Currently Reading

• Joe Talbert: The Life We Bury (#1)

Crime/ Mystery

• The Last Thing He Told Me

• Big Lies in a Small Town

• The Appeal

• All Good People Here

• Happiness Falls

• The Cloisters

• Murder Your Employer: The McMasters Guide to Homicide

Crime/ Mystery: Series

• Three Pines (Chief Inspector Gamache): A World of Curiosities (#18) and The Grey Wolf (#19, expected October 2024)

• We Solve Murders: We Solve Murders (#1)

• Thomas De Quincey: Ruler of the Night (#3)

• Kaely Quinn Profiler: Fire Storm (#2) and Dead End (#3)

• Charles Lenox Mysteries: An Extravagant Death (#14), The Hidden City (#15)

• Dr. Thomas Silkstone: Secrets in the Stones (#6)

• The Checquy Files: Stiletto (#2) and Blitz (#3)

• Rabbit Factor: The Moose Paradox (#2) and The Beaver Theory (#3)

• Detective Rupert Max: The Life We Bury (#1), The Guise of Another (#2), The Heavens May Fall (#3), The Deep Dark Descending (#4), The Shadows We Hide (#5), and Forsaken Country (#6)

• Nell Ward Mysteries: A Swarm of Butterflies (#6, expected August 2024)

• Death in Paradise: A Meditation on Murder (#1), The Killing of Polly Carter (#2), Death Knocks Twice (#3), and Murder in the Caribbean (#4) 

• Castle Knoll Files: How to Seal Your Own Fate (#2, expected March 2025)

• Verity Kent Mysteries: This Side of Murder (#1), Treacherous Is the Night (#2), Penny for Your Secrets (#3), A Pretty Deceit (#4), Murder Most Fair (#5), A Certain Darkness (#6), and The Cold Light of Day (#7)

• Terminal List: The Terminal List (#1), True Believer (#2), Savage Son (#3), The Devil’s Hand (#4), In the Blood (#5), Only the Dead (#6), and Red Sky Mourning (#7)

• Gabriela Rose: The Recovery Agent (#1) and The King’s Ransom (#2)

• Joe Talbert: The Shadows We Hide (#2) and The Stolen Hours (#3)

• Ruth Galloway (by Elly Griffiths)

• Harbinder Kaur (by Elly Griffiths)

• The Brighton Mysteries (by Elly Griffiths)

• Ernest Cunningham

• No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency

• Lady Sherlock

• Hercule Poirot (Agatha Christie)

• Kovac and Liska

• Assistant to the Villain

• D.I. Lottie Parker

• Cormac Reilly

• Stewart Hoag

• The Charity Shop Detective Agency

• Erast Fandorin Mysteries

• Maisie Dobbs

• Colin Pendragon Mysteries

Historical Fiction

• Kate Quinn: The Huntress, The Diamond Eye

• Kristin Harmel: The Book of Lost Names, The Forest of Vanishing Stars, The Winemaker's Wife

• Marie Benedict: The Other Einstein, The Only Woman in the Room

• Kristin Hannah: The Nightingale

• The Frozen River

• The Lost Girls of Paris

• The Lobotomist's Wife

• The Paris Library

• The Clockmaker's Daughter

• The Bookbinder

• Transcription

• Dangerous Women

Science Fiction/ Fantasy

• Last Night in Montreal

• Hummingbird Salamander

• Recursion

• The Day Tripper

• Book of Doors

• Shark Heart

Science Fiction/ Fantasy: Series

• Borne: Borne (#1), The Strange Bird (#1.5), Dead Astronauts (#2)

• Winternight Trilogy: The Bear and the Nightingale (#1), The Girl in the Tower (#2), and The Winter of the Witch (#3)

Romance/ Chick Lit

• The Wise Women

• The Unmaking of June Farrow

Novels/ Series

• Murphy Shepherd: The Water Keeper (#1), The Letter Keeper (#2), and The Record Keeper (#2)

• Harold Fry: The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy (#2) and Maureen (#3)

• The Hundred-Year-Old Man: The Accidental Further Adventures of the Hundred-Year-Old Man (#2)

• Ann Leary: The Good House and The Children

• Lonesome Dove

• The Book with No Pictures

Crime/ Mystery

• Paula Hawkins Collection: The Girl on the Train, A Slow Fire Burning

• Liane Moriarty Collection: Nine Perfect Strangers, Apples Never Fall

• Lucy Foley Collection: The Guest List, The Paris Apartment (read first half)

• A Most Agreeable Murder

• The Witch Elm

• Sometimes I Lie

• Before the Fall

• The Lovely Bones

• Burglars Can't Be Choosers

• The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle

• Wrong Place, Wrong Time

• The House in the Pines

• The Golden Spoon

• Killers of a Certain Age

• The Bequest

• The Lifeguards

• The Truth about the Harry Quebert Affair

• The Truth and Other Lies

• The Finishing School

• Mother-Daughter Murder Night

• The Woman in the Library

Crime/ Mystery: Series

• Three Pines (Chief Inspector Gamache): Still Life (#1), A Fatal Grace (#2), The Cruelest Month (#3), A Rule Against Murder (#4), The Brutal Telling (#5), Bury Your Dead (#6), A Trick of the Light (#7), The Beautiful Mystery (#8), How the Light Gets In (#9), The Long Way Home (#10), The Nature of the Beast (#11), A Great Reckoning (#12), Glass Houses (#13), Kingdom of the Blind (#14), A Better Man (#15), All the Devils are Here (#16), and The Madness of Crowds (#17)

• Cormoran Strike: Cuckoo's Calling (#1), The Silkworm (#2), Career of Evil (#3), Lethal White (#4), Troubled Blood (#5), The Ink Black Heart (#6), and The Running Grave (#7)

• Thomas De Quincey: Murder as a Fine Art (#1) and Inspector of the Dead (#2)

• Dublin Murder Squad: In the Woods (#1), The Likeness (#2), Faithful Place (#3), Broken Harbor (#4), The Secret Place (#5), and The Trespasser (#6)

• Hawthorne and Horowitz: The Word is Murder (#1), The Sentence is Death (#2), A Line to Kill (#3), The Twist of a Knife (#4), and Close to Death (#5)

• Susan Ryeland: Magpie Murders (#1) and Moonflower Murders (#2)

• Sam Clair: A Murder of Magpies (#1), A Bed of Scorpions (#2), A Cast of Vultures (#3), and A Howl of Wolves (#4)

• Quantico Files: Night Fall (#1), Dead Fall (#2), and Free Fall (#3)

• Kaely Quinn Profiler: Mind Games (#1)

• Jack Reacher: The Killing Floor (#1) and Die Trying (#2)

• Charles Lenox Mysteries: A Beautiful Blue Death (#1), The September Society (#2), The Fleet Street Murders (#3), A Stranger in Mayfair (#4), An East End Murder (#4.5), A Burial at Sea (#5), A Death in the Small Hours (#6), An Old Betrayal (#7), The Laws of Murder (#8), Home by Nightfall (#9), The Inheritance (#10), Gone Before Christmas (#10.5), The Woman in the Water (#11), The Vanishing Man (#12), and The Last Passenger (#13)

• Thursday Murder Club: Thursday Murder Club (#1), The Man Who Died Twice (#2), The Bullet That Missed (#3), and The Last Devil to Die (#4)

• Nell Ward Mysteries: A Murder of Crows (#1), A Cast of Falcons (#2), A Mischief of Rats (#3), A Generation of Vipers (#4), and A Traces of Hares (#5)

• Molly the Maid: The Maid (#1) and The Mystery Guest (#2)

• Cal Hooper: The Searcher (#1) and The Hunter (#2)

• Dr. Thomas Silkstone: The Anatomist’s Apprentice (#1), The Dead Shall Not Rest (#2), The Devil’s Breath (#3), The Lazarus Curse (#4), and Shadow of the Raven (#5)

• The Checquy Files: The Rook (#1)

• Letty Davenport: The Investigator (#1) and Dark Angel (#2)

• The Marlow Murder Club: The Marlow Murder Club (#1), Death Comes to Marlow (#2), and The Queen of Poisons (#3)

• Inspector Ian Rutledge: A Test of Wills (#1)

• Detective Varg: The Department of Sensitive Crimes (#1), The Strange Case of the Moderate Extremists (#0.8), The Talented Mr. Varg (#2), The Man with the Silver Saab (#3), and The Discreet Charm of the Big Bad Wolf (#4)

• Castle Knoll Files: How to Solve Your Own Murder (#1)

• Charlotte and Thomas Pitt: The Cater Street Hangman (#1)

• Rabbit Factor: The Rabbit Factor (#1)

Historical Fiction

• Nora Beady: The Girl in His Shadow (#1) and The Surgeons Daughter (#2)

• Kate Quinn: The Alice Network, The Rose Code

• Kristin Hannah: The Women

• Ann Leary: The Foundling

• All the Light We Cannot See

• The Kitchen Front

• Code Name Hélène

• The Dictionary of Lost Words

• The Lost Apothecary

• The Miniaturist

• The Book of Speculation

• The Summer Before the War

Science Fiction/ Fantasy

• Matt Haig: The Midnight Library, How to Stop Time

• Neil Gaiman: Neverwhere, Stardust, Trigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances

• Emily St. John Mandel: Station Eleven, Sea of Tranquility, The Glass Hotel

• A Wrinkle in Time

• Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy

• The Coincidence Makers

• The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

• Spoonbenders

• The Impossible Lives of Greta Wells

• The First 15 Lives of Harry August

• The Alchemist

• Other Birds

• Good Morning, Midnight

Science Fiction/ Fantasy: Series

• Maze Runner: The Maze Runner (#1), The Scorch Trials (#2), The Death Cure (#3), The Kill Order (#4), and The Fever Code (#5)

• Divergent: Divergent (#1), Insurgent (#2), Allegiant (#3), and Four (#4)

• Red Queen: Red Queen (#1), Glass Sword (#2), and King's Cage (#3)

• Southern Reach: Annihilation (#1), Authority (#2), and Acceptance (#3)

• Shades of Magic (VE Schwab): A Darker Shade of Magic (#1)

• Caraval: Caraval (#1), Legendary (#2), Finale (#3)

• Mither Mages (Orson Scott Card): The Lost Gate (#1), The Gate Thief (#2), and The Gatefather (#3)

• The Mortality Doctrine: The Eye of Minds (#1)

• Wayward Children: Every Heart a Doorway (#1)

Romance/ Chick Lit

• The Bookish Life of Nina Hall: The Bookish Life of Nina Hall (#2), Adult Assembly Required (#2)

• Katherine Center: Things you save in a Fire, What You Wish For, The Bodyguard

• The Art of Hearing Heartbeats

• Lessons in Chemistry

• The Queen of Hearts

• Oh Dear Silvia

• Ghosted

• The Overdue Life of Amy Byler

• My (not so) Perfect Life

• Foreign Affairs

Humor

• Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine

• Nothing to See Here

Novels

• Phaedra Patrick Collection: The Curious Charms of Arthur Pepper, The Messy Lives of Book People, The Library of Lost and Found, The Secrets of Love Story Bridge

• Jodi Picoult Collection: Wish You Were Here, The Book of Two Ways

• Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

• A Week in Winter

• Seven Days of Us

• I Miss You When I Blink

• Ella Minnow Pea

• The Keeper of Lost Things

• Gravity is the Thing

• The School for Good Mothers

• Something to Live For (Previously: How not to die alone)

• Anxious People

• The Gifted School

• Wicked Leaks

• A Thousand Pardons

• The Department of Rare Books and Special Collections

• Remarkably Bright Creatures

• The Chemist

Series

• Millennium: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Played with Fire, The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest, The Girl in the Spiders Web, The Girl who takes an Eye for an Eye, The Girl Who Lived Twice

• Penumbra: Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore and Ajax Penumbra 1969

• Don Tillman: The Rosie Project (#1), The Rosie Effect (#2)

• Harold Fry: The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry (#1)

• Olive Kitteridge: Olive Kitteridge (#1)

• The Hundred-Year-Old Man: The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed out the Window and Disappeared (#1)

Business

• The Innovator's Dilemma: The Revolutionary Book that Will Change the Way You Do Business

History

• Civilizations Rise and Fall (Jared Diamond): Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (#1), Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (#2) and Upheaval: Turning Points for Nations in Crisis (#3)

Climbing and Adventures

• Shackleton's Way: Leadership Lessons from the Great Antarctic Explorer

• Buried in the Sky: The Extraordinary Story of the Sherpa Climbers on K2's Deadliest Day

• Over the Edge of the World: Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe

• Touching the Void: The True Story of One Man's Miraculous Survival

• The Next Everest: Surviving the Mountain's Deadliest Day and Finding the Resilience to Climb Again

• The Boys of Everest: Chris Bonington and the Tragedy of Climbing's Greatest Generation

• Forever on the Mountain: The Truth Behind One of Mountaineering's Most Controversial and Mysterious Disasters

• The Climb: Tragic Ambitions on Everest

• Climb: Stories of Survival from Rock, Snow and Ice

Medical

• Nine Pints: A Journey Through the Money, Medicine, and Mysteries of Blood

• Genius on the Edge: The Bizarre Double Life of Dr. William Stewart Halsted

• Blood and Guts: A History of Surgery

• Confessions of a Surgeon: The Good, the Bad, and the Complicated...Life Behind the O.R. Doors

• Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death and Brain Surgery

• You Can Stop Humming Now: A Doctor's Stories of Life, Death and in Between

• When We Do Harm: A Doctor Confronts Medical Error

• Diagnosis: Solving the Most Baffling Medical Mysteries

• This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Young Doctor

• Swallow: Foreign Bodies, Their Ingestion, Inspiration, and the Curious Doctor Who Extracted Them

• Expert: Understanding the Path to Mastery

• Women in White Coats: How the First Women Doctors Changed the World of Medicine

• You Bet Your Life: From Blood Transfusions to Mass Vaccination, the Long and Risky History of Medical Innovation

• Attending: Medicine, Mindfulness, and Humanity

Psychology: Individual

• How We Decide

• Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions

• How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking

• Amazing Decisions: The Illustrated Guide to Improving Business Deals and Family Meals

• The Logic of Failure: Recognizing and Avoiding Error in Complex Situations

• Sway: The Irresistible Pull of Irrational Behavior

• Anatomy of a Secret Life: The Psychology of Living a Lie

• The Secret Life of the Mind: How Your Brain Thinks, Feels, and Decides

• Gut Feelings: The Intelligence of the Unconscious

• Superminds: The Surprising Power of People and Computers Thinking Together

• Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain

• The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less

• The Forgetting Machine: Memory, Perception, and the Jennifer Aniston Neuron

• Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones

• How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain

Psychology: Interacting with Others

• The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature

• Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men

• Shape: The Hidden Geometry of Information, Biology, Strategy, Democracy, and Everything Else

• Rock Breaks Scissors: A Practical Guide to Outguessing and Outwitting Almost Everybody

• The Confidence Game: Why We Fall for It . . . Every Time

• Reading People: How Seeing the World through the Lens of Personality Changes Everything

• The Wisest One in the Room: How You Can Benefit from Social Psychology's Most Powerful Insights

• Connected: The Surprising Power of Our Social Networks and How They Shape Our Lives

• The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil

• Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt

• The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms/ Nassim Nicholas Taleb

• Expert Political Judgment: How Good Is It? How Can We Know?/ Philip Tetlock

• Unmaking the West: "What-If?" Scenarios That Rewrite World History/ Philip Tetlock

• Counterfactual Thought Experiments in World Politics: Logical, Methodological, and Psychological Perspectives/ Philip Tetlock

Biography

• Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things

• Broken (In the Best Possible Way)

Self-Help

• Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice from Dear Sugar

Crime

• The Casebook of Forensic Detection: How Science Solved 100 of the World's Most Baffling Crimes

Medical

• When Breath Becomes Air

• How Doctors Think

• Cheating Death: The Doctors and Medical Miracles that Are Saving Lives Against All Odds

• Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers

• The Naked Lady Who Stood on Her Head: A Psychiatrist's Stories of His Most Bizarre Cases

• Admissions: Life as a Brain Surgeon

• Patient H.M.: A Story of Memory, Madness, and Family Secrets

• Under the Knife: A History of Surgery in 28 Remarkable Operations

Medical: By Atul Gawande

• Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End

• Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right

• Better: A Surgeon's Note on Performance

• Complications: A Surgeons Notes on an Imperfect Science

• Under the Knife: A History of Surgery in 28 Remarkable Operations

Crime

• Never Sucks a Dead Man's Hand: Curious Adventures of a CSI

Climbing Adventures

• Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster

Biography

• Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption

• Scrappy Little Nobody: Anna Kendrick

• Bossypants: Tina Fey

• Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, HER Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed

• Let’s Pretend This Never Happened: A Mostly True Memoir

Social Psychology

• Lying

• Leonard Mlodinow: The Drunkards Walk: How Randomness Rules our Lives and Elastic: Unlocking Your Brain's Ability to Embrace Change

• Daniel Kahneman: Thinking, Fast and Slow and Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment

• Scienceblind: Why Our Intuitive Theories About the World Are So Often Wrong

• Contagious: Why Things Catch On

• Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die

• A Field Guide to Lies: Critical Thinking in the Information Age

• Loonshots: How to Nurture the Crazy Ideas That Win Wars, Cure Diseases, and Transform Industries

• When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing

• You Are Not So Smart

• Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst

• Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance

• Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World

• Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World

• Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are

• Everything is Obvious: Once You Know the Answer

• The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements

• Freakanomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything

• Farsighted: How We Make the Decisions That Matter the Most

• Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction

• Barking up the Wrong Tree: The Surprising Science behind why everything you know about success is [mostly] wrong

• Quirky: The Remarkable Story of the Traits, Foibles, and Genius of Breakthrough Innovators Who Changed the World

• Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action

• Team of Teams: New Rules of Engagement for a Complex World

• The Knowledge Illusion: Why we never think alone

• The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail--but Some Don't

• The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity

• Incerto/ Nassim Nicholas Taleb: Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life, Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets and Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable

Social Psychology: By Malcolm Gladwell

• Outliers: The Story of Success

• The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference

• Blink: The Power of Thinking without Thinking

• David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants

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