Thank you to everyone who contributed to this list, and for the gifts of great books and classic stories.

As always, each entry is linked to an Amazon page, but I urge you to support your local bookshops whenever possible.

This year we had 2 contributors add suggestions from authors they know personally, these are denoted with an Asterisk* in the person’s list.

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• Ruthless People by JJ McAvoy
• In The Woods – Tana French
  • Book 1 of the Dublin Murder Squad series
• Originals by Adam Grant
• Under the Banner of Heaven by Jon Krakauer
• Rise of an Heiress and The Fall of A Promise by Paulina Pany*

• Women Who Run with Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype by Clarissa Pinkola-Estes

• The Wisdom of the Enneagram by Don Richard Riso and Russ Hudson

• Ready Player Two by Ernest Cline
• A Darker Shade of Magic by V.E. Schwab
  • Book one of the Shades of Magic series
• The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
• The Foxfire Book Series edited by Eliot Wigginton

• Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir
  • Book One of The Locked Tomb series
• All Systems Red by Martha Wells
  • Book one of The Murderbot Diaries
• Legends and Lattes by Travis Baldree
• The Raven Knight by Kenneth Lowe*

• Language City: The Fight to Preserve Endangered Mother Tongues in New York by Ross Perlin
• My Broken Language: A Memoir by Quiana Alegria Hudes
• Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of Life Interrupted by Suleika Jaouad

• Warrior of the Light by Paulo Coelho
• House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Clune
• Pour Your Heart Into It by Howard Schultz

• Cradles of the Reich: A Novel by Jennifer Coburn
• Katharine, The Wright Sister by Tracey Enerson Wood
• Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen

• Butcher and Blackbird by Brynne Weaver
  • Book one of the The Ruinous Love trilogy
• The Shadow of the Gods by John Gwynne
  • Book one of The Bloodsworn Saga trilogy
• The Final Empire by Brandon Sanderson
  • Book one of The Mistborn series
• Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania by Erik Larson

• Courage to Be Disliked by Ichiro Kishimi and Fumitake Koga
• Ikigai: The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life by Hector Garcia and Francesc Miralles
• Not Without My Daughter: The Harrowing True Story of a Mother’s Courage by Betty Mahmoody
• Tell Me Your Dreams by Sidney Sheldon

• The Next Conversation: Argue Less, Talk More by Jefferson Fisher
• The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War by Erik Larson
• Nuclear War: A Scenario by Annie Jacobsen
• The Case for Christ: A Journalist’s Personal Investigation of the Evidence for Jesus by Lee Strobel

• The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle
• The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz
• The Housemaid and The Coworker by Freida McFadden

• I’ll be Gone in the Dark: One Woman’s Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer by Michelle McNamara
• A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail by Bill Bryson
• Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
• Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt

• Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros
  • Book One of The Empyrean Trilogy
• From Blood and Ash by Jennifer Armentrout
  • Book one of the Blood and Ash series

• Fairy Tale by Stephen King
• Hidden Valley Road by Robert Kolker

• Cinema Speculation by Quentin Tarantino

• Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
• Conclave by Robert Harris
• Rules of Civility by Amor Towles
• The Alchemist by Paulo Coehlo
• The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova
• Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ’s Childhood Pal by Christopher Moore
• Violeta by Isabel Allende
• All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
• Lead with Heart by Marissa Campbell*