First Reads

The first-reads shelf is designed for books that have been won through the GoodReads FirstReads Giveaway Program. ...more

The Almond Tree
Something Borrowed (Darcy & Rachel, #1)
Only Time Will Tell (The Clifton Chronicles, #1)
The Biology of Luck
Rainshadow Road (Friday Harbor, #2)
The Cannastar Factor (The Trouble with Miracles #1)
Stay Another Night
The Joshua Effect
The Insider
Never Knowing
The Next Time You See Me
Truly, Madly (Lucy Valentine, #1)
Glow (Sky Chasers, #1)
A Lifetime to Die
Red Rising (Red Rising Saga, #1)
The Almond Tree by Michelle Cohen CorasantiDark Side by J.M. BarlogThe Orphan Master's Son by Adam  JohnsonThe Rook by Daniel O'MalleyThe Why Cafe by John P. Strelecky
Books Won on Goodreads
494 books — 188 voters

Lift Me Up by Milly JohnsonWhen the Storm Passes by Manel LoureiroThe Final System by Anthony TardiffWhere the Sea Lavender Grows by Kitty  JohnsonThe Dead Room by Catriona McPherson
Amazon First Reads April 2026
10 books — 3 voters
Chasing Stardust by Erica Lucke DeanThe Night Guests by Marina ScottWhat She Saw by Mary BurtonThe Fix by Mia SheridanThe Kidnapping of Alice Ingold by Cate Holahan
Amazon First Reads October 2025
11 books — 4 voters

Nymph by Tonya AlexandraLeverage by Jessica WildeBoomerang by Noelle AugustYounger Next Week by Elisa ZiedSwans Are Fat Too by Michelle Granas
2014 First Reads
9 books — 11 voters
The Cosmic Experience of One by Jasun EtherThe Field by Lynne McTaggartThe Divine Matrix by Gregg BradenTaoTuning by Adrian EmeryThe Ancient Secret of the Flower of Life by Drunvalo Melchizedek
Mysticism books
276 books — 479 voters

Humphrey Carpenter
I am a very ‘unvoracious’ reader, and since I can seldom bring myself to read a work twice I think of the many things that I read – too soon! Nothing, not even a (possible) deeper appreciation, for me replaces the bloom on a book, the freshness of the unread. Still what we read and when goes, like the people we meet, by ‘fate.’ Letter 189 From a letter to Mrs M. Wilson
Humphrey Carpenter, The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien

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