Bring on the Blessings by Beverly Jenkins
Gone So Long by Andre Dubus III
Miracle Creek by Angie Kim
Mrs. Everything by Jennifer Weiner
A Woman Is No Man by Etaf Rum
Small Island by Andrea Levy
The Lager Queen of Minnesota by J. Ryan Stradal
Grist Mill Road by Christopher J. Yates
Nanaville by Anna Quindlen
Know My Name by Chanel Miller
Lake Success by Gary Shteyngart
Anything is Possible by Elizabeth Strout
Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams
The Heirs by Susan Rieger
The Friend by Sigrid Nunez
The Widow by Fiona Barton
The Liar by Ayelet Gundar-Goshen
You Think It, I’ll Say It by Curtis Sittenfeld
A Place for Us by Fatima Farheen Mirza
Strangers and Cousins by Leah Hager Cohen
The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai
Normal People by Sally Rooney
All You Can Ever Know by Nicole Chung
The Power by Naomi Alderman
Miss Jane by Brad Watson
Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie
Hum If You Don’t Know the Words by Bianca Marais
kaddish.com by Nathan Englander
Educated by Tara Westover
Heavy by Kiese Laymon
Calypso by David Sedaris
The History of Love by Nicole Drauss
Stay with Me by Ayobami Adebayo
Two Girls Down by Louisa Luna
The Perfect Nanny by Leila Slimani
The Lightkeepers by Abby Geni
All the Ugly and Wonderful Things by Bryn Greenwood
How To Build A Girl by Caitlin Moran
The Keeper of Lost Things by Ruth Hogan
A Book of American Martyrs by Joyce Carol Oates
The Wonder by Emma Donoghue
Then She Was Gone by Lisa Jewell
Eileen by Ottessa Moshfegh
The Psychopath Test by Jon Ronson
An American Marriage by Tayari Jones
There There by Tommy Orange
The Gilded Years by Karin Tanabe
Nine Perfect Strangers by Liane Moriarty
Every Note Played by Lisa Genova
The Female Persuasion by Meg Wolitzer
Reservoir 13 by Jon McGregor
Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate
The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah
Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng
White Houses by Amy Bloom
The Hired Man by by Aminatta Forna
The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brian
Commencement by J. Courtney Sullivan
Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
The Weight of Ink by Rachel Kadish
Beartown by Fredrik Backman
Census by Jesse Ball
Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng
Hillbilly Elegy by J.D. Vance
Saints for All Occasions by J. Courtney Sullivan
Broken River by J. Robert Lennon
Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
The Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin
The Heart’s Invisible Furies by John Boyne
History of Wolves by Emily Fridlund
Everyone Brave is Forgiven by Chris Cleave
The Orphan Keeper by Camron Wright
Waking Lions by Ayelet Gundar-Goshen
Chemistry by Weike Wang
The Dry by Jane Harper
White Tears by Hari Kunzru
My Absolute Darling by Gabriel Tallent
Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey
The Paris Architect by Charles Belfoure
A Horse Walked Into a Bar by David Grossman
Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman
Behold the Dreamers by Imbolo Mbue
The Hand that First Held Mine by Maggie O’Farrell
The Garden of Small Beginnings by Abbi Waxman
This Must Be the Place by Maggie O’Farrell
The Storied Life of A.J. Fickery by Gabrielle Zevin
The Arrangement by Sarah Dunn
This Is How It Always Is by Laurie Frankel
I’ll Give You the Sun by Jandy Nelson (YA)
Britt-Marie was Here by Fredrik Backman
The Light We Lost by Jill Santopolo
Wonder by R.J. Palacio (YA)
Kitchens of the Great Midwest by J. Ryan Stradal
I’ll Take You There by Wally Lamb
Faithful by Alice Hoffman
Do Not Become Alarmed by Maile Meloy
Before the Fall by Noah Hawley
Today Will Be Different by Maria Semple
The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo by Amy Schumer
In Such Good Company by Carol Burnett
Flight Behavior by Barbara Kingsolver
Born with Teeth by Kate Mulgrew
Tell the Wolves I’m Home by Carol Rifka Brunt
The Girls by Emma Cline
Eligible by Curtis Sittenfeld
Truly Madly Guilty by Liane Moriarty
Yes Please by Amy Poehler
The Museum of Extraordinary Things by Alice Hoffman
My Name is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout
The Burgess Boys by Elizabeth Strout
13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl by Mona Awad
Beautiful Ruins: A Novel by Jess Walter
My Brilliant Friend (book 1 of the Neopolitan Series)) by Elena Ferrante
The Story of a New Name (book 2), Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay (book 3), The Story of the Lost Child (book 4) all by Elena Ferrante
The Orphan Master’s Son by Adam Johnson
A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
Andy Warhol Was A Hoarder: Inside the Minds of History’s Great Personalities by Claudia Kalb
Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me (And Other Concerns) by Mindy Kaling
A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman
The Seven Good Years: A Memoir by Etgar Keret
The Hypnotist’s Love Story by Liane Moriarty
Beyond the Beautiful Forevers by Katherine Boo
Three Wishes by Liane Moriarty
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce
Our Souls at Night by Kent Haruf
The Paying Guests by Sarah Waters
The Book of Strange New Things by Michel Faber
Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann
Fourth of July Creek by Smith Henderson
The Aviator’s Wife by Melanie Benjamin
Washing the Dead by Michelle Brafman
The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown
A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty
Where’d You Go, Bernadette? by Maria Semple
Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Sisterland by Curtis Sittenfeld
What Alice Forgot by Liane Moriarty
The Husband’s Secret by Liane Moriarty
Love Walked In by Marisa de los Santos
Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand
The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
Me Before You by JoJo Moyes
The Dinner by Herman Koch
Summer House with Swimming Pool by Herman Koch
Big Brother by Lionel Shriver
We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver
Born Under an Assumed Name by Sara Mansfield Taber
Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie
This is Where I Leave You by Jonathan Tropper
Such a good list!!
Susan, I just noticed your book list — and see! You’ve included several of my very favorites: Night Circus, Where’d You Go, Bernadette?, Unbroken, Me Before You… Recently finished The Boys in the Boat, you should read it if you have a chance. Take care!