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- Educated: A Memoir by Tara Westover
- I’ll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman’s Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer by Michelle McNamara
- The Baker’s Secret by Stephen P. Kiernan
- Stay with Me by Ayobami Adebayo
- Less by Andrew Sean Greer
- Manhattan Beach by Jennifer Egan
- The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
- The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
- The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin
- Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
- I’ll Take You There by Wally Lamb
- The Other Einstein by Marie Benedict
- Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea by Barbara Demick
- Salt to the Sea by Ruta Sepetys
- Commonwealth by Ann Patchett
- A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
- The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu: And Their Race to Save the World’s Most Precious Manuscripts by Joshua Hammer
- All Things Cease to Appear by Elizabeth Brundage
- The Illegal by Lawrence Hill
- Fates and Furies by Lauren Groff
- The Things We Keep by Sally Hepworth
- The Bishop’s Wife by Mette Ivie Harrison
- The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto by Mitch Albom
- The Good House by Ann Leary
- Mycroft Holmes by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
- The Accidental Empress by Allison Pataki
- Be Frank with Me by Julia Claiborne Johnson
- David and Goliath by Malcolm Gladwell
- Fever by Mary Beth Keane
- Someone by Alice McDermott
- In the Heart of the Sea by Nathaniel Philbrick
- China Dolls by Lisa See
- An American Marriage by Tayari Jones
- The Long Haul: A Trucker’s Tales of Life on the Road by Finn Murphy
- Little Comfort by Edwin Hill
- Stella Bain by Anita Shreve
- The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
- Before the Fall by Noah Hawley
- Nutshell by Ian McEwan
- Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
- News of the World by Paulette Jiles
- The Last Painting of Sara De Vos by Dominic Smith
- Circling the Sun by Paula McLain
- Eileen by Ottessa Moshfegh
- The Last One by Alexandra Oliva
- Euphoria by Lily King
- The Water Knife by Paolo Bacigalupi
- The High Divide by Lin Enger
- An Italian Wife by Ann Hood
- Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng
- The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd
- Life After Life by Jill McCorkle
- If the Creek Don’t Rise by Leah Weiss
- Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman
- The Dry by Jane Harper
- Dead Wake by Erik Larson
- The Leavers by Lisa Ko
- I Found You by Lisa Jewell
- Whiskey and Charlie by Annabel Smith
- End of the World Running Club by Adrian Walker
- Norwegian By Night by Derek B. Miller
- Silence by Shusaku Endo
- The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness by Sy Montgomery
- Girl at War: A Novel by Sara Novic
- A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman
- The Life We Bury by Allen Eskens
- Flight of the Sparrow by Amy Belding Brown
- Stones in the Road by E. B. Moore
- In the Kingdom of Ice by Hampton Sides
- Dry Bones in the Valley by Tom Bouman
- Life Drawing by Robin Black
- The Bees by Laline Paull
- The Dog Stars by Peter Heller
- The Martian by Andy Weir
- Cartographer of No Man’s Land by P.S. Duffy
- Frozen in Time by Mitchell Zukoff
- Crossing Purgatory by Gary Schanbacker