I’ve been keeping track of what I read since 2008, when I was in my last year of college. I had always liked to read but I had been wondering where my time went, so I started keeping a list, and this evolved into my books of the year posts. In 2018, I put together a books of the decade post, reflecting on what I had read in the last ten years. I had been assuming I would do another books of the decade post in 2028, but then I realized I had a more interesting, somewhat less arbitrary option: all the books of my thirties.
Today is my fortieth birthday! It’s a little strange to think about how time just keeps on keeping on like that, but I do feel good about who I am and who I continue to become. I am looking forward to discovering the person I will be in another ten years and my forthcoming “Every Book I Read in my Forties” post (ETA: May 2036). A very important part of who I am is what I have read and thought about, a process you all have a front-row seat to here with the blog (consider subscribing!). I love being able to make connections between things I’ve read and see how an idea develops over multiple books.
In analyzing ten years’ of reading habits, I found the premium version of Storygraph to be very helpful (follow me on Storygraph, if you use it!). Although I keep a spreadsheet of what I read, it’s a lot nicer to have a service to figure some of these things out for me. Still, Storygraph doesn’t do it all, so thank you to my past self for keeping track of this stuff.
Stats
On to the numbers!
- Books finished: In ten years, I read 638 books but 618 distinct titles since there are some repeats. I have just under 800 books saved in my “to-read pile” on Storygraph. If I add no other books to the list (lol) and pick up the pace, maybe I’ll catch up in the next decade (lol again). Although it feels like I find at least a few books that look interesting every week to add to the list, so I think it will forever be an unfinished project.
- Pages read: 218,535, for an average of 21,853 per year. According to Storygraph, 64 percent of the books I read were 300 or more pages long.
- Longest books:
- Don Quijote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes (1,216 pages)
- Harry Potter y la Orden del Fénix (928 pages)
- The Empire of Gold by S. A. Chakraborty (800 pages)
- Shortest books:
- The Ice Owl by Carolyn Ives Gilman (44 pages)
- Caperucita se come al Lobo by Pilar Quintana (69 pages)
- The Lights of Ystrac’s Wood by Alexandra Rowland (85 pages)
- Year of Least Books: 2016, with 43 books (15,690 pages). I’m counting the entire year of 2016 here, not just the part after I turned 30. Part of the reason I read relatively few books is that I was trying to improve my Spanish and spent a lot of time slogging through the Harry Potter books en español. However, 2025 might be the real year of least books, since I only read 47 (16,490 pages). If we pro-rated the amount of reading I did in 2016 after my thirtieth birthday, I think it would be more than what I read in 2025. I was also slogging through a long book in Spanish that year.
- Year of Most Books: 2020 (lol), with 88 books (32,996 pages). In a not-that-close second place is 2023 with 82 books and a total of 27,566 pages.
- Library use: I didn’t start keeping track of this until 2017, but that’s okay, we still have a lot of information. I read 273 books that I borrowed from the library or friends, which represents about 45 percent of my reading. Thank you, Sacramento Public Library!
- First book: The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin, finished May 14, 2016.
- Last book: The Dungeon Anarchist’s Cookbook by Matt Dinniman, finished May 9, 2026.
- Fiction and non-fiction: I read 413 fiction books and 206 non-fiction books. Reading about 20 non-fiction books per year is very respectable in my opinion.
- Most-read authors: My most read author is Martha Wells (14 books). She’s the author of the Murderbot series, which has eight books (the eighth book just published last week) and I recently re-read the series, so that makes sense! After that, we have a few more genre fiction authors because I do love a science fiction/fantasy series: Kate Elliott (10 books), Mary Robinette Kowal (9 books), and then Deborah Harkness, Max Gladstone, and Alexandra Rowland (8 books each).
- Gender gap: I’m pleased to report that the vast majority of books I’ve read in the last decade were written by women, with 484 books by women authors and 120 by men (some books were anthologies or written by mixed-gender duos, so this doesn’t represent every book). That means 78 percent of the books I read were by women. I’m still reading an average of 12 books per year by men though, so before anyone jumps in to call me a misandrist, consider that I am reading more books by men authors in a year than most people read at all.
- Other languages: I read 28 books in Spanish, which is some real rookie numbers, not even three per year. I started with Harry Potter in 2016 and the most recent was Don Quijote in 2025. Even though I didn’t read a ton of books in Spanish, I’m clearly doing something right if I evolved from fighting for my life reading Harry Potter to making it through Don Quijote (that was also a fight for my life, but my opponents have gotten stronger).
Thoughts for the Upcoming Decade
Here’s what I’m thinking about for my upcoming decade of reading:
- Read more (my forever goal). Lately I have been having a hard time not tripping into the infinite scroll abyss on instagram in the evenings. I want to try setting aside a particular time of day to read.
- Take physical notes. I had been getting into a bit of a habit with writing thoughts in a notebook while reading. Honestly, the main thing stopping me is finding a comfortable position to read and take notes. Maybe I need to designate “study time” reading sessions for reading non-fiction. It helps me retain what I read and it makes it easier to write about the books on my blog.
- Read outside. I want to be taking in the free air more often, weather permitting.
- Read more in Spanish.
- Start reading in Icelandic. I think I’m ready.
- Read with others. I love reading a book and discussing it with friends.
- Read through books I have already bought! I’m feeling this keenly after a few recent bookstore shopping sprees.
- Get back into riding my bike to the library because there’s really nothing like filling my bike basket with books.
- Keep following my interests. I often see people online making lists or designating categories of what to read and that has literally never worked for me. I just have to go with what I feel in the moment. Related: when I don’t “feel” like anything in particular, just pick up a book and start.
That turned into more of a mini-manifesto, but I stand by what I said.
The Big List
Here’s the list of all the books I read in my thirties, presented in alphabetical order! I’ve removed duplicates (titles I read more than once), so if anyone is counting, you won’t find 638 unique books here.
| Title | Author |
| “You Just Need to Lose Weight”: And 19 Other Myths About Fat People | Aubrey Gordon |
| [Un]framing the “Bad Woman”: Sor Juana, Malinche, Coyolxauhqui, and Other Rebels with a Cause | Alicia Gaspar de Alba |
| A Burning | Megha Majumdar |
| A Choir of Lies | Alexandra Rowland |
| A Closed and Common Orbit | Becky Chambers |
| A Conjuring of Light | V. E. Schwab |
| A Conspiracy of Truths | Alexandra Rowland |
| A Court of Frost and Starlight | Sarah J. Maas |
| A Court of Mist and Fury | Sarah J. Maas |
| A Court of Silver Flames | Sarah J. Maas |
| A Court of Thorns and Roses | Sarah J. Maas |
| A Court of Wings and Ruin | Sarah J. Maas |
| A Desolation Called Peace | Arkady Martine |
| A Discovery of Witches | Deborah Harkness |
| A Field Guide to Getting Lost | Rebecca Solnit |
| A Jewel Bright Sea | Claire O’Dell |
| A Marvelous Light | Freyja Marske |
| A Memory Called Empire | Arkady Martine |
| A Mirror Mended | Alix E. Harrow |
| A Passage of Stars | Kate Elliott |
| A Power Unbound | Freya Marske |
| A Prayer for the Crown Shy | Becky Chambers |
| A Psalm for the Wild Built | Becky Chambers |
| A Restless Truth | Freya Marske |
| A Secret History of Witches | Louisa Morgan |
| A Spindle Splintered | Alix E. Harrow |
| A Study in Honor | Claire O’Dell |
| A Taste of Gold and Iron | Alexandra Rowland |
| A Witch in Time | Constance Sayers |
| A Wrinkle in Time | Madeleine L’Engle |
| Acceptance | Jeff VanderMeer |
| Afterland | Lauren Beukes |
| Against World Literature: On the Politics of Untranslatability | Emily Apter |
| Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism | Safiya Umoja Noble |
| All Consuming: Why We Eat the Way We Eat Now | Ruby Tandoh |
| All of Us Murderers | KJ Charles |
| All Our Families: Disability Lineage and the Future of Kinship | Jennifer Natalya Fink |
| All Systems Red | Martha Wells |
| All the President’s Women: Donald Trump and the Making of a Predator | Barry Levine and Monique el-Faizy |
| Amberlough | Lara Elena Donnelly |
| American Oligarchs: The Kushners, the Trumps, and the Marriage of Money and Power | Andrea Bernstein |
| American Prison: A Reporter’s Undercover Journey into the Business of Punishment | Shane Bauer |
| Ammonite | Nicola Griffith |
| Amnesty | Lara Elena Donnelly |
| An Earthly Crown | Kate Elliott |
| An Everlasting Meal: Cooking with Economy and Grace | Tamar Adler |
| An Excess Male | Maggie Shen King |
| Ancestral Night | Elizabeth Bear |
| Annihilation | Jeff VanderMeer |
| Another Day in the Death of America: A Chronicle of Ten Short Lives | Gary Younge |
| Anti-Social Media: How Facebook Disconnects us and Undermines Democracy | Siva Vaidhyanathan |
| Arcana, ciudad escalera | Tamara Romero |
| Archaeology from Space: How the Future Shapes Our Past | Sarah Parcak |
| Arkfall | Carolyn Ives Gilman |
| Armistice | Lara Elena Donnelly |
| Art in the After-Culture: Capitalist Crisis and Cultural Strategy | Ben Davis |
| Artificial Condition | Martha Wells |
| Ascension | Jacqueline Koyanagi |
| Assassin of Reality | Sergey Dyachenko, Marina Dyachenko |
| Authority | Jeff VanderMeer |
| Autonomous | Annalee Newitz |
| Azura Ghost | Essa Hansen |
| Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators’ Revolution | R. F. Kuang |
| Bad Company: Private Equity and the Death of the American Dream | Megan Greenwell |
| Bad News: Last Journalists in a Dictatorship | Anjan Sundaram |
| Ballet in the Cold War: A Soviet-American Exchange | Ann Searcy |
| Battle of the Linguist Mages | Scotto Moore |
| Beans: A History | Ken albala |
| Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language | Gretchen McCulloch |
| Belabored: A Vindication of the Rights of Pregnant Women | Lyz Lenz |
| Beowulf: A New Translation | Maria Dahvana Headley |
| Betraying Big Brother: The Feminist Awakening in China | Leta Hong Fincher |
| Bi: Notes for a Bisexual Revolution | Shiri Eisner |
| Big Dirty Money: The Shocking Injustice and Unseen Cost of White Collar Crime | Jennifer Taub |
| Binti | Nnedi Okorafor |
| Bitch Planet, Volume 1: Extraordinary Machine | Kelly Sue DeConnick |
| Black Against Empire: The History and Politics of the Black Panther Party | Joshua Bloom and Waldo E. Martin |
| Black Sun | Rebecca Roanhorse |
| Black Water Sister | Zen Cho |
| Bodies on the Line: At the Front Lines of the Fight to Protect Abortion in America | Lauren Rankin |
| Bodies Out of Bounds: Fatness and Transgression | Jana Evans Braziel, Kathleen LeBesco |
| Borne | Jeff Vandermeer |
| Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants | Robin Wall Kimmerer |
| Brilliant Imperfection | Eli Clare |
| Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America | Kathleen Belew |
| Bullshit Jobs: A Theory | David Graeber |
| Bunny | Mona Awad |
| Burial Rights: A Novel | Hannah Kent |
| Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle | Emily Nagoski, Amelia Nagoski |
| Cahokia Jazz | Francis Spufford |
| Camp Damascus | Chuck Tingle |
| Can’t Even: How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation | Anne Helen Petersen |
| Can’t Pay, Won’t Pay: The Case for Economic Disobedience and Debt Abolition | Debt Collective, Astra Taylor |
| Cantoras | Carolina de Robertis |
| Caperucita se come al Lobo | Pilar Quintana |
| Caramba! | Nina Marie Martinez |
| Caramelo | Sandra Cisneros |
| Carl’s Doomsday Scenario | Matt Dinniman |
| Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents | Isabel Wilkerson |
| Certain Dark Things | Silvia Moreno-Garcia |
| Chain Gang All-Stars | Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah |
| Cheese Sex Death: A Bible for the Cheese Obsessed | Erika Kubick |
| Chiapas, la rebelión indígena de México | Carlos Montemayor |
| Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings | Neil Price |
| Children of Ruin | Adrian Tchaikovsky |
| Children of Time | Adrian Tchaikovsky |
| Cinder House | Freya Marske |
| Circe | Madeline Miller |
| Claiming the B in LGBT: Illuminating the Bisexual Narrative | Kate Harrad |
| Cold Fire | Kate Elliott |
| Cold Magic | Kate Elliott |
| Cold Steel | Kate Elliott |
| Como agua para chocolate | Laura Esquivel |
| Composting for a New Generation: Latest Techniques for the Bin and Beyond | Michelle Balz, Anna Stockton |
| Composting: Bob’s Basics | Bob Flowerdew |
| Confessions of the Fox | Jordy Rosenberg |
| Crossroads of Canopy | Thoraiya Dyer |
| Crosstalk | Connie Willis |
| Crow After Roe: How “Separate But Equal” Has Become the New Standard In Women’s Health And How We Can Change That | Robin Marty and Jessica Mason Pieklo |
| Crying in H Mart: A Memoir | Michelle Zauner |
| Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism | Amanda Montell |
| Cults Like Us: Why Doomsday Thinking Drives America | Jane Borden |
| Culture Warlords: My Journey Into the Dark Web of White Supremacy | Talie Lavin |
| Dark Orbit | Carolyn Ives Gilman |
| Daughter of Eden | Chris Beckett |
| Daughter of the Moon Goddess | Sue Lynn Tan |
| Dead Girls: Essays on Surviving an American Obsession | Alice Bolin |
| Death Valley | Melissa Broder |
| Deathless | Catherynne Valente |
| Deep as the Sky, Red as the Sea | Rita Chang-Eppig |
| Deep Space Nine: Hollow Men | Una McCormack |
| Deep Survival | Laurence Gonzales |
| Devil’s Gun | Cat Rambo |
| Disco Witches of Fire Island | Blair Fell |
| Docile | K. M. Szpara |
| Doing Harm: the Truth About How Bad Medicine and Lazy Science Leave Women Dismissed, Misdiagnosed, and Sick | Maya Dusenbery |
| Don Quijote de la Mancha | Miguel de Cervantes |
| Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World | Naomi Klein |
| Double Bind: Women on Ambition | Robin Romm |
| Dracula | Bram Stoker |
| Dungeon Crawler Carl | Matt Dinniman |
| Earthsong | Suzette Haden Elgin |
| Egypt’s Golden Couple: When Akhenaten and Nefertiti Were Gods on Earth | John Darnell, Collen Darnell |
| El beso de la mujer araña | Manuel Puig |
| El Espejo Enterrado | Carlos Fuentes |
| El Mañana: Memorias de un éxodo cubano | Mirta Ojito |
| El reino del dragón de oro | Isabel Allende |
| Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics | Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò |
| Empire Ascendant | Kameron Hurley |
| Empress of Forever | Max Gladstone |
| Escaping Exodus | Nicky Drayden |
| European Travel for the Monstrous Gentlewoman | Theodora Goss |
| Even though I Knew the End | C. L. Polk |
| Everfair | Nisi Shawl |
| Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection | John Green |
| Everything Was Forever, Until It Was No More: The Last Soviet Generation | Alexei Yurchak |
| Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City | Matthew Desmond |
| Exit Strategy | Martha Wells |
| Eyes of the Void | Adrian Tchaikovsky |
| Fathomfolk | Eliza Chan |
| Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia | Sabrina Strings |
| Femina: A New History of the Middle Ages, Through the Women Written Out of It | Janina Ramírez |
| Feminismos: Miradas desde la diversidad | ed. Pikara |
| Feminist City: Claiming Space in a Man-Made World | Leslie Kern |
| Fevered Star | Rebecca Roanhorse |
| Fighting Fascism: How to Struggle and How to Win | Clara Zetkin |
| Finna | Nino Cipri |
| First Contact: The Story of Our Obsession with Aliens | Becky Ferreira |
| Foundation | Isaac Asimov |
| Four Roads Cross | Max Gladstone |
| Freedom Is a Constant Struggle | Angela Davis |
| Fugitive Telemetry | Martha Wells |
| Full Fathom Five | Max Gladstone |
| Furious Heaven | Kate Elliott |
| Ghost Talkers | Mary Robinette Kowal |
| Gideon the Ninth | Tamsyn Muir |
| Gingerbread | Helen Oyeyemi |
| Glamour in Glass | Mary Robinette Kowal |
| Gods of Jade and Shadow | Silvia Moreno-Garcia |
| Goldilocks | Laura Lam |
| Gonzlez and Daughter Trucking Co.: A Road Novel with Literary License | María Amparo Escandón |
| Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch | Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett |
| Half A Soul | Olivia Atwater |
| Halfway Human | Carolyn Ives Gilman |
| Handbook for a Post-Roe America | Robin Marty |
| Harrow the Ninth | Tamsyn Muir |
| Harry Potter y el Cáliz de Fuego | J. K. Rowling |
| Harry Potter y el misterio del príncipe | J. K. Rowling |
| Harry Potter y el prisionero de Azkaban | J. K. Rowling |
| Harry Potter y la Orden del Fénix | J. K. Rowling |
| Harry Potter y las reliquias de la muerte | J. K. Rowling |
| Heart of the Sun Warrior | Sue Lynn Tan |
| Hench | Nina Zine Walschots |
| Her Body and Other Parties | Carmen Maria Machado |
| Hiding in Plain Sight: The Invention of Donald Trump and the Erosion of America | Sarah Kendzior |
| High Times in the Low Parliament | Kelly Robins |
| Hild | Nicola Griffith |
| His Conquering Sword | Kate Elliott |
| History of Wolves: A Novel | Emily Fridlund |
| Hollow Kingdom | Kira Jane Buxton |
| Homegoing | Yaa Gyasi |
| Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women that a Movement Forgot | Mikki Kendall |
| Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities | Rebecca Solnit |
| Hotel Silence | Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir |
| House of Trump, House of Putin: The Untold Story of Donald Trump and the Russian Mafia | Craig Unger |
| How Emotions Are Made | Lisa Feldman Barrett |
| How Infrastructure Works | Deb Chachra |
| How Long ’til Black Future Month | N. K. Jemisin |
| How Rory Thorne Destroyed the Multiverse | K. Eason |
| How the Multiverse Got Its Revenge | K. Eason |
| How to Be an Antiracist | Ibram X. Kendi |
| How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy | Jenny Odell |
| How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States | Daniel Immerwahr |
| How to Lose the Information War: Russia, Fake News, and the Future of Conflict | Nina Jankowicz |
| How to Talk to a Goddess and Other Lessons in Real Magic | Emily Croy Barker |
| How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective | Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor |
| Hunger | Roxane Gay |
| I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life | Ed Yong |
| I Hate Men | Pauline Harmange |
| If Tomorrow Comes | Nancy Kress |
| In Other Words | Jhumpa Lahiri |
| In the Dream House: A Memoir | Carmen Maria Machado |
| Inconspicuous Consumption: The Environmental Impact You Don’t Know You Have | Tatiana Schlossberg |
| Indelible in the Hippocampus: Writings From the Me Too Movement | Shelly Oria (editor) |
| Indigenous Continent: The Epic Contest for North America | Pekka Hämäläinen |
| Inferior: How Science Got Women Wrong — and the New Research that’s Rewriting the Story | Angela Saini |
| Ink Blood Sister Scribe | Emma Törzs |
| Inland | Téa Obreht |
| Interference | Sue Burke |
| Intuitive Eating for Diabetes: The No Shame, No Blame, Non-Diet Approach to Managing Your Blood Sugar | Janice Dada |
| Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men | Caroline Criado Perez |
| Invisible: How Young Women with Serious Health Issues Navigate Work, Relationships, and the Pressure to Seem Just Fine | Michele Lent Hirsch |
| Iraq + 100: The First Anthology of Science Fiction to Have Emerged from Iraq | Hassan Blasim |
| Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe 1944-1956 | Anne Applebaum |
| January Fifteenth | Rachel Swirsky |
| Jaran | Kate Elliott |
| Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation | Kristin Kobes Du Mez |
| Jonathan Abernathy You Are Kind | Molly McGhee |
| Karen Memory | Elizabeth Bear |
| Katabasis | R. F. Kuang |
| Kingdom of Characters: The Language Revolution That Made China Modern | Jing Tsu |
| Knitlandia: A Knitter Sees the World | Clara Parkes |
| La distancia entre nosotros | Reyna Grande |
| La fruta del borrachero: Una novela | Ingrid Rojas Contreras |
| La Maravillosa Historia de Español | Francisco Moreno Fernández |
| La nostalgia de la Mujer Anfibio | Cristina Sánchez-Andrade |
| Land and Freedom: The MST, the Zapatistas and Peasant Alternatives to Neoliberalism | Leandro Vergara-Camus |
| Last First Snow | Max Gladstone |
| Late in the Day: A Novel | Tessa Hadley |
| Learning Together: Children and Adults in a School Community | Barbara Rogoff, Carolyn Goodman Turkanis, Leslee Bartlett |
| Leave the World Behind | Rumaan Alam |
| Left Behind: The Democrats’ Failed Attempt to Solve Inequality | Lily Geismer |
| Leftover Women: The Resurgence of Gender Inequality in China | Leta Hong Fincher |
| Lesbian Love Story: A Memoir in Archives | Amelia Possanza |
| Let This Radicalize You: Organizing and the Revolution of Reciprocal Care | Kelly Hayes, Mariame Kaba |
| Letters to My Weird Sisters: On Autism and Feminism | Joanne Limburg |
| Leviathan Wakes | James S. A. Corey |
| Lies Incorporated: The World of Post-Truth Politics | Arti Rabin-Havt |
| Light Perpetual | Francis Spufford |
| Little Bosses Everywhere: How the Pyramid Scheme Shaped America | Bridget Read |
| Little Gods | Meng Jin |
| Living in Your Light | Abdellah Taïa |
| Longshadow | Olivia Atwater |
| Lords of Uncreation | Adrian Tchaikovsky |
| Los desesperados | Joselo Rangel |
| Los hombres me explican cosas | Rebecca Solnit |
| Lost Children Archive: A Novel | Valeria Luiselli |
| Machine | Elizabeth Bear |
| Magic for Liars | Sarah Gailey |
| Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media | Edward S. Herman, Noam Chomsky |
| Master of Djinn | P. Djèlí Clark |
| Mediocre: The dangerous legacy of white male America | Ijeoma Oluo |
| Men Explain Things to Me | Rebecca Solnit |
| Mexican Gothic | Silvia Moreno-Garcia |
| Mill Town: Reckoning with What Remains | Kerri Arsenault |
| Mind of My Mind | Octavia Butler |
| Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning | Cathy Park Hong |
| Miracle Country: A Memoir | Kendra Atleework |
| Miranda in Milan | Katharine Duckett |
| Miss Iceland | Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir |
| Monsignor Quixote | Graham Green |
| Moonbound | Robin Sloan |
| Mostly Dead Things | Kristen Arnett |
| Mother of Eden | Chris Beckett |
| Mother of Invention: How Good Ideas Get Ignored in an Economy Built for Men | Katrine Marçal |
| Mr. Slipfoot | Samantha Hunt |
| My Brilliant Friend | Elena Ferrante |
| My Sister, the Serial Killer | Oyinkan Braithwaite |
| My Year Abroad | Chang-Rae Lee |
| Nasty Women: Feminism, Resistance, and Revolution in Trump’s America | Samhita Mukhopadhyay |
| Network Effect | Martha Wells |
| NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity | Steve Silberman |
| New Suns: Original Speculative fiction by People of Color | Nisi Shawl (editor) |
| Nickel Boys | Colson Whitehead |
| Nine Pints: A Journey through Time, Money, Medicine, and Mysteries of Blood | Rose George |
| Ninefox Gambit | Yoon Ha Lee |
| Ninety Percent of Everything: Inside Shipping, the Invisible Industry that Puts Clothes on Your Back, Gas in your Car, and Food on Your Plate | Rose George |
| No Is Not Enough: Resisting Trump’s Shock Politics and Winning the World We Need | Naomi Klein |
| No Meat Required: The Cultural History & Culinary Future of Plant-Based Eating | Alicia Kennedy |
| No One Is Talking About This | Patricia Lockwood |
| Nona the Ninth | Tamsyn Muir |
| Nophek Gloss | Essa Hansen |
| Not All Dead White Men: Classics and Misogyny in the Digital Age | Donna Zuckerberg |
| Not Funny Ha-Ha: A Handbook for Something Hard | Leah Hayes |
| Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture | Roxane Gay |
| Now Is Not the Time to Panic | Kevin Wilson |
| Ocean’s Echo | Everina Maxwell |
| Of Noble Family | Mary Robinette Kowal |
| One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This | Omar El Akkad |
| Opinions: A Decade of Arguments, Criticism, and Minding Other People’s Business | Roxane Gay |
| Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit | Jeanette Winterson |
| Out of Office: The Big Problem and Bigger Promise of Working from Home | Charlie Warzel, Anne Helen Petersen |
| Outlawed | Anna North |
| Overdressed: The Shockingly High Cost of Cheap Fashion | Elizabeth Cline |
| Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void | Mary Roach |
| Pagans: The End of Traditional Religion and the Rise of Christianity | James O’Donnell |
| Palestine: A Socialist Introduction | Sumaya Awad, Brian Bean |
| Passing Strange | Ellen Klages |
| Payback’s a Witch | Lana Harper |
| People Collide | Isle McElroy |
| Permanent Distortion: How the Financial Markets Abandoned the Real Economy Forever | Nomi Prins |
| Pink-pilled: Women and the far right | Lois Shearing |
| Piranesi | Susanna Clarke |
| Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia | David Graeber |
| Plain Bad Heroines | Emily M. Danforth |
| Practical Magic | Alice Hoffman |
| Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder | Caroline Fraser |
| Pro: Reclaiming Abortion Rights | Katha Pollitt |
| Project Hail Mary | Andy Weir |
| Provenance | Ann Leckie |
| Psychology of Time Travel | Kate Mascarenhas |
| Queer City: Gay London from the Romans to the Present Day | Peter Ackroyd |
| Rachel Carson and the Power of Queer Love | Lida Maxwell |
| Rage Becomes Her | Soraya Chemaly |
| Range of Ghosts | Elizabeth Bear |
| Read and Riot: A Pussy Riot Guide to Activism | Nadya Tolokonnikova |
| Rebel Blade | Davinia Evans |
| Record of a Spaceborn Few | Becky Chambers |
| Red Clocks | Leni Zumas |
| Red Plenty | Francis Spufford |
| Red, White, and Royal Blue | Casey McQuiston |
| Remote Control | Nnedi Okorafor |
| Republic of Lies: American Conspiracy Theorists and their Surprising Rise to Power | Anna Merlan |
| Republic of Thieves | Scott Lynch |
| Rest is Resistance: A Manifesto | Tricia Hersey |
| Revolution’s Shore | Kate Elliott |
| Rogue Protocol | Martha Wells |
| Roller Girl | Victoria Jamieson |
| Running Close to the Wind | Alexandra Rowland |
| Sappho Is burning | Page DuBois |
| Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond Productivity Culture | Jenny Odell |
| Semiosis | Sue Burke |
| Servant Mage | Kate Elliott |
| Seven Surrenders | Ada Palmer |
| Sex with a Brain Injury: On Concussion and Recovery | Annie Liontas |
| Shades of Milk and Honey | Mary Robinette Kowal |
| Shadow Baron | Davinia Evans |
| Shadow Network: Media, Money, and the Secret Hub of the Radical Right | Anne Nelson |
| Shadow of Night | Deborah Harkness |
| Shards of Earth | Adrian Tchaikovsky |
| Shattered Pillars | Elizabeth Bear |
| She Who Became the Sun | Shelley Parker-Chan |
| She Would Be King | Weyétu Moore |
| Shipley Proposal Guide | Larry Newman |
| Shoestring Theory | Mariana Costa |
| Silent Spring | Rachel Carson |
| Sing, Unburied, Sing | Jesamyn Ward |
| Sistema nervioso | Lina Meruane |
| Sisters in Hate: American Women on the Front Lines of White Nationalism | Seyward Darby |
| Sistersong | Lucy Holland |
| Skyward Inn | Aliya Whiteley |
| Smoke and Mirrors | Mary Dublin, Anne Kendsley |
| Sombras de Reikiavik | Anthony Adeane |
| Some by Virtue Fall | Alexandra Rowland |
| Some Desperate Glory | Emily Tesh |
| Soulstar | C. L. Polk |
| Space Oddity | Catherynne Valente |
| Space Opera | Catherynne Valente |
| Stop Me If You’ve Heard This One | Kristen Arnett |
| Storm of Locusts | Rebecca Roanhorse |
| Stormsong | C. L. Polk |
| Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right | Arlie Russell Hochschild |
| Strong Female Character | Fern Brady |
| Swann’s Way | Marcel Proust (translated by Lydia Davis) |
| Swordcrossed | Freya Marske |
| System Collapse | Martha Wells |
| Tadek and the Princess | Alexandra Rowland |
| Technical Communication Today, 6th Edition | Richard Johnson-Sheehan |
| Tema Libre | Alejandro Zambra |
| Ten Thousand Stitches | Olivia Atwater |
| Terran Tomorrow | Nancy Kress |
| Text Me When You Get Home | Kayleen Schaeffer |
| The Actual Star | Monica Byrne |
| The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi | Shannon Chakraborty |
| The Afghanistan Papers: A Secret History of the War | Craig Whitlock |
| The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power | Shosana Zuboff |
| The Age of Witches | Louisa Morgan |
| The All New Don’t Think of an Elephant: Know Your Values and Frame the Debate | George Lakoff |
| The Archive Undying | Emma Mieko Camden |
| The Bear and the Nightingale | Katherine Arden |
| The Bees | Laline Paul |
| The Big Con: How the Consulting Industry Weakens Our Businesses, Infantilizes Our Governments, and Warps Our Economies | Mariana Mazzucato, Rosie Collington |
| The Big Nine: How the Tech Titans and Their Thinking Machines Could Warp Humanity | Amy Webb |
| The Big Reveal: An Illustrated Manifesto of Drag | Sasha Velour |
| The Black Bird Oracle | Deborah Harkness |
| The Black God’s Drums | P. Djèlí Clark |
| The Book of Goose | Yiyun Li |
| The Book of Life | Deborah Harkness |
| The Book of Love | Kelly Link |
| The Bright and Breaking Sea | Chloe Neill |
| The Broken Heavens | Kameron Hurley |
| The Bruising of Qilwa | Naseem Jamnia |
| The Burning Page | Genevieve Cogman |
| The Calculating Stars | Mary Robinette Kowal |
| The Care and Feeding of Ravenously Hungry Girls | Anissa Gray |
| The Cartographers | Peng Shepherd |
| The Centre | Ayesha Manazir Siddiqi |
| The Child Catchers: Rescue, Trafficking, and the New Gospel of Adoption | Kathryn Joyce |
| The Chosen and the Beautiful | Nghi Vo |
| The Citadel of Weeping Pearls | Aliette de Bodard |
| The City in Glass | Nghi Vo |
| The City of Brass | S. A. Chakraborty |
| The City We Became | N. K. Jemisin |
| The Coin | Yasmin Zaher |
| The Collected Schizophrenias | Esmé Weijun Wang |
| The Color of Air | Gail Tsukiyama |
| The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America | Richard Rothstein |
| The Cooking Gene | Michael Twitty |
| The Crescent Moon Tearoom | Stacy Sivinski |
| The Crime Without a Name: Combatting Ethnocide and the Erasure of Culture in America | Barrett Holmes Pitner |
| The Darkness Manifesto: On Light Pollution, Night Ecology, and the Ancient Rhythms that Sustain Life | Johan Eklöf |
| The Daughter of Doctor Moreau | Silvia Moreno-Garcia |
| The Deep Sky | Yume Kitasei |
| The Destruction of Palestine Is the Destruction of the Earth | Andreas Malm |
| The Devourers | Indra Das |
| The Disaster Tourist | Yun Ko-Eun |
| The Djinn Falls in Love and Other Stories | Jared Shurin, Mahvesh Murad |
| The Dorito Effect: The Surprising New Truth about Food and Flavor | Mark Schatzker |
| The Dream-Quest of Vellit Boe | Kij Johnson |
| The Dungeon Anarchist’s Cookbook | Matt Dinniman |
| The Empire of Gold | S. A. Chakraborty |
| The Empress of Salt and Fortune | Nghi Vo |
| The End of Drum Time | Hanna Pylväinen |
| The End of Men and the Rise of Women | Hanna Rosin |
| The End of Reality: How Four Billionaires are Selling a Fantasy Future of the Metaverse, Mars, and Crypto | Jonathan Taplin |
| The Etymologicon: A Circular Stroll through the Hidden Connections of the English Language | Mark Forsyth |
| The Everlasting | Alix E. Harrow |
| The F*ck It Diet: Eating Should Be Easy | Caroline Dooner |
| The Fairy Bargains of Prospect Hill | Rowenna Miller |
| The Fallen | Ada Hoffman |
| The Fated Sky | Mary Robinette Kowal |
| The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks about Race | Jesmyn Ward (ed.) |
| The First Bright Thing | J. R. Dawson |
| The First Sister | Linden Lewis |
| The Flamethowers | Rachel Kushner |
| The Future | Naomi Alderman |
| The Future Is Blue | Catherynne Valente |
| The Galaxy, and the Ground Within | Becky Chambers |
| The Geek Feminist Revolution | Kameron Huley |
| The Ghost Bride | Yangsze Choo |
| The Girl in the Tower | Katherine Arden |
| The Glass Hotel | Emily St. John Mandel |
| The Golden Thread: How Fabric Changed History | Kassia St. Clair |
| The Goldfinch | Donna Tartt |
| The Heart between Kingdoms | Mary Dublin, Anne Kendsley |
| The Heart Goes Last | Margaret Atwood |
| The Hexologists | Josiah Bancroft |
| The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917-2017 | Rashid Khalidi |
| The Ice Owl | Carolyn Ives Gilman |
| The Immortal King Rao | Vauhini Vara |
| The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation | Cory Doctorow |
| The Invisible Library | Genevieve Cogman |
| The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue | V. E. Schwab |
| The Jasad Heir | Sara Hashem |
| The Jasmine Throne | Tasha Suri |
| The Jewel and Her Lapidary | Fran Wilde |
| The Judas Rose | Suzette Haden Elgin |
| The Kingdom of Copper | S. A. Chakraborty |
| The Lady’s Guide to Celestial Mechanics | Olivia Waite |
| The Language Hoax: The World Looks the Same in Any Language | John H. McWhorter |
| The Law of Becoming | Kate Elliott |
| The Left Hand of Darkness | Ursula K. Le Guin |
| The Librarian | Mikhail Elizarov |
| The Light Brigade | Kameron Hurley |
| The Lights of Ystrac’s Wood | Alexandra Rowland |
| The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet | Becky Chambers |
| The Lost plot | Genevieve Cogman |
| The Lover | Marguerite Duras |
| The Luminous Dead | Caitlin Starling |
| The Magician’s Daughter | H. G. Parry |
| The Mars Room: A Novel | Rachel Kushner |
| The Masked City | Genevieve Cogman |
| The Menopause Manifesto: Own Your Health with Facts and Feminism | Jen Gunter |
| The Mere Wife | Maria Dahvana Headley |
| The Midnight Bargain | C. L. Polk |
| The Ministry of Time | Kaliane Bradley |
| The Mirror Empire | Kameron Hurley |
| The Mortal World | Genevieve Cogman |
| The Mothers | Brit Bennett |
| The Museum of Whales You Will Never See | A. Kendra Greene |
| The New Age of Sexism: How Emerging Technologies Are Reinventing Misogyny | Laura Bates |
| The Night Tiger | Yangsze Choo |
| The Night Watchman | Louise Erdrich |
| The Notorious Sorcerer | Davina Evans |
| The Nowhere Office: Reinventing Work and the Workplace of the Future | Julie Hobsbawn |
| The Obelisk Gate | N. K. Jemisin |
| The Once and Future Witches | Alix E. Harrow |
| The Other Significant Others: Reimagining Life with Friendship at the Center | Rhaina Choen |
| The Outside | Ada Hoffman |
| The Palestine Laboratory | Antony Loewenstein |
| The Past Is Red | Catherynne Valente |
| The Phoenix Empress | K. Aresenault Rivera |
| The Plot to Hack America: How Putin’s Cyberspies and WikiLeaks Tried to Steal the 2016 Election | Malcolm Nance |
| The Poisoned City: Flint’s Water and the American Urban Tragedy | Anna Clark |
| The Poppy War | R. F. Kuang |
| The Power | Naomi Alderman |
| The Price of Ransom | Kate Elliott |
| The Radium Girls | Kate Moore |
| The Raven Tower | Ann Leckie |
| The Refrigerator Monologues | Catherynne Valente |
| The Restoration Program | Mary Dublin, Anne Kendsley |
| The Ruin of Angeles | Max Gladstone |
| The Saint of Bright Doors | Vajra Chandrasekera |
| The Season: A Social History of the Debutante | Kristen Richardson |
| The Secret Chapter | Genevieve Cogman |
| The Secret Life of Groceries: The Dark Miracle of the American Supermarket | Benjamin Lorr |
| The Secret Lives of Glaciers | M Johnson |
| The Sellout | Paul Beatty |
| The Seven Necessary Sins for Women and Girls | Mona Eltahawy |
| The Sinister Mystery of the Mesmerizing Girl | Theodora Goss |
| The Sisters of the Winter Wood | Rena Rossner |
| The Snow Queen | Joan D. Vinge |
| The Sorcerer of the Wildeeps | Kai Ashante Wilson |
| The Space Between Worlds | Micaiah Johnson |
| The Spare Man | Mary Robinette Kowal |
| The Starless Sea | Erin Morgenstern |
| The Stars Are Legion | Kameron Huley |
| The Stone Sky | N. K, Jemisin |
| The Strange Case of the Alchemist’s Daughter | Theodora Goss |
| The Summer Queen | Joan D. Vinge |
| The Teleportation Accident | Ned Beauman |
| The Ten Thousand Doors of January | Alix E. Harrow |
| The Testaments | Margaret Atwood |
| The Thinking Woman’s Guide to Real Magic | Emily Croy Barker |
| The Third Hotel | Laure Van den Berb |
| The Tiger’s Daughter | K Arsenault Rivera |
| The Travelers | Regina Porter |
| The Unbroken | C. L. Clark |
| The Unlikely Escape of Uriah Heep | H. G. Parry |
| The Unreality of Memory and Other Essays | Elisa Gabbert |
| The Unwomanly Face of War | Svetlana Alexievich |
| The Vanishing Half | Brit Bennett |
| The Venture of Islam, Volume 1: The Classical Age of Islam | Marshall G. S. Hodgson |
| The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches | Sangu Mandanna |
| The View From Flyover Country: Dispatches from the Forgotten America | Sarah Kendzior |
| The Viral Underclass: The Human Toll When Inequality and Disease Collide | Steven W. Thrasher |
| The Voyages of Cinrak the Dapper | A. J. Fitzwater |
| The Warrior Moon | K. Aresenault Rivera |
| The Water Cure | Sopihe Mackintosh |
| The Will to Battle | Ada Palmer |
| The Wolf in the Whale | Jordanna Max Brodsky |
| The World Gives Way | Marissa Levien |
| There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America | Brian Goldstone |
| There There | Tommy Orange |
| They Knew: How a Culture of Conspiracy Keeps America Complacent | Sarah Kendzior |
| They Were Her Property: White Woman as Slave Owners in the American South | Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers |
| Thick: And Other Essays | Tressie McMillan Cottom |
| Things We Lost in the Fire | Mariana Enriquez |
| This Is How You Lose the Time War | Amal el-Mohtar, Max Gladstone |
| Threads of Life: A History of the World through the Eye of a Needle | Clare Hunter |
| Three Parts Dead | Max Gladstone |
| Tierra de Brumas | Cristina López Barrio |
| Time’s Convert | Deborah Harkness |
| To Be Taught, If Fortunate | Becky Chambers |
| Todas las hadas del reino | Laura Gallego |
| Tomorrow’s Kin | Nancy Kress |
| Too Like the Lightning | Ada Palmer |
| Trail of Lightning | Rebecca Roanhorse |
| Trainwreck: The women we love to hate, mock, and fear … and why | Sady Doyle |
| Transcendent Kingdom | Yaa Gyasi |
| Translating Myself and Others | Jhumpa Lahiri |
| Translation State | Ann Leckie |
| Twitter and Tear Gas: The Power and Fragility of Networked Protest | Zeynep Tufekci |
| Two Serpents Rise | Max Gladstone |
| Umami | Laia Jufresa |
| Un vaso de agua bajo mi cama: Inmigración, feminismo y bisexualidad | Daisy Hernández |
| Unconquerable Sun | Kate Elliott |
| Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity | Devon Price |
| Unshrinking: How to Face Fatphobia | Kate Manne |
| US Politics in an Age of Uncertainty | Lance Selfa |
| Vagabundos | Hao Jingfang |
| Valour and Vanity | Mary Robinette Kowal |
| Vampires of El Norte | Isabel Cañas |
| Vita Nostra | Sergey Dyachenko, Marina Dyachenko |
| Vox | Christina Dalcher |
| We Ride Upon Sticks | Quan Barry |
| We Were Feminists Once: From Riot Grrrl to Cover Girl, the Buying and Selling of a Political Movement | Andi Zeisler |
| What Happened | Hillary Clinton |
| What We Don’t Talk about When We Talk about Fat | Aubrey Gordon |
| When Tiger Came Down the Mountain | Nghi Vo |
| When Women Were Dragons | Kelly Barnhill |
| White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide | Carol Anderson |
| Why Bad Governments Happen to Good People | Danny Katch |
| Wild Seed | Octavia Butler |
| Winter’s Orbit | Evarina Maxwell |
| Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times | Katherine May |
| Witch King | Martha Wells |
| Witchmark | C. L. Polk |
| With Teeth: A Novel | Kristen Arnett |
| Without a Summer | Mary Robinette Kowal |
| Woman at 1,000 Degrees | Hallgrímur Helgason |
| Women in the Valley of the Kings: The Untold Story of Women Egyptologists in the Gilded Age | Kathleen Sheppard |
| Women Talking | Miriam Toews |
| Work Won’t Love You Back: How Devotion to Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited, Exhausted, and Alone | Sarah Jaffe |
| World’s End | Joan D. Vinge |
| Yellowface | R. F. Kuang |
| Yield under Great Persuasion | Alexandra Rowland |
| You Have the Right to Remain Fat: A Manifesto | Virgie Tovar |
| You Look Like a Thing and I Love You: How Artificial Intelligence Works and Why It’s Making the World a Weirder Place | Janelle Shane |
| You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty | Akwaeke Emezi |
| You Sexy Thing | Cat Rambo |
