- The Happiness Hypothesis (2006) - Jonathan Haidt (1963-)
- Framers (2021) - Kenneth Cukier, Viktor Mayer-Schönberger, & Francis de Véricourt
- How to Read Literature Like a Professor for Kids (2003) - Thomas C. Foster
- The 3-Minute Rule (2019) - Brant Pinvidic
- Unaccustomed Earth (2008) - Jhumpa Lahiri (1967-)
- Running Against the Devil (2020) - Rick Wilson (1963-)
- Four Thousand Weeks (2021) - Oliver Burkeman
- Psycho-Cybernetics (1960) - Maxwell Maltz (1899-1975)
- Think Again (2021) - Adam Grant (1981-)
- Essex Dogs (2022) - Dan Jones - 2023/08/12
- The Verge (2021) - Patrick Wyman - 2023/08/19
- The End of the Affair (1951) - Graham Greene - 2023/09/13
- The Corrections (2001) - Jonathan Franzen - 2023/09/16
- Foundation and Empire (1952) - Isaac Asimov - 2023/09/24
- The Lies of Locke Lamora (2006) - Scott Lynch - 2023/10/10
- Helpmeet (2022) - Naben Ruthnum - 2023/10/14
- Save the Cat Goes to the Movies (2007) - Blake Snyder - 2023/10/15
- The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue (2020) - V.E. Schwab - 2023/10/26
- The Salt Grows Heavy (2023) - Cassandra Khaw - 2023/11/05
- Outlander (1991) - Diana Gabaldon - 2023/11/12
- Too Like the Lightning (2016) - Ada Palmer - 2023/11/16
- 🎧 Making It So (2023) - Patrick Stewart - 2023/11/20
- 🎧 Henry IV, Part 1 (1597) - William Shakespeare - 2023/11/23
- 🎧 Mistborn: The Final Empire (2006) - Brandon Sanderson - 2023/11/26
- 🎧 The Left Hand of Darkness (1969) - Ursula K Le Guin - 2023/12/01
- A Gentleman in Moscow (2016) - Amor Towles - 2023/12/02
- The Three-Body Problem (2006) - Cixin Liu - 2023/12/09
- 🎧 Hillbilly Elegy (2016) - J.D. Vance - 2023/12/11
- 🎧 Leonardo Da Vinci (2017) - Walter Isaacson - 2023/12/18
- The Incal (1981) - Alejandro Jodorowsky - 2023/12/19
- The Course of the Heart (1992) - John M. Harrison - 2023/12/21
- 🎧 The Haunting of Hill House (1959) - Shirley Jackson - 2023/12/22
- High Magick (2018) - Damien Echols - 2023/12/24
YEAR END TOTALS:
| type | total | % |
|---|
| gnr: | 12 | 36.4% |
| lit: | 7 | 21.2% |
| mm: | 0 | |
| pol: | 1 | 3% |
| his: | 4 | 12% |
| rpg: | 0 | |
| sci: | 3 | 9% |
| wis: | 3 | 9% |
| biz: | 3 | 9% |
- Total Fiction: 19 (57.6%)
- Total Heavies (pol/his/sci): 8 (24.2%)
- Total Work (wis/biz): 6 (18.2%)
Last Decade Numbers
| type | ‘23 | ‘22 | ‘21 | ‘20 | ‘19 | ‘18 | ‘17 | ‘16 | ‘15 | ‘14 | TTL | % |
|---|
| gnr: | 12 | 1 | 8 | 5 | 10 | 12 | 17 | 9 | 12 | 14 | 100 | 30.1% |
| lit: | 7 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 7 | 4 | 13 | 5 | 0 | 4 | 43 | 13.1% |
| mm: | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 1.8% |
| pol: | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 15 | 4.6% |
| his: | 4 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 14 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 41 | 12.5% |
| rpg: | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 13 | 11 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 37 | 11.2% |
| sci: | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 22 | 6.7% |
| wis: | 3 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 0 | 28 | 8.5% |
| biz: | 3 | 4 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 5 | 37 | 11.2% |
| TTL: | 33 | 10 | 23 | 19 | 42 | 42 | 64 | 23 | 38 | 29 | 329 | |
- Total Fiction: 149 (45.3%)
- Total Heavies (pol/his/sci): 78 (23.7%)
- Total Work (wis/biz): 65 (19.8%)
Last Decade Percentages
| ‘23 | ‘22 | ‘21 | ‘20 | ‘19 | ‘18 | ‘17 | ‘16 | ‘15 | ‘14 |
|---|
| Fiction | 57.6% | 10.0% | 34.8% | 47.4% | 40.5% | 38.1% | 54.7% | 46.7% | 31.6% | 64.3% |
| Heavies | 24.2% | 20.0% | 21.7% | 5.3% | 21.4% | 21.4% | 32.8% | 26.7% | 26.3% | 17.9% |
| Work | 18.2% | 70.0% | 39.1% | 42.1% | 7.1% | 14.3% | 4.7% | 13.3% | 36.8% | 17.9% |
LEGEND
- gnr - (fiction): genre (sff/hor/mys)
- lit - (fiction): literature
- mm - (fiction): mass market
- pol - geopolitics (eco/pol/soc)
- his - history (bio/rel/war)
- rpg - roleplaying games
- sci - science (chem/phy/psych)
- wis - wisdom/self-help/spiritual
- biz - work (craft/mar/copy)
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