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- 2025
- Caledonian Road by Andrew O'Hagan
- Flow by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
- Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop by Hwang Bo-Reum
- Service Model by Adrian Tchaikovsky
- Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman
- Air-Borne by Carl Zimmer
- Of Boys and Men by Richard V. Reeves
- Lonely Castle in the Mirror by Mizuki Tsujimura
- Tales from the Cafe by Toshikazu Kawaguchi
- James by Percival Everett
- The Wedding People by Alison Espach
- In Ascension by Martin MacInnes
- 2024
- The Saint of Bright Doors by Vajra Chandrasekera
- Just for the Summer by Abby Jimenez
- The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley
- Take My Hand by Dolen Perkins-Valdez
- Real Americans by Rachel Khong
- The Island of Sea Women by Lisa See
- My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante
- When the Moon Hatched by Sarah A. Parker
- Yellowface by R. F. Kuang
- Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
- Poverty, by America by Matthew Desmond
- A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman
- Legends & Lattes by Travis Baldree
- To Be Taught, If Fortunate by Becky Chambers
- Funny Story by Emily Henry
- Some Desperate Glory by Emily Tesh
- The Familiar by Leigh Bardugo
- Reign & Ruin by J.D. Evans
- Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl Strayed
- The Heiress by Rachel Hawkins
- The Will of the Many by James Islington
- Commonwealth by Ann Patchett
- Bride by Ali Hazelwood
- The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese
- First Lie Wins by Ashley Elston
- Not in Love by Ali Hazelwood
- Weyward by Emilia Hart
- Alone With You in the Ether by Olivie Blake
- Hello Beautiful by Ann Napolitano
- 2023
- Foe by Iain Reid
- Iron Flame by Rebecca Yarros
- The Future by Naomi Alderman
- Trust by Hernan Diaz
- Giovanni's room by James Baldwin
- The Berry Pickers by Amanda Peters
- Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
- Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt
- Notes on an Execution by Danya Kukafka
- A Taste of Gold and Iron by Alexandra Rowland
- The Seven Year Slip by Ashley Poston
- Starling House by Alix E. Harrow
- Breasts and Eggs by Mieko Kawakami
- Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals by Oliver Burkeman
- None of This Is True by Lisa Jewell
- Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner
- Lady Chatterley's Lover by D. H. Lawrence
- Spare by Prince Harry
- Tom Lake by Ann Patchett
- Oathbringer by Brandon Sanderson
- Divine Rivals by Rebecca Ross
- Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros
- Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
- I'm Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy
- Translation State by Ann Leckie
- Love, Theoretically by Ali Hazelwood
- Elder Race by Adrian Tchaikovsky
- Atalanta by Jennifer Saint
- All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
- The Calculating Stars by Mary Robinette Kowal
- Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami
- Happy Place by Emily Henry
- Eversion by Alastair Reynolds
- Columbine by Dave Cullen
- Children of Memory by Adrian Tchaikovsky
- Crooked Kingdom by Leigh Bardugo
- A Day of Fallen Night by Samantha Shannon
- Tress of the Emerald Sea by Brandon Sanderson
- Pandora's Star by Peter F. Hamilton
- Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
- One True Loves by Taylor Jenkins Reid
- Century Rain by Alastair Reynolds
- Honor by Thrity Umrigar
- Loathe to Love You by Ali Hazelwood
- The Vanished Birds by Simon Jimenez
- It Ends with Us by Colleen Hoover
- Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi
- The Measure by Nikki Erlick
- Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
- 2022
- To Paradise by Hanya Yanagihara
- When Women Were Dragons by Kelly Barnhill
- Carrie Soto Is Back by Taylor Jenkins Reid
- Reminders of Him by Colleen Hoover
- Nettle & Bone by T. Kingfisher
- Revelation Space by Alastair Reynolds
- Ocean's Echo by Everina Maxwell
- House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
- The Wonder Engine by T. Kingfisher
- Clockwork Boys by T. Kingfisher
- Paladin's Hope by T. Kingfisher
- A Prayer for the Crown-Shy by Becky Chambers
- The Golden Enclaves by Naomi Novik
- The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
- The Jasmine Throne by Tasha Suri
- Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- The Paper Palace by Miranda Cowley Heller
- Constance by Matthew FitzSimmons
- Paladin's Strength by T. Kingfisher
- Children of Ruin by Adrian Tchaikovsky
- The Atlas Six by Olivie Blake
- Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel
- The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë
- The Kaiju Preservation Society by John Scalzi
- Book Lovers by Emily Henry
- There There by Tommy Orange
- The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles
- Altered Carbon by Richard K. Morgan
- Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
- The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories by Ken Liu
- Dogs of War by Adrian Tchaikovsky
- How Will You Measure Your Life by Clayton M. Christensen
- Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo
- The Doors of Eden by Adrian Tchaikovsky
- Men We Reaped: A Memoir by Jesmyn Ward
- How High We Go in the Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu
- Once There Were Wolves by Charlotte McConaghy
- A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Emmett Grosland
- The Inheritance Games by Jennifer Lynn Barnes
- One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston
- A Closed and Common Orbit by Becky Chambers
- A Desolation Called Peace by Arkady Martine
- Six Crimson Cranes by Elizabeth Lim
- 2021 - year in review
- People We Meet on Vacation by Emily Henry
- Daisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid
- The Love Hypothesis by Ali Hazelwood
- The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix
- The Dry by Jane Harper
- She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan
- Light from Uncommon Stars by Ryka Aoki
- Shards of Earth by Adrian Tchaikovsky
- Black Sun by Rebecca Roanhorse
- Walden by Henry David Thoreau
- Dear Edward by Ann Napolitano
- The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers
- Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
- Year One by Nora Roberts
- Beach Read by Emily Henry
- The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides
- Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr
- The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune
- The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah
- Beautiful World, Where Are You by Sally Rooney
- The Last Graduate by Naomi Novik
- Red, White & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston
- The hating game by Sally Thorne
- The City We Became by N.K. Jemisin
- The Goblin Emperor by Katherine Addison
- On Writing Well by William Zinsser
- Frederica by Georgette Heyer
- The Grand Sophy by Georgette Heyer
- Aurora Rising by Amie Kaufman
- Nevernight by Jay Kristoff
- The Raven Tower by Ann Leckie
- The Shadows Between Us by Tricia Levenseller
- Winter's Orbit by Everina Maxwell
- Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir
- Malibu Rising by Taylor Jenkins Reid
- Swordheart by T. Kingfisher
- A Deadly Education by Naomi Novik
- The Once and Future Witches by Alix E. Harrow
- The Sword of Kaigen by M.L. Wang
- Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro
- The Space Between Worlds by Micaiah Johnson
- The Flatshare by Beth O'Leary
- Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
- A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine
- Lord of the Flies by William Golding
- House of Earth and Blood by Sarah J. Maas
- The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
- My Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth Russell
- The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid
- Paladin's Grace by T. Kingfisher
- The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
- The Passengers by John Marrs
- The Rage of Dragons by Evan Winter
- Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
- Verity by Colleen Hoover
- Where the Forest Meets the Stars by Glendy Vanderah
- Persuasion by Jane Austen
- Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer
- Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
- A Promised Land by Barack Obama
- Rules of Redemption by T.A. White
- 2020 - year in review
- The Poppy War by R. F. Kuang
- The Wicked King by Holly Black
- Strange Love by Ann Aguirre
- The Cruel Prince by Holly Black
- A Court of Wings and Ruin by Sarah J. Maas
- A Court of Mist and Fury by Sarah J. Maas
- A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas
- To Sleep in a Sea of Stars by Christopher Paolini
- Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang
- The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right by Atul Gawande
- The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V. E. Schwab
- 168 Hours by Laura Vanderkam
- My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh
- On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft by Stephen King
- Billion Dollar Loser by Reeves Wiedeman
- Going Clear by Lawrence Wright
- Hidden Valley Road by Robert Kolker
- When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi
- Their Lost Daughters by Joy Ellis
- Greenlights by Matthew McConaughey
- Stalling for Time: My Life as an FBI Hostage Negotiator by Gary Noesner
- Nudge: The Final Edition by Richard H. Thaler
- The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle
- Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith by Jon Krakauer
- Boy Swallows Universe by Trent Dalton
- Working in Public by Nadia Eghbal
- Habits for Happiness by Timothy J. Sharp
- The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
- Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
- Becoming by Michelle Obama
- The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
- Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky
- Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
- Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
- Educated: A Memoir by Tara Westover
- The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
- Words of Radiance by Brandon Sanderson
- Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
- Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee
- Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari
- The Golem and the Jinni by Helene Wecker
- Great North Road by Peter F. Hamilton
- Starsight by Brandon Sanderson
- Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng
- Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo
- Normal People by Sally Rooney
- The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin
- The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
- What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami
- Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
- Gods of Jade and Shadow by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
- Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo
- This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar
- The Casual Vacancy by J. K. Rowling
- The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin
- The New Machiavelli by H. G. Wells
- Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell
- The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Old Man's War by John Scalzi
- The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
- How to Take Smart Notes by Sönke Ahrens
- The Developer's Guide to Creating a Successful Blog by Flavio Copes
- American Prometheus by Kai Bird
- Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup by John Carreyrou
- Collapse by Jared Diamond
- The Pragmatic Programmer by Andy Hunt and Dave Thomas
- Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
- I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer by Michelle McNamara
- All Systems Red by Martha Wells
- The Black Death: Natural and Human Disaster in Medieval Europe by Robert Steven Gottfried
- The Essential Paradise Lost by John Carey
- Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets by Svetlana Alexievich
- 2019 - year in review
- Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
- Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
- Foundryside by Robert Jackson Bennett
- The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
- Circe by Madeline Miller
- Three Moments of an Explosion by China Miéville
- Manson: The Life and Times of Charles Manson by Jeff Guinn
- The Familiars by Stacey Halls
- Picnic at Hanging Rock by Joan Lindsay
- She-Wolves: The Women Who Ruled England Before Elizabeth by Helen Castor
- The Power by Naomi Alderman
- The Road to Jonestown: Jim Jones and Peoples Temple by Jeff Guinn
- Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
- Out of the Silent Planet by C. S. Lewis
- Provenance by Ann Leckie
- The Scar by China Miéville
- The ONE Thing by Gary Keller
- Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity by David Allen
- 2018
- Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn
- Dark Matter by Blake Crouch
- A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
- Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
- Red Rising by Pierce Brown
- The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
- The Last Wish by Andrzej Sapkowski
- The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie
- The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
- The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson