• Wellness by Nathan Hill
• The Covenant of Water by Abraham

Verghese

• Hello Beautiful by Ann Napolitano
• Bittersweet: How sorrow and longing

make us whole by Susan Cain

• Demon Coppherhead by Barbara Kingsolver
• That Bird Has My Wings by Jarvis Jay Masters
• Nightcrawling by Leila Mottley
• Finding Me by Viola Davis
• The Way of Integrity by Martha Beck
• Bewilderment by Richard Powers
• The Love Songs of WEB Du Bois by Honoree Fanonne Jeffers
• The Sweetness of Water by Nathan Harris
• The Gilead Novels by Marilynne Robinson [Gilead, Home, Lila, Jack]
• Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson
• Deacon King Kong by James McBride
• Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family by Robert Kolker
• American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins
• Olive, Again by Elizabeth Strout
• The Water Dance by Ta-Nehisi Coates
• Becoming by Michelle Obama
• The Sun Does Shine by Anthony Ray Hinton
• An American Marriage by Tayari Jones
• Behold the Dreamers by Imbolo Mbue
• Love Warrior by Glennon Doyle
• The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
• Ruby - Cynthia Bond
• The Invention of Wings - Sue Monk Kidd
• The Twelve Tribes of Hattie - Ayana Mathis
• Wild - Cheryl Strayed
• A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
• A Lesson Before Dying - Ernest J. Gaines
• A Map of the World - Jane Hamilton
• A Million Little Pieces - James Frey
• A New Earth - Eckhart Tolle
• A Virtuous Woman - Kaye Gibbons
• Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
• Back Roads - Tawni O'Dell
• Black and Blue - Anna Quindlen
• Breath, Eyes, Memory - Edwidge Danticat
• Cane River - Lalita Tademy
• Cry, the Beloved Country - Alan Paton
• Daughter of Fortune - Isabel Allende
• Drowning Ruth - Christina Schwarz
• East of Eden - John Steinbeck
• Ellen Foster - Kaye Gibbons
• Fall on Your Knees - Anne-Marie MacDonald
• Freedom - Jonathan Franzen
• Gap Creek - Robert Morgan
• Here on Earth - Alice Hoffman
• House of Sand and Fog - Andre Dubus III
• I Know This Much Is True - Wally Lamb
• Icy Sparks - Gwyn Hyman Rubio
• Jewel - Bret Lott
• Love in the Time of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
• Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides
• Midwives - Chris Bohjalian
• Mother of Pearl - Melinda Haynes
• Night - Elie Wiesel
• One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
• Open House - Elizabeth Berg
• Paradise - Toni Morrison
• River, Cross My Heart - Breena Clarke
• Say You're One of Them - Uwem Akpan
• She's Come Undone - Wally Lamb
• Song of Solomon - Toni Morrison
• Songs in Ordinary Time - Mary McGarry Morris
• Stolen Lives: Twenty Years in a Desert Jail - Malika Oufkir
• Stones from the River - Ursula Hegi
• Sula - Toni Morrison
• Tara Road - Maeve Binchy
• The Best Way to Play - Bill Cosby
• The Bluest Eye - Toni Morrison
• The Book of Ruth - Jane Hamilton
• The Corrections - Jonathan Franzen
• The Deep End of the Ocean - Jacquelyn Mitchard
• The Good Earth - Pearl S. Buck
• The Heart is a Lonely Hunter - Carson McCullers
• The Heart of a Woman - Maya Angelou
• The Meanest Thing to Say - Bill Cosby
• The Measure of a Man - Sidney Poitier
• The Pillars of the Earth - Ken Follett
• The Pilot's Wife - Anita Shreve
• The Poisonwood Bible - Barbara Kingsolver
• The Rapture of Canaan - Sheri Reynolds
• The Reader - Bernhard Schlink
• The Road - Cormac McCarthy
• The Story of Edgar Sawtelle - David Wroblewski
• The Treasure Hunt - Bill Cosby
• Vinegar Hill - A. Manette Ansay
• We Were the Mulvaneys - Joyce Carol Oates
• What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day - Pearl Cleage
• Where the Heart Is - Billie Letts
• While I Was Gone - Sue Miller
• White Oleander - Janet Fitch
• As I Lay Dying - William Faulkner
• Light in August - William Faulkner
• The Sound and the Fury - William Faulkner
• A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
• Great Expectations - Charles Dickens