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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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