(Alphabetical by book title)
#
1984 – George Orwell
1Q84 – Haruki Murakami
A
The Absolutist — John Boyne
The Age of Innocence — Edith Wharton (informal non-review)
All Her Father’s Guns — James Warner
Although Of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself — David Lipsky
An American Childhood – Annie Dillard
American Psycho – Bret Easton Ellis
American Transcendentalism — Philip F. Gura
Amity & Sorrow — Peggy Riley
And When She Was Good — Laura Lippman
The Autobiography of an Execution – David R. Dow
B
The Becoming: Outbreak – Jessica Meigs
The Becoming: Safe House – Jessica Meigs
The Bee-Loud Glade — Steve Himmer
Before the Rain — Luisita López Torregrosa
Behind the Beautiful Forevers – Katherine Boo
The Bookie’s Son — Andrew Goldstein
Brand New Human Being — Emily Jeanne Miller
Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
Breed — Chase Novak
Bull Canyon — Lin Pardey
Bullied — Carrie Goldman
C
The Campaign of the Century — Greg Mitchell
Carry the One – Carol Anshaw
Cloyne Court — Dodie Katague
The Crucible — Arthur Miller
D
Dare Me — Megan Abbott
Deadly Harvest — Michael Stanley
Devotion: A Memoir – Dani Shapiro
Doctor Zhivago – Boris Pasternak
The Double – José Saramago
E
Elegant Complexity – Greg Carlisle
The End of Your Life Book Club — Will Schwalbe
The Essential Margaret Fuller – Jeffrey Steele, editor
F
Faitheist — Chris Stedman
Falling Together — Narisa de los Santos
The Falls — Joyce Carol Oates
Fight Song — Joshua Mohr
Forgotten Country — Catherine Chung
Frozen in Time — Mitchell Zuckoff
Full Frontal Feminism — Jessica Valenti
G
The Gods of Gotham — Lyndsay Faye
A Golden Age — Tahmima Anam
The Good Muslim — Tahmima Anam
Graceling — Kristin Cashore
The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald
H
História, História — Eleanor Stanford
Home — Toni Morrison
I
Immortal Bird — Doron Weber
In One Person — John Irving
In Other Worlds — Margaret Atwood
Infinite Jest – David Foster Wallace
Invisible Man – Ralph Ellison
K
Kindred — Octavia Butler
L
Less Than Zero – Bret Easton Ellis
Let’s Pretend This Never Happened — Jenny Lawson
The Little Red Guard — Wenguang Huang
Lizz Free or Die — Lizz Winstead
M
The Magicians — Lev Grossman
Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention – Manning Marable
The Marriage Plot – Jeffrey Eugenides
Melmoth the Wanderer — Charles Robert Maturin
The Midwife of Hope River — Patricia Harman
The Minds of Billy Milligan – Daniel Keyes
The Missing File — D.A. Mishani
Moonwalking With Einstein — Joshua Foer
N
The Name of the Wind – Patrick Rothfuss
Naples Declared — Benjamin Taylor
Native Son – Richard Wright
Neverwhere – Neil Gaiman
Ninth Ward — Jewell Parker Rhodes
No Mark Upon Her — Deborah Crombie
O
One Day It’ll All Make Sense — Common
The Orchardist — Amanda Coplin
Out of True — Amy Durant
Overseas — Beatriz Williams
P
Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
The Promise of Stardust — Priscille Sibley
Proof of Guilt — Charles Todd
R
Running the Rift — Naomi Benaron
S
The Science of Kissing — Sheril Kirshenbaum
The Sense of an Ending — Julian Barnes
A Sense of Direction — Gideon Lewis-Kraus
Shadow Show — Sam Weller and Mort Castle (editors)
Shaq Uncut: My Story — Shaquille O’Neal
Sharp — David Fitzpatrick
Sister Citizen — Melissa Harris-Perry
Skeleton Women — Mingmei Yip
The Sword of Shannara – Terry Brooks
T
The Tale of Lucia Grandi — Susan Speranza
The Taste of Salt – Martha Southgate
The Tell — Hester Kaplan
The Testament of Jessie Lamb — Jane Rogers
Their Eyes Were Watching God – Zora Neale Hurston
Those Guys Have All the Fun — James Andrew Miller & Tom Shales
The Tiger’s Wife – Téa Obreht
A Train in Winter — Caroline Moorehead
True You — Janet Jackson
V
Vanity Fair — William Makepeace Thackeray
Volcano — Shusaku Endo
W
The Warmth of Other Suns — Isabel Wilkerson
The Western Lit Survival Kit — Sandra Newman
What the Night Knows – Dean Koontz
When I Whistle — Shusaku Endo
When She Woke — Hillary Jordan
When Skateboards Will Be Free – Saïd Sayrafiezadeh
While Mortals Sleep – Kurt Vonnegut
The Wise Man’s Fear – Patrick Rothfuss
With My Body — Nikki Gemmell
The Woman Warrior — Maxine Hong Kingston
The Word — Marita Golden, editor
The World According to Garp – John Irving
Y
The Yard — Alex Grecian
Z
Zazen — Vanessa Veselka
