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While Justice Sleeps
Stacey Abrams
Crescent
Diana Abu-Jaber
Call Me By Your Name
André Aciman
The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story
Diane Ackerman
Americanah
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Purple Hibiscus
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Chain-Gang All-Stars
Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
American Dervish
Ayad Akhtar
Homeland Elegies
Ayad Akhtar
Leave the World Behind
Rumaan Alam
The Hospital: Life, Death, and Dollars in a Small American Town
Brian Alexander
The New Jim Crow : Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
Michelle Alexander
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
Sherman Alexie
Daughter of Fortune
Isabel Allende
A Long Petal of the Sea
Isabel Allende
Afterlife
Julia Alvarez
How the García Girls Lost Their Accents
Julia Alvarez
Mad Honey
Jodi Picoult and Jennifer Finney Boylan
The Personal Librarian
Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray
Carry the One
Carol Anshaw
Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth
Reza Aslan
Behind the Scenes at the Museum
Kate Atkinson
Case Histories
Kate Atkinson
Life After Life
Kate Atkinson
The Blind Assassin
Margaret Atwood
The Handmaid's Tale
Margaret Atwood
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen
Honey and Spice
Bolu Babalola
Anxious People
Fredrik Backman
A Man Called Ove
Fredrik Backman
The Elegance of the Hedgehog
Muriel Barbery
The Sense of an Ending
Julian Barnes
The Rope
Nevada Barr
Driving Miss Norma: One Family's Journey Saying "Yes" to Living
Tim Bauerschmidt and Ramie Liddle
The Sellout
Paul Beatty
The Immortalists
Chloe Benjamin
The Vanishing Half
Brit Bennett
The Postmistress
Sarah Blake
Away
Amy Bloom
The Poison Squad: One Chemist's Single-minded Crusade for Food Safety at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
Deborah Blum
In the Unlikely Event
Judy Blume
The Death and Life of Aida Hernandez: A Border Story
Aaron Bobrow-Strain
The Double Bind
Chris Bohjalian
Blue Lake
Jeffrey D. Boldt
The Tortilla Curtain
T.C. Boyle
Fleishman is in Trouble
Taffy Brodesser-Akner
Horse
Geraldine Brooks
The Yellow House
Sarah M. Broom
The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Olympics
Daniel James Brown
I’m Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness
Austin Channing Brown
The Weird Sisters
Eleanor Brown
At Home: A Short History of a Private Life
Bill Bryson
The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid
Bill Bryson
A Walk in the Woods
Bill Bryson
We Need New Names
NoViolet Bulawayo
Cold Sassy Tree
Olive Ann Burns
Little Faith
Nickolas Butler
Parable of the Sower
Octavia E. Butler
Shotgun Lovesongs
Nickolas Butler
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
Susan Cain
Farm City: the Education of an Urban Farmer
Novella Carpenter
32 Candles
Ernessa T. Carter
My Antonia
Willa Cather
Learning to Stay
Erin Celello
Unshakeable Confidence: The Freedom to be Our Authentic Selves: Mindfulness for Women
Mare Chapman
Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant?
Roz Chast
The Man Who Was Thursday
G.K. Chesterton
Mrs. Lincoln's Dressmaker
Jennifer Chiaverini
Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982
Cho Nam-Joo
Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother
Amy Chua
The Person You Mean to Be
Dolly Chugh
Shoulder Season
Christina Clancy
The Girls
Emma Cline
The President is Missing
Bill Clinton and James Patterson
State of Terror
Hillary Rodham Clinton and Louise Penny
Between the World and Me
Ta-Nehisi Coates
The Water Dancer
Ta-Nehisi Coates
Educating Esme
Esme Codell
Connecting Across Differences: Finding Common Ground With Anyone, Anywhere, Anytime
Jane Marantz Connor
The Chatham School Affair
Thomas Cook
Blacktop Wasteland
S.A. Cosby
Finlay Donovan is Killing It
Elle Cosimano
The Paper Palace
Miranda Cowley Heller
Dominicana
Angie Cruz
Parkland: Birth of a Movement
Dave Cullen
The Nest
Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney
The Last Thing He Told Me
Laura Dave
Belong to Me
Marisa De los Santos
The Inheritance of Loss
Kiran Desai
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
Matthew Desmond
White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism
Robin DiAngelo
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Junot Diaz
Trust
Hernan Diaz
All the Light We Cannot See
Anthony Doerr
Cloud Cuckoo Land
Anthony Doerr
Mink River
Brian Doyle
Untamed
Glennon Doyle
Spare
Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex
Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America
Firoozeh Dumas
My Family and Other Animals
Gerald Durrell
The Death and Life of the Great Lakes
Dan Egan
Manhattan Beach
Jennifer Egan
The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl
Timothy Egan
Zeitoun
Dave Eggers
You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty
Akwaeke Emezi
The Garden of Evening Mists
Tan Twan Eng
Infinite Country
Patricia Engel
I Feel Bad About My Neck: And Other Thoughts on Being a Woman
Nora Ephron
LaRose
Louise Erdrich
The Master Butchers Singing Club
Louise Erdrich
The Round House
Louise Erdrich
The Sentence
Louise Erdrich
Middlesex
Jeffrey Eugenides
The Office of Historical Corrections: A Novella and Stories
Danielle Evans
Girl, Woman, Other
Bernardine Evaristo
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down
Anne Fadiman
Woman of Light
Kali Fajardo-Anstine
Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators
Ronan Farrow
Lucy
Ellen Feldman
My Brilliant Friend
Elena Ferrante
Bossypants
Tina Fey
The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit
Michael Finkel
The Woman in the Window
A.J. Finn
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Café
Fannie Flagg
The Turner House
Angela Flournoy
Gone Girl
Gillian Flynn
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet
Jamie Ford
Every Summer After
Carley Fortune
Send for Me
Lauren Fox
The Witch Elm
Tana French
The Ocean at the End of the Lane
Neil Gaiman
Bad Axe County
John Galligan
Like a Mother: A Feminist Journey Through the Science and Culture of Pregnancy
Angela Garbes
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Lessons in Chemistry
Bonnie Garmus
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
Atul Gawande
Still Alice
Lisa Genova
Maame
Jessica George
The Hungry Tide
Amitav Ghosh
All We Ever Wanted
Emily Giffin
City of Girls
Elizabeth Gilbert
The Signature of All Things
Elizabeth Gilbert
Three Junes
Julia Glass
Vintage
Susan Gloss
Janesville: An American Story
Amy Goldstein
Olga Dies Dreaming
Xochitl Gonzalez
A Reliable Wife
Robert Goolrick
Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, HER Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed
Lori Gottlieb
Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World
Henry Grabar
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
David Grann
Libertie
Kaitlyn Greenidge
Less
Andrew Sean Greer
The Reckoning
John Grisham
Fates and Furies
Lauren Groff
Matrix
Lauren Groff
Ape House
Sara Gruen
Water for Elephants
Sara Gruen
The Wedding Date
Jasmine Guillory
Homegoing
Yaa Gyasi
Transcendent Kingdom
Yaa Gyasi
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
Mark Haddon
A Spot of Bother
Mark Haddon
The Midnight Library
Matt Haig
Blood, Bones and Butter: the Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef
Gabrielle Hamilton
The Maltese Falcon
Dashiell Hammett
The Four Winds
Kristin Hannah
The Great Alone
Kristin Hannah
The Nightingale
Kristin Hannah
The Art of Fielding: A Novel
Chad Harbach
The Beauty in Breaking: A Memoir
Michele Harper
The Other Black Girl
Zakiya Dalila Harris
The Sweetness of Water
Nathan Harris
The Memo: What Women of Color Need to Know to Secure a Seat at the Table
Minda Harts
Plainsong
Kent Haruf
The Girl on the Train
Paula Hawkins
Before the Fall
Noah Hawley
Early Morning Riser
Katherine Heiny
Happy Place
Emily Henry
People We Meet on Vacation
Emily Henry
Dead Lines: Slices of Life from the Obit Beat
George Hesselberg
28 Summers
Elin Hilderbrand
Summer of ‘69
Elin Hilderbrand
Clark and Division
Naomi Hirahara
The Removed
Brandon Hobson
Calling for a Blanket Dance
Oscar Hokeah
It Ends with Us
Colleen Hoover
Loving Frank
Nancy Horan
Spying on the South: An Odyssey Across the American Divide
Tony Horwitz
And the Mountains Echoed
Khaled Hosseini
All the Things You Are
Declan Hughes
Klara and the Sun
Kazuo Ishiguro
Pineapple Street
Jenny Jackson
Lab Girl
Hope Jahren
Black Leopard, Red Wolf
Marlon James
Death Comes to Pemberley
P. D. James
Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows
Balli Kaur Jaswal
What Happened to Ruthy Ramirez
Claire Jiménez
An American Marriage
Tayari Jones
The Uninvited Guests
Sadie Jones
When Breath Becomes Air
Paul Kalanithi
Broken for You
Stephanie Kallos
The Problem of Alzheimer's: How Science, Culture, and Politics Turned a Rare Disease into a Crisis and What We Can Do About It
Jason Karlawish
Ask Again, Yes
Mary Beth Keane
Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
Patrick Radden Keefe
How to Be an Antiracist
Ibram X. Kendi
Stamped From the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
Ibram X. Kendi
Darius the Great is Not Okay
Adib Khorram
The Book of Longings
Sue Monk Kidd
The Invention of Wings
Sue Monk Kidd
The Secret Life of Bees
Sue Monk Kidd
The Strength in What Remains
Tracy Kidder
The Last Story of Mina Lee
Nancy Jooyoun Kim
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
Robin Wall Kimmerer
Euphoria
Lily King
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life
Barbara Kingsolver
The Bean Trees
Barbara Kingsolver
Flight Behavior
Barbara Kingsolver
The Lacuna
Barbara Kingsolver
Prodigal Summer
Barbara Kingsolver
Unsheltered
Barbara Kingsolver
The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts
Maxine Hong Kingston
Orphan Train
Christina Baker Kline
The House in the Cerulean Sea
TJ Klune
The Leavers
Lisa Ko
Gender Queer: A Memoir
Maia Kobabe
Where They Bury You
Steven W. Kohlhagen
Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family
Robert Kolker
Ordinary Grace
William Kent Krueger
This Tender Land
William Kent Krueger
Crazy Rich Asians
Kevin Kwan
The Lowland
Jhumpa Lahiri
Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive
Stephanie Land
Welcome to the Great Mysterious
Lorna Landvik
We Are the Brennans
Tracey Lange
The Devil in the White City
Erik Larson
In the Garden of Beasts: love, terror, and an American family in Hitler's Berlin
Erik Larson
Isaac's Storm
Erik Larson
The Splendid and the Vile
Erik Larson
Let's Pretend This Never Happened : (A Mostly True Memoir)
Jenny Lawson
Agent Running in the Field
John Le Carré
Go Set a Watchman
Harper Lee
Pachinko
Min Jin Lee
Luster
Raven Leilani
Fifty Words for Rain
Asha Lemmie
The Soloist
Steve Lopez
H Is for Hawk
Helen Macdonald
A Burning
Megha Majumdar
I Have Some Questions for You
Rebecca Makkai
The Glass Hotel
Emily St. John Mandel
Sea of Tranquility
Emily St. John Mandel
A Good American Family: The Red Scare and My Father
David Maraniss
Life of Pi
Yann Martel
Crossing Over: a Mexican Family on the Migrant Trail
Ruben Martinez
All This Could Be Different
Sarah Thankam Mathews
Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times
Katherine May
Diary of a Young Naturalist
Dara McAnulty
The Color of Water
James McBride
Deacon King Kong
James McBride
The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency
Alexander McCall Smith
The Tears of the Giraffe
Alexander McCall Smith
Let the Great World Spin
Colum McCann
I’m Glad My Mom Died
Jennette McCurdy
The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together
Heather McGhee
Circling the Sun
Paula McLain
The Paris Wife
Paula McLain
One Last Stop
Casey McQuiston
How Minds Change: The Surprising Science of Belief, Opinion, and Persuasion
David McRaney
Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President
Candice Millard
Circe
Madeline Miller
A Place for Us
Fatima Farheen Mirza
A Gate at the Stairs
Lorrie Moore
Mexican Gothic
Silvia Moreno-Garcia
The Night Circus
Erin Morgenstern
Apples Never Fall
Liane Moriarty
Nine Perfect Strangers
Liane Moriarty
Truly Madly Guilty
Liane Moriarty
A Mercy
Toni Morrison
Hell of a Book
Jason Mott
The Girl You Left Behind
Jojo Moyes
The Giver of Stars
Jojo Moyes
Me Before You
JoJo Moyes
Norwegian Wood
Haruki Murakami
Dewey: the Small Town Library Cat
Vicki Myron
Dear Edward
Ann Napolitano
Enrique's Journey
Sonia Nazario
Neither Wolf Nor Dog: On Forgotten Roads With an Indian Elder
Kent Nerburn
World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments
Aimee Nezhukumatathil
Little Fires Everywhere
Celeste Ng
Our Missing Hearts
Celeste Ng
The Sympathizer
Viet Thanh Nguyen
Under the Sky We Make: How to Be Human in a Warming World
Kimberly Nicholas, PhD
The Time Traveler's Wife
Audrey Niffenegger
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood
Trevor Noah
True Biz
Sara Nović
Love, InshAllah: The Secret Love Lives of American Muslim Women
Ayesha Mattu and Nura Maznavi
Becoming
Michelle Obama
A Promised Land
Barack Obama
So You Want to Talk About Race
Ijeoma Oluo
There There
Tommy Orange
The Library Book
Susan Orlean
1984
George Orwell
I Know What You Did
Cayce Osborne
The Thursday Murder Club
Richard Osman
Where the Crawdads Sing
Delia Owens
A Tale for the Time Being
Ruth Ozeki
Hamnet
Maggie O’Farrell
The Dive from Clausen's Pier
Ann Packer
Commonwealth
Ann Patchett
The Dutch House
Ann Patchett
Run
Ann Patchett
The Sanatorium
Sarah Pearse
Still Life
Louise Penny
Take My Hand
Dolen Perkins-Valdez
Mrs. Fletcher
Tom Perrotta
Coop: A Year of Poultry, Pigs, and Parenting
Michael Perry
Population 485: Meeting Your Neighbors One Siren at a Time
Michael Perry
Truck: A Love Story
Michael Perry
The Berry Pickers
Amanda Peters
Detransition, Baby
Torrey Peters
Fire Road: The Napalm Girl's Journey Through the Horrors of War to Faith, Forgiveness, and Peace
Kim Phúc
House Rules : a novel
Jodi Piccoult
The Virgin of Small Plains
Nancy Pickard
Change of Heart
Jodi Picoult
Small Great Things
Jodi Picoult
A Spark of Light
Jodi Picoult
The Storyteller
Jodi Picoult
Women Rowing North: Navigating Life’s Currents and Flourishing as We Age
Mary Bray Pipher
The Overstory
Richard Powers
Dead Man Walking
Helen Prejean
The Secrets We Kept
Lara Prescott
We Are Not Like Them
Christine Pride and Jo Piazza
The Maid
Nita Prose
Blessings
Anna Quindlen
Every Last One
Anna Quindlen
Rise and Shine
Anna Quindlen
Killers of a Certain Age
Deanna Raybourn
Radioactive: Marie & Pierre Curie: a Tale of Love and Fallout
Lauren Redniss
Tender at the Bone: Growing Up at the Table
Ruth Reichl
Daisy Jones & The Six
Taylor Jenkins Reid
Malibu Rising
Taylor Jenkins Reid
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
Taylor Jenkins Reid
Such a Fun Age
Kiley Reid
Graceland, At Last: Notes on Hope and Heartache from the American South
Margaret Renkl
Driftless
David Rhodes
Jewelweed
David Rhodes
Magic City
Jewell Parker Rhodes
Painting Beyond Walls
David Rhodes
The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek
Kim Michele Richardson
Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal
Mary Roach
Fruit of the Drunken Tree
Ingrid Rojas Contreras
Normal People
Sally Rooney
The Happiness Project: or, the Way I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right...
Gretchen Rubin
We are Staying: Eighty Years in the Life of a Family, a Store, and a Neighborhood
Jen Rubin
Swamplandia!
Karen Russell
Everybody's Fool
Richard Russo
That Old Cape Magic
Richard Russo
West with Giraffes
Lynda Rutledge
Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor
Layla F. Saad
The Cherry Harvest
Lucy Sanna
Persepolis
Marjane Satrapi
Lincoln in the Bardo
George Saunders
Cleopatra
Stacy Schiff
An Invisible Thread: The True Story of an 11-Year Old Panhandler, a Busy Sales Executive, and an Unlikely Meeting With Destiny
Laura Schroff
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
V.E. Schwab
Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim
David Sedaris
The Island of Sea Women
Lisa See
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
Lisa See
The Bookseller of Kabul
Asne Seierstad
Where'd You Go Bernadette?
Maria Semple
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
Mary Ann and Annie Barrows Shaffer
The Women in the Castle
Jessica Shattuck
Challenger Deep
Neal Shusterman
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
Dal Sijie
Settlin': Stories of Madison's Early African American Families
Muriel Simms
Major Pettigrew's Last Stand
Helen Simonson
The Rosie Project
Graeame Simsion
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Rebecca Skloot
The Violin Conspiracy
Brendan Slocumb
How the Word is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America
Clint Smith
Maus: A Survivor's Tale
Art Spiegelman
The Chai House
Priti Srivastava
Station Eleven
Emily St. John Mandel
The Light Between Oceans
M. L. Stedman
The Turk and My Mother
Mary Helen Stefaniak
Crossing to Safety
Wallace Stegner
The Art of Racing in the Rain
Garth Stein
Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption
Bryan Stevenson
The Help
Kathryn Stockett
Saturday Night at the Lakeside Supper Club
J. Ryan Stradal
The Vacationers
Emma Straub
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
Cheryl Strayed
Brothers on Three: A True Story of Family, Resistance, and Hope on a Reservation in Montana
Abe Streep
The Burgess Boys
Elizabeth Strout
My Name Is Lucy Barton
Elizabeth Strout
Olive Kitteridge
Elizabeth Strout
Olive, Again
Elizabeth Strout
Shuggie Bain
Douglas Stuart
Three Women
Lisa Taddeo
The Goldfinch
Donna Tartt
Real Life
Brandon Taylor
Come Home, Indio
Jim Terry
Echoes from the Dead
Johan Theorin
The Age of Miracles
Karen Thompson Walker
Brooklyn
Colm Toibin
The Lemon Tree: An Arab, a Jew, and the Heart of the Middle East
Sandy Tolan
The Hobbit
J. R. R. Tolkien
A Gentleman in Moscow
Amor Towles
The Lincoln Highway
Amor Towles
Everything You Wanted to Know About Indians but Were Afraid to Ask
Anton Treuer
The Glass Devil
Helene Tursten
Black Man in a White Coat: A Doctor's Reflections on Race and Medicine
Damon Tweedy
Clock Dance
Anne Tyler
Digging to America
Anne Tyler
The Dressmaker of Khair Khana
Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
How to Make a Life: A Tibetan Refugee Family and the Midwestern Woman They Adopted
Madeline Uraneck
The House of Broken Angels
Luis Alberto Urrea
The Boy in the Shadows
Carl-Johan Vallgren
Remarkably Bright Creatures
Shelby Van Pelt
Hillbilly Elegy
J. D. Vance
Have Mercy on Us All
Fred Vargas
Cutting for Stone
Abraham Verghese
Decolonizing Wealth
Edgar Villanueva
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
Ocean Vuong
The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming
David Wallace-Wells
The Glass Castle: A Memoir
Jeannette Walls
Half Broke Horses: A True-Life Novel
Jeannette Walls
The Silver Star
Jeannette Walls
Chemistry
Weike Wang
Let Us Descend
Jesmyn Ward
Sing, Unburied, Sing
Jesmyn Ward
The Death of Mrs. Westaway
Ruth Ware
The It Girl
Ruth Ware
Memorial
Bryan Washington
Winter Counts
David Heska Wanbli Weiden
Big Summer
Jennifer Weiner
Mrs. Everything
Jennifer Weiner
The Martian
Andy Weir
The World Without Us
Alan Weisman
Educated: A Memoir
Tara Westover
Harlem Shuffle
Colson Whitehead
The Nickel Boys
Colson Whitehead
The Underground Railroad
Colson Whitehead
Bread and Butter
Michelle Wildgen
Black Cake
Charmaine Wilkerson
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
Isabel Wilkerson
The Warmth of Other Suns: the Epic Story of America's Great Migration
Isabel Wilkerson
Seven Days in June
Tia Williams
The Seed Keeper
Diane Wilson
The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary
Simon Winchester
Before We Were Yours
Lisa Wingate
Red at the Bone
Jacqueline Woodson
I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban
Malala Yousafzai
For Keeps: Women Tell the Truth About Their Bodies, Growing Older, and Acceptance
Victoria Zackheim
Solito: A Memoir
Javier Zamora
Crying in H Mart: A Memoir
Michelle Zauner
The Book Thief
Markus Zusak