My reading list
A long time back, I started documenting the books I’ve read on my site. For a glimpse into some of the words and ideas that animate my brain, you can explore below! And if you have any recommendations, I’m all ears.
2025
Anita de Monte Laughs Last, Xochitl Gonzalez
How to Tell When We Will Die, Johanna Hedva
Close Knit, Jenny Colgan
Happily Never After, Lynn Painter
What Does It Feel Like?, Sophie Kinsella
Why Fish Don’t Exist, Lulu Miller
The Lost Queen, Signe Pike
Practice Makes Perfect, Sarah Adams
Remarkably Bright Creatures, Shelby Van Pelt
The Autists: Women on the Spectrum, Clara Tornvall
Miss Cecily’s Recipes for Exceptional Ladies, Vicky Zimmerman
One Puzzling Afternoon, Emily Critchley
Fake Flame, Adele Buck
Nora Goes Off Script, Annabel Monaghan
I Dream of Joni, Henry Alford
Excavations, Kate Myers
The Dark Queens, Shelly Puhak
Better Left Unsent, Lia Louis
Miranda in Retrograde, Lauren Layne
The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett
Just Some Stupid Love Story, Katelyn Doyle
Love At First Book, Jenn McKinlay
The Most Wonderful Crime of the Year, Ally Carter
The Guncle Abroad, Steven Rowley
Four Weekends and a Funeral, Ellie Palmer
The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot, Marianne Cronin
The Bandit Queens, Parini Shroff
The Life Impossible, Matt Haig
Finding Mr. Write, Kelley Armstrong
The Royals Upstairs, Karina Halle
The Artist of Blackberry Grange, Paulette Kennedy
The Book Swap, Tessa Bickers
Earl’s Trip, Jenny Holliday
Interesting Facts About Space, Emily Austin
The Library of Borrowed Hearts, Lucy Gillmore
2024
Bad Summer People, Emma Rosenblum
The Sweet Spot, Amy Poeppel
American Mermaid, Julia Langbein
Meet Me At the Lake, Carley Fortune
Highly Suspicious and Unfairly Cute, Talia Hibbert
The Do-Over, Suzanne Park
I Have Some Questions For You, Rebecca Makkai
The Celebrants, Steven Rowley
Happy Place, Emily Henry
The Last Animal, Ramona Ausubel
Romantic Comedy, Curtis Sittenfeld
Almost Surely Dead, Amina Akhtar
The Real Deal, Caitlin Devlin
My Murder, Katie Williams
Lessons From the School by the Sea, Jenny Colgan
The Roommate Pact, Allison Ashley
Main Character Energy, Jamie Varon
Blank, Zibby Owens
The Five-Star Weekend, Elin Hilderbrand
Stone Blind, Natalie Haynes
What Is Love?, Ann Comfort
The Princess Trap, Talia Hibbert
The American Roommate Experiment, Elena Armas
The Worst Best Man, Mia Sosa
The Spectacular, Fiona Davis
Summer Reading, Jenn McKinlay
Cassandra in Reverse, Holly Smale
When Women Were Dragons, Kelly Barnhill
The True Love Experiment, Christina Lauren
Business or Pleasure?, Rachel Lyn Solomon
The Slip, Prudence Peiffer
Dragged to the Wedding, Andrew Grey
The Sweetest Revenge, Lizzy Dent
A Botanist’s Guide to Parties and Poisons, Katie Khavari
How to Kill Men and Get Away With It, Katy Brent
A Special Place for Women, Laura Hankin
The Flip Side, James Bailey
Our Wives Under the Sea, Julia Armfield
The Summer Skies, Jenny Colgan
Sorrow and Bliss, Meg Mason
Island Time, Georgia Clark
How to Disappear: Notes on Invisibility in a Time of Transparency, Akiko Busch
The Wake-up Call, Beth O’Leary
Tom Lake, Ann Patchett
On the Plus Side, Jenny L. Howe
The Summer of Songbirds, Kristy Woodson Harvey
How Can I Help You, Laura Sims
The Museum of Ordinary People, Mike Gayle
Veridian Sterling Fakes It, Jennifer Gooch Hummer
The Long Game, Elena Armas
10 Things That Never Happened, Alexis Hall
Do Your Worst, Rosie Danan
Amazing Grace Adams, Fran Littlewood
The Golden Spoon, Jessa Maxwell
With Love, from Cold World, Alicia Thompson
Last Call at the Local, Sarah Grunder Ruiz
Hello Stranger, Katherine Center
The Collected Regrets of Clover, Mikki Brammer
The Good Part, Sophie Cousens
The Bodyguard, Katherine Center
The Fiction Writer, Jillian Cantor
The Radcliffe Ladies’ Reading Club, Julia Bryan Thomas
The Second Chance Year, Melissa Wiesman
Next-Door Nemesis, Alexa Martin
Studies at the School by the Sea, Jenny Colgan
Bummer Camp, Ann Garvin
The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches, Sangu Mandanna
The Burnout, Sophie Kinsella
The Cafe by the Sea, Jenny Colgan
The Endless Beach, Jenny Colgan
Christmas on the Island, Jenny Colgan
Christmas at the Island Hotel, Jenny Colgan
An Island Wedding, Jenny Colgan
The Body Alone, Nina Lohman
Mastering the Art of French Murder, Colleen Cambridge
The Funeral Ladies of Ellerie County, Claire Swinarski
Kilt Trip, Alexandra Kiley
Scrap, Calla Henkel
The Partner Plot, Kristina Forrest
Liars, Sarah Manguso
The Romance Recipe, Ruby Barrett
The Catch, Amy Lea
Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow, Gabrielle Zevin
Killingly, Katharine Beutner
Act Your Age Eve Brown, Talia Hibbert
Mrs. Quinn’s Rise to Fame, Olivia Ford
The Unfortunate Side Effects of Heartbreak and Magic, Breanne Randall
Sweetshop of Dreams, Jenny Colgan
The Rule Book, Sarah Adams
It Only Happens In the Movies, Hollie Bourne
The Villain Edit, Laurie Devore
Canadian Boyfriend, Jenny Holiday
Marvelous, Molly Greeley
For Butter or Worse, Erin La Rosa
Picture Perfect Autumn, Shelley Noble
Begin Again, Helly Acton
The Ministry of Time, Kaliane Bradley
Wild Things, Laura Kay
Right on Cue, Falon Ballard
The Secret, Book & Scone Society, Ellery Addams
Get the Picture, Bianca Bosker
Happy After All, Maisey Yates
I Hope This Finds You Well, Natalie Sue
2023
Who’s That Girl?, Mhairi McFarlane
Love & Gelato, Jenna Evans Welch
Adult Assembly Required, Abbi Waxman
The Stand-In, Lily Chu
The Invisible Kingdom, Meghan O’Rourke
Go On, Tania Hershman
On Rotation, Shirlene Obuobi
By the Book, Jasmine Guillory
Dada: Art and Anti-Art, Hans Richter
Small World, Laura Zigman
Counterfeit, Kirstin Chen
The Violin Conspiracy, Brendan Slocumb
His Name Is George Floyd, Robert Samuels and Toluse Olorunnipa
The No-Show, Beth O’Leary
Cover Story, Susan Rigetti
The Fixer Upper, Lauren Forsythe
Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole, Susan Cain
The Second Mrs Astor, Shana Abe
How to Fake It In Hollywood, Ava Wilder
Book Lovers, Emily Henry
Funny You Should Ask, Elissa Sussman
I Always Loved You, Robin Oliveira
Welcome to the School by the Sea, Jenny Colgan
Rules at the School By the Sea, Jenny Colgan
Would You Rather, Allison Ashley
The Wedding Ringer, Kerry Rea
The Last Thing He Told Me, Laura Dave
The Very Nice Box, Eve Gleichmam and Laura Blackett
The Hotel Nantucket, Elin Hilderbrand
Part of Your World, Abby Jimenez
The Spanish Love Deception, Elena Armas
The Guncle, Steven Rowley
The People We Keep, Allison Larkin
The Club, Ellery Lloyd
The Matchmaker’s Gift, Lynda Cohen Loigman
Before I Do, Sophie Cousens
Hester, Laurie Lico Albanese
Boyfriend Material, Alexis Hall
Love in the Time of Serial Killers, Alicia Thompson
Thank You for Listening, Julie Whelan
Acts of Violet, Margarita Montimore
Husband Material, Alexis Hall
The City Baker’s Guide to Country Living, Louise Miller
Paris Daillencourt Is About to Crumble, Alexis Hall
Dear Henry, Love Edith, Becca Kinzer
The Magic of Lemon Drop Pie, Rachel Linden
Dream On, Angie Hockman
Acceptance, Emi Nieter
Meredith, Alone, Claire Alexander
Must Love Books, Shauna Robinson
Joan, Katherine J. Chen
Now Is Not the Time to Panic, Kevin Wilson
We All Want Impossible Things, Catherine Newman
How Not to Drown In A Glass of Water, Angie Cruz
The Lost Girls of Willowbrook, Ellen Marie Wiseman
A Very Typical Family, Sierra Godfrey
The Story of Art Without Men, Katy Hessel
Drunk on Love, Jasmine Guillory
Strangers to Ourselves, Rachel Aviv
Better than Fiction, Alexa Martin
The Most Likely Club, Elyssa Friedland
The Change, Kirsten Miller
The Cloisters, Katy Hays
The Only One Left, Riley Sager
Being Heumann, Judith Heumann
Save What’s Left, Elizabeth Castellano
The Banned Bookshop of Maggie Banks, Shauna Robinson
The Writing Retreat, Julia Bartz
Frida Kahlo and My Left Leg, Emily Rapp Black
Playing with Matches, Hannah Orenstein
The Last Housewife, Ashley Winstead
Love and Other Disasters, Anita Kelly
A Bridge Across the Ocean, Susan Meissner
The Dog of the North, Elizabeth McKenzie
Mad About You, Mhairi McFarlane
Everybody: A Book About Freedom, Olivia Laing
Georgie, All Along, Kate Clayborn
What Can A Body Do?, Sara Hendren
You Shouldn’t Have Come Here, Jeneva Rose
Famous In A Small Town, Viola Shipman
Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
The Only Game in Town, Lacie Waldon
Best Served Hot, Amanda Elliott
Off the Map, Trish Doller
American Breakdown, Jennifer Lunden
Summer Stage, Meg Mitchell Moore
Get A Life, Chloe Brown, Talia Hibbert
The Stolen Book of Evelyn Aubrey, Serena Burdick
Astrid Parker Doesn’t Fail, Ashley Herring Blake
The Seven Year Slip, Ashley Poston
Fake It Til You Bake It, Jamie Wesley
The Reunion, Kayla Olson
Looking for Jane, Heather Marshall
The Neighbor Favor, Kristina Forrest
Famous for a Living, Melissa Ferguson
Borrow My Heart, Kasie West
Kiss Her Once for Me, Allison Cochrun
A Guide to Being Just Friends, Sophie Sullivan
Will They Or Won’t They, Ava Wilder
Beware the Woman, Megan Abbott
Originals: American Women Artists, Eleanor Munro
Just My Type, Falon Ballard
Once More With Feeling, Elissa Sussman
The Last Anniversary, Liane Moriarty
The Hole We’re In, Gabrielle Zevin
Someone Else’s Shoes, Jojo Moyes
The Mostly True Story of Tanner and Louise, Colleen Oakley
2022
Very Sincerely Yours, Kerry Winfrey
Twice Shy, Sarah Hogle
The Secret Bridesmaid, Katy Birchall
The Kitchen Front, Jennifer Ryan
Golden Girl, Elin Hilderbrand
The Turnout, Megan Abbott
The Holiday Swap, Maggie Knox
The Matzah Ball, Jean Meltzer
Heartbreak for Hire, Sonia Hartl
Wayward, Dana Spiotta
The Royals Next Door, Karina Halle
One Last Stop, Casey McQuiston
At the Center of All Beauty, Fenton Johnson
While We Were Dating, Jasmine Guillory
Second First Impressions, Sally Thorne
Funny Weather, Olivia Laing
Cost of Living, Emily Maloney
The Lost Apothecary, Sarah Penner
Malibu Rising, Taylor Jenkins Reid
The Break-Up Book Club, Wendy Wax
Plot Twist, Bethany Turner
The Party Crasher, Sophie Kinsella
Lucky, Marissa Stapley
The Last Chance Library, Freya Sampson
Wait For It, Jenn McKinlay
Everyone In This Room Will Someday Be Dead, Emily Austin
Love, Chai, and Other Four-Letter Words, Annika Sharma
The Layover, Lacie Waldon
The Candid Life of Meena Dave, Namrata Patel
The Reading List, Sara Nisha Adams
The Charm Offensive, Alison Cochrun
The Heart Principle, Helen Hoang
When You Get the Chance, Emma Lord
Who Is Maud Dixon, Alexandra Andrews
Madam, Phoebe Wynne
First Comes Like, Alisha Rai
The Fastest Way to Fall, Denise Williams
When Katie Met Cassidy, Camille Perri
The Mystery of Mrs. Christie, Marie Benedict
A Holly Jolly Diwali, Sonya Lalli
The Second Life of Mirielle West, Amanda Skenandore
Just Haven’t Met You Yet, Sophie Cousens
The Mad Women’s Ball, Victoria Mas
West End Girls, Jenny Colgan
The Forgotten Letters of Esther Durrant, Kayte Nunn
That Summer, Jennifer Weiner
The Verifiers, Jane Pek
The Islanders, Meg Mitchell Moore
Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife, Mary Roach
The Arc, Tory Henwood Hoen
People Like Her, Ellery Lloyd
The Last Garden in England, Julia Kelly
On Location, Sarah Ecchevare Smith
Lost in Paris, Elizabeth Thompson
No One Is Talking About This, Patricia Lockwood
The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek, Kim Michelle Richardson
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue, V.E. Schwab
Grief Is Love, Marisa Renee Lee
The Loveliest Chocolate Shop in Paris, Jenny Colgan
The Siren, Katherine St. John
Love Songs for Skeptics, Christina Pishris
Faker, Sarah Echavarre Smith
Anatomy, Dana Schwartz
I Love You But I’ve Chosen Darkness, Claire Vaye Watkins
The Sense of Wonder, Rachel Carson
In a New York Minute, Kate Spencer
The Death of Jane Lawrence, Caitlin Starling
The Magnolia Palace, Fiona Davis
Dating Dr Dil, Nisha Sharma
Rosaline Palmer Takes the Cake, Alexis Hall
With Love from London, Sarah Jio
Hot Copy, Ruby Barrett
Women and Other Monsters, Jess Zimmerman
I Kissed Shara Wheeler, Casey McQuiston
One Italian Summer, Rebecca Serle
The Messy Lives of Book People, Phaedra Patrick
Repair: The Impulse to Restore in a Fragile World, Elizabeth V. Spelman
The Cartographers, Peng Shepherd
The Wedding Crasher, Mia Sosa
Bloomsbury Girls, Natalie Jenner
One Night on the Island, Josie Silver
Under the Whispering Door, TJ Klune
Matrix, Lauren Groff
Something Wilder, Christina Lauren
Chef’s Kiss, TJ Alexander
Lease on Love, Falon Ballard
I’ll Show Myself Out, Jessi Klein
Gold Diggers, Sanjena Sathian
2021
Figuring, Maria Popova
Sad Janet, Lucie Britsch
I’ve Heard the Vultures Singing, Lucia Perillo
The Second Chance Boutique, Louisa Leaman
The Flatshare, Beth O’Leary
Reductionism in Art and Brain Science, Eric R. Kandel
Midnight at the Blackbird Cafe, Heather Weber
A Star is Bored, Byron Lane
Eighty Days to Elsewhere, KC Dyer
The Midnight Library, Matt Haig
Lost Souls at the Neptune Inn, Betsy Carter
One to Watch, Kate Stayman-London
Love Your Life, Sophie Kinsella
Vanessa Yu’s Magical Paris Tea Shop, Roselle Lim
Adulting, Liz Talley
My Beloved World, Sonia Sotomayor
Hammet, Maggie O’Farrell
Catherine House, Elisabeth Thomas
The Roommate, Rosie Dannan
The Lost & Found Bookshop, Susan Wiggs
Secrets of a Charmed Life, Susan Meissner
Party of Two, Jasmine Guillory
I’ll Be the One, Lyla Lee
Tuesday Mooney Talks to Ghosts, Katie Racculia
What Doesn’t Kill You, Tessa Miller
Good Company, Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney
Little Beach Street Bakery, Jenny Colgan
Solutions and Other Problems, Allie Brosh
Twilight Man, Liz Brown
American Royals II, Katherine McGee
The Dry Heart, Natalia Ginzburg
I’m Afraid of Men, Vivek Shraya
Minor Feelings, Cathy Park Hong
Long Bright River, Liz Moore
The Chicken Sisters, KJ Dell’antonia
Wintering, Katherine May
Disability Visibility, Alice Wong
Humankind, Rutger Bregman
Broken Places & Outer Spaces, Nnedi Okorafor
Memorial, Bryan Washington
Outlawed, Anna North
How to Fail at Flirting, Denise Williams
Winter in Paradise, Elin Hilderbrand
What Happens in Paradise, Elin Hilderbrand
Troubles In Paradise, Elin Hilderbrand
This Time Next Year, Sophie Cousens
The Sanatorium, Sarah Pearse
The Wife Upstairs, Rachel Hawkins
You Have A Match, Emma Lord
Accidentally Engaged, Farah Heron
World of Wonders, Aimee Nezhukumatathil
Life’s Too Short, Abby Jimenez
Much Ado About You, Samantha Young
The Nature of Fragile Things, Susan Meissner
Early Morning Riser, Katherine Heiny
The Newcomer, Mary Kay Andrews
The Dating Plan, Sara Desai
Dial A for Aunties, Jesse Q. Sutanto
Just Last Night, Mhairi McFarlane
So We Meet Again, Suzanne Park
It Had To Be You, Georgia Clark
Float Plan, Trish Doller
Pack Up the Moon, Kristan Higgins
Summer Job, Lizzy Dent
Mary Jane, Jessica Anya Blau
2020
Waiting for Tom Hanks, Kerry Winfrey
The Last Book Party, Karen Dukess
Park Avenue Summer, Renee Rosen
The Enlightenment of Bees, Rachel Linden
Valencia and Valentine, Suzy Krause
The Lost for Words Bookshop, Stephanie Butland
The Dead Queens Club, Hannah Capin
Family Happiness, Laurie Colwin
The Yellow House, Sarah Broom
Nothing to See Here, Kevin Wilson
Marilou is Everywhere, Sarah Elaine Smith
Mostly Dead Things, Kristen Arnett
Feast Your Eyes, Myla Goldberg
Gravity Is the Thing, Jaclyn Moriarty
Trick Mirror, Jia Tolentino
Star Crossed, Minnie Darke
Juliet the Maniac, Juliet Escoria
The Right Swipe, Alisha Rai
City of Girls, Elizabeth Gilbert
The Wedding Party, Jasmine Guillory
The Unlikely Adventures of the Shergill Sisters, Balli Kaur Jaswal
The Bookshop on the Corner, Jenny Colgan
The Starless Sea, Erin Morgenstern
The Bookish Life of Nina Hill, Abbi Waxman
How to Do Northing: Resisting the Attention Economy, Jenny O’Dell
The Dutch House, Ann Patchett
The Thousand Doors of January, Alix E Harrow
Call Them By Their Names, Rebecca Solnit
Unmarriageable, Soniah Kamal
The Binding, Bridget Collins
How Could She, Lauren Mechling
A Single Thread, Tracey Chevalier
Me, Elton John
Goodnight June, Sarah Jio
The Chelsea Girls, Fiona Davis
All These Beautiful Strangers, Elizabeth Klenfoth
Hotel Silence, Audur Ava Olafsdottir
Unhoneymooned, Christina Lauren
Constellations, Sinead Gleeson
The Dating Charade, Melissa Ferguson
The Beach Club, Elin Hilderbrand
The Little Clan, Iris Martin Cohen
Pale Horse, Pale Rider, Katherine Porter
One in a Million, Lindsey Kelk
The Giver of Stars, Jojo Moyes
Less, Andrew Sean Greer
Every Heart a Doorway, Seanan McGuire
The Chai Factor, Farah Heron
Recollections of my Nonexistence, Rebecca Solnit
Love at First Like, Hannah Orenstein
The Sunday Potluck Club, Melissa Stern
Sorry I Missed You, Suzy Krause
Hot Mess, Emily Belden
Girl Gone Viral, Alisha Rai
The Helpline, Katherine Collette
The Stylist, Rosie Nixon
How to Be an Anti-Racist, Ibram X. Kendi
Me and White Supremacy, Layla Saad
Meg & Jo, Virginia Kantra
The Bookshop on the Shore, Jenny Colgan
What to Say Next, Julie Buxbaum
Bugs, Bowels, and Behavior, Teri Arranga
Separation Anxiety, Laura Zigman
Husband Material, Emily Belden
The Duff, Kody Keplinger
Now a Major Motion Picture, Cori McCarthy
Twice in a Blue Moon, Christina Lauren
Meet Cute, Helena Hunting
The World that we Knew, Alice Hoffman
Diamonds are a Girl’s Best Friend, Jenny Colgan
The Book of Second Chances, Katherine Slee
This Could Change Everything, Jill Mansell
The Fifth Avenue Story Society, Rachel Hauck
The Lady’s Handbook for her Mysterious Illness, Sarah Ramey
Head Over Heels, Hannah Orenstein
American Royals, Katherine McGee
Anatomy of. a Misfit, Andrea Portes
The Art of the Wasted Day, Patricia Hampl
500 Miles from You, Jenny Colgan
Real Men Knit, Kwana Jackson
The Jetsetters, Amanda Eyre Ward
Not Like the Movies, Kerry Winfrey
Beach Read, Emily Henry
To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before, Jenny Han
Grown-Up Pose, Sonya Lalli
PS I Still Love You, Jenny Han
Take a Hint, Dani Brown, Talia Hibbert
Always and Forever Lara Jean, Jenny Han
Love Lettering, Kate Clayborn
Conviction, Denise Mina
Recommended for You, Laura Silverman
Transcendent Kingdom, Yaa Gyasi
How Lulu Lost Her Mind, Rachel Gibson
Tweet Cute, Emma Lord
Having and Being Had, Eula Biss
The Women in Black, Madeleine St. John
The Unraveling of Cassidy Holmes, Elissa R. Sloan
The Lions of Fifth Avenue, Fiona Davis
The Switch, Beth O’Leary
Oona Out of Order, Margarita Montimore
Caste, Isabel Wilkerson
Field Notes on Love, Jennifer E. Smith
Winter Street, Elin Hilderbrand
The Honey-Don’t List, Christina Lauren
The Vanishing Half, Brit Bennett
You Should See Me In a Crown, Leah Johnson
The Book Charmer, Karen Hawkins
Winter Stroll, Elin Hilderbrand
Winter Storms, Elin Hilderbrand
The Authenticity Project, Claire Pooley
Under a Gilded Moon, Joy Jordan-Lake
Winter Solstice, Elin Hilderbrand
Pain Studies, Lisa Olstein
Kind of a Big Deal, Shannon Hale
Doing Harm, Maya Dusenberry
The Marriage Game, Sara Desai
Hope and Other Punch Lines, Julie Buxbaum
The Bromance Book Clue, Lyssa Kay Adams
2019
Fortune’s Daughter, Alice Hoffman
A Fall of Marigolds, Susan Meissner
Laura & Emma, Kate Greathead
The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend, Katarina Bivald
Origin, Dan Brown
When Life Gives You Lululemons, Lauren Weisberger
The Kiss Quotient, Helen Hoang
Lady in Waiting, Susan Meissner
Who is Vera Kelly?, Rosalie Knecht
We Love You Charlie Freeman, Kaitlyn Greenidge
Dear Mrs. Bird, AJ Pearce
Miss You, Kate Eberlen
Transcription, Kate Atkinson
The Dress in the Window, Sofia Grant
Goodbye, Paris, Anstey Harris
China Rich Girlfriend, Kevin Kwan
Motherhood, Sheila Heti
Rich People Problems, Kevin Kwan
I Heart New York, Lindsey Kelk
My Year of Rest and Relaxation, Ottessa Moshfegh
The Proposal, Jasmine Guillory
Limelight, Amy Poeppel
The Mars Room, Rachel Kushner
Mr. Flood’s Last Resort, Jess Kidd
One Day in December, Josie Silver
Still Lives, Maria Hummel
Sourdough, Robin Sloan
Ghosted, Rosie Walsh
Sapiens, Yuval Noah Harari
The Light We Lost, Jill Santopolo
My Oxford Year, Julia Whelan
Asymmetry, LIsa Halliday
How to Find Love in a Bookshop, Veronica Henry
The Lost Letter, Jillian Cantor
Lizzy and Jane, Katherine Reay
The Atomic City Girls, Janet Beard
The Hand That First Held Mine, Maggie O’Farrell
Advice for Future Corpses, Sallie Tisdale
Becoming, Michelle Obama
Save the Date, Morgan Matson
Social Creatures, Tara Isabella Burton
The Bucket List, Georgia Clark
Hugo & Rose, Bridget Foley
The Recovering, Leslie Jamison
The Windfall, Diksha Basu
Daisy Jones and the Six, Taylor Jenkins Reid
The Dinner List, Rebecca Serle
300 Arguments, Sarah Manguso
The Ship of Brides, Jojo Moyes
More than Words, Jill Santopolo
Nice Try, Jane Sinner, Lianne Oelke
The Shortest Way Home, Miriam Parker
99 Percent Mine, Sally Thorne
Conversations with Friends, Salley Rooney
Dumplin’, Julie Murphy
The Masterpiece, Fiona Davis
The Maze at Windermere, Gregory Blake Smith
You Me Everything, Catherine Isaac
Hope in the Dark, Rebecca Solnit
Forget About It, Caprice Cane
Good Riddance, Elinor Lipman
The High Season, Judy Blundell
My Wish List, Gregoire Delacourt
Almost Everything: Notes on Hope, Anne Lamott
Matchmaking for Beginners, Maddie Dawson
Our House, Louise Candlish
Lost Along the Way, Erin Duffy
Everything, Everything, Nicola Yoon
A Piece of the World, Christina Baker Kline
The Trauma Cleaner, Sarah Krasnostein
The Stuff that Never Happened, Maddie Dawson
Lucky Us, Amy Bloom
Elsey Come HOme, Susan Conley
The 7.5 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle, Stuart Turton
Saints for All Occasions, J. Courtney Sullivan
Bowlaway, Elizabeth McCracken
The Identicals, Elin Hilderbrand
Not Her Daughter, Rea Frey
The Rumor, Elin Hilderbrand
Clock Dance, Anne Tyler
The Dreamers, Karen Thompson Walker
The Overdue Life of Amy Byler, Kelly Harms
White Houses, AMy Bloom
The Hunting Party, Lucy Foley
Here’s to Us, Elin Hilderbrand
Beautiful Day, Elin Hilderbrand
Nine Perfect Strangers, Liane Moriarty
Holding Up the Universe, Jennifer Niven
Talking to Strangers, Malcolm Gladwell
The Marriage Clock, Zara Raheen
Finding Dorothy, Elizabeth Letts
The Perfect Couple, Elin Hilderbrand
The New Me, Halle Butler
An Absolutely Remarkable Thing, Hank Green
Don’t You Forget About Me, Mhairi McFarlane
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men, Caroline Criado Perez
I Owe You One, Sophie Kinsella
The Girl He Used to Know, Tracey Garvis Graves
Holly Banks Full of Angst, Julie Valerie
The Care and Feeding of Ravenously Hungry Girls, Anissa Gray
Tell Me Three Things, Julie Buxbaum
Life Drawing, Robin Black
Summer of ‘69, Elin Hilderbrand
Optic Nerve, Maria Gainza
Lost and Wanted, Nell Freudenberger
Rabbits for Food, Binnie Kirshenbaum
When You Read This, Mary Adkins
Very Nice, Marcy Dermansky
Sadie, Courtney Summers
The Matchmaker’s List, Sonya Lalli
I Miss You When I Blink, Mary Laura Philpot
2018
The Wildling Sisters, Eve Chase
The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry, Gabrielle Zevin
The Garden of Small Beginnings, Abbi Waxman
The Jane Austen Book Club, Karen Joy Fowler
A Window Opens, Elisabeth Egan
Motherest, Kristen Iskandrian
Manhattan Beach, Jennifer Egan
The Arrangement, Sara Dunn
And We're Off, Dana Schwartz
Careers for Women, Joanna Scott
Virtually Perfect, Paige Roberts
The Misfortune of Marion Palm, Emily Culliton
Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine, Gail Honeyman
Little Fires Everywhere, Celeste Ng
The Alice Network, Kate Quinn
The Rosie Project, Graeme Simsion
The Hate U Give, Angie Thomas
Pachinko, Min Jin Lee
Turtles All the Way Down, John Green
Young Jane Young, Gabrielle Zevin
Hello Sunshine, Laura Dove
Made for Love, Alissa Nutting
Hard to Forget, Charles Pierce
Why Did I Ever, Mary Robison
Standard Deviation, Katherine Heiny
The Address, Fiona Davis
My (Not So) Perfect Life, Sophie Kinsella
Look Alive Out There, Sloane Crosley
The Chaperone, Laura Moriarty
Something Like Happy, Eva Woods
Can You Keep a Secret, Sophie Kinsella
The Other Einstein, Marie Benedict
Me Before You, JoJo Moyes
I’ve Got Your Number, Sophie Kinsella
After You, JoJo Moyes
The Last Letter from your Lover, JoJo Moyes
Something Borrowed, Emily Giffin
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, Taylor Jenkins Reid
Do Not Become Alarmed, Maile Meloy
Touch, Courtney Maum
First Comes Love, Emily Giffin
Impossible Views of the World, Lucy Ives
Genuine Fraud, E. Lockhart
Heart of the Matter, Emily Giffin
One Plus One, Jojo Moyes
The Woman in the Castle, Jessica Shattuck
What Alice Forgot, Liane Moriarty
When Breath Becomes Air, Paul Kalanithi
The Girl You Left Behind, Jojo Moyes
Class Mom, Laurie Gelman
Wedding Night, Sophie Kinsella
Lincoln in the Bardo, George Saunders
Twenties Girl, Sophie Kinsella
Amanda Wakes Up, Alisyn Camerota
One True Loves, Taylor Jenkins Reid
Still Me, Jojo Moyes
After I Do, Taylor Jenkins Reid
A Man Called Ove, Fredrik Bachman
Bad Blood, John Carreyrou
The Last Mrs Parrish, Liv Constantine
The Immortalists, Chloe Benjamin
Surprise Me, Sophie Kinsella
The Late Lamented Molly Marx, Sally Koslow
Three Wishes, Liane Moriarty
Maybe in Another Life, Taylor Jenkins Reid
How to Stop Time, Matt Haig
The Ensemble, Aja Gabel
Sociable, Rebecca Harrington
Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows, Balli Kaur Jaswal
The Sunshine Sisters, Jane Green
Commencement, J Courtney Sullivan
The Matchmaker, Elin Hilderbrand
Remember Me, Sophie Kinsella
An Offer You Can’t Refuse, Jill Mansell
The Cactus, Sarah Haywood
Silver Girl, Elin Hilderbrand
The Secret Lives of Color, Kassia St Clair
Where the Crawdads Sing, Delia Owens
The Wedding Date, Jasmine Guillory
How to Walk Away, Katherine Center
Fitness Junkie, Lucy Sykes
The Girls in the Picture, Melanie Benjamin
Natural Causes, Barbara Ehrenreich
Finding Audrey, Sophie Kinsella
Educated, Tara Westover
Crazy Rich Asians, Kevin Kwan
Faithful, Alice Hoffman
The Queen of Hearts, Kimmery Martin
Carnegie’s Maid, Marie Benedict
Everything Happens for a Reason, Kate Bowler
The Keeper of Lost Things, Ruth Hogan
I Am, I Am, I Am, Maggie O’Farre,ll
A Lady’s Guide to Selling Out, Sally Franson
My Ex-Life, Stephen McCauley
The Hating Game, Sally Thorne
The Undomestic Goddess, Sophie Kinsella
Falling, Jane Green
2017
Everything Leads to You, Nina La Cour
We Could Be Beautiful, Swan Huntley
Today Will Be Different, Maria Semple
Hold Still, Nina La Cour
The Red Car, Marcy Dermansky
The Baker's Daughter, Sarah McCoy
Frog Music, Emma Donoghue
Comet in Moominville, Tove Jansson
Jane Steele, Lyndsay Faye
Commonwealth, Ann Patchett
Raymie Nightingale, Kate DiCamillo
Girls on Fire, Robin Wasserman
Disclaimer, Renee Knight
The Portable Veblen, Elizabeth Mckenzie
The Real Liddy James, Anne-Marie Casey
The Last Painting of Sara de Vos, Dominic Smith
The Assistants, Camille Perri
The Dollhouse, Fiona Davis
The Excellent Lombards, Jane Hamilton
Be Frank With Me, Julia Claiborne Johnson
When We Meet Again, Kristin Harmel
The Imperial Wife, Irina Reyn
The Regulars, Georgia Clark
Private Citizens, Tony Tulathimutte
This Must Be The Place, Maggie O'Farrell
The Clairvoyants, Karen Brown
Saints and Misfits, S. K. Ali
The Queen of the Night, Alexander Chee
Big Little Lies, Liane Moriarty
The Mothers, Brit Bennett
The Wangs vs. the World, Jade Chang
What She Left Behind, Ellen Marie Wiseman
Hillbilly Elegy, J. D. Vance
We Were Liars, E. Lockhart
Still Life With Tornado, A. S. King
Small Admissions, Amy Poeppel
Eligible - Curtis Sittenfeld
Goodbye Vitamin - Rachel Khong
The Swans of Fifth Avenue - Melanie Benjamin
Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic - Sam Quinones
Truly Madly Guilty - Liane Moriarty
The Odd Woman and the City - Vivian Gornick
The Perfect Girl - Gilly McMillan
The Burning Girl - Claire Messud
The Lost Girls - Heather Young
Fall of Giants - Ken Follett
Perfect Little World - Kevin Wilson
The Husband's Secret - Liane Moriarty
All Grown Up - Jami Attenberg
The Animators - Kayla Rae Whitaker
The Extra Woman - Joanna Scutts
Our Short History - Lauren Grodstein
The Awkward Age - Francesca Segal
Rabbit Cake - Annie Hartnett
2016
A Manual for Cleaning Women, Lucia Berlin
The White Road: Journey Into an Obsession, Edmund de Waal
Anne of Avonlea, Lucy Maud Montgomery
Saint Mazie, Jami Attenberg
Cultural Amnesia, Clive James
Pretty Is, Maggie Mitchell
The Wizard of Oz, L. Frank Baum
The Improbability of Love, Hannah Rothschild
Spinster: Making a Life of One's Own, Kate Bolick
Mislaid, Nell Zink
Outline, Rachel Cusk
The Book of Unknown Americans, Cristina Henriquez
A Highly Unlikely Scenario, or a Neetsa Pizza Employee's Guide to Saving the World, Rachel Cantor
Positive Discipline, Jane Nelson
Forty Rooms, Olga Grushin
Springtime: A Ghost Story, Michelle de Kretser
Men We Reaped, Jesmyn Ward
In Spite of the Gods: The Rise of Modern India, Edward Luce
The Royal We, Heather Cocks and Jessica Morgan
A God in Ruins, Kate Atkinson
The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer, Michelle Hodkin
American Housewife, Helen Ellis
The Lost Time Accidents, John Wray
Mythologies, Roland Barthes
The Arrangement, Ashley Warlick
Little Labors, Rivka Galchen
Fine, Fine, Fine, Fine, Fine, Diane Williams
A Cure for Suicide, Jesse Ball
The Association of Small Bombs, Karan Mahajan
A Book of Simple Living, Ruskin Bond
The Bling Ring, Nancy Jo Sales
In the Unlikely Event, Judy Blume
The Folded Clock, Heidi Julavits
Edinburgh, Alexander Chee
We Are Our Brains, D. F. Swaab
Joe Gould's Teeth, Jill Lepore
The Lonely City, Olivia Laing
The Children's Home, Charles Lambert
The Girls, Emma Cline
Imagine Me Gone, Adam Haslett
Slouching Towards Bethlehem, Joan Didion
Second Nature, Alice Hoffman
One Hundred Twenty-One Days, Michele Audin
The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox, Maggie O'Farrell
Betsy-Tacy, Maud Hart Lovelace
The Book of Speculation, Erika Swyler
Betsy-Tacy and Tib, Maud Hart Lovelace
Betsy and Tacy Go Over the Big Hill, Maud Hart Lovelace
Betsy and Tacy Go Downtown, Maud Hart Lovelace
Ways to Disappear, Idra Novey
Outside Lies Magic, John Stilgoe
Some of my Lives, Rosamond Bernier
The Tumbling Turner Sisters, Juliette Fay
Hold Still, Sally Mann
The Gilded Years, Karin Tanabe
The After Party, Anton DiSclafani
2015
Rainey Royal, Dylan Landis
Hurry Down Sunshine, Michael Greenberg
Perfect Madness, Judith Warner
The Impossible Lives of Greta Wells, Andrew Sean Greer
The Wallcreeper, Nell Zink
The Yonahlossee Riding Camp for Girls, Anton DiSclafani
City of Ash, Megan Chance
The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood
The Word Exchange, Alena Graedon
My Brilliant Friend, Elena Ferrante
Ugly Girls, Lindsay Hunter
Love Slave, Jennifer Spiegel
After Birth, Elisa Albert
Smart Girls Get What They Want, Sarah Strohmeyer
Under the Wide and Starry Sky, Nancy Horan
The Book of Dahlia, Elisa Albert
Never Mind, Edward St Aubyn
Bad News, Edward St Aubyn
Some Hope, Edward St Aubyn
Mother's Milk, Edward St Aubyn
At Last, Edward St Aubyn
Follow Me, Joanna Scott
Everything I Never Told You, Celeste Ng
Sea of Poppies, Amitav Ghosh
The Sellout, Paul Beatty
A Guide to Being Born, Ramona Ausubel
1913: The Year Before the Storm, Florian Illies
The Vanishing of Katharina Linden, Helen Grant
Almost Famous Women, Megan Mayhew Bergman
Adam, Ariel Schrag
The Story of a New Name, Elena Ferrante
The Heiresses, Sara Shepard
Help for the Haunted, John Searles
Girls Like Us: Carole King, Joni Mitchell, Carly Simon---And the Journey of a Generation, Sheila Weller
Dark Rooms, Lili Anolik
Five Women, Rona Jaffe
The Adderall Diaries, Stephen Elliott
The Girl on the Train, Paula Hawkins
Bringing Up Bebe, Pamela Druckerman
Turtle Diary, Russell Hoban
Life Among the Savages, Shirley Jackson
Raising Demons, Shirley Jackson
Mind in the Making, Ellen Galinsky
On Immunity, Eula Biss
This One Is Mine, Maria Semple
The Argonauts, Maggie Nelson
Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay, Elena Ferrante
10:04, Ben Lerner
Happily Ever After, Harriet Evans
Dear Daughter, Elizabeth Little
The Bad Seed, William March
A History of Food in 100 Recipes, William Sitwell
Comet in Moominland, Tove Jansson
The Book Thief, Markus Zusak
Nurture Shock, Po Bronson
A Little Life, Hanya Yanagihara
Unbecoming, Rebecca Scherm
Hausfrau, Jill Alexander Essbaum
Between Lives, Dorothea Tanning
The Star Side of Bird Hill, Naomi Jackson
Between You and Me, Mary Norris
Far From the Tree, Andrew Solomon
Between the World and Me, Ta-Nehisi Coates
Bluets, Maggie Nelson
Ana of California, Andi Teran
The Suicide of Claire Bishop, Carmiel Banasky
Love and Other Way of Dying, Michael Paterniti
Find Me, Laura van den Berg
Eileen, Ottessa Moshfegh
Dietland, Sarai Walker
Founding Grammars, Rosemarie Ostler
This Is Your Life, Harriet Chance!, Jonathan Evison
Being Mortal, Atul Gawande
Local Girls, Caroline Zancan
The Life and Death of Sophie Stark, Anna North
Movie Star by Lizzie Pepper, Hilary Liftin
Gold Fame Citrus, Claire Vaye Watkins
2014
Cheap Amusements: Working Women and Leisure in Turn-of-the-Century New York, Kathy Peiss
Nine Lives: In Search of the Sacred in Modern India, William Dalrymple
Glaciers, Alexis M. Smith
Furious Love: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, and the Marriage of the Century, Sam Kashner and Nancy Schoenberger
They Shoot Horses, Don't They?, Horace McCoy
The Red Leather Diary, Lily Koppel
The Oracle of Stamboul, Michael David Lukas
The Listeners, Leni Zumas
Imperfect Birds, Anne Lamott
Songlines, Bruce Chatwin
Machine Dreams, Jayne Anne Phillips
Notes from No Man's Land, Eula Biss
It Is Almost That: A Collection of Image+Text Work by Women Artists & Writers, Lisa Pearson, ed.
Winter's Tale, Mark Helprin
Hyperbole and a Half, Allie Brosh
The Crack-Up with Other Pieces and Stories, F. Scott Fitzgerald
Magic for Beginners, Kelly Link
The Maytrees, Annie Dillard
Twins, Marcy Dermansky
Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
Save Yourself, Kelly Braffet
Wide Eyed, Trinie Dalton
A Book of One's Own: People and their Diaries, Thomas Mallon
The Mammoth Book of Street Art, JAKe (ed.)
Wintergirls, Laurie Halse Anderson
The Wall Street Journal Guide to Information Graphics: The Dos & Don'ts of Presenting Data, Facts, and Figures, Dona M. Wong
Americanah, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
The Odditorium, Melissa Pritchard
Bark, Lorrie Moore
Varieties of Disturbance, Lydia Davis
Autobiography of Red, Anne Carson
Pnin, Vladimir Nabokov
Call the Midwife, Jennifer Worth
We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves, Karen Joy Fowler
Please Ignore Vera Dietz, A. S. King
Summer Will Show, Sylvia Townsend Warner
The Lady in Gold, Anne-Marie O'Connor
Every Day is for the Thief, Teju Cole
Me and Fat Glenda, Lila Perl
Mr. Fortune's Maggot, Sylvia Townsend Warner
The Salutation, Sylvia Townsend Warner
Wildmen, Wobblies, and Whistle Punks: Stewart Holbrook's Lowbrow Northwest, ed. Brian Booth
The Good Lord Bird, James McBride
Consider the Oyster, MFK Fisher
The Gastronomical Me, MFK Fisher
Dept. of Speculation, Jenny Offill
Stoner, John Williams
The Summer Book, Tove Jansson
A Homemade Life, Molly Wizenberg
A Dark Adapted Eye, Ruth Rendell
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe, Fannie Flagg
The Blue of Her Body, Sara Greenslit
Skid Road: An Informal Portrait of Seattle, Murray Morgan
Artful, Ali Smith
The Fig Eater, Jody Shields
Expecting Better, Emily Oster
The Metamorphosis, Franz Kafka
O Pioneers!, Willa Cather
The Stranger, Albert Camus
Dramarama, E. Lockhart
Green Girl, Kate Zambreno
The Awakening, Kate Chopin
The Little Stranger, Sarah Waters
2 A.M. at the Cat's Pajamas, Marie-Helene Bertino
Tortoise by Candlelight, Nina Bawden
Betsy-Tacy, Maud Hart Lovelace
Bad Feminist, Roxane Gay
By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept, Elizabeth Smart
The Assumption of the Rogues & Rascals, Elizabeth Smart
Betsy-Tacy and Tib, Maud Hart Lovelace
CivilWarLand in Bad Decline, George Saunders
Betsy and Tacy Go Over the Big Hill, Maud Hart Lovelace
Landline, Rainbow Rowell
Betsy and Tacy Go Downtown, Maud Hart Lovelace
Operating Instructions, Anne Lamott
Crapalachia, Scott McClanahan
Heaven to Betsy, Maud Hart Lovelace
A Girl Named Zippy, Haven Kimmel
California, Edan Lepucki
The Fallback Plan, Leigh Stein
Provence, 1970: MFK Fisher, Julia Child, James Beard, and the Reinvention of American Taste, Luke Barr
Eleanor and Park, Rainbow Rowell
The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century, Steven Pinker
Fangirl, Rainbow Rowell
Lizard Music, Daniel Pinkwater
The Woman in White, Wilkie Collins
20th Century Ghosts, Joe Hill
Almost No Memory, Lydia Davis
Boy, Snow, Bird, Helen Oyeyemi
Ask the Passengers, A. S. King
What Was Lost, Catherine O'Flynn
Attachments, Rainbow Rowell
The Mistress's Daughter, A. M. Homes
Saturn's Return to New York, Sara Gran
Glory O'Brien's History of the Future, A. S. King
An Invisible Sign of My Own, Aimee Bender
How to Get Into the Twin Palms, Karolina Waclawiak
Wolf in White Van, John Darnielle
The Weird Sisters, Eleanor Brown
Station Eleven, Emily St. John Mandel
The Happiest Baby on the Block, Harvey Karp
The Fever, Megan Abbott
Great Granny Webster, Caroline Blackwood
Daughters of the North, Sarah Hall
Betsy in Spite of Herself, Maud Hart Lovelace
Amy Falls Down, Jincy Willett
The Girls from Corona Del Mar, Rufi Thorpe
The Woman Who Borrowed Memories, Tove Jansson
Can't and Won't, Lydia Davis
Black Dahlia, James Ellroy
2013
This is Running for Your Life, Michelle Orange
The Book of Blood and Shadow, Robin Wasserman
Weetzie Bat, Francesca Lia Block
Witch Baby, Francesca Lia Block
Cherokee Bat and the Goat Guys, Francesca Lia Block
Missing Angel Juan, Francesca Lia Block
Swann's Way, Marcel Proust
Fever, Mary Beth Keane
Baby Be-Bop, Francesca Lia Block
Turn, Magic Wheel, Dawn Powell
Sharp Objects, Gillian Flynn
A Thousand Morons, Quim Monzo
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World that Can't Stop Talking, Susan Cain
If You Want to Write, Brenda Ueland
Bitter Bitch, Maria Sveland
Errantry, Elizabeth Hand
The Little Disturbances of Man, Grace Paley
The Cove, Ron Rash
Sister's Choice: Tradition and Change in American Women's Writing, Elaine Showalter
Threats, Amelia Gray
Notorious Victoria: The Life of Victoria Woodhull, Uncensored, Mary Gabriel
Ghana Must Go, Taiye Selasi
State of Wonder, Ann Patchett
Schroder, Amity Gaige
We Need New Names, NoViolet Bulawayo
Sodom and Gomorrah, Marcel Proust
Hallucinations, Oliver Sacks
The Lola Quartet, Emily St. John Mandel
The Heart Broke In, James Meek
Manifestoes of Surrealism, Andre Breton
The Woman Upstairs, Claire Messud
A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again, David Foster Wallace
Sleeveless Errand, Norah C. James
Life After Life, Kate Atkinson
Run, Ann Patchett
The Fugitive, Marcel Proust
A Constellation of Vital Phenomena, Anthony Marra
The Assassin from Apricot City: Reportage from Turkey, Witold Szablowski
Winner of the National Book Award, Jincy Willett
The Goldfinch, Donna Tartt
Looking for Alaska, John Green
Dope, Sara Gran
You Are Here: Personal Geographies and Other Maps of the Imagination, Katharine Harmon
Claire Dewitt and the City of the Dead, Sara Gran
An Abundance of Katherines, John Green
Time Regained, Marcel Proust
How to Talk to Practically Anybody About Practically Anything, Barbara Walters
Dandelion Wine, Ray Bradbury
Lucretia and the Kroons, Victor LaValle
Dark Places, Gillian Flynn
The Tracey Fragments, Maureen Medved
The Lifted Veil, George Eliot
Serena, Ron Rash
2012
The Effect of Living Backwards, Heidi Julavits
Betsy in Spite of Herself, Maud Hart Lovelace
What We Were Doing and Where We Were Going, Damion Searls
Stone Arabia, Dana Spiotta
The Colossus of New York, Colson Whitehead
The Fountain Overflows, Rebecca West
Betsy and Joe, Maud Hart Lovelace
I Married You for Happiness, Lily Tuck
Silas Marner, George Eliot
Betsy and the Great World, Maud Hart Lovelace
Betsy's Wedding, Maud Hart Lovelace
The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde
Carney's House Party, Maud Hart Lovelace
No One Belongs Here More Than You, Miranda July
Winona's Pony Cart, Maud Hart Lovelace
The Map of Time, Felix J. Palma
Rules of Civility, Amor Towles
Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte
Maggie: A Girl of the Streets, Stephen Crane
The Deepening Stream, Dorothy Canfield
Treasure Island!!!, Sara Levine
Anne of Green Gables, LM Montgomery
The Colors of Infamy, Albert Cossery
Take the Cannoli: Stories from the New World, Sara Vowell
The Country of the Pointed Firs, Sarah Orne Jewett
Pulphead, John Jeremiah Sullivan
Phases of an Inferior Planet, Ellen Glasgow
The Magician King, Lev Grossman
The Hare With Amber Eyes, Edmund de Waal
Angle of Repose, Wallace Stegner
Consider the Lobster, David Foster Wallace
Pointed Roofs, Dorothy Richardson
The Zookeeper's Wife, Diane Ackerman
Amsterdam Stories, Nescio
My Next Bride, Kay Boyle
The Hangman's Daughter, Oliver Potsch
Mary Olivier: A Life, May Sinclair
Marking the Sparrow's Fall, Wallace Stegner
The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People who Read Them, Elif Batuman
The Luminist, David Rocklin
New Grub Street, George Gissing
The World Rushed In: The California Gold Rush Experience, J. S. Holliday
Half Empty, David Rakoff
The Wordy Shipmates, Sarah Vowell
When I Was A Child I Read Books, Marilynne Robinson
Hope: A Tragedy, Shalom Auslander
Lightning Rods, Helen DeWitt
Adam Bede, George Eliot
Revolutionary Road, Richard Yates
Wide Sargasso Sea, Jean Rhys
The House of Mirth, Edith Wharton
Miss Lulu Bett, Zona Gale
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity, Katherine Boo
Friendship Village, Zona Gale
The Newlyweds, Nell Freudenberger
The Easter Parade, Richard Yates
Best Russian Short Stories, various authors
In the Mountains, Elizabeth von Arnim
The Children's Book, A. S. Byatt
Talion, Mary Maddox
Midsummer Night in the Workhouse, Diana Athill
The Girl in the Flammable Skirt, Aimee Bender
Howards End, E. M. Forster
The Artist of Disappearance, Anita Desai
The Complete Tales of Lucy Gold, Kate Bernheimer
Miss Fuller, April Bernard
The Californians, Gertrude Atherton
As If A Bird Flew By Me, Sara Greenslit
What Dreams May Come, Gertrude Atherton
My Ears Are Bent, Joseph Mitchell
Anywhere But Here, Mona Simpson
Queen Lucia, E. F. Benson
As a Friend, Forrest Gander
Ayiti, Roxane Gay
Emily of Deep Valley, Maud Hart Lovelace
How to Live on 24 Hours a Day, Arnold Bennett
Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk, Ben Fountain
The End of Everything, Megan Abbott
The Mill on the Floss, George Eliot
The Orphan Master's Son, Adam Johnson
The Hour of the Star, Clarice Lispector
A Hologram for the King, Dave Eggers
On Top of the World: Five Women Explorers in Tibet, Luree Miller
Household Stories, Brothers Grimm (trans. Lucy Crane)
The Raising, Laura Kasischke
Maida's Little Shop, Inez Haynes Gillmore
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll
Through the Looking-Glass, Lewis Carroll
The Dud Avocado, Elaine Dundy
Light Woman, Zona Gale
Dracula, Bram Stoker
Frankenstein, Mary Shelley
Angel Island, Inez Haynes Gillmore
Selected short stories, Edgar Allan Poe
The Invisible Man, H.G. Wells
Princess of Mars, Edgar Rice Burroughs
The Martian Chronicles, Ray Bradbury
Little Brother, Cory Doctorow
Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns), Mindy Kaling
Sorry Please Thank You, Charles Yu
The Turn of the Screw, Henry James
A Cordiall Water: A Garland of Odd and Old Receipts to Assuage the Ills of Man and Beast, MFK Fisher
Arcadia, Lauren Groff
How to Cook a Wolf, MFK Fisher
Love in a Dish, MFK Fisher
The Brimming Cup, Dorothy Canfield Fisher
Hong Kong, Jan Morris
How Should a Person Be?, Sheila Heti
The Most Dangerous Thing, Laura Lippman
The Snow Child, Eowyn Ivey
The Exploits of the Incomparable Mulla Nasrudin, Idries Shah
Wolf Hall, Hilary Mantel
2011
The Modulor, Le Corbusier
The Metropolis Case, Matthew Gallaway
Various Antidotes, Joanna Scott
American Rose: A Nation Laid Bare: The Life and Times of Gypsy Rose Lee, Karen Abbott
The Outward Room, Millen Brand
The Book of Happiness, Nina Berberova, trans. Marian Schwartz
Ender's Game, Orson Scott Card
The Professor and the Madman, Simon Winchester
American Psycho, Bret Easton Ellis
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, Rebecca Skloot
Tourmaline, Joanna Scott
Sag Harbor, Colson Whitehead
What the World Will Look Like When All the Water Leaves Us, Laura van den Berg
The Taste of Penny, Jeff Parker
Hackenfeller's Ape, Brigid Brophy
Further Adventures in Our Restless Universe, Dawn Raffel
Skippy Dies, Paul Murray
Tunneling to the Center of the Earth, Kevin Wilson
A Moveable Feast, Ernest Hemingway
Les Misérables, Victor Hugo
The Lodger, Marie Belloc-Lowndes
Naked Sleeper, Sigrid Nunez
The Entire Predicament, Lucy Corin
Girl From Yamhill, Beverly Cleary
You Lost Me There, Rosencrans Baldwin
Revolution: The Year I Fell in Love and Went to Join the War, Deb Olin Unferth
Swamplandia!, Karen Russell
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, James Joyce
Tiger, Tiger, Margaux Fragoso
The Evolution of Bruno Littlemore, Benjamin Hale
Other People We Married, Emma Straub
The Clash of Images, Abdelfattah Kilito
Visitation, Jenny Erpenbeck
The Jokers, Albert Cossery
Half A Life, Darin Strauss
Lonesome Dove, Larry McMurtry
Chains, Laurie Halse Anderson
The Sleepwalker, Margarita Karapanou
Old New York, Edith Wharton
The Invisible Bridge, Julie Orringer
13 Little Blue Envelopes, Maureen Johnson
There Is No Year, Blake Butler
The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio, Terry Ryan
Who Will Run the Frog Hospital?, Lorrie Moore
The Last Little Blue Envelope, Maureen Johnson
Slammerkin, Emma Donoghue
The Hours, Michael Cunningham
The Girl With the Brown Fur, Stacey Levine
Pirate Talk or Mermalade, Terese Svoboda
Oscar and Lucinda, Peter Carey
Super Sad True Love Story, Gary Shteyngart
The Great Frustration, Seth Fried
The Hottest Dishes of the Tartar Cuisine, Alina Bronsky
The Singer's Gun, Emily St. John Mandel
Just Kids, Patti Smith
The Quality of Life Report, Meghan Daum
The Consequence of Skating, Steve Gillis
Shoplifting From American Apparel, Tao Lin
Native Speaker, Chang-rae Lee
So Much Pretty, Cara Hoffman
Girl Factory, Jim Krusoe
Open City, Teju Cole
Us, Michael Kimball
Bury Me Deep, Megan Abbott
I Was Told There'd Be Cake, Sloane Crosley
I'd Know You Anywhere, Laura Lippman
Model Home, Eric Puchner
The Information, James Gleick
The Magicians, Lev Grossman
Personal Days, Ed Park
Bel Canto, Ann Patchett
The Intuitionist, Colson Whitehead
The Distance Between Us, Masha Hamilton
The Summer of Naked Swim Parties, Jessica Anya Blau
The Fates Will Find Their Way, Hannah Pittard
Postcards from a Dead Girl, Kirk Farber
Horse, Flower, Bird, Kate Bernheimer
Daughters of the Revolution, Carolyn Cooke
The Phantom Limbs of the Rollow Sisters, Timothy Schaffert
Case Histories, Kate Atkinson
Heaven to Betsy, Maud Hart Lovelace
Nom de Plume: A (Secret) History of Pseudonyms, Carmela Ciuraru
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Mark Twain
On Elegance While Sleeping, Viscount Lascano Tegui (trans. Idra Novey)
The Money Class, Suze Orman
A Little Book of Language, David Crystal
Once Upon A River, Bonnie Jo Campbell
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain
Lamb, Bonnie Nadzam
We the Animals, Justin Torres
After Claude, Iris Owens
Globish: How the English Language Became the World's Language, Robert McCrum
The Journey's Echo, Freya Stark
The Windup Girl, Paolo Bacigalupi
The Tiger's Wife, Tea Obreht
The Buddha in the Attic, Julie Otsuka
Mr. Fox, Helen Oyeyemi
The Story-Teller, Patricia Highsmith
The Man Who Loved Books Too Much: The True Story of a Thief, a Detective, and a World of Literary Obsession, Allison Hoover Bartlett
The Wandering Falcon, Jamil Ahmad
The Night Circus, Erin Morgenstern
Middlemarch, George Eliot
The Private Lives of Trees, Alejandro Zambra
Candide, Voltaire
Betsy Was a Junior, Maud Hart Lovelace
The Wilder Life, Wendy McClure
The Golden Chersonese and the Way Thither, Isabella Bird
Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro
The Scholar and the Dragon, Stella Kon
Hedy's Folly: The Life and Breakthrough Inventions of Hedy Lamarr, the Most Beautiful Woman in the World, Richard Rhodes
Betsy-Tacy, Maud Hart Lovelace
Betsy-Tacy and Tib, Maud Hart Lovelace
Daughter of Smoke and Bone, Laini Taylor
Betsy and Tacy Go Over the Big Hill, Maud Hart Lovelace
Betsy and Tacy Go Downtown, Maud Hart Lovelace
Suicide, Edouard Levé (trans. Jan Steyn)
The Family Fang, Kevin Wilson
Mystery and Manners, Flannery O'Connor
2010
Another Bullshit Night in Suck City, Nick Flynn
Sacred Games, Vikram Chanda
Freedom, Jonathan Franzen
Lush Life, Richard Price
Sunset Park, Paul Auster
The Imperfectionists, Tom Rachman
Like Life, Lorrie Moore
Lit, Mary Karr
Birds of America, Lorrie Moore
Flaubert's Parrot, Julian Barnes
Anatomy of an Epidemic, Robert Whitaker
Rumpus Women, compilation
C, Tom McCarthy
The Street of Crocodiles, Bruno Schulz
My Dog Tulip, JR Ackerley
Make Believe, Joanna Scott
The Manikin, Joanna Scott
The Black Minutes, Martin Solares
Half Life, Shelley Jackson
The Places in Between, Rory Stewart
Three Cups of Tea, Greg Mortenson
A Short History of Women, Kate Walbert
Lowboy, John Wray
You Are Here, Meenakshi Madhavan
The White Mary, Kira Salak
Istanbul, Orhan Pamuk
The Shadow of the Wind, Carlos Ruiz Zafron
Out Stealing Horses, Per Petterson
Fugitives and Refugees, Chuck Palahniuk
The 42nd Parallel, John Dos Passos
The Yiddish Policemen's Union, Michael Chabon
The Help, Kathryn Stockett
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, Stieg Larsson
The Girl Who Played With Fire, Stieg Larsson
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest, Stieg Larsson
Room, Emma Donoghue
The Many Deaths of the Firefly Brothers, Thomas Mullen
Possible Side Effects, Augusten Burroughs
A Visit From the Goon Squad, Jennifer Egan
Shutter Island, Dennis Lehane
Let the Great World Spin, Colum McCann
The History of Love, Nicole Krauss
Bad Marie, Marcy Dermansky
The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake, Aimee Bender
Bright-Sided, Barbara Ehrenreich
Ghosted, Shaughnessy Bishop-Stall
Kapitoil, Teddy Wayne
The Hunger Games, Suzanne Collins
Catching Fire, Suzanne Collins
Mockingjay, Suzanne Collins
Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter, Mario Vargas Llosa
The Coast of Akron, Adrienne Miller
The Vagrants, Yiyun Li
Moth Smoke, Mohsin Hamid
The Territory of Men, Joelle Fraser
Madness and Civilization, Michel Foucault
The Historian, Elizabeth Kostova
Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi, Geoff Dyer
The Little Stranger, Sarah Waters
Await Your Reply, Dan Chaon
War, Sebastian Junger
A Gate at the Stairs, Lorrie Moore
The Ask, Sam Lipsyte
Little Bee, Chris Cleave