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The Most Recommended Books of 2025

We counted 7,459 entries from 140 sources in 2025. The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny by Kiran Desai appeared on 23, 3 more than any other book.

A source counts once per book, whatever the result: a win, a shortlist place, or a list pick. We show books named by 3 or more sources. 2025 is the award or list year, not the publication year.

23 sources

  1. The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny by Kiran Desai

20 sources

  1. A Guardian and a Thief by Megha Majumdar

19 sources

  1. Audition by Katie Kitamura

  2. What We Can Know by Ian McEwan

18 sources

  1. Flashlight by Susan Choi

  2. Mother Mary Comes to Me by Arundhati Roy

17 sources

  1. Flesh by David Szalay

16 sources

  1. Baldwin: A Love Story by Nicholas Boggs

  2. Heart the Lover by Lily King

15 sources

  1. Is a River Alive? by Robert Macfarlane

  2. King of Ashes by S. A. Cosby

  3. One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This by Omar El Akkad

  4. Raising Hare by Chloe Dalton

  5. The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones

  6. The Wilderness by Angela Flournoy

  7. We Do Not Part by Han Kang

14 sources

  1. A Marriage at Sea by Sophie Elmhirst

  2. Dream Count by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

  3. Endling by Maria Reva

  4. The Antidote by Karen Russell

  5. The Director by Daniel Kehlmann

  6. Things in Nature Merely Grow by Yiyun Li

13 sources

  1. Katabasis by R. F. Kuang

  2. We the People by Jill Lepore

11 sources

  1. A Flower Traveled in My Blood by Haley Cohen Gilliland

  2. A Truce That Is Not Peace by Miriam Toews

  3. Book of Lives: A Memoir of Sorts by Margaret Atwood

  4. Cursed Daughters by Oyinkan Braithwaite

  5. Isola by Allegra Goodman

  6. Shadow Ticket by Thomas Pynchon

  7. The Dream Hotel by Laila Lalami

  8. Wild Dark Shore by Charlotte McConaghy

10 sources

  1. Buckeye by Patrick Ryan

  2. Dark Renaissance by Stephen Greenblatt

  3. Death in the Jungle: Murder, Betrayal, and the Lost Dream of Jonestown by Candace Fleming

  4. Death of the Author: A Novel by Nnedi Okorafor

  5. Girl on Girl by Sophie Gilbert

  6. King of Kings by Scott Anderson

  7. Mark Twain by Ron Chernow

  8. Murderland by Caroline Fraser

  9. Palaver: A Novel by Bryan Washington

  10. Stone Yard Devotional by Charlotte Wood

  11. Sunrise on the Reaping by Suzanne Collins

9 sources

  1. Abundance by Ezra Klein

  2. Black in Blues by Imani Perry

  3. Careless People by Sarah Wynn-Williams

  4. James by Percival Everett

  5. Memorial Days by Geraldine Brooks

  6. Paper Girl by Beth Macy

  7. Perfection by Vincenzo Latronico

  8. The Book of Records by Madeleine Thien

  9. The Emperor of Gladness by Ocean Vuong

  10. The South by Tash Aw

  11. There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America by Brian Goldstone

8 sources

  1. 1929 by Andrew Ross Sorkin

  2. America, América: A New History of the New World by Greg Grandin

  3. Atmosphere by Taylor Jenkins Reid

  4. Black Moses: A Saga of Ambition and the Fight for a Black State by Caleb Gayle

  5. Buckley: The Life and the Revolution That Changed America by Sam Tanenhaus

  6. Daughters of the Bamboo Grove: From China to America, a True Story of Abduction, Adoption, and Separated Twins by Barbara Demick

  7. Don't Trust Fish by Neil Sharpson

  8. Fireworks by Matthew Burgess

  9. Hunchback: A Novel by Saou Ichikawa

  10. Joyride by Susan Orlean

  11. No More Tears: The Dark Secrets of Johnson & Johnson by Gardiner Harris

  12. Oasis by Guojing

  13. Strangers in the Land: Exclusion, Belonging, and the Epic Story of the Chinese in America by Michael Luo

  14. The Correspondent by Virginia Evans

  15. The Fate of the Day by Rick Atkinson

  16. The Wayfinder by Adam Johnson

  17. When It All Burns: Fighting Fire in a Transformed World by Jordan Thomas

7 sources

  1. Angelica and the Bear Prince by Trung Le Nguyen

  2. Bread of Angels by Patti Smith

  3. Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil by V.E. Schwab

  4. Claire McCardell by Elizabeth Evitts Dickinson

  5. Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAI by Karen Hao

  6. Every Monday Mabel by Jashar Awan

  7. Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection by John Green

  8. Helm by Sarah Hall

  9. How to End a Story: Collected Diaries by Helen Garner

  10. I Regret Almost Everything by Keith McNally

  11. John & Paul by Ian Leslie

  12. Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist by Liz Pelly

  13. Motherland: A Feminist History of Modern Russia, from Revolution to Autocracy by Julia Ioffe

  14. On the Calculation of Volume (Book III) by Solvej Balle

  15. Replaceable You by Mary Roach

  16. Spent by Alison Bechdel

  17. The Corruption of Hollis Brown by K. Ancrum

  18. The Hounding by Xenobe Purvis

  19. The Leaving Room by Amber McBride

  20. The Nine Moons of Han Yu and Luli by Karina Yan Glaser

  21. The Slip by Lucas Schaefer

  22. The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother) by Rabih Alameddine

  23. These Summer Storms by Sarah MacLean

  24. Truth Is: A Novel in Verse by Hannah V. Sawyerr

  25. Victorian Psycho by Virginia Feito

  26. Wellwater by Karen Solie

  27. Witchcraft for Wayward Girls by Grady Hendrix

6 sources

  1. A Place for Us by James Ransome

  2. Angel Down by Daniel Kraus

  3. Culpability by Bruce Holsinger

  4. Dead and Alive by Zadie Smith

  5. Great Black Hope by Rob Franklin

  6. Heartwood by Amity Gaige

  7. King Sorrow by Joe Hill

  8. Let's Be Bees by Shawn Harris

  9. Moderation by Elaine Castillo

  10. People Like Us by Jason Mott

  11. Pick a Color by Souvankham Thammavongsa

  12. Searches by Vauhini Vara

  13. Sisters in the Wind by Angeline Boulley

  14. Song of a Blackbird by Maria van Lieshout

  15. The Bewitching by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

  16. The Broken King by Michael Thomas

  17. The Catch by Yrsa Daley-Ward

  18. The Compound by Aisling Rawle

  19. The Finest Hotel in Kabul by Lyse Doucet

  20. The Land in Winter by Andrew Miller

  21. The Pelican Child by Joy Williams

  22. The Raven Scholar by Antonia Hodgson

  23. The River Has Roots by Amal El-Mohtar

  24. The Sisters by Jonas Hassen Khemiri

  25. The Summer of the Bone Horses by Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve

  26. Theft by Abdulrazak Gurnah

  27. Theory & Practice by Michelle de Kretser

  28. Universality by Natasha Brown

  29. Wild Thing: A Life of Paul Gauguin by Sue Prideaux

5 sources

  1. 38 Londres Street: On Impunity, Pinochet in England and a Nazi in Patagonia by Philippe Sands

  2. A World Worth Saving by Kyle Lukoff

  3. All the Blues in the Sky by Renée Watson

  4. An Oral History of Atlantis by Ed Park

  5. Apple in China by Patrick McGee

  6. Automatic Noodle by Annalee Newitz

  7. Awake by Jen Hatmaker

  8. Bad Bad Girl by Gish Jen

  9. Broken by X. Fang

  10. Broken Country by Clare Leslie Hall

  11. Can't Get Enough by Kennedy Ryan

  12. Cannon by Lee Lai

  13. Capitalism and Its Critics by John Cassidy

  14. Clown Town by Mick Herron

  15. Death of an Ordinary Man by Sarah Perry

  16. Do Admit: The Mitford Sisters and Me by Mimi Pond

  17. El Dorado Drive by Megan Abbott

  18. Electric Spark: The Enigma of Muriel Spark by Frances Wilson

  19. Ends of the Earth by Neil Shubin

  20. Everybelly by Thao Lam

  21. Flip by Ngozi Ukazu

  22. Gertrude Stein: An Afterlife by Francesca Wade

  23. Good and Evil and Other Stories by Samanta Schweblin

  24. Good Things by Samin Nosrat

  25. Great Big Beautiful Life by Emily Henry

  26. How to Dodge a Cannonball by Dennard Dayle

  27. How to Say Goodbye in Cuban by Daniel Miyares

  28. I Wish I Didn’t Have to Tell You This: A Graphic Memoir by Eugene Yelchin

  29. Island Storm by Brian Floca and Sydney Smith

  30. Lonely Crowds by Stephanie Wambugu

  31. Lorne by Susan Morrison

  32. Luminous by Silvia Park

  33. Matriarch by Tina Knowles

  34. Minor Black Figures by Brandon Taylor

  35. Murder Takes a Vacation by Laura Lippman

  36. My Friends by Fredrik Backman

  37. North Sun: Or, the Voyage of the Whaleship Esther by Ethan Rutherford

  38. One of the Boys by Victoria Zeller

  39. Original Sins by Eve L. Ewing

  40. Our Lake by Angie Kang

  41. Pan by Michael Clune

  42. Red Scare by Clay Risen

  43. Rules for Ruin by Mimi Matthews

  44. Scarlet Morning by ND Stevenson

  45. Stay Dead by Natalie Shapero

  46. Terrestrial History by Joe Mungo Reed

  47. The Five Sides of Marjorie Rice: How to Discover a Shape by Amy Alznauer

  48. The Girls Who Grew Big by Leila Mottley

  49. The History of We by Nikkolas Smith

  50. The Martians by David Baron

  51. The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley

  52. The Names by Florence Knapp

  53. The Poems of Seamus Heaney by Seamus Heaney

  54. The Remembered Soldier by Anjet Daanje

  55. The Safekeep by Yael van der Wouden

  56. The Savage, Noble Death of Babs Dionne by Ron Currie

  57. The Three Lives of Cate Kay by Kate Fagan

  58. The Tragedy of True Crime by John J. Lennon

  59. The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest by Aubrey Hartman

  60. Tilt by Emma Pattee

  61. Twist by Colum McCann

  62. Vanished by Sadiah Qureshi

  63. Venetian Vespers by John Banville

  64. Vera, or Faith by Gary Shteyngart

  65. White Lies by Ann Bausum

  66. Woodworking by Emily St. James

  67. Wreck by Catherine Newman

4 sources

  1. A Bird in the Air Means We Can Still Breathe by Mahogany L. Browne

  2. A Book of Maps for You by Lourdes Heuer

  3. Aflame by Pico Iyer

  4. Alberto Salas Plays Paka Paka Con La Papa: Join the Quest With Peru's Famed Scientist and Potato Expert by Sara Andrea Fajardo

  5. All Consuming: Why We Eat the Way We Eat Now by Ruby Tandoh

  6. Atavists: Stories by Lydia Millet

  7. August Lane by Regina Black

  8. Bat Eater and Other Names for Cora Zeng by Kylie Lee Baker

  9. Big Kiss, Bye Bye by Claire-Louise Bennett

  10. Bog Queen by Anna North

  11. Cabin Head and Tree Head by Scott Campbell

  12. California Bear by Duane Swierczynski

  13. Cat Nap by Brian Lies

  14. Children of Radium: A Buried Inheritance by Joe Dunthorne

  15. Cranky, Crabby Crow (saves the World) by Corey R. Tabor

  16. Crumb by Dan Nadel

  17. Deep House by Jeremy Atherton Lin

  18. Dinner with King Tut by Sam Kean

  19. Dream State by Eric Puchner

  20. Esperance by Adam Oyebanji

  21. First-Time Caller by B.K. Borison

  22. For a Girl Becoming by Joy Harjo

  23. Foretokens by Sarah Howe

  24. Fox by Joyce Carol Oates

  25. Fundamentally by Nussaibah Younis

  26. Ghosts of Waikiki by Jennifer K. Morita

  27. Glorious Exploits by Ferdia Lennon

  28. Good Dirt by Charmaine Wilkerson

  29. Heart Lamp by Banu Mushtaq

  30. Heart, Be at Peace by Donal Ryan

  31. Holy City by Henry Wise

  32. How Sweet the Sound by Kwame Alexander

  33. How the Word Is Passed (Adapted for Young Readers) by Clint Smith and Sonja Cherry-Paul

  34. How To Be Well: Navigating Our Self-Care Epidemic, One Dubious Cure at a Time by Amy Larocca

  35. Hurricane by Jason Chin

  36. I Am the Swarm by Hayley Chewins

  37. I Deliver Parcels in Beijing by Hu Anyan

  38. I Gave You Eyes and You Looked Toward Darkness by Irene Solà

  39. I'll Tell You When I'm Home by Hala Alyan

  40. Indignity: A Life Reimagined by Lea Ypi

  41. Languages of Home by John Edgar Wideman

  42. Legendary Frybread Drive-In: Intertribal Stories by Cynthia Leitich Smith

  43. Little Bosses Everywhere: How the Pyramid Scheme Shaped America by Bridget Read

  44. Lone Wolf: Walking the Faultlines of Europe by Adam Weymouth

  45. Looking at Women, Looking at War by Victoria Amelina

  46. Loudmouth: Emma Goldman vs. America (A Love Story) by Deborah Heiligman

  47. Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar

  48. Max in the Land of Lies: A Tale of World War II by Adam Gidwitz

  49. Moonstorm by Yoon Ha Lee

  50. Mother Emanuel: Two Centuries of Race, Resistance, and Forgiveness in One Charleston Church by Kevin Sack

  51. Night Light by Michael Emberley

  52. Night People by Mark Ronson

  53. Original Sin by Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson

  54. Playworld: A Novel by Adam Ross

  55. Pocket Bear by Katherine Applegate

  56. Popo the Xolo by Paloma Angelina Lopez

  57. Promise Me Sunshine by Cara Bastone

  58. Rosarita by Anita Desai

  59. Safe Crossing by Kari Percival

  60. Saltcrop by Yume Kitasei

  61. Seascraper by Benjamin Wood

  62. Sheine Lende by Darcie Little Badger

  63. So Far Gone by Jess Walter

  64. Stag Dance by Torrey Peters

  65. Startlement by Ada Limón

  66. Strange Pictures by Uketsu

  67. The Age of Diagnosis: Sickness, Health and Why Medicine Has Gone Too Far by Suzanne O’Sullivan

  68. The Autobiography of H. Lan Thao Lam by Lana Lin

  69. The Beast in the Clouds by Nathalia Holt

  70. The CIA Book Club by Charlie English

  71. The City Changes Its Face by Eimear McBride

  72. The Colony by Annika Norlin

  73. The Doorman by Chris Pavone

  74. The Eleventh Hour by Salman Rushdie

  75. The God of the Woods by Liz Moore

  76. The Good Liar by Denise Mina

  77. The Harder I Fight the More I Love You: A Memoir by Neko Case

  78. The Impossible Fortune by Richard Osman

  79. The Incredibly Human Henson Blayze by Derrick Barnes

  80. The Ink Witch by Steph Cherrywell

  81. The Interpreter by Olivia Abtahi

  82. The Lack of Light by Nino Haratischwili

  83. The Last Supper by Paul Elie

  84. The Listeners by Maggie Stiefvater

  85. The Midwatch Institute for Wayward Girls by Judith Rossell

  86. The Mission by Tim Weiner

  87. The New Economy by Gabrielle Calvocoressi

  88. The Once and Future Riot by Joe Sacco

  89. The Poisoned King by Katherine Rundell

  90. The Possession of Alba Díaz by Isabel Cañas

  91. The Practice, the Horizon, and the Chain by Sofia Samatar

  92. The Rest of Our Lives by Ben Markovits

  93. The Revolutionists: The Story of the Extremists Who Hijacked the 1970s by Jason Burke

  94. The Rose Field by Philip Pullman

  95. The Scammer by Tiffany D. Jackson

  96. The Tainted Cup by Robert Jackson Bennett

  97. The Teacher of Nomad Land: A World War II Story by Daniel Nayeri

  98. The Ten Year Affair by Erin Somers

  99. The Trouble With Heroes by Kate Messner

  100. The Uncool: A Memoir by Cameron Crowe

  101. The Unlikely Aventuras of Ramón and El Cucuy by Donna Barba Higuera

  102. The Wax Child by Olga Ravn

  103. The White Hot by Quiara Alegría Hudes

  104. The Zorg by Siddharth Kara

  105. There Is a Rio Grande in Heaven by Ruben Reyes Jr.

  106. To See An Owl by Matthew Cordell

  107. To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause: The Many Lives of the Soviet Dissident Movement by Benjamin Nathans

  108. Toni at Random by Dana A. Williams

  109. Troublemaker: The Fierce, Unruly Life of Jessica Mitford by Carla Kaplan

  110. Under the Same Stars by Libba Bray

  111. Water Mirror Echo: Bruce Lee and the Making of Asian America by Jeff Chang

  112. We Are Green and Trembling by Gabriela Cabezón Cámara

  113. We Love You, Bunny by Mona Awad

  114. We Pretty Pieces of Flesh by Colwill Brown

  115. We Survived the Night by Julian Brave NoiseCat

  116. Whale Eyes: A Memoir About Seeing and Being Seen by James Robinson

  117. When the Wolf Comes Home by Nat Cassidy

  118. Xolo by Donna Barba Higuera

  119. You Know What You Did by K.T. Nguyen

  120. Your Steps on the Stairs by Antonio Muñoz Molina

3 sources

  1. (S)Kin by Ibi Zoboi

  2. 107 Days by Kamala Harris

  3. A Drop of Corruption by Robert Jackson Bennett

  4. A Family Matter by Claire Lynch

  5. A Most Perilous World: The True Story of the Young Abolitionists and Their Crusade Against Slavery by Kristina R. Gaddy

  6. A Sea of Lemon Trees: The Corrido of Roberto Alvarez by María Dolores Águila

  7. A Sorceress Comes to Call by T. Kingfisher

  8. A Sunny Place for Shady People by Mariana Enriquez

  9. A Tropical Rebel Gets the Duke by Adriana Herrera

  10. A Very Woodsy Murder by Ellen Byron

  11. A Witch's Guide to Magical Innkeeping by Sangu Mandanna

  12. A World Without Summer: A Volcano Erupts, A Creature Awakens, and the Sun Goes Out by Nicholas Day

  13. Abingdon's Boardinghouse Murder by Greg Lilly

  14. Actress of a Certain Age: My Twenty-Year Trail to Overnight Success by Jeff Hiller

  15. Alien Clay by Adrian Tchaikovsky

  16. All the Way to the River by Elizabeth Gilbert

  17. Amina Banana and the Formula for Friendship by Shifa Saltagi Safadi

  18. An Immense World: How Animals Sense Earth's Amazing Secrets by Ed Yong

  19. And the River Drags Her Down by Jihyun Yun

  20. Anything by Rebecca Stead

  21. Archipelago of the Sun by Yoko Tawada

  22. Archive of Unknown Universes by Ruben Reyes Jr.

  23. Art Work: On the Creative Life by Sally Mann

  24. Aunt Tigress by Emily Yu-Xuan Qin

  25. Bad Company: Private Equity and the Death of the American Dream by Megan Greenwell

  26. Benny on the Case by Wesley King

  27. Black Genius: Essays on An American Legacy by Tre Johnson

  28. Blessings and Disasters by Alexis Okeowo

  29. Born in Flames: The Business of Arson and the Remaking of the American City by Bench Ansfield

  30. Breakneck by Dan Wang

  31. Breath of the Dragon by Shannon Lee

  32. Brianna Banana, Helper of the Day by Lana Button

  33. Bug Hollow by Michelle Huneven

  34. Bury Your Gays by Chuck Tingle

  35. By the Fire We Carry: The Generations-Long Fight for Justice on Native Land by Rebecca Nagle

  36. Changeover by Giri Nathan

  37. Chaotic Good by Isabelle Baafi

  38. Chokepoints: American Power in the Age of Economic Warfare by Edward Fishman

  39. Clearing the Air by Hannah Ritchie

  40. Coffin Moon by Keith Rosson

  41. Colored Television by Danzy Senna

  42. Compound Fracture by Andrew Joseph White

  43. Crooks: A Novel About Crime and Family by Lou Berney

  44. Death Takes Me by Cristina Rivera Garza

  45. Defanged by H. E. Edgmon

  46. Desi Arnaz: The Man Who Invented Television by Todd S. Purdum

  47. Detective Aunty by Uzma Jalaluddin

  48. Dissolution by Nicholas Binge

  49. Dominion: A Novel by Addie E. Citchens

  50. Dream On by Shannon Hale and Marcela Cespedes

  51. Embers of the Hands: Hidden Histories of the Viking Age by Eleanor Barraclough

  52. Emily Wilde's Compendium of Lost Tales by Heather Fawcett

  53. Enshittification by Cory Doctorow

  54. Every One Still Here by Liadan Ní Chuinn

  55. Everything Is Poison by Joy McCullough

  56. Fair Play by Louise Hegarty

  57. Female Fantasy by Iman Hariri-Kia

  58. Fire Exit by Morgan Talty

  59. Firefly Song by Colleen Paeff

  60. Fly, Wild Swans: My Mother, Myself and China by Jung Chang

  61. Fonseca by Jessica Francis Kane

  62. Gaysians by Mike Curato

  63. Get In by Patrick Maguire and Gabriel Pogrund

  64. Gilded Rage: Elon Musk and the Radicalization of Silicon Valley by Jacob Silverman

  65. Ginseng Roots: A Memoir by Craig Thompson

  66. God and Sex by Jon Raymond

  67. Goddess Complex by Sanjena Sathian

  68. Good Girl by Aria Aber

  69. Graciela in the Abyss by Meg Medina

  70. Greyhound by Joanna Pocock

  71. Hall of Mirrors by John Copenhaver

  72. Hazelthorn by C.G. Drews

  73. Hello Sunshine by Keezy Young

  74. Highway 13 by Fiona McFarlane

  75. Honeysuckle and Bone by Trisha Tobias

  76. Hostage by Eli Sharabi

  77. House of Day, House of Night by Olga Tokarczuk

  78. Hunger’s Bite by Taylor Robin

  79. Hunted by Abir Mukherjee

  80. Hunter by Shuang Xuetao

  81. I, Medusa by Ayana Gray

  82. If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies: Why Superhuman AI Would Kill Us All by Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nate Soares

  83. In Covid's Wake by Stephen Macedo and Frances Lee

  84. Insectopolis by Peter Kuper

  85. It's All or Nothing, Vale by Andrea Beatriz Arango

  86. Jane Austen's Bookshelf by Rebecca Romney

  87. Jesus Wept: Seven Popes and the Battle for the Soul of the Catholic Church by Philip Shenon

  88. Junius Leak and the Spiraling Vortex of Doom by Allan Wolf

  89. Ladies in Hating by Alexandra Vasti

  90. Liquid by Mariam Rahmani

  91. Listen by Sacha Bronwasser

  92. Lode by Gillian Allnutt

  93. Long Distance by Ayşegül Savaş

  94. Love, Queenie: Merle Oberon, Hollywood's First South Asian Star by Mayukh Sen

  95. Lower than the Angels by Diarmaid MacCulloch

  96. Maggie; Or, a Man and a Woman Walk Into a Bar by Katie Yee

  97. Marble Hall Murders by Anthony Horowitz

  98. Medicine River: A Story of Survival and the Legacy of Indian Boarding Schools by Mary Annette Pember

  99. Melting Point: Family, Memory, and the Search for a Promised Land by Rachel Cockerell

  100. Mercy by Joan Silber

  101. Mona's Eyes by Thomas Schlesser

  102. Moon Song by Michaela Goade

  103. Music as Medicine by Daniel Levitin

  104. My Daddy Is a Cowboy by Stephanie Seales and C.G. Esperanza

  105. Mỹ Documents by Kevin Nguyen

  106. My Presentation Today Is About the Anaconda by Bibi Dumon Tak and Annemarie van Haeringen

  107. Native Nations: A Millennium in North America by Kathleen DuVal

  108. Needy Little Things by Channelle Desamours

  109. Nesting by Roisín O'Donnell

  110. New and Collected Hell by Shane McCrae

  111. Night Watch by Kevin Young

  112. Nightsong by Sally Soweol Han

  113. Nothing More of This Land by Joseph Lee

  114. Nova Scotia House by Charlie Porter

  115. On Edge: Gender and Genre in the Work of Shirley Jackson, Patricia Highsmith, and Leigh Brackett by Ashley Lawson

  116. Once Upon a Time in Dollywood by Ashley Jordan

  117. One Crazy Summer: The Graphic Novel by Rita Williams-Garcia and Sharee Miller

  118. Other Worlds by André Alexis

  119. Our Brains, Our Selves by Masud Husain

  120. Papilio by Ben Clanton, Corey R. Tabor and Andrew Chou Musser

  121. Plantation Goods: A Material History of American Slavery by Seth Rockman

  122. Play Nice by Rachel Harrison

  123. Psychopomp & Circumstance by Eden Royce

  124. Queen Mother: Black Nationalism, Reparations, and the Untold Story of Audley Moore by Ashley D. Farmer

  125. Recipes from the American South by Michael W. Twitty

  126. Run Away with Me by Brian Selznick

  127. Sad Tiger by Neige Sinno

  128. Saint of the Narrows Street by William Boyle

  129. Salt Bones by Jennifer Givhan

  130. Say You'll Remember Me by Abby Jimenez

  131. Scattered Snows, to the North by Carl Phillips

  132. Seeds of Discovery: How Barbara McClintock Used Corn and Curiosity to Solve A Science Mystery and Win A Nobel Prize by Lori Alexander

  133. Served Cold by James L’Etoile

  134. Service Model by Adrian Tchaikovsky

  135. Shattered by Hanif Kureishi

  136. Show Don’t Tell by Curtis Sittenfeld

  137. Silver Elite by Dani Francis

  138. Sister, Sinner: The Miraculous Life and Mysterious Disappearance of Aimee Semple McPherson by Claire Hoffman

  139. Skipshock by Caroline O'Donoghue

  140. Sky Daddy by Kate Folk

  141. Smoke & Mirrors by Rosalyn Ransaw

  142. Somadina by Akwaeke Emezi

  143. Some Bright Nowhere by Ann Packer

  144. Some of My Best Friends Are Murderers: Critiquing the Columbo Killers by Chris Chan

  145. Some of Us: A Story of Citizenship and the United States by Rajani LaRocca

  146. Somebody Is Walking on Your Grave by Mariana Enriquez

  147. Someone You Can Build a Nest In by John Wiswell

  148. Son of the Morning by Akwaeke Emezi

  149. Songs for Ghosts by Clara Kumagai

  150. Storyteller by Leo Damrosch

  151. Summer of Fire and Blood: The German Peasants' War by Lyndal Roper

  152. Sweet Heat by Bolu Babalola

  153. Taking Manhattan by Russell Shorto

  154. The Age of Choice: A History of Freedom in Modern Life by Sophia Rosenfeld

  155. The Artist and the Feast by Lucy Steeds

  156. The Aviator and the Showman by Laurie Gwen Shapiro

  157. The Benefactors by Wendy Erskine

  158. The Black Wolf by Louise Penny

  159. The Book of Guilt by Catherine Chidgey

  160. The Book of Jonah by Luke Kennard

  161. The Boundless Deep: Young Tennyson, Science and the Crisis of Belief by Richard Holmes

  162. The Butcher of the Forest by Premee Mohamed

  163. The Cartoonists Club by Raina Telgemeier and Scott McCloud

  164. The Country Under Heaven by Frederic S. Durbin

  165. The Dark Maestro by Brendan Slocumb

  166. The Dentist by Tim Sullivan

  167. The Devils by Joe Abercrombie

  168. The Doomsday Detectives: How Walter and Luis Alvarez Solved the Mystery of Dinosaur Extinction by Cindy Jenson-Elliott

  169. The Dry Season by Melissa Febos

  170. The Everlasting by Alix E. Harrow

  171. The Expansion Project by Ben Pester

  172. The Feast Makers by H. A. Clarke

  173. The Forbidden Garden of Leningrad by Simon Parkin

  174. The Fox Wife by Yangsze Choo

  175. The Gales of November by John U. Bacon

  176. The Ghostwriter by Julie Clark

  177. The Gods of New York by Jonathan Mahler

  178. The Gossip Columnist’s Daughter by Peter Orner

  179. The History of Money: A Story of Humanity by David McWilliams

  180. The History of Sound by Ben Shattuck

  181. The House Saphir by Marissa Meyer

  182. The House That Floated by Guojing

  183. The Imagined Life by Andrew Porter

  184. The Impossible Thing by Belinda Bauer

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