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
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