Books Read 2010-
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Read in 2020
January 2020
1. Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams (longlisted for the 2020 Women's Prize)
2. Winter in Paradise by Elin Hilderbrand
3. City of Girls by Elizabeth Gilbert
4. The Lies We Told by Camilla Way
5. Topics of Conversation by Miranda Popkey
6. What Happens in Paradise by Elin Hilderbrand
7. Nothing to See Here by Kevin Wilson
8. Recipes for a Perfect Wife by Karma Brown
9. Tightrope by Nicholas Kristof & Sheryl WuDunn
10. Alone in the Wild by Kelley Armstrong
11. Good and Mad by Rebecca Traister
February 2020
12. All Adults Here by Emma Straub
13. The Gifted School by Bruce Holsinger
14. American Royals by Katharine McGee
15. Blessed Are Those Who Mourn by Kristi Belcamino
16. Island of the Lost by Joan Druett
17. The Pisces by Melissa Broder (longlisted for the 2020 Women's Prize)
18. His Favorites by Kate Walbert
19. Fake Like Me by Barbara Bourland
20. The Scent Keeper by Erica Bauermeister (a Hello Sunshine pick)
21. Saint X by Alexis Schaitkin
22. Friends and Strangers by J. Courtney Sullivan
23. Go To Sleep (I Miss You) by Lucy Knisley
March 2020
24. The Silent Patient by Alex Michealides
25. Blessed are the Peacemakers by Kristi Belcamino
26. How We Disappeared by Jing-Jing Lee (longlisted for the 2020 Women's Prize)
27. Girl by Edna O'Brien (longlisted for the 2020 Women's Prize)
28. Dominicana by Angie Cruz (longlisted for the 2020 Women's Prize)
29. Blessed are the Merciful by Kristi Belcamino
30. Nobody Will Tell You This But Me by Bess Kalb
31. First Cut by Judy Melinek and T.J. Mitchell
32. Untamed by Glennon Doyle
33. The Encyclopedia of Early Earth by Isabel Greenberg
34. Rodham by Curtis Sittenfeld
35. Everything is Teeth by Evie Wyld
April 2020
36. Severance by Ling Ma
37. Perfect Tunes by Emily Gould
38. Fair Warning by Michael Connelly
39. Valentine by Elizabeth Wetmore (longlisted for the 2020 First Novel Prize)
40. Pretty Things by Janelle Brown
41. Pollock Confidential by Onofrio Catacchio
42. I'll Eat When I'm Dead by Barbara Bourland
43. A Good Neighborhood by Therese Anne Fowler
May 2020
44. A Good Marriage by Kimberly McCreight
45. Intro to Alien Invasion by Owen King and Mark Jude Poirer
46. These Witches Don't Burn by Isabel Sterling
47. Stepping Stones by Lucy Knisley
Read in 2019
January 2019
1. Still Lives by Maria Hummel (a Hello Sunshine pick)
2. Blessed are the Dead by Kristi Belcamino
3. The Library Book by Susan Orlean (a Hello Sunshine pick)
4. Eat Only When You Are Hungry by Lindsay Hunter
5. Atomic Marriage by Curtis Sittenfeld
6. Little Labors by Rivka Galchen
7. The Other Woman by Sandie Jones (a Hello Sunshine pick)
8. The Truths We Hold by Kamala Harris
9. Land of Shadows by Rachel Howzell Hall
10. All You Can Ever Know by Nicole Chung
February 2019
11. The Proposal by Jasmine Guillory (a Hello Sunshine pick)
12. The Killer Collective by Barry Eisler
13. The Winter People by Jennifer McMahon
March 2019
14. Blood Oath by Linda Fairstein
15. Heartland by Sarah Smarsh
16. Daisy Jones & the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid (a Hello Sunshine pick)
April 2019
17. The Better Sister by Alafair Burke
18. Good Talk by Mira Jacob
19. Karamo by Karamo Brown
20. Save Me the Plums by Ruth Reichl
21. Evidence of the Affair by Taylor Jenkins Reid
22. An American Marriage by Tayari Jones (2018 National Book Award Longlist)
May 2019
23. Southern Lady Code by Helen Ellis
24. Fame Adjacent by Sarah Skilton
25. Why Don't You Write My Eulogy Now So I Can Correct It? by Patricia Marx & Roz Chast
26. Cribsheet by Emily Oster
27. Things My Son Needs to Know About the World by Fredrik Backman
28. The Kitchen by Ollie Masters
June 2019
29. Educated by Tara Westover
30. If I Die Tonight by Alison Gaylin
31. The Flatshare by Beth O'Leary
32. The Cactus by Sarah Haywood (a Hello Sunshine pick)
July 2019
33. And Now We Have Everything by Meghan O'Connell
34. Watcher in the Woods by Kelley Armstrong
35. The Whisper Network by Chandler Baker (a Hello Sunshine pick)
36. Three Women by Lisa Taddeo
37. Beautiful Bad by Annie Ward
38. Goldie Vance, Vol. 4 by Hope Larson
39. Ms. Marvel, Vol. 8: Mecca by G. Willow Wilson
40. Ms. Marvel, Vol. 9: Teenage Wasteland by G. Willow Wilson
41. Ms. Marvel, Vol. 10: Time and Again by G. Willow Wilson
42. The Wedding Party by Jasmine Guillory
43. Good Riddance by Elinor Lipman
44. Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs
45. The Weather Machine by Andrew Blum
46. Beasts of Extraordinary Circumstances by Ruth Emmie Lang
August 2019
47. When All Is Said by Anne Griffin
48. Women's Diaries of the Westward Journey by Lillian Schlissel
49. Queen of the Sea by Dylan Meconis
50. Shrill by Lindy West
51. Hello Girls by Brittany Cavallaro and Emily Henry
52. You've Been Volunteered by Laurie Gelman
September 2019
53. Blessed are the Meek by Kristi Belcamino
54. The Most Fun We Ever Had by Claire Lombardo (longlisted for the 2019 First Novel Prize and the 2020 Women's Prize)
55. Maybe in Another Life by Taylor Jenkins Reid
56. Evvie Drake Starts Over by Linda Holmes
57. Red, White & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston
58. Wild Game: My Mother, Her Lover, and Me by Adrienne Brodeur
59. All the Devils by Barry Eisler
60. Sabrina & Corina by Kali Fajardo-Anstine (2019 National Book Award longlist)
October 2019
61. The Secrets We Kept by Lara Prescott (a Hello Sunshine pick)
62. The Dutch House by Ann Patchett (longlisted for the 2020 Women's Prize)
63. Fair Play by Eve Rodsky (a Hello Sunshine pick)
64. All We Ever Wanted by Emily Giffin
65. The Girl Buried in the Woods by Robert Ellis
66. The Night Fire by Michael Connelly
November 2019
67. Life Undercover: Coming of Age in the CIA by Amaryllis Fox
68. The Witches Are Coming by Lindy West
69. Conviction by Denise Mina
70. How Chefs Holiday by Dana Cowin
71. Royal Holiday by Jasmine Guillory
72. You Can Thank Me Later by Kelly Harms
73. Making China Modern by Klaus Muhlhahn
74. Skies of Ash by Rachel Howzell Hall
75. The Beautiful Country and the Middle Kingdom by John Pomfret
76. Disappearing Earth by Julia Phillips (shortlisted for the 2019 First Novel Prize and the 2019 National Book Award)
77. Blessed Are Those Who Weep by Kristi Belcamino
December 2019
78. Aftermath by Rachel Cusk
79. A Gathering of Days by Joan W. Blos
80. Out to Work by Arianne Gaetano
81. Fleishman is in Trouble by Taffy Brodesser-Akner (longlisted for the 2019 National Book Award and the 2020 Women's Prize)
82. The Case of the Missing Men by Kris Bertin
83. Late Migrations by Margaret Renkl
84. This Is Not the Story You Think It Is by Laura Munson
85. Betraying Big Brother: The Feminist Awakening in China by Leta Hong Fincher
86. Where Should We Begin? The Arc of Love by Esther Perel
87. Long Bright River by Liz Moore
88. Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid
89. Dear Edward by Ann Napolitano
90. All This Could Be Yours by Jami Attenberg
91. Trust Exercise by Susan Choi (winner of the 2019 National Book Award)
92. I Am Not Your Slave by Tupa Tjipombo
Read in 2018
January 2018
1. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark (1001 Books to Read Before You Die)
2. The Best We Could Do by Thi Bui
3. The Music Shop by Rachel Joyce (January 2018 Book of the Month pick)
4. A Clean Kill in Tokyo by Barry Eisler
5. The Night Trade by Barry Eisler
6. Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan
7. The Rules Do Not Apply by Ariel Levy
8. The Wrong Way to Save Your Life by Megan Stielstra
9. Lucky Boy by Shanthi Sekaran (2018 Tournament of Books)
10. Sightseeing by Rattawut Lapcharoensap
February 2018
12. Me Before You by Jojo Moyes
12. Two Girls Down by Louisa Luna (January 2018 Book of the Month pick)
13. This Fallen Prey by Kelley Armstrong
14. After You by Jojo Moyes
15. Tangerine by Christine Manjan
16. The Perfect Mother by Aimee Molloy
17. Braving the Wilderness by Brene Brown
March 2018
18. As Bright as Heaven by Susan Meissner (January 2018 Book of the Month pick)
19. To Die but Once by Jacqueline Winspear
20. As Lie is to Grin by Simeon Marsalis (shortlisted for the 2017 First Novel Prize)
April 2018
21. Our Kind of Cruelty by Araminta Hall
22. See What I Have Done by Sarah Schmidt (longlisted for the 2018 Women's Prize)
May 2018
23. You Think It, I'll Say It by Curtis Sittenfeld
24. The Flight Attendant by Chris Bohjalian
25. The Wedding Date by Jasmine Guillory
26. The Prince and the Dressmaker by Jen Wang
27. Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng
June 2018
28. What You Want to See by Kristen Lepionka
29. Marriage Vacation by Pauline Turner Brooks (Jo Piazza)
30. The President is Missing by Bill Clinton and James Patterson
31. The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai
32. Daisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid
July 2018
33. The Golden State by Lydia Kiesling (longlisted for the 2018 First Novel Prize)
34. Still Me by Jojo Moyes
35. Bachelor Nation: Inside the World of America's Favorite Guilty Pleasure by Amy Kaufman
August 2018
36. When Katie Met Cassidy by Camille Perri
37. Sabrina by Nick Drnaso (longlisted for the 2018 First Novel Prize and the 2018 Booker Prize)
38. Trenton Makes by Tadzio Koelb (longlisted for the 2018 First Novel Prize)
39. An Anonymous Girl by Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen
October 2018
40. Almost Famous Women by Megan Mayhew Bergman
41. Girls on Fire by Robin Wasserman
42. The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, Vol. 1 by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa
November 2018
43. Dark Sacred Night by Michael Connelly
44. You Don't Own Me by Mary Higgins Clark & Alafair Burke
45. Tell Me More: Stories About the 12 Hardest Things I'm Trying to Say by Kelly Corrigan
46. I Might Regret This by Abbi Jacobson
47. Paperback Crush: The Totally Radical History of '80s and '90s Teen Fiction by Gabrielle Moss
48. Eeny Meeny by M.J. Arlidge
49. Kid Gloves by Lucy Knisley
December 2018
50. The Gilded Years by Karin Tanabe
51. Becoming by Michelle Obama
52. Mockingbird, Vol. 1 by Chelsea Cain
53. An American Agent by Jacqueline Winspear
54. One Day in December by Josie Silver
Read in 2017
January 2017
1. A Good Thief's Guide to Amsterdam by Chris Ewan
2. The Travelers by Chris Pavone
3. I'll Tell You In Person by Chloe Caldwell
4. The Vanishing Year by Kate Moretti
5. Black Wave by Michelle Tea (2017 Tournament of Books)
6. Grief is the Thing With Feathers by Max Porter (2017 Tournament of Books, winner of the 2016 Dylan Thomas Prize, and 2016 New York Times Notable Book)
7. Marlena by Julie Buntin
February 2017
8. Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk by Kathleen Rooney
9. The Mothers by Brit Bennett (2017 Tournament of Books and 2016 National Book Award 5 Under 35)
March 2017
10. What Remains of Me by Alison Gaylin (finalist for the 2017 Best Novel Edgar)
11. Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders
12. The Boy Who Loved Anne Frank by Ellen Feldman
13. Moral Defense by Marcia Clark
14. The Mare by Mary Gaitskill (longlisted for the 2017 Baileys Prize)
15. The Children by Ann Leary
April 2017
16. Little Deaths by Emma Flint (longlisted for the 2017 Baileys Prize)
17. Sightseeing by Rattawut Lapcharoensap
18. Difficult Women by Roxane Gay
19. First Love by Gwendoline Riley (shortlisted for the 2017 Baileys Prize)
20. Jane Steele by Lyndsay Faye (finalist for the 2017 Best Novel Edgar)
21. Hunger by Roxane Gay
22. Livia Lone by Barry Eisler
23. Startup by Doree Shafrir
24. The Last Neanderthal by Claire Cameron
May 2017
25. One Day We'll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter by Scaachi Koul
26. Sunshine State by Sarah Gerard
27. Into the Water by Paula Hawkins
28. Saints for All Occasions by J. Courtney Sullivan
29. Woman No. 17 by Edan Lepucki
30. The Late Show by Michael Connelly
31. All Grown Up by Jami Attenberg
32. Ms. Marvel: Vol. 6 Civil War II by G. Willow Wilson
June 2017
33. Goldie Vance Vol. 2 by Hope Larson
34. Priestdaddy by Patricia Lockwood
35. Deadfall by Linda Fairstein
36. Do Not Become Alarmed by Maile Meloy
37. Hello, Sunshine by Laura Dave
38. Made for Love by Alissa Nutting
39. Final Girls by Riley Sager
40. Chemistry by Weike Wang
July 2017
41. Juniper: The Girl Who Was Born Too Soon by Kelly Benham French and Thomas French
42. The Widow by Fiona Barton
43. The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid
44. Too Fat, Too Slutty, Too Loud by Anne Helen Petersen
45. What We Lose by Zinzi Clemmons
46. The Sisters Chase by Sarah Healy
47. White Fur by Jardine Libaire
48. A Separation by Katie Kitamura
49. A Stranger in the House by Shari Lapena
50. Goodbye, Vitamin by Rachel Khong
51. The Misfortune of Marion Palm by Emily Culliton
52. American Fire by Monica Hesse
53. The War Bride's Scrapbook by Caroline Preston
54. The Arrangement by Sarah Dunn
55. The Lucky Ones by Julianne Pachico (longlisted for the 2017 First Novel Prize)
August 2017
56. The Fall Guy by James Lasdun
57. Sugar by Kimberly Stuart
58. Fierce Kingdom by Gin Phillips
59. Paper Girls Vol. 1 by Brian K. Vaughan, Cliff Chiang, and Matthew Wilson
60. The Incest Diary by Anonymous
61. Aftercare Instructions by Bonnie Pipkin
62. In a Dark, Dark Wood by Ruth Ware
September 2017
63. Forever, Interrupted by Taylor Jenkins Reid
64. Amanda Woke Up by Alisyn Camerota
65. Ms. Marvel Vol. 7: Damage Per Second by G. Willow Wilson
66. Class Mom by Laurie Gelman
67. The Woman in Cabin 10 by Ruth Ware
October 2017
68. Famous and Almost Famous Women by Megan Mayhew Bergman (re-read)
69. Paper Girls Vol. 2 by Brian K. Vaughan, Cliff Chiang, and Matthew Wilson
70. Paper Girls Vol. 3 by Brian K. Vaughan, Cliff Chiang, and Matthew Wilson
71. Paper Girls #16 by Brian K. Vaughan, Cliff Chiang, and Matthew Wilson
72. A Sick Life by Tionne Watkins
73. Winter Solstice by Elin Hilderbrand
November 2017
74. The Last Place You Look by Kristen Lepionka
75. Origin by Dan Brown
76. Two Kinds of Truth by Michael Connelly
77. We're Going to Need More Wine by Gabrielle Union
78. Every Breath You Take by Mary Higgins Clark and Alafair Burke
79. Dear Martin by Nic Stone
80. Astray by Emma Donogue (re-read)
81. Going Into Town by Roz Chast
82. Are You Sleeping? by Kathleen Barber
83. The Wife by Alafair Burke
84. Explosion at Orly: The Disaster That Transformed Atlanta by Ann Uhry Abrams
85. Hourglass: Time, Memory, Marriage by Dani Shapiro
86. Emma in the Night by Wendy Walker
87. God: A Human History by Rexa Aslan
88. After I Do by Taylor Jenkins Reid
89. What Happened by Hillary Rodham Clinton
December 2017
90. The Wife Between Us by Greer Hendricks & Sarah Pekannen
91. The Chalk Man by C.J. Tudor
92. Jillian by Halle Butler (2017 National Book Award 5 Under 35 honoree)
93. The Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin
94. Goldie Vance Vol. 3 by Hope Larson
95. The Woman in the Window by A.J. Finn
96. Imagine Wanting Only This by Kristen Radtke
97. The Duchess Deal by Tessa Dare
98. Voices in the Dark by Ulli Lust
99. Christmas: A Biography by Judith Flanders
100. We Are Never Meeting in Real Life by Samantha Irby
101. The Last Black Unicorn by Tiffany Haddish
102. News of the World by Paulette Jiles (shortlisted for the 2016 National Book Award)
Read in 2016
January 2016
1. Mr. Splitfoot by Samantha Hunt
2. My Name Is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout (longlisted for the 2015 Baileys Prize)
3. Your Heart is a Muscle the Size of a Fist by Sunil Yapa
4. Good on Paper by Rachel Cantor
5. Thunder & Lightning: Weather Past, Present, Future by Lauren Redniss
6. The Expatriates by Janice Y.K. Lee
7. All Involved by Ryan Gattis
8. Journey to Munich by Jacqueline Winspear
9. Weathering by Lucy Wood
10. The Lie by Helen Dunmore (shortlisted for the 2015 Walter Scott Prize)
11. Plotted: A Literary Atlas by Andrew DeGraff and Daniel Harmon
12. Ms. Marvel: Volume 4 by G. Willow Wilson
13. Ban en Banlieue by Bhanu Kapil (2016 Tournament of Books)
14. The Whites by Harry Brandt (2016 Tournament of Books and 2015 New York Times Notable Book)
15. The Wilderness by Samantha Harvey (2009 Orange Prize shortlist)
16, Golden Age by Jane Smiley
February 2016
17. The Sellout by Paul Beatty (2015 NBCC Award finalist)
18. Bitch Planet by Kelly Sue DeConnick
19. Last Good Girl by Allison Leotta
20. The Turner House by Angela Flournoy (finalist for 2015 National Book Award)
21. Swans of Fifth Avenue by Melanie Benjamin
22. Ordinary Grace by William Kent Krueger (winner of the 2014 Edgar Award)
23. Bernie by Ted Rall
24. In Other Words by Jhumpa Lahiri
25. Radioactive by Lauren Redniss
26. The Guest Room by Chris Bohjalian
27. Undiscovered Country by Christina Koning (longlisted for the 1998 Orange Prize)
28. First Ladies by National Public Radio
29. Pregnant with the Stars by Renee Cramer
March 2016
30. Century Girl by Lauren Redniss
31. A Study in Charlotte by Brittany Cavallaro
32. The Book of Memory by Petina Gappah (longlisted for the 2016 Baileys Prize)
33. Eligible by Curtis Sittenfeld
34. The Hopefuls by Jennifer Close
April 2016
35. A Dictionary of Mutual Understanding by Jackie Copleton (longlisted for the 2016 Baileys Prize)
36. At the Edge of the Orchard by Tracy Chevalier
37. Rich and Pretty by Rumaan Alam
38. The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto by Mitch Albom
39. The Clasp by Sloane Crosley
40. The Improbability of Love by Hannah Rothschild (shortlisted for the 2016 Baileys Prize)
41. Roller Girl by Victoria Jamieson
May 2016
42. 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl by Mona Awad
43. Love, Loss and What We Ate by Padma Lakshmi
44. Killer Look by Linda Fairstein
45. Sweetbitter by Stephanie Danler
46. Luckiest Girl Alive by Jessica Knoll
47. Hamilton: The Revolution by Lin-Manuel Miranda
48. The Shift by Theresa Brown
49. Peggy Guggenheim: The Shock of the Modern by Francine Prose
June 2016
50. Maestra by L.S. Hilton
51. The Assistants by Camille Perri
52. Blood Defense by Marcia Clark
53. Commonwealth by Ann Patchett (finalist for the 2017 National Book Critics Circle Award)
54. All Is Not Forgotten by Wendy Walker
55. Chronicle of a Last Summer by Yasmine El Rashidi
56. The Last Chinese Chef by Nicole Mones
July 2016
57. Vinegar Girl by Anne Tyler
58. What Belongs to You by Garth Greenwell (longlisted for the 2016 First Novel Prize)
59. The Last Painting of Sara de Vos by Dominic Smith
60. Ms. Marvel Vol. 5: Super Famous by G. Willow Wilson
August 2016
61. Only the Hunted Run by Neely Tucker
62. Rock Paper Tiger by Lisa Brackmann
63. Girl Through Glass by Sari Wilson (longlisted for the 2016 First Novel Prize)
64. Fieldwork by Mischa Berlinksi (shortlisted for the 2007 Flaherty-Dunnan Award--now First Novel Prize)
65. Listen to Me by Hannah Pittard
66.Another Brooklyn by Jacqueline Woodson (2016 National Book Award finalist)
67. Hot Milk by Deborah Levy (shortlisted for the 2016 Booker Prize)
68. Tuesday Nights in 1980 by Molly Prentiss (longlisted for the 2016 First Novel Prize)
September 2016
69. The Wrong Side of Goodbye by Michael Connelly
70. Blue on Black by Michael Connelly
71. Almost Famous Women by Megan Mayhew Bergman
October 2016
72. The Love Killings by Robert Ellis
73. The Mommy Shorts Guide to Remarkably Average Parenting by Ilana Wiles
74. We Love You, Charlie Freeman by Kaitlyn Greenidge (shortlisted for the 2016 First Novel Prize)
75. Spot 12 by Jenny Jaeckel
76. The Vegetarian by Han Kang (winner of the 2016 Booker International Prize)
77. The $10,000,000 Marriage Proposal by James Patterson
78. City of the Lost by Kelley Armstrong
79. All the Single Ladies by Rebecca Traister
80. A Darkness Absolute by Kelley Armstrong
November 2016
81. 750 Years in Paris by Vincent Mahe
82. Mooncop by Tom Gauld
83. Dodgers by Bill Beverly (longlisted for the 2016 First Novel Prize)
84. The Book of Aron by (shortlisted for the 2016 Carnegie Medal)
85. Goldie Vance Vol. 1 by Hope Larson
86. Modern Lovers by Emma Straub
87. The Shattered Tree by Charles Todd
88. Winter Storms by Elin Hilderbrand
89. The Sleeping Beauty Killer by Alafair Burke and Mary Higgins Clark
90. Report for Murder by Val McDermid
December 2016
91. Forward by Abby Wambach
92. Jam on the Vine by LaShonda Katrice Barnett
93. The Spy by Paulo Coelho
94. Snow White by Matt Phelan
95. The Couple Next Door by Shari Lapena
96. French Kiss by James Patterson
97. Black Panther Vol. 1 by Ta-Nehisi Coates
98. In This Grave Hour by Jacqueline Winspear
99. Love Warrior by Glennon Doyle Melton
100. The Christmas Mystery by James Patterson
101. The Foremost Good Fortune by Susan Conley
102. Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly
103. The Slanted Life of Emily Dickinson: America's Favorite Recluse Just Got a Life! by Rosanna Bruno
104. This One Summer by Jillian Tamaki and Mariko Tamaki
Read in 2015
January 2015
1. The Astronaut Wives Club by Lily Koppel
2. Seating Arrangements by Maggie Shipstead (winner of the 2012 Dylan Thomas Prize and shortlisted for the 2012 Flaherty-Dunnan Award)
3. The Snow Queen by Hans Christian Andersen
4. The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace by Jeff Hobbs (2014 New York Times Notable book)
5. A Field Guide to the North American Family by Garth Risk Hallberg
6. The Position by Meg Wolitzer (longlisted for the 2006 Orange Prize)
7. The Book of Unknown Americans by Cristina Henriquez (2014 New York Times Notable book)
8. Here by Richard McGuire
9. Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth by Reza Aslan
10. The Princess of 72nd Street by Elaine Kraf
February 2015
11. A Dangerous Place by Jacqueline Winspear
12. Displacement by Lucy Knisley
13. The Reader by Bernard Schlink (1001 Books to Read Before You Die)
14. Slow Dancing with a Stranger by Meryl Comer
15. Lena Finkle's Magic Barrel by Anya Ulinich (2014 New York Times Notable book)
16. After Birth by Elisa Albert
17. Ms. Marvel: No Normal by G. Willow Wilson
18. The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins
19. The Law of Attraction by Allison Leotta
20. Ten Rules for a Call Girl by Allison Leotta
March 2015
21. The Last Good Paradise by Tatjana Soli
22. A Touch of Stardust by Kate Alcott
23. Discretion by Allison Leotta
24. Cairo by G. Willow Wilson
25. Outline by Rachel Cusk (short listed for the 2015 Baileys Prize)
26. Working Stiff by Judy Melinek
27. Elizabeth Is Missing by Emma Healey (longlisted for the 2015 Baileys Prize)
28. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (1001 Books to Read Before You Die & winner of the 1961 Pulitzer Prize)
29. Women by Chloe Caldwell
30. I Am China by Xiaolu Gao (longlisted for the 2015 Baileys Prize)
31. Legs Get Led Astray Chloe Caldwell
32. Speak of the Devil by Allison Leotta
33. Dear Thief by Samantha Harvey (longlisted for the 2015 Baileys Prize)
34. The Offering by Grace McCleen (longlisted for the 2015 Baileys Prize)
April 2015
35. The Bees by Laline Paull (short listed for the 2015 Baileys Prize)
36. Fun Home by Alison Bechdel
37. Are You My Mother? by Alison Bechdel
38. The Shore by Sara Taylor (longlisted for the 2015 Baileys Prize)
39. Hausfrau by Jill Alexander Essbaum
40. Ms. Marvel: Volume Two by G. Willow Wilson
41. Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino (1001 Books to Read Before You Die)
42. A Spool of Blue Thread by Anne Tyler (short listed for the 2015 Baileys Prize)
43. All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr (winner of the 2015 Pulitzer Prize, 2014 National Book Award finalist and 2014 New York Times Notable Book & top 5 of 2014)
44. Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant? by Roz Chast (2014 National Book Award (Nonfiction) finalist and 2014 New York Times Top Five of 2014)
45. God Help the Child by Toni Morrison
46. Academy Street by Mary Costello
May 2015
47. The Green Road by Anne Enright
48. The Ghost Network by Katie Disabato
49. A Good Killing by Allison Leotta
50. Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town by Jon Krakaeur
51. Syllabus by Lynda Barry
June 2015
52. The Governor's Wife by Michael Harvey
53. Eight Hundred Grapes by Laura Dave
54. Family Life by Akhil Sharma (2014 Top 5 Fiction and New York Times Notable book)
55. Every Fifteen Minutes by Lisa Scottoline
56. The Wallcreeper by Nell Zink (2014 New York Times Notable book)
57. Blackout by Sarah Hepola
58. Primates of the Upper East Side by Wednesday Martin
59. The Midwife's Daughter by Patricia Ferguson
60. The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie Kondo
61. The Lost Boys Symphony by Mark Andrew Ferguson
62. Nimona by Noelle Stephenson
63. Murder, D.C. by Neely Tucker
64. Devil's Bridge by Linda Fairstein
July 2015
65. Modern Romance by Aziz Ansari and Eric Klinenberg
66. Doodle Diary of a New Mom by Lucy Scott
67. Louise Brooks: Detective by Rick Geary
68. Portrait of an Addict as a Young Man by Bill Clegg
69. How to Start a Fire by Lisa Lutz
70. Tomboy by Liz Prince
71. Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee
72. The Folded Clock by Heidi Julavits
73. Fear the Darkness by Becky Masterman
74. How It All Began by Penelope Lively
75. Lila by Marilynne Robinson (longlisted for the 2015 Booker Prize, 2014 National Book Award finalist, 2014 New York Times Notable book and winner of the 2014 National Book Critics Circle Award)
76. Not My Father's Son by Alan Cumming
August 2015
77. City of Echoes by Robert Ellis
78. Early Warning by Jane Smiley
79. Pattern of Lies by Charles Todd
80. Satin Island by Tom McCarthy (longlisted for the 2015 Booker Prize)
81. Girl at War by Sara Novic
82. Sleeping on Jupiter by Anuradha Roy (longlisted for the 2015 Booker Prize)
83. Did You Ever Have a Family by Bill Clegg (longlisted for the 2015 Booker Prize)
84. Local Girls by Caroline Zancan
September 2015
85. The Crossing by Michael Connelly
86. Saint Mazie by Jami Attenberg
87. The Ex by Alafair Burke (finalist for the 2017 Best Novel Edgar)
88. The Moor's Account by Laila Lalmi (longlisted for the 2015 Booker Prize, 2015 Pulitzer Prize finalist, 2014 New York Times Notable Book)
89. Snowden by Ted Rail
90. Ms. Marvel, Vol. 3: Crushed by G. Willow Wilson
91. We Never Asked for Wings by Vanessa Diffenbaugh
92. Not Funny Ha Ha by Leah Hayes
93. Why Not Me? by Mindy Kaling
94. Fates and Furies by Lauren Groff (shortlisted for the 2015 National Book Award)
October 2015
95. The Hopeful by Tracy O'Neill (2015 National Book Award 5 Under 35 & 2015 First Novel Prize longlist)
96. The Monsters of Templeton by Lauren Groff (2008 Orange Prize New Writers finalist)
97. Bad Jews by Joshua Harmon
98. An Untamed State by Roxane Gay (2015 Dayton Literary Peace Prize finalist & 2014 First Novel Prize longlist)
99. Mislaid by Nell Zink (longlisted for the 2015 National Book Award)
100. Crooked Heart by Lissa Evans (longlisted for the 2015 Baileys Prize)
101. Battle Lines: A Graphic History of the Civil War by Ari Kelman & Jonathan Fetter-Vorm
102. Hark! A Vagrant by Kate Beaton
103. Last Night's Reading: Illustrated Encounters with Extraordinary Authors by Kate Gavino
November 2015
104. All Dressed in White by Mary Higgins Clark and Alafair Burke
105. My Life on the Road by Gloria Steinem
106. The Grownup by Gillian Flynn
107. The Weight of Water by Anita Shreve (shortlisted for the 1998 Orange Prize)
108. Nora Webster by Colm Toibin (2014 New York Times Notable Book, 2014 Folio Prize finalist & 2015 Carnegie Medal shortlist)
109. Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl by Carrie Brownstein
110. Liars and Saints by Maile Meloy (shortlisted for the 2005 Orange Prize)
111. Story of My Teeth by Valeria Luiselli
112. The Notorious RBG by Irin Carmon
113. Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
114. My Kitchen Year: 136 Recipes That Saved My Life by Ruth Reichl
115. State of Happiness by Stella Duffy (longlisted for the 2004 Orange Prize)
116. Lives of the Monster Dogs by Kirsten Bakis (shortlisted for the 1998 Orange Prize)
117. The Witch Hunter's Tale by Sam Thomas
December 2015
118. Official and Doubtful by Ajay Close (longlisted for the 1996 Orange Prize)
119. The Muralist by B.A. Shapiro
120. Under the Udala Trees by Chinelo Okparanta (longlisted for the 2015 First Novel Prize)
121. Winter Street by Elin Hilderbrand
122. Something New by Lucy Knisley
123. Winter Stroll by Elin Hilderbrand
124. Amy and Isabelle by Elizabeth Strout (shortlisted for the 2000 Orange Prize)
125. The Past by Tessa Hadley
126. The Kindness of Enemies by Leila Aboulela
127. American Housewife by Helen Ellis
128. Dear Mr. You by Mary-Louise Parker
129. 100 Essays I Don't Have Time to Write by Sarah Ruhl
130. The Kind Worth Killing by Peter Swanson
Read in 2014
January 2014
1. Making Babies: Stumbling Into Motherhood by Anne Enright
2. The Ghost of the Mary Celeste by Valerie Martin
3. Unremarried Widow by Artis Henderson
4. The Secret at Raven Point by Jennifer Vanderbes
5. The Harlot's Tale by Sam Thomas
6. Dark Places by Gillian Flynn
7. The Secret of Magic by Deborah Johnson
8. Baby Love: Choosing Motherhood After a Lifetime of Ambivalence by Rebecca Walker
9. Dept. of Speculation by Jenny Offill (2014 New York Times Notable book)
10. The Last Days of California by Mary Miller
February 2014
11. The UnAmericans by Molly Antopol (5 Under 35)
12. Click: When We Knew We Were Feminists edited by J. Courtney Sullivan & Courtney E. Martin
13. The News: A User's Manual by Alain de Botton
14. The Black Echo by Michael Connelly
15. Don't Talk to Strangers by Amanda Kyle Williams
16. All Day and a Night by Alafair Burke
17. The Other Typist by Suzanne Rindell
18. The Black Ice by Michael Connelly
March 2014
19. The Concrete Blonde by Michael Connelly
20. The Bear by Claire Cameron (2014 Baileys Prize longlist)
21. Eleven Days by Lea Carpenter (2014 Baileys Prize longlist)
22. The Last Coyote by Michael Connelly
23. The Poet by Michael Connelly
24. Trunk Music by Michael Connelly
25. The Dogs of Littlefield by Suzanne Berne
26. Thirty Girls by Susan Minot (2014 New York Times Notable book)
April 2014
27. Blood Work by Michael Connelly
28. Angels Flight by Michael Connelly
29. Void Moon by Michael Connelly
30. Labor Day: True Birth Stories by Today's Best Women Writers edited by Eleanor Henderson & Anna Solomon
31. All the Birds, Singing by Evie Wyld (2014 Baileys Prize longlist)
32. Doulas: Why Every Pregnant Woman Deserves One by Susan Ross
33. A Darkness More Than Night by Michael Connelly
34. Still Life with Bread Crumbs by Anna Quindlen (2014 Baileys Prize longlist)
35. Goodbye to All That: Writers on Loving and Leaving New York edited by Sari Botton
36. Save the Date: The Occasional Mortifications of a Serial Wedding Guest by Jen Doll
37. City of Bones by Michael Connelly
38. Burial Rites by Hannah Kent (2014 Baileys Prize shortlist)
39. Chasing the Dime by Michael Connelly
40. How Not to Calm a Child on a Plane by Johanna Stein
May 2014
41. The Unwitting by Ellen Feldman
42. Cutting Teeth by Julia Fierro
43. Wonderland by Stacey D'Erasmo
44. The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
45. A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing by Eimear McBride (2014 Baileys Prize winner)
46. Lost Light by Michael Connelly
47. Frog Music by Emma Donoghue
48. Think Like a Freak by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
49. The Undertaking by Audrey Magee (2014 Baileys Prize shortlist)
50. The Woman Upstairs by Claire Messud
51. The Vacationers by Emma Straub
52. The Narrows by Michael Connelly
53. The Lobster Kings by Alexi Zentern
54. The End of Your Life Book Club by Schwalbe
55. Don't Sing at the Table: Life Lessons from my Grandmother's by Adriana Trigiani
56. MFA v.s NYC: The Two Cultures of American Fiction by Chad Harbach (editor)
57. Terminal City by Linda Fairstein
58. Astonish Me by Maggie Shipstead
59. Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns) by Mindy Kaling
June 2014
60. The Closers by Michael Connelly
61. Bringing Up Bebe by Pamela Druckerman
62. Birth: The Surprising History of How We Are Born by Tina Cassidy
63. Detroit: An American Autopsy by Charlie LeDuff
64. The Lincoln Lawyer by Michael Connelly
65 Echo Park by Michael Connelly
66. The Empathy Exams by Leslie Jamison
67. The Overlook by Michael Connelly
68. Over Easy by Mimi Pond
69. Her Royal Spyness by Rhys Bowen
70. The Competition by Marcia Clark
July 2014
71. Friendship by Emily Gould
72. The Brass Verdict by Michael Connelly
73. Nine Months by Paula Bomer
74. The Scarecrow by Michael Connelly
75. Nine Dragons by Michael Connelly
76. Suzanne Davis Gets a Life by Paula Marantz Cohen
77. Baby and Other Stories by Paula Bomer
78. We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler (2014 Booker Prize longlist)
79. The Reversal by Michael Connelly
80. History of the Rain by Niall Williams (2014 Booker Prize longlist)
81. The Blazing World by Siri Hustvedt (2014 Booker Prize longlist)
August 2014
82. How Eskimos Keep Their Babies Warm: And Other Adventures in Parenting by Mei-Ling Hopgood
83. The Fifth Witness by Michael Connelly
84. To Rise Again at a Decent Hour by Joshua Ferris (2014 Booker Prize longlist)
123. May We Be Forgiven by A.M. Homes (winner of the 2013 Women's Prize for Fiction)
December 2014
124. Texts from Jane Eyre by Mallory Ortberg
125. The Art Forger by B.A. Shapiro
126. Keeping Up With Magda by Isla Dear (longlisted for the 1996 Orange Prize)
127. When Mystical Creatures Attack! by Kathleen Founds (2014 New York Times Notable book)
128. The Cinderella Murder by Mary Higgins Clark and Alafair Burke
129. The Epiologue by Laia Abril
130. The Road to Wanting by Wendy Law-Yone (longlisted for the 2011 Orange Prize)
131. The Red Thread by Ann Hood
132. Halfway Home: Drawing My Way Through Japan by Christine Mari Inzer
133. Life After Life by Kate Atkinson (shortlisted for the 2013 Women's Prize)
134. The Silent Sister by Diane Chamberlain
135. Brick Lane by Monica Ali (longlisted for the 2004 Orange Prize & shortlisted for the 2003 Booker Prize)
136. 10:04 by Ben Lerner (2014 New York Times Notable book)
137. Lord of Misrule by Jaimy Gordon (winner of the 2010 National Book Award and longlisted for the 2012 Orange Prize)
138. A Pleasure and a Calling by Phil Hogan
139. Euphoria by Lily King (2014 New York Times Notable book)
Read in 2013
January 2013
1. The Death of Bees by Lisa O'Donnell
2. An Uncommon Education by Elizabeth Percer
3. Level 2 by Lenore Appelhans
4. Documentary Film: A Very Short Introduction by Patricia Aufderheide
5. The Uninvited Guests by Sadie Jones
6. Mistress of My Fate by Hallie Rubenhold
February 2013
7. Summerset Abbey by T.J. Brown
8. Upstairs & Downstairs by Sarah Warwick
9. All That I Am by Anna Funder
10. The Midwife's Tale by Sam Thomas
11. Romancing Olive by Holly Bush
12. The Blackhouse by Peter May
13. Below Stairs by Margaret Powell
14. Leaving Everything Most Loved by Jacqueline Winspear
March 2013
15. The End of the Point by Elizabeth Graver
16. The Lewis Man by Peter May
17. A Thousand Pardons by Jonathan Dee
18. While We Were Watching Downton Abbey by Wendy Wax
19. The Burgess Boys by Elizabeth Strout
20. The Chicago Way by Michael Harvey
21. Revenge by Yoko Ogawa
22. The Fifth Floor by Michael Harvey
23. Missing Persons by Clare O'Donohue
April 2013
24. Life Without Parole by Clare O'Donohue
25. Dark Tide by Elizabeth Haynes
26. Laura Lamont's Life in Pictures by Emma Straub
27. Reconstructing Amelia by Kimberly McCreight
28. Red Sky in Morning by Paul Lynch
29. Pain, Parties, Work: Sylvia Plath in New York, 1953 by Elizabeth Winder
30. Relish by Lucy Knisley
May 2013
31. The Third Rail by Michael Harvey
32. We All Fall Down by Michael Harvey
33. Lamb by Bonnie Nadzam (longlisted for the 2013 Women's Prize and winner of the 2011 Flaherty-Dunnan Award)
June 2013
34. If You Were Here by Alafair Burke
35. Murder as a Fine Art by David Morrell
36. How Should a Person Be? by Sheila Heti (longlisted for the 2013 Women's Prize)
37. Why Have Kids? by Jessica Valenti
38. Big Brother by Lionel Shriver
39. Ignorance by Michele Roberts (longlisted for the 2013 Women's Prize)
40. Sisterland by Curtis Sittenfeld
41. My Beloved World by Sonia Sotomayor
July 2013
42. Loteria by Mario Alberto Zambrano
43. The Queen's Vow by C.W. Gortner
44. Orange is the New Black by Piper Kerman
45. Flight Behavior by Barbara Kingsolver (shortlisted for the 2013 Women's Prize)
46. Inferno by Dan Brown
47. Godiva by Nicole Galland
48. What Alice Forgot by Liane Moriarty
49. Death Angel by Linda Fairstein
50. Dreaming in Chinese by Deborah Fallows
51. The Obituary Writer by Ann Hood
52. Someday, Someday, Maybe by Lauren Graham
August 2013
53. Sea Creatures by Susanna Daniel
54. Save Yourself by Kelly Braffett
55. Orphan Train by Christina Baker Klin
56. A Question of Honor by Charles Todd
September 2013
57. Nylon Road by Parsua Bashi
58. Agent Gates by Camaren Subhiyah
59. Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn
60. Let Me Go by Chelsea Cain
61. My Education by Susan Choi
62. The Husband's Secret by Liane Moriarty
October 2013
63. March: Book One by John Lewis
64. Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell
65. Blue is the Warmest Color by Julie Maroh
66. Lean In by Sheryl Sandberg
67. The Stranger You Seek by Amanda Kyle Williams
68. Stranger in the Room by Amanda Kyle Williams
69. We Need New Names by NoViolet Bulawayo (2013 Booker Prize shortlist)
70. The Execution by Dick Wolf
November 2013
71. Who Asked You? by Terry McMillan
72. The Preservationist by Justin Kramon
73. Divergent by Veronica Roth
74. Raven Girl by Audrey Niffenegger
75. Things I Should Have Told My Daughter: Lies, Lessons and Love Affairs by Pearl Cleage
76. Someone Else's Love Story by Joshilyn Jackson
77. Thumbprint by Joe Hill, Jason Ciaramella, and Vic Malhotra
78. My Venice by Donna Leon
79. This is the Story of a Happy Marriage by Ann Patchett
December 2013
80. Bad Houses by Sara Ryan and Carla Speed McNeil
81. Double Down by Mark Halperin and John Heilemann
82. Expecting Better by Emily Oster
83. Guilt by Association by Marcia Clark
84. Guilt by Degrees by Marcia Clark
85. Killer Ambition by Marcia Clark
86. Somewhere in France by Jennifer Robson
87. The Bird Skinner by Alice Greenway
88. Red Handed: The Fine Art of Strange Crimes by Matt Kindt
89. Bumpology by Linda Geddes
90. The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd
91. Tampa by Alissa Nutting (longlisted for the 2013 Flaherty-Dunnan Prize)
92. Maine by J. Courtney Sullivan
93. The Good House by Ann Leary
94. Leaving Atlanta by Tayari Jones
Read in 2012
January 2012
1. Watchmen by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons (1001 Books to Read Before You Die)
2. Bel Canto by Ann Patchett (winner of the 2002 Orange Prize)
3. The World We Found by Thrity Umrigar
4. Property by Valerie Martin (winner of the 2003 Orange Prize)
5. We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver (winner of the 2005 Orange Prize)
6. Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel (1001 Books to Read Before You Die)
7. One for the Money by Janet Evanovich
8. What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day by Pearl Cleage
9. The Beginner's Goodbye by Anne Tyler
10. The Fallback Plan by Leigh Stein
11. Running the Rift by Naomi Benaron (winner of the 2010 Bellwether Prize)
February 2012
12. The Red Book by Deborah Copaken Kogan
13. The New Republic by Lionel Shriver
14. Silver Sparrow by Tayari Jones (shortlisted for the 2011 Indie Lit Award)
15. The Silent Oligarch by Christopher Morgan Jones
16. Cross Currents by John Shors (shortlisted for the 2011 Indie Lit Award)
17. The Last Brother by Nathacha Appanah (2012 Tournament of Books contender)
18. Gillespie and I by Jane Harris
19. The Last Time I Saw Paris by Lynn Sheene (shortlisted for the 2011 Indie Lit Award)
March 2012
20. Dance Lessons by Aine Greaney (shortlisted for the 2011 Indie Lit Award)
21. Carry the One by Carol Anshaw
22. The Pink Hotel by Anna Stothard (longlisted for the 2012 Orange Prize)
23. Elegy for Eddie by Jacqueline Winspear
24. There but for the by Ali Smith (longlisted for the 2012 Orange Prize)
25. The Grief of Others by Leah Hager Cohen (longlisted for the 2012 Orange Prize)
26. Arcadia by Lauren Groff
27. The Forgotten Waltz by Anne Enright (shortlisted for the 2012 Orange Prize)
28. Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller (shortlisted for the 2012 Orange Prize)
29. The Translation of Bones by Francesca Kay (longlisted for the 2012 Orange Prize)
April 2012
30. Foreign Bodies by Cynthia Ozick (shortlisted for the 2012 Orange Prize)
31. Butterly's Child by Angela Davis-Gardner
32. Train Dreams by Denis Johnson (finalist for the 2012 Pulitzer Prize)
33. Painter of Silence by Georgina Harding (shortlisted for the 2012 Orange Prize)
34. Afterwards by Rosamund Lupton
35. Home by Toni Morrison
May 2012
36. Half Blood Blues by Esi Edugyan (shortlisted for the 2012 Orange Prize, 2011 Booker Prize, and
winner of the 2011 Giller Prize)
37. Tides of War by Stella Tillyard (longlisted for the 2012 Orange Prize)
38. I Am Forbidden by Anouk Markovits
39. New Finnish Grammar by Diego Marani (shortlisted for the 2012 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize)
40. The Sealed Letter by Emma Donoghue (longlisted for the 2012 Orange Prize)
41. Perla by Carolina De Robertis
42. Alice by Judith Hermann (shortlisted for the 2012 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize)
43. Run by Ann Patchett
44. The Flying Man by Roopa Farooki (longlisted for the 2012 Orange Prize)
45. I Wish I Had a Red Dress by Pearl Cleage
46. Long Gone by Alafair Burke
47. On the Floor by Aifric Campbell (longlisted for the 2012 Orange Prize)
48. Night Watch by Linda Fairstein
49. Island of Wings by Karin Altenberg (longlisted for the 2012 Orange Prize)
June 2012
50. Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
51. An Unmarked Grave by Charles Todd
52. Beautiful Ruin by Jess Walter
53. Last Night at the Lobster by Stewart O'Nan
54. Judgment Calls by Alafair Burke
55. We Only Know So Much by Elizabeth Crane
56. Missing Justice by Alafair Burke
57. Some Things I Never Thought I'd Do by Pearl Cleage
58. The World Without You by Joshua Henkin
July 2012
59. Indiscretion by Charles Dubow
60. The Paleo Solution by Robb Wolf
61. The Kissing List by Stephanie Reents
62. The Virgin Cure by Ami McKay
63. Close Case by Alafair Burke
64. Wild by Cheryl Strayed
65. Flight from Berlin by David John
66. The Age of Miracles by Jean Thompson Walker
67. Babylon Sisters by Pearl Cleage
68. Kill You Twice by Chelsea Cain
69. The Magician's Assistant by Ann Patchett (shortlisted for the 1998 Orange Prize)
70. Don't Ever Get Old by Daniel Friedman
71. Gilead (won the Pulitzer in 2005 and longlisted for the 2006 Orange Prize)
72. Dare Me by Megan Abbott
73. Commencement by J. Courtney Sullivan
74. Miss Me When I'm Gone by Emily Arsenault
75. Correcting the Landscape by Marjorie Kowalski Cole (winner of the 2004 Bellwether Prize)
August 2012
76. Misfit by Adam Braver
77. Defending Jacob by William Landay
78. Dead Connection by Alafair Burke
79. Baby Brother's Blues by Pearl Cleage
80. Accordion Crimes by E. Annie Proulx (shortlisted for the 1997 Orange Prize)
81. Communion Town by Sam Thompson (longlisted for the 2012 Booker Prize)
82. The Orchardist by Amanda Coplin
September 2012
83. Swimming Home by Deborah Levy (longlisted for the 2012 Booker Prize)
84. The Forgetting Tree by Tatjana Soli
85. The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce (longlisted for the 2012 Booker Prize)
86. Then Came You by Jennifer Weiner
87. Game Change by John Heilemann and Mark Halperin
88. The Cutting Season by Attica Locke
89. In Need of a Good Wife by Kelly O'Connor McNees
October 2012
90. Beautiful Lies by Clare Clark
91. The Last Runaway by Tracy Chevalier
92. Astray by Emma Donoghue
93. Ten Thousand Saints by Eleanor Henderson (New York Times Top 5 of 2011)
94. Angel's Tip by Alafair Burke
95. A Possible Life by Sebastian Faulks
November 2012
96. The Giant's House by Elizabeth McCracken (The Backlist Book Club)
97. The Yellow Birds by Kevin Powers (2012 National Book Award finalist)
98. Seen It All and Done the Rest by Pearl Cleage
99. 212 by Alafair Burke
100. The Middlesteins by Jami Attenberg
101. Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk by Ben Fountain (2012 National Book Award finalist)
102. The Intercept by Dick Wolf
December 2012
103. These Days Are Ours by Michelle Haimoff
104. Glaciers by Alexis M. Smith
105. This Is How You Lose Her by Junot Diaz (2012 National Book Award finalist)
106. Never Tell by Alafair Burke
107. The Twelve Tribes of Hattie by Ayana Mathis
108. Death of an Artist by Kate Wilhelm
109. An Extraordinary Theory of Objects: A Memoir of an Outsider in Paris by Stephanie LaCava
110. Til You Hear From Me by Pearl Cleage
111. The Clan of the Cave Bear by Jean M. Auel (The Backlist Book Club)
112. The Darlings by Cristina Alger
113. Just Wanna Testify by Pearl Cleage
114. If You Lived Here I'd Know Your Name by Heather Lende
115. Bossypants by Tina Fey
116. The Testament of Mary by Colm Toibin
117. Where'd You Go, Bernadette? by Maria Semple
118. Girls in White Dresses by Jennifer Close
Read in 2011
January 2011
1. The Lotus Eaters by Tatjana Soli (a 2010 New York Times Notable Book)
2. Larry's Party by Carol Shields (winner of the 1998 Orange Prize)
3. Small Wars by Sadie Jones (longlisted for the 2010 Orange Prize)
4. The History of Love by Nicole Krauss (20 Under 40 & shortlisted for the 2002 Orange Prize)
5. Birds of a Feather by Jacqueline Winspear
6. One Day by David Nicholls (Entertainment Weekly's Top 10 Fiction of 2010)
7. Fugitive Pieces by Anne Michaels (winner of the 1997 Orange Prize)
8. The Invisible Bridge by Julie Orringer (longlisted for the 2011 Orange Prize)
9. Committed by Elizabeth Gilbert
10. Cinderella Ate My Daughter by Peggy Orenstein
11. Hamlet by Shakespeare
12. Shadow Tag by Louise Erdrich (a 2010 New York Times Notable Book)
February 2011
1. Swamplandia! by Karen Russell (20 Under 40 & longlisted for the 2011 Orange Prize)
2. The Lover's Dictionary by David Levithan
3. Pardonable Lies by Jacqueline Winspear
4. Devotion by Dani Shapiro
5. Brava, Valentine by Adriana Trigiani
6. Radio Shangri-La by Lisa Napoli
7. A Crime in the Neighborhood by Suzanne Berne (winner of the 1999 Orange Prize)
8. How to Understand Israel in 60 Days or Less by Sarah Glidden
9. Special Exits by Joyce Farmer
10. Messenger of Truth by Jacqueline Winspear
11. Someone Else's Garden by Dipika Rai
March 2011
1. The Sweet Relief of Missing Children by Sarah Braunstein (5 Under 35)
2. The First Husband by Laura Dave
3. The Seas by Samantha Hunt (longlisted for the 2011 Orange Prize)
4. The Birth of Love by Joanna Kavenna (longlisted for the 2011 Orange Prize)
5. The Secret Lives of Baba Segi's Wives by Lola Shoneyin (longlisted for the 2011 Orange Prize)
6. Silent Mercy by Linda Fairstein
April 2011
1. Russian Winter by Daphne Kalotay
2. Untold Story by Monica Ali
3. The Uncoupling by Meg Wolitzer
4. Secret Daughter by Shilpi Somaya Gowda
5. Ethel & Ernest by Raymond Briggs
May 2011
1. We Had It So Good by Linda Grant
2. The Rebellion of Jane Clarke by Sally Gunning
3. Faith by Jennifer Haigh
4. Repeat It Today With Tears by Anne Peile (longlisted for the 2011 Orange Prize)
June 2011
1. When God Was a Rabbit by Sarah Winman
2. Please Look After Mom by Kyung-Sook Shin
3. Down from Cascom Mountain by Ann Joslin Williams
4. State of Wonder by Ann Patchett
5. Wanderlust by Elisabeth Eaves
6. An Incomplete Revenge by Jacqueline Winspear
7. The End of Everything by Megan Abbott
July 2011
1. The Privileges by Jonathan Dee (2011 Pulitzer Prize finalist)
2. A Good Hard Look by Ann Napolitano
3. French Lessons by Ellen Sussman
4. Comedy in a Minor Key by Hans Keilson (2011 National Book Critics Circle Finalist)
5. The Tiger's Wife by Tea Obreht (2011 Orange Prize winner, 20 Under 40 author, and 2011 National Book Award finalist)
6. The Memory of Love by Aminatta Forna (shortlisted for the 2011 Orange Prize)
7. Next to Love by Ellen Feldman
8. I Curse the River of Time by Per Petterson (shortlisted for the 2011 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize)
9. You Know When the Men Are Gone by Siobhan Fallon
10. Among the Mad by Jacqueline Winspear
11. City of Fire by Robert Ellis (re-read)
12. Pigeon English by Stephen Kelman (shortlisted for the 2011 Booker Prize)
13. Close Your Eyes by Amanda Eyre Ward
August 2011
1. The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt (shortlisted for the 2011 Booker Prize)
2. The Help by Kathryn Stockett (longlisted for the 2010 Orange Prize)
3. The Lantern by Deborah Lawrenson
4. How to Love an American Man by Kristine Gasbarre
5. The Irresistible Henry House by Lisa Grunwald
6. Far to Go by Alison Pick (longlisted for the 2011 Booker Prize)
7. When I Lived in Modern Times by Linda Grant (winner of the 2000 Orange Prize)
September 2011
1. The Leftovers by Tom Perrotta
2. Wherever You Go by Joan Leegant
3. Other People We Married by Emma Straub
4. Snowdrops by A.D. Miller (shortlisted for the 2011 Booker Prize)
5. The Mapping of Love and Death by Jacqueline Winspear
6. Displaced Persons by Ghita Schwarz
7. The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes (shortlisted for the 2011 Booker Prize)
8. The Tyranny of Email by John Freeman
9. Sister by Rosamund Lupton
10. The Submission by Amy Waldman
11. Waiting for Robert Capa by Susana Fortes
12. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
13. The Buddha in the Attic by Julie Otsuka (2011 National Book Award finalist)
October 2011
1. A Lesson in Secrets by Jacqueline Winspear
2. The Odds: A Love Story by Stewart O'Nan
3. The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
4. The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides
5. Lost at Sea by Bryan Lee O'Malley
6. I Was Amelia Earhart by Jane Mendelsohn (shortlisted for the 1997 Orange Prize)
7. Crawling at Night by Nani Power (longlisted for the 2002 Orange Prize)
8. Habibi by Craig Thompson
9. In the Last Analysis by Amanda Cross
10. The Secret History of Rachel DuPree by Ann Weisgarber (longlisted for the 2009 Orange Prize)
November 2011
1. The Sojourn by Andrew Krivak (2011 National Book Award finalist)
2. The Scrapbook of Frankie Pratt by Caroline Preston
3. You Are My Only by Beth Kephart
4. The Taste of Salt by Martha Southgate
5. Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward (2011 National Book Award winner)
6. Binocular Vision: New and Selected Stories by Edith Pearlman (2011 National Book Award finalist)
7. Maphead by Ken Jennings
8. The Printmaker's Daughter by Katherine Govier
9. Winter Garden by Kristin Hannah
10. The Imposter's Daughter by Laurie Sandell
December 2011
1. A Bitter Truth by Charles Todd
2. The Train of Small Mercies by David Rowell
3. The Lost Witness by Robert Ellis (re-read)
4. Murder Season by Robert Ellis
5. The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach
6. Before I Go To Sleep by S.J. Watson
7. The Fall of Rome by Martha Southgate
8. The Year We Left Home by Jean Thompson
9. Vanity Fair's How a Book is Born: The Making of the Art of Fielding by Keith Gessen
10. The Getaway Car: A Practical Memoir About Writing and Life by Ann Patchett
Read in 2010
1. The Magician's Elephant by Kate DiCamillo
2. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice by Philip Hoose (2010 Newbery Honor)
3. Suite Scarlett by Maureen Johnson
4. Wintergirls by Laurie Halse Anderson
5. Scottsboro by Ellen Feldman (2009 Orange Prize shortlist)
6. This Book Is Overdue by Marilyn Johnson
7. The Birthday Ball by Lois Lowry
8. The Power of Half by Kevin & Hannah Salwen
9. L.A. Candy by Lauren Conrad
10. The Unnamed by Joshua Ferris
11. If You Followed Me by Malena Watrous
12. The Lovers by Vendela Vida
13. Life, After by Sarah Littman
14. Deception by Lee Nichols
15. The Lost Summer of Louisa May Alcott by Kelly O'Connor McNees
16. Bed of Roses by Nora Roberts
17. The Daughters by Joanna Philbin
18. The Heart Is Not a Size by Beth Kephart
19. Love in Infant Monkeys by Lydia Millet (2010 Pulitzer Prize finalist)
20. Restoring Harmony by Joelle Anthony
21. Before I Fall by Lauren Oliver
22. This One Is Mine by Maria Semple
23. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz (2008 Pulitzer Prize winner)
24. Black Water Rising by Attica Locke (2010 Orange Prize shortlist & 2010 Edgar First Novel Award nominee)
25. The Education of Bet by Lauren Baratz-Logsted
26. Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout (2009 Pulitzer Prize winner)
27. The Very Thought of You by Rosie Alison (2010 Orange Prize shortlist)
28. Wilson by Daniel Clowes
29. A Gate at the Stairs by Lorrie Moore (2010 Orange Prize shortlist)
30. Heart of the Matter by Emily Giffin
31. Based Upon Availability by Alix Strauss
32. The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver (2010 Orange Prize winner)
33. The White Woman on the Green Bicycle by Monique Roffey (2010 Orange Prize shortlist)
34. The Truth About Delilah Blue by Tish Cohen
35. Good Things I Wish You by A. Manette Ansay
36. Everything Lovely, Effortless, Safe by Jenny Hollowell
37. Red Hook Road by Ayelet Waldman
38. The Quickening by Michelle Hoover
39. The Last War by Ana Menendez
40. Prep by Curtis Sittenfeld
41. In a Strange Room by Damon Galgut (2010 Booker Prize shortlist)
42. Room by Emma Donoghue (2010 Booker Prize shortlist & New York Times Top 5 of 2010)
43. February by Lisa Moore (2010 Booker Prize longlist)
44. The Long Song by Andrea Levy (2010 Orange Prize longlist & 2010 Booker Prize shortlist )
45. Every Last One by Anna Quindlen
46. The Siege by Helen Dunmore (2002 Orange Prize shortlist)
47. Trespass by Rose Tremain (2010 Booker Prize longlist)
48. Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins
49. The Betrayal by Helen Dunmore (2010 Booker Prize longlist)
50. The Financial Lives of Poets by Jess Walter
51. An Impartial Witness by Charles Todd
52. The Art of Devotion by Samantha Bruce-Benjamin
53. C by Tom McCarthy (2010 Booker Prize shortlist)
54. Loving Che by Ana Menendez
55. The Stuff That Never Happened by Maddie Dawson
56. I'd Know You Anywhere by Laura Lippman
57. The Girl She Used to Be by David Cristofano (2010 Edgar First Novel Award Nominee)
58. A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan (New York Times Top 5 of 2010)
59. Tinkers by Paul Harding (2010 Pulitzer Prize winner)
60. A Bad Day for Sorry by Sophie Littlefield (2010 Edgar First Novel Award Nominee)
61. So Much for That by Lionel Shriver (2010 National Book Award Finalist)
62. Stiltsville by Susanna Daniel
63. Beautiful Creatures by Tracy Chevalier
64. How to Escape from a Leper Colony by Tiphanie Yanique (2010 National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 pick)
65. The Tower of London: Tales of Victorian London by Natsume Soseki (Classics Circuit)
66. Great House by Nicole Krauss (2010 National Book Award Finalist & 20 Under 40)
67. Very Valentine by Adriana Trigiani
68. Diary of a Wimpy Kid #4: Dog Days by Jeff Kinney
69. The Night Season by Chelsea Cain
70. Freedom by Jonathan Franzen (New York Times Top 5 of 2010)
71. The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho (graphic novel)
72. Strangers at the Feast by Jennifer Vanderbes
73. Bright-Sided by Barbara Ehrenreich
74. A Spell of Winter by Helen Dunmore (1996 Orange Prize winner)
75. Sing You Home by Jodi Picoult
76. The Sentimentalists by Johanna Skibsrud (2010 Giller Prize winner)
77. The Night Bookmobile by Audrey Niffenegger
78. The Warden by Anthony Trollope
79. French Milk by Lucy Knisley
80. Bad Marie by Marcy Dermansky
81. In Other Rooms, Other Wonders by Daniyal Mueenuddin
82. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
83. Maisie Dobbs by Jacqueline Winspear
Read in 2020
January 2020
1. Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams (longlisted for the 2020 Women's Prize)
2. Winter in Paradise by Elin Hilderbrand
3. City of Girls by Elizabeth Gilbert
4. The Lies We Told by Camilla Way
5. Topics of Conversation by Miranda Popkey
6. What Happens in Paradise by Elin Hilderbrand
7. Nothing to See Here by Kevin Wilson
8. Recipes for a Perfect Wife by Karma Brown
9. Tightrope by Nicholas Kristof & Sheryl WuDunn
10. Alone in the Wild by Kelley Armstrong
11. Good and Mad by Rebecca Traister
February 2020
12. All Adults Here by Emma Straub
13. The Gifted School by Bruce Holsinger
14. American Royals by Katharine McGee
15. Blessed Are Those Who Mourn by Kristi Belcamino
16. Island of the Lost by Joan Druett
17. The Pisces by Melissa Broder (longlisted for the 2020 Women's Prize)
18. His Favorites by Kate Walbert
19. Fake Like Me by Barbara Bourland
20. The Scent Keeper by Erica Bauermeister (a Hello Sunshine pick)
21. Saint X by Alexis Schaitkin
22. Friends and Strangers by J. Courtney Sullivan
23. Go To Sleep (I Miss You) by Lucy Knisley
March 2020
24. The Silent Patient by Alex Michealides
25. Blessed are the Peacemakers by Kristi Belcamino
26. How We Disappeared by Jing-Jing Lee (longlisted for the 2020 Women's Prize)
27. Girl by Edna O'Brien (longlisted for the 2020 Women's Prize)
28. Dominicana by Angie Cruz (longlisted for the 2020 Women's Prize)
29. Blessed are the Merciful by Kristi Belcamino
30. Nobody Will Tell You This But Me by Bess Kalb
31. First Cut by Judy Melinek and T.J. Mitchell
32. Untamed by Glennon Doyle
33. The Encyclopedia of Early Earth by Isabel Greenberg
34. Rodham by Curtis Sittenfeld
35. Everything is Teeth by Evie Wyld
April 2020
36. Severance by Ling Ma
37. Perfect Tunes by Emily Gould
38. Fair Warning by Michael Connelly
39. Valentine by Elizabeth Wetmore (longlisted for the 2020 First Novel Prize)
40. Pretty Things by Janelle Brown
41. Pollock Confidential by Onofrio Catacchio
42. I'll Eat When I'm Dead by Barbara Bourland
43. A Good Neighborhood by Therese Anne Fowler
May 2020
44. A Good Marriage by Kimberly McCreight
45. Intro to Alien Invasion by Owen King and Mark Jude Poirer
46. These Witches Don't Burn by Isabel Sterling
47. Stepping Stones by Lucy Knisley
48. The Boyfriend Project by Farrah Rochon
49. Stray by Stephanie Danler
50. Killing and Dying by Adriane Tomine
51. Writers & Lovers by Lily King
52. My Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth Russell (longlisted for the 2020 First Novel Prize)
53. The Lies That Bind by Emily Giffin
54. Nice Try by Josh Gondelman
55. A Burning by Megha Majumdar
56. Next Year in Havana by Chanel Cleeton
June 2020
57. The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead (winner of the 2020 Pulitzer Prize)
58. Party of Two by Jasmine Guillory
59. The Only Black Girls in Town by Brandy Colbert
60. Kennedy and King: The President, The Pastor, and the Battle Over Civil Rights by Steven Levingston
61. One True Loves by Taylor Jenkins Reid
62. The Holdout by Graham Moore
63. Something to Talk About by Meryl Wilsner
64. I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness by Austin Channing Brown (a Reese's Book Club pick)
65. Trail of Echoes by Rachel Howzell Hall
66. Paper Girls, Vol. 1 by Brian K. Vaughan
67. Paper Girls, Vol. 2 by Brian K. Vaughan
68. Paper Girls, Vol. 3 by Brian K. Vaughan
69. Paper Girls, Vol. 4 by Brian K. Vaughan
70. Paper Girls, Vol. 5 by Brian K. Vaughan
71. Paper Girls, Vol. 6 by Brian K. Vaughan
72. The Guest List by Lucy Foley (a Reese's Book Club pick)
73. The Boy in the Red Dress by Kristin Lambert
74. City of Saviors by Rachel Howzell Hall
75. The Age of Great Dreams by David Farber
76. Sex in the Heartland by Beth Bailey
77. Beach Read by Emily Henry
78. Want by Lynn Steger Strong
79. The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
July 2020
80. Our Time Is Now by Stacey Abrams
81. The End of October by Lawrence Wright
82. One to Watch by Kate Stayman-London
83. The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage by Sydney Padua
84. Big Friendship: How We Keep Each Other Close by Ann Friedman and Aminatou Sow
85. Big Summer by Jennifer Weiner
86. The Rural Diaries by Hilarie Burton Morgan
87. Thick by Tracy McMillan Cottom
88. Hollywood Homicide by Kellye Garrett
89. The Beauty in Breaking by Michele Harper
90. Hollywood Ending by Kellye Garrett
91. How We Fight For Our Lives by Saeed Jones
92. With the Fire on High by Elizabeth Acevedo
93. The Book of Atlantis Black by Betsy Bonner
94. Stargazing by Jen Wang
95. Luster by Raven Leilani (longlisted for the 2020 First Novel Prize)
96. True Story by Kate Reed Petty (longlisted for the 2020 First Novel Prize)
97. Head Over Heels by Hannah Orenstein
53. The Lies That Bind by Emily Giffin
54. Nice Try by Josh Gondelman
55. A Burning by Megha Majumdar
56. Next Year in Havana by Chanel Cleeton
June 2020
57. The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead (winner of the 2020 Pulitzer Prize)
58. Party of Two by Jasmine Guillory
59. The Only Black Girls in Town by Brandy Colbert
60. Kennedy and King: The President, The Pastor, and the Battle Over Civil Rights by Steven Levingston
61. One True Loves by Taylor Jenkins Reid
62. The Holdout by Graham Moore
63. Something to Talk About by Meryl Wilsner
64. I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness by Austin Channing Brown (a Reese's Book Club pick)
65. Trail of Echoes by Rachel Howzell Hall
66. Paper Girls, Vol. 1 by Brian K. Vaughan
67. Paper Girls, Vol. 2 by Brian K. Vaughan
68. Paper Girls, Vol. 3 by Brian K. Vaughan
69. Paper Girls, Vol. 4 by Brian K. Vaughan
70. Paper Girls, Vol. 5 by Brian K. Vaughan
71. Paper Girls, Vol. 6 by Brian K. Vaughan
72. The Guest List by Lucy Foley (a Reese's Book Club pick)
73. The Boy in the Red Dress by Kristin Lambert
74. City of Saviors by Rachel Howzell Hall
75. The Age of Great Dreams by David Farber
76. Sex in the Heartland by Beth Bailey
77. Beach Read by Emily Henry
78. Want by Lynn Steger Strong
79. The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
July 2020
80. Our Time Is Now by Stacey Abrams
81. The End of October by Lawrence Wright
82. One to Watch by Kate Stayman-London
83. The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage by Sydney Padua
84. Big Friendship: How We Keep Each Other Close by Ann Friedman and Aminatou Sow
85. Big Summer by Jennifer Weiner
86. The Rural Diaries by Hilarie Burton Morgan
87. Thick by Tracy McMillan Cottom
88. Hollywood Homicide by Kellye Garrett
89. The Beauty in Breaking by Michele Harper
90. Hollywood Ending by Kellye Garrett
91. How We Fight For Our Lives by Saeed Jones
92. With the Fire on High by Elizabeth Acevedo
93. The Book of Atlantis Black by Betsy Bonner
94. Stargazing by Jen Wang
95. Luster by Raven Leilani (longlisted for the 2020 First Novel Prize)
96. True Story by Kate Reed Petty (longlisted for the 2020 First Novel Prize)
97. Head Over Heels by Hannah Orenstein
98. Memorial Drive by Natasha Trethewey
99. Little and Lion by Brandy Colbert
August 2020
100. Indelicacy by Amina Cain
101. Intimations by Zadie Smith
102. Becoming RBG by Debbie Levy and Whitney Gardner
103. Heist Society by Ally Carter
104. The Unraveling of Cassidy Holmes by Elissa R. Sloan
105. The Glass Hotel by Emily St. John Mandel
106. The Voting Booth by Brandy Colbert
107. The Black Kids by Christina Hammonds Reed
108. Impersonation by Heidi Pitlor
109.
Read in 2019
January 2019
1. Still Lives by Maria Hummel (a Hello Sunshine pick)
2. Blessed are the Dead by Kristi Belcamino
3. The Library Book by Susan Orlean (a Hello Sunshine pick)
4. Eat Only When You Are Hungry by Lindsay Hunter
5. Atomic Marriage by Curtis Sittenfeld
6. Little Labors by Rivka Galchen
7. The Other Woman by Sandie Jones (a Hello Sunshine pick)
8. The Truths We Hold by Kamala Harris
9. Land of Shadows by Rachel Howzell Hall
10. All You Can Ever Know by Nicole Chung
February 2019
11. The Proposal by Jasmine Guillory (a Hello Sunshine pick)
12. The Killer Collective by Barry Eisler
13. The Winter People by Jennifer McMahon
March 2019
14. Blood Oath by Linda Fairstein
15. Heartland by Sarah Smarsh
16. Daisy Jones & the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid (a Hello Sunshine pick)
April 2019
17. The Better Sister by Alafair Burke
18. Good Talk by Mira Jacob
19. Karamo by Karamo Brown
20. Save Me the Plums by Ruth Reichl
21. Evidence of the Affair by Taylor Jenkins Reid
22. An American Marriage by Tayari Jones (2018 National Book Award Longlist)
May 2019
23. Southern Lady Code by Helen Ellis
24. Fame Adjacent by Sarah Skilton
25. Why Don't You Write My Eulogy Now So I Can Correct It? by Patricia Marx & Roz Chast
26. Cribsheet by Emily Oster
27. Things My Son Needs to Know About the World by Fredrik Backman
28. The Kitchen by Ollie Masters
June 2019
29. Educated by Tara Westover
30. If I Die Tonight by Alison Gaylin
31. The Flatshare by Beth O'Leary
32. The Cactus by Sarah Haywood (a Hello Sunshine pick)
July 2019
33. And Now We Have Everything by Meghan O'Connell
34. Watcher in the Woods by Kelley Armstrong
35. The Whisper Network by Chandler Baker (a Hello Sunshine pick)
36. Three Women by Lisa Taddeo
37. Beautiful Bad by Annie Ward
38. Goldie Vance, Vol. 4 by Hope Larson
39. Ms. Marvel, Vol. 8: Mecca by G. Willow Wilson
40. Ms. Marvel, Vol. 9: Teenage Wasteland by G. Willow Wilson
41. Ms. Marvel, Vol. 10: Time and Again by G. Willow Wilson
42. The Wedding Party by Jasmine Guillory
43. Good Riddance by Elinor Lipman
44. Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs
45. The Weather Machine by Andrew Blum
46. Beasts of Extraordinary Circumstances by Ruth Emmie Lang
August 2019
47. When All Is Said by Anne Griffin
48. Women's Diaries of the Westward Journey by Lillian Schlissel
49. Queen of the Sea by Dylan Meconis
50. Shrill by Lindy West
51. Hello Girls by Brittany Cavallaro and Emily Henry
52. You've Been Volunteered by Laurie Gelman
September 2019
53. Blessed are the Meek by Kristi Belcamino
54. The Most Fun We Ever Had by Claire Lombardo (longlisted for the 2019 First Novel Prize and the 2020 Women's Prize)
55. Maybe in Another Life by Taylor Jenkins Reid
56. Evvie Drake Starts Over by Linda Holmes
57. Red, White & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston
58. Wild Game: My Mother, Her Lover, and Me by Adrienne Brodeur
59. All the Devils by Barry Eisler
60. Sabrina & Corina by Kali Fajardo-Anstine (2019 National Book Award longlist)
October 2019
61. The Secrets We Kept by Lara Prescott (a Hello Sunshine pick)
62. The Dutch House by Ann Patchett (longlisted for the 2020 Women's Prize)
63. Fair Play by Eve Rodsky (a Hello Sunshine pick)
64. All We Ever Wanted by Emily Giffin
65. The Girl Buried in the Woods by Robert Ellis
66. The Night Fire by Michael Connelly
November 2019
67. Life Undercover: Coming of Age in the CIA by Amaryllis Fox
68. The Witches Are Coming by Lindy West
69. Conviction by Denise Mina
70. How Chefs Holiday by Dana Cowin
71. Royal Holiday by Jasmine Guillory
72. You Can Thank Me Later by Kelly Harms
73. Making China Modern by Klaus Muhlhahn
74. Skies of Ash by Rachel Howzell Hall
75. The Beautiful Country and the Middle Kingdom by John Pomfret
76. Disappearing Earth by Julia Phillips (shortlisted for the 2019 First Novel Prize and the 2019 National Book Award)
77. Blessed Are Those Who Weep by Kristi Belcamino
December 2019
78. Aftermath by Rachel Cusk
79. A Gathering of Days by Joan W. Blos
80. Out to Work by Arianne Gaetano
81. Fleishman is in Trouble by Taffy Brodesser-Akner (longlisted for the 2019 National Book Award and the 2020 Women's Prize)
82. The Case of the Missing Men by Kris Bertin
83. Late Migrations by Margaret Renkl
84. This Is Not the Story You Think It Is by Laura Munson
85. Betraying Big Brother: The Feminist Awakening in China by Leta Hong Fincher
86. Where Should We Begin? The Arc of Love by Esther Perel
87. Long Bright River by Liz Moore
88. Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid
89. Dear Edward by Ann Napolitano
90. All This Could Be Yours by Jami Attenberg
91. Trust Exercise by Susan Choi (winner of the 2019 National Book Award)
92. I Am Not Your Slave by Tupa Tjipombo
Read in 2018
January 2018
1. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark (1001 Books to Read Before You Die)
2. The Best We Could Do by Thi Bui
3. The Music Shop by Rachel Joyce (January 2018 Book of the Month pick)
4. A Clean Kill in Tokyo by Barry Eisler
5. The Night Trade by Barry Eisler
6. Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan
7. The Rules Do Not Apply by Ariel Levy
8. The Wrong Way to Save Your Life by Megan Stielstra
9. Lucky Boy by Shanthi Sekaran (2018 Tournament of Books)
10. Sightseeing by Rattawut Lapcharoensap
February 2018
12. Me Before You by Jojo Moyes
12. Two Girls Down by Louisa Luna (January 2018 Book of the Month pick)
13. This Fallen Prey by Kelley Armstrong
14. After You by Jojo Moyes
15. Tangerine by Christine Manjan
16. The Perfect Mother by Aimee Molloy
17. Braving the Wilderness by Brene Brown
March 2018
18. As Bright as Heaven by Susan Meissner (January 2018 Book of the Month pick)
19. To Die but Once by Jacqueline Winspear
20. As Lie is to Grin by Simeon Marsalis (shortlisted for the 2017 First Novel Prize)
April 2018
21. Our Kind of Cruelty by Araminta Hall
22. See What I Have Done by Sarah Schmidt (longlisted for the 2018 Women's Prize)
May 2018
23. You Think It, I'll Say It by Curtis Sittenfeld
24. The Flight Attendant by Chris Bohjalian
25. The Wedding Date by Jasmine Guillory
26. The Prince and the Dressmaker by Jen Wang
27. Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng
June 2018
28. What You Want to See by Kristen Lepionka
29. Marriage Vacation by Pauline Turner Brooks (Jo Piazza)
30. The President is Missing by Bill Clinton and James Patterson
31. The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai
32. Daisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid
July 2018
33. The Golden State by Lydia Kiesling (longlisted for the 2018 First Novel Prize)
34. Still Me by Jojo Moyes
35. Bachelor Nation: Inside the World of America's Favorite Guilty Pleasure by Amy Kaufman
August 2018
36. When Katie Met Cassidy by Camille Perri
37. Sabrina by Nick Drnaso (longlisted for the 2018 First Novel Prize and the 2018 Booker Prize)
38. Trenton Makes by Tadzio Koelb (longlisted for the 2018 First Novel Prize)
39. An Anonymous Girl by Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen
October 2018
40. Almost Famous Women by Megan Mayhew Bergman
41. Girls on Fire by Robin Wasserman
42. The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, Vol. 1 by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa
November 2018
43. Dark Sacred Night by Michael Connelly
44. You Don't Own Me by Mary Higgins Clark & Alafair Burke
45. Tell Me More: Stories About the 12 Hardest Things I'm Trying to Say by Kelly Corrigan
46. I Might Regret This by Abbi Jacobson
47. Paperback Crush: The Totally Radical History of '80s and '90s Teen Fiction by Gabrielle Moss
48. Eeny Meeny by M.J. Arlidge
49. Kid Gloves by Lucy Knisley
December 2018
50. The Gilded Years by Karin Tanabe
51. Becoming by Michelle Obama
52. Mockingbird, Vol. 1 by Chelsea Cain
53. An American Agent by Jacqueline Winspear
54. One Day in December by Josie Silver
Read in 2017
January 2017
1. A Good Thief's Guide to Amsterdam by Chris Ewan
2. The Travelers by Chris Pavone
3. I'll Tell You In Person by Chloe Caldwell
4. The Vanishing Year by Kate Moretti
5. Black Wave by Michelle Tea (2017 Tournament of Books)
6. Grief is the Thing With Feathers by Max Porter (2017 Tournament of Books, winner of the 2016 Dylan Thomas Prize, and 2016 New York Times Notable Book)
7. Marlena by Julie Buntin
February 2017
8. Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk by Kathleen Rooney
9. The Mothers by Brit Bennett (2017 Tournament of Books and 2016 National Book Award 5 Under 35)
March 2017
10. What Remains of Me by Alison Gaylin (finalist for the 2017 Best Novel Edgar)
11. Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders
12. The Boy Who Loved Anne Frank by Ellen Feldman
13. Moral Defense by Marcia Clark
14. The Mare by Mary Gaitskill (longlisted for the 2017 Baileys Prize)
15. The Children by Ann Leary
April 2017
16. Little Deaths by Emma Flint (longlisted for the 2017 Baileys Prize)
17. Sightseeing by Rattawut Lapcharoensap
18. Difficult Women by Roxane Gay
19. First Love by Gwendoline Riley (shortlisted for the 2017 Baileys Prize)
20. Jane Steele by Lyndsay Faye (finalist for the 2017 Best Novel Edgar)
21. Hunger by Roxane Gay
22. Livia Lone by Barry Eisler
23. Startup by Doree Shafrir
24. The Last Neanderthal by Claire Cameron
May 2017
25. One Day We'll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter by Scaachi Koul
26. Sunshine State by Sarah Gerard
27. Into the Water by Paula Hawkins
28. Saints for All Occasions by J. Courtney Sullivan
29. Woman No. 17 by Edan Lepucki
30. The Late Show by Michael Connelly
31. All Grown Up by Jami Attenberg
32. Ms. Marvel: Vol. 6 Civil War II by G. Willow Wilson
June 2017
33. Goldie Vance Vol. 2 by Hope Larson
34. Priestdaddy by Patricia Lockwood
35. Deadfall by Linda Fairstein
36. Do Not Become Alarmed by Maile Meloy
37. Hello, Sunshine by Laura Dave
38. Made for Love by Alissa Nutting
39. Final Girls by Riley Sager
40. Chemistry by Weike Wang
July 2017
41. Juniper: The Girl Who Was Born Too Soon by Kelly Benham French and Thomas French
42. The Widow by Fiona Barton
43. The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid
44. Too Fat, Too Slutty, Too Loud by Anne Helen Petersen
45. What We Lose by Zinzi Clemmons
46. The Sisters Chase by Sarah Healy
47. White Fur by Jardine Libaire
48. A Separation by Katie Kitamura
49. A Stranger in the House by Shari Lapena
50. Goodbye, Vitamin by Rachel Khong
51. The Misfortune of Marion Palm by Emily Culliton
52. American Fire by Monica Hesse
53. The War Bride's Scrapbook by Caroline Preston
54. The Arrangement by Sarah Dunn
55. The Lucky Ones by Julianne Pachico (longlisted for the 2017 First Novel Prize)
August 2017
56. The Fall Guy by James Lasdun
57. Sugar by Kimberly Stuart
58. Fierce Kingdom by Gin Phillips
59. Paper Girls Vol. 1 by Brian K. Vaughan, Cliff Chiang, and Matthew Wilson
60. The Incest Diary by Anonymous
61. Aftercare Instructions by Bonnie Pipkin
62. In a Dark, Dark Wood by Ruth Ware
September 2017
63. Forever, Interrupted by Taylor Jenkins Reid
64. Amanda Woke Up by Alisyn Camerota
65. Ms. Marvel Vol. 7: Damage Per Second by G. Willow Wilson
66. Class Mom by Laurie Gelman
67. The Woman in Cabin 10 by Ruth Ware
October 2017
68. Famous and Almost Famous Women by Megan Mayhew Bergman (re-read)
69. Paper Girls Vol. 2 by Brian K. Vaughan, Cliff Chiang, and Matthew Wilson
70. Paper Girls Vol. 3 by Brian K. Vaughan, Cliff Chiang, and Matthew Wilson
71. Paper Girls #16 by Brian K. Vaughan, Cliff Chiang, and Matthew Wilson
72. A Sick Life by Tionne Watkins
73. Winter Solstice by Elin Hilderbrand
November 2017
74. The Last Place You Look by Kristen Lepionka
75. Origin by Dan Brown
76. Two Kinds of Truth by Michael Connelly
77. We're Going to Need More Wine by Gabrielle Union
78. Every Breath You Take by Mary Higgins Clark and Alafair Burke
79. Dear Martin by Nic Stone
80. Astray by Emma Donogue (re-read)
81. Going Into Town by Roz Chast
82. Are You Sleeping? by Kathleen Barber
83. The Wife by Alafair Burke
84. Explosion at Orly: The Disaster That Transformed Atlanta by Ann Uhry Abrams
85. Hourglass: Time, Memory, Marriage by Dani Shapiro
86. Emma in the Night by Wendy Walker
87. God: A Human History by Rexa Aslan
88. After I Do by Taylor Jenkins Reid
89. What Happened by Hillary Rodham Clinton
December 2017
90. The Wife Between Us by Greer Hendricks & Sarah Pekannen
91. The Chalk Man by C.J. Tudor
92. Jillian by Halle Butler (2017 National Book Award 5 Under 35 honoree)
93. The Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin
94. Goldie Vance Vol. 3 by Hope Larson
95. The Woman in the Window by A.J. Finn
96. Imagine Wanting Only This by Kristen Radtke
97. The Duchess Deal by Tessa Dare
98. Voices in the Dark by Ulli Lust
99. Christmas: A Biography by Judith Flanders
100. We Are Never Meeting in Real Life by Samantha Irby
101. The Last Black Unicorn by Tiffany Haddish
102. News of the World by Paulette Jiles (shortlisted for the 2016 National Book Award)
Read in 2016
January 2016
1. Mr. Splitfoot by Samantha Hunt
2. My Name Is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout (longlisted for the 2015 Baileys Prize)
3. Your Heart is a Muscle the Size of a Fist by Sunil Yapa
4. Good on Paper by Rachel Cantor
5. Thunder & Lightning: Weather Past, Present, Future by Lauren Redniss
6. The Expatriates by Janice Y.K. Lee
7. All Involved by Ryan Gattis
8. Journey to Munich by Jacqueline Winspear
9. Weathering by Lucy Wood
10. The Lie by Helen Dunmore (shortlisted for the 2015 Walter Scott Prize)
11. Plotted: A Literary Atlas by Andrew DeGraff and Daniel Harmon
12. Ms. Marvel: Volume 4 by G. Willow Wilson
13. Ban en Banlieue by Bhanu Kapil (2016 Tournament of Books)
14. The Whites by Harry Brandt (2016 Tournament of Books and 2015 New York Times Notable Book)
15. The Wilderness by Samantha Harvey (2009 Orange Prize shortlist)
16, Golden Age by Jane Smiley
February 2016
17. The Sellout by Paul Beatty (2015 NBCC Award finalist)
18. Bitch Planet by Kelly Sue DeConnick
19. Last Good Girl by Allison Leotta
20. The Turner House by Angela Flournoy (finalist for 2015 National Book Award)
21. Swans of Fifth Avenue by Melanie Benjamin
22. Ordinary Grace by William Kent Krueger (winner of the 2014 Edgar Award)
23. Bernie by Ted Rall
24. In Other Words by Jhumpa Lahiri
25. Radioactive by Lauren Redniss
26. The Guest Room by Chris Bohjalian
27. Undiscovered Country by Christina Koning (longlisted for the 1998 Orange Prize)
28. First Ladies by National Public Radio
29. Pregnant with the Stars by Renee Cramer
March 2016
30. Century Girl by Lauren Redniss
31. A Study in Charlotte by Brittany Cavallaro
32. The Book of Memory by Petina Gappah (longlisted for the 2016 Baileys Prize)
33. Eligible by Curtis Sittenfeld
34. The Hopefuls by Jennifer Close
April 2016
35. A Dictionary of Mutual Understanding by Jackie Copleton (longlisted for the 2016 Baileys Prize)
36. At the Edge of the Orchard by Tracy Chevalier
37. Rich and Pretty by Rumaan Alam
38. The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto by Mitch Albom
39. The Clasp by Sloane Crosley
40. The Improbability of Love by Hannah Rothschild (shortlisted for the 2016 Baileys Prize)
41. Roller Girl by Victoria Jamieson
May 2016
42. 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl by Mona Awad
43. Love, Loss and What We Ate by Padma Lakshmi
44. Killer Look by Linda Fairstein
45. Sweetbitter by Stephanie Danler
46. Luckiest Girl Alive by Jessica Knoll
47. Hamilton: The Revolution by Lin-Manuel Miranda
48. The Shift by Theresa Brown
49. Peggy Guggenheim: The Shock of the Modern by Francine Prose
June 2016
50. Maestra by L.S. Hilton
51. The Assistants by Camille Perri
52. Blood Defense by Marcia Clark
53. Commonwealth by Ann Patchett (finalist for the 2017 National Book Critics Circle Award)
54. All Is Not Forgotten by Wendy Walker
55. Chronicle of a Last Summer by Yasmine El Rashidi
56. The Last Chinese Chef by Nicole Mones
July 2016
57. Vinegar Girl by Anne Tyler
58. What Belongs to You by Garth Greenwell (longlisted for the 2016 First Novel Prize)
59. The Last Painting of Sara de Vos by Dominic Smith
60. Ms. Marvel Vol. 5: Super Famous by G. Willow Wilson
August 2016
61. Only the Hunted Run by Neely Tucker
62. Rock Paper Tiger by Lisa Brackmann
63. Girl Through Glass by Sari Wilson (longlisted for the 2016 First Novel Prize)
64. Fieldwork by Mischa Berlinksi (shortlisted for the 2007 Flaherty-Dunnan Award--now First Novel Prize)
65. Listen to Me by Hannah Pittard
66.Another Brooklyn by Jacqueline Woodson (2016 National Book Award finalist)
67. Hot Milk by Deborah Levy (shortlisted for the 2016 Booker Prize)
68. Tuesday Nights in 1980 by Molly Prentiss (longlisted for the 2016 First Novel Prize)
September 2016
69. The Wrong Side of Goodbye by Michael Connelly
70. Blue on Black by Michael Connelly
71. Almost Famous Women by Megan Mayhew Bergman
October 2016
72. The Love Killings by Robert Ellis
73. The Mommy Shorts Guide to Remarkably Average Parenting by Ilana Wiles
74. We Love You, Charlie Freeman by Kaitlyn Greenidge (shortlisted for the 2016 First Novel Prize)
75. Spot 12 by Jenny Jaeckel
76. The Vegetarian by Han Kang (winner of the 2016 Booker International Prize)
77. The $10,000,000 Marriage Proposal by James Patterson
78. City of the Lost by Kelley Armstrong
79. All the Single Ladies by Rebecca Traister
80. A Darkness Absolute by Kelley Armstrong
November 2016
81. 750 Years in Paris by Vincent Mahe
82. Mooncop by Tom Gauld
83. Dodgers by Bill Beverly (longlisted for the 2016 First Novel Prize)
84. The Book of Aron by (shortlisted for the 2016 Carnegie Medal)
85. Goldie Vance Vol. 1 by Hope Larson
86. Modern Lovers by Emma Straub
87. The Shattered Tree by Charles Todd
88. Winter Storms by Elin Hilderbrand
89. The Sleeping Beauty Killer by Alafair Burke and Mary Higgins Clark
90. Report for Murder by Val McDermid
December 2016
91. Forward by Abby Wambach
92. Jam on the Vine by LaShonda Katrice Barnett
93. The Spy by Paulo Coelho
94. Snow White by Matt Phelan
95. The Couple Next Door by Shari Lapena
96. French Kiss by James Patterson
97. Black Panther Vol. 1 by Ta-Nehisi Coates
98. In This Grave Hour by Jacqueline Winspear
99. Love Warrior by Glennon Doyle Melton
100. The Christmas Mystery by James Patterson
101. The Foremost Good Fortune by Susan Conley
102. Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly
103. The Slanted Life of Emily Dickinson: America's Favorite Recluse Just Got a Life! by Rosanna Bruno
104. This One Summer by Jillian Tamaki and Mariko Tamaki
Read in 2015
January 2015
1. The Astronaut Wives Club by Lily Koppel
2. Seating Arrangements by Maggie Shipstead (winner of the 2012 Dylan Thomas Prize and shortlisted for the 2012 Flaherty-Dunnan Award)
3. The Snow Queen by Hans Christian Andersen
4. The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace by Jeff Hobbs (2014 New York Times Notable book)
5. A Field Guide to the North American Family by Garth Risk Hallberg
6. The Position by Meg Wolitzer (longlisted for the 2006 Orange Prize)
7. The Book of Unknown Americans by Cristina Henriquez (2014 New York Times Notable book)
8. Here by Richard McGuire
9. Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth by Reza Aslan
10. The Princess of 72nd Street by Elaine Kraf
February 2015
11. A Dangerous Place by Jacqueline Winspear
12. Displacement by Lucy Knisley
13. The Reader by Bernard Schlink (1001 Books to Read Before You Die)
14. Slow Dancing with a Stranger by Meryl Comer
15. Lena Finkle's Magic Barrel by Anya Ulinich (2014 New York Times Notable book)
16. After Birth by Elisa Albert
17. Ms. Marvel: No Normal by G. Willow Wilson
18. The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins
19. The Law of Attraction by Allison Leotta
20. Ten Rules for a Call Girl by Allison Leotta
March 2015
21. The Last Good Paradise by Tatjana Soli
22. A Touch of Stardust by Kate Alcott
23. Discretion by Allison Leotta
24. Cairo by G. Willow Wilson
25. Outline by Rachel Cusk (short listed for the 2015 Baileys Prize)
26. Working Stiff by Judy Melinek
27. Elizabeth Is Missing by Emma Healey (longlisted for the 2015 Baileys Prize)
28. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (1001 Books to Read Before You Die & winner of the 1961 Pulitzer Prize)
29. Women by Chloe Caldwell
30. I Am China by Xiaolu Gao (longlisted for the 2015 Baileys Prize)
31. Legs Get Led Astray Chloe Caldwell
32. Speak of the Devil by Allison Leotta
33. Dear Thief by Samantha Harvey (longlisted for the 2015 Baileys Prize)
34. The Offering by Grace McCleen (longlisted for the 2015 Baileys Prize)
April 2015
35. The Bees by Laline Paull (short listed for the 2015 Baileys Prize)
36. Fun Home by Alison Bechdel
37. Are You My Mother? by Alison Bechdel
38. The Shore by Sara Taylor (longlisted for the 2015 Baileys Prize)
39. Hausfrau by Jill Alexander Essbaum
40. Ms. Marvel: Volume Two by G. Willow Wilson
41. Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino (1001 Books to Read Before You Die)
42. A Spool of Blue Thread by Anne Tyler (short listed for the 2015 Baileys Prize)
43. All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr (winner of the 2015 Pulitzer Prize, 2014 National Book Award finalist and 2014 New York Times Notable Book & top 5 of 2014)
44. Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant? by Roz Chast (2014 National Book Award (Nonfiction) finalist and 2014 New York Times Top Five of 2014)
45. God Help the Child by Toni Morrison
46. Academy Street by Mary Costello
May 2015
47. The Green Road by Anne Enright
48. The Ghost Network by Katie Disabato
49. A Good Killing by Allison Leotta
50. Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town by Jon Krakaeur
51. Syllabus by Lynda Barry
June 2015
52. The Governor's Wife by Michael Harvey
53. Eight Hundred Grapes by Laura Dave
54. Family Life by Akhil Sharma (2014 Top 5 Fiction and New York Times Notable book)
55. Every Fifteen Minutes by Lisa Scottoline
56. The Wallcreeper by Nell Zink (2014 New York Times Notable book)
57. Blackout by Sarah Hepola
58. Primates of the Upper East Side by Wednesday Martin
59. The Midwife's Daughter by Patricia Ferguson
60. The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie Kondo
61. The Lost Boys Symphony by Mark Andrew Ferguson
62. Nimona by Noelle Stephenson
63. Murder, D.C. by Neely Tucker
64. Devil's Bridge by Linda Fairstein
July 2015
65. Modern Romance by Aziz Ansari and Eric Klinenberg
66. Doodle Diary of a New Mom by Lucy Scott
67. Louise Brooks: Detective by Rick Geary
68. Portrait of an Addict as a Young Man by Bill Clegg
69. How to Start a Fire by Lisa Lutz
70. Tomboy by Liz Prince
71. Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee
72. The Folded Clock by Heidi Julavits
73. Fear the Darkness by Becky Masterman
74. How It All Began by Penelope Lively
75. Lila by Marilynne Robinson (longlisted for the 2015 Booker Prize, 2014 National Book Award finalist, 2014 New York Times Notable book and winner of the 2014 National Book Critics Circle Award)
76. Not My Father's Son by Alan Cumming
August 2015
77. City of Echoes by Robert Ellis
78. Early Warning by Jane Smiley
79. Pattern of Lies by Charles Todd
80. Satin Island by Tom McCarthy (longlisted for the 2015 Booker Prize)
81. Girl at War by Sara Novic
82. Sleeping on Jupiter by Anuradha Roy (longlisted for the 2015 Booker Prize)
83. Did You Ever Have a Family by Bill Clegg (longlisted for the 2015 Booker Prize)
84. Local Girls by Caroline Zancan
September 2015
85. The Crossing by Michael Connelly
86. Saint Mazie by Jami Attenberg
87. The Ex by Alafair Burke (finalist for the 2017 Best Novel Edgar)
88. The Moor's Account by Laila Lalmi (longlisted for the 2015 Booker Prize, 2015 Pulitzer Prize finalist, 2014 New York Times Notable Book)
89. Snowden by Ted Rail
90. Ms. Marvel, Vol. 3: Crushed by G. Willow Wilson
91. We Never Asked for Wings by Vanessa Diffenbaugh
92. Not Funny Ha Ha by Leah Hayes
93. Why Not Me? by Mindy Kaling
94. Fates and Furies by Lauren Groff (shortlisted for the 2015 National Book Award)
October 2015
95. The Hopeful by Tracy O'Neill (2015 National Book Award 5 Under 35 & 2015 First Novel Prize longlist)
96. The Monsters of Templeton by Lauren Groff (2008 Orange Prize New Writers finalist)
97. Bad Jews by Joshua Harmon
98. An Untamed State by Roxane Gay (2015 Dayton Literary Peace Prize finalist & 2014 First Novel Prize longlist)
99. Mislaid by Nell Zink (longlisted for the 2015 National Book Award)
100. Crooked Heart by Lissa Evans (longlisted for the 2015 Baileys Prize)
101. Battle Lines: A Graphic History of the Civil War by Ari Kelman & Jonathan Fetter-Vorm
102. Hark! A Vagrant by Kate Beaton
103. Last Night's Reading: Illustrated Encounters with Extraordinary Authors by Kate Gavino
November 2015
104. All Dressed in White by Mary Higgins Clark and Alafair Burke
105. My Life on the Road by Gloria Steinem
106. The Grownup by Gillian Flynn
107. The Weight of Water by Anita Shreve (shortlisted for the 1998 Orange Prize)
108. Nora Webster by Colm Toibin (2014 New York Times Notable Book, 2014 Folio Prize finalist & 2015 Carnegie Medal shortlist)
109. Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl by Carrie Brownstein
110. Liars and Saints by Maile Meloy (shortlisted for the 2005 Orange Prize)
111. Story of My Teeth by Valeria Luiselli
112. The Notorious RBG by Irin Carmon
113. Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
114. My Kitchen Year: 136 Recipes That Saved My Life by Ruth Reichl
115. State of Happiness by Stella Duffy (longlisted for the 2004 Orange Prize)
116. Lives of the Monster Dogs by Kirsten Bakis (shortlisted for the 1998 Orange Prize)
117. The Witch Hunter's Tale by Sam Thomas
December 2015
118. Official and Doubtful by Ajay Close (longlisted for the 1996 Orange Prize)
119. The Muralist by B.A. Shapiro
120. Under the Udala Trees by Chinelo Okparanta (longlisted for the 2015 First Novel Prize)
121. Winter Street by Elin Hilderbrand
122. Something New by Lucy Knisley
123. Winter Stroll by Elin Hilderbrand
124. Amy and Isabelle by Elizabeth Strout (shortlisted for the 2000 Orange Prize)
125. The Past by Tessa Hadley
126. The Kindness of Enemies by Leila Aboulela
127. American Housewife by Helen Ellis
128. Dear Mr. You by Mary-Louise Parker
129. 100 Essays I Don't Have Time to Write by Sarah Ruhl
130. The Kind Worth Killing by Peter Swanson
Read in 2014
January 2014
1. Making Babies: Stumbling Into Motherhood by Anne Enright
2. The Ghost of the Mary Celeste by Valerie Martin
3. Unremarried Widow by Artis Henderson
4. The Secret at Raven Point by Jennifer Vanderbes
5. The Harlot's Tale by Sam Thomas
6. Dark Places by Gillian Flynn
7. The Secret of Magic by Deborah Johnson
8. Baby Love: Choosing Motherhood After a Lifetime of Ambivalence by Rebecca Walker
9. Dept. of Speculation by Jenny Offill (2014 New York Times Notable book)
10. The Last Days of California by Mary Miller
February 2014
11. The UnAmericans by Molly Antopol (5 Under 35)
12. Click: When We Knew We Were Feminists edited by J. Courtney Sullivan & Courtney E. Martin
13. The News: A User's Manual by Alain de Botton
14. The Black Echo by Michael Connelly
15. Don't Talk to Strangers by Amanda Kyle Williams
16. All Day and a Night by Alafair Burke
17. The Other Typist by Suzanne Rindell
18. The Black Ice by Michael Connelly
March 2014
19. The Concrete Blonde by Michael Connelly
20. The Bear by Claire Cameron (2014 Baileys Prize longlist)
21. Eleven Days by Lea Carpenter (2014 Baileys Prize longlist)
22. The Last Coyote by Michael Connelly
23. The Poet by Michael Connelly
24. Trunk Music by Michael Connelly
25. The Dogs of Littlefield by Suzanne Berne
26. Thirty Girls by Susan Minot (2014 New York Times Notable book)
April 2014
27. Blood Work by Michael Connelly
28. Angels Flight by Michael Connelly
29. Void Moon by Michael Connelly
30. Labor Day: True Birth Stories by Today's Best Women Writers edited by Eleanor Henderson & Anna Solomon
31. All the Birds, Singing by Evie Wyld (2014 Baileys Prize longlist)
32. Doulas: Why Every Pregnant Woman Deserves One by Susan Ross
33. A Darkness More Than Night by Michael Connelly
34. Still Life with Bread Crumbs by Anna Quindlen (2014 Baileys Prize longlist)
35. Goodbye to All That: Writers on Loving and Leaving New York edited by Sari Botton
36. Save the Date: The Occasional Mortifications of a Serial Wedding Guest by Jen Doll
37. City of Bones by Michael Connelly
38. Burial Rites by Hannah Kent (2014 Baileys Prize shortlist)
39. Chasing the Dime by Michael Connelly
40. How Not to Calm a Child on a Plane by Johanna Stein
May 2014
41. The Unwitting by Ellen Feldman
42. Cutting Teeth by Julia Fierro
43. Wonderland by Stacey D'Erasmo
44. The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
45. A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing by Eimear McBride (2014 Baileys Prize winner)
46. Lost Light by Michael Connelly
47. Frog Music by Emma Donoghue
48. Think Like a Freak by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
49. The Undertaking by Audrey Magee (2014 Baileys Prize shortlist)
50. The Woman Upstairs by Claire Messud
51. The Vacationers by Emma Straub
52. The Narrows by Michael Connelly
53. The Lobster Kings by Alexi Zentern
54. The End of Your Life Book Club by Schwalbe
55. Don't Sing at the Table: Life Lessons from my Grandmother's by Adriana Trigiani
56. MFA v.s NYC: The Two Cultures of American Fiction by Chad Harbach (editor)
57. Terminal City by Linda Fairstein
58. Astonish Me by Maggie Shipstead
59. Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns) by Mindy Kaling
June 2014
60. The Closers by Michael Connelly
61. Bringing Up Bebe by Pamela Druckerman
62. Birth: The Surprising History of How We Are Born by Tina Cassidy
63. Detroit: An American Autopsy by Charlie LeDuff
64. The Lincoln Lawyer by Michael Connelly
65 Echo Park by Michael Connelly
66. The Empathy Exams by Leslie Jamison
67. The Overlook by Michael Connelly
68. Over Easy by Mimi Pond
69. Her Royal Spyness by Rhys Bowen
70. The Competition by Marcia Clark
July 2014
71. Friendship by Emily Gould
72. The Brass Verdict by Michael Connelly
73. Nine Months by Paula Bomer
74. The Scarecrow by Michael Connelly
75. Nine Dragons by Michael Connelly
76. Suzanne Davis Gets a Life by Paula Marantz Cohen
77. Baby and Other Stories by Paula Bomer
78. We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler (2014 Booker Prize longlist)
79. The Reversal by Michael Connelly
80. History of the Rain by Niall Williams (2014 Booker Prize longlist)
81. The Blazing World by Siri Hustvedt (2014 Booker Prize longlist)
August 2014
82. How Eskimos Keep Their Babies Warm: And Other Adventures in Parenting by Mei-Ling Hopgood
83. The Fifth Witness by Michael Connelly
84. To Rise Again at a Decent Hour by Joshua Ferris (2014 Booker Prize longlist)
85. The Drop by Michael Connelly
86. An Unwilling Accomplice by Charles Todd
87. The Black Box by Michael Connelly
88. An Age of License by Lucy Knisley
89. One Kick by Chelsea Cain
90. Reunion by Hannah Pittard
91. Dear Committee Members by Julie Schumacher
92. The Amateurs by Conor Stechsculte
September 2014
93. The Gods of Guilt by Michael Connelly
94. The Ways of the Dead by Neely Tucker
95. The Dog by Joseph O'Neill (2014 Booker Prize longlist)
96. Inside Madeleine by Paula Bomer
97. Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty
98. Operating Instructions by Anne Lamott
99. How to Be Both by Ali Smith (2014 Booker Prize short list and 2015 Baileys Prize short list)
100. The Burning Room by Michael Connelly
October 2014
101. Us by David Nicholls (2014 Booker Prize longlist)
102. The Storied Life of AJ Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin
103. The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher by Hilary Mantel (2014 New York Times Notable book)
104. Not That Kind of Girl by Lena Dunham
105. The Expats by Chris Pavone
106. Redeployment by Phil Klay (2014 National Book Award short list & 5 Under 35)
November 2014
107. Some Luck by Jane Smiley (2014 National Book Award longlist)
108. Sally Heathcote: Suffragette by Mary M. Talbot, Kate Charlesworth, and Bryan Talbot
109. Yes Please by Amy Poehler
110. Confessions of a Scary Mommy by Jill Smokler
111. The Care and Management of Lies by Jacqueline Winspear
112. Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel (2014 National Book Award short list)
113. The Accident by Chris Pavone
114. Sous Chef by Michael Gibney
115. Life in Motion by Misty Copeland
116. A History of Present Illness by Louise Aronson (2014 PEN Bingham Prize longlist)
117. Unspeakable by Meghan Daum
118. Rage Against the Dying by Becky Masterman
119. The Man of My Dreams by Curtis Sittenfeld
120. The Apartment by Greg Baxter
121. When the Emperor Was Divine by Julie Otsuka (2003 Orange Prize longlist)
122. Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng (2014 New York Times Notable book)86. An Unwilling Accomplice by Charles Todd
87. The Black Box by Michael Connelly
88. An Age of License by Lucy Knisley
89. One Kick by Chelsea Cain
90. Reunion by Hannah Pittard
91. Dear Committee Members by Julie Schumacher
92. The Amateurs by Conor Stechsculte
September 2014
93. The Gods of Guilt by Michael Connelly
94. The Ways of the Dead by Neely Tucker
95. The Dog by Joseph O'Neill (2014 Booker Prize longlist)
96. Inside Madeleine by Paula Bomer
97. Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty
98. Operating Instructions by Anne Lamott
99. How to Be Both by Ali Smith (2014 Booker Prize short list and 2015 Baileys Prize short list)
100. The Burning Room by Michael Connelly
October 2014
101. Us by David Nicholls (2014 Booker Prize longlist)
102. The Storied Life of AJ Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin
103. The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher by Hilary Mantel (2014 New York Times Notable book)
104. Not That Kind of Girl by Lena Dunham
105. The Expats by Chris Pavone
106. Redeployment by Phil Klay (2014 National Book Award short list & 5 Under 35)
November 2014
107. Some Luck by Jane Smiley (2014 National Book Award longlist)
108. Sally Heathcote: Suffragette by Mary M. Talbot, Kate Charlesworth, and Bryan Talbot
109. Yes Please by Amy Poehler
110. Confessions of a Scary Mommy by Jill Smokler
111. The Care and Management of Lies by Jacqueline Winspear
112. Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel (2014 National Book Award short list)
113. The Accident by Chris Pavone
114. Sous Chef by Michael Gibney
115. Life in Motion by Misty Copeland
116. A History of Present Illness by Louise Aronson (2014 PEN Bingham Prize longlist)
117. Unspeakable by Meghan Daum
118. Rage Against the Dying by Becky Masterman
119. The Man of My Dreams by Curtis Sittenfeld
120. The Apartment by Greg Baxter
121. When the Emperor Was Divine by Julie Otsuka (2003 Orange Prize longlist)
123. May We Be Forgiven by A.M. Homes (winner of the 2013 Women's Prize for Fiction)
December 2014
124. Texts from Jane Eyre by Mallory Ortberg
125. The Art Forger by B.A. Shapiro
126. Keeping Up With Magda by Isla Dear (longlisted for the 1996 Orange Prize)
127. When Mystical Creatures Attack! by Kathleen Founds (2014 New York Times Notable book)
128. The Cinderella Murder by Mary Higgins Clark and Alafair Burke
129. The Epiologue by Laia Abril
130. The Road to Wanting by Wendy Law-Yone (longlisted for the 2011 Orange Prize)
131. The Red Thread by Ann Hood
132. Halfway Home: Drawing My Way Through Japan by Christine Mari Inzer
133. Life After Life by Kate Atkinson (shortlisted for the 2013 Women's Prize)
134. The Silent Sister by Diane Chamberlain
135. Brick Lane by Monica Ali (longlisted for the 2004 Orange Prize & shortlisted for the 2003 Booker Prize)
136. 10:04 by Ben Lerner (2014 New York Times Notable book)
137. Lord of Misrule by Jaimy Gordon (winner of the 2010 National Book Award and longlisted for the 2012 Orange Prize)
138. A Pleasure and a Calling by Phil Hogan
139. Euphoria by Lily King (2014 New York Times Notable book)
Read in 2013
January 2013
1. The Death of Bees by Lisa O'Donnell
2. An Uncommon Education by Elizabeth Percer
3. Level 2 by Lenore Appelhans
4. Documentary Film: A Very Short Introduction by Patricia Aufderheide
5. The Uninvited Guests by Sadie Jones
6. Mistress of My Fate by Hallie Rubenhold
February 2013
7. Summerset Abbey by T.J. Brown
8. Upstairs & Downstairs by Sarah Warwick
9. All That I Am by Anna Funder
10. The Midwife's Tale by Sam Thomas
11. Romancing Olive by Holly Bush
12. The Blackhouse by Peter May
13. Below Stairs by Margaret Powell
14. Leaving Everything Most Loved by Jacqueline Winspear
March 2013
15. The End of the Point by Elizabeth Graver
16. The Lewis Man by Peter May
17. A Thousand Pardons by Jonathan Dee
18. While We Were Watching Downton Abbey by Wendy Wax
19. The Burgess Boys by Elizabeth Strout
20. The Chicago Way by Michael Harvey
21. Revenge by Yoko Ogawa
22. The Fifth Floor by Michael Harvey
23. Missing Persons by Clare O'Donohue
April 2013
24. Life Without Parole by Clare O'Donohue
25. Dark Tide by Elizabeth Haynes
26. Laura Lamont's Life in Pictures by Emma Straub
27. Reconstructing Amelia by Kimberly McCreight
28. Red Sky in Morning by Paul Lynch
29. Pain, Parties, Work: Sylvia Plath in New York, 1953 by Elizabeth Winder
30. Relish by Lucy Knisley
May 2013
31. The Third Rail by Michael Harvey
32. We All Fall Down by Michael Harvey
33. Lamb by Bonnie Nadzam (longlisted for the 2013 Women's Prize and winner of the 2011 Flaherty-Dunnan Award)
June 2013
34. If You Were Here by Alafair Burke
35. Murder as a Fine Art by David Morrell
36. How Should a Person Be? by Sheila Heti (longlisted for the 2013 Women's Prize)
37. Why Have Kids? by Jessica Valenti
38. Big Brother by Lionel Shriver
39. Ignorance by Michele Roberts (longlisted for the 2013 Women's Prize)
40. Sisterland by Curtis Sittenfeld
41. My Beloved World by Sonia Sotomayor
July 2013
42. Loteria by Mario Alberto Zambrano
43. The Queen's Vow by C.W. Gortner
44. Orange is the New Black by Piper Kerman
45. Flight Behavior by Barbara Kingsolver (shortlisted for the 2013 Women's Prize)
46. Inferno by Dan Brown
47. Godiva by Nicole Galland
48. What Alice Forgot by Liane Moriarty
49. Death Angel by Linda Fairstein
50. Dreaming in Chinese by Deborah Fallows
51. The Obituary Writer by Ann Hood
52. Someday, Someday, Maybe by Lauren Graham
August 2013
53. Sea Creatures by Susanna Daniel
54. Save Yourself by Kelly Braffett
55. Orphan Train by Christina Baker Klin
56. A Question of Honor by Charles Todd
September 2013
57. Nylon Road by Parsua Bashi
58. Agent Gates by Camaren Subhiyah
59. Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn
60. Let Me Go by Chelsea Cain
61. My Education by Susan Choi
62. The Husband's Secret by Liane Moriarty
October 2013
63. March: Book One by John Lewis
64. Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell
65. Blue is the Warmest Color by Julie Maroh
66. Lean In by Sheryl Sandberg
67. The Stranger You Seek by Amanda Kyle Williams
68. Stranger in the Room by Amanda Kyle Williams
69. We Need New Names by NoViolet Bulawayo (2013 Booker Prize shortlist)
70. The Execution by Dick Wolf
November 2013
71. Who Asked You? by Terry McMillan
72. The Preservationist by Justin Kramon
73. Divergent by Veronica Roth
74. Raven Girl by Audrey Niffenegger
75. Things I Should Have Told My Daughter: Lies, Lessons and Love Affairs by Pearl Cleage
76. Someone Else's Love Story by Joshilyn Jackson
77. Thumbprint by Joe Hill, Jason Ciaramella, and Vic Malhotra
78. My Venice by Donna Leon
79. This is the Story of a Happy Marriage by Ann Patchett
December 2013
80. Bad Houses by Sara Ryan and Carla Speed McNeil
81. Double Down by Mark Halperin and John Heilemann
82. Expecting Better by Emily Oster
83. Guilt by Association by Marcia Clark
84. Guilt by Degrees by Marcia Clark
85. Killer Ambition by Marcia Clark
86. Somewhere in France by Jennifer Robson
87. The Bird Skinner by Alice Greenway
88. Red Handed: The Fine Art of Strange Crimes by Matt Kindt
89. Bumpology by Linda Geddes
90. The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd
91. Tampa by Alissa Nutting (longlisted for the 2013 Flaherty-Dunnan Prize)
92. Maine by J. Courtney Sullivan
93. The Good House by Ann Leary
94. Leaving Atlanta by Tayari Jones
Read in 2012
January 2012
1. Watchmen by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons (1001 Books to Read Before You Die)
2. Bel Canto by Ann Patchett (winner of the 2002 Orange Prize)
3. The World We Found by Thrity Umrigar
4. Property by Valerie Martin (winner of the 2003 Orange Prize)
5. We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver (winner of the 2005 Orange Prize)
6. Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel (1001 Books to Read Before You Die)
7. One for the Money by Janet Evanovich
8. What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day by Pearl Cleage
9. The Beginner's Goodbye by Anne Tyler
10. The Fallback Plan by Leigh Stein
11. Running the Rift by Naomi Benaron (winner of the 2010 Bellwether Prize)
February 2012
12. The Red Book by Deborah Copaken Kogan
13. The New Republic by Lionel Shriver
14. Silver Sparrow by Tayari Jones (shortlisted for the 2011 Indie Lit Award)
15. The Silent Oligarch by Christopher Morgan Jones
16. Cross Currents by John Shors (shortlisted for the 2011 Indie Lit Award)
17. The Last Brother by Nathacha Appanah (2012 Tournament of Books contender)
18. Gillespie and I by Jane Harris
19. The Last Time I Saw Paris by Lynn Sheene (shortlisted for the 2011 Indie Lit Award)
March 2012
20. Dance Lessons by Aine Greaney (shortlisted for the 2011 Indie Lit Award)
21. Carry the One by Carol Anshaw
22. The Pink Hotel by Anna Stothard (longlisted for the 2012 Orange Prize)
23. Elegy for Eddie by Jacqueline Winspear
24. There but for the by Ali Smith (longlisted for the 2012 Orange Prize)
25. The Grief of Others by Leah Hager Cohen (longlisted for the 2012 Orange Prize)
26. Arcadia by Lauren Groff
27. The Forgotten Waltz by Anne Enright (shortlisted for the 2012 Orange Prize)
28. Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller (shortlisted for the 2012 Orange Prize)
29. The Translation of Bones by Francesca Kay (longlisted for the 2012 Orange Prize)
April 2012
30. Foreign Bodies by Cynthia Ozick (shortlisted for the 2012 Orange Prize)
31. Butterly's Child by Angela Davis-Gardner
32. Train Dreams by Denis Johnson (finalist for the 2012 Pulitzer Prize)
33. Painter of Silence by Georgina Harding (shortlisted for the 2012 Orange Prize)
34. Afterwards by Rosamund Lupton
35. Home by Toni Morrison
May 2012
36. Half Blood Blues by Esi Edugyan (shortlisted for the 2012 Orange Prize, 2011 Booker Prize, and
winner of the 2011 Giller Prize)
37. Tides of War by Stella Tillyard (longlisted for the 2012 Orange Prize)
38. I Am Forbidden by Anouk Markovits
39. New Finnish Grammar by Diego Marani (shortlisted for the 2012 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize)
40. The Sealed Letter by Emma Donoghue (longlisted for the 2012 Orange Prize)
41. Perla by Carolina De Robertis
42. Alice by Judith Hermann (shortlisted for the 2012 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize)
43. Run by Ann Patchett
44. The Flying Man by Roopa Farooki (longlisted for the 2012 Orange Prize)
45. I Wish I Had a Red Dress by Pearl Cleage
46. Long Gone by Alafair Burke
47. On the Floor by Aifric Campbell (longlisted for the 2012 Orange Prize)
48. Night Watch by Linda Fairstein
49. Island of Wings by Karin Altenberg (longlisted for the 2012 Orange Prize)
June 2012
50. Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
51. An Unmarked Grave by Charles Todd
52. Beautiful Ruin by Jess Walter
53. Last Night at the Lobster by Stewart O'Nan
54. Judgment Calls by Alafair Burke
55. We Only Know So Much by Elizabeth Crane
56. Missing Justice by Alafair Burke
57. Some Things I Never Thought I'd Do by Pearl Cleage
58. The World Without You by Joshua Henkin
July 2012
59. Indiscretion by Charles Dubow
60. The Paleo Solution by Robb Wolf
61. The Kissing List by Stephanie Reents
62. The Virgin Cure by Ami McKay
63. Close Case by Alafair Burke
64. Wild by Cheryl Strayed
65. Flight from Berlin by David John
66. The Age of Miracles by Jean Thompson Walker
67. Babylon Sisters by Pearl Cleage
68. Kill You Twice by Chelsea Cain
69. The Magician's Assistant by Ann Patchett (shortlisted for the 1998 Orange Prize)
70. Don't Ever Get Old by Daniel Friedman
71. Gilead (won the Pulitzer in 2005 and longlisted for the 2006 Orange Prize)
72. Dare Me by Megan Abbott
73. Commencement by J. Courtney Sullivan
74. Miss Me When I'm Gone by Emily Arsenault
75. Correcting the Landscape by Marjorie Kowalski Cole (winner of the 2004 Bellwether Prize)
August 2012
76. Misfit by Adam Braver
77. Defending Jacob by William Landay
78. Dead Connection by Alafair Burke
79. Baby Brother's Blues by Pearl Cleage
80. Accordion Crimes by E. Annie Proulx (shortlisted for the 1997 Orange Prize)
81. Communion Town by Sam Thompson (longlisted for the 2012 Booker Prize)
82. The Orchardist by Amanda Coplin
September 2012
83. Swimming Home by Deborah Levy (longlisted for the 2012 Booker Prize)
84. The Forgetting Tree by Tatjana Soli
85. The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce (longlisted for the 2012 Booker Prize)
86. Then Came You by Jennifer Weiner
87. Game Change by John Heilemann and Mark Halperin
88. The Cutting Season by Attica Locke
89. In Need of a Good Wife by Kelly O'Connor McNees
October 2012
90. Beautiful Lies by Clare Clark
91. The Last Runaway by Tracy Chevalier
92. Astray by Emma Donoghue
93. Ten Thousand Saints by Eleanor Henderson (New York Times Top 5 of 2011)
94. Angel's Tip by Alafair Burke
95. A Possible Life by Sebastian Faulks
November 2012
96. The Giant's House by Elizabeth McCracken (The Backlist Book Club)
97. The Yellow Birds by Kevin Powers (2012 National Book Award finalist)
98. Seen It All and Done the Rest by Pearl Cleage
99. 212 by Alafair Burke
100. The Middlesteins by Jami Attenberg
101. Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk by Ben Fountain (2012 National Book Award finalist)
102. The Intercept by Dick Wolf
December 2012
103. These Days Are Ours by Michelle Haimoff
104. Glaciers by Alexis M. Smith
105. This Is How You Lose Her by Junot Diaz (2012 National Book Award finalist)
106. Never Tell by Alafair Burke
107. The Twelve Tribes of Hattie by Ayana Mathis
108. Death of an Artist by Kate Wilhelm
109. An Extraordinary Theory of Objects: A Memoir of an Outsider in Paris by Stephanie LaCava
110. Til You Hear From Me by Pearl Cleage
111. The Clan of the Cave Bear by Jean M. Auel (The Backlist Book Club)
112. The Darlings by Cristina Alger
113. Just Wanna Testify by Pearl Cleage
114. If You Lived Here I'd Know Your Name by Heather Lende
115. Bossypants by Tina Fey
116. The Testament of Mary by Colm Toibin
117. Where'd You Go, Bernadette? by Maria Semple
118. Girls in White Dresses by Jennifer Close
Read in 2011
January 2011
1. The Lotus Eaters by Tatjana Soli (a 2010 New York Times Notable Book)
2. Larry's Party by Carol Shields (winner of the 1998 Orange Prize)
3. Small Wars by Sadie Jones (longlisted for the 2010 Orange Prize)
4. The History of Love by Nicole Krauss (20 Under 40 & shortlisted for the 2002 Orange Prize)
5. Birds of a Feather by Jacqueline Winspear
6. One Day by David Nicholls (Entertainment Weekly's Top 10 Fiction of 2010)
7. Fugitive Pieces by Anne Michaels (winner of the 1997 Orange Prize)
8. The Invisible Bridge by Julie Orringer (longlisted for the 2011 Orange Prize)
9. Committed by Elizabeth Gilbert
10. Cinderella Ate My Daughter by Peggy Orenstein
11. Hamlet by Shakespeare
12. Shadow Tag by Louise Erdrich (a 2010 New York Times Notable Book)
February 2011
1. Swamplandia! by Karen Russell (20 Under 40 & longlisted for the 2011 Orange Prize)
2. The Lover's Dictionary by David Levithan
3. Pardonable Lies by Jacqueline Winspear
4. Devotion by Dani Shapiro
5. Brava, Valentine by Adriana Trigiani
6. Radio Shangri-La by Lisa Napoli
7. A Crime in the Neighborhood by Suzanne Berne (winner of the 1999 Orange Prize)
8. How to Understand Israel in 60 Days or Less by Sarah Glidden
9. Special Exits by Joyce Farmer
10. Messenger of Truth by Jacqueline Winspear
11. Someone Else's Garden by Dipika Rai
March 2011
1. The Sweet Relief of Missing Children by Sarah Braunstein (5 Under 35)
2. The First Husband by Laura Dave
3. The Seas by Samantha Hunt (longlisted for the 2011 Orange Prize)
4. The Birth of Love by Joanna Kavenna (longlisted for the 2011 Orange Prize)
5. The Secret Lives of Baba Segi's Wives by Lola Shoneyin (longlisted for the 2011 Orange Prize)
6. Silent Mercy by Linda Fairstein
April 2011
1. Russian Winter by Daphne Kalotay
2. Untold Story by Monica Ali
3. The Uncoupling by Meg Wolitzer
4. Secret Daughter by Shilpi Somaya Gowda
5. Ethel & Ernest by Raymond Briggs
May 2011
1. We Had It So Good by Linda Grant
2. The Rebellion of Jane Clarke by Sally Gunning
3. Faith by Jennifer Haigh
4. Repeat It Today With Tears by Anne Peile (longlisted for the 2011 Orange Prize)
June 2011
1. When God Was a Rabbit by Sarah Winman
2. Please Look After Mom by Kyung-Sook Shin
3. Down from Cascom Mountain by Ann Joslin Williams
4. State of Wonder by Ann Patchett
5. Wanderlust by Elisabeth Eaves
6. An Incomplete Revenge by Jacqueline Winspear
7. The End of Everything by Megan Abbott
July 2011
1. The Privileges by Jonathan Dee (2011 Pulitzer Prize finalist)
2. A Good Hard Look by Ann Napolitano
3. French Lessons by Ellen Sussman
4. Comedy in a Minor Key by Hans Keilson (2011 National Book Critics Circle Finalist)
5. The Tiger's Wife by Tea Obreht (2011 Orange Prize winner, 20 Under 40 author, and 2011 National Book Award finalist)
6. The Memory of Love by Aminatta Forna (shortlisted for the 2011 Orange Prize)
7. Next to Love by Ellen Feldman
8. I Curse the River of Time by Per Petterson (shortlisted for the 2011 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize)
9. You Know When the Men Are Gone by Siobhan Fallon
10. Among the Mad by Jacqueline Winspear
11. City of Fire by Robert Ellis (re-read)
12. Pigeon English by Stephen Kelman (shortlisted for the 2011 Booker Prize)
13. Close Your Eyes by Amanda Eyre Ward
August 2011
1. The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt (shortlisted for the 2011 Booker Prize)
2. The Help by Kathryn Stockett (longlisted for the 2010 Orange Prize)
3. The Lantern by Deborah Lawrenson
4. How to Love an American Man by Kristine Gasbarre
5. The Irresistible Henry House by Lisa Grunwald
6. Far to Go by Alison Pick (longlisted for the 2011 Booker Prize)
7. When I Lived in Modern Times by Linda Grant (winner of the 2000 Orange Prize)
September 2011
1. The Leftovers by Tom Perrotta
2. Wherever You Go by Joan Leegant
3. Other People We Married by Emma Straub
4. Snowdrops by A.D. Miller (shortlisted for the 2011 Booker Prize)
5. The Mapping of Love and Death by Jacqueline Winspear
6. Displaced Persons by Ghita Schwarz
7. The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes (shortlisted for the 2011 Booker Prize)
8. The Tyranny of Email by John Freeman
9. Sister by Rosamund Lupton
10. The Submission by Amy Waldman
11. Waiting for Robert Capa by Susana Fortes
12. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
13. The Buddha in the Attic by Julie Otsuka (2011 National Book Award finalist)
October 2011
1. A Lesson in Secrets by Jacqueline Winspear
2. The Odds: A Love Story by Stewart O'Nan
3. The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
4. The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides
5. Lost at Sea by Bryan Lee O'Malley
6. I Was Amelia Earhart by Jane Mendelsohn (shortlisted for the 1997 Orange Prize)
7. Crawling at Night by Nani Power (longlisted for the 2002 Orange Prize)
8. Habibi by Craig Thompson
9. In the Last Analysis by Amanda Cross
10. The Secret History of Rachel DuPree by Ann Weisgarber (longlisted for the 2009 Orange Prize)
November 2011
1. The Sojourn by Andrew Krivak (2011 National Book Award finalist)
2. The Scrapbook of Frankie Pratt by Caroline Preston
3. You Are My Only by Beth Kephart
4. The Taste of Salt by Martha Southgate
5. Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward (2011 National Book Award winner)
6. Binocular Vision: New and Selected Stories by Edith Pearlman (2011 National Book Award finalist)
7. Maphead by Ken Jennings
8. The Printmaker's Daughter by Katherine Govier
9. Winter Garden by Kristin Hannah
10. The Imposter's Daughter by Laurie Sandell
December 2011
1. A Bitter Truth by Charles Todd
2. The Train of Small Mercies by David Rowell
3. The Lost Witness by Robert Ellis (re-read)
4. Murder Season by Robert Ellis
5. The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach
6. Before I Go To Sleep by S.J. Watson
7. The Fall of Rome by Martha Southgate
8. The Year We Left Home by Jean Thompson
9. Vanity Fair's How a Book is Born: The Making of the Art of Fielding by Keith Gessen
10. The Getaway Car: A Practical Memoir About Writing and Life by Ann Patchett
Read in 2010
1. The Magician's Elephant by Kate DiCamillo
2. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice by Philip Hoose (2010 Newbery Honor)
3. Suite Scarlett by Maureen Johnson
4. Wintergirls by Laurie Halse Anderson
5. Scottsboro by Ellen Feldman (2009 Orange Prize shortlist)
6. This Book Is Overdue by Marilyn Johnson
7. The Birthday Ball by Lois Lowry
8. The Power of Half by Kevin & Hannah Salwen
9. L.A. Candy by Lauren Conrad
10. The Unnamed by Joshua Ferris
11. If You Followed Me by Malena Watrous
12. The Lovers by Vendela Vida
13. Life, After by Sarah Littman
14. Deception by Lee Nichols
15. The Lost Summer of Louisa May Alcott by Kelly O'Connor McNees
16. Bed of Roses by Nora Roberts
17. The Daughters by Joanna Philbin
18. The Heart Is Not a Size by Beth Kephart
19. Love in Infant Monkeys by Lydia Millet (2010 Pulitzer Prize finalist)
20. Restoring Harmony by Joelle Anthony
21. Before I Fall by Lauren Oliver
22. This One Is Mine by Maria Semple
23. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz (2008 Pulitzer Prize winner)
24. Black Water Rising by Attica Locke (2010 Orange Prize shortlist & 2010 Edgar First Novel Award nominee)
25. The Education of Bet by Lauren Baratz-Logsted
26. Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout (2009 Pulitzer Prize winner)
27. The Very Thought of You by Rosie Alison (2010 Orange Prize shortlist)
28. Wilson by Daniel Clowes
29. A Gate at the Stairs by Lorrie Moore (2010 Orange Prize shortlist)
30. Heart of the Matter by Emily Giffin
31. Based Upon Availability by Alix Strauss
32. The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver (2010 Orange Prize winner)
33. The White Woman on the Green Bicycle by Monique Roffey (2010 Orange Prize shortlist)
34. The Truth About Delilah Blue by Tish Cohen
35. Good Things I Wish You by A. Manette Ansay
36. Everything Lovely, Effortless, Safe by Jenny Hollowell
37. Red Hook Road by Ayelet Waldman
38. The Quickening by Michelle Hoover
39. The Last War by Ana Menendez
40. Prep by Curtis Sittenfeld
41. In a Strange Room by Damon Galgut (2010 Booker Prize shortlist)
42. Room by Emma Donoghue (2010 Booker Prize shortlist & New York Times Top 5 of 2010)
43. February by Lisa Moore (2010 Booker Prize longlist)
44. The Long Song by Andrea Levy (2010 Orange Prize longlist & 2010 Booker Prize shortlist )
45. Every Last One by Anna Quindlen
46. The Siege by Helen Dunmore (2002 Orange Prize shortlist)
47. Trespass by Rose Tremain (2010 Booker Prize longlist)
48. Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins
49. The Betrayal by Helen Dunmore (2010 Booker Prize longlist)
50. The Financial Lives of Poets by Jess Walter
51. An Impartial Witness by Charles Todd
52. The Art of Devotion by Samantha Bruce-Benjamin
53. C by Tom McCarthy (2010 Booker Prize shortlist)
54. Loving Che by Ana Menendez
55. The Stuff That Never Happened by Maddie Dawson
56. I'd Know You Anywhere by Laura Lippman
57. The Girl She Used to Be by David Cristofano (2010 Edgar First Novel Award Nominee)
58. A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan (New York Times Top 5 of 2010)
59. Tinkers by Paul Harding (2010 Pulitzer Prize winner)
60. A Bad Day for Sorry by Sophie Littlefield (2010 Edgar First Novel Award Nominee)
61. So Much for That by Lionel Shriver (2010 National Book Award Finalist)
62. Stiltsville by Susanna Daniel
63. Beautiful Creatures by Tracy Chevalier
64. How to Escape from a Leper Colony by Tiphanie Yanique (2010 National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 pick)
65. The Tower of London: Tales of Victorian London by Natsume Soseki (Classics Circuit)
66. Great House by Nicole Krauss (2010 National Book Award Finalist & 20 Under 40)
67. Very Valentine by Adriana Trigiani
68. Diary of a Wimpy Kid #4: Dog Days by Jeff Kinney
69. The Night Season by Chelsea Cain
70. Freedom by Jonathan Franzen (New York Times Top 5 of 2010)
71. The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho (graphic novel)
72. Strangers at the Feast by Jennifer Vanderbes
73. Bright-Sided by Barbara Ehrenreich
74. A Spell of Winter by Helen Dunmore (1996 Orange Prize winner)
75. Sing You Home by Jodi Picoult
76. The Sentimentalists by Johanna Skibsrud (2010 Giller Prize winner)
77. The Night Bookmobile by Audrey Niffenegger
78. The Warden by Anthony Trollope
79. French Milk by Lucy Knisley
80. Bad Marie by Marcy Dermansky
81. In Other Rooms, Other Wonders by Daniyal Mueenuddin
82. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
83. Maisie Dobbs by Jacqueline Winspear
