The Mothers by Brit Bennett. (Photo: Archive)
The Trespasser by Tana French. (Photo: Archive)
Barbarian Days by William Finnegan. (Photo: Archive)
How to Be a Person in the World: Ask Polly’s Guide Through the Paradoxes of Modern Life by Heather Havrilesky. (Photo: Archive)
Intimations: Stories by Alexandra Kleeman. (Photo: Archive)
Eligible: A Modern Retelling of Pride and Prejudice by Curtis Sittenfeld. (Photo: Archive)
Mr. Splitfoot by Samantha Hunt. (Photo: Archive)
When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi. (Photo: Archive)
The Sellout: A Novel by Paul Beatty. (Photo: Archive)
13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl by Mona Awad. (Photo: Archive)
Innocents and Others by Dana Spiotta. (Photo: Archive)
Known and Strange Things by Teju Cole. (Photo: Archive)
Lab Girl by Hope Jahren. (Photo: Archive)
You Will Not Have My Hate by Antoine Leiris. (Photo: Archive)
Small Great Things by Jodi Picoult. (Photo: Archive)
You’ll Grow Out of It by Jessi Klein. (Photo: Archive)
Do Not Say We Have Nothing by Madeleine Thien. (Photo: Archive)
Who Cooked Adam Smith’s Dinner?: A Story of Women and Economics by Katrine Marcal. (Photo: Archive)
The Vegetarian by Han Kang. (Photo: Archive)
Raymie Nightingale by Kate DiCamillo. (Photo: Archive)
Moonglow by Michael Chabon. (Photo: Archive)
Power Your Happy: Word Hard, Play Nice & Build Your Dream Life by Lisa Sugar. (Photo: Archive)
The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone by Olivia Laing. (Photo: Archive)
The Sun Is Also a Star by Nicola Yoon. (Photo: Archive)
Land of Enchantment by Leigh Stein. (Photo: Archive)
Imagine Me Gone by Adam Haslett. (Photo: Archive)
Commonwealth by Ann Patchett. (Photo: Archive)
My Name Is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout. (Photo: Archive)
Another Brooklyn by Jacqueline Woodson. (Photo: Archive)
What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours by Helen Oyeyemi. (Photo: Archive)
Sons and Daughters of Ease and Plenty by Ramona Ausubel. (Photo: Archive)
Every Song Ever: Twenty Ways to Listen in an Age of Musical Plenty by Ben Ratliff. (Photo: Archive)
The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead. (Photo: Archive)
Shrill: Notes From a Loud Woman by Lindy West. (Photo: Archive)
Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi. (Photo: Archive)
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