Books

# title author picker date genres
117
Title: Bog Queen
Author: Anna North
Picker: Carina
Date: Jun 04, 2026
Genres: mystery, historical fiction
116
Title: The Secret Lives of Colour
Author: Kassia St. Clair
Picker: Kena
Date: Apr 30, 2026
Genres: non-fiction, art history
115
Title: The Trouble with Loving Poets and Other Essays on Failure
Author: Elizabeth Zaleski
Picker: All
Date: Apr 18, 2026
Genres: memoir, short story
114
Title: The Wizard of Earthsea (2nd time!)
Author: Ursula K. LeGuin
Picker: Erin
Date: Mar 24, 2026
Genres: fantasy
113
Title: The Alchemist
Author: Paulo Coelho
Picker: Maya
Date: Feb 24, 2026
Genres: fantasy
112
Title: Nine Princes in Amber
Author: Roger Zelazny
Picker: Geoff
Date: Jan 20, 2026
Genres: fantasy
111
Title: What You Are Looking for is in the Library
Author: Michiko Aoyama
Picker: John J
Date: Dec 09, 2025
Genres: short stories, healing fiction
110
Title: Legends & Lattes
Author: Travis Baldree
Picker: Jess
Date: Nov 12, 2025
Genres: fantasy
109
Title: The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
Author: Oliver Sacks
Picker: Karin
Date: Oct 02, 2025
Genres: nonfiction, case history
108
Title: Prodigal Summer
Author: Barbara Kingsolver
Picker: Carina
Date: Aug 28, 2025
Genres: fiction, environmental fiction
107
Title: Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
Author: Olga Tokarczuk
Picker: Steph
Date: Jul 25, 2025
Genres: mystery
106
Title: Wide Sargasso Sea
Author: Jean Rhys
Picker: Kena
Date: May 29, 2025
Genres: postcolonial
105
Title: The Story of Your Life
Author: Ted Chiang
Picker: Erin
Date: Apr 21, 2025
Genres: science fiction, short stories
104
Title: An Immense World
Author: Ed Yong
Picker: John J
Date: Mar 18, 2025
Genres: nonfiction, pop science
103
Title: The Periodic Table
Author: Primo Levi
Picker: Elizabeth accidentally
Date: Jan 30, 2025
Genres: short stories, memoir, nonfiction
102
Title: The Daughter of Doctor Moreau
Author: Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Picker: Jess
Date: Dec 27, 2024
Genres: science fiction, postcolonial
101
Title: When We Cease to Understand the World
Author: Benjamín Labatut
Picker: Dylan
Date: Nov 26, 2024
Genres: alternate history, mathematical fiction
100
Title: The Light Pirate
Author: Lily Brooks-Dalton
Picker: Carina
Date: Oct 21, 2024
Genres: science fiction, dystopia
99
Title: Fangirl
Author: Rainbow Rowell
Picker: Karin
Date: Sep 26, 2024
Genres: young adult
98
Title: The Name of the Wind
Author: Patrick Rothfuss
Picker: Kena
Date: Aug 13, 2024
Genres: fantasy
97
Title: The Dispossessed
Author: Ursula K. LeGuin
Picker: John S
Date: Jul 02, 2024
Genres: science fiction
96
Title: The Best We Could Do
Author: Thi Bui
Picker: Elizabeth
Date: May 14, 2024
Genres: graphic novel, memoir
95
Title: A Psalm for the Wild-Built
Author: Becky Chambers
Picker: John J
Date: Apr 22, 2024
Genres: solar punk, science fiction
94
Title: The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse
Author: Louise Erdrich
Picker: Jess
Date: Mar 21, 2024
Genres: fiction, magical realism
93
Title: Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle
Author: Emily Nagoski and Amelia Nagoski
Picker: Karin
Date: Feb 20, 2024
Genres: self-help
92
Title: The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible
Author: A.J. Jacobs
Picker: Kena
Date: Jan 16, 2024
Genres: memoir, religious, comedy
91
Title: The Unstoppable Bridget Bloom
Author: Allison L. Bitz
Picker: Cassey
Date: Dec 01, 2023
Genres: young adult
90
Title: Here in the Night
Author: Rebecca Turkewitz
Picker: Elizabeth
Date: Nov 09, 2023
Genres: horror, short stories
89
Title: Kalpa Imperial
Author: Angélica Gorodischer
Picker: Jess
Date: Sep 25, 2023
Genres: fantasy, short stories
88
Title: Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom
Author: Cory Doctorow
Picker: Karin
Date: Aug 22, 2023
Genres: science fiction, social science fiction
87
Title: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
Author: Douglas Adams
Picker: Kena
Date: Jul 18, 2023
Genres: science fiction, comedy
86
Title: Killers of a Certain Age
Author: Deanna Raybourn
Picker: Cassey
Date: Jun 08, 2023
Genres: mystery, thriller
85
Title: Jakob von Gunten, Ein Tagebuch
Author: Robert Walser
Picker: Elizabeth
Date: Apr 25, 2023
Genres: fictional soliloquy
84
Title: An Indigenous People's History of the United States
Author: Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
Picker: Jess
Date: Jan 31, 2023
Genres: nonfiction
83
Title: Termination Shock
Author: Neil Stephenson
Picker: Max
Date: Dec 27, 2022
Genres: science fiction
82
Title: The Actual Star
Author: Monica Byrne
Picker: John S
Date: Nov 01, 2022
Genres: speculative fiction, science fiction
81
Title: Spirit of the Harvest
Author: Beverly Cox and Martin Jacobs
Picker: Kena
Date: Aug 30, 2022
Genres: cookbook, nonfiction
80
Title: Let's Get Physical: How Women Discovered Exercise and Reshaped the World
Author: Danielle Friedman
Picker: Cassey
Date: Jul 05, 2022
Genres: nonfiction
79
Title: Sailing Alone Around the Room
Author: Billy Collins
Picker: Elizabeth
Date: Apr 26, 2022
Genres: poetry
78
Title: Parable of the Sower
Author: Octavia E. Butler
Picker: Jess
Date: Feb 08, 2022
Genres: science fiction, dystopia
77
Title: Salt Fat Acid Heat
Author: Samin Nosrat
Picker: Max
Date: Dec 05, 2021
Genres: cookbook, autobiographical
76
Title: Howl's Moving Castle
Author: Diana Wynne Jones
Picker: Kena
Date: Oct 19, 2021
Genres: fantasy
75
Title: The Dud Avocado
Author: Elaine Dundy
Picker: Elizabeth
Date: Aug 31, 2021
Genres: autobiographicalish
74
Title: Rivers of London
Author: Ben Aaronovitch
Picker: Jess
Date: Jul 29, 2021
Genres: fantasy
73
Title: The Once and Future Witches
Author: Alix E. Harrow
Picker: Cassey
Date: Jun 22, 2021
Genres: fantasy
72
Title: It Came From Something Awful
Author: Dale Beran
Picker: Max
Date: May 04, 2021
Genres: nonfiction
71
Title: Song of Solomon
Author: Toni Morrison
Picker: Dylan
Date: Mar 17, 2021
Genres: literary fiction
70
Title: A Memory Called Empire
Author: Arkady Martine
Picker: Dylan
Date: Feb 02, 2021
Genres: science fiction
69
Title: The House of the Spirits
Author: Isabel Allende
Picker: Kena
Date: Dec 08, 2020
Genres: magical realism, autobiography
68
Title: Persepolis
Author: Marjane Satrapi
Picker: Elizabeth
Date: Oct 12, 2020
Genres: graphic novel, memoir
67
Title: The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms
Author: N.K. Jemisin
Picker: Jess
Date: Sep 10, 2020
Genres: fantasy
66
Title: Why Fish Don't Exist
Author: Lulu Miller
Picker: Cassey
Date: Jul 30, 2020
Genres: memoir, history
65
Title: Long Way to a Small Angry Planet
Author: Becky Chambers
Picker: Max
Date: Jun 25, 2020
Genres: science fiction
64
Title: Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Author: Yuval Noah Harari
Picker: Dylan
Date: May 25, 2020
Genres: history, philosophical
63
Title: Watership Down
Author: Richard Adams
Picker: Kena
Date: Mar 10, 2020
Genres: fantasy
62
Title: Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self Delusion
Author: Jia Tolentino
Picker: Elizabeth
Date: Jan 28, 2020
Genres: essays
61
Title: One of Ours
Author: Willa Cather
Picker: Jess? Or Kena? Or Dylan?
Date: Dec 12, 2019
Genres: historical fiction, war fiction
60
Title: American War
Author: Omar El Akkad
Picker: Cassey
Date: Oct 29, 2019
Genres: science fiction
59
Title: Catseye
Author: Andre Norton
Picker: Steph
Date: Sep 10, 2019
Genres: science fiction
58
Title: Kindred
Author: Octavia E. Butler
Picker: Misha?
Date: Jul 22, 2019
Genres: science fiction
57
Title: Trail of Lightning
Author: Rebecca Roanhorse
Picker: Max
Date: Jun 25, 2019
Genres: speculative fiction, fantasy
56
Title: Keith County Journal
Author: John Janovy
Picker: Kena
Date: May 13, 2019
Genres: essays, environmental nonfiction
55
Title: This Blessed Earth
Author: Ted Genoways
Picker: Pete R
Date: Apr 01, 2019
Genres: nonfiction, non-ricketts
54
Title: Less
Author: Andrew Sean Greer
Picker: Dylan
Date: Feb 26, 2019
Genres: satire, literary fiction
53
Title: Salvage the Bones
Author: Jesmyn Ward
Picker: Elizabeth
Date: Jan 19, 2019
Genres: literary fiction
52
Title: The Power
Author: Naomi Alderman
Picker: John S
Date: Dec 04, 2018
Genres: science fiction
51
Title: Super Indian vol 1
Author: Arigon Starr
Picker: Jess
Date: Oct 23, 2018
Genres: comics
50
Title: Welcome to Your Authentic Indian Experience
Author: Rebecca Roanhorse
Picker: Jess
Date: Oct 23, 2018
Genres: short story
49
Title: Peter Pan
Author: J. M. Barrie
Picker: Misha
Date: Sep 04, 2018
Genres: fantasy
48
Title: The Mars Room
Author: Rachel Kushner
Picker: Jeff M
Date: Aug 07, 2018
Genres: fiction
47
Title: Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
Author: Matthew Desmond
Picker: Cassey
Date: Jun 26, 2018
Genres: nonfiction
46
Title: Lincoln in the Bardo
Author: George Sanders
Picker: Dylan
Date: May 30, 2018
Genres: magical realism, experimental fiction
45
Title: A Room with a View
Author: E. M. Forster
Picker: Chanté
Date: Apr 24, 2018
Genres: romance, social commentary
44
Title: Independent People
Author: Halldór Laxness
Picker: Jeff L
Date: Mar 29, 2018
Genres: epic, social realism
43
Title: The Misanthrope
Author: Molière
Picker: Max
Date: Feb 06, 2018
Genres: social commentary, comedy of manners
42
Title: One Hundred Years of Solitude
Author: Gabriel García Márquez
Picker: Kena
Date: Jan 23, 2018
Genres: magical realism, epic
41
Title: Weapons of Math Destruction
Author: Cathy O'Neil
Picker: John S
Date: Dec 12, 2017
Genres: mathematics, nonfiction
40
Title: The Poisoner's Handbook
Author: Deborah Blum
Picker: Jess
Date: Nov 14, 2017
Genres: popular science, nonfiction
39
Title: Last Chance to See
Author: Douglas Adams and Mark Carwardine
Picker: Steph
Date: Oct 12, 2017
Genres: wildlife documentary, comedy
38
Title: The Immense Journey
Author: Loren Eiseley
Picker: Delan
Date: Sep 07, 2017
Genres: essays, environmental nonfiction
37
Title: Pym
Author: Mat Johnson
Picker: Dylan
Date: Aug 03, 2017
Genres: uhhhh, dark comedy
36
Title: The Fifth Season
Author: N.K. Jemisin
Picker: Max
Date: Jun 27, 2017
Genres: science fantasy
35
Title: White Trash
Author: Nancy Isenberg
Picker: Tanika?
Date: May 30, 2017
Genres: nonfiction
34
Title: Pale Fire
Author: Vladimir Nobokov
Picker: Jeff L
Date: Apr 11, 2017
Genres: experimental fiction???, uhhhh
33
Title: The Professor's House
Author: Willa Cather
Picker: Kena
Date: Mar 07, 2017
Genres: literary fiction
32
Title: The Underground Railroad
Author: Colson Whitehead
Picker: Dylan
Date: Feb 07, 2017
Genres: historical fiction, magical realism
31
Title: Mothership
Author: Multiple
Picker: Misha
Date: Jan 05, 2017
Genres: short fiction, science fiction, afrofuturism
30
Title: Good Omens
Author: Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett
Picker: John S and Jess
Date: Nov 17, 2016
Genres: comedy, fantasy
29
Title: So You've Been Publicly Shamed
Author: Jon Ronson
Picker: Cassey
Date: Oct 13, 2016
Genres: nonfiction, sociology
28
Title: The Hundred-Year Walk
Author: Dawn Anahid MacKeen
Picker: Jess
Date: Sep 06, 2016
Genres: autobiography, biography
27
Title: The Green Boat
Author: Mary Pipher
Picker: Tanika
Date: Jul 19, 2016
Genres: self-help, environmental nonfiction
26
Title: The Monkey Wrench Gang
Author: Edward Abbey
Picker: Aaron
Date: Jun 14, 2016
Genres: environmental fiction, anarchy
25
Title: Between the World and Me
Author: Ta-Nehisi Coates
Picker: Dylan
Date: May 17, 2016
Genres: autobiography, nonfiction
24
Title: The Fire Next Time
Author: James Baldwin
Picker: John S
Date: Apr 05, 2016
Genres: essays, nonfiction
23
Title: Flatterland
Author: Ian Stewart
Picker: Max
Date: Mar 01, 2016
Genres: mathematical fiction, popular science
22
Title: Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions
Author: Edwin Abbott Abbott
Picker: Max
Date: Mar 01, 2016
Genres: mathematical fiction, social commentary
21
Title: Homage to Catalonia
Author: George Orwell
Picker: Misha
Date: Feb 03, 2016
Genres: nonfiction, autobiography
20
Title: A Wizard of Earthsea
Author: Ursula K. Le Guin
Picker: Jess
Date: Jan 07, 2016
Genres: fantasy, coming of age
19
Title: 1491
Author: Charles C. Mann
Picker: Tanika
Date: Nov 29, 2015
Genres: nonfiction
18
Title: Americanah
Author: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Picker: Dylan
Date: Oct 28, 2015
Genres: literary fiction
17
Title: Bad Feminist
Author: Roxane Gay
Picker: Sarah
Date: Sep 16, 2015
Genres: essays, nonfiction
16
Title: Starship Troopers
Author: Robert Heinlein
Picker: Jess
Date: Jul 26, 2015
Genres: war fiction, science fiction, philosophical fiction
15
Title: Daughter of Fortune
Author: Isabel Allende
Picker: Kena
Date: Jul 29, 2015
Genres: historical fiction
14
Title: King Leopold's Ghost
Author: Adam Hochschild
Picker: John S
Date: Jun 24, 2015
Genres: nonfiction
13
Title: The Poisonwood Bible
Author: Barbara Kingsolver
Picker: John S
Date: Jun 24, 2015
Genres: historical fictiom
12
Title: Doomsday Book
Author: Connie Willis
Picker: Max
Date: May 27, 2015
Genres: science fiction
11
Title: The Autobiography of Malcolm X
Author: Malcolm X with Alex Haley
Picker: Misha
Date: Apr 28, 2015
Genres: autobiography
10
Title: The Invisible Pyramid
Author: Loren Eiseley
Picker: Delan
Date: Mar 26, 2015
Genres: essays, scientific philosophy
9
Title: The Coldest Winter Ever
Author: Sister Souljah
Picker: Tanika
Date: Feb 26, 2015
Genres: literary fiction
8
Title: Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
Author: Tom Wolfe
Picker: Misha
Date: Jan 14, 2015
Genres: new journalism, nonfiction
7
Title: Hagakure
Author: Yamamoto Tsunetomo
Picker: Max
Date: Dec 03, 2014
Genres: manual, spiritual guide
6
Title: Siddhartha
Author: Hermann Hesse
Picker: Max
Date: Dec 03, 2014
Genres: philosophical fiction
5
Title: A Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Author: Douglas Adams
Picker: Ricky
Date: Oct 29, 2014
Genres: comedy, science fiction
4
Title: A Canticle for Leibowitz
Author: Walter M. Miller Jr.
Picker: Aaron
Date: Sep 24, 2014
Genres: science fiction
3
Title: All Quiet on the Western Front
Author: Erich Maria Remarque
Picker: Joan
Date: Aug 27, 2014
Genres: war fiction
2
Title: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Author: Robert M. Pirsig
Picker: Dylan
Date: Jul 30, 2014
Genres: philosophical fiction, autobiography
1
Title: Catch-22
Author: Joseph Heller
Picker: John S
Date: Jun 25, 2014
Genres: satire, war fiction