I have more books on my TBR (to be read) list than I can count β and itβs growing every day. Itβs hard to keep track of the books Iβm most excited to read β let alone actually find time to read them! But because I enjoy lost causes, Iβm going to try. These are the books (currently) next up on my TBR. It will change. Frequently.
Top of my TBR:
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- How To Tell When We Will Die β Johanna Hedva
- Permanent Astonishment β Tomson Highway
- ADHD for Smart Ass Women β Tracy Otsuka
- The Night in Question β Susan Fletcher
- The Murders in Great Diddling β Katarina Bivald
- The Ladyβs Handbook for Her Mysterious Illness β Sarah Ramey
- Matrescence β Lucy Jones
- Wandering Stars β Tommy Orange (which will necessitate a re-read of There There)
- Friends of Dorothy β Sandi Toksvig
- The Marriage Portrait β Maggie OβFarrell
- My Grandmother Sends Her Regards and Apologizes β Fredrik Backman
- Jane Against the World β Karen Blumenthal
- ADHD 2.0 β Edward M. Hallowell M.D., John J. Ratey M.D.
- Just Ignore Him β Alan Davies
- The Right to Sex β Amia Srinivasan
- ADHD: A Hunter in a Farmerβs World β Thom Hartmann, Michael Popkin
- The Message β Ta-Nehisi Coates
- Really Good, Actually β Monica Helsey
- After the Storm β Emma Jane Unsworth
- Divergent Mind β Jenara Nerenberg
- Iβll Just Be Five More Minutes β Emily Farris
- The Butterfly Isles β Patrick Barkham
- What My Bones Know β Stephanie Foo
- Sipsworth β Simon Van Booy
- Unwell Women β Elinor Cleghorn
- Ejaculate Responsibly β Gabrielle Stanley Blair
- Just Like You β Nick Hornby
- We Solve Murders β Richard Osman
- Youβll Grow Out of It β Jessi Klein
- Perimenopause Power β Maisie Hill
- The Wind Knows My Name β Isabel Allende
- How the Word Is Passed β Clint Smith
- Still Life β Josie George
- The Invisible Kingdom β Meghan OβRourke
- The Matter of Black Lives β The New Yorker
- Four Hundred Souls β Ibram X. Kendi
- Things That Helped β Jessica Friedmann
- Caste β Isabel Wilkerson
- I Love You But Iβve Chosen Darkness β Claire Vaye Watkins
- Diary of a Young Naturalist β Dara McAnulty
Some books that have been on my TBR for ages and that I still want to get to soonish:
- Shoot the Damn Dog β Sally Brampton
- A Place for Us β Fatima Farheen Mirza
- Mouth Full of Blood β Toni Morrison
- Iβm Telling the Truth But Iβm Lying β Bassey Ikpi
- Reasons To Be Cheerful β Nina Stibbe
- Winter, Spring and Summer β Ali Smith
- Twas the Night Shift Before Christmas β Adam Kay
- Washington Black β Esi Edugyan
- Romany and Tom β Ben Watt
- Another Planet β Tracey Thorn
- All Involved β Ryan Gattis
- Go Ahead In the Rain β Hanif Abdurraqib
- The Collected Schizophrenias β EsmΓ© Weijun Wang
- Voluntary Madness β Norah Vincent
- Christodora β Tim Murphy
- American Epidemic β John McMillian, ed.
- Heavy β Kiese Laymon
- Rife β Nikesh Shukla, ed.
- The Golden Rule β Amanda Craig
- We Begin at the End β Chris Whitaker
- Minor Feelings β Cathy Park Hong
- I Am Not Your Negro β James Baldwin and Raoul Peck
- Hood Feminism β Mikki Kendall
- The Souls of Yellow Folk β Wesley Yang
- Disability Visibility β Alice Wong, ed.
- The Undocumented Americans β Karla Cornejo Villavicencio
- The Reader on the 6.27 β Jean-Paul Didierlaurent
- The Readerβs Room β Antoine Lauraine
- The Inconvenient Indian β Thomas King
- Indians On Vacation β Thomas King
- The Wild Silence β Raynor Winn
- This Is How We Come Back Stronger β Feminist Book Society, ed.
- Funny Weather β Olivia Laing
- The Panic Years β Nell Frizzell
- Olive β Emma Gannon
- The Yellow House β Sarah M. Broom
- Ex Libris β Michiko Kakutani
- Letters on Motherhood β Giovanna Fletcher
- Dear Life β Rachel Clarke
- A Promised Land β Barack Obama
- All the Young Men β Ruth Coker Burks & Kevin Carr OβLeary
- Everybody β Olivia Laing
- The Prophets β Robert Jones, Jr.
- Pain and Prejudice β Gabrielle Jackson
- The Soul of a Woman β Isabel Allende
- The Stonewall Reader β New York Public Library
- The Office of Historical Corrections β Danielle Evans
- Rebellious Mourning β Cindy Milstein ed.
- The Removed β Brandon Hobson
- Why Indigenous Literatures Matter β Daniel Heath Justice
- Women of the Pandemic β Lauren McKeon
- We Still Here β Marc Lamont Hill
- They Canβt Kill Us All β Wesley Lowery
- Indigenous Relations β Bob Joseph
- Please Donβt Bomb the Suburbs β William Upski Wimsatt
- Things Are Good Now β Djamilla Ibrahim
- Until We Are Free β Rodney Diverlus, Sandy Hudson and Syrus Marcus Ware, eds.
- Policing Black Lives β Robyn Maynard
- The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee β David Treuer
- We Live for the We β Dani McClain
- Brown Baby β Nikesh Shukla
- Indigenous Writes β Chelsea Vowel
- Bunny β Mona Awad
- Brit(ish) β Afua Hirsch
- Night Witches β Bruce Myles
My list is just that: mine. Itβs highly subjective and changes constantly. But there are plenty of better (and more literary) reading lists out there that will help you find exactly the book(s) youβre looking for. Here are some of the best.