january

• the midnight library, matt haig
• a burst of light, audre lorde ⭑
• deathtrap, ira levin

february

• land of big numbers, chen teping
• at night all blood is black, david diop

march

• invisible women, caroline criado pérez
• the master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house, audre lorde
• the guest list, lucy foley
• alone with you in the ether, olivie blake
• the odd woman and the city, vivian gornick
• insomniac city, bill hayes ⭑

april

• perfume, patrick süskind

may

• the night shift, alex finlay
• verity, colleen hoover

june

• nobody knows my name, james baldwin

july

• the sound inside, adam rapp
• the lottery, shirley jackson
• portrait of a thief, grace d. li
• bonjour tristesse, francoise sagan
• how to watch basketball like a genius, nick greene
• the setting sun, dazai osamu
• milo imagines the world, matt de la peña ⭑
• blue bamboo, dazai osamu

september

• everyone in my family has killed someone, benjamin stevenson
• bliss montage, ling ma ⭑
• schoolgirl, dazai osamu

october

• strange beasts of china, yan ge ⭑
• book lovers, emily henry

november

• paris or die, jayne tuttle
• the little virtues, natalia ginzburg
• play it as it lays, joan didion
• no name in the street, james baldwin ⭑

december

• to live, yu hua
• whereabouts, jhumpa lahiri ⭑
• the bullet that missed, richard osman

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