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21 Things You May Not Know About the Indian Act – Bob Joseph
84, Charing Cross Road and The Duchess of Bloomsbury Street – Helene Hanff
1619 Project, The – Nikole Hannah-Jones

A

Agent 21 (Agent 21 #1)- Chris Ryan
Agent 21: Codebreaker (Agent 21 #3)- Chris Ryan
Agent 21: Reloaded (Agent 21 #2)- Chris Ryan
Alive (The Generations Trilogy #1) – Scott Sigler
All Families Are Psychotic – Douglas Coupland
All My Puny Sorrows – Mariam Toews
Alone Together – Jennifer Haupt (ed.)
Amazing Grace Adams – Fran Littlewood
American Marriage, An – Tayari Jones
Americanah – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life – Barbara Kingsolver with Steven L. Hopp and Camille Kingsolver
Anna and the French Kiss (Anna and the French Kiss #1) – Stephanie Perkins
Another Brooklyn – Jacqueline Woodson
Anthropocene Reviewed, The – John Green
Appeal, The – Janice Hallett
Argonauts, The – Maggie Nelson
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe – Benjamin Alire Sáenz
Armada – Ernest Cline
Art of Lainey, The – Paula Stokes
Ask Again, Yes – Mary Beth Keane
Austenland (Austenland#1) – Shannon Hale
Autumn (Seasonal #1) – Ali Smith

B

Bad Blood (The Naturals #4) – Jennifer Lynn Barnes
Bean Trees, The (Greer Family #1) – Barbara Kingsolver
Beautiful Creatures (Caster Chronicles #1)- Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl
Beautiful, Terrible Thing, A – Jen Waite
Because of You – Dawn French
Bedsit Disco Queen – Tracey Thorn
Before We Were Strangers – Renee Carlino
Beginning of Everything, The – Robyn Schneider
Being Henry David – Cal Armistead
Best, Most Awful Job, The – Katherine May (ed.)
Better Late Than Never – Emma Mahony
Between the World and Me – Ta-Nehisi Coates
Between Two Kingdoms – Suleika Jaouad
Big Bad Book of Bill Murray, The – Robert Schnakenberg
Birds, Beasts and Relatives (The Corfu Trilogy #2) – Gerald Durrell
Black Dove White Raven – Elizabeth Wein
Blood On Snow – Jo Nesbø
Blue Nights – Joan Didion
Bombs on Aunt Dainty (Out of the Hitler Time #2) – Judith Kerr
Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Sex and Science – Mary Roach
Boo – Neil Smith
Bookish Life of Nina Hill, The – Abbi Waxman
Bookshop, The – Penelope Fitzgerald
Bookshop of the Broken Hearted, The – Robert Hillman
Bookshop on the Corner, The – Jenny Colgan
Borders – Thomas King and Natasha Donovan
Born A Crime – Trevor Noah
Born Weird – Andrew Kaufman
Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse, The – Charlie Mackesy
Bossypants – Tina Fey
Bowie: A Biography – Marc Spitz
Boy Nobody (The Unknown Assassin #1)- Allen Zadoff
Brain On Fire – Susannah Cahalan
Breaking & Mending – Joanna Cannon
Bream Gives Me Hiccups – Jesse Eisenberg
Broken – Jenny Lawson

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C

Call the Midwife Series(Call the Midwife #1-3) – Jennifer Worth
Calling, The (Darkness Rising #2)- Kelley Armstrong
Care Of – Ivan E. Coyote
Catalogue Baby – Myriam Steinberg
Champion (Legend #3)- Marie Lu
Children’s Bible, A – Lydia Millet
Children’s Crusade, The – Ann Packer
Circe – Madeline Miller
Citizen – Claudia Rankine
City of Girls – Elizabeth Gilbert
City of Glass – Douglas Coupland
Cloud Cuckoo Land – Anthony Doerr
Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons
Community Board – Tara Conklin
Concrete Rose(The Hate U Give #0.5) – Angie Thomas
Consent – Annabel Lyon
Compacts and Cosmetics – Madeleine Marsh
Coventry – Helen Humphreys
Crime Seen – Kate Lines
Crying in H Mart – Michelle Zauner
Cuckoo’s Calling, The (Cormoran Strike #1) – Robert Galbraith
Cupcakes, Trinkets, and Other Deadly Magic (The Dowser #1) – Meghan Ciana Doidge
Curious Charms of Arthur Pepper, The – Phaedra Patrick

D

Daisy Jones & the Six – Taylor Jenkins Reid
Dark Sacred Night (Renée Ballard #2, Harry Bosch Universe #21) – Michael Connelly
Dash & Lily’s Book of Dares – Rachel Cohn and David Levithan
Deadfall (Agent 21 #4) – Chris Ryan
Dear Fahrenheit 451 – Annie Spence
Dear Ijeawele, Or A Feminist Manifesto In Fifteen Suggestions – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Dear Mrs. Bird – A.J. Pearce
Delilah Green Doesn’t Care – Ashley Herring Blake
Demon Copperhead – Barbara Kingsolver
Devil in the White City, The – Erik Larson
Diary of a Bookseller, The – Shaun Bythell
Diary of a Somebody – Brian Bilston
Dietland – Sarai Walker
Divergent (Divergent #1) – Veronica Roth
Diviners, The (The Diviners #1)- Libba Bray
Drawing Amanda – Stephanie Feuer
Drop, The – Dennis Lehane
Ducks, Newburyport – Lucy Ellmann

E

Eleanor & Park – Rainbow Rowell
Elegance of the Hedgehog, The – Muriel Barbery
Eliza and Her Monsters – Francesca Zappia
Enclave (Razorland #1)- Ann Aguirre
End of Your Life Book Club, The – Will Schwalbe
Every Day in Tuscany – Frances Mayes
Everything, Everything – Nicola Yoon
Everything Is Okay – Debbie Tung
Ex Libris – Anne Fadiman
Extra Ordinary Life of Frank Derrick, Aged 81, The – J.B Morrison
Extraordinary Means – Robyn Schneider

F

Fall – Colin McAdam
Fallout – Sadie Jones
Fangirl – Rainbow Rowell
Fault In Our Stars, The – John Green
Fault In Our Stars, The (Re-Read Review 2020) – John Green
Fever, The – Megan Abbott
Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates – Tom Robbins
Finding Audrey – Sophie Kinsella
Fire Next Time, The – James Baldwin
Five Feet Apart – Rachael Lippincott
Five Wounds, The – Kirsten Valdez Quade
Forever… – Judy Blume
Free Days With George – Colin Campbell
From A Low and Quiet Sea – Donal Ryan
Fun Home – Alison Bechdel
Funny Farm – Laurie Zaleski
Furiously Happy – Jenny Lawson

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G

Garden Variety – Christy Wilhelmi
Gathering, The (Darkness Rising #1)- Kelley Armstrong
Ghost (Track #1) – Jason Reynolds
Girl On the Train, The – Paula Hawkins
Girl With All the Gifts, The – M.R. Carey
Girl, Woman, Other – Bernardine Evaristo
Glass Hotel, The
God Help the Child – Toni Morrison
God In Ruins, A (Companion to Life After Life) – Kate Atkinson
Going Bovine – Libba Bray
Gold Eaters, The – Ronald Wright
Gone Girl – Gillian Flynn
Good Talk – Mira Jacob
Grasshopper Jungle – Andrew Smith
Graveyard Book, The – Neil Gaiman
Greenwood – Michael Christie
Grounded – Seth Stevenson
Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, The – Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows
Gum Thief, The – Douglas Coupland

H

Half Brother, The – Holly LeCraw
Hamnet (Hamnet and Judith) – Maggie O’Farrell
Happily Ever After & Everything in Between – Debbie Tung
Hate U Give, The – Angie Thomas
Hausfrau – Jill Alexander Essbaum
Hearts and Minds – Amanda Craig
Heartstopper (Volumes 1 & 2) – Alice Oseman
Hell of a Book – Jason Mott
Hello I Want to Die Please Fix Me – Anna Mehler Paperny
Henrietta’s War – Joyce Denys
Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, The (The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy #1) – Douglas Adams
Home Is Burning – Dan Marshall
Homeland Elegies – Ayad Akhtar
Horde (Razorland #3)– Ann Aguirre
House In the Cerulean Sea – TJ Klune
How Beautiful We Were – Imbolo Mbue
How High We Go in the Dark – Sequoia Nagamatsu
How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House – Cherie Jones
How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water – Angie Cruz
How to Be an Antiracist – Ibram X. Kendi
How to Be Black – Baratunde Thurston
Hunger – Roxane Gay
Hunger Games Trilogy, The – Suzanne Collins
Hyperbole and a Half – Allie Brosh

I

I Am the Mission (The Unknown Assassin #2)- Allen Zadoff
I Capture the Castle – Dodie Smith
I Hunt Killers (Jasper Dent #1) – Barry Lyga
I Want to Die But I Want to Eat Tteokbokki – Baek Se-Hee
If I Fall, If I Die – Michael Christie
If You Ask Me (And Of Course You Won’t) – Betty White
I’m Still Here – Austin Channing Brown
In Five Years – Rebecca Serle
In the Unlikely Event – Judy Blume
Incontinent on the Continent – Jane Christmas
Innocents, The – Michael Crummey
Insurgent (Divergent #2) – Veronica Roth
Interior Chinatown – Charles Yu
It’s All Absolutely Fine – Ruby Elliot

J

Jane Austen Society, The – Natalie Jenner
Jonny Appleseed – Joshua Whitehead
Juliet, Naked – Nick Hornby
Just Kids – Patti Smith
Just Mercy – Bryan Stevenson

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K

Kid Gloves – Lucy Knisley
Kiss Quotient, The – Helen Hoang
Kissing: A Field Guide – Violet Blue

L

Landline – Rainbow Rowell
Lanny – Max Porter
Last Night In Montreal – Emily St. John Mandel
Late Show, The (Renée Ballard #1, Harry Bosch Universe #29) – Michael Connelly
Leah on the Offbeat (Creekwood #2) – Becky Albertalli
Leave the World Behind – Rumaan Alam
Leaving Before the Rains Come – Alexandra Fuller
Legend (Legend #1) – Marie Lu
Let Me Tell You What I Mean – Joan Didion
Library of Unrequited Love, The – Sophie Divry
Lie of the Land, The – Amanda Craig
Life After Life (Companion to A God In Ruins) – Kate Atkinson
Life Among the Savages (Jacksons #1) – Shirley Jackson
Life in Pieces – Dawn O’Porter
Light Between Oceans, The – M.L. Steadman
Lincoln Highway, The – Amor Towles
Little Life, A – Hanya Yanagihara
Little Paris Bookshop, The – Nina George
Little White Lies – Katie Dale
Littlest Library, The – Poppy Alexander
Locking Up Our Own – James Forman Jr.
London’s Number One Dog-Walking Agency – Kate MacDougall
Lonely Castle in the Mirror – Mizuki Tsujimura
Long Bright River – Liz Moore
Long Way Down – Jason Reynolds and Danica Novgorodoff
Lost for Words – Stephanie Butland
Love, Nina: Despatches from Family Life – Nina Stibbe
Luckiest Girl Alive – Jessica Knoll

M

M Train – Patti Smith
Madness Underneath, The (The Name of the Star #2) – Maureen Johnson
Magic Place, The – Chris Wormell
Magician, The – Colm Tóibín
Maid – Stephanie Land
Maisie Dobbs (Maisie Dobbs #1) – Jacqueline Winspear
Man Called Ove, A – Fredrik Backman
Man Who Loved Books Too Much, The – Allison Hoover Bartlett
Marrow Thieves, The – Cherie Dimaline
Marshall McLuhan – Douglas Coupland
Martian, The – Andy Weir
Matilda – Roald Dahl
Maze Runner, The (The Maze Runner #1)- James Dashner
Middle England (Rotters’ Club #3) – Jonathan Coe
Miss Emily – Nuala O’Connor
Monogamy – Sue Miller
More Tales of the City (Tales of the City #2) – Armistead Maupin
Mr. Churchill’s Secretary (Maggie Hope #1) – Susan Elia MacNeal
Mrs. Fletcher – Tom Perrotta
My Brother’s Husband (My Brother’s Husband #1) – Gengoroh Tagame
My Family and Other Animals (The Corfu Trilogy #1) – Gerald Durrell
My Lai 4 – Seymour M. Hersh
My Lovely Wife In the Psych Ward – Mark Lukach
My Mess Is a Bit of a Life – Georgia Pritchett
My Name Is Why – Lemn Sissay
My Salinger Year – Joanna Rakoff
My Sister the Serial Killer – Oyinkan Braithwaite
Myth of Normal, The – Gabor Maté and Daniel Maté

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Name of the Star, The (The Name of the Star #1)- Maureen Johnson
Natives – Akala
Naturals, The (The Naturals #1)- Jennifer Lynn Barnes
Nerve: The First Ten Years – Editors of Nerve.com
Never Say Never – Alison Tyler
Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing – Ted Conover
Night Watchman, The – Louise Erdrich
Normal People – Sally Rooney
Not That Kind of Girl – Lena Dunham
Nothing Like Love – Sabrina Ramnanan

O

Obsidian (Lux#1) – Jennifer L. Armentrout
Olive Kitteridge (Olive Kitteridge #1) – Elizabeth Strout
On Critical Race Theory – Victor Ray
On the Come Up – Angie Thomas
On the Move – Oliver Sacks
One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot, The – Marianne Cronin
One More Thing – B.J. Novak
Onyx (Lux #2)- Jennifer L. Armentrout
Opposite of Loneliness, The – Marina Keegan
Orange is the New Black – Piper Kerman
Ordinary People – Diana Evans
Outlaw Journalist: The Life and Times of Hunter S. Thompson – William McKeen
Outpost (Razorland #2)- Ann Aguirre
Outsiders, The – S.E. Hinton

P

Paper Towns – John Green
Paris Times Eight – Dierdre Kelly
Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake, The – Aimee Bender
Patient – Ben Watt
People I Want to Punch in the Face – Jen Mann
People We Meet on Vacation – Emily Henry
Pieces of Her – Karin Slaughter
Pigs In Heaven (Greer Family #2) – Barbara Kingsolver
Piranesi – Susanna Clarke
Poverty Safari – Darren McGarvey
Power, The – Naomi Alderman
Prodigy (Legend #2) – Marie Lu
Project Hail Mary – Andy Weir
Pull of the Stars, The – Emma Donoghue
Pumpkinheads – Rainbow Rowell and Faith Erin Hicks
Purity – Jonathan Franzen

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Q

Q’s Legacy – Helene Hanff
Q’s Legacy (Re-Read Review 2022) – Helene Hanff
Queen of Bright and Shiny Things, The – Ann Aguirre

R

Raising Demons (Jacksons #2) – Shirley Jackson
Raven Boys, The (Raven Cycle #1) – Maggie Stiefvater
Razorblade Tears – S.A. Cosby
Reading List, The – Sara Nisha Adams
Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend, The – Katrina Bivald
Reckless Girls – Rachel Hawkins
Redhead by the Side of the Road – Anne Tyler
Ready Player One – Ernest Cline
Real Life – Brandon Taylor
Reality Boy – A. S. King
Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier
Red at the Bone – Jacqueline Woodson
Red Notebook, The – Antoine Laurain
Restless – William Boyd
Rising, The (Darkness Rising #3) – Kelley Armstrong
Rivers of London (Peter Grant #1) – Ben Aaronovitch
Roomies – Sara Zarr and Tara Altebrando
Rosie Project, The (Don Tillman #1) – Graeme Simsion

S

Salt Path, The – Raynor Winn
Secret Garden, The – Frances Hodgson Burnett
Secret Lives of Church Ladies, The – Deesha Philyaw
Self-Inflicted Wounds – Aisha Tyler
Seven Days In June – Tia Williams
Seven Kinds of People You Find In Bookshops – Shaun Bythell
Seventh Octave, The – Saul Williams
Sexually, I’m More of a Switzerland – David Rose
Shadow and Bone (Grisha Trilogy #1) – Leigh Bardugo
Shatter Me (Shatter Me #1) – Tahereh Mafi
She Came to Slay
She Is Not Invisible – Marcus Sedgwick
Shore, The – Sara Taylor
Shuggie Bain – Douglas Stuart
Silence of Bonaventure Arrow, The – Rita Leganski
Silence of the Girls, The – Pat Barker
Silver Linings Playbook, The – Matthew Quick
Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda (Simonverse #1) – Becky Albertalli
Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda (Re-Read Review 2020) – Becky Albertalli
Skin We’re In, The – Desmond Cole
Skylarks’ War, The (Skylarks’ War #1) – Hilary McKay
Slouching Towards Bethlehem – Joan Didion
Small Animals – Kim Brooks
Small Island – Andrea Levy
So, Anyway… – John Cleese
Someone Is Watching – Joy Fielding
Son of Elsewhere – Elamin Abdelmahmoud
Songs from the Phenomenal Nothing – Steven Luna
Sorrow and Bliss – Meg Mason
Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires, The – Grady Hendrix
Spinning Silver – Naomi Novik
Spool of Blue Thread, A – Anne Tyler
Station Eleven – Emily St. John Mandel
Still Life – Sarah Winman
Storied Life of A.J. Fikry, The – Gabrielle Zevin
Strange Library, The – Haruki Murakami
Strangers to Ourselves – Rachel Aviv
Stupid and Contagious – Caprice Crane
Subway Art – Martha Cooper and Henry Chalfant
Such a Fun Age – Kiley Reid
Summoning, The (Darkest Powers #1)- Kelley Armstrong
Survival Girls, The – Ming Holden
Swamplandia! – Karen Russell
Sweetness At the Bottom of the Pie, The (Flavia de Luce #1) – Alan Bradley

T

Tales of the City (Tales of the City #1) – Armistead Maupin
Ten Steps to Nanette – Hannah Gadsby
That Was When People Started to Worry – Nancy Tucker
There There – Tommy Orange
These Broken Stars (Starbound #1) – Amie Kaufman & Meagan Spooner
Thirteen Reasons Why – Jay Asher
This Book Is Antiracist – Tiffany Jewell
This Bright Future – Bobby Hall
This Is a Call: The Life and Times of Dave Grohl – Paul Brannigan
This Is Going to Hurt – Adam Kay
This Is What Happy Looks Like – Jennifer E. Smith
This Is Where I Leave You – Jonathan Tropper
This Song Will Save Your Life – Leila Sales
This Time Tomorrow – Emma Straub
Thousand Dollar Tan Line, The (Veronica Mars #1)- Rob Thomas & Jennifer Graham
Thousand Ways to Pay Attention, A (alternate title – Earthed) – Rebecca Schiller
Thursday Murder Club, The (Thursday Murder Club #1) – Richard Osman
Time of Green Magic, The – Hilary McKay
Tiny Bit Marvellous, A – Dawn French
To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
Tomboy Survival Guide – Ivan Coyote
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow – Gabrielle Zevin
Transcendent Kingdom – Yaa Gyasi
Transmetropolitan – Warren Ellis and Darick Robertson
Trauma Farm: A Rebel History of Rural Life – Brian Brett
Travels – Michael Crichton
Travels with My Aunt – Graham Greene
Trees, The – Percival Everett
Trouble With Goats and Sheep, The – Joanna Cannon
Twelve Years a Slave – Solomon Northup

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Uncomfortable Conversations With a Black Man – Emmanuel Acho
Undercover (Agent 21 #5) – Chris Ryan
Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, The (Harold Fry #1) – Rachel Joyce
Unraveling – Peggy Orenstein
Unsettled Ground – Claire Fuller
Up a Tree In the Park at Night with a Hedgehog – P. Robert Smith

V

Vacationers, The – Emma Straub”
Vintage 1954 – Antoine Laurain
Visit from the Goon Squad, A – Jennifer Egan

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Wall, The – John Lanchester
Wayfinders: Why Ancient Wisdom Matters in the Modern World, The – Wade Davis
Warlight – Michael Ondaatje
We Are All Made of Molecules – Susin Neilsen
We Are Never Meeting in Real Life – Samantha Irby
We Are Not Free – Traci Chee
We Are the Weather – Jonathan Safran Foer
We Should All Be Feminists – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
We Were Liars – E. Lockhart
Weather – Jenny Offill
What Is America?: A Short History of the New World Order – Ronald Wright
When Breath Becomes Air – Paul Kalanithi
When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit (Out of the Hitler Time #1) – Judith Kerr
When I Hit You – Meena Kandasamy
Whereabouts – Jhumpa Lahiri
Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race – Renni Eddo-Lodge
Why Not Me? – Mindy Kaling
Wicked and Weird – Rich Terfry
Wife Between Us, The – Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen
Will Grayson, Will Grayson – John Green and David Levithan
Will You Read This, Please? – Joanna Cannon
Wind/Pinball – Haruki Murakami
Window Seat, The – Aminatta Forna
Wintering – Katherine May
Woman in the Window, The – A.J. Finn
Woman Who Went to Bed For a Year, The – Sue Townsend
Women Talking – Miriam Toews
Worst. Person. Ever. – Douglas Coupland
Writers & Lovers – Lily King

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Y

Year of Magical Thinking, The – Joan Didion
You Are Your Best Thing – Tarana Burke and Brené Brown, eds.
Young Mungo – Douglas Stuart
You’re Never Weird on the Internet – Felicia Day

Z

Zeitoun – Dave Eggers

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