Books I particularly loved are given a subjective rating of purple exclamation points.
- The Story of French, Jean-BenoƮt Nadeau & Julie Barlow
- All Grown Up, Jami Attenberg !
- American War, Omar El Akkad
- Conversations with Friends, Sally Rooney
- Cruel Beautiful World, Caroline Leavitt
- The Idiot, Elif Batuman
- Saints for All Occasions, J. Courtney Sullivan
- Annihilation, Jeff Vandermeer
- The Biographies of Ordinary People: Volume 1, Nicole Dieker
- You Are Not a Stranger Here, Adam Haslett
- An Economist Gets Lunch: New Rules for Everyday Foodies, Tyler Cowen
- Sing, Unburied, Sing, Jesmyn Ward
- The Leavers, Lisa Ko
- The Futures, Anna Pitoniak
- The Power, Naomi Alderman !
- The Chalk Artist, Allegra Goodman
- The Recovering, Leslie Jamison
- Red Clocks, Leni Zumas
- Excellent Daughters, Katherine Zoepf
- The Year of Magical Thinking, Joan Didion
- Love and Trouble, Claire Dederer
- Future Home of the Living God, Louise Erdrich
- History of Wolves, Emily Fridlund
- Inside of a Dog: What Dogs See, Smell, and Know, Alexandra Horowitz
- The Best We Could Do: An Illustrated Memoir, Thi Bui !
- Hey Ladies!, Caroline Moss & Michelle Markowitz !
- The Best Kind of People, Zoe Whittall
- A Little History, E.H. Gombrich
- Tangerine, Christine Mangan
- History of Pictures, David Hockney & Martin Gayford
- Stray City, Chelsey Johnson
- And Now We Have Everything, Meaghan O'Connell
- What Girls Are Made Of, Elana K. Arnold
- A Practical Wedding, Meg Keene
- Would You Rather, Katie Heaney
- Everything I Never Told You, Celeste Ng
- The Book of Essie, Meghan Maclean Weir
- Too Much and Not in the Mood, Durga Chew-Bose
- Exit West, Mohsin Hamid
- The Changeling, Victor LaValle
- Little Fires Everywhere, Celeste Ng
- Impossible Views of the World, Lucy Ives
- Gold Fame Citrus, Claire Vaye Watkins
- All You Can Ever Know, Nicole Chung
- Like a Mother, Angela Garbes
- Minaret, Leila Aboulela !
- The Lost Girls of Camp Forevermore, Kim Fu
- The Kindness of Enemies, Leila Aboulela
Recommendations always accepted.