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A Burning by Megha Majumdar
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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 Doe
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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
Among the Living by Jonathan Rabb
An American Marriage by Tayari Jones
An American Summer by Alex Kotlowitz
An Untamed State by Roxane Gay
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Anything is Possible by Elizabeth
Strout
**And the Mountains Echoed by Khalem Hosseini
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
Asymmetry by Lisa Halliday
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Barkskins by Annie Proulx
Bearskin by James A. McLaughlin
Beartown by Frederik Backman
Beneath a Scarlet Sky by Mark Sullivan
Behold the Dreamers by Imbolo Mbue
Being Mortal bu Atul Gawande
Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk by Ben Fountain
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
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
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
Driftless by David Rhodes
Disclaimer by Renee Knight
Dominicana by Angie Cruz
E
Educated by Tara Westover
Eileen by Ottessa Moshfegh
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
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
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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
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
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
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I Miss You When I Blink by Mary Laura
Philpott
Idaho by Emily Ruskovich
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
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K
Katerina by James Frey
Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann
Kitchans of the Great Midwest by J. Ryan Stradal
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Land of Love and Drowning by Tiphanie Yanique
Language Arts by Stephanie Kallos
LaRose by Louise Erdrich
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
Lethal White by Robert Galbraith
Levels of Life by Julian Barnes
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
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Machines Like Me by Ian McEwan
Madame President by Helene Cooper
Maeve in America by Maeve Higgins
Magpie Murders by Anthony Horowitz
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
My Absolute Darling by Gabriel Tallent
My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante
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. Wals
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Natural Causes by Barbara Ehrenreich
News of the World by Paulette Jiles
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
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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
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Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
Paris in the Present Tense by Mark Helprin
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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
Redhead by the Side of the Road by Anne Tyler
Rooftops of Tehran by Mahbod Seraji
Ruby: A Novel by Cynthia Bond
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Saints For All Occasions by J. Courtney Sullivan
Self-Portrait With Boy by Rachel Lyon
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
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
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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he Hearts of Men by Nickolas Butler
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
The Improbability of Love by Hannah Rothschild
The Incendiaries by R.O. Kwon
The Invention of Exile by Vanessa Manko
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
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
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
The Lucky Years by David B. Agus M.D.
The Marriage of Opposites by Alice Hoffman
The Mars Room by Rachel
Kushner
The Martian by Andy Weir
The Map of Salt and Stars bt Jennifer Zeynab Joukhadar
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
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he Other's Gold by Elizavbeth Ames
The Paragon Hotel by Lyndsay Faye
The Patriots by S
ana Krasikov
The Paying Guests by Sarah Waters
T
he Perfect Nanny by Leila Slimani
The Porpoise by Mark Haddon
The Power by Naomi Alderman
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
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
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
The Sun Down Motel by Simone St. James
The Swans of New York by Melanie Benjamin
The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen
The Taming of the Queen by Philippa
Gregory
The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris
The Temporary Gentleman by Sebastian Barr
y
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
The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
The Wangs vs. the World
by Jade Chang
The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates
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
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
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Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
Untamed by Glennon Doyle
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Valentine by Elizabeth Wetmore
Varina by Charles Frazier
Virgil Wander by Leif Enger
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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
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You're On An Airplane by Parker Posey
Young God by Katherine Faw Morri
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2 AM at the Cat's Pajamas by Marie-Helene Bertino
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