Biography/Autobiography

• G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century by Beverly Gage
• Chasing Me to My Grave: An Artist’s Memoir of the Jim Crow South by the late Winifred Rembert as told to Erin I. Kelly
• The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X by Les Payne and Tamara Payne
• Sontag: Her Life and Work by Benjamin Moser
• The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke by Jeffrey C. Stewart
• Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder by Caroline Fraser
• The Return: Fathers, Sons and the Land in Between by Hisham Matar
• Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life - William Finnegan
• The Pope and Mussolini: The Secret History of Pius XI and the Rise of Fascism in Europe - David I. Kertzer
• Margaret Fuller: A New American Life - Megan Marshall
• The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo by Tom Reiss
• George F. Kennan: An American Life by John Lewis Gaddis
• Washington: A Life by Ron Chernow
• The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt by T.J. Stiles
• American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House by Jon Meacham
• Eden's Outcasts: The Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Father by John Matteson
• The Most Famous Man in America: The Biography of Henry Ward Beecher by Debby Applegate
• American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin
• de Kooning: An American Master by Mark Stevens and Annalyn Swan
• Khrushchev: The Man and His Era by William Taubman
• Master of the Senate by Robert A. Caro
• John Adams by David McCullough
• W.E.B. DuBois: The Fight for Equality and the American Century, 1919-1963 by David Levering Lewis
• Vera by Stacy Schiff
• Lindbergh by A. Scott Berg
• Personal History by Katharine Graham
• Angela's Ashes: A Memoir by Frank McCourt
• God: A Biography by Jack Miles
• Harriet Beecher Stowe: A Life by Joan D. Hedrick
• W.E.B. DuBois: Biography of a Race 1868-1919 by David Levering Lewis
• Truman by David McCullough

Drama

• English by Sanaz Toossi
• Fat Ham by James Ijames
• The Hot Wing King by Katori Hall
• A Strange Loop by Michael R. Jackson
• Fairview - Jackie Sibblies Drury
• Cost of Living - Martyna Majok
• Sweat - Lynn Nottage
• Hamilton - Lin-Manuel Miranda (& the companion reader)
• Between Riverside and Crazy - Stephen Adly Guirgis
• The Flick - Annie Baker
• Disgraced by Ayad Akhtar
• Water by the Spoonful by Quiara Alegria Hudes
• Clybourne Park by Bruce Norris
• Next to Normal, music by Tom Kitt, book and lyrics by Brian Yorkey
• Ruined by Lynn Nottage
• August: Osage County by Tracy Letts
• Rabbit Hole by David Lindsay-Abaire
• Doubt, a parable by John Patrick Shanley
• I Am My Own Wife by Doug Wright
• Anna in the Tropics by Nilo Cruz
• Topdog/Underdog by Suzan-Lori Parks
• Proof by David Auburn
• Dinner With Friends by Donald Margulies
• Wit by Margaret Edson
• How I Learned to Drive by Paula Vogel
• Rent by Jonathan Larson
• The Young Man From Atlanta by Horton Foote
• Three Tall Women by Edward Albee
• Angels in America: Millennium Approaches by Tony Kushner

Fiction

• Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
• Trust by Hernan Diaz
• The Netanyahus: An Account of a Minor and Ultimately Even Negligible Episode in the History of a Very Famous Family by Joshua Cohen
• The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich
• The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
• The Overstory - Richard Powers
• Less - Andrew Sean Greer
• The Underground Railroad - Colson Whitehead
• The Sympathizer - Viet Thanh Nguyen
• All the Light We Cannot See - Anthony Doerr
• The Goldfinch - Donna Tartt
• The Orphan Master's Son by Adam Johnson
• A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
• Tinkers by Paul Harding
• Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
• The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
• The Road by Cormac McCarthy
• March by Geraldine Brooks
• Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
• The Known World by Edward P. Jones
• Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
• Empire Falls by Richard Russo
• The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon
• Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
• The Hours by Michael Cunningham
• American Pastoral by Philip Roth
• Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer by Steven Millhauser
• Independence Day by Richard Ford
• The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields
• The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx
• A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain by Robert Olen Butler
• A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley
• Rabbit At Rest by John Updike
• The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love by Oscar Hijuelos
• Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler
• Beloved by Toni Morrison
• A Summons to Memphis by Peter Taylor
• Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
• Foreign Affairs by Alison Lurie
• Ironweed by William Kennedy
• The Color Purple by Alice Walker
• Rabbit Is Rich by John Updike
• A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
• The Executioner's Song by Norman Mailer
• The Stories of John Cheever by John Cheever
• Elbow Room by James Alan McPherson
• Humboldt's Gift by Saul Bellow
• The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara
• The Optimist's Daughter by Eudora Welty
• Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner
• Collected Stories by Jean Stafford
• House Made of Dawn by N. Scott Momaday
• The Confessions of Nat Turner by William Styron
• The Fixer by Bernard Malamud
• Collected Stories by Katherine Anne Porter
• The Keepers Of The House by Shirley Ann Grau
• The Reivers by William Faulkner
• The Edge of Sadness by Edwin O'Connor
• To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
• Advise and Consent by Allen Drury
• The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters by Robert Lewis Taylor
• A Death In the Family by James Agee
• Andersonville by MacKinlay Kantor
• A Fable by William Faulkner
• The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
• The Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouk
• The Town by Conrad Richter
• The Way West by A.B. Guthrie
• Guard of Honor by James Gould Cozzens
• Tales of the South Pacific by James A. Michener

General Nonfiction

• His Name Is George Floyd: One Man's Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice by Robert Samuels and Toluse Olorunnipa
• Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City by Andrea Elliott
• Wilmington's Lie: The Murderous Coup of 1898 and the Rise of White Supremacy by David Zucchino
• The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America by Greg Grandin
• The Undying: Pain, Vulnerability, Mortality, Medicine, Art, Time, Dreams, Data, Exhaustion, Cancer, and Care by Anne Boyer
• Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America - Eliza Griswold
• Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America - James Forman Jr.
• Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City - Matthew Desmond
• Black Flags: The Rise of ISIS - Joby Warrick
• The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History - Elizabeth Kolbert
• Toms River: A Story of Science and Salvation - Dan Fagin
• Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys by Gilbert King
• The Swerve: How the World Became Modern by Stephen Greenblatt
• The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer by Siddhartha Mukherjee
• The Dead Hand: The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and Its Dangerous Legacy by David E. Hoffman
• Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II by Douglas A. Blackmon
• The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939-1945 by Saul Friedlander
• The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 by Lawrence Wright
• Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain's Gulag in Kenya by Caroline Elkins
• Ghost Wars by Steve Coll
• Gulag: A History by Anne Applebaum
• "A Problem from Hell:" America and the Age of Genocide by Samantha Power
• Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama, the Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution by Diane McWhorter
• Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan by Herbert P. Bix
• Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II by John W. Dower
• Annals of the Former World by John McPhee
• Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond
• Ashes to Ashes: America's Hundred-Year Cigarette War, the Public Health, and the Unabashed Triumph of Philip Morris by Richard Kluger
• The Haunted Land: Facing Europe's Ghosts After Communism by Tina Rosenberg
• The Beak Of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time by Jonathan Weiner
• Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire by David Remnick
• Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words that Remade America by Garry Wills
• The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money & Power by Daniel Yergin
• The Ants by Bert Holldobler and Edward O. Wilson
• And Their Children After Them by Dale Maharidge and Michael Williamson
• A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam by Neil Sheehan
• The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes
• Arab and Jew: Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land
• Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families by J. Anthony Lukas
• Move Your Shadow: South Africa, Black and White by Joseph Lelyveld
• The Good War: An Oral History of World War Two by Studs Terkel
• The Social Transformation of American Medicine by Paul Starr
• Is There No Place On Earth For Me? by Susan Sheehan
• The Soul of a New Machine by Tracy Kidder
• Fin-De Siecle Vienna: Politics and Culture by Carl E. Schorske
• Godel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas R. Hofstadter
• On Human Nature by Edward O. Wilson
• The Dragons of Eden by Carl Sagan
• Beautiful Swimmers by William W. Warner
• Why Survive? Being Old in America by Robert N. Butler
• Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dilard
• The Denial of Death by Ernest Becker
• Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam by Frances Fitzgerald
• Children of Crisis, Vols. II and III by Robert Coles
• Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911-1945 by Barbara W. Tuchman
• The Rising Sun by John Toland
• Gandhi's Truth by Erik H. Erikson
• The Armies of the Night by Norman Mailer
• So Human An Animal by Rene Jules Dubos
• Rousseau and Revolution, the Tenth and Concluding Volume of the Story of Civilization by Will and Ariel Durant
• The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture by David Brion Davis
• Wandering Through Winter by Edwin Way Teale
• O Strange New World by Howard Mumford Jones
• Anti-Intellectualism in American Life by Richard Hofstadter
• The Guns of August by Barbara W. Tuchman
• The Making of the President 1960 by Theodore H. White

History

• Freedom's Dominion: A Saga of White Resistance to Federal Power by Jefferson Cowie
• Covered with Night by Nicole Eustace
• Cuba: An American History by Ada Ferrer
• Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America by Marcia Chatelain
• Sweet Taste of Liberty: A True Story of Slavery and Restitution in America by W. Caleb McDaniel
• Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom - David W. Blight
• The Gulf: The Making of an American Sea - Jack E. Davis
• Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy - Heather Ann Thompson
• Custer's Trials: A Life on the Frontier of a New America - T.J. Stiles
• Encounters at the Heart of the World: A History of the Mandan People - Elizabeth A. Fenn
• The Internal Enemy: Slavery and War in Virginia 1772-1832 - Alan Taylor
• Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America's Vietnam by Fredrik Logevall
• Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention by the late Manning Marable
• The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery by Eric Foner
• Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World by Liaquat Ahamed
• The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family by Annette Gordon-Reed
• What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848 by Daniel Walker
• The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation by Gene Roberts and Hank Klibanoff
• Polio: An American Story by David M. Oshinsky
• Washington's Crossing by David Hackett Fischer
• A Nation Under Our Feet: Black Political Struggles in the Rural South from Slavery to the Great Migration by Steven Hahn
• An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943 by Rick Atkinson
• The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America by Louis Menand
• Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation by Joseph J. Ellis
• Freedom From Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945 by David M. Kennedy
• Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898 by Edwin G. Burrows and Mike Wallace
• Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate Over Science and Religion by Edward J. Larson
• Original Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution by Jack N. Rakove
• William Cooper's Town: Power and Persuasion on the Frontier of the Early American Republic by Alan Taylor
• No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II by Doris Kearns Goodwin
• The Radicalism of the American Revolution by Gordon S. Wood

Novel

• His Family by Ernest Poole
• The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington
• The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
• Alice Adams by Booth Tarkington
• One of Ours by Willa Cather
• The Able McLaughlins by Margaret Wilson
• So Big by Edna Ferber
• Arrowsith by Sinclair Lewis
• Early Autumn by Louis Bromfield
• The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder
• Scarlet Sister Mary by Julia Peterkin
• Laughing Boy by Oliver Lafarge
• Years of Grace by Margaret Ayer Barnes
• The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
• The Store by T.S. Stribling
• Lamb in His Bosom by Caroline Miller
• Now in November by Josephine Winslow Johnson
• Honey in the Horn by Harold L. Davis
• Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
• The Late George Apley by John Phillips Marquand
• The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
• The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
• In This Our Life by Ellen Glasgow
• Dragon's Teeth by Upton Sinclair
• Journey in the Dark by Martin Flavin
• A Bell for Adano by John Hersey
• All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren

Poetry

• Then the War: And Selected Poems, 2007-2020 by Carl Phillips
• frank: sonnets by Diane Seuss
• Postcolonial Love Poem by Natalie Diaz
• The Tradition by Jericho Brown
• Be With - Forrest Gander
• Half-light: Collected Poems 1965-2016 - Frank Bidart
• Olio - Tyehimba Jess
• Ozone Journal - Peter Balakian
• Digest - Gregory Pardlo
• 3 Sections - Vijay Seshadri
• Stag's Leap - Sharon Olds
• Life on Mars - Tracy K. Smith
• The Best of It: New and Selected Poems - Kay Ryan
• Versed - Rae Armantrout
• The Shadow of Sirius - W.S. Merwin
• Time and Materials - Robert Hass
• Failure - Philip Schultz
• Native Guard - Natasha Trethewey
• Late Wife - Claudia Emerson
• Delights & Shadows - Ted Kooser
• Walking to Martha's Vineyard - Franz Wright
• Moy Sand and Gravel - Paul Muldoon
• Practical Gods - Carl Dennis
• Different Hours - Stephen Dunn
• Repair - C.K. Williams
• Blizzard of One - Mark Strand
• Black Zodiac - Charles Wright
• Alive Together: New and Selected Poems - Lisel Mueller
• The Dream of the Unified Field - Jorie Graham
• The Simple Truth - Philip Levine
• Neon Vernacular: New and Selected Poems - Yusef Komunyakaa
• The Wild Iris - Louise Gluck