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2023
Thief River Falls by Brian Freeman
The Cartographers by Peng Shepard
The Attic Child by Lola Jaye
Think Like a Monk by Jay Shetty
The People We Keep by Allison Larkin
Romantic Comedy by Curtis Sittenfeld
Reckless Girls by Rachel Hawkins
Finding Me by Viola Davis
Rootless by Krystle Zara Appiah
Anywhere You Run by Wanda M. Morris
A Quiet Life by Ethan Joella
Unlikely Animals by Annie Hartnett
Venco by Cherie Dimaline
Before I Let Go by Kennedy Ryan
I Have Some Questions For You by Rebecca Makkai
Tell Me How to Be by Neel Patel
I Have Some Questions for You by Rebecca Makkai
Age of Vice by Deepti Kapoor
Here Comes the Sun by Nicole Dennis-Benn
Hayley Aldridge is Still Here by Elissa R. Sloan
The Faraway World by Patricia Engel
Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
White Horse by Erika T. Wurth
Nightcrawling by Leila Mottley
Maame by Jessica George
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2022
Now is Not the Time to Panic by Kevin Wilson
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
Yerba Buena by Nina Lacour
All That's Left Unsaid by Tracey Lien
Sign Here by Claudia Lux
Thank You for Listening by Julia Whelan
The Many Daughters of Afong Moy by Jamie Ford
Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones
The Net Beneath Us by Carol Dunbar
When We Were Bright and Beautiful by Jillian Medoff
The Two Lives of Sara by Catherine Adel West
Beloved by Toni Morrison
The Winners by Fredrik Backman
Daisy Darker by Alice Feeney
The Five Wounds by Kirstin Valdez Quade
The Last Housewife by Ashley Winstead
The Women Could Fly by Megan Giddings
The Measure by Nikki Erlick
Things I Learned from Falling by Claire Nelson
Still Life by Sarah Winman
We Are Not Like Them by Christine Pride and Jo Piazza
The Change by Kirsten Miller
The Lioness by Chris Bohjalian
You’re Invited by Amanda Jayatissa
This Time Tomorrow by Emma Straub
Notes on an Execution by Danya Kukafka
Woman of Light by Kali Fajardo-Anstine
All the Lonely People by Mike Gayle
Wonder by R.J. Palacio
Reminders of Him by Colleen Hoover
Virgil Wander by Leif Enger
The Invited by Jennifer McMahon
You Made a Fool of Death with your Beauty by Akwaeke Emezi
The Violin Conspiracy by Brandon Slocumb
Take My Hand by Dolen Perkins-Valez
Cover Story by Susan Rigetti
Mary Jane by Jessica Anya Blau
The Fervor by Alma Katsu
Young Mungo by Douglas Stuart
These Silent Woods by Kimi Cunningham Grant
Four Treasures of the Sky by Jenny Tinghui Zhang
Regretting You by Colleen Hoover
Olga Dies Dreaming by Xochitl Gonzalez
The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles
Unmasked by Paul Holes
I’ll be Gone in the Dark by Michelle McNamara
A History of Wild Places by Shea Ernshaw
The Charm Offensive by Alison Cochrun
The Night Shift by Alex Finlay
The Secret History by Donna Tartt
The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
Somebody’s Daughter by Ashley C. Ford
Black Cake by Charmaine Wilkerson
A Flicker in the Dark by Stacy Willingham
Bright Burning Things by Lisa Harding
Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner
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2021
The Sentence by Louise Erdrich
The Collective by Alison Gaylin
The Nix by Nathan Hill
The Turnout by Megan Abbott
Wish You Were Here by Jodi Picoult
The Knockout Queen by Rufi Thorpe
Pet Sematary by Stephen King
Caste by Isabel Wilkerson
Confessions by Kanae Minato
Rock Paper Scissors by Alice Feeney
Shotgun Love Songs by Nickolas Butler
In My Dreams I Hold a Knife by Ashley Winstead
The Lost Apothecary by Sarah Penner
Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo
The Office of Historical Corrections by Danielle Evans
When I Ran Away by Ilona Bannister
Blacktop Wasteland by S.A. Cosby
Cultish by Amanda Montell
Malibu Rising by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Too Good to be True by Carola Lovering
The Other Black Girl by Zakiya Dalila Harris
Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart
The Fire Keeper’s Daughter by Angeline Boulley
The Maidens by Alex Michaelides
Everything Here is Beautiful by Mira T. Lee
Detransition, Baby by Torrey Peters
When the Stars Go Dark by Paula McLain
Migrations by Charlotte McConaghy
The Kindest Lie by Nancy Johnson
Wintering by Katherine May
The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
We Begin at the End by Chris Whitaker
Yellow Wife by Sadeqa Johnson
Pretty Things by Janelle Brown
Memorial by Bryan Washington
The Scent Keeper by Erica Bauermeister
The Final Revival of Opal & Nev by Opal & Nev
Dominicana by Angie Cruz
The Push by Ashley Audrain
Behind Her Eyes by Sarah Pinborough
Infinite Country by Patricia Engel
White Ivy by Susie Yang
Notes on a Nervous Planet by Matt Haig
The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
Writers & Lovers by Lily King
Kindred by Octavia Butler
The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix
Black Buck by Mateo Askaripour
Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi
Leave the World Behind by Rumaan Alam
Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann
If I had your Face by Frances Cha
Hood Feminism by Mikki Kendall
Clap When You Land by Elizabeth Acevado
Aftershocks by Nadia Owusu
American Daughter by Stephanie Thornton Plymale
The Pull of the Stars by Emma Donoghue
TH1RT3EN by Steve Cavanagh
2020
Winter Counts
Saving Ruby King
Invisible Girl
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
Betty
Dear Child
Station Eleven
City of Girls
The Sun Does Shine
Just Mercy
We are all the Same in the Dark
Behind the Red Door
Valentine
The Mothers
The House in the Cerulean Sea
When No One is Watching
Hidden Valley Road
The Year of the Witching
Cantoras
Mexican Gothic
Cover Your Tracks
The Death of Vivek Oji
Anxious People
Hurricane Season
Homegoing
The Red Lotus
Luster
Dear Emmie Blue
A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder
The Giver of Stars
A Burning
The Warmth of Other Suns
All Boys Aren’t Blue
Hollywood Park
A Court of Mist and Fury
A Ladder to the Sky
Salvation Station
The Undocumented Americans
Evicted
The Vanishing Half
The Night Swim
The Book of Longings
Firefly Lane
Heavy
Sing, Unburied, Sing
Lakewood
He Started It
Severance
White Fragility
One Year of Ugly
Darling Rose Gold
God Shot
Deacon King Kong
A Little Life
The Girl with the Louding Voice
Strike Me Down
In the Dream House
A Court of Thorns and Roses
Dear Edward
Hum if You Don’t Know the Words
Ordinary Grace
The Last Mrs. Parrish
Untamed
Big Summer
The Reckless Oath We Made
Nothing to See Here
The Other Woman
Us Against You
Long Bright River
The Roxy Letters
Open Book
The Turn of the Key
Wild Game
The Nickel Boys
The Holdout
When Time Stopped
In Five Years
In a Dark, Dark Wood
The Only Plane in the Sky
The Sundown Motel
The Arrangement
Such a Fun Age
The Dutch House
Never Have I Ever
A Good Neighborhood
This Tender Land
The Wives
Know My Name
2019
If You Want to Make God Laugh
The Hunger
Verity
One Day in December
She Said
Red at the Bone
Lock Every Door
Beyond the Point
The Grace Year
The Lost Man
Maybe You Should Talk to Someone
The Sound of Gravel
Daring Greatly
Little Fires Everywhere
The Silent Companions
Little Sister
The Last Time I Lied
The Poison Thread
The Orchard
The Girl He Used to Know
The Family Upstairs
The Mother-In-Law
Before She Knew
Normal People
The Forest City Killer
A Good Man
The Heart’s Invisible Furies
The Butterfly Girl
Watching You
Small Great Things
The Lager Queen of Minnesota
Brain on Fire
Mrs. Everything
Hillbilly Elegy
My Lovely Wife
Josh and Hazel’s Guide to Not Dating
The Whisper Man
The River
This is How it Always Is
The Perfect Wife
The Great Believers
The First Mistake
Ask Again Yes
A Man Called Ove
Becoming
A Stranger on the Beach
Beartown
To Have and to Hold
The Silent Patient
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
The Nightingale
The Immortalists
Miracle Creek
All the Ugly and Wonderful Things
Little Faith
When We Were Yours
The Child Finder
The Dreamers
Educated
The Night Olivia Fell
You
There There
Golden State
The Great Alone
No Exit
A Woman is No Man
Where the Crawdads Sing
Into the Water
An American Marriage