cookbook
Matt Dinniman
The third book in the "Dungeon Crawler Carl" series. Carl and Donut are up against a subway system filled with monsters.
10
dungeon crawler carl
Matt Dinniman
A Coast Guard vet named Carl and his ex-girlfriend’s cat, Princess Donut, are trapped in a fantasy dungeon.
11
country people
Daniel Mason
When his wife accepts a visiting professorship in Vermont, Miles encounters a story that may have more to it than seems at first glance.
12
he who fights with monsters, book 1: outworlder
Travis Deverell
A middle manager at an office supplies store becomes an interdimensional adventurer.
13
the butcher's masquerade
Matt Dinniman
The fifth book in the "Dungeon Crawler Carl" series. The action moves to the sixth floor, which is known as the Hunting Grounds.
14
the gate of the feral gods
Matt Dinniman
The fourth book in the "Dungeon Crawler Carl" series. Obstacles abound on the fifth floor of the dungeon.
15
everything was beautiful and nothing hurt
Ben Reeves
A man who gives comfort to those who are dying bonds with a midwife and her daughter.
nonfiction
1
regime change
Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan
Two White House correspondents for The New York Times delve into the first year of President Trump's second term.
2
revolution
Eric Metaxas
The author of “Martin Luther” and “Bonhoeffer” gives an account of the foundation of the United States of America.
3
cancel me if you can
Dave Portnoy
The founder of Barstool Sports describes how he grew his business from a four-page newspaper into the digital media company it is today.
4
strangers
Belle Burden
Burden retraces her marriage of 20 years in search of clues to help shape her understanding about its demise and to find a way forward.
5
communion
JD Vance
The vice president and author of “Hillbilly Elegy” describes how he perceives his faith played a part in his work in public life.
6
the land and its people
David Sedaris
Essays on the passage of time, complicated relationships and some unexpected delights life has to offer.
7
london falling
Patrick Radden Keefe
The author of “Say Nothing” details the efforts by the parents of a 19-year-old Londoner to uncover the truth about his mysterious death and secret life.
8
famesick
Lena Dunham
The author of “Not That Kind of Girl” evaluates the effects that pursuing her creative endeavors had on her.
9
the anxious generation
Jonathan Haidt
A co-author of “The Coddling of the American Mind” looks at the mental health impacts that a phone-based life has on children.
10
everything is tuberculosis
John Green
The author of “The Anthropocene Reviewed” chronicles the fight against the deadly infectious disease tuberculosis.
11
america, u.s.a.
Eddie S. Glaude Jr
The author of “Begin Again” delves into elements of America’s difficult and complicated past, and what they portend for our future.
12
on courage
Julia Angwin and Ami Fields-Meyer
The authors of the New Yorker essay “So You Want to Be a Dissident?” profile people who stood up to authoritarianism.
13
the greatest sentence ever written
Walter Isaacson
The historian and biographer examines the concepts of a statement found in the Declaration of Independence.
14
when breath becomes air
Paul Kalanithi
A memoir by a physician who received a diagnosis of Stage IV lung cancer at the age of 36.
15
suicidal empathy
Gad Saad
The host of the podcast “The Saad Truth” argues that what he considers misguided compassion is having a negative impact on society.