2024
Black Cake, Charmaine Wilkerson
The Mirror Crack'd From Side To Side, Agatha Christie
So Much Blue, Percival Everett
Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void, Mary Roach
The Return of the Native, Thomas Hardy
The Tale Teller, Anne Hillerman
Slade House, David Mitchell (reread)
The Clocks, Agatha Christie
Blood Test, Charles Baxter
Seven Empty Houses, Samanta Schweblin, translated by Megan McDowell
Vengeful, Victoria Schwab
Vicious, Victoria Schwab
Rapture, Reid Sherline
Blood Sisters, Vanessa Lillie
James, Percival Everett
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain
The Road from Belhaven, Margot Livesey (reread)
Tehanu, Ursula K. Le Guin (reread)
The Farthest Shore, Ursula K. Le Guin (reread)
The Tombs of Atuan, Ursula K. Le Guin (reread)
A Wizard of Earthsea, Ursula K. Le Guin (reread)
Hum, Helen Phillips
Tom Lake, Ann Patchett
An Unnecessary Woman, Rabih Alameddine
The Resisters, Gish Jen
Less, Andrew Sean Greer
Three Steps on the Ladder of Writing, Hélène Cixous, translated by Sarah Cornell and Susan Sellers
City in Ruins, Don Winslow
City of Dreams, Don Winslow
City on Fire, Don Winslow
The Book of Love, Kelly Link
The Darkness Outside Us, Eliot Schrefer
New York 2140, Kim Stanley Robinson
The Near Witch, V.E. Schwab
Finna, Nino Cipri
This Is How You Lose The Time War, Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone (reread)
North Woods, Daniel Mason
The Practice, the Horizon, and the Chain, Sofia Samatar
Flight Behavior, Barbara Kingsolver (reread)
The Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver
The Nine Tailors, Dorothy L. Sayers
Solito, Javier Zamora
I Am Not Sidney Poitier, Percival Everett
Slade House, David Mitchell
The Anthologist, Nicholson Baker (reread)
Mister Monkey, Francine Prose (reread)
The Wild Robot Escapes, Peter Brown
The Wild Robot, Peter Brown
Red At The Bone, Jacqueline Woodson
Silver Nitrate, Silvia Moreno-Garcia
The Street, Ann Petry (reread)
The Road from Belhaven, Margot Livesey
The March, E.L. Doctorow
2023
A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy, Nathan Thrall
The Wren, The Wren, Anne Enright
The Underworld: Journeys to the Depths of the Ocean, Susan Casey
Death's End, Cixin Liu (reread)
The Three-Body Problem, Cixin Liu (reread)
The Dark Forest, Cixin Liu (reread)
A Little History of the World, E.H. Gombrich
Coolest American Stories 2024, eds. Mark Wish & Elizabeth Coffey
Mexican Gothic, Silvia Moreno-Garcia
How To Say Babylon, Safiya Sinclair
Be Mine, Richard Ford
Cold Girls, Maxine Rae
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Robert Louis Stevenson (reread)
Mary Reilly, Valerie Martin
The Road to Lichfield, Penelope Lively
When the Angels Left the Old Country, Sacha Lamb
A Council of Dolls, Mona Susan Power
All Water Has Perfect Memory, Nada Samih-Rotondo
The Postcard, Anne Berest
Horse, Geraldine Brooks (reread)
Caleb's Crossing, Geraldine Brooks (reread)
Ink Blood Sister Scribe, Emma Törzs
Maud Hart Lovelace:
Betsy-Tacy
Betsy-Tacy and Tib
Betsy and Tacy Go Over the Big Hill
Betsy and Tacy Go Downtown
Heaven to Betsy
Betsy in Spite of Herself
Betsy Was A Junior
Betsy and Joe
Betsy and the Great World
Betsy's Wedding
This Is How You Lose The Time War, Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone
Horse, Geraldine Brooks
People of the Book, Geraldine Brooks
Year of Wonders, Geraldine Brooks (reread)
March, Geraldine Brooks
Demon Copperhead, Barbara Kingsolver
David Copperfield, Charles Dickens
Poverty, By America, Matthew Desmond
Hotel Cuba, Aaron Hamburger
The Fear of Large and Small Nations, Nancy Agabian
Warrior Girl Unearthed, Angeline Boulley
The Princess Casamassima, Henry James
A Tale for the Time Being, Ruth Ozeki
The Last Animal, Ramona Ausubel
Moon of the Crusted Snow, Waubgeshig Rice
Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest, Suzanne Simard
Men in the Off Hours, Anne Carson
House of Cotton, Monica Brashears
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City, Matthew Desmond
How High We Go In The Dark, Sequoia Nagamatsu
Lessons in Chemistry, Bonnie Garmus
The Magician's Elephant, Kate DiCamillo (reread)
The Best Short Stories 2021, Edited by Chimimanda Ngozi Adichie
Once There Were Wolves, Charlotte McConaghy
The White Mosque: A Memoir, Sofia Samatar
My Son's Story, Nadine Gordimer (reread)
Iterate: Ten Lessons in Design and Falure, John Sharp and Colleen Macklin, Steven Davis (illustrations)
The World We Make, N.K. Jemisin
An Odyssey: A Father, A Son, and an Epic, Daniel Mendelsohn
The Feast of Love, Charles Baxter (reread)
COOLEST American Stories 2023, eds. Mark Wish and Elizabeth Coffey
Wild Things Are Happening: The Art of Maurice Sendak, ed. Jonathan Weinberg
Becoming, Michelle Obama
Bringing Up the Bodies, Hilary Mantel
2022
Clean: The New Science of Skin and the Beauty of Doing Less, James Hamblin
Year of the Murder Hornet, Tina Cane
Assassination Vacation, Sarah Vowell
Single & Single, John Le Carre
Rejoice the Head of Paul McCartney, Adam Braver
November 22, 1963, Adam Braver
Mr. Lincoln's Wars, Adam Braver
Crows Over the Wheatfield, Adam Braver
Man V. Nature: Stories, Diane Cook
Dracula, Bram Stoker (reread)
The Startup Wife, Tahmima Anam
Two Old Women, Velma Wallis
The Last White Man, Mohsin Hamid
The Lathe of Heaven, Ursula K. Le Guin
Firekeeper's Daughter, Angeline Boulley (reread)
The New Wilderness, Diane Cook
A Fisherman of the Inland Sea, Ursula K. Le Guin
That Lonely Spell, Frances Park
The Reluctant Fundamentalist, Mohsin Hamid
Safe from the Neighbors, Steve Yarbrough
My Son's Story, Nadine Gordimer
The Dispossessed, Ursula K. Le Guin
We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves, Karen Joy Fowler
Night of the Living Rez: Stories, Morgan Talty
Kids in America: A Gen X Reckoning, Liz Prato
Thrust, Lidia Yuknavitch
Capirotada: A Nogales Memoir, Alberto Álvaro Ríos
Shit Cassandra Saw, Gwen E. Kirby
Ursula K. Le Guin: Conversations on Writing, Ursula K. Le Guin with David Naimon
The Word for World is Forest, Ursula K. Le Guin
The Small Backs of Children, Lidia Yuknavitch
Wolf Hall, Hilary Mantel
Razorblade Tears, S.A. Cosby
The Dark is Rising, Susan Cooper
Salvage the Bones, Jesmyn Ward
How to Love the World: Poems of Gratitude and Hope, edited by James Crews
Unlikely Animals, Annie Hartnett
Craft in the Real World: Rethinking Ficiton Writing and Workshopping, Matthew Salesses
Bird Lovers, Backyard, Thalia Field (reread)
Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism, Safiya Umoja Noble
The Haunting of Hill House, Shirley Jackson
The House in the Cerulean Sea, TJ Klune
Plant Dreaming Deep, May Sarton
Almanac of the Dead, Leslie Marmon Silko
Eleutheria, Allegra Hyde
What Are You Going Through, Sigrid Nunez
The Friend, Sigrid Nunez (reread)
Sempre Susan, Sigrid Nunez
Frankenstein Or, The Modern Prometheus, Mary Shelley (reread)
The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine, Serhii Plokhy
My Autobiography of Carson McCullers, Jenn Shapland
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, Carson McCullers (reread)
COOLEST AMERICAN STORIES 2022, ed. Mark Wish and Elizabeth Coffey
The Lost Apothecary, Sarah Penner
Firekeeper's Daughter, Angeline Boulley
Writers and Lovers, Lily King (reread)
The Tyrant Baru Cormorant, Seth Dickinson
Read
2021
The Monster Baru Cormorant, Seth Dickinson
How to Mars, David Ebenbach
Time and Again, Jack Finney
The Shame, Makenna Goodman
Endgame, Samuel Beckett
The Traitor Baru Cormorant, Seth Dickinson
Whiskey, Tango, Foxtrot, David Shafer
The Twilight Man: Rod Serling and the Birth of Television, Koren Shadmi
The Art of Revision: The Last Word, Peter Ho Davies
Libertie, Kaitlyn Greenridge
Infinite Country, Patricia Engel
Hamnet, Maggie O'Farrell
The Sentence, Louise Erdrich
The Book of Delights: Essays, Ross Gay
Pity the Beast, Robin McLean
How to Read Water: Clues and Patterns from Puddles to the Sea, Tristan Gooley
Bestiary Dark, Marianne Boruch
The Other Black Girl, Zakiya Dalila Harris
We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families: Stories from Rwanda, Philip Gourevitch
Our Lady of the Nile, Scholastique Mukasonga
Whisper in the Dark, Joseph Bruchac
A House Without Windows, Marc Ellison and Didier Kassaï
The Secret to Superhuman Strength, Alison Bechdel
Alma Presses Play, Tina Cane
You Never Forget Your First: A Biography of George Washington, Alexis Coe
"21": The Story of Roberto Clemente, Wilfred Santiago
Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro
That Can Be Arranged: a Muslim love story, Huda Fahmy
Going Into Town: a love letter to New York, Roz Chast
Little Children, Tom Perrotta
Good Omens, Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett
Oak Flat: A Fight for Sacred Land in the American West, Lauren Redniss
My Heart is a Chainsaw, Stephen Graham Jones
Fairy Tale Architecture, Andrew Bernheimer and Kate Bernheimer
Nothing to See Here, Kevin Wilson
Here, Richard McGuire
Behind the Beautiful Forevers, Katherine Boo
Appleseed, Matt Bell
Flight of the Sparrow, Amy Belding Brown
Pedagogical Sketchbook, Paul Klee
Tuesday Mooney Talks To Ghosts, Kate Racculia
War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy
The Secret Lives of Planets: Order, Chaos, and Uniqueness in the Solar System, Paul Murdin
Tenemental: Adventures of a Reluctant Landlady, Vikki Warner
Sorrowland, Rivers Solomon
Dwellings: A Spiritual History of the Living World, Linda Hogan
Aviary, Deirdre McNamer
Eleanor, David Michaelis
The Boy in the Field, Margot Livesey (reread)
Go Tell It On The Mountain, James Baldwin
Sea and Fog, Etel Adnan
One Kind Favor, Kevin McIlvoy
Bellweather Rhapsody, Kate Racculia
Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver, Mary Oliver
Cloud Atlas, David Mitchell
Klara and the Sun, Kazuo Ishiguro
The Street, Ann Petry
Vera Kelly Is Not A Mystery, Rosalie Knecht
The Vanishing Half, Brit Bennett
Cadillac Desert: The American West and its Disappearing Water, Marc Reisner
Underground: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals, Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Emergent Strategy Series, AK Press
Imagine Me Gone, Adam Haslett
Smiley's People, John Le Carré
The Honourable Schoolboy, John Le Carré
Tree of Cats, Ellis Avery
The Medium is the Massage: An Inventory of Effects, Marshall McLuhan and Quentin Fiore, produced by Jerome Agel
The Line Becomes A River: Dispatches From The Border, Francisco Cantú
Flash Count Diary: Menopause and the Vindication of Natural Life, Darcey Steinke
The Round House, Louise Erdrich (reread)
Flight Behavior, Barbara Kingsolver
Migrations, Charlotte McConaghy
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, John Le Carré
The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, Ernest J. Gaines (reread)
Spellbound: The Art of Teaching Poetry, edited by Matthew Burgess
The Spy Who Came In From The Cold, John Le Carré
2020
The Soul of An Octopus, Sy Montgomery (reread)å
The Echo Maker, Richard Powers
The House in Paris, Elizabeth Bowen
What We See When We Read, Peter Mendelsund
The Athenian Murders, José Carlos Somoza, trans. Sonia Soto
Einstein: His Life and Universe, Walter Isaacson
A Family for Faru, Anitha Rao-Robinson, illustrations by Karen Patkau
Travel Light, Naomi Mitchison
A Lesson Before Dying, Ernest J. Gaines
Giovanni's Room, James Baldwin
The Sun Collective, Charles Baxter
American Spy, Lauren Wilkinson
Frankenstein in Baghdad, Ahmed Saadawi, translated from the Arabic by Jonathan Wright
Float, Anne Carson
The Grammarians, Cathleen Schine
All Aunt Hagar's Children, Edward P. Jones
Glitch Feminism: A Manifesto, Legacy Russell
Jonny Appleseed, Joshua Whitehead
Eye Killers, A.A. Carr
News From The World: Stories & Essays, Paula Fox
The Beginning of Spring, Penelope Fitzgerald
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons From The Twentieth Century, Timothy Snyder
Burn Down This World, Tina Egnoski
The Boy in the Field, Margot Livesey
Slide Rule, Nevil Shute
The Only Good Indians, Stephen Graham Jones
Fox 8, George Saunders
Mostly Dead Things, Kristen Arnett
Black, White, and Indian: Race and the Unmaking of an American Family, Claudio Saunt
Little Weirds, Jenny Slate
On The Beach, Nevil Shute
Famous Men Who Never Lived, K Chess
Death's End, Cixin Liu (reread)
The Dark Forest, CIxin Liu (reread)
The Three-Body Problem, Cixin Liu (reread)
Everyone Knows You Go Home, Natalia Sylvester
Year of the Monkey, Patti Smith
You're Not Listening: What You're Missing and Why It Matters, Kate Murphy
Mouthful of Birds, Samanta Schweblin
Little Eyes, Samanta Schweblin
The City We Became, N.K. Jemisin
A Poetry Handbook, Mary Oliver
Isaac Newton, James Gleick
Only the River, Anne Raeff
Dante's Inferno, Italian Text with English Translation and Comment by John D. Sinclair (reread)
The Wars, Timothy Findley (reread)
Educated, Tara Westover
The Night Watchman, Louise Erdrich
Underland: A Deep Time Journey, Robert Macfarlane
The Fish and the Dove, Mary-Kim Arnold
Writers & Lovers, Lily King
Strong Poison, Dorothy L. Sayers
A Field Guide to Getting Lost, Rebecca Solnit
Maggie: A Girl of the Streets and George's Mother, Stephen Crane
Meander, Spiral, Explode: Design and Pattern in Narrative, Jane Alison
The Last Animal, Abby Geni
Girl, Woman, Other, Bernardine Evaristo
The Dream-Quest of Vellitt Boe, Kij Johnson
Caging Skies, Christine Leunens
Sandworm: A New Era of Cyberwar and the Hunt for the Kremlin's Most Dangerous Hackers, Andy Greenberg
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Philip K. Dick
Eucalyptus, Murray Bail
Ecotone: Wayfaring on the Margins, Florence R. Krall
Breaking and Entering: The Extraordinary Story of a Hacker Called "Alien," Jeremy N. Smith
Quiet: The power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking, Susan Cain
Dune, Frank Herbert
On Photography, Susan Sontag
The Map of Salt and Stars, Zeyn Joukhadar
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous, Ocean Vuong
The Intuitionist, Colson Whitehead
2019
Mem, Bethany C. Morrow
The Teeth of the Comb & Other Stories, Osama Alomar
Pobby and Dingan, Ben Rice
Letters to a Young Artist, Anna Deavere Smith
Cosmicomics, Italo Calvino
Wish, Barbara O'Connor
How to Steal A Dog, Barbara O'Connor
Essays One, Lydia Davis
Cane, Jean Toomer
Frankissstein: A Love Story, Jeanette Winterson
The Deep, Rivers Solomon
Celestial Bodies, Jokha Alharthi
The Shadow of the Wind (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books, #1), Carlos Ruiz Zafon
An Unkindness of Ghosts, Rivers Solomon
Six-Gun Snow White, Catherynne M. Valente
Maggie Brown & Others, Peter Orner
Body of Work, Tina Cane
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead, Olga Tokarczuk
Girl, Edna O'Brien
Parasite Life, Victoria Dalpe
Ironweed, William Kennedy
Little Voices, Vanessa Lillie
Leading Men, Christopher Castellani
Circe, Madeline Miller
Parable of the Talents (Earthseed #2), Octavia Butler
Parable of the Sower (Earthseed #1), Octavia Butler
The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks & Win Your Inner Creative Battles, Steven Pressfield
The Big Nine: How the Tech Titans and Their Thinking Machines Could Warp Humanity, Amy Webb
The House on the Lagoon, Rosario Ferre
An Imaginary Life, David Malouf
A Woman is No Man, Etaf Rum
The Brilliant Fall of Gianna Z., Kate Messner
Nirvana Is Here, Aaron Hamburger
The Question Authority, Rachel Cline
The Rapture Index: A Suburban Bestiary, Molly Reid
Arturo's Island, Elsa Morante
Voices: The Final Hours of Joan of Arc, David Elliott
All the Lives We Ever Lived: Seeking Solace in Virginia Woolf, Katharine Smyth
Feldenkrais Illustrated: The Art of Learning, Tiffany Sankary
Jasmine Toguchi, Flamingo Keeper, Debbi Michiko Florence
Jasmine Toguchi, Super Sleuth, Debbi Michiko Florence
Jasmine Toguchi, Drummer Girl, Debbi Michiko Florence
Jasmine Toguchi, Mochi Queen, Debbi Michiko Florence
Barking with the Big Dogs: On Writing and Reading Books for Children, Natalie Babbitt
Sherlock Holmes Was Wrong: Reopening the Case of The Hound of the Baskervilles, Pierre Bayard
Machines Like Me, Ian McEwan
I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban, Malala Yousafzai
Casebook of Sherlock Holmes, Arthur Conan Doyle
Kara's Law: A Novel, Kell Smith
The Bad Seed, William March
Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books, Azar Nafisi
Love Poems, Anne Sexton
Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine, Gail Honeyman
Haunting Paris, Mamta Chaudhry
What the Eyes Don't See: A Story of Crisis, Resistance, and Hope in an American City, Mona Hanna-Attisha
Unsheltered, Barbara Kingsolver
Volcanoes, Palm Trees, and Privilege: Essays on Hawai'i, Liz Prato
Fobbit, David Abrams
Lost Children Archive, Valeria Luiselli
The Night Circus, Erin Morgenstern
Milkman, Anna Burns
The Friend, Sigrid Nunez
A Man Without A Country, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow, Yuval Noah Harari
Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
The Swerve: How the World Became Modern, Stephen Greenblatt
Martha Moody, Susan Stinson
The Brothers Vonnegut: Science and Fiction in the House of Magic, Ginger Strand
The Silence of the Girls, Pat Barker
And So It Goes: Kurt Vonnegut: A Life, Charles J. Shields
How to Be a Good Creature: A Memoir in Thirteen Animals, Sy Montgomery
Lu (Track #4), Jason Reynolds
The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women, Kate Moore
The Stone Sky (The Broken Earth #3), N.K. Jemisin
We the Animals, Justin Torres
The Obelisk Gate (The Broken Earth #2), N.K. Jemisin
My Sister, the Serial Killer, Oyinkan Braithwaite
2018
The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth #1), N.K. Jemisin
At the Gate of All Wonder, Kevin McIlvoy
Trail of Lightning (The Sixth World #1), Rebecca Roanhorse
A Lucky Man, Jamel Brinkley
And Then There Were None, Agatha Christie
The Lying Game, Ruth Ware
West with the Night, Beryl Markham
Circling the Sun, Paula McLain
Muse of Nightmares (Strange the Dreamer, #2), Laini Taylor
The Death of Mrs. Westaway, Ruth Ware
Future Home of the Living God, Louise Erdrich
In a Dark, Dark Wood, Ruth Ware
The Poet X, Elizabeth Acevedo
The Woman in Cabin 10, Ruth Ware
Death's End (Remembrance of Earth's Past #3), Cixin Liu
Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women's Anger, Rebecca Traister
When We Were Ghouls: A Memoir of Ghost Stories, Amy E. Wallen
Where the Dead Sit Talking, Brandon Hobson
Sam Says, Sam, Seth Tourjee
The Dark Forest (Remembrance of Earth's Past, #2), Cixin Liu
The Three-Body Problem (Remembrance of Earth's Past, #1), Cixin Liu
A Man Called Ove, Fredrik Backman
There There, Tommy Orange
Loitering: New & Collected Essays, Charles D'Ambrosio
A Thousand Years of Good Prayers, Yiyun Li
Krik? Krak? Edwidge Danticat
Breath, Eyes, Memory, Edwidge Danticat
Farewell to the Muse: Love, War and the Women of Surrealism, Whitney Chadwick
Devotion, Patti Smith
Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right, Arlie Russell Hochschild
Ghost (Track, #1), Jason Reynolds
The Turner House, Angela Flournoy
Corrupted (Rosato & DiNunzio #3), Lisa Scottoline
The Red Badge of Courage, Stephen Crane
Who Is Vera Kelly? Rosalie Knecht
The Largesse of the Sea Maiden, Denis Johnson
The Wars, Timothy Findley
Leonardo da Vinci, Walter Isaacson
Patina (Track, #2), Jason Reynolds
The Wand in the Word: Conversations with Writers of Fantasy, Leonard S. Marcus
Sunny (Track, #3), Jason Reynolds
Moloka'i, Alan Brennert
Wabanaki Blues (The Wabanaki Trilogy, #1), Melissa Tantaquidgeon Zobel
Glaciers, Alexis M. Smith
The Marrow Thieves, Cherie Dimaline
The Overstory, Richard Powers
Riding the Trail of Tears, Blake M. Hausman
Unlearning with Hannah Arendt, Marie Luise Knott
Litany for the Long Moment, Mary-Kim Arnold
We Are Okay, Nina LaCour
Chemistry, Weike Wang
Strange the Dreamer, Laini Taylor
Silk Poems, Jen Bervin
Eleanor & Park, Rainbow Rowell
Black River Falls, Jeff Hirsch
All You Need is Kill, Hiroshi Sakurazaka
Picture Me Gone, Meg Rosoff
How I Live Now, Meg Rosoff
The Hidden LIfe of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate - Discoveries from a Secret World, Peter Wohlleben
The Woman Who Watches Over the World: A Native Memoir, Linda Hogan
Women at Work: Interviews from The Paris Review
The Known World, Edward P. Jones
Cranford, Elizabeth Gaskell
The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Stephen Chbosky
Feed, M.T. Anderson
Lakota Woman, Mary Crow Dog
Coming Through Slaughter, Michael Ondaatje
The Power, Naomi Alderman
Gilead, Marilynne Robinson
The Art of Mystery: The Search for Questions, Maud Casey
The Eleventh Plague, Jeff Hirsch
Waiting for the Barbarians, J.M. Coetzee
Mapping the Interior, Stephen Graham Jones
Once More With Feeling, Tina Cane
Hammers on Bone (Persons Non Grata, #1), Cassandra Khaw
Mongrels, Stephen Graham Jones
Our Beloved Kin: A New History of King Philip's War, Lisa Brooks
2017
Memory Serves, Lee Maracle
The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry, Gabrielle Zevin
Home Fire, Kamila Shamsie
Morningstar: Growing Up with Books, Ann Hood
Nutshell, Ian McEwan
Mean Spirit, Linda Hogan
What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky, Lesley Nneka Arimah
The House on Mango Street, Sandra Cisneros
The Disappeared, Adam Braver
Angels on Toast, Dawn Powell
Hourglass: Time, Memory, Marriage, Dani Shapiro
57 Octaves Below Middle C, Kevin McIlvoy
Rabbit Cake, Annie Hartnett
Kiss Me Someone: Stories, Karen Shepard
The Age of Perpetual Light, Josh Weil
Gay Zoo Day: Tales of Seeking and Discovery, Mike McClelland
Other Council Fires Were Here Before Ours, Jamie Sams
Dance Night, Dawn Powell
Outside is the Ocean, Matthew Lansburgh
Homegoing, Yaa Gyasi
The Price of Salt, Patricia Highsmith
The Hero and the Crown, Robin McKinley
The Dark Dark, Samantha Hunt
Bull, David Elliott
The Glass Castle, Jeannette Walls
The Age of Catherine de Medici, J.E. Neale
The Cherokee Rose, Tiya Miles
Winter Kept Us Warm, Anne Raeff
Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two, Joseph Bruchac
Sacred Wilderness, Susan Power
Shell Shaker, LeAnne Howe
Nutshell, Ian McEwan
The Locusts Have No King, Dawn Powell
Brooklyn, Colm Toibin
Best. State. Ever.: A Florida Man Defends His Homeland, Dave Barry
Beneath a Meth Moon, Jacqueline Woodson
The Journey Home: Autobiography of an American Swami, Radhanath Swami
The Poetics of Space, Gaston Bachelard
Magdalene, Marie Howe
Hillbilly Nationalists, Urban Race Rebels, and Black Power: Community Organizing in Radical Times, Amy Sonnie
Brother, I'm Dying, Edwidge Danticat
Miko Kings: An Indian Baseball Story, LeAnne Howe
A Stranger in Olondria, Sofia Samatar
The Birchbark House, Louise Erdrich
The Lottery and Other Stories, Shirley Jackson
The Vital Question: Energy, Evolution, and the Origins of Complex Life, Nick Lane
Drowning in Fire, Craig S. Womack
Genome: the Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters, Matt Ridley
Her Body and Other Parties, Carmen Maria Machado
Novices: A study of poetic apprenticeship, Clayton Eshleman
Lincoln in the Bardo, George Saunders
Hotels of North America, Rick Moody
The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration Into the Wonder of Consciousness, Sy Montgomery
Raymie Nightingale, Kate DiCamillo
Triangle: The Fire That Changed America, David von Drehle
The Fool's Truth, Loretta H. Marion
The 17th Letter, Dorothy Cameron Disney
The Ornament of the World: How Muslims, Jews, and Christians Created a Culture of Tolerance in Medieval Spain, Maria Rosa Menocal
What I Didn't Know: True Stories of Becoming a Teacher, Lee Gutkind
The Drowning Girl, Caitlin R. Kiernan
Two Serious Ladies, Jane Bowles
Orange is the New Black, Piper Kerman
Sula, Toni Morrison (reread)
A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian, Marina Lewycka
All Tomorrow's Parties: A Memoir, Rob Spillman
Dust Tracks on a Road, Zora Neale Hurston
Echo, Pam Munoz Ryan
First Peoples: A Documentary Survey of American Indian History, Colin G. Calloway
Pretty Deadly #1, Kelly Sue DeConnick
Pretty Deadly Vol.1: The Shrike, Kelly Sue DeConnick
I Do Not Come to You by Chance, Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani
2016
Pyres, Derek Nikitas
This Side of Providence, Rachel M. Harper
LaRose, Louise Erdrich
Along Came the Rain, Alison R. Solomon
Clara Mondschein's Melancholia, Anne Raeff
Matters of Life and Death: New American Stories, Tobias Wolff
The Jungle Around Us, Anne Raeff
Get in Trouble, Kelly Link
Between the World and Me, Ta-Nehisi Coates
Lab Girl, Hope Jahren
The Ballad of Billy Badass and the Rose of Turkestan, William Sanders
Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth, Warsan Shire
Standing Against the Wind, Traci L. Jones
Finding My Place, Traci L. Jones
The Underground Railroad, Colson Whitehead
The Bridge Ladies, Betsy Lerner
Silhouetted By the Blue, Traci L. Jones
Negroland, Margo Jefferson
Flush, Virginia Woolf
Caring for Crabgrass, Beverly M. Rathbun
The Museum of Extraordinary Things, Alice Hoffman
Mister Monkey, Francine Prose
Crow and Weasel, Barry Lopez
Reflections in a Golden Eye, Carson McCullers
Bone Black: Memories of Girlhood, bell hooks
Mercury, Margot Livesey
Lila, Marilynne Robinson
The Maid's Daughter: Living Inside and Outside the American Dream, Mary Romero
The Art of Perspective: Who Tells the Story, Christopher Castellani
Enrique's Journey, Sonia Nazario
Kindred, Octavia E. Butler
Girls on Film, Kathryn Kulpa
Another Brooklyn, Jacqueline Woodson
The Odd Woman and the City: A Memoir, Vivian Gornick
The Woman Upstairs, Claire Messud
Annie John, Jamaica Kincaid
The Argonauts, Maggie Nelson
Stop-Time, Frank Conroy
The Other Side: A Memoir, Lacy M. Johnson
Weathering, Lucy Wood
Thirteen Ways of Looking, Colum McCann
Fortune Smiles, Adam Johnson
Contrapuntal, Christopher Kondrich
The Jew of New York, Ben Katchor
One Day's Tale, Lois Barliant
Sarah's Key, Tatiana de Rosnay
One Day I Will Write About This Place: A Memoir, Binyavanga Wainaina
God Help the Child, Toni Morrieson
Tales to Tremble By, Stephen P. Sutton
Zoo City, Lauren Beukes
Once Upon A Time
Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte
Frankenstein, Mary Shelley
Middlesex, Jeffrey Eugenides
The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde
The Old Man and the Sea, Ernest Hemingway
The Giver, Lois Lowry
Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte
1984, George Orwell
The Hunger Games, Suzanne Collins
The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee
Closer, Dennis Cooper
Naked Lunch, William S. Burroughs
Dogfight, A Love Story, Matt Burgess
The Shell Collector, Anthony Doerr
After the Parade, Lori Ostlund
The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho
The Golden Gate, Vikram Seth
Another Bullshit Night in Suck City, Nick Flynn
The Other Shepards, Adele Griffin
Inkheart, Cornelia Funke
The Bartimaeus Trilogy, Jonathan Stroud
Fangirl, Rainbow Rowell
We Have Always Lived in the Castle, Shirley Jackson
The Master, Colm Toibin
Portrait of a Novel: Henry James and the Making of an American Masterpiece, Michael Gorra
The Portrait of a Lady, Henry James
The House of Mirth, Edith Wharton
My Antonia, Willa Cather
Love and Hydrogen: New and Selected Stories, Jim Shepard
Project X, Jim Shepard
The Art of Subtext: Beyond Plot, Charles Baxter
The Art of Time in Fiction: As Long As It Takes, Joan Silber
Shadow Play, Charles Baxter
First Light, Charles Baxter
The Fifty-First State, Lisa Borders
Cloud Cuckoo Land, Lisa Borders
Emily, Alone, Steward O'Nan
So Long, See You Tomorrow, William Maxwell
A Constellation of Vital Phenomena, Anthony Marra
Schroder, Amity Gaige
Take Me Home, Brian Leung
Oscar and Lucinda, Peter Carey
Dancer, Colum McCann
Let the Great World Spin, Colum McCann
Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk, Ben Fountain
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Muriel Spark
Memento Mori, Muriel Spark
Open Secrets, Alice Munro
Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage: Stories, Alice Munro
Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned, Wells Tower
The Secret Names of Women, Lynne Barrett
Magpies, Lynne Barrett
Baby's on Fire, Liz Prato
Dept. of Speculation, Jenny Offill
Lord of Misrule, Jaimy Gordon
The New Valley: Novellas, Josh Weil
Mrs. Bridge, Evan S. Connell
The Bone People, Keri Hulme
The Peripatetic Coffin and Other Stories, Ethan Rutherford
Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
Housekeeping, Marilynne Robinson
Sexing the Cherry, Jeanette Winterson
Maru, Bessie Head
Museum Pieces, Elizabeth Tallent
The Bigness of the World, Lori Ostlund
Banishing Verona, Margot Livesey
Eva Moves the Furniture, Margot Livesey
Nights at the Circus, Angela Carter
Autobiography of Red, Anne Carson
Black Swan Green, David Mitchell
There's Something I Want You To Do, Charles Baxter
Gryphon: New and Selected Stories, Charles Baxter
The Feast of Love, Charles Baxter
The Folded World, Amity Gaige
Pleasant Drugs: Stories, Kathryn Kulpa
Bluets, Maggie Nelson
The Book of Aron, Jim Shepard
Reptile House, Robin McLean
The Round House, Louise Erdrich
Black Cake, Charmaine Wilkerson
The Mirror Crack'd From Side To Side, Agatha Christie
So Much Blue, Percival Everett
Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void, Mary Roach
The Return of the Native, Thomas Hardy
The Tale Teller, Anne Hillerman
Slade House, David Mitchell (reread)
The Clocks, Agatha Christie
Blood Test, Charles Baxter
Seven Empty Houses, Samanta Schweblin, translated by Megan McDowell
Vengeful, Victoria Schwab
Vicious, Victoria Schwab
Rapture, Reid Sherline
Blood Sisters, Vanessa Lillie
James, Percival Everett
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain
The Road from Belhaven, Margot Livesey (reread)
Tehanu, Ursula K. Le Guin (reread)
The Farthest Shore, Ursula K. Le Guin (reread)
The Tombs of Atuan, Ursula K. Le Guin (reread)
A Wizard of Earthsea, Ursula K. Le Guin (reread)
Hum, Helen Phillips
Tom Lake, Ann Patchett
An Unnecessary Woman, Rabih Alameddine
The Resisters, Gish Jen
Less, Andrew Sean Greer
Three Steps on the Ladder of Writing, Hélène Cixous, translated by Sarah Cornell and Susan Sellers
City in Ruins, Don Winslow
City of Dreams, Don Winslow
City on Fire, Don Winslow
The Book of Love, Kelly Link
The Darkness Outside Us, Eliot Schrefer
New York 2140, Kim Stanley Robinson
The Near Witch, V.E. Schwab
Finna, Nino Cipri
This Is How You Lose The Time War, Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone (reread)
North Woods, Daniel Mason
The Practice, the Horizon, and the Chain, Sofia Samatar
Flight Behavior, Barbara Kingsolver (reread)
The Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver
The Nine Tailors, Dorothy L. Sayers
Solito, Javier Zamora
I Am Not Sidney Poitier, Percival Everett
Slade House, David Mitchell
The Anthologist, Nicholson Baker (reread)
Mister Monkey, Francine Prose (reread)
The Wild Robot Escapes, Peter Brown
The Wild Robot, Peter Brown
Red At The Bone, Jacqueline Woodson
Silver Nitrate, Silvia Moreno-Garcia
The Street, Ann Petry (reread)
The Road from Belhaven, Margot Livesey
The March, E.L. Doctorow
2023
A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy, Nathan Thrall
The Wren, The Wren, Anne Enright
The Underworld: Journeys to the Depths of the Ocean, Susan Casey
Death's End, Cixin Liu (reread)
The Three-Body Problem, Cixin Liu (reread)
The Dark Forest, Cixin Liu (reread)
A Little History of the World, E.H. Gombrich
Coolest American Stories 2024, eds. Mark Wish & Elizabeth Coffey
Mexican Gothic, Silvia Moreno-Garcia
How To Say Babylon, Safiya Sinclair
Be Mine, Richard Ford
Cold Girls, Maxine Rae
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Robert Louis Stevenson (reread)
Mary Reilly, Valerie Martin
The Road to Lichfield, Penelope Lively
When the Angels Left the Old Country, Sacha Lamb
A Council of Dolls, Mona Susan Power
All Water Has Perfect Memory, Nada Samih-Rotondo
The Postcard, Anne Berest
Horse, Geraldine Brooks (reread)
Caleb's Crossing, Geraldine Brooks (reread)
Ink Blood Sister Scribe, Emma Törzs
Maud Hart Lovelace:
Betsy-Tacy
Betsy-Tacy and Tib
Betsy and Tacy Go Over the Big Hill
Betsy and Tacy Go Downtown
Heaven to Betsy
Betsy in Spite of Herself
Betsy Was A Junior
Betsy and Joe
Betsy and the Great World
Betsy's Wedding
This Is How You Lose The Time War, Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone
Horse, Geraldine Brooks
People of the Book, Geraldine Brooks
Year of Wonders, Geraldine Brooks (reread)
March, Geraldine Brooks
Demon Copperhead, Barbara Kingsolver
David Copperfield, Charles Dickens
Poverty, By America, Matthew Desmond
Hotel Cuba, Aaron Hamburger
The Fear of Large and Small Nations, Nancy Agabian
Warrior Girl Unearthed, Angeline Boulley
The Princess Casamassima, Henry James
A Tale for the Time Being, Ruth Ozeki
The Last Animal, Ramona Ausubel
Moon of the Crusted Snow, Waubgeshig Rice
Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest, Suzanne Simard
Men in the Off Hours, Anne Carson
House of Cotton, Monica Brashears
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City, Matthew Desmond
How High We Go In The Dark, Sequoia Nagamatsu
Lessons in Chemistry, Bonnie Garmus
The Magician's Elephant, Kate DiCamillo (reread)
The Best Short Stories 2021, Edited by Chimimanda Ngozi Adichie
Once There Were Wolves, Charlotte McConaghy
The White Mosque: A Memoir, Sofia Samatar
My Son's Story, Nadine Gordimer (reread)
Iterate: Ten Lessons in Design and Falure, John Sharp and Colleen Macklin, Steven Davis (illustrations)
The World We Make, N.K. Jemisin
An Odyssey: A Father, A Son, and an Epic, Daniel Mendelsohn
The Feast of Love, Charles Baxter (reread)
COOLEST American Stories 2023, eds. Mark Wish and Elizabeth Coffey
Wild Things Are Happening: The Art of Maurice Sendak, ed. Jonathan Weinberg
Becoming, Michelle Obama
Bringing Up the Bodies, Hilary Mantel
2022
Clean: The New Science of Skin and the Beauty of Doing Less, James Hamblin
Year of the Murder Hornet, Tina Cane
Assassination Vacation, Sarah Vowell
Single & Single, John Le Carre
Rejoice the Head of Paul McCartney, Adam Braver
November 22, 1963, Adam Braver
Mr. Lincoln's Wars, Adam Braver
Crows Over the Wheatfield, Adam Braver
Man V. Nature: Stories, Diane Cook
Dracula, Bram Stoker (reread)
The Startup Wife, Tahmima Anam
Two Old Women, Velma Wallis
The Last White Man, Mohsin Hamid
The Lathe of Heaven, Ursula K. Le Guin
Firekeeper's Daughter, Angeline Boulley (reread)
The New Wilderness, Diane Cook
A Fisherman of the Inland Sea, Ursula K. Le Guin
That Lonely Spell, Frances Park
The Reluctant Fundamentalist, Mohsin Hamid
Safe from the Neighbors, Steve Yarbrough
My Son's Story, Nadine Gordimer
The Dispossessed, Ursula K. Le Guin
We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves, Karen Joy Fowler
Night of the Living Rez: Stories, Morgan Talty
Kids in America: A Gen X Reckoning, Liz Prato
Thrust, Lidia Yuknavitch
Capirotada: A Nogales Memoir, Alberto Álvaro Ríos
Shit Cassandra Saw, Gwen E. Kirby
Ursula K. Le Guin: Conversations on Writing, Ursula K. Le Guin with David Naimon
The Word for World is Forest, Ursula K. Le Guin
The Small Backs of Children, Lidia Yuknavitch
Wolf Hall, Hilary Mantel
Razorblade Tears, S.A. Cosby
The Dark is Rising, Susan Cooper
Salvage the Bones, Jesmyn Ward
How to Love the World: Poems of Gratitude and Hope, edited by James Crews
Unlikely Animals, Annie Hartnett
Craft in the Real World: Rethinking Ficiton Writing and Workshopping, Matthew Salesses
Bird Lovers, Backyard, Thalia Field (reread)
Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism, Safiya Umoja Noble
The Haunting of Hill House, Shirley Jackson
The House in the Cerulean Sea, TJ Klune
Plant Dreaming Deep, May Sarton
Almanac of the Dead, Leslie Marmon Silko
Eleutheria, Allegra Hyde
What Are You Going Through, Sigrid Nunez
The Friend, Sigrid Nunez (reread)
Sempre Susan, Sigrid Nunez
Frankenstein Or, The Modern Prometheus, Mary Shelley (reread)
The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine, Serhii Plokhy
My Autobiography of Carson McCullers, Jenn Shapland
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, Carson McCullers (reread)
COOLEST AMERICAN STORIES 2022, ed. Mark Wish and Elizabeth Coffey
The Lost Apothecary, Sarah Penner
Firekeeper's Daughter, Angeline Boulley
Writers and Lovers, Lily King (reread)
The Tyrant Baru Cormorant, Seth Dickinson
Read
2021
The Monster Baru Cormorant, Seth Dickinson
How to Mars, David Ebenbach
Time and Again, Jack Finney
The Shame, Makenna Goodman
Endgame, Samuel Beckett
The Traitor Baru Cormorant, Seth Dickinson
Whiskey, Tango, Foxtrot, David Shafer
The Twilight Man: Rod Serling and the Birth of Television, Koren Shadmi
The Art of Revision: The Last Word, Peter Ho Davies
Libertie, Kaitlyn Greenridge
Infinite Country, Patricia Engel
Hamnet, Maggie O'Farrell
The Sentence, Louise Erdrich
The Book of Delights: Essays, Ross Gay
Pity the Beast, Robin McLean
How to Read Water: Clues and Patterns from Puddles to the Sea, Tristan Gooley
Bestiary Dark, Marianne Boruch
The Other Black Girl, Zakiya Dalila Harris
We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families: Stories from Rwanda, Philip Gourevitch
Our Lady of the Nile, Scholastique Mukasonga
Whisper in the Dark, Joseph Bruchac
A House Without Windows, Marc Ellison and Didier Kassaï
The Secret to Superhuman Strength, Alison Bechdel
Alma Presses Play, Tina Cane
You Never Forget Your First: A Biography of George Washington, Alexis Coe
"21": The Story of Roberto Clemente, Wilfred Santiago
Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro
That Can Be Arranged: a Muslim love story, Huda Fahmy
Going Into Town: a love letter to New York, Roz Chast
Little Children, Tom Perrotta
Good Omens, Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett
Oak Flat: A Fight for Sacred Land in the American West, Lauren Redniss
My Heart is a Chainsaw, Stephen Graham Jones
Fairy Tale Architecture, Andrew Bernheimer and Kate Bernheimer
Nothing to See Here, Kevin Wilson
Here, Richard McGuire
Behind the Beautiful Forevers, Katherine Boo
Appleseed, Matt Bell
Flight of the Sparrow, Amy Belding Brown
Pedagogical Sketchbook, Paul Klee
Tuesday Mooney Talks To Ghosts, Kate Racculia
War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy
The Secret Lives of Planets: Order, Chaos, and Uniqueness in the Solar System, Paul Murdin
Tenemental: Adventures of a Reluctant Landlady, Vikki Warner
Sorrowland, Rivers Solomon
Dwellings: A Spiritual History of the Living World, Linda Hogan
Aviary, Deirdre McNamer
Eleanor, David Michaelis
The Boy in the Field, Margot Livesey (reread)
Go Tell It On The Mountain, James Baldwin
Sea and Fog, Etel Adnan
One Kind Favor, Kevin McIlvoy
Bellweather Rhapsody, Kate Racculia
Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver, Mary Oliver
Cloud Atlas, David Mitchell
Klara and the Sun, Kazuo Ishiguro
The Street, Ann Petry
Vera Kelly Is Not A Mystery, Rosalie Knecht
The Vanishing Half, Brit Bennett
Cadillac Desert: The American West and its Disappearing Water, Marc Reisner
Underground: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals, Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Emergent Strategy Series, AK Press
Imagine Me Gone, Adam Haslett
Smiley's People, John Le Carré
The Honourable Schoolboy, John Le Carré
Tree of Cats, Ellis Avery
The Medium is the Massage: An Inventory of Effects, Marshall McLuhan and Quentin Fiore, produced by Jerome Agel
The Line Becomes A River: Dispatches From The Border, Francisco Cantú
Flash Count Diary: Menopause and the Vindication of Natural Life, Darcey Steinke
The Round House, Louise Erdrich (reread)
Flight Behavior, Barbara Kingsolver
Migrations, Charlotte McConaghy
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, John Le Carré
The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, Ernest J. Gaines (reread)
Spellbound: The Art of Teaching Poetry, edited by Matthew Burgess
The Spy Who Came In From The Cold, John Le Carré
2020
The Soul of An Octopus, Sy Montgomery (reread)å
The Echo Maker, Richard Powers
The House in Paris, Elizabeth Bowen
What We See When We Read, Peter Mendelsund
The Athenian Murders, José Carlos Somoza, trans. Sonia Soto
Einstein: His Life and Universe, Walter Isaacson
A Family for Faru, Anitha Rao-Robinson, illustrations by Karen Patkau
Travel Light, Naomi Mitchison
A Lesson Before Dying, Ernest J. Gaines
Giovanni's Room, James Baldwin
The Sun Collective, Charles Baxter
American Spy, Lauren Wilkinson
Frankenstein in Baghdad, Ahmed Saadawi, translated from the Arabic by Jonathan Wright
Float, Anne Carson
The Grammarians, Cathleen Schine
All Aunt Hagar's Children, Edward P. Jones
Glitch Feminism: A Manifesto, Legacy Russell
Jonny Appleseed, Joshua Whitehead
Eye Killers, A.A. Carr
News From The World: Stories & Essays, Paula Fox
The Beginning of Spring, Penelope Fitzgerald
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons From The Twentieth Century, Timothy Snyder
Burn Down This World, Tina Egnoski
The Boy in the Field, Margot Livesey
Slide Rule, Nevil Shute
The Only Good Indians, Stephen Graham Jones
Fox 8, George Saunders
Mostly Dead Things, Kristen Arnett
Black, White, and Indian: Race and the Unmaking of an American Family, Claudio Saunt
Little Weirds, Jenny Slate
On The Beach, Nevil Shute
Famous Men Who Never Lived, K Chess
Death's End, Cixin Liu (reread)
The Dark Forest, CIxin Liu (reread)
The Three-Body Problem, Cixin Liu (reread)
Everyone Knows You Go Home, Natalia Sylvester
Year of the Monkey, Patti Smith
You're Not Listening: What You're Missing and Why It Matters, Kate Murphy
Mouthful of Birds, Samanta Schweblin
Little Eyes, Samanta Schweblin
The City We Became, N.K. Jemisin
A Poetry Handbook, Mary Oliver
Isaac Newton, James Gleick
Only the River, Anne Raeff
Dante's Inferno, Italian Text with English Translation and Comment by John D. Sinclair (reread)
The Wars, Timothy Findley (reread)
Educated, Tara Westover
The Night Watchman, Louise Erdrich
Underland: A Deep Time Journey, Robert Macfarlane
The Fish and the Dove, Mary-Kim Arnold
Writers & Lovers, Lily King
Strong Poison, Dorothy L. Sayers
A Field Guide to Getting Lost, Rebecca Solnit
Maggie: A Girl of the Streets and George's Mother, Stephen Crane
Meander, Spiral, Explode: Design and Pattern in Narrative, Jane Alison
The Last Animal, Abby Geni
Girl, Woman, Other, Bernardine Evaristo
The Dream-Quest of Vellitt Boe, Kij Johnson
Caging Skies, Christine Leunens
Sandworm: A New Era of Cyberwar and the Hunt for the Kremlin's Most Dangerous Hackers, Andy Greenberg
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Philip K. Dick
Eucalyptus, Murray Bail
Ecotone: Wayfaring on the Margins, Florence R. Krall
Breaking and Entering: The Extraordinary Story of a Hacker Called "Alien," Jeremy N. Smith
Quiet: The power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking, Susan Cain
Dune, Frank Herbert
On Photography, Susan Sontag
The Map of Salt and Stars, Zeyn Joukhadar
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous, Ocean Vuong
The Intuitionist, Colson Whitehead
2019
Mem, Bethany C. Morrow
The Teeth of the Comb & Other Stories, Osama Alomar
Pobby and Dingan, Ben Rice
Letters to a Young Artist, Anna Deavere Smith
Cosmicomics, Italo Calvino
Wish, Barbara O'Connor
How to Steal A Dog, Barbara O'Connor
Essays One, Lydia Davis
Cane, Jean Toomer
Frankissstein: A Love Story, Jeanette Winterson
The Deep, Rivers Solomon
Celestial Bodies, Jokha Alharthi
The Shadow of the Wind (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books, #1), Carlos Ruiz Zafon
An Unkindness of Ghosts, Rivers Solomon
Six-Gun Snow White, Catherynne M. Valente
Maggie Brown & Others, Peter Orner
Body of Work, Tina Cane
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead, Olga Tokarczuk
Girl, Edna O'Brien
Parasite Life, Victoria Dalpe
Ironweed, William Kennedy
Little Voices, Vanessa Lillie
Leading Men, Christopher Castellani
Circe, Madeline Miller
Parable of the Talents (Earthseed #2), Octavia Butler
Parable of the Sower (Earthseed #1), Octavia Butler
The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks & Win Your Inner Creative Battles, Steven Pressfield
The Big Nine: How the Tech Titans and Their Thinking Machines Could Warp Humanity, Amy Webb
The House on the Lagoon, Rosario Ferre
An Imaginary Life, David Malouf
A Woman is No Man, Etaf Rum
The Brilliant Fall of Gianna Z., Kate Messner
Nirvana Is Here, Aaron Hamburger
The Question Authority, Rachel Cline
The Rapture Index: A Suburban Bestiary, Molly Reid
Arturo's Island, Elsa Morante
Voices: The Final Hours of Joan of Arc, David Elliott
All the Lives We Ever Lived: Seeking Solace in Virginia Woolf, Katharine Smyth
Feldenkrais Illustrated: The Art of Learning, Tiffany Sankary
Jasmine Toguchi, Flamingo Keeper, Debbi Michiko Florence
Jasmine Toguchi, Super Sleuth, Debbi Michiko Florence
Jasmine Toguchi, Drummer Girl, Debbi Michiko Florence
Jasmine Toguchi, Mochi Queen, Debbi Michiko Florence
Barking with the Big Dogs: On Writing and Reading Books for Children, Natalie Babbitt
Sherlock Holmes Was Wrong: Reopening the Case of The Hound of the Baskervilles, Pierre Bayard
Machines Like Me, Ian McEwan
I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban, Malala Yousafzai
Casebook of Sherlock Holmes, Arthur Conan Doyle
Kara's Law: A Novel, Kell Smith
The Bad Seed, William March
Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books, Azar Nafisi
Love Poems, Anne Sexton
Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine, Gail Honeyman
Haunting Paris, Mamta Chaudhry
What the Eyes Don't See: A Story of Crisis, Resistance, and Hope in an American City, Mona Hanna-Attisha
Unsheltered, Barbara Kingsolver
Volcanoes, Palm Trees, and Privilege: Essays on Hawai'i, Liz Prato
Fobbit, David Abrams
Lost Children Archive, Valeria Luiselli
The Night Circus, Erin Morgenstern
Milkman, Anna Burns
The Friend, Sigrid Nunez
A Man Without A Country, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow, Yuval Noah Harari
Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
The Swerve: How the World Became Modern, Stephen Greenblatt
Martha Moody, Susan Stinson
The Brothers Vonnegut: Science and Fiction in the House of Magic, Ginger Strand
The Silence of the Girls, Pat Barker
And So It Goes: Kurt Vonnegut: A Life, Charles J. Shields
How to Be a Good Creature: A Memoir in Thirteen Animals, Sy Montgomery
Lu (Track #4), Jason Reynolds
The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women, Kate Moore
The Stone Sky (The Broken Earth #3), N.K. Jemisin
We the Animals, Justin Torres
The Obelisk Gate (The Broken Earth #2), N.K. Jemisin
My Sister, the Serial Killer, Oyinkan Braithwaite
2018
The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth #1), N.K. Jemisin
At the Gate of All Wonder, Kevin McIlvoy
Trail of Lightning (The Sixth World #1), Rebecca Roanhorse
A Lucky Man, Jamel Brinkley
And Then There Were None, Agatha Christie
The Lying Game, Ruth Ware
West with the Night, Beryl Markham
Circling the Sun, Paula McLain
Muse of Nightmares (Strange the Dreamer, #2), Laini Taylor
The Death of Mrs. Westaway, Ruth Ware
Future Home of the Living God, Louise Erdrich
In a Dark, Dark Wood, Ruth Ware
The Poet X, Elizabeth Acevedo
The Woman in Cabin 10, Ruth Ware
Death's End (Remembrance of Earth's Past #3), Cixin Liu
Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women's Anger, Rebecca Traister
When We Were Ghouls: A Memoir of Ghost Stories, Amy E. Wallen
Where the Dead Sit Talking, Brandon Hobson
Sam Says, Sam, Seth Tourjee
The Dark Forest (Remembrance of Earth's Past, #2), Cixin Liu
The Three-Body Problem (Remembrance of Earth's Past, #1), Cixin Liu
A Man Called Ove, Fredrik Backman
There There, Tommy Orange
Loitering: New & Collected Essays, Charles D'Ambrosio
A Thousand Years of Good Prayers, Yiyun Li
Krik? Krak? Edwidge Danticat
Breath, Eyes, Memory, Edwidge Danticat
Farewell to the Muse: Love, War and the Women of Surrealism, Whitney Chadwick
Devotion, Patti Smith
Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right, Arlie Russell Hochschild
Ghost (Track, #1), Jason Reynolds
The Turner House, Angela Flournoy
Corrupted (Rosato & DiNunzio #3), Lisa Scottoline
The Red Badge of Courage, Stephen Crane
Who Is Vera Kelly? Rosalie Knecht
The Largesse of the Sea Maiden, Denis Johnson
The Wars, Timothy Findley
Leonardo da Vinci, Walter Isaacson
Patina (Track, #2), Jason Reynolds
The Wand in the Word: Conversations with Writers of Fantasy, Leonard S. Marcus
Sunny (Track, #3), Jason Reynolds
Moloka'i, Alan Brennert
Wabanaki Blues (The Wabanaki Trilogy, #1), Melissa Tantaquidgeon Zobel
Glaciers, Alexis M. Smith
The Marrow Thieves, Cherie Dimaline
The Overstory, Richard Powers
Riding the Trail of Tears, Blake M. Hausman
Unlearning with Hannah Arendt, Marie Luise Knott
Litany for the Long Moment, Mary-Kim Arnold
We Are Okay, Nina LaCour
Chemistry, Weike Wang
Strange the Dreamer, Laini Taylor
Silk Poems, Jen Bervin
Eleanor & Park, Rainbow Rowell
Black River Falls, Jeff Hirsch
All You Need is Kill, Hiroshi Sakurazaka
Picture Me Gone, Meg Rosoff
How I Live Now, Meg Rosoff
The Hidden LIfe of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate - Discoveries from a Secret World, Peter Wohlleben
The Woman Who Watches Over the World: A Native Memoir, Linda Hogan
Women at Work: Interviews from The Paris Review
The Known World, Edward P. Jones
Cranford, Elizabeth Gaskell
The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Stephen Chbosky
Feed, M.T. Anderson
Lakota Woman, Mary Crow Dog
Coming Through Slaughter, Michael Ondaatje
The Power, Naomi Alderman
Gilead, Marilynne Robinson
The Art of Mystery: The Search for Questions, Maud Casey
The Eleventh Plague, Jeff Hirsch
Waiting for the Barbarians, J.M. Coetzee
Mapping the Interior, Stephen Graham Jones
Once More With Feeling, Tina Cane
Hammers on Bone (Persons Non Grata, #1), Cassandra Khaw
Mongrels, Stephen Graham Jones
Our Beloved Kin: A New History of King Philip's War, Lisa Brooks
2017
Memory Serves, Lee Maracle
The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry, Gabrielle Zevin
Home Fire, Kamila Shamsie
Morningstar: Growing Up with Books, Ann Hood
Nutshell, Ian McEwan
Mean Spirit, Linda Hogan
What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky, Lesley Nneka Arimah
The House on Mango Street, Sandra Cisneros
The Disappeared, Adam Braver
Angels on Toast, Dawn Powell
Hourglass: Time, Memory, Marriage, Dani Shapiro
57 Octaves Below Middle C, Kevin McIlvoy
Rabbit Cake, Annie Hartnett
Kiss Me Someone: Stories, Karen Shepard
The Age of Perpetual Light, Josh Weil
Gay Zoo Day: Tales of Seeking and Discovery, Mike McClelland
Other Council Fires Were Here Before Ours, Jamie Sams
Dance Night, Dawn Powell
Outside is the Ocean, Matthew Lansburgh
Homegoing, Yaa Gyasi
The Price of Salt, Patricia Highsmith
The Hero and the Crown, Robin McKinley
The Dark Dark, Samantha Hunt
Bull, David Elliott
The Glass Castle, Jeannette Walls
The Age of Catherine de Medici, J.E. Neale
The Cherokee Rose, Tiya Miles
Winter Kept Us Warm, Anne Raeff
Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two, Joseph Bruchac
Sacred Wilderness, Susan Power
Shell Shaker, LeAnne Howe
Nutshell, Ian McEwan
The Locusts Have No King, Dawn Powell
Brooklyn, Colm Toibin
Best. State. Ever.: A Florida Man Defends His Homeland, Dave Barry
Beneath a Meth Moon, Jacqueline Woodson
The Journey Home: Autobiography of an American Swami, Radhanath Swami
The Poetics of Space, Gaston Bachelard
Magdalene, Marie Howe
Hillbilly Nationalists, Urban Race Rebels, and Black Power: Community Organizing in Radical Times, Amy Sonnie
Brother, I'm Dying, Edwidge Danticat
Miko Kings: An Indian Baseball Story, LeAnne Howe
A Stranger in Olondria, Sofia Samatar
The Birchbark House, Louise Erdrich
The Lottery and Other Stories, Shirley Jackson
The Vital Question: Energy, Evolution, and the Origins of Complex Life, Nick Lane
Drowning in Fire, Craig S. Womack
Genome: the Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters, Matt Ridley
Her Body and Other Parties, Carmen Maria Machado
Novices: A study of poetic apprenticeship, Clayton Eshleman
Lincoln in the Bardo, George Saunders
Hotels of North America, Rick Moody
The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration Into the Wonder of Consciousness, Sy Montgomery
Raymie Nightingale, Kate DiCamillo
Triangle: The Fire That Changed America, David von Drehle
The Fool's Truth, Loretta H. Marion
The 17th Letter, Dorothy Cameron Disney
The Ornament of the World: How Muslims, Jews, and Christians Created a Culture of Tolerance in Medieval Spain, Maria Rosa Menocal
What I Didn't Know: True Stories of Becoming a Teacher, Lee Gutkind
The Drowning Girl, Caitlin R. Kiernan
Two Serious Ladies, Jane Bowles
Orange is the New Black, Piper Kerman
Sula, Toni Morrison (reread)
A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian, Marina Lewycka
All Tomorrow's Parties: A Memoir, Rob Spillman
Dust Tracks on a Road, Zora Neale Hurston
Echo, Pam Munoz Ryan
First Peoples: A Documentary Survey of American Indian History, Colin G. Calloway
Pretty Deadly #1, Kelly Sue DeConnick
Pretty Deadly Vol.1: The Shrike, Kelly Sue DeConnick
I Do Not Come to You by Chance, Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani
2016
Pyres, Derek Nikitas
This Side of Providence, Rachel M. Harper
LaRose, Louise Erdrich
Along Came the Rain, Alison R. Solomon
Clara Mondschein's Melancholia, Anne Raeff
Matters of Life and Death: New American Stories, Tobias Wolff
The Jungle Around Us, Anne Raeff
Get in Trouble, Kelly Link
Between the World and Me, Ta-Nehisi Coates
Lab Girl, Hope Jahren
The Ballad of Billy Badass and the Rose of Turkestan, William Sanders
Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth, Warsan Shire
Standing Against the Wind, Traci L. Jones
Finding My Place, Traci L. Jones
The Underground Railroad, Colson Whitehead
The Bridge Ladies, Betsy Lerner
Silhouetted By the Blue, Traci L. Jones
Negroland, Margo Jefferson
Flush, Virginia Woolf
Caring for Crabgrass, Beverly M. Rathbun
The Museum of Extraordinary Things, Alice Hoffman
Mister Monkey, Francine Prose
Crow and Weasel, Barry Lopez
Reflections in a Golden Eye, Carson McCullers
Bone Black: Memories of Girlhood, bell hooks
Mercury, Margot Livesey
Lila, Marilynne Robinson
The Maid's Daughter: Living Inside and Outside the American Dream, Mary Romero
The Art of Perspective: Who Tells the Story, Christopher Castellani
Enrique's Journey, Sonia Nazario
Kindred, Octavia E. Butler
Girls on Film, Kathryn Kulpa
Another Brooklyn, Jacqueline Woodson
The Odd Woman and the City: A Memoir, Vivian Gornick
The Woman Upstairs, Claire Messud
Annie John, Jamaica Kincaid
The Argonauts, Maggie Nelson
Stop-Time, Frank Conroy
The Other Side: A Memoir, Lacy M. Johnson
Weathering, Lucy Wood
Thirteen Ways of Looking, Colum McCann
Fortune Smiles, Adam Johnson
Contrapuntal, Christopher Kondrich
The Jew of New York, Ben Katchor
One Day's Tale, Lois Barliant
Sarah's Key, Tatiana de Rosnay
One Day I Will Write About This Place: A Memoir, Binyavanga Wainaina
God Help the Child, Toni Morrieson
Tales to Tremble By, Stephen P. Sutton
Zoo City, Lauren Beukes
Once Upon A Time
Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte
Frankenstein, Mary Shelley
Middlesex, Jeffrey Eugenides
The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde
The Old Man and the Sea, Ernest Hemingway
The Giver, Lois Lowry
Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte
1984, George Orwell
The Hunger Games, Suzanne Collins
The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee
Closer, Dennis Cooper
Naked Lunch, William S. Burroughs
Dogfight, A Love Story, Matt Burgess
The Shell Collector, Anthony Doerr
After the Parade, Lori Ostlund
The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho
The Golden Gate, Vikram Seth
Another Bullshit Night in Suck City, Nick Flynn
The Other Shepards, Adele Griffin
Inkheart, Cornelia Funke
The Bartimaeus Trilogy, Jonathan Stroud
Fangirl, Rainbow Rowell
We Have Always Lived in the Castle, Shirley Jackson
The Master, Colm Toibin
Portrait of a Novel: Henry James and the Making of an American Masterpiece, Michael Gorra
The Portrait of a Lady, Henry James
The House of Mirth, Edith Wharton
My Antonia, Willa Cather
Love and Hydrogen: New and Selected Stories, Jim Shepard
Project X, Jim Shepard
The Art of Subtext: Beyond Plot, Charles Baxter
The Art of Time in Fiction: As Long As It Takes, Joan Silber
Shadow Play, Charles Baxter
First Light, Charles Baxter
The Fifty-First State, Lisa Borders
Cloud Cuckoo Land, Lisa Borders
Emily, Alone, Steward O'Nan
So Long, See You Tomorrow, William Maxwell
A Constellation of Vital Phenomena, Anthony Marra
Schroder, Amity Gaige
Take Me Home, Brian Leung
Oscar and Lucinda, Peter Carey
Dancer, Colum McCann
Let the Great World Spin, Colum McCann
Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk, Ben Fountain
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Muriel Spark
Memento Mori, Muriel Spark
Open Secrets, Alice Munro
Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage: Stories, Alice Munro
Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned, Wells Tower
The Secret Names of Women, Lynne Barrett
Magpies, Lynne Barrett
Baby's on Fire, Liz Prato
Dept. of Speculation, Jenny Offill
Lord of Misrule, Jaimy Gordon
The New Valley: Novellas, Josh Weil
Mrs. Bridge, Evan S. Connell
The Bone People, Keri Hulme
The Peripatetic Coffin and Other Stories, Ethan Rutherford
Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
Housekeeping, Marilynne Robinson
Sexing the Cherry, Jeanette Winterson
Maru, Bessie Head
Museum Pieces, Elizabeth Tallent
The Bigness of the World, Lori Ostlund
Banishing Verona, Margot Livesey
Eva Moves the Furniture, Margot Livesey
Nights at the Circus, Angela Carter
Autobiography of Red, Anne Carson
Black Swan Green, David Mitchell
There's Something I Want You To Do, Charles Baxter
Gryphon: New and Selected Stories, Charles Baxter
The Feast of Love, Charles Baxter
The Folded World, Amity Gaige
Pleasant Drugs: Stories, Kathryn Kulpa
Bluets, Maggie Nelson
The Book of Aron, Jim Shepard
Reptile House, Robin McLean
The Round House, Louise Erdrich
