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2024
Dear Mini - Natalie Norris
The Return of Faraz Ali - Aamina Ahmad
Blackouts - Justin Torres
Tom Lake - Ann Patchett
Real Americans - Rachel Khong
In the Margins - Elena Ferrante trans. Ann Goldstein
Demon Copperhead - Barbara Kingsolver
A Children's Bible - Lydia Millet
Trust - Hernan Diaz
Helpmeet - Naben Ruthnum
Heaven and Earth Grocery Store - James McBride
A Quitter's Paradise - Elysha Chang
Small Things Like These - Claire Keegan
My Cousin Rachel - Daphne du Maurier
2023
The Little Book of Hygge - Meik Wiking
Boys Weekend - Mattie Lubchansky
Big Swiss - Jen Beagin
The Lost Journals of Sacajewea - Debra Magpie Earling
Happening - Annie Erneaux
None of This is True - Lisa Jewell
Fourth Wing - Rebecca Yarros
My Death - Lisa Tuttle
People Who Talk to Stuffed Animals are Nice - Ao Omae
The Only Good Indians - Stephen Graham Jones
The Bad Ones - Melissa Albert
Cursed Bunny - Bora Chung
Killingly - Katharine Beutner
Real Life - Brandon Taylor
The Laughter - Sonora Jha
A Swim in the Pond in the Rain - George Saunders
The Idiot - Elif Batuman
Lemon - Kwon Yeo-sun, trans. Janet Hong
Yellowface - R.F. Kuang
Myth of Pterygium - Diego Gerard Morrison
Three - Valerie Perrin
The Other House - Henry James
Afterword - Nina Schuyler
Arrangements in Blue - Amy Key
Fight Night - Miriam Toews
Chain-Gang All Stars - Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
Moon Witch Spider King - Marlon James
One By One - Ruth Ware
Woman Running in the Mountains - Yuko Tsushima
The Wall - Marlen Haushaufer
We Are Too Many - Hannah Pittard
Hotel Splendide - Ludwig Bemelmans
Bad Kids - Zijin Chen
The Moomins and the Great Flood - Tove Jansson
Birnam Wood - Eleanor Catton
Spinning Silver - Naomi Novik
Nijigahara Holograph - Inio Asano
Black Leopard Red Wolf - Marlon James
Giovanni's Room - James Baldwin
Ghost Season - Fatin Abbas
Remarkably Bright Creatures - Shelby Van Pelt
The Enigma of Room 622 - Joel Dicker
On Chesil Beach - Ian McEwan
Earthlings - Sayaka Murata
Age of Vice - Deepti Kapoor
Seven Empty Houses - Samantha Schweblin
The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
2022
Liberation Day - George Saunders
The Borrowers - Mary Norton
The Sentence - Louise Erdrich
Reprieve - James Han Mattson
Intimacies - Katie Kitamura
This is How You Lose the Time War - Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone
Revolutionary Road - Richard Yates
Close Knit - Laerke Bagger
The Puzzler - A.J. Jacobs
The Elegance of the Hedgehog - Muriel Barbery
The Man Who Could Move Clouds - Ingrid Rojas Contreras
Death on the Nile - Agatha Christie
Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow - Gabrielle Zevin
The Family Chao - Lan Samantha Chang
Tracy Flick Can't Win - Tom Perrotta
The Sorrows of Others - Ada Zhang
The Decagon House Murders - Yukito Ayatsuji
Harlem Shuffle - Colson Whitehead
Great Circle - Maggie Shipstead
The Liars' Club - Mary Karr
We Have Always Lived in the Castle - Shirley Jackson
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie - Muriel Spark
A Childhood - Harry Crews
Oh, William! - Elizabeth Strout
Death's End - Cixin Liu
I Could Live Here Forever - Hanna Halperin
Fiona and Jane - Jean Chen Ho
Win Me Something - Kyle Lucia Wu
The Door - Magda Szabo
Kaleidoscope - Cecily Wong
Rebecca - Daphne du Maurier
D: A Tale of Two Worlds - Michel Faber
The Net Beneath Us - Carol Dunbar
Nine Perfect Strangers - Liane Moriarty
The Last House on Needless Street - Catriona Ward
The Pisces - Melisssa Broder
The God of Small Things - Arundhati Roy
2021
Cain's Jawbone - Torquemada
Piranesi - Susanna Clarke
The Glass Hotel - Emily St. John Mandel
Klara and the Sun - Kazuo Ishiguro
Notes on an Execution - Danya Kukafka
A Lie Someone Told You About Yourself - Peter Ho Davies
The Arrival - Shaun Tan
Blankets - Craig Thompson
The Dark Forest - Cixin Liu
Joan is Okay - Weike Wang
The Custom of the Country - Edith Wharton
Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century - Kim Fu
One More Year - Simon Hanselmann
The Left Hand of Darkness - Ursula Le Guin
The Reunion - Guillaume Musso
Conversations with Friends - Sally Rooney
Women Talking - Miriam Toews
The Ice Palace - Tarjei Vesaas
The Tango Singer - Tomas Eloy Martinez
Stealing Buddha's Dinner - Bich Minh Nguyen
Cheat Day - Liv Stratman
The Dutch House - Ann Patchett
The Tenant - Katrine Engberg
Worsted - Garielle Lutz
Convenience Store Woman - Sayaka Murata
The Three-Body Problem - Cixin Lu
Tomboyland - Melissa Faliveno
Interior Chinatown - Charles Yu
The Great Believers - Rebecca Makkai
Problems - Jade Sharma
A Burning - Meghda Majumdar
Luster - Raven Leilani
Something Wild - Hanna Halperin
Watching You - Lisa Jewell
Hamnet - Maggie O'Farrell
2020
Breasts and Eggs - Mieko Kawakami
The Office of Historical Corrections - Danielle Evans
The Hidden Life of Trees - Peter Wohlleben
The Fire Next Time - James Baldwin
If Beale Street Could Talk - James Baldwin
Kink - edited by R.O. Kwon & Garth Greenwell
Leave the World Behind - Rumaan Alam
We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves - Karen Joy Fowler
Unsettled Ground - Claire Fuller
The Testaments - Margaret Atwood
Crooked Hallelujah - Kelli Jo Ford
The Westing Game - Ellen Raskin
Disappearing Earth - Julia Phillips
The Hour of the Star - Clarice Lispector
No One You Know - Jason Schwartzman (Outpost19, May 2021)
Moms - Yeong-shin Ma
The Lost Girls of Camp Forevermore - Kim Fu
My Brother's Husband: Volume I - Gengoroh Tagame
Mistborn: The Final Empire - Brandon Sanderson
All You Can Ever Know - Nicole Chung
The Memory Police - Yoko Ogama
White Noise - Don DeLillo
The Magician King - Lev Grossman
The Story of the Lost Child - Elena Ferrante
Writers and Lovers - Lily King
War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
Three Women - Lisa Taddeo
Severance - Ling Ma
Motherhood - Sheila Heti
White Ivy - Susie Yang (Simon & Schuster, November 2020)
Bunny - Mona Awad
We Ride Upon Sticks - Quan Barry
The Destiny Thief - Richard Russo
Bitter Orange - Claire Fuller
Days of Distraction - Alexandra Chang
Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay - Elena Ferrante
Stories of Your Life and Others - Ted Chiang
Girl in Snow - Danya Kukafka
Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship - Alice Munro
2019
Olive, Again - Elizabeth Strout
Kickdown - Rebecca Clarren
The Golden Compass - Philip Pullman
Heavy - Kiese Laymon
My Year of Rest and Relaxation - Ottessa Moshfegh
The Story of a New Name - Elena Ferrante
The Lover - Marguerite Duras
The Makioka Sisters - Junichiro Tanizaki
Trust Exercise - Susan Choi
Le Dessin - Marc-Antoine Mathieu
The Ensemble - Aja Gabel
Cecil and Jordan in New York - Gabrielle Bell
An American Marriage - Tayari Jones
Boy, Snow, Bird - Helen Oyeyemi
Daisy Jones and the Six - Taylor Jenkins Reid
Meander, Spiral, Explode - Jane Allison
The Regrets - Amy Bonnaffons
Prism Stalker #1 - Sloane Leong
Parade - Hiromi Kawakami
5000 km Per Second - Manuele Fior
Skylark - Dezso Kosztolányi
The Trouble with Goats and Sheep - Joanna Cannon
Normal People - Sally Rooney
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz - L. Frank Baum
Driving in Cars with Homeless Men - Kate Wisel (UPitt, October 2019)
Edinburgh - Alexander Chee
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - James Joyce
The Last Equation of Isaac Severy - Nova Jacobs
Home Remedies - Xuan Juliana Wang (Hogarth, June 2019)
The Mermaid and Mrs. Hancock - Imogen Hermes Gowar
Behold the Dreamers - Imbolo Mbue
Night Sky with Exit Wounds - Ocean Vuong
Selfish, Shallow, and Self-Absorbed: Sixteen Writers on the Decision to Not Have Kids - Meghan Daum
Eye Level - Jenny Xie
Less - Andrew Sean Greer
My Name is Lucy Barton - Elizabeth Strout
There's a Word for That - Sloane Tanen (Little, Brown, April 2019)
2018
The Recovering: Intoxication and its Aftermath - Leslie Jamison
The Hate U Give - Angie Thomas
A Man Called Ove - Fredrik Backman
The Wrong Heaven - Amy Bonnaffons
A River of Stars - Vanessa Hua
The Last Time I Lied - Riley Sager
There, There - Tommy Orange
Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and The Drug Company That Addicted America - Beth Macy (Little Brown, August 2018)
Asymmetry - Lisa Halliday
The Magicians - Lev Grossman
A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers - Xiaolu Guo
Little Fires Everywhere - Celeste Ng
The Perfect Nanny - Leila Slimani
That Kind of Mother - Rumaan Alam
Crazy Rich Asians - Kevin Kwan
Manhattan Beach - Jennifer Egan
Broken Harbor - Tana French
Then She Was Gone - Lisa Jewell
The Nakano Thrift Shop - Hiromi Kawakami
The Friend - Sigrid Nunez
The Incendiaries - R.O. Kwon
If You Leave Me - Crystal Hana Kim
Mother Tongues - Theodora Bishop
Mad Honey Symposium - Sally Wen Mao
Scrappy Little Nobody - Anna Kendrick
The Wonder - Emma Donoghue
Strange Weather in Tokyo - Hiromi Kawakami
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix - J.K. Rowling
Talking as Fast as I Can - Lauren Graham
Number One Chinese Restaurant - Lillian Li
Elegy on Kinderklavier - Arna Bontemps Hemenway
Red Clocks - Leni Zumas
This is a Bust - Ed Lin
2017
Her Body and Other Parties - Carmen Maria Machado
The Underground Railroad - Colson Whitehead
Pachinko - Min Jin Lee
Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides
The Night We're Not Sleeping In - Sean Bishop
I Have to Go Back to 1994 and Kill a Girl - Karyna McGlynn
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI - David Grann
The Mysterious Benedict Society - Trenton Lee Stewart
The Haunting of Hill House - Shirley Jackson
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City - Matthew Desmond
Off Shore - Penelope Fitzgerald
Marlena - Julie Buntin
Touch - Courtney Maum
Who Will Run the Frog Hospital? - Lorrie Moore
The Story of a New Name - Elena Ferrante
Chemistry - Weike Wang
I Love Dollars - Zhu Wen
The Emperor's Children - Claire Messud
Ella Enchanted - Gail Carson Levine
The Sense of an Ending - Julian Barnes
My Brilliant Friend - Elena Ferrante
Saints and Sinners - Edna O'Brien
Lincoln in the Bardo - George Saunders
Murder on the Orient Express - Agatha Christie
Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card
Everything I Never Told You - Celeste Ng
Witches of America - Alex Mar
Swing Time - Zadie Smith
Girl Culture - Lauren Greenfield
Wonderful Town - David Remnick
White Oleander - Janet Fitch
The Dinner - Herman Koch
2016
Do Not Say We Have Nothing - Madeleine Thien
Don't Let Me Be Lonely - Claudia Rankine
The Wangs vs. the World - Jade Chang
The Sympathizer - Viet Thanh Nguyen
The Snow Child - Eowyn Ivey
The Immortalists - Chloe Benjamin (Putnam, 2018)
4000 Miles - Amy Herzog
Station Eleven - Emily St. John Mandel
Mr. Fox - Helen Oyeyemi
Glory - Vladimir Nabokov
Sanctuary - William Faulkner
Seating Arrangements - Maggie Shipstead
Good Girls Marry Doctors: South Asian American Daughters on Obedience and Rebellion - Piyali Bhattacharya
The Girls - Emma Cline
Transactions in a Foreign Currency - Deborah Eisenberg
Disgrace - JM Coetzee
Wicca Covens - Judy Harrow
Paganism: An Introduction to Earth-Centered Religions - Higginbotham
Bark - Lorrie Moore
A Little Life - Hanya Yanagihara
Astonish Me - Maggie Shipstead
Waylaid - Ed Lin
The Bridges of Madison County - Robert James Waller
Birds of a Lesser Paradise - Megan Mayhew Bergman
The Orphan Master's Son - Adam Johnson
Housekeeping - Marilynne Robinson
For Today I am a Boy - Kim Fu
The Luminaries - Eleanor Catton
2015
The Turner House - Angela Flournoy
Case Histories - Kate Atkinson
Fates and Furies - Lauren Groff
Swamplandia! - Karen Russell
A Wild Swan and Other Tales - Michael Cunningham
Slade House - David Mitchell
Black Swan Green - David Mitchell
Magic for Beginners - Kelly Link
Smart People - Lydia Diamond
Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm - Philip Pullman
Delicate, Edible Birds - Lauren Groff
A Tale for the Time Being - Ruth Ozeki
A Thousand Years of Good Prayers - Yiyun Li
Love in the Chameleon Club, Paris 1932 - Francine Prose
Numbers in the Dark - Italo Calvino
Ms. Marvel, Vol. 1: No Normal - G. Willow Wilson
The Given World - Marian Palaia
Next Life Might be Kinder - Howard Norman
The Land of Steady Habits - Ted Thompson
The Privileges - Jonathan Dee
To Live - Yu Hua
The Rotters' Club - Jonathan Coe
Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
Your House is On Fire, Your Children All Gone - Stefan Kiesbye
A Reunion of Ghosts - Judith Claire Mitchell
Red - John Logan
Top Girls - Caryl Churchill
Bad Behavior - Mary Gaitskill
Making Nice - Matt Sumell
The Buried Giant - Kazuo Ishiguro
Department of Speculation - Jenny Offill
The Easter Parade - Richard Yates
Best American Short Stories 2014 - Jennifer Egan