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Afterlife (fiction), Julia Alvarez, 2020
All the King’s Men (fiction), Robert Penn Warren,
1946
All the Light We Cannot See (fiction),
Anthony Doerr, 2014
American Dervish (fiction), Ayad Akhtar,
2012
An American Marriage (fiction), Tayari
Jones, 2018
And the Mountains Echoed, (fiction), Khaled
Hosseini, 2013
The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet (nonfiction), John Green, 2021
The Art Forger (fiction), B.A.
Shapiro, 2012
The Art of Racing in the Rain (fiction),
Garth Stein, 2008
Atonement (fiction), Ian McEwan,
2001
Barracoon: The Story of the Last “Black
Cargo” (biography), Zora Neale Hurston, 2018
Becoming Nicole: The Transformation of an
American Family (biography), Amy Ellis Nutt, 2016
Becoming (nonfiction), Michelle Obama, 2018
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death and Hope
in a Mumbai Undercity (nonfiction), Katherine Boo, 2012
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the
End (nonfiction), Atul Gawande, (2014)
Between the World and Me (nonfiction),
Ta-Nehisi Coates, 2015
Big Little Lies
(fiction), Liane Moriarty, 2014
Black Man in a White Coat (nonfiction),
Damon Tweedy, 2015
Blackbird House (fiction), Alice
Hoffman, 2004
Black Cake (fiction), Charmaine Wilkerson, 2022
A Book of American Martyrs
(fiction), Joyce Carol Oates, 2017
The Book of Unknown Americans (fiction),
Cristina Henríquez, 2014
The Book Thief (fiction), Markus Zusak,
2005
The Boys in the Boat (nonfiction), Daniel
James Brown, 2013
Brooklyn (fiction), Colm Toibin, 2009
Can’t Wait to Get to Heaven (fiction),
Fannie Flagg, 2006
Caste: The Origins of our Discontents (nonfiction), Isabel Wilkerson, 2020
Chain Gang All Stars (fiction), Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, 2023
Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space (nonfiction), Adam Higginbotham, 2024
The Children Act (fiction), Ian McEwan,
2014
Circling the Sun (fiction), Paula McLain,
2015
Claire of the Sealight (fiction), Edwidge
Danticat, 2013
The Color of Water (nonfiction), James
McBride, 1995
The Cove (fiction), Ron Rash, 2012
Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter (fiction),
Tom Franklin, 2010
Cross Creek (nonfiction), Marjorie Kinnan
Rawlings, 1942
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night–Time
(fiction),Mark Haddon, 2003
The Day the World Came to Town (nonfiction), Jim Defede, 2003
Defending Jacob (fiction), William
Landry, 2012
Demon Copperhead: A Novels (fiction), Barbara Kingsolver, 2022
The Dictionary of Lost Words (fiction), Pip Williams, 2021
Don’t Stop the Carnival
(fiction), Herman Wouk, 1965
Educated (nonfiction), Tara Westover, 2017
Emma (fiction), Jane Austen, 1815
Everything I Never Told You (fiction),
Celeste Ng, 2014
The Faith Club (nonfiction), Ranya Idliby
and Suzanne Oliver, 2006
Faithful Place (fiction), Tana French,
2010
The Fraud (fiction), Zadie Smith, 2024
First Ladies (nonfiction), Margaret Truman, 1996
Generations (nonfiction), Jean M. Twenge PhD, 2023
The Girls at 17 Swann Street (fiction), Yara Zgheib, 2019
The Glass Castle (biography), Jeanette
Walls, 2005
Go Set a Watchman (fiction), Harper Lee,
2015
Gone Girl (fiction), Gilliam Flynn, 2012
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
(fiction), Mary Ann Shaffer, 2008
H is for Hawk (nonfiction), Helen Macdonald,
2015
Hidden Figures
(nonfiction), Margot Lee Shetterly, 2016
Hillbilly Elegy
(nonfiction), J.D. Vance, 2016
Homegoing (fiction), Yaa Gyasi, 2016
Honor (fiction), Thrity N. Umrigar, 2022
Hotel Du Lac (fiction), Anita Brookner, 2016
Hour of the Witch (fiction), Chris Bohjalian, 2021
The House of Eve (fiction), Sadeqa Johnson, 2023
How To Say Babylon (nonfiction), Safiya Sinclair, 2023
How to Stop Time (fiction), Matt Haig,
2018
How We Fight for Our Lives (nonfiction), Saaed Jones,
2019
Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
(biography), Rebecca Skloot, 2010
The Immortalists (fiction), Chloe
Benjamin, 2018
In Love: A Memoir of Love and Loss (nonfiction), Amy Bloom, 2022
Inside the O’Briens
(fiction), Lisa Genova, 2015
The Invention of Wings (fiction),
Sue Monk Kidd, 2014
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue (fiction), V.E. Schwab, 2020
James: A Novel (fiction), Percival Everett,
The Japanese Lover (fiction), Isabel
Allende, 2016
Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption
(nonfiction), Bryan Stevenson, 2015
Killers of the Flower Moon (nonfiction), David Grann, 2017
The Kitchen House (fiction), Kathleen
Grissom, 2010
Klara and the Sun (fiction), Kazuo Ishiguro, 2021
The Kommandant’s Girl (fiction), Pam
Jenoff, 2007
Lady Tan’s Circle of Women: A Novel (fiction), Lisa See, 2023
A Land Remembered (fiction), Patrick
Smith, 1984
The Language of Flowers (fiction),
Vanessa Diffenbaugh, 2011
The Leavers (fiction),
Lisa Ko, 2017
Lessons in Chemistry (fiction), Bonnie Garmus, 2022
Light Between Oceans (fiction), M.L.
Stedman, 2012
The Lincoln Highway (fiction), Amor Towles, 2021
The Line Becomes a River (nonfiction), Francisco Cantú, 2018
The Lion Women of Tehran (fiction), Marjan Kamali, 2024
Listen for the Lie (fiction), Amy Tintera, 2024
Little Fires Everywhere (fiction), Celeste Ng, 2017
Live by Night (fiction), Dennis Lehane,
2012
Loving Frank (fiction), Nancy Horan,
2007
Mad Honey (fiction), Jodi Picoult and Jennifer Finney Boylan, 2022
The Maid (fiction), Nita Prose, 2021
Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand (fiction),
Helen Simonson, 2010
Making Rounds with Oscar (nonfiction),
David Dosa, 2010
A Man Called Ove (fiction), Fredrik Backman,
2015
Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom (nonfiction), Ilyon Woo, 2024
The Measure (fiction), Nikki Erlick, 2022
The Middlesteins (fiction), Jami
Attenberg, 2012
Miss Dreamsville and the Collier County Women’s
Literary Society (fiction), Amy Hill Hearth, 2012
Mom & Me & Mom (biography), Maya
Angelou, 2013
Moonglow (fiction),
Michael Chabon, 2016
The Muralist (fiction), B.A. Shapiro,
2015
My Sister’s Keeper (fiction), Jodi Picoult,
2004
Next Year in Havana (fiction), Chanel Cleeton, 2019
The Nickel Boys (fiction), Colson Whitehead , 2019
Night Road (fiction), Kristin Hannah, 2011
Norwegian By Night (fiction), Derek
Miller, 2012
The Old Man and the Sea (fiction),
Ernest Hemingway, 1952
Ordinary Grace (fiction), William Kent Krueger, 2013
Orphan Train (fiction), Christina Baker
Kline, 2013
Origin (fiction), Dan Brown, 2017
Pachinko
(fiction), Min Jin Lee, 2018
Palm Trees in the Snow (fiction), Luz Gabás, 2017
Peace Like a River (fiction), Lief Enger, 2001
The Pecan Man
(fiction), Cassie Dandridge Selleck, 2012
The Perfume Thief (fiction), Timothy Schaffert, 2021
A Piece of the World
(fiction), Christina Baker Kline, 2017
Postmortem (mystery), Patricia Cornwell, 1990
Project Hail Mary (science fiction), Andy Weir, 2023
The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend
(fiction), Katarina Bivald, 2015
Remarkably Bright Creatures (fiction), Shelby Van Pelt
, 2022
Returned (fiction), Jason Mott, 2013
The Rosie Effect(fiction), Graeme Simsion, 2014
The Rosie Project (fiction), Graeme Simsion,
2013
Rough Sleepers (nonfiction), Tracy Kidder, 2023
Salvage the Bones (fiction), Jesmyn Ward,
2011
Secret Daughter (fiction), Shilpi Somaya
Gowda, 2010
A Secret Kept (fiction), Tatiana de
Rosnay, 2009
The Sense of an Ending (fiction), Julian
Barnes, 2011
The Sentence (fiction), Louise Erdrich, 2021
Shelterwood (fiction), Lisa Wingate, 2024
Shutter Island, (fiction), Dennis LeHane,
2003
The Sparrow (fiction), Mary Doria Russell,
1996
State of Wonder (fiction), Ann Patchett,
2011
Stay with Me (fiction), Ayobami Adebayol,
2017
Still Alice (fiction), Lisa Genova, 2007
Still Life (fiction), Louise Penny, 2008
The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry (fiction),
Gabrielle Zevin, 2014
Summer of ‘69 (fiction), Elin Hilderbrand, 2019
The Supremes at Earl’s All-You-Can-Eat (fiction), Edward Kelsey Moore, 2013
The Sweetness of Water (fiction), Nathan Harris, 2021
Take My Hand (fiction), Dolen Perkins-Valdez, 2022
The Tattooist of Auschwitz (fiction), Heather Morris, 2019
The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane (fiction),
Lisa See, 2017
Tell the Wolves I’m Home (fiction),Carol
Rifka Brunt, 2012
Their Eyes Were Watching God (fiction), Zora
Neale Hurston, 1937
There There (fiction), Tommy Orange, 2018
To Kill a Mockingbird (fiction), Harper Lee, 1960
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow (fiction), Gabrielle Zevin, 2022
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (fiction), Betty
Smith
True Biz: A Novel (fiction), Sara Novic, 2022
Trust (fiction), Hernan Diaz, 2022
The Truth According to Us (fiction), Annie
Barrows, 2015
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival,
Resilience, and Redemption (biography), Laura Hillenbrand, 2010
The Underside of Joy (fiction), Sere
Prince Halverson, 2012
An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and
Madness (nonfiction), Kay Redfield Jamison, 1997 *
Vera: A Novel (fiction), Carol Edgarian, 2021
Violeta: A Novel (fiction), Isabel Allende, 2021
Warlight (fiction), Michael Ondaatje,
2018
We Were the Lucky Ones (fiction), Georgia
Hunter, 2017
West with Giraffes (fiction), Lynda Rutledge, 2022
When Breath Becomes Air (nonfiction), Paul
Kalanithi, 2016
Where The Crawdads Sing (fiction), Delia Owens, 2018
White Houses (fiction), Amy Bloom, 2017
The Wicked Girls (fiction), Alex Marwood,
2012
Wide Sargasso Sea (fiction), Jean Rhys,
1966
The Wife, the Maid, and the Mistress (fiction), Ariel Lawhon, 2014
The Women (fiction), Kristin Hannah, 2023
You Could Make This Place Beautiful (nonfiction), Maggie Smith, 2023
