2026

The Future of Life

Edward O. Wilson

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The Witch
Ronald Hutton

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The Label Machine
Nick Sadler

Rating: 4 out of 5.

Briefly, A Delicious Life
Nell Stevens

Rating: 4 out of 5.

Boy Parts
Eliza Clark

Rating: 2.5 out of 5.

Near to the Wild Heart
Clarice Lispector

Rating: 2.5 out of 5.

The Premonition

Banana Yoshimoto

Rating: 3.5 out of 5.

Project Hail Mary
Andy Weir

Rating: 5 out of 5.

A Lover’s Discourse
Xiaolu Guo

Rating: 4.5 out of 5.

rest and be thankful
Emma Glass

Rating: 5 out of 5.

East of Eden

John Steinbeck

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The Speed of Sound
Thomas Dolby

Rating: 4.5 out of 5.

Physics and Philosophy
Werner Helsenberg

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Wuthering Heights
Emily Bronte

Rating: 5 out of 5.

Hex
Rebecca Dinerstein Knight

Rating: 3.5 out of 5.

My Own Words
Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Rating: 5 out of 5.

Bread of Angels
Patti Smith

Rating: 5 out of 5.

The Waves

Virginia Woolf

Rating: 4 out of 5.

Night People
Mark Ronson

Rating: 2 out of 5.

A History of Masculinity
Ivan Jablonka

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Near to The Wild Heard

Clarise Lispector

Rating: 3.5 out of 5.

2025

Ninth House
Leigh Bardugo

Rating: 4 out of 5.

The Creative Act: A Way of Being
Rick Rubin

Rating: 5 out of 5.

Hell Bent

Leigh Bardugo

Rating: 3 out of 5.

The Vegetarian
Han Kang

Rating: 2 out of 5.

Wednesday’s Child
Yiyun Li

Rating: 3 out of 5.

Letters from an Astrophysicist
Neil deGrasse Tyson

Rating: 5 out of 5.

Small Worlds
Caleb Azumah Nelson

Rating: 5 out of 5.

Almond
Won-Pyung Sohn

Rating: 3 out of 5.

Sunrise on the Reaping
Suzanne Collins

Rating: 4.5 out of 5.

The Mountain in The Sea
Ray Nayler

Rating: 5 out of 5.

The Full Moon Coffee Shop
Mai Mochizuri

Rating: 3 out of 5.

The Myth of Normal
Gabor Mate

Rating: 5 out of 5.

A Body Made of Glass
Caroline Crampton

Rating: 5 out of 5.

Marianne Faithfull: As Years Go By
Mark Hodkinson

Rating: 4.5 out of 5.

August Blue
Deborah Levy

Rating: 5 out of 5.

Six of Crows
Leigh Bardugo

Rating: 3 out of 5.

NW
Zadie Smith

Rating: 4 out of 5.

Crooked Kingdom
Leigh Bardugo

Rating: 3 out of 5.

2024

Finding Me
Viola Davis

Rating: 5 out of 5.

Quantum Physics and Life
Ingemar Ernberg et al.

Rating: 5 out of 5.

Cleopatra and Frankenstein
Coco Mellors

Rating: 4.5 out of 5.

The Hour of The Star
Clarice Lispector

Rating: 2.5 out of 5.

Post-traumatic
Chantal V. Johnson

Rating: 4 out of 5.

1Q84
Haruki Murakami

Rating: 3 out of 5.

Babel
R. F. Kuang

Rating: 3.5 out of 5.

Tangerine
Christine Mangan

Rating: 1 out of 5.

Bringing Value to Healthcare
Rita E. Numerof, Michael N. Abrams

Rating: 2.5 out of 5.

The Planets
Andrew Cohen

Rating: 5 out of 5.

Legal Writing in Plain English
Bryan A. Garner

Rating: 5 out of 5.

Blue Sisters
Coco Mellors

Rating: 4 out of 5.

Yellowface
Rebecca F. Kuang

Rating: 5 out of 5.

Hooked: How To Build Habit-Forming Products
Nir Eyal

Rating: 3 out of 5.

The Time of Cherries
Monntserrat Roig

Rating: 2 out of 5.

Cut & Thirst
Margaret Atwood

Rating: 1 out of 5.

Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed For Men
Caroline Criado Perez

Rating: 4.5 out of 5.

Intermezzo

Sally Rooney

Rating: 1 out of 5.

Measure What Matters
John Doerr

Rating: 4 out of 5.

Net Positive
Paul Polman, Andrew Winston

Rating: 5 out of 5.

The Years
Annie Ernaux

Rating: 5 out of 5.

Blue Ticket
Sophie Mackintosh

Rating: 1 out of 5.

A Girl’s Story
Annie Ernaux

Rating: 3 out of 5.

The Lost Bookshop
Evie Woods

Rating: 2.5 out of 5.

2023

Dandelions
Thea Lenarduzzi

Rating: 5 out of 5.

Flappers and Philosophers
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Rating: 4 out of 5.

Dark Matter
Dr James Kinross

Rating: 5 out of 5.

The Written World and the Unwritten World
Italo Calvino

Rating: 5 out of 5.

The Lincoln Highway
Amor Towles

Rating: 2 out of 5.

The Telomere Effect
Elizabeth Blackburn, Elissa Epel

Rating: 3 out of 5.

Spare Parts
Paul Craddock

Rating: 3 out of 5.

A Book of Days
Patti Smith

Rating: 4.5 out of 5.

Daisy Jones & The Six
Taylor Jenkins Reid

Rating: 4.5 out of 5.

What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
Raymond Carver

Rating: 2.5 out of 5.

Lessons In Chemistry
Bonnie Garmus

Rating: 5 out of 5.

How Did We Get Into This Mess?
George Monbiot

Rating: 5 out of 5.

Glucose Revolution
Jessie Inchauspe

Rating: 4.5 out of 5.

The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes
Suzanne Collins

Rating: 4.5 out of 5.

I Who Have Never Known Men
Jacqueline Harpman

Rating: 3 out of 5.

Travelling While Black
Nanjala Nyabola

Rating: 5 out of 5.

The Penelopiad
Margaret Atwood

Rating: 3 out of 5.

The Age of AI and Our Human Future
Daniel Huttenlocher, Eric Schmidt, Henry Kissinger

Rating: 1 out of 5.

The Anatomy of Grief
Dorothy P. Hollinger

Rating: 5 out of 5.

Galatea
Madeline Miller

Rating: 2.5 out of 5.

Pranešėjas ir Prezidentas
Birutė Davidonytė, Dovydas Pancerovas

Rating: 3.5 out of 5.

This is Your Brain on Music
Daniel Levitin

Rating: 5 out of 5.

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
Taylor Jenkins Reid

Rating: 3 out of 5.

Stitched Up: Stories of Life and Death From A Prison Doctor
Dr Shahed Yousaf

Rating: 5 out of 5.

Spoon-Fed
Tim Spector

Rating: 5 out of 5.

Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
Gabrielle Zevin

Rating: 3 out of 5.

Belly Woman: Birth, Blood & Ebola: The Untold Story
Benjamin Black

Rating: 5 out of 5.

2022

A Little Life
Hanya Yanagihara

Rating: 5 out of 5.

My Dark Vanessa
Kate Elizabeth Russell

Rating: 3 out of 5.

Hunger
Roxane Gay

Rating: 5 out of 5.

Beautiful World Where are You
Sally Rooney

Rating: 2.5 out of 5.

Blue Mind
Wallace J. Nichols

Rating: 4 out of 5.

Losing Eden
Lucy Jones

Rating: 5 out of 5.

In The Pines
Paul Scraton

Rating: 3 out of 5.

A Moth to A Flame
Stig Dagerman

Rating: 2 out of 5.

The White Book
Han Kang

Rating: 3 out of 5.

The Witches of New York
Ami McKay

Rating: 4 out of 5.

Ornament and Silence: Essays on Women’s Lives
Kennedy Fraser

Rating: 5 out of 5.

Where The Crawdads Sing
Delia Owens

Rating: 4 out of 5.

Verity
Colleen Hoover

Rating: 2 out of 5.

Animal
Lisa Taddeo

Rating: 4 out of 5.

Upstream
Mary Oliver

Rating: 5 out of 5.

Violet Bent Backwards over the Grassc
Lana Del Rey

Rating: 2 out of 5.

Collages
Anaïs Nin

Rating: 5 out of 5.

Her Body and Other Parties

Carmen Maria Machado

Rating: 2 out of 5.

Queenie
Candice Carty – Williams

Rating: 2 out of 5.

I Am A Girl From Africa
Elizabeth Nyamayaro

Rating: 5 out of 5.

Luster
Raven Leilani

Rating: 3 out of 5.

Sex Matters: How Male-Centric Medicine Endangers Women’s Health
Alyson J. McGregor, MD

Rating: 4 out of 5.

Open Water
Caleb Azumah Nelson

Rating: 5 out of 5.

Bad Science
Ben Goldacre

Rating: 4.5 out of 5.

Strange Weather in Tokyo
Hiromi Kawakami

Rating: 2 out of 5.

The Maidens
Alex Michaelides

Rating: 3 out of 5.

Seven Brief Lessons on Physics

Carlo Rovelli

Rating: 5 out of 5.

Ariadne

Jennifer Saint

Rating: 4 out of 5.

Time is a Mother
Ocean Vuong

Rating: 1 out of 5.

Girl, Interrupted
Susanna Kaysen

Rating: 3 out of 5.

Smoke Gets in Your Eyes
Caitlin Doughty

Rating: 5 out of 5.

The Sun and Her Flowers

Rupi Kaur

Rating: 1 out of 5.

Water and Dreams
Gaston Bachelard

Rating: 5 out of 5.

Greenlights
Matthew McConaughey

Rating: 5 out of 5.

Essays (Lithuanian edition)
Albert Camus

Rating: 5 out of 5.

Simple Passion
Annie Ernaux

Rating: 1.5 out of 5.

My Body
Emily Ratajkowski

Rating: 5 out of 5.

Rules of Civility
Amor Towles

Rating: 5 out of 5.

Delivering Happiness
Tony Hsieh

Rating: 5 out of 5.

History’s Eminent Surgoens
Dr Chris de Gara

Rating: 4.5 out of 5.

The Midnight Library
Matt Haig

Rating: 4.5 out of 5.

The Coral Sea
Patti Smith

Rating: 4 out of 5.

To Kill a Kingdom
Alexandra Christo

Rating: 2 out of 5.

Murder on the Orient Express
Agatha Christie

Rating: 4.5 out of 5.

Virtuoso
Yelena Moskovich

Rating: 1 out of 5.

War Doctor

David Nott

Rating: 5 out of 5.

Unnatural Causes
Dr Richard Shepherd

Rating: 5 out of 5.

Cold Enough For Snow
Jessica Au

Rating: 4 out of 5.

The Starless Sea
Erin Morgenstern

Rating: 5 out of 5.

The Body Keeps the Score
Bessel van der Kolk

Rating: 5 out of 5.

Unaccountable
Marty Makary, M.D.

Rating: 5 out of 5.

Lean in
Sheryl Sandberg

Rating: 4.5 out of 5.

Nine Pints
Rose George

Rating: 4.5 out of 5.

I Would Leave Me If I Could

Halsey

Rating: 3.5 out of 5.

What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
Dr Tony Bleetman

Rating: 4 out of 5.

Difficult Loves
Italo Calvino

Rating: 3 out of 5.

Cured
Dr Jeff Rediger

Rating: 5 out of 5.

2021

The Annotated Lolita
Vladimir Nabokov

Rating: 3 out of 5.

The End of Loneliness
Benedict Wells

Rating: 2 out of 5.

Last Comes the Raven
Italo Calvino

Rating: 3 out of 5.

M Train
Patti Smith

Rating: 5 out of 5.

Mums reikia vado?
Mazvydas Jastramskis

Rating: 3.5 out of 5.

For Esmé with Love and Squalor
J. D. Salinger

Rating: 2.5 out of 5.

The Song of Achilles
Madeline Miller

Rating: 2.5 out of 5.

Music by the Numbers
Eli Maor

Rating: 5 out of 5.

In the Shadow of Wolves
Alvydas Šlepikas

Rating: 5 out of 5.

Between Shades of Gray
Ruta Sepetys

Rating: 3.5 out of 5.

Winter Trees
Sylvia Plath

Rating: 2 out of 5.

Circe
Madeline Miller

Rating: 3 out of 5.

Understanding a Photograph
John Berger

Rating: 2 out of 5.

Middlegame
Seanan McGuire

Rating: 5 out of 5.

Becoming
Michelle Obama

Rating: 5 out of 5.

Caste
Isabel Wilkerson

Rating: 5 out of 5.

Exhalation
Ted Chiang

Rating: 4.5 out of 5.

The Penguin Book of Mermaids
Cristina Bacchilega, Marie Alohalani Brown

Rating: 5 out of 5.

The Art of Gathering
Priya Parker

Rating: 3.5 out of 5.

The Snow Child
Eowyn Ivey

Rating: 2.5 out of 5.

The Winter of Our Discontent
John Steinbeck

Rating: 3.5 out of 5.

The Prophet
Kahlil Gibran

Rating: 4 out of 5.

The Beauty Myth
Naomi Wolf

Rating: 5 out of 5.

Piranesi
Susanna Clarke

Rating: 3.5 out of 5.

Not Without My Ghost
Susan Aberth, Simon Grant, Lars Bang Larsen

Rating: 4 out of 5.

The Collected Schizophrenias
Esmé Weijun Wang

Rating: 4 out of 5.

The Sea Close By
Albert Camus

Rating: 5 out of 5.

Stories of the Law and How It’s Broken
The Secret Barrister

Rating: 5 out of 5.

When We Cease to Understand the World
Benjamín Labatut

Rating: 4.5 out of 5.

The Hidden Life of Trees
Peter Wohlleben

Rating: 4 out of 5.

If Cats Disappeared From The World
Genji Kawamura

Rating: 4 out of 5.

Never Let Me Go
Kazuo Ishiguro

Rating: 2 out of 5.

Outline
Rachel Cusk

Rating: 2 out of 5.

The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
Carson McCullers

Rating: 2 out of 5.

We Were Liars
Emily Lockhart

Rating: 3.5 out of 5.

Pareigos Kurios Nesibaigia
Valdas Adamkus

Rating: 5 out of 5.

Lost Japan
Alex Kerr

Rating: 4 out of 5.

Why We’re Polarized
Ezra Klein

Rating: 3 out of 5.

Men Without Women
Ernest Hemingway

Rating: 2 out of 5.

The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Milan Kundera

Rating: 3 out of 5.

The Master and Margarita
Mikhail Bulgakov

Rating: 4 out of 5.

Pine
Francine Toon

Rating: 1 out of 5.

Why We Sleep
Matthew Walker

Rating: 5 out of 5.

Intimations
Zadie Smith

Rating: 5 out of 5.

Christodora

Tim Murphy

Rating: 3 out of 5.

Beneath the Night
Stuart Clark

Rating: 4 out of 5.

First Person Singular
Haruki Murakami

Rating: 3 out of 5.

A Short History of Russia
Mark Galeotti

Rating: 3 out of 5.

The Third Plate
Dan Barber

Rating: 5 out of 5.

A Promised Land
President Barack Obama

Rating: 5 out of 5.

Year of The Monkey
Patti Smith

Rating: 2 out of 5.

Six Memos for the Next Millennium
Italo Calvino

Rating: 5 out of 5.

Film For Her
Orion Carloto

Rating: 5 out of 5.

Enchantment: The Life of Audrey Hepburn
Donald Spoto

Rating: 3 out of 5.

Consent: A Memoir
Vanessa Springora

Rating: 4 out of 5.

The Weight of the Earth – The Tape Journals of David Wojnarowicz
David Wojnarowicz

Rating: 2.5 out of 5.

Down and Out in Paris and London
George Orwell

Rating: 4 out of 5.

Not That Bad
Roxane Gay

Rating: 5 out of 5.

A Place for Us
Fatima Farheen Mirza

Rating: 5 out of 5.

Siddhartha
Hermann Hesse

Rating: 3 out of 5.

`Conversations With Friends
Sally Rooney

Rating: 4.5 out of 5.

Numbers In The Dark
Italo Calvino

Rating: 4 out of 5.

Animal Farm: A Fairy Story
George Orwell

Rating: 5 out of 5.

Stoner
John Williams

Rating: 3 out of 5.

Normal People
Sally Rooney

Rating: 5 out of 5.

The Death of Vivek Oji
Akwaeke Emezi

Rating: 5 out of 5.

2020

The Uninhabitable Earth
David Wallace-Wells

Rating: 5 out of 5.

The Mind-Gut Connection
Emeran Mayer

Rating: 4 out of 5.

Thinking, Fast and Slow
Daniel Kahneman

Rating: 4 out of 5.

The Complete Cosmicomics
Italo Calvino

Rating: 4 out of 5.

Between The World and Me
Ta-Nehisi Coates

Rating: 4 out of 5.

Silent Spring
Rachel Carson

Rating: 5 out of 5.

Just Kids
Patti Smith

Rating: 5 out of 5.

If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler
Italo Calvino

Rating: 4 out of 5.

Americanah
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Rating: 3.5 out of 5.

In Praise of Shadows
Junichiro Tanizaki

Rating: 5 out of 5.

Season of Migration to the North
Tayeb Salih

Rating: 4 out of 5.

Los Angeles Stories
Ry Cooder

Rating: 2 out of 5.

Romance or The End
Elaine Kahn

Rating: 1 out of 5.

Why Read the Classics?
Italo Calvino

Rating: 5 out of 5.

Wind, Sand and Stars
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Rating: 5 out of 5.

The Art of the Novel
Milan Kundera

Rating: 3.5 out of 5.

Out of Africa
Karen Blixen

Rating: 4 out of 5.

Under the Jaguar Sun
Italo Calvino

Rating: 4.5 out of 5.

Women, Race & Class
Angela Y. Davis

Rating: 5 out of 5.

Collection of Sand
Italo Calvino

Rating: 5 out of 5.

Moon Tiger
Penelope Lively

Rating: 3.5 out of 5.

Answered Prayers
Truman Capote

Rating: 4 out of 5.

Absolutely On Music
Haruki Murakami, Seiji Ozawa

Rating: 5 out of 5.

Silva Rerum
Kristina Sabaliauskaite

Rating: 3 out of 5.

Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine
Gail Honeyman

Rating: 3 out of 5.

On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous
Ocean Vuong

Rating: 4.5 out of 5.

Invisible Cities
Italo Calvino

Rating: 5 out of 5.

An Elegant Spirit
Sean Hepburn Ferrer

Rating: 5 out of 5.

But What If We’re Wrong?
Chuck Klosterman

Rating: 2.5 out of 5.

A Gentleman in Moscow
Amor Towles

Rating: 4.5 out of 5.

Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race
Reni Eddo-Lodge

Rating: 4.5 out of 5.

The Little Prince
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Rating: 5 out of 5.

Little Book of Audrey Hepburn
Caroline Jones

Rating: 3 out of 5.

Three Women
Lisa Taddeo

Rating: 3.5 out of 5.

Forgotten Women: The Leaders
Zing Tsjeng

Rating: 3 out of 5.

Garcon Style
Jonathan Daniel Pryce

Rating: 5 out of 5.

101 Essays
Brianna Wiest

Rating: 2.5 out of 5.

Girl, Woman, Other
Bernardine Evaristo

Rating: 3 out of 5.

Blue Nights
Joan Didion

Rating: 4.5 out of 5.

Drive
Daniel H. Pink

Rating: 3 out of 5.

The Rebel
Albert Camus

Rating: 5 out of 5.

Other Voices, Other Rooms
Truman Capote

Rating: 1 out of 5.

A Month in Siena
Hisham Matar

Rating: 2 out of 5.

The Effortless Experience
Matthew Dixon, Nicholas Toman, Rick DeLisi

Rating: 5 out of 5.

The Catcher in the Rye
J. D. Salinger

Rating: 3 out of 5.

Brave New World
Aldous Huxley

Rating: 3 out of 5.

The Door Into Summer
Robert A. Heinlein

Rating: 2 out of 5.

Birthday Girl
Haruki Murakami

Rating: 3 out of 5.

Paper Wife: A Novel
Laila Ibrahim

Rating: 3 out of 5.

Brief Answers to the Big Questions
Stephen Hawking

Rating: 3.5 out of 5.

Notes from No Man’s Land
Eula Biss

Rating: 5 out of 5.

Jog On
Bella Mackie

Rating: 4 out of 5.

If We Were Villains
M. L. Rio

Rating: 3 out of 5.

Kafka on the Shore
Haruki Murakami

Rating: 1.5 out of 5.

2019

The Art of Cruelty: A Reckoning
Maggie Nelson

Rating: 3.5 out of 5.

Men Without Women: Stories
Haruki Murakami

Rating: 3 out of 5.

Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow
Yuval Noah Harari

Rating: 3 out of 5.

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Yuval Noah Harari

Rating: 5 out of 5.

The Testaments
Margareth Atwood

Rating: 4 out of 5.


The Beautiful and Damned
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Rating: 4 out of 5.

The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Rating: 4 out of 5.

Japonisme: Ikigai, Forest Bathing, Wabi-Sabi and More
Erin Niimi Longhurst

Rating: 3 out of 5.

Forgotten Women: The Writers
Zing Tsjeng

Rating: 3 out of 5.

Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in 40 Questions
Valeria Luiselli

Rating: 5 out of 5.

Memoirs Of A Geisha
Arthur Golden

Rating: 5 out of 5.

Breakfast At Tiffany’s
Truman Capote

Rating: 3.5 out of 5.

Flux
Orion Carloto

Rating: 2 out of 5.

Silence: In the Age of Noise
Erling Kagge

Rating: 3 out of 5.

The Bell Jar
Sylvia Plath

Rating: 3 out of 5.

When Breath Becomes Air
Paul Kalanithi

Rating: 4.5 out of 5.

How Democracies Die
Levitsky, Ziblatt

Rating: 4 out of 5.