“There are always those who fail to earn their place in a story.”
—Mick Herron, The Secret Hours
January
1. Act of Treason, Vince Flynn
2. Going Infinite, Michael Lewis
3. The Survivor, Kyle Mills
4. Majority, Torth Book One, Abby Goldsmith
5. By It’s Cover, Donna Leon
6. Protect and Defend, Vince Flynn
7. Give Unto Others, Donna Leon
February
8. Bleak House, Charles Dickens
9. Death at La Fenice, Donna Leon
10. Colossus Rising, Abby Goldsmith
11. Uniform Justice, Donna Leon
12. The Women, Kristin Hannah
13. Transient Desires, Donna Leon
14. Absolution, Alice McDermott
15. A Book of Noises, Notes on the Auraculous, Caspar Henderson
16. Owning Up, George Pelecanos
17. Spy vs. Spy Omnibus, Antonio Prohias
March
18. Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf
19. Wandering Stars, Tommy Orange
20. The Hunter, Tana French
21. Three-Inch Teeth, C.J. Box
22. Pedro Páramo, Juan Rulfo
23. Headshot, Rita Bullwinkel
24. The Weather in Berlin, Ward Just
25. The Complete Steve Canyon, Vol. 6, 1957-1958, Milton Caniff
26. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain
April
27. James, Percival Everett
28. The Complete Steve Canyon, Vol. 7, 1959-1960, Milton Caniff
29. The Rejection Collection, Cartoons You Never Saw, and
Never Will See, in The New Yorker. Ed. Matthew Diffee
30. The General in His Labyrinth, Gabriel GarcÃa Márquez
31. The Complete Steve Canyon, Vol. 8, 1961-1962, Milton Caniff
32. Table for Two, Amor Towles
33. One of Ours, Willa Cather
34. City In Ruins, Don Winslow
35. The Complete Steve Canyon, Vol. 9, 1963-1964, Milton Caniff
36. After You’d Gone, Maggie O’Farrell
37. The Best and the Brightest, David Halberstam
38. Death Comes for the Archbishop, Willa Cather
39. The Lede, Dispatches From A Life in the Press, Calvin Trillin
May
40. Chasing Bright Medusas, A Life of Willa Cather, Benjamin Taylor
41. This Must Be The Place, Maggie O’Farrell
42. The Complete Steve Canyon, Vol. 10, 1965-1966, Milton Caniff
43. Sharpe’s Command, Bernard Cornwell
44. The Blues Brothers, An Epic Friendship, the Rise of Improv, and the
Making of an American Film Classic, Daniel De Visé
45. The Distance Between Us, Maggie O’Farrell
46. An Unfinished Love Story, A Personal History of the 1960s,
Doris Kearns Goodwin
47. The Complete Steve Canyon, Vol. 11, 1967-1968, Milton Caniff
48. World of Wreckage, Abby Goldsmith
June
49. You Like It Darker, Stephen King
50. Trace Elements, Donna Leon
51. Enemy of the State, Kyle Mills
52. The Complete Steve Canyon, Vol. 12, 1969-1970, Milton Caniff
53. One Perfect Couple, Ruth Ware
54. 3 Shades of Blue, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans, and the
Lost Empire of Cool, James Kaplan
55. Night Watch, Jayne Anne Phillips
56. Red War, Kyle Mills
57. Says Who? A Kinder, Funner Usage Guide for Everyone Who Cares
About Words, Anne Curzan
58. The Temptation of Forgiveness, Donna Leon
July
59. First Frost, Craig Johnson
60. Fire Exit, Morgan Talty
61. Don’t Let The Devil Ride, Ace Atkins
62. Willie, Waylon, and the Boys, Brian Fairbanks
63. Broiler, Eli Cranor
64. Farewell, Amethystine, Walter Mosley
65. A Refiner’s Fire, Donna Leon
66. The Third Option, Vince Flynn
August
67. Difficult Loves, Italo Calvino
68. I’m Afraid You’ve Got Dragons, Peter S. Beagle
69. Braiding Sweetgrass, Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge,
and the Teachings of Plants, Robin Wall Kimerer
70. Warlock, Jim Harrison
71. There Was Nothing You Could Do, Bruce Springteen’s “Born In The U.S.A.”
and the End of the Heartland, Steven Hyden
72. Worst Case Scenario, T.J. Newman
73. Blind to Midnight, Reed Farrel Coleman
74. Keeper, Greg Rucka
75. The Bookshop, A History of the American Bookstore, Evan Friss
76. Widows, Ed McBain
77. Hush Money, Robert B. Parker
September
78. The Shining, Stephen King
79. The Times, How the Newspaper of Record Survived Scandal, Scorn,
and the Transformation of Journalism. Adam Nagourney
80. Dressed for Death, Donna Leon
81. The Secret Hours, Mick Herron
82. Death at the Sign of the Rook, Kate Atkinson
83. Tell Me Everything, Elizabeth Strout
84. Capture or Kill, Vince Flynn
85. Death and Judgment, Donna Leon
October
86. Creation Lake, Rachel Kushner
87. The Black Loch, Peter May
88. The Mythmakers, The Remarkable Fellowship of
C.S. Lewis & J.R.R. Tolkien, John Hendrix
89. The Siege, Ben Macintyre
90. The Stand, Stephen King
91. The Mighty Red, Louise Erdrich
November
92. The Waiting, Michael Connelly
93. In Too Deep, Lee Child & Andrew Child
94. Midnight and Blue, Ian Rankin
95. Perchance to Dream, Charles Beaumont
96. Playground, Richard Powers
97. Where They Last Saw Her, Marcie R. Rendon
98. The Lazarus Man, Richard Price
99. The Best of Richard Matheson, Richard Matheson
December
100. The Blue Hour, Paula Hawkins
101. Paper of Wreckage, An Oral History of the New York Post, 1976-2024,
Susan Mulcahy & Frank DiGiacomo
102. Safe Enough, Lee Child
103. In A Lonely Place, Dorothy B. Hughes
104. The Power Broker, Robert Moses and the Fall of New York, Robert A. Caro
105. The Rest is Memory, Lily Tuck
106. Tooth and Claw, Craig Johnson
107. Hippie Inc., Michael Klassen
108. Alter Ego, Alex Segura
109. The Trial, Franz Kafka
