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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
The Golem and the Djinni

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11 books

2019 Favorites

Save Me the Plums: My Gourmet Memoir
Circe
Genghis: Birth of an Empire
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: An Amateur's Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tuscany
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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17 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
Navola

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8 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
Tusks of Extinction

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44 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
Blue Flag
Author in Chief

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179 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
Cantico di Natale
The Nightfall Duology
The Lady in Gold: The Extraordinary Tale of Gustav Klimt's Masterpiece, Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer
The Winter People
The Count of Monte Cristo
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World

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14 books

Books About Books

The Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books: Christopher Columbus, His Son, and the Quest to Build the World's Greatest Library
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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17 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 Gray
Sailing Alone Around the World

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1 book

Computers And Technology

The Cuckoo's Egg

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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 Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History
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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145 books

Fantasy

City of Light
Wrath of Empire
The Crimson Vault
The Traveler's Gate Trilogy
A Veil of Spears
Snapshot
The Tattered Prince and the Demon Veiled

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102 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 Gray
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: An Amateur's Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tuscany
Save Me the Plums: My Gourmet Memoir
The Making of a Chef: Mastering Heat at the Culinary Institute of America

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81 books

Historical Fiction

The Half-Drowned King
Pachinko
Molokaʻi
Last Train to Istanbul
Children of Earth and Sky
River of Stars
Under Heaven

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43 books

History

Legends of the Samurai
The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women
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
The Lady in Gold: The Extraordinary Tale of Gustav Klimt's Masterpiece, Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer

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12 books

Horror Thriller

The Winter People
The Seven Ancient Wonders
Leave the World Behind
If We Were Villains
Never Lie
Ascension
The Rules of the Road
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