• Jude the Obscure / Thomas Hardy
• Flying Home and Other Stories / Ralph Ellison
• The Decameron / Boccaccio
• The Odyssey / Homer
• Uncanny Valley / Anna Wiener
• The Narrative of Authur Gordom Pym / Edgar Allen Poe

• the farewell
• parasite
• good time
• midsommar

• Murder on Sunday Morning
• Skeleton Twins (bad)
• Blue Jay
• Girlhood
• Loving
• The Handmaiden
• Paterson
• I Am Not Your Negro
• Ghost Dog
• The Incredible Jessica James

• a children's calendar - updike

• I may destroy you
• dark
• cheer
• euphoria
• mrs. fletcher

• zero k / don delillo
• future home of the living god / louise erdrich
• sing, unburied, sing / jesmyn ward

2016

• Tenth of December / George Saunders
• The Men We Reaped / Jesmyn Ward
• Gilead / Marilynne Robinson
• Home / Marilynne Robinson
• Housekeeping / Marilynne Robinson
• The Underground Railroad / Colson Whitehead
• Zone One / Colson Whitehead
• Swing Time / Zadie Smith
• NW / Zadie Smith
• Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl / Carrie Brownstein
• Between the World and Me / Ta-Nehisi Coates
• H is for Hawk / Helen MacDonald
• Lowlands / Jhumpa Lahiri
• Interpreter of Maladies / Jhumpa Lahiri
• The Namesake / Jhumpa Lahiri
• The Black Swan / Thomas Mann
• Invisible Cities / Italo Calcino

• Silas mariner // eliot
• brothers karamazov // Dostoevsky
• Adam Bede // Eliot
• middlemarch// eliot
• ceremony // silko
• beloved // morrison
• blankets // craig thompson
• fun home // bechdel
• killing and dying // adriene tomine
• beverly // nick drnaso
• jimmy corrigan // chris ware
• sentimental education // flaubert
• madame bovary // flaubert
• the ministry of utmost happiness // arundhati roy
• the rules do not apply / ariel levy
• the idiot / elif batuman
• the overstory // richard powers
• leaving the atoocha station // ben lerner
• the parable of the talents // octavia but...

• call me by your name

• Pastoralia / George Saunders
• We Should All be Feminists / Chimanda Ngozi Adichie
• Exit West / Mohsin Hamid
• The Marriage Plot / Jeffrey Eugenides
• Americanah / Chimanda Ngozi Adichi
• The Refugees / Viet Thahn Nguyen
• The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian / Sherman Alexie
• Half of a Yellow Sun / Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
• Montress / Marjorie Lui
• Barbarian Days / William Finnegan
• The Light of the World / Elizabeth Alexander
• Tenth of December / George Saunders
• Another Brooklyn / Jacqueline Woodson
• The Sympathizer / Viet Thahn Nguyen
• Ghettocide / Jill Leovy
• Blood in the Water / Heather Thompson
• Newjack / Ted Conover