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  • Run - Ann Patchett
  • ​Siracusa - Delia Ephron
  • Swing Time - Zadie Smith
  • Harmony - Carolyn Parkhurst
  • ​Another Brooklyn - Jacqueline Woodson
  • The Wonder - ​​Emma Donoghue
  • ​The Way to the Spring - Ben Ehrenreich
  • The Widower's Wife - ​Cate Holahan
  • ​​Raven Black - Ann Cleeves
  • Border Child - ​Michel Stone
  • News of the World - Paulette Jiles
  • The Moth Catcher - Ann Reeves
  • The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu - Joshua Hammer
  • The Girl from Venice - Martin Cruz Smith
  • ​Behold the Dreamers - Imbolo Mbue
  • Conclave - ​Robert Harris
  • The Last Watchman of Old Cairo - Michael David Lukas
  • Happiness - ​Aminatta Forna
  • Small Great Things - Jodi Picoult
  • This is How it Always Is - Laurie Frankel
  • Barkskins - Annie Proulx
  • They May Not Mean to But They Do - Cathleen Schine
  • The Underground Railroad - Colson Whitehead
  • Waking Lions - Ayelet Gundar-Goshen
  • Sleeping on Jupiter - Anuradha Roy
  • A Thousand Naked Strangers - Kevin Hazzard
  • Earthly Remains - Donna Leon
  • Girl With a Camera - Carolyn Meyer
  • A Separation - Katie Kitamura
  • Defectors - Joseph Konrad
  • Leopard at the Door - Jennifer McVeigh
  • Lilli de Jong - Janet Benton
  • Anything Is Possible - Elizabeth Strout
  • Exit West - Moshin Hamid
  • The Burning Girl - Claire Messud
  • Still Here - Lara Vapnyar
  • Young Jane Young - Gabrielle Zevin
  • Today Will be Different - Maria Semple
  • A Gentleman in Moscow - Amor Towles
  • Sing, Unburied, Sing - Jesmyn Ward
  • The Fortunate Ones - Ellen Umansky
  • Bears in the Streets - Lisa Dickey
  • Live From Cairo - Ian Bassingthwaighte
  • The Man in the Wooden Hat - Jane Gardem​
  • ​Quiet Until the Thaw - ​​​​​Alexandra Fuller
  • Manhattan Beach - Jennifer Egan
  • A Piece of the World - Christina Baker Kline
  • A Man Called Ove - Fredrik Backman
  • A Good Country - Laleh Khadivi
  • Stay With Me - Ayobami Adebayo
  • There Your Heart Lies - Mary Gordon
  • A State of Freedom - Neel Mukherjee
  • Victoria - Daisy Goodwin
  • No Time to Spare - Ursula Le Guin
  • Beautiful Animals - Lawrence Osborne
  • ​The Friend- Sigrid Nunez​
  • The Almost Sisters - Joshilyn Jackson
  • The Origin of Other - Toni Morrison
  • Beartown - Fredrik Backman 
  • The Round House - Louise Erdich
  • Sunday Silence - ​​​​​Nicci French
  • Hillbilly Elegy - J.D. Vance
  • Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine - Gail Honeyman
  • All Grown Up - Jami Attenberg
  • The Good Daughter - Karin Slaughter
  • The Unforgotten - Laura Powell
  • Salt Houses - Hala Alyan
  • The Neighborhood - Mario Vargas Llosa
  • The Golden House - Salman Rushdie
  • The Perfect Mother - Aimee Molloy
  • Homegoing - Yua Gyasi
  • The Ninth Hour - Alice McDermott
  • The Confusion of Languages - Siobhan Fallon
  • The Wife Between Us - Sarah Pekkanan and Greer Hendricks
  • The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane - ​Lisa See
  • Murder on the Left Bank - ​Cara Black
  • Less - ​Andrew Sean Greer
  • The Balcony - ​Jane Delury
  • Asymmetry - Lisa Halliday
  • Sunburn - Laura LipmanReview 85 - A Long Way From Home
  • White Houses - Amy Bloom
  • Barracoon - Zora Neale Hurston
  • The Draining Lake - Arnaldur Indridason
  • The Day of the Dead - Nicci French
  • The Flight Attendant - Chris Bohajalian
  • A Long Way From Home - ​Peter Carey
  • Warlight - ​Michael Ondaatje
  • Gone So Long - ​Andre Dubus III
  • Baby Teeth - ​Zoje Stage
  • A Legacy of Spies - ​John Le Carre
  • Give Me Your Hand - ​Megan Abbott
  • The Secrets Between Us - ​Thrity Umrigar
  • The Epic City, The World on the Streets of Calcutta - ​Kushanava Choudbury
  • A Shout in the Ruins - ​Kevin Powers
  • The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye - ​David Lagercrantz
  • A Place for Us - ​Fatima Farbeen Mirza
  • ​Number One Chinese Restaurant - Lillian Li
  • The Final Solution; A Story of Detection - Michael Chabon
  • There, There - Tommy Orange
  • ​The Lost Girls of Camp Forevermore - Kim Fu
  • ​Washington Black - Esi Edugyan
  • ​House of Broken Angels - Luis Alberto Urrea
  • The Temptation of Forgiveness - Donna Leon
  • Unsheltered - Barbara Kingsolver
  • ​The Paragon Hotel - Lindsay Faye
  • To Die But Once - Jacqueline Winspear
  • ​The Weight of a Piano - Chris Cander
  • Major Pettigrew's Last Stand - Helen Simonson
  • How to Be Safe - Tom McAllister
  • The Uncoupling - Meg Wolitzer
  • The Quintland Sisters - Shelley Wood
  • Where the Crawdads Sing - Delia Owens
  • The Essex Serpent - Sarah Perry
  • The Traveling Cat Chronicles - Hiro Arikawa
  • The Age of Light - Whitney Sharer
  • To The Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf
  • Kingdom of the Blind - Louise Penny
  • Outside Looking In - T.C. Boyle
  • ​November Road - Lou Berney
  • The Storm - Ari Anwar
  • The Shadow Killer - Arnaldur Indridason
  • A Caravan of Brides - Kay Hardy Campbell
  • The Wife - Meg Wolitzer
  • Mala Vida - Marc Fernandez
  • The Traveling Cat Chronicles - Hiro Arikawa
  • The Lost Girls of Paris - Pam Jenoff
  • A Woman of No Importance - Sonia Purnell
  • Phantoms - Christian Kiefer
  • Educated - Tara Westover
  • Alternate Sides - Anna Quindlen
  • The Body in Question - Jill Ciment
  • The Lost Man - Jane Harper
  • Disappearing Earth - Julia Phillips
  • The Nickel Boys - Colson Whitehead
  • The World According to Fannie Davis - Bridgett M. Davis
  • Henry, Myself - Stewart O'Nan
  • Biloxi - Mary Miller
  • Cantoras - Carolina De Robertis
  • In the Full Light of the Sun- Claire Clark
  • Unquiet - Linn Ullmann
  • Still Lives - Maria Hummel
  • American Spy - Lauren Wilkinson
  • The Liar - Ayelet Gundar-Goshen
  • Degrees of Difficulty - Julie E. Justicz
  • Turbulence - David Szalay
  • The Island - Ragnar Jonasson
  • The Guest Book - Sarah Blake
  • Machines Like Me - Ian McEwan
  • The Electric Hotel - Dominic Smith
  • The Marriage of Opposites - Alice Hoffman
  • Rabbits for Food - Binnie Kirshenbaum
  • The Stationary Shop - Marjan Kamali
  • Patsy - Nicole Dennis-Benn
  • Lady Clementine - Marie Benedict
  • No One Knows - J.T. Ellison
  • The Accomplice - Joseph Kanon
  • The World That We Knew - Alice Hoffman
  • Travel Light, Move Fast - Alexandra Fuller
  • The Bluest Eye - Toni Morrison
  • The Chain -  Adrian McKinty
  • Whiskey When We're Dry - John Larison
  • Mrs. Sinclair's Suitcase - Louise Walters
  • Dorchester Terrace - Anne Perry
  • Circe - Madeline Miller
  • The Flight Portfolio (Part 1) - Julie Orringer
  • The Flight Portfolio (Part 2) - Julie Orringer
  • The Other Woman - Daniel Silva
  • Learning to See - Elise Hooper
  • The Library Book - Susan Orlean
  • Hiding in Plain Sight - Nuriddin Farah
  • The Tubman Command - Elizabeth Cobbs
  • Night Theater - Vikram Paralkar
  • Inheritance of Power: The House of Medici - Edward Charles
  • The Book of Daniel - E.L. Doctorow
  • The Ambassador's Daughter - Pam Jenoff
  • Emma - Alexander McCall Smith
  • Me Before You - JoJo Moyes
  • Maigret’s Pickpocket - Georges Simenon
  • The High Window - Raymond Chandler
  • On Chesil Beach - Ian McEwan
  • The Good German - Joseph Kanon
  • The Stories of Eva Luna - Isabel Allende
  • The Dry - Jane Harper
  • Dear Edward - Ann Napolitano
  • A Spark of Light - Jody Picoult
  • And After Many Days - Jowhor Lle
  • The Secret Chord - Geraldine Brooks
  • Akin - Emma Donoghue
  • The Kitchen God's Wife - Amy Tan
  • Where'd You Go Bernadette? - Maria Semple
  • Hysterical - Rebecca Coffey
  • Girl, Woman, Other - Bernardine Evaristo
  • Maigret and the Old People - Georges Simenon
  • A Live Coal in the Sea - Madeliene L'Engel​
  • Her Last Flight - Beatriz Williams
  • A Single Thread - Tracy Chevalier
  • H is for Hawk - Helen Macdonald
  • My Dear Hamilton - Stephanie Dray and Laura Kamoie
  • On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous - Ocean Vuong
  • Snow - John Banville
  • The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Becoming Jane Eyre - Sheila Kohler
  • Simon, the Fiddler - Paulette Giles
  • The Last Painting of Sara DeVos - Dominic Smith
  • Monogomy - Sue Miller
  • All The Devils - Louise Penny
  • Rules of Civility - Amor Towles
  • The Dressmaker - Kate Alcott
  • Hemmingway's Girl - Erika Robuck
  • At the Water's Edge - Sara Gruen
  • The Heart is a Lonely Hunter - Carson McCrullers
  • The Queen of Paris - Pamela Ewen
  • The Yellow House - Sarah M. Broom
  • The Engineer's Wife - Tracey Enerson Wood
  • Dear Life - Alice Munro
  • Amnesty - Aravind Adiga
  • The Sea - John Banville
  • We Ride Upon Sticks - Quan Barry
  • The Book of Unknown Americans - Cristina Henriquez
  • The Bitch - Pilar Quintana
  • The Boy in the Field - Margot Livesy
  • Sarah Jane - James Sallie
  • What Are You Going Through? - Sigrid Nunez
  • Nora Webster - Colm Toibin
  • The Pull of the Stars - Emma Donoghue
  • Chocolat - Joanne Harris​
  • The Death of Vivek Oji - Akwaeke Ejmezi
  • The Moment of Tenderness - Madeline L'Engle
  • The Silence - Don DeLillo
  • Zorrie - Laird Hunt
  • The Vanishing Half - Brit Bennett
  • Redhead by the Side of the Road - Anne Tyler
  • Three Hours in Paris - Cara Black
  • Infinite Country - Patricia Engel
  • Perestroika - Jane Smiley
  • Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick - Zora Neale Hurston
  • The Lost Apothecary - Sarah Penner
  • The Phone Booth at the Edge of the World - Laura Imai Messina
  • The Mountain Sings - Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai
  • The Best Man to Die - Ruth Rendell
  • The Photographer - Mary Dixie Carter
  • The Last Bookshop in London - Madeline Martin
  • The Glovemaker - Ann Weisgarber
  • Stargazer - Anne Hillerman
  • The Arctic Fury - Greer Macallister
  • The Color of Air - Gail Tsukiyama
  • Better Luck Next Time - Julia Claiborne Johnson
  • Ethel Rosenberg—An American Tragedy - Anne Sebba
  • The Woman with the Blue Star - Pam Jenoff
  • Girl in Disguise - Greer Macallister
  • The Bohemians - Jasmin Darznik
  • The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek - Kim Michele Richardson
  • When the Stars Go Dark - Paula McLain
  • Like Dust, I Rise - Ginny Rorby
  • Transient Desires - Donna Leon
  • Whereabouts -  Jhumpa Lahiri​
  • Kindred -  Octavia Butler
  • The Plot - Jean Hanff Korelitz
  • Shuggie Bain - Douglas Stuart
  • I Was Anastasia - Ariel Lawhon
  • ​Bewilderment - Richard Powers
  • ​The Chosen and the Beautiful - Nghi Vo
  • I'd Give Anything - Marisa de los Santos
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