Poetry
Bright Dead Things Ada Limón
Night-Eater Patricia Young
Slant Six Erin Belieu
if you have to go Katie Ford
An Exchange of Gifts Alden Nowlan
Citizen: An American Lyric Claudia Rankine
The Carrying Ada Limón
Thirst Mary Oliver
Fortune Tanis MacDonald
The Bagman’s Sonata Patrick O’Connell
The Joy that Cracked the Mountain Patrick O’Connell
Falling in Place Patrick O’Connell
Twelve Poems for Emily Carr John Weier
Bones in their Wings Lorna Crozier
Latent Heat Catherine Hunter
The Wrong Cat Lorna Crozier
Ballistics Billy Collins
A Saving Grace Lorna Crozier
Instruments of Surrender Christine Wiesenthal
Wolf Tree Alison Calder
Domain Barbara Nichol
Miner’s Pond Anne Michaels
The Weight of Oranges Anne Michaels
The Exiles’ Gallery Elise Partridge
Swan Mary Oliver
Red Bird Mary Oliver
Blue Iris Mary Oliver
moonstance Sarah Klassen
Second Space Czeslaw Milosz
Short Stories
Life Without Children Roddy Doyle
kilter: 55 fictions John Gould
Pilgrims Elizabeth Gilbert
The End of Me John Gould
The Miss Hereford Stories Gail Anderson-Dargatz
You Are Not What We Expected Sidura Ludwig
Plays
The White Card Claudia Rankine
Fiction
this is how we love Lisa Moore
The Family Fang Kevin Wilson
Burntcoat Sarah Hall
The Dutch House Ann Patchett
Fight Night Miriam Toews
This is Happiness Niall Williams
Pew Catherine Lacey
A Town called Solace Mary Lawson
Homeland Elegies Ayad Ahktar
Nothing to See Here Kevin Wilson
Seven Good Reasons not to be Good John Gould
Half Life Krista Foss
Writers & Lovers Lily King
Two Blankets, Three Sheets Rodaan Al Galidi
Love Roddy Doyle
Jack Marilyn Robinson
The Crane Wife Patrick Ness
Indians on Vacation Thomas King
Two Pints Roddy Doyle
Troubled Blood (the Cormorant Strike series) Robert Galbraith / J. K. Rowling
Actress Anne Enright
The Girl who Reads on the Métro Christine Féret-Fleury
Women Talking Miriam Toews
Five Wives Joan Thomas
Lost Children Archive Valeria Luiselli
The Memory Police Yoko Ogawa
On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous Ocean Vuong
Rabbit Foot Bill Helen Humphreys
Exposure Helen Dunmore
I Am A Truck Michelle Winters
The Farm Joanne Ramos
Red Clocks Leni Zumas
Olive, Again Elizabeth Strout
The Farm Tom Rob Smith
Disoriental Négar Djavadi
disobedience Naomi Alderman
Queenie Candice Carty-Williams
Big Sky Kate Atkinson (The Jackson Brodie series)
Machines Like Me McEwan, Ian
House of Broken Angels Luis Alberto Urrea
The Deportees Roddy Doyle
Normal People Sally Rooney
Conversations with Friends Sally Rooney
The Long Take Robin Robertson
The Mars Room Rachel Kushner
Warlight Michael Ondaatje
The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessey Rachel Joyce
Machine Without Horses Helen Humphreys
A Long Way from Home Peter Carey
Flights Olga Tokarczuk
The Italian Teacher Tom Rachman
Brother David Chariandy
The Female Persuasion Meg Wolitzer
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry Rachel Joyce
The Music Shop Rachel Joyce
Pachinko Min Jin Lee
Plainsong Kent Haruf
IQ series Joe Ide
The House of Names Colm Tóbín
Amy and Isabelle Elizabeth Street
The Whites Richard Price, writing as Harry Brandt
Smile Roddy Doyle
Lincoln in the Bardo George Saunders
The Bradshaw Variations Rachel Cusk
Anything is Possible Elizabeth Strout
Transit Rachel Cusk
The Strays Emily Bitto
The Summer Book Tove Jansson
Wenjack Joseph Boyden
Commonwealth Ann Patchett
How to be Both Ali Smith
Olive Kitteridge Elizabeth Strout
Paula Spencer Roddy Doyle
The Essence of the Thing Madeleine St. Jean
The Marriage Plot Jeffrey Eugenides
The Burgess Boys Elizabeth Strout
Abide with Me Elizabeth Strout
My Name is Lucy Barton Elizabeth Strout
Birdie Tracey Lindberg
Guts Roddy Doyle
The Inspector Rebus series Ian Rankin
The Barrytown Trilogy (The Commitments, The Snapper, The Van) Roddy Doyle
The Evening Chorus Helen Humphreys
Night Watching Meira Cook
Spool of Blue Thread Anne Tyler
Innocence Penelope Fitzgerald
Dear Committee Members Julie Schumacher
Floating in my Mother’s Palm Ursula Hegi
419 Will Ferguson
Still Alice Lisa Genova
The Rise and Fall of Great Powers Tom Rachman
Landing Gear Kate Pullinger
The Magician’s Assistant Ann Patchett
The Photograph Penelope Lively
The Inheritance of Loss Kiran Desai
All My Puny Sorrows Miriam Toews
Blood and Beauty Sarah Dunnant
Life after Life Kate Atkinson
The Swallows of Kabul Yasmina Khadra
Non-Fiction
All We Want Michael Harris
For the Time Being Annie Dillard
One Good Thing: A Living Memoir M.A.C. Farrant
No Cure for Being Human Kate Bowler
Men Explain Things to Me Rebecca Solnit
The Cost of Living Deborah Levy
The Book of Delights Ross Gay
How We Show Up Mia Birdsong
Magic off Main: The Art of Esther Warkov Beverly J. Rasporich
Forgotten Women: The Artists Zing Tsjeng
The Four Agreements Don Miguel Ruiz
The Essence of Julian Ralph Milton.
Big Magic Elizabeth Gilbert
Everything Happens for a Reason: And Other Lies I’ve Loved Kate Bowler
Things I Don’t Want to Know Deborah Levy
the year of loss Cait Flanders
The End of Absence: Reclaiming What We’ve Lost in a World of Constant Connection Michael Harris
Solitude: A Singular Life in a Crowded World Michael Harris
At the Strangers’ Gate Adam Gopnik
Aftermath: On Marriage and Separation Rachel Cusk
Juliet’s Answer Glenn Dixon
Saint Francis of Assisi G. K. Chesterton
Becoming my Mother Ruth Reichl
Tender to the Bone Ruth Reichl
33 Artists in 3 Acts Sarah Thornton (contemporary art)
the life-changing magic of tidying up Marie Kondo (self-help)
brown girl dreaming Jacqueline Woodson (memoir)
Too Close to the Falls; After the Falls; Coming Ashore Catherine Gildiner (trilogy of memoirs)
Seeing is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees Lawrence Weschler (biography of Robert Irwin)
What Next? Ann Patchett (commencement address)
Help, Thanks, Wow Anne Lamott (spirituality)
A Season for the Spirit Martin L. Smith (spirituality)
This is the Story of a Happy Marriage Ann Patchett (essays)
Nocturne Helen Humphreys (memoir)
Great that you have this list…I would like to read Ann Patchett’s “The Getaway Car.” What a curious title.