A list of interesting sounding books — fiction and non-fiction, older and not yet published — that I haven’t read yet but have caught my eye somewhere:

• Joyride, by Susan Orlean

• The Book of Guilt, by Catherine Chidgey

• Good Things: Recipes and Rituals to Share with People You Love: A Cookbook, by Samin Nosrat

• This is For Everyone, by Tim Berners-Lee

• There Will Be No Miracles Here, by Casey Gerald

• Death of an Ordinary Man, by Sarah Perry

• Dog Days, by Emily LaBarge

• Ripeness, by Sarah Moss

• The Silver Book, by Olivia Laing

• Helm, by Sarah Hall

• The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother), by Rabih Alameddine

• The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny, by Kiran Desai

• One Boat, by Jonathan Buckley

• On the Calculation of Volume I, by Solvej Balle

• The South, by Tash Aw

• Greyhound, by Joanna Pocock

• Helen of Nowhere, by Makenna Goodman

• Intertidal, by Yuvan Aves

• The Last Human Job: the work of connecting in a disconnected world, by Allison Pugh

• Gather Up Your World in One Long Breath, by S. Shakthidharan (September 2025)

• The People’s Project, curated by Saeed Jones and Maggie Smith

• Shattered Lands: Five Partitions and the Making of Modern Asia, by Sam Dalrymple (September 2025)

• Paris Was Yesterday: 1925-1939, by Janet Flanner

• Women in Dark Times, by Jacqueline Rose

• Forest of Noise, Mosab Abu Toha

• Information Age, Cora Lewis

• The Salt Stones, Helen Whybrow

• Endling, Maria Reva

• The Means of Prediction, Maximilian Kasy

• Will There Ever Be Another You, Patricia Lockwood 

• Culpability, Bruce Holsinger

• I Want To Burn This Place Down, Maris Kreizman

• Vigil, George Saunders (January 2026)

• Brawler, Lauren Groff

• The Red House, Kate Wild 

• Cyberfeminism Index, Mindy Seu

• The Equivalents, Maggie Doherty 

• The Other Island, Carina del Valle Schorske

• The Slow Road North, Rosie Schaap

• Bird Milk & Mosquito Bones, Priyanka Mattoo

• Moderate to Poor, Occasionally Good, Eley Williams

• Shopkeeping: stories, advice and observations, Peter Miller 

• Opacities, Sofia Samatar

• Ordinary Disasters, Anne Anlin Cheng 

• Acts of Resistance: the power of art to create a better world, Amber Massie-Blomfield 

• The Fantasy and Necessity of Solidarity, Sarah Schulman 

• The Wilderness, Aysegul Savas

• Three Lives A Young Girl in Me Who Will Not Die, Tove Ditlevesen

• Searches: selfhood in the digital age, Vauhini Vara 

• To Save and To Destroy: writing as an other, Viet Thanh Nguyen

• The Work We Need, Hilary Cottam 

• What We Can Know, Ian McEwan (September 2025)

• Book of Lives, Margaret Atwood (November 2025)

• The Age of Choice, Sophia Rosenfeld 

• The Living Mountain, Nan Shepherd

• Mood Machine: the rise of Spotify and the costs of the perfect playlist, Liz Pelly

• The Book of Alchemy, Suleika Jaouad

• The Genius Myth, Helen Lewis

• Alterations, Cory Winrock

• Immemorial, Lauren Markham

• Lecture, Mary Cappello

• No Straight Road Takes You There, Rebecca Solnit (September 2025)

• The Mobius Book, Catherine Lacey 

• Together, Ece Temelkuran

• The Hour of the Predator, Giuliano da Empoli (October 2025) 

• Liquid Reflections, Liliane Lijn

• Notes from an island, Tove Jansson

• All The Way To The River, Elizabeth Gilbert (September 2025)

• Elizabeth Harrower: the woman in the watch tower, Susan Wyndham (October 2025)

• Moderation, Elaine Castillo

• Fierceland, Omar Musa (September 2025)

• Nova Scotia House, Charlie Porter

• History of Sound, Ben Shattuck

• Elite Capture, Olufemi o Taiwo

• A Great Act of Love, Heather Rose (September 2025)

• Dead and Alive, Zadie Smith (October 2025)

• Bread of Angels, Patti Smith (November 2025)

• Debatable Land, Rory Stewart (October 2025)

• Tomorrow is Yesterday, Hussein Agha & Robert Malley (October 2025)

• The Uproar, Karim Dimechkie

• Emergent Strategy, Adrienne Maree Brown