Loved and Missed – Susie Boyt

Dayswork – Chris Bachelder & Jennifer Haber

The Bodyguard – Katherine Center

What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day – Pearl Cleage 

The Wedding People – Alison Espach 

Book and Dagger: How Scholars and Librarians Became the Unlikely Spies of World War II – Elyse Graham

The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny, and Murder – David Grann

The Alternatives – Caoilinn Hughes 

The Daughters of Yalta: The Churchills, Roosevelts, and Harrimans: A Story of Love and War – Catherine Grace Katz 

Sorrow and Bliss – Meg Mason 

The Flatshare – Beth O’Leary 

A Woman in the Polar Night – Christiane Ritter 

Colored Television – Danzy Senna 

Eligible – Curtis Sittenfeld

The Black Angels: The Untold Story of the Nurses Who Helped Cure Tuberculosis – Maria Smilios 

Swans of Harlem – Karen Valby 

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The Great Dissenter: John Marshall Harlan, America’s Judicial Hero – Peter S. Canellos

Library Girl – Karen Henry Clark

The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot – Marianne Cronin

What Just Happened: Notes on a Long Year – Charles Finch

The Christie Affair – Nina de Gramont

Lessons in Chemistry – Bonnie Garmus

Revenge of the Librarians – Tom Gauld

Zorrie – Laird Hunt

Thank You, Mr. Nixon – Gish Jen

Nella Last’s War: The Second World War Diaries of Housewife, 49 – Nella Last

The Hero of This Book – Elizabeth McCracken

Lions – Bonnie Nadzam

The Swimmers – Julie Otsuka

The Kingdoms – Natasha Pulley

Robert E. Lee and Me – Ty Seidule

Light Perpetual – Francis Spufford

This Time Tomorrow – Emma Straub

Esmond and Ilia: An Unreliable Memoir – Marina Warner

Still Life – Sarah Winman
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow – Gabrielle Zevin 

Miracle Country - Kendra Atleework

Having and Being Had - Eula Biss

The Moving Toyshop - Edmund Crispin

An Accidental Death - Peter Grainger

Murder at the Mission - Blaine Harden

A Shadow Intelligence - Oliver Harris

Leonard and Hungry Paul - Rónán Hession

Mitz: The Marmoset of Bloomsbury - Sigred Nunez

The Wordy Book - Julie Paschkis

Rhododendron Pie - Margery Sharp

Great Circle - Maggie Shipstead

August Folly - Angela Thirkell

The Final Revival of Opal and Nev - Dawnie Walton

The Liar’s Dictionary - Eley Williams

The Quiet Americans: 4 CIA Spies at the Dawn of the Cold War—a Tragedy in 3 Acts – Scott Anderson

Bramton Wick – Elizabeth Fair

The Missing – Tim Gautreaux

The Unquiet Dead – Ausma Khan

Gods of the Upper Air: How a Circle of Renegade Anthropologists Reinvented Race, Sex, and Gender in the 20th Century – Charles King

Temporary – Hilary Leichter

Wobble to Death – Peter Lovesey

All the Way to the Tigers – Mary Morris

The Cactus League – Emily Nemens

She Votes: How U.S. Women Won Suffrage, and What Happened Next – Bridget Quinn

There But For The – Ali Smith

The Lotus Eaters – Tatjana Soli

The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas – Gertrude Stein

Set My Heart to Five – Simon Stephenson

Here We Are – Graham Swift

Hench – Natalie Zina Walschots

Nothing to See Here – Kevin Wilson
Run Me to Earth – Paul Yoon 

Free Fire – C.J. Box
The Yellow House – Sarah Broom
The Case of the Gilded Fly – Edmund Crispin
The Life to Come – Michelle de Kretser
Dreyer’s English – Benjamin Dreyer
Old Baggage – Lissa Evans
Out of Darkness, Shining Light – Pettina Gappah
Rabbits for Food – Binnie Kirschenbaum
Our Man – George Packer
Prairie Fever – Michael Parker
By George – Wesley Stace
We Wish You Luck – Caroline Zancan

Boom Town – Sam Anderson
1947: When Now Begins – Elisabeth Asbrink
The Trouble with Sheep and Goats – Joanna Cannon
Washington Black – Esi Edugyan
A Long Way from Verona – Jane Gardam
Claire DeWitt and the City of the Dead – Sara Gran
Less – Andrew Sean Greer
Mozart’s Starling – Lyanda Lynn Haupt
Autumn of the Black Snake – William Hogeland
Our Homesick Songs – Emma Hooper
Greeks Bearing Gifts – Philip Kerr
The Golden State – Lydia Kiesling
The Great Believers – Rebecca Makkai
A Rising Man – Abir Mukherjee
The Library Book – Susan Orlean
Sourdough – Robin Sloan
The Women in Black – Madeleine St. John
Two Girls Down – Louisa Luna
House of Broken Angels – Luis Alberto Urrea

In Zanesville – Jo Ann Beard

Narrow Dog to Indian River – Terry Darlington

The Legend of Rock Paper Scissors – Drew Daywalt

Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter – Tom Franklin

August Snow – Stephen Mack Jones

Defectors – Joseph Kanon

The True Flag: Theodore Roosevelt, Mark Twain, and the Birth of American Empire – Stephen Kinzer

Drinking: A Love Story – Caroline Knapp

Ghettoside – Jill Leovy

A Place of Greater Safety – Hilary Mantel

Rage Against the Dying – Becky Masterman

Lions – Bonnie Nadzam

Vanessa and Her Sister – Priya Parmar

Design for Dying – Renee Patrick

The Drifter – Nick Petrie

Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk – Kathleen Rooney

Agent to the Stars – John Scalzi 

Sourdough – Robin Sloan

The Broken Shore – Peter Temple
The Twelve Lives of Samuel Hawley – Hannah Tinti 

The Throwback Special – Chris Bachelder

Best Friends – Mary Bard

The Christmas Crocodile – Bonny Becker

Moonglow – Michael Chabon

Everyone Brave is Forgiven – Chris Cleave

Last Samurai – Helen DeWitt

Leaving Orbit: Notes from the Last Days of American Space Flight – Margaret Lazarus Dean

An Avid Reader – Robert Gottlieb

The Crossing Place – Elly Griffiths

The Gone-Away World – Nick Harkaway

The Color of Lightning and News of the World – Paulette Jiles

The Brothers: John Foster Dulles, Allen Dulles, and Their Secret World War – Stephen Kinzer

The Portable Veblen – Elizabeth McKenzie

Daydreams of Angels – Heather O’Neill

Dissolution – C.J. Sansom

The Last Painting of Sara DeVos – Dominic Smith
Girl Waits with Gun – Amy Stewart 

American Reckoning: The Vietnam War and Our National Identity – Christopher Appy

Best Friends – Mary Bard

The Oregon Trail – Rinker Buck

The Highly Trained Dogs of Professor Petit – Carol Ryrie Brink 

Heap House – Edward Care

The Strangler Vine – M. J. Carter 

Tabula Rasa – Ruth Downie

Crooked Heart – Lissa Evans

The Good Son – Michael Gruber

Single, Carefree, Mellow – Katherine Heiny 

Slow Horses and Nobody Walks – Mick Herron 

Hold Still – Sally Mann 

The Sympathizer – Viet Thanh Nguyen

Vanessa and Her Sister – Priya Parmar 

The Murdstone Trilogy – Mal Peet 

The Prize: Who’s In Charge of America’s Schools – Dale Russakoff

Unbecoming – Rebecca Scherm 

2 a.m. at the Cat’s Pajamas – Marie-Helene Bertino 

The Distance – Helen Giltrow

The Blazing World – Siri Hustvedt

The Diamond Lane – Karen Karbo

Drinking: A Love Story– Caroline Knapp

The Children Act – Ian McEwan

A Spy Among Friends – Ben Macintyre

Famous Writers I Have Known – James Magnuson

The Hundred-Year House – Rebecca Makkai 

Station Eleven – Emily St. John Mandel

The Soul of Viktor Tronko – David Quammen 

Dear Committee Members – Julie Schumacher

Poets in Their Youth – Eileen Simpson

Whiskey Tango Foxtrot – David Shafer

The Jack Irish novels, The Broken Shore, Shooting Star – Peter Temple

Soldier Girls: The Battles of Three Women at Home and at War – Helen Thorpe 

Murder at the Brightwell – Ashley Weaver

Sorcery and Cecelia Or The Enchanted Chocolate Pot – Patricia Wrede & Caroline Stevermer 

Lawrence in Arabia – Scott Anderson
Americanah – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Eleven Days – Lea Carpenter
Five Days at Memorial – Sheri Fink
Crashed – Tim Hallinan
Snapper – Brian Kimberling
Keeping the Castle – Patrice Kindl
I Hate to Leave This Beautiful Place – Howard Norman
Dissolution – C.J. Sansom
Agents to the Stars – John Scalzi
The Woman Who Lost Her Soul – Bob Shacochis
Amy Falls Down – Jincy Willett
The Last Policeman & Countdown City – Ben H. Winters

The Impeachment of Abraham Lincoln – Stephen Carter

The Double Game – Dan Fesperman

Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk – Ben Fountain

Broken Harbor – Tana French

America Aflame: How the Civil War Created a Nation – David Goldfield

The Fear Artist – Timothy Hallinan

Seraphina – Rachel Hartman

The Reluctant Heiress – Eva Ibbotson

The Color of Lightning – Paulette Jiles

We Learn Nothing – Tim Kreider

The Towers of Trebizond – Rose Macauley

The Last Night at the Ritz – Elizabeth Savage

The End of Your Life Bookclub – Will Schwalbe

Burr – Gore Vidal

Code Name Verity – Elizabeth Wein

Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? – Jeanette Winterson

On Canaan’s Side – Sebastian Barry

In Zanesville – Jo Ann Beard

The Hare with Amber Eyes – Edmund de Waal

Erasure – Percival Everett

Next to Love – Ellen Feldman

A World on Fire – Amanda Foreman

The Memory of Love – Aminatta Forna

The Art of Fielding – Chad Harbach

Blind Sight – Meg Howrey

The Arrogant Years: One Girl’s Search for Her Lost Youth, from Cairo to Brooklyn – Lucette Lagnado

The Apothecary – Maile Meloy

The Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine, and the Murder of a President – Candice Millard

To Be Sung Underwater – Tom McNeal

The Tragedy of Arthur – Arthur Phillips

Summer of the Bear – Bella Pollen

A Pet for Petunia – Paul Schmid

There But For The – Ali Smith

By George – Wesley Stace
Vaclav & Lena – Haley Tanner 

Big Rabbit’s Bad Mood – Badescu, Ramona

Anthologist – Nicholson Baker

Beat the Reaper – Josh Bazell

Manual of Detection – Jedediah Berry

The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie – Alan Bradley 

Little Bee – Chris Cleave 

The Hunger Games and Catching Fire – Suzanne Collins

Narrow Dog to Indian River – Terry Darlington 

The Missing – Tim Gautreaux

The Photographer – Didier Lefèvre, Emmanuel Guibert, and Frédéric Lemercier

Haddam – Living Witness

The Gone Away World – Nick Harkaway.  

Strength in What Remains Kidder – Strength in What Remains

The Family Man – Elinor Lipman

The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau Banks – E. Lockhart

Bubble Trouble – Margaret Mahy

The City and the City – China Miéville

Dancing to the Precipice: The Life of Lucie de la Tour du Pin, Eyewitness to an Era – Caroline Moorehead

The Silver Linings Playbook – Matthew Quick

Revelation – C.J. Sansom

Stitches – David Small

When You Reach Me – Rebecca Stead 

The Tourist – Olen Steinhauer

Olive Kitteridge – Elizabeth Strout. 

Love and Summer – William Trevor

You’ll Never Know: A Good and Decent Man – Tyler 

Big Rabbit’s Bad Mood – Badescu, Ramona

Anthologist – Nicholson Baker

Beat the Reaper – Josh Bazell

Manual of Detection – Jedediah Berry

The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie – Alan Bradley 

Little Bee – Chris Cleave 

The Hunger Games and Catching Fire – Suzanne Collins

Narrow Dog to Indian River – Terry Darlington 

The Missing – Tim Gautreaux

The Photographer – Didier Lefèvre, Emmanuel Guibert, and Frédéric Lemercier

Haddam – Living Witness

The Gone Away World – Nick Harkaway.  

Strength in What Remains Kidder – Strength in What Remains

The Family Man – Elinor Lipman

The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau Banks – E. Lockhart

Bubble Trouble – Margaret Mahy

The City and the City – China Miéville

Dancing to the Precipice: The Life of Lucie de la Tour du Pin, Eyewitness to an Era – Caroline Moorehead

The Silver Linings Playbook – Matthew Quick

Revelation – C.J. Sansom

Stitches – David Small

When You Reach Me – Rebecca Stead 

The Tourist – Olen Steinhauer

Olive Kitteridge – Elizabeth Strout. 

Love and Summer – William Trevor

You’ll Never Know: A Good and Decent Man – C. Tyler 

Predictably Irrational – Dan Ariely

City of Thieves – David Benioff

Fieldwork – Mischa Berlinski

Animal Dialogues: Encounters with Animals in the Wild – Craig Childs

The Bin Ladens – Steve Coll

Beginner’s Greek – James Collins

The Hunger Games – Suzanne Collins

A Plague of Doves – Louise Erdrich

How Doctors Think – Jerome Groopman

Black Sheep – Georgette Heyer

Lulu in Marrakech – Diane Johnson

Minders of Make-Believe – Leonard Marcus

Everything Conceivable – Liza Mundy 

Olive Kitteridge – Elizabeth Strout

The Broken Shore – Peter Temple

Chester – Melanie Watt 

The World Before Her – Deborah Weisgall

Too Close To the Sun – Sara Wheeler 

The Suicide Index – Joan Wickersham 

A Killer’s Kiss – James Lasher

Merry Hall – Beverley Nichols

In the Woods – Tana French

The Long Road Home: A Story of War and Family – Martha Raddatz

The End of the World As We Know It: Scenes from a Life – Robert Goolrick

The Bridge of Sighs – Richard Russo

The Zoo-Keeper’s Wife – Diane Ackerman

Dancing with Rose: Finding Life in the Land of Alzheimer’s – Lauren Kessler

The Judgement of Paris: The Revolutionary Decade that Gave the World Impressionism – Ross King

Everything Conceivable: How Assisted Reproduction is Changing Men, Women, and the World – Liza Mundy

Alcatraz versus the Evil Librarians – Brandon Sanderson

The Corpse in the Koryo – James Church

Enslaved by Ducks – Bob Tarte
Away – Amy Bloom 

The Girls – by Lori Lansens

The Brief History of the Dead – by Kevin Brockmeier

The Looming Tower:  Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 – by Lawrence Wright

The Assassins’ Gate:  American in Iraq – by George Packer

Adele & Simon – by Barbara McClintock

Little Big Man – by Thomas Berger

One Good Turn – by Kate Atkinson

Cancer Vixen – by Marisa Acocella Marchetto

The 8:55 to Baghdad – by Andrew Eames

Magic for Beginners – by Kelly Link

To Hate Like This Is to Be Happy Forever:  A Thoroughly Obsessive, Intermittently Uplifting, and Occasionally Unbiased Account of the Duke-North Caroline Basketball Rivalry – by Will Blythe

The Ode Less Travelled:  Unlocking the Poet Within – by Stephen Fry

My Life in France – by Julie Child

Down the Back of the Chair – by Margaret Mahy

Abide with Me – by Elizabeth Stout

Queen of the Oddballs and Other True Stories from a Life Unaccording to Plan – by Hillary Carlip

The Inhabited World – by David Long

The Brambles – by Eliza Minot

Piece of My Heart – by Peter Robinson

American Born Chinese – by Gene Luen Yang

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Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell – Susanna Clarke 

Ghost Wars:  The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001 – Steve Coll 

The Plot Against America – Philip Roff 

Crossing California – Adam Langer 

The Cloud Atlas – Liam Callanan 

Birds Without Wings – Louis de Dernieres 

D.B. – Elwood Reid

Eats, Shoots, and Leaves – Lynne Truss 

Pandora’s Star – Peter Hamilton 

City in the Sky:  The Rise and Fall of the World Trade Center – James Glanz and Eric Lipton

The Hamilton Case – Michelle De Kretser

His Brother’s Keeper:  A Story from the Edge of Medicine – Jonathan Weiner 

Our Kind – Kate Walbert

Apprentice to the Flower Poet Z – Debra Weinstein

A Tale of Love and Darkness – Amos Oz   

My Kind of Place:  Travel Stories from a Woman Who’s Been Everywhere – Susana Orlean 

Peter and the Starcatchers – Ridley Pearson and Dave Barry 

The Game – Laurie R. King 

The Baroque Trilogy – Quicksilver, Confusion, and The System of the World – Neal Stephenson 

Sorcery and Cecelia – Caroline Stevermer and Patricia Wrede 

Call for the Dead and A Murder of Quality – John le Carré 

Will in the World:  How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare – Stephen Greenblatt 

Truth & Beauty:  A Friendship – Ann Patchett 

Blue Blood – Edward Conlon 

No Ordinary Matter – Jenny McPhee 

Persepolis:  The Story of a Childhood – Marjane Satrapi  

In the Shadow of Memory – Floyd Skloot  

Gentlemen of Space – Ira Sher  

One Last Look – Susanna Moore 

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time – Mark Haddon 

True Notebooks – Mark Salzman 

The Namesake – Jhumpa Lahiri

The Time Traveler’s Wife – Audrey Niffenegger

She’s Not There – Jennifer Finney Boylan 

Jamesland – Michele Huneven 

Uniform Justice – Donna Leon 

American Woman – Susan Choi 

Crescent – Diana Abu-Jaber 

In Search of King Solomon’s Mines – Tahir Shah 

 All the Shah’s Men – Stephen Kinzer

Ten Little Indians – Sherman Alexie 

No Visible Horizon:  Surviving the World’s Most Dangerous Sport – Joshua Cooper Ramo 

Altered Carbon – Richard Morgan 

Money Ball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game – Michael Lewis 

Lost in a Good Book – Jasper Fforde

Morningside Heights – Cheryl Mendelson

The Dust of Empire:  The Race for Mastery in the Asian Heartland – Karl Meyer

Evidence of Things Unseen – Marianne Wiggins

Heart, You Bully, You Punk – Leah Hager Cohen

Honey Don’t – Tim Sandlin

The Romantic – Barbara Gowdy

Pagan Holiday:  On the Trail of Ancient Roman Tourists – Tony Perrottet

Pieces from Berlin – Michael Pye 

Choice Cuts:  A Savory Selection of Food Writing from Around the World and Throughout History – Mark Kurlansky

The Little Friend – Donna Tart

Seabiscuit:  An American Legend – Laura Hillenbrand

Your Mouth is Lovely – Nancy Richler

Hello to the Cannibals – Richard Bausch

The Crimson Petal and the White – Michel Faber

Persian Mirrors:  The Elusive Face of Iran – Elaine Sciolino

The Eyre Affair – Jasper Fforde

Perma  Red – Debra Magpie Earling

Allegra Maud Goldman – Edith Konecky

The Bear Went Over the Mountain – William Kotzwinkle

The Age of Gold:  The California Gold Rush and the New American Dream – H.W. Brands

Flint’s Law – Paul Eddy

I Don’t Know How She Does It:  The Life of Kate Reddy, Working Mother – Allison Pearson

Big If – Mark Costello 

American Chica – Marie Arana

Little America – Henry Bromell

Among the Missing – Dan Chaon

Banvard’s Folly: Thirteen Tales of Renowned Obscurity, Famous Anonymity, and Rotten Luck – Paul Collins

Ella Minnow Pea – Mark Dunn

Look at Me – Jennifer Egan

Erasure – Percival Everett

The Corrections – Jonathan Franzen

No One Thinks of Greenland – John Griesemer

War in a Time of Peace – David Halberstam

The Reconstructionist – Josephine Hart

A Girl Named Zippy – Haven Kimmel

The Grand Complication – Allan Kurzweil

On the Night Plain – J. Robert Lennon

John Adams – David McCullough

In Cuba I Was a German Shepherd – Ana Menendez

Taps – Willie Morris

Fear and Trembling – Amélie Nothomb

My Dream of You – Nuala O’Faolain

The Skull Mantra – Eliot Pattison

Uncle Boris in the Yukon and Other Shaggy Dog Stories – Daniel Pinkwater

Morning – W.D. Wetherell

Passage – Connie Willis
Crooked River Burning – Mark Winegardner 

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