“What are the Best Books of 2018?” We aggregated 80 year-end lists and ranked the 1327 unique titles by how many times they appeared in an attempt to answer that very question!
There are thousands of year-end lists released every year and like we do in our weekly Best Book articles, we wanted to see which books appear the most. The top 51 books, all of which appeared on 5 or more “Best 2018” book lists, are ranked below with images, summaries, and links for more information or to purchase. The remaining 1200+ books, as well as the top book lists are at the bottom of the page.
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In 1927, Zora Neale Hurston went to Plateau, Alabama, just outside Mobile, to interview eighty-six-year-old Cudjo Lewis. Of the millions of men, women, and children transported from Africa to America as slaves, Cudjo was then the only person alive to tell the story of this integral part of the nation’s history. Hurston was there to record Cudjo’s firsthand account of the raid that led to his capture and bondage fifty years after the Atlantic slave trade was outlawed in the United States. In 1931, Hurston returned to Plateau, the African-centric community three miles from Mobile founded by Cudjo and other former slaves from his ship. Spending more than three months there, she talked in depth with Cudjo about the details of his life. During those weeks, the young writer and the elderly formerly enslaved man ate peaches and watermelon that grew in the backyard and talked about Cudjo’s past–memories from his childhood in Africa, the horrors of being captured and held in a barracoon for selection by American slavers, the harrowing experience of the Middle Passage packed with more than 100 other souls aboard the Clotilda, and the years he spent in slavery until the end of the Civil War. Based on those interviews, featuring Cudjo’s unique vernacular, and written from Hurston’s perspective with the compassion and singular style that have made her one of the preeminent American authors of the twentieth-century, Barracoon masterfully illustrates the tragedy of slavery and of one life forever defined by it. Offering insight into the pernicious legacy that continues to haunt us all, black and white, this poignant and powerful work is an invaluable contribution to our shared history and culture.
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The follow-up to Pinker’s groundbreaking The Better Angels of Our Nature presents the big picture of human progress: people are living longer, healthier, freer, and happier lives, and while our problems are formidable, the solutions lie in the Enlightenment ideal of using reason and science. Is the world really falling apart? Is the ideal of progress obsolete? In this elegant assessment of the human condition in the third millennium, cognitive scientist and public intellectual Steven Pinker urges us to step back from the gory headlines and prophecies of doom, which play to our psychological biases. Instead, follow the data: In seventy-five jaw-dropping graphs, Pinker shows that life, health, prosperity, safety, peace, knowledge, and happiness are on the rise, not just in the West, but worldwide. This progress is not the result of some cosmic force. It is a gift of the Enlightenment: the conviction that reason and science can enhance human flourishing. Far from being a naïve hope, the Enlightenment, we now know, has worked. But more than ever, it needs a vigorous defense. The Enlightenment project swims against currents of human nature–tribalism, authoritarianism, demonization, magical thinking–which demagogues are all too willing to exploit. Many commentators, committed to political, religious, or romantic ideologies, fight a rearguard action against it. The result is a corrosive fatalism and a willingness to wreck the precious institutions of liberal democracy and global cooperation. With intellectual depth and literary flair, Enlightenment Now makes the case for reason, science, and humanism: the ideals we need to confront our problems and continue our progress.
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In the stories of Adjei-Brenyah’s debut, an amusement park lets players enter augmented reality to hunt terrorists or shoot intruders played by minority actors, a school shooting results in both the victim and gunman stuck in a shared purgatory, and an author sells his soul to a many-tongued god. Adjei-Brenyah’s writing will grab you, haunt you, enrage, and invigorate you. By placing ordinary characters in extraordinary situations, Adjei-Brenyah reveals the violence, injustice, and painful absurdities that black men and women contend with every day. These stories tackle urgent instances of racism and cultural unrest and explore the many ways we fight for humanity in an unforgiving world.
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A searing, electrifying debut novel set in India and America, about a once-in-a-lifetime friendship between two girls who are driven apart but never stop trying to find one another again. When Poornima first meets Savitha, she feels something she thought she lost for good when her mother died: hope. Poornima’s father hires Savitha to work one of their sari looms, and the two girls are quickly drawn to one another. Savitha is even more impoverished than Poornima, but she is full of passion and energy. She shows Poornima how to find beauty in a bolt of indigo cloth, a bowl of yogurt rice and bananas, the warmth of friendship. Suddenly their Indian village doesn’t feel quite so claustrophobic, and Poornima begins to imagine a life beyond the arranged marriage her father is desperate to lock down for her. But when a devastating act of cruelty drives Savitha away, Poornima leaves behind everything she has ever known to find her friend again. Her journey takes her into the darkest corners of India’s underworld, on a harrowing cross-continental journey, and eventually to an apartment complex in Seattle. Alternating between the girls’ perspectives as they face relentless obstacles, Girls Burn Brighter introduces two heroines who never lose the hope that burns within them. In breathtaking prose, Shobha Rao tackles the most urgent issues facing women today: domestic abuse, human trafficking, immigration, and feminism. At once a propulsive page-turner and a heart-wrenching meditation on friendship, Rao’s debut novel is a literary tour de force.
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From the author of The Queen of the Night, an essay collection exploring his education as a man, writer, and activist—and how we form our identities in life and in art. As a novelist, Alexander Chee has been described as “masterful” by Roxane Gay, “incendiary” by the New York Times, and “brilliant” by the Washington Post. With How to Write an Autobiographical Novel, his first collection of nonfiction, he’s sure to secure his place as one of the finest essayists of his generation as well. How to Write an Autobiographical Novel is the author’s manifesto on the entangling of life, literature, and politics, and how the lessons learned from a life spent reading and writing fiction have changed him. In these essays, he grows from student to teacher, reader to writer, and reckons with his identities as a son, a gay man, a Korean American, an artist, an activist, a lover, and a friend. He examines some of the most formative experiences of his life and the nation’s history, including his father’s death, the AIDS crisis, 9/11, the jobs that supported his writing—Tarot-reading, bookselling, cater-waiting for William F. Buckley—the writing of his first novel, Edinburgh, and the election of Donald Trump. By turns commanding, heartbreaking, and wry, How to Write an Autobiographical Novel asks questions about how we create ourselves in life and in art, and how to fight when our dearest truths are under attack.
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Satire meets slasher in this short, darkly funny hand grenade of a novel about a Nigerian woman whose younger sister has a very inconvenient habit of killing her boyfriends. “Femi makes three, you know. Three and they label you a serial killer.” Korede is bitter. How could she not be? Her sister, Ayoola, is many things: the favorite child, the beautiful one, possibly sociopathic. And now Ayoola’s third boyfriend in a row is dead. Korede’s practicality is the sisters’ saving grace. She knows the best solutions for cleaning blood, the trunk of her car is big enough for a body, and she keeps Ayoola from posting pictures of her dinner to Instagram when she should be mourning her “missing” boyfriend. Not that she gets any credit. A kind, handsome doctor at the hospital where Korede works, is the bright spot in her life. She dreams of the day when he will realize they’re perfect for each other. But one day Ayoola shows up to the hospital uninvited and he takes notice. When he asks Korede for Ayoola’s phone number, she must reckon with what her sister has become and what she will do about it. Sharp as nails and full of deadpan wit, Oyinkan Braithwaite has written a deliciously deadly debut that’s as fun as it is frightening.
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In this breakout book, Ijeoma Oluo explores the complex reality of today’s racial landscape–from white privilege and police brutality to systemic discrimination and the Black Lives Matter movement–offering straightforward clarity that readers need to contribute to the dismantling of the racial divide In So You Want to Talk About Race, Editor at Large of The Establishment Ijeoma Oluo offers a contemporary, accessible take on the racial landscape in America, addressing head-on such issues as privilege, police brutality, intersectionality, micro-aggressions, the Black Lives Matter movement, and the “N” word. Perfectly positioned to bridge the gap between people of color and white Americans struggling with race complexities, Oluo answers the questions readers don’t dare ask, and explains the concepts that continue to elude everyday Americans. Oluo is an exceptional writer with a rare ability to be straightforward, funny, and effective in her coverage of sensitive, hyper-charged issues in America. Her messages are passionate but finely tuned, and crystalize ideas that would otherwise be vague by empowering them with aha-moment clarity. Her writing brings to mind voices like Ta-Nehisi Coates and Roxane Gay, and Jessica Valenti in Full Frontal Feminism, and a young Gloria Naylor, particularly in Naylor’s seminal essay “The Meaning of a Word.”
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A young girl in Harlem discovers slam poetry as a way to understand her mother’s religion and her own relationship to the world. Debut novel of renowned slam poet Elizabeth Acevedo. Xiomara Batista feels unheard and unable to hide in her Harlem neighborhood. Ever since her body grew into curves, she has learned to let her fists and her fierceness do the talking. But Xiomara has plenty she wants to say, and she pours all her frustration and passion onto the pages of a leather notebook, reciting the words to herself like prayers—especially after she catches feelings for a boy in her bio class named Aman, who her family can never know about. With Mami’s determination to force her daughter to obey the laws of the church, Xiomara understands that her thoughts are best kept to herself. So when she is invited to join her school’s slam poetry club, she doesn’t know how she could ever attend without her mami finding out, much less speak her words out loud. But still, she can’t stop thinking about performing her poems. Because in the face of a world that may not want to hear her, Xiomara refuses to be silent.
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By the New York Times bestselling author of The Empathy Exams, an exploration of addiction, and the stories we tell about it, that reinvents the traditional recovery memoir. With its deeply personal and seamless blend of memoir, cultural history, literary criticism, and journalistic reportage, The Recovering turns our understanding of the traditional addiction narrative on its head, demonstrating that the story of recovery can be every bit as electrifying as the train wreck itself. Leslie Jamison deftly excavates the stories we tell about addiction–both her own and others’–and examines what we want these stories to do, and what happens when they fail us. All the while, she offers a fascinating look at the larger history of the recovery movement, and at the literary and artistic geniuses whose lives and works were shaped by alcoholism and substance dependence, including John Berryman, Jean Rhys, Raymond Carver, Billie Holiday, David Foster Wallace, and Denis Johnson, as well as brilliant figures lost to obscurity but newly illuminated here. For the power of her striking language and the sharpness of her piercing observations, Jamison has been compared to such iconic writers as Joan Didion and Susan Sontag. Yet her utterly singular voice also offers something new. With enormous empathy and wisdom, Jamison has given us nothing less than the story of addiction and recovery in America writ large, a definitive and revelatory account that will resonate for years to come.
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A Place for Us unfolds the lives of an Indian-American Muslim family, gathered together in their Californian hometown to celebrate the eldest daughter, Hadia’s, wedding – a match of love rather than tradition. It is here, on this momentous day, that Amar, the youngest of the siblings, reunites with his family for the first time in three years. Rafiq and Layla must now contend with the choices and betrayals that lead to their son’s estrangement – the reckoning of parents who strove to pass on their cultures and traditions to their children; and of children who in turn struggle to balance authenticity in themselves with loyalty to the home they came from. In a narrative that spans decades and sees family life through the eyes of each member, A Place For Us charts the crucial moments in the family’s past, from the bonds that bring them together to the differences that pull them apart. And as siblings Hadia, Huda, and Amar attempt to carve out a life for themselves, they must reconcile their present culture with their parent’s faith, to tread a path between the old world and the new, and learn how the smallest decisions can lead to the deepest of betrayals. A deeply affecting and resonant story, A Place for Us is truly a book for our times: a moving portrait of what it means to be an American family today, a novel of love, identity and belonging that eloquently examines what it means to be both American and Muslim — and announces Fatima Farheen Mirza as a major new literary talent.
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36 Hours The definitive, dramatic biography of the most important African-American of the nineteenth century: Frederick Douglass, the escaped slave who became the greatest orator of his day and one of the leading abolitionists and writers of the era. As a young man, Frederick Douglass (1818-1895) escaped from slavery in Baltimore, Maryland. He was fortunate to have been taught to read by his slave owner mistress, and he would go on to become one of the major literary figures of his time. He wrote three versions of his autobiography over the course of his lifetime and published his own newspaper. His very existence gave the lie to slave owners: with dignity and great intelligence he bore witness to the brutality of slavery. Initially mentored by William Lloyd Garrison, Douglass spoke widely, often to large crowds, using his own story to condemn slavery. He broke with Garrison to become a political abolitionist, a Republican, and eventually a Lincoln supporter. By the Civil War and during Reconstruction, Douglass became the most famed and widely traveled orator in the nation. He denounced the premature end of Reconstruction and the emerging Jim Crow era. In his unique and eloquent voice, written and spoken, Douglass was a fierce critic of the United States as well as a radical patriot. He sometimes argued politically with younger African-Americans, but he never forsook either the Republican party or the cause of black civil and political rights. In this remarkable biography, David Blight has drawn on new information held in a private collection that few other historian have consulted, as well as recently discovered issues of Douglass’ newspapers. Blight tells the fascinating story of Douglass’s two marriages and his complex extended family. Douglass was not only an astonishing man of words, but a thinker steeped in Biblical story and theology. There has not been a major biography of Douglass in a quarter century. David Blight’s Frederick Douglass affords this important American the distinguished biography he deserves.
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An extraordinary debut novel, Freshwater explores the surreal experience of having a fractured self. It centers around a young Nigerian woman, Ada, who develops separate selves within her as a result of being born “with one foot on the other side.” Unsettling, heartwrenching, dark, and powerful, Freshwater is a sharp evocation of a rare way of experiencing the world, one that illuminates how we all construct our identities. Ada begins her life in the south of Nigeria as a troubled baby and a source of deep concern to her family. Her parents, Saul and Saachi, successfully prayed her into existence, but as she grows into a volatile and splintered child, it becomes clear that something went terribly awry. When Ada comes of age and moves to America for college, the group of selves within her grows in power and agency. A traumatic assault leads to a crystallization of her alternate selves: Asụghara and Saint Vincent. As Ada fades into the background of her own mind and these selves–now protective, now hedonistic–move into control, Ada’s life spirals in a dark and dangerous direction. Narrated by the various selves within Ada and based in the author’s realities, Freshwater dazzles with ferocious energy and serpentine grace, heralding the arrival of a fierce new literary voice.
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In this powerful and provocative memoir, genre-bending essayist and novelist Kiese Laymon explores what the weight of a lifetime of secrets, lies, and deception does to a black body, a black family, and a nation teetering on the brink of moral collapse. Kiese Laymon is a fearless writer. In his essays, personal stories combine with piercing intellect to reflect both on the state of American society and on his experiences with abuse, which conjure conflicted feelings of shame, joy, confusion and humiliation. Laymon invites us to consider the consequences of growing up in a nation wholly obsessed with progress yet wholly disinterested in the messy work of reckoning with where we’ve been. In Heavy, Laymon writes eloquently and honestly about growing up a hard-headed black son to a complicated and brilliant black mother in Jackson, Mississippi. From his early experiences of sexual violence, to his suspension from college, to his trek to New York as a young college professor, Laymon charts his complex relationship with his mother, grandmother, anorexia, obesity, sex, writing, and ultimately gambling. By attempting to name secrets and lies he and his mother spent a lifetime avoiding, Laymon asks himself, his mother, his nation, and us to confront the terrifying possibility that few in this nation actually know how to responsibly love, and even fewer want to live under the weight of actually becoming free. A personal narrative that illuminates national failures, Heavy is defiant yet vulnerable, an insightful, often comical exploration of weight, identity, art, friendship, and family that begins with a confusing childhood—and continues through twenty-five years of haunting implosions and long reverberations.
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Rachel Cusk, the award-winning and critically acclaimed author of Outline and Transit, completes the transcendent literary trilogy with Kudos, a novel of unsettling power. A woman writer visits a Europe in flux, where questions of personal and political identity are rising to the surface and the trauma of change is opening up new possibilities of loss and renewal. Within the rituals of literary culture, Faye finds the human story in disarray amid differing attitudes toward the public performance of the creative persona. She begins to identify among the people she meets a tension between truth and representation, a fissure that accrues great dramatic force as Kudos reaches a profound and beautiful climax. In this conclusion to her groundbreaking trilogy, Cusk unflinchingly explores the nature of family and art, justice and love, and the ultimate value of suffering. She is without question one of our most important living writers.
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“I seen a kid killed…He strangled it, up by the horse.” When Billy, a troubled young man, comes to private eye Cormoran Strike’s office to ask for his help investigating a crime he thinks he witnessed as a child, Strike is left deeply unsettled. While Billy is obviously mentally distressed, and cannot remember many concrete details, there is something sincere about him and his story. But before Strike can question him further, Billy bolts from his office in a panic. Trying to get to the bottom of Billy’s story, Strike and Robin Ellacott—once his assistant, now a partner in the agency—set off on a twisting trail that leads them through the backstreets of London, into a secretive inner sanctum within Parliament, and to a beautiful but sinister manor house deep in the countryside. And during this labyrinthine investigation, Strike’s own life is far from straightforward: his newfound fame as a private eye means he can no longer operate behind the scenes as he once did. Plus, his relationship with his former assistant is more fraught than it ever has been—Robin is now invaluable to Strike in the business, but their personal relationship is much, much trickier than that.
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Connell and Marianne both grow up in the same town in rural Ireland. The similarities end there; they are from very different worlds. But they both get places to study at university in Dublin, and a connection that has grown between them despite the social tangle of school lasts long into the following years. Sally Rooney’s second novel is a deeply political novel, just as it’s also a novel about love. It’s about how difficult it is to speak to what you feel and how difficult it is to change. It’s wry and seductive; perceptive and bold. It will make you cry and you will know yourself through it.
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A transformative book urging twenty-first century-women to embrace their anger and harness it as a tool for lasting personal and societal change. Women are angry, and it isn’t hard to figure out why. We are underpaid and overworked. Too sensitive, or not sensitive enough. Too dowdy or too made-up. Too big or too thin. Sluts or prudes. We are harassed, told we are asking for it, and asked if it would kill us to smile. Yes, yes it would. Contrary to the rhetoric of popular “self-help” and an entire lifetime of being told otherwise, our rage is one of the most important resources we have, our sharpest tool against both personal and political oppression. We’ve been told for so long to bottle up our anger, letting it corrode our bodies and minds in ways we don’t even realize. Yet our anger is a vital instrument, our radar for injustice and a catalyst for change. On the flip side, the societal and cultural belittlement of our anger is a cunning way of limiting and controlling our power. We are so often told to resist our rage or punished for justifiably expressing it, yet how many remarkable achievements in this world would never have gotten off the ground without the kernel of anger that fueled them? Rage Becomes Her makes the case that anger is not what gets in our way, it is our way, sparking a new understanding of one of our core emotions that will give women a liberating sense of why their anger matters and connect them to an entire universe of women no longer interested in making nice at all costs. Following in the footsteps of classic feminist manifestos like The Feminine Mystique and Our Bodies, Ourselves, Rage Becomes Her is an eye-opening book for the twenty-first century woman: an engaging, accessible credo offering us the tools to re-understand our anger and harness its power to create lasting positive change.
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When five hyper-successful women agree to appear on a reality series set in New York City called Goal Diggers, the producers never expect the season will end in murder… Brett’s the fan favorite. Tattooed and only twenty-seven, the meteoric success of her spin studio—and her recent engagement to her girlfriend—has made her the object of jealousy and vitriol from her cast mates. Kelly, Brett’s older sister and business partner, is the most recent recruit, dismissed as a hanger-on by veteran cast. The golden child growing up, she defers to Brett now—a role which requires her to protect their shocking secret. Stephanie, the first black cast member and the oldest, is a successful bestselling author of erotic novels. There have long been whispers about her hot, non-working actor-husband and his wandering eye, but this season the focus is on the rift that has opened between her and Brett, former best friends—and resentment soon breeds contempt. Lauren, the start-up world’s darling whose drinking has gotten out of control, is Goal Diggers’ recovery narrative—everyone loves a comeback story. And Jen, made rich and famous through her cultishly popular vegan food line plays a holistic hippie for the cameras, but is perhaps the most ruthless of them all when the cameras are off.
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Greer Kadetsky is a shy college freshman when she meets the woman she hopes will change her life. Faith Frank, dazzlingly persuasive and elegant at sixty-three, has been a central pillar of the women’s movement for decades, a figure who inspires others to influence the world. Upon hearing Faith speak for the first time, Greer–madly in love with her boyfriend, Cory, but still full of longing for an ambition that she can’t quite place–feels her inner world light up. Then, astonishingly, Faith invites Greer to make something out of that sense of purpose, leading Greer down the most exciting path of her life as it winds toward and away from her meant-to-be love story with Cory and the future she’d always imagined.
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What does it mean to lose your roots—within your culture, within your family—and what happens when you find them? Nicole Chung was born severely premature, placed for adoption by her Korean parents, and raised by a white family in a sheltered Oregon town. From early childhood, she heard the story of her adoption as a comforting, prepackaged myth. She believed that her biological parents had made the ultimate sacrifice in the hopes of giving her a better life; that forever feeling slightly out of place was simply her fate as a transracial adoptee. But as she grew up—facing prejudice her adoptive family couldn’t see, finding her identity as an Asian American and a writer, becoming ever more curious about where she came from—she wondered if the story she’d been told was the whole truth. With warmth, candor, and startling insight, Chung tells of her search for the people who gave her up, which coincided with the birth of her own child. All You Can Ever Know is a profound, moving chronicle of surprising connections and the repercussions of unearthing painful family secrets—vital reading for anyone who has ever struggled to figure out where they belong.
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Since she burst spectacularly into view with her debut novel almost two decades ago, Zadie Smith has established herself not just as one of the world’s preeminent fiction writers, but also a brilliant and singular essayist. She contributes regularly to The New Yorker and the New York Review of Books on a range of subjects, and each piece of hers is a literary event in its own right. Arranged into five sections—In the World, In the Audience, In the Gallery, On the Bookshelf, and Feel Free—this new collection poses questions we immediately recognize. What is The Social Network, and Facebook itself, really about? “It’s a cruel portrait of us: 500 million sentient people entrapped in the recent careless thoughts of a Harvard sophomore.” Why do we love libraries? “Well-run libraries are filled with people because what a good library offers cannot be easily found elsewhere: an indoor public space in which you do not have to buy anything in order to stay.” What will we tell our granddaughters about our collective failure to address global warming? “So I might say to her, look: the thing you have to appreciate is that we’d just been through a century of relativism and deconstruction, in which we were informed that most of our fondest-held principles were either uncertain or simple wishful thinking, and in many areas of our lives we had already been asked to accept that nothing is essential and everything changes and this had taken the fight out of us somewhat.” Gathering in one place for the first time previously unpublished work, as well as already classic essays, such as, Joy, and, Find Your Beach, Feel Free offers a survey of important recent events in culture and politics, as well as Smith’s own life. Equally at home in the world of good books and bad politics, Brooklyn-born rappers and the work of Swiss novelists, she is by turns wry, heartfelt, indignant, and incisive and never any less than perfect company. This is literary journalism at its zenith.
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From Rebecca Traister, the New York Times bestselling author of All the Single Ladies comes a vital, incisive exploration into the transformative power of female anger and its ability to transcend into a political movement. In the year 2018, it seems as if women’s anger has suddenly erupted into the public conversation. But long before Pantsuit Nation, before the Women’s March, and before the #MeToo movement, women’s anger was not only politically catalytic—but politically problematic. The story of female fury and its cultural significance demonstrates the long history of bitter resentment that has enshrouded women’s slow rise to political power in America, as well as the ways that anger is received when it comes from women as opposed to when it comes from men. With eloquence and fervor, Rebecca tracks the history of female anger as political fuel—from suffragettes marching on the White House to office workers vacating their buildings after Clarence Thomas was confirmed to the Supreme Court. Here Traister explores women’s anger at both men and other women; anger between ideological allies and foes; the varied ways anger is perceived based on its owner; as well as the history of caricaturing and delegitimizing female anger; and the way women’s collective fury has become transformative political fuel—as is most certainly occurring today. She deconstructs society’s (and the media’s) condemnation of female emotion (notably, rage) and the impact of their resulting repercussions. Highlighting a double standard perpetuated against women by all sexes, and its disastrous, stultifying effect, Traister’s latest is timely and crucial. It offers a glimpse into the galvanizing force of women’s collective anger, which, when harnessed, can change history.
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When LSD was first discovered in the 1940s, it seemed to researchers, scientists and doctors as if the world might be on the cusp of psychological revolution. It promised to shed light on the deep mysteries of consciousness, as well as offer relief to addicts and the mentally ill. But in the 1960s, with the vicious backlash against the counter-culture, all further research was banned. In recent years, however, work has quietly begun again on the amazing potential of LSD, psilocybin and DMT. Could these drugs in fact improve the lives of many people? Diving deep into this extraordinary world and putting himself forward as a guinea-pig, Michael Pollan has written a remarkable history of psychedelics and a compelling portrait of the new generation of scientists fascinated by the implications of these drugs. How to Change Your Mind is a report from what could very well be the future of human consciousness.
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For centuries, the mysterious dark-robed figure has roamed the globe, searching for those whose complicity and cowardice have fed into the rapids of history’s darkest waters—and now, in Sarah Perry’s breathtaking follow-up to The Essex Serpent, it is heading in our direction. It has been years since Helen Franklin left England. In Prague, working as a translator, she has found a home of sorts—or, at least, refuge. That changes when her friend Karel discovers a mysterious letter in the library, a strange confession and a curious warning that speaks of Melmoth the Witness, a dark legend found in obscure fairy tales and antique village lore. As such superstition has it, Melmoth travels through the ages, dooming those she persuades to join her to a damnation of timeless, itinerant solitude. To Helen it all seems the stuff of unenlightened fantasy. But, unaware, as she wanders the cobblestone streets Helen is being watched. And then Karel disappears. . . .
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Born on a farm and named in a field by her parents–artist Chrisann Brennan and Steve Jobs–Lisa Brennan-Jobs’s childhood unfolded in a rapidly changing Silicon Valley. When she was young, Lisa’s father was a mythical figure who was rarely present in her life. As she grew older, her father took an interest in her, ushering her into a new world of mansions, vacations, and private schools. His attention was thrilling, but he could also be cold, critical and unpredictable. When her relationship with her mother grew strained in high school, Lisa decided to move in with her father, hoping he’d become the parent she’d always wanted him to be. Small Fry is Lisa Brennan-Jobs’s poignant story of a childhood spent between two imperfect but extraordinary homes. Scrappy, wise, and funny, young Lisa is an unforgettable guide through her parents’ fascinating and disparate worlds. Part portrait of a complex family, part love letter to California in the seventies and eighties, Small Fry is an enthralling book by an insightful new literary voice.
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A moving story of love, friendship, grief, healing, and the magical bond between a woman and her dog. When a woman unexpectedly loses her lifelong best friend and mentor, she finds herself burdened with the unwanted dog he has left behind. Her own battle against grief is intensified by the mute suffering of the dog, a huge Great Dane traumatized by the inexplicable disappearance of its master, and by the threat of eviction: dogs are prohibited in her apartment building. While others worry that grief has made her a victim of magical thinking, the woman refuses to be separated from the dog except for brief periods of time. Isolated from the rest of the world, increasingly obsessed with the dog’s care, determined to read its mind and fathom its heart, she comes dangerously close to unraveling. But while troubles abound, rich and surprising rewards lie in store for both of them.
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In a narrative as mysterious as memory itself – at once both shadowed and luminous – Warlight is a vivid, thrilling novel of violence and love, intrigue and desire. It is 1945, and London is still reeling from the Blitz and years of war. 14-year-old Nathaniel and his sister, Rachel, are apparently abandoned by their parents, left in the care of an enigmatic figure named The Moth. They suspect he might be a criminal, and grow both more convinced and less concerned as they get to know his eccentric crew of friends: men and women with a shared history, all of whom seem determined now to protect, and educate (in rather unusual ways) Rachel and Nathaniel. But are they really what and who they claim to be? A dozen years later, Nathaniel begins to uncover all he didn’t know or understand in that time, and it is this journey – through reality, recollection, and imagination – that is told in this magnificent novel.
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David Sedaris returns with his most deeply personal and darkly hilarious book. If you’ve ever laughed your way through David Sedaris’s cheerfully misanthropic stories, you might think you know what you’re getting with Calypso. You’d be wrong. When he buys a beach house on the Carolina coast, Sedaris envisions long, relaxing vacations spent playing board games and lounging in the sun with those he loves most. And life at the Sea Section, as he names the vacation home, is exactly as idyllic as he imagined, except for one tiny, vexing realization: it’s impossible to take a vacation from yourself. With Calypso, Sedaris sets his formidable powers of observation toward middle age and mortality. Make no mistake: these stories are very, very funny–it’s a book that can make you laugh ’til you snort, the way only family can. Sedaris’s powers of observation have never been sharper, and his ability to shock readers into laughter unparalleled. But much of the comedy here is born out of that vertiginous moment when your own body betrays you and you realize that the story of your life is made up of more past than future. This is beach reading for people who detest beaches, required reading for those who loathe small talk and love a good tumor joke. Calypso is simultaneously Sedaris’s darkest and warmest book yet–and it just might be his very best.
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An offbeat office novel turns apocalyptic satire as a young woman transforms from orphan to worker bee to survivor Candace Chen, a millennial drone self-sequestered in a Manhattan office tower, is devoted to routine. With the recent passing of her Chinese immigrant parents, she’s had her fill of uncertainty. She’s content just to carry on: She goes to work, troubleshoots the teen-targeted Gemstone Bible, watches movies in a Greenpoint basement with her boyfriend. So Candace barely notices when a plague of biblical proportions sweeps New York. Then Shen Fever spreads. Families flee. Companies halt operations. The subways squeak to a halt. Her bosses enlist her as part of a dwindling skeleton crew with a big end-date payoff. Soon entirely alone, still unfevered, she photographs the eerie, abandoned city as the anonymous blogger NY Ghost. Candace won’t be able to make it on her own forever, though. Enter a group of survivors, led by the power-hungry IT tech Bob. They’re traveling to a place called the Facility, where, Bob promises, they will have everything they need to start society anew. But Candace is carrying a secret she knows Bob will exploit. Should she escape from her rescuers? A send-up and takedown of the rituals, routines, and missed opportunities of contemporary life, Ling Ma’s Severance is a moving family story, a quirky coming-of-adulthood tale, and a hilarious, deadpan satire. Most important, it’s a heartfelt tribute to the connections that drive us to do more than survive.
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On the morning of April 28, 1986, a fire alarm sounded in the Los Angeles Public Library. As the moments passed, the patrons and staff who had been cleared out of the building realized this was not the usual fire alarm. As one fireman recounted, “Once that first stack got going, it was ‘Goodbye, Charlie.’” The fire was disastrous: it reached 2000 degrees and burned for more than seven hours. By the time it was extinguished, it had consumed four hundred thousand books and damaged seven hundred thousand more. Investigators descended on the scene, but more than thirty years later, the mystery remains: Did someone purposefully set fire to the library—and if so, who? Weaving her lifelong love of books and reading into an investigation of the fire, award-winning New Yorker reporter and New York Times bestselling author Susan Orlean delivers a mesmerizing and uniquely compelling book that manages to tell the broader story of libraries and librarians in a way that has never been done before. In The Library Book, Orlean chronicles the LAPL fire and its aftermath to showcase the larger, crucial role that libraries play in our lives; delves into the evolution of libraries across the country and around the world, from their humble beginnings as a metropolitan charitable initiative to their current status as a cornerstone of national identity; brings each department of the library to vivid life through on-the-ground reporting; studies arson and attempts to burn a copy of a book herself; reflects on her own experiences in libraries; and reexamines the case of Harry Peak, the blond-haired actor long suspected of setting fire to the LAPL more than thirty years ago.
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An Air Force loadmaster in the Vietnam War is shot out of the sky, then saved by falling into a banyan. An artist inherits a hundred years of photographic portraits, all of the same doomed American chestnut. A hard-partying undergraduate in the late 1980s electrocutes herself, dies, and is sent back into life by creatures of air and light. A hearing- and speech-impaired scientist discovers that trees are communicating with one another. These four, and five other strangers—each summoned in different ways by trees—are brought together in a last and violent stand to save the continent’s few remaining acres of virgin forest. In his twelfth novel, National Book Award winner Richard Powers delivers a sweeping, impassioned novel of activism and resistance that is also a stunning evocation of—and paean to—the natural world. From the roots to the crown and back to the seeds, The Overstory unfolds in concentric rings of interlocking fables that range from antebellum New York to the late twentieth-century Timber Wars of the Pacific Northwest and beyond, exploring the essential conflict on this planet: the one taking place between humans and nonhumans. There is a world alongside ours—vast, slow, interconnected, resourceful, magnificently inventive, and almost invisible to us. This is the story of a handful of people who learn how to see that world and who are drawn up into its unfolding catastrophe. The Overstory is a book for all readers who despair of humanity’s self-imposed separation from the rest of creation and who hope for the transformative, regenerating possibility of a homecoming. If the trees of this earth could speak, what would they tell us? “Listen. There’s something you need to hear.”
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A powerful, darkly glittering novel of violence, love, faith, and loss, as a young woman at an elite American university is drawn into acts of domestic terrorism by a cult tied to North Korea. Phoebe Lin and Will Kendall meet their first month at prestigious Edwards University. Phoebe is a glamorous girl who doesn’t tell anyone she blames herself for her mother’s recent death. Will is a misfit scholarship boy who transfers to Edwards from Bible college, waiting tables to get by. What he knows for sure is that he loves Phoebe. Grieving and guilt-ridden, Phoebe is increasingly drawn into a religious group—a secretive extremist cult—founded by a charismatic former student, John Leal. He has an enigmatic past that involves North Korea and Phoebe’s Korean American family. Meanwhile, Will struggles to confront the fundamentalism he’s tried to escape, and the obsession consuming the one he loves. When the group bombs several buildings in the name of faith, killing five people, Phoebe disappears. Will devotes himself to finding her, tilting into obsession himself, seeking answers to what happened to Phoebe and if she could have been responsible for this violent act. The Incendiaries is a fractured love story and a brilliant examination of the minds of extremist terrorists, and of what can happen to people who lose what they love most. who lose what they love most.
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It’s 2003 and Romy Hall is at the start of two consecutive life sentences at Stanville Women’s Correctional Facility, deep in California’s Central Valley. Outside is the world from which she has been severed: the San Francisco of her youth and her young son, Jackson. Inside is a new reality: thousands of women hustling for the bare essentials needed to survive; the bluffing and pageantry and casual acts of violence by guards and prisoners alike; and the deadpan absurdities of institutional living, which Kushner evokes with great humor and precision.
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Washington Black is an eleven-year-old field slave who knows no other life than the Barbados sugar plantation where he was born. When his master’s eccentric brother chooses him to be his manservant, Wash is terrified of the cruelties he is certain await him. But Christopher Wilde, or “Titch,” is a naturalist, explorer, scientist, inventor, and abolitionist. He initiates Wash into a world where a flying machine can carry a man across the sky; where two people, separated by an impossible divide, might begin to see each other as human; and where a boy born in chains can embrace a life of dignity and meaning. But when a man is killed and a bounty is placed on Wash’s head, Titch abandons everything to save him. What follows is their flight along the eastern coast of America, and, finally, to a remote outpost in the Arctic, where Wash, left on his own, must invent another new life, one which will propel him further across the globe. From the sultry cane fields of the Caribbean to the frozen Far North, Washington Black tells a story of friendship and betrayal, love and redemption, of a world destroyed and made whole again–and asks the question, what is true freedom?
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A suburban mother of two fantasizes about the downfall of an old friend whose wholesome lifestyle empire may or may not be built on a lie. A high-powered lawyer honeymooning with her husband is caught off guard by the appearance of the girl who tormented her in high school. A shy Ivy League student learns the truth about a classmate’s seemingly enviable life. Curtis Sittenfeld has established a reputation as a sharp chronicler of the modern age who humanizes her subjects even as she skewers them. Now, with this first collection of short fiction, her “astonishing gift for creating characters that take up residence in readers’ heads” (The Washington Post) is showcased like never before. Throughout the ten stories in You Think It, I’ll Say It, Sittenfeld upends assumptions about class, relationships, and gender roles in a nation that feels both adrift and viscerally divided. With moving insight and uncanny precision, Curtis Sittenfeld pinpoints the questionable decisions, missed connections, and sometimes extraordinary coincidences that make up a life. Indeed, she writes what we’re all thinking—if only we could express it with the wit of a master satirist, the storytelling gifts of an old-fashioned raconteur, and the vision of an American original.
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The full inside story of the breathtaking rise and shocking collapse of Theranos, the multibillion-dollar biotech startup, by the prize-winning journalist who first broke the story and pursued it to the end, despite pressure from its charismatic CEO and threats by her lawyers. In 2014, Theranos founder and CEO Elizabeth Holmes was widely seen as the female Steve Jobs: a brilliant Stanford dropout whose startup “unicorn” promised to revolutionize the medical industry with a machine that would make blood testing significantly faster and easier. Backed by investors such as Larry Ellison and Tim Draper, Theranos sold shares in a fundraising round that valued the company at more than $9 billion, putting Holmes’s worth at an estimated $4.7 billion. There was just one problem: The technology didn’t work. A riveting story of the biggest corporate fraud since Enron, a tale of ambition and hubris set amid the bold promises of Silicon Valley.
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The New York Times-bestselling author of Fates and Furies returns, bringing the reader into a physical world that is at once domestic and wild—a place where the hazards of the natural world lie waiting to pounce, yet the greatest threats and mysteries are still of an emotional, psychological nature. A family retreat can be derailed by a prowling panther, or by a sexual secret. Among those navigating this place are a resourceful pair of abandoned sisters; a lonely boy, grown up; a restless, childless couple, a searching, homeless woman; and an unforgettable, recurring character—a steely and conflicted wife and mother. The stories in this collection span characters, towns, decades, even centuries, but Florida—its landscape, climate, history, and state of mind—becomes its gravitational center: an energy, a mood, as much as a place of residence. Groff transports the reader, then jolts us alert with a crackle of wit, a wave of sadness, a flash of cruelty, as she writes about loneliness, rage, family, and the passage of time. With shocking accuracy and effect, she pinpoints the moments and decisions and connections behind human pleasure and pain, hope and despair, love and fury—the moments that make us alive. Startling, precise, and affecting, Florida is a magnificent achievement.
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A dazzling new novel of friendship and redemption in the face of tragedy and loss set in 1980s Chicago and contemporary Paris, by the acclaimed and award-winning author Rebecca Makkai. In 1985, Yale Tishman, the development director for an art gallery in Chicago, is about to pull off an amazing coup, bringing in an extraordinary collection of 1920s paintings as a gift to the gallery. Yet as his career begins to flourish, the carnage of the AIDS epidemic grows around him. One by one, his friends are dying and after his friend Nico’s funeral, the virus circles closer and closer to Yale himself. Soon the only person he has left is Fiona, Nico’s little sister. Thirty years later, Fiona is in Paris tracking down her estranged daughter who disappeared into a cult. While staying with an old friend, a famous photographer who documented the Chicago crisis, she finds herself finally grappling with the devastating ways AIDS affected her life and her relationship with her daughter. The two intertwining stories take us through the heartbreak of the eighties and the chaos of the modern world, as both Yale and Fiona struggle to find goodness in the midst of disaster.
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Toby is a happy-go-lucky charmer who’s dodged a scrape at work and is celebrating with friends when the night takes a turn that will change his life: he surprises two burglars who beat him and leave him for dead. Struggling to recover from his injuries, beginning to understand that he might never be the same man again, he takes refuge at his family’s ancestral home to care for his dying uncle Hugo. Then a skull is found in the trunk of an elm tree in the garden – and as detectives close in, Toby is forced to face the possibility that his past may not be what he has always believed. The Witch Elm asks what we become, and what we’re capable of, when we no longer know who we are.
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The Largesse of the Sea Maiden is the long-awaited new story collection from Denis Johnson. It follows the groundbreaking, highly acclaimed Jesus’ Son. Written in the same luminous prose, this collection finds Johnson in new territory, contemplating old age, mortality, the ghosts of the past, and the elusive and unexpected ways the mysteries of the universe assert themselves. Finished shortly before Johnson’s death in May 2017, this collection is the last word from a writer whose work will live on for many years to come.
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A singularly inventive and unforgettable debut novel about love, luck, and the inextricability of life and art, from 2017 Whiting Award winner Lisa Halliday. Told in three distinct and uniquely compelling sections, Asymmetry explores the imbalances that spark and sustain many of our most dramatic human relations: inequities in age, power, talent, wealth, fame, geography, and justice. The first section, “Folly,” tells the story of Alice, a young American editor, and her relationship with the famous and much older writer Ezra Blazer. A tender and exquisite account of an unexpected romance that takes place in New York during the early years of the Iraq War, “Folly” also suggests an aspiring novelist’s coming-of-age. By contrast, “Madness” is narrated by Amar, an Iraqi-American man who, on his way to visit his brother in Kurdistan, is detained by immigration officers and spends the last weekend of 2008 in a holding room in Heathrow. These two seemingly disparate stories gain resonance as their perspectives interact and overlap, with yet new implications for their relationship revealed in an unexpected coda. A stunning debut from a rising literary star, Asymmetry is an urgent, important, and truly original work that will captivate any reader while also posing arresting questions about the very nature of fiction itself.
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They killed my mother. They took our magic. They tried to bury us. Now we rise. Zélie Adebola remembers when the soil of Orïsha hummed with magic. Burners ignited flames, Tiders beckoned waves, and Zélie’s Reaper mother summoned forth souls. But everything changed the night magic disappeared. Under the orders of a ruthless king, maji were killed, leaving Zélie without a mother and her people without hope. Now Zélie has one chance to bring back magic and strike against the monarchy. With the help of a rogue princess, Zélie must outwit and outrun the crown prince, who is hell-bent on eradicating magic for good. Danger lurks in Orïsha, where snow leoponaires prowl and vengeful spirits wait in the waters. Yet the greatest danger may be Zélie herself as she struggles to control her powers and her growing feelings for an enemy.
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If you knew the date of your death, how would you live your life? It’s 1969 in New York City’s Lower East Side, and word has spread of the arrival of a mystical woman, a traveling psychic who claims to be able to tell anyone the day they will die. The Gold children—four adolescents on the cusp of self-awareness—sneak out to hear their fortunes. The prophecies inform their next five decades. Golden-boy Simon escapes to the West Coast, searching for love in ’80s San Francisco; dreamy Klara becomes a Las Vegas magician, obsessed with blurring reality and fantasy; eldest son Daniel seeks security as an army doctor post-9/11; and bookish Varya throws herself into longevity research, where she tests the boundary between science and immortality. A sweeping novel of remarkable ambition and depth, The Immortalists probes the line between destiny and choice, reality and illusion, this world and the next. It is a deeply moving testament to the power of story, the nature of belief, and the unrelenting pull of familial bonds.
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Fierce, angry, funny, heartbreaking—Tommy Orange’s first novel is a wondrous and shattering portrait of an America few of us have ever seen, and it introduces a brilliant new author at the start of a major career. There There is a relentlessly paced multigenerational story about violence and recovery, memory and identity, and the beauty and despair woven into the history of a nation and its people. It tells the story of twelve characters, each of whom have private reasons for traveling to the Big Oakland Powwow. Jacquie Red Feather is newly sober and trying to make it back to the family she left behind in shame. Dene Oxendene is pulling his life back together after his uncle’s death and has come to work at the powwow to honor his uncle’s memory. Opal Viola Victoria Bear Shield has come to watch her nephew Orvil, who has taught himself traditional Indian dance through YouTube videos and has come to the powwow to dance in public for the very first time. There will be glorious communion, and a spectacle of sacred tradition and pageantry. And there will be sacrifice, and heroism, and unspeakable loss. Here is a voice we have never heard—a voice full of poetry and rage, exploding onto the page with stunning urgency and force. Tommy Orange writes of the urban Native American, the Native American in the city, in a stunning novel that grapples with a complex and painful history, with an inheritance of beauty and profound spirituality, and with a plague of addiction, abuse, and suicide. An unforgettable debut, destined to become required reading in schools and universities across the country.
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A masterful true crime account of the Golden State Killer—the elusive serial rapist turned murderer who terrorized California for over a decade—from Michelle McNamara, the gifted journalist who died tragically while investigating the case. “You’ll be silent forever, and I’ll be gone in the dark.” For more than ten years, a mysterious and violent predator committed fifty sexual assaults in Northern California before moving south, where he perpetrated ten sadistic murders. Then he disappeared, eluding capture by multiple police forces and some of the best detectives in the area. Three decades later, Michelle McNamara, a true crime journalist who created the popular website TrueCrimeDiary.com, was determined to find the violent psychopath she called “the Golden State Killer.” Michelle pored over police reports, interviewed victims, and embedded herself in the online communities that were as obsessed with the case as she was. At the time of the crimes, the Golden State Killer was between the ages of eighteen and thirty, Caucasian, and athletic—capable of vaulting tall fences. He always wore a mask. After choosing a victim—he favored suburban couples—he often entered their home when no one was there, studying family pictures, mastering the layout. He attacked while they slept, using a flashlight to awaken and blind them. Though they could not recognize him, his victims recalled his voice: a guttural whisper through clenched teeth, abrupt and threatening. I’ll Be Gone in the Dark—the masterpiece McNamara was writing at the time of her sudden death—offers an atmospheric snapshot of a moment in American history and a chilling account of a criminal mastermind and the wreckage he left behind. It is also a portrait of a woman’s obsession and her unflagging pursuit of the truth.
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In this unnamed city, to be interesting is dangerous. Middle sister, our protagonist, is busy attempting to keep her mother from discovering her maybe-boyfriend and to keep everyone in the dark about her encounter with Milkman. But when first brother-in-law sniffs out her struggle, and rumours start to swell, middle sister becomes ‘interesting’. The last thing she ever wanted to be. To be interesting is to be noticed and to be noticed is dangerous. Milkman is a tale of gossip and hearsay, silence and deliberate deafness. It is the story of inaction with enormous consequences.
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Newlyweds Celestial and Roy are the embodiment of both the American Dream and the New South. He is a young executive, and she is an artist on the brink of an exciting career. But as they settle into the routine of their life together, they are ripped apart by circumstances neither could have imagined. In this deft exploration of love, loyalty, race, justice, and both Black masculinity and Black womanhood in 21st century America, Jones achieves that most-elusive of all literary goals: the Great American Novel. Named an Oprah’s Book Club Selection.
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An intimate, powerful, and inspiring memoir by the former First Lady of the United States. In a life filled with meaning and accomplishment, Michelle Obama has emerged as one of the most iconic and compelling women of our era. As First Lady of the United States of America—the first African-American to serve in that role—she helped create the most welcoming and inclusive White House in history, while also establishing herself as a powerful advocate for women and girls in the U.S. and around the world, dramatically changing the ways that families pursue healthier and more active lives, and standing with her husband as he led America through some of its most harrowing moments. Along the way, she showed us a few dance moves, crushed Carpool Karaoke, and raised two down-to-earth daughters under an unforgiving media glare. In her memoir, a work of deep reflection and mesmerizing storytelling, Michelle Obama invites readers into her world, chronicling the experiences that have shaped her—from her childhood on the South Side of Chicago to her years as an executive balancing the demands of motherhood and work, to her time spent at the world’s most famous address. With unerring honesty and lively wit, she describes her triumphs and her disappointments, both public and private, telling her full story as she has lived it—in her own words and on her own terms. Warm, wise, and revelatory, Becoming is the deeply personal reckoning of a woman of soul and substance who has steadily defied expectations—and whose story inspires us to do the same.
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In the house of Helios, god of the sun and mightiest of the Titans, a daughter is born. But Circe is a strange child—not powerful, like her father, nor viciously alluring like her mother. Turning to the world of mortals for companionship, she discovers that she does possess power—the power of witchcraft, which can transform rivals into monsters and menace the gods themselves. Threatened, Zeus banishes her to a deserted island, where she hones her occult craft, tames wild beasts and crosses paths with many of the most famous figures in all of mythology, including the Minotaur, Daedalus and his doomed son Icarus, the murderous Medea, and, of course, wily Odysseus. But there is danger, too, for a woman who stands alone, and Circe unwittingly draws the wrath of both men and gods, ultimately finding herself pitted against one of the most terrifying and vengeful of the Olympians. To protect what she loves most, Circe must summon all her strength and choose, once and for all, whether she belongs with the gods she is born from, or the mortals she has come to love.
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A shocking, hilarious and strangely tender novel about a young woman’s experiment in narcotic hibernation, aided and abetted by one of the worst psychiatrists in the annals of literature. Our narrator has many of the advantages of life, on the surface. Young, thin, pretty, a recent Columbia graduate, she lives in an apartment on the Upper East Side of Manhattan paid for, like everything else, by her inheritance. But there is a vacuum at the heart of things, and it isn’t just the loss of her parents in college, or the way her Wall Street boyfriend treats her, or her sadomasochistic relationship with her alleged best friend. It’s the year 2000 in a city aglitter with wealth and possibility; what could be so terribly wrong? This story of a year spent under the influence of a truly mad combination of drugs, designed to heal us from our alienation from this world, shows us how reasonable, even necessary, that alienation sometimes is. Blackly funny, both merciless and compassionate – dangling its legs over the ledge of 9/11 – this novel is a showcase for the gifts of one of America’s major young writers working at the height of her powers.
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An unforgettable memoir in the tradition of The Glass Castle about a young girl who, kept out of school, leaves her survivalist family and goes on to earn a PhD from Cambridge University Tara Westover was 17 the first time she set foot in a classroom. Born to survivalists in the mountains of Idaho, she prepared for the end of the world by stockpiling home-canned peaches and sleeping with her “head-for-the-hills bag”. In the summer she stewed herbs for her mother, a midwife and healer, and in the winter she salvaged in her father’s junkyard. Her father forbade hospitals, so Tara never saw a doctor or nurse. Gashes and concussions, even burns from explosions, were all treated at home with herbalism. The family was so isolated from mainstream society that there was no one to ensure the children received an education and no one to intervene when one of Tara’s older brothers became violent. Then, lacking any formal education, Tara began to educate herself. She taught herself enough mathematics and grammar to be admitted to Brigham Young University, where she studied history, learning for the first time about important world events like the Holocaust and the civil rights movement. Her quest for knowledge transformed her, taking her over oceans and across continents, to Harvard and to Cambridge. Only then would she wonder if she’d traveled too far, if there was still a way home. Educated is an account of the struggle for self-invention. It is a tale of fierce family loyalty and of the grief that comes with severing the closest of ties. With the acute insight that distinguishes all great writers, Westover has crafted a universal coming-of-age story that gets to the heart of what an education is and what it offers: the perspective to see one’s life through new eyes and the will to change it.
| # | Book | Author | Lists |
| 52 | 12 Rules For Life | Jordan B. Peterson | Book Depository |
| – | – | – | Cat Rose |
| – | – | – | Darius Foroux |
| – | – | – | Guardian |
| 53 | All The Names They Used For God | Anjali Sachdeva | Another Long Weekend |
| – | – | – | Book Riot |
| – | – | – | NPR |
| – | – | – | PureWow |
| 54 | Beastie Boys Book | MIchael Diamond and Adam Horovitz | Book Depository |
| – | – | – | Guardian |
| – | – | – | Mental Floss |
| – | – | – | Observer |
| 55 | Fear: Trump In The White House | Bob Woodward | Guardian |
| – | – | – | Newsweek |
| – | – | – | NPR |
| – | – | – | Observer |
| 56 | Flights | Olga Tokarczuk | Entertainment Weekly |
| – | – | – | Fodor’s Travel |
| – | – | – | Literary Hub |
| – | – | – | Newsweek |
| 57 | Lake Success | Gary Shteyngart | Newsday |
| – | – | – | NPR |
| – | – | – | The Maine Edge |
| – | – | – | The New York Times |
| 58 | Leadership in Turbulent Times | Doris Kearns Goodwin | Arcadia on Books |
| – | – | – | Dandelion Chandelier |
| – | – | – | NPR |
| – | – | – | Washington Independent Review of Books |
| 59 | Motherhood | Sheila Heti | Another Long Weekend |
| – | – | – | Chicago Tribune |
| – | – | – | NPR |
| – | – | – | PureWow |
| 60 | Ottolenghi Simple | Yotam Ottolenghi | Book Depository |
| – | – | – | Guardian |
| – | – | – | iNews |
| – | – | – | NPR |
| 61 | Sabrina | Nick Drnaso | Guardian |
| – | – | – | Newsweek |
| – | – | – | NPR |
| – | – | – | The New York Times |
| 62 | She Has Her Mother’s Laugh: The Powers, Perversions, and Potential of Heredity | Carl Zimmer | Mental Floss |
| – | – | – | Observer |
| – | – | – | Publishers Weekly |
| – | – | – | The Listener |
| 63 | Spinning Silver | Naomi Novik | Book Depository |
| – | – | – | Guardian |
| – | – | – | NPR |
| – | – | – | The New York Times |
| 64 | The Cost of Living | Deborah Levy | Arcadia on Books |
| – | – | – | Guardian |
| – | – | – | Radhika’s Reading Retreat |
| – | – | – | The Listener |
| 65 | The Kiss Quotient | Helen Hoang | Book Depository |
| – | – | – | Book Riot |
| – | – | – | NPR |
| – | – | – | StyleCaster |
| 66 | The Perfect Nanny | Leila Slimani | Book Depository |
| – | – | – | Literary Hub |
| – | – | – | NPR |
| – | – | – | The New York Times |
| 67 | The Pisces | Melissa Broder | Marie Claire 1 |
| – | – | – | Newsweek |
| – | – | – | StyleCaster |
| – | – | – | The Listener |
| 68 | The Real Lolita: The Kidnapping Of Sally Horner And The Novel That Scandalized The World | Sarah Weinman | Another Long Weekend |
| – | – | – | Literary Hub |
| – | – | – | NPR |
| – | – | – | PureWow |
| 69 | The Woman in the Window | A.J. Finn | Another Long Weekend |
| – | – | – | Book Depository |
| – | – | – | Indigo |
| – | – | – | PureWow |
| 70 | These Truths: A History Of The United States | Jill Lepore | Dandelion Chandelier |
| – | – | – | Newsday |
| – | – | – | Newsweek |
| – | – | – | NPR |
| 71 | Transcription | Kate Atkinson | NPR |
| – | – | – | Red |
| – | – | – | Slate |
| – | – | – | The Listener |
| 72 | Unsheltered | Barbara Kingsolver | iNews |
| – | – | – | Newsweek |
| – | – | – | NPR |
| – | – | – | The Listener |
| 73 | Vietnam: An Epic Tragedy 1945-1975 | Max Hastings | Iain Dale |
| – | – | – | London Evening Standard |
| – | – | – | Observer |
| – | – | – | The Listener |
| 74 | 21 Lessons for the 21st Century | Yuval Noah Harari | Indigo |
| – | – | – | Observer |
| – | – | – | The Listener |
| 75 | A River of Stars | Vanessa Hua | Another Long Weekend |
| – | – | – | NPR |
| – | – | – | PureWow |
| 76 | A Terrible Country | Keith Gessen | KGNU |
| – | – | – | NYLON |
| – | – | – | Washington Independent Review of Books |
| 77 | American Prison: A Reporter’s Undercover Journey Into the Business of Punishment | Shane Bauer | NPR |
| – | – | – | Phoenix Public Library |
| – | – | – | The New York Times |
| 78 | Bitter Orange | Claire Fuller | Another Long Weekend |
| – | – | – | NPR |
| – | – | – | PureWow |
| 79 | Bloody Rose | Nicholas Eames | NPR |
| – | – | – | The Quill To Live |
| – | – | – | You and I Books |
| 80 | Boom Town: The Fantastical Saga Of Oklahoma City, Its Chaotic Founding, Its Apocalyptic Weather, Its Purloined Basketball Team, And The Dream Of Becoming A World-Class Metropolis | Sam Anderson | Chicago Tribune |
| – | – | – | GQ |
| – | – | – | NPR |
| 81 | Brown: Poems | Kevin Young | Dandelion Chandelier |
| – | – | – | NPR |
| – | – | – | The New York Times |
| 82 | Census | Jesse Ball | NPR |
| – | – | – | NYLON |
| – | – | – | The Listener |
| 83 | Cherry | Nico Walker | Literary Hub |
| – | – | – | Phoenix Public Library |
| – | – | – | The New York Times |
| 84 | Churchill: Walking With Destiny | Andrew Roberts | Iain Dale |
| – | – | – | London Evening Standard |
| – | – | – | Mental Floss |
| 85 | Convenience Store Woman | Sayaka Murata | Harvard Crimson |
| – | – | – | Literary Hub |
| – | – | – | New Yorker |
| 86 | Creative Quest | Questlove | Dandelion Chandelier |
| – | – | – | Newsweek |
| – | – | – | NPR |
| 87 | Crudo | Olivia Laing | London Evening Standard |
| – | – | – | NPR |
| – | – | – | The New York Times |
| 88 | Dare to Lead: Brave Work. Tough Conversations. Whole Hearts | Brené Brown | Bloomberg |
| – | – | – | Greater Good Magazine |
| – | – | – | Indigo |
| 89 | Dread Nation | Justina Ireland | Book Depository |
| – | – | – | Book Riot |
| – | – | – | Weird Zeal |
| 90 | Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower | Brittney Cooper | Another Long Weekend |
| – | – | – | NPR |
| – | – | – | PureWow |
| 91 | Everything Under | DAISY JOHNSON. | Book Depository |
| – | – | – | Literary Hub |
| – | – | – | The New York Times |
| 92 | Factfulness: Ten Reasons We’re Wrong About the World—and Why Things Are Better Than You Think | Bloomberg | |
| – | – | – | Book Depository |
| – | – | – | Observer |
| 93 | Fascism: A Warning | Madeleine Albright | Arcadia on Books |
| – | – | – | NPR |
| – | – | – | Observer |
| 94 | Fire and Fury | Michael Wolff | Book Depository |
| – | – | – | Guardian |
| – | – | – | Iain Dale |
| 95 | Foundryside | Robert Jackson Bennett | Den of Geek |
| – | – | – | The Quill To Live |
| – | – | – | The Speculative Shelf |
| 96 | Heads of the Colored People | Nafissa Thompson-Spires | Broadly |
| – | – | – | Chicago Tribune |
| – | – | – | NPR |
| 97 | Heart Berries: A Memoir | Terese Marie Mailhot | Book Depository |
| – | – | – | Book Riot |
| – | – | – | NPR |
| 98 | If You Leave Me | Crystal Hana Kim | Mental Floss |
| – | – | – | NYLON |
| – | – | – | Self |
| 99 | In Pieces | Sally Field | Den of Geek |
| – | – | – | Guardian |
| – | – | – | NPR |
| 100 | Iron Gold | Pierce Brown | Book Depository |
| – | – | – | NPR |
| – | – | – | The Speculative Shelf |
| 101 | Julián Is a Mermaid | Jessica Love | Broadly |
| – | – | – | KGNU |
| – | – | – | NPR |
| 102 | Legendary | Book Depository | |
| – | – | – | Lost Between the Pages |
| – | – | – | Lost Between the Pages |
| 103 | Lincoln’s Last Trial: The Murder Case That Propelled Him to the Presidency | Dan Abrams and David Fisher | BookClubbish |
| – | – | – | Mental Floss |
| – | – | – | Washington Independent Review of Books |
| 104 | London Rules | Book Depository | |
| – | – | – | Guardian |
| – | – | – | Newsweek |
| 105 | Lullaby | Leila Slimani | Guardian |
| – | – | – | iNews |
| – | – | – | The National |
| 106 | My Thoughts Exactly | Book Depository | |
| – | – | – | Guardian |
| – | – | – | Marie Claire 2 |
| 107 | Nine Perfect Strangers | Liane Moriarty | Muddy Stilettos |
| – | – | – | Newsweek |
| – | – | – | The Listener |
| 108 | Ninety-Nine Glimpses of Princess Margaret | Craig Brown | Another Long Weekend |
| – | – | – | NPR |
| – | – | – | PureWow |
| 109 | Ohio | Stephen Markley | Dandelion Chandelier |
| – | – | – | Glamour |
| – | – | – | NPR |
| 110 | Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore | Elizabeth Rush | Chicago Tribune |
| – | – | – | Guardian |
| – | – | – | The Dirt |
| 111 | Tell the Machine Goodnight | Katie Williams | Another Long Weekend |
| – | – | – | NPR |
| – | – | – | PureWow |
| 112 | The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why it Matters | Priya Parker | Dandelion Chandelier |
| – | – | – | NPR |
| – | – | – | Phoenix Public Library |
| 113 | The Big Fella: Babe Ruth and the World He Created | Jane Leavy | Guardian |
| – | – | – | Newsweek |
| – | – | – | The Progressive |
| 114 | The Cabin at the End of the World | Paul Tremblay | LitReactor |
| – | – | – | LitReactor |
| – | – | – | NPR |
| 115 | The Carrying: Poems | Ada Limón | Literary Hub |
| – | – | – | NPR |
| – | – | – | Phoenix Public Library |
| 116 | The Chalk Man: A Novel | C.J. Tudor | Book Depository |
| – | – | – | Book Depository |
| – | – | – | NPR |
| 117 | The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure | Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt | Bloomberg |
| – | – | – | London Evening Standard |
| – | – | – | The Listener |
| 118 | The House of Broken Angels | Luis Alberto Urrea | Newsday |
| – | – | – | NPR |
| – | – | – | The New York Times |
| 119 | The Line Becomes A River: Dispatches From The Border | Francisco Cantú | Book Depository |
| – | – | – | NPR |
| – | – | – | Phoenix Public Library |
| 120 | The Long Take | Guardian | |
| – | – | – | Newsweek |
| – | – | – | Observer |
| 121 | The Lost Man | Jane Harper | Den of Geek |
| – | – | – | Marie Claire 2 |
| – | – | – | The Listener |
| 122 | The Mermaid and Mrs Hancock | Imogen Hermes Gowar | Book Depository |
| – | – | – | London Evening Standard |
| – | – | – | Red |
| 123 | The Outsider | Stephen King | Book Depository |
| – | – | – | LitReactor |
| – | – | – | The Maine Edge |
| 124 | The Prince And The Dressmaker | Jen Wang | Book Depository |
| – | – | – | Book Riot |
| – | – | – | NPR |
| 125 | The Proposal | Jasmine Guillory | Mental Floss |
| – | – | – | Newsweek |
| – | – | – | StyleCaster |
| 126 | The Silence of the Girls | Pat Barker | Book Depository |
| – | – | – | Guardian |
| – | – | – | NPR |
| 127 | The Sky Is Yours | Chandler Klang Smith | Literary Hub |
| – | – | – | Mental Floss |
| – | – | – | NPR |
| 128 | The Sparsholt Affair | Alan Hollinghurst | NPR |
| – | – | – | Slate |
| – | – | – | The New York Times |
| 129 | The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War | Ben Macintyre | London Evening Standard |
| – | – | – | Newsweek |
| – | – | – | The Listener |
| 130 | The Wedding Date | Jasmine Guillory | Book Depository |
| – | – | – | Book Riot |
| – | – | – | NPR |
| 131 | The Wife Between Us | Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen | Book Depository |
| – | – | – | Lost Between the Pages |
| – | – | – | Marie Claire 1 |
| 132 | Together: Our Community Cookbook | Book Depository | |
| – | – | – | Guardian |
| – | – | – | Newsweek |
| 133 | Unwifeable | Mandy Stadtmiller | Another Long Weekend |
| – | – | – | Marie Claire 1 |
| – | – | – | PureWow |
| 134 | What If It’s Us | Becky Albertalli and Adam Silvera | Newsweek |
| – | – | – | StyleCaster |
| – | – | – | Weird Zeal |
| 135 | You’re On An Airplane: A Self-Mythologizing Memoir | Parker Posey | Another Long Weekend |
| – | – | – | NPR |
| – | – | – | PureWow |
| 136 | Always Look on the Bright Side of Life: A Sortabiography | Eric Idle | Business Insider |
| – | – | – | Guardian |
| 137 | American Hate: Survivors Speak Out | Arjun Singh Sethi | NPR |
| – | – | – | The Progressive |
| 138 | An Absolutely Remarkable Thing | Hank Green | Newsweek |
| – | – | – | Weird Zeal |
| 139 | Anatomy Of A Scandal | Sarah Vaughan | Book Riot |
| – | – | – | Muddy Stilettos |
| 140 | And Now We Have Everything: On Motherhood Before I Was Ready | Meaghan O’Connell | Book Riot |
| – | – | – | NPR |
| 141 | Around the World in 80 Trees | Jonathan Drori | London Evening Standard |
| – | – | – | The Dirt |
| 142 | Baby Teeth | Literary Hub | |
| – | – | – | Lost Between the Pages |
| 143 | Bachelor Nation: Inside The World Of America’s Favorite Guilty Pleasure | Amy Kaufman | Marie Claire 1 |
| – | – | – | NPR |
| 144 | Basque Country | Book Depository | |
| – | – | – | Guardian |
| 145 | Bearskin | Book Depository | |
| – | – | – | Literary Hub |
| 146 | Before Mars | Guardian | |
| – | – | – | The Speculative Shelf |
| 147 | Berlin 1936: Sixteen Days in August | Oliver Hilmes | Guardian |
| – | – | – | The National |
| 148 | Blood Water Paint | Joy McCullough | Another Long Weekend |
| – | – | – | PureWow |
| 149 | Blueprint: How DNA Makes Us Who We Are | Robert Plomin | London Evening Standard |
| – | – | – | Observer |
| 150 | Born To Be Posthumous: The Eccentric Life And Mysterious Genius Of Edward Gorey | Mark Dery | Mental Floss |
| – | – | – | NPR |
| 151 | Brainstorm | Book Depository | |
| – | – | – | Guardian |
| 152 | Brave | Book Depository | |
| – | – | – | Guardian |
| 153 | Brief Answers to the Big Questions | Stephen Hawking | Business Insider |
| – | – | – | Guardian |
| 154 | Cassandra Darke | Guardian | |
| – | – | – | Observer |
| 155 | Check, Please!: Book 1: # Hockey | Ngozi Ukazu | Newsweek |
| – | – | – | NPR |
| 156 | Chesapeake Requiem: A Year With the Watermen of Vanishing Tangier Island | Earl Swift | Mental Floss |
| – | – | – | NPR |
| 157 | Comemadre | Roque Larraquy | Brazos Bookstore -Mark |
| – | – | – | The A. V. Club |
| 158 | Cravings: Hungry For More | Chrissy Teigen | Book Depository |
| – | – | – | NPR |
| 159 | Deviation | Luce d’Eramo | GQ |
| – | – | – | NPR |
| 160 | Die, My Love | Ariana Harwicz | Brazos Bookstore -Mark |
| – | – | – | Radhika’s Reading Retreat |
| 161 | Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company That Addicted America | Beth Macy | Newsweek |
| – | – | – | Phoenix Public Library |
| 162 | Dreamers | Newsweek | |
| – | – | – | NPR |
| 163 | Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead | Olga Tokarczuk | Guardian |
| – | – | – | London Evening Standard |
| 164 | Early Work | Andrew Martin | Dandelion Chandelier |
| – | – | – | The New York Times |
| 165 | Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine | Gail Honeyman | The Bad Mommy Diaries |
| – | – | – | The National |
| 166 | Emergency Contact | Mary H.K. Choi | NPR |
| – | – | – | StyleCaster |
| 167 | Evening in Paradise: More Stories | Lucia Berlin | Dandelion Chandelier |
| – | – | – | Literary Hub |
| 168 | Feast: Food Of The Islamic World | Anissa Helou | NPR |
| – | – | – | Observer |
| 169 | Frankenstein in Baghdad | Ahmed Saadawi | Guardian |
| – | – | – | The Listener |
| 170 | Give Me Your Hand | Megan Abbott | Marie Claire 1 |
| – | – | – | NPR |
| 171 | God Save Texas: A Journey Into The Soul Of The Lone Star State | Lawrence Wright | GQ |
| – | – | – | NPR |
| 172 | Good Trouble | Joseph O’Neill | GQ |
| – | – | – | London Evening Standard |
| 173 | Grey Sister | Mark Lawrence | The Quill To Live |
| – | – | – | You and I Books |
| 174 | Grime Kids: The Inside Story of the Global Grime Takeover | Guardian | |
| – | – | – | Observer |
| 175 | Grist Mill Road: A Novel | Christopher J. Yates | Fodor’s Travel |
| – | – | – | NPR |
| 176 | Happiness | Aminatta Forna | NPR |
| – | – | – | Washington Independent Review of Books |
| 177 | Heartland: A Memoir Of Working Hard And Being Broke In The Richest Country On Earth | Sarah Smarsh | Boston.com |
| – | – | – | NPR |
| 178 | How to American: An Immigrant’s Guide to Disappointing Your Parents | Jimmy O. Yang | BookClubbish |
| – | – | – | Glamour |
| 179 | How to Eat a Peach | Book Depository | |
| – | – | – | Guardian |
| 180 | How Winston Delivered Christmas | Book Depository | |
| – | – | – | Guardian |
| 181 | I Wrote This Book Because I Love You | Tim Kreider | People |
| – | – | – | The A. V. Club |
| 182 | Immigrant, Montana | AMITAVA KUMAR | New Yorker |
| – | – | – | The New York Times |
| 183 | Insurrecto | Gina Apostol | Publishers Weekly |
| – | – | – | Self |
| 184 | Intercepted | Alexa Martin | Book Riot |
| – | – | – | NPR |
| 185 | Into The Raging Sea: Thirty-Three Mariners, One Megastorm, And The Sinking Of El Faro | Rachel Slade | NPR |
| – | – | – | The Maine Edge |
| 186 | Jamie Cooks Italy | Book Depository | |
| – | – | – | Guardian |
| 187 | Junk | Tommy Pico | GQ |
| – | – | – | NPR |
| 188 | Killing Commendatore | Haruki Murakami | Book Depository |
| – | – | – | Harvard Crimson |
| 189 | Last Stories | William Trevor | London Evening Standard |
| – | – | – | The New York Times |
| 190 | Leah on the Offbeat | Becky Albertalli | Book Depository |
| – | – | – | Weird Zeal |
| 191 | Little Fires Everywhere | Celeste Ng | Business Insider |
| – | – | – | One Little Library |
| 192 | Little Fish | Casey Plett | Self |
| – | – | – | StyleCaster |
| 193 | Louisiana’s Way Home | Kate DiCamillo | Book Depository |
| – | – | – | NPR |
| 194 | Love | Matt de la Peña, illustrated | Book Depository |
| – | – | – | NPR |
| 195 | Love and Ruin | Bloomberg | |
| – | – | – | Book Depository |
| 196 | Love Is Blind | William Boyd | Arcadia on Books |
| – | – | – | The Listener |
| 197 | Macbeth | JO NESBØ | Observer |
| – | – | – | The New York Times |
| 198 | Middle England | Jonathan Coe | Guardian |
| – | – | – | London Evening Standard |
| 199 | Mirror, Shoulder, Signal | DORTHE NORS | Literary Hub |
| – | – | – | The New York Times |
| 200 | Monument: Poems New And Selected | Natasha Trethewey | Dandelion Chandelier |
| – | – | – | NPR |
| 201 | Natboff! One Million Years of Stupidity | Book Depository | |
| – | – | – | Guardian |
| 202 | Natural Causes: An Epidemic of Wellness, the Certainty of Dying, and Killing Ourselves to Live Longer | Barbara Ehrenreich | Mental Floss |
| – | – | – | The Listener |
| 203 | Nervous States: How Feeling Took Over the World | William Davies | Guardian |
| – | – | – | London Evening Standard |
| 204 | Network Propaganda: Manipulation, Disinformation, And Radicalization In American Politics | Yochai Benkler, Robert Faris, and Hal Roberts | NPR |
| – | – | – | Observer |
| 205 | New Poets Of Native Nations | Heid E. Erdrich | Book Riot |
| – | – | – | NPR |
| 206 | Not that Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture | Roxane Gay | BookClubbish |
| – | – | – | LitReactor |
| 207 | Notes On A Nervous Planet | Matt Haig | Den of Geek |
| – | – | – | Republic World |
| 208 | Ocean Meets Sky | Book Depository | |
| – | – | – | CCBC |
| 209 | One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression Is Destroying Our Democracy | Carol Anderson | Book Riot |
| – | – | – | NPR |
| 210 | Only To Sleep: A Philip Marlowe Novel | Lawrence Osborne | NPR |
| – | – | – | The New York Times |
| 211 | Our Place: Can We Save Britain’s Wildlife Before it is Too Late? | Mark Cocker | Guardian |
| – | – | – | London Evening Standard |
| 212 | Passing for Human: A Graphic Memoir | Liana Finck | Jezebel |
| – | – | – | The Progressive |
| 213 | Playing Changes: Jazz For The New Century | Nate Chinen | GQ |
| – | – | – | NPR |
| 214 | Pride | Ibi Zoboi | Book Riot |
| – | – | – | NPR |
| 215 | Record of a Spaceborn Few | Becky Chambers | NPR |
| – | – | – | The Quill To Live |
| 216 | Red Clocks | Leni Zumas | LitReactor |
| – | – | – | Lost Between the Pages |
| 217 | Refugee | Dina Nayeri | Bloomberg |
| – | – | – | Fodor’s Travel |
| 218 | Reporter: A Memoir | Book Depository | |
| – | – | – | Guardian |
| 219 | Robin | Dave Itzkoff | Book Depository |
| – | – | – | Mental Floss |
| 220 | Rosewater | Tade Thompson | The Speculative Shelf |
| – | – | – | You and I Books |
| 221 | Scrublands | Chris Hammer | Marie Claire 2 |
| – | – | – | The Listener |
| 222 | Sea Prayer | Khaled Hosseini | Indigo |
| – | – | – | NPR |
| 223 | Sharp: The Women Who Made an Art of Having an Opinion | Michelle Dean | NPR |
| – | – | – | The Progressive |
| 224 | Snap | Guardian | |
| – | – | – | Observer |
| 225 | Somebody I Used to Know | Wendy Mitchell | Put It in Writing |
| – | – | – | The Listener |
| 226 | Something in the Water | Catherine Steadman | Glamour |
| – | – | – | Newsweek |
| 227 | Still Me | JoJo Moyes | Book Depository |
| – | – | – | StyleCaster |
| 228 | Text Me When You Get Home: The Evolution And Triumph Of Modern Female Friendship | Kayleen Schaefer | Dandelion Chandelier |
| – | – | – | NPR |
| 229 | The Assassination Of Brangwain Spurge | M.T. Anderson and Eugene Yelchin | KGNU |
| – | – | – | NPR |
| 230 | The Book of Humans | Guardian | |
| – | – | – | Observer |
| 231 | The Clockmaker’s Daughter: A Novel | Kate Morton | Indigo |
| – | – | – | Washington Independent Review of Books |
| 232 | The Death Of Mrs. Westaway | Ruth Ware | Book Depository |
| – | – | – | NPR |
| 233 | The Defiant Heir | Melissa Caruso | The Quill To Live |
| – | – | – | You and I Books |
| 234 | The Ember Blade | Chris Wooding | The Quill To Live |
| – | – | – | You and I Books |
| 235 | The End | Karl Ove Knausgård | Book Depository |
| – | – | – | The Listener |
| 236 | The Feather Thief: Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century | Kirk Wallace Johnson | Mental Floss |
| – | – | – | The Listener |
| 237 | The Fifth Risk | Michael Lewis | Newsweek |
| – | – | – | NPR |
| 238 | The Golden State | Lydia Kiesling | NPR |
| – | – | – | NYLON |
| 239 | The Good Neighbor: The Life and Work of Fred Rogers | Maxwell King | BookClubbish |
| – | – | – | Mental Floss |
| 240 | The Great Alone | Kristin Hannah | Glamour |
| – | – | – | Newsweek |
| 241 | The Hazel Wood | Melissa Albert | Book Depository |
| – | – | – | KGNU |
| 242 | The House of Islam: A Global History | Ed Husain | London Evening Standard |
| – | – | – | The Listener |
| 243 | The House on Vesper Sands | Book Depository | |
| – | – | – | Guardian |
| 244 | The Infinite Blacktop | Sara Gran | LitReactor |
| – | – | – | NPR |
| 245 | The Kites | ROMAIN GARY. Translated by Miranda | Brazos Bookstore -Mark |
| – | – | – | The New York Times |
| 246 | The Merry Spinster: Tales Of Everyday Horror | Daniel Mallory Ortberg | Mental Floss |
| – | – | – | NPR |
| 247 | The Monarchy of Fear: A Philosopher Looks at Our Political Process | Martha Nussbaum | Mental Floss |
| – | – | – | Newsweek |
| 248 | The Monk of Mokha | Dave Eggers | Book Depository |
| – | – | – | Republic World |
| 249 | The New Inheritors | Kent Wascom | LitReactor |
| – | – | – | Washington Independent Review of Books |
| 250 | The Night Diary | Veera Hiranandani | Book Depository |
| – | – | – | NPR |
| 251 | The Nightingale | Kristen Hannah | Contemplative Nostalgia |
| – | – | – | Econogal |
| 252 | The Only Girl | Robin Green | Muddy Stilettos |
| – | – | – | Observer |
| 253 | The Order of the Day | Éric Vuillard | Literary Hub |
| – | – | – | NPR |
| 254 | The Personality Brokers: The Strange History Of Myers-Briggs And The Birth Of Personality Testing | Merve Emre | Mental Floss |
| – | – | – | NPR |
| 255 | The Philosopher’s Flight | Tom Miller | Mental Floss |
| – | – | – | The Speculative Shelf |
| 256 | The Poppy War | R F Kuang | The Speculative Shelf |
| – | – | – | You and I Books |
| 257 | The President is Missing | Book Depository | |
| – | – | – | Newsweek |
| 258 | The Ravenmaster: My Life with the Ravens at the Tower of London | Christopher Skaife | London Evening Standard |
| – | – | – | Mental Floss |
| 259 | The Season Of Styx Malone | Kekla Magoon | Book Depository |
| – | – | – | NPR |
| 260 | The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle | Stuart Turton | Guardian |
| – | – | – | The Listener |
| 261 | The Story Orchestra: The Sleeping Beauty | Book Depository | |
| – | – | – | Guardian |
| 262 | The Tattooist of Auschwitz | Heather Morris | Book Depository |
| – | – | – | The National |
| 263 | The Third Hotel | Laura van den Berg | Harvard Crimson |
| – | – | – | Literary Hub |
| 264 | Then She Was Gone | Lisa Jewell | Indigo |
| – | – | – | Marie Claire 1 |
| 265 | They Say Blue | Jillian Tamaki | CCBC |
| – | – | – | NPR |
| 266 | Thirteen | Steve Cavanagh | Book Depository |
| – | – | – | The Listener |
| 267 | Those Who Knew: A Novel | Idra Novey | Dandelion Chandelier |
| – | – | – | NPR |
| 268 | To Throw Away Unopened: A Memoir | Viv Albertine | Blackout |
| – | – | – | NPR |
| 269 | Tombland | Book Depository | |
| – | – | – | Guardian |
| 270 | Trail Of Lightning | Rebecca Roanhorse | Book Riot |
| – | – | – | NPR |
| 271 | Unclaimed Baggage | Jen Doll | Mental Floss |
| – | – | – | NPR |
| 272 | Unholy Land | Lavie Tidhar | NPR |
| – | – | – | The Speculative Shelf |
| 273 | Vox | Christina Dalcher | Glamour |
| – | – | – | Lost Between the Pages |
| 274 | Wade in the Water: Poems | Tracy K. Smith, | Dandelion Chandelier |
| – | – | – | The New York Times |
| 275 | We Don’t Eat Our Classmates | Ryan T. Higgins | KGNU |
| – | – | – | NPR |
| 276 | Welcome Home: A Memoir with Selected Photographs and Letters | Lucia Berlin | Literary Hub |
| – | – | – | Radhika’s Reading Retreat |
| 277 | West | Carys Davies | Guardian |
| – | – | – | Washington Independent Review of Books |
| 278 | Where The Crawdads Sing | Delia Owens | Book Depository |
| – | – | – | Econogal |
| 279 | Why We Get the Wrong Politicians | Isabel Hardman | Guardian |
| – | – | – | London Evening Standard |
| 280 | You All Grow Up and Leave Me: A Memoir of Teenage Obsession | Piper Weiss | Book Depository |
| – | – | – | Marie Claire 1 |
| 281 | Your Duck Is My Duck: Stories | Deborah Eisenberg | NPR |
| – | – | – | The New York Times |
| 282 | 1000 Books to Read Before You Die | James Mustich | KGNU |
| 283 | 17th Suspect | Book Depository | |
| 284 | 1947: Where Now Begins | Elisabeth Åsbrink, translated | NPR |
| 285 | 1983 – Reagan, Andropov, and a World on the Brink | Taylor Downing | Washington Independent Review of Books |
| 286 | 8-Bit Apocalypse: The Untold Story of Atari’s Missile Command | Alex Rubens | The Maine Edge |
| 287 | 84K | Claire North | NPR |
| 288 | A Big Ship at the Edge of the Universe | Alex White | The Quill To Live |
| 289 | A Boy in the Water | Guardian | |
| 290 | A Bunch of Books About Alienated Girls | Jezebel | |
| 291 | A Carnival Of Losses: Notes Nearing Ninety | Donald Hall | NPR |
| 292 | A Cloud in the Shape of a Girl: A Novel | Jean Thompson | Washington Independent Review of Books |
| 293 | A Common Table: 80 Recipes And Stories From My Shared Cultures | Cynthia Chen McTernan | NPR |
| 294 | A Conspiracy of Truths | The Speculative Shelf | |
| 295 | A Court of Frost and Starlight | Book Depository | |
| 296 | A Cruelty Special To Our Species: Poems | Emily Jungmin Yoon | NPR |
| 297 | A Day in the Life of Marlon Bundo | Book Depository | |
| 298 | A Duke By Default: Reluctant Royals | Alyssa Cole | NPR |
| 299 | A Gentleman in Moscow | Amor Towles | One Little Library |
| 300 | A Gift From Darkness | Patience Ibrahim and Andrea C. Hoffmann | NPR |
| 301 | A Girl Like That | CCBC | |
| 302 | A Handbook of Disappointed Fate | Anne Boyer | Blackout |
| 303 | A Hard Rain: America In The 1960s, Our Decade Of Hope, Possibility, And Innocence Lost | Frye Gaillard | NPR |
| 304 | A Higher Loyalty | Book Depository | |
| 305 | A History of America in Ten Strikes | Erik Loomis | The Progressive |
| 306 | A Land of Permanent Goodbyes | Book Depository | |
| 307 | A Life Of My Own: A Memoir | Claire Tomalin | NPR |
| 308 | A Light of Her Own: A Novel | Carrie Callaghan | Washington Independent Review of Books |
| 309 | A Little Life | Hanya Yanagihara | Business Insider |
| 310 | A Love of Eating | Book Depository | |
| 311 | A Lucky Man: Stories | Jamel Brinkley | NPR |
| 312 | A Man Called Ove | Fredrik Backman | One Little Library |
| 313 | A Manual for Cleaning Women | Lucia Berlin | Jezebel |
| 314 | A New Reality: Human Evolution For A Sustainable Future | Jonas Salk and Jonathan Salk | NPR |
| 315 | A Possibility of Whales | CCBC | |
| 316 | A Princess in Theory | ALYSSA COLE | The New York Times |
| 317 | A Reaper at the Gates | Book Depository | |
| 318 | A Room Away From The Wolves | Nova Ren Suma | NPR |
| 319 | A Separate Peace | John Knowles | The Conversation |
| 320 | A Spark of Light | Lost Between the Pages | |
| 321 | A State of Freedom | NEEL MUKHERJEE | The New York Times |
| 322 | A Stitch In Time | Daphne Kalmar | NPR |
| 323 | A Stranger’s Pose | Emmanuel Iduma | Daily Trust |
| 324 | A Thousand Beginnings And Endings | Ellen Oh and Elsie Chapman (editors) | NPR |
| 325 | A Veil of Spears | Bradley P. Beaulieu | The Quill To Live |
| 326 | A View of the Empire at Sunset | CARYL PHILLIPS | The New York Times |
| 327 | Aching God | The Speculative Shelf | |
| 328 | Achtung Baby: An American Mom On The German Art Of Raising Self-Reliant Children | Sara Zaske | NPR |
| 329 | Acid West | Newsweek | |
| 330 | Across An Angry Sea: The SAS in the Falklands War | General Cedric Delves | London Evening Standard |
| 331 | Action Comics: 80 Years of Superman | Crosswalk | |
| 332 | Adrift – A True Story of Tragedy on the Icy Atlantic and the One Who Lived to Tell about It | Brian Murphy with Toula Vlahou | Washington Independent Review of Books |
| 333 | Afonja: The Rise | Tunde Leye | Daily Trust |
| 334 | Africville | CCBC | |
| 335 | After the Winter | Brazos Bookstore -Mark | |
| 336 | Ahab’s Return: or, The Last Voyage | Jeffrey Ford | Washington Independent Review of Books |
| 337 | Alan Jacobs, The Year of Our Lord 1943: Christian Humanism in an Age of Crisis | Crosswalk | |
| 338 | Algorithms to Live By | Brian Christian and Tom Griffiths | Deep Dish |
| 339 | Ali: A Life | JONATHAN EIG | The New York Times |
| 340 | All Among the Barley | Observer | |
| 341 | All The Animals Where I Live | Philip C. Stead | NPR |
| 342 | All The Answers | Michael Kupperman | NPR |
| 343 | All the Pieces Matter: The Inside Story of The Wire | Jonathan Abrams | Mental Floss |
| 344 | All We Know of Pleasure: Poetic Erotica | Women | Broadly |
| 345 | Am I Doing This Right? | Book Depository | |
| 346 | Am I There Yet?: The Loop-de-loop, Zigzagging Journey to Adulthood | Mari Andrew | Self |
| 347 | Amal Unbound | Aisha Saeed | NPR |
| 348 | America Is Not The Heart: A Novel | Elaine Castillo | NPR |
| 349 | American Dialogue: The Founders and Us | JOSEPH J. ELLIS | The New York Times |
| 350 | American Eden: David Hosack, Botany and Medicine in the Garden of the Early Republic | VICTORIA JOHNSON | The New York Times |
| 351 | American Interiors | Observer | |
| 352 | American Like Me: Reflections on Life Between Cultures | Book Riot | |
| 353 | American Panda | Gloria Chao | StyleCaster |
| 354 | Americanah | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | One Little Library |
| 355 | An Anthology of Intriguing Animals | Guardian | |
| 356 | An Englishwoman’s Guide to the Cowboy | June Kearns | Put It in Writing |
| 357 | An Irrational Hatred of Everything | Robert Banks | Iain Dale |
| 358 | An Ocean of Minutes | Thea Lim | StyleCaster |
| 359 | Ana Maria Reyes Does Not Live In A Castle | Hilda Eunice Burgos | NPR |
| 360 | And Then All Hell Broke Loose: Two Decades in the Middle East | Richard Engel | Business Insider |
| 361 | And Then There Were None | Agatha Christie | One Little Library |
| 362 | Anger is a Gift | Book Riot | |
| 363 | Animals Eat Each Other | Elle Nash | LitReactor |
| 364 | Anne Frank’s Diary: The Graphic Adaptation | Guardian | |
| 365 | Antisocial Media: How Facebook Disconnects Us And Undermines Democracy | Siva Vaidhyanathan | NPR |
| 366 | Arlott, Swanton and the Soul of English Cricket | Guardian | |
| 367 | Arthur Ashe: A Life | Raymond Arsenault | NPR |
| 368 | Aska | Book Depository | |
| 369 | Asma’s Indian Kitchen | Observer | |
| 370 | Aware: The Science and Practice of Presence—The Groundbreaking Meditation Practice | Daniel J. Siegel | Greater Good Magazine |
| 371 | AYITI | Roxane Gay | Fodor’s Travel |
| 372 | Baby Monkey, Private Eye | Book Depository | |
| 373 | Baby, You’re Gonna Be Mine: Stories | Kevin Wilson | Washington Independent Review of Books |
| 374 | Back Talk: Stories | Danielle Lazarin | NPR |
| 375 | Ball Lightning | Cixin Liu, translated | NPR |
| 376 | Baptism of Fire | Andrzej Sapkowski | You and I Books |
| 377 | Basic Black with Pearls | Helen Weinzweig | Radhika’s Reading Retreat |
| 378 | Basketball (and Other Things) | Shea Serrano | Business Insider |
| 379 | Batman: White Knight | Sean Murphy | Den of Geek |
| 380 | Be Kind | Book Depository | |
| 381 | Be Prepared | Vera Brosgol | NPR |
| 382 | Be With | Literary Hub | |
| 383 | Beautiful Country Burn Again: | Guardian | |
| 384 | Behind the Vale | Brian D. Anderson | You and I Books |
| 385 | BELLA FIGURA | Kamin Mohammadi | Fodor’s Travel |
| 386 | Belonging: A German Reckons With History And Home | Nora Krug | NPR |
| 387 | Ben Sasse, Them: Why We Hate Each Other-And How to Heal | Crosswalk | |
| 388 | Beneath A Ruthless Sun: A True Story Of Violence, Race, And Justice Lost And Found | Gilbert King | NPR |
| 389 | Bergeners | Tomas Espedal | Radhika’s Reading Retreat |
| 390 | Beside the Syrian Sea | James Wolff | London Evening Standard |
| 391 | Betraying Big Brother: The Feminist Awakening in China | Newsweek | |
| 392 | Between Earth and Sky | Amanda Skenandore | Broken Teepee |
| 393 | Beyond Tribal Loyalties | Avigail Abarbanel | Put It in Writing |
| 394 | Big Game: The NFL In Dangerous Times | Mark Leibovich | NPR |
| 395 | Big Little Lies | Liane Moriarty | The Fictional Chef |
| 396 | Bingo Love | Tee Franklin, illustrated | NPR |
| 397 | Black Public History in Chicago: Civil Rights Activism from World War II into the Cold War | Ian Rocksborough-Smith | The Progressive |
| 398 | Blackout: Remembering the Things I Drank to Forget | Sarah Hepola | Jezebel |
| 399 | Blood of the Gods | David Mealing | The Quill To Live |
| 400 | Blowing the Bloody Doors Off | Guardian | |
| 401 | Blue | Laura Vaccaro Seeger | NPR |
| 402 | Bob | Book Depository | |
| 403 | Bobby Kennedy: A Raging Spirit | Chris Matthews | The Conversation |
| 404 | Bold & Brave: Ten Heroes Who Won Women the Right to Vote | Newsweek | |
| 405 | Book a Hotel | Fodor’s Travel | |
| 406 | Books | Den Of Geek writers | Den of Geek |
| 407 | Bookworm | Lucy Mangan | Den of Geek |
| 408 | BOSH! | Book Depository | |
| 409 | BOY SWALLOWS UNIVERSE | Marie Claire 2 | |
| 410 | Boys Will Be Boys | Clementine Ford | The Listener |
| 411 | Brazen | Book Depository | |
| 412 | Breathe | Observer | |
| 413 | Bridge of Clay | Markus Zusak | The Listener |
| 414 | Brightly Burning | Book Depository | |
| 415 | Bring It | Observer | |
| 416 | Brit(ish): On Race, Identity and Belonging | Guardian | |
| 417 | Broad Band | Book Depository | |
| 418 | Broadsword Calling Danny Boy | Geoff Dyer | London Evening Standard |
| 419 | Broken Ground | Val McDermid | Crime Fiction Lover |
| 420 | Broken River | J. Robert Lennon | LitReactor |
| 421 | Brothers in Blood | Guardian | |
| 422 | Bruce Lee: A Life | Matthew Polly | Washington Independent Review of Books |
| 423 | Bruegel’s Winter Scenes | Observer | |
| 424 | Butterfly | Guardian | |
| 425 | Caddyshack: The Making of a Hollywood Cinderella Story | Chris Nashawaty | Mental Floss |
| 426 | Cake: A Cookbook | Maira Kalman and Barbara Scott-Goodman | NPR |
| 427 | Call Me American | Abdi Nor Iftin | Boston.com |
| 428 | CALL ME ZEBRA | Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi | Fodor’s Travel |
| 429 | Call Them by Their True Names | Arcadia on Books | |
| 430 | Calling All Minds | Book Depository | |
| 431 | Carceral Capitalism | Jackie Wang | Blackout |
| 432 | Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice | Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Sanarasinha | Broadly |
| 433 | Case Histories | Kate Atkinson | Business Insider |
| 434 | Caspian: The Elements | Observer | |
| 435 | Catherine McIlwaine, Tolkien: Maker of Middle-earth | Crosswalk | |
| 436 | Cenzontle | Marcelo Hernandez Castillo | NPR |
| 437 | Chamber Music: | Guardian | |
| 438 | Charlotte Walsh Likes to Win | Jo Piazza | Marie Claire 1 |
| 439 | Charmcaster & Soulbinder | Sebastien de Castell | The Quill To Live |
| 440 | Chasing Hillary: Ten Years, Two Presidential Campaigns, And One Intact Glass Ceiling | Amy Chozick | NPR |
| 441 | Che: A Revolutionary Life | Jon Lee Anderson, illustrated | NPR |
| 442 | Citizen Illegal | José Olivarez | NPR |
| 443 | City Of Ash And Red: A Novel | Hye-young Pyun, translated | NPR |
| 444 | City of Kings | Rob J. Hayes | You and I Books |
| 445 | City of Light | Guardian | |
| 446 | Cloudbursts – Collected and New Stories | Thomas McGuane | Washington Independent Review of Books |
| 447 | Coal Black Mornings | Guardian | |
| 448 | Coconuts and Collards | Book Depository | |
| 449 | Column | Joshua Chaplinsky | LitReactor |
| 450 | Come Again | Nate Powell | NPR |
| 451 | Come West And See: Stories | Maxim Loskutoff | NPR |
| 452 | Comfort In An Instant: 75 Comfort Food Recipes For Your Pressure Cooker, Multicooker, And Instant Pot | Melissa Clark | NPR |
| 453 | Conan Doyle for the Defense: The True Story of a Sensational British Murder, a Quest for Justice, and the World’s Most Famous Detective Writer | Margalit Fox | Mental Floss |
| 454 | Confessions of a Recovering Politician | Nick de Bois | Iain Dale |
| 455 | Confessions of the Fox | New Yorker | |
| 456 | Consent | Leo Benedictus | The Listener |
| 457 | Conspiracy: Peter Thiel, Hulk Hogan, Gawker, And The Anatomy Of Intrigue | Ryan Holiday | NPR |
| 458 | Contact High: A Visual History Of Hip-Hop | Vikki Tobak | NPR |
| 459 | Counting on Katherine: How Katherine Johnson Saved Apollo 13 | CCBC | |
| 460 | Coyote Doggirl | Lisa Hanawalt | NPR |
| 461 | Coyote Songs | Gabino Iglesias | LitReactor |
| 462 | Creative Selection: Inside Apple’s Design Process During the Golden Age of Steve Jobs | Ken Kocienda | Business Insider |
| 463 | Crimson Lake | Book Depository | |
| 464 | Crook’s Hollow | Robert Parker | LitReactor |
| 465 | Cruel Fiction | Wendy Trevino | Blackout |
| 466 | Crux: A Cross-Border Memoir | Jean Guerrero | NPR |
| 467 | Cyber Wars | Observer | |
| 468 | Dactyl Hill Squad | Daniel José Older | NPR |
| 469 | Daemon Voices | Philip Pullman | Slate |
| 470 | Damnation Island: Poor, Sick, Mad, and Criminal in 19th-Century New York | Stacy Horn | Mental Floss |
| 471 | Dancing Bears: True Stories Of People Nostalgic For Life Under Tyranny | Witold Szablowski, translated | NPR |
| 472 | Dark Sacred Night | Book Depository | |
| 473 | Darwin Comes To Town: How The Urban Jungle Drives Evolution | Menno Schilthuizen | NPR |
| 474 | David R. Neinhuis, A Concise Guide to Reading the New Testament: A Canonical Introduction | Crosswalk | |
| 475 | Deadhouse Gates | A Mind for Madness | |
| 476 | Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen | Jose Antonio Vargas | The Progressive |
| 477 | Dear Evan Hansen | Val Emmich | Weird Zeal |
| 478 | Dear Madam President | Book Depository | |
| 479 | Dearest Squirrel | Observer | |
| 480 | Death Of A Rainmaker: A Dust Bowl Mystery | Laurie Loewenstein | NPR |
| 481 | Debussy: A Painter in Sound | Guardian | |
| 482 | Deep Underwater | CCBC | |
| 483 | Design as Democracy: Techniques for Collective Creativity | The Dirt | |
| 484 | Desirable Body by Hubert Haddad, translated from the French by Alyson Waters | Newsweek | |
| 485 | Destined for War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides’s Trap? | Bloomberg | |
| 486 | Devil at My Heels | David Rensin and Louis Zamperini | Contemplative Nostalgia |
| 487 | Devil’s Pawn | Kukogho Iruesiri Samson | Daily Trust |
| 488 | Diaries Volume 7: From Crash to Defeat | Alastair Campbell | Iain Dale |
| 489 | Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Meltdown (book 13) | Book Depository | |
| 490 | Dirty Plotte | Observer | |
| 491 | Disappointment River | Book Depository | |
| 492 | Disoriental | Book Riot | |
| 493 | Divided | Tim Marshall | Put It in Writing |
| 494 | Do Not Lick This Book | Idan Ben-Barak, illustrated | NPR |
| 495 | Dog Man 5: Lord of the Fleas | Book Depository | |
| 496 | Dog Show 1961-1978 | Guardian | |
| 497 | Doing Harm: The Truth About How Bad Medicine And Lazy Science Leave Women Dismissed, Misdiagnosed, And Sick | Maya Dusenbery | NPR |
| 498 | Don’t Call Us Dead | Observer | |
| 499 | Don’t Skip Out on Me | Willy Vlautin. | KGNU |
| 500 | Donald Trump! Annual 2019 | Guardian | |
| 501 | Dragons In A Bag | Zetta Elliott, illustrated | NPR |
| 502 | Dramatic Exchanges | Observer | |
| 503 | Drawing Architecture | Observer | |
| 504 | Drawn Together | Minh Lê, illustrated | NPR |
| 505 | Dry, Neal Shusterman, Jarrod Shusterman. | KGNU | |
| 506 | Duppies | Guardian | |
| 507 | Dust to Dew | Betty Irabor | Daily Trust |
| 508 | Dylan by Schatzberg | Newsweek | |
| 509 | Earthrise: Apollo 8 and the Photo That Changed the World | CCBC | |
| 510 | Eat a Little Better | Book Depository | |
| 511 | Eat Happy: 30-minute Feelgood Food | Book Depository | |
| 512 | Eden | Andrea Kleine | NYLON |
| 513 | EGGSHELL SKULL | Marie Claire 2 | |
| 514 | Eight to 12 years | Guardian | |
| 515 | Eleanor, Or, the Rejection of the Progress of Love | Brazos Bookstore -Mark | |
| 516 | Elevation | Stephen King | Phoenix Public Library |
| 517 | Elon Musk | Ashlee Vance | Darius Foroux |
| 518 | ELSEY COME HOME | Susan Conley | Fodor’s Travel |
| 519 | Embers | Soji Cole | Daily Trust |
| 520 | Emotional Success: The Power of Gratitude, Compassion, and Pride | David DeSteno | Greater Good Magazine |
| 521 | Empire of Sand | Tasha Suri | You and I Books |
| 522 | England: Poems From a School | Observer | |
| 523 | Enigma Variations | Andre Aciman | London Evening Standard |
| 524 | Enter, Fleeing | Observer | |
| 525 | Eternal Life | DARA HORN | The New York Times |
| 526 | Eternity Girl | Magdalene Visaggio, illustrated | NPR |
| 527 | Eunice: The Kennedy Who Changed the World | Eileen McNamara | Washington Independent Review of Books |
| 528 | Europe: A Natural History | Guardian | |
| 529 | Eventide | Newsweek | |
| 530 | Every Note Played | Lisa Genova | The Bad Mommy Diaries |
| 531 | Everyday Dorie: The Way I Cook | Dorie Greenspan | NPR |
| 532 | Everything Here Is Beautiful | Book Depository | |
| 533 | Everything I Know About Love | Book Depository | |
| 534 | Everything You Love Will Burn: Inside the Rebirth of White Nationalism in America | Vegas Tenold | LitReactor |
| 535 | Everything You Need For A Treehouse | Carter Higgins, illustrated | NPR |
| 536 | Everything’s Trash, But It’s Okay | Book Riot | |
| 537 | Excess — The Factory | Leslie Kaplan | Blackout |
| 538 | Exit Stage Left: The Snagglepuss Chronicles | Mark Russell, illustrated | NPR |
| 539 | Exposure | Olivia Sudjic | London Evening Standard |
| 540 | Extreme Conservation: Life at the Edges of the World | Joel Berger | Washington Independent Review of Books |
| 541 | Face the Wind and Fly | Jenny Harper | Put It in Writing |
| 542 | Famous Adopted People: A Novel | Alice Stephens | Washington Independent Review of Books |
| 543 | Famous Father Girl: A Memoir Of Growing Up Bernstein | Jamie Bernstein | NPR |
| 544 | Fantastic Four: Behold … Galactus! | Stan Lee, John Byrne, and Jack Kirby | Mental Floss |
| 545 | Fatal Inheritance | Rachel Rhys | Red |
| 546 | Female Persuasion | Book Depository | |
| 547 | Feminasty | Erin Gibson | Glamour |
| 548 | Find Me Gone | Sarah Meuleman | Marie Claire 1 |
| 549 | Fire and Blood | Book Depository | |
| 550 | Fire Sermon | Literary Hub | |
| 551 | Fire Song | CCBC | |
| 552 | Firefly | Henry Porter | London Evening Standard |
| 553 | Five to eight years | Guardian | |
| 554 | Flash: The Making of Weegee the Famous | Christopher Bonanos | Newsday |
| 555 | Floating City | Kerri Sakamoto | NOW Toronto |
| 556 | Fly Girls | Keith O’Brien. | Dandelion Chandelier |
| 557 | Flying Tips for Flightless Birds | Guardian | |
| 558 | Football for a Buck: The Crazy Rise and Crazier Demise of the USFL | Jeff Pearlman | The Maine Edge |
| 559 | For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Politics | Newsweek | |
| 560 | FOR THE COUSIN WHO LOVES A PLUCKY HEROINE | Newsweek | |
| 561 | Force of Nature | Observer | |
| 562 | Forever Or A Day | Sarah Jacoby | NPR |
| 563 | French Exit | Patrick deWitt | NOW Toronto |
| 564 | From Cold War to Hot Peace | Book Depository | |
| 565 | From the Heart of Africa: A Book of Wisdom | CCBC | |
| 566 | From Twinkle, With Love | Sandhya Menon | NPR |
| 567 | Front Desk | Kelly Yang | NPR |
| 568 | Fruit of Knowledge | Guardian | |
| 569 | Fruit of the Drunken Tree | Ingrid Rojas Contreras | Harvard Crimson |
| 570 | Full Disclosure | Stormy Daniels | NPR |
| 571 | Future Home of the Living God | Guardian | |
| 572 | Future Politics: Living Together in a World Transformed | Tech | London Evening Standard |
| 573 | Gandhi: The Years that Changed the World, 1914-1948 | Ramachandra Guha | The Listener |
| 574 | Garage | Newsweek | |
| 575 | Gary Moon, Becoming Dallas Willard: The Formation of a Philosopher, Teacher, and Christ Follower | Crosswalk | |
| 576 | Gather & Graze | Book Depository | |
| 577 | George Howe Colt | Newsweek | |
| 578 | Getting Things Done | David Allen | Deep Dish |
| 579 | GGN Landscapes, 1999-2018 | The Dirt | |
| 580 | Ghost Boys | Book Depository | |
| 581 | Ghost Wall | Observer | |
| 582 | Ghosts In The Schoolyard: Racism And School Closings On Chicago’s South Side | Eve L. Ewing | NPR |
| 583 | Giada’s Italy | Book Depository | |
| 584 | Gift Horse | Jan Ruth | Put It in Writing |
| 585 | Girl Squads: 20 Female Friendships That Changed History | CCBC | |
| 586 | Girls | Guardian | |
| 587 | Give Me Some Truth | Eric Gansworth | NPR |
| 588 | Gnomon: A Novel | Nick Harkaway | NPR |
| 589 | Go, Went, Gone | JENNY ERPENBECK. Translated by Susan | The New York Times |
| 590 | Gods of Howl Mountain | Taylor Brown | LitReactor |
| 591 | Gods of Wood and Stone | Mark Di Ionno | The Maine Edge |
| 592 | Gone So Long | Andre Dubus III | Boston.com |
| 593 | Good Night Stories For Rebel Girls 2 | Elena Favilli and Francesca Cavallo | Muddy Stilettos |
| 594 | Grant | Bloomberg | |
| 595 | Great at Work: How Top Performers Do Less, Work Better, and Achieve More | Morten Hansen | Greater Good Magazine |
| 596 | Great Believers | Rebecca Makkai. | KGNU |
| 597 | Greeks Bearing Gifts | Philip Kerr | NPR |
| 598 | Green Sun | Kent Anderson | The Listener |
| 599 | Gross Anatomy: Dispatches from the Front (and Back) | Mara Altman | The Progressive |
| 600 | Grumpy Monkey | Suzanne Lang, Max Lang | KGNU |
| 601 | Hadrian’s Wall | Adrian Goldsworthy | Washington Independent Review of Books |
| 602 | Half of a Yellow Sun | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | Business Insider |
| 603 | Half-Witch | John Schoffstall | NPR |
| 604 | Halfstory Halflife | Observer | |
| 605 | Happy Together: Using the Science of Positive Psychology to Build Love That Lasts | Suzann Pileggi Pawelski and James Pawelski | Greater Good Magazine |
| 606 | Heartbreaker | Claudia Dey | The Maine Edge |
| 607 | Heaven on Earth: Painting and the Life to Come | Observer | |
| 608 | Heimat | Guardian | |
| 609 | Hello Hello | Book Depository | |
| 610 | Hello World | Guardian | |
| 611 | Here To Stay | Sara Farizan | NPR |
| 612 | Hey, Kiddo | Jarrett J. Krosoczka | NPR |
| 613 | Hidden Tapestry: Jan Yoors, His Two Wives, and the War That Made Them One | Debra Dean | Washington Independent Review of Books |
| 614 | High Growth Handbook | Bloomberg | |
| 615 | High White Sun | J Todd Scott | Crime Fiction Lover |
| 616 | Hiking With Nietzsche: On Becoming Who You Are | John Kaag | NPR |
| 617 | His Favorites: A Novel | Kate Walbert | NPR |
| 618 | Hit Refresh: The Quest to Rediscover Microsoft’s Soul and Imagine a Better Future for Everyone | Bloomberg | |
| 619 | Hitler’s British Traitors | Tim Tale | Iain Dale |
| 620 | Homelands: Four Friends, Two Countries, And The Fate Of The Great Mexican-American Migration | Alfredo Corchado | NPR |
| 621 | Homey Don’t Play That!: The Story of In Living Color and the Black Comedy Revolution | David Peisner | Mental Floss |
| 622 | Hope in The Holler | Book Depository | |
| 623 | House of Stone | Novuyo Rosa Tshuma | The Listener |
| 624 | Housegirl: A Novel | Michael Donkor | NPR |
| 625 | How Are You Going To Save Yourself | JM Holmes | NPR |
| 626 | How Democracy Ends | Observer | |
| 627 | How Long ‘Til Black Future Month?: Stories | N.K. Jemisin | NPR |
| 628 | How Saints Die | Carmen Marcus | Den of Geek |
| 629 | How Shostakovich Changed My Mind | Stephen Johnson | London Evening Standard |
| 630 | How to be a Craftivist | Sarah Corbett | Put It in Writing |
| 631 | How To Be A Lion | Ed Vere | NPR |
| 632 | How to Be Alone: If You Want To, and Even If You Don’t | Lane Moore | Marie Claire 1 |
| 633 | How to Break up with Your Phone | Catherine Price | The National |
| 634 | How To Invent Everything: A Survival Guide For The Stranded Time Traveler | Ryan North | NPR |
| 635 | How to Live Forever: The Enduring Power of Connecting the Generations | Marc Freedman | Greater Good Magazine |
| 636 | HOW TO LOVE A JAMAICAN | Alexia Arthurs | Fodor’s Travel |
| 637 | Hudson and Halls: The Food of Love | Joanne Drayton | The Listener |
| 638 | Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body | Roxane Gay | Business Insider |
| 639 | I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes With Death | Book Depository | |
| 640 | I Can’t Date Jesus: Love, Sex, Family, Race, and Other Reasons I’ve Put My Faith in Beyoncé | Michael Arceneaux | Jezebel |
| 641 | I Might Regret This | Newsweek | |
| 642 | I Saw Eternity the Other Night: King’s College, Cambridge, and an English Singing Style | Guardian | |
| 643 | I Still Dream | Guardian | |
| 644 | I’ll Be There For You: The One About Friends | Kelsey Miller | Mental Floss |
| 645 | I’m A Joke And So Are You | Robin Ince | Den of Geek |
| 646 | I’m Absolutely Fine!: A Manual for Imperfect Women | Emilie McMeekan and Annabel Rivkin | London Evening Standard |
| 647 | Ice | Anna Kavan | Radhika’s Reading Retreat |
| 648 | Identity: Contemporary Identity Politics and the S | Observer | |
| 649 | If They Come for Us | Fatimah Asghar | The Progressive |
| 650 | If You See Me, Don’t Say Hi: Stories | Neel Patel | NPR |
| 651 | Imagine Wanting Only This | Guardian | |
| 652 | Improvement | JOAN SILBER | The New York Times |
| 653 | In Defense of Public Lands: The Case against Privatization and Transfer | Steven Davis | The Progressive |
| 654 | In Every Moment We Still Are Alive | TOM MALMQUIST. Translated by | The New York Times |
| 655 | In My Life | Alan Johnson | Iain Dale |
| 656 | In Praise of Shadows | Observer | |
| 657 | In Pursuit of Civility | Keith Thomas | London Evening Standard |
| 658 | In the Enemy’s House: The Secret Saga of the FBI Agent and the Code Breaker Who Caught the Russian Spies | Howard Blum | Mental Floss |
| 659 | Inappropriation | Lexi Freiman | NYLON |
| 660 | Incerto | Nassim Nicholas Taleb | Darius Foroux |
| 661 | Indianapolis: The True Story Of The Worst Sea Disaster In U.S. Naval History And The Fifty-Year Fight To Exonerate An Innocent Man | Lynn Vincent and Sara Vladic | NPR |
| 662 | Indictus | Natalie Eilbert | The Progressive |
| 663 | Infidel | Pornsak Pichetshote and Aaron Campbell | NPR |
| 664 | Inkling | CCBC | |
| 665 | Inner City Pressure: The Story Of Grime | Dan Hancox | NPR |
| 666 | Inseparable: The Original Siamese Twins And Their Rendezvous With American History | Yunte Huang | NPR |
| 667 | Inside the Villains | Guardian | |
| 668 | Inspired: How to Create Tech Products Customers Love | Bloomberg | |
| 669 | Isobel’s Promise | Maggie Christensen | Put It in Writing |
| 670 | Israeli Soul: Easy, Essential, Delicious | Michael Solomonov and Steven Cook | NPR |
| 671 | It’s Who We Are | Christine Webber | Put It in Writing |
| 672 | Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter To The World | Ashley Herring Blake | NPR |
| 673 | Jam Session: A Fruit-Preserving Handbook | Joyce Goldstein | NPR |
| 674 | Jane, Unlimited | Kristin Cashore | Weird Zeal |
| 675 | Japan: The Cookbook | Book Depository | |
| 676 | Jar of Hearts | Jennifer Hillier | LitReactor |
| 677 | Jaron Lanier, Ten Reasons for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now | Crosswalk | |
| 678 | Jasper | Observer | |
| 679 | Jeeves and the Ace of Clubs | Ben Schott | London Evening Standard |
| 680 | Jell-O Girls. | KGNU | |
| 681 | Jeremy Corbyn and the Strange Rebirth of Labour England | Guardian | |
| 682 | Just The Funny Parts: …And A Few Hard Truths About Sneaking Into The Hollywood Boys’ Club | Nell Scovell | NPR |
| 683 | K-Punk | Mark Fisher | Blackout |
| 684 | Kaiser! | Guardian | |
| 685 | Karen Swallow Prior, On Reading Well: Finding the Good Life Through the Great Books | Crosswalk | |
| 686 | Kayleen Schaefer | Dandelion Chandelier | |
| 687 | Keeping At It: The Quest for Sound Money and Good Government | Bloomberg | |
| 688 | Killers of the Flower Moon | David Grann | Contemplative Nostalgia |
| 689 | King Of Assassins | RJ Barker | You and I Books |
| 690 | Kingdom | Guardian | |
| 691 | Kingdom Of Gravity | Nick Makoha | Daily Trust |
| 692 | Kitchen Confidential | Anthony Bourdain | Business Insider |
| 693 | Korean Home Cooking: Classic and Modern Recipes | Newsweek | |
| 694 | Korrespondenz, Briefe, Texte und Dokumente | Arthur Rimbaud | Blackout |
| 695 | Lab Girl | Hope Jahren | Business Insider |
| 696 | Landfill | Guardian | |
| 697 | Last Dragon Standing | Rachel Aaron | The Quill To Live |
| 698 | Late Fame | Arthur Schnitzler | Jezebel |
| 699 | Lateral Cooking | Observer | |
| 700 | Laura & Emma | Literary Hub | |
| 701 | Laws Of Human Nature | Robert Greene | Darius Foroux |
| 702 | Learning to Breathe | CCBC | |
| 703 | Leif Enger, Virgil Wander: A Novel | Crosswalk | |
| 704 | Lenin the Dictator | Victor Sebestyen | London Evening Standard |
| 705 | Leonardo da Vinci | Bloomberg | |
| 706 | Less | Andrew Sean Greer | The Listener |
| 707 | Let’s Go | Newsweek | |
| 708 | Let’s Eat France | Guardian | |
| 709 | Letters to the Leaders of China: Kongjian Yu and the Future of the Chinese City | The Dirt | |
| 710 | Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence | Bloomberg | |
| 711 | Life, Liberation and Doris Lessing | Lara Feigel’s Free Woman | London Evening Standard |
| 712 | Like A Mother: A Feminist Journey Through The Science And Culture Of Pregnancy | Angela Garbes | NPR |
| 713 | Lilac Girls | Martha Hall Kelly | The Bad Mommy Diaries |
| 714 | Liquid | Observer | |
| 715 | Listen To The Marriage: A Novel | John Jay Osborn | NPR |
| 716 | Little: A Novel | Edward Carey | NPR |
| 717 | Llamaphones | Book Depository | |
| 718 | Long Shot | Book Riot | |
| 719 | Look Alive Out There | Book Depository | |
| 720 | Look For Me | Book Depository | |
| 721 | Looking for Lorraine: The Radiant and Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry | Imani Perry | Dandelion Chandelier |
| 722 | Lord of The Butterflies | Andrea Gibson | Marie Claire 1 |
| 723 | Lost Objects | Marian Womack | Den of Geek |
| 724 | Love & Trouble | Claire Dederer | Muddy Stilettos |
| 725 | Luckiest Girl Alive | Jessica Knoll | The Bad Mommy Diaries |
| 726 | Luisa – Now And Then | Carole Maurel and Mariko Tamaki | NPR |
| 727 | Ma’am Darling: 99 Glimpses of Princess Margaret | Craig Brown | The Listener |
| 728 | Machine Without Horses | Helen Humphreys | NOW Toronto |
| 729 | Mad Boy | Nick Arvin. | KGNU |
| 730 | Mad Love and War | Joy Harjo | Contemplative Nostalgia |
| 731 | Maeve in America: Essays | a Girl from Somewhere Else | The Progressive |
| 732 | Magnolia Table | Book Depository | |
| 733 | Maker of Patterns | Book Depository | |
| 734 | Making Up | Lucy Parker | NPR |
| 735 | Maps of London & Beyond | Guardian | |
| 736 | Mariam Sharma Hits The Road | Sheba Karim | NPR |
| 737 | Marilynne Robinson, What Are We Doing Here?: Essays | Crosswalk | |
| 738 | Mars Room | Rachel Kushner | KGNU |
| 739 | Masahisa Fukase | Observer | |
| 740 | Mastering Fear: A Navy SEAL’s Guide | Brandon Webb and John David Mann | NPR |
| 741 | Maxwell King, The Good Neighbor: The Life and Work of Fred Rogers | Crosswalk | |
| 742 | Mazarine | Charlotte Grimshaw | The Listener |
| 743 | Meddling Kids | Edgar Cantero | LitReactor |
| 744 | Megabat | CCBC | |
| 745 | Memory and Straw | Angus Peter Campbell | Put It in Writing |
| 746 | Memory Pieces | Maurice Gee | The Listener |
| 747 | Memphis Rent Party: The Blues, Rock & Soul In Music’s Hometown | Robert Gordon | NPR |
| 748 | Midden | Julia Bouwsma | NPR |
| 749 | Midwinter Break | Bernard MacLaverty | Put It in Writing |
| 750 | Milk Street: Tuesday Nights: More Than 200 Simple Weeknight Suppers That Deliver Bold Flavor, Fast | Christopher Kimball | NPR |
| 751 | Mine | JL Butler | Muddy Stilettos |
| 752 | Mirage | Lost Between the Pages | |
| 753 | Miss Blaine’s Prefect and the Golden Samovar | Olga Wojtas | Put It in Writing |
| 754 | Missing | Alison Moore | Radhika’s Reading Retreat |
| 755 | Mississippi Vegan: Recipes and Stories From a Southern Boy’s Heart | Newsweek | |
| 756 | Mommy’s Khimar | Jamilah Thompkins-Bigelow, illustrated | NPR |
| 757 | Money in the Morgue | Ngaio Marsh & Stella Duffy | The Listener |
| 758 | Monster | CCBC | |
| 759 | Monster Portraits | Sofia Samatar, illustrated | NPR |
| 760 | Mr Lear: A Life of Art and Nonsense | Jenny Uglow | The Listener |
| 761 | Mr. Nice Guy | Jennifer Miller and Jason Feiffer | StyleCaster |
| 762 | Municipal Dreams | Observer | |
| 763 | Murmur | Guardian | |
| 764 | My Brother’s Husband, Volume 2 | Gengoroh Tagame, translated | NPR |
| 765 | My Ex-Life: A Novel | Stephen McCauley | NPR |
| 766 | My Life As A Goddess: A Memoir Through (Un)Popular Culture | Guy Branum | NPR |
| 767 | My Life in Football | Kevin Keegan | Iain Dale |
| 768 | My Love Story | Guardian | |
| 769 | My Own Devices: True Stories From The Road On Music, Science, And Senseless Love | Dessa | NPR |
| 770 | My So-Called Bollywood Life | Nisha Sharma | NPR |
| 771 | My Squirrel Days | Ellie Kemper | Den of Geek |
| 772 | My Struggle: Book 6 | KARL OVE KNAUSGAARD. | The New York Times |
| 773 | My Transition Hours | Goodluck Jonathan | Daily Trust |
| 774 | Mystic River | A Mind for Madness | |
| 775 | Mythos | Stephen Fry | Cat Rose |
| 776 | Never Anyone But You | Guardian | |
| 777 | Neverworld Wake | Marisha Pessl | LitReactor |
| 778 | New Power: How Power Works in Our Hyperconnected World—and How to Make It Work for You | Bloomberg | |
| 779 | New Sampler Quilt | Diana Leone | Econogal |
| 780 | New Shoes | Chris Raschka | NPR |
| 781 | Next Year in Havana | Book Riot | |
| 782 | Night Moves | Jessica Hopper | NPR |
| 783 | Nightmare Keep | Phil Tucker | You and I Books |
| 784 | Nine Pints | Guardian | |
| 785 | No Fixed Address | CCBC | |
| 786 | No Limits: How Craig Heatley Became a Top New Zealand Entrepreneur | Joanne Black | The Listener |
| 787 | Noir | Christopher Moore | The Maine Edge |
| 788 | Nomadland | Jessica Bruder | Jezebel |
| 789 | Not My Idea: A Book About Whiteness | Anastasia Higginbotham | NPR |
| 790 | November Road | Newsweek | |
| 791 | Now & Again: Go-To Recipes, Inspired Menus + Endless Ideas For Reinventing Leftovers | Julia Turshen | NPR |
| 792 | Now We Can See the Moon | Berit Ellingsen | LitReactor |
| 793 | Now We Shall Be Entirely Free | Andrew Miller | London Evening Standard |
| 794 | Number One Chinese Restaurant: A Novel | Lillian Li | NPR |
| 795 | Obsidio – the Illuminae files part 3 | Book Depository | |
| 796 | Odd One Out | Nic Stone | NPR |
| 797 | Of Sirens, Body & Faultlines | Nat Raha | Blackout |
| 798 | Of Women And Frogs | Bisi Adjapon | Daily Trust |
| 799 | OFF THE RAILS | Beppe Severgnini | Fodor’s Travel |
| 800 | Oh Crumbs | Kathryn Freeman | Put It in Writing |
| 801 | Old Baggage | Lissa Evans | Red |
| 802 | On Our Street: Our First Talk About Poverty | CCBC | |
| 803 | On The Other Side Of Freedom: The Case For Hope | DeRay Mckesson | NPR |
| 804 | Once And Forever: The Tales Of Kenji Miyazawa | Kenji Miyazawa, translated | NPR |
| 805 | Once Upon a River | Diane Setterfield | Broken Teepee |
| 806 | Once Upon a Snowstorm | Richard Johnson | London Evening Standard |
| 807 | ONE DAY IN DECEMBER | Josie Silver | Fodor’s Travel |
| 808 | One in a Million | Lindsey Kelk | Marie Claire 1 |
| 809 | One of Us Is Lying | Karen McManus | The Bad Mommy Diaries |
| 810 | One Thousand Stars and You | Isabelle Broom | Put It in Writing |
| 811 | One Word Kill | Mark Lawrence | You and I Books |
| 812 | Only Killers and Thieves | Book Depository | |
| 813 | Ordinary People | New Yorker | |
| 814 | Ordinary Saviour’ edited by Richard Ali & Abubakar Adam Ibrahim | Daily Trust | |
| 815 | Other People’s Love Affairs: Stories | D. Wystan Owen | Washington Independent Review of Books |
| 816 | Our House | Louise Candlish | Red |
| 817 | Our Towns: A 100,000-Mile Journey Into the Heart of America | Bloomberg | |
| 818 | Overgrown: Practices Between Landscape Architecture and Gardening | The Dirt | |
| 819 | Owl Sense | Guardian | |
| 820 | Packing My Library: An Elegy And Ten Digressions | Alberto Manguel | NPR |
| 821 | Painter to the King | Observer | |
| 822 | Palaces For The People: How Social Infrastructure Can Help Fight Inequality, Polarization, And The Decline Of Civic Life | Eric Klinenberg | NPR |
| 823 | Palafox | Brazos Bookstore -Mark | |
| 824 | Paper Cuts | Stephen Bernard | London Evening Standard |
| 825 | Paper Ghosts | Julia Heaberlin | Crime Fiction Lover |
| 826 | Paris in the Present Tense | Bloomberg | |
| 827 | Paternus: Wrath of Gods | Dyrk Ashton | You and I Books |
| 828 | Peach | Emma Glass | Washington Independent Review of Books |
| 829 | Peanut Butter and Jelly (a Narwhal and Jelly Book #3) | Book Depository | |
| 830 | Pearls Before Poppies | Rachel Trethewey | London Evening Standard |
| 831 | Peggy | Observer | |
| 832 | Perennial Seller | Ryan Holiday | One Little Library |
| 833 | Perfect Cake | Book Depository | |
| 834 | Persepolis Rising | James S. A. Corey | The Quill To Live |
| 835 | Peter Parker: The Spectacular Spider-Man, Vol. 5 | LitReactor | |
| 836 | Philosophy As a Way of Life | Pierre Hadot | Darius Foroux |
| 837 | Photographic: The Life Of Graciela Iturbide | Isabel Quintero, illustrated | NPR |
| 838 | Photographs 1997-2017 | Observer | |
| 839 | Picture books | Guardian | |
| 840 | Planted | Guardian | |
| 841 | Playing to the Gods: Sarah Bernhardt, Eleonora Duse, and the Rivalry That Changed Acting Forever | Peter Rader | The Maine Edge |
| 842 | Playing with Matches | Hannah Orenstein | StyleCaster |
| 843 | Plum Rains | Book Riot | |
| 844 | Ponti | Literary Hub | |
| 845 | Port of Shadows | Glen Cook | The Quill To Live |
| 846 | Powerful: Building a Culture of Freedom and Responsibility | Bloomberg | |
| 847 | Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder | Caroline Fraser | Jezebel |
| 848 | Priest of Bones | Peter McLean | You and I Books |
| 849 | Principles: Life and Work | Bloomberg | |
| 850 | Promise Me, Dad | Joe Biden | The Conversation |
| 851 | Property | LIONEL SHRIVER. | The New York Times |
| 852 | Providence | Caroline Kepnes | Muddy Stilettos |
| 853 | Punch & Judy Politics | Guardian | |
| 854 | Pure Hollywood: And Other Stories | CHRISTINE SCHUTT | The New York Times |
| 855 | Putney | Sofka Zinovieff | Self |
| 856 | Queen of Air and Darkness | Book Depository | |
| 857 | Quench | Gina Bria & Dana Cohen. | KGNU |
| 858 | Radio Silence | Alice Oseman | Weird Zeal |
| 859 | Rafe | Book Riot | |
| 860 | Raised Row Gardening | Jim and Mary Competti | Econogal |
| 861 | Rationality: From AI to Zombies | Eliezer Yudkowsky | Deep Dish |
| 862 | Rayon Vert | Observer | |
| 863 | Re-engineering Humanity | Observer | |
| 864 | Reagan: An American Journey | Bob Spitz | Publishers Weekly |
| 865 | Rebound | Book Depository | |
| 866 | Reckless Daughter: A Portrait of Joni Mitchell | David Yaffe | Business Insider |
| 867 | Red Card | Ken Bensinger | GQ |
| 868 | Red, White, Blue: A Novel | Lea Carpenter | NPR |
| 869 | Redemption’s Blade: After The War | Adrian Tchaikovsky | Den of Geek |
| 870 | Remembrance of Earth’s Past | A Mind for Madness | |
| 871 | Repeal the 8th | The Progressive | |
| 872 | Repertoire | Book Depository | |
| 873 | Reported Speech | Pavel Arseniev | Blackout |
| 874 | Rescue and Jessica: A Life-Changing Friendship | Book Depository | |
| 875 | Resilient: How to Grow an Unshakable Core of Calm, Strength, and Happiness | Rick Hanson and Forrest Hanson | Greater Good Magazine |
| 876 | Resin | Guardian | |
| 877 | Restless Souls | Literary Hub | |
| 878 | Returning | Yael Shahar | Washington Independent Review of Books |
| 879 | Revenant Gun | Yoon Ha Lee | The Quill To Live |
| 880 | River | Brazos Bookstore -Mark | |
| 881 | River City, City Rivers | The Dirt | |
| 882 | Road to Disaster: A New History of America’s Descent into Vietnam | Brian VanDeMark | Washington Independent Review of Books |
| 883 | Roberto Burle Marx Lectures: Landscape as Art and Urbanism | The Dirt | |
| 884 | Roberto’s Rio | Observer | |
| 885 | Rock Steady: Brilliant Advice From My Bipolar Life | Book Riot | |
| 886 | Rocket Men: The Daring Odyssey of Apollo 8 and the Astronauts Who Made Man’s First Journey to the Moon | Robert Kurson | The Maine Edge |
| 887 | Rogue Protocol & Exit Strategy | Martha Wells | The Quill To Live |
| 888 | Rome Resurgent: War and Empire in the Age of Justinian | Peter Heather | Washington Independent Review of Books |
| 889 | Rosie: Scenes from a Vanished Life | Rose Tremain | London Evening Standard |
| 890 | Rotoroa | Amy Head | The Listener |
| 891 | Royals | Rachel Hawkins | StyleCaster |
| 892 | Sadie | Courtney Summers | NPR |
| 893 | Sadness Is a White Bird: A Novel | Moriel Rothman-Zecher | Washington Independent Review of Books |
| 894 | Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat: Mastering the Elements of Good Cooking | Samin Nosrat | Business Insider |
| 895 | Sam Hunt: Off the Road | Colin Hogg | The Listener |
| 896 | Santa’s Wonderful Workshop | Guardian | |
| 897 | Sawkill Girls | Book Riot | |
| 898 | Scribe: A Novel | Alyson Hagy | NPR |
| 899 | Seafire | Natalie C. Parker | NPR |
| 900 | Searing Inspiration: Fast, Adaptable Entrées And Fresh Pan Sauces | Susan Volland | NPR |
| 901 | Seduction: Sex, Lies and Stardom in Howard Hughes’s Hollywood | Newsweek | |
| 902 | See What Can Be Done: Essays, Criticism, and Commentary | Lorrie Moore | Mental Floss |
| 903 | Seeking Wisdom | Peter Bevelin | Darius Foroux |
| 904 | Senlin Ascends & Arm of the Sphinx* | The Speculative Shelf | |
| 905 | Seth Godin, This Is Marketing: You Can’t Be Seen Until You Learn to See | Crosswalk | |
| 906 | Sevens Heaven | Guardian | |
| 907 | Shade, The Changing Girl Vol. 2: Little Runaway | Cecil Castellucci and Marley Zarcone | NPR |
| 908 | Shadow of the Exile | Mitchell Hogan | You and I Books |
| 909 | Shadows on the Tundra | Dalia Grinkeviciute | Radhika’s Reading Retreat |
| 910 | Shakespeare: The Theatre of Our World | Observer | |
| 911 | She Begat This: 20 Years Of The Miseducation Of Lauryn Hill | Joan Morgan | NPR |
| 912 | She Regrets Nothing | Andrea Dunlop | StyleCaster |
| 913 | She Would Be King | Wayétu Moore | Self |
| 914 | Shout Your Abortion | Amelia Bonow and Emily Nokes | Broadly |
| 915 | Shrinking Violets | Joe Moran | Cat Rose |
| 916 | Sick: A Memoir | Porochista Khakpour | Mental Floss |
| 917 | Sign Here | Guardian | |
| 918 | Sketchtasy | Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore | NPR |
| 919 | Skinningrove | Observer | |
| 920 | Skinny Dip | Carl Hiaasen | Business Insider |
| 921 | Skulduggery Pleasant | Derek Land. | KGNU |
| 922 | Sky in the Deep | Book Depository | |
| 923 | Slave Old Man | PATRICK CHAMOISEAU. Translated | The New York Times |
| 924 | Small Animals: Parenthood In The Age Of Fear | Kim Brooks | NPR |
| 925 | Smoke and Ashes | Observer | |
| 926 | Snow Angel | JJ Marsh | Put It in Writing |
| 927 | Social Creature: A Novel | Tara Isabella Burton | NPR |
| 928 | Soho in the Eighties | Christopher Howse | London Evening Standard |
| 929 | Some Trick: Thirteen Stories | Helen DeWitt | NPR |
| 930 | Somewhere Beyond the Sea | Miranda Dickinson | Put It in Writing |
| 931 | Song of a Captive Bird | Book Depository | |
| 932 | Sorority | Genevieve Sly Crane | Marie Claire 1 |
| 933 | South Toward Home: Adventures and Misadventures in My Native Land | Julia Reed | Washington Independent Review of Books |
| 934 | Space Opera | Catherynne M. Valente | NPR |
| 935 | Spawning Generations: Rants And Reflections On Growing Up With LGBTQ+ Parents edited | Sadie Epstein-Fine and Makeda Zook | NOW Toronto |
| 936 | Speak No Evil | Uzodinma Iweala | Boston.com |
| 937 | Speak: The Graphic Novel | CCBC | |
| 938 | Spent | Geoffrey Miller | Deep Dish |
| 939 | Split Tooth | Tanya Tagaq | NPR |
| 940 | Square Eyes | Guardian | |
| 941 | State Tectonics | Book Riot | |
| 942 | Stay Hungry | Sebastian Maniscalco | Darius Foroux |
| 943 | Stealing The Show: How Women Are Revolutionizing Television | Joy Press | NPR |
| 944 | Stevens Adams: My Life, My Fight | Steven Adams | The Listener |
| 945 | Stolen Life & The Universal Machine | Fred Moten | Blackout |
| 946 | Structures of Coastal Resilience | The Dirt | |
| 947 | Stubborn Attachments: A Vision for a Society of Free, Prosperous, and Responsible Individuals | Bloomberg | |
| 948 | Sugar High: Sweet & Savory Baking in Your High Altitude Kitchen. | KGNU | |
| 949 | Sunburn | Newsweek | |
| 950 | Swan Song | Kelleigh Greenberg-Jephcott | London Evening Standard |
| 951 | Sweep: The Story of a Girl and Her Monster | CCBC | |
| 952 | Swimming Between Worlds | Elaine Neil Orr | Broken Teepee |
| 953 | Syncopation | Book Riot | |
| 954 | Taking the Arrow Out of the Heart | Alice Walker | Mental Floss |
| 955 | Tales from the Inner City | Book Depository | |
| 956 | Tatau: A Cultural History of Samoan Tattooing, | Sean Mallon and Sébastien Galliot | The Listener |
| 957 | Tempests and Slaughter (The Numair Chronicles, Book One) | Book Depository | |
| 958 | Terra Nullius: A Novel | Claire G. Coleman | NPR |
| 959 | Tess Of The Road | Rachel Hartman | NPR |
| 960 | Testimony | Robbie Robertson | Business Insider |
| 961 | Thank You for Being Late | Thomas Friedman | The Conversation |
| 962 | Thanks a Lot Mr Kibblewhite | Guardian | |
| 963 | Thanks A Thousand: A Gratitude Journey | A.J. Jacobs | Mental Floss |
| 964 | That Kind Of Mother: A Novel | Rumaan Alam | NPR |
| 965 | That Thin, Wild Mercury Sound: Dylan, Nashville, and the Making of Blonde on Blonde | Daryl Sanders | Business Insider |
| 966 | That Was Something | Dan Callahan | NYLON |
| 967 | The Alice Network | Kate Quinn | Econogal |
| 968 | The Almost Sisters | Joshilyn Jackson | Broken Teepee |
| 969 | The Anatomy of Story | A Mind for Madness | |
| 970 | The Animators | Kayla Rae Whitaker | Business Insider |
| 971 | The Arab of the Future | Observer | |
| 972 | The Art of the Tea Towel | Guardian | |
| 973 | The Art of the Wasted Day | Arcadia on Books | |
| 974 | The Artful Evolution Of Hal & Mal’s | Malcolm White, illustrated | NPR |
| 975 | The Artist’s Way | Julia Cameron | Cat Rose |
| 976 | The Astonishing Colour of After | Book Depository | |
| 977 | The Astronaut Selection Test Book | Guardian | |
| 978 | The Beasts Of Grimheart | Kieran Larwood | Den of Geek |
| 979 | The Beauty Suit | Lost Between the Pages | |
| 980 | The Beekeeper of Sinjar | Dunya Mikhail | London Evening Standard |
| 981 | The Belles | Book Depository | |
| 982 | The Benefits Of Being An Octopus | Ann Braden | NPR |
| 983 | The Best Bad Things | Katrina Carrasco | The A. V. Club |
| 984 | The Biography of Story | Trish Nicholson | Put It in Writing |
| 985 | The Bitter Twins | Jen Williams | Den of Geek |
| 986 | The Blanqui Reader | Auguste Blanqui | Blackout |
| 987 | The Boneless Mercies | April Genevieve Tucholke | KGNU |
| 988 | The Book of Extraordinary Deaths: True Accounts of Ill-Fated Lives | Cecilia Ruiz | LitReactor |
| 989 | The Book of M | Book Depository | |
| 990 | The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect | Bloomberg | |
| 991 | The Boy at the Keyhole: A Novel | Stephen Giles | Washington Independent Review of Books |
| 992 | The Boys in the Boat | Daniel James Brown | One Little Library |
| 993 | The Bridge of Beyond | Simone Schwarz-Bart | Radhika’s Reading Retreat |
| 994 | The Broken Girls | Book Depository | |
| 995 | The Burning Maze (The Trials of Apollo Book 3) | Book Depository | |
| 996 | The Cadaver King and the Country Dentist: A True Story of Injustice in the American South | Radley Balko and Tucker Carrington | Mental Floss |
| 997 | The Calculating Stars | Book Riot | |
| 998 | The Cardboard Kingdom | Book Depository | |
| 999 | The Case Against Sugar | Gary Taubes | Econogal |
| 1000 | The Cemetery in Barnes | Gabriel Josipovici | Radhika’s Reading Retreat |
| 1001 | The Chapo Guide to Revolution: A Manifesto Against Logic, Facts, and Reason | Newsweek | |
| 1002 | The Choice | Book Depository | |
| 1003 | The Clarity | Keith Thomas | Econogal |
| 1004 | The Cold Summer | Gianrico Carofiglio | London Evening Standard |
| 1005 | The Collected Poems of Bertolt Brecht | Bertolt Brecht | Blackout |
| 1006 | The Collected Stories Of Diane Williams | The A. V. Club | |
| 1007 | The Colonial Conquest | Literary Hub | |
| 1008 | The Complete Divan of Hafez | Hafez | Darius Foroux |
| 1009 | The Complete Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant | Bloomberg | |
| 1010 | The Cook and the King | Book Depository | |
| 1011 | The Courage to Be Disliked: The Japanese Phenomenon That Shows You How to Change Your Life and Achieve Real Happiness | Bloomberg | |
| 1012 | The Court Dancer: A Novel | Kyung-Sook Shin, translated | NPR |
| 1013 | The Creative Introvert by… Me. | Cat Rose | |
| 1014 | The Creative License | Danny Gregory | Cat Rose |
| 1015 | The Cruel Prince | Holly Black | Contemplative Nostalgia |
| 1016 | The Culture Code: The Secrets of Highly Successful Groups | Bloomberg | |
| 1017 | The Dark Descent Of Elizabeth Frankenstein | Kiersten White | NPR |
| 1018 | The Day You Begin | Book Depository | |
| 1019 | The Deathless | Peter Newman | You and I Books |
| 1020 | The Deeper the Water the Uglier the Fish | Katya Apekina | GQ |
| 1021 | The Deepest Well: Healing the Long-Term Effects of Childhood Adversity | Nadine Burke Harris | Greater Good Magazine |
| 1022 | The Defining Decade | Meg Jay | Business Insider |
| 1023 | The Discomfort Zone | Farrah Storr | Muddy Stilettos |
| 1024 | The Dog in Photography: 1839-Today | Raymond Merritt | Mental Floss |
| 1025 | The Dogs of Detroit: Stories | Brad Felver | Washington Independent Review of Books |
| 1026 | The Dragon Slayer: Folktales From Latin America | Jaime Hernandez | NPR |
| 1027 | The Dresden Files | A Mind for Madness | |
| 1028 | The Drunken Sailor | Guardian | |
| 1029 | The Efficiency Paradox: What Big Data Can’t Do | Bloomberg | |
| 1030 | The Electric State | Simon Stalenhag | NPR |
| 1031 | The Electric Woman | Book Depository | |
| 1032 | The Elephant in The Brain — Robin Hanson and Kevin Simler | Deep Dish | |
| 1033 | The Empire of Ashes | Anthony Ryan | The Quill To Live |
| 1034 | The End of Jobs | Taylor Pearson | Deep Dish |
| 1035 | The Eye That Never Sleeps: How Detective Pinkerton Saved President Lincoln | Newsweek | |
| 1036 | The Faithful Spy: Dietrich Bonhoeffer And The Plot To Kill Hitler | John Hendrix | NPR |
| 1037 | The Fall of Wisconsin: The Conservative Conquest of a Progressive Bastion and the Future of American Politics | Newsweek | |
| 1038 | The Females | Literary Hub | |
| 1039 | The Feral Detective | Jonathan Lethem | Crime Fiction Lover |
| 1040 | The Field Of Blood: Violence In Congress And The Road To Civil War | Joanne B. Freeman | NPR |
| 1041 | The Fighters | C.J. Chivers | NPR |
| 1042 | The Final Voicemails | Max Ritvo | Boston.com |
| 1043 | The Fire Next Time | James Baldwin | Business Insider |
| 1044 | The Flavor Matrix | Book Depository | |
| 1045 | The Foreign Cinema Cookbook: Recipes And Stories Under The Stars | Gayle Pirie and John Clark | NPR |
| 1046 | The Four: The Hidden DNA of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google | Scott Galloway | Business Insider |
| 1047 | The French Girl | Lexie Elliott | The Listener |
| 1048 | The Friendly Ones | Philip Hensher | The Listener |
| 1049 | The Frighteners: Why We Love Monsters, Ghosts, Death & Gore | Peter Laws | Den of Geek |
| 1050 | The Funeral | Newsweek | |
| 1051 | The Future of Capitalism | Paul Collier | London Evening Standard |
| 1052 | THE GAME: Harvard, Yale, and America in 1968 | Newsweek | |
| 1053 | The Gatekeepers | Chris Whipple | The Conversation |
| 1054 | The Ghost: The Secret Life of Spymaster James Jesus Angleton | Jefferson Morley | The Listener |
| 1055 | The Girl In The Green Silk Gown | Seanan McGuire | NPR |
| 1056 | The Gone World | Tom Sweterlitsch | The A. V. Club |
| 1057 | The Good Son | Literary Hub | |
| 1058 | The Grandmaster: Magnus Carlsen and the Match That Made Chess Great Again | Brin-Jonathan Butler | The Maine Edge |
| 1059 | The Green Roasting Tin | Guardian | |
| 1060 | The Gunners | A Mind for Madness | |
| 1061 | The Gutter Prayer | Gareth Hanrahan | You and I Books |
| 1062 | The Happiness Curve: Why Life Gets Better After 50 | Jonathan Rauch | Greater Good Magazine |
| 1063 | The Happiness Hypothesis | Jonathan Haidt | Deep Dish |
| 1064 | The Hard Stuff: Dope, Crime, | Observer | |
| 1065 | The Healing Next Time | Guardian | |
| 1066 | The Hellfire Club | Jake Tapper | NPR |
| 1067 | The Hod King | Josiah Bancroft | You and I Books |
| 1068 | The Hollow Of Fear | Sherry Thomas | NPR |
| 1069 | The Hollow Tree | James Brogden | Den of Geek |
| 1070 | The House That Lou Built | Mae Respicio | NPR |
| 1071 | The Human Body | Guardian | |
| 1072 | The Human Planet | Observer | |
| 1073 | The Hunger | Alma Katsu | Broken Teepee |
| 1074 | The Ice Monster | Book Depository | |
| 1075 | The Ice Palace | Tarjei Vesaas | Radhika’s Reading Retreat |
| 1076 | The Ice Shelf | Anne Kennedy | The Listener |
| 1077 | The Imaginary Lives of James Pōneke | Tina Makereti | The Listener |
| 1078 | THE IMMEASURABLE WORLD: Journeys in Desert Places | William Atkins | Fodor’s Travel |
| 1079 | The Importance Of Being Aisling | Emer McLysaght and Sarah Breen | Red |
| 1080 | The Incurable Romantic | Frank Tallis | The Listener |
| 1081 | The Inner Level | Observer | |
| 1082 | The Invented Part | Brazos Bookstore -Mark | |
| 1083 | The Italian Teacher | Tom Rachman | Glamour |
| 1084 | The Judge Hunter: A Novel | Christopher Buckley | Washington Independent Review of Books |
| 1085 | The Killing House | Claire McGowan | The Listener |
| 1086 | The Lady’s Guide to Petticoats and Piracy | Mackenzi Lee | Weird Zeal |
| 1087 | The Land Between Two Rivers: Writing in an Age of Refugees | Tom Sleigh | The Progressive |
| 1088 | The Language of Kindness: A Nurse’s Story | Guardian | |
| 1089 | The Last Cowboys: A Pioneer Family In The New West | John Branch | NPR |
| 1090 | The Last Landlady: An English Memoir | Guardian | |
| 1091 | The Leavers | Lisa Ko | Business Insider |
| 1092 | The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up | Marie Kondo | Deep Dish |
| 1093 | The Lighthouse Keeper’s Daughter | Hazel Gaynor | Broken Teepee |
| 1094 | The Line That Held Us | Book Riot | |
| 1095 | The Log Driver’s Waltz | CCBC | |
| 1096 | The Long Walk Back | Rachel Dove | Put It in Writing |
| 1097 | THE LOST CAROUSEL OF PROVENCE | Juliet Blackwell | Fodor’s Travel |
| 1098 | The Lost Queen | Signe Pike | Broken Teepee |
| 1099 | The Luckiest Guy Alive | John Cooper Clarke | London Evening Standard |
| 1100 | The Man Who Caught the Storm | Book Depository | |
| 1101 | The Mandela Plot | Book Riot | |
| 1102 | The Many Colours of Us | Rachel Burton | Put It in Writing |
| 1103 | The Many Deaths Of Scott Koblish | Scott Koblish | NPR |
| 1104 | The Map of Salt and Stars | Jennifer Zeynab Joukhadar | Self |
| 1105 | The Mastery Of Love | Don Miguel Ruiz | Darius Foroux |
| 1106 | The Mezze Cookbook | Guardian | |
| 1107 | The Mirage Factory: Illusion, Imagination, And The Invention Of Los Angeles | Gary Krist | NPR |
| 1108 | The Miscalculations Of Lightning Girl | Stacy McAnulty | NPR |
| 1109 | The Miseducation of Cameron Post | Emily M. Danforth | Weird Zeal |
| 1110 | The Moralist: Woodrow Wilson and the World He Made | Patricia O’Toole | Washington Independent Review of Books |
| 1111 | The Most Dangerous Game | Roberto Ohrt, Wolfgang Scheppe | Blackout |
| 1112 | The Most Dangerous Man In America: Timothy Leary, Richard Nixon And The Hunt For The Fugitive King Of LSD | Bill Minutaglio and Steven L. Davis | NPR |
| 1113 | The Mystery of the Exploding Teeth: And Other Curiosities from the History of Medicine | Thomas Morris | Mental Floss |
| 1114 | The Mystery of the Missing Mouse Treasure | Torben Kuhlmann. | KGNU |
| 1115 | The Naked Woman | Literary Hub | |
| 1116 | The Name of the Rose | A Mind for Madness | |
| 1117 | The Neighborhood | MARIO VARGAS LLOSA. Translated by | The New York Times |
| 1118 | The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke | Jeffrey C. Stewart | Washington Independent Review of Books |
| 1119 | The New Ships | Kate Duignan | The Listener |
| 1120 | The New Yorker Encyclopedia of Cartoons | The New Yorker | KGNU |
| 1121 | The Night Manager | John le Carre | Business Insider |
| 1122 | The Noma Guide to Fermentation | Observer | |
| 1123 | The Nordic Baking Book | Guardian | |
| 1124 | The Odyssey | HOMER. Translated by | The New York Times |
| 1125 | The Only Story | Julian Barnes | The Listener |
| 1126 | The Order of Time | Carlo Rovelli | The Listener |
| 1127 | The Parker Inheritance | Varian Johnson | NPR |
| 1128 | The Parking Lot Attendant | NAFKOTE TAMIRAT | The New York Times |
| 1129 | The Party: And Other Stories | Sergio Ruzzier | NPR |
| 1130 | The Penguin Book of Haiku | GQ | |
| 1131 | The Penguin Book of the Prose Poem | Guardian | |
| 1132 | The Perfect Couple | Book Depository | |
| 1133 | The Perfect Mother | Book Depository | |
| 1134 | The Perfectionists: How Precision Engineering Created the Modern World | Simon Winchester | Mental Floss |
| 1135 | The Perfectly Imperfect Woman | Milly Johnson | Put It in Writing |
| 1136 | The Perseverance | Guardian | |
| 1137 | The Person You Mean to Be: How Good People Fight Bias | Dolly Chugh | Greater Good Magazine |
| 1138 | The Pink Umbrella | CCBC | |
| 1139 | The Poison Squad: One Chemist’s Single-Minded Crusade for Food Safety at the Turn of the 20th Century | Deborah Blum | Mental Floss |
| 1140 | The Portraits | Observer | |
| 1141 | The Price of the Haircut: Stories | Brock Clarke | Washington Independent Review of Books |
| 1142 | The Prison Letters Of Nelson Mandela | Nelson Mandela, Sahm Venter (editor) | NPR |
| 1143 | The Quaker | Liam McIlvanney | The Listener |
| 1144 | The Quest for Queen Mary | James Pope-Hennessy | London Evening Standard |
| 1145 | The Radium Girls | Kate Moore | One Little Library |
| 1146 | The Reckonings: Essays | Book Riot | |
| 1147 | The Red And The Blue: The 1990s And The Birth Of Political Tribalism | Steve Kornacki | NPR |
| 1148 | The Removes | Tatjani Soli | Broken Teepee |
| 1149 | The Rending and the Nest: A Novel | Kaethe Schwehn | Washington Independent Review of Books |
| 1150 | The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: The Untold Story of a Lost World | Steve Brusatte | The Listener |
| 1151 | The Road Book | Guardian | |
| 1152 | The Romanov Empress | C.W. Gortner | Broken Teepee |
| 1153 | The Rough Patch | Brian Lies | NPR |
| 1154 | The Sasquatch and the Lumberjack | Book Depository | |
| 1155 | The Science Of Breakable Things | Tae Keller | NPR |
| 1156 | The Sea Queen: A Novel | Linnea Hartsuyker | Washington Independent Review of Books |
| 1157 | The Secret Barrister: Stories of the Law and How It’s Broken | iNews | |
| 1158 | The Secret Language of Cats | Susanne Schötz | BookClubbish |
| 1159 | The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo | Taylor Jenkins Reid | Weird Zeal |
| 1160 | The Shape of the Ruins | Juan Gabriel Vásquez, trans. from the Spanish by Anne McLean | Publishers Weekly |
| 1161 | The Shepherd’s Hut | Tim Winton | The Listener |
| 1162 | The Shortest Way Home | Miriam Parker | amNewYork |
| 1163 | The Sisters of Winter Wood | Rena Rossner | You and I Books |
| 1164 | The Smoke | Guardian | |
| 1165 | The Snowball | Alice Schroeder | Darius Foroux |
| 1166 | The Song of Achilles | Madeline Miller | Business Insider |
| 1167 | The Soul Of America: The Battle For Our Better Angels | Jon Meacham | NPR |
| 1168 | The Souls of Yellow Folk | Newsweek | |
| 1169 | The Spellbook of Katrina van Tassel | Alyssa Palombo | Broken Teepee |
| 1170 | THE STORIED CITY | Charlie English | Fodor’s Travel |
| 1171 | The Stowaway: A Young Man’s Extraordinary Adventure to Antarctica | Laurie Gwen Shapiro | The Maine Edge |
| 1172 | The Strange Case Of Dr. Couney: How A Mysterious European Showman Saved Thousands Of American Babies | Dawn Raffel | NPR |
| 1173 | The Stuff of Stars | Marion Dane Bauer, Ekua Holmes. | KGNU |
| 1174 | The Summer Of Jordi Perez (And The Best Burger In Los Angeles) | Amy Spalding | NPR |
| 1175 | The Sweet Flypaper of Life | Observer | |
| 1176 | The Taiga Syndrome | Brazos Bookstore -Mark | |
| 1177 | The Taking of K-129: How the CIA Used Howard Hughes to Steal a Russian Sub in the Most Daring Covert Operation in History | Josh Dean | Washington Independent Review of Books |
| 1178 | The Tales of Beedle the Bard: Illustrated Edition | Newsweek | |
| 1179 | The Tangled Tree: A Radical New History of Life | David Quammen | Washington Independent Review of Books |
| 1180 | The Tango War: The Struggle for the Hearts, Minds, and Riches of Latin America During World War II | The Progressive | |
| 1181 | The Third Plate: Field Notes on the Future of Food | Bloomberg | |
| 1182 | The Traveling Feast | Rick Bass | Boston.com |
| 1183 | The Underground Railroad | Colson Whitehead | Business Insider |
| 1184 | The View From Flyover Country: Dispatches From The Forgotten America | Sarah Kendzior | NPR |
| 1185 | The Vulgar Wasp: The Story of a Ruthless Invader and Ingenious Predator | Phil Lester | The Listener |
| 1186 | The Waiter | Matias Faldbakken. | KGNU |
| 1187 | The War of Art | Stephen Pressfield | Deep Dish |
| 1188 | The Water Cure | Sophie Mackintosh | The Listener |
| 1189 | The Way You Make Me Feel | Maurene Goo | NPR |
| 1190 | The Wessex Project | Observer | |
| 1191 | The Whirlpool | CCBC | |
| 1192 | The White Book | Han Kang | Radhika’s Reading Retreat |
| 1193 | The White Darkness | David Grann | The Maine Edge |
| 1194 | The Wild Robot Escapes | Book Depository | |
| 1195 | The Will to Battle | Ada Palmer | The Quill To Live |
| 1196 | The Winter Soldier | Daniel Mason | NPR |
| 1197 | The Wizard and the Prophet | Book Depository | |
| 1198 | The Woo-Woo: How I Survived Ice Hockey, Drug-Raids, Demons, And My Crazy Chinese Family | Newsweek | |
| 1199 | The Word Collector | Book Depository | |
| 1200 | The Word Is Murder: A Novel | Anthony Horowitz | NPR |
| 1201 | The World Only Spins Forward: The Ascent Of Angels In America | Isaac Butler and Dan Kois | NPR |
| 1202 | The World’s Most Beautiful Libraries | Massimo Listri | Mental Floss |
| 1203 | The Writer’s Map: An Atlas Of Imaginary Lands | Huw Lewis-Jones | NPR |
| 1204 | The Wrong Heaven | Amy Bonnaffons | NPR |
| 1205 | The Young C.L.R. James: A Graphic Novelette | The Progressive | |
| 1206 | Theory | Dionne Brand | NOW Toronto |
| 1207 | There Will Be No Miracles Here: A Memoir | Casey Gerald | NPR |
| 1208 | There, There | Tommy Orange | LitReactor |
| 1209 | This Body’s Not Big Enough for Both of Us | Edgar Cantero | The Maine Edge |
| 1210 | This Book Betrays My Brother | CCBC | |
| 1211 | THIS IS (NOT) LA | Jen Bilik with Kate Sullivan | Fodor’s Travel |
| 1212 | This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor | Adam Kay | iNews |
| 1213 | This Is Not A Love Letter | Kim Purcell | NPR |
| 1214 | This Land: America, Lost and Found | Dan Barry | Chicago Tribune |
| 1215 | This Mortal Boy | Fiona Kidman | The Listener |
| 1216 | This Really Isn’t About You | Jean Hannah Edelstein | Red |
| 1217 | THIS WILL BE MY UNDOING: Living at the Intersection of Black, Female, and Feminist in (White) America | Morgan Jerkins | Fodor’s Travel |
| 1218 | THIS WILL ONLY HURT A LITTLE | Marie Claire 2 | |
| 1219 | Thomas Cromwell | Guardian | |
| 1220 | Thunderhead | Book Depository | |
| 1221 | Ticker | Mimi Swartz | GQ |
| 1222 | Tiger Woods | Jeff Benedict and Armen Keteyian | The Listener |
| 1223 | Tigers & Tea With Toppy | Barbara Kerley and Rhoda Knight Kalt, illustrated | NPR |
| 1224 | TINY NEW YORK | Suzi Siegel | Fodor’s Travel |
| 1225 | To Be Honest | Maggie Ann Martin | NPR |
| 1226 | To Seek a Newer World | Robert F. Kennedy | The Conversation |
| 1227 | To the Edges of the Earth: 1909, The Race for the Three Poles, and the Climax of the Age of Exploration | Edward J. Larson | Mental Floss |
| 1228 | To Throw Away Unopened | Guardian | |
| 1229 | Tom Gates 15: What Monster? | Book Depository | |
| 1230 | Tomb Song: A Novel | Julián Herbert; translated | Washington Independent Review of Books |
| 1231 | Tomorrow: A Novel | Book Riot | |
| 1232 | TOO CLOSE TO BREATHE | Olivia Kiernan | Fodor’s Travel |
| 1233 | Tooth and Nail | Linda D. Dahl | BookClubbish |
| 1234 | Tribe of Mentors | Tim Ferriss | Cat Rose |
| 1235 | Trick | Literary Hub | |
| 1236 | True or Poo?: The Definitive Field Guide to Filthy Animal Facts and Falsehoods | Nick Caruso and Dani Rabaiotti | Mental Floss |
| 1237 | True Roots | Book Depository | |
| 1238 | Turnip Greens & Tortillas: A Mexican Chef Spices Up The Southern Kitchen | Eddie Hernandez and Susan Puckett | NPR |
| 1239 | Twelve-plus years | Guardian | |
| 1240 | Twilight of the Gods: A Journey to the End of Classic Rock | Newsweek | |
| 1241 | Two Sisters: A Father, His Daughters, And Their Journey Into The Syrian Jihad | Åsne Seierstad, translated | NPR |
| 1242 | Tyrant | Arcadia on Books | |
| 1243 | Un oeil en moins | Nathalie Quintane | Blackout |
| 1244 | Unbelievable | Katie Tur | Iain Dale |
| 1245 | Unbury Carol | Newsweek | |
| 1246 | Uncle George and Me | The Progressive | |
| 1247 | Underbug: An Obsessive Tale Of Termites And Technology | Lisa Margonelli | NPR |
| 1248 | Unhinged: An Insider’s Account of the Trump White House | Omarosa Manigault Newman | The Progressive |
| 1249 | Unmasked | Guardian | |
| 1250 | Unsong | Scott Alexander | Deep Dish |
| 1251 | Untrue: Why Nearly Everything We Believe About Women, Lust, and Infidelity Is Wrong and How the New Science Can Set Us Free | Wednesday Martin | Self |
| 1252 | UPON FURTHER REVIEW: The Greatest What-Ifs in Sports History | Newsweek | |
| 1253 | Us Against You | Book Depository | |
| 1254 | Useful Phrases for Immigrants | May-Lee Chai | Harvard Crimson |
| 1255 | Varina: A Novel | Charles Frazier | NPR |
| 1256 | Vegan 100 | Book Depository | |
| 1257 | Vengeful | V.E. Schwab | Den of Geek |
| 1258 | Venus as a Bear | Guardian | |
| 1259 | Vexy Thing: On Gender and Liberation | Imani Perry and Looking for Lorraine | Jezebel |
| 1260 | Victorians Undone: Tales of the Flesh in the Age of Decorum | Kathryn Hughes | Jezebel |
| 1261 | Villa Amalia | Brazos Bookstore -Mark | |
| 1262 | Vintage Humour: The Islamic Wine Poetry of Abu Nuwas | Alex Rowell | London Evening Standard |
| 1263 | Virgil Wander | Leif Enger. | KGNU |
| 1264 | Vladmir Putin: Life Coach | Guardian | |
| 1265 | Volcanic Momentum | Jordan Ring | Cat Rose |
| 1266 | Waiting for Eden: A Novel | Elliot Ackerman | Washington Independent Review of Books |
| 1267 | Wake Me When I’m Gone | Odafe Atogun | Daily Trust |
| 1268 | Walking in the City with Jane: A Story of Jane Jacobs | CCBC | |
| 1269 | War on Peace: The End of Diplomacy and the Decline of American Influence | Ronan Farrow | Mental Floss |
| 1270 | We All Need To Eat | Alex Leslie | NOW Toronto |
| 1271 | We Are Grateful: Otsaliheliga | Traci Sorell, illustrated | NPR |
| 1272 | We Are the Nerds: The Birth and Tumultuous Life of Reddit, The Internet’s Culture Laboratory | Christine Lagorio-Chafkin | Mental Floss |
| 1273 | We Sold Our Souls | Grady Hendrix | Den of Geek |
| 1274 | We Were the Lucky Ones | Georgia Hunter | Econogal |
| 1275 | We Will Win the Day: The Civil Rights Movement, the Black Athlete, and the Quest for Equality | Louis Moore | The Progressive |
| 1276 | We Won’t Fade Into Darkness | TJ Benson | Daily Trust |
| 1277 | WELCOME TO LAGOS | Chibundu Onuzo | Fodor’s Travel |
| 1278 | What Blooms From Dust | James Markert | Broken Teepee |
| 1279 | What If This Were Enough? | Heather Havrilesky | Self |
| 1280 | What She Ate | Laura Shapiro | London Evening Standard |
| 1281 | What the Eyes Don’t See: A Story of Crisis, Resistance, and Hope in an American City | Book Riot | |
| 1282 | What We Owe | Golnaz Hashemzadeh Bonde | The Listener |
| 1283 | What You Want to See | Book Riot | |
| 1284 | What’s Your Type? The Strange History of Myers-Briggs and the Birth of Personality Testing | Merve Emre | The Listener |
| 1285 | When Day Breaks | Adamu Usman Garko | Daily Trust |
| 1286 | When Katie Met Cassidy: A Novel | Camille Perri | NPR |
| 1287 | When the Lights Go Out | Lost Between the Pages | |
| 1288 | When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir | Patrisse Khan-Cullors and asha bandele | Self |
| 1289 | When Trouble Sleeps | Leye Adenle | Daily Trust |
| 1290 | When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing | Daniel Pink | Greater Good Magazine |
| 1291 | Where Shall We Run To? | Guardian | |
| 1292 | Where to Find Me | Alba Arikha | London Evening Standard |
| 1293 | Where We Go from Here: Two Years in the Resistance | Bernie Sanders | The Progressive |
| 1294 | Whiskey in a Teacup | Book Depository | |
| 1295 | Whistler’s Mother | Observer | |
| 1296 | White Chrysanthemum | Book Depository | |
| 1297 | White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard For White People To Talk About Racism | Robin DiAngelo | NPR |
| 1298 | Whiteshift | Eric Kaufmann | London Evening Standard |
| 1299 | Who Is Mary Sue? | Guardian | |
| 1300 | Who Is Michael Ovitz? | Michael Ovitz | NPR |
| 1301 | Who Is Vera Kelly? | Rosalie Knecht | NPR |
| 1302 | Why Art? | Eleanor Davis | NPR |
| 1303 | Why Buddhism Is True | Robert Wright | The Listener |
| 1304 | Wild Milk | Sabrina Orah Mark | Broadly |
| 1305 | Wilding | Guardian | |
| 1306 | Willa of the Wood | Book Depository | |
| 1307 | Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World | Anand Giridharadas | NPR |
| 1308 | Wit’s End: What Wit Is, How It Works, and Why We Need It | Newsweek | |
| 1309 | Witchmark | C.L. Polk | NPR |
| 1310 | With Them Through Hell | Anna Rogers | The Listener |
| 1311 | Without Precedent: Chief Justice John Marshall and His Times | Bloomberg | |
| 1312 | Wobble | Rae Armantrout | Blackout |
| 1313 | Women in Battle | Guardian | |
| 1314 | Women Talking | Miriam Toews | NOW Toronto |
| 1315 | Work | Bud Smith | LitReactor |
| 1316 | Wrath of Empire | Brian McClellan | The Quill To Live |
| 1317 | Wrecked | Joe Ide | Crime Fiction Lover |
| 1318 | X-Men: Grand Design | Ed Piskor | Chicago Tribune |
| 1319 | X: A Highly Specific, Defiantly Incomplete History of the Early 21st Century | Chuck Klosterman | Business Insider |
| 1320 | Yes | Guardian | |
| 1321 | You Are a Badass: How to Stop Doubting You Greatness and Start Living an Awesome Life | Jen Sincero | The Fictional Chef |
| 1322 | You Left Early | Louisa Young | London Evening Standard |
| 1323 | You Were Made for This | Michelle Sacks | Glamour |
| 1324 | Your Black Friend And Other Strangers | Ben Passmore | NPR |
| 1325 | Your Press Release is Breaking My Heart | Janet Murray | Cat Rose |
| 1326 | Zaitoun | Book Depository | |
| 1327 | Zero Waste | Shia Su | Econogal |
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