• 1919 by Eve L. Ewing
• Alice Isn't Dead by Joseph Fink
• An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon
• Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie
• Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Kimmerer
• Dear God. Dear Bones. Dear Yellow by Noor Hindi
• Intensive Psychotherapy for Persistent Dissociative Processes by Richard Chefetz
• Monk & Robot by Becky Chambers
• On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong
• Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
• Poor Deer by Claire Oshetsky
• Witch Hat Atelier by Kamome Shirahama

Childhood favorites

• Animorphs, The Sight & Fell by Clement-Davies, Chaos Walking trilogy, The Last Unicorn, Watership Down, My Side of the Mountain series, Shadow Children series, Mosby the Kennedy Center Cat, Julie of the Wolves, The Black Company series, The Firekeeper Saga.