2023

Talking at Night

by Claire Daverly

Earth Angel

by Madeline Cash

Bliss Montage

by Ling Ma

The Undiscovered Self

by C.G. Jung

The Monastic Heart

by Joan Chittister

Living Rooms

by Sam Johnson-Schlee

Sex & Rage

by Eve Babitz

Ghosts

by Dolly Alderton

No One Is Talking About This

by Patricia Lockwood

The Guest

by Emma Cline

Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow

by Gabrielle Zevin

Big Swiss

by Jen Beagin

A Field Guide to Getting Lost

by Rebecca Solnit

The Red Zone

by Chloe Caldwell

The Bluest Eye

by Toni Morrison

The Art of Gathering

by Priya Parker

Motherthing

by Ainslie Hogarth

Strangers to Ourselves

by Rachel Aviv

Priestdaddy

by Patricia Lockwood

2022

The Memory Police

by Yoko Ogawa

Stay True

by Hua Hsu

Bunny

by Mona Awad

I—m Glad My Mom Died

by Jennette McCurdy

The Body Keeps the Score

by Bessel van der Kolk

The Secret History

by Donna Tartt

The Stationery Shop

by Marjan Kamali

Parable of the Sower

by Octavia E. Butler

Also A Poet

by Ada Calhoun

All About Love

by bell hooks

Her Body and Other Parties

by Carmen Maria Machado

Translating Myself and Others

by Jhumpa Lahiri

LaserWriter II

by Tamara Shopsin

Pure Colour

by Sheila Heti

Thin Places

by Jordan Kisner

Life With Picasso

by Francoise Gilot and Carlton Lake

Crying in H Mart

by Michelle Zauner

Having and Being Had

by Eula Biss

2021

Upper Bohemia

by Hayden Herrera

Stories of Your Life and Others

by Ted Chiang

Happy Hour

by Marlowe Granados

Normal People

by Sally Rooney

M Train

by Patti Smith

Braiding Sweetgrass

by Robin Wall Kimmerer

City Poet — The Life and Times of Frank O'Hara

by Brad Gooch

Fierce Poise

by Alexander Nemerov

Too Much and Not the Mood

by Durga Chew-Bose

The Woman Destroyed

by Simone de Beauvoir

Writers and Lovers

by Lily King

My Soulmate's in an Armchair at McNally Jackson

by Adriana Mariella

If Beale Street Could Talk

by James Baldwin

Minor Feelings

by Cathy Park Hong

A Little Life

by Hanya Yanagihara

Interior Chinatown

by Charles Yu

The Unreality of Memory

by Elisa Gabbert

Enigma Variations

by Andre Aciman

Learn to Code Now

by SuperHi

The Design of Everyday Things

by Don Norman

2020

A Very Punchable Face

by Colin Jost

Transit

by Rachel Cusk

The Overstory

by Richard Powers

Homebody

by Rupi Kaur

Martin Eden

by Jack London

No One Asked For This

by Cazzie David

Calamities

by Renee Gladman

Sontag

by Benjamin Moser

Outline

by Rachel Cusk

Know My Name

by Chanel Miller

Infinity Net

by Yayoi Kusama

The Idiot

Elif Batuman

The Line Becomes a River

by Francisco Cantu

Americanah

by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Another Brooklyn

by Jacqueline Woodson

The Undocumented Americans

by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio

The Water Dancer

by Ta-Nehesi Coates

So You Want to Talk About Race

by Ijeoma Oluo

Surviving Autocracy

by Masha Gessen

How Democracies Die

by Daniel Ziblatt and Steven Levitzky

Brown Girl Dreaming

by Jacqueline Woodson

How to Write a Thesis

by Umberto Eco

My Brilliant Friend

by Elena Ferrante

I'm Afraid of Men

by Vivek Shraya

The Vanishing Half

by Brit Bennett

Sing, Unburied, Sing

by Jesmyn Ward

Franny and Zooey

by J.D. Salinger

New York — The Novel

by Edward Rutherford

From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler

by E. L. Konigsburg

A Gentleman in Moscow

by Amor Towles

Crazy Rich Asians

by Kevin Kwan

This Little Art

by Kate Briggs

Sideways Stories From Wayside School

by Louis Sachar

Frida

by Hayden Herrera

Weather

by Jenny Offill

Exhalation

by Ted Chiang

Pops

by Michael Chabon

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

by Betty Smith

Little Weirds

by Jenny Slate

The Great Believers

by Rebecca Makkai

Red at the Bone

by Jacqueline Woodson

Conversations With Friends

by Sally Rooney

Upstream

by Mary Oliver

2019

On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

by Ocean Vuong

On Writing

by Stephen King

Just Kids

by Patti Smith

Frankenstein

by Mary Shelley

The Handmaid's Tale

by Margaret Atwood

Homegoing

by Yaa Gyasi

The House on Mango Street

by Sandra Cisneros

A Series of Unfortunate Events

by Lemony Snicket

Marilou is Everywhere

by Sarah Elaine Smith

Trick Mirror

by Jia Tolentino

Three Women

by Lisa Taddeo

Georgia O'Keeffe - A Life

by Roxana Robinson

The Dreamers

by Karen Thompson Walker

Normal People

by Sally Rooney

A Nation of Immigrants

by John F. Kennedy

An Altar in the World

by Barbara Brown Taylor

Niels Lyhne

by Jens Peter Jacobsen

Letters to a Young Poet

by Ranier Maria Rilke

Purple Hibiscus

by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Jane Eyre

by Charlotte Bronte

Searching for Sunday

by Rachel Held Evans

Sea of Strangers

by Lang Leav

Searching for Stars on an Island in Maine

by Alan Lightman

The Alchemist

by Paolo Coelho

Gingerbread

by Helen Oyeyemi

Present Over Perfect

by Shauna Niequist

Becoming

by Michelle Obama

There, There

by Tommy Orange

The Prophet

by Kahlil Gibran

Small Fry

by Lisa Brennan Jobs

Educated

by Tara Westover