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A
​A Burning by Megha Majumdar
*A Children's Bible by Lydia Millet

*A Gentleman in Moscow
A God in Ruins by Kate Atkinson

A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
​All Adults Here by Emma Straub
A Man Called Ove by Frederik Backman
A Piece of the World by Christina Baker Kline
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*A Place For Us by Fatima Farheer Mirza
A Spool of Blue Thread by Anne Tyler
*A Terrible Country by Keith Gessen
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*A Woman is No Man by Etaf Rum
​Abundance by Sena Jeter Naslund
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*Afterland by Lauren Beukes
All My Puny Sorrows by Miriam Toews

All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr 
All Our Wrong Todays by Elan Mastai 
All the Ugly and Wonderful Things by Bryn Greenwood
​American Dirt by Jeanine Cummings
​American Spy by Lauren Wilkinson

Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adiche
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Among the Living by Jonathan Rabb
An American Marriage by Tayari Jones
An American Summer by Alex Kotlowitz

An Untamed State by Roxane Gay
**Anything is Possible by Elizabeth 
Strout
**And the Mountains Echoed by Khalem Hosseini
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And Now We Have Everything by Meaghan O'Connell
​*Another Brooklyn by Jacqueline Woodson
​Anxious People by Frederik Backman
​Apeirogon by Colum McCann
​Astonish Me by Maggie Shipstead
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Asymmetry by Lisa Halliday

B
​Barkskins by Annie Proulx
​Bearskin by James A. McLaughlin
Beartown by Frederik Backman
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Beneath a Scarlet Sky by Mark Sullivan
Behold the Dreamers by Imbolo Mbue

Being Mortal bu Atul Gawande
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Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk by Ben Fountain
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Biloxi by Mary Miller

Bittersweet: A Novel by Miranda Beverly-Whittemore
Born to Run by Bruce Springsteen

Boy, Snow, Bird by Helen Oyeyemi
Brain Food by Lisa Mosconi PhD , INHC
Bridge of Clay by Markus Zusak
​Broken Monsters by Lauren Beukes

C
Calling Me Home by Julie Kibler
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Career of Evil by Robert Galbraith
Census by Jesse Ball
​Church 
of Marvels by Leslie Parry
​Circe by Madeline Miller
​Circling the Sun by Paula McLain
​City of Girls by Elizabeth Gilbert
​Clock Dance by Anne Tyler

Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrammage by Haruki Murakami
​Commonwealth by Ann Patchett

Conditional Citizens by Laila Lalami
​Conversations with Friends by Sally Rooney
Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter by Tom Franklin
Crossing to Safety by Wallace Stegner
​D
Daisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid
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Dark August by Katie Tallo
Days Without End by Sebastian Barry
Deacon King Kong by James McBride
​Dept. of Speculation by Jenny Offill

Dietland by Sarai Walker
Did You Ever Have a Family by Bill Clegg
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Driftless by David Rhodes
​Disclaimer by Renee Knight
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Dominicana by Angie Cruz

E
​Educated by Tara Westover
Eileen by Ottessa Moshfegh
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Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman
Exit West by Moshin Hamid

Euphoria by Lily King
​Everyone Brave is Forgiven by Chris Cleave
Everything Happens for a Reason and other Lies I have Loved by Kate Bower

Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng
Everywhere You Don't Belong by Gabriel Bump

F
Faithful by Alice Hoffman

Finders Keepers by Stephen King
Fire Shut Up In My Bones by Charles M. Blow
​Fleishman is in Trouble by Taffy Brodesser-Akner
Florence Adler Swims Forever by Rachel Beanland
​Fly Me by Daniel Riley
Forever is the Wor
st Long Time by Camille Pagan
Forty Autumns by Nina Willner

Fourth of July Creek by Smith Henderson
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Freedom by Jonathan Franzen
French Exit by Patrick DeWitt
Friends and Strangers by J. Courtney Sullivan
Furious Hours by Casey Dep

G
Georgia by Dawn Tripp
Ghettoside A True Story of Murder in America by Jill Leovy
Gingerbread by Helen Oyeyemi
​Ginny Moon by Benjamin Ludwig

Girl At War by Sara Novic
Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee
Goodbye Vitamin by Rachel Khong
Grief Cottage by Gail Goodwin

Gut by Giulia Enders
H
H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald
​Hannah Coulter by Wendell Barry
Happy & You Know It by Laura Hankin
Here Comes the Sun by Nicole Dennis-Benn
​Here I am by Jonathan Safron Foer
​Hidden Valley Road by Robert Kolker
​Hillbilly Elegy by J.D. Vance
​Hold Still by Lynn Steger Strong
Hollywood's Eve by Lili Anolik
​Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie
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Homeland Elegies by Ayad Akhtar
​House of Thieves by Charles Belfoure
​How Much of These Hills is Gold by C Pam Zhang

How To Get Rich In Rising Asia by Moshin Hamid
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How to Stop Time by Matt Haig
How We Fight For Our Lives by Saeed Jones
Hum If You Don't Know The Words by Bianca Marais

I
I Miss You When I Blink by Mary Laura 
Philpott
​Idaho by Emily Ruskovich
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If I Had Your Face by Frances Cha
If You Want To Make God Laugh by Bianca Marais
Imagine Me Gone by Adam Haslett

In Paradise by Peter Matthiesen 
In the Midst of Winter by Isabel Allende

J
K
Katerina by James Frey
​Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann
Kitchans of the Great Midwest by J. Ryan Stradal

L
Land of Love and Drowning by Tiphanie Yanique
​Language Arts by Stephanie Kallos
LaRose by Louise Erdrich
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Last Bus to Wisdom by Ivan Doig
Lazaretto by Dianne McKinney-Whetstone
Less by Andrew Sean Greer
​Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann
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Lethal White by Robert Galbraith

Levels of Life by Julian Barnes
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Life Among Giants by Bill Roorbach
Life Drawing by Robin Black

Lila by Marilynne Robinson
​Lilac Girls by Martha Hall Kelly
​Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk by Kathleen Rooney
​Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders
Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng
Long Bright River by Liz Moore
​Lost Empress by Sergio De La Pava
​Love and Other Consolation Prizes by Jamie Ford

Love & Treasure by Ayelet Waldman

Love Nina by Nina Stibbe
​Love Warrior by Glennon Doyle

M
Machines Like Me by Ian McEwan
​Madame President by Helene Cooper
​Maeve in America by Maeve Higgins
​Magpie Murders by Anthony Horowitz
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Manhattan Beach by Jennifer Egan

Marry, Kiss, Kill by Anne Flette-Giordano
Meet Me at the Museum by Anne Youngson
​Memorial by Bryan Washington
​Milkman by Anna Burns
​Miss Jane by Brad Watson

Mr. Mercedes by Stephen King
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My Absolute Darling by Gabriel Tallent
​My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante
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My Brother Moochie by Issac J. Bailey
My Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth Russell
​My Grandmother Told Me To Tell You She's Sorry by Frederik Backman

My Sunshine Away by M.O. Walsh
N
​Natural Causes by Barbara Ehrenreich
News of the World by Paulette Jiles
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Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
​Normal People by Sally Rooney
​Nothing to See Here by Kevin Wilson
​November Road by Lou Berney
​Number One Chinese Restaurant by Lillian Li

O
Olive Again by Elizabeth Strout
On Earth We're Breifly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong

On Such a Full Sea by Chang-Rae Lee
On the Move by Oliver Sacks
Once Upon A River by Diane Setterfield

One Summer by Bill Bryson
Oona Out of Order by Margarita Montimore

Orhan's Inheritance by Aline Ohanesian
Open City by Teju Cole
​Ordinary Grace by William Kent Krueger
Our Little Racket by Angelica Baker

Our Souls at Night by Kent Haruf
Out East by John Glynn

P
​Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
​Paris in the Present Tense by Mark Helprin

Q
R
Rabbit Cake by Annie Hartnett
Reader, Come Home by Maryanne Wolf
Ready Player One by Ernest Kline
​Red at the Bone by Jacqueline Woodson
Red Notice by Bill Browder
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Redhead by the Side of the Road by Anne Tyler
Rooftops of Tehran by Mahbod Seraji

Ruby: A Novel by Cynthia Bond
S
​Saints For All Occasions by J. Courtney Sullivan 
Self-Portrait With Boy by Rachel Lyon
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Sharks in the Time of Saviors by Kawaii Strong Washburn
​Shoe Dog by Phil Knight

Silver Sparrow by Tayari Jones
Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward
​So Say the Fallen by Stuart Neville
​Standard Deviation by Katherine Heiny

Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
Stay With Me by Ayobami Adebayo​
​Still Life by Louise Penny

​Strangers in Their Own Land by Arlie Russell Hochschild
Sweet bitter by Stephanie Danler
Swimming Lessons by Claire Fuller

Summer House with Swimming Pool by Herman Koch
T
Tangerine by Christine Mangan

The All of It by Jeannette Haien
The Animals by Christian Kiefer

The Antiquarian by Gustavo Faveron Patriau
The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher by Hilary Mantel
The Bartender's Tale by Ivan Doig
The Beekeeper of Aleppo by Chritsty Lefteri

The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell
​
The Bones of Paradise by Jonis Agee
​The Book of Aron by Jim Shepard
The Book of M by Peng Shepherd
The Bookish Life of Nina Hill by Abbi Waxman

The Boston Girl by Anita Diamant
The Boy in the Field by Margot Livesey
**The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown

**The Bully Pulpit by Doris Kearns Goodwin
The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro
The Cairo Affair by Olen Steinhauer
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The Caretaker by A.X Ahmad
​The Child Finder by Rene Denfeld

The Children's Crusade by Ann Packer
​The Circle by Dave Eggers
The Clockmaker's Daughter by Kate Morton
The Distance Home by Paula Saunders
The Dutch House by Ann Patchett

The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery
The Family Fang by Kevin Wilson
The Female Persuasion by Meg Wolitzer

The Flame Throwers by Rachel Kushner
​The Flight Portfolio by Julie Orringer
​The Garden of Small Beginnings by Abbi Waxman

The Girl On A Train by Paula Hawkins
​The Girl in the Red Coat by Kate Hamer
The Girl With All the Gifts by M.R. Carey
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The Giver of Stars by Jojo Moyes
The Glass Hotel by Emily St. John Mandel

The Golem and the Jinni by Helen Wecker
The Good People by Hannah Kent

The Good Spy: The LIfe and Death of Robert Ames by Kai Bird
​The Gone Dead by Chantelle Benz
The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah
The Gunners by Rebecca Kauffman

The Hand That Feeds You by A.J. Rich
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The Hearts of Men by Nickolas Butler
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The Heart's invisible Furies by John Boyne

The House of Silk by Anthony Horowitz
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab
​The Jane Austen Society by Natalie Jenner
​The Immportalists by Chloe Benjamin
The Impossible Fortress by Jason Rekulak
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​The Improbability of Love by Hannah Rothschild
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The Incendiaries by R.O. Kwon

The Invention of Exile by Vanessa Manko
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The Invisible Life of Ivan Isaenko by Scott Stambach
​The Japanese Lover by Isabel Allende

The Kept by James Scott
The Lake House 
but Kate Morton
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The Last Flight by Julie Clark
The Last Girl by Nadia Murad
The Last Romantics by Tara Conklin
The Latecomers by Helen Klein Ross

The Life We Bury by Allen Eskers
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The Loney by Andrew Michael Hurley

The Long and Faraway Gone by Lou Berney
​The Long Drop by Denise Mina
The Lost Night by Andrea Bartz
​The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennesy by Rachel Joyce
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The Lucky Years by David B. Agus M.D.

The Marriage of Opposites by Alice Hoffman
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The Mars Room by Rachel 
Kushner
The Martian by Andy Weir
​The Map of Salt and Stars bt Jennifer Zeynab Joukhadar
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The Memory Monster by Yishai Sarid
The Most Fun We Ever Had by Claire Lombardo

The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard Flanagan
The Nest by Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney

The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
​The Nix by Nathan Hill
​The Noise of Time by Julian Barnes
​The One Man by Andrew Gross
​The Optimist's Daughter By Eudora Welty
​The Orphan's Tale by Pam Jenhoff
The Other Einstein by Marie Benedict
The Other's Gold by Elizavbeth Ames
The Paragon Hotel by Lyndsay Faye
The Patriots by S
ana Krasikov
The Paying Guests by Sarah Waters
The Perfect Nanny by Leila Slimani
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The Porpoise by Mark Haddon
​The Power by Naomi Alderman
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The Pull of the Stars by Emma Donoghue
The Queen of Tuesday by Darin Strauss
The Refugees by Viet Thanh Nguyen
The Removes by Tatjana Soli
The Rules of Magic by Alice Hoffman
​The Roanoke Girls by Amy Engel
​The Searcher by Tana French 
​The Second Mrs. Hockaday by Susan Rivers

The Secret Place by Tana French
The Sixth Extinction by Elizabeth Kolbert
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The Shadow King by Maaza Mengiste

The Shining Girls by Lauren Beukes
The Silkworm by Robert Galbraith
The Sleepwalker's Guide to Dancing by Mira Jacob
The Sound of Things Falling by Juan Gabriel Vasquez
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The Splendid and the Vile by Erik Larson

The Splendid Things We Planned by Blake Bailey
The Storied Life of A.J Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin
​The Story of a New Name by Elena Ferrante

The Story of Land and Sea by Katy Simpson Smith
The Storyteller by Jodi Picoult
The Summer Before the War by Helen Simonson
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The Sun Down Motel by Simone St. James
​The Swans of New York by Melanie Benjamin
​The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen
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The Taming of the Queen by Philippa 
Gregory
The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris

The Temporary Gentleman by Sebastian Barry
The Tenth Muse by Catherine Chung
​The Travelers by Regina Porter

​The Trespasser by Tana French
​The Tsar of Love and Techno by Anthony Marra
​The Turner House by Angela Flournoy

The Twelve Lives of Samuel Hawley by Hannah Tinit
The Undoing Project by Michael Lewis
​The Unfortunates by Sophie McManus
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The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
The Wangs vs. the World by Jade Chang
The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates
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The Weekend by Charlotte Wood
​The Weight of Ink by Rachel Kadish

​The Wright Brothers by David McCullough
The Women In the Castle by Jessica Shattuck
The Wonder by Emma Donaghue
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The World That We Knew by Alice Hoffman

The Yellow Birds by Kevin Powers
There There by Tommy Orange
These Women by Ivy Pochoda
Things We Didn't Talk about When I Was a Girl by Jeannie 
Vanasco
Think Like a Freak by Steven D. Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner
This is How I Lied by Heather Gudenkauf​
This Tender Land by William Kent Krueger
​Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay by Elena Ferrante
To Keep the Sun Alive by Rabeah Ghaffari

Today Will Be Different by Maria Semple
Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi
​Troubled Blood by Robert Galbraith
​Trust Exercise by Susan Choi

U
Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
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Untamed by Glennon Doyle

V
​Valentine by Elizabeth Wetmore
Varina by Charles Frazier
Virgil Wander by Leif Enger

W
Warlight by Michael 
Ondaatje
Washington Black by Esi Edugyan
​We  Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler

We Were Liars by E. Lockhart
What Are You Going Through by Sigrid Nunez
Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
​White Houses by 
Amy Bloom
Wild Game by Adrienne Brodeur
​Women Talking by Miriam Toews
Writers & Lovers by Lily King

X
Y
You're On An Airplane by Parker Posey

Young God by Katherine Faw Morris
Z
2 AM at the Cat's Pajamas by Marie-Helene Bertino
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