#sixth extinction book

[jessicaroux]

I created the interior illustrations for the young reader’s adaptation of the New York Times-bestselling, Pulitzer Prize-winning book The Sixth Extinction by Elizabeth Kolbert, published by Henry Holt. I loved both versions of the book, and I learned so much illustrating these!

[teenageread]

Review: The Sixth Extinction

Synopsis:

Over the last half-billion years, there have been five mass extinctions, when the diversity of life on earth suddenly and dramatically contracted. Scientists around the world are currently monitoring the sixth extinction, predicted to be the most devastating extinction event since the asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs. This time around, the cataclysm is us. 

In prose that is at once frank, entertaining, and deeply informed, The New Yorker writer Elizabeth Kolbert tells us why and how human beings have altered life on the planet in a way no species has before. Interweaving research in half a dozen disciplines, descriptions of the fascinating species that have already been lost, and the history of extinction as a concept, Kolbert provides a moving and comprehensive account of the disappearances occurring before our very eyes. She shows that the sixth extinction is likely to be mankind's most lasting legacy, compelling us to rethink the fundamental question of what it means to be human.

Plot:

Throughout this planet’s history (as we know it) there have been five major extinctions. The first was the Ordovician Extinction when most of the planet was an ocean, then the Late Devonian, which killed off three quarters of the species on earth. The third was the largest, known as the Permian Mass Extinction, its nickname is the Great Dying since it killed off 96% of life on earth. With the fourth, Triassic-Jurassic, and the fifth, Cretaceous-Tertiary, being the most popular one for killing off the dinosaurs, it is also the most “recent” mass extinction event. The question scientists are asking now is, if by historical stances, we are in a sixth mass extinction, and is it natural or are humans causing the event? Elizabeth Kolbert takes us on her scientific journey from the golden frogs in El Valle, rhinos, humans, and where we are storing the DNA of the extinct. From pictures, graphs, equations, past and present scientists, Kolbert gives us the cold hard truth, and unlike a fiction novel, this one does not have a happy ending. 

Thoughts: 

Elizabeth Kolbert won the Pulitzer prize for this novel, telling us how we are going to kill the world. Not to be honest, this is not a light read, nor something that is necessarily ‘fun’. Where at times Kolbert did write in an entertaining way, it is not a fiction novel, this is real, with real people, and real events happening around the world right now. The best thing is Kolbert leaves her notes on where she got her quotes, a bibliography and an index, which is helpful to quote this novel.  If you are interested in global matters, environmental needs, or just done reading fictional garbage, this book is perfect, as each chapter is a new place/new issue, you can easily snooze through one and still understand the plot.

Read more reviews: Goodreads

Buy the book: Amazon

[copperbadge]

So the Chicago Public Library does "One Book, One Chicago" every year where they encourage everyone to read the same book and discuss it, and I've been invited to the next title reveal. In the invite and on the RSVP page, this is the logo/marketing they're going with and it's...very specific.

[ID: The email I received for One Book One Chicago, which includes "You're Invited" done in pixels with the O as a heart, on a background of pastel colors that fade from red to yellow to green; below that it reads "Enter into the Unveiling Experience" and some of the text includes the statement that "The announcement and press event will be an immersive and surprise-filled unveiling of the book's title."]

It's giving Ready Player One, it's giving Polybius, it's screaming "Someone really bought into the metaverse briefly". I'm planning to go to the unveiling, I'm excited and intrigued, but also a little wary. It makes me want to start some kind of pool on what the book will be.

It can't be Phillip K. Dick, we just did Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep like five years ago. It's tough to get a measure based on the list of past books, because it covers a number of genres both fiction and non, and sometimes they seem really relevant to the historical moment but sometimes not so much. Maybe How The Internet Happened? But that seems slightly too niche. Then again, so did The Sixth Extinction.

The CPL has been going hard on gaming and tech for teens lately (in a good way, but there's been a noticeable bend in the way they market teen programs), so when a colleague said "Maybe a YA novel?" I did a little search. One book came up in both "books about the internet and the 80s" and "YA books about the internet", which is "Fake" by Ele Fountain, so that's a contender.

What do we think? I don't read much cyberpunk, I rarely am in the know on bestsellers and usually we're doing something that's relatively popular but a few years old. Interested to see what people would speculate it could be.

Also I'm somewhat curious about what algo got me on the mailing list for this -- I've never participated in One Book before and while I am a regular library user and live local to the HWLC, so do like a billion other people. Would love to talk to the person who composed their mailing list. (I am somehow categorized as "Press" in a number of databases belonging to Chicago politicians and for-profit consulting firms, I'm not sure how that happened, so it could be they think I'm a journo.)

[reddragdiva]

"Dimes Square" was a Thiel-funded attempt to make neoreaction hip with the youth. Every word out of it is the worst.

Honor Levy is the latest Dimes Square neoreactionary that The Cut did a puff piece on for unclear reasons. https://archive.is/SqSv5

Here's actual text from her actual fucking book. It's "Ready Player One" for race scientists. https://archive.is/WE3Nb

He was giving knight errant, organ-meat eater, Byronic hero, Haplogroup Rlb. She was giving damsel in distress, pill-popper pixie dream girl, Haplogroup K. He was in his fall of Rome era. She was serving sixth and final mass extinction event realness. His face was a marble statue. Her face was an anime waifu. They scrolled into each other. If they could have, they would have blushed, pink pixels on a screen. Monkey covering eyes emoji. Anime nosebleed GIF. Henlo frend. hiii.

The Cut piece just happens to mention how Levy interviewed Curtis Yarvin on her podcast

Brock Colyar at The Cut should know fucking better but shows no evidence of capacity for such

the NYT review: "There is an interesting sense here of young people brought up amid a war — a cultural one." you can tell this guy's been saving that line for a special occasion

filing Levy high on the list of Thiel's crimes

[randomfoggytiger]

Since canon ends at season 8 for you. How do you think William was conceived? Alien intervention? miracle from God? super powers from the ship found on the beach? Of something else?

I say she was healed by the alien spaceship.

To me, there was a reason CC and Spotnitz worked a "touch the ship" angle into Biogenesis, The Sixth Extinction, and Amor Fati-- long before WBD approached them with his En Ami storyline (which CC heavily rewrote, post here, to create another "whoooo knoooooows???" mystery box.) More specifically, there was a reason it was shown to bring death back to life in the same arc as Mulder's visions of a boy on the beach and a strategically placed family planning book in the basement.

I, personally, prefer that the boy on the beach was an example of the disconnect from Mulder's inner child in "other life, other world." And, I believe, if David Duchovny helped write that part (which I'm pretty sure he did), he meant it that way, too. But CC and Spotnitz worked those scenes in because of the impending pregnancy reveal in Requiem. Even if that cheapens the overall message (to me), the fact remains.

It still makes sense why Scully didn't get pregnant right away between Millennium and all things: she is at an advanced maternal age, even if she can now conceive. Her older brother Bill struggled with infertility, so perhaps it runs in the family. (Although according to That Guy in Trust No. 1, Mulder and Scully are excessively fertile-- having only fallen into bed once-- which... c'mon. Even canon debunks that claim.)

Lest we forget William has ~magical powers~ (ugh), which would only make sense if his conception was due to ~magical~ circumstances. CSM sticking a needle into Scully's neck (or tampering with her chip) wouldn't add up (timeline aside) because alien hybrids born through nefarious interference were heavily monitored and continually poked and prodded during development, let alone after birth. So. That's out. The alien ship remains as the only possibility.

But what about S8, where Existence's conclusion hinged on the fact William was normal? Well, why did the aliens take an interest in Scully's pregnancy to begin with? They weren't trying to kill her or her baby (unlike other Consortium hybrids or clones they indiscriminately destroyed.) And why were they hung up on her fertility, anyway? It was the Syndicate, not the aliens, who chipped and sterilized her. The only answer that makes the most sense is if Scully's baby had a connection to them apart from CSM and his cohort's shenanigans-- a.k.a., the ship. This is backed up by their behavior: they weren't seeking to destroy William (in S8, at least): they simply wanted to observe. He was a novelty. He was the only baby, it seems, born from a touch of their craft. He was, in a way, theirs, even if he was normal. (Which would pose an interesting conundrum-- a human baby, as normal as could be, brought to life naturally because of aliens and mankind seeking to understand each other: not a threat, but not an asset, either; a puzzle to all factions of the war. I say "would" because S9 erased and butchered it.)

All in all, that's what makes the most sense, to me.

[great-and-small]

Do you have any book recommendations to someone majoring in wildlife/animal science? I’m looking to fill put a bookshelf :)c

Love this question so much!

For your non-fiction shelf:

- Spineless by Julie Berwald

- Rabid by Bill Wasik and Monica Murphy

- The Sixth Extinction by Elizabeth Kolbert

- This is your brain on parasites by Kathleen McAuliffe

- An Immense World by Ed Young

For your fiction shelf

- Raptor Red by Bob Bakker (cannot recommend this enough)

- The White Bone by Barbara Gowdy

[bracketsoffear]

What aare some submissions that didn't get it, but you'd still like to mention

There were few enough submissions that I can just post the full list.

Tales of a Sixth-Grade Muppet by Kirk Scroggs

Maskerade by Terry Pratchett

Among the Dolls by William Sleator

The Monstrous Makeup Manual by Mike Spatola

This Town Will Never Let Us Go by Lawrence Miles

The Hollow Men by Keith Topping & Martin Day

Dead Man's Folly by Agatha Christie

The Witches by Roald Dahl

The Only Problem by Muriel Spark

Battleground by Stephen King

The Twice-Dead King by Nate Crowley

If On A Winter's Night A Traveller by Italo Calvino

Uzomaki and The Enigma of Amigara Fault by Junji Ito

and of course,

Upon the Dull Earth by Philip K. Dick

The Scarecrow Walks at Midnight by R.L. Stine

My personal faves of the runners-up were Maskerade, Tales of a Sixth-Grade Muppet, and Upon the Dull Earth. I desperately wanted to put This Town in as well, but 1. I already had a Doctor Who book and 2. Tiffany's story is only about a third of the book, maybe less, and the other plotlines aren't especially Stranger-aligned, more Extinction or Web.

[typhlonectes]

Svante Pääbo Wins Nobel Prize for Unraveling the Mysteries of Neanderthal DNA

The Swedish geneticist used 40,000-year-old bones to sequence the early humans’ genome

The Nobel Committee for Physiology or Medicine awarded the field’s top prize on Monday to Svante Pääbo, a Swedish geneticist who determined how to extract and analyze DNA from 40,000-year-old Neanderthal bones. Pääbo’s decades of research have made it possible for scientists to begin probing differences between today’s modern humans and their ancient ancestors.

Pääbo, who is 67, has spent decades pioneering and perfecting new methods of extracting Neanderthal DNA, an extremely complex and challenging process. Over time, very old DNA degrades and can become polluted with the DNA of bacteria, and modern scientists can also easily contaminate it with their own genetic material.

But time and again, Pääbo found ways around these and other issues. In 2010, after years of painstaking work, Pääbo and his team published the sequenced Neanderthal genome, a feat that at one time was considered impossible, reports the New York Times’ Benjamin Mueller. As Elizabeth Kolbert wrote in her book The Sixth Extinction, the process was like trying to reconstruct a “Manhattan telephone book from pages that have been put through a shredder, mixed with yesterday’s trash, and left to rot in a landfill...”

Read more:  https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/svante-paabo-wins-nobel-prize-for-unraveling-the-mysteries-of-neanderthal-dna-180980883

Video:  The science part of the interview starts at 2:35.

Images:  Painting by Charles R. Knight, photo by Thilo Parg CC.

[geryone]

what science/nf books have you read recently that you recommend!!💕❤️‍🔥💞

The nonfiction books I’ve read recently and enjoyed are:

1. The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History by Elizabeth Kolbert

2. There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension by Hanif Abdurraqib

3. Know My Name: A Memoir by Chanel Miller

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Earth Day 2024

April 21, 2024, update: . . . " the average global temperature on Earth has increased by at least 1.2° Celsius (1.9° Fahrenheit) since 1880 (it increased 0.4° Celsius since 2016). There is only 0.3° Celsius of increase left before we hit the first tier of cataclysmic thresholds, according to environmental scientists.

According to an ongoing temperature analysis led by scientists at NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS), "the average global temperature on Earth has increased by at least 1.2° Celsius (1.9° Fahrenheit) since 1880 (it increased 0.4° Celsius since 2016). The majority of the warming has occurred since 1975, at a rate of roughly 0.15 to 0.20°C per decade. . . . . The data reflect how much warmer or cooler each region was compared to the base period of 1951-1980. (The global mean surface air temperature for that period was 14°C (57°F), with an uncertainty of several tenths of a degree.)"

Adding to this is the growing number of methane sinkholes, each releasing several gigatons of gas per day. This growing phenomenon is changing all the current climate projections. Indeed, we might already have reached the climate tipping point.

There was a time when we believed that we were the center of the universe and that we should have dominion over the Earth. But then Copernicus came along, who asserted that the Sun is indeed the center of our solar system, the Moon being the only body that revolved around the Earth. I'm sure you know that this resulted in a bit of an uproar. As for the dominion idea, our use of resources, overhunting, and factory farming of animals has contributed to climate change and the current sixth extinction. Watch Marvin Gaye's video, Mercy, Mercy Me (The Ecology), released in 1971.

The following two photos show a contrast between Greenland's Tunu Glacier in 1933 and 2013. This melt-back is characteristic of ice all around the world, though melt-back varies widely, depending on location.

Source:

The Greenland Ice Sheet - 80 years of climate change seen from the air.

/ Bjørk, Anders Anker; Kjær, Kurt H.; Larsen, Nicolaj Krog; Kjeldsen, Kristian Kjellerup; Khan, Shfaqat Abbas; Funder, Svend Visby; Korsgaard, Niels Jákup. 2014. Abstract from 44th International Arctic Workshop, Boulder, Colorado, United States.

It wasn't so long ago that Carl Sagan and climate scientists started sounding the alarm that we were going down a dangerous path. Subsequent climate data has revealed that those early projections vastly underestimated what was happening, since we now know that climate change is not a linear but an exponential process. That is, it happens faster and faster over time.

Via Voyager 1 (click to enlarge)

The now famous photograph of Earth as a pale blue dot was taken on February 14, 1990 by the deep space probe, Voyager 1, from a record distance of about 6 billion kilometers (3.7 billion miles). The more recent

Via Cassini

photograph was taken by the deep space probe, Cassini. Though more striking with Saturn in the foreground, it also shows how Earth is but a spec in the cosmos. As Sagan said in his book: Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. (Carl Sagan, The Pale Blue Dot, 1994)

People often say we have to save the Earth. Not so! The Earth will go on just fine without us. The issue is preserving the current biosphere that supports us and the other higher vertebrates. There will always be life on the planet so long as there's liquid water. As I present every year, here is my fictionalized account of our worst scenario. Let's do better!

[chronicallydragons]

Tag Game: OC interaction

I'm finally catching up on tag games! Thanks both @tildeathiwillwrite and @illarian-rambling for the tags! I'll do both here if that's okay!

Rules: Provide a short description of your oc, then using the description given by the person who tagged you, describe how you think the two of them would interact.

@tildeathiwillwrite's oc: Hector Epsilona is Caenum's resident Watcher (which is a detective/bodyguard/mercenary-type job). He knows the law (and its loopholes) very well, and uses both extensively, and enjoys a small amount of freedom to operate outside the law if he sees fit. He is extremely protective of and attached to those he cares about, especially his apprentice, Luc. He is generally polite, if a bit stern, and is always looking for a way to turn something into a lesson. I used the Wheel again (it's a brilliant idea!) and got Sophie from my MG werewolf WIP

My OC: Sophie Beatrice Larsen is a 12 years old and is a sixth grader at Forest Hills Elementary. She's 100% in her "weird 12 year old" phase and embracing and loving every second of that. She firmly believes mythological creatures are real and will go to the ends of the earth to prove they actually exist. She's delightfully weird, incredibly passionate, and super curious. She's naturally good at tracking and investigating and looking for clues and asking questions. She's also got a large amount of sass for such a tiny human and won't just standby in the face of injustice. How I think they'd interact: Sophie would probably idolize Hector, tbh. I mean, he's a detective??? She's absolutely taking notes and copying every single thing he does so she can be a better detective too. Whether or not Hector is chill about this, I have no clue XD ---

@illarian-rambling's oc: OC: Elsind is a 20 year old changeling whose true form looks like a mannequin wrapped in raw meat with five fins ringing its face, and who can transition between a solid and liquid state. They change their disguise frequently (they can only do people, not animals) and use the pronouns of whatever face they’re wearing. As a person, Elsind is anxious, easily flustered, cries a lot, and is overall very kind-hearted, despite working as an assassin for a rebel cell. She ended up in that line of work because she wants revenge for what the nobility of her home put her through - kidnapping her at thirteen to serve as a court freak. He thinks if he can assassinate his target, he can earn his courage back and be more than another discarded toy of the ruling class, even if the idea of killing someone makes him sick. Indeed, classism is where Elsind gets very passionate, as well as talking about romance novels. They long for love, even if they think no one would accept a changeling without a disguise. I would also say she’s chronically unlucky. If anyone is going to slip in the mud in his nice new dress, it’s Elsind. All I have written down on their character notes is “eager to please, easily overwhelmed, great combo of traits,” which is pretty much Elsind’s deal. The Wheel has chosen Lizzie--also from my MG werewolf WIP. I suppose it's appropriate that the best friends get chosen together (though for what it's worth, Sophie would be FASCINATED by Elsind and would beg for them to change their face and show her what his true form is and would 100% love her true form) My OC: Elizabeth Page (Lizzie) is also a 12 year old 6th grader at Forest Hills Elementary. She has pretty debilitating POTS symptoms and is often dizzy, fatigued, and in pain. She's incredibly loyal, loving, and kind. She really sees the best in people. She's also a werewolf. Because werewolves are so often depicted as monsters and were nearly hunted to extinction in the 1500s, it's against werewolf law to let nonwerewolves know to keep them safe. Lizzie adores Sophie and wants to help with the investigations but she's not allowed to tell and she spends the first chunk of the book terrified that Sophie won't accept her if she finds out the truth. How I think they'd interact: Listen. A huge proportion of my characters are shapeshifters in someway, so it's no surprise I got a shapeshifter when I pulled a character at random. But I think the fact the wheel pulled Lizzie to meet Elsind is a really good match. Lizzie's also incredibly anxious, kindhearted, and ALSO ready to seek revenge. A big plot point is that Sophie and Lizzie find a new kid who was just recently turned into a werewolf (Lizzie was born into a werewolf family), and Lizzie's ready to square up with whoever it was that attacked a 12 year old boy. So I think Lizzie and Elsind would probably definitely get along.

I'm nervous to tag people because I'm going to try to get through the rest of the tag games and I only have like 3 or 4 people I know are okay with tags and I don't really want to spam tag anyone, so... open tag?? (if you want to be tagged, please let me know!)

[deadpanwalking]

you're right nonfiction is a broad subject but tbh all of the subjects you suggested sound good! alright maybe to narrow it down, pop science, medical writing and religion? Thanks again!

Thank you for narrowing it down, but I regret to inform you that—although I understood the assignment—I overthought the first part and broke the subjects down into a handful of subcategories with two book recs each. I could have done the same with books about religion, but I just picked up tri-color tortilla chips and am very hungry, so it's nacho lucky day.

Math

Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas Hofstadter

Chaos: Making a New Science by James Gleick

Physics:

The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory by Brian Greene

Lost in Math: How Beauty Leads Physics Astray by Sabine Hossenfelder

Neurology:

The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat: And Other Clinical Tales by Oliver Sacks

Phantoms in the Brain: Probing the Mysteries of the Human Mind by V.S. Ramachandran

History of Medicine:

The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer by Siddhartha Mukherjee

Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present by Harriet A. Washington

Plants:

The Botany of Desire by Michael Pollan

The Hidden Life of Trees by Peter Wohlleben

Ocean:

Between the Tides by Adam Nicolson

The Sea Around Us by Rachel Carson

Bugs:

Silent Earth: Averting the Insect Apocalypse by Dave Goulson

Innumerable Insects: The Story of the Most Diverse and Myriad Animals on Earth by Michael S. Engel

Death

Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach

Silent Witnesses: The Often Gruesome but Always Fascinating History of Forensic Science by Nigel McCrery

Climate Change:

The Sixth Extinction by Elizabeth Kolbert

How to Blow Up a Pipeline by Andreas Malm

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wooaahg a get to know you meme.. i was tagged by @ruushes !! thank u this is so fun hehe

three ships: just 3!! difficult 2 choose

zevwarden also very much on my mind recently. they are so special 2 me and i always get very fixated on my pcs in rpgs so im double invested lol

shadowgast :) fun fact the initial reason i decided it was time to catch up with critrole was because i heard whispers that they actually ended up being real, and then i didnt want my cr journey to be over and started watching bells hells too hehe

honestly theres others that are more at the forefront of my mind atm but i gotta shout out satosugu. was deeply sick over them for a long time

first ship: god i don't even know for sure, but honestly think it might have been thomas and minho from the maze runner when i was in like middle school LMFAO. or odin/ava from avas demon !

last song: guys, its damned for all time/blood money from jesus christ superstar. i dont know what happened to me these last couple days but i got the urge to listen to jcs again and have been playing the cast recording on loop LMFAO its so good

last movie: amazing question. probably deadpool 2 bc i watched most of it with my brother earlier this week and i have no recollection of any movies ive seen recently before that

currently reading: only truly counting tevinter nights even though theres several other books i havent finished bc some of those have been on hold for actual years atp LMAO. but the others are the left hand of darkness, humanKind, and the sixth extinction.

currently watching: always critical role. also various dropout tv shows and always jerma and other gaming channel vods/compilations :]

tagging @sotc @mourn-and-watch @teansouprmyjam @saturdaysky ONLY if u feel like it !! feel free to ignore this whole thing LOL

[yisanged]

barnes and noble trip today 👍 i got this pretty looking copy of the new york trilogy plus this nonfiction book called the sixth extinction that seemed cool. i also got volumes 4 and 5 of mdzs so now my set is complete hip hip hooray. there was a danmei table in the middle of the anime/manga area that i had to embarrassingly be at to find them but there was a copy of evelyn hugo and also the love hypothesis which is that one stupid ass romance book that's basically just published reylo fanfiction laid haphazardly on top of the danmei like the husky white cat and etc clearly because someone was planning on getting them but changed their mind and switched them out for chinese boy's love light novels last minute which i thought was really funny. a choice was made. another win in the yaoi war

[koalathebear]

Sigma Force series by James Rollins

I have become totally obsessed with the Sigma Force series by @authorjamesrollins.

It crosses a few genres so it's hard to describe it without turning people off. For instance, it's kind of like the Da Vinci Code (which I HATED!!) crossed with Indiana Jones, crossed with the good elements of Mission Impossible ... it's got adventure, science, history ..

Sigma Force are an elite covert arm of the US Defense Department made up of former Special Forces officers trained as experts in various scientific fields. Think scientists with guns .. but there's so much more. On the one hand it's a real ride - action packed, fun, popcorny .. but the series gets better and better as you go and they become more and more thought-provoking.

I have come across two ships that I am shipping soooooo hard ... Gray x Seichan and from book 10 "The Sixth Extinction", I am totally shipping Jenna x Drake.

Despite being action .. Rollins writes characters and to my surprise, writes women really, really well. Totally passes the Bechdel Test for what it's worth and I really care about the characters... he also makes me invested in minor characters and I get upset when they die.

I can't do fan art, so did my own AI representations of the characters. I know people hate AI, but I can't draw! I'll do some fan fic for the above ships shortly if I can but here are some visualisations of the characters.

Grayson Pierce

Seichan

Jenna Beck

Gunnery Sergeant Drake

[kierrasreads]

2023 Reads!

Thank you to everyone for joining me on my book journey! I'm looking forward to another year of good reads! If you have any recommendations, please let me know.

Without further ado, here are my reads for this year!:

Howl's Moving Castle, Castle in the Air, and The House of Many Ways by Diana Wynne Jones

California Plants: A Guide to Our Iconic Flora by Matt Ritter

The Love Hypothesis by Ali Hazelwood

Look Alive Twenty-Five by Janet Evanovich

It Happened One Summer by Tessa Bailey

I Am a Cat Barista (Volume 1) by Hiro Maijima

Koe no Katachi/A Silent Voice (Volumes 2-6) by Yoshitoki Oima

Karakuri Odette (Volumes 1-5) by Julietta Suzuki

Komi-san wa Komyushou Desu/Komi Can't Communicate (Volumes 23-26) by Tomohito Oda

Cannery Row by John Steinbeck

Horimiya (Volume 1) by Hero

Wotakoi: Love is Hard for Otaku (Volume 5) by Fujita

Kakuriyo: Bed & Breakfast for Spirits (Volume 1) by Waco Ioka

Kiki's Delivery Service by Eiko Kadono

Skip & Loafer (Volumes 1-3) by Misaki Takamatsu

Skull-face Bookseller Honda-san (Volumes 2-4) by Honda

Toshokan no Daimajutsushi/Magus of the Library (Volumes 3-5) by Mitsu Izumi

Blasphemy: New and Selected Stories by Sherman Alexie

Strange Weather in Tokyo by Hiromi Kawakami

Saint Young Men Omnibus (Volume 1) by Hikaru Nakamura

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami

Insomniacs After School (Volume 1) by Makoto Ojiro

Kubo Won't Let Me Be Invisible (Volume 1) by Nene Yukimori

The Sixth Extinction by Elizabeth Kolbert

Twisted Love (Twisted #1) by Ana Huang

Wind/Pinball: Hear the Wind Sing and Pinball by Haruki Murakami

Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future by Elizabeth Kolbert

Killing Floor (Jack Reacher #1) by Lee Child

Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas by Megan Shepherd

Muffin but the Truth (Bakeshop Mystery #16) & Catch Me If You Candy (Bakeshop Mystery #17) by Ellie Alexander

A Study in Scarlet, The Sign of Four, A Scandal in Bohemia, The Red-Headed League, A Case of Identity, The Boscombe Mystery, The Five Orange Pips, The Man with the Twisted Lip, The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle, The Adventure of the Speckled Band, The Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb, The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor, The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet, The Adventure of the Copper Beeches, Silver Blaze, The Yellow Face, The Stock-Broker's Clerk, The Gloria Scott, The Musgrave Ritual, The Reigate Puzzle, The Crooked Man, The Resident Patient, The Greek Interpreter, The Naval Treaty, and The Final Adventure by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War by Max Brooks (audiobook)

Gokushufudō/The Way of the House Husband (Volumes 1-3) by Kousuke Oono

Grand total: 90