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)
Confessions Of An Honest Man by Arthur RoschPresenting the Messiah by Brandon  CarpenterThe Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-ExupéryThe Alchemist by Paulo CoelhoJonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach
Mysticism books
264 books — 387 voters

The Last Father-Daughter Dance by Lisa WingateHer Beautiful Life by Brianna LabuskesTea & Alchemy by Sharon Lynn FisherThe Water Lies by Amy MeyersonBehind These Four Walls by Yasmin Angoe
Amazon First Reads December 2025
8 books — 4 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

Eerie Basin by Ivy PochodaDating After the End of the World by Jeneva RoseWanting Daisy Dead by Sue WatsonI'll Follow You by Charlene WangCall of the Camino by Suzanne Redfearn
Amazon First Reads September 2025
9 books — 4 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

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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