Cookbook or a Book About Food
- Lessons in Chemistry by Betty Garmus
- Black Cake by Charmaine Wilkerson
- The Kitchen Front by Jennifer Ryan
- Love and Safron by Kim Fay
- Arsenic and Adobo by Mia P. Manansala
- Kitchens of the Great Midwest by J. Ryan Stradal
- YA: Let’s Make Ramen!: A Comic Book Cookbook by Hugh Amano
Fantasy/Sci-Fi
- Dune by Frank Herbert
- Wizard of Earth Sea: A Graphic Novel by Fred Fordham
- Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
- The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson
- Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
About Sports
- Beartown by Fredrik Backman
- Carrie Soto is Back by Taylor Jenkins Reid
- Playing for Pizza by John Grisham
- Hot Dog Money: Inside the Biggest Scandal in the History of College Sports by Guy Lawson
- The Complete Book of Pickleball by Kurt Brungardt
- YA: Check Please by Ngozi Ukazu
Unreliable Narrator
- The Girl on the the Train by Paula Hawkins
- Shutter Island by Dennis Lehane
- The Fury by Alex Michaelides
- You by Caroline Kepnes
- In a Dark Dark Wood by Ruth Ware
- The House Across the Lake by Riley Sager
- YA: We Were Liars by E. Lockhart
Main Character with a Disability
- True Biz by Sara Novic
- On the Bright Side by Anna Sortino
- How Lucky by Will Leitch
- See Me Rolling: On Disability, Equality, and Ten Point Turns by Lottie Jackson
- YA: Love’s In Sight by Uoyama (Mangaka)