2011
1. King of the Mild Frontier: An Ill-advised Autobiography, Chris Crutcher (autobiography)
2. The Night Is Singing, Jacqueline Davies (picture book)
3. Wintergirls, Laurie Halse Anderson (young adult)
4. Home: A Memoir of My Early Years, Julie Andrews (memoir)
5. Weetzie Bat, Francesca Lia Block (young adult)
6. Sins of the Fathers, Chris Lynch (young adult)
7. A Hellion in Her Bed, Sabrina Jeffries (historical romance)
8. Cut, Patricia McCormick (young adult)
9. Writer’s Workshop in a Book: The Squ*w Valley Community of Writers on the Art of Fiction (non-fiction)
10. American Wife, Curtis Sittenfeld (fiction)
11. The Writing Life, Annie Dillard (non-fiction)
12. Desire Lines, Jack Gantos (young adult)
13. Chinese Handcuffs, Chris Crutcher (young adult)
14. Hush, Jacqueline Woodson (young adult)
15. Nicola and the Viscount, Meg Cabot (young adult)
16. Angus, Thongs, and Full-frontal Snogging, Louise Rennison (young adult)
17. Sense and Sensibility, Jane Austen (classic literature)
18. Pentateuch: The First Five Books, Whit Griffin (poetry)
19. Gospel Earth, Jeffery Beam (poetry)
20. Something Borrowed, Emily Giffin (fiction)
21. The Nature of Attraction, Scott Owens and Pris Campbell (poetry)
22. Not Dead and Not for Sale, Scott Weiland (memoir)
23. Revenge of the Wrought-iron Flamingos, Donna Andrews (cozy mystery)
24. Princess in Love, Meg Cabot (young adult)
25. Sam and the Tigers, Julius Lester (picture book)
26. The Summer of Firsts and Lasts, Terra Elan McVoy (young adult)
27. I Am the Cheese, Robert Cormier (young adult)
28. American Born Chinese, Gene Luen Yang (young adult)
29. Assassination Vacation, Sarah Vowell (history)
30. Wuv Bunnies from Outers Pace, David Elliot (middle grade)
31. (Not that You Asked): Rants, Exploits, and Obsessions, Steve Almond (non-fiction)
32. Brendan, Ronan Noone (play)
33. The Tales of Beedle the Bard, J.K. Rowling (middle grade)
34. The Atheist, Ronan Noone (play)
35. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian, Sherman Alexie (young adult)
36. Feed, M.T. Anderson (young adult)
37. Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes, Chris Crutcher (young adult)
38. Looking for Alaska, John Green (young adult)
39. Ballistics, Billy Collins (poetry)
40. The Hunger Games, Suzanne Collins (young adult)
41. Catching Fire, Suzanne Collins (young adult)
42. Mockingjay, Suzanne Collins (young adult)
43. Visualize, Bobby G. Price (poetry)
44. Watchmen, Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons (graphic novel)
45. Lord Perfect, Loretta Chase (historical romance)
46. Shade, Jeri Smith-Ready (young adult)
47. Daytripper, Fábio Moon and Gabriel Bá (graphic novel)
48. White Edge, Curling Wave, Thomas Heffernan (poetry)
49. Summer and the City, Candace Bushnell (young adult)
50. Stitches, David Small (graphic memoir)
51. The Xanthippe Fragments, Becky Gould Gibson (poetry—unpublished manuscript)
52. I Know I Am, but What Are You?, Samantha Bee (non-fiction)
53. Nasty: My Family and Other Glamorous Varmints, Simon Doonan (non-fiction)
54. Myrtle Beach Back When, Marie Gilbert (poetry)
55. Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451: The Authorized Adaptation, Ray Bradbury and Tim Hamilton (graphic novel)
56. Beware a Scot’s Revenge, Sabrina Jeffries (historical romance)
57. Stigmata, Lorenzo Mattotti and Claudio Piersanti (graphic novel)
58. East Wind Melts the Ice, Liza Dalby (non-fiction)
59. Bright Young Things, Anna Godbersen (young adult)
60. Confessions of a Shopaholic, Sophie Kinsella (fiction)
61. Patrimony, Philip Roth (memoir)
62. Jumper, Stephen Gould (young adult)
63. Wishful Drinking, Carrie Fisher (memoir)
64. Wanted, Mark Millar and J.G. Jones (graphic novel)
65. Tuck Everlasting, Natalie Babbit (middle grade)
66. The Hanged Man, Francesca Lia Block (young adult)
67. What Jamie Saw, Carolyn Coman (middle grade)
68. Chains, Laurie Halse Anderson (young adult)
69. A Brief History of Diaries: From Pepys to Blogs, Alexandra Johnson (history)
2012
1. The Member of the Wedding, Carson McCullers (fiction)
2. What the Grizzly Knows, David Elliott (picture book)
3. The Lightning Thief, Rick Riordan (middle grade)
4. Skin, Inc.: Identity Repair Poems, Thomas Sayers Ellis (poetry)
5. Dirty One, Michael Graves (short stories)
6. There Is no Balm in Birmingham, Ann Deagon (poetry)
7. Voicing the Muse, Ann Deagon (non-fiction)
8. Something Stinks!, Clifford Lewis Ross (picture book)
9. Phyla of Joy, Karen An-Hwei Lee (poetry)
10. V for Vendetta, Alan Moore and David Lloyd (graphic novel)
11. Shift, Jeri Smith-Ready (young adult)
12. My Lucky Life In and Out of Showbusiness, Dick Van Dyke (memoir)
13. Sleepwalk with Me and Other Painfully True Stories, Mike Birbiglia (non-fiction)
14. Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë (classic literature)
15. It Is Okay to Sleep Now, J. Hunter Patterson (poetry)
16. The Name Poems, Yvonne Mason (poetry)
17. Spectra, Judith E. Edwards (poetry)
18. The Twelfth Painting, Ellen Tosh (fiction)
19. That House in Venice, Peter Trias (poetry)
20. Leave Your Sugar for the Cold Morning, Warren Carrier (poetry)
21. Zombie Spaceship Wasetland, Patton Oswalt (mixed genre)
22. Tough without a Gun: The Life and Extraordinary Afterlife of Humphrey Bogart, Stefan Kafner (biography)
23. You Have Seven Messages, Stewart Lewis (young adult)
24. Home in Time, Grace Evelyn Gibson (poetry)
25. The Sex Diaries Project: What We’re Saying About What We’re Doing, Arianne Cohen (non-fiction)
26. Secrets of an Accidental Duchess, Jennifer Haymore (historical romance)
27. Matched, Ally Condie (young adult)
28. Cemetery Girl, David Bell (mystery)
29. The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary, Simon Winchester (history)
30. Cleopatra: A Life, Stacy Schiff (biography)
31. Bound to a Warrior, Donna Fletcher (historical romance)
32. Hymen, H.D. (poetry)
33. Crossed, Ally Condie (young adult)
34. Let’s Pretend This Never Happened, Jenny Lawson (memoir)
35. The Sea of Monsters, Rick Riordan (middle grade)
36. The Maverick Room, Thomas Sayers Ellis (poetry)
37. The Tiger’s Back, David Elliott (fiction)
38. Angry Young Man, Chris Lynch (young adult)
39. Jeannie Out of the Bottle, Barbara Eden (memoir)
40. Bossypants, Tina Fey (memoir)
41. Something Blue, Emily Giffin (fiction)
42. Unbearable Lightness: A Story of Loss and Gain, Portia de Rossi (memoir)
43. Thirteen Reasons Why, Jay Asher (young adult)
44. How to Be a Woman, Caitlin Moran (memoir)
45. Transcendental Telemarketer, Beth Copeland (poetry)
46. Fraud, David Rakoff (non-fiction)
47. The Postcard, Tony Abbott (middle grade)
48. Eating the Heart First, Clare L. Martin (poetry)
49. Land of Amnesia, Joseph Bathanti (poetry)
50. The Kiss, Kathryn Harrison (memoir)
51. Memo to All Employees, Daniel X. O’Neill (poetry)
52. Lit, Mary Karr (memoir)
53. In the Sea, David Elliott (picture book)
54. Victoria and the Rogue, Meg Cabot (young adult)
55. Eloise Goes to the Beach, Sonali Fry (picture book)
56. Hobart, Anita Briggs (chapter book)
2013
1. Shine, Jeri Smith-Ready (young adult)
2. Diverting Angels, Deborah Diemont (poetry)
3. Elegy for Trains, Benjamin Myers (poetry)
4. Pomegranate, Sister of the Heart, Carlos Reyes (poetry)
5. Accidental Ambassador: From the Forgotten War, Leonard Rattini (memoir)
6. Letters from People Who Hate Me, Steve Almond (non-fiction)
7. If It we, Lisa Zaran (poetry)
8. Nightmarks, Carlos Reyes (poetry)
9. The Fifty Year Sword, Mark Z. Danielewski (fiction)
10. Beautiful Days, Anna Godbersen (young adult)
11. When You Are Engulfed in Flames, David Sedaris (non-fiction)
12. Reached, Ally Condie (young adult)
13. A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Future, Michael J. Fox (memoir)
14. Dear Mrs. Fitzsimmons: Tales of Redemption from an Irish Mailbox, Greg Fitzsimmons (memoir)
15. Orbits’ Crossing, Peter McNamara (poetry)
16. That First Time: Six Renga on Love and Other Poems, Hiroaki Sato (poetry)
17. Wanderer, Deborah Diemont (poetry)
18. The Moon Addressing the Sun, Chris Marie Womble (poetry)
19. the table beneath the hand, Terra Elan McVoy (mixed genre)
20. Crumbs in the Muck, Matthew Ware (poetry)
21. Sins and Cigarettes, Paul E. Dinkins (poetry)
22. Smoke Heart: Twenty-Four Poems, Abe Walston III (poetry)
23. Dis/courses, Steve Allgood (poetry)
24. Pictures from a Wax Museum, David Southwood-Smith (poetry)
25. Naked Beneath Sheets, Rachel Bass (poetry)
26. Dry-skin Messiah, Marty L. Silverthorne (poetry)
27. Questions of a Nightingale, Tyler McPeek (poetry)
28. Strangulation, Bobby G. Price (poetry)
29. Finch’s Mash, Shelby Stephenson (poetry)
30. Mobiles, the Sadness of Cerberus and the Bitch, Fragments of an Age, and Other Poems, Thomas Heffernan (poetry)
31. like a perhaps hand, Peter McNamara (poetry)
32. Nervous on the Curves, Ethel N. Fortner (poetry)
33. I Never Received a Warning, Ames Arnold (poetry)
34. The Pointed To, Skip Anderson (poetry)
35. Strawberry Harvest, Sally Buckner (poetry)
36. Hired By the Cowboy, Donna Alward (contemporary romance)
37. The Stainless Steel Soprano, Kathryn Bright Gurkin (poetry)
38. Weymouth: An Anthology of Poetry, ed. Sam Ragan (poetry)
39. Waiting for Summer’s Return, Kim Vogel Sawyer (inspirational romance)
40. The Governess Affair, Courtney Milan (historical romance)
41. Pygmalion, George Bernard Shaw (play)
42. Both Distances, Ralph Culver (poetry)
43. American on Purpose: The Improbable Adventures of an Unlikely Patriot, Craig Ferguson (memoir)
44. Her, Christa Parravani (memoir)
45. The Bees Are Waiting, Karina Borowicz (poetry)
46. I Was Told There’d Be Cake, Sloane Crosley (non-fiction)
47. The Misbehaving Marquess, Leigh LaValle (historical romance)
48. World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War, Max Brooks (fiction)
49. The Lucky Ones, Anna Godbersen (young adult)
50. Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell (fiction)
51. Illegible Address, Denver Butson (poetry)
52. Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low-culture Manifesto, Chuck Klosterman (non-fiction)
53. On My Knees, Periel Aschenbrand (memoir)
54. How Long the Night Is, Christine DeSimone (poetry)
55. Gunga Din and Other Favorite Poems, Rudyard Kipling (poetry)
56. All’s Fair in Love and Seduction, Beverley Kendall (historical romance)
57. The Adventures of Jonathan Starchild, Keith Damron (middle grade—unpublished manuscript)
58. Lapse Americana, Benjamin Myers (poetry)
59. Songs of Innocence and of Experience, William Blake (poetry)
60. The Libation Bearers, Aeschylus (play)
61. The Eumenides, Aeschylus (play) 62. The Magic Christmas, Jamie Suzanne (middle grade)
57. Sky Sandwiches, John F. Buckley (poetry)
2014
1. Wish You Were Here: A Collection of Essays, Elizabeth Hudson (non-fiction)
2. If I Am Missing or Dead: A Sister’s Story of Love, Murder, and Liberation, Janine Latus (memoir)
3. A Study in Scarlet, Arthur Conan Doyle (mystery)
4. War, Sebastian Junger (non-fiction)
5. Sojourn, Peter McNamara (poetry)
6. Paper Bones, Sherry Rentschler (poetry)
7. The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald (fiction)
8. Open Doors, Edwin Madrid, trans. Carlos Reyes (poetry)
9. A Beast in View, Ronald H. Bayes (poetry)
10. The Sign of the Four, Arthur Conan Doyle (mystery)
11. Serena, Ron Rash (fiction)
12. Is Everyone Hanging Out without Me? (And Other Concerns), Mindy Kaling (non-fiction)
13. To Bedlam and Part Way Back, Anne Sexton (poetry)
14. Descent, Jennifer LeBlanc (poetry—unpublished manuscript)
15. Grey Prose, Emily Calvin (poetry)
16. The Best American Poetry 2013, ed. Denise Duhamel and David Lehman (poetry)
17. Little Blue Lies, Chris Lynch (young adult)
18. Say Uncle, Kay Ryan (poetry)
19. The Velveteen Rabbit, Margery Williams (children’s)
20. A Family Affair, Mary Campisi (fiction)
21. Osiris, the God of Stone, Gōzō Yoshimasu, trans. Hiroaki Sato (poetry)
22. Forever His, Shelly Thacker (paranormal romance)
23. Easy Magic, Margaret Boothe Baddour (poetry)
24. The Captain Asks for a Show of Hands, Nick Flynn (poetry)
25. Walking Papers: Poems 1999-2009, Thomas Lynch (poetry)
26. Size 14 Is not Fat Either, Meg Cabot (fiction)
27. Just Drive, Robert Cooperman (poetry)
28. The Liam Poems, Thomas Heffernan (poetry)
29. Matriarch: Selected Poems (1968-1992), Glenna Luschei (poetry)
30. Unquiet Waters, Cecil Cahoon II (poetry)
31. The Moon Is a Marrying Eye, Adrianne Marcus (poetry)
32. What the Truth Tastes Like, Martha Silano (poetry)
33. In Cellophane of Time: Poems 1973-1987, Steven Mooney (poetry)
34. Rehearsals in Time, Judith H. Settle (poetry)
35. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, L. Frank Baum (children’s)
36. Maybe Grace, Judith Page (poetry)
37. Moranthology, Caitlin Moran (non-fiction)
38. Her Husband’s Harlot, Grace Callaway (romance)
39. Dear Cary: My Life with Cary Grant, Dyan Cannon (memoir)
40. Outlander, Diana Gabaldon (paranormal romance)
41. Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Ian Fleming (children’s)
42. Code Name Verity, Elizabeth Wein (young adult)
43. The New Book/A Book of Torture, Michael McClure (poetry)
44. Full Frontal Feminism: A Young Woman’s Guide to Why Feminism Matters, Jessica Valenti (non-fiction)
45. The Plantagenets: The Warrior Kings and Queens Who Made England, Dan Jones (history)
46. The Uncallused Hand, Walker Abel (poetry)
47. Candle in the Darkness, Lynn Austin (historical fiction)
48. On the Wing, David Elliott (picture book)
49. The Very Sleepy Sloth, Andrew Murray (picture book)
50. The Season, Sarah MacLean (young adult)
51. The Hound of the Baskervilles, Arthur Conan Doyle (mystery)
52. Paradise Valley, Dale Cramer (historical fiction)
53. Gone Girl, Gillian Flynn (mystery)
54. ‘Twas the Night After Christmas, Sabrina Jeffries (historical romance)
55. The Salem Witch Tryouts, Kelly McClymer (young adult)
56. The Prose Edda, Snorri Sturluson, trans. Jesse L. Byock (mythology)
57. The Titan’s Curse, Rick Riordan (middle grade)
58. Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, Amanda Foreman (biography)
59. Life After Life, Kate Atkinson (fiction)
60. There’s a Wocket in My Pocket, Dr. Seuss (children’s)
61. The Valley of Fear, Arthur Conan Doyle (mystery)
62. Pretty Little Liars, Sara Shepard (young adult)
63. Dragons Love Tacos, Adam Rubin (picture book)
64. Echo of Bones, Molly Middleton Meyer (poetry)
65. Backwards in High Heels: The Impossible Art of Being Female, Tania Kindersley and Sarah Vine (non-fiction)
66. Yes Please, Amy Poehler (memoir)
2015
1. Choose Your Own Autobiography, Neil Patrick Harris (autobiography)
2. Lost in Shangri-la, Mitchell Zuckoff (history)
3. I Don’t Know What You Know Me From: Confessions of a Co-star, Judy Greer (autobiography)
4. All My Pretty Ones, Anne Sexton (poetry)
5. The Classic Tradition of Haiku: An Anthology, ed. Faubion Bowers (poetry)
6. Firegirl, Tony Abbott (middle grade)
7. Trilogy, H.D. (poetry)
8. Bad Feminist, Roxane Gay (non-fiction)
9. The Duchess War, Courtney Milan (historical romance)
10. The Best American Essays 2014, ed. John Jeremiah Sullivan (non-fiction)
11. The Storybook of Legends, Shannon Hale (middle grade)
12. View with a Grain of Sand, Wisława Szymborska, trans. Stanisław Barańczak and Clare Cavanagh (poetry)
13. Starstruck, Brenda Hiatt (young adult)
14. The Art of War, Sun Tzu, trans. Lionel Giles (non-fiction)
15. The World Made Straight, Ron Rash (fiction)
16. The Hiding Place, David Bell (mystery)
17. Summer of My German Soldier, Bette Greene (young adult)
18. The Life of Elizabeth I, Alison Weir (biography)
19. Working Voices, Thomas Heffernan (poetry—unpublished manuscript)
20. The Best American Essays 2011, ed. Edwidge Danticat (non-fiction)
21. Down a Dark Hall, Lois Duncan (young adult)
22. Six Degrees of Separation, John Guare (play)
23. Sharp Objects, Gillian Flynn (fiction)
24. Viscount Vagabond, Loretta Chase (historical romance)
25. Mink Coat, Jill Hoffman (poetry)
26. How to Love an Introvert, Kate Kearns (poetry)
27. The Tangled Line, Tod Marshall (poetry)
28. Joan of Arc: A Life, Mary Gordon (biography)
29. The Billionaire’s Counterfeit Girlfriend, Nadia Lee (romance)
30. The Woodlands, Lauren Nicolle Taylor (young adult)
31. Gidget, Frederick Kohner (young adult)
32. Hyperbole and a Half, Allie Brosh (memoir)
33. This Is not My Hat, Jon Klassen (picture book)
34. Twice a Rake, Catherine Gayle (historical romance)
35. No Place for a Lady, Jade Lee (historical romance)
36. Fun Home, Alison Bechdel (graphic memoir)
37. Batman: The Killing Joke, Alan Moore and Brian Bolland (graphic novel)
38. The Best American Poetry 2014, ed. Terrance Hayes (poetry)
39. Ashley’s War, Gayle Tzemach Lemmon (non-fiction)
40. Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things, Jenny Lawson (memoir)
41. The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett (children’s)
42. The Best American Poetry 2013, ed. Denise Duhamel (poetry)
43. Memories of Summer, Ruth White (young adult)
44. Dark Places, Gillian Flynn (fiction)
45. The Far Field: Last Poems, Theodore Roethke (poetry)
46. American Primitive, Mary Oliver (poetry)
2016
1. The Road, Cormac McCarthy (fiction)
2. What We Buried, Caitlyn Siehl (poetry)
3. Prelude to Bruise, Saeed Jones (poetry)
4. Habibi, Naomi Shihab Nye (young adult)
5. The Plane Janes, Cecil Castellucci (graphic novel)
6. In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler’s Berlin, Erik Larson (history)
7. The Autumn Bride, Anne Gracie (historical romance)
8. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Robert Louis Stevenson (fiction)
9. From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, E.L. Konigsburg (middle grade)
10. Never Come Back, David Bell (mystery)
11. The Street of Clocks, Thomas Lux (poetry)
12. Thrall, Natasha Tretheway (poetry)
13. Having Been an Accomplice, Laura Cronk (poetry)
14. Odessa, Patricia Kirkpatrick (poetry)
15. The Burning Fields, David Middleton (poetry)
16. Take the Cannoli: Stories from the New World, Sarah Vowell (non-fiction)
17. The Witches: Salem, 1692, Stacy Schiff (history)
18. Slouching Towards Bethlehem, Joan Didion (non-fiction)
19. Night of the Republic, Alan Shapiro (poetry)
20. The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood (fiction)
21. The Romanov Sisters: The Lost Lives of the Daughters of Nicholas and Alexandra, Helen Rappaport (biography)
22. Head off and Split, Nikky Finney
23. Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania, Erik Larson (history)
24. The Partly Cloudy Patriot, Sarah Vowell (non-fiction)
25. The Best American Poetry 2015, ed. Sherman Alexie (poetry)
26. The Price of Salt, or, Carol, Patricia Highsmith (fiction)
27. Pax, Sara Pennypacker (middle grade)
28. Fidelities: A Chronology, Keith Taylor (poetry)
29. Man Does, Woman Is, Robert Graves (poetry)
30. Scaredy Boo, Claire Freedman (picture book)
31. uncoded woman, Anne-Marie Oomen (poetry)
32. Not in Front of the Children: “Indecency,” Censorship, and the Innocence of Youth, Marjorie Heins (history)
33. But What If We’re Wrong? Thinking About the Future As If It Were the Past, Chuck Klosterman (non-fiction)
34. Damages, Elaine Terranova (poetry)
35. Queen of a Rainy Country, Linda Pastan (poetry)
36. Extremely Cute Animals Operating Heavy Machinery, David Gordon (picture book)
37. Rapture, Sjohnna McCray (poetry)
38. Look, Solmaz Sharif (poetry)
39. Faith and Treason: The Story of the Gunpowder Plot, Antonia Fraser (history)
40. A Lady Never Surrenders, Sabrina Jeffries (historical romance)
41. The Shadow of Sirius, W. S. Merwin (poetry)
42. Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier (fiction)
43. The Girl on the Train, Paula Hawkins (mystery)
44. The Martian, Andy Weir (fiction)
45. This Orq. (He Cave Boy.), David Elliott (picture book)
2017
1. Secessia, Kent Wascom (fiction)
2. Horns, Joe Hill (fiction)
3. The Winter People, Jennifer McMahon (fiction)
4. The Battle of the Labyrinth, Rick Riordan (young adult)
5. The Weave Room, Michael Chitwood (poetry)
6. The Last Olympian, Rick Riordan (young adult)
7. The Color of Lost Rooms, Irene Latham (poetry)
8. Citizen: An American Lyric, Claudia Rankine (mixed genre)
9. Night Clerk at the Hotel of Both Worlds, Angela Ball (poetry)
10. Behind Her Eyes, Sarah Pinborough (mystery)
11. Hidden Figures, Margot Lee Shetterly (history)
12. The Remains of the Day, Kazuo Ishiguro (fiction)
13. I Wear the Black Hat: Grappling with Villains (Real and Imagined), Chuck Klosterman (non-fiction)
14. The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, Stieg Larsson (mystery)
15. Men Explain Things to Me, Rebecca Solnit (non-fiction)
16. One for the Rose, Philip Levine (poetry)
17. Until the Full Moon Has Its Say, Conrad Hilberry (poetry)
18. The Bloody Planet, Callista Buchen (poetry)
19. Jim’s Book, James Reidel (poetry)
20. The Prestige, Christopher Priest (fiction)
21. The Marriage Plot, Jeffrey Eugenides (fiction)
22. Buster Loves Buttons, Fran Manushkin (children’s)
23. Frankenstein, Mary Shelley (fiction)
24. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood, Trevor Noah (memoir)
25. Believe Me: A Memoir of Love, Death, and Jazz Chickens, Eddie Izzard (memoir)
26. The Waker’s Corridor, Jonathan Thirkield (poetry)
27. The Essential Jay Macpherson, ed. Melissa Dalgleish (poetry)
28. Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth, Warsan shire (poetry)
29. Ghost Music, Mark D. Dunn (poetry)
30. The Beauty, Jane Hirshfield (poetry)
31. The Overhaul, Kathleen Jamie (poetry)
32. The Risen, Ron Rash (fiction)
33. For the Union Dead, Robert Lowell (poetry)
34. The Glass Castle, Jeannette Walls (memoir)
35. Worldly Hopes, A.R. Ammons (poetry)
36. The Princess Diarist, Carrie Fisher (memoir)
2018
1. Fries!: An Illustrated Guide to the World’s Favorite Food, Blake Lingle (non-fiction)
2. If the Viscount Falls, Sabrina Jeffries (romance)
3. The Best American Poetry 2016, ed. Edward Hirsch (poetry)
4. A Ted Hughes Bestiary, ed. Alice Oswald (poetry)
5. The Weight of Ink, Rachel Kadish (fiction)
6. Faithful and Virtuous Night, Louise Glück (poetry)
7. The Best American Poetry 2017, ed. Natasha Trethewey (poetry)
8. Self-portrait in a Convex Mirror, John Ashberry (poetry)
9. The Best American Essays 2017, ed. Leslie Jamison (non-fiction)
10. The Moon Before Morning, W.S. Merwin (poetry)
11. Eco-dementia, Janet Kauffman (poetry)
12. Don’t Call Me Princess: Essays on Girls, Women, Sex, and Life, Peggy Orenstein (non-fiction)
13. Our Numbered Days, Neil Hilborn (poetry)
14. All the Lives I Want: Essays About My Best Friends Who Happen to Be Famous Strangers, Alana Massey (non-fiction)
15. Bad Stories: What the Hell Just Happened to Our Country, Steve Almond (non-fiction)
16. Milk, Dorothea Lasky (poetry)
17. Scribbled in the Dark, Charles Simic (poetry)
18. The Cold and the Rust, Emily van Kley (poetry)
19. Home After Dark, David Small (graphic novel)
20. Dolores Claiborne, Stephen King (fiction)
21. The Possessions, Sara Flannery Murphy (fiction)
22. The Woman in Cabin 10, Ruth Ware (mystery)
23. Anne Frank’s Diary: The Graphic Adaptation, Anne Frank, Ari Folman, and David Poloksky (graphic novel)
24. Girl-king, Brittany Cavallaro (poetry)
25. In the Land We Imagined Ourselves, Jonathan Johnson (poetry)
26. This Is the Way the World Ends, Leland James (poetry)
27. Perennial, Kelly Forsythe (poetry)
28. The White Album, Joan Didion (non-fiction)
29. Eureka Mill, Ron Rash (poetry)
30. Leaf, Sandra Dieckmann (picture book)
31. Live or Die, Anne Sexton (poetry)
32. The Niagara River, Kay Ryan (poetry)
33. Lying in the River’s Dark Bed: The Confluence of the Deadman and the Mad Angler, Michael Delp (poetry)
2019
1. Dead Girls: Essays on Surviving an American Obsession, Alice Bolin (non-fiction)
2. Gmorning, Gnight!: Little Pep Talks for Me & You, Lin-Manuel Miranda (non-fiction)
3. The Haunting of Hill House, Shirley Jackson (mystery)
4. We Are Never Meeting in Real Life, Samantha Irby (non-fiction)
5. On the Way to the Wedding, Julia Quinn (historical romance)
6. Magdalene, Marie Howe (poetry)
7. The Viscount Who Loved Me, Julia Quinn (historical romance)
8. Spell, Ann Lauterbach (poetry)
9. Forty-five, Frieda Hughes (poetry)
10. When He Was Wicked, Julia Quinn (historical romance)
11. Bigfoot Believes, Kelly Oriard with Callie Christensen (picture book)
12. A Royal Passion, Katie Whitaker (history)
13. The Photograph, Beverly Lewis (inspirational fiction)
14. Where’d You Go, Bernadette, Maria Semple (fiction)
15. The Cement Garden, Ian McEwan (fiction)
16. Repetitions, Testimonies, Parentheses, Yannis Ritsos, trans. Edmund Keeley (poetry)
17. The Swan Thieves, Elizabeth Kostova (fiction)
18. The Monster of Florence, Douglas Preston with Mario Spezi (true crime)
19. Voices: The Final Hours of Joan of Arc, David Elliott (young adult)
20. Red Dragon, Thomas Harris (mystery)
21. The Duke and I, Julia Quinn (historical romance)
22. Angel Bones, Ilyse Kusnetz (poetry)
23. Life on Mars, Tracy K. Smith (poetry)
24. Night Sky with Exit Wounds, Ocean Vuong (poetry)
25. The Children of Men, P.D. James (fiction)
26. Priestdaddy, Patricia Lockwood (memoir)
27. The Alienist, Caleb Carr (mystery)
28. River of Fire: My Spiritual Journey, Sister Helen Prejean (memoir)
29. Dead Blondes and Bad Mothers: Monstrosity, Patriarchy, and the Fear of Female Power, Jude Doyle (non-fiction)
30. Seduction on a Snowy Night, Madeline Hunter, Sabrina Jeffries, and Mary Jo Putney (historical romance)
31. Half Empty, David Rakoff (essays)
32. Mary Reilly, Valerie Martin (historical fiction)
33. An Offer From a Gentleman, Julia Quinn (historical romance)
34. Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story, Chuck Klosterman (non-fiction)
35. The Angel of Darkness, Caleb Carr (mystery)
36. Little & Lion, Brandy Colbert (young adult)
37. Wilder Girls, Rory Power (young adult)
2020
1. Unfathoming, Andrea Cohen (poetry)
2. Luckhound, Timothy Tarkelly (poetry)
3. Lafayette in the Somewhat United States, Sarah Vowell (history)
4. The Charmed House, Deborah Diemont (poetry)
5. I’ll Be Gone in the Dark, Michelle McNamara (true crime)
6. A Home for Little Turtle, Ariane Chottin (picture book)
7. Love, Loss, and What I Wore, Ilene Beckerman (memoir)
8. The Song and the Silence, Yvette Johnson (non-fiction)
9. The Mornings, Theodore Enslin (poetry)
10. Dust and Desire, Ronald H. Bayes (poetry)
11. This Do & the Talents, Theodore Enslin (poetry)
12. Antipsalm, Wayne Johns (poetry)
13. A Mistletoe Vow to Lord Lovell, Joanna Johnson (historical romance)
14. Solutions and Other Problems, Allie Brosch (memoir)
15. The Third Rainbow Girl, Emma Copley Eisenberg (memoir)
16. Unspeakable Acts: True Tales of Crime, Murder, Deceit, and Obsession, ed. Sarah Weinman (true crime)
17. Broken (In the Best Possible Way), Jenny Lawson (memoir)
2021
1. The Popcorn Book, Tomie de Paola (picture book)
2. Founding Mothers: The Women Who Raised Our Nation, Cokie Roberts (history)
3. Mayflower, Nathaniel Philbrick (history)
4. Here’s to You, America!, Charles Schulz (picture book)
5. Crocodile on the Sandbank, Elizabeth Peters (cozy mystery)
6. Death’s Autograph, Marianne Macdonald (cozy mystery)
7. Before We Were Strangers, Brenda Novak (romantic suspense)
8. The Girl Who Knew Too Much, Amanda Quick (historical romance)
9. A Lady in Disguise, Lynsay Sands (historical romance)
10. Triumph: The Untold Story of Jesse Owens and Hitler’s Olympics, Jeremy Schaap (history)
11. Secrets of a Scandalous Marriage, Valerie Bowman (historical romance)
12. I Thought There Would Be More Wolves, Sara Ryan (poetry)
13. I Can’t Talk About the Trees without the Blood, Tiana Clark (poetry)
15. American Sublime, Elizabeth Alexander (poetry)
16. Dying for Chocolate, Diane Mott Davidson (cozy mystery)
17. The Art of Sinning, Sabrina Jeffries (historical romance)
18. Women and Power: A Manifesto, Mary Beard (essays)
19. A Favor for the Prince, Jane Ashford (historical romance)
20. Bombshell, Sarah MacLean (historical romance)
21. Off the Record, Camryn Garrett (young adult)
22. Nowhere Near Respectable, Mary Jo Putney (historical romance)
23. Kissing Under the Mistletoe, Suzanne Enoch, Amelia Grey, and Anna Bennett (historical romance)
24. Heir to the Duke, Jane Ashford (historical romance)
25. Three Weeks with Lady X, Eloisa James (historical romance)
26. Project Duchess, Sabrina Jeffries (historical romance)
27. Jasper & Joop, Olivier Dunrea (picture book)
28. The Rabbi and the Twenty-nine Witches, Marilyn Hirsch (picture book)
29. Lord Holt Takes a Bride, Vivienne Lorret (historical romance)
30. My Kind of Earl, Vivienne Lorret (historical romance)
31. Midnight Rising: John Brown and the Raid That Sparked the Civil War, Tony Horwitz (history)
32. Edgar Allan Crow, Courtney Acampora and Maggie Fischer (picture book)
33. The Other Lady Vanishes, Amanda Quick (historical romance)
34. Snowy Night with a Stranger, Jane Feather, Sabrina Jeffries, and Julia London (historical romance)
35. An American Sunrise, Jo Harjo (poetry)
36. A Yuletide Kiss, Madeline Hunter, Sabrina Jeffries, and Mary Jo Putney (historical romance)
37. When You Get the Chance, Emma Lord (young adult)
38. King of August, Ronald H. Bayes (poetry)
39. Nine Rules to Break When Romancing a Rake, Sarah MacLean (historical romance)
40. Why I Wake Early, Mary Oliver (poetry)
41. The Runaway Duchess, Joanna Lowell (historical romance)
42. Time Is a Mother, Ocean Vuong (poetry)
43. Rosetta, Karina Borowicz (poetry)
44. His Improper Lady, Candace Camp (historical romance)
45. The Bachelor, Sabrina Jeffries (historical romance)
46. Sworn to Silence, Linda Castillo (mystery)
2022
1. The Curse of the Pharaohs, Elizabeth Peters (cozy mystery)
2. The Wrong Marquess, Vivienne Lorret (historical romance)
3. I’ll Be the one, Lyla Lee (young adult)
4. The Warlow Experiment, Alix Nathan (historical fiction)
5. The Veronica Maneuver, Jennifer Moore (poetry)
6. Maus: A Survivor’s Tale, Volume I: My Father Bleeds History, Art Spiegelman (memoir)
7. Maus: A Survivor’s Tale, Volume II: And Here My Troubles Began, Art Spiegelman (memoir)
8. 1776, David McCullough (history)
9. Loving a Lost Lord, Mary Jo Putney (historical romance)
10. Emma, Jane Austen (classic literature)
11. Ten Ways to Be Adored When Landing a Lord, Sarah MacLean (historical romance)
12. Fresh Complaint, Jeffrey Eugenides (short stories)
13. The Unexpected Duchess, Valerie Bowman (historical romance)
14. Who Wants to Marry a Duke, Sabrina Jeffries (historical romance)
15. The Secret Diaries of Miss Miranda Cheever, Julia Quinn (historical romance)
16. Yours Until Dawn, Teresa Medeiros (historical romance)
17. Rogue Most Wanted, Janna MacGregor (historical romance)
18. Shining Through, Susan Isaacs (fiction)
19. Undercover Duke, Sabrina Jeffries (historical romance)
20. A Duke for Diana, Sabrina Jeffries (historical romance)
21. The Valley of the Kings, Richard Brightfield (middle grade)
22. Educated, Tara Westover (memoir)
23. Everything You Wanted to Know About Indians but Were Afraid to Ask, Anton Treuer (political science)
24. Never Less Than a Lady, Mary Jo Putney (historical romance)
25. The Beautiful and Damned, F. Scott Fitzgerald (fiction)
26. Geared for the Grave, Duffy Brown (cozy mystery)
27. Anthology of Modern Japanese Poetry, ed. Yuki Sawa and Edith Shiffert (poetry)
28. This Time Will Be Different, Misa Sugiura (young adult)
29. Braking for Bodies, Duffy Brown (cozy mystery)
30. Button Holed, Kylie Logan (cozy mystery)
31. The Best American Essays 2021, ed. Kathryn Schulz (essays)
32. Death By Dumpling, Vivien Chien (cozy mystery)
33. Dead Presidents: An American Adventure Into the Strange Deaths and Surprising Afterlives of Our Nation’s Leaders, Brady Carlson (history)
34. Smoke Gets in Your Eyes & Other Lessons from the Crematory, Caitlin Doughty (memoir)
35. The Library Book, Susan Orlean (non-fiction)
36. Tandem Demise, Duffy Brown (cozy mystery)
37. Homicide in Hardcover, Kate Carlisle (cozy mystery)
38. Corduroy, Don Freeman (picture book)
39. Three Women, Lisa Taddeo (non-fiction)
40. The Long Quiche Goodbye, Avery Aames (cozy mystery)
41. What the Duke Doesn’t Know, Jane Ashford (historical romance)
42. Allow Me to Retort: A Black Guy’s Guide to the Constitution, Elie Mystal (political science)
43. The Cat and the Devil, James Joyce (picture book)
44. The Templars: The Rise and Spectacular Fall of God’s Holy Warriors, Dan Jones (history)
45. Mermaids, Patty Dann (fiction)
46. The Carrying, Ada Limón (poetry)
47. Constance, Jane Kenyon (poetry)
48. The Mysterious Affair at Styles, Agatha Christie (mystery)
49. Al Dente’s Inferno, Stephanie Cole (cozy mystery)
50. The House of Gucci, Sara Gay Forden (biography)
51. Crime of the Ancient Marinara, Stephanie Cole (cozy mystery)
52. A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens (classic literature)
53. Door, Ann Lauterbach (poetry)
54. Bright Dead Things, Ada Limón (poetry)
55. Playlist for the Apocalypse, Rita Dove (poetry)
2023
1. The Fearless Benjamin Lay: The Quaker Dwarf Who Became the First Revolutionary Abolitionist, Marcus Rediker (biography)
2. Cotton Candy: Poems Dipped Out of the Air, Ted Kooser (poetry)
3. Make Way for Ducklings, Robert McCloskey (picture book)
4. The Little Paris Bookshop, Nina George (fiction)
5. Be With, Forrest Gander (poetry)
6. Dial A for Aunties, Jesse Q. Sutanto (fiction)
7. Whetstone, Lorna Crozier (poetry)
8. Heartbreaker, Sarah MacLean (historical romance)
9. Evil Under the Tuscan Sun, Stephanie Cole (cozy mystery)
10. How to Steal a Scoundrel’s Heart, Vivienne Lorret (historical romance)
11. What Happens in the Ballroom, Sabrina Jeffries (historical romance)
12. Tightrope, Amanda Quick (historical romance)
13. Let Sleeping Rogues Lie, Sabrina Jeffries (historical romance)
14. Eleven Scandals to Start to Win a Duke’s Heart, Sarah MacLean (historical romance)
15. I Will Destroy You, Nick Flynn (poetry)
16. Just Like Heaven, Julia Quinn (historical romance)
17. Murder in the Cathedral, T.S. Eliot (play)
18. A Dangerous Love, Sabrina Jeffries (historical romance)
19. No Longer a Gentleman, Mary Jo Putney (historical romance)
20. A Plus One for Murder, Laura Bradford (cozy mystery)
21. The Best American Poetry 2022, ed. Matthew Zapruder and David Lehman (poetry)
22. The Case of the Missing Marquess, Nancy Springer (young adult)
23. The Case of the Left-handed Lady, Nancy Springer (young adult)
24. The Case of the Bizarre Bouquets, Nancy Springer (young adult)
25. The Case of the Peculiar Pink Fan, Nancy Springer (young adult)
26. The Case of the Cryptic Crinoline, Nancy Springer (young adult)
27. The Case of the Disappearing Duchess, Nancy Springer (young adult)
28. Perfect Disappearance, Martha Rhodes (poetry)
29. A Rogue By Any Other Name, Sarah MacLean (historical romance)
30. Ghosts, Raina Telgemeier (middle grade)
31. The Circle of Totems, Peggy Shumaker (poetry)
32. Rodin’s Eyes, D.A. Feinfeld (poetry)
33. One Good Earl Deserves a Lover, Sarah MacLean (historical romance)
34. A Horse Called Victory, Timothy Tarkelly (poetry)
35. Love Poems, Pablo Neruda (poetry)
36. American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin, Terrance Hayes (poetry)
37. They Are Sleeping, Joanna Klink (poetry)
38. The Alphabet Conspiracy, Rita Mae Reese (poetry)
39. Native Guard, Natasha Trethewey (poetry)
40. A Woman of Property, Robyn Schiff (poetry)
41. Vertigo & Ghost, Fiona Benson (poetry)
42. Fieldnotes on Ordinary Love, Keith S. Wilson (poetry)
43. Runaway, Jorie Graham (poetry)
44. Rose, Li-Young Lee (poetry)
45. She Had Some Horses, Joy Harjo (poetry)
46. Bless the Daughter Raised By a Voice in Her Head, Warsan Shire (poetry)
47. Come Closer and Listen, Charles Simic (poetry)
48. Kettle Bottom, Diane Gilliam Fisher (poetry)
49. American Scapegoat, Enzo Silon Surin (poetry)
50. Come-hither Honeycomb, Erin Belieu (poetry)
51. The Hurting Kind, Ada Limón (poetry)
52. Borderline Fortune, Teresa K. Miller (poetry)
53. Counting Descent, Clint Smith (poetry)
54. Dream Work, Mary Oliver (poetry)
55. Wade in the Water, Tracy K. Smith (poetry)
56. The Painted Bunting’s Last Molt, Virgil Suárez (poetry)
57. Good Bones, Maggie Smith (poetry)
58. When My Brother Was an Aztec, Natalie Diaz (poetry)
59. Mule Kick Blues and Last Poems, Michael McClure (poetry)
60. Everything Saved Will Be Last, Isaac Pickwell (poetry)
61. Ledger, Jane Hirshfield (poetry)
62. Waveland, Ösel Jessica Plante (poetry)
63. Water Lessons, Lisa Dordal (poetry)
64. The Clearing, Lisa Hiton (poetry)
65. Nightbloom & Cenote, Leslie Contreras Schwartz (poetry)
66. Thrown in the Throat, Benjamin Garcia (poetry)
67. Street Calligraphy, Jim Daniels (poetry)
68. Low, Nick Flynn (poetry)
69. Poems Bewitched and Haunted, ed. John Hollander (poetry)
70. The Spirit Level, Seamus Heaney (poetry)
71. Collected Earlier Poems 1940-1960, Denise Levertov (poetry)
72. Elegies for New York Avenue, Melanie Henderson (poetry)
73. Stag’s Leap, Sharon Olds (poetry)
74. Crow: From the Life and Songs of the Crow, Ted Hughes (poetry)
75. 100 Places to See After You Die: A Travel Guide to the Afterlife, Ken Jennings (non-fiction)
76. From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death, Caitlin Doughty (non-fiction)
77. This Is Where I Leave You, Jonathan Tropper (fiction)
78. Under Lock and Skeleton Key, Gigi Pandian (cozy mystery)
2024
1. I’m Glad My Mom Died, Jennette McCurdy (memoir)
2. Accidentally His, Sabrina Jeffries (historical romance)
3. Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers, Mary Roach (non-fiction)
4. Sheets, Brenna Thummler (middle grade graphic novel)
5. The Fears, Kevin Prufer (poetry)
6. Murder at the Beacon Bakeshop, Darci Hannah (cozy mystery)
7. Huda F Are You?, Huda Fahmy (young adult graphic novel)
8. Death Comes As the End, Agatha Christie (mystery)
9. Aunty Lee’s Delights, Ovidia Yu (cozy mystery)
10. Old Gods, Connor Kerr (poetry)
11. Iced in Paradise, Naomi Hirahara (cozy mystery)
12. 77 Fragments of a Familiar Ruin, Thomas King (poetry)
13. Every Riven Thing, Christian Wiman (poetry)
14. Second Duke’s the Charm, Kate Bateman (historical romance)
15. The Cat and the Devil, James Joyce (picture book)
16. Seven Minutes in Heaven, Eloisa James (historical romance)
17. The Body in the Library, Agatha Christie (mystery)
18. Poems Dead and Undead, ed. Tony Barnstone and Michelle Mitchell-Foust (poetry)
19. When You See My Mother, Ask Her to Dance, Joan Baez (poetry)
20. You Are Here: Poetry in the Natural World, ed. Ada Limón (poetry)
21. Frank, Diane Seuss (poetry)
22. French Love Poems, ed. Tynan Kogane (poetry)
23. Poems on Nature, various (poetry)
24. Poems for Nighttime, various (poetry)
25. Poems for Morning, various (poetry)
26. Miracle Workers, Simon Rich (fiction)
27. A Really Good Brown Girl, Marilyn Dumont (poetry)
28. Book of Haikus, Jack Kerouac (poetry)
29. Made to Explode, Sandra Beasley (poetry)
30. Different Hours, Stephen Dunn (poetry)
31. A Night like This, Julia Quinn (historical romance)
32. The Turn of the Screw, Henry James (classics)
33. Tokyo Annex, Ronald H. Bayes (poetry)
34. War of the Foxes, Richard Siken (poetry)
35. I Hope This Finds You Well, Kate Baer (poetry)
36. Soft Science, Franny Choi (poetry)
37. Obit, Victoria Chang (poetry)
38. Beast at Every Threshold, Natalie Wee (poetry)
39. The Witching Year: A Memoir of Earnest Fumbling Through Modern Witchcraft, Diana Helmuth (memoir)
40. Four Aunties and a Wedding, Jesse Q. Sutanto
41. The Reappearance of Rachel Price, Holly Jackson (young adult)
42. Letters to a Young Poet, Ranier Maria Rilke (non-fiction)
43. Prunella, Beth Ferry (picture book)
44. Scorched Grace, Margo Douaihy (mystery)
45. Men Have Called Her Crazy, Anna Marie Tendler (memoir)
46. The Nineties, Chuck Klosterman (history)
47. Yes Thorn, Amy Munson (poetry)
48. The Downstairs Girl, Stacey Lee (young adult)
49. Erasure, Percival Everett (fiction)
50. The Raven Thief, Gigi Pandian (cozy mystery)
51. The Night of the Lunar Eclipse, Margaret Szumowski (poetry)
52. The Good, the Bad, and the Aunties, Jesse Q. Sutanto (fiction)
53. Oceanic, Aimee Nezhukumatathil (poetry)
54. Pacific Shooter, Susan Parr (poetry)
55. Other Fugitives and Other Strangers, Rigoberto González (poetry)
56. What You Want, Maureen N. McLane (poetry)
57. The Trees Witness Everything, Victoria Chang (poetry)
58. Small Things like These, Claire Keegan (fiction)
59. The Glimmering Room, Cynthia Cruz (poetry)
60. The Voice of that Singing, Juliet Rodeman (poetry)
61. Far Country, Kyce Bello (poetry)
62. Helen of Troy, 1993, Maria Zoccola (poetry)
63. Music for Exile, Nehassaiu deGannes (poetry)
64. Infanta, Erin Belieu (poetry)
65. The Tradition, Jericho Brown (poetry)
66. Ninety-five Nights of Listening, Malinda Markham (poetry)
67. Exiles of Eden, Ladan Osman (poetry)
68. Wintering, Megan Snyder-Camp (poetry)
69. How to Carry Water: Selected Poems, Lucille Clifton (poetry)
70. Calling a Wolf a Wolf, Kaveh Akbar (poetry)
71. Tacky the Penguin, Helen Lester (picture book) 72. Alive at the End of the World, Saeed Jones (poetry)
2025
1. March: Book One, John Lewis and Andrew Aydin (graphic memoir)
2. March: Book Two, John Lewis and Andrew Aydin (graphic memoir)
3. March: Book Three, John Lewis and Andrew Aydin (graphic memoir)
4. Komi Can’t Communicate, Volume 1, Tomohito Oda (manga)
5. Stargazing, Jen Wang (middle grade graphic novel)
6. The Right Hand of Amon, Lauren Haney (historical mystery)
7. In My Time of Dying: How I Came Face-to-face with the Idea of an Afterlife, Sebastian Junger (memoir)
8. A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder, Holly Jackson (young adult)
9. Interior Chinatown, Charles Yu (fiction)
10. Vera Wong’s Unsolicited Advice for Murderers, Jesse Q. Sutanto (cozy mystery)
11. The Best American Poetry 2024, ed. David Lehman and Mary Jo Salter (poetry)
12. Grief Is for People, Sloane Crosley (memoir)
13. The Boy, the Mole, the Fox, and the Horse, Charlie Mackesy (graphic novel)
14. Enough Rope, Dorothy Parker (poetry)
15. A Thousand Naked Strangers: A Paramedic’s Wild Ride to the Edge and Back, Kevin Hazzard (memoir)
16. All Quiet on the Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque (fiction)
17. Sight Lines, Arthur Sze (poetry)
18. Sharks in the Rivers, Ada Limón (poetry)
19. Unmasked, Nicola Cornick (historical romance)
20. Blessed Water, Margot Douaihy (mystery)
21. Content Warning: Everything, Akwaeke Emezi (poetry)
22. Close Up, Amanda Quick (historical romance)
23. How to Fall for a Scoundrel, Kate Bateman (historical romance)
24. All Paths Lead to Paris, Sabrina Fedel (young adult)
25. The Adoration of Jenna Fox, Mary E. Pearson (young adult)
26. Bachelorette, Leslye Headland (play)
27. The Lost Library, Rebecca Stead and Wendy Mass (middle grade)
28. Hazardous to a Duke’s Heart, Sabrina Jeffries (historical romance)
29. Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency, Chen Chen (poetry)
30. American Spring: Lexington, Concord, and the Road to Revolution, Walter R. Borneman (history)
31. Lost at Sea, Bryan Lee O’Malley (graphic novel)
32. The World Keeps on Ending, and the World Goes On, Franny Choi (poetry)
33. Thanks for this Riot, Janelle Bassett (short stories)
34. Wow, No Thank You, Samantha Irby (essays)
35. Personal Science, Lillian-Yvonne Bertram (poetry)
36. Grocery List Poems, Rhiannon McGavin (poetry)
37. Crazy Rich Asians, Kevin Kwan (fiction)
38. China Rich Girlfriend, Kevin Kwan (fiction)
39. Rich People Problems, Kevin Kwan (fiction)
40. Dragonwings, Laurence Yep (play)
41. A Midnight Puzzle, Gigi Pandian (cozy mystery)
42. The Duke and Lady Scandal, Christy Carlyle (historical romance)
43. I See You’ve Called in Dead, John Kenney (fiction)
44. The Bangalore Detectives Club, Harini Nagendra (mystery)
45. Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone, Benjamin Stevenson (mystery)
46. Shady Hollow, Juneau Black (cozy mystery)
47. Eating the Dinosaur, Chuck Klosterman (essays)
48. The Thursday Murder Club, Richard Osman (mystery)
49. A Duke Never Tells, Suzanne Enoch (historical romance)
50. A Face Turned Backward, Lauren Haney (historical mystery)
51. Road Trip with a Rogue, Kate Bateman (historical romance)
52. A Vile Justice, Lauren Haney (historical mystery)
53. The Most Dangerous Duke in London, Madeline Hunter (historical romance)
54. A Curse of Silence, Lauren Haney (historical mystery)
55. The Lady Knows Best, Susanna Craig (historical romance)
56. A Place of Darkness, Lauren Haney (historical mystery)
57. Yours Truly, the Duke, Amelia Grey (historical romance)
58. A Cruel Deceit, Lauren Haney (historical mystery)
59. Hallowe’en Party, Agatha Christie (mystery)
60. Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine, and the Murder of a President, Candice Millard (history)
61. Flesh of the God, Lauren Haney (historical mystery)
62. I’m Always So Serious, Karisma Price (poetry)
63. The Big Smoke, Adrian Matejka (poetry)
Caitlin Johnson 