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2025 Reading List

  • WELCOME TO THE HYUNAM-DONG BOOKSHOP by Hwang Bo-reum
  • THE GREAT DIVIDE by Cristina Henríquez
  • THE HUNDRED YEAR'S WAR ON PALESTINE by Rashid Khalidi
  • TELL ME EVERYTHING by Elizabeth Stroud
  • THERE ARE RIVERS IN THE SKY by Elif Shafak
  • CONVERSATIONS WITH FRIENDS by Sally Rooney
  • THE MAKIOKA SISTERS by Jun'ichirō Tanizaki
  • BURN BOOK by Kara Swisher
  • THE WARMTH OF OTHER SUNS by Isabel Wilkerson

2024 Reading List

  • THE ENGLISH UNDERSTAND WOOL by Helen DeWitt
  • THE LOST JOURNALS OF SACAGEWEA by Debra Earling
  • OLD GOD'S TIME by Sebastian Berrymore
  • THE ROUND HOUSE by Louise Erdrich
  • THE HENNA ARTIST by Alka Joshi
  • THE SUN WALKS DOWN by Fiona McFarlane
  • JAMES by Percival Everett
  • HARD BY A GREAT FOREST by Leo Vardiashvili
  • THE HEAVEN & EARTH GROCERY STORE by James McBride
  • CRYING IN H-MART by Michelle Zauner

2023 Reading List

  • PROPERTIES OF THIRST by Marianne Wiggins
  • THE DEVIL'S FLUTE MURDERS by Seishi Yokomizo
  • ON EARTH WE'RE BRIEFLY GORGEOUS by Ocean Vuong
  • THE SENTENCE by Louise Erdrich
  • BORN A CRIME by Trevor Noah
  • FLIGHT BEHAVIOR by Barbara Kingsolver
  • THE MOONSTONE by Wilkie Collins
  • THE TWELVE CHAIRS by Ilya Ilf & Evgeny Petrov
  • LAMB by Christopher Moore
  • EVERYONE KNOWS YOUR MOTHER IS A WITCH by Rivka Galchen

2022 Reading List

  • THE STORY OF EDGAR SAWTELLE by David Wroblewski
  • THE DICTIONARY OF LOST WORDS by Pip Williams
  • THE HOUSE OF BROKEN ANGELS by Luis Alberto Urrea
  • THE GATHERING by Anne Enright
  • A SISTER'S STORY by Donatella Di Pietrantonio
  • FRESH WATER FOR FLOWERS by Valerie Perrin
  • SUSAN, LINDA, NINA & COKIE by Lisa Napoli
  • THE LINCOLN HIGHWAY by Amor Towles
  • CLOUD CUCKOO LAND by Anthony Doerr

2021 Reading List

  • THE CHOICE by Dr. Edith Eva Egers
  • LADY IN WAITING by Anne Glenconner
  • THE VANISHING HALF by Brit Bennett
  • KLARA AND THE SUN by Kazuo Ishiguro
  • THE SPLENDID AND THE VILE by Erik Larson
  • MIGRATIONS by Charlotte McConaghy
  • HAMNET by Maggie O'Ferrell
  • INTERIOR CHINATOWN by Charles Yu
  • H IS FOR HAWK by Helen MacDonald
  • ELEANOR OLIPHANT IS COMPLETELY FINE by Gail Honeywell
  • THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MALCOLM X by Malcolm X and Alex Haley

2020 READING LIST

  • BETWEEN THE WORLD AND ME by Ta-Nihisi Coates
  • THE YELLOW HOUSE by Sarah Broom
  • JOE TURNER'S COME AND GONE by August Wilson
  • WHITE FRAGILITY by Robin DiAngelo
  • BLACK IS THE BODY by Emily Bernard
  • HAPPY ALL THE TIME by Laurie Colwin
  • PLEASE DON'T LET ME GO by Kazuo Ishiguro
  • MILKMAN by Anna Burns
  • MY FAVORITE THING IS MONSTERS by Emil Ferris
  • GO TELL IT ON THE MOUNTAIN by James Baldwin
  • FLIGHTS by Olga Tokarczuk,
  • LOST AND WANTED by Nell Freudenberger

2019 Reading List

  • THE OVERSTORY by Richard Powers
  • COLORLESS TSUKURU TAZAKI by Haruki Murakami
  • THERE THERE by Tommy Orange
  • A GENTLEMAN IN MOSCOW by Amor Towles
  • THEY SAID THERE WOULD BE CAKE by Sloane Crosley
  • THE IDIOT by Elif Batuman
  • CONVENIENCE STORE WOMAN by Sayaka Murata
  • THE THOUSAND AUTUMNS OF JACOB DE ZOET by David Mitchell
  • THE LIBRARY BOOK by Susan Orlean
  • THE SONG OF ACHILLES by Madeline Miller

2018 Reading List

  • EDUCATED by Tara Westover
  • KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON by David Grann
  • RED NOTICE by Bill Browder
  • LESS by Andrew Greer
  • SPRING by Karl Ove Knausgaard
  • SUNDAYS IN AUGUST by Patrick Modiano
  • THE SOLACE OF OPEN SPACES by Gretel Ehrlich
  • SALVAGE THE BONES by Jesmyn Ward
  • SMILE by Roddy Doyle
  • M TRAIN by Patti Smith

2017 Reading List

  • LINCOLN IN THE BARDO by George Saunders
  • OUR SOULS AT NIGHT by Kent Haruf
  • THE LAST KIND WORDS SALOON by Larry McMurtry
  • THE DIVER'S CLOTHES LIE EMPTY by Vendela Vida
  • MY BEAUTIFUL WORLD by Sonia Sotemeyer
  • COMMONWEALTH by Ann Patchett
  • LAB GIRL by Hope Jahren
  • MY NAME IS LUCY BARTON by Elizabeth Stout
  • THE MEMBER OF THE WEDDING by Carson McCullers
  • WAITING FOR SNOW IN HAVANA by Carlos Eire
  • ON BEAUTY: A NOVEL by Zadie Smith

2016 Reading List

  • A CONSTELLATION OF VITAL PHENOMENA by Anthony Marra
  • IT CAN'T HAPPEN HERE by Sinclair Lewis
  • THE LOVER by Marguerite Duras
  • THE NIGHT CIRCUS by Erin Morgenstern
  • THE HISTORY OF LOVE by Nicole Karuss
  • FAIRYLAND by Alysia Abbott
  • HOUSE OF MIRTH by Edith Wharton
  • CROSSING TO SAFETY by Wallace Stegner

2015 Reading List

  • EVERYTHING I NEVER TOLD YOU by Celeste Ng
  • ON THE MOVE by Oliver Sacks
  • LEAVING TIME by Jodi PIcoult
  • TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD by Harper Lee
  • ALL THE LIGHT YOU CANNOT SEE by Anthony Doerr
  • I'LL GIVE YOU THE SUN by Jandy Nelson
  • NORWEGIAN WOOD by Haruki Marukami
  • MY BRILLIANT FRIEND by Elena Ferrante
  • THE ALL OF IT by Jeannette Haien
  • THE BLAZING WORLD by Siri Hustvedt

2014 Reading List

  • SEASON OF THE WITCH by David Talbot
  • A TALE FOR THE TIME BEING by Ruth Ozeki
  • LIFE AFTER LIFE by Kate Atkinson
  • AMERICANAH by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
  • ASTONISHED by Beverly Donofrio
  • THE NATURAL by Bernard Malamud
  • DEAR LIFE by Alice Munroe
  • THE AGE OF MIRACLES by Karen Thomson Walker
  • ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK by Piper Kerman

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