My holds list at the library tends to get out of control in December and January as best-of lists begin to appear, but this year stress has moved the needle to near-full earlier than usual. I haven’t hit the 25-item request limit yet, but will soon if I’m not careful, particularly because three of the items are still on order.

Here’s what I’ve requested from the library:

• Tana French’s The Witch Elm
• The Friend, by Sigrid Nunez
• The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke, by Jeffrey C. Stewart
• Flights, by Olga Tokarczuk
• The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge, by M.T. Anderson
• A Treasury of African American Christmas Stories, edited by Bettye Collier-Thomas
• Kate Milford’s Ghosts of Greenglass House
• Donald Hall’s Christmas at Eagle Pond
• All Summer Long, By Hope Larson
• T. E. McMorrow’s The Nutcracker in Harlem
• The Emissary, by Yōko Tawada
• A.J. Pearce’s Dear Mrs. Bird
• Children of Blood and Bone, by Tomi Adeyemi
• Esi Edugyan’s Washington Black
• Allie Rowbottom’s Jell-O Girls: A Family History
• Delia Owens’ Where the Crawdads Sing
• An American Marriage, by Tayari Jones
• There There, by Tommy Orange
• Becoming, by Michelle Obama (I’m also on the audio wait list, which I’d prefer, but I suspect neither will come through before the end of the year)

What have you put a hold on at the library?