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Diane Ackerman, The Zookeeper’s Wife
Chloe Aridjis, Asunder
Kate Atkinson, Life After Life
Kate Atkinson, A God in Ruins
Margaret Atwood, Stone Mattress: Tales
Margaret Atwood, The Heart Goes Last
Jane Austen, Persuasion
Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility
Mona Awad, 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl
B
Nick Bantock, The Griffin and Sabine Trilogy (Griffin & Sabine, Sabine’s Notebook, The Golden Mean)
Pat Barker, Toby’s Room and Life Class
Shirley Barrett, Rush Oh!
Sebastian Barry, A Long Long Way
Sebastian Barry, The Temporary Gentleman
Carlene Bauer, Frances and Bernard
Jennifer Baumgardner and Governor Madeleine M. Kunin, Eds. We Do! American Leaders Who Believe in Marriage Equality
Mark Beauregard, The Whale: A Love Story
Alison Bechdel, Fun Home
Chris Beckett, Dark Eden
Claire-Louise Bennett, Pond
Simeon Berry, Ampersand Revisited
Wendell Berry, Entries
Michael Ian Black, You’re Not Doing It Right
Michael Blanding, The Map Thief
Charlotte Boulay, Foxes on the Trampoline
Joseph Boyden, The Orenda
Joseph Boyden, Three Day Road
Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
Val Brelinski, The Girl Who Slept with God
Malcolm Brooks, Painted Horses
Carol Rifka Brunt, Tell the Wolves I’m Home
Bill Bryson, In a Sunburned Country
Jeff Burger, Ed. Leonard Cohen on Leonard Cohen: Interviews and Encounters
Jessie Burton, The Miniaturist
Katy Butler, Knocking on Heaven’s Door
Milena Busquets, This Too Shall Pass
A.S. Byatt, Possession
A.S. Byatt, Ragnarok
C
Ellen Prentiss Campbell, Contents Under Pressure: Stories
Ellen Prentiss Campbell, The Bowl with Gold Seams
Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red
Anne Carson, Red Doc>
Michael Chabon, The Mysteries of Pittsburgh
Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep
Elliott Chaze, Black Wings Has My Angel
Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Alexander Chee, The Queen of the Night
Alix Christie, Gutenberg’s Apprentice
Amy Clampitt, The Kingfisher
Jaime Clarke, Vernon Downs
Jaime Clarke, World Gone Water
Leonard Cohen, Book of Mercy
Leonard Cohen, Let Us Compare Mythologies
Henri Cole, Nothing to Declare
Billy Collins, Aimless Love
Kara Cooney, The Woman Who Would Be King
James S.A. Corey, Leviathan Wakes
D
Maylis de Kerangal, The Heart (trans. Sam Taylor)
Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
Michael Dirda, Browsings
Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See
Elvira Dones, Sworn Virgin
Emma Donoghue, Inseparable: Desire Between Women in Literature
Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Margaret Drabble, The Red Queen
Carol Ann Duffy, Feminine Gospels: Poems
Carol Ann Duffy, The World’s Wife
Carol Ann Duffy, Rapture
Stuart Dybek, Paper Lantern: Love Stories
E
Kimberly Elkins, What Is Visible
Claudia Emerson, Late Wife
Claudia Emerson, The Opposite House
Lin Enger, The High Divide
Louise Erdrich, The Round House
Louise Erdrich, Jacklight
Louise Erdrich, LaRose
Jill Alexander Essbaum, Hausfrau
Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides
F
Sara Farizan, If You Could Be Mine
Sebastian Faulks, Where My Heart Used to Beat
Lindsay Faye, Jane Steele
Jessica Fechtor, Stir
Elena Ferrante, My Brilliant Friend (trans. Ann Goldstein)
Tina Fey, Bossypants
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl
Mark Forsyth, Etymologicon
Alyson Foster, God Is an Astronaut
Alsyon Foster, Heart Attack Watch
Matt Fraction and Christian Ward, ODY-C Vol. 1
Matt Fraction & Chip Zdarsky, Sex Criminals Vol 1: One Weird Trick
Sanford Friedman, Conversations with Beethoven
Claire Fuller, Our Endless Numbered Days
G
Diana Gabaldon, Outlander
Diana Gabaldon, Dragonfly in Amber
Diana Gabaldon, Voyager
Diana Gabaldon, Drums of Autumn
Diana Gabaldon, Virgins
Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane
Neil Gaiman, Trigger Warning
Simon Garfield, To the Letter
Ross Gay, Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude
Roxane Gay, Bad Feminist
Roxane Gay, Urgent, Untold Stories
Poppy Gee, Bay of Fires
Melanie Gideon, Wife 22
David Gilbert, & Sons
Louise Glück, The Seven Ages
Louise Glück, Faithful and Virtuous Night
Natalie Goldberg, Writing Down the Bones
David Grann, The Lost City of Z
John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
Garth Greenwell, What Belongs to You
Lauren Groff, Fates and Furies
Jennifer Grotz, Window Left Open
H
Saskia Hamilton, Corridor
Christopher Hampton, Carrington
Joy Harjo, She Had Some Horses
Claire Harman, Charlotte Brontë: A Fiery Heart
Thea Harrison, Dragon Bound
Kent Haruf, Our Souls at Night
Paula Hawkins, The Girl on the Train
Scott Hawkins, The Library at Mount Char
Natalie Haynes, The Furies
Cristina Henríquez, The Book of Unknown Americans
Kari Hesthamar, So Long Marianne
Patricia Highsmith, The Price of Salt (also known as Carol)
Lindsay Hill, Archaeology
Lindsay Hill, Sea of Hooks
L. S. Hilton, Maestra
Jane Hirshfield, Come, Thief
Homer, The Iliad*
Ann Hood, Comfort
Bruce Holsinger, A Burnable Book
Helen Humphreys, The Evening Chorus
Michelle Huneven, Off Course
Laird Hunt, Neverhome
I
Emmi Itäranta, Memory of Water
J
Pasi Ilmari Jääskeläinen, The Rabbit Back Literature Society
P.D. James, Death Comes to Pemberley
Kathleen Jamie, The Overhaul
Leslie Jamison, The Empathy Exams
Erika Johansen, The Queen of the Tearling
Saeed Jones, Prelude to Bruise
K
Jeanne Kalogridis, The Inquisitor’s Wife
Eliza Kennedy, I Take You
Hannah Kent, Burial Rites
Lily King, Euphoria
Paul Kingsnorth, The Wake
Galway Kinnell, Strong is Your Hold
Phil Klay, Redeployment
Gwendolyn Knapp, After a While You Just Get Used to It: A Tale of Family Clutter
Marie Kondo, The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up
Maxine Kumin, And Short the Season
L
Jhumpa Lahiri, In Other Words (translated by Ann Goldstein)
Laila Lalami, The Moor’s Account
Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird
Erik Larson, Dead Wake
Ariel Lawhon, The Wife, The Maid, and The Mistress
Ann Leckie, Ancillary Justice
Chang-rae Lee, On Such a Full Sea
Li-Young Lee, The Word from His Song
Hailey Leithauser, Swoop
Pierre Lemaitre, Alex
Anne Leonard, Moth and Spark
Janna Levin, Black Hole Blues and Other Songs from Outer Space
Susan Herrmann Lewis, In a French Kitchen: Tales and Traditions of Everyday Home Cooking in France
Alan Light, The Holy or the Broken
Kirsty Logan, The Gracekeepers
M
Helen MacDonald, H is for Hawk
Sara Majka, Cities I’ve Never Lived In
Rebecca Makkai, The Hundred-Year House
Rebecca Makkai, Music for Wartime
Emily St. John Mandel, Station Eleven
Hilary Mantel, Fludd
Hilary Mantel, The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher
Gabriel García Márquez, Memories of My Melancholy Whores
Anthony Marra, A Constellation of Vital Phenomena
Anthony Marra, The Tsar of Love and Techno
Peter Matthiessen, In Paradise
Anne McCaffrey, Dragonflight
Colum McCann, Everything in This Country Must
Darragh McKeon, All That Is Solid Melts into Air
Jennifer Stewart Miller, A Fox Appears
Sue Miller, The Arsonist
John Milton, Paradise Lost
Lin-Manuel Miranda and Jeremy McCarter, Hamilton: The Revolution
Christopher Moore, A Dirty Job
Christopher Moore, Secondhand Souls
Erin Moore, That’s Not English
Grant Morrison & Yanick Paquette, Wonder Woman: Earth One, Volume One
Van Morrison, Lit Up Inside
JoJo Moyes, Me Before You
Sharona Muir, Invisible Beasts
Nayomi Munaweera, Island of a Thousand Mirrors
Alice Munro, Dear Life
Antonia Murphy, Dirty Chick
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Sena Jeter Naslund, Ahab’s Wife
TaraShea Nesbit, The Wives of Los Alamos
Patrick Ness, The Crane Wife
Aimee Nezhukumtathil & Ross Gay, Lace and Pyrite
Celeste Ng, Everything I Never Told You
Adam Nicolson, Why Homer Matters
Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler’s Wife
Thisbe Nissen, Out of the Girls’ Room and Into the Night
Howard Norman, Next Life Might Be Kinder
Howard Norman, I Hate to Leave This Beautiful Place
Idra Novey, Ways to Disappear
O
Nuala O’Connor, Miss Emily
Lauren Oliver, Rooms
Mary Oliver, Thirst
Mallory Ortberg, Texts from Jane Eyre
Helen Oyeyemi, Boy, Snow, Bird
Helen Oyeyemi, What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours
P
Charles Palliser, Rustication
Angela Palm, Riverine
Amanda Palmer, The Art of Asking
Gregory Pardlo, Digest
Gregory Pardlo, Totem
Patricia Park, Re Jane
Amy Pascale, Joss Whedon: The Biography
Linda Pastan, Insomnia
Rachel Pastan, Alena
Laline Paull, The Bees
Carl Phillips, Reconnaissance
Helen Phillips, The Beautiful Bureaucrat
Jerry Pinto, Em and the Big Hoom
Amy Poehler, Yes Please
Maximillian Potter, Shadows in the Vineyard
Richard Powers, Orfeo
Daniel Price, The Flight of the Silvers
Jana Prikryl, The After Party
Melissa Pritchard, Palmerino
George Prochnik, The Impossible Exile
Annie Proulx, Close Range
Lia Purpura, It Shouldn’t Have Been Beautiful
Barbara Pym, Excellent Women
Q
Matthew Quick, Silver Linings Playbook
R
Kate Racculia, Bellweather Rhapsody
David Rakoff, Don’t Get Too Comfortable
David Rakoff, Fraud
Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric
James Rebanks, The Shepherd’s Life
Susan Rieger, The Divorce Papers
Christopher Robinson & Gavin Kovite, War of the Encyclopaedists
Marilynne Robinson, Housekeeping
Katie Roiphe, The Violet Hour: Great Writers at the End
Carlo Rovelli, Seven Brief Lessons on Physics
J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter series (1-7)
J.K. Rowling, John Tiffany, Jack Thorne, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child
Christian Rudder, Dataclysm
Richard Russo, Everybody’s Fool
Kay Ryan, The Niagara River
S
Amy Sackville, Orkney
Sappho, Trans. Willis Barnstone, The Complete Poems of Sappho
Stacy Schiff, The Witches
Maria Semple, Where’d You Go, Bernadette?
Sharma Shields, The Sasquatch Hunter’s Almanac
Kyung-sook Shin, I’ll Be Right There
Daniel Silva, The English Spy
Curtis Sittenfeld, American Wife
Curtis Sittenfeld, Eligible
Marie Slaight, The Antigone Poems (drawings by Terrence Tasker)
Robin Sloan, Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore
Dominic Smith, The Last Painting of Sara de Vos
Katy Simpson Smith, The Story of Land and Sea
Katy Simpson Smith, Free Men
Patricia Smith, Blood Dazzler
Tracy K. Smith, Life on Mars
Diana Souhami, Gwendolen
Wallace Stegner, Angle of Repose
J. Ryan Stradal, Kitchens of the Great Midwest
Cheryl Strayed, Wild
Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar
Elizabeth Strout, My Name Is Lucy Barton
Matt Sumell, Making Nice
Mary Szybist, Incarnadine
T
Marcel Theroux, Strange Bodies
Colm Tóibín, The Testament of Mary
Colm Tóibín, Brooklyn
Colm Tóibín, On Elizabeth Bishop
J.R.R. Tolkien, Beowulf: A Translation and Commentary, Together with Sellic Spell (ed. Christopher Tolkien)
J.R.R. Tolkien, Letters from Father Christmas
J.R.R. Tolkien, The Story of Kullervo (edited by Verlyn Flieger)
Jeffrey Toobin, The Nine
Natasha Trethewey, Domestic Work
Christos Tsiolkas, Barracuda
Anne Tyler, Vinegar Girl
U
Jenny Uglow, The Pinecone
Anya Ulinich, Lena Finkle’s Magic Barrel
Gabriel Urza, All That Followed
V
Brian K. Vaughan (writer) and Fiona Staples (artist), Saga: Vols. 1-6
Sarah Vowell, Lafayette in the Somewhat United States
Ocean Vuong, Night Sky with Exit Wounds
W
Derek Walcott, Midsummer
Ray Walker, The Road to Burgundy
Sarai Walker, Dietland
Kent Wascom, Secessia
Bill Wasik and Monica Murphy, Rabid: A Cultural History of the World’s Most Diabolical Virus
Andy Weir, The Martian
Julia Wendell, Take This Spoon
John Williams, Augustus
Rainn Wilson, The Bassoon King
Edward O. Wilson and Robert Hass, The Poetic Species
Jeanette Winterson, The Gap of Time
Fay Wolf, New Order
Meg Wolitzer, The Wife and The Ten-Year Nap
James Wood, The Nearest Thing to Life
Virginia Woolf, To The Lighthouse
Mark Wunderlich, The Anchorage
Mark Wunderlich, The Earth Avails
Evie Wyld, All the Birds, Singing
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Y
Hanya Yanagihara, The People in the Trees
Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life
Tiphanie Yanique, Land of Love and Drowning
Paul Yoon, Snow Hunters
Paul Yoon, Once the Shore
Jung Yun, Shelter
Z
Jordan Zandi, Solarium
Alexi Zentner, The Lobster Kings
Jeff Zentner, The Serpent King
Béla Zombory-Moldován, The Burning of the World: A Memoir of 1914
Kim Zupan, The Ploughmen
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