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Fiction Titles

Anderson, Sherwood / Winesburg, Ohio

Austen, Jane / Northanger Abbey: Lady Susan, The Watsons and Sandition

Bowles, Paul / The Sheltering Sky

Bronte, Charlotte / Jane Eyre

Bronte, Emily / Wuthering Heights

Chekhov, Anton / The Shooting Party

de Assis, Machado / Dom Casmurro

Didion, Joan / Play It As It Lays

Ford, Madox Ford / The Good Soldier

Forster, E.M. / A Room with a View

Greene, Graham / The Quiet American

Heller, Joseph / Catch-22

Joyce, James / A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Kazantzakis, Nikos / Zorba the Greek

McCullers, Carson / The Heart is a Lonely Hunter

Morrison, Toni / The Bluest Eye

Portis, Charles / Norwood

Stegner, Wallace / Crossing to Safety

Tanizaki, Jun’ichiro / The Makioka Sisters

Trollope, Anthony / Barchester Towers

Turgenev, Ivan / Fathers and Sons

Woolf, Virginia / Orlando

Cisneros, Sandra / Caramelo

Diaz, Hernan / Trust

Erlick, Nikki / The Measure

Everett, Percival / Telephone

Ferrante, Elena / My Brilliant Friend

Franzen, Jonathan / Crossroads

Haruf, Kent / Plainsong

Honeyman, Gail / Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine

Jansson, Tove / The Summer Book

Johnson, Adam / The Orphan Master’s Son

Jonasson, Jonas / The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared

Jones, Tayari / An American Marriage

Kingsolver, Barbara / Demon Copperhead

Kingsolver, Barbara / Flight Behavior

Lee, Harper / Go Set a Watchman

Lewycka, Marina / A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian

Maxwell, William / So Long, See You Tomorrow

Murray, Paul / The Bee Sting

Powers, Richard / The Overstory

Robinson, Marilynne / Lila

Savage, Thomas / The Power of the Dog

Stuart, Douglas / Shuggie Bain

Washburn, Kawai Strong / Sharks in the Time of Saviors

Benedict, Marie / The Personal Librarian

Blume, Judy / In the Unlikely Event

Coplin, Amanda / The Orchardist

Everett, Percival / James : A novel

Gary, Romain / The Kites

Hannah, Kristin / The Great Alone

Hoffman, Alice / The Marriage of Opposites

Krueger, William Kent / This Tender Land: A Novel

McBride, James / The Good Lord Bird

Nguyen, Viet Thanh / The Sympathizer

Orange, Tommy / There, There

Rutledge, Lynda / West With Giraffes

Towles, Amor / A Gentleman in Moscow

Whitehead, Colson / The Underground Railroad

Cosby, S.A. / Blacktop Wasteland

Korelitz, Jean Hanff / The Plot : A Novel

LeCarre, John / The Spy Who Came in from the Cold

Meyer, Stephanie / The Chemist

Rekulak, Jason / Hidden Pictures

Sager, Riley / Home Before Dark

Atwood, Margaret / The Testaments

Hamid, Mohsin / Exit West: a Novel

Ishiguro, Kazuo / The Buried Giant

Mandel, Emily St. John / Station Eleven: a Novel

Miller, Madeline / Circe

Weir, Andy / The Martian

Carver, Raymond / Where I’m Calling From: New and Selected Stories

Chiang, Ted / Exhalation

Gaiman, Neil / Smoke and Mirrors: Short Fictions and Illusions

Narayan, R.K. / Malgudi Days

O’Connor, Flannery / Everything that Rises Must Converge

Parker, Dorothy / Dorothy Parker: Complete Stories

Poe, Edgar Allen / Edgar Allan Poe: the Dover reader

So, Anthony Veasna / Afterparties

Uhart, Hebe / The Scent of Buenos Aires

Bardugo, Leigh / Six of Crows

Barnes, Jennifer Lynne / The Inheritance Games

Cline, Ernest / Ready Player One

Crouch, Blake / Recursion

Mass, Sarah J. / Throne of Glass

Yancey, Rick / The 5th Wave

Non-Fiction Titles

Caro, Robert / The Passage of Power

Coates, Ta-Nehisi / Between the World and Me

Egan, Timothy / Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher : the epic life and immortal photographs of Edward Curtis

Grave, Robert / Good Bye to All That

Isaacson, Walter / Einstein: His Life and Universe

Isaacson, Walter / Leonardo Da Vinci

Jin, Ha / Banished Immortal: A Life of Li Bai (Li Po)

Jost, Colin / A Very Punchable Face: A Memoir

Kelly, Scott / Endurance: My Year in Space, a Lifetime of Discovery

Macdonald, Helen / H is for Hawk

McConaughey, Matthew / Greenlights

McCullough, David G. / The Wright Brothers

Morris, Edmund / The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt

Moore, Wes / The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates

Satrapi, Marjane / Persepolis

Smith, Patti / Just Kids

Takei, George / They Called Us Enemy (Teen)

Talley, Andre Leon / The Chiffon Trenches: A Memoir

Thi, Bui / The Best We Could Do

Usadi, Oanh Ngo / Hawker Dreams: A Vietnamese American in Singapore

Usadi, Oanh Ngo / Of Monkey Bridges and Banh Mi Sandwiches: From Sai Gon to Texas

Wang, Qian Julie / Beautiful Country

Westover, Tara / Educated

Achor, Shawn / The Happiness Advantage: How a Positive Brain Fuels Success in Work and Life

Bacon, John U. / Let Them Lead: Unexpected Lessons in Leadership from America’s Worst High School Hockey Team

Baldwin, James / The Fire Next Time

Bruder, Jessica / Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century

Bruno, Mary / An American River: From Paradise to Superfund, Afloat on New Jersey’s Passaic

Bryson, Bill / The Road to Little Dribbling: Adventures of an American in Britain

Cahalan, Susannah / The Great Pretender

Cooper, Becky / We Keep the Dead Close: A Murder at Harvard and Half a Century of Silence

Mask, Dierdre / The Address Book

Miles, Kathryn / Trailed: One Woman’s Quest to Solve the Shenandoah Murders

Shapiro, James / Shakespeare in a Divided America

Slater, Dashka / The 57 Bus (Teen)

Steinbeck, John / Travels with Charley: In Search of America

Grann, David / Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the F.B.I.

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

Hillenbrand, Laura / Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption

Jonnes, Jill / Empires of Light: Edison, Tesla, Westinghouse and the Race to Electrify the World

Keefe, Patrick Radden / Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland

McCullough, David / The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West

McWhorter, John H. / Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue: The Untold History of English

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

Albee, Edward / Three Tall Women: A Play in Two Acts

Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich / The Cherry Orchard

García Lorca, Federico / Three Tragedies: Blood Wedding, Yerma, Bernarda Alba

Shakespeare, William / Much Ado About Nothing

Gladwell, Malcolm / David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits and the Art of Battling Giants

Grant, Adam / Think Again

Isaacson, Walter / The Code Breaker

Johnson, Kirk Wallace / The Feather Thief

Kahneman, Daniel / Thinking Fast and Slow

Reisner, Marc / Cadillac Desert

Safina, Carl / Becoming Wild: How Animal Cultures Raise Families, Create Beauty, and Achieve Peace

Wohlleben, Peter / The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate – Discoveries from a Secret World

Yong, Ed / An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us