Books I adore

Fiction

  • To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

  • The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien

  • Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery

  • The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame

  • Dracula by Bram Stoker

  • What You Are Looking For Is in the Library by Michiko Aoyama

  • By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept by Paolo Coehlo

  • Anything by Agatha Christie

  • Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto

  • Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson

  • Airframe by Michael Crichton

  • Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne

  • The Hen Who Dreamed She Could Fly by Sun-Mi Hwang

  • Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby van Pelt

  • The Book of Polly by

    Kathy Hepinstall

  • How to Order the Universe by María José Ferrada

  • Rabbit Cake by Annie Hartnett

  • The Sunday Philosophy Club by Alexander McCall Smith

  • Rococo by Adriana Trigiani

  • Newcomer by Keigo Higashino

We read to know we’re not alone. We read because we are alone. We read and we are not alone. We are not alone.

Gabrielle Zevin
The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry

Graphic Novels, Comic Series & Manga

  • The Wicked + The Divine by Kieron Gillen, Jamie McKelvie

  • Saga by Brian K. Vaughan, Fiona Staples

  • The Many Deaths of Laila Starr by Ram V and Filipe Andrade

  • Portugal by Cyril Pedrosa

  • Princess Jellyfish by Akiko Higashimura

  • I sold my life for ten thousand yen per year by Sugaru Miaki

  • The Sandman by Neil Gaiman

  • Cells at Work! by Akane Shimizu

  • Mamo by Sas Milledge

  • The Nice House on the Lake by James Tynion IV, Alvaro Martinez Bueno, Jordie Bellaire

  • Deadly Class by Rick Remender

  • Paper Girls by Brian K Vaughan, Cliff Chiang, Jared K. Fletcher, Matthew Wilson

Non-Fiction

  • Stolen Focus by Johann Hari

  • Dopamine Nation by Dr. Anna Lembke

  • The Splendid and the Vile by Erik Larsen

  • Quiet by Susan Cain

  • The Person You Mean to Be by Dolly Chugh

  • Cyclettes by Tree Abraham

  • The Soul of an Octopus by Sy Montgomery

  • Technically Wrong by Sara Wachter-Boettcher

  • The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie Kondo

  • The Reason I Jump by Naoki Higashida

  • Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals by Oliver Burkeman

  • The Nudist on the Late Shift: And Other True Tales of Silicon Valley by Po Bronson