2025

• ✔ the restaurant of lost recipes, hisashi kashiwai
• what my bones know
• pacific northwest, wildsam field guides
• ✔ seattle, wildsam field guides
• ✔ the full moon coffee shop, mai mochizuki
• ✔ beneath the trees where nobody sees, patrick horvath
• ✔ yeonnam-dong's smiley laundromat, kim jiyun
• cool gray city of love, gary kamiya
• butter, asako yuzuki-
• the school for good mothers, jessamine chan-
• ✔ the healing hippo of hinode park, michiko aoyama

2024

• ✔ hiromi kawakami, the nakano thrift shop
• ✔ bora Chung, Maria gratia plena
• ✔ hisashi kashiwai, the kamogawa food detectives
• rosencrans baldwin, everything now
• ✔ robin sloane, moonbound
• hwang bo-reum, welcome to the hyunam-dong bookshop-

2023

• ✔ JRR tolkien, the fellowship of the ring
• JRR Tolkien, the two towers
• Mary Ellen Mark, on the portrait and the moment
• ✔ hua hsu, stay true
• ✔ peng shepherd, the cartographers
• ✔ Michiko aoyama, what you are looking for is in the library
• ✔ Connie Wang, oh my mother
• ✔ Kate flannery, strip tees
• ✔ Samantha dion baker, draw your day
• ✔ Andrea lankford, trail of the lost
• ✔ Julie Carlson, remodelista

2022

• ✔ houseplants for all, Danae Horst
• ✔ plant parenting, Leslie Halleck
• the sacred search, Gary Thomas-
• ✔ Notes on a nervous planet, Matt haig
• ✔ where the wild ladies are, Aoko Matsuda
• uniquely human, Barry prizant
• ✔ people from my neighborhood, hiromi kawakami
• ✔ several people are typing
• ✔ spirits abroad, zen cho
• ✔ stories of your life, Ted chiang
• ✔ emergency contact, Mary Choi
• ✔ the cat who saved books, sosuke natsukawa
• ✔ the old woman with a knife, gu byeong mo
• ✔ howls moving castle, Dianna Wynne Jones
• ✔ the house of many ways, Dianna Wynne Jones
• ✔ the buried giant, kazuo ishiguro
• ✔ earwig and the witch, dianna wynne jones
• ✔ the stardust thief, Chelsea abdullah
• ✔ Dogsbody, dianna Wynne Jones

2021

• ✔ jack, marilynne robinson
• the body keeps the score, Bessel van der kolk
• ✔ how to be a good creature, Sy Montgomery
• ✔ before the coffee gets cold, Toshikazu Kawaguchi
• Uniquely Human, Barry Prizant
• ✔ midnight library, Matt Haig
• ✔ piranesi, susanne clarke
• ✔ tuesday mooney talks to ghosts, Kate racculia
• The Council of Animals: A Novel, Nick McConnell

2020

• ✔ Reading with Patrick, Michelle Kuo
• ✔ Felicity, Mary Oliver
• The Education of an Idealist, Samantha Power
• ✔ Disability Visibility, Alice Wong
• ✔ Grow in the Dark, Lisa Eldred Steinkopf
• ✔ Annabel Scheme and the Adventure of the New Golden Gate, Robin Sloane
• ✔ Sourdough, Robin Sloane

2019

• ✔ The Land Between

2018

• ✔ Letters to Children, CS Lewis
• My Degeneration, Peter Dunlap-Shohl
• ✔ Jayber Crow, Wendell Berry
• The Language of Kindness, Christie Watson
• Around the world in 80 Trees, Jonathan Drori
• ✔ How to Pray, CS Lewis

2017

• Moby Dick, Herman Melville
• ✔ Lila, Marilynne Robinson
• ✔ Down the Rabbit hole, Juan Pablo Villalobos
• Being there, Dave Furman
• ✔ Beware of Pity
• ✔ China Witness, Xinran
• ✔ Asian American Experiences in the United States, Joann Faung Jean Lee
• Sourdough, Robin Sloane

2016

• ✔ Funny in Farsi, Firoozeh Dumas
• ✔ West of Kabul, East of New York, Tamim Ansary
• Future Grace, John Piper

2015

• ✔ Imperfect Birds, Anne Lamott
• ✔ The Lost Hero, Rick Riordan
• ✔ The Naked Lady Who Stood on Her Head, Gary Small and Gigi Vorgan
• ✔ Mr. Penumbra's 24 Hour Bookstore, Robin Sloane
• ✔ The Son of Neptune, Rick Riodan
• The Brain's Way of Healing, Norman Doidge