status: 4/100

• my brilliant friend, elena ferrante
• the warmth of other suns, isabel wilkerson
• wolf hall, hilary mantel
• the known world, edward p. jones
• the corrections, jonathan franzen
• 2666, roberto bolaño
• the underground railroad, colson whitehead
• austerlitz, w.g. sebald
• never let me go, kazuo ishiguro
• gilead, marilynne robinson
• the brief wondrous life of oscar wao, junot díaz
• the year of magical thinking, joan didion
• the road, cormac mccarthy
• outline, rachel cusk
• pachinko, min jin lee
• the amazing adventures of kavalier & clay, michael chabon
• the sellout, paul beatty
• lincoln in the bardo, george saunders
• say nothing, patrick radden keefe
• erasure, percival everett
• evicted, matthew desmond
• behind the beautiful forevers, katherine boo
• hateship, friendship, courtship, loveship, marriage, alice munro
• the overstory, richard powers
• random family, adrian nicole leblanc
• atonement, ian mcewan
• americanah, chimamanda ngozi adichie
• cloud atlas, david mitchell
• the last samurai, helen dewitt
• sing, unburied, sing, jesmyn ward
• white teeth, zadie smith
• the line of beauty, alan hollinghurst
• salvage the bones, jesmyn ward
• citizen, claudia rankine
• fun home, alison bechdel
• between the world and me, ta-nehisi coates
• the years, annie ernaux
• the savage detectives, roberto bolaño
• a visit from the goon squad, jennifer egan
• h is for hawk, helen macdonald
• small things like these, claire keegan
• a brief history of seven killings, marlon james
• postwar, tony judt
• the fifth season, n. k. jemisin
• the argonauts, maggie nelson
• the goldfinch, donna tartt
• a mercy, toni morrison
• persepolis, marjane satrapi
• the vegetarian, han kang
• trust, hernan diaz
• life after life, kate atkinson
• train dreams, denis johnson
• runaway, alice munro
• tenth of december, george saunders
• the looming tower, lawrence wright
• the flamethrowers, rachel kushner
• nickel and dimed, barbara ehrenreich
• stay true, hua hsu
• middlesex, jeffrey eugenides
• heavy, kiese laymon
• demon copperhead, barbara kingsolver
• 10:04, ben lerner
• veronica, mary gaitskill
• the great believers, rebecca makkai
• the plot against america, philip roth
• we the animals, justin torres
• far from the tree, andrew solomon
• the friend, sigrid nunez
• the new jim crow, michelle alexander
• all aunt hagar's children, edward p. jones
• the copenhagen trilogy, tove ditlevsen
• secondhand time, svetlana alexievich
• the passage of power, robert a. caro
• olive kitteridge, elizabeth strout
• exit west, mohsin hamid
• tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow, gabrielle zevin
• an american marriage, tayari jones
• septology, jon fosse
• a manual for cleaning women, lucia berlin
• the story of the lost child, elena ferrante
• pulphead, john jeremiah sullivan
• hurricane season, fernanda melchor
• when we cease to understand the world, benjamín labatut
• the emperor of all maladies, siddhartha mukherjee
• pastoralia, george saunders
• frederick douglass, david w. blight
• detransition, baby, torrey peters
• the collected stories of lydia davis, lydia davis
• the return, hisham matar
• the sympathizer, viet thanh nguyen
• the human stain, philip roth
• the days of abandonment, elena ferrante
• station eleven, emily st. john mandel
• on beauty, zadie smith
• bring up the bodies, hilary mantel
• wayward lives, beautiful experiments, saadiya hartman
• men we reaped, jesmyn ward
• bel canto, ann patchett
• how to be both, ali smith
• tree of smoke, denis johnson