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BOOKlists
2023
Trust - Hernan Diaz Backpacking with the Saints - Belden C. Lane Checkout 44 - Claire-Louise Bennett The Years - Annie Ernaux
Play it as it Lays - Joan Didion
The Sheltering Sky - Paul Bowles Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow - Gabrielle Zevin What we do in the Dark - Michelle Hart Simple Passion - Annie Ernaux
Veronica - Mary Gaitskill
Festival Days - JoAnn Beard
The Biography of X - Catherine Lacy
Intimacies - Katie Kitamura
The Lost Wife - Susanna Moore Kafka on the Shore - Haruki Murakami Wanderers: A History of Women Walking
- Kerri Andrews Untamed - Glennon Doyle
Big Swiss - Jen Beagin
The Guest - Emma Cline
The Summer Book - Tove Jansson
Woman Running in the Mountains - Yuko Tsushima
Pretend I’m Dead - Jen Beagin
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter - Carson McCullers Seating Arrangements - Maggie Shipstead
Breath - James Nestor
All About Love - bell hooks American Genius: A Comedy - Lynne Tillman Pure Color
- Sheila Heti
Drifts - Kate Zambreno
A Separation - Katie Kitamura
The Rabbit Hutch - Tess Gunty Women in Clothes - Ed. Sheila Heti, Heidi Julavits, Leanne Shapton
2022
Crossroads - Jonathan Franzen Almost Famous Women - Megan Mayew Bergman
The English Patient - Michael Ondaatje The House of Spirits - Isabella Allende
Whereabouts - Jhumpa Lahiri
Nightbitch - Rachel Yoder Second Place - Rachel Cusk Virtue - Hermione Hoby Kudos - Rachel Cusk
Bittersweet - Susan Cain
The Beauty of the Husband - Anne Carson
Passion - June Jordan
Happy Hour - Marlowe Granados
The Anomaly - Herve Le Tellier
Candy House - Jennifer Egan Where the Wild Ladies Are
- Aoko Matsula
Astonish Me - Maggie Shipstead
Sea of Tranquility - Emily St. John Mandel
Nicotine - Nell Zink
Great Circle - Maggie Shipstead
Avalon - Nell Zink
Patricia Wants to Cuddle - Samantha Allen
In the Cafe of Lost Youth - Patrick Modiano Ghost Lover - Lisa Taddeo
Art in an Emergency - Olivia Lang
Little Rabbit - Alyssa Songsiridej The Autobiography of Red - Anne Carson Fresh Water for Flowers
- Valerie Perrin
The Art of Patience: Seeking the Snow Leopard in Tibet - Sylvain Tesson
The Consolations of the Forest - Sylvain Tesson
Fellowship Point - Alice Dark All the Lovers in the Night - Mieko Kawakami
Cult Classic - Sloane Crosley
My Life in France - Julia Child The Secret History - Donna Tartt The Rules of Attraction - Brett Easton Ellis
2021
The Thorn Birds - Colleen McCullough The Ink Dark Moon / Love Poems - Ono no Komachi and Izumi Shikibu, Women of the Ancient Court of Japan / translated by Jane Hirshfield with Mariko Aratani
The Lying Life of Adults - Elena Ferante The Living Mountain - Nan Shepard
John - Annie Baker
Luster - Raven Leilani Teaching a Stone to Talk - Annie Dillard Writers and Lovers - Lily King The Factory - Hiroko Oyamada
The Stories of Eva Luna - Isabella Allende
The Woman Who Fell From the Sky - Jo Harjo
Short Cuts - Raymond Carver
Silent Spring - Rachel Carson
Migrations - Charlotte McConaghy
Preparations for the Next Life - Atticus Lish
Malina - Ingeborg Bachman
Sweetbitter - Stephanie Danler
Viability - Sarah Vap
Mushroom at the End of the World - Anna Tsing
Breasts and Eggs - Mieko Kawakami
Animal Spirit - Francesca Marciano
The Great Believers - Rebecca Makkai
Animal - Lisa Taddeo
The Glass Hotel - Emily St. John Mandel T
rick Mirror - Jia Tollentino
No One is Talking About This - Patricia Lockwood
The Book of Form and Emptiness - Ruth Ozeki Matrix - Lauren Goff
Desperate Characters - Paula Fox
The Shimmering State - Meredith Westgate
Pure Heart, Enlightened Mind - Maura O’Halloran
Beautiful World, Where are You? - Sally Rooney
Wallcreeper - Nell Zink
The Vermont Plays - Annie Baker
2020
How to Write an Autobiographical Novel - Alexander Chee The Friend - Sigrid Nunez New Me - Halle Butler Severance - Ling Ma The Followers - Megan Angelo Pachinko - Min Jin Lee The Heart Says Whatever - Emily Gould City of Girls - Elizabeth Gilbert - Mrs. Bridge - Evan Connell Weather - Jenny Offill How to be Both - Ali Smith This Woman’s Work - Julie Delporte Sontag - Benjamin Moser The Dud Avocado - Elaine Dundy Bluets - Maggie Nelson The Talented Mr. Ripley - Patricia Highsmith The Sun, The Sea - Iri Murdoch Olive Again - Elizabeth Stout Fever Dream - Samantha Schweblin The Year of Magical Thinking - Joan Didion Blankets - Craig Thompson Good Talk - Mira Jacobs Want - Lynn Steiger Strong In the Dream House - Carmen Maria Machado Mating - Norman Rush Code Name Villanelle - Luke Jennings Circe - Madeline Miller The Balcony - Jane Delury Averno - Louise Gluck Wild Iris - Louis Gluck The Pleasing Hour - Lily King Love in the Time of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
2019
Delicate, Edible Birds - Lauren Goff The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer - Siddhartha Mukherjee The Alchemy of Illness - Kate Duff The Great Spring - Natalie Goldberg The Juniper Tree - Barbara Comyns Youth - JM Coeteze Pond - Claire-Louise Bennett Deep Creek - Pam Houston Milkman - Anna Burns The State We’re In - Ann Beattie Autumn - Ali Smith Winter - Ali Smith Educated - Tara Westover Woodswoman - Ann LaBastille Crudo - Olivia Lang The Vacationers - Emma Straub On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous - Ocean Vuong Tonight I’m Someone Else - Chelsea Hodson Tokyo Fiance - Amelie Nothomb Giants of the Earth - Ole Edvart Rolvaag Three Women - Lisa Taddeo Black Swans - Eve Babitz Normal People - Sally Rooney On Being Ill - Virginia Woolf How to be Both - Ali Smith Department of Speculation - Jenny Offill How to be Famous - Caitlin Moran The Overstory - Richard Powers Last of Her Kind - Sigrid Nunzez The Metaphor of Illness - Susan Sontag
2018
Hunger Games - Susan Collins The State of Affairs - Esther Perel The Extra Woman - Joanna Scutts Despair - Vladimir Nabakov A Little Life - Hanya Yanigihara Light Years - James Salter Henry and June - Anais Nin The Dying Animal - Philip Roth Dusk - James Salter Call Me By Your Name - Andre Aciman Sex and Rage - Eve Babitz - Slow Days, Fast Company - Eve Babitz Things that Happened Before the Earthquake - Chiara Barzini Heather, The Totality - Matthew Weiner L’Amour Margerite Duras Death in Venice - Thomas Mann Eventide - Therese Bohman Solo Faces - James Salter The Recovery - Leslie Jamison The Leavers - Lisa Ko Asymmetry - Lisa Halliday Outline - Rachel Cusk My Year of Rest and Relaxation - Ottessa Moshfegh Brother in Ice - Alica Kopf Pices - Melissa Broder - Madeline is Sleeping - Sarah Shun-lien Bynum The Italian Teacher - Tom Rachman White Tears - Hari Kunzru How to Build a Girl - Caitlin Moran Motherhood - Shelia Heti The Door - Magda Szabo Dark Places - Gillian Flynn Florida - Lauren Goff Train Dreams - Denis Johnson There, There - Tommy Orange Who Will Run the Frog Hospital? - Lorrie Moore The Carrying - Ada Limon Iza’s Ballad - Magda Szabo You Think It, I’ll Say It - Curtis Sittenfeld