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2024

The Night Guest - Hildur Knutsdottir trans. Mary Robinette Kowal

The Dream of the Red Chamber Vol. 1 - Cao Xueqin trans. David Hawkes

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