What We Read in December

Updated January 15, 2026
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What We Read in December

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Heartwood
Gaige, Amity
Paper Book
In the heart of the Maine woods, an experienced Appalachian Trail hiker goes missing. She is forty-two-year-old Valerie Gillis, who has vanished 200 miles from her final destination. Alone in the wilderness, Valerie pours her thoughts into fractured, poetic letters to her mother as she battles the...
Poems & prayers
McConaughey, Matthew
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * From the Academy Award-winning actor and author of Greenlights comes an inspiring, faith-filled, and often hilarious collection of personal poetry and prayers about navigating the rodeo of life and chasing down the original dream, belief.
Food wars! : shokugeki no soma
Tsukuda, Yuto
Paper Book
An action-packed, saucy food comedy featuring one boy's determination to be top chef! Soma Yukihira's old man runs a small family restaurant in the less savory end of town. Aiming to one day surpass his father's culinary prowess, Soma hones his skills day in and day out until one...
The blighted stars
O'Keefe, Megan E.
Paper Book
Stranded on a dead planet with her mortal enemy, a spy must survive and uncover a conspiracy in the first book of an epic space opera trilogy by an award‑winning author. She's a revolutionary. Humanity is running out of options. Habitable planets are...
Everything is tuberculosis : the history and persistence of our deadliest infection
Green, John
Paper Book
#1 New York Times bestseller * #1 Washington Post bestseller * #1 Indie Bestseller * USA Today Bestseller John Green, award-winning author and passionate advocate for global healthcare reform, tells a deeply human story illuminating the fight against the world's...
The break-in : a novel
Faulkner, Katherine
Paper Book
After killing an intruder in self-defense, a wealthy London mother must unravel a terrifying mystery filled with twists and turns, from the author of the "deliciously twisted thriller" (People) The Other Mothers. Alice, a professional mother of one, is hosting a...
The very secret society of irregular witches
Mandanna, Sangu
Paper Book
Mika Moon knows she has to hide her magic, and is used to keeping her head down with one exception: an online account, where she posts videos 'pretending' to be a witch. She thinks no one will take it seriously. But someone does. An unexpected message arrives, begging her to travel to the remote and...
Swordheart
Kingfisher, T.
Paper Book
An Instant New York Times, USA Today, and Indie Bestseller DELUXE EDITION--a beautiful hardcover edition featuring turquoise sprayed edges, a foil stamp on the casing, and custom endpapers. The delightful charm of The Princess Bride...
An immense world : how animal senses reveal the hidden realms around us
Yong, Ed
Paper Book
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * A "thrilling" (The New York Times), "dazzling" (The Wall Street Journal) tour of the radically different ways that animals perceive the world that will fill you with wonder and forever alter your perspective, by Pulitzer Prize-winning science...
Mrs. Dalloway
Woolf, Virginia
Paper Book
Heralded as Virginia Woolf's greatest novel, this is a vivid portrait of a single day in a woman's life. When we meet her, Mrs. Clarissa Dalloway is preoccupied with the last-minute details of party preparation while in her mind she is something much more than a perfect society hostess. As she...
100 rules for living to 100 : an optimist's guide to a happy life
Van Dyke, Dick
On the eve of his 100th birthday, national treasure Dick Van Dyke brings us this autobiographical collection of stories, reflections, and life advice on how he's maintained a zest for life. Dick Van Dyke danced his way into our hearts with iconic roles in ...
Diary of a nature nerd : a graphic novel
Everett, Tiffany
Lace up your boots and join Brooke on the trail for this irresistible story about best friends, blended families, and big goals. Perfect for fans of PAWS and Katie the Catsitter!Brooke's always out on the trail, living a life full of adventure and documenting her wilderness findings in her...
Interrupting chicken saves the nutcracker
Stein, David Ezra
Paper Book
"Stein's metafictive narrative is sidesplittingly funny, capturing with aplomb young children's endearingly exasperating tendency to speak up when it's least convenient." --Kirkus Reviews (starred review) At her first ballet ever, can an excitable little Chicken resist helping...
Hell followed with us
White, Andrew Joseph
Paper Book
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A furious, queer debut novel about embracing the monster within and unleashing its power against your oppressors. "A long, sustained scream to the various strains of anti-transgender legislation multiplying around the world...
Nobody Wants Your Sh*t The Art of Decluttering Before You Die
Condo, Messie.
Audiobook
Trigun : deep space planet future gun action
Nightow, Yasuhiro
Paper Book
Trigun is a worldwide manga and anime sensation! Trigun Deluxe Edition collects Trigun Volume 1 and 2 in a beautiful hardcover featuring nearly 700 pages of Yasuhiro Nightow's signature creation, collected for the first time in its original oversized format! On the forbidding desert planet of...
The will of the many
Islington, James
Paper Book
At the elite Catenan Academy, a young fugitive uncovers layered mysteries and world-changing secrets in this "brilliant and gut-churning masterpiece" (Library Journal, starred review) by the internationally bestselling author of The Licanius Trilogy, James Islington. The...
The sandcastle girls
Bohjalian, Chris
Paper Book
Over the course of his career, New York Times bestselling novelist Chris Bohjalian has taken readers on a spectacular array of journeys. Midwives brought us to an isolated Vermont farmhouse on an icy winter's night and a home birth gone tragically wrong. The Double Bind...
Book and dagger : how scholars and librarians became the unlikely spies of World War II
Graham, Elyse
Paper Book
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ONE OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS' BEST BOOKS OF 2025 The untold story of the academics who became OSS spies, invented modern spycraft, and helped turn the tide of the war At the start of WWII, the U.S. found itself in desperate need of an...
Greenteeth
O'Neill, Molly.
Paper Book
From an absolutely unmissable voice in cozy fantasy, this tale shares the story of fae, folklore, and found family, told by a charismatic lake-dwelling monster with a voice unlike any other. ★ "Full of magic that is rich, mysterious, and exciting." --...
Emily Wilde's compendium of lost tales : a novel
Fawcett, Heather
Paper Book
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * The third installment in the heartwarming and enchanting Emily Wilde series, about a curmudgeonly scholar of folklore and the fae prince she loves A GLOBE AND MAIL BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR Emily Wilde has spent her life...
Automatic noodle
Newitz, Annalee
Paper Book
A cozy near-future novella about a crew of leftover robots opening their very own noodle shop, from acclaimed sci-fi author Annalee Newitz. An instant USA Today and indie bestseller! Indie Next pick | Library Reads pick | Most Anticipated at...
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