New York Times book lists

Original list ↗

• Angel Down — Daniel Kraus (2025)
• The Director — Daniel Kehlmann (2025)
• The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny — Kiran Desai (2025)
• The Sisters — Jonas Hassen Khemiri (2025)
• Stone Yard Devotional — Charlotte Wood (2025)
• A Marriage at Sea A True Story of Love, Obsession, and Shipwreck — Sophie Elmhirst (2025)
• Mother Emanuel — Kevin Sack (2025)
• Mother Mary Comes to Me — Arundhati Roy (2025)
• There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America — Brian Goldstone (2025)
• Wild Thing: A Life of Paul Gauguin — Sue Prideaux (2025)

Original list ↗

• Angel Down — Daniel Kraus (2025)
• August Lane — Regina Black (2025)
• Bat Eater and Other Names for Cora Zeng — Kylie Lee Baker (2025)
• Buckeye — Patrick Ryan (2025)
• The Buffalo Hunter Hunter — Stephen Graham Jones (2025)
• Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil — V.E. Schwab (2025)
• The Colony — Annika Norlin (2025)
• Death Takes Me — Cristina Rivera Garza (2025)
• The Director — Daniel Kehlmann (2025)
• The Doorman — Chris Pavone (2025)
• The Feeling of Iron — Giaime Alonge (2025)
• Flesh — David Szalay (2025)
• A Gentleman's Gentleman — T.J. Alexander (2025)
• The Good Liar — Denise Mina (2025)
• A Guardian and a Thief — Megha Majumdar (2025)
• Heart the Lover — Lily King (2025)
• Heartwood — Amity Gaige (2025)
• Hollow Spaces — Victor Suthammanont (2025)
• The Hounding — Xenobe Purvis (2025)
• How to Dodge a Cannonball — Dennard Dayle (2025)
• Isola — Allegra Goodman (2025)
• Katabasis — R.F. Kuang (2025)
• Killing Stella — Marlen Haushofer (2025)
• King Sorrow — Joe Hill (2025)
• The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny — Kiran Desai (2025)
• Lonely Crowds — Stephanie Wambugu (2025)
• Maggie; or, A Man and a Woman Walk Into a Bar — Katie Yee (2025)
• Night Watch — Kevin Young (2025)
• On the Calculation of Volume (Book III) — Solvej Balle (2025)
• Perfection — Vincenzo Latronico (2025)
• Playworld — Adam Ross (2025)
• The Rarest Fruit — Gaëlle Bélem (2025)
• The Remembered Soldier — Anjet Daanje (2025)
• Shadow Ticket — Thomas Pynchon (2025)
• Silver Elite — Dani Francis (2025)
• The Sisters — Jonas Hassen Khemiri (2025)
• The Slip — Lucas Schaefer (2025)
• The South — Tash Aw (2025)
• Startlement New and Selected Poems — Ada Limón (2025)
• Stone Yard Devotional — Charlotte Wood (2025)
• Sunrise on the Reaping — Suzanne Collins (2025)
• These Summer Storms — Sarah MacLean (2025)
• To Smithereens — Rosalyn Drexler (2025)
• The Tokyo Suite — Giovana Madalosso (2025)
• Trip — Amie Barrodale (2025)
• Venetian Vespers — John Banville (2025)
• Victorian Psycho — Virginia Feito (2025)
• We Do Not Part — Han Kang (2025)
• What We Can Know — Ian McEwan (2025)
• A Witch's Guide to Magical Innkeeping — Sangu Mandanna (2025)
• Abundance — Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson (2025)
• The Age of Choice A History of Freedom in Modern Life — Sophia Rosenfeld (2025)
• All Consuming Why We Eat the Way We Eat Now — Ruby Tandoh (2025)
• Apple in China The Capture of the World's Greatest Company — Patrick McGee (2025)
• The Arrogant Ape The Myth of Human Exceptionalism and Why It Matters — Christine E. Webb (2025)
• Awake A Memoir — Jen Hatmaker (2025)
• Baldwin A Love Story — Nicholas Boggs (2025)
• Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza A Reckoning — Peter Beinart (2025)
• Black Moses A Saga of Ambition and the Fight for a Black State — Caleb Gayle (2025)
• Book of Lives A Memoir of Sorts — Margaret Atwood (2025)
• Born in Flames The Business of Arson and the Remaking of the American City — Bench Ansfield (2025)
• The Broken King — Michael Thomas (2025)
• Buckley The Life and the Revolution That Changed America — Sam Tanenhaus (2025)
• The Call of the Honeyguide What Science Tells Us about How to Live Well with the Rest of Life — Rob Dunn (2025)
• Capitalism A Global History — Sven Beckert (2025)
• Careless People A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism — Sarah Wynn-Williams (2025)
• Claire McCardell The Designer Who Set Women Free — Elizabeth Evitts Dickinson (2025)
• The Containment Detroit, the Supreme Court, and the Battle for Racial Justice in the North — Michelle Adams (2025)
• Crumb A Cartoonist's Life — Dan Nadel (2025)
• Dark Renaissance The Dangerous Times and Fatal Genius of Shakespeare's Greatest Rival — Stephen Greenblatt (2025)
• Daughters of the Bamboo Grove From China to America, a True Story of Abduction, Adoption, and Separated Twins — Barbara Demick (2025)
• Empire of AI Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAI — Karen Hao (2025)
• Every Day Is Sunday How Jerry Jones, Robert Kraft, and Roger Goodell Turned the NFL into a Cultural & Economic Juggernaut — Ken Belson (2025)
• The Fate of the Day The War for America, Fort Ticonderoga to Charleston, 1777-1780 — Rick Atkinson (2025)
• A Flower Traveled in My Blood The Incredible True Story of the Grandmothers Who Fought to Find a Stolen Generation of Children — Haley Cohen Gilliland (2025)
• Girl on Girl How Pop Culture Turned a Generation of Women Against Themselves — Sophie Gilbert (2025)
• The Gods of New York Egotists, Idealists, Opportunists, and the Birth of the Modern City: 1986-1990 — Jonathan Mahler (2025)
• I Seek a Kind Person My Father, Seven Children and the Adverts that Helped Them Escape the Holocaust — Julian Borger (2025)
• John & Paul A Love Story in Songs — Ian Leslie (2025)
• King of Kings The Iranian Revolution—A Story of Hubris, Delusion and Catastrophic Miscalculation — Scott Anderson (2025)
• The Last Manager — John W. Miller (2025)
• Mark Twain — Ron Chernow (2025)
• A Marriage at Sea A True Story of Love, Obsession, and Shipwreck — Sophie Elmhirst (2025)
• Memorial Days A Memoir — Geraldine Brooks (2025)
• Mother Emanuel — Kevin Sack (2025)
• Motherland A Feminist History of Modern Russia, from Revolution to Autocracy — Julia Ioffe (2025)
• Mother Mary Comes to Me — Arundhati Roy (2025)
• 1929 Inside the Greatest Crash in History--and How It Shattered a Nation — Andrew Ross Sorkin (2025)
• One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This — Omar El Akkad (2025)
• The Peepshow The Murders at Rillington Place — Kate Summerscale (2025)
• Raising Hare A Memoir — Chloe Dalton (2025)
• Shattered Dreams, Infinite Hope A Tragic Vision of the Civil Rights Movement — Brandon M. Terry (2025)
• The Spinach King The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty — John Seabrook (2025)
• There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America — Brian Goldstone (2025)
• Things in Nature Merely Grow — Yiyun Li (2025)
• The Tragedy of True Crime Four Guilty Men and the Stories That Define Us — John J. Lennon (2025)
• We the People A History of the U.S. Constitution — Jill Lepore (2025)
• What Is Queer Food? How We Served a Revolution — John Birdsall (2025)
• Wild Thing: A Life of Paul Gauguin — Sue Prideaux (2025)
• The Zorg A Tale of Greed and Murder That Inspired the Abolition of Slavery — Siddharth Kara (2025)

Original list ↗

• All Fours — Miranda July (2024)
• Good Material — Dolly Alderton (2024)
• James — Percival Everett (2024)
• Martyr! — Kaveh Akbar (2024)
• You Dreamed of Empires — Álvaro Enrigue (2024)
• Cold Crematorium: Reporting from the Land of Auschwitz — József Debreczeni (2024)
• Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis — Jonathan Blitzer (2024)
• I Heard Her Call My Name: A Memoir of Transition — Lucy Sante (2024)
• Reagan: His Life and Legend — Max Boot (2024)
• The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook — Hampton Sides (2024)

Original list ↗

• All Fours — Miranda July (2024)
• Beautyland — Marie-Helene Bertino (2024)
• Black River — Nilanjana Roy (2024)
• Bluff — Danez Smith (2024)
• The Book of Love — Kelly Link (2024)
• The Bright Sword A Novel of King Arthur — Lev Grossman (2024)
• The Coin — Yasmin Zaher (2024)
• Colored Television — Danzy Senna (2024)
• Creation Lake — Rachel Kushner (2024)
• Dead in Long Beach, California — Venita Blackburn (2024)
• The Empusium A Health Resort Horror Story — Olga Tokarczuk (2024)
• The Familiar A Novel — Leigh Bardugo (2024)
• A Film in Which I Play Everyone Poems — Mary Jo Bang (2024)
• Forest of Noise Poems — Mosab Abu Toha (2024)
• Funny Story — Emily Henry (2024)
• Ghostroots — 'Pemi Aguda (2024)
• The God of the Woods — Liz Moore (2024)
• Godwin — Joseph O'Neill (2024)
• Good Material — Dolly Alderton (2024)
• Great Expectations — Vinson Cunningham (2024)
• Headshot — Rita Bullwinkel (2024)
• The Hunter — Tana French (2024)
• Intermezzo — Sally Rooney (2024)
• James — Percival Everett (2024)
• Joy in Service on Rue Tagore Poems — Paul Muldoon (2024)
• Long Island Compromise — Taffy Brodesser-Akner (2024)
• Martyr! — Kaveh Akbar (2024)
• The Mighty Red — Louise Erdrich (2024)
• Modern Poetry — Diane Seuss (2024)
• My Favorite Thing Is Monsters Book Two — Emil Ferris (2024)
• The Mysterious Case of the Alperton Angels — Janice Hallett (2024)
• Neighbors and Other Stories — Diane Oliver (2024)
• Our Evenings — Alan Hollinghurst (2024)
• The Pairing — Casey McQuiston (2024)
• Piglet — Lottie Hazell (2024)
• The Practice, the Horizon, and the Chain — Sofia Samatar (2024)
• Praiseworthy — Alexis Wright (2024)
• Rakesfall — Vajra Chandrasekera (2024)
• Reboot — Justin Taylor (2024)
• Rejection — Tony Tulathimutte (2024)
• The Safekeep — Yael van der Wouden (2024)
• The Sequel — Jean Hanff Korelitz (2024)
• Shred Sisters — Betsy Lerner (2024)
• The Silence of the Choir — Mohamed Mbougar Sarr (2024)
• Smoke Kings — Jahmal Mayfield (2024)
• Someone Like Us — Dinaw Mengestu (2024)
• Wandering Stars — Tommy Orange (2024)
• Whale Fall — Elizabeth O'Connor (2024)
• What Does It Feel Like? — Sophie Kinsella (2024)
• Wild Houses — Colin Barrett (2024)
• The Women — Kristin Hannah (2024)
• You Dreamed of Empires — Álvaro Enrigue (2024)
• You Should Be So Lucky — Cat Sebastian (2024)
• The Achilles Trap Saddam Hussein, the C.I.A., and the Origins of America's Invasion of Iraq — Steve Coll (2024)
• All the Worst Humans How I Made News for Dictators, Tycoons, and Politicians — Phil Elwood (2024)
• All Things Are Too Small Essays in Praise of Excess — Becca Rothfeld (2024)
• The Anxious Generation How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness — Jonathan Haidt (2024)
• Be Ready When the Luck Happens A Memoir — Ina Garten (2024)
• The Black Box Writing the Race — Henry Louis Gates Jr. (2024)
• The Black Utopians Searching for Paradise and the Promised Land in America — Aaron Robertson (2024)
• The Bluestockings A History of the First Women's Movement — Susannah Gibson (2024)
• Challenger A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space — Adam Higginbotham (2024)
• Chop Fry Watch Learn Fu Pei-mei and the Making of Modern Chinese Food — Michelle T. King (2024)
• Circle of Hope A Reckoning with Love, Power, and Justice in an American Church — Eliza Griswold (2024)
• Cocktails with George and Martha Movies, Marriage, and the Making of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? — Philip Gefter (2024)
• Cold Crematorium: Reporting from the Land of Auschwitz — József Debreczeni (2024)
• Connie A Memoir — Connie Chung (2024)
• Cue the Sun! The Invention of Reality TV — Emily Nussbaum (2024)
• Do Something Coming of Age Amid the Glitter and Doom of '70s New York — Guy Trebay (2024)
• Every Valley The Desperate Lives and Troubled Times That Made Handel's Messiah — Charles King (2024)
• Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis — Jonathan Blitzer (2024)
• Fi A Memoir of My Son — Alexandra Fuller (2024)
• Health and Safety A Breakdown — Emily Witt (2024)
• The Hidden Globe How Wealth Hacks the World — Atossa Araxia Abrahamian (2024)
• I Heard Her Call My Name: A Memoir of Transition — Lucy Sante (2024)
• I Just Keep Talking A Life in Essays — Nell Irvin Painter (2024)
• John Lewis A Life — David Greenberg (2024)
• Knife Meditations After an Attempted Murder — Salman Rushdie (2024)
• Language City The Fight to Preserve Endangered Mother Tongues in New York — Ross Perlin (2024)
• Lovely One A Memoir — Ketanji Brown Jackson (2024)
• Madness Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum — Antonia Hylton (2024)
• The Message — Ta-Nehisi Coates (2024)
• The New India The Unmaking of the World’s Largest Democracy — Rahul Bhatia (2024)
• The New York Game Baseball and the Rise of a New City — Kevin Baker (2024)
• No One Gets to Fall Apart A Memoir — Sarah LaBrie (2024)
• Private Revolutions Four Women Face China's New Social Order — Yuan Yang (2024)
• Reagan: His Life and Legend — Max Boot (2024)
• The Rebel's Clinic The Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon — Adam Shatz (2024)
• The Return of Great Powers Russia, China, and the Next World War — Jim Sciutto (2024)
• Salvage Readings from the Wreck — Dionne Brand (2024)
• Soldiers and Kings Survival and Hope in the World of Human Smuggling — Jason De León (2024)
• Splinters Another Kind of Love Story — Leslie Jamison (2024)
• Stolen Pride Loss, Shame, and the Rise of the Right — Arlie Russell Hochschild (2024)
• The Swans of Harlem Five Black Ballerinas, Fifty Years of Sisterhood, and Their Reclamation of a Groundbreaking History — Karen Valby (2024)
• There's Always This Year On Basketball and Ascension — Hanif Abdurraqib (2024)
• Undivided The Quest for Racial Solidarity in an American Church — Hahrie Han (2024)
• A Walk in the Park — Kevin Fedarko (2024)
• When the Clock Broke Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s — John Ganz (2024)
• The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook — Hampton Sides (2024)
• A Wilder Shore The Romantic Odyssey of Fanny and Robert Louis Stevenson — Camille Peri (2024)

Original list ↗

• The Bee Sting — Paul Murray (2023)
• Chain-Gang All-Stars — Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah (2023)
• Eastbound — Maylis de Kerangal (2023)
• The Fraud — Zadie Smith (2023)
• North Woods — Daniel Mason (2023)
• The Best Minds: A Story of Friendship, Madness, and the Tragedy of Good Intentions — Jonathan Rosen (2023)
• Bottoms Up and the Devil Laughs A Journey Through the Deep State — Kerry Howley (2023)
• Fire Weather: A True Story From a Hotter World — John Vaillant (2023)
• Master Slave Husband Wife An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom — Ilyon Woo (2023)
• Some People Need Killing A Memoir of Murder in My Country — Patricia Evangelista (2023)

Original list ↗

• After Sappho — Selby Wynn Schwartz (2023)
• All the Sinners Bleed — S.A. Cosby (2023)
• The Bee Sting — Paul Murray (2023)
• Biography of X — Catherine Lacey (2023)
• Birnam Wood — Eleanor Catton (2023)
• Blackouts — Justin Torres (2023)
• Bright Young Women — Jessica Knoll (2023)
• Chain-Gang All-Stars — Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah (2023)
• The Covenant of Water — Abraham Verghese (2023)
• Crook Manifesto — Colson Whitehead (2023)
• The Deluge — Stephen Markley (2023)
• Eastbound — Maylis de Kerangal (2023)
• Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries — Heather Fawcett (2023)
• Enter Ghost — Isabella Hammad (2023)
• Forbidden Notebook — Alba de Céspedes (2023)
• The Fraud — Zadie Smith (2023)
• From From — Monica Youn (2023)
• A Guest in the House — Emily Carroll (2023)
• The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store — James McBride (2023)
• Hello Beautiful — Ann Napolitano (2023)
• A History of Burning — Janika Oza (2023)
• Holly — Stephen King (2023)
• A House for Alice — Diana Evans (2023)
• The Iliad — Homer, translated by Emily Wilson (2023)
• Ink Blood Sister Scribe — Emma Törzs (2023)
• Kairos — Jenny Erpenbeck (2023)
• Kantika — Elizabeth Graver (2023)
• Land of Milk and Honey — C Pam Zhang (2023)
• Lone Women — Victor LaValle (2023)
• Monica — Daniel Clowes (2023)
• The Most Secret Memory of Men — Mohamed Mbougar Sarr (2023)
• The New Naturals — Gabriel Bump (2023)
• North Woods — Daniel Mason (2023)
• Not Even the Dead — Juan Goméz Barcena (2023)
• The Nursery — Szilvia Molnar (2023)
• Our Share of Night — Mariana Enriquez (2023)
• Pineapple Street — Jenny Jackson (2023)
• The Reformatory — Tananarive Due (2023)
• The Saint of Bright Doors — Vajra Chandrasekera (2023)
• Same Bed Different Dreams — Ed Park (2023)
• Take What You Need — Idra Novey (2023)
• This Other Eden — Paul Harding (2023)
• Tom Lake — Ann Patchett (2023)
• The Unsettled — Ayana Mathis (2023)
• Victory City — Salman Rushdie (2023)
• We Could Be So Good — Cat Sebastian (2023)
• Western Lane — Chetna Maroo (2023)
• Witness — Jamel Brinkley (2023)
• Y/N — Esther Yi (2023)
• Yellowface — R.F. Kuang (2023)
• The 272 The Families Who Were Enslaved and Sold to Build the American Catholic Church — Rachel L. Swarns (2023)
• Anansi's Gold The Man Who Looted the West, Outfoxed Washington, and Swindled the World — Yepoka Yeebo (2023)
• Battle of Ink and Ice A Sensational Story of News Barons, North Pole Explorers, and the Making of Modern Media — Darrell Hartman (2023)
• The Best Minds: A Story of Friendship, Madness, and the Tragedy of Good Intentions — Jonathan Rosen (2023)
• Bottoms Up and the Devil Laughs A Journey Through the Deep State — Kerry Howley (2023)
• Built from the Fire The Epic Story of Tulsa's Greenwood District, America's Black Wall Street — Victor Luckerson (2023)
• Cobalt Red How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives — Siddharth Kara (2023)
• Crossings How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our Planet — Ben Goldfarb (2023)
• Daughter of the Dragon Anna May Wong's Rendezvous with American History — Yunte Huang (2023)
• Doppelganger A Trip into the Mirror World — Naomi Klein (2023)
• Easily Slip into Another World A Life in Music — Henry Threadgill and Brent Hayes Edwards (2023)
• The Exceptions Nancy Hopkins, MIT, and the Fight for Women in Science — Kate Zernike (2023)
• Fire Weather: A True Story From a Hotter World — John Vaillant (2023)
• The Great Escape A True Story of Forced Labor and Immigrant Dreams in America — Saket Soni (2023)
• The Half Known Life In Search of Paradise — Pico Iyer (2023)
• How to Say Babylon A Memoir — Safiya Sinclair (2023)
• Humanly Possible Seven Hundred Years of Humanist Freethinking, Inquiry, and Hope — Sarah Bakewell (2023)
• Judgment at Tokyo World War II on Trial and the Making of Modern Asia — Gary J. Bass (2023)
• King A Life — Jonathan Eig (2023)
• The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism — Tim Alberta (2023)
• The Land of Hope and Fear Israel's Battle for Its Inner Soul — Isabel Kershner (2023)
• Liliana's Invincible Summer A Sister's Search for Justice — Cristina Rivera Garza (2023)
• Lives of the Wives Five Literary Marriages — Carmela Ciuraru (2023)
• A Living Remedy — Nicole Chung (2023)
• Master Slave Husband Wife An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom — Ilyon Woo (2023)
• Monsters A Fan's Dilemma — Claire Dederer (2023)
• My Name is Barbra — Barbra Streisand (2023)
• The Odyssey of Phillis Wheatley A Poet's Journeys Through American Slavery and Independence — David Waldstreicher (2023)
• Ordinary Notes — Christina Sharpe (2023)
• Oscar Wars A History of Hollywood in Gold, Sweat, and Tears — Michael Schulman (2023)
• Our Migrant Souls A Meditation on Race and the Meanings and Myths of “Latino” — Héctor Tobar (2023)
• Pageboy — Elliot Page (2023)
• Poverty, by America — Matthew Desmond (2023)
• The Rediscovery of America Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History — Ned Blackhawk (2023)
• The Rigor of Angels Borges, Heisenberg, Kant, and the Ultimate Nature of Reality — William Egginton (2023)
• Schoenberg Why He Matters — Harvey Sachs (2023)
• Sink — Joseph Earl Thomas (2023)
• The Slip The New York City Street That Changed American Art Forever — Prudence Peiffer (2023)
• Some People Need Killing A Memoir of Murder in My Country — Patricia Evangelista (2023)
• Spoken Word A Cultural History — Joshua Bennett (2023)
• A Thread of Violence A Story of Truth, Invention, and Murder — Mark O'Connell (2023)
• Time's Echo The Second World War, the Holocaust, and the Music of Remembrance — Jeremy Eichler (2023)
• The Undertow Scenes from a Slow Civil War — Jeff Sharlet (2023)
• Unscripted The Epic Battle for a Media Empire and the Redstone Family Legacy — James B. Stewart and Rachel Abrams (2023)
• Up Home One Girl's Journey — Ruth J. Simmons (2023)
• The Wager A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder — David Grann (2023)
• Waiting to Be Arrested at Night A Uyghur Poet's Memoir of China's Genocide — Tahir Hamut Izgil (2023)
• What an Owl Knows The New Science of the World's Most Enigmatic Birds — Jennifer Ackerman (2023)
• Wifedom Mrs. Orwell's Invisible Life — Anna Funder (2023)
• You Have to Be Prepared to Die Before You Can Begin to Live Ten Weeks in Birmingham That Changed America — Paul Kix (2023)

Original list ↗

• The Candy House — Jennifer Egan (2022)
• Checkout 19 — Claire-Louise Bennett (2022)
• Demon Copperhead — Barbara Kingsolver (2022)
• The Furrows — Namwali Serpell (2022)
• Trust — Hernan Diaz (2022)
• An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us — Ed Yong (2022)
• Stay True: A Memoir — Hua Hsu (2022)
• Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us — Rachel Aviv (2022)
• Under the Skin: The Hidden Toll of Racism on American Lives and on the Health of Our Nation — Linda Villarosa (2022)
• We Don't Know Ourselves: a Personal History of Modern Ireland — Fintan O'Toole (2022)

Original list ↗

• Afterlives — Abdulrazak Gurnah (2022)
• Also a Poet Frank O'Hara, My Father, and Me — Ada Calhoun (2022)
• American Midnight The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy's Forgotten Crisis — Adam Hochschild (2022)
• The Arc of a Covenant The United States, Israel, and the Fate of the Jewish People — Walter Russell Mead (2022)
• Avalon — Nell Zink (2022)
• The Bangalore Detectives Club — Harini Nagendra (2022)
• Best Barbarian — Roger Reeves (2022)
• Black Folk Could Fly Selected Writings by Randall Kenan — Randall Kenan (2022)
• Bliss Montage — Ling Ma (2022)
• The Books of Jacob — Olga Tokarczuk (2022)
• Breathless The Scientific Race to Defeat a Deadly Virus — David Quammen (2022)
• The Candy House — Jennifer Egan (2022)
• Case Study — Graeme Macrae Burnet (2022)
• A Catalog of Such Stuff as Dreams Are Made On — Kai-Cheung Dung (2022)
• Checkout 19 — Claire-Louise Bennett (2022)
• Come Back in September A Literary Education on West Sixty-Seventh Street, Manhattan — Darryl Pinckney (2022)
• Companion Piece — Ali Smith (2022)
• Constructing a Nervous System A Memoir — Margo Jefferson (2022)
• The Daughter of Doctor Moreau — Silvia Moreno-Garcia (2022)
• The Dead Romantics — Ashley Poston (2022)
• Dead-End Memories — Banana Yoshimoto (2022)
• Democracy's Data The Hidden Stories in the U.S. Census and How to Read Them — Dan Bouk (2022)
• Demon Copperhead — Barbara Kingsolver (2022)
• Didn't Nobody Give a Shit What Happened to Carlotta — James Hannaham (2022)
• Dr. No — Percival Everett (2022)
• Ducks Two Years in the Oil Sands — Kate Beaton (2022)
• Easy Beauty — Chloé Cooper Jones (2022)
• Either/Or — Elif Batuman (2022)
• Everything I Need I Get from You How Fangirls Created the Internet as We Know It — Kaitlyn Tiffany (2022)
• Fire Season Selected Essays 1984–2021 — Gary Indiana (2022)
• Flung Out of Space Inspired by the Indecent Adventures of Patricia Highsmith — Grace Ellis and Hannah Templer (2022)
• Four Treasures of the Sky — Jenny Tinghui Zhang (2022)
• The Furrows — Namwali Serpell (2022)
• G-Man J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century — Beverly Gage (2022)
• Getting Lost — Annie Ernaux (2022)
• Gods of Want — K-Ming Chang (2022)
• The Grimkes The Legacy of Slavery in an American Family — Kerri K. Greenidge (2022)
• Half American The Epic Story of African Americans Fighting World War II at Home and Abroad — Matthew F. Delmont (2022)
• Hokuloa Road — Elizabeth Hand (2022)
• Homesickness — Colin Barrett (2022)
• How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water — Angie Cruz (2022)
• The Hurting Kind — Ada Limón (2022)
• If I Survive You — Jonathan Escoffery (2022)
• An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us — Ed Yong (2022)
• The Immortal King Rao — Vauhini Vara (2022)
• In Love A Memoir of Love and Loss — Amy Bloom (2022)
• Indelible City Dispossession and Defiance in Hong Kong — Louisa Lim (2022)
• Index, A History of the A Bookish Adventure from Medieval Manuscripts to the Digital Age — Dennis Duncan (2022)
• Indigenous Continent The Epic Contest for North America — Pekka Hämäläinen (2022)
• Joan Is Okay — Weike Wang (2022)
• Kiki Man Ray Art, Love, and Rivalry in 1920s Paris — Mark Braude (2022)
• Kingdom of Characters The Language Revolution That Made China Modern — Jing Tsu (2022)
• The Latecomer — Jean Hanff Korelitz (2022)
• Legacy of Violence A History of the British Empire — Caroline Elkins (2022)
• Lessons in Chemistry — Bonnie Garmus (2022)
• Liberation Day — George Saunders (2022)
• Life Between the Tides — Adam Nicolson (2022)
• Lucy by the Sea — Elizabeth Strout (2022)
• Magnificent Rebels The First Romantics and the Invention of the Self — Andrea Wulf (2022)
• Metaphysical Animals How Four Women Brought Philosophy Back to Life — Clare Mac Cumhaill & Rachael Wiseman (2022)
• Motherthing — Ainslie Hogarth (2022)
• Mr. B George Balanchine's 20th Century — Jennifer Homans (2022)
• My Government Means to Kill Me — Rasheed Newson (2022)
• Night of the Living Rez — Morgan Talty (2022)
• Now Do You Know Where You Are — Dana Levin (2022)
• The Old Woman with the Knife — Gu Byeong-mo (2022)
• Olga Dies Dreaming — Xóchitl González (2022)
• Our Missing Hearts — Celeste Ng (2022)
• The Palace Papers Inside the House of Windsor - the Truth and the Turmoil — Tina Brown (2022)
• The Passenger — Cormac McCarthy (2022)
• Path Lit by Lightning The Life of Jim Thorpe — David Maraniss (2022)
• Picasso's War How Modern Art Came to America — Hugh Eakin (2022)
• Pure Colour — Sheila Heti (2022)
• The Quiet Before On the Unexpected Origins of Radical Ideas — Gal Beckerman (2022)
• The Rabbit Hutch — Tess Gunty (2022)
• Red Blossom in Snow — Jeannie Lin (2022)
• The Return of Faraz Ali — Aamina Ahmad (2022)
• The Revolutionary Samuel Adams — Stacy Schiff (2022)
• The School for Good Mothers — Jessamine Chan (2022)
• Sea of Tranquility — Emily St. John Mandel (2022)
• Secret City The Hidden History of Gay Washington — James Kirchick (2022)
• Seek and Hide The Tangled History of the Right to Privacy — Amy Gajda (2022)
• The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida — Shehan Karunatilaka (2022)
• Shy The Alarmingly Outspoken Memoirs of Mary Rodgers — Mary Rodgers and Jesse Green (2022)
• Solito A Memoir — Javier Zamora (2022)
• Son of Elsewhere A Memoir in Pieces — Elamin Abdelmahmoud (2022)
• The Song of the Cell An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human — Siddhartha Mukherjee (2022)
• Stay True: A Memoir — Hua Hsu (2022)
• Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us — Rachel Aviv (2022)
• Super-Infinite The Transformations of John Donne — Katherine Rundell (2022)
• Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow — Gabrielle Zevin (2022)
• The Trayvon Generation — Elizabeth Alexander (2022)
• Trust — Hernan Diaz (2022)
• Under the Skin: The Hidden Toll of Racism on American Lives and on the Health of Our Nation — Linda Villarosa (2022)
• Walking the Bowl A True Story of Murder and Survival Among the Street Children of Lusaka — Chris Lockhart and Daniel Mulilo Chama (2022)
• We Don't Know Ourselves: a Personal History of Modern Ireland — Fintan O'Toole (2022)
• The Whalebone Theatre — Joanna Quinn (2022)
• When McKinsey Comes to Town The Hidden Influence of the World's Most Powerful Consulting Firm — Walt Bogdanich & Michael Forsythe (2022)
• Yonder — Jabari Asim (2022)
• You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty — Akwaeke Emezi (2022)

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• How Beautiful We Were — Imbolo Mbue (2021)
• Intimacies — Katie Kitamura (2021)
• When We Cease to Understand the World — Benjamín Labatut (2021)
• The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois — Honorée Fanonne Jeffers (2021)
• No One Is Talking About This — Patricia Lockwood (2021)
• Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath — Heather Clark (2021)
• How the Word Is Passed A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America — Clint Smith (2021)
• On Juneteenth — Annette Gordon-Reed (2021)
• Invisible Child Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City — Andrea Elliott (2021)
• The Copenhagen Trilogy Childhood; Youth; Dependency — Tove Ditlevsen (2021)

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• Afterparties — Anthony Veasna So (2021)
• Appleseed — Matt Bell (2021)
• Beautiful World, Where Are You — Sally Rooney (2021)
• Bewilderment — Richard Powers (2021)
• The Book of Mother — Violaine Huisman (2021)
• Build Your House Around My Body — Violet Kupersmith (2021)
• Burnt Sugar — Avni Doshi (2021)
• A Calling for Charlie Barnes — Joshua Ferris (2021)
• Chronicles from the Land of the Happiest People on Earth — Wole Soyinka (2021)
• Cloud Cuckoo Land — Anthony Doerr (2021)
• Crossroads — Jonathan Franzen (2021)
• Detransition, Baby — Torrey Peters (2021)
• Ghosts of New York — Jim Lewis (2021)
• Harlem Shuffle — Colson Whitehead (2021)
• How Beautiful We Were — Imbolo Mbue (2021)
• Intimacies — Katie Kitamura (2021)
• Kink — R.O. Kwon and Garth Greenwell (editors) (2021)
• Klara and the Sun — Kazuo Ishiguro (2021)
• Libertie — Kaitlyn Greenidge (2021)
• A Lie Someone Told You About Yourself — Peter Ho Davies (2021)
• Light Perpetual — Francis Spufford (2021)
• The Lincoln Highway — Amor Towles (2021)
• The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois — Honorée Fanonne Jeffers (2021)
• The Magician — Colm Tóibín (2021)
• The Morning Star — Karl Ove Knausgaard (2021)
• My Monticello — Jocelyn Nicole Johnson (2021)
• My Year Abroad — Chang-rae Lee (2021)
• The Netanyahus An Account of a Minor and Ultimately Even Negligible Episode in the History of a Very Famous Family — Joshua Cohen (2021)
• No One Is Talking About This — Patricia Lockwood (2021)
• Oh William! — Elizabeth Strout (2021)
• One Last Stop — Casey McQuiston (2021)
• Our Country Friends — Gary Shteyngart (2021)
• Playlist for the Apocalypse — Rita Dove (2021)
• The Plot — Jean Hanff Korelitz (2021)
• The Promise — Damon Galgut (2021)
• The Prophets — Robert Jones Jr. (2021)
• Razorblade Tears — S.A. Cosby (2021)
• Send for Me — Lauren Fox (2021)
• The Sentence — Louise Erdrich (2021)
• Something New Under the Sun — Alexandra Kleeman (2021)
• Strange Beasts of China — Yan Ge (2021)
• The Sun Collective — Charles Baxter (2021)
• The Trees — Percival Everett (2021)
• Velvet Was the Night — Silvia Moreno-Garcia (2021)
• The War for Gloria — Atticus Lish (2021)
• Wayward — Dana Spiotta (2021)
• What Strange Paradise — Omar El Akkad (2021)
• When We Cease to Understand the World — Benjamín Labatut (2021)
• Winter Recipes from the Collective — Louise Glück (2021)
• The Wisteria Society of Lady Scoundrels — India Holton (2021)
• All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days The True Story of the American Woman at the Heart of the German Resistance to Hitler — Rebecca Donner (2021)
• America and Iran A History, 1720 to the Present — John Ghazvinian (2021)
• America on Fire The Untold History of Police Violence and Black Rebellion Since the 1960s — Elizabeth Hinton (2021)
• American Baby A Mother, a Child, and the Shadow History of Adoption — Gabrielle Glaser (2021)
• The American War in Afghanistan A History — Carter Malkasian (2021)
• Beautiful Country — Qian Julie Wang (2021)
• Better to Have Gone Love, Death, and the Quest for Utopia in Auroville — Akash Kapur (2021)
• Between Two Kingdoms A Memoir of a Life Interrupted — Suleika Jaouad (2021)
• Catching the Wind Edward Kennedy and the Liberal Hour, 1932-1975 — Neal Gabler (2021)
• The Chancellor The Remarkable Odyssey of Angela Merkel — Kati Marton (2021)
• Churchill's Shadow The Life and Afterlife of Winston Churchill — Geoffrey Wheatcroft (2021)
• The Contrarian Peter Thiel and Silicon Valley's Pursuit of Power — Max Chafkin (2021)
• The Copenhagen Trilogy Childhood; Youth; Dependency — Tove Ditlevsen (2021)
• Crying in H Mart — Michelle Zauner (2021)
• Dirty Work Essential Jobs and the Hidden Toll of Inequality in America — Eyal Press (2021)
• Doomed Romance Broken Hearts, Lost Souls, and Sexual Tumult in Nineteenth-Century America — Christine Leigh Heyrman (2021)
• Empire of Pain The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty — Patrick Radden Keefe (2021)
• The Engagement America's Quarter-Century Struggle Over Same-Sex Marriage — Sasha Issenberg (2021)
• Everything I Have Is Yours A Marriage — Eleanor Henderson (2021)
• The Extended Mind The Power of Thinking Outside the Brain — Annie Murphy Paul (2021)
• The Family Roe An American Story — Joshua Prager (2021)
• Festival Days — Jo Ann Beard (2021)
• The Free World Art and Thought in the Cold War — Louis Menand (2021)
• A Ghost in the Throat — Doireann Ní Ghríofa (2021)
• How the Word Is Passed A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America — Clint Smith (2021)
• How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America — Kiese Laymon (2021)
• I Came As a Shadow — John Thompson (2021)
• Invisible Child Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City — Andrea Elliott (2021)
• JFK Coming of Age in the American Century, 1917-1956 — Fredrik Logevall (2021)
• Kindred Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art — Rebecca Wragg Sykes (2021)
• Last Best Hope America in Crisis and Renewal — George Packer (2021)
• Let Me Tell You What I Mean — Joan Didion (2021)
• Let the Record Show A Political History of ACT UP New York, 1987-1993 — Sarah Schulman (2021)
• Life's Edge The Search for What It Means to Be Alive — Carl Zimmer (2021)
• A Little Devil in America Notes in Praise of Black Performance — Hanif Abdurraqib (2021)
• New York, New York, New York Four Decades of Success, Excess, and Transformation — Thomas Dyja (2021)
• Now Beacon, Now Sea A Son's Memoir — Christopher Sorrentino (2021)
• On Freedom Four Songs of Care and Constraint — Maggie Nelson (2021)
• On Juneteenth — Annette Gordon-Reed (2021)
• People Love Dead Jews Reports from a Haunted Present — Dara Horn (2021)
• Punch Me Up to the Gods — Brian Broome (2021)
• Putting It Together How Stephen Sondheim and I Created "Sunday in the Park with George" — James Lapine (2021)
• Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath — Heather Clark (2021)
• Say It Loud! On Race, Law, History, and Culture — Randall Kennedy (2021)
• The Secret to Superhuman Strength — Alison Bechdel (2021)
• Seeing Ghosts — Kat Chow (2021)
• Somebody's Daughter — Ashley C. Ford (2021)
• Three Girls from Bronzeville A Uniquely American Memoir of Race, Fate, and Sisterhood — Dawn Turner (2021)
• A Whole World Letters from James Merrill — James Merrill (2021)
• Woke Racism How a New Religion Has Betrayed Black America — John McWhorter (2021)

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• A Children's Bible — Lydia Millet (2020)
• Deacon King Kong — James McBride (2020)
• Hamnet — Maggie O'Farrell (2020)
• Homeland Elegies — Ayad Akhtar (2020)
• The Vanishing Half — Brit Bennett (2020)
• Hidden Valley Road Inside the Mind of an American Family — Robert Kolker (2020)
• A Promised Land — Barack Obama (2020)
• Shakespeare in a Divided America What His Plays Tell Us About Our Past and Future — James Shapiro (2020)
• Uncanny Valley — Anna Wiener (2020)
• War: How Conflict Shaped Us — Margaret MacMillan (2020)

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• The Aosawa Murders — Riku Onda (2020)
• The Beauty in Breaking — Michele Harper (2020)
• The Beauty of Your Face — Sahar Mustafah (2020)
• Becoming Wild How Animal Cultures Raise Families, Create Beauty, and Achieve Peace — Carl Safina (2020)
• Beheld — TaraShea Nesbit (2020)
• The Biggest Bluff How I Learned to Pay Attention, Master Myself, and Win — Maria Konnikova (2020)
• Black Wave Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East — Kim Ghattas (2020)
• Blacktop Wasteland — S.A. Cosby (2020)
• The Book of Eels Our Enduring Fascination with the Most Mysterious Creature in the Natural World — Patrik Svensson (2020)
• The Boy in the Field — Margot Livesey (2020)
• Breasts and Eggs — Mieko Kawakami (2020)
• A Burning — Megha Majumdar (2020)
• Burning Down the House Newt Gingrich, the Fall of a Speaker, and the Rise of the New Republican Party — Julian E. Zelizer (2020)
• Caste The Origins of Our Discontents — Isabel Wilkerson (2020)
• A Children's Bible — Lydia Millet (2020)
• Cleanness — Garth Greenwell (2020)
• Deacon King Kong — James McBride (2020)
• The Dead Are Arising The Life of Malcolm X — Les Payne and Tamara Payne (2020)
• The Death of Jesus — J.M. Coetzee (2020)
• The Death of Vivek Oji — Akwaeke Emezi (2020)
• Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism — Anne Case & Angus Deaton (2020)
• Desert Notebooks A Road Map for the End of Time — Ben Ehrenreich (2020)
• Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line — Deepa Anappara (2020)
• A Dominant Character The Radical Science and Restless Politics of J. B. S. Haldane — Samanth Subramanian (2020)
• The Dragons, the Giant, the Women — Wayétu Moore (2020)
• The Duke Who Didn't — Courtney Milan (2020)
• Earthlings — Sayaka Murata (2020)
• Eat the Buddha Life and Death in a Tibetan Town — Barbara Demick (2020)
• The End of Everything (Astrophysically Speaking) — Katie Mack (2020)
• Everywhere You Don't Belong — Gabriel Bump (2020)
• Exercise of Power American Failures, Successes, and a New Path Forward in the Post-Cold War World — Robert M. Gates (2020)
• Fallout The Hiroshima Cover-up and the Reporter Who Revealed It to the World — Lesley M.M. Blume (2020)
• Feed — Tommy Pico (2020)
• Felon — Reginald Dwayne Betts (2020)
• The Glass Kingdom — Lawrence Osborne (2020)
• Hamnet — Maggie O'Farrell (2020)
• The Hardhat Riot Nixon, New York City, and the Dawn of the White Working-Class Revolution — David Paul Kuhn (2020)
• Hidden Valley Road Inside the Mind of an American Family — Robert Kolker (2020)
• His Only Wife — Peace Adzo Medie (2020)
• Homeland Elegies — Ayad Akhtar (2020)
• How Much of These Hills Is Gold — C Pam Zhang (2020)
• Hurricane Season — Fernanda Melchor (2020)
• The Inevitability of Tragedy Henry Kissinger and His World — Barry Gewen (2020)
• Jack — Marilynne Robinson (2020)
• Just Us An American Conversation — Claudia Rankine (2020)
• Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 — Cho Nam-Joo (2020)
• The King at the Edge of the World — Arthur Phillips (2020)
• Little Eyes — Samanta Schweblin (2020)
• The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Cartoonist — Adrian Tomine (2020)
• Luster — Raven Leilani (2020)
• The Man Who Ran Washington The Life and Times of James A. Baker III — Peter Baker and Susan Glasser (2020)
• Man of My Time — Dalia Sofer (2020)
• Memorial — Bryan Washington (2020)
• Memorial Drive A Daughter's Memoir — Natasha Trethewey (2020)
• The Memory Monster — Yishai Sarid (2020)
• The Mercies — Kiran Millwood Hargrave (2020)
• Minor Detail — Adania Shibli (2020)
• The Mirror & the Light — Hilary Mantel (2020)
• Missionaries — Phil Klay (2020)
• Monogamy — Sue Miller (2020)
• 97,196 Words — Emmanuel Carrère (2020)
• Notes on a Silencing — Lacy Crawford (2020)
• Obit — Victoria Chang (2020)
• Overground Railroad The Green Book and the Roots of Black Travel in America — Candacy Taylor (2020)
• Owls of the Eastern Ice A Quest to Find and Save the World's Largest Owl — Jonathan C. Slaght (2020)
• A Peculiar Indifference The Neglected Toll of Violence on Black America — Elliott Currie (2020)
• A Pilgrimage to Eternity From Canterbury to Rome in Search of a Faith — Timothy Egan (2020)
• A Promised Land — Barack Obama (2020)
• The Quiet Americans Four CIA Spies at the Dawn of the Cold War--a Tragedy in Three Acts — Scott Anderson (2020)
• Reaganland America's Right Turn 1976-1980 — Rick Perlstein (2020)
• Real Life — Brandon Taylor (2020)
• Red Pill — Hari Kunzru (2020)
• The Saddest Words William Faulkner's Civil War — Michael Edward Gorra (2020)
• Saint X — Alexis Schaitkin (2020)
• Sea Wife — Amity Gaige (2020)
• The Selected Letters of Ralph Ellison — John F. Callahan and Marc C. Conner (editors) (2020)
• Shakespeare in a Divided America What His Plays Tell Us About Our Past and Future — James Shapiro (2020)
• Sharks in the Time of Saviors — Kawai Strong Washburn (2020)
• Shuggie Bain — Douglas Stuart (2020)
• The Sirens of Mars Searching for Life on Another World — Sarah Stewart Johnson (2020)
• Sisters — Daisy Johnson (2020)
• Soul Full of Coal Dust A Fight for Breath and Justice in Appalachia — Chris Hamby (2020)
• The Splendid and the Vile A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz — Erik Larson (2020)
• The Third Rainbow Girl The Long Life of a Double Murder in Appalachia — Emma Copley Eisenberg (2020)
• This Is All I Got A New Mother's Search for Home — Lauren Sandler (2020)
• Tokyo Ueno Station — Yu Miri (2020)
• The Tunnel — A.B. Yehoshua (2020)
• Uncanny Valley — Anna Wiener (2020)
• The Undocumented Americans — Karla Cornejo Villavicencio (2020)
• Until the End of Time Mind, Matter, and Our Search for Meaning in an Evolving Universe — Brian Greene (2020)
• The Vanishing Half — Brit Bennett (2020)
• The Vapors A Southern Family, the New York Mob, and the Rise and Fall of Hot Springs, America's Forgotten Capital of Vice — David Hill (2020)
• The WEIRDest People in the World How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous — Joseph Henrich (2020)
• Wagnerism Art and Politics in the Shadow of Music — Alex Ross (2020)
• War: How Conflict Shaped Us — Margaret MacMillan (2020)
• Who Gets In and Why A Year Inside College Admissions — Jeffrey Selingo (2020)
• Why I Don't Write — Susan Minot (2020)
• A Woman Like Her The Story Behind the Honor Killing of a Social Media Star — Sanam Maher (2020)
• Writers & Lovers — Lily King (2020)
• Yellow Bird Oil, Murder, and a Woman's Search for Justice in Indian Country — Sierra Crane Murdoch (2020)

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• The Age of Surveillance Capitalism The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power — Shoshana Zuboff (2019)
• American Spy — Lauren Wilkinson (2019)
• Antisocial Online Extremists, Techno-Utopians, and the Hijacking of the American Conversation — Andrew Marantz (2019)
• Audience of One Donald Trump, Television, and the Fracturing of America — James Poniewozik (2019)
• Bangkok Wakes to Rain — Pitchaya Sudbanthad (2019)
• Becoming — Michelle Obama (2019)
• The Beneficiary Fortune, Misfortune, and the Story of My Father — Janny Scott (2019)
• The Body in Question — Jill Ciment (2019)
• Bottle of Lies The Inside Story of the Generic Drug Boom — Katherine Eban (2019)
• The British Are Coming The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777 — Rick Atkinson (2019)
• Cherokee, America — Margaret Verble (2019)
• The Club: Johnson, Boswell, and the Friends Who Shaped an Age — Leo Damrosch (2019)
• The Conservative Sensibility — George F. Will (2019)
• The Crowded Hour Theodore Roosevelt, the Rough Riders, and the Dawn of the American Century — Clay Risen (2019)
• Deaf Republic — Ilya Kaminsky (2019)
• Disappearing Earth — Julia Phillips (2019)
• Ducks, Newburyport — Lucy Ellmann (2019)
• The Dutch House — Ann Patchett (2019)
• The Education of an Idealist — Samantha Power (2019)
• Exhalation — Ted Chiang (2019)
• Fall; or, Dodge in Hell — Neal Stephenson (2019)
• Fleishman Is in Trouble — Taffy Brodesser-Akner (2019)
• Full Throttle — Joe Hill (2019)
• Furious Hours Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee — Casey Cep (2019)
• Girl — Edna O’Brien (2019)
• The Godmother — Hannelore Cayre (2019)
• The Gone Dead — Chanelle Benz (2019)
• Good Talk A Memoir in Conversations — Mira Jacob (2019)
• Grace Will Lead Us Home The Charleston Church Massacre and the Hard, Inspiring Journey to Forgiveness — Jennifer Berry Hawes (2019)
• The Grammarians — Cathleen Schine (2019)
• Grand Union — Zadie Smith (2019)
• Growing Things — Paul Tremblay (2019)
• The Guarded Gate Bigotry, Eugenics and the Law That Kept Two Generations of Jews, Italians, and Other European Immigrants Out of America — Daniel Okrent (2019)
• Guest House for Young Widows Among the Women of ISIS — Azadeh Moaveni (2019)
• The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee Native America from 1890 to the Present — David Treuer (2019)
• The Heavens — Sandra Newman (2019)
• Horizon — Barry Lopez (2019)
• How to Be an Antiracist — Ibram X. Kendi (2019)
• How We Fight for Our Lives — Saeed Jones (2019)
• If The Untold Story of Kipling's American Years — Christopher Benfey (2019)
• The Impeachers The Trial of Andrew Johnson and the Dream of a Just Nation — Brenda Wineapple (2019)
• In Byron's Wake The Turbulent Lives of Lord Byron's Wife and Daughter: Annabella Milbanke and Ada Lovelace — Miranda Seymour (2019)
• In Hoffa's Shadow A Stepfather, a Disappearance in Detroit, and My Search for the Truth — Jack Goldsmith (2019)
• The Institute — Stephen King (2019)
• Know My Name — Chanel Miller (2019)
• Kochland The Secret History of Koch Industries and Corporate Power in America — Christopher Leonard (2019)
• Last Day — Domenica Ruta (2019)
• The Last Whalers Three Years in the Far Pacific with a Courageous Tribe and a Vanishing Way of Life — Doug Bock Clark (2019)
• The Lost Art of Scripture Rescuing the Sacred Texts — Karen Armstrong (2019)
• Lost Children Archive — Valeria Luiselli (2019)
• Lot — Bryan Washington (2019)
• Maid Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive — Stephanie Land (2019)
• Mama's Last Hug Animal Emotions and What They Tell Us about Ourselves — Frans de Waal (2019)
• Maggie Brown & Others — Peter Orner (2019)
• The Man Who Saw Everything — Deborah Levy (2019)
• Margaret Thatcher The Authorized Biography: Herself Alone — Charles Moore (2019)
• The Mastermind Drugs. Empire. Murder. Betrayal — Evan Ratliff (2019)
• The Memory Police — Yoko Ogawa (2019)
• Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster — Adam Higginbotham (2019)
• Mostly Dead Things — Kristen Arnett (2019)
• Mrs. Everything — Jennifer Weiner (2019)
• The Need — Helen Phillips (2019)
• The Nickel Boys — Colson Whitehead (2019)
• Night Boat to Tangier — Kevin Barry (2019)
• No Visible Bruises: What We Don't Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us — Rachel Louise Snyder (2019)
• Normal People — Sally Rooney (2019)
• Nothing to See Here — Kevin Wilson (2019)
• Now We Shall Be Entirely Free — Andrew Miller (2019)
• The Octopus Museum — Brenda Shaughnessy (2019)
• The Old Drift — Namwali Serpell (2019)
• Optic Nerve — Maria Gainza (2019)
• Our Man Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American Century — George Packer (2019)
• The Parisian — Isabella Hammad (2019)
• The Problem with Everything My Journey Through the New Culture Wars — Meghan Daum (2019)
• Rabbits for Food — Binnie Kirshenbaum (2019)
• Red at the Bone — Jacqueline Woodson (2019)
• The Revisioners — Margaret Wilkerson Sexton (2019)
• Rusty Brown — Chris Ware (2019)
• Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland — Patrick Radden Keefe (2019)
• Separate The Story of Plessy v. Ferguson, and America's Journey from Slavery to Segregation — Steve Luxenberg (2019)
• The Shadow King — Maaza Mengiste (2019)
• She Said Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement — Jodi Kantor & Megan Twohey (2019)
• She Was Like That New and Selected Stories — Kate Walbert (2019)
• Solitary Unbroken by Four Decades in Solitary Confinement. My Story of Transformation and Hope — Albert Woodfox (2019)
• Spring — Ali Smith (2019)
• Stony the Road Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow — Henry Louis Gates Jr. (2019)
• The Testaments — Margaret Atwood (2019)
• Thick And Other Essays — Tressie McMillan Cottom (2019)
• The Topeka School — Ben Lerner (2019)
• The Tradition — Jericho Brown (2019)
• Trick Mirror Reflections on Self-Delusion — Jia Tolentino (2019)
• Underland A Deep Time Journey — Robert Macfarlane (2019)
• The Uninhabitable Earth Life After Warming — David Wallace-Wells (2019)
• The Unwinding of the Miracle A Memoir of Life, Death, and Everything That Comes After — Julie Yip-Williams (2019)
• The War Before the War Fugitive Slaves and the Struggle for America's Soul from the Revolution to the Civil War — Andrew Delbanco (2019)
• Westside — W.M. Akers (2019)
• What You Have Heard Is True A Memoir of Witness and Resistance — Carolyn Forché (2019)
• Women Talking — Miriam Toews (2019)
• Women's Work A Reckoning with Work and Home — Megan K. Stack (2019)
• The Yellow House — Sarah M. Broom (2019)

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• Disappearing Earth — Julia Phillips (2019)
• The Topeka School — Ben Lerner (2019)
• Exhalation — Ted Chiang (2019)
• Lost Children Archive — Valeria Luiselli (2019)
• Night Boat to Tangier — Kevin Barry (2019)
• Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland — Patrick Radden Keefe (2019)
• The Club: Johnson, Boswell, and the Friends Who Shaped an Age — Leo Damrosch (2019)
• The Yellow House — Sarah M. Broom (2019)
• No Visible Bruises: What We Don't Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us — Rachel Louise Snyder (2019)
• Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster — Adam Higginbotham (2019)

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• Asymmetry — Lisa Halliday (2018)
• The Great Believers — Rebecca Makkai (2018)
• The Perfect Nanny — Leila Slimani (2018)
• There There — Tommy Orange (2018)
• Washington Black — Esi Edugyan (2018)
• American Prison: A Reporter's Undercover Journey into the Business of Punishment — Shane Bauer (2018)
• Educated — Tara Westover (2018)
• Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom — David W. Blight (2018)
• How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence — Michael Pollan (2018)
• Small Fry — Lisa Brennan-Jobs (2018)

Original list ↗

• An American Marriage — Tayari Jones (2018)
• Asymmetry — Lisa Halliday (2018)
• Brown — Kevin Young (2018)
• Cherry — Nico Walker (2018)
• Crudo — Olivia Laing (2018)
• Early Work — Andrew Martin (2018)
• Eternal Life — Dara Horn (2018)
• Everything Under — Daisy Johnson (2018)
• The Female Persuasion — Meg Wolitzer (2018)
• Freshwater — Akwaeke Emezi (2018)
• Friday Black — Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah (2018)
• The Friend — Sigrid Nunez (2018)
• Go, Went, Gone — Jenny Erpenbeck (2018)
• The Great Believers — Rebecca Makkai (2018)
• The House of Broken Angels — Luis Alberto Urrea (2018)
• Immigrant, Montana — Amitava Kumar (2018)
• Improvement — Joan Silber (2018)
• In Every Moment We Still Are Alive — Tom Malmquist (2018)
• The Kites — Romain Gary (2018)
• Kudos — Rachel Cusk (2018)
• Lake Success — Gary Shteyngart (2018)
• The Largesse of the Sea Maiden — Denis Johnson (2018)
• Last Stories — William Trevor (2018)
• Macbeth — Jo Nesbø (2018)
• The Mars Room — Rachel Kushner (2018)
• Mirror, Shoulder, Signal — Dorthe Nors (2018)
• My Struggle Book Six — Karl Ove Knausgaard (2018)
• My Year of Rest and Relaxation — Ottessa Moshfegh (2018)
• The Neighborhood — Mario Vargas Llosa (2018)
• The Odyssey — Homer, translated by Emily Wilson (2018)
• Only to Sleep A Philip Marlowe Novel — Lawrence Osborne (2018)
• The Overstory — Richard Powers (2018)
• The Parking Lot Attendant — Nafkote Tamirat (2018)
• The Perfect Nanny — Leila Slimani (2018)
• A Princess in Theory — Alyssa Cole (2018)
• Property — Lionel Shriver (2018)
• Pure Hollywood — Christine Schutt (2018)
• Sabrina — Nick Drnaso (2018)
• Severance — Ling Ma (2018)
• Slave Old Man — Patrick Chamoiseau (2018)
• The Sparsholt Affair — Alan Hollinghurst (2018)
• Spinning Silver — Naomi Novik (2018)
• A State of Freedom — Neel Mukherjee (2018)
• There There — Tommy Orange (2018)
• A View of the Empire at Sunset — Caryl Phillips (2018)
• Wade in the Water — Tracy K. Smith (2018)
• Warlight — Michael Ondaatje (2018)
• Washington Black — Esi Edugyan (2018)
• The Witch Elm — Tana French (2018)
• Your Duck Is My Duck — Deborah Eisenberg (2018)
• Ali A Life — Jonathan Eig (2018)
• American Dialogue The Founders and Us — Joseph J. Ellis (2018)
• American Eden David Hosack, Botany and Medicine in the Garden of the Early Republic — Victoria Johnson (2018)
• American Prison: A Reporter's Undercover Journey into the Business of Punishment — Shane Bauer (2018)
• Amity and Prosperity One Family and the Fracturing of America — Eliza Griswold (2018)
• Arthur Ashe A Life — Raymond Arsenault (2018)
• Bad Blood Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup — John Carreyrou (2018)
• Boom Town The Fantastical Saga of Oklahoma City, Its Chaotic Founding, Its Apocalyptic Weather, Its Purloined Basketball Team, and the Dream of Becoming a World-Class Metropolis — Sam Anderson (2018)
• Brothers of the Gun A Memoir of the Syrian War — Marwan Hisham and Molly Crabapple (2018)
• Calypso — David Sedaris (2018)
• Churchill Walking With Destiny — Andrew Roberts (2018)
• The Coddling of the American Mind How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure — Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt (2018)
• The Cost of Living A Working Autobiography — Deborah Levy (2018)
• Crashed How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World — Adam Tooze (2018)
• The Darkening Age The Christian Destruction of the Classical World — Catherine Nixey (2018)
• Dead Girls Essays on Surviving an American Obsession — Alice Bolin (2018)
• The Dinosaur Artist Obsession, Betrayal, and the Quest for Earth’s Ultimate Trophy — Paige Williams (2018)
• Dopesick Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company That Addicted America — Beth Macy (2018)
• Educated — Tara Westover (2018)
• Enlightenment Now The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress — Steven Pinker (2018)
• Fatal Discord Erasmus, Luther and the Fight for the Western Mind — Michael Massing (2018)
• Feel Free — Zadie Smith (2018)
• The Field of Blood Violence in Congress and the Road to Civil War — Joanne B. Freeman (2018)
• The Fifth Risk — Michael Lewis (2018)
• Fly Girls How Five Daring Women Defied All Odds and Made Aviation History — Keith O’Brien (2018)
• Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom — David W. Blight (2018)
• Gandhi The Years That Changed the World, 1914-1948 — Ramachandra Guha (2018)
• God Save Texas A Journey into the Soul of the Lone Star State — Lawrence Wright (2018)
• Heavy An American Memoir — Kiese Laymon (2018)
• How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence — Michael Pollan (2018)
• In Pieces — Sally Field (2018)
• Into the Raging Sea Thirty-Three Mariners, One Megastorm, and the Sinking of El Faro — Rachel Slade (2018)
• The Library Book — Susan Orlean (2018)
• Looking for Lorraine The Radiant and Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry — Imani Perry (2018)
• Ninety-Nine Glimpses of Princess Margaret — Craig Brown (2018)
• No Ashes in the Fire Coming of Age Black and Free in America — Darnell L. Moore (2018)
• No Turning Back Life, Loss, and Hope in Wartime Syria — Rania Abouzeid (2018)
• Patriot Number One American Dreams in Chinatown — Lauren Hilgers (2018)
• The Poison Squad One Chemist’s Single-Minded Crusade for Food Safety at the Turn of the Twentieth Century — Deborah Blum (2018)
• Rise and Kill First The Secret History of Israel’s Targeted Assassinations — Ronen Bergman (2018)
• She Has Her Mother’s Laugh The Powers, Perversions, and Potential of Heredity — Carl Zimmer (2018)
• Small Fry — Lisa Brennan-Jobs (2018)
• The Souls of Yellow Folk — Wesley Yang (2018)
• The Tangled Tree A Radical New History of Life — David Quammen (2018)
• There Will Be No Miracles Here — Casey Gerald (2018)
• These Truths A History of the United States — Jill Lepore (2018)
• We the Corporations How American Businesses Won Their Civil Rights — Adam Winkler (2018)
• What the Eyes Don’t See A Story of Crisis, Resistance, and Hope in an American City — Mona Hanna-Attisha (2018)
• Why Comics? From Underground to Everywhere — Hillary Chute (2018)
• Winners Take All The Elite Charade of Changing the World — Anand Giridharadas (2018)

Original list ↗

• American War — Omar El Akkad (2017)
• Anything Is Possible — Elizabeth Strout (2017)
• Autumn — Ali Smith (2017)
• Bad Dreams and Other Stories — Tessa Hadley (2017)
• Beautiful Animals — Lawrence Osborne (2017)
• The Book of Joan — Lidia Yuknavitch (2017)
• A Boy in Winter — Rachel Seiffert (2017)
• The Changeling — Victor LaValle (2017)
• Christmas Days 12 Stories and 12 Feasts for 12 Days — Jeanette Winterson (2017)
• Dance of the Jakaranda — Peter Kimani (2017)
• The Dark Flood Rises — Margaret Drabble (2017)
• The Dinner Party Stories — Joshua Ferris (2017)
• The Essex Serpent — Sarah Perry (2017)
• Exit West — Mohsin Hamid (2017)
• Fast — Jorie Graham (2017)
• Five-Carat Soul — James McBride (2017)
• Forest Dark — Nicole Krauss (2017)
• 4 3 2 1 — Paul Auster (2017)
• Fresh Complaint — Jeffrey Eugenides (2017)
• Future Home of the Living God — Louise Erdrich (2017)
• Giving Godhead — Dylan Krieger (2017)
• History of Wolves — Emily Fridlund (2017)
• Home Fire — Kamila Shamsie (2017)
• Homesick for Another World — Ottessa Moshfegh (2017)
• A Horse Walks into a Bar — David Grossman (2017)
• The Idiot — Elif Batuman (2017)
• Ill Will — Dan Chaon (2017)
• A Kind of Freedom — Margaret Wilkerson Sexton (2017)
• Less — Andrew Sean Greer (2017)
• Lincoln in the Bardo — George Saunders (2017)
• Manhattan Beach — Jennifer Egan (2017)
• Mrs. Osmond — John Banville (2017)
• My Absolute Darling — Gabriel Tallent (2017)
• New People — Danzy Senna (2017)
• The Ninth Hour — Alice McDermott (2017)
• Pachinko — Min Jin Lee (2017)
• The Power — Naomi Alderman (2017)
• The Refugees — Viet Thanh Nguyen (2017)
• Selection Day — Aravind Adiga (2017)
• A Separation — Katie Kitamura (2017)
• Sing, Unburied, Sing — Jesmyn Ward (2017)
• Six Four — Hideo Yokoyama (2017)
• Stay with Me — Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀ (2017)
• The Stone Sky — N.K. Jemisin (2017)
• Ties — Domenico Starnone (2017)
• Transit — Rachel Cusk (2017)
• Waking Lions — Ayelet Gundar-Goshen (2017)
• WHEREAS — Layli Long Soldier (2017)
• White Tears — Hari Kunzru (2017)
• Who Is Rich? — Matthew Klam (2017)
• Age of Anger A History of the Present — Pankaj Mishra (2017)
• American Fire Love, Arson, and Life in a Vanishing Land — Monica Hesse (2017)
• Animals Strike Curious Poses — Elena Passarello (2017)
• The Blood of Emmett Till — Timothy B. Tyson (2017)
• Born a Crime Stories from a South African Childhood — Trevor Noah (2017)
• Bunk The Rise of Hoaxes, Humbug, Plagiarists, Phonies, Post-Facts, and Fake News — Kevin Young (2017)
• Churchill and Orwell The Fight for Freedom — Thomas E. Ricks (2017)
• The Collected Essays of Elizabeth Hardwick — Elizabeth Hardwick (2017)
• A Colony in a Nation — Chris Hayes (2017)
• The Color of Law A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America — Richard Rothstein (2017)
• The Crisis of the Middle-Class Constitution Why Economic Inequality Threatens Our Republic — Ganesh Sitaraman (2017)
• The Dawn Watch Joseph Conrad in a Global World — Maya Jasanoff (2017)
• The Death and Life of the Great Lakes — Dan Egan (2017)
• Destined for War Can America and China Escape Thucydides’s Trap? — Graham Allison (2017)
• Devil’s Bargain Steve Bannon, Donald Trump, and the Storming of the Presidency — Joshua Green (2017)
• The Evangelicals The Struggle to Shape America — Frances FitzGerald (2017)
• The Evolution of Beauty How Darwin’s Forgotten Theory of Mate Choice Shapes the Animal World – and Us — Richard O. Prum (2017)
• Fasting and Feasting The Life of Visionary Food Writer Patience Gray — Adam Federman (2017)
• Flâneuse Women Walk the City in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice, and London — Lauren Elkin (2017)
• Friends Divided John Adams and Thomas Jefferson — Gordon S. Wood (2017)
• The Future Is History How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia — Masha Gessen (2017)
• Generation Revolution On the Front Line Between Tradition and Change in the Middle East — Rachel Aspden (2017)
• The Glass Universe How the Ladies of the Harvard Observatory Took the Measure of the Stars — Dava Sobel (2017)
• Grant — Ron Chernow (2017)
• Greater Gotham A History of New York City from 1898 to 1919 — Mike Wallace (2017)
• The Gulf The Making of An American Sea — Jack E. Davis (2017)
• Hamlet Globe to Globe Two Years, 193,000 Miles, 197 Countries, One Play — Dominic Dromgoole (2017)
• Henry David Thoreau A Life — Laura Dassow Walls (2017)
• The House of Government A Saga of the Russian Revolution — Yuri Slezkine (2017)
• The Invention of Angela Carter A Biography — Edmund Gordon (2017)
• Janesville An American Story — Amy Goldstein (2017)
• Killers of the Flower Moon The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI — David Grann (2017)
• Krazy George Herriman, a Life in Black and White — Michael Tisserand (2017)
• Lenin The Man, the Dictator, and the Master of Terror — Victor Sebestyen (2017)
• Letterman The Last Giant of Late Night — Jason Zinoman (2017)
• Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America — James Forman Jr. (2017)
• Looking for The Stranger Albert Camus and the Life of a Literary Classic — Alice Kaplan (2017)
• The Lost City of the Monkey God A True Story — Douglas Preston (2017)
• Nomadland Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century — Jessica Bruder (2017)
• Notes on a Foreign Country An American Abroad in a Post-American World — Suzy Hansen (2017)
• Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder — Caroline Fraser (2017)
• Priestdaddy — Patricia Lockwood (2017)
• The Songs We Know Best John Ashbery’s Early Life — Karin Roffman (2017)
• Tenements, Towers & Trash An Unconventional Illustrated History of New York City — Julia Wertz (2017)
• To Siri with Love A Mother, Her Autistic Son, and the Kindness of Machines — Judith Newman (2017)
• The Undoing Project A Friendship That Changed Our Minds — Michael Lewis (2017)
• We Were Eight Years in Power An American Tragedy — Ta-Nehisi Coates (2017)
• What Happened — Hillary Rodham Clinton (2017)
• World Without Mind The Existential Threat of Big Tech — Franklin Foer (2017)
• You Say to Brick The Life of Louis Kahn — Wendy Lesser (2017)

Original list ↗

• Autumn — Ali Smith (2017)
• Exit West — Mohsin Hamid (2017)
• Pachinko — Min Jin Lee (2017)
• The Power — Naomi Alderman (2017)
• Sing, Unburied, Sing — Jesmyn Ward (2017)
• The Evolution of Beauty How Darwin’s Forgotten Theory of Mate Choice Shapes the Animal World – and Us — Richard O. Prum (2017)
• Grant — Ron Chernow (2017)
• Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America — James Forman Jr. (2017)
• Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder — Caroline Fraser (2017)
• Priestdaddy — Patricia Lockwood (2017)

Original list ↗

• The Association of Small Bombs — Karan Mahajan (2016)
• The North Water — Ian McGuire (2016)
• The Underground Railroad — Colson Whitehead (2016)
• The Vegetarian — Han Kang (2016)
• War and Turpentine — Stefan Hertmans (2016)
• At the Existentialist Café: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails — Sarah Bakewell (2016)
• Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right — Jane Mayer (2016)
• Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City — Matthew Desmond (2016)
• In the Darkroom — Susan Faludi (2016)
• The Return: Fathers, Sons and the Land in Between — Hisham Matar (2016)

Original list ↗

• All That Man Is — David Szalay (2016)
• Another Brooklyn — Jacqueline Woodson (2016)
• The Association of Small Bombs — Karan Mahajan (2016)
• Barkskins — Annie Proulx (2016)
• Before the Fall — Noah Hawley (2016)
• Behold the Dreamers — Imbolo Mbue (2016)
• Black Water — Louise Doughty (2016)
• Children of the New World — Alexander Weinstein (2016)
• Adrienne Rich - Collected Poems, 1950-2012 — Adrienne Rich (2016)
• Commonwealth — Ann Patchett (2016)
• Do Not Say We Have Nothing — Madeleine Thien (2016)
• Don't Let My Baby Do Rodeo — Boris Fishman (2016)
• End of Watch — Stephen King (2016)
• Everybody's Fool — Richard Russo (2016)
• The Fortunes — Peter Ho Davies (2016)
• A Gambler's Anatomy — Jonathan Lethem (2016)
• The Gloaming — Melanie Finn (2016)
• Grief Is the Thing with Feathers — Max Porter (2016)
• Here Comes the Sun — Nicole Dennis-Benn (2016)
• Here I Am — Jonathan Safran Foer (2016)
• Homegoing — Yaa Gyasi (2016)
• Hot Milk — Deborah Levy (2016)
• House of Lords and Commons — Ishion Hutchinson (2016)
• I Must Be Living Twice — Eileen Myles (2016)
• Iza's Ballad — Magda Szabo (2016)
• LaRose — Louise Erdrich (2016)
• The Life-Writer — David Constantine (2016)
• The Little Red Chairs — Edna O'Brien (2016)
• Look — Solmaz Sharif (2016)
• The Mirror Thief — Martin Seay (2016)
• Mischling — Affinity Konar (2016)
• Mister Monkey — Francine Prose (2016)
• Moonglow — Michael Chabon (2016)
• The Mortifications — Derek Palacio (2016)
• My Name Is Lucy Barton — Elizabeth Strout (2016)
• Ninety-Nine Stories of God — Joy Williams (2016)
• The Nix — Nathan Hill (2016)
• The North Water — Ian McGuire (2016)
• Nutshell — Ian McEwan (2016)
• Reputations — Juan Gabriel Vásquez (2016)
• The Sport of Kings — C. E. Morgan (2016)
• Still Here — Lara Vapnyar (2016)
• Swing Time — Zadie Smith (2016)
• Today Will Be Different — Maria Semple (2016)
• The Underground Railroad — Colson Whitehead (2016)
• Valiant Gentlemen — Sabina Murray (2016)
• The Vegetarian — Han Kang (2016)
• War and Turpentine — Stefan Hertmans (2016)
• Weathering — Lucy Wood (2016)
• Zero K — Don DeLillo (2016)
• All the Single Ladies — Rebecca Traister (2016)
• American Heiress — Jeffrey Toobin (2016)
• At the Existentialist Café: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails — Sarah Bakewell (2016)
• Blood at the Root — Patrick Phillips (2016)
• Blood in the Water — Heather Ann Thompson (2016)
• Born to Run — Bruce Springsteen (2016)
• City of Dreams — Tyler Anbinder (2016)
• Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right — Jane Mayer (2016)
• The Defender — Ethan Michaeli (2016)
• Eleanor Roosevelt, Volume 3 — Blanche Wiesen Cook (2016)
• The English and Their History — Robert Tombs (2016)
• Evicted — Matthew Desmond (2016)
• The Face of Britain — Simon Schama (2016)
• Far and Away — Andrew Solomon (2016)
• From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime — Elizabeth Hinton (2016)
• The Gene — Siddhartha Mukherjee (2016)
• Ghetto — Mitchell Duneier (2016)
• Hero of the Empire — Candice Millard (2016)
• His Final Battle — Joseph Lelyveld (2016)
• Hitler — Volker Ullrich (2016)
• How Everything Became War — Rosa Brooks (2016)
• How to Survive a Plague — David France (2016)
• I Contain Multitudes — Ed Yong (2016)
• In the Darkroom — Susan Faludi (2016)
• In Gratitude — Jenny Diski (2016)
• An Iron Wind — Peter Fritzsche (2016)
• Lab Girl — Hope Jahren (2016)
• Limousine Liberal — Steve Fraser (2016)
• The Man Who Knew — Sebastian Mallaby (2016)
• New England Bound — Wendy Warren (2016)
• Orson Welles — Simon Callow (2016)
• The People and the Books — Adam Kirsch (2016)
• Playing to the Edge — Michael V. Hayden (2016)
• Pretentiousness — Dan Fox (2016)
• Pumpkinflowers — Matti Friedman (2016)
• A Rage for Order — Robert F. Worth (2016)
• The Return — Hisham Matar (2016)
• The Rise and Fall of American Growth — Robert J. Gordon (2016)
• Secondhand Time — Svetlana Alexievich (2016)
• Shirley Jackson — Ruth Franklin (2016)
• Sing for Your Life — Daniel Bergner (2016)
• Strangers in Their Own Land — Arlie Russell Hochschild (2016)
• Truevine — Beth Macy (2016)
• Unforbidden Pleasures — Adam Phillips (2016)
• Weapons of Math Destruction — Cathy O'Neil (2016)
• When Breath Becomes Air — Paul Kalanithi (2016)
• When in French — Lauren Collins (2016)
• White Rage — Carol Anderson (2016)
• White Trash — Nancy Isenberg (2016)
• You'll Grow Out of It — Jessi Klein (2016)

Original list ↗

• The Door — Magda Szabó (2015)
• A Manual for Cleaning Women: Selected Stories — Lucia Berlin (2015)
• Outline — Rachel Cusk (2015)
• The Sellout — Paul Beatty (2015)
• The Story of the Lost Child — Elena Ferrante (2015)
• Between the World and Me — Ta-Nehisi Coates (2015)
• Empire of Cotton: A Global History — Sven Beckert (2015)
• H Is for Hawk — Helen Macdonald (2015)
• The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World — Andrea Wulf (2015)
• One of Us: The Story of Anders Breivik and the Massacre in Norway — Åsne Seierstad (2015)

Original list ↗

• Beatlebone — Kevin Barry (2015)
• The Beautiful Bureaucrat — Helen Phillips (2015)
• Beauty Is a Wound — Eka Kurniawan (2015)
• Citizen — Claudia Rankine (2015)
• City on Fire — Garth Risk Hallberg (2015)
• The Complete Stories — Clarice Lispector (2015)
• Delicious Foods — James Hannaham (2015)
• The Door — Magda Szabó (2015)
• Dragonfish — Vu Tran (2015)
• Fates and Furies — Lauren Groff (2015)
• The Fifth Season — N.K. Jemisin (2015)
• Finale — Thomas Mallon (2015)
• The First Bad Man — Miranda July (2015)
• The Fishermen — Chigozie Obioma (2015)
• Fortune Smiles — Adam Johnson (2015)
• From the New World — Jorie Graham (2015)
• God Help the Child — Toni Morrison (2015)
• Harriet Wolf's Seventh Book of Wonders — Julianna Baggott (2015)
• Here — Richard McGuire (2015)
• The Hollow Land — Jane Gardam (2015)
• Honeydew — Edith Pearlman (2015)
• How to Be Both — Ali Smith (2015)
• The Incarnations — Susan Barker (2015)
• Leaving Berlin — Joseph Kanon (2015)
• A Little Life — Hanya Yanagihara (2015)
• The Love Object — Edna O'Brien (2015)
• Loving Day — Mat Johnson (2015)
• Man at the Helm — Nina Stibbe (2015)
• A Manual for Cleaning Women — Lucia Berlin (2015)
• The Mare — Mary Gaitskill (2015)
• The Meursault Investigation — Kamel Daoud (2015)
• Mislaid — Nell Zink (2015)
• My Struggle: Book 4 — Karl Ove Knausgaard (2015)
• Night at the Fiestas — Kirstin Valdez Quade (2015)
• Outline — Rachel Cusk (2015)
• Preparation for the Next Life — Atticus Lish (2015)
• Purity — Jonathan Franzen (2015)
• The Sellout — Paul Beatty (2015)
• S O S — Amiri Baraka (2015)
• The Story of the Lost Child — Elena Ferrante (2015)
• The Story of My Teeth — Valeria Luiselli (2015)
• Submission — Michel Houellebecq (2015)
• The Sympathizer — Viet Thanh Nguyen (2015)
• Thirteen Ways of Looking — Colum McCann (2015)
• The Truth and Other Lies — Sascha Arango (2015)
• The Tsar of Love and Techno — Anthony Marra (2015)
• The Turner House — Angela Flournoy (2015)
• Vanessa and Her Sister — Priya Parmar (2015)
• The Visiting Privilege — Joy Williams (2015)
• The Whites — Harry Brandt (2015)
• America's Bitter Pill — Steven Brill (2015)
• The Argonauts — Maggie Nelson (2015)
• Augustine — Robin Lane Fox (2015)
• Barbarian Days — William Finnegan (2015)
• Becoming Nicole — Amy Ellis Nutt (2015)
• Between the World and Me — Ta-Nehisi Coates (2015)
• The Complete Works of Primo Levi — Primo Levi (2015)
• The Crime and the Silence — Anna Bikont (2015)
• Daughters of the Samurai — Janice P. Nimura (2015)
• Destiny and Power — Jon Meacham (2015)
• Do No Harm — Henry Marsh (2015)
• The Edge of the World — Michael Pye (2015)
• Empire of Cotton: A Global History — Sven Beckert (2015)
• The Fly Trap — Fredrik Sjöberg (2015)
• The Folded Clock — Heidi Julavits (2015)
• The Gay Revolution — Lillian Faderman (2015)
• The German War — Nicholas Stargardt (2015)
• Ghettoside — Jill Leovy (2015)
• Give Us the Ballot — Ari Berman (2015)
• Guantánamo Diary — Mohamedou Ould Slahi (2015)
• H Is for Hawk — Helen Macdonald (2015)
• Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl — Carrie Brownstein (2015)
• The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World — Andrea Wulf (2015)
• Jonas Salk — Charlotte DeCroes Jacobs (2015)
• Katrina — Gary Rivlin (2015)
• Killing a King — Dan Ephron (2015)
• Letters to Véra — Vladimir Nabokov (2015)
• Listening to Stone — Hayden Herrera (2015)
• Loitering — Charles D'Ambrosio (2015)
• Modernity Britain, 1957-1962 — David Kynaston (2015)
• The Monopolists — Mary Pilon (2015)
• Negroland — Margo Jefferson (2015)
• NeuroTribes — Steve Silberman (2015)
• Objective Troy — Scott Shane (2015)
• The Odd Woman and the City — Vivian Gornick (2015)
• On the Move — Oliver Sacks (2015)
• One of Us: The Story of Anders Breivik and the Massacre in Norway — Åsne Seierstad (2015)
• Ordinary Light — Tracy K. Smith (2015)
• The Other Paris — Luc Sante (2015)
• The Prize — Dale Russakoff (2015)
• The Shape of the New — Daniel Chirot and Scott L. Montgomery (2015)
• Skyfaring — Mark Vanhoenacker (2015)
• Spinster — Kate Bolick (2015)
• S. P. Q. R. — Mary Beard (2015)
• Stalin's Daughter — Rosemary Sullivan (2015)
• Strangers Drowning — Larissa MacFarquhar (2015)
• $2.00 a Day — Kathryn J. Edin and H. Luke Shaefer (2015)
• The Unraveling — Emma Sky (2015)
• The Weather Experiment — Peter Moore (2015)
• Witches of America — Alex Mar (2015)

Original list ↗

• All the Light We Cannot See — Anthony Doerr (2014)
• Dept. of Speculation — Jenny Offill (2014)
• Euphoria — Lily King (2014)
• Family Life — Akhil Sharma (2014)
• Redeployment — Phil Klay (2014)
• Can't We Talk about Something More Pleasant?: A Memoir — Roz Chast (2014)
• On Immunity: An Inoculation — Eula Biss (2014)
• Penelope Fitzgerald: A Life — Hermione Lee (2014)
• The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History — Elizabeth Kolbert (2014)
• Thirteen Days in September The Dramatic Story of the Struggle for Peace — Lawrence Wright (2014)

Original list ↗

• All Our Names — Dinaw Mengestu (2014)
• All the Birds, Singing — Evie Wyld (2014)
• All the Light We Cannot See — Anthony Doerr (2014)
• American Innovations — Rivka Galchen (2014)
• The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher — Hilary Mantel (2014)
• The Ballad of a Small Player — Lawrence Osborne (2014)
• Bark — Lorrie Moore (2014)
• The Blazing World — Siri Hustvedt (2014)
• The Bone Clocks — David Mitchell (2014)
• The Book of Strange New Things — Michel Faber (2014)
• The Book of Unknown Americans — Cristina Henríquez (2014)
• Boy, Snow, Bird — Helen Oyeyemi (2014)
• A Brief History of Seven Killings — Marlon James (2014)
• Can't and Won't — Lydia Davis (2014)
• The Cold Song — Linn Ullmann (2014)
• Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage — Haruki Murakami (2014)
• Dept. of Speculation — Jenny Offill (2014)
• The Dog — Joseph O'Neill (2014)
• Euphoria — Lily King (2014)
• Everything I Never Told You — Celeste Ng (2014)
• F — Daniel Kehlmann (2014)
• Faithful and Virtuous Night — Louise Glück (2014)
• Family Life — Akhil Sharma (2014)
• Fourth of July Creek — Smith Henderson (2014)
• A Girl Is a Half-Formed Thing — Eimear McBride (2014)
• I Pity the Poor Immigrant — Zachary Lazar (2014)
• The Laughing Monsters — Denis Johnson (2014)
• Lena Finkle's Magic Barrel — Anya Ulinich (2014)
• Let Me Be Frank with You — Richard Ford (2014)
• Lila — Marilynne Robinson (2014)
• Lovers at the Chameleon Club - Paris 1932 — Francine Prose (2014)
• The Magician's Land — Lev Grossman (2014)
• The Moor's Account — Laila Lalami (2014)
• Motherland Fatherland Homelandsexuals — Patricia Lockwood (2014)
• My Struggle: Book 3 — Karl Ove Knausgaard (2014)
• The Narrow Road to the Deep North — Richard Flanagan (2014)
• Nora Webster — Colm Tóibín (2014)
• Panic in a Suitcase — Yelena Akhtiorskaya (2014)
• The Paying Guests — Sarah Waters (2014)
• The Poetry of Derek Walcott 1948-2013 — Derek Walcott (2014)
• Redeployment — Phil Klay (2014)
• Remember Me Like This — Bret Anthony Johnston (2014)
• A Replacement Life — Boris Fishman (2014)
• Song of the Shank — Jeffery Renard Allen (2014)
• 10:04 — Ben Lerner (2014)
• Thirty Girls — Susan Minot (2014)
• Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay — Elena Ferrante (2014)
• The Wallcreeper — Nell Zink (2014)
• We Are Not Ourselves — Matthew Thomas (2014)
• When Mystical Creatures Attack! — Kathleen Founds (2014)
• American Mirror — Deborah Solomon (2014)
• Being Mortal — Atul Gawande (2014)
• Building a Better Teacher — Elizabeth Green (2014)
• Can't We Talk about Something More Pleasant?: A Memoir — Roz Chast (2014)
• China's Second Continent — Howard W. French (2014)
• Cubed — Nikil Saval (2014)
• Deep down Dark — Héctor Tobar (2014)
• Demon Camp — Jennifer Percy (2014)
• Duty — Robert M. Gates (2014)
• Dying Every Day — James Romm (2014)
• Eichmann Before Jerusalem — Bettina Stangneth (2014)
• Elephant Company — Vicki Constantine Croke (2014)
• Embattled Rebel — James M. McPherson (2014)
• The Empathy Exams — Leslie Jamison (2014)
• Factory Man — Beth Macy (2014)
• The Fame Lunches — Daphne Merkin (2014)
• Fire Shut up in My Bones — Charles M. Blow (2014)
• Forcing the Spring — Jo Becker (2014)
• Gandhi Before India — Ramachandra Guha (2014)
• Geek Sublime — Vikram Chandra (2014)
• Hotel Florida — Amanda Vaill (2014)
• The Human Age — Diane Ackerman (2014)
• The Invisible Bridge — Rick Perlstein (2014)
• The Invisible Front — Yochi Dreazen (2014)
• The Invisible History of the Human Race — Christine Kenneally (2014)
• Just Mercy — Bryan Stevenson (2014)
• Limonov — Emmanuel Carrere (2014)
• Little Failure — Gary Shteyngart (2014)
• The Madwoman in the Volvo — Sandra Tsing Loh (2014)
• Napoleon — Andrew Roberts (2014)
• No Good Men among the Living — Anand Gopal (2014)
• Not I — Joachim C. Fest (2014)
• On Immunity: An Inoculation — Eula Biss (2014)
• On the Run — Alice Goffman (2014)
• 100 Essays I Don't Have Time to Write — Sarah Ruhl (2014)
• The Parthenon Enigma — Joan Breton Connelly (2014)
• Pay Any Price — James Risen (2014)
• Penelope Fitzgerald: A Life — Hermione Lee (2014)
• Pro — Katha Pollitt (2014)
• The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace — Jeff Hobbs (2014)
• The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History — Elizabeth Kolbert (2014)
• A Spy among Friends — Ben MacIntyre (2014)
• Stuff Matters — Mark Miodownik (2014)
• The Teacher Wars — Dana Goldstein (2014)
• Thirteen Days in September — Lawrence Wright (2014)
• This Changes Everything — Naomi Klein (2014)
• Thrown — Kerry Howley (2014)
• The Trip to Echo Spring — Olivia Laing (2014)
• The True American — Anand Giridharadas (2014)
• World Order — Henry Kissinger (2014)

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• Americanah — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (2013)
• The Flamethrowers — Rachel Kushner (2013)
• The Goldfinch — Donna Tartt (2013)
• Life After Life — Kate Atkinson (2013)
• Tenth of December — George Saunders (2013)
• After the Music Stopped: The Financial Crisis, the Response, and the Work Ahead — Alan S. Blinder (2013)
• Days of Fire: Bush and Cheney in the White House — Peter Baker (2013)
• Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital — Sheri Fink (2013)
• The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914 — Christopher Clark (2013)
• Wave — Sonali Deraniyagala (2013)

Original list ↗

• The Accursed — Joyce Carol Oates (2013)
• All That Is — James Salter (2013)
• Americanah — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (2013)
• Bleeding Edge — Thomas Pynchon (2013)
• Children Are Diamonds: An African Apocalypse — Edward Hoagland (2013)
• The Circle — Dave Eggers (2013)
• Claire of the Sea Light — Edwidge Danticat (2013)
• The Color Master: Stories — Aimee Bender (2013)
• A Constellation of Vital Phenomena — Anthony Marra (2013)
• The Dinner — Herman Koch (2013)
• Dirty Love — Andre Dubus III (2013)
• Dissident Gardens — Jonathan Lethem (2013)
• Doctor Sleep — Stephen King (2013)
• Duplex — Kathryn Davis (2013)
• The End of the Point — Elizabeth Graver (2013)
• The Flamethrowers — Rachel Kushner (2013)
• The Goldfinch — Donna Tartt (2013)
• The Good Lord Bird — James McBride (2013)
• A Guide to Being Born: Stories — Ramona Ausubel (2013)
• Half the Kingdom — Lore Segal (2013)
• I Want to Show You More: Stories — Jamie Quatro (2013)
• The Impossible Lives of Greta Wells — Andrew Sean Greer (2013)
• The Infatuations — Javier Marias (2013)
• The Interestings — Meg Wolitzer (2013)
• Life After Life — Kate Atkinson (2013)
• Local Souls: Novellas — Allan Gurganus (2013)
• Longbourn — Jo Baker (2013)
• Love, Dishonor, Marry, Die, Cherish, Perish — David Rakoff (2013)
• The Lowland — Jhumpa Lahiri (2013)
• The Luminaries — Eleanor Catton (2013)
• MaddAddam — Margaret Atwood (2013)
• A Marker to Measure Drift — Alexander Maksik (2013)
• Metaphysical Dog — Frank Bidart (2013)
• Our Andromeda — Brenda Shaughnessy (2013)
• Schroder — Amity Gaige (2013)
• The Signature of All Things — Elizabeth Gilbert (2013)
• Someone — Alice McDermott (2013)
• The Son — Philipp Meyer (2013)
• The Sound of Things Falling — Juan Gabriel Vasquez (2013)
• Submergence — J. M. Ledgard (2013)
• Subtle Bodies — Norman Rush (2013)
• Tenth of December — George Saunders (2013)
• The Twelve Tribes of Hattie — Ayana Mathis (2013)
• The Two Hotel Francforts — David Leavitt (2013)
• The Valley of Amazement — Amy Tan (2013)
• Want Not — Jonathan Miles (2013)
• We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves — Karen Joy Fowler (2013)
• We Need New Names — NoViolet Bulawayo (2013)
• Woke Up Lonely — Fiona Maazel (2013)
• The Woman Upstairs — Claire Messud (2013)
• After the Music Stopped: The Financial Crisis, the Response, and the Work Ahead — Alan S. Blinder (2013)
• The American Way of Poverty: How the Other Half Still Lives — Sasha Abramsky (2013)
• The Barbarous Years. The Peopling of British North America: The Conflict of Civilizations, 1600-1675 — Bernard Bailyn (2013)
• The Billionaire’s Apprentice: The Rise of the Indian-American Elite and the Fall of the Galleon Hedge Fund — Anita Raghavan (2013)
• The Blood Telegram: Nixon, Kissinger, and a Forgotten Genocide — Gary J. Bass (2013)
• Book of Ages: The Life and Opinions of Jane Franklin — Jill Lepore (2013)
• The Boy Detective: A New York Childhood — Roger Rosenblatt (2013)
• The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism — Doris Kearns Goodwin (2013)
• The Cancer Chronicles: Unlocking Medicine’s Deepest Mystery — George Johnson (2013)
• Catastrophe 1914: Europe Goes to War — Max Hastings (2013)
• Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident and the Illusion of Safety — Eric Schlosser (2013)
• Country Girl: A Memoir — Edna O’Brien (2013)
• Days of Fire: Bush and Cheney in the White House — Peter Baker (2013)
• Ecstatic Nation: Confidence, Crisis, and Compromise, 1848-1877 — Brenda Wineapple (2013)
• Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China — Jung Chang (2013)
• The Faraway Nearby — Rebecca Solnit (2013)
• Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital — Sheri Fink (2013)
• Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief — Lawrence Wright (2013)
• The Guns at Last Light: The War in Western Europe, 1944-1945 — Rick Atkinson (2013)
• The Heir Apparent: A Life of Edward VII, the Playboy Prince — Jane Ridley (2013)
• A House in the Sky — Amanda Lindhout and Sara Corbett (2013)
• Jonathan Swift: His Life and His World — Leo Damrosch (2013)
• Knocking on Heaven’s Door: The Path to a Better Way of Death — Katy Butler (2013)
• Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly and the Making of the Modern Middle East — Scott Anderson (2013)
• Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead — Sheryl Sandberg with Nell Scovell (2013)
• Lost Girls: An Unsolved American Mystery — Robert Kolker (2013)
• Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures — Mary Ruefle (2013)
• Manson: The Life and Times of Charles Manson — Jeff Guinn (2013)
• Margaret Fuller: A New American Life — Megan Marshall (2013)
• Men We Reaped — Jesmyn Ward (2013)
• Miss Anne in Harlem: The White Women of the Black Renaissance — Carla Kaplan (2013)
• My Beloved World — Sonia Sotomayor (2013)
• My Promised Land: The Triumph and Tragedy of Israel — Ari Shavit (2013)
• Patrick Leigh Fermor: An Adventure — Artemis Cooper (2013)
• The Riddle of the Labyrinth: The Quest to Crack an Ancient Code — Margalit Fox (2013)
• The Skies Belong to Us: Love and Terror in the Golden Age of Hijacking — Brendan I. Koerner (2013)
• The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914 — Christopher Clark (2013)
• The Smartest Kids in the World: And How They Got That Way — Amanda Ripley (2013)
• Thank You For Your Service — David Finkel (2013)
• The Third Coast: When Chicago Built the American Dream — Thomas Dyja (2013)
• This Town: Two Parties and a Funeral — Plus Plenty of Valet Parking!—in America’s Gilded Capital — Mark Leibovich (2013)
• Those Angry Days: Roosevelt, Lindbergh, and America’s Fight Over World War II, 1939-1941 — Lynne Olson (2013)
• To Save Everything, Click Here: The Folly of Technological Solutionism — Evgeny Morozov (2013)
• To the End of June: The Intimate Life of American Foster Care — Cris Beam (2013)
• Unthinkable: Iran, the Bomb, and American Strategy — Kenneth M. Pollack (2013)
• The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America — George Packer (2013)
• The War That Ended Peace: The Road to 1914 — Margaret MacMillan (2013)
• Wave — Sonali Deraniyagala (2013)
• Wild Ones: A Sometimes Dismaying, Weirdly Reassuring Story About Looking at People Looking at Animals in America — Jon Mooallem (2013)
• Year Zero: A History of 1945 — Ian Buruma (2013)

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• Alif The Unseen — G. Willow Wilson (2012)
• Almost Never — Daniel Sada. Translated by Katherine Silver (2012)
• An American Spy — Olen Steinhauer (2012)
• Arcadia — Lauren Groff (2012)
• At Last — Edward St. Aubyn (2012)
• Beautiful Ruins — Jess Walter (2012)
• Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk — Ben Fountain (2012)
• Blasphemy — Sherman Alexie (2012)
• The Book Of Mischief New And Selected Stories — Steve Stern (2012)
• Bring Up the Bodies — Hilary Mantel (2012)
• Building Stories — Chris Ware (2012)
• By Blood — Ellen Ullman (2012)
• Canada — Richard Ford (2012)
• Carry The One — Carol Anshaw (2012)
• City of Bohane — Kevin Barry (2012)
• Collected Poems — Jack Gilbert (2012)
• Dear Life — Alice Munro (2012)
• The Devil in Silver — Victor LaValle (2012)
• Enchantments — Kathryn Harrison (2012)
• Flight Behavior — Barbara Kingsolver (2012)
• Fobbit — David Abrams (2012)
• The Forgetting Tree — Tatjana Soli (2012)
• Gathering Of Waters — Bernice L. McFadden (2012)
• Gods Without Men — Hari Kunzru (2012)
• HHhH — Laurent Binet. Translated by Sam Taylor (2012)
• A Hologram for the King — Dave Eggers (2012)
• Home — Toni Morrison (2012)
• Hope A Tragedy — Shalom Auslander (2012)
• How Should a Person Be? — Sheila Heti (2012)
• In One Person — John Irving (2012)
• A Land More Kind Than Home — Wiley Cash (2012)
• Married Love And Other Stories — Tessa Hadley (2012)
• NW — Zadie Smith (2012)
• On The Spectrum Of Possible Deaths — Lucia Perillo (2012)
• Pure — Julianna Baggott (2012)
• The Right Hand Shore — Christopher Tilghman (2012)
• The Round House — Louise Erdrich (2012)
• Salvage the Bones — Jesmyn Ward (2012)
• San Miguel — T. Coraghessan Boyle (2012)
• Shine Shine Shine — Lydia Netzer (2012)
• Shout Her Lovely Name — Natalie Serber (2012)
• Silent House — Orhan Pamuk. Translated by Robert Finn (2012)
• The Starboard Sea — Amber Dermont (2012)
• Sweet Tooth — Ian McEwan (2012)
• Swimming Home — Deborah Levy (2012)
• Telegraph Avenue — Michael Chabon (2012)
• The Testament Of Mary — Colm Tóibín (2012)
• This Is How You Lose Her — Junot Díaz (2012)
• Three Strong Women — Marie NDiaye (2012)
• Toby’s Room — Pat Barker (2012)
• Watergate — Thomas Mallon (2012)
• What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank Stories — Nathan Englander (2012)
• The Yellow Birds — Kevin Powers (2012)
• All We Know Three Lives — Lisa Cohen (2012)
• American Tapestry The Story Of The Black, White, And Multiracial Ancestors Of Michelle Obama — Rachel L. Swarns (2012)
• American Triumvirate Sam Snead, Byron Nelson, Ben Hogan, And The Modern Age Of Golf — James Dodson (2012)
• Are You My Mother? A Comic Drama — Alison Bechdel (2012)
• Barack Obama The Story — David Maraniss (2012)
• Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity — Katherine Boo (2012)
• Belzoni The Giant Archaeologists Love To Hate — Ivor Noël Hume (2012)
• The Black Count Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, And The Real Count Of Monte Cristo — Tom Reiss (2012)
• Breasts A Natural And Unnatural History — Florence Williams (2012)
• Coming Apart The State Of White America, 1960 2010 — Charles Murray (2012)
• Darwin’s Ghosts The Secret History Of Evolution — Rebecca Stott (2012)
• A Disposition To Be Rich How A Small Town Preacher’s Son Ruined An American President, Brought On A Wall Street Crash, And Made Himself The Best Hated Man In The United States — Geoffrey C. Ward (2012)
• Far From the Tree: Parents, Children and the Search for Identity — Andrew Solomon (2012)
• Flagrant Conduct The Story of Lawrence v. Texas: How a Bedroom Arrest Decriminalized Gay Americans — Dale Carpenter (2012)
• The Folly Of Fools The Logic Of Deceit And Self Deception In Human Life — Robert Trivers (2012)
• The Grey Album On The Blackness Of Blackness — Kevin Young (2012)
• Haiti The Aftershocks Of History — Laurent Dubois (2012)
• How Children Succeed Grit, Curiosity, And The Hidden Power Of Character — Paul Tough (2012)
• How Music Works — David Byrne (2012)
• Iron Curtain The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1944–1956 — Anne Applebaum (2012)
• Kayak Morning Reflections On Love, Grief, And Small Boats — Roger Rosenblatt (2012)
• Lincoln’s Code The Laws Of War In American History — John Fabian Witt (2012)
• Little America The War Within The War For Afghanistan — Rajiv Chandrasekaran (2012)
• Memoir Of A Debulked Woman Enduring Ovarian Cancer — Susan Gubar (2012)
• My Poets — Maureen N. McLane (2012)
• The Obamas — Jodi Kantor (2012)
• Oddly Normal One Family’s Struggle To Help Their Teenage Son Come To Terms With His Sexuality — John Schwartz (2012)
• On A Farther Shore The Life And Legacy Of Rachel Carson — William Souder (2012)
• On Saudi Arabia Its People, Past, Religion, Fault Lines — And Future — Karen Elliott House (2012)
• The One The Life And Music Of James Brown — RJ Smith (2012)
• The Passage of Power The Years of Lyndon Johnson — Robert A. Caro (2012)
• The Patriarch: The Remarkable Life and Turbulent Times of Joseph P. Kennedy — David Nasaw (2012)
• People Who Eat Darkness The True Story of a Young Woman Who Vanished from the Streets of Tokyo — Richard Lloyd Parry (2012)
• Red Brick, Black Mountain, White Clay Reflections On Art, Family, And Survival — Christopher Benfey (2012)
• Rule and Ruin The Downfall of Moderation and the Destruction of the Republican Party, From Eisenhower to the Tea Party — Geoffrey Kabaservice (2012)
• Saul Steinberg A Biography — Deirdre Bair (2012)
• Shooting Victoria Madness, Mayhem, And The Rebirth Of The British Monarchy — Paul Thomas Murphy (2012)
• Short Nights Of The Shadow Catcher The Epic Life And Immortal Photographs Of Edward Curtis — Timothy Egan (2012)
• The Social Conquest Of Earth — Edward O. Wilson (2012)
• Sometimes There Is A Void Memoirs Of An Outsider — Zakes Mda (2012)
• Spillover Animal Infections And The Next Human Pandemic — David Quammen (2012)
• The Taste Of War World War Ii And The Battle For Food — Lizzie Collingham (2012)
• Thomas Jefferson The Art Of Power — Jon Meacham (2012)
• Victory The Triumphant Gay Revolution — Linda Hirshman (2012)
• When God Talks Back Understanding The American Evangelical Relationship With God — T.M. Luhrmann (2012)
• Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? — Jeanette Winterson (2012)
• Why Does the World Exist?: An Existential Detective Story — Jim Holt (2012)

Original list ↗

• Bring Up the Bodies — Hilary Mantel (2012)
• Building Stories — Chris Ware (2012)
• A Hologram for the King — Dave Eggers (2012)
• NW — Zadie Smith (2012)
• The Yellow Birds — Kevin Powers (2012)
• Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity — Katherine Boo (2012)
• Far From the Tree: Parents, Children and the Search for Identity — Andrew Solomon (2012)
• The Passage of Power The Years of Lyndon Johnson — Robert A. Caro (2012)
• The Patriarch: The Remarkable Life and Turbulent Times of Joseph P. Kennedy — David Nasaw (2012)
• Why Does the World Exist?: An Existential Detective Story — Jim Holt (2012)

Original list ↗

• The Angel Esmeralda Nine Stories — Don DeLillo (2011)
• The Art of Fielding — Chad Harbach (2011)
• The Barbarian Nurseries — Héctor Tobar (2011)
• Big Questions. Or, Asomatognosia Whose Hand Is It Anyway? — Anders Brekhus Nilsen (2011)
• The Buddha in the Attic — Julie Otsuka (2011)
• Canti — Giacomo Leopardi (2011)
• The Cat’s Table — Michael Ondaatje (2011)
• Changó’s Beads and Two-Tone Shoes — William Kennedy (2011)
• Come on All You Ghosts — Matthew Zapruder (2011)
• 11/22/63 — Stephen King (2011)
• The Free World — David Bezmozgis (2011)
• Ghost Lights — Lydia Millet (2011)
• The Grief of Others — Leah Hager Cohen (2011)
• Gryphon New and Selected Stories — Charles Baxter (2011)
• House of Holes A Book of Raunch — Nicholson Baker (2011)
• The Last Werewolf — Glen Duncan (2011)
• The Leftovers — Tom Perrotta (2011)
• Life on Mars — Tracy K. Smith (2011)
• The London Train — Tessa Hadley (2011)
• Long, Last, Happy New and Selected Stories — Barry Hannah (2011)
• Lost Memory of Skin — Russell Banks (2011)
• The Marriage Plot — Jeffrey Eugenides (2011)
• A Moment in the Sun — John Sayles (2011)
• Mr. Fox — Helen Oyeyemi (2011)
• My New American Life — Francine Prose (2011)
• 1Q84 — Haruki Murakami (2011)
• Open City — Teju Cole (2011)
• The Pale King An Unfinished Novel — David Foster Wallace (2011)
• Parallel Stories — Peter Nadas, translated by Imre Goldstein (2011)
• Say Her Name — Francisco Goldman (2011)
• Scenes from Village Life — Amos Oz. Translated by Nicholas de Lange (2011)
• The Sense of an Ending — Julian Barnes (2011)
• Seven Years — Peter Stamm (2011)
• Shards — Ismet Prcic (2011)
• Space, in Chains — Laura Kasischke (2011)
• Stone Arabia — Dana Spiotta (2011)
• The Stranger’s Child — Alan Hollinghurst (2011)
• The Submission — Amy Waldman (2011)
• Swamplandia! — Karen Russell (2011)
• Taller When Prone Poems — Les Murray (2011)
• Ten Thousand Saints — Eleanor Henderson (2011)
• This Beautiful Life — Helen Schulman (2011)
• The Tiger's Wife — Téa Obreht (2011)
• The Tragedy of Arthur — Arthur Phillips (2011)
• Train Dreams — Denis Johnson (2011)
• And So It Goes Kurt Vonnegut: A Life — Charles J. Shields (2011)
• Arguably: Essays — Christopher Hitchens (2011)
• The Art of Cruelty A Reckoning — Maggie Nelson (2011)
• Assassins of the Turquoise Palace — Roya Hakakian (2011)
• The Beginning of Infinity Explanations that Transform the World — David Deutsch (2011)
• Believing is Seeing Observations on the Mysteries of Photography — Errol Morris (2011)
• The Better Angels of Our Nature Why Violence Has Declined — Steven Pinker (2011)
• Blood, Bones and Butter The Inadvertent Education of  a Reluctant Chef — Gabrielle Hamilton (2011)
• Blue Nights — Joan Didion (2011)
• The Boy in the Moon: A Father's Journey to Understand His Extraordinary Son — Ian Brown (2011)
• Caravaggio A Life Sacred and Profane — Andrew Graham-Dixon (2011)
• Catherine the Great Portrait of a Woman — Robert K. Massie (2011)
• Clarence Darrow Attorney for the Damned — John A. Farrell (2011)
• Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness — Alexandra Fuller (2011)
• Destiny of the Republic A Tale of Madness, Medicine, and the Murder of a President — Candice Millard (2011)
• The Ecstasy of Influence Nonfictions, Etc. — Jonathan Lethem (2011)
• 1861 The Civil War Awakening — Adam Goodheart (2011)
• Examined Lives From Socrates to Nietzsche — James Miller (2011)
• 1493 Uncovering the New World Columbus Created — Charles C. Mann (2011)
• George F. Kennan An American Life — John Lewis Gaddis (2011)
• Great Soul Mahatma GAndhi and His Struggle with India — Joseph Lelyveld (2011)
• Harlem is Nowhere A Journey to the Mecca of Black America — Sharifa Rhoes-Pitts (2011)
• Holy War How Vasco de Gama’s Epic Voyages Turned the Tide in a Centuries-Old Clash of Civilizations — Nigel Cliff (2011)
• In the Garden of Beasts Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler’s Berlin — Erik Larson (2011)
• Inferno The World at War, 1939-1945 — Max Hastings (2011)
• The Information A History, a Theory, a Flood — James Gleick (2011)
• Inside Scientology The Story of America’s Most Secretive Religion — Janet Reitman (2011)
• Is That a Fish in Your Ear? Translation and the Meaning of Everything — David Bellos (2011)
• Jerusalem The Biography — Simon Sebag Montefiore (2011)
• The Keats Brothers The Life of John and George — Denis Gigante (2011)
• Knocking on Heaven’s Door how Physics and Scientific Thinking Illuminate the Universe and the Modern World — Lisa Randall (2011)
• Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention — Manning Marable (2011)
• The Memory Chalet — Tony Judt (2011)
• Midnight Rising John Brown and the Raid That Sparked the Civil War — Tony Horwitz (2011)
• Moby-Duck The True Story of 28,800 Bath Toys Lost at Sea & of the Beachcombers, Oceanograp hers, Environmentalists & Fools Including the Author Who Went in Search of Them — Donovan Hohn (2011)
• My Song A Memoir — Harry Belafonte with Michael Shnayerson (2011)
• The Net Delusion The Dark Side of Internet Freedom — Evgeny Morozov (2011)
• One Day I Will Write About This Place — Binyavanga Wainaina (2011)
• The Origins of Political Order From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution — Francis Fukuyama (2011)
• Pauline Kael A Life in the Dark — Brian Kellow (2011)
• Pulphead — John Jeremiah Sullivan (2011)
• The Quest Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World — Daniel Yergin (2011)
• Rights Gone Wrong How Law Corrupts the Struggle for Equity — Richard Thompson Ford (2011)
• Rin Tin Tin The Life and the Legend — Susan Orlean (2011)
• [sic] A Memoir — Joshua Cody (2011)
• The Storm of War A New History of the Second World War — Andrew Roberts (2011)
• The Swerve How the World Became Modern — Stephen Greenblatt (2011)
• Thinking, Fast and Slow — Daniel Kahneman (2011)
• To A Mountain in Tibet — Colin Thubron (2011)
• To End All Wars A Story of Loyalty and Rebellionm 1914-1918 — Adam Hochschild (2011)
• A Train in Winter An Extraordinary Story of Women, Friendship, and Resistance in Occupied France — Caroline Moorehead (2011)
• Van Gogh The Life — Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith (2011)
• Who’s Afraid of Post-Blackness? What it Means to be Black Now — Touré (2011)
• Why the West Rules — For Now The Patterns of History, and What They Reveal About the Future — Ian Morris (2011)
• A World on Fire: Britain's Crucial Role in the American Civil War — Amanda Foreman (2011)

Original list ↗

• The Art of Fielding — Chad Harbach (2011)
• 11/22/63 — Stephen King (2011)
• Swamplandia! — Karen Russell (2011)
• Ten Thousand Saints — Eleanor Henderson (2011)
• The Tiger's Wife — Téa Obreht (2011)
• Arguably: Essays — Christopher Hitchens (2011)
• The Boy in the Moon: A Father's Journey to Understand His Extraordinary Son — Ian Brown (2011)
• Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention — Manning Marable (2011)
• Thinking, Fast and Slow — Daniel Kahneman (2011)
• A World on Fire: Britain's Crucial Role in the American Civil War — Amanda Foreman (2011)

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• The New Yorker Stories — Ann Beattie (2010)
• Room — Emma Donoghue (2010)
• A Visit from the Goon Squad — Jennifer Egan (2010)
• Freedom — Jonathan Franzen (2010)
• Apollo's Angels: A History of Ballet — Jennifer Homans (2010)
• The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer — Siddhartha Mukherjee (2010)
• Cleopatra: A Life — Stacy Schiff (2010)
• Finishing the Hat — Stephen Sondheim (2010)
• Selected Stories — William Trevor (2010)
• The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration — Isabel Wilkerson (2010)

Original list ↗

• American Subversive — David Goodwillie (2010)
• Angelology — Danielle Trussoni (2010)
• The Ask — Sam Lipsyte (2010)
• Bound — Antonya Nelson (2010)
• Comedy In A Minor Key — Hans Keilson (2010)
• Double Happiness: Stories — Mary-Beth Hughes (2010)
• Foreign Bodies — Cynthia Ozick (2010)
• Freedom — Jonathan Franzen (2010)
• Fun With Problems: Stories — Robert Stone (2010)
• Girl By The Road At Night: A Novel of Vietnam — David Rabe (2010)
• The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet’s Nest — Stieg Larsson (2010)
• Great House — Nicole Krauss (2010)
• How To Live Safely In A Science Fictional Universe — Charles Yu (2010)
• How To Read The Air — Dinaw Mengestu (2010)
• I Curse The River Of Time — Per Petterson (2010)
• Ilustrado — Miguel Syjuco (2010)
• The Imperfectionists — Tom Rachman (2010)
• The Invisible Bridge — Julie Orringer (2010)
• Lisa Robertson’s Magenta Soul Whip — Lisa Robertson (2010)
• The Living Fire: New and Selected Poems, 1975-2010 — Edward Hirsch (2010)
• The Long Song — Andrea Levy (2010)
• The Lost Books Of The Odyssey — Zachary Mason (2010)
• The Lotus Eaters — Tatjana Soli (2010)
• Matterhorn: A Novel of the Vietnam War — Karl Marlantes (2010)
• Memory Wall: Stories — Anthony Doerr (2010)
• Mr. Peanut — Adam Ross (2010)
• The Nearest Exit — Olen Steinhauer (2010)
• The New Yorker Stories — Ann Beattie (2010)
• One Day — David Nicholls (2010)
• The Privileges — Jonathan Dee (2010)
• Room — Emma Donoghue (2010)
• The Same River Twice — Ted Mooney (2010)
• Selected Stories — William Trevor (2010)
• Shadow Tag — Louise Erdrich (2010)
• Solar — Ian McEwan (2010)
• Something Red — Jennifer Gilmore (2010)
• Sourland: Stories — Joyce Carol Oates (2010)
• The Spot: Stories — David Means (2010)
• Super Sad True Love Story — Gary Shteyngart (2010)
• The Surrendered — Chang-rae Lee (2010)
• The Thousand Autumns Of Jacob De Zoet — David Mitchell (2010)
• The Three Weissmanns Of Westport — Cathleen Schine (2010)
• To The End Of The Land — David Grossman (2010)
• Vida — Patricia Engel (2010)
• A Visit from the Goon Squad — Jennifer Egan (2010)
• What Becomes: Stories — A. L. Kennedy (2010)
• White Egrets: Poems — Derek Walcott (2010)
• Wild Child: Stories — T. Coraghessan Boyle (2010)
• All The Devils Are Here: The Hidden History of the Financial Crisis — Bethany McLean and Joe Nocera (2010)
• Apollo's Angels: A History of Ballet — Jennifer Homans (2010)
• Big Girls Don’t Cry: The Election That Changed Everything for American Women — Rebecca Traister (2010)
• The Book In The Renaissance — Andrew Pettegree (2010)
• The Bridge: The Life and Rise of Barack Obama — David Remnick (2010)
• Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays — Zadie Smith (2010)
• Charlie Chan: The Untold Story of the Honorable Detective and His Rendezvous With American History — Yunte Huang (2010)
• Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years — Diarmaid MacCulloch (2010)
• Cleopatra: A Life — Stacy Schiff (2010)
• Colonel Roosevelt — Edmund Morris (2010)
• Common As Air: Revolution, Art, and Ownership — Lewis Hyde (2010)
• Contested Will: Who Wrote Shakespeare? — James Shapiro (2010)
• Country Driving: A Journey Through China From Farm to Factory — Peter Hessler (2010)
• The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer — Siddhartha Mukherjee (2010)
• Empire Of The Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History — S. C. Gwynne (2010)
• Encounter — Milan Kundera (2010)
• The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery — Eric Foner (2010)
• Finishing the Hat — Stephen Sondheim (2010)
• Four Fish: The Future of the Last Wild Food — Paul Greenberg (2010)
• Hitch-22: A Memoir — Christopher Hitchens (2010)
• The Honor Code: How Moral Revolutions Happen — Kwame Anthony Appiah (2010)
• The Immortal Life Of Henrietta Lacks — Rebecca Skloot (2010)
• Insectopedia — Hugh Raffles (2010)
• Koestler: The Literary and Political Odyssey of a Twentieth-Century Skeptic — Michael Scammell (2010)
• The Last Boy: Mickey Mantle and the End of America’s Childhood — Jane Leavy (2010)
• Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition — Daniel Okrent (2010)
• The Last Hero: A Life of Henry Aaron — Howard Bryant (2010)
• The Last Stand: Custer, Sitting Bull, and the Battle of the Little Bighorn — Nathaniel Philbrick (2010)
• Life — Keith Richards with James Fox (2010)
• Long For This World: The Strange Science of Immortality — Jonathan Weiner (2010)
• The Mind’s Eye — Oliver Sacks (2010)
• Operation Mincemeat: How a Dead Man and a Bizarre Plan Fooled the Nazis and Assured an Allied Victory — Ben Macintyre (2010)
• Origins: How the Nine Months Before Birth Shape the Rest of Our Lives — Annie Murphy Paul (2010)
• Parisians: An Adventure History of Paris — Graham Robb (2010)
• Pearl Buck In China: Journey to “The Good Earth.” — Hilary Spurling (2010)
• Pops: A Life of Louis Armstrong — Terry Teachout (2010)
• The Possessed: Adventures With Russian Books and the People Who Read Them — Elif Batuman (2010)
• The Price Of Altruism: George Price and the Search for the Origins of Kindness — Oren Harman (2010)
• The Promise: President Obama, Year One — Jonathan Alter (2010)
• The Publisher: Henry Luce and His American Century — Alan Brinkley (2010)
• Ratification: The People Debate the Constitution, 1787-1788 — Pauline Maier (2010)
• The Sabbath World: Glimpses of a Different Order of Time — Judith Shulevitz (2010)
• Scorpions: The Battles and Triumphs of Fdr’s Great Supreme Court Justices — Noah Feldman (2010)
• Secret Historian: The Life and Times of Samuel Steward, Professor, Tattoo Artist, and Sexual Renegade — Justin Spring (2010)
• Supreme Power: Franklin Roosevelt vs. the Supreme Court — Jeff Shesol (2010)
• The Talented Miss Highsmith: The Secret Life and Serious Art of Patricia Highsmith — Joan Schenkar (2010)
• The Tenth Parallel: Dispatches From the Fault Line Between Christianity and Islam — Eliza Griswold (2010)
• Travels In Siberia — Ian Frazier (2010)
• The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration — Isabel Wilkerson (2010)
• Washington: A Life — Ron Chernow (2010)
• The Wave: In Pursuit of the Rogues, Freaks, and Giants of the Ocean — Susan Casey (2010)
• Willie Mays: The Life, the Legend — James S. Hirsch (2010)

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• Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World — Liaquat Ahamed (2009)
• The Good Soldiers — David Finkel (2009)
• The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science — Richard Holmes (2009)
• Lit: A Memoir — Mary Karr (2009)
• Chronic City — Jonathan Lethem (2009)
• Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It — Maile Meloy (2009)
• A Gate at the Stairs — Lorrie Moore (2009)
• Raymond Carver: A Writer's Life — Carol Sklenicka (2009)
• A Short History of Women — Kate Walbert (2009)
• Half Broke Horses — Jeannette Walls (2009)

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• Amateur Barbarians — Robert Cohen (2009)
• American Rust — Philipp Meyer (2009)
• The Anthologist — Nicholson Baker (2009)
• The Art Student’s War — Brad Leithauser (2009)
• Asterios Polyp — David Mazzucchelli (2009)
• Await Your Reply — Dan Chaon (2009)
• Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It — Maile Meloy (2009)
• The Casebook of Victor Frankenstein — Peter Ackroyd (2009)
• Chronic City — Jonathan Lethem (2009)
• The Confessions of Edward Day — Valerie Martin (2009)
• Dearest Creature — Amy Gerstler (2009)
• Do Not Deny Me: Stories — Jean Thompson (2009)
• Don’t Cry: Stories — Mary Gaitskill (2009)
• Every Man Dies Alone — Hans Fallada (2009)
• Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned — Wells Tower (2009)
• Family Album — Penelope Lively (2009)
• Follow Me — Joanna Scott (2009)
• A Gate at the Stairs — Lorrie Moore (2009)
• Generosity: An Enhancement — Richard Powers (2009)
• Half Broke Horses — Jeannette Walls (2009)
• How it Ended: New and Collected Stories — Jay McInerney (2009)
• In Other Rooms, Other Wonders — Daniyal Mueenuddin (2009)
• Invisible — Paul Auster (2009)
• Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi — Geoff Dyer (2009)
• The Lacuna — Barbara Kingsolver (2009)
• Lark and Termite — Jayne Anne Phillips (2009)
• Let the Great World Spin — Colum McCann (2009)
• The Little Stranger — Sarah Waters (2009)
• Love and Obstacles: Stories — Aleksandar Hemon (2009)
• Love and Summer — William Trevor (2009)
• The Museum of Innocence — Orhan Pamuk (2009)
• My Father’s Tears: And Other Stories — John Updike (2009)
• Nocturnes: Five Stories of Music and Nightfall — Kazuo Ishiguro (2009)
• Nothing Right: Short Stories — Antonya Nelson (2009)
• Once the Shore: Stories — Paul Yoon (2009)
• One D.O.A., One on the Way — Mary Robison (2009)
• Sag Harbor — Colson Whitehead (2009)
• A Short History of Women — Kate Walbert (2009)
• The Sky Below — Stacey D’Erasmo (2009)
• The Song Is You — Arthur Phillips (2009)
• Too Much Happiness — Alice Munro (2009)
• Typhoon — Charles Cumming (2009)
• A Village Life — Louise Glück (2009)
• Wolf Hall — Hilary Mantel (2009)
• The Year of the Flood — Margaret Atwood (2009)
• The Age of Entanglement: When Quantum Physics Was Reborn — Louisa Gilder (2009)
• The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science — Richard Holmes (2009)
• Ayn Rand and the World She Made — Anne C. Heller (2009)
• Born Round: The Secret History of a Full-Time Eater — Frank Bruni (2009)
• The Case for God — Karen Armstrong (2009)
• Cheever: A Life — Blake Bailey (2009)
• City Boy: My Life in New York During the 1960s and ’70s — Edmund White (2009)
• Closing Time: A Memoir — Joe Queenan (2009)
• Cold: Adventures in the World’s Frozen Places — Bill Streever (2009)
• Columbine — Dave Cullen (2009)
• A Country of Vast Designs: James K. Polk, the Mexican War, and the Conquest of the American Continent — Robert W. Merry (2009)
• Cowboys Full: The Story of Poker — James McManus (2009)
• Dancing in the Dark: A Cultural History of the Great Depression — Morris Dickstein (2009)
• Dorothea Lange: A Life Beyond Limits — Linda Gordon (2009)
• Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815 — Gordon S. Wood (2009)
• The Evolution of God — Robert Wright (2009)
• A Fiery Peace in a Cold War: Bernard Schriever and the Ultimate Weapon — Neil Sheehan (2009)
• The Fires of Vesuvius: Pompeii Lost and Found — Mary Beard (2009)
• The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt — T. J. Stiles (2009)
• Flannery: A Life of Flannery O’Connor — Brad Gooch (2009)
• Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford’s Forgotten Jungle City — Greg Grandin (2009)
• The Good Soldiers — David Finkel (2009)
• The Ground Truth: The Untold Story of America Under Attack on 9/11 — John Farmer (2009)
• Hiding Man: A Biography of Donald Barthelme — Tracy Daugherty (2009)
• Horse Soldiers: The Extraordinary Story of a Band of U.S. Soldiers Who Rode to Victory in Afghanistan — Doug Stanton (2009)
• In Fed We Trust: Ben Bernanke’s War on the Great Panic — David Wessel (2009)
• The Invention of Air: A Story of Science, Faith, Revolution, and the Birth of America — Steven Johnson (2009)
• The Last Empress: Madame Chiang Kai-shek and the Birth of Modern China — Hannah Pakula (2009)
• Lit: A Memoir — Mary Karr (2009)
• Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World — Liaquat Ahamed (2009)
• Losing Mum and Pup: A Memoir — Christopher Buckley (2009)
• The Lost Child: A Mother’s Story — Julie Myerson (2009)
• The Lost City Of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon — David Grann (2009)
• Lost in the Meritocracy: The Undereducation of an Overachiever — Walter Kirn (2009)
• Louis D. Brandeis: A Life — Melvin I. Urofsky (2009)
• The Mercy Papers: A Memoir of Three Weeks — Robin Romm (2009)
• Methland: The Death and Life of an American Small Town — Nick Reding (2009)
• My Paper Chase: True Stories of Vanished Times — Harold Evans (2009)
• The Myth of the Rational Market: A History of Risk, Reward, and Delusion on Wall Street — Justin Fox (2009)
• Open: An Autobiography — Andre Agassi (2009)
• A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster — Rebecca Solnit (2009)
• Raymond Carver: A Writer's Life — Carol Sklenicka (2009)
• Satchel: The Life and Times of an American Legend — Larry Tye (2009)
• Securing the City: Inside America’s Best Counterterror Force — the NYPD — Christopher Dickey (2009)
• Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry Into the Value of Work — Matthew B. Crawford (2009)
• The Strangest Man: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Mystic of the Atom — Graham Farmelo (2009)
• Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original — Robin D. G. Kelley (2009)
• The Third Reich at War — Richard J. Evans (2009)
• The Weight of a Mustard Seed: The Intimate Story of an Iraqi General and His Family During Thirty Years of Tyranny — Wendell Steavenson (2009)
• When Everything Changed: The Amazing Journey of American Women From 1960 to the Present — Gail Collins (2009)
• Why This World: A Biography of Clarice Lispector — Benjamin Moser (2009)
• The Wilderness Warrior: Theodore Roosevelt and the Crusade for America — Douglas Brinkley (2009)
• Worse Than War: Genocide, Eliminationism, and the Ongoing Assault on Humanity — Daniel Jonah Goldhagen (2009)
• Yours Ever: People and Their Letters — Thomas Mallon (2009)
• Zeitoun — Dave Eggers (2009)

Original list ↗

• Nothing to Be Frightened Of — Julian Barnes (2008)
• 2666 — Roberto Bolaño (2008)
• This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War — Drew Gilpin Faust (2008)
• The Forever War — Dexter Filkins (2008)
• The World Is What It Is: The Authorized Biography of V. S. Naipaul — Patrick French (2008)
• Unaccustomed Earth — Jhumpa Lahiri (2008)
• The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How The War on Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals — Jane Mayer (2008)
• Dangerous Laughter: 13 Stories — Steven Millhauser (2008)
• A Mercy — Toni Morrison (2008)
• Netherland — Joseph O'Neill (2008)

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• American Wife — Curtis Sittenfeld (2008)
• Atmospheric Disturbances — Rivka Galchen (2008)
• Bass Cathedral — Nathaniel Mackey (2008)
• Beautiful Children — Charles Bock (2008)
• Beijing Coma — Ma Jian (2008)
• A Better Angel: Stories — Chris Adrian (2008)
• Black Flies — Shannon Burke (2008)
• The Blue Star — Tony Earley (2008)
• The Boat — Nam Le (2008)
• Breath — Tim Winton (2008)
• Dangerous Laughter: 13 Stories — Steven Millhauser (2008)
• Dear American Airlines — Jonathan Miles (2008)
• Diary Of A Bad Year — J. M. Coetzee (2008)
• Dictation: A Quartet — Cynthia Ozick (2008)
• Elegy: Poems — Mary Jo Bang (2008)
• The English Major — Jim Harrison (2008)
• Fanon — John Edgar Wideman (2008)
• The Finder — Colin Harrison (2008)
• Fine Just The Way It Is: Wyoming Stories 3 — Annie Proulx (2008)
• The Good Thief — Hannah Tinti (2008)
• Half Of The World In Light: New and Selected Poems — Juan Felipe Herrera (2008)
• His Illegal Self — Peter Carey (2008)
• Home — Marilynne Robins (2008)
• Indignation — Philip Roth (2008)
• The Lazarus Project — Aleksandar Hemon (2008)
• Legend Of A Suicide — David Vann (2008)
• Life Class — Pat Barker (2008)
• Lush Life — Richard Price (2008)
• A Mercy — Toni Morrison (2008)
• Modern Life: Poems — Matthea Harvey (2008)
• A Most Wanted Man — John le Carré (2008)
• My Revolutions — Hari Kunzru (2008)
• Netherland — Joseph O'Neill (2008)
• Opal Sunset: Selected Poems, 1958-2008 — Clive James (2008)
• The Other — David Guterson (2008)
• Our Story Begins: New and Selected Stories — Tobias Wolff (2008)
• The Road Home — Rose Tremain (2008)
• The Sacred Book Of The Werewolf — Victor Pelevin (2008)
• The School On Heart’s Content Road — Carolyn Chute (2008)
• Sir Gawain And The Green Knight: A New Verse Translation — Simon Armitage (2008)
• Sleeping It Off In Rapid City: Poems, New and Selected — August Kleinzahler (2008)
• Telex From Cuba — Rachel Kushner (2008)
• 2666 — Roberto Bolaño (2008)
• Unaccustomed Earth — Jhumpa Lahiri (2008)
• The Unfortunates — B. S. Johnson (2008)
• When Will There Be Good News? — Kate Atkinson (2008)
• The Widows Of Eastwick — John Updike (2008)
• Yesterday’s Weather — Anne Enright (2008)
• American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House — Jon Meacham (2008)
• Angler: The Cheney Vice Presidency — Barton Gellman (2008)
• Bacardi And The Long Fight For Cuba: The Biography of a Cause — Tom Gjelten (2008)
• The Big Sort: Why the Clustering of Like-Minded America Is Tearing Us Apart — Bill Bishop with Robert G. Cushing (2008)
• Blood Matters: From Inherited Illness to Designer Babies, How the World and I Found Ourselves in the Future of the Gene — Masha Gessen (2008)
• Capitol Men: The Epic Story of Reconstruction Through the Lives of the First Black Congressmen — Philip Dray (2008)
• The Challenge: Hamdan v. Rumsfeld and the Fight Over Presidential Power — Jonathan Mahler (2008)
• Champlain’s Dream — David Hackett Fischer (2008)
• Chasing The Flame: Sergio Vieira de Mello and the Fight to Save the World — Samantha Power (2008)
• Condoleezza Rice. An American Life: A Biography — Elisabeth Bumiller (2008)
• The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How The War on Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals — Jane Mayer (2008)
• Delta Blues: The Life and Times of the Mississippi Masters Who Revolutionized American Music — Ted Gioia (2008)
• Descartes’ Bones: A Skeletal History of the Conflict Between Faith and Reason — Russell Shorto (2008)
• Dreams And Shadows: The Future of the Middle East — Robin Wright (2008)
• The Drunkard’s Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives — Leonard Mlodinow (2008)
• An Exact Replica Of A Figment Of My Imagination: A Memoir — Elizabeth McCracken (2008)
• Factory Girls: From Village to City in a Changing China — Leslie T. Chang (2008)
• The Forever War — Dexter Filkins (2008)
• Freedom’s Battle: The Origins of Humanitarian Intervention — Gary J. Bass (2008)
• A Great Idea At The Time: The Rise, Fall, and Curious Afterlife of the Great Books — Alex Beam (2008)
• Hallelujah Junction: Composing an American Life — John Adams (2008)
• The Hemingses Of Monticello: An American Family — Annette Gordon-Reed (2008)
• Hot, Flat, And Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution — and How It Can Renew America — Thomas L. Friedman (2008)
• The House At Sugar Beach: In Search of a Lost African Childhood — Helene Cooper (2008)
• How Fiction Works — James Wood (2008)
• Moral Clarity: A Guide for Grown-Up Idealists — Susan Neiman (2008)
• The Night Of The Gun: A Reporter Investigates the Darkest Story of His Life. His Own — David Carr (2008)
• Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America — Rick Perlstein (2008)
• Nothing to Be Frightened Of — Julian Barnes (2008)
• Nureyev: The Life — Julie Kavanagh (2008)
• Pictures At A Revolution: Five Movies and the Birth of the New Hollywood — Mark Harris (2008)
• The Post-american World — Fareed Zakaria (2008)
• Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions — Dan Ariely (2008)
• The Race Card: How Bluffing About Bias Makes Race Relations Worse — Richard Thompson Ford (2008)
• Retribution: The Battle for Japan, 1944-45 — Max Hastings (2008)
• A Secular Age — Charles Taylor (2008)
• Shakespeare’s Wife — Germaine Greer (2008)
• The Superorganism: The Beauty, Elegance, and Strangeness of Insect Societies — Bert Hölldobler and Edward O. Wilson (2008)
• Tell Me How This Ends: General David Petraeus and the Search for a Way Out of Iraq — Linda Robinson (2008)
• The Ten-cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How It Changed America — David Hajdu (2008)
• They Knew They Were Right: The Rise of the Neocons — Jacob Heilbrunn (2008)
• This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War — Drew Gilpin Faust (2008)
• The Three Of Us: A Family Story — Julia Blackburn (2008)
• Thrumpton Hall: A Memoir of Life in My Father’s House — Miranda Seymour (2008)
• Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do (And What It Says About Us) — Tom Vanderbilt (2008)
• The Trillion Dollar Meltdown: Easy Money, High Rollers, and the Great Credit Crash — Charles R. Morris (2008)
• A Voyage Long And Strange: Rediscovering the New World — Tony Horwitz (2008)
• Waking Giant: America in the Age of Jackson — David S. Reynolds (2008)
• While They Slept: An Inquiry Into the Murder of a Family — Kathryn Harrison (2008)
• White Heat: The Friendship of Emily Dickinson and Thomas Wentworth Higginson — Brenda Wineapple (2008)
• The Wild Places — Robert Macfarlane (2008)
• The World Is What It Is: The Authorized Biography of V. S. Naipaul — Patrick French (2008)

Original list ↗

• The Savage Detectives — Roberto Bolaño (2007)
• Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone — Rajiv Chandrasekaran (2007)
• The Ordeal of Elizabeth Marsh: A Woman in World History — Linda Colley (2007)
• Then We Came to the End — Joshua Ferris (2007)
• Tree of Smoke: A Novel — Denis Johnson (2007)
• Little Heathens — Mildred Armstrong Kalish (2007)
• Out Stealing Horses — Per Petterson (2007)
• The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century — Alex Ross (2007)
• Man Gone Down: A Novel — Michael Thomas (2007)
• The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court — Jeffrey Toobin (2007)

Original list ↗

• The Abstinence Teacher — Tom Perrotta (2007)
• After Dark — Haruki Murakami (2007)
• The Bad Girl — Mario Vargas Llosa (2007)
• Bearing The Body — Ehud Havazelet (2007)
• The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears — Dinaw Mengestu (2007)
• Bridge Of Sighs — Richard Russo (2007)
• The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao — Junot Díaz (2007)
• Call Me By Your Name — André Aciman (2007)
• Cheating At Canasta — William Trevor (2007)
• The Collected Poems, 1956-1998 — Zbigniew Herbert (2007)
• Dancing To “Almendra” — Mayra Montero (2007)
• Exit Ghost — Philip Roth (2007)
• Falling Man — Don DeLillo (2007)
• Fellow Travelers — Thomas Mallon (2007)
• A Free Life — Ha Jin (2007)
• The Gathering — Anne Enright (2007)
• Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows — J. K. Rowling (2007)
• House Lights — Leah Hager Cohen (2007)
• House Of Meetings — Martin Amis (2007)
• In The Country Of Men — Hisham Matar (2007)
• The Indian Clerk — David Leavitt (2007)
• Knots — Nuruddin Farah (2007)
• Later, At The Bar: A Novel in Stories — Rebecca Barry (2007)
• Let The Northern Lights Erase Your Name — Vendela Vida (2007)
• Like You’d Understand, Anyway: Stories — Jim Shepard (2007)
• Man Gone Down: A Novel — Michael Thomas (2007)
• Matrimony — Joshua Henkin (2007)
• The Maytrees — Annie Dillard (2007)
• The Ministry Of Special Cases — Nathan Englander (2007)
• Mothers And Sons: Stories — Colm Toibin (2007)
• Next Life — Rae Armantrout (2007)
• On Chesil Beach — Ian McEwan (2007)
• Out Stealing Horses — Per Petterson (2007)
• The Reluctant Fundamentalist — Mohsin Hamid (2007)
• Remainder — Tom McCarthy (2007)
• The Savage Detectives — Roberto Bolaño (2007)
• Selected Poems — Derek Walcott (2007)
• The Septembers Of Shiraz — Dalia Sofer (2007)
• Shortcomings — Adrian Tomine (2007)
• Sunstroke: And Other Stories — Tessa Hadley (2007)
• Then We Came to the End — Joshua Ferris (2007)
• Throw Like A Girl: Stories — Jean Thompson (2007)
• Time And Materials: Poems, 1997-2005 — Robert Hass (2007)
• Tree of Smoke — Denis Johnson (2007)
• Twenty Grand: And Other Tales of Love and Money — Rebecca Curtis (2007)
• Varieties Of Disturbance: Stories — Lydia Davis (2007)
• The View From Castle Rock: Stories — Alice Munro (2007)
• What Is The What. The Autobiography of Valentino Achak Deng: A Novel — Dave Eggers (2007)
• Winterton Blue — Trezza Azzopardi (2007)
• The Yiddish Policemen’s Union — Michael Chabon (2007)
• Agent Zigzag: A True Story of Nazi Espionage, Love, and Betrayal — Ben Macintyre (2007)
• Alexis De Tocqueville: A Life — Hugh Brogan (2007)
• Alice: Alice Roosevelt Longworth, From White House Princess to Washington Power Broker — Stacy A. Cordery (2007)
• American Creation: Triumphs and Tragedies at the Founding of the Republic — Joseph J. Ellis (2007)
• The Argument: Billionaires, Bloggers, and the Battle to Remake Democratic Politics — Matt Bai (2007)
• Arsenals Of Folly: The Making of the Nuclear Arms Race — Richard Rhodes (2007)
• The Art Of Political Murder: Who Killed the Bishop? — Francisco Goldman (2007)
• Brother, I’m Dying — Edwidge Danticat (2007)
• Circling My Mother — Mary Gordon (2007)
• Cleopatra’s Nose: 39 Varieties of Desire — Judith Thurman (2007)
• Cultural Amnesia: Necessary Memories From History and the Arts — Clive James (2007)
• The Day Of Battle: The War in Sicily and Italy, 1943-1944. Volume Two of the Liberation Trilogy — Rick Atkinson (2007)
• The Diana Chronicles — Tina Brown (2007)
• The Discovery Of France: A Historical Geography From the Revolution to the First World War — Graham Robb (2007)
• Down The Nile: Alone in a Fisherman’s Skiff — Rosemary Mahoney (2007)
• Driven Out: The Forgotten War Against Chinese Americans — Jean Pfaelzer (2007)
• Due Considerations: Essays and Criticism — John Updike (2007)
• Easter Everywhere: A Memoir — Darcey Steinke (2007)
• Edith Wharton — Hermione Lee (2007)
• The Father Of All Things: A Marine, His Son, and the Legacy of Vietnam — Tom Bissell (2007)
• The Florist’s Daughter — Patricia Hampl (2007)
• Foreskin’s Lament: A Memoir — Shalom Auslander (2007)
• Gomorrah: A Personal Journey Into the Violent International Empire of Naples’ Organized Crime System — Roberto Saviano (2007)
• The House That George Built: With a Little Help From Irving, Cole, and a Crew of About Fifty — Wilfrid Sheed (2007)
• How Doctors Think — Jerome Groopman (2007)
• How To Read The Bible: A Guide to Scripture, Then and Now — James L. Kugel (2007)
• How To Talk About Books You Haven’t Read — Pierre Bayard (2007)
• Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone — Rajiv Chandrasekaran (2007)
• The Invisible Cure: Africa, the West, and the Fight Against AIDS — Helen Epstein (2007)
• Legacy Of Ashes: The History of the CIA — Tim Weiner (2007)
• Leni: The Life and Work of Leni Riefenstahl — Steven Bach (2007)
• Leonard Woolf: A Biography — Victoria Glendinning (2007)
• A Life Of Picasso: The Triumphant Years, 1917-1932 — John Richardson (2007)
• Little Heathens — Mildred Armstrong Kalish (2007)
• A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier — Ishmael Beah (2007)
• The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court — Jeffrey Toobin (2007)
• The Ordeal of Elizabeth Marsh: A Woman in World History — Linda Colley (2007)
• Portrait Of A Priestess: Women and Ritual in Ancient Greece — Joan Breton Connelly (2007)
• Ralph Ellison: A Biography — Arnold Rampersad (2007)
• The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century — Alex Ross (2007)
• Schulz And Peanuts: A Biography — David Michaelis (2007)
• Service Included: Four-Star Secrets of an Eavesdropping Waiter — Phoebe Damrosch (2007)
• Soldier’s Heart: Reading Literature Through Peace and War at West Point — Elizabeth D. Samet (2007)
• Stanley: The Impossible Life of Africa’s Greatest Explorer — Tim Jeal (2007)
• The Stillborn God: Religion, Politics, and the Modern West — Mark Lilla (2007)
• Thomas Hardy — Claire Tomalin (2007)
• Too Close To The Sun: The Audacious Life and Times of Denys Finch Hatton — Sara Wheeler (2007)
• Two Lives: Gertrude and Alice — Janet Malcolm (2007)
• The Whisperers: Private Life in Stalin’s Russia — Orlando Figes (2007)
• The Years Of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939-1945 — Saul Friedländer (2007)

Original list ↗

• The Lay of the Land — Richard Ford (2006)
• The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel — Amy Hempel (2006)
• The Emperor's Children — Claire Messud (2006)
• Special Topics in Calamity Physics — Marisha Pessl (2006)
• Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War — Nathaniel Philbrick (2006)
• The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals — Michael Pollan (2006)
• Absurdistan — Gary Shteyngart (2006)
• The Places In Between — Rory Stewart (2006)
• Falling Through the Earth: A Memoir — Danielle Trussoni (2006)
• The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 — Lawrence Wright (2006)

Original list ↗

• Absurdistan — Gary Shteyngart (2006)
• After This — Alice McDermott (2006)
• Against The Day — Thomas Pynchon (2006)
• Alentejo Blue — Monica Ali (2006)
• All Aunt Hagar's Children — Edward P. Jones (2006)
• Apex Hides The Hurt — Colson Whitehead (2006)
• Arthur And George — Julian Barnes (2006)
• Averno — Louise Glück (2006)
• Beasts Of No Nation — Uzodinma Iweala (2006)
• Black Swan Green — David Mitchell (2006)
• Brookland — Emily Barton (2006)
• Collected Poems, 1947-1997 — Allen Ginsberg (2006)
• The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel — Amy Hempel (2006)
• The Dead Fish Museum — Charles D’Ambrosio (2006)
• Digging To America — Anne Tyler (2006)
• The Dissident — Nell Freudenberger (2006)
• The Dream Life Of Sukhanov — Olga Grushin (2006)
• Eat The Document — Dana Spiotta (2006)
• The Echo Maker — Richard Powers (2006)
• The Emperor's Children — Claire Messud (2006)
• Everyman — Philip Roth (2006)
• Forgetfulness — Ward Just (2006)
• Gallatin Canyon: Stories — Thomas McGuane (2006)
• Gate Of The Sun — Elias Khoury (2006)
• Golden Country — Jennifer Gilmore (2006)
• Half Of A Yellow Sun — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (2006)
• High Lonesome: New & Selected Stories, 1966-2006 — Joyce Carol Oates (2006)
• The Inhabited World — David Long (2006)
• The Inheritance Of Loss — Kiran Desai (2006)
• Intuition — Allegra Goodman (2006)
• The Keep — Jennifer Egan (2006)
• Last Evenings On Earth — Roberto Bolaño (2006)
• The Lay of the Land — Richard Ford (2006)
• Lisey’s Story — Stephen King (2006)
• New And Collected Poems, 1964-2006 — Ishmael Reed (2006)
• Old Filth — Jane Gardam (2006)
• One Good Turn — Kate Atkinson (2006)
• Only Revolutions — Mark Z. Danielewski (2006)
• The Possibility Of An Island — Michel Houellebecq (2006)
• The Road — Cormac McCarthy (2006)
• Skinner’s Drift — Lisa Fugard (2006)
• Special Topics in Calamity Physics — Marisha Pessl (2006)
• The Stories Of Mary Gordon — Mary Gordon (2006)
• Strong Is Your Hold — Galway Kinnell (2006)
• Suite Française — Irène Némirovsky (2006)
• Terrorist — John Updike (2006)
• The Translator — Leila Aboulela (2006)
• Twilight Of The Superheroes — Deborah Eisenberg (2006)
• The Uses Of Enchantment — Heidi Julavits (2006)
• A Woman In Jerusalem — A. B. Yehoshua (2006)
• The Afterlife — Donald Antrim (2006)
• America At The Crossroads: Democracy, Power, and the Neoconservative Legacy — Francis Fukuyama (2006)
• Andrew Carnegie — David Nasaw (2006)
• At Canaan’s Edge: America in the King Years, 1965-68 — Taylor Branch (2006)
• Ava Gardner: “Love Is Nothing.” — Lee Server (2006)
• The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game — Michael Lewis (2006)
• Blood And Thunder: An Epic of the American West — Hampton Sides (2006)
• Blue Arabesque: A Search for the Sublime — Patricia Hampl (2006)
• Clemente: The Passion and Grace of Baseball’s Last Hero — David Maraniss (2006)
• Consider The Lobster: And Other Essays — David Foster Wallace (2006)
• The Courtier And The Heretic: Leibniz, Spinoza, and the Fate of God in the Modern World — Matthew Stewart (2006)
• The Discomfort Zone: A Personal History — Jonathan Franzen (2006)
• Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman’s Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia — Elizabeth Gilbert (2006)
• Falling Through the Earth: A Memoir — Danielle Trussoni (2006)
• Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq — Thomas E. Ricks (2006)
• Field Notes From A Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change — Elizabeth Kolbert (2006)
• Flaubert: A Biography — Frederick Brown (2006)
• Fun Home — Alison Bechdel (2006)
• The Ghost Map: The Story of London’s Most Terrifying Epidemic — and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World — Steven Johnson (2006)
• The Great Deluge: Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, and the Mississippi Gulf Coast — Douglas Brinkley (2006)
• The Greatest Story Ever Sold: The Decline and Fall of Truth From 9/11 to Katrina — Frank Rich (2006)
• Happiness: A History — Darrin M. McMahon (2006)
• Heat: An Amateur’s Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tuscany — Bill Buford (2006)
• Iran Awakening: A Memoir of Revolution and Hope — Shirin Ebadi with Azadeh Moaveni (2006)
• James Tiptree, Jr.: The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon — Julie Phillips (2006)
• Jane Goodall: The Woman Who Redefined Man — Dale Peterson (2006)
• Kate: The Woman Who Was Hepburn — William J. Mann (2006)
• Lee Miller: A Life — Carolyn Burke (2006)
• The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 — Lawrence Wright (2006)
• The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million — Daniel Mendelsohn (2006)
• Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War — Nathaniel Philbrick (2006)
• The Most Famous Man In America: The Biography of Henry Ward Beecher — Debby Applegate (2006)
• The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals — Michael Pollan (2006)
• Oracle Bones: A Journey Between China’s Past and Present — Peter Hessler (2006)
• The Places In Between — Rory Stewart (2006)
• Prisoners: A Muslim and a Jew Across the Middle East Divide — Jeffrey Goldberg (2006)
• Programming The Universe: A Quantum Computer Scientist Takes On the Cosmos — Seth Lloyd (2006)
• Queen Of Fashion: What Marie Antoinette Wore to the Revolution — Caroline Weber (2006)
• Reading Like A Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them — Francine Prose (2006)
• Redemption: The Last Battle of the Civil War — Nicholas Lemann (2006)
• Self-made Man: One Woman’s Journey Into Manhood and Back Again — Norah Vincent (2006)
• State Of Denial — Bob Woodward (2006)
• Strange Piece Of Paradise — Terri Jentz (2006)
• Sweet And Low: A Family Story — Rich Cohen (2006)
• Temptations Of The West: How to be Modern in India, Pakistan, Tibet, and Beyond — Pankaj Mishra (2006)
• Things I Didn’t Know: A Memoir — Robert Hughes (2006)
• Uncommon Carriers — John McPhee (2006)
• The United States Of Arugula: How We Became a Gourmet Nation — David Kamp (2006)
• The War Of The World: Twentieth-Century Conflict and the Descent of the West — Niall Ferguson (2006)
• The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl — Timothy Egan (2006)

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• The Year of Magical Thinking — Joan Didion (2005)
• Veronica — Mary Gaitskill (2005)
• The Lost Painting: The Quest for a Caravaggio Masterpiece — Jonathan Harr (2005)
• Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945 — Tony Judt (2005)
• Saturday — Ian McEwan (2005)
• Kafka on the Shore — Haruki Murakami (2005)
• The Assassins' Gate: America in Iraq — George Packer (2005)
• Prep — Curtis Sittenfeld (2005)
• On Beauty — Zadie Smith (2005)
• de Kooning: An American Master — Mark Stevens and Annalyn Swan (2005)

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• Beyond Black — Hilary Mantel (2005)
• A Changed Man — Francine Prose (2005)
• Collected Poems, 1943-2004 — Richard Wilbur (2005)
• Empire Rising — Thomas Kelly (2005)
• Envy — Kathryn Harrison (2005)
• Europe Central — William T. Vollmann (2005)
• Follies: New Stories — Ann Beattie (2005)
• Harry Potter And The Half-blood Prince — J. K. Rowling (2005)
• Home Land — Sam Lipsyte (2005)
• The Hot Kid — Elmore Leonard (2005)
• How We Are Hungry: Stories — Dave Eggers (2005)
• In Case We’re Separated: Connected Stories — Alice Mattison (2005)
• Indecision — Benjamin Kunkel (2005)
• Kafka on the Shore — Haruki Murakami (2005)
• Lunar Park — Bret Easton Ellis (2005)
• Maps For Lost Lovers — Nadeem Aslam (2005)
• The March — E. L. Doctorow (2005)
• Memories Of My Melancholy Whores — Gabriel Garcia Marquez (2005)
• Migration: New and Selected Poems — W. S. Merwin (2005)
• Missing Mom — Joyce Carol Oates (2005)
• Mission To America — Walter Kirn (2005)
• Mother’s Milk — Edward St. Aubyn (2005)
• Natural History: Poems — Dan Chiasson (2005)
• Never Let Me Go — Kazuo Ishiguro (2005)
• No Country For Old Men — Cormac McCarthy (2005)
• On Beauty — Zadie Smith (2005)
• Overlord: Poems — Jorie Graham (2005)
• The Painted Drum — Louise Erdrich (2005)
• Please Don’t Come Back From The Moon — Dean Bakopoulos (2005)
• Prep — Curtis Sittenfeld (2005)
• Saturday — Ian McEwan (2005)
• The Sea — John Banville (2005)
• Seven Types Of Ambiguity — Elliot Perlman (2005)
• Shalimar The Clown — Salman Rushdie (2005)
• Slow Man — J. M. Coetzee (2005)
• Star Dust — Frank Bidart (2005)
• The Successor — Ismail Kadare (2005)
• Towelhead — Alicia Erian (2005)
• Veronica — Mary Gaitskill (2005)
• The Accidental Masterpiece: On the Art of Life and Vice Versa — Michael Kimmelman (2005)
• Ahmad’s War, Ahmad’s Peace: Surviving Under Saddam, Dying in the New Iraq — Michael Goldfarb (2005)
• American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer — Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin (2005)
• Are Men Necessary? When Sexes Collide — Maureen Dowd (2005)
• Armageddon: The Battle for Germany, 1944-1945 — Max Hastings (2005)
• The Assassins' Gate: America in Iraq — George Packer (2005)
• The Beatles: The Biography — Bob Spitz (2005)
• Becoming Justice Blackmun: Harry Blackmun’s Supreme Court Journey — Linda Greenhouse (2005)
• Beyond Glory: Joe Louis vs. Max Schmeling, and a World on the Brink — David Margolick (2005)
• Boss Tweed: The Rise and Fall of the Corrupt Pol Who Conceived the Soul of Modern New York — Kenneth D. Ackerman (2005)
• Break, Blow, Burn — Camille Paglia (2005)
• Bury The Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire’s Slaves — Adam Hochschild (2005)
• Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed — Jared Diamond (2005)
• Conspiracy Of Fools: A True Story — Kurt Eichenwald (2005)
• de Kooning: An American Master — Mark Stevens and Annalyn Swan (2005)
• Dream Boogie: The Triumph of Sam Cooke — Peter Guralnick (2005)
• Elia Kazan: A Biography — Richard Schickel (2005)
• An End To Suffering: The Buddha in the World — Pankaj Mishra (2005)
• 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus — Charles C. Mann (2005)
• Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything — Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner (2005)
• Garbage Land: On the Secret Trail of Trash — Elizabeth Royte (2005)
• The Glass Castle: A Memoir — Jeannette Walls (2005)
• A Great Improvisation: Franklin, France, and the Birth of America — Stacy Schiff (2005)
• In Command Of History: Churchill Fighting and Writing the Second World War — David Reynolds (2005)
• Jean-jacques Rousseau: Restless Genius — Leo Damrosch (2005)
• John Kenneth Galbraith: His Life, His Politics, His Economics — Richard Parker (2005)
• Ladies And Gentlemen, The Bronx Is Burning: 1977, Baseball, Politics, and the Battle for the Soul of a City — Jonathan Mahler (2005)
• The Letters Of Robert Lowell — Robert Lowell (2005)
• Lincoln’s Melancholy — Joshua Wolf Shenk (2005)
• The Lost Painting: The Quest for a Caravaggio Masterpiece — Jonathan Harr (2005)
• Made In Detroit: A South of 8-Mile Memoir — Paul Clemens (2005)
• Mao: The Unknown Story — Jung Chang and Jon Halliday (2005)
• Mark Twain: A Life — Ron Powers (2005)
• Matisse The Master: A Life of Henri Matisse. The Conquest of Color, 1909-1954 — Hilary Spurling (2005)
• Mirror To America: The Autobiography of John Hope Franklin — John Hope Franklin (2005)
• New Art City — Jed Perl (2005)
• Night Draws Near: Iraq’s People in the Shadow of America’s War — Anthony Shadid (2005)
• Oh The Glory Of It All — Sean Wilsey (2005)
• Omaha Blues: A Memory Loop — Joseph Lelyveld (2005)
• 102 Minutes: The Untold Story of the Fight to Survive Inside the Twin Towers — Jim Dwyer and Kevin Flynn (2005)
• The Orientalist: Solving the Mystery of a Strange and Dangerous Life — Tom Reiss (2005)
• Our Inner Ape: A Leading Primatologist Explains Why We Are Who We Are — Frans de Waal (2005)
• Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945 — Tony Judt (2005)
• The Prince Of The City: Giuliani, New York and the Genius of American Life — Fred Siegel with Harry Siegel (2005)
• The Rise Of American Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln — Sean Wilentz (2005)
• The River Of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt’s Darkest Journey — Candice Millard (2005)
• 1776 — David McCullough (2005)
• Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife — Mary Roach (2005)
• The Survivor — John F. Harris (2005)
• A Tale Of Love And Darkness — Amos Oz (2005)
• Team Of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln — Doris Kearns Goodwin (2005)
• The Tender Bar: A Memoir — J. R. Moehringer (2005)
• Theatre Of Fish: Travels Through Newfoundland and Labrador — John Gimlette (2005)
• Tulia: Race, Cocaine, and Corruption in a Small Texas Town — Nate Blakeslee (2005)
• Vindication: A Life of Mary Wollstonecraft — Lyndall Gordon (2005)
• A War Like No Other: How the Athenians and Spartans Fought the Peloponnesian War — Victor Davis Hanson (2005)
• Warped Passages: Unraveling the Mysteries of the Universe’s Hidden Dimensions — Lisa Randall (2005)
• Without Apology: Girls, Women, and the Desire to Fight — Leah Hager Cohen (2005)
• Wodehouse: A Life — Robert McCrum (2005)
• The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century — Thomas L. Friedman (2005)
• The Year of Magical Thinking — Joan Didion (2005)

Original list ↗

• Alexander Hamilton — Ron Chernow (2004)
• Chronicles: Volume One — Bob Dylan (2004)
• Washington's Crossing — David Hackett Fischer (2004)
• Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare — Stephen Greenblatt (2004)
• War Trash — Ha Jin (2004)
• Runaway — Alice Munro (2004)
• Snow — Orhan Pamuk (2004)
• Gilead — Marilynne Robinson (2004)
• The Plot Against America — Philip Roth (2004)
• The Master — Colm Tóibín (2004)

Original list ↗

• Aloft — Chang-rae Lee (2004)
• The Amateur Marriage — Anne Tyler (2004)
• American Smooth: Poems — Rita Dove (2004)
• Bandbox — Thomas Mallon (2004)
• A Bit On The Side — William Trevor (2004)
• Cloud Atlas — David Mitchell (2004)
• Collected Poems — Donald Justice (2004)
• The Curse Of The Appropriate Man — Lynn Freed (2004)
• The Darling — Russell Banks (2004)
• The Falls — Joyce Carol Oates (2004)
• The First Desire — Nancy Reisman (2004)
• Four Souls — Louise Erdrich (2004)
• Gilead — Marilynne Robinson (2004)
• The Hamilton Case — Michelle de Kretser (2004)
• Harbor — Lorraine Adams (2004)
• Heir To The Glimmering World — Cynthia Ozick (2004)
• I Am Charlotte Simmons — Tom Wolfe (2004)
• The Inner Circle — T. Coraghessan Boyle (2004)
• The Jane Austen Book Club — Karen Joy Fowler (2004)
• Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell — Susanna Clarke (2004)
• The Lemon Table: Stories — Julian Barnes (2004)
• The Line of Beauty — Alan Hollinghurst (2004)
• Little Children — Tom Perrotta (2004)
• Magic Seeds — V. S Naipaul (2004)
• The Master — Colm Tóibín (2004)
• Men And Cartoons: Stories — Jonathan Lethem (2004)
• Natasha: And Other Stories — David Bezmozgis (2004)
• Oblivion: Stories — David Foster Wallace (2004)
• Our Kind — Kate Walbert (2004)
• The Persistence Of Memory — Tony Eprile (2004)
• The Plot Against America — Philip Roth (2004)
• The Prodigal — Derek Walcott (2004)
• Runaway — Alice Munro (2004)
• Snow — Orhan Pamuk (2004)
• The Stone That The Builder Refused — Madison Smartt Bell (2004)
• Sweet Land Stories — E. L. Doctorow (2004)
• Transmission — Hari Kunzru (2004)
• The Tyrant's Novel — Thomas Keneally (2004)
• An Unfinished Season — Ward Just (2004)
• Villages — John Updike (2004)
• Wake Up, Sir! — Jonathan Ames (2004)
• War Trash — Ha Jin (2004)
• After Such Knowledge: Memory, History, and the Legacy of the Holocaust — Eva Hoffman (2004)
• Against All Enemies: Inside America's War on Terror — Richard A. Clarke (2004)
• Alexander Hamilton — Ron Chernow (2004)
• American Dream: Three Women, Ten Kids, and a Nation's Drive to End Welfare — Jason DeParle (2004)
• The Americanization Of Benjamin Franklin — Gordon S. Wood (2004)
• The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution — Richard Dawkins (2004)
• Arc Of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age — Kevin Boyle (2004)
• At The Tomb Of The Inflatable Pig: Travels Through Paraguay — John Gimlette (2004)
• Beasts Of Eden: Walking Whales, Dawn Horses, and Other Enigmas of Mammal Evolution — David Rains Wallace (2004)
• Blue Blood — Edward Conlon (2004)
• Chain Of Command: The Road From 9/11 to Abu Ghraib — Seymour M. Hersh (2004)
• Chronicles: Volume One — Bob Dylan (2004)
• Dancing With Cuba: A Memoir of the Revolution — Alma Guillermoprieto (2004)
• Devil In The Mountain: A Search for the Origin of the Andes — Simon Lamb (2004)
• The Fabric Of The Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality — Brian Greene (2004)
• Father Joe: The Man Who Saved My Soul — Tony Hendra (2004)
• The Five Books Of Moses: A Translation With Commentary — Robert Alter (2004)
• Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and bin Laden, From the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001 — Steve Coll (2004)
• High Noon In The Cold War: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and the Cuban Missile Crisis — Max Frankel (2004)
• Hip: The History — John Leland (2004)
• His Brother's Keeper: A Story From the Edge of Medicine — Jonathan Weiner (2004)
• In The Shadow Of No Towers — Art Spiegelman (2004)
• The Island At The Center Of The World: The Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan and the Forgotten Colony That Shaped America — Russell Shorto (2004)
• Jerome Robbins: His Life, His Theater, His Dance — Deborah Jowitt (2004)
• John James Audubon: The Making of an American — Richard Rhodes (2004)
• The Life Of Graham Greene. Volume Three: 1955-1991 — Norman Sherry (2004)
• Life On The Outside: The Prison Odyssey of Elaine Bartlett — Jennifer Gonnerman (2004)
• The Missing Peace: The Inside Story of the Fight for Middle East Peace — Dennis Ross (2004)
• My Life — Bill Clinton (2004)
• Natalie Wood: A Life — Gavin Lambert (2004)
• The 9/11 Commission Report — National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States (2004)
• 1912: Wilson, Roosevelt, Taft & Debs — the Election That Changed the Country — James Chace (2004)
• Nuclear Terrorism: The Ultimate Preventable Catastrophe — Graham Allison (2004)
• On The Wing: To the Edge of the Earth With the Peregrine Falcon — Alan Tennant (2004)
• Osama: The Making of a Terrorist — Jonathan Randal (2004)
• The Outlaw Sea: A World of Freedom, Chaos, and Crime — William Langewiesche (2004)
• Out Of Gas: The End of the Age of Oil — David Goodstein (2004)
• Perilous Times: Free Speech in Wartime, From the Sedition Act of 1798 to the War on Terrorism — Geoffrey R. Stone (2004)
• Plan Of Attack — Bob Woodward (2004)
• Politics: Observations & Arguments, 1966-2004 — Hendrik Hertzberg (2004)
• The Price Of Loyalty: George W. Bush, the White House, and the Education of Paul O'neill — Ron Suskind (2004)
• Public Enemies: America's Greatest Crime Wave and the Birth of the Fbi, 1933-34 — Bryan Burrough (2004)
• Rising '44: The Battle for Warsaw — Norman Davies (2004)
• Rivers Of Gold: The Rise of the Spanish Empire, From Columbus to Magellan — Hugh Thomas (2004)
• Sontag & Kael: Opposites Attract Me — Craig Seligman (2004)
• Soul Made Flesh: The Discovery of the Brain — and How It Changed the World — Carl Zimmer (2004)
• Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar — Simon Sebag Montefiore (2004)
• Strangers: Homosexual Love in the Nineteenth Century — Graham Robb (2004)
• Surprise, Security, And The American Experience — John Lewis Gaddis (2004)
• The Surrender: An Erotic Memoir — Toni Bentley (2004)
• The Undressed Art: Why We Draw — Peter Steinhart (2004)
• Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson — Geoffrey C. Ward (2004)
• Up From Zero: Politics, Architecture, and the Rebuilding of New York — Paul Goldberger (2004)
• Washington Gone Crazy: Senator Pat McCarran and the Great American Communist Hunt — Michael J. Ybarra (2004)
• Washington's Crossing — David Hackett Fischer (2004)
• What's The Matter With Kansas? How Conservatives Won the Heart of America — Thomas Frank (2004)
• Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare — Stephen Greenblatt (2004)
• The Working Poor: Invisible in America — David K. Shipler (2004)

Original list ↗

• The Bounty: The True Story of the Mutiny on the Bounty — Caroline Alexander (2003)
• Brick Lane — Monica Ali (2003)
• Drop City — T. Coraghessan Boyle (2003)
• The Fortress of Solitude — Jonathan Lethem (2003)
• Khrushchev: The Man and His Era — William Taubman (2003)
• The Known World — Edward P. Jones (2003)
• Living to Tell the Tale — Gabriel García Márquez (2003)
• Random Family — Adrian Nicole LeBlanc (2003)
• Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self — Claire Tomalin (2003)

Original list ↗

• Anthony Blunt: His Lives — Miranda Carter (2002)
• Atonement — Ian McEwan (2002)
• Bad Blood — Lorna Sage (2002)
• Middlesex — Jeffrey Eugenides (2002)
• Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World — Margaret MacMillan (2002)
• Roscoe — William Kennedy (2002)
• Seeing in the Dark: How Backyard Stargazers Are Probing Deep Space and Guarding Earth from Interplanetary Peril — Timothy Ferris (2002)

Original list ↗

• Austerlitz — W.G. Sebald (2001)
• Borrowed Finery: A Memoir — Paula Fox (2001)
• The Corrections — Jonathan Franzen (2001)
• Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage — Alice Munro (2001)
• John Adams — David McCullough (2001)
• John Henry Days — Colson Whitehead (2001)
• The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America — Louis Menand (2001)
• True History of the Kelly Gang — Peter Carey (2001)
• Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood — Oliver Sacks (2001)

Original list ↗

• Being Dead — Jim Crace (2000)
• Beowulf — Anonymous; translated by Seamus Heaney (2000)
• Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters — Matt Ridley (2000)
• Gertrude and Claudius — John Updike (2000)
• A Heartbreaking Work Of Staggering Genius: A Memoir Based on a True Story — Dave Eggers (2000)
• The Human Stain — Philip Roth (2000)
• One Palestine, Complete: Jews and Arabs Under the British Mandate — Tom Segev (2000)
• Rimbaud: A Biography — Graham Robb (2000)
• Way Out There In the Blue: Reagan, Star Wars and the End of the Cold War — Frances FitzGerald (2000)
• White Teeth — Zadie Smith (2000)

Original list ↗

• An Affair of State: The Investigation, Impeachment, and Trial of President Clinton — Richard A. Posner (1999)
• Close Range: Wyoming Stories — Annie Proulx (1999)
• Coleridge: Darker Reflections, 1804-1834 — Richard Holmes (1999)
• Disgrace — J. M. Coetzee (1999)
• The Feeling of What Happens: Body and Emotion in the Making of Consciousness — Antonio Damasio (1999)
• The First World War — John Keegan (1999)
• Headlong — Michael Frayn (1999)
• Morgan: American Financier — Jean Strouse (1999)
• Reading the Holocaust — Inga Clendinnen (1999)
• Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of Colette — Judith Thurman (1999)
• A Star Called Henry — Roddy Doyle (1999)

Original list ↗

• Birds of America — Lorrie Moore (1998)
• Cloudsplitter — Russell Banks (1998)
• Life: A Natural History of the First Four Billion Years of Life on Earth — Richard Fortey (1998)
• The Love of a Good Woman — Alice Munro (1998)
• The Poisonwood Bible — Barbara Kingsolver (1998)
• Preston Falls — David Gates (1998)
• Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr. — Ron Chernow (1998)
• To End a War — Richard Holbrooke (1998)
• The Unknown Matisse — Hilary Spurling (1998)
• Victor Hugo: A Biography — Graham Robb (1998)
• We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will be Killed With Our Families: Stories from Rwanda — Philip Gourevitch (1998)

Original list ↗

• My Brilliant Friend — Elena Ferrante · #1
• The Warmth of Other Suns — Isabel Wilkerson · #2
• Wolf Hall — Hilary Mantel · #3
• The Known World — Edward P. Jones · #4
• The Corrections — Jonathan Franzen · #5
• 2666 — Roberto Bolaño · #6
• The Underground Railroad — Colson Whitehead · #7
• Austerlitz — W.G. Sebald · #8
• Never Let Me Go — Kazuo Ishiguro · #9
• Gilead — Marilynne Robinson · #10
• The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao — Junot Díaz · #11
• The Year of Magical Thinking — Joan Didion · #12
• The Road — Cormac McCarthy · #13
• Outline — Rachel Cusk · #14
• Pachinko — Min Jin Lee · #15
• The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay — Michael Chabon · #16
• The Sellout — Paul Beatty · #17
• Lincoln in the Bardo — George Saunders · #18
• Say Nothing — Patrick Radden Keefe · #19
• Erasure — Percival Everett · #20
• Evicted — Matthew Desmond · #21
• Behind the Beautiful Forevers — Katherine Boo · #22
• Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage — Alice Munro · #23
• The Overstory — Richard Powers · #24
• Random Family — Adrian Nicole LeBlanc · #25
• Atonement — Ian McEwan · #26
• Americanah — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie · #27
• Cloud Atlas — David Mitchell · #28
• The Last Samurai — Helen DeWitt · #29
• Sing, Unburied, Sing — Jesmyn Ward · #30
• White Teeth — Zadie Smith · #31
• The Line of Beauty — Alan Hollinghurst · #32
• Salvage the Bones — Jesmyn Ward · #33
• Citizen — Claudia Rankine · #34
• Fun Home — Alison Bechdel · #35
• Between the World and Me — Ta-Nehisi Coates · #36
• The Years — Annie Ernaux · #37
• The Savage Detectives — Roberto Bolaño · #38
• A Visit from the Goon Squad — Jennifer Egan · #39
• H Is for Hawk — Helen Macdonald · #40
• Small Things Like These — Claire Keegan · #41
• A Brief History of Seven Killings — Marlon James · #42
• Postwar — Tony Judt · #43
• The Fifth Season — N.K. Jemisin · #44
• The Argonauts — Maggie Nelson · #45
• The Goldfinch — Donna Tartt · #46
• A Mercy — Toni Morrison · #47
• Persepolis — Marjane Satrapi · #48
• The Vegetarian — Han Kang · #49
• Trust — Hernan Diaz · #50
• Life After Life — Kate Atkinson · #51
• Train Dreams — Denis Johnson · #52
• Runaway — Alice Munro · #53
• Tenth of December — George Saunders · #54
• The Looming Tower — Lawrence Wright · #55
• The Flamethrowers — Rachel Kushner · #56
• Nickel and Dimed — Barbara Ehrenreich · #57
• Stay True — Hua Hsu · #58
• Middlesex — Jeffrey Eugenides · #59
• Heavy — Kiese Laymon · #60
• Demon Copperhead — Barbara Kingsolver · #61
• 10:04 — Ben Lerner · #62
• Veronica — Mary Gaitskill · #63
• The Great Believers — Rebecca Makkai · #64
• The Plot Against America — Philip Roth · #65
• We the Animals — Justin Torres · #66
• Far from the Tree — Andrew Solomon · #67
• The Friend — Sigrid Nunez · #68
• The New Jim Crow — Michelle Alexander · #69
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