Twist by Colum McCann • 2025 — fiction, technology, infrastructure, globalization, psychological thriller

This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar, Max Gladstone — fiction, science fiction, romance, time travel, philosophy, language, identity

The Mezzanine by Nicholson Baker — literature, fiction, consciousness, memory, everyday-life, product-design, office-culture, consumerism, mindfulness, routine

The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle • 1968 — fantasy, fiction, mythology, philosophy

The Candy House by Jennifer Egan • 2022 — fiction, technology, memory, identity, authenticity, digital age, connectivity, surveillance

The Art of Fiction by David Lodge — literature, writing, craft, fiction, narrative

Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan — fiction, literature, social justice, ethics, morality, ireland, history

Reality Hunger: A Manifesto by David Shields — literature, art, creativity, digital age, appropriation, memoir, reality, fiction, nonfiction, collage, manifesto

Procedural Storytelling in Game Design by Tanya X. Short, Tarn Adams — gaming, ai, design, narrative, storytelling, interactive, fiction

On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong • 2019 — fiction, trauma, identity, queer literature, immigrant experience

Novelist as a Vocation by Haruki Murakami — writing, fiction, creativity, publishing, culture, self-reflection

Metafiction: The Theory and Practice of Self-Conscious Fiction by Patricia Waugh • 1984 — literary theory, postmodernism, narrative, philosophy, fiction

How To Write Fiction: A Guardian Masterclass by Geoff Dyer, Jill Dawson, Andrew Miller, Rachel Cusk, Meg Rosoff, DBC Pierre, Adam Foulds, Kate Mosse, Mark Billingham, Clare Conville, Francis Bickmore, Roderick Gordon — writing, fiction, creativity, publishing

How Fiction Works by James Wood — fiction, realism, narration, character, language, dialogue, writing, literary criticism, literature

Fates and Furies by Lauren Groff — fiction, literature, relationships, marriage, creativity, gender

Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver • 2022 — fiction, social commentary, appalachia, coming-of-age, opioid epidemic

But Beautiful: A Book About Jazz by Geoff Dyer — music, jazz, fiction, biography, culture, creativity

Annie Bot by Sierra Greer • 2024 — fiction, psychology, ai ethics, sentient ai