- Eden Renewed, Peter Levi
- Emily Wilson's The Odyssey
- Pooh and the Philosophers, John Tyerman Williams
- FR: James et la Grosse Pêche, Roald Dahl
- Red, White, and Royal Blue
- Lirael
- Abhorsen
- breasts and eggs, Meiko Kawakami
- The Gatekeeper, Noraliah Norasid
- Wheel of Time series, Jordan
- song of achilles
- piranesi
- Sorrows of Young Werther
- LOTR
- The Forest, Edward Rutherford
- the whole ACOTAR thing
- A court of thorns and roses
- A court of Mist and fury
- the other things
- (I'm sorry to say I picked up ACOTAR and did not take to it at all)
- A History of the World in 100 Objects, Neil MacGregor
- The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Signs & Symbols, Mark O'Connell and Raje Airey
- The Rabbit Queen, Dexter Palmer
- Ariadne, Jennifer Saint
- Lily, Rose Tremain
- A Place Bewitched, Nikolai Gogol
- Mischief Acts
- The Witch-doctor's Daughter
- Peach Blossom Spring
- Oryx and Crake, Atwood
- Magic in the Middle Ages, Richard Kieckhefer
- The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera
- The Golden Rule, Ilene Cooper
- Counting Descent
- The Optimist's daughter
- The General in his Labyrinth
- Little Fires Everywhere
- This is what Inequality Looks Like
- Dracula, Stoker
- Anne Rice's Vampire Things, of which there are so many;
- Interview with the Vampire
- The King's General, du Maurier
- Case Study, Graeme Macrae Burnet
‘I have decided to write down everything that happens, because I feel, I suppose, I may be putting myself in danger.’
- Small Things Like These, Claire Keegan
- The Promise, by Damon Galgut
- The Testaments
- The Narrow Road to the Deep North, Richard Flanagan
- The Luminaries, Eleanor Catton
- The Line of Beauty, Allan Hollinghurst
- Amsterdam, Ian McEwan
- Last Orders, Graham Swift
- How Late It Was, How Late
- The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
- The Sea, The Sea by Iris Murdoch
- The Girl in the Tower, Katherine Arden
- The Winter of the Witch, Katherine Arden
- Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, Susanna Clarke
- The Animals at Lockwood Manor, Jane Healey
- The Little Stranger, Sarah Waters
- The Chinese Garden, Rosemary Manning
- Miss Pym Disposes, Josephine Tey
- Olivia, Dorothy Strachey
- The Small Room, May Sarton
- Frost in May, Antonia White
- The Getting of Wisdom, Ethel Richardson as Henry Handel Richardson
- The Lake of Dead Languages, Carol Goodman
- Miss Timmins’ School for Girls, Nayana Currimbhoy
- Picnic at Hanging Rock, Joan Lindsay
- Special Topics in Calamity Physics, Marisha Pessl
- Waking the Moon, Elizabeth Hand
- The People of the Sea: Celtic Tales of the Seal-Folk, David Thompson
- Down Comes the Night, Allison Saft
- Silver in the Wood (Greenhollow series), Emily Tesh
- Drowned Country (Greenhollow series), Emily Tesh
- Empire of Wild, Cherie Dimaline
- Ghost Wall, Sarah Moss
- In the Woods, Tana French
- The Twisted Ones, T. Kingfisher
- The Hollow Places, T. Kingfisher
- The Croning, Laird Barron
- The Buried Giant, Kazuo Ishiguro
- Lancelot (the arthurian tales series), Giles Kristian
- The Mabinogian Tetralogy, Evangeline Walton
- The Traitor Son Cycle, Miles Cameron
- Sistersong, Lucy Holland
- Book of the New Sun, Gene Wolfe
- The Wolf and the Woodsman, Ava Reid
- City of Saints and Madmen (Ambergris series), Jeff Vandermeer
- Silver in the Wood (the Greenhollow duology), Emily Tesh
- The Lives of Saints, Leigh Bardugo
- Picnic at Hanging Rock, Joan Lindsay
- Gods and Fighting Men, Lady Gregory
- Pagan Ireland, Eleanor Hull
- Folklore of the British Isles, Eleanor Hull
- Emma, Austen
- The Vegetarian
- Death and the Maiden by Ariel Dorfman
- The Deep by Rivers Solomon
- The Embroidered Book, Kate Heartfield
- The Furies, John Connolly
- This is your mind on plants, Michael Pollan
- What your food ate (?)
- Braiding Sweetgrass, Robin Wall Kimmmerer
- Favourite Folktales from Around the World, Jane Yolen
- Grendel's Mother Broods Over Her Feral Son" Mari-jane Osborn
- Orange World and Other Stories, Karen Russell
- House of Leaves, Mark Danielewski
- Babel, R. F. Kuang
- Underland (2019, Robert Macfarlane)
- Annihilation (2014, Jeff VanderMeer)
- Young Goodman Browne, Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Locked Tomb Series - Tamsyn Muir
- Half-Earth Socialism
- Against Empathy - Paul Bloom
- House of Cotton
- Yerba Buena
- No One Is Talking About This
- Violeta
- The School for Good Mothers
- Sea of Tranquility
- Remarkably Bright Creatures