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4 books

2017 Favorites

Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage

The Great Passage

The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women

Still Life

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3 books

2018 Favorites

Kafka on the Shore

A River in Darkness: One Man's Escape from North Korea

Sang Golem dan Sang Jin

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11 books

2019 Favorites

Save Me the Plums: My Gourmet Memoir

Circe

Genghis

Nothing to Envy: Real Lives in North Korea

The Women of the Copper Country

Letters from an Astrophysicist

The Shop Before Life

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15 books

2020 Favorites

The Remains of the Day

This Is Chance!: The Shaking of an All-American City, a Voice That Held It Together

In the Labyrinth of Drakes

The Priory of the Orange Tree

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore

Sorry I'm Late, I Didn't Want to Come: An Introvert's Year of Living Dangerously

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17 books

2021 Favorites

Interior Chinatown

Heat

Doc

Ormeshadow

Why Fish Don't Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life

The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry

Labyrinth of Ice: The Triumphant and Tragic Greely Polar Expedition

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15 books

2022 Favorites

Crying in H Mart

After Dark

A Furious Sky: The Five-Hundred-Year History of America's Hurricanes

How High We Go in the Dark

Black Sun

The Spear Cuts Through Water

Sea of Tranquility

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7 books

2023 Favorites

All Quiet on the Western Front

Where We Go When All We Were Is Gone

Kon-Tiki

Eat the Buddha: Life and Death in a Tibetan Town

Elder Race

The Human Target, Volume 1

Three Day Road

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10 books

2024 Favorites

A Boy and his Dog at the End of the World

Moon Soul

Issunboshi: A Graphic Novel

Hiroshima

Four Squares

The Women

A Taste for Poison

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8 books

2025 Favorites

Rogues: True Stories of Grifters, Killers, Rebels and Crooks

Hammajang Luck

Wind and Truth

Written on the Dark

The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession

A Desert Torn Asunder

Dissolution

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7 books

Animals

Running with Sherman How a Rescue Donkey Inspired a Rag-Tag Gang of Runners to Enter the Craziest Race in America

All the Horses of Iceland

Making rounds with Oscar

Babylon's Ark: The Incredible Wartime Rescue of the Baghdad Zoo

Owls of the Eastern Ice

Whalefall

The Tusks of Extinction

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43 books

Arc

Little Gods

The Shop Before Life

This Is Chance!: The Shaking of an All-American City, a Voice That Held It Together

The Book of Koli

Fifty Words for Rain

Author in Chief

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160 books

Audiobooks Read

Molokaʻi

Pachinko

The Monk of Mokha

The Half-Drowned King

The Map of Salt and Stars

On Stranger Tides

The Kite Runner

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32 books

Book Lovers Club

Memoirs of a Geisha

A Christmas Carol

The Nightfall Duology

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The Lady in Gold

The Winter People

The Count of Monte Cristo

Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World

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13 books

Books About Books

The Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books

The Professor & the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity & the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary

Running the Books: The Adventures of an Accidental Prison Librarian

The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu

The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry

The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo

The Last Bookseller: A Life in the Rare Book Trade

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1 book

Cambodia

First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers

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16 books

Classics

East of Eden

The Count of Monte Cristo

Treasure Island

The Saga of the Volsungs

A Passage to India

The Picture of Dorian Grey

Sailing Alone Around the World

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1 book

Computers And Technology

The Cuckoo's Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage

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11 books

Did Not Finish

The Reader

The Nightfall Duology

Fortress Besieged

In the Realm of a Dying Emperor: Japan at Century's End

Chronicle of a Blood Merchant

The Shadow of the Wind

Two Years Before the Mast

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4 books

Earth Science

Into the Planet: My Life as a Cave Diver

Isaac's Storm

A Furious Sky: The Five-Hundred-Year History of America's Hurricanes

Babylon's Ark: The Incredible Wartime Rescue of the Baghdad Zoo

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133 books

Fantasy

City of Light

Wrath of Empire

The Crimson Vault

The Traveler's Gate Trilogy

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A Veil of Spears

Snapshot

The Tattered Prince and the Demon Veiled

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95 books

Fiction

Kafka on the Shore

Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage

The one-in-a-million boy

The Great Passage

The Picture of Dorian Grey

Son of a witch

Norwegian Wood

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8 books

Food

The Monk of Mokha

What She Ate

Garlic and Sapphires

The Pasha of Cuisine

Heat

Save Me the Plums: My Gourmet Memoir

The Making of a Chef: Mastering Heat at the Culinary Institute of America

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74 books

Historical Fiction

The Half-Drowned King

Pachinko

Molokaʻi

Last Train to Istanbul

Children of Earth and Sky

River of Stars

La rinascita di Shen Tai

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40 books

History

Legends of the Samurai

The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women

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Japan

In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette

The Long Gray Line: The American Journey of West Point's Class of 1966

The Astronaut Maker: How One Mysterious Engineer Ran Human Spaceflight for a Generation

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The Lady in Gold

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11 books

Horror Thriller

The Winter People

Seven Deadly Wonders

Leave the World Behind

If We Were Villains

Never Lie

Ascension

The Rules of the Road

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