Books I Didn't Finish
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Not every book and I are right for each other or right for each other at this particular moment. Here are the ones I set aside, organized by genre. Perhaps some will get a second chance.
Table Of Contents
Fantasy
- Celestial Monsters by Aiden Thomas
- Scarlet Morning by N.D. Stevenson 14 Jan 2026
- Thief Of Time by Terry Pratchett 23 Jul 2026
General Fiction
- Lessons In Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus 14 Jan 2026
Literary Fiction
- There Are Rivers In The Sky by Elif Shafak
Memoir
- Bookshop Dogs by Ruth Shaw 26 Jun 2026
- Dear Senthuran by Akwaeke Emezi
- I'd Rather Not by Robert Skinner 26 Jul 2026
- Pop Song by Larissa Pham 11 Apr 2026
Mystery
Contemporary Cozy
- Death Comes To Marlow by Robert Thorogood
- Live And Let Chai by Bree Baker
- Murder In Tuscany by T.A. Williams
- Murder On The Marlow Belle by Robert Thorogood
- Queen Of Poisons by Robert Thorogood
- The Bullet That Missed by Richard Osman
- The Man Who Died Twice by Richard Osman
- The Marlow Murder Club by Robert Thorogood
- The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman
Golden Age
- Mystery Of The Spanish Chest by Agatha Christie
- Sleeping Murder by Agatha Christie
- The Adventure Of The Christmas Pudding by Agatha Christie
- The Body In The Library by Agatha Christie
- The Mysterious Affair At Styles by Agatha Christie
Historical
- Pride And Premeditation by Tirzah Price
- The Darkness Knows by Cheryl Honigford
- The Picture House Murders by Fiona Veitch Smith
Non-Fiction
Climate & Environment
- Deep Water by James Bradley 14 Jul 2026
- One Garden Against The World by Kate Bradbury 23 Apr 2026
- The Big Switch by Saul Griffith
- Waste Wars by Alexander Clapp
Feminism, Queer & Race
- A Room Of One's Own by Virginia Woolf
- Bi by Julia Shaw 26 Jul 2026
- Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha 13 May 2026
- Gay Britannia by Various 5 May 2026
- Queer Georgians by Anthony Delaney
- Racial Fictions by Hazel V. Carby 4 Apr 2026
- Radical Intimacy by Sophie K. Rosa
- The Feminist Killjoy Handbook by Sara Ahmed
History
- A Place For Everything by Judith Flanders 28 Jun 2026
- Dark Emu by Bruce Pascoe 14 Jul 2026
- Killing For Country by David Marr 26 Jul 2026
- Worn by Sofi Thanhauser 14 Jul 2026
Music
- Rolling Stone And The Rise Of Hip Capitalism by Charles L. Ponce De Leon
- Such Great Heights by Chris DeVille
- The Haçienda by Peter Hook
Politics, Media & Economics
- Breakneck by Dan Wang 28 Jun 2026
- Detainee 002 by Leigh Sales 12 Jun 2026
- On Doubt by Leigh Sales 12 Jun 2026
- On Rumors by Cass R. Sunstein 26 Jul 2026
- One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This by Omar El Akkad 8 Jul 2026
- QAnon And On by Van Badham
- Storytellers by Leigh Sales 12 Jun 2026
- The Men Who Killed The News by Eric Beecher
- Vulture Capitalism by Grace Blakeley 16 Apr 2026
Science & Health
- A World Appears by Michael Pollan 28 Jun 2026
- Bonk by Mary Roach 23 Jul 2026
- The Case Against Fragrance by Kate Grenville 26 Jul 2026
- What's Wrong With You? by Sarah Holper 5 May 2026
- Your Brain On Art by Susan Magsamen and Ivy Ross 26 Jun 2026
Self & Culture
- Any Ordinary Day by Leigh Sales 12 Jun 2026
- Creativity, Inc. by Ed Catmull
- Enchantment by Katherine May
- How To Kill A Language by Sophia Smith Galer 28 Jun 2026
- How To Talk To Anyone About Anything by James W. Williams 23 Jul 2026
- How Writing Works by Roslyn Petelin 13 Jul 2026
- Intentional by Chris Bailey
- Italian Lessons by Beppe Severgnini
- The Anxious Generation by Jonathan Haidt 23 Jul 2026
- The Barefoot Investor by Scott Pape 13 Jul 2026
- The Burnout Society by Byung-Chul Han 8 Jul 2026
- The Laws Of Human Nature by Robert Greene 23 Jul 2026
- Well Hello by Leigh Sales and Annabel Crabb 12 Jun 2026
- Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before? by Julie Smith 23 Apr 2026
Technology
- Break The Internet by Olivia Yallop 26 Jul 2026
- Empire Of AI by Karen Hao 28 Jun 2026
- Impromptu by Reid Hoffman 21 Jun 2026
- More Everything Forever by Adam Becker 28 Jun 2026
- Superagency by Reid Hoffman 21 Jun 2026
- The Book Of Elon by Eric Jorgenson 28 Jun 2026
- The Coming Wave by Mustafa Suleyman 21 Jun 2026
- The Origins Of Efficiency by Brian Potter 28 Jun 2026
Romance
- Cosmic Love At The Multiverse Salon by Annie Mare
- On Her Terms by Amy Spalding 23 Apr 2026
Science Fiction
- Buzzard by Inez Ray
- Drunk On All Your Strange New Worlds by Eddie Robson
- Talos by Stephen Harrington
Young Adult
- Canto Contigo by Jonny Garza Villa
- Everything She Does Is Magic by Bridget Morrissey
- Take A Bow, Noah Mitchell by Tobias Madden
- The Friendship Paradox by Aśka 23 Jul 2026
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