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2026

1. The Last Lion: Alone by William Manchester
2. Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell
3. Stillness Is the Key by Ryan Holiday
4. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
5. Vera, or Faith by Gary Shteyngart
6. Foster by Claire Keegan
7. Say Nothing by Patrick Radden Keefe
8. The Running Man by Stephen King
9. The Best American Essays 2025 by Jia Tolentino (editor)
10. John Adams by David McCullough
11. The Best American Essays 1986 by Elizabeth Hardwick (editor)
12. The Hustler by Walter Tevis
13. The Man Who Fell to Earth by Walter Tevis
14. Tiny Beautiful Things by Cheryl Strayed
15. So Late in the Day by Claire Keegan
16. The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin
17. Roads of Destiny by O. Henry
18. Departures by Julian Barnes

2025

1. The Notebook by Roland Allen
2. The Godfather by Mario Puzo
3. Just After Sunset by Stephen King
4. Fallen Leaves by Will Durant
5. Storyworthy by Matthew Dicks
6. Babel by R.F. Kuang
7. The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
8. The Age of Napoleon by Will Durant
9. Creative Nonfiction: The Final Issue by Lee Gutkind
10. Laozi’s Dao De Jing by Lao Tzu
11. Quiet by Susan Cain
12. Crossing to Safety by Wallace Stegner
13. Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
14. Revenge of the Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell
15. Gerald’s Game by Stephen King
16. A Short Stay in Hell by Steven Peck
17. London Rules by Mick Kerron
18. Nightmares and Dreamscapes by Stephen King
19. Brightness Falls by Jay McInerney
20. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
21. Maximum Bob by Elmore Leonard
22. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William L. Shirer
23. On Tyranny by Timothy Snyder
24. On the Calculation of Volume (Book I) by Solvej Balle
25. The Best American Essays 2024 by Wesley Morris (editor)
26. We Live Here Now by Sarah Pinborough
27. Self-reliance and Other Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson
28. On Boxing by Joyce Carol Oates
29. Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner
30. Bag of Bones by Stephen King
31. The School of Life by Alain de Botton
32. New York Sketches by E.B. White
33. A Century of Fiction in The New Yorker
34. The Bullet Journal Method by Ryder Carroll
35. Things in Nature Merely Grow by Yiyun Li
36. H Is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald
37. Rosemary’s Baby by Ira Levin
38. Chess Story by Stefan Zweig
39. My Friends by Fredrik Backman
40. Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi

2024

1. Legends & Lattes by Travis Baldree
2. The Renaissance by Will Durant
3. The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
4. Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
5. I Let You Go by Clare Mackintosh
6. Dune by Frank Herbert
7. The Peace of Wild Things by Wendell Berry
8. Slow Horses by Mick Herron
9. Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan
10. Desperation by Stephen King
11. The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin
12. Sibley’s Birding Basics by David Allen Sibley
13. To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
14. The Reformation by Will Durant
15. The Death of Grass by John Christopher
16. Stories of Books and Libraries by Jane Holloway (editor)
17. 84, Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff
18. David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
19. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
20. The Regulators by Stephen King
21. Consolations by David Whyte
22. Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt
23. Dead Lions by Mick Herron
24. You Like It Darker by Stephen King
25. Real Tigers by Mick Herron
26. Move on Down to Mexico by Nicholas Grant
27. Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
28. Here is New York by E. B. White
29. The Age of Reason Begins by Will Durant
30. City of Glass by Paul Auster
31. The Queen’s Gambit by Walter Tevis
32. The Public Library by Robert Dawson
33. Table for Two by Amor Towles
34. Somehow by Anne Lamott
35. Show Your Work by Austin Kleon
36. How to Read a Book by Monica Wood
37. The Age of Louis XIV by Will Durant
38. Spook Street by Mick Herron
39. Rose Madder by Stephen King
40. The Elephant Whisperer by Lawrence Anthony
41. The Spectator Bird by Wallace Stegner
42. This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage by Ann Patchett
43. The Age of Voltaire by Will Durant
44. A System for Writing by Bob Doto
45. Needful Things by Stephen King
46. A Rage in Harlem by Chester Himes
47. James by Percival Everett
48. Thinking on Paper by V.A. Howard, J.H. Barton
49. The Wood at Midwinter by Susanna Clarke
50. The Comfort of Crows by Margaret Renkl
51. The Work of Art by Adam Moss
52. Rousseau and Revolution by Will Durant

2023

1. On Friendship by Marcus Cicero
2. Ego Is the Enemy by Ryan Holiday
3. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
4. The Diary of a Bookseller by Shaun Bythell
5. Death Without Company by Craig Johnson
6. The Last Lion: Visions of Glory by William Manchester
7. The Glorious American Essay by Phillip Lopate
8. This Is What It Sounds Like by Susan Rogers
9. Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffenegger
10. Going Back to Bisbee by Richard Shelton
11. The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
12. Hidden Pictures by Jason Rekulak
13. The Brief History of the Dead by Kevin Brockmeier
14. Grieving Dad by Mark Seidman
15. Sea of Tranquility by Emily St John Mandel
16. Mr Ives’ Christmas by Oscar Hijuelos
17. A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers
18. These Precious Days by Ann Patchett
19. At the Fights by George Kimball
20. A Man Without a Country by Kurt Vonnegut
21. The Walking Dead Compendium 1 by Robert Kirkman
22. A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine
23. Dead Calm by Charles Williams
24. Trust the Plan by Will Sommer
25. The Night Country by Loren C Eiseley
26. Parnassus on Wheels by Christopher Morley
27. Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier
28. Travels with Charley by John Steinbeck
29. Quit by Annie Duke
30. I Have Some Questions for You by Rebecca Makkai
31. Basin and Range by John McPhee
32. Probable Impossibilities by Alan Lightman
33. Our Oriental Heritage by Will Durant
34. The Big Rock Candy Mountain by Wallace Stegner
35. The Collapsing Empire by John Scalzi
36. Attention Span by Gloria Mark
37. The Dead Zone by Stephen King
38. Cujo by Stephen King
39. Elevation by Stephen King
40. The Odyssey by Homer
41. Wordcraft by Jack Hart
42. Night Shift by Stephen King
43. The Colorado Kid by Stephen King
44. Lisey’s Story by Stephen King
45. Storycraft by Jack Hart
46. The Rubber Band by Rex Stout
47. The Deep Blue Good-by by John D MacDonald
48. Small Mercies by Dennis Lehane
49. How Do We Know Ourselves by David G Myers
50. The Life of Greece by Will Durant
51. I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home by Lorrie Moore
52. The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon by Stephen King
53. The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides
54. Cycle of the Werewolf by Stephen King
55. A Perfect Spy by John le Carré
56. Caesar and Christ by Will Durant
57. Selfless by Brian Lowery
58. Dolores Claiborne by Stephen King
59. The Walking Dead Compendium 2 by Robert Kirkman
60. The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store by James McBride
61. Skeleton Crew by Stephen King
62. The Silentiary by Antonio Di Benedetto
63. The Eyes of the Dragon by Stephen King
64. The Art of Living by Thich Nhat Hanh
65. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by JK Rowling
66. Your Brain on Art by Susan Magsamen and Ivy Ross
67. The Age of Faith by Will Durant
68. Blaze by Stephen King
69. Christine by Stephen King
70. The Vagabond’s Way by Rolf Potts
71. The Book by Alan Watts
72. Writing Tools by Roy Peter Clark
73. The Private Library by Reid Byers
74. Holly by Stephen King
75. Wednesday’s Child by Yiyun Li

2022

1. To Show and to Tell by Phillip Lopate
2. Bleak House by Charles Dickens
3. Dry by Augusten Burroughs
4. So Long, See You Tomorrow by William Maxwell
5. Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
6. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
7. Will by Will Smith
8. A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman
9. The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
10. A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle
11. Searching for Stars on an Island in Maine by Alan Lightman
12. Fat City by Leonard Gardner
13. The Peripheral by William Gibson
14. Until Proven Guilty by J.A. Jance
15. Moby Dick by Herman Melville
16. Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
17. The Day of the Jackal by Frederick Forsyth
18. No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy
19. Four Kings by George Kimball
20. We Are the Luckiest by Laura Mckowen
21. Les Misérables by Victor Hugo
22. Insomnia by Stephen King
23. The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith
24. The Summer Book by Tove Jansson
25. How to Retire Happy by Stan Hinden
26. The Hidden Life of Trees by Peter Wohlleben
27. The Cold Dish by Craig Johnson
28. Existentialism Is a Humanism by Jean-Paul Sartre
29. Thrive in Retirement by Eric Thurman
30. Treason’s Harbour by Patrick O’Brian
31. Fairy Tale by Stephen King
32. Essayism by Brian Dillon
33. Finding Meaning by David Kessler
34. Steal Like an Artist by Austin Kleon
35. The Obstacle Is the Way by Ryan Holiday
36. The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles
37. The Lessons of History by Will Durant
38. How to Live by Derek Sivers