january

• atomic habits: an easy & proven way to build good habits & break bad ones by james clear
• for whom the bell tolls by ernest hemingway

february

• lord of the flies by william golding
• less than zero by bret easton ellis
• the cruel prince by holly black
• the wicked king by holly black
• the queen of nothing by holly black
• to kill a kingdom by alexandra christo
• the crying of lot 49 by thomas pynchon
• strange weather in tokyo by hiromi kawakami
• čudežni feliks by andrej hieng
• deaf republic by ilya kaminsky

march

• a mind for numbers: how to excel at math and science (even if you flunked algebra) by barbara oakley
• one day in the life of ivan denisovich by alexander solzhenitsyn
• breakfast at tiffany's by truman capote
• if i had your face by frances cha
• normal people by sally rooney
• the secret history by donna tartt
• almond by won-pyung sohn
• the moomins & the great flood by tove jansson
• colorless tsukuru tazaki and his years of pilgrimage by haruki murakami
• dopamine nation: finding balance in the age of indulgence by anna lembke

april

• the house in the cerulean sea by tj klune
• klara and the sun by kazuo ishiguro
• comet in moominland by tove jansson
• speed tribes by karl taro greenfeld
• the housekeeper and the professor by yōko ogawa
• alamut by vladimir bartol
• moomin: the complete tove jansson comic strip, vol. 1 by tove jansson
• nespodobni odvetnik by tadej golob
• kit na plaži by vinko möderndorfer
• dancing in odessa by ilya kaminsky

may

• severance by ling ma
• čudežni feliks by andrej hieng
• pnin by vladimir nabokov
• moomin: the complete tove jansson comic strip, vol. 2 by tove jansson
• never let me go by kazuo ishiguro
• heartstopper: volume one by alice oseman

june

• the new me by halle butler
• malibu rising by taylor jenkins reid
• sex and rage by eve babitz
• cleopatra and frankenstein by coco mellors
• finn family moomintroll (moomins #3) by tove jansson
• crying in h mart by michelle zauner
• why we sleep: the new science of sleep by matthew walker
• yolk by mary h.k. choi

july

• raise high the roof beam, carpenters & seymour: an introduction by j.d. salinger
• how to not die alone: the surprising science that will help you find love by logan ury
• convenience store woman by sayaka murata
• my body by emily ratajkowski
• my year of rest and relaxation by ottessa moshfegh
• boy parts by eliza clark
• very important people: status and beauty in the global party circuit by ashley mears
• a bright ray of darkness by ethan hawke
• a disgraceful affair: stories by fyodor dostoyevsky
• devotion by patti smith
• slaughterhouse-five by kurt vonnegut
• the iridescence of birds: a book about henri matisse by patricia maclachlan
• the summer book by tove jansson
• play it as it lays by joan didion
• hapworth 16, 1924 by j.d. salinger

august

• book lovers by emily henry
• grown ups by marie aubert
• buzz: the nature and necessity of bees by thor hanson
• the alchemist by paulo coelho
• recitatif by toni morrison
• french riviera and its artists: art, literature, love, and life on the côte d'azur by john baxter
• how to break up with your phone: the 30-day plan to take back your life by catherine price
• slow days, fast company: the world, the flesh, and l.a. by eve babitz
• moominpappa at sea by tove jansson
• i'm glad my mom died by jennette mccurdy
• barbarian days: a surfing life by william finnegan
• the happiness of blond people: a personal meditation on the dangers of identity by elif shafak
• the matisse stories by a.s. byatt

september

• south and west: from a notebook by joan didion
• underground: the tokyo gas attack and the japanese psyche by haruki murakami
• botchan by natsume sōseki
• autumn halo by oda sakunosuke
• the leopard by giuseppe tomasi di lampedusa
• you are eating an orange. you are naked. by sheung-king

october

• the will to change: men, masculinity, and love by bell hooks
• persian miniatures by vladimir loukonin, anatoli ivanov
• 4.48 psychosis by sarah kane

november

• bonsai by alejandro zambra