2023
The Palace Papers, Tina Brown
Beautiful World, Where Are You, Sally Rooney
I Feel Bad About My Neck, Nora Ephron
The End of Vandalism, Tom Drury
Between the World and Me, Ta-Nehisi Coates
Hunts in Dreams, Tom Drury
Strangers to Ourselves, Rachel Aviv
Mr. Bridge, Evan S. O’Connell
Flowers on Fire, Hawon Jung
I Have Some Questions for You, Rebecca Makkai
A Swim in a Pound in the Rain, George Saunders
Barbarian Days, William Finnegan
The Fourth Child, Jessica Winter
Disappear Doppelgänger Disappear, Matthew Salesses
Euphoria, Lily King
White Teeth, Zadie Smith
The Guest, Emma Kline
Yellowface, R.F. Kuang
Deep Work, Cal Newport
Autograph Man, Zadie Smith
Nudge, Richard H. Thaler and Cass R. Sunstein
Intimations, Zadie Smith
Tom Lake, Ann Patchett
Demon Copperhead, Barbara Kingsolver
David Copperfield, Charles Dickens
The Fraud, Zadie Smith
My Ántonia, Willa Cather
The Woman in Me, Britney Spears
Spare, Prince Harry
Greenlights, Matthew McConaughey
Roman Stories, Jhumpa Lahiri
Less, Andrew Sean Greer
2022
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Muriel Spark
Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals, Oliver Burkeman
Seeds from a Silent Tree: An Anthology By Korean Adoptees, edited by Jo Rankin & Tonya Bishoff
Palimpsest: Documents From a Korean Adoption, Lisa Wool-Rim Sjöblom
Older Sister, Not Necessarily Related, Jenny Heijun Wills
Empire of Pain, Patrick Radden Keefe
Quartet in Autumn, Barbara Pym
Night, Elie Wiesel
Wow, No Thank You, Samantha Irby
The Swimmers, Julie Otsuka
Klara and the Sun, Kazuo Ishiguro
Be Brief and Tell Them Everything, Brad Listi
The Known World, Edward P. Jones
Everyone's a Aliebn When Ur a Aliebn Too, Jonny Sun
Happy-go-lucky, David Sedaris
The Idiot, Elif Batuman
Disrupting Kinship: Transnational Politics of Korean Adoption in the United States, Kimberly D. McKee
Sharp Objects, Gillian Flynn
There There, Tommy Orange
Raising Raffi, Keith Gessen
Ten Little Indians, Sherman Alexie
Lucy by the Sea, Elizabeth Strout
Circe, Madeline Miller
This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage, Ann Patchett
Feel Free, Zadie Smith
The Song of Achilles, Madeline Miller
Metropolitan Denver: Growth and Change in the Mile High City, Andrew R. Goetz & E. Eric Boschmann
My Own Country: A Doctor's Story of a Town and Its People in the Age of AIDS, Abraham Verghese
If I Had Your Face, Frances Cha
A Promised Land, Barack Obama
Commonwealth, Ann Patchett
The Blind Assassin, Margaret Atwood
Writers & Lovers, Lily King
Interior Chinatown, Charles Yu
Uncanny Valley, Anna Wiener
Lincoln in the Bardo, George Saunders
Being Mortal, Atul Gawande
A Burning, Megha Majumdar
I Hate Running, Brendan Leonard
When in French, Lauren Collins
Ask a Korean Dude, Kim Hyung-geu
Self-Portrait, Celia Paul
Crying in H Mart, Michelle Zauner
Wild, Cheryl Strayed
Whereabouts, Jhumpa Lahiri
The Friend, Sigrid Nunez
The Vacationers, Emma Straub
Catch the Rabbit, Lana Bastašić
The House on Mango Street, Sandra Cisneros
Let Me Be Frank With You, Richard Ford
Bel Canto, Ann Patchett
Devotions upon Emergent Occasions and Death’s Duel, John Donne
Seize the Day, Saul Bellow
American Marriage, Tayari Jones
The Round House, Louise Erdrich
The Mothers, Brit Bennett
The Secret to Superhuman Strength, Alison Bechdel
Crossroads, Jonathan Franzen
Understanding Comics, Scott McCloud
The Pastoral Symphony, André Gide
Olive, Again, Elizabeth Strout
Exhalation, Ted Chiang
The Primal Wound, Nancy Verrier
The Dutch House, Ann Patchett
Life with Picasso, Françoise Gilot
Deep Work, Cal Newport
Silk, Alessandro Baricco
Snow, Orhan Pamuk
Topics of Conversation, Miranda Popkey
Perfect Tunes, Emily Gould
Kim JiYoung, Born 1982, Cho Nam-joo
Minor Feelings, Cathy Park Hong
Little Fires Everywhere, Celeste Ng
The Odyssey, Homer (Emily Wilson translation)
Trail of Crumbs, Kim Sunee
The New Jim Crow, Michelle Alexander
Korea: The Impossible Country, Daniel Tudor
Rodham, Curtis Sittenfeld
Pizza Girl, Jean Kyoung Frazier
Negroland: A Memoir, Margo Jefferson
Johnson V. Johnson, Barbara Goldsmith
The Lying Life of Adults, Elena Ferrante
Korean Art from 1953: Collision, Innovation, Interaction, Yeon Shim Chung, Sunjung Kim, Kimberly Chung, Keith B. Wagner
The Ongoingness: The End of a Diary, Sarah Manguso
JewAsian: Race, Religion, and Identity for America's Newest Jews, Helen Kiyong Kim and Noah Samuel Leavitt
Eat a Peach, David Chang
A Heart So White, Javier Marias
Words of Farewell: Stories by Korean Women Writers
A Girl Returned, Donatella Di Pietrantonio
The Penguin Book of Japanese Short Stories, Jay Rubin (editor)
2019
The Perfect Nanny, Leila Slimani
Fortune Smiles, Adam Johnson
The Language of the Blood, Jane Jeong Trenka
At the Existentialist Café, Sarah Bakewell
The Aerialists, Mark Mayer
Dead Souls, Nikolai Gogol
The Ask, Sam Lipsyte
Slouching Towards Bethlehem, Joan Didion
Say Nothing, Patrick Radden Keefe
We the Animals, Justin Torres
Sources of the Korean Tradition, Patrick H. Lee (editor)
The Art of Perspective, Christopher Castellani
The Unwinding of the Miracle, Julie Yip-Williams
Bringing up Bébé, Pamela Druckerman
Mrs. Bridge, Evan S. Connell
The Struggle for Soy, Megan Sound
Normal People, Sally Rooney
Cribsheet, Emily Oster
Aspects of the Novel, E.M. Forster
Look Alive Out There, Sloane Crosley
Red Clocks, Leni Zumas
Adopted Territory: Transnational Korean Adoptees and the Politics of Belonging, Eleana J. Kim
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, Yuval Noah Harari
Clyde Fans, Seth
Fleishman Is in Trouble, Taffy Brodesser-Akner
Working, Robert Caro
Trick Mirror, Jia Tolentino
Far from the Tree, Andrew Solomon
Happiness, as Such, Natalia Ginzburg
Coventry, Rachel Cusk
The Story of a New Name, Elena Ferrante
Family Lexicon, Natalia Ginzburg
The Topeka School, Ben Lerner
Make It Scream, Make It Burn, Leslie Jamison
Baby, We Were Meant for Each Other: In Praise of Adoption, Scott Simon
The Penguin Book of Italian Short Stories, Edited by Jhumpa Lahiri
Spring, Karl Ove Knausgaard
In the Garden of North American Martyrs, Tobias Wolff
A Sense of an Ending, Julian Barnes
A Hand Reached Out to Guide Me, David Gates
Never Mind, Edward St Aubyn
Bad News, Edward St Aubyn
Some Hope, Edward St Aubyn
Mother’s Milk, Edward St Aubyn
No Logo, Naomi Klein
The Wife, Meg Wolitzer
The Vegetarian, Han Kang
Wabi-Sabi, Leonard Koren
Pachinko, Min Jin Lee
Free Food for Millionaires, Min Jin Lee
You Think It, I’ll Say It, Curtis Sittenfeld
The Birth of Korean Cool, Euny Hong
Asymmetry, Lisa Halliday
The State of Affairs, Esther Perel
Kudos, Rachel Cusk
Motherhood, Sheila Heti
The Painted Word, Tom Wolfe
Her Body and Other Parties, Carmen Maria Machado
Seeds from the East, Bertha Holt
The Argonauts, Maggie Nelson
Calypso, David Sedaris
LaRose, Louise Erdrich
The Folded Clock, Heidi Julavits
All Joy and No Fun, Jennifer Senior
The Two Kinds of Decay, Sarah Manguso
To Save the Children of Korea, Arissa Oh
The Lost Salt Gift of Blood, Alistair MacLeod
All You Can Ever Know, Nicole Chung
Sleepless Nights, Elizabeth Hardwick
The Orphan Master’s Son, Adam Johnson
Becoming, Michelle Obama
Blue Nights, Joan Didion
The Savage Detective, Roberto Bolano
My Brilliant Friend, Elena Ferrante
The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath
Flash Fiction Forward, editors Robert Shapard, James Thomas
On Michael Jackson, Margo Jefferson
City of Thieves, David Benioff
The Coast of Chicago, Stuart Dybek
Postcards from the Edge, Carrie Fisher
The Everlasting Meal, Tamar Adler
The Normal One, Jeanne Safer
The Handmaiden’s Tale, Margaret Atwood
Cowboys are My Weakness, Pam Houston
The Rules Do Not Apply, Ariel Levey
The Secret History, Donna Tartt
Transit, Rachel Cusk
Love and Other Obstacles, Aleksandar Hemon
Do Not Become Alarmed, Maile Meloy
The Seven Good Years, Etgar Keret
The Plot Against America, Philip Roth
The Death of Ivan Ilych, Leo Tolstoy
Anything is Possible, Elizabeth Strout
Interpreter of Maladies, Jhumpa Lahiri
Single, Carefree, Mellow, Katherine Heiny
Drinking Coffee Elsewhere, ZZ Parker
Laughable Loves, Milan Kundera
How to Leave Hialeah, Jennine Capó Crucet
The Unsettlers, Mark Sundeen
Olive Kitteridge, Elizabeth Strout
Music for Wartime, Rebecca Makkai
The Twilight of the Superheroes, Deborah Eisenberg
The Vanishing Velázquez, Laura Cumming
The God of Small Things, Arundhati Roy
Leaving the Atocha Station, Ben Lerner
Transactions in a Foreign Currency, Deborah Eisenberg
My Misspent Youth, Meghan Daum
Sam the Cat, Matthew Klam
Paris Stories, Mavis Gallant
Going to Meet the Man, James Baldwin
Manhattan Beach, Jennifer Egan
Conversations with Friends, Sally Rooney
The Burning Girl, Claire Messud
The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, Stephen Covey
At Night We Walk in Circles, Daniel Alarcón
Quartet in Autumn, Barbara Pym
Lit, Mary Karr
In Other Words, Jhumpa Lahiri
Fates and Furies, Lauren Groff
Gryphon, Charles Baxter
Granta Best American Short Stories
About A Mountain, John D'Agata
A Little Life, Hanya Yanagihara
Eligible, Curtis Sittenfeld
Burning Down the House, Charles Baxter
In Our Time, Ernest Hemingway
NW, Zadie Smith
My Struggle, Volume 1, Karl Ove Knausgaard
2011 Best American Fiction
The Girls, Emma Cline
The News From Spain, Joan Wickersham
Leaving the Atocha Station, Ben Lerner
The Lay of the Land, Richard Ford
Open City, Teju Cole
A Manual for Cleaning Women, Lucia Berlin
Swing Time, Zadie Smith
Behind the Beautiful Forevers, Katherine Boo
I Am Lucy Barton, Elizabeth Strout
Taking Care, Joy Williams
A Fine Balance, Rohinton Mistry
The Empathy Exams, Leslie Jamison
Are You Really Listening?, Mary E. Siegel and Paul J. Donoghue
The Ultimate Good Luck, Richard Ford
Moby-Dick, Herman Melville
Reasons to Live, Amy Hempel
Stories of Frank O’Connor, Frank O’Connor
Give Me Everything You Have: On Being Stalked, James Lasdun
Splash State, Todd Colby
Jesus’ Son, Denis Johnson
Suddenly, A Knock on the Door, Etgar Keret
There’s Something I Want You To Do, Charles Baxter
The Secret History, Donna Tartt
The Anatomy of Story, John Truby
Attached, Amir Levine and Rachel Heller
Sweet Talk, Stephanie Vaughn
Americanah, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
The Mindful Writer, Dinty W. Moore
Stoner, John Williams
The Rules of Attraction, Bret Easton Ellis
One of Us, Asne Seierstad
Wildlife, Richard Ford
Pulphead, John Jeremiah Sullivan
Modern Romance, Aziz Ansari
This Won’t Take But a Minute, Honey, Steve Almond
The Goldfinch, Donna Tartt
The Story of the Lost Child, Elena Ferrante
Slaughtherhouse90210, Maris Kreizman
New American Stories, Ben Marcus (Editor)
American Pastoral, Philip Roth
The Days of Abandonment, Elena Ferrante
Tiny Beautiful Things, Cheryl Strayed
My Brilliant Friend, Elena Ferrante
Orange is the New Black, Piper Kerman
Quack This Way, David Foster Wallace and Bryan A. Garner
Maus, Art Spiegelman
Lean In, Sheryl Sandberg
The House of Mirth, Edith Wharton
Bark, Lorrie Moore
Canada, Richard Ford
The Humor Code, Peter McGraw & Joel Warner
The Story of a New Name, Elena Ferrante
S/Z, Roland Barthes
Encounters with the Archdruid, John McPhee
The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P., Adelle Waldman
Pack of Two: The Intricate Bond Between People and Dogs, Caroline Knapp
Men Without Women, Richard Ford
Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief, Lawrence Wright
Sabbath’s Theater, Philip Roth
Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage, Haruki Murakami
The Plague, Albert Camus
Those Who Stay and Those Who Leave, Elena Ferrante
Outlines, Rachel Cusk
East of Eden, John Steinbeck
Not That Kind of Girl, Lena Dunham
One of Ours, Timothy McVeigh and the Oklahoma City Bombing
Best American Short Shorts, 2014, edited by Jennifer Egan
The Collected Stories of Peter Taylor, Peter Taylor
The Group, Mary McCarthy
Every Day is for the Thief, Teju Cole
10:04, Ben Lerner
Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant?, Roz Chast
Home Cooking, Laurie Colwin
A Hologram for the King, Dave Eggers
Half in Love, Maile Meloy
Little Girls in Pretty Boxes, Joan Ryan
Swamplandia!, Karen Russell
People Who Eat Darkness, Richard Lloyd Parry
The Centennial History of the Jews of Colorado, Allen duPont Breck
Light Years, James Salter
50 Shades of Grey, E.L. James
The Interestings, Meg Wolitzer
Generation X, Douglas Coupland
The Woman Upstairs, Claire Messud
When Everything Changed, Gail Collins
The Hunger Games, Suzanne Collins
Let’s Explore Diabetes With Owls, David Sedaris
Pigeon Feathers, John Updike
Freedom, Jonathan Franzen
Born to Run, Christopher McDougall
Where Did You Go Bernadette?, Maria Semple
The Lowlands, Jhumpa Lahiri
Where Men With Glory, Jon Krakauer
Many Lives, Many Masters, Brian Weiss
Independence Day, Richard Ford
A Dangerous Place: California’s Unsettling Fate, Marc Reisner
The Kid, Dan Savage
Dear Life, Alice Munro
Roth Unbound, Claudia Roth Pierpoint
Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?, Jeanette Winterson
Decoded, Jay-Z
The Art of Fielding, Chad Harbach
Like Life, Lorrie Moore
The Marriage Plot, Jeffrey Eugenides
Big Sur, Jack Kerouac
The Warmth of Other Suns, Isabel Wilkerson
The After-Life, Donald Antrim
Less Than Zero, Bret Easton Ellis
Scenes in America Deserta, Reyner Banham
Dykes to Watch Out For, Alison Bechdel
The Gaggle, Jessica Massa (with Rebecca Wiegand)
After Henry, Joan Didion
The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success, Deepak Chopra
Desperate Characters, Paula Fox
Wild, Cheryl Strayed
Coming Into the Country, John McPhee
Love Is Not Constantly Wondering If You Are Making the Biggest Mistake of Your Life, Anonymous
Prep, Curtis Sittenfeld
I Don’t Care About Your Band, Julie Klausner
Columbine, Dave Cullen
Once A Runner, John L. Parker, Jr.
The Old Man and the Sea, Ernest Hemingway
Rock Springs, Richard Ford
Nothing to Envy, Barbara Demick
On Writing, Stephen King
This Is How You Lose Her, Junot Diaz
The Sportswriter, Richard Ford
Look at Me, Jennifer Egan
Midnight in Sicily, Peter Robb
Gone Girl, Gillian Flynn
Goodbye, Columbus, Philip Roth
In Strange Gardens, Peter Hamm
The Secret Race, Tyler Hamilton
The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway
A Short History of Women, Kate Walbert
Pale Fire, Vladmir Nabakov
The Fall, Albert Camus
For Whom The Bell Tolls, Ernest Hemingway
A Moveable Feast, Ernest Hemingway
The Snows of Kilimanjaro, Ernest Hemingway
A Visit From The Goon Squad, Jennifer Egan
Just Kids, Patti Smith
A Family Daughter, Maile Meloy
The Nick Adams Stories, Ernest Hemingway
Bearing the Body, Ehud Havazelet
Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi
The Art of Racing in the Rain, Garth Stein
Miami, Joan Didion
Emperor of All Maladies, Siddhartha Mukherjee
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love, Raymond Carver
The Devil in the White City, Erik Larson
Cooking for Mr. Latte, Amanda Hesser
Heartburn, Nora Ephron
The Custom of the Country, Edith Wharton
The Keep, Jennifer Egan
Great Plains, Ian Frazier
The Heart Says Whatever, Emily Gould
Civilwarland in Bad Decline, George Saunders
The Collected Stories of Grace Palely, Grace Palely
The Good Soldiers, David Finkel
Revolutionary Road, Richard Yates
The Rez, Ian Frazier
The John McPhee Reader, John McPhee
The Loser, Thomas Bernhard
The Year of Magical Thinking, Joan Didion
A Visit from the Goon Squad, Jennifer Egan
Notes on Yellowstone, Jim Carrier
A Backwards Glance, Edith Wharton
Bright Lights, Big City, Jay McInerney
Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves, P. G. Wodehouse
1Q84, Haruki Murakami
Emma, Jane Austen
Food Matters, Mark Bittman
Samedi the Deafness, Jesse Ball
Let the Great World Spin, Colum McCann
Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage: Stories, Alice Munro
The Myth of Sisyphus, Albert Camus
Two Lives, Janet Malcolm
Pnin, Vladimir Nabokov
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, Haruki Murakami
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running, Haruki Murakami
Stitches, David Small
Both Ways Is The Only Way I Want It, Maile Meloy
A Farewell To Arms, Ernest Hemingway
Falconer, John Cheever
Cheever, Blake Bailey
Game Change, John Heilemann and Mark Halperin
Half in Love, Maile Meloy
Native Speaker, Chang-Rae Lee
Men Without Women, Ernest Hemingway
The White Album, Joan Didion
A Gate At the Stairs, Lorrie Moore
American Psycho, Bret Easton Ellis
American Pastoral, Philip Roth
Salvador, Joan Didion
Self-Help, Lorrie Moore
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running, Haruki Murakami
Seize The Day, Saul Bellow
Elliot Allagash, Simon Rich
Mr. Peanut, Adam Ross
Reading Myself and Others, Philip Roth
The Big Short, Michael Lewis
The Book of Common Prayer, Joan Didion
Cadillac Desert, Marc Reisner
Good Bones, Margaret Atwood
Blind Willow, Sleeping Women, Haruki Murakami
Natasha, David Bezmozgis
Lowboy, John Wary
Freedom, Jonathan Franzen
Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned, Wells Tower
Where I’m Calling From, Raymond Carver
Changing My Mind, Zadie Smith
Anything You Say Can and Will Be Used Against You, Laurie Lynn Drummond
Truman Capote Stories, Truman Capote
The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway
Disgrace, J.M. Coetzee
Empire Falls, Richard Russo
Sexy, Joyce Carol Oats
La Place de la Concorde Suisse, John McPhee
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Junot Diaz
Bonfire of the Vanities, Tom Wolfe
The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
Netherland, Joseph O'Neill
Diana, Tina Brown
Brooklyn Follies, Paul Auster
Lost City of Z, David Gramm
Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro
Blood Dark Track, Joseph O'Neill
Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf
Exit Ghost, Philip Roth
King of the World, David Remnick
Remains of the Day, Kazuo Ishiguro
Sag Harbor, Colson Whitehead
Brooklyn, Colm Toibin
Sex and the City, Candace Bushnell
The Shadow Club, Neal Shusterman
Anatomy Lesson, Philip Roth
Woe Is I, Patricia O'Conner
The Silent Woman, Janet Malcolm
How Fiction Works, James Woods
My Mortal Enemy, Willa Cather
My Life in France, Julia Child
The Ice Storm, Rick Moody
The Believers, Zoë Heller
Varieties of Exile, Mavis Gallant
Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, Gertrude Stein
Smiles on Washington Square, Raymond Federman
The Complete Stories of Flannery O'Connor, Flannery O'Connor
The Writing Life, Annie Dillard
The Cost of Living, Mavis Gallant
102 Minutes, Jim Dwyer and Kevin Flynn
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
When We Were Orphans, Kazuo Ishiguro
Cheever Stories, John Cheever
Personal Days, Ed Park
My Kind of Place, Susan Orlean,
Man of My Dreams, Curtis Sittenfeld
The Swimming Pool Library, Alan Hollinghurst
Let’s Talk About Love, Carl Wilson
The Ghost Writer, Philip Roth
Sex, Drugs and Coco Puffs, Chuck Klosterman
The Gift, Lewis Hyde
Blink, Malcolm Gladwell
Psychoanalysis: The Impossible Profession, Janet Malcolm
Why Switzerland?, Jonathan Steinberg
The Executioner’s Song, Norman Mailer
Unaccustomed Earth, Jhumpa Lahiri
Apex Hides the Hurt, Colson Whitehead
The Myth of Sisyphus, Albert Camus
Female Chauvinist Pigs, Ariel Levy
The Modern Library Writer’s Workshop: A Guide to the Craft of Fiction, Stephen Koch
The Glass Castle, Jeannette Walls
A Clearing in the Distance, Witold Rybczynski
Birds of America, Lorrie Moore
Madame Bovary, Gustav Flaubert
Portnoy’s Complaint, Philip Roth
The Brief, Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Junot Diaz
No One Belongs Here More Than You., Miranda July
The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, Michael Chabon
Goodbye, Columbus, Philip Roth
Middlesex, Jeffrey Eugenides
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running, Haruki Murakami
Emperor’s Children, Claire Messud
Special Topics in Calamity Physics, Marisha Pessl
Stop-Time, Frank Conroy
The Hunters, Claire Messud
Fortress of Solitude, Jonathan Lethem
The Cutmouth Lady, Romy Ashby
Dora, Sigmund Freud
The Last Life, Claire Messud
American Wife, Curtis Sittenfeld
Earlier: American In-Law
Netherland, Joseph O’Neill
Low Life, Luc Sante
Sweet Talk, Stephanie Vaughn
We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will be Killed With Our Families: Stories from Rwanda, Philip Gourevitch
Lost Hearts In Italy, Andrea Lee
A Savage War of Peace: Algeria 1954-1962, Alistair Horne
The Devil Problem: And Other True Stories, David Remnick
A Heartbreaking Work A Staggering Genius, Dave Eggers
The Long Tail, Chris Anderson
The Tipping Point, Malcolm Gladwell
The Missing Peace, Dennis Ross
Little Children, Tom Perrotta
I Wish I Could Be There, Allen Shawn
Fun Home, Allison Bechdel
The Bronx Is Burning, Jonathan Mahler
Maus, Art Spiegelman
Then We Came To The End, Joshua Ferris
Urban Tribes, Ethan Waters
The Watchmen
I Married A Communist, Philip Roth
The View From Castle Rock, Alice Munro
Moneyball, Michael Lewis
Bad Haircuts, Tom Perrotta
Under The Banner of Heaven, Jon Krakauer
Scoop, Evelyn Waugh
Delirious New York, Rem Koolhaas
Candide, Voltaire
Random Family, Adrian Nicole LeBlanc
This Is Not Chick Lit, Anthology
Dishwasher, Pete Jordan
The Shadow of The Wind, Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Down and Out in Paris and London, George Orwell
The Line Of Beauty, Alan Hollinghurst
Junky, William Burroughs
Honor Thy Father, Gay Talese
Into Thin Air, Jon Krakauer
The Kingdom and the Power, Gay Talese
On Love, Alain de Botton
Veronica, Mary Gaitskill
Heat, Bill Buford
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Junot Diaz
Shortcomings, Adrian Tomine
Drown, Junot Diaz
Into The Wild, Jon Krakauer
Garlic and Sapphire, Ruth Reichl
Among Thugs, Bill Buford
Amazing Grace, Jonathan Kozol
The New Kings of Non-Fiction, edited by Ira Glass
The Bullfighter Checks Her Make Up, Susan Orlean
Learning To Drive, Katha Pollitt
Lenin’s Tomb, David Remnick
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, Michael Chabon
After the Quake, Haruki Murakami
Floater, Calvin Trillin
Black and Blue, Anna Quinlan
The Woman at the Washington Zoo, Marjorie Williams
Motherless Brooklyn, Jonathan Lethem
Gig, edited by John Bowe
The Crime of Sheila McGough, Janet Malcolm
The Platform, Michel Houellebecq
722 Miles: The Building of the Subways and How They Transformed New York, William Graebner
South of the Border, West of the Sun by Haruki Murakami
Infinite Jest, David Foster Wallace
Running After Antelopes, Scott Carrier
Norwegian Wood, Haruki Murakami
Dead Souls, Nikolai Gogol
Little Money Street, Fernanda Eberstadt
Mistress: A Novel, Anita Nair
Wrong About Japan, Peter Carey
The Year of Magical Thinking, Joan Didion
Happiness Sold Separately, Lolly Winston
Underground, Haruki Murakami
Rabbit, Run, John Updike
$40 Million Slaves, William C. Rhoden
On Beauty, Zadie Smith
Epileptic, David B.
Everyman, Philip Roth
Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
Tourist Season, Enid Shomer
Prep, Curtis Sittenfeld
Hiroshima, John Hersey
Corrections to My Memoirs, Michael Kun
The Great Bridge, David McCullough
Oh The Glory of It All, Sean Wilsey
Stray, Sheri Joseph
Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini
Shadow Divers, Robert Kurson
How to Breathe Underwater, Julie Orringer
Cold New World, William Finnegan
Man of My Dreams, Curtis Sittenfeld
Liar’s Poker, Michael Lewis
Set Me Free, Miranda Beverly-Whittemore
Rats, Robert Sullivan
Beloved, Toni Morrison
The Lost, Daniel Mendelsohn