- Olga Tokarczuk / Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
- Elena Ferrante / My Brilliant Friend
- Elena Ferrante / The Story of a New Name
- Elena Ferrante / Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay
- Elena Ferrante / The Story of the Lost Child
- Sophie Kinsella / My Not So Perfect Life
- Adam Johnson / The Orphan Master’s Son
- Trevor Noah / Born a Crime ⭐️
- Mary Ann Shaffer, Annie Barrows / The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society ⭐️
- Jon Ronson / So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed
- Colson Whitehead / The Underground Railroad
- Amy Tan / The Kitchen God’s Wife
- Anna Wiener / Uncanny Valley ⭐️
- Meng Jin / Little Gods
- Charles Yu / Interior Chinatown
- Rebecca Traister / All the Single Ladies: Unmarried Women and the Rise of an Independent Nation ⭐️
- Lisa See / Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
- Gillian Flynn / Gone Girl
- Sherry Thomas / A Conspiracy in Belgravia
- Jodi Picoult / Nineteen Minutes
- Laila Lalami / The Moor’s Account
- Amy Tan / The Valley of Amazement
- Shaun Bythell / The Diary of a Bookseller
- Genki Kawamura / If Cats Disappeared From the World
- Muriel Barbery / The Elegance of the Hedgehog
- Amy Tan / The Bonesetter’s Daughter
- Jenny Zhang / Sour Heart ⭐️
- Stacey Lee / The Downstairs Girl
- Jacqueline Woodson / Red at the Bone
- Catherine Hewitt / The Mistress of Paris
- Téa Obreht / Inland
- Marjan Kamali / The Stationery Shop
- Eleanor Herman / The Royal Art of Poison
- Cathy Park Hong / Minor Feelings ⭐️
- Samantha Irby / Wow, No Thank You
- Abigail Hing Wen / Loveboat, Taipei ⭐️
- Susan Fowler / Whistleblower ⭐️
- Lindy West / The Witches Are Coming
- Tove Jansson / The Summer Book
- E. J. Koh / The Magical Language of Others
- Crystal Hana Kim / If You Leave Me
- C Pam Zhang / How Much of These Hills is Gold
- Jasmine Guillory / Royal Holiday
- Kristin Newman / What I Was Doing While You Were Breeding
- Tara Westover / Educated ⭐️
- Madeleine Thien / Do Not Say We Have Nothing
- Rachel Cusk / Outline
- Rebecca Solnit / The Faraway Nearby ⭐️
- Amy Tan / The Hundred Secret Senses
- Kiley Reid / Such a Fun Age ⭐️
- Rachel Vorona Cote / Too Much
- Scott Hawkins / The Library at Mount Char
- Ken Liu / The Hidden Girl and Other Stories ⭐️
- Alexandra Chang / Days of Distraction ⭐️
- Sophie Kinsella / I Owe You One
- Cixin Liu / The Three-Body Problem
- Que Mai Phan Nguyen / The Mountains Sing
- Damon Young / What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Blacker
- Jenny Offill / Weather
- Kwana Jackson / Real Men Knit
- Jasmine Guillory / Party of Two ⭐️
- Isabel Allende / A Long Petal of the Sea ⭐️
- Kevin Nguyen / New Waves ⭐️
- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie / Americanah ⭐️
Note: I read Americanah before learning about Adichie’s comments on trans women and feminism; the book did resonate deeply with me for its themes on (cis) feminism, race, and American culture, and whether or not you choose to read this book knowing the fuller context of her views is ultimately up to you. - Bryan Stevenson / Just Mercy ⭐️
- Mieko Kawakami / Breasts and Eggs
- Taffy Brodesser-Akner / Fleishman Is in Trouble ⭐️
- Frances Cha / If I Had Your Face
- Kevin Kwan / Sex and Vanity
- Naoise Dolan / Exciting Times
- Ann Friedman and Aminatou Sow / Big Friendship
- Homer, trans. Emily Wilson / The Odyssey
- Jia Tolentino / Trick Mirror ⭐️
- Kelly Yang / Parachutes
- Allie Brosh / Solutions and Other Problems
- David M. Masumoto / Epitaph for a Peach
- Eleanor Herman / Sex With Kings
- Nina George / The Little Paris Bookshop
- Lauren Collins / When in French
- L.M. Montgomery / The Blue Castle
- Ottessa Moshfegh / My Year of Rest and Relaxation
- Tommy Orange / There There
- Eva Ibbotson / A Company of Swans
- Eva Ibbotson / The Secret Countess
- Sophie Kinsella / Surprise Me
- Eva Ibbotson / Magic Flutes
- Virginia Woolf / A Room of One’s Own
- Eva Ibbotson / The Morning Gift
- Hiromi Kawakami / The Nakano Thrift Shop
- Eva Ibbotson / A Song for Summer
- Georgette Heyer / Cotillion
- Meryl Wilsner / Something to Talk About
- Maisy Card / These Ghosts Are Family
- Meg Wolitzer / The Female Persuasion ⭐️
- Patricia Lockwood / Priestdaddy
- Jenny Odell / How to Do Nothing
- Melissa Dahl / Cringeworthy
- Thomas Thwaites / The Toaster Project
- Rebecca Solnit / A Paradise Built in Hell
- Sylvia Plath / The Bell Jar