† Review coming soon!
North America
Canada
Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery
Child of a hidden sea by A.M. Dellamonica
The fangirl’s guide to the galaxy by Sam Maggs
The handmaid’s tale by Margaret Atwood
The shipping news by Annie Proulx †
100 million years of food: What our ancestors ate and why it matters today by Stephen Le
Caribbean
Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
United States
New England
Maine
Riptide by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child
Wizard’s first rule by Terry Goodkind
Massachusetts
The bell jar by Sylvia Plath
The chocolate war by Robert Cormier †
Dragonflight by Anne McCaffrey
The food lab: Better home cooking through science by J. Kenji López-Alt
The house of mirth by Edith Wharton
How the Grinch stole Christmas by Dr. Seuss
Rhode Island
The call of Cthulhu by H.P. Lovecraft †
Cooking for geeks: Real science, great hacks, and good food by Jeff Potter
The girls who went away by Ann Fessler
Rising: Dispatches from the new American shore by Elizabeth Rush
The yellow wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Mid-Atlantic
Washington, D.C.
Cool beans by Joe Yonan
Maryland
The hunt for Red October by Tom Clancy
The postman always rings twice by James M. Cain
A scientific revolution: Ten men and women who reinvented American medicine by Ralph H. Hruban and William Linder
The sea around us by Rachel Carson
Pennsylvania
Healing a divided nation: How the American Civil War revolutionized Western medicine by Carole Adrienne
Manufacturing consent by Noam Chomsky and Edward S. Herman
Ten days in a mad-house by Nellie Bly
100 flowers and how they got their names by Diana Wells
New Jersey
Allergic: Our irritated bodies in a changing world by Theresa MacPhail
New York
All four stars by Tara Dairman
Appetites by Anthony Bourdain
The astronaut wives club by Lily Koppel
Better than beauty: A guide to charm by Helen Valentine and Alice Thompson
Cherry bombe: The cookbook ed. by Kerry Diamond and Claudia Wu
The classic ten: The true story of the little black dress and nine other fashion favorites by Nancy MacDonnell Smith
Color stories: Behind the scenes of America’s billion-dollar beauty industry by Mary Lisa Gavenas
A contract with God and other tenement stories by Will Eisner †
Deep blue by Jennifer Donnelly
The diviners by Libba Bray
Foundation by Isaac Asimov
From silk to silicon: The story of globalization through ten extraordinary lives by Jeffrey E. Garten
Good drinks: Alcohol-free recipes for when you’re not drinking for whatever reason by Julia Bainbridge
The guns of August by Barbara Tuchman †
Headstrong: 52 women who changed science — and the world by Rachel Swaby
His majesty’s dragon; League of dragons by Naomi Novik
Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton †
The legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving
The life and adventures of Santa Claus by L. Frank Baum
Moby Dick by Herman Melville
The only woman in the room: Why science is still a boys’ club by Eileen Pollack
The personality of the cat and The personality of the dog ed. by Brandt Aymar †
Proof of forever by Lexa Hillyer
Relic by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child
Relish: My life in the kitchen by Lucy Knisley
Rosemary’s baby by Ira Levin
The Smitten Kitchen cookbook by Deb Perelman
This is what you just put in your mouth: From eggnog to beef jerky, the surprising secrets of what’s inside everyday products by Patrick Di Justo
A tree grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith †
Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller
The walls around us by Nova Ren Suma
The word exchange by Alena Graedon
Midwest
Illinois
The birth of the pill: How four crusaders reinvented sex and launched a revolution by Jonathan Eig
Crocodile on the sandbank by Elizabeth Peters
The emergency: A year of healing and heartbreak in a Chicago ER by Thomas Fisher
Feminist cross-stitch by Stephanie Rohr †
Your inner fish: A journey into the 3.5-billion-year history of the human body by Neil Shubin
Indiana
All the bright places by Jennifer Niven
Slaughterhouse-five by Kurt Vonnegut
We are what we pretend to be by Kurt Vonnegut
Ohio
Ready player one by Ernest Cline
Michigan
Galileo’s middle finger: Heretics, activists, and the search for justice in science by Alice Dreger
What the eyes don’t see: A story of crisis, resistance, and hope in an American city by Mona Hanna-Attisha
Minnesota
The Betty Crocker cookbook by the General Mills Betty Crocker Kitchens
Locally laid: How we built a plucky industry-changing egg farm — from scratch by Lucie B. Amundsen
Wonder at the edge of the world by Nicole Helget
Missouri
The book that changed America: How Darwin’s theory of evolution ignited a nation by Randall Fuller
South
Alabama
Naturalist by Edward O. Wilson
Up from slavery by Booker T. Washington
Arkansas
Bury my heart at wounded knee by Dee Brown
Gentlemen prefer blondes by Anita Loos
I know why the caged bird sings by Maya Angelou †
Louisiana
The awakening by Kate Chopin
Empire of sin: A story of sex, jazz, murder, and the battle for modern New Orleans by Gary Krist
Mississippi
Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner †
Florida
Ancestor trouble: A reckoning and a reconciliation by Maud Newton
The devil you know by Trish Doller
A hastiness of cooks by Cynthia D. Bertelsen
Their eyes were watching God by Zora Neale Hurston †
Georgia
The color purple by Alice Walker
Gone with the wind by Margaret Mitchell
Pip Bartlett’s guide to magical creatures by Jackson Pearce and Maggie Stiefvater
North Carolina
Incidents in the life of a slave girl by Harriet Jacobs †
My true love gave to me by Stephanie Perkins et al.
Summer days and summer nights by Stephanie Perkins et al.
Virginia
Founding brothers: The revolutionary generation by Joseph J. Ellis
Hidden figures: The American dream and the untold story of the black women mathematicians who helped win the Space Race by Margot Lee Shetterly
Kentucky
The birds of America by John James Audubon †
Seraphina by Rachel Hartman
West
California
Bonk: The curious coupling of science and sex by Mary Roach
The circle by Dave Eggers
The cookbook library: Four centuries of the cooks, writers, and recipes that made the modern cookbook by Anne Willan and Mark Cherniavsky
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
Freeman by Leonard Pitts, Jr.
The girl of fire and thorns; The crown of embers: The bitter kingdom by Rae Carson
Kindred by Octavia Butler
The Maltese falcon by Dashiell Hammett
The Martian chronicles by Ray Bradbury
A natural history of dragons by Marie Brennan
The next species: The future of evolution in the aftermath of Man by Michael Tennesen
Things we know by heart by Jessi Kirby
Ubik by Philip K. Dick †
Under a painted sky by Stacey Lee
Vegetarian cooking for everyone by Deborah Madison
Walk on Earth a stranger by Rae Carson
We are pirates by Daniel Handler
A wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin
Oregon
All we have is now by Lisa Schroeder
Washington
The egg and I by Betty MacDonald
The game of love and death by Martha Brockenbrough
The meaning of flowers by Gretchen Scoble and Ann Field
Wine folly by Madeline Puckette and Justin Hammack
Wyoming
Letters of a woman homesteader by Elinore Pruitt Stewart
Nevada
The monkey’s voyage: How improbable journeys shaped the history of life by Alan de Queiroz
Utah
Elantris by Brandon Sanderson
Illusionarium by Heather Dixon
Mistborn; The well of ascension; The hero of ages by Brandon Sanderson
The rithmatist by Brandon Sanderson
Warbreaker by Brandon Sanderson
New Mexico
The dinosaur lords by Victor Milán
Texas
The big Texas cookbook by the ed. of Texas Monthly
The burning sky; The perilous sea; The immortal heights by Sherry Thomas
The fishermen and the dragon: Fear, greed, and a fight for justice on the Gulf Coast by Kirk Wallace Johnson
Going bovine by Libba Bray
The good old boys by Elmer Kelton
Houston cooks ed. by Francine Spiering
Indian-ish: Recipes and antics from a modern American family by Priya Krishna
Lone star legend by Gwendolyn Zepeda
Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
Popular: Vintage wisdom for a modern geek by Maya Van Wagenen
The road to Dr Pepper, Texas: The story of Dublin Dr Pepper by Karen Wright
The season by Jonah Lisa and Stephen Dyer
The six: The untold story of America’s first women astronauts by Loren Grush
Splintered by A.G. Howard
Wildlife of the Concho Valley by Terry Maxwell
Native American
Pueblo
Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko
Britain and Ireland
Ireland
Fairy and folk tales of the Irish peasantry by W.B. Yeats
The life and opinions of Tristram Shandy, gentleman by Laurence Sterne
The picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
Scotland
Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson †
Wales
How green was my valley by Richard Llewellyn
The owl service by Alan Garner †
Under Milk Wood by Dylan Thomas
England
North
Cheshire
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by Anonymous, transl. by Simon Armitage
Manchester
North and south by Elizabeth Gaskell
Yorkshire
Alice’s adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
All creatures great and small by James Herriot
The invention of science: The Scientific Revolution from 1500 to 1750 by David Wootton
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
Midlands
West Midlands
The book: A cover-to-cover exploration of the most powerful object of our time by Keith Houston
The lord of the rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
Warwickshire
Shakespeare’s sonnets by William Shakespeare †
Nottinghamshire
The merry adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle
East Anglia
Norfolk
Black Beauty by Anna Sewell
The golden compass by Philip Pullman †
Cambridgeshire
The double helix: A personal account of the discovery of the structure of DNA by James D. Watson
The once and future king by T.H. White
South
Cornwall
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
Devon
And then there were none by Agatha Christie †
Dorset
Reason for hope: A spiritual journey by Jane Goodall
Tess of the d’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
Somerset
Lorna Doone by R.D. Blackmore
The rime of the ancient mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge †
Wiltshire
The Eyre affair by Jasper Fforde
Sperm wars: Infidelity, sexual conflict, and other bedroom battles by Robin Baker
Hampshire
Watership Down by Richard Adams
Berkshire
The story of Doctor Dolittle by Hugh Lofting
Oxford
Consider the fork: A history of how we cook and eat by Bee Wilson
The greatest show on Earth by Richard Dawkins
The seven daughters of Eve: The science that reveals our genetic ancestry by Bryan Sykes
The wood beyond the world by William Morris
Kent
Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin
London
The adventures and memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
Animal farm by George Orwell
Chocolate wars: The 150-year rivalry between the world’s greatest chocolate makers by Deborah Cadbury
A darker shade of magic by V.E. Schwab
The enchanted castle by E. Nesbit
The hitchhiker’s guide to the galaxy by Douglas Adams
Old Possum’s book of practical cats by T.S. Eliot
Soulless; Changeless; Blameless; Heartless; Timeless by Gail Carriger
The time machine by H.G. Wells
The turn of the screw by Henry James †
The wives of Henry VIII by Antonia Fraser
Europe
North Europe
Denmark
The little mermaid by Hans Christian Andersen
West Europe
France
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
French lessons: Adventures with a knife, fork, and corkscrew by Peter Mayle
The hunchback of Notre-Dame by Victor Hugo †
A moveable feast by Ernest Hemingway
Le petit prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
The three musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
A year in Provence by Peter Mayle
Germany
The book jumper by Mechthild Gläser
The complete Brothers Grimm fairy tales by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
The rise and fall of the Third Reich by William L. Shirer
Rose under fire by Elizabeth Wein
Austria
Man’s search for meaning by Viktor E. Frankl
East Europe
Russia
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Blood red, snow white by Marcus Sedgwick
The Romanovs: 1613–1918 by Simon Sebag Montefiore
Romania
Night by Elie Wiesel
Mediterranean
Spain
The barefoot queen by Ildefonso Falcones
Africa
East Africa
Kenya
West with the night by Beryl Markham
Tanzania
In the shadow of Man by Jane Goodall
Asia
West Asia
Iran and Historical Persia
The blind owl by Sadegh Hedayat †
East Asia
China
Boxers; Saints by Gene Luen Yang
The good earth by Pearl S. Buck
South Asia
India
The jungle book by Rudyard Kipling
The story of my experiments with truth by Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi †
Oceania
Australasia
Australia
Clariel by Garth Nix
Polynesia
Hawaii
Hawaii’s story by Hawaii’s queen by Lili’uokalani †