2011
** Highly Recommended
Winter’s Bone by Daniel Woodrell
Half Broke Horses by Jeannette Walls
**Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand by Helen Simonson
Tonight I Said Goodbye by Michael Koryta
Wild Child by TC Boyle
**Mildred Pierce by James M Cain
**Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
Agnes Grey by Anne Bronte
The Fifth Witness by Michael Connelly
Lost Light by Michael Connelly
The Civilized World by Susi Wyss
Notes on a Scandal by Zoe Heller
**Lord of the Flies by William Golding
Iphigenia in Forest Hills by Janet Malcolm
In the Garden of Beasts by Erik Larson
**The Sisters Brothers by Patrick DeWitt
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte
Faith: A Novel by Jennifer Haigh
The Paris Wife by Paula McLain
Dreams of Joy by Lisa See
**Turn of Mind by Alice LaPlante
**33 Men by Jonathan Franklin
The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne by Brian Moore
The Borrower by Rebecca Makkai
The Rogue: Searching for the Real Sarah Palin by Joe McGinniss
Last Man in Tower by Aravind Adiga
**State of Wonder by Ann Patchett
The Barbarian Nurseries by Hector Tobar
Beyond the Sky and the Earth by Jamie Zappa
The Drop by Michael Connelly
The Litigators by John Grisham
2012
The Submission by Amy Waldman
**The Orphan Master’s Son by Adam Johnson
Sacred Hunger by Barry Unsworth
**Behind the Beautiful Forevers by Katherine Boo
Defending Jacob by William Landa
**Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel
Home by Toni Morrison
Wild by Cheryl Strayed
15 Seconds by Andrew Gross
The Red Chamber by Pauline A. Chen
A Hologram for the King by Dave Eggars
**Broken Harbor by Tana French
The Boy in the Suitcase by Lene Kaaberbol and Agnete Friis
The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes
The St. Zita Society by Ruth Rendell
**The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving by Jonathan Evision
The Black Box by Michael Connelly
**The Round House by Louise Erdrich
A Wild Surge of Guilty Passion by Ron Hansen
**Crossing to Safety by Wallace Stegner
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Frye by Rachel Joyce
The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson
Live by Night by Dennis Lehane
Winter of the World by Ken Follett
The Chaperone by Laura Moriarty
2013
Echo Park by Michael Connelly
Suspect by Robert Crais
The Dinner by Herman Koch
Where’d You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple
**Tenth of December by George Sanders
The Good House by Ann Leary
**Benediction by Kent Haruf
The Abundance by Amit Majmudar
**Eventide by Kent Haruf
**The Whistling Season by Ivan Doig
The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler
**The Son by Philipp Meyer
**Thank You for Your Service by David Finkel
Beautiful Ruins by Jess Walter
And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini
The Girl Who Fell From the Sky by Heidi W. Durrow
The Silent Wife by A.S.A. Harrison
The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P. by Adelle Waldman
**The Destiny of the Republic by Candice Millard
The Shining Girls by Lauren Beukes
**Binocular Vision by Edith Pearlman
2014
Standing in Another Man’s Grave by Ian Rankin
Where I Was From by Joan Didion
The Elephant’s Journey by Jose Saramago
**We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler
Fire and Forget by Matt Gallagher, et al
The Divorce Papers by Susan Rieger
A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki
May We All Be Forgiven by A.M. Homes
**Dear Life by Alice Munro
2015
**Stoner by John Williams
The Painter by Peter Heller
**Orhan’s Inheritance by Aline Ohanesian
Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant? by Roz Chast
**Butcher’s Crossing by John Williams
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
**Fourth of July Creek by Smith Henderson
The Boston Girl by Anita Diamant
Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng
The Crossing by Michael Connelly
The Nightengale by Kristin Hannah
And the Dark Sacred Night by Julia Glass
What Alice Forgot by Liane Moriarty
Fates and Furies: A Novel by Lauren Groff
**Fortune Smiles: Stories by Adam Johnson
The Peripatetic Coffin and Other Stories by Ethan Rutherford
Augustus by John Williams
The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins
The Whites: A Novel by Harry Brandt
Honeydew: Stories by Edith Perlman
**Child of God by Cormac McCarthy
Old Filth by Jane Gardam
The Body Electric by C.E. Smith
Euphoria by Lily King
**Our Souls at Night by Kent Haruf
2016
My Name is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout
The Japanese Lover by Isabel Allende
A Mother’s Reckoning: Living in the Aftermath of Tragedy by Sue Klebold
**Mr. Bridge by Evan S. Connell
**Mrs. Bridge by Evan S. Connell
Long Story Short: The Only Storytelling Guide You’ll Ever Need by Margot Leitman
**Plainsong (reread) by Kent Haruf
First Women: The Grace and Power of America’s Modern First Ladies by Kate Andersen Brower
The Year of the Runaways by Sanjeev Sahota
**Nobody’s Fool by Richard Russo
Carousel Court by Joe McGinnis, Jr.
Razor Girl by Carl Hiassen
**Commonwealth by Ann Patchett
Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Travels with Charley (reread) by John Steinbeck
2017
**The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
The Trespasser by Tana French
**LaRose: A Novel by Louise Erdrich
Wolf Hollow by Lauren Wolk
**The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
Everybody’s Fool by Richard Russo
Evicted by Matthew Desmond
Hillbilly Elegy by J.D. Vance
**The Nix: A Novel by Nathan Hill
Before the Fall by Noah Hawley
The Late Show by Michael Connelly
**Dorothy Parker: Complete Stories
The Late Show by Michael Connelly
The Locals by Jonathan Dee
2018
**News of the World by Paulette Jiles
Turtles All the Way Down by John Green
A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng
The Ninth Hour by Alice McDermott
Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
**The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai
**The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
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