In Order:

• Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
• Dinosaurs by Lydia Millet 
• All the Broken Places by John Boyne
• The Rabbit Hutch by Tess Gunty
• Spare by Prince Harry
• Victory City by Salman Rushdie
• I Have Some Questions for You by Rebecca Makkai
• Birnam Wood by Eleanor Catton
• The Thing About December by Donal Ryan
• Hello, Beautiful by Ann Napolitano
• The Hole We’re In by Gabrielle Zevin
• This Time Tomorrow by Emma Straub
• The Lying Life of Adults by Elena Ferrante
• The Guest by Emma Cline
• Companion Piece by Ali Smith
• Flight by Lynn Steger Strong
• Checkout 19 by Claire-Louise Bennett
• The Late Americans by Brandon Taylor
• Minor Detail by Adania Shibli
• Factory Girls by Michelle Gallen
• Trespasses by Louise Kennedy
• The Hero of This Book by Elizabeth McCracken
• Tom Lake by Ann Patchett
• The Lockup by John Banville
• Small Mercies by Dennis Lehane
• The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese
• Trust by Hernan Diaz
• The Fraud by Zadie Smith
• The Rehearsal by Eleanor Catton
• The Bee Sting by Paul Murray
• The Vaster Wilds by Lauren Groff
• Day by Michael Cunningham
• In the Distance by Hernan Diaz
• Family Meal by Bryan Washington
• Old God’s Time by Sebastian Barry
• Absolution by Alice McDermott

Favorites:

• I Have Some Questions for You
• The Thing About December
• Minor Detail
• Trespasses
• Tom Lake
• Small Mercies
• The Covenant of Water
• Trust
• The Bee Sting
• The Vaster WIlds
• Absolution

Repeated authors:

• Gabrielle Zevin
• Hernan Diaz
• Eleanor Catton

COVID books:

• This Time Tomorrow
• Companion Piece
• The Hero of This Book
• Tom Lake
• Day

Irish or Northern Irish:

• All the Broken Places
• The Thing About December
• Factory Girls
• Trespasses
• The Lockup
• The Bee Sting
• Old God’sTime

Mystery/thriller crossovers:

• I Have Some Questions for You (ish)
• Birnam Wood
• The Guest
• The Lockup
• Small Mercies
• Old God’s Time

Book-within-a-book or meta vibes

• The Rehearsal
• Trust
• The Fraud

Wilderness survival:

• The Vaster Wilds
• In the Distance

No plot just vibes:

• Dinosaurs
• The Rabbit Hutch
• Checkout 19
• The Late Americans
• Day
• Family Meal

Would have forgotten if I didn’t keep a list:

• Dinosaurs
• All the Broken Places
• The Rabbit Hutch
• Victory City
• The Hole We’re In
• Flight
• The Hero of This Book
• The Lockup
• Family Meal