On Books

 

Fiction

• Margaret Atwood The Robber Bride
• Dean Bakopoulos My American Unhappiness
• Ernest Cline Ready Player One
• Michael Cunningham By Nightfall
• Jeffrey Eugenides Middlesex
• Michel Faber The Book of Strange New Things
• Jonathan Franzen Freedom
• Francisco Goldman Say Her Name
• Lauren Groff Arcadia
• Yaa Gyasi Homegoing
• Daniel Handler Why We Broke Up
• Meg Howrey Blind Sight
• John Irving Last Night in Twisted River
• Barbara Kingsolver Flight Behavior
• Barbara Kingsolver The Lacuna
• Nicole Krauss The History of Love
• Torsten Krol Callisto
• David Levithan The Lover’s Dictionary
• Alexander Maksik You Deserve Nothing
• Steve Martin Shopgirl
• Joyce Maynard Labor Day
• Joshua McCarthy God, Sex, Drugs & Suicide
• Haruki Murakami Norwegian Wood
• Jandy Nelson I’ll Give You the Sun
• Maggie O’Farrell The Hand that First Held Mine
• Robert M. Pirsig Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
• Bella Pollen The Summer of the Bear
• Ron Rash Serena
• Suzanne Rindell The Other Typist
  
• Maria Semple Where’d You Go, Bernadette
• Robin Sloan Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore
• Alexis M. Smith Glaciers
• Haley Tanner Vaclav and Lena
• Vendela Vida Let the Northern Lights Erase Your Name
• Hanya Yanagihara A Little Life
• Markus Zusak The Book Thief

 

Non-fiction

• Nicholas Carr The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains
• Elizabeth L. Cline Overdressed: The Shockingly High Cost of Cheap Fashion
• Kelly Coyne and Erik Knutzen Making It: Radical Home Ec for a Post-Consumer World
• Meghan Daum Life Would Be Perfect If I Lived In That House
• Meghan Daum The Unspeakable
• Barbara Ehrenreich Bright-Sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking has Undermined America
• Eve Ensler The Good Body
• Barry Estabrook Tomatoland
• Ira Glass The New Kings of Nonfiction
• Fritz Haeg Edible Estates
• Jonathan Haidt The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion
• Jeff Hobbs The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace
• Tracy Kidder Mountains Beyond Mountains
• Kristin Kimball The Dirty Life
• Barbara Kingsolver Animal, Vegetable, Miracle
• Barbara Kingsolver Small Wonder
• Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn Half the Sky
• Gerald Martin Gabriel Garcia Marquez: A Life
• Bill McKibbin The Age of Missing Information
• Caitlin Moran Moranthology
• Bjorn Lomborg Cool It: The Skeptical Environmentalist’s Guide to Global Warming
• Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson Raising the Peaceable Kingdom
• Ann Patchett This is the Story of a Happy Marriage
• William Powers Twelve by Twelve
• Jonathan Safran Foer Eating Animals
• EF Schumacher Small is Beautiful
• Rebecca Skloot The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
• Cheryl Strayed Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar
  
• Warren St. John Outcasts United
• Mark Sundeen The Man Who Quit Money
• Aisha Tyler Self-Inflicted Wounds: Heartwarming Tales of Epic Humiliation
• Loung Ung First They Killed My Father
• Elizabeth Warren and Amelia Warren Tyagi All Your Worth
• Eric Weiner The Geography of Bliss