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Books to Read- January 2025

  • The Four Tendencies – Gretchen Rubin
  • The Are of Taking it Easy – Brian King
  • Why Design Matters – Debbie Millman
  • All the Wandering Light – Heather Fawcett
  • The Death of Jane Lawrence – Caitlin Starling
  • Cursed Bunny – Bora Chung
  • The Hollow Places – T. Kingfisher
  • Dressed in Smoke – Ambrose Ibsen
  • Song for the Unraveling of the World – Brian Evenson
  • A Front Page Affair – Radha Vatsal

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Books to Read- December 2024

  • Making a Living without a Job – Barbara Winter
  • Change Anything – Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, and David Maxfield
  • Unthink – Erik Wahl
  • Focus – Daniel Goleman
  • Life Would Be Perfect if I Lived in That House – Meghan Daum
  • Overworked and Overwhelmed – Scott Eblin
  • Originals – Adam Grant
  • Smarter Faster Better – Charles Duhigg
  • Tools of Titans – Timothy Ferris
  • Messy – Tim Harford

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Books to Read- November 2024

  • The Immortalists – Chloe Benjamin
  • The Watchmaker of Filigree Street – Natasha Pulley
  • The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida – Shehan Karunatilaka
  • Siren Queen – Nghi Vo
  • When We Were Birds – Ayanna Lloyd Banwo
  • Reverie – Ryan La Sala
  • Across the Green Fields – Seanan McGuire
  • You Must Not Miss – Katrina Leno
  • The Keep of Lost Things – Ruth Hogan
  • The Golem and the Jinni – Helene Wecker

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Books to Read- October 2024

  • The Vor Game – Lois McMaster Bujold
  • Starling House– Alix E. Harrow
  • Shigidi and the Brass Head of Obalufon– Wole Talabi 
  • Looking Glass Sound-Catriona Ward
  • Witch King– Martha Wells 
  • Christmas and Other Horrors ed. Ellen Datlow
  • The Wren in the Holly Library– K.A. Linde
  • You Like it Darker– Stephen King
  • Boy, Snow, Bird– Helen Oyeyemi
  • The Mistress of Spices– Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

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Books to Read- September 2024

  • Barrayar– Lois McMaster Bujold
  • Peter Cushing: The Complete Memoirs– Peter Cushing
  • Paradox: The Nine Greatest Enigmas in Physics– Jim Al-Khalili
  • New Guinea Tapeworms and Jewish Grandmothers: Tales of Parasites and People– Robert S. Desowitz
  • If the Universe Is Teeming with Aliens … WHERE IS EVERYBODY?– Stephen Webb
  • Gobekli Tepe: Genesis of the Gods: The Temple of the Watchers and the Discovery of Eden– Andrew Collins
  • Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming– Stephen LaBerge and Howard Rheingold
  • Egyptomania: Our Three Thousand Year Obsession with the Land of the Pharaohs– Bob Brier
  • The Reformatory– Tananarive Due
  • The Possibilities– Yael Goldstein-Love

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Books to Read- August 2024

  • Shards of Honor – Lois McMaster Bujold
  • The Pope of Physics: Enrico Fermi and the Birth of the Atomic Age– Gino Segré and Bettina Hoerlin
  • The Old Magic of Christmas: Yuletide Traditions for the Darkest Days of the Year– Linda Raedisch
  • The Killing of the Unicorn: Dorothy Stratten, 1960-1980– Peter Bogdanovich
  • The Krampus and the Old, Dark Christmas: Roots and Rebirth of the Folkloric Devil– Al Ridenour and Sean Tejaratchi 
  • The Legend of Spring-Heeled Jack: Victorian Urban Folklore and Popular Cultures– Karl Bell
  • The Deepest and Oldest Lake on the Planet Pearl of Siberia – BAIKAL– Tatiana Ivanyushina
  • The Brimstone Deceit: An In-Depth Examination of Supernatural Scents, Otherworldly Odors, and Monstrous Miasmas– Joshua Cutchin
  • The Captain of the Polestar– Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
  • Stone Age Religion at Goebekli Tepe– Karl W Luckert

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Books to Read- July 2024

  • Winterfair Gifts – Lois McMaster Bujold
  • The Secret Lives Of Bats: My Adventures with the World’s Most Misunderstood Mammals– Merlin Tuttle
  • The Sense of Being Stared At: And Other Aspects of the Extended Mind– Rupert Sheldrake
  • The Video Game Debate– Rachel Kowert and Thorsten Quandt
  • Typhoid Mary: An Urban Historical– Anthony Bourdain
  • Blithe Spirits: An Imaginative History of the Poltergeist- S.D. Tucker
  • The Case for Reincarnation– Joe Fisher
  • The Siren Call of Hungry Ghosts: A Riveting Investigation Into Channeling and Spirit Guides– Joe Fisher
  • Fatal Storm: The 54th Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race– Rob Mundle
  • The Search for the Giant Squid: The Biology and Mythology of the World’s Most Elusive Sea Creature– Richard Ellis

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Books to Read- June 2024

  • The Girl with Ghost Eyes– M. H. Boroson
  • The Routledge Companion to Folk Horror– Robert Edgar & Wayne Johnson
  • The History of Knott’s Scary Farm– Ted Dougherty
  • Orchard of the Dead– Stefan Grainski
  • Can’t Spell Treason without Tea- Rebecca Thorne
  • Lovesickness – Junji Ito
  • Hidden and Visible Realms: Early Medieval Chinese Tales of the Supernatural and the Fantastic– Zhenjun Zhang
  • Abominable Science!: Origins of the Yeti, Nessie, and Other Famous Cryptids– Saniel Loxton and Donald R. Prothero
  • Washington Myths and Legends: The True Stories behind History’s Mysteries (Legends of the West)– Lynn Bragg
  • Black Eyed Children- David Weatherly

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Books to Read- May 2024

  • The Spirit Ring – Lois McMaster Bujold
  • Skyward – Brandon Sanderson
  • Odd Thomas – Dean Koontz
  • The Lord of Stariel – AJ Lancaster
  • Two Necromancers, a Bureaucrat, and an Army of Golems – L. G. Estrella
  • The Grand Hotel – Scott Kenemore
  • Occultation and Other Stories – Laird Barron
  • Travel by Bullet – John Scalzi
  • A Certain Hunger – Chelsea G Summers
  • Cetaganda – Lois McMaster Bujold

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Books to Read- April 2024

  • FantasticLand – Mike Bockoven
  • Homo Deus – Yuval Noah Harai
  • The Nazi Hunter – Alan Eisner
  • Borders of Infinity – Lois McMaster Bujold
  • Morgan is My Name– Sophi Keetch
  • In the House of Aryaman, a Lonely Signal Burns – Elizabeth Bear
  • Some of Your Blood – Theodore Sturgeon
  • Paperbacks from Hell – Grady Hendrix & Will Errickson
  • Arkham County – Guy Adams & AK Benedict
  • Man with No Name – Laird Barron

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