Books I particularly loved are given a subjective rating of purple exclamation points.
- The Guineveres, Sarah Domet
- All the Time in the World, Caroline Angell
- Difficult Women, Roxane Gay
- Homegoing, Yaa Gyasi !!
- The Wangs Vs. The World, Jade Chang !
- You Will Know Me, Megan Abbott
- The You I've Never Known, Ellen Hopkins
- Legs Get Led Astray, Chloe Caldwell
- Outline, Rachel Cusk
- Starting Strength: Basic Barbell Training, Mark Rippetoe
- Modern Lovers, Emma Straub
- The Warmth of Other Suns, Isabel Wilkerson !
- The End of Everything, Megan Abbott
- March: Book 1, John Lewis et al (graphic novel)
- If Our Bodies Could Talk, John Hamblin
- When Breath Becomes Air, Paul Kalanithi
- The Mothers, Brit Bennet
- Lincoln in the Bardo, George Saunders
- Weapons of Math Destruction, Cathy O'Neil
- The Selfishness of Others, Kristin Dombek
- The Book of Strange New Things, Michel Faber !!
- Rock Paper Tiger, Lisa Brackmann !!
- Sweet Lamb of Heaven, Lydia Millet
- Imagine Me Gone, Adam Haslett !!!
- The Hate U Give, Angie Thomas (YA)
- Hour of the Rat, Lisa Brackmann
- The Unfolding of Language, Guy Deutscher
- The Art of Waiting: On Fertility, Medicine, and Motherhood, Belle Boggs
- Is That a Fish in Your Ear: Translation and the Meaning of Everything, David Bellos
- Dragon Day, Lisa Brackmann
- Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body, Roxane Gay !
- Future Sex, Emily Witt
- The Vegetarian, Han Kang
- What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky, Lesley Nneka Arimah
- The Natural Way of Things, Charlotte Wood
- Girls in White Dresses, Jennifer Close
- The Hopefuls, Jennifer Close
- Cork Dork, Bianca Bosker
- Telex from Cuba, Rachel Kushner
- Things We Lost in the Fire, Mariana Enriquez
- The After Party, Anton DiSlafani
- Poser: My Life in Twenty-three Yoga Poses, Claire Dederer
- The Rules Do Not Apply, Ariel Levy
- The Red Car, Marcy Dermansky
- We Are Okay, Nina LaCour (YA)
- The Sixth Extinction, Elizabeth Kolbert
- California, Edan Lepucki
- Children of the New World, Alexander Weinstein
- You Don't Have to Say You Love Me, Sherman Alexie
- Debt: The First 5000 Years, David Graeber
- Euphoria, Lily King
- MWF Seeking BFF: My Yearlong Search for a New Best Friend, Rachel Bertsche
- We Are Never Meeting in Real Life: Essays, Samantha Irby
- Year of Wonders: A Novel of the Plague, Geraldine Brooks
- Holding Still for As Long As Possible, Zoe Whittall !
- Discontent and Its Civilizations: Dispatches from Lahore, New York, and London, Mohsin Hamid !
- Instructions for a Heat Wave, Maggie O'Farrell
- A Love Story Starring My Dead Best Friend, Emily Horner (YA)
- American Street, Ibi Zoboi (YA)
- Payback: Debt and The Shadow Side of Wealth, Margaret Atwood
- On Such a Full Sea, Chang-Rae Lee
Recommendations always accepted.