It’s important for writers to practice their craft and to set aside a little time every day (or every week) to do so. But people can’t write if they don’t read—especially within their genres. Have you taken a look to see which books are trending or bestsellers in your genre? If not, I’ve put together some lists for you. The lists on which these books show up are in parentheses next to their titles. The books are listed in no particular order.

Fiction

• Where the Forest Meets the Stars by Glendy Vandereh (Amazon)
• Lilac Girls by Martha Hall Kelly (Amazon)
• The Victory Garden by Rhys Bowen (Amazon)
• Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens (Amazon) (New York Times)
• Girls of Glass by Brianna Labuskes (Amazon)
• The Magnolia Inn by Carolyn Brown (Amazon)
• The Killer Collective by Barry Eisler (Amazon)
• What the Wind Knows by Amy Harmon (Amazon)
• Beneath a Scarlet Sky by Mark Sullivan (Amazon)
• The Beantown Girls by Jane Healey (Amazon)

• Connections in Death by J.D. Robb (New York Times)
• The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides (New York Times)
• The Wedding Guest by Jonathan Kellerman (New York Times)
• Black Leopard, Red Wolf by Marlon James (New York Times)
• The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris (New York Times)
• The Lost Girls of Paris Pam Jenoff (New York Times)
• I Owe You One by Sophie Kinsella (New York Times)
• An Anonymous Girl by Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen (New York Times)
• An American Marriage by Tayari Jones (New York Times) (Goodreads)
• Still Me by Jojo Moyes (Goodreads)

• Every Note Played by Lisa Genova (Goodreads)
• All We Ever Wanted by Emily Giffin (Goodreads)
• Girls Burn Brighter by Shoba Rao (Goodreads)
• There, There by Tommy Orange (Goodreads)
• Killing Commendatore by Haruki Murakami (Goodreads)
• An Absolutely Remarkable Thing by Hank Green (Goodreads)
•  Nine Perfect Strangers by Liane Moriarty (Goodreads)
• Us Against You by Fredrik Backman (Goodreads)

Nonfiction

• The Sky Below by Scott Parazynski (Amazon)
• Educated: A Memoir by Tara Westover (Amazon) (New York Times)
• The Threat by Andrew G. McCabe (Amazon)
• The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey (Amazon)
• Becoming by Michelle Obama (Amazon) (New York Times)
• The Broken Circle by Enjeela Ahmadi-Miller (Amazon)
• How to Stop Living Paycheck to Paycheck by Avery Breyer (Amazon)
• The Neuroscientist Who Lost Her Mind by Barbara K. Lipska (Amazon)

• Stop Wasting Time by Garland Coulson (Amazon)
• Dinner in an Instant by Melissa Clark (Amazon)
• Women Rowing North by Mary Pipher (New York Times)
• From the Ground Up by Howard Schultz with Joanne Gordon (New York Times)
• Figuring by Maria Popova (New York Times)
• The First Conspiracy by Brad Meltzer and Josh Mensch (New York Times)
• Bad Blood by John Carreyrou (New York Times) (Goodreads)
• The Unwinding of the Miracle by Julie Yip-Williams (New York Times)
• The Library Book by Susan Orlean (New York Times) (Goodreads)
• The Truths We Hold by Kamala Harris (New York Times)

• I’ll Be Gone in the Dark by Michelle McNamara (Goodreads)
• Fear by Bob Woodard (Goodreads)
• Whiskey in a Teacup by Reese Witherspoon (Goodreads)
• Not that Bad by Roxane Gay (Goodreads)
• Fascism by Madeleine Albright (Goodreads)

Poetry

• Devotions by Mary Oliver (Amazon)

• Dog Songs by Mary Oliver (Amazon)
• Citizen by Claudia Rankine (Amazon)
• Human Hours by Catherine Barnett (New York Times)
• The Popol Vuh translated by Michael Bazzett (New York Times)
• Years, Months, and Days by Amanda Jernigan (New York Times)
• Dark Woods by Richard Sanger (New York Times)
• Wade in the Water by Tracy K. Smith (New York Times)
• A Memory of the Future by Elizabeth Spires (New York Times)
• Like by A. E. Stallings (New York Times)
• Transaction Histories by Donna Stonecipher (New York Times)
• Blood Labors by Daniel Tobin (New York Times)
• Hey, Marfa by Jeffrey Yang (New York Times)
• The Witch Doesn’t Burn in This One by Amanda Lovelace (Goodreads)

• The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo (Goodreads)
• Useless Magic by Florence Welch (Goodreads)
• The Dark Between Stars by Atticus (Goodreads)
• Taking the Arrow Out of the Heart by Alice Walker (Goodreads)
• Rebound by Kwame Alexander (Goodreads)
• If They Come for Us by Fatimah Asghar (Goodreads)
• Take Me With You by Andrea Gibson (Goodreads)

Remember: No matter your genre, don’t forget to read what you write!