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“Absent-mindedness” features books that explore the quirks, humor, and poignancy of forgetfulness and wandering focus. Spanning fiction, memoir, essays, humor, psychology, and practical guides, these works center on characters or narrators whose drifting attention and misplaced intentions shape events—yielding comic mishaps, missed cues, and reflective detours into memory and identity. Stylistically, they often favor digressive or fragmented structures, lists and notes, and intimate, sometimes unreliable voices that dramatize the gap between what we mean to do and what we actually do. Alongside playful vignettes, the category also engages with the science and lived experience of distraction and executive function, including neurodiversity, showing how creative leaps can emerge from cognitive drift. From slice-of-life novels to thoughtful handbooks, these books find empathy and insight in getting a little lost—and in the unexpected routes that follow.

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