The Short List

My Goodreads profile

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  Summer Sons

  Lee Mandelo

• Career of Evil (Cormoran Strike, #3)

  Robert Galbraith

• The Burning Girls

  C.J. Tudor

• I Wish I Was Like You

  S.P. Miskowski

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  How Strange a Season

  Megan Mayhew Bergman

• Defy the Night (Defy the Night, #1)

  Brigid Kemmerer

• Moloka'i (Moloka'i, #1)

  Alan Brennert

• Nature Poem

  Tommy Pico

• Slashvivor!

  Stephen Kozeniewski

• I Miss You When I Blink: Essays

  Mary Laura Philpott

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  Last Girl Ghosted

  Lisa Unger

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  Light from Uncommon Stars

  Ryka Aoki

• Mistress of Rome (The Empress of Rome, #1)

  Kate Quinn

• The Silence of the Lambs (Hannibal Lecter, #2)

  Thomas Harris

• They All Died Screaming

  Kristopher Triana

• Children of Virtue and Vengeance (Legacy of Orïsha, #2)

  Tomi Adeyemi

• Heart Berries

  Terese Marie Mailhot

• And There He Kept Her

  Joshua Moehling

• Things We Have in Common

  Tasha Kavanagh

• America's First Female Serial Killer: Jane Toppan and the Making of a Monster

  Mary Kay McBrayer

• The Friend Zone (The Friend Zone, #1)

  Abby Jimenez

• The Pull of the Stars

  Emma Donoghue

• The Bell Jar

  Sylvia Plath

• Madame Fourcade's Secret War: The Daring Young Woman Who Led France's Largest Spy Network Against Hitler

  Lynne Olson

• Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love

  Dani Shapiro

• Paper Ghosts

  Julia Heaberlin

• One by One

  Ruth Ware

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  The Change

  Kirsten Miller

• The Simple Wild (Wild, #1)

  K.A. Tucker

• The Memory Police

  Yōko Ogawa

• Love Is Blind

  William Boyd

• When We Were Worthy

  Marybeth Mayhew Whalen

• Well-Read Black Girl: Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves

  Glory Edim

• The Gunslinger (The Dark Tower, #1)

  Stephen King

• Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair

  Pablo Neruda

• Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)

  J.K. Rowling

• The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations

  Toni Morrison

• Coffin Road

  Peter May

• The Beautiful (The Beautiful, #1)

  Renée Ahdieh

• A Darker Shade of Magic (Shades of Magic, #1)

  V.E. Schwab

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  Her Three Lives

  Cate Holahan

• Trenton Makes

  Tadzio Koelb

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  Lock Every Door

  Riley Sager

• Distress Signals

  Catherine Ryan Howard

• Our Kind of Cruelty

  Araminta Hall

• The Nightingale

  Kristin Hannah

• The Charmed Wife

  Olga Grushin

• Only Ever Yours

  Louise O'Neill

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  Miss Subways

  David Duchovny

• Say Say Say

  Lila Savage

• Find You First

  Linwood Barclay

• Pretty Things

  Janelle Brown

• Call Me Evie

  J.P. Pomare

• A Little Princess

  Frances Hodgson Burnett

• Heavy

  Kiese Laymon

• Our Last Echoes

  Kate Alice Marshall

• Everyone Knows You Go Home

  Natalia Sylvester

• On Chesil Beach

  Ian McEwan

• The Glitch

  Elisabeth Cohen

• The Bazaar of Bad Dreams

  Stephen King

• The Gun Seller

  Hugh Laurie

• Sabrina & Corina: Stories

  Kali Fajardo-Anstine

• The Life of Elizabeth I

  Alison Weir

• The Poisonwood Bible

  Barbara Kingsolver

• Wish You Were Here

  Renee Carlino

• The Wife Upstairs

  Rachel Hawkins

• Let Me Tell You What I Mean

  Joan Didion

• Invisible: The Forgotten Story of the Black Woman Lawyer Who Took Down America's Most Powerful Mobster

  Stephen L. Carter

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  Last Case at a Baggage Auction

  Eric J. Guignard

• Another Way to Fall: Two Short Novels

  Brian Evenson

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  The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle

  Stuart Turton

• As I Lay Dying

  William Faulkner

• Kitchen Creativity: Unlocking Culinary Genius-with Wisdom, Inspiration, and Ideas from the World's Most Creative Chefs

  Karen Page

• The Captain's Daughter

  Meg Mitchell Moore

• The Cave Dwellers

  Christina McDowell

• Blue Ticket

  Sophie Mackintosh

• Heaven Adjacent

  Catherine Ryan Hyde

• Emma in the Night

  Wendy Walker

• The Priory of the Orange Tree

  Samantha Shannon

• Back Talk

  Danielle Lazarin

• Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead

  Olga Tokarczuk

• Conditional Citizens: On Belonging in America

  Laila Lalami

• Last Days

  Adam Nevill

• The Air You Breathe

  Frances de Pontes Peebles

• Mother

  S.E. Lynes

• For Better and Worse

  Margot Hunt

• Sinner

  Christopher Graves

• Macbeth

  William Shakespeare

• The Ocean at the End of the Lane

  Neil Gaiman

• Never Say You Can't Survive: How to Get Through Hard Times by Making Up Stories

  Charlie Jane Anders

• Speak: The Graphic Novel

  Laurie Halse Anderson

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  Unfortunate Elements of My Anatomy

  Hailey Piper

• The Last Party

  Clare Mackintosh

• Goodbye, Again: Essays, Reflections, and Illustrations

  Jonny Sun

• Honeymoon with My Brother

  Franz Wisner

• The Complete Fiction

  H.P. Lovecraft

• Remote Control

  Nnedi Okorafor

• Anna Undreaming (The Metiks Fade Trilogy #1)

  Thomas Welsh

• Mine

  Courtney Cole