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My Dear You — Rachel Khong
Alan Opts Out — Courtney Maum
Famous Men — Julie Buntin
Nerve Damage — Annakeara Stinson
I Want You to Be Happy — Jem Calder
The Simp: A Novel Without a Hero — Roshan Sethi
Country People — Daniel Mason
Waiting on a Friend — Natalie Adler
Frida Slattery as Herself — Ana Kinsella
The Shampoo Effect — Jenny Jackson
Drayton and Mackenzie — Alexander Starritt
On the Calculation of Volume I — Solvej Balle
Whistler — Ann Patchett
Samuel Johnson Is Indignant — Lydia Davis
More Than Enough — Anna Quindlen
Dear Monica Lewinsky — Julia Langbein
Lake Effect — Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney
Famesick — Lena Dunham
Living Expenses — Teri Vlassopoulos
Permanence — Sophie Mackintosh
Like This, But Funnier — Hallie Cantor
Gunk — Saba Sams
Flesh — David Szalay
The Georges' wife — Elizabeth Jolley
Yesteryear — Caro Claire Burke
So Old, So Young — Grant Ginder
The Sisters — Jonas Hassen Khemiri
The Director — Daniel Kehlmann
Lost Lambs — Madeline Cash
A Wedding in December — Anita Shreve
The Arsonist — Sue Miller
Circle of Friends — Maeve Binchy
The Strange Case of Jane O. — Karen Thompson Walker
The Story of the Lost Child (Neapolitan Novels, #4) — Elena Ferrante
Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay (Neapolitan Novels, #3) — Elena Ferrante
The Story of a New Name (Neapolitan Novels, #2) — Elena Ferrante
My Brilliant Friend (Neapolitan Novels, #1) — Elena Ferrante
The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion: Vol. 1 — Beth Brower
Thirst Trap — Gráinne O'Hare
Wreck — Catherine Newman
The Ten Year Affair — Erin Somers
Births, Deaths and Marriages — Laura Barnett
Sweet Sorrow — David Nicholls
The Original Daughter — Jemimah Wei
Heart the Lover — Lily King
The Road to Tender Hearts — Annie Hartnett
Show Don't Tell — Curtis Sittenfeld
The Most — Jessica Anthony
The Wilderness — Angela Flournoy
Lonesome Dove (Lonesome Dove, #1) — Larry McMurtry
Small Game — Blair Braverman
Tilt — Emma Pattee
The Heart of Winter — Jonathan Evison
The Compound — Aisling Rawle
Deep Cuts — Holly Brickley
Bug Hollow — Michelle Huneven
Consider Yourself Kissed — Jessica Stanley
The Correspondent — Virginia Evans
The Names — Florence Knapp
Dream State — Eric Puchner
Care and Feeding — Laurie Woolever
The Favorites — Layne Fargo
The Other Bennet Sister — Janice Hadlow
Perfection — Vincenzo Latronico
Plainsong (Plainsong, #1) — Kent Haruf
Audition — Katie Kitamura
Redhead by the Side of the Road — Anne Tyler
Amy and Isabelle — Elizabeth Strout
Intermezzo — Sally Rooney
Commitment — Mona Simpson
Clock Dance — Anne Tyler
Colored Television — Danzy Senna
A Week in Winter — Maeve Binchy
The Shell Seekers — Rosamunde Pilcher
Beautyland — Marie-Helene Bertino
The New Girls — Beth Gutcheon
Loved and Missed — Susie Boyt
The Garrick Year — Margaret Drabble
At Weddings and Wakes — Alice McDermott
The Friend — Sigrid Nunez
The Greengage Summer — Rumer Godden
There There — Tommy Orange
Ordinary Human Failings — Megan Nolan
Foster — Claire Keegan
Erasure — Percival Everett
All the Little Bird-Hearts — Viktoria Lloyd-Barlow
How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water — Angie Cruz
Absolution — Alice McDermott
Shy Creatures — Clare Chambers
Rules for Visiting — Jessica Francis Kane
Unsettled Ground — Claire Fuller
The River — Peter Heller
Reunion — Elise Juska
The Other Valley — Scott Alexander Howard
Half an Inch of Water — Percival Everett
The Safekeep — Yael van der Wouden
The Wedding People — Alison Espach
Beautiful Day — Elin Hilderbrand
You're Safe Here — Leslie Stephens
Margo's Got Money Troubles — Rufi Thorpe
The God of the Woods — Liz Moore
Same As It Ever Was — Claire Lombardo
Sandwich — Catherine Newman
The Winner — Teddy Wayne
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous — Ocean Vuong
The Shipping News — Annie Proulx
Waiting — Ha Jin
Chain-Gang All-Stars — Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
Small Things Like These — Claire Keegan
The Husbands — Holly Gramazio
Thirst for Salt — Madelaine Lucas
Postcards from the Edge — Carrie Fisher
Come and Get It — Kiley Reid
Good Material — Dolly Alderton
The Accidental Tourist — Anne Tyler
In Memoriam — Alice Winn
Shark Heart — Emily Habeck
The Daydreams — Laura Hankin
Winter Street (Winter Street, #1) — Elin Hilderbrand
Hope: A Novel — Andrew Ridker
Mobility — Lydia Kiesling
Tom Lake — Ann Patchett
Pet: A Novel — Catherine Chidgey
The Pursuit of Alice Thrift — Elinor Lipman
The Rachel Incident — Caroline O'Donoghue
Demon Copperhead — Barbara Kingsolver
You Can't Stay Here Forever — Katherine Lin
Everything's Fine — Cecilia Rabess
The Guest — Emma Cline
The Book of Goose — Yiyun Li
Body Grammar — Jules Ohman
Romantic Comedy — Curtis Sittenfeld
I Could Live Here Forever — Hanna Halperin
Love & Virtue — Diana Reid
Heartburn — Nora Ephron
Zone One — Colson Whitehead
Birnam Wood — Eleanor Catton
Dinosaurs — Lydia Millet
Small Pleasures — Clare Chambers
Vintage Contemporaries — Dan Kois
The Sweet Spot — Amy Poeppel
Ms. Demeanor — Elinor Lipman
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow — Gabrielle Zevin
The Force of Such Beauty — Barbara Bourland
Unlikely Animals — Annie Hartnett
French Braid — Anne Tyler
Sea of Tranquility — Emily St. John Mandel
Sex and Rage — Eve Babitz
Little Rabbit: A Novel — Alyssa Songsiridej
Rabbit Cake — Annie Hartnett
Trespasses — Louise Kennedy
Marrying the Ketchups — Jennifer Close
The Lemon — S.E. Boyd
They're Going to Love You — Meg Howrey
Happy All the Time — Laurie Colwin
We Spread — Iain Reid
Now Is Not the Time to Panic — Kevin Wilson
Sign Here — Claudia Lux
Girls They Write Songs About — Carlene Bauer
Elsewhere — Alexis Schaitkin
The Work Wife — Alison B. Hart
Olive — Emma Gannon
Mother in the Dark — Kayla Maiuri
Sirens & Muses — Antonia Angress
What I Loved — Siri Hustvedt
True Biz — Sara Nović
Fellowship Point — Alice Elliott Dark
One Day I Shall Astonish the World — Nina Stibbe
Notes on Your Sudden Disappearance — Alison Espach
Counterfeit — Kirstin Chen
We Do What We Do in the Dark — Michelle Hart
Goodbye, Vitamin — Rachel Khong
This Time Tomorrow — Emma Straub
Search — Michelle Huneven
Milk Fed — Melissa Broder
Life Drawing — Robin Black
Groundskeeping — Lee Cole
Big Girl, Small Town — Michelle Gallen
Girl, Woman, Other — Bernardine Evaristo
My Year of Rest and Relaxation — Ottessa Moshfegh
Cleopatra and Frankenstein — Coco Mellors
A Very Nice Girl — Imogen Crimp
Vladimir — Julia May Jonas
Mouth to Mouth — Antoine Wilson
Secrets of Happiness — Joan Silber
The School for Good Mothers — Jessamine Chan
Fiona and Jane — Jean Chen Ho
Crossroads — Jonathan Franzen
Love in the Big City — Sang Young Park
Fault Lines — Emily Itami
The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois — Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
Win Me Something — Kyle Lucia Wu
Everything You Ever Wanted — Luiza Sauma
Moshi Moshi: A Novel — Banana Yoshimoto
Happy Hour — Marlowe Granados
Agatha of Little Neon — Claire Luchette
Matrix — Lauren Groff
Beautiful World, Where Are You — Sally Rooney
Pretending — Holly Bourne
The Good Mother — Sue Miller
Friends Like Us — Lauren Fox
The End of Men — Christina Sweeney-Baird
The Paper Palace — Miranda Cowley Heller
Intimacies — Katie Kitamura
Nightbitch — Rachel Yoder
The Very Nice Box — Laura Blackett
Golden Girl — Elin Hilderbrand
If We Were Villains — M.L. Rio
Impostor Syndrome — Kathy Wang
Great Circle — Maggie Shipstead
Mary Jane — Jessica Anya Blau
Improvement — Joan Silber
Tin Man — Sarah Winman
Detransition, Baby — Torrey Peters
Good Company — Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney
All Girls — Emily Layden
Acts of Desperation — Megan Nolan
Sorrow and Bliss — Meg Mason
Piranesi — Susanna Clarke
Deacon King Kong — James McBride
Hamnet — Maggie O'Farrell
Shuggie Bain — Douglas Stuart
The Office of Historical Corrections — Danielle Evans
Ghosts — Dolly Alderton
True Story — Kate Reed Petty
The Senator's Wife — Sue Miller
Monogamy — Sue Miller
This Must Be the Place — Maggie O'Farrell
White Ivy — Susie Yang
Small Admissions — Amy Poeppel
The Margot Affair — Sanaë Lemoine
Leave the World Behind — Rumaan Alam
Long Bright River — Liz Moore
The Second Home — Christina Clancy
Adults — Emma Jane Unsworth
Sea Wife — Amity Gaige
The Comeback — Ella Berman
The Boys' Club — Erica Katz
Luster — Raven Leilani
You Again — Debra Jo Immergut
Musical Chairs — Amy Poeppel
Want — Lynn Steger Strong
All Adults Here — Emma Straub
Exciting Times — Naoise Dolan
The Vanishing Half — Brit Bennett
The Cactus League — Emily Nemens
The Body Politic — Brian Platzer
The Knockout Queen — Rufi Thorpe
If I Had Your Face — Frances Cha
Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant — Anne Tyler
Disappearing Earth — Julia Phillips
The Pleasing Hour — Lily King
The Glass Hotel — Emily St. John Mandel
The Truants — Kate Weinberg
Writers & Lovers — Lily King
The Leavers — Lisa Ko
Seven Days of Us — Francesca Hornak
The Inn at Lake Devine (Vintage Contemporaries) — Elinor Lipman
The Body in Question — Jill Ciment
The View From Penthouse B — Elinor Lipman
Unmarriageable — Soniah Kamal
All This Could Be Yours: A Searing Southern Family Drama About Confronting Bad Men and Toxic Legacy — Jami Attenberg
The Heavens — Sandra Newman
My Sister, the Serial Killer — Oyinkan Braithwaite
The Topeka School — Ben Lerner
Going Dutch — James Gregor
The Other's Gold — Elizabeth Ames
The Throwback Special — Chris Bachelder
All Grown Up — Jami Attenberg
Lost and Wanted — Nell Freudenberger
Queenie — Candice Carty-Williams
White Fur — Jardine Libaire
Nothing to See Here — Kevin Wilson
The Falconer — Dana Czapnik
The Dutch House — Ann Patchett
Red at the Bone — Jacqueline Woodson
The Grammarians — Cathleen Schine
The Incendiaries — R.O. Kwon
The Lager Queen of Minnesota — J. Ryan Stradal
The Expectations — Alexander Tilney
Miracle Creek — Angie Kim
Supper Club — Lara Williams
The Intermission — Elyssa Friedland
The Gifted School — Bruce Holsinger
When You Read This — Mary Adkins
The Last Book Party — Karen Dukess
Mrs. Everything — Jennifer Weiner
Very Nice — Marcy Dermansky
Ask Again, Yes — Mary Beth Keane
The Most Fun We Ever Had — Claire Lombardo
The Snakes — Sadie Jones
Fleishman Is in Trouble — Taffy Brodesser-Akner
A Complicated Kindness — Miriam Toews
Lights All Night Long — Lydia Fitzpatrick
Otherwise Engaged — Suzanne Finnamore
Trust Exercise — Susan Choi
Daisy Jones & The Six — Taylor Jenkins Reid
The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing — Melissa Bank
Stay with Me — Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀
Animals — Emma Jane Unsworth
Normal People — Sally Rooney
The Great Believers — Rebecca Makkai
The Mars Room — Rachel Kushner
Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk — Kathleen Rooney
The Hearts of Men — Nickolas Butler
The Wangs vs. the World — Jade Chang
Made for Love — Alissa Nutting
My Name Is Lucy Barton (Amgash #1) — Elizabeth Strout
Ghachar Ghochar — Vivek Shanbhag
The Misfortune of Marion Palm — Emily Culliton
Swing Time — Zadie Smith
Commonwealth — Ann Patchett
Cherry — Nico Walker
Family Trust — Kathy Wang
Motherest — Kristen Iskandrian
Charlotte Walsh Likes to Win — Jo Piazza
The Book of Essie — Meghan MacLean Weir
An American Marriage — Tayari Jones
The Pisces — Melissa Broder
The Awkward Age — Francesca Segal
Pachinko — Min Jin Lee
Hey Ladies!: The Story of 8 Best Friends, 1 Year, and Way, Way Too Many Emails — Michelle Markowitz
The Ensemble — Aja Gabel
The Girl Who Never Read Noam Chomsky — Jana Casale
The Great Alone — Kristin Hannah
Beartown (Beartown, #1) — Fredrik Backman
The Wife — Meg Wolitzer
Red Clocks — Leni Zumas
Mrs. — Caitlin Macy
Laura & Emma — Kate Greathead
Conversations with Friends — Sally Rooney
Asymmetry — Lisa Halliday
Home Fire — Kamila Shamsie
The Nix — Nathan Hill
Eligible — Curtis Sittenfeld
The Amateur Marriage — Anne Tyler
The Hotel Nantucket — Elin Hilderbrand
The Bee Sting — Paul Murray
Off Course — Michelle Huneven
Sam — Allegra Goodman
Truly Madly Guilty — Liane Moriarty
Happy & You Know It — Laura Hankin
Utopia Avenue — David Mitchell
Fates and Furies — Lauren Groff
A Little Life — Hanya Yanagihara
The Golden State — Lydia Kiesling
The Millionaires: A Novel — Inman Majors
I Capture the Castle — Dodie Smith
Trust Exercise — Susan Choi
Sweetbitter — Stephanie Danler
Modern Lovers — Emma Straub
The Namesake — Jhumpa Lahiri
The Memory Keeper's Daughter — Kim Edwards
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time — Mark Haddon
Life of Pi — Yann Martel
The Hopefuls — Jennifer Close
Big Little Lies — Liane Moriarty
Friendship — Emily Gould
Astonish Me — Maggie Shipstead
Still Life with Bread Crumbs — Anna Quindlen
The Vacationers — Emma Straub
Freedom — Jonathan Franzen
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day — Winifred Watson
Mrs. Fletcher — Tom Perrotta
What Belongs to You — Garth Greenwell
Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine — Gail Honeyman
Today Will Be Different — Maria Semple
Casebook — Mona Simpson
Interpreter of Maladies — Jhumpa Lahiri
Little Fires Everywhere — Celeste Ng
Tapestry of Fortunes — Elizabeth Berg
The Underground Railroad — Colson Whitehead
Homegoing — Yaa Gyasi
White Teeth — Zadie Smith
Sunday's on the Phone to Monday — Christine Reilly
A Constellation of Vital Phenomena — Anthony Marra
The Children — Ann Leary
Persuasion — Jane Austen
No Way to Treat a First Lady — Christopher Buckley
Rich and Pretty — Rumaan Alam
A Doubter's Almanac — Ethan Canin
The Impressionist — Hari Kunzru
The Nest — Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney
Mr. Rosenblum Dreams in English — Natasha Solomons
Kitchens of the Great Midwest — J. Ryan Stradal
The Shadow of the Wind (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books, #1) — Carlos Ruiz Zafón
The Elegance of the Hedgehog — Muriel Barbery
Middlesex — Jeffrey Eugenides
The Goldfinch — Donna Tartt
The Rosie Project (Don Tillman, #1) — Graeme Simsion
One Plus One — Jojo Moyes
Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk — Ben Fountain
Life After Life (Todd Family, #1) — Kate Atkinson
Man at the Helm — Nina Stibbe
My Sunshine Away — M.O. Walsh
Funny Girl — Nick Hornby
The Good Luck of Right Now — Matthew Quick
Us — David Nicholls
Landline — Rainbow Rowell
A Visit from the Goon Squad — Jennifer Egan
The Interestings — Meg Wolitzer
The Rise & Fall of Great Powers — Tom Rachman
Matters of Honor — Louis Begley
The Book of Jonah — Joshua Max Feldman
Monday, Monday — Elizabeth Crook
State of Wonder — Ann Patchett
The Language of Threads (Women of the Silk #2) — Gail Tsukiyama
Cutting for Stone — Abraham Verghese
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay — Michael Chabon
Empire Falls — Richard Russo
The Leftovers — Tom Perrotta
The People in the Trees — Hanya Yanagihara
Room — Emma Donoghue
Women of the Silk (Women of the Silk #1) — Gail Tsukiyama
People of the Book — Geraldine Brooks
Rebecca — Daphne du Maurier
And the Mountains Echoed — Khaled Hosseini
To Die For — Joyce Maynard
Instructions for a Heatwave — Maggie O'Farrell
Amy Falls Down (Amy Gallup, #2) — Jincy Willett
The History of Love — Nicole Krauss
Incendiary — Chris Cleave
Olive Kitteridge (Olive Kitteridge, #1) — Elizabeth Strout
Rules of Civility — Amor Towles
Never Let Me Go — Kazuo Ishiguro
The Light Between Oceans — M.L. Stedman
The Art of Fielding — Chad Harbach
Wuthering Heights — Emily Brontë
The Secret History — Donna Tartt
Jane Eyre — Charlotte Brontë
The Death of Bees — Lisa O'Donnell
Where'd You Go, Bernadette — Maria Semple
Bel Canto — Ann Patchett
Admission — Jean Hanff Korelitz
Sense and Sensibility — Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice — Jane Austen