Tales in Time 

Our 2024 Reading Challenge invites you to read one book each month from, about, or set in a different historical period!

We'll be providing monthly lists of suggestions, as well as passports for readers who would like to visit all twelve eras with us and earn a chance to win a timely prize!

 

January - Classical Antiquity

February - The Medieval Period

March - The Renaissance

April - The Enlightenment

May - The Industrial Revolution

June - World War I

July - Between the Wars

August - World War II

September - The Cold War

January - Classical Antiquity - (~800 BC - 500 AD)

Works Written in Classical Antiquity

• Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
•  Metamorphosis by Ovid
• The complete Greek drama; all the extant tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides, and the comedies of Aristophanes and Menander
•  Histories by Herodotus
•  The Works of Plato
•  The Illustrated Egyptian Book of the Dead

Works of Nonfiction About Classical Antiquity

• Handbook to Life in Ancient Greece by Leslie and Roy A. Adkins
• SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome by Mary Beard
• The Twelve Caesars: Tales in Power by Mary Beard
• Marathon: How One Battle Changed Western Civilization by Richard A Billows
• D’Aulaires Book of Greek Myths by Ingri and Edgar Paran D’Aulaires
• Handbook to Life in Ancient Egypt by Rosalie David
• Pompeii: The Day A City Died by Robert Etienne
• The Greek Way by Edith Hamilton
• The Silk Road: A New History by Valerie Hansen
• Red Land, Black Land by Barbara Metz
• Cleopatra: A Life by Stacy Schiff

Works of Fiction Set in Classical Antiquity

• The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood
• Clytemnestra by Costanza Cansati
• Death Comes as the End by Agatha Christie
• Asterix Omnibus by Rene Goscinny
• I, Claudius by Robert Graves
• Dictator by Robert Harris
• The Odyssey: A Graphic Novel by Gareth Hinds
• The Iliad: A Graphic Novel by Gareth Hinds
• Dovekeepers by Alice Hoffman
• The Forgotten Legion by Ben Kane
• The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
• Circe by Madeline Miller
• Nefertiti by Michelle Moran
• House of Odysseus by Claire North
• Amber and Clay by Laura Amy Schlitz
• River God by Wilbur Smith
• House of Names by Colm Tóibín

 

February - Medieval Period- (500 AD - 1450 AD)

Works Written in the Medieval Period

• Beowulf trans. Seamus Heaney
• Le Morte D'Arthur by Thomas Malory
• The Song of Roland
• The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
• The Canterbury Tales: A Modern Retelling by Peter Ackroyd
• Sir Gawain and the Green Knight trans. Richard Armitage
• The Lais of Marie de France

Works of Nonfiction About the Medieval Period

• How the Irish Saved Civilization by James Cahill
• The Year 1000 by Valerie Hansen
• The Anglo-Saxon World by Higham and Ryan
• Beatrice’s Last Smile: A New History of the Middle Ages  by Mark Gregory Pegg
• The Dark Queens by Shelly Puhak
• Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings by Neil Price
• The Oxford Illustrated History of Medieval England edited by Nigel Saul
• The Gilded Page: The Secret Lives of Medieval Manuscripts by Mary Wellesley

Works of Fiction Set in the Medieval Period

• Gentlemen of the Road by Michael Chabon
• Agincourt, The Grail Quest Series, The Last Kingdom Series, The Saxon Series, The Warlord Trilogy by Bernard Cornwell
• The Name of the Rose by Umberto Ecco
• The Western Wind by Samantha Harvey
• The Invention of Fire by Bruce Holsinger
• The Chronicles of Brother Cadfael by Ellis Peters
• Kingsbridge series by Ken Follett
• The Justin De Quincy Series or The Henry II Series by Sharon K. Penman
• Matrix by Lauren Groff
• The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro
• Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott
• Doomsday Book by Connie Willis
• Bea Wolf  by Weinersmith and Boulet
• Gertrude and Claudius by John Updike

March - Renaissance Period

Works Written in the Renaissance

• The Divine Comedyby Dante Alighieri
• Don Quixoteby Miguel de Cervantes
• Praise of Follyby Erasmus
• The Princeby Niccolo Machiavelli
• Paradise Lostby John Milton
• Utopiaby Thomas More
• Hamlet,The Merchant of Venice, Othello, Much Ado About Nothing, King Lear, or The Tempest by William Shakespeare

 

Works of Nonfiction About the Renaissance

• Bosworth,1485 by Michael Jones
• The Sisters Who Would Be Queen: A Tudor Tragedyby Leanda de Lisle
• Shakespeare’s Restless Worldby Neil MacGregor
• The Borgiasor The Tudors by G.J. Meyer
• The Time Traveler’s Guide to Elizabethan Englandby Ian Mortimer
• The Italian Renaissanceby J.H. Plumb
• The artist, the philosopher, and the warrioror The Medici: power, money, and ambition in the Italian Renaissance by Paul Strathern

 

Works of Fiction Set in the Renaissance

• Equal of the Sunby Anita Amirrrezvani
• A Knight in Shining Armorby Jude Devereaux
• The Game of Kingsby Dorothy Dunnett
• Marvelousby Molly Greeley
• The Other Boleyn Girland The Boleyn Inheritance by Philippa Gregory
• The Weight of Inkby Rachel Kadish
• The Night Shipby Jess Kidd
• Mirror, Mirrorby Gregory MacGuire
• Wolf Hallby Hilary Mantel
• Hamnet: a novel of the plagueby Maggie O’Farrell
• An Instance of the Fingerpostby Iain Pears
• The Tournamentby Matthew Reilly
• The Elephant’s Journeyby Jose Saramgo
• Lentby Jo Walton

 

April - Enlightenment Period

Works Written in the Enlightenment

• Lyrical Ballads by Coleridge and Wordsworth
• Robinson Crusoeby Daniel Defoe
• The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
• One Thousand and One Nights (Arabian Nights)by Antoine Galland
• The Vicar of Wakefieldby Oliver Goldsmith
• The Federalist Papersby Alexander Hamilton
• The Declaration of Independenceby Thomas Jefferson
• The Complete Poetical Worksof Alexander Pope
• Gulliver’s Travelsby Jonathan Swift
• Candideby Voltaire

Works of Nonfiction About the Enlightenment

• Passionate Mindsby David Bodanis
• Who’s Black and why? A Hidden Chapter from the 18th Century Invention of Raceedited by  Henry L Gates, Jr. and Andrew S. Curran
• “Most Blessed of the Patriarchs” : Thomas Jefferson and the empire of imaginationby Annette Gordon-Reed and Peter S. Onuf
• The Faith of the Founding Fathersby David L. Holmes
• Mozartby Paul Johnson
• Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness: Britain and the American dream by Peter Moore
• Founding Mothers: The Women Who Raised Our Nationby Cokie Roberts
• The ideas that made America: a brief historyby Jennifer Ratner Rosenhagen
• Galileo: The Genius Who Faced the Inquisitionby Philip Steele
• The idea of America: Reflections on the birth of the United Statesby Gordon S. Wood

Works of Fiction Set in the Enlightenment

• Caleb’s Crossing by Geraldine Brooks

• The Miniaturist by Jessie Burton

• Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier

• Shōgun: A Novel of Japanby James Clavell

• The Sharpe Novels by Bernard Cornwell

• A Tale of Two Citiesby Charles Dickens
  
  
• The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas

• The Poldark Series by Winston Graham

• Roots by Alex Haley

• The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

• The Heretic’s Daughter by Kathleen Kent

• The Crucible by Arthur Miller

• Witch Child by Celia Rees

• Quicksilver by Neal Stephenson

May - Industrial Revolution

Works Written in the Industrial Revolution period

· The Awakening by Kate Chopin

· The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins

· The Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

· David Copperfield  or Hard Times by Charles Dickens

· North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell

· Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy

· Les Miserables by Victor Hugo

· Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome

· Frankenstein by Mary W. Shelley

· The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stephenson

· Dracula by Bram Stoker

· A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain

· The Time Machine by H.G. Wells

Nonfiction Books about the Industrial Revolution

· Victoria the queen : an intimate biography of the woman who ruled an empire by Julia Baird

· Breaking open Japan by George Feifer

· The devil in the white city : murder, magic, and madness at the fair that changed America by Erik Larson

· The unbound Prometheus by David S. Landes

· Destiny of the Republic by Candice Millard

· Edison by Edmund Morris

· Cotton : the fabric that made the modern world by Giorgio Riello

· The most powerful idea in the world  by William Rosen

· The statesman and the storyteller : John Hay, Mark Twain, and the rise of American imperialism by Mark Zwonitzer

Works of Fiction Set in the Industrial Revolution

· The Children’s Blizzard by Melanie Benjamin

· Peony by Pearl S. Buck

· The Alienist by Caleb Carr

· Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke

· The Great Train Robbery by Michael Crichton

· A Dangerous Fortune by Ken Follett

· The Hornblower Series by C.S. Forester

· The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd

· Babel by R.F. Kuang

· The call of the wild  by Jack London ; with paintings by Wendell Minor

· The Mapmaker’s Children by Sarah McCoy

· Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell

· Ahab’s Wife or The Star-Gazer by Sana Jeter Naslund

· The Secret Life of Sunflowers by Marta Molnar

· The Last Days of Night by Graham Moore

· The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern

· Beloved by Toni Morisson

· The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara

· The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos L Zafron

· Four Treasures of the Sky by Jenny Tinghui Zhang 

June - World War I

Works Written During World War I

· One of Ours by Willa Cather

· The Souls of Black Folks by W.E.B. DuBois

· Parade’s End by Ford Maddox Ford

· A Room With a View by E.M. Forster

· A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemmingway

· Anne of Green Gables by LM Montgomery

· The Collected Poems of Wilfred Owen

· All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque

· Collected Poems 1908-1956 by Siegfried Sassoon

Nonfiction About The World War I Years

· The secret rooms: a true story of a haunted castle, a plotting duchess, and a family secret by Catherine Bailey

· George, Nicholas, and Wilhelm: three royal cousins and the road to World War I by Miranda Carter

· Secret warriors: the spies, scientists, and code-breakers of World War I by Taylor Downing

· Eden to Armageddon: World War I in the Middle East by Roger Ford

· War against war: The American fight for peace, 1914-1918 by Michael Kazin

· An illustrated history of the First World War by John Keegan

· Dead Wake by Erik Larson

· A Night to Remember by Walter Lord

· The month that changed the world: July 1914 by Gordon Martel

· Wounded: a new history of the Western Front in World War I by Emily Mayhew

· River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt’s Darkest Journey by Candice Millard

· The Romanov sisters: the lost lives of the daughters of Nicholas and Alexandra by Helen Rappaport

· The last of the doughboys: the forgotten generation and their forgotten World War by Richard Rudin

Fiction Set in During World War I

· A Bend in the Stars by Rachel Barenbaum

· The Personal Librarian by Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray

· To Serve Them All My Days by RF Delderfield

· Ragtime by E.L. Doctorow

· The Pull of Stars by Emma Donoghue

· Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks

· Fall of Giants by Ken Follett

· I was Anastasia: a novel by Ariel Lawhon

· War Horse by Michael Morpurgo

· The Girl You Left Behind by Jojo Moyes

· Charles Todd’s Inspector Routledge Series and/or his Bess Crawford Series

· The Shoemaker’s Wife by Adriana Trigiani

· Leviathan by Scott Westerfeld

· A Lesson in Secrets by Jacqueline Winspear

 

July - Between the Wars

Works Written Between the Wars

• And Then There Were None or Murder on the Orient Express by Dame Agatha Christie
• The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
• The Wasteland and other poems or Murder in the Cathedral by T.S. Eliot
• The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
• The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
• The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett
• The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemmingway
• Death of a Peer by Ngaio Marsh
• Murder Must Advertise by Dorothy L. Sayers
• The Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey
• Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf

Works of Nonfiction 

• The world broke in two : the year that changed literature by Bill Goldstein 
• A secret gift by Ted Gup 
• The Langston Hughes Reader 
• Little heathens : hard times and high spirits on an Iowa farm during the Great Depression by Mildred Armstrong Kalish 
• The Last Lion: Winston Churchill: Alone by William Manchester
• The Man Who Walked Backwards by Ben Montgomery 
• A rabble of dead money : the Great Crash and the global depression : 1929-1939 by Charles R. Morris 
• The rise and fall of the Third Reich; a history of Nazi Germany by William Shirer 
• Hard times : an oral history of the great depression by Studs Terkel 

Works of Fiction Set Between the Wars

• The Light of Luna Park by Addison Armstrong 
• Shrines of Gaiety: A Novel by Kate Atkinson 
• Florence Adler Swims Forever by Rachel Beanland 
• The Mystery of Mrs. Christie or The Mitford Affair by Marie Benedict 
• Blind Tiger by Sandra Brown 
• One Summer, 1927 by Bill Bryson 
• Beautiful Little Fools: A Novel by Jillian Cantor 
• The Last Train to Key West by Chanel Cleeton 
• The Masterpiece: A Novel by Fiona Davis 
• Winter of the World by Ken Follett 
• The Lindbergh Nanny: A Novel by Mariah Fredricks 
• Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann 
• Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen 
• Time's Undoing by Cheryl A. Head 
• The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah 
• Dreamland Burning by Jennifer Latham 
• Flight of Dreams: A Novel by Ariel Lawhon 
• The Paris Bookseller by Kerri Maher 
• Atonement by Ian McEwan 
• West with Giraffes by Lynda Rutledge 
• The Color Purple by Alice Walker

August - World War II

Works Written During World War II

• A Street in Bronzeville  by Gwendolyn Brooks
• A Murder is Announced by Agatha Christie
• The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
• How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie
• The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
• Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
• The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
• Out of the Silent Planet or The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis
• Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
• A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
• The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
• Our Town by Thornton Wilder
• Native Son by Richard Wright

Works of Nonfiction About World War II 

• The Accidental President by A.J. Baime
• Man’s search for meaning by Viktor E. Frankl
• X troop: The secret Jewish commandos of World War II by Leah Garrett
• In the Garden of Beasts or The Splendid and the Vile by Erik Larson
• Helmet for my pillow: from Parris Island to the Pacific, a young Marine’s stirring account of combat in World War II by Robert Leckie
• The Last Lion by William Manchester 
• Eleanor by David Michaelis
• Leningrad: the epic siege of World War II, 1941-1944 by Anna Reid
• Churchill: walking with destiny by Andrew Roberts
• Underground in Berlin: a young woman’s extraordinary tale of survival in the heart of Nazi Germany by Marie Jalowicz Simon
• The Night Trilogy by Elie Wiesel
• Countdown 1945: the extraordinary story of the atomic bomb and the 116 days that changed the world by Chris Wallace with Mitch Weiss
• 1944: FDR and the year that changed history by Jay Winik

Works of Fiction Set around World War II

• The Little Liar by Mitch Albom 
• The Paris Assignment by Rhys Bowen
• The Boy in the Striped Pajamas: A Fable by John Boyne
• All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
• The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
• The Book of Lost Names by Kristin Harmel
• The Beantown Girls by Jane Healey
• The Tobacco Wives by Adele Myers
• The Alice Network or The Rose Code by Kate Quinn
• The Things We Cannot Say by Kelly Rimmer
• Sarah’s Key by Tatiana de Rosnay
• The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society by Mary Ann Schaffer and Annie Barrows
• The Golden Hour by Beatriz Williams
• Blackout by Connie Willis
• The American Agent by Jacqueline Winspear
• The Book Thief by Marcus Zusak

September - The Cold War

Works Written During The COLD WAR 

• The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood 
• Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
• Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown 
• In Cold Blood by Truman Capote 
• Silent Spring by Rachel Carson 
• Do Androids Dream of Electronic Sheep? by Philip K. Dick 
• Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
• Moonraker by Ian Fleming
• The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan 
• Howl and other poems by Allen Ginsberg  
• Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
• The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro 
• The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson 
• It by Stephen King 
• On the Road by Jack Kerouac
• The Spy Who Came in From the Cold by John Le Carre
• To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee 
• One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez 
• Beloved by Toni Morrison  
• Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov 
• Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie 
• The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger 
• And the Band Played On by Randy Shilts 
• The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan 
• The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien 
• The Color Purple by Alice Walker 
• Charlotte's Web by E.B. White 

Nonfiction About The Cold War Years

• His Very Best: Jimmy Carter by Jonathan Alter 
• Iron Curtain by Anne Applebaum
• The Vietnam War by Ken Burns 
• Richard Nixon: A Life by John A. Farrell 
• Strategies of Containment by John Lewis Gaddis 
• The Six: The Untold Story of America's First Women Astronauts by Loren Grush  
• Gandhi by  Ramachandra Guha 
• The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War by David Halberstam 
• His Truth is Marching On by Jon Meacham
• The End of the Cold War by Robert Service  
• Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly 
• Reagan: An American Journey by Bob Spitz 
• Incomparable Grace: JFK in the presidency by Mark K. Updegrove
• The Double Helix by James Watson  

Fiction Set in During the Cold War

• Recipe for a Perfect Wife by Kama Brown 
• The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid by Bill Bryson 
• Last Bus to Wisdom by Ivan Doig 
• The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich 
• The House of Eve by Sadeqa Johnson 
• The Ride of Her Life by Elizabeth Letts 
• The Briar Club by Kate Quinn
• The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot 
• The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles 

 

October - Modern Era

Works Written During The Modern Era 

• The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett 
• The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
• Between the world and me by Ta-Nehisi Coates  
• Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton 
• The girl with the louding voice by Abi Daré
• Damnation spring by Ash Davidson  
• Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn 
• Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett 
• Lady in waiting by Anne Glenconner 
• Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden 
• Snow Falling on Cedar by David Guterson
• The curious incident of the dog in the night-time by Mark Haddon  
• The four winds by Kristin Hannah 
• 28 Summers by Ellen Hilderbrand 
• Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro 
• The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver  
• Angels in America by Tony Kushner 
• Interpreter of maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri 
• The Giver by Lois Lowery 
• The Road by Cormac McCarthy 
• Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt 
• The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien 
• Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk 
• The lost apothecary by Sarah Penner 
• The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman 
• Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling
• A Series of Unfortunate Events  by Lemony Snicket  
• Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt 

 

Nonfiction About The Modern Era 

• Muslim girl by Amani Al-Khatahtbeh 
• Extra Lives: Why Video Games Matter by Tom Bissell 
• The book of pride : LGBTQ heroes who changed the world by Mason Funk 
• The only plane in the sky by Garrett M. Graff 
• The innovators : how a group of inventors, hackers, geniuses, and geeks created the digital revolution by Walter Isaacson 
• The good neighbor : the life and work of Fred Rogers by Maxwell King 
• The natural : the misunderstood presidency of Bill Clinton by Joe Klein 
• Newtown : an American tragedy by Matthew Lysiak 
• Long walk to freedom : the autobiography of Nelson Mandela 
• The stories Whiteness tells itself by David Mura 
• Born a Crime by Trevor Noah 
• Becoming by Michelle Obama 
• We don't know ourselves by Fintan O'Toole 
• A brief history of everyone who ever lived by Adam Rutherford 
• Elizabeth the Queen by Sally Bedell Smith 
• Obama: An Intimate Portrait by Pete Souza 
• The last Republicans by Mark K. Updegrove 
• The sea is quiet tonight by Michael H. Ward 
• The Afghanistan papers by Craig Whitlock 
• The looming tower : Al-Qaeda and the road to 9/11  or The Plague Year: America in the Time of COVID  by Lawrence Wright 

November  - Current Year

The Most Popular Fiction of the Year

Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro
Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
Yellowface or Babel by R.F. Kuang
The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store by James McBride
Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt
Tomorrow, Tomorrow, Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin

More Fiction We Love Right Now

Call Me By Your Name  by Andre Aciman
Behind the Scenes at the Museum by Kate Atkinson
Until the Real Thing Comes Along by Elizabeth Berg
Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks
Persuader and Gone Tomorrow by Lee Child
Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
No Second Chance by Harlan Coben
The Third Twin by Ken Follett
Spies of Warsaw by Alan Furst
Matrix by Lauren Groff
The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah
The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith
The Blue Bistro by Elin Hilderbrand
Wellness by Nathan Hill
The Library of the Dead by T.L. Huchu
A Case of Need by Jeffrey Hudson
Yellow Wife by Sadequa Johnson
Entering Normal by Anne. D. LeClaire
Sacred by Dennis Lehane
The Covenant by James Mitchner
Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell
Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
All Our Yesterdays by Robert B. Parker
Tom Lake by Ann Patchett
The Godfather by Mario Puzo
West with Giraffes by Lynda Rutledge
The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson
Romantic Comedy by Curtis Sittenfeld
Driving Over Lemons by Chris Stewart
Oil and Marble by Stephanie Storey
Belonging by Nancy Thayer
Zero Days by Ruth Ware
Still Life by Sarah Winman
Grass Roots by Stuart Woods
Lunar New Year Love Story by Gene Leung Yang

Nonfiction We Love Right Now

The Great Halifax Explosion by John U. Bacon
Notes from a Small Island by Bill Bryson
Becoming Supernatural by Joe Dispenza
Heroes by Stephen Fry
The White House Plumbers by Egil Krogh
The Ride of Her Life by Elizabeth Letts
1491 by Charles Mann
Tasting History by Max Miller
The Comfort of Crows by Margaret Renkl
The Creative Act: A Way of Being by Rick Rubin
Searching for the Lady of the Dunes by Chris Setterlund
Impossible Escape by Steve Sheinken
Cinema Speculation by Quentin Tarantino
The Moth Presents: A Point of Beauty

 

December - Tomorrow

Fiction about the Future

• Internmentby Samira Ahmed
• The Futureby Naomi Alderman
• Originby Dan Brown
• Ender's Gameby Orson Scott Card
• The Selectionby Kiera Cass
• A Psalm for the Wild-Builtby Becky Chambers
• The Three-Body Problemby Liu Cixin 
• Ready Player Oneby Ernest Cline
• The Hunger Games Seriesby Suzanne Collins
• The Passageby Justin Cronin
• Cloud Cuckoo Landby Anthony Doerr
• Duneby Frank Herbert
• Brave New Worldby Aldous Huxley
• Klara and the Sunby Kazuo Ishiguro
• Children of Menby P.D. James
• The Lives of Puppetsby T.J. Klune
• Station Elevenby Emily St. John Mandel
• A Canticle for Leibowitzby Walter M Miller 
• Cloud Atlasby David Mitchell
• In Death Seriesby J.D. Robb
• Divergent Seriesby Veronica Roth
• Children of the new world : storiesby Alexander Weinstein
• The Martianor The Artemis Project by Andy Weir
• The Time Machineby H.G. Wells
• To paradiseby Hanya Yanagihara
• All Systems Redby Martha Wells 

Nonfiction about the Future

• New dark age : technology, knowledge and the end of the futureby James Bridle
• Radical Abundance: How a Revolution in Nanotechnology Will Change Civilizationby K. Eric Drexler
• 21 lessons for the 21st century byYuval Noah Harari
• Homo deus : a brief history of tomorrowby Yuval Noah Harari
• The sentient machine: the coming of artificial intelligenceby Amir Husain
• Beyond: Our Future in Spaceby Chris Impey
• The future of humanity : our destiny in the universeby Dr. Michio Kaku
• This changes everything : capitalism vs. the climateby Naomi Klein
• The sixth extinction : an unnatural historyby Elizabeth Kolbert
• Big data : a revolution that will transform how we live, work, and thinkby Viktor Mayer-Schonberger and Kenneth Cukier
• Scatter, adapt, and remember : how humans will survive a mass extinctionby Annalee Newitz
• The uninhabitable earth : life after warmingby David Wallace-Wells
• Soonish : ten emerging technologies that'll improve and/or ruin everythingby Kelly and Zach Weinersmith