Tender

Jacob Tender

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31 books

Eisner Awards: Best New Series (1988 to present)

The Complete Concrete
Kings in Disguise
Too Much Coffee Man Omnibus
Astro City, Vol. 1: Life in the Big City
Leave It To Chance, Vol. 1
Castle Waiting, Vol. 1
Inhumans

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19 books

🧙‍♂️Fantasy

The Blade Itself
The Well of Ascension
Fairy Tale
Vulcan's Blade
The Council of Frogs
Mistborn: The Final Empire
The White People

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67 books

Formative Reads

Goodnight Moon
Corduroy
Chicka Chicka Boom Boom
The Very Hungry Caterpillar
The Golden Book of 365 Stories
The Sesame Street ABC Storybook
Green Eggs and Ham

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16 books

Franklin Leonard’s Hollywood Syllabus

The hero with a thousand faces
The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
Poetics
Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game
Bulfinch's Mythology: The Age of Fable / The Age of Chivalry / The Legends of Charlemagne
The Fire Next Time
Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes

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2 books

🏛️ Historical Fiction

The Buffalo Hunter Hunter
The Terror

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10 books

🎃 Horror

The Buffalo Hunter Hunter
Stitched to Skin Like Family Is
The Dead Zone
Bad Dreams in the Night
The White People
Fairy Tale
The Staircase in the Woods

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9 books

😜 Humor

Lenny Bruce Is Dead
Themes and Variations
The Satsuma Complex
The Hotel Avocado
Murder on Sex Island
Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim
And Away...

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279 books

Jump Scares' New Horror Books (2026)

She Made Herself a Monster
On Sundays, She Picked Flowers
Sarafina
The Wind Witch Murders
I Will Kill Your Imaginary Friend for $200
Hemlock
Night Terror

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3 books

📔 Memoir

Mailman
The Souls of Black Folk
Trespassing Across America: One Man's Epic, Never-Done-Before (and Sort of Illegal) Hike Across the Heartland

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2 books

Most Anticipated

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7 books

Movie Shelf: Ghost Dog: The Way Of The Samurai (1999)

Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai
Rashomon and Seventeen Other Stories
The Wind in the Willows
The Souls of Black Folk
Night Nurse
Frankenstein
L'ours

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19 books

Mulaney Reads: John Mulaney’s Monthly Book Recommendations

Pan
Shark Heart
Playworld
Ask for Me Tomorrow
A Stranger in My Grave
Vanish in an Instant
The Murder of Miranda

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1 book

🎵 Music

Morning Glory on the Vine

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2 books

🔍 Mystery

Wild Dark Shore
The Long Shoe

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2 books

🌳 Nature

Trespassing Across America: One Man's Epic, Never-Done-Before (and Sort of Illegal) Hike Across the Heartland
The Call of the Wild

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4 books

🧠 Non-fiction

Trespassing Across America: One Man's Epic, Never-Done-Before (and Sort of Illegal) Hike Across the Heartland
The Souls of Black Folk
Morning Glory on the Vine
And Away...

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8 books

NPR Staff Picks of 2025 - Fiction

The South
Sunrise on the Reaping
Atmosphere: A Love Story
The Dream Hotel
The Everlasting
Great Big Beautiful Life
King of Ashes

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39 books

NPR Staff Picks of 2025 (so far) - Fiction

All the Other Mothers Hate Me
Among Friends
Animal Instinct
The Antidote
Audition
Beautiful Ugly
The Buffalo Hunter Hunter

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28 books

NPR Staff Picks of 2025 (so far) - Nonfiction

Abundance
Black in Blues: How a Color Tells the Story of My People
Careless People
Chokepoints
Dear Writer
Desi Arnaz
Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection

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117 books

Owned

Lords of the Sith
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Aftermath
Grass Kings, Vol. 3
Grass Kings, Vol. 2
Grass Kings, Vol. 1
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

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2 books

📸 Photography

A Period of Juvenile Prosperity
You Are What You Do

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19 books

🤖 Science Fiction

A Prayer for the Crown-Shy
Artificial Condition
Stitched to Skin Like Family Is
A Psalm for the Wild-Built
Compulsory
The Hole
Exhalation

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13 books

Short Reads

A Prayer for the Crown-Shy
A Psalm for the Wild-Built
Artificial Condition
The Lottery
Animal Farm
All Systems Red
The Hole

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15 books

Short Stories

The Four Sisters Overlooking the Sea
Stitched to Skin Like Family Is
Themes and Variations
Compulsory
The Lottery
The Lottery and Other Stories
The Eleventh Metal

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5 books

Software Development

Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code
Build APIs You Won't Hate
The Pragmatic Programmer: Your Journey to Mastery, 20th Anniversary Edition
The Clean Coder
HTML and CSS: Design and Build Websites
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