Reading Road Trip: Read Across the U.S.A.

Fiction:

• The Yiddish Policeman’s Union by Michael Chabon
• The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah
• The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey
• Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey
• Insomnia by Stephen King
• The Call of the Wild by Jack London
• 30 Days of Night by Steve Nile
• The Tourist Attraction by Sarah Morgenthaler
• The Romanov Cross by Robert Masello
• The Unsinkable Greta James by Jennifer E. Smith

Nonfiction: 

• Blonde Indian by Ernestine Hayes
• Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
• The Cruelest Miles: The Heroic Story of Dogs and Men in a Race Against an Epidemic by Gay Salisbury
• Tip of the Iceberg: My 3,000-Mile Journey Around Wild Alaska, the Last Great American Frontier by Mark Adams

Fiction:

• Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi
• To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
• Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistlestop Café by Fannie Flagg
• Forrest Gump by Winston Groom
• Midnight at the Blackbird Café by Heather Webber
• Gods in Alabama by Joshilyn Jackson
• The Wife Upstairs by Rachel Hawkins
• The German Wife by Kelly Rimmer
• Big Fish by Daniel Wallace
• The Seven Daughters of Dupree by Nikesha Elise Williams
• Red Clay by Charles B. Fancher

Nonfiction: 

• Salvation on Sand Mountain by Dennis Covington
• Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson
• Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee by Casey Cep

Fiction:

• True Grit by Charles Portis
• A Painted House by John Grisham
• Shakespeare’s Landlord by Charlaine Harris
• The Witness by Nora Roberts
• The Lions of Little Rock by Kristin Levine
• They Call Her Dirty Sally by Amy Matayo
• Come and Get It by Kiley Reid
• Don’t Cry for Me by Daniel Black
• Don’t Know Tough by Eli Cranor

Nonfiction:

• Hipbillies: Deep Revolution in the Arkansas Ozarks by Jared M. Phillips
• I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
• Boy Erased by Gerard Conley
• March Forward, Girl: From Young Warrior to Little Rock Nine by Melba Pattillo Beals
• The Vapors by David Hill

Fiction:

• Animal Dreams by Barbara Kingsolver
• The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver
• Desert Heat by J.A. Jance
• Vanishing Acts by Jody Picoult
• Epitaph by Mary Doria Russell
• Half Broke Horses by Jeannette Walls
• The Andromeda Strain by Michael Crichton
• Light Changes Everything by Nancy Turner
• Songbirds of Sedona by Lise Gold
• Birding with Benefits by Sarah T. Dubb

Nonfiction:

• The Death and Life of Aida Hernandez: A Border Story by Aaron Bobrow-Strain 
• A Walk in the Park by Kevin Fedarko
• The Line Becomes a River: Dispatches from the Border by Francisco Cantú
• The Three-Cornered War by Megan Kate Nelson

Fiction:

• The Spectator Bird by Wallace Stegner
• The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen
• Farewell, My Lovely by Raymond Chandler
• The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid
• The Love Hypothesis by Ali Hazelwood
• The Disappearing Act by Catherine Steadman
• Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
• Four Winds by Kristin Hannah
• There There by Tommy Orange
• 1st to Die by James Patterson
• The Lincoln Lawyer by Michael Connelly
• Alchemy of Secrets by Stephanie Garber
• The Guncle by Steven Rowley
• The People We Meet on Vacation by Emily Henry
• Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
• The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan

Nonfiction: 

• Eve’s Hollywood by Eve Babitz
• Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion
• A Dream Called Home by Reyna Grande
• Creating the Future: Art and Los Angeles in the 1970s by Michael Fallon
• Stealing Home: Los Angeles, the Dodgers, and the Lives Caught in Between by Eric Nusbaum

Fiction:

• Plainsong by Kent Haruf
• No Exit by Taylor Adams
• Our Souls at Night by Kent Haruf
• The Dog Stars by Peter Heller
• Breaking Wild by Diane Les Becquets
• Go as a River by Shelley Read
• Bellwether by Connie Willis
• The Poet by Michael Connelly
• Great and Precious Things by Rebecca Yarros

Nonfiction: 

• Deep Creek by Pam Houston
• A Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains by Isabella Bird
• Hidden Valley Road by Robert Kolker
• Columbine by Dave Cullen
• Thinking in Pictures: My Life with Autism by Temple Grandin

Fiction:

• Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates
• On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong
• Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo
• The Christmas Fix by Lucy Score
• Small Great Things by Jodi Picoult
• The Last Romantics by Tara Conklin
• Dune Road by Jane Green
• A Simple Favor by Darcey Bell
• Thinner by Stephen King
• Don’t Look for Me by Wendy Walker
• I Know this Much is True by Wally Lamb
• The Last Mrs. Parrish by Liv Constantine

Nonfiction: 

• Yale Needs Women by Anne Gardiner Perkins
• Creating Connecticut by Walter W. Woodward
• The Circus Fire by Stewart O’Nan

Fiction:

• Cane by Jean Toomer
• The Briar Club by Kate Quinn
• Friends with Secrets by Christine Gunderson
• The House of Eve by Sadeqa Johnson
• The Light Always Breaks by Angela Jackson-Brown
• Red, White, and Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston
• The Golden Couple by Greer Hendricks & Sarah Pekkanen
• The First Ladies by Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray
• For the Love of Friends by Sara Goodman Confino
• Yellowface by R.F. Kuang
• How to Have a Killer Time in D.C. by Sam Lumley
• Alex Cross Mysteries (series) by James Patterson

Nonfiction:

• Banned in D.C. by Cynthia Connolly
• Five Presidents: My Extraordinary Journey with Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, and Ford by Clint Hill with Lisa McCubbin Hill
• Upstairs at the White House by J.B. West with Mary Lynn Kotz
• The Watergate Girl by Jill Wine-Banks

Fiction:

• The Book of Unknown Americans by Cristina Henríquez
• Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk
• All Together Now by Matthew Norman
• I’ll Be Your Blue Sky by Marisa De Los Santos
• What Happened to the Bennetts by Lisa Scottoline
• Infinite Country by Patricia Engel
• The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
• West of Rehoboth by Alexs D. Pate
• The Innocent by Harlan Coben
• Sunburn by Laura Lippma

Nonfiction: 

• Debt: The First 5,000 Years by David Graeber
• Black Powder, White Lace: The Du Pont Irish and Cultural Identity in Nineteenth-Century America by Margaret M. Mulrooney
• Promises to Keep by Joe Biden

Fiction:

• Florida by Lauren Groff
• The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
• Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
• The Newcomer by Mary Kay Andrews
• Racing the Rain by John L. Parker Jr.
• The Love Haters by Katherine Center
• A Turn in the Road by Debbie Macombe
• The Incredible Winston Browne by Sean Dietrich
• Duma Key by Stephen King
• One Brilliant Flame by Joy Castro
• The Girls Who Grew Big by Leila Mottley
• The Beach Trap by Ali Brady
• Bright Young Women by Jessica Knoll

Nonfiction: 

• The Orchid Thief by Susan Orlean
• Bubble in the Sun: The Florida Boom of the 1920s and How It Brought on the Great Depression by Christopher Knowlton
• Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America by Gilbert King

Fiction:

• The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
• The Color Purple by Alice Walker
• An American Marriage by Tayari Jones
• Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
• Surviving Savannah by Patti Callahan
• Great Big Beautiful Life by Emily Henry
• Home by Toni Morrison
• Echoes of Us by Joy Jordan-Lake
• Lula Dean’s Little Library of Banned Books by Kirsten Miller
• One Summer in Savannah by Terah Shelton Harris
• Red Clay Suzie by Jeffrey Dale Lofton
• The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
• Between the Lines by Brandy Pelletier
• All the Dangerous Things by Stacy Willingham

Nonfiction: 

• The Devil You Know by Charles Blow
• Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt
• Praying For Sheetrock by Melissa Fay Greene

Fiction:

• This Is Paradise by Kristiana Kahakauwila
• Sharks in the Time of Saviors by Kawai Strong Washburn
• The Color of Air by Gail Tsukiyama
• The Uncharted Flight of Olivia West by Sara Ackerman
• Eight Weeks Later by G.T. London
• The Unhoneymooners by Christina Lauren
• Radar Girls by Sara Ackerman
• Hula by Jasmin ‘Iolani Hakes
• The Taste of Sugar by Marisel Vera
• Island of Sweet Pies and Soldiers by Sara Ackerman

Nonfiction: 

• Hawai‘i’s Story by Hawai‘i’s Queen by Queen Lili‘uokalani
• On the Horizon by Lois Lowry
• Freckled: A Memoir of Growing Up Wild in Hawaii by TW Neal

Fiction:

• A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley
• Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
• The Sunshine Girls by Molly Fader
• The Overnight Guest by Heather Gudenkauf
• What’s Eating Gilbert Grape by Peter Hedges
• The Banned Books Club by Brenda Novak
• The Bridges of Madison County by Robert James Waller
• The Weight of Silence by Heather Gudenkau

Nonfiction: 

• A Region Not Home: Reflections from Exile by James Alan McPherson
• The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid by Bill Bryson
• Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World by Vicki Myron and Bret Witter
• Little Heathens: Hard Times and High Spirits on an Iowa Farm During the Great Depression by Mildred Armstrong Kalish

Fiction: 

• Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson
• Train Dreams by Denis Johnson
• No Hiding in Boise by Kim Hooper
• The Rise of Light by Olivia Hawker
• Such Quiet Girls by Noelle W. Ihli
• Four Treasures of the Sky by Jenny Tinghui Zhang
• The Lonely Hearts Book Club by Lucy Gilmore
• That Fine Line by Cindy Steel
• Pines by Blake Crouch
• Maggie Moves On by Lucy Score

Nonfiction: 

• Educated by Tara Westover
• The Idaho Four: An American Tragedy by James Patterson and Vicky Ward

Fiction:

• The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai
• The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow
• Hello Beautiful by Ann Napolitano
• Last Summer on State Street by Toya Wolfe
• Where the Forest Meets the Stars by Glendy Vanderah
• The Beauty of Your Face by Sahar Mustafah
• Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury
• Ordinary People by Judith Guest
• Look Closer by David Ellis
• Local Woman Missing by Mary Kubica
• The Comeback Summer by Ali Brady
• The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
• The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
• Arsenic and Adobo by Mia P. Manansala

Nonfiction: 

• The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson
• The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
• Becoming by Michelle Obama
• A Most Beautiful Thing: The True Story of the First All-Black High School Rowing Team by Arshay Cooper

Fiction:

• An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser
• The Missing Half by Ashley Flowers with Alex Kiester
• When We Were Enemies by Emily Bleeker
• Only Love Can Hurt Like This by Paige Toon
• Zorrie by Laird Hunt
• The Rabbit Hutch by Tess Gunty
• We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler
• Let’s Give ‘Em Pumpkin to Talk About by Isabelle Popp
• The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

Nonfiction: 

• The Book of Delights by Ross Gay
• A Fever in the Heartland by Timothy Egan
• Somebody’s Daughter by Ashley C. Ford

Fiction:

• Mrs. Bridge by Evan S. Connell
• Not Without Laughter by Langston Hughes
• The Persian Pickle Club by Sandra Dallas
• Dark Places by Gillian Flynn
• Before Dorothy by Hazel Gaynor
• The Good Lord Bird by James McBride
• Under the Rainbow by Celia Laskey
• Red Rabbit by Alex Grecian
• The Topeka School by Ben Lerner
• The Reckless Oath We Made by Bryn Greenwood

Nonfiction: 

• Heartland by Sarah Smarsh
• In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
• A Choice of Weapons by Gordon Parks
• Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilde by Caroline Fraser

Fiction:

• A Place on Earth by Wendell Berry
• Beloved by Toni Morrison
• The Moonflowers by Abigail Rose-Marie
• Colton Gentry’s Third Act by Jeff Zentner
• The Giver of Stars by Jojo Moyes
• Clay’s Quilt by Silas House
• All the Forgivenesses by Elizabeth Hardinger
• Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver
• Groundskeeping by Lee Cole
• A Matter of Happiness by Tori Whitaker

Nonfiction: 

• Blood Horses: Notes of a Sportswriter’s Son by John Jeremiah Sullivan
• My Old Kentucky Home: The Astonishing Life and Reckoning of an Iconic American Song Book by Emily Bingham
• Seabiscuit: An American Legend by Laura Hillenbrand
• The Bluegrass Conspiracy by Sally Denton
• The Feud: The Hatfields and McCoys: The True Story by Dean King

Fiction:

• The Moviegoer by Walker Percy
• Broken Bayou by Jennifer Moorhead
• First Lie Wins by Ashley Elston
• Things We Lost to the Water by Eric Nguyen
• Call the Canaries Home by Laura Barrow
• The Book of Lost Friends by Lisa Wingate
• The Thread Collectors by Shaun J. Edwards & Alyson Richmond
• The Green Mile by Stephen King
• Big Gay Wedding by Byron Lane
• A Flicker in the Dark by Stacy Willingham
• A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J. Gaines
• Zeitoun by Dave Eggers

Nonfiction: 

• The Yellow House by Sarah M. Broom
• Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital by Sheri Fink
• The Earl of Louisiana by A. J. Liebling
• Song for My Fathers: A New Orleans Story in Black and White by Tom Sancton

Fiction:

• Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
• The Hotel Nantucket by Elin Hilderbrand
• The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin
• Finding Margaret Fuller by Allison Pataki
• Hester by Laurie Lico Albanese
• Battle of the Bookstores by Ali Brady
• Sandwich by Catherine Newman
• The First Witch of Boston by Andrea Catalano
• The Island of Worthy Boys by Connie Hertzberg Mayo
• Ghosts of Harvard by Francesca Serritella
• Caleb’s Crossing by Geraldine Brooks
• Things You Save in a Fire by Katherine Center
• The Saturday Evening Girls Club by Jane Healey
• Such Kindness by Andre Dubus
• We Were Liars by E. Lockhart
• Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
• Practical Magic by Alice Hoffman

Nonfiction: 

• I Still Did It by Nakia Hill
• This Land is Their Land by David J. Silverman
• Dark Tide: The Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919 by Stephen Puleo
• The British Are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777 by Rick Atkinson

Fiction:

• Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant by Anne Tyler
• Kindred by Octavia Butler
• Mary Jane by Jessica Anya Blau
• The Correspondent by Virginia Evans
• First-Time Caller by B.K. Borison
• The War Librarian by Addison Armstrong
• Chesapeake by James A. Michener
• Hidden Nature by Nora Roberts
• Given Our History by Kristyn J. Miller
• The Banned Bookshop of Maggie Banks by Shauna Robinson

Nonfiction: 

• Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
• The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
• Stolen: Five Free Boys Kidnapped Into Slavery and Their Astonishing Odyssey Home by Richard Bell
• Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln’s Killer by James L. Swanson
• Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave by Frederick Douglass

Fiction:

• Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
• The Berry Pickers by Amanda Peters
• The Frozen River by Ariel Lawhon
• How to Read a Book by Monica Wood
• Heartwood by Amity Gaige
• Fellowship Point by Alice Elliot Dark
• The Essential Elizabeth Stone by Jennifer Banash
• Haven Point by Virginia Hume
• Carrie by Stephen King
• Night of the Living Rez by Morgan Talty
• The Cider House Rules by John Irving
• The Wishing Game Meg Shaffer
• 11-22-63 by Stephen King
• Empire Falls by Richard Russo
• Beyond that, the Sea by Laura Spence-Ash

Nonfiction: 

• Always, Rachel: The Letters of Rachel Carson and Dorothy Freeman 1952-1964 by Rachel Carson
• When We Were the Kennedys by Monica Wood
• Grandma Gatewood’s Walk by Ben Montgomery
• The Ride of Her Life by Elizabeth Letts

Fiction:

• The Nick Adams Stories by Ernest Hemingway
• The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides
• A Matter of Happiness by Tori Whitaker
• Funny Story by Emily Henry
• Mrs. Everything by Jennifer Weiner
• Tom Lake by Ann Patchett
• The House of Long Shadows by Ambrose Ibsen
• The Bitter and Sweet of Cherry Season by Molly Fader
• The Women of Copper Country by Mary Doria Russell
• The Marsh King’s Daughter by Karen Dionne
• Beach Read by Emily Henry
• Boys Come First by Aaron Foley

Nonfiction: 

• Black Detroit by Herb Boyd
• The Poisoned City: Flint’s Water and the American Urban Tragedy by Anna Clark
• Detroit Hustle: A Memoir of Love, Life & Home by Amy Haimerl

Fiction: 

• The Sentence, Louise Erdrich
• History of Wolves by Emily Fridlund
• The Sideways Life of Denny Voss by Holly Kennedy
• The Autumn of Ruth Winters by Marshall Fine
• The Seed Keeper by Diane Wilson
• Just for the Summer by Abby Jimenez
• The Lager Queen of Minnesota by J. Ryan Stradal
• The River We Remember by William Kent Krueger
• Anywhere With You by Ellie Palmer
• Kitchens of the Great Midwest by J. Ryan Stradal
• The Long Way Back by Nicole Baart
• The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich
• The Many Mothers of Dolores Moore by Anika Fajardo

Nonfiction: 

• All Our Relations by Winona LaDuke
• If You Lived Here You’d Be Home By Now: Why We Traded the Commuting Life for a Little House on the Prairie by Christopher Ingraham
• Where Rivers Part: A Story of My Mother’s Life by Kao Kalia Yang

Fiction:

• Stoner by John Williams
• Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
• Dark Places by Gillian Flynn
• James by Percival Everett
• Romantic Comedy by Curtis Sittenfeld
• All the Colors of the Dark by Chris Whitaker
• There You Are by Mathea Morais
• The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams
• Winter’s Bone by Daniel Woodrell

Nonfiction: 

• Blue Highways by William Least Heat-Moon
• Magic Season by Wade Rouse
• Chuck Berry: An American Life by R.J. Smith
• Harry Truman’s Excellent Adventure by Matthew Algeo

Fiction: 

• Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward
• The Help by Kathryn Stockett
• Wade in the Water by Nyani Nkrumah
• Rush by Lisa Patton
• The Girls in the Stilt House by Kelly Mustian
• The Prophets by Robert Jones, Jr.
• Boys from Biloxi by John Grisham

Nonfiction: 

• Heavy by Kiese Laymon
• The Barn by Wright Thompson
• Soaring to Glory: A Tuskegee Airman’s Firsthand Account of WWII by Philip Handleman with Lt. Col. Harry T. Stewart, Jr.
• Deepest South of All: True Stories from Natchez, Mississippi by Richard Grant

Fiction:

• Perma Red by Debra Magpie Earling
• Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
• Totally and Completely Fine by Elissa Sussman
• The Boxcar Librarian by Brianna Labuskes
• We Begin at the End by Chris Whitaker
• What Kind of Paradise by Janelle Brown
• A River Runs Through It by Norman Maclean
• Let Him Go by Larry Watson

Nonfiction: 

• Brothers on Three by Abe Streep
• Where the Deer and the Antelope Play by Nick Offerman
• Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town by Jon Krakaue

Fiction:

• Thirteen Moons by Charles Frazier
• The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks
• The Heiress by Rachel Hawkins
• Happy Land by Dolen Perkins-Valdez
• The Tobacco Wives by Adele Myers
• Book Lovers by Emily Henry
• A Land More Kind Than Home by Wiley Cash
• Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
• When We Let Go by Rochelle B. Weinstein
• The Girls We Sent Away by Meagan Church
• Katharine, the Wright Sister by Tracey Enerson Wood

Nonfiction: 

• Soul City: Race, Equality, and the Lost Dream of an American Utopia by Thomas Healy
• The Last Castle by Denise Kiernan
• Blood Done Sign My Name by Tim Tyson

Fiction:

• Stephen Florida by Gabe Habash
• The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich
• Let Him Go by Larry Watson               
• The Mighty Red by Louise Erdrich
• Fun for the Whole Family by Jennifer E. Smith
• The Children’s Blizzard by Melanie Benjamin
• O Beautiful by Jung Yun
• A Council of Dolls by Mona Susan Power

Nonfiction: 

• The New Wild West by Blaire Briody
• Fargo Rock City by Chuck Klosterman

Fiction:

• My Ántonia by Willa Cather
• The Antidote by Karen Russell
• The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles
• If Tomorrow Never Comes by Allison Ashley
• O Pioneers! by Willa Cather
• The Bones of Paradise by Jonis Agee
• Attachments by Rainbow Rowell
• The Magician’s Assistant by Ann Patchett
• 1922 by Stephen King

Nonfiction: 

• Old Jules by Mari Sandoz
• Once Upon a Town: The Miracle of the North Platte Canteen by Bob Greene
• The Death of Raymond Yellow Thunder by Stew Magnuson
• Zoo Nebraska by Carson Vaughan

Fiction:

• The World According to Garp by John Irving
• A Separate Peace by John Knowles
• A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
• Where Butterflies Wander by Suzanne Redfearn
• Mad Honey by Jodi Picoult & Jennifer Finney Boylan
• Unlikely Animals by Annie Hartnett
• The Last One at the Wedding by Jason Rekulak
• Count the Ways by Joyce Maynard
• Summer Hours at the Robbers Library by Sue Halpern

Nonfiction:

• Jane Kenyon: A Literary Life by John H. Timmerman
• Vote First or Die by Scott Conroy
• Not Without Peril: One Hundred and Fifty Years of Misadventure on the Presidential Range of New Hampshire by Nicholas Howe

Fiction:

• American Pastoral by Philip Roth
• The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz
• Don’t Forget to Write by Sara Goodman Confino
• Have a Great Summer by Francesca Cocchi
• Rust & Stardust by T. Greenwood
• I Leave It Up to You by Jinwoo Chong
• Dear Edward by Ann Napolitano
• Middle of the Night by Riley Sager
• Varina Palladino’s Jersey Italian Love Story by Terri-Lynne DeFino
• Unsheltered by Barbara Kingsolver
• Hidden Pictures by Jason Rekulak
• Silent Came the Monster by Amy Hill Hearth

Nonfiction: 

• The Autobiography of LeRoi Jones by Amiri Baraka
• The Radium Girls by Kate Moore
• Born to Run by Bruce Springsteen
• A Beautiful Mind: The Life of Mathematical Genius and Nobel Laureate John Nash by Sylvia Nasar

Fiction:

• Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolfo Anaya
• The Atomic Weight of Love by Elizabeth J. Church
• The Stars and Their Light by Olivia Hawker
• Shutter by Ramona Emerson
• Gateway to the Moon by Mary Morris
• The Vacancy in Room 10 by Seraphina Nova Glass
• Too Soon for Adiós by Annette Chavez Macias
• The Five Wounds by Kristin Valdez Quade

Nonfiction: 

• Georgia O’Keeffe: A Life by Roxana Robinson
• The Three-Cornered War: The Union, the Confederacy, and Native Peoples in the Fight for the West by Megan Kate Nelson
• American Prometheus by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin

Fiction:

• Beautiful Children by Charles Bock
• Six Weeks in Reno by Lucy H. Hedrick
• Slaying You by Michelle Gagnon
• The Horse by Willy Vlautin
• We Are Called to Rise by Laura McBride
• The Princess of Las Vegas by Chris Bohjalian
• Desperation by Stephen King
• The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt

Nonfiction: 

• The Main Event by Richard O. Davies
• What Really Happens in Vegas: True Stories of the People Who Make Vegas, Vegas by James Patterson and Mark Seal
• Colossus by Michael Hiltzik
• Casino by Nicholas Pileggi

Fiction:

• The Best of Everything by Rona Jaffe
• Go Tell It On the Mountain by James Baldwin
• Another Country by James Baldwin
• A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
• The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
• The Coldest Winter Ever by Sister Souljah
• The God of the Woods by Liz Moore
• The Masterpiece by Fiona Davis
• Lake Effect by Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney
• With Love from Harlem by ReShonda Tate
• Before I Forget by Tory Henwood Hoen
• Summer Fridays by Suzanne Rindell
• Home of the American Circus by Allison Larkin
• The Breakaway by Jennifer Weiner

Nonfiction: 

• Up in the Old Hotel by Joseph Mitchell
• The Power Broker by Robert A. Caro
• Beautiful Country by Qian Julie Wang
• Beacon to the World: A History of Lincoln Center by Joseph W Polisi

Fiction:

• Sula by Toni Morrison
• Beloved by Toni Morrison
• Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng
• A Light in the Forest by Melissa Payne
• Katharine, the Wright Sister by Tracey Enerson Wood
• The Prettiest Star by Carter Sickels
• The Suite Spot by Trish Doller
• Betty by Tiffany McDaniel
• Very Sincerely Yours by Kerry Winfrey
• The Daughters of Erietown by Connie Schultz
• The Last Runaway by Tracy Chevalier
• Eligible: A Modern Retelling of Pride & Prejudice by Curtis Sittenfeld
• Ohio by Stephen Markley

Nonfiction: 

• The Hard Way on Purpose by David Giffels
• Appalachian Fall: Dispatches from Coal Country on What’s Ailing America by Jeff Young
• The Ghosts of Eden Park: The Bootleg King, the Women Who Pursued Him, and the Murder That Shocked Jazz-Age America by Karen Abbott

Fiction:

• The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
• Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
• The Secret Keeper of Main Street by Trisha R. Thomas
• Shelterwood by Lisa Wingate
• The Long and Faraway Gone by Lou Berney
• Calling for a Blanket Dance by Oscar Hokeah
• The Truth According to Ember by Danica Nava
• Where the Heart Is by Billie Letts

Nonfiction: 

• Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann
• Dust Bowl Girls by Lydia Reeder
• The Pioneer Woman: Black Heels to Tractor Wheels- A Love Story by Ree Drummond
• Boom Town by Sam Anderson

Fiction:

• Hard Rain Falling by Don Carpenter
• Fifty Shades of Grey (series) by E.L. James
• The Starfish Sisters by Barbara O’Neal
• The Girls of Good Fortune by Kristina McMorris
• The Music of Bees by Eileen Garvin
• On a Quiet Street by Seraphina Nova Glass
• The Book of Cold Cases by Simone St. James
• The Paragon Hotel by Lyndsay Faye
• Delilah Green Doesn’t Care by Ashley Herring Blake
• On Mystic Lake by Kristin Hannah
• One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey

Nonfiction: 

• Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner
• The Residue Years by Mitchell S. Jackson
• Astoria by Peter Stark
• Wild by Cheryl Stayed

Fiction:

• Rabbit, Run by John Updike
• Straight Man by Richard Russo
• Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
• The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
• The Dutch House by Ann Patchett
• The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by James McBride
• Wait for Me by Amy Jo Burns
• The Griffin Sisters’ Greatest Hits by Jennifer Weiner
• All We Were Promised by Ashton Lattimore
• Plain Truth by Jodi Picoult
• We Are Not Like Them by Christine Pride and Jo Piazza
• Long Bright River by Liz Moore
• Last Summer Boys by Bill Rivers
• Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid
• The House of Eve by Sadeqa Johnson
• Carnegie’s Maid by Marie Benedict

Nonfiction: 

• Sigh, Gone by Phuc Tran
• A Prayer for the City by Buzz Bissinger
• Dr. Mutter’s Marvels by Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz
• Drama High: The Incredible True Story of a Brilliant Teacher, a Struggling Town, and the Magic of Theater by Michael Sokolove
• William Penn: A Radical, Conservative Quaker by J. Frost

Fiction:

• Agatha of Little Neon by Claire Luchette
• Polite Calamities by Jennifer Gold
• A Hundred Summers by Beatriz Williams
• The Wedding People by Alison Espach
• A Well-Behaved Woman: A Novel of the Vanderbilts by Therese Anne Fowler
• The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
• My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult
• The Islanders by Meg Mitchell Moore
• The Lost Summers of Newport by Beatriz Williams, Lauren Willig, and Karen White

Nonfiction: 

• Dylan Goes Electric by Elijah Wald
• Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty by Anderson Cooper
• Finding Me by Viola Davis
• Down City by Leah Carroll

Fiction:

• Call Your Daughter Home by Deb Spera
• Edisto by Padgett Powell
• The Dead Romantics by Ashley Poston
• The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
• The Indigo Girl by Natasha Boyd
• That Last Carolina Summer by Karen White
• Other Birds by Sarah Addison Allen
• Southern by Design by Grace Helena Walz
• My Magnolia Summer by Victoria Benton Frank
• Black Cherokee by Antonio Michael Downing
• Carolina Moonset by Matt Goldman

Nonfiction: 

• The Green Book of South Carolina by Joshua Parks
• Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson
• The Demon of Unrest by Erik Larson

Fiction:

• Hour Glass by Michelle Rene
• Iris in the Dark by Elissa Grossell Dickey
• The Personal History of Rachel DuPree by Ann Weisgarber
• Woodworking by Emily St. James
• Finding Dorothy by Elizabeth Letts
• Winter Counts by David Heska Wanbli Weiden
• The Work of Wolves by Kent Meyers
• Dear Daughter by Elizabeth Little

Nonfiction: 

• Never Give Up by Tom Brokaw
• In the Spirit of Crazy Horse by Peter Matthiessen

Fiction:

• A Death in the Family by James Agee
• Wait for Me by Amy Jo Burns
• Ruby Falls by Gin Phillips
• Nothing to See Here by Kevin Wilson
• People of Means by Nancy Johnson
• Bees in June by Elizabeth Bass Parman
• The Two Lives of Sara by Catherine Adel West
• Memphis by Tara M. Stringfellow
• All We Ever Wanted by Emily Giffin
• In the Long Run by Haley Cass
• Run, Rose, Run by Dolly Parton and James Patterson
• The False Flat by Melissa R. Collings

Nonfiction: 

• Dreams to Remember: Otis Redding, Stax Records, and the Transformation of Southern Soul by Mark Ribowsky
• The Woman’s Hour by Elaine Weiss
• Dolly Parton, Songteller: My Life in Lyrics by Dolly Parton with Robert K. Oermann
• The Girls of Atomic City by Denise Kiernan
• From Here to the Great Unknown by Lisa Marie Presley & Riley Keough

Fiction:

• Texas: The Great Theft by Carmen Boullosa
• Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
• The Bright Years by Sarah Damoff
• Atmosphere by Taylor Jenkins Reid
• The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah
• The Sawmill Book Club by Carolyn Brown
• The Bodyguard by Katherine Center
• 11-22-63 by Stephen King
• No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy
• The Promise by Ann Weisgarber
• Perish by LaToya Watkins
• The Madstone by Elizabeth Crook
• The Local Joey Hartstone
• Love Me Back by Merritt Tierce
• Ruby by Cynthia Bond
• The Gates of the Alamo by Stephen Harrigan

Nonfiction:

• Goodbye to a River by John Graves
• Friday Night Lights by H.G. Bissinger
• The Magnolia Story by Chip and Joanna Gaines
• Waco: David Koresh, the Branch Davidians, and A Legacy of Rage by Jeff Guinn
• Lone Star Nation by H. W. Brands

Fiction:

• Mormon Country by Wallace Stegner
• The Mountain Between Us by Charles Martin
• Something Wilder by Christina Lauren
• The Fire and the Ore by Olivia Hawker
• When the Emperor Was Divine by Julie Otsuka
• The One with the Kiss Cam by Cindy Steel
• Riders of the Purple Sage by Zane Grey
• The Miracle Life of Edgar Mint by Brady Udall

Nonfiction: 

• Finding Abbey: The Search for Edward Abbey and His Hidden Desert Grave by Sean Prentiss
• Told You So by Mayci Neeley
• Under the Banner of Heaven by Jon Krakauer
• The World’s Strongest Librarian by Josh Hanagarne
• Eating Stone by Ellen Meloy

Fiction:

• The Known World by Edward P. Jones
• Flowers in the Attic by V.C. Andrews
• The Book Club for Troublesome Women by Marie Bostwick
• Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
• Counting Backwards by Jacqueline Friedland
• The Summer That Changed Everything by Brenda Novak
• A Calamity of Souls by David Baldacci
• America’s First Daughter by Stephanie Dray & Laura Kamoie
• Finlay Donovan is Killing It by Elle Cosimano
• Razorblade Tears by S.A. Cosby
• My Name is Memory by Ann Brashares
• Yellow Wife by Sadeqa Johnson
• Things We Never Got Over by Lucy Score

Nonfiction: 

• The Hemingses of Monticello by Annette Gordon-Reed
• Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly
• Up from Slavery by Booker T. Washington

Fiction:

• The Secret History by Donna Tartt
• The Lodge by Kayla Olson
• Bittersweet by Miranda Beverly-Whittemore
• Home Before Dark by Riley Sager
• A Stranger in the Kingdom by Howard Frank Mosher
• The View from the Top by Rachel Lacey
• Radio Free Vermont by Bill McKibben
• The Winter People by Jennifer McMahon
• We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
• The City Baker’s Guide to Country Living by Louise Miller

Nonfiction: 

• Wandering Home: A Long Walk Across America’s Most Hopeful Landscape by Bill McKibben 
• A Marriage at Sea: A True Story of Love, Obsession, and Shipwreck by Sophie Elmhirs
• The Salt Stones: Seasons of a Shepherd’s Life by Helen Whybrow

Fiction: 

• The Cold Millions by Jess Walter
• Fifty Shades of Grey (series) by E.L. James
• The Twilight Saga (series) by Stephenie Meyer
• The Heart of Winter by Jonathan Evison
• Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt
• The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein
• The Light Through the Leaves by Glendy Vanderah
• Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson
• Crow Talk by Eileen Garvin
• The Drowning Woman by Robyn Harding
• Love & Saffron by Kim Fay
• Where’d You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple
• Firefly Lane by Kristin Hannah
• So Far Gone by Jess Walter
• The Library of Borrowed Hearts by Lucy Gilmore
• Disclosure by Michael Crichton

Nonfiction: 

• Red Paint: An Ancestral Autobiography of a Coast Salish Punk by Sasha La Pointe
• The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown
• Stomp and Shout: R&B and the Origins of Northwest Rock and Roll by Peter Blecha
• Biking Uphill in the Rain: The Story of Seattle from Behind the Handlebars by Tom Fucoloro
• One Week to Change the World: An Oral History of the 1999 WTO Protests by DW Gibson

Fiction:.

• The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach
• Life, & Death, & Giants by Ron Rindo
• Still True by Maggie Ginsberg
• Catch and Keep by Erin Hahn
• All This Could Be Different by Sarah Thankam Mathews
• Dovetail by Karen McQuestion
• The Matchmakers of Minnow Bay by Kelly Harms
• Death Checked Out by Leah Dobrinska
• Familiaris by David Wroblewski
• Little Faith by Nickolas Butler
• Red Weather by Pauls Toutonghi
• The Funeral Ladies of Ellerie County by Claire Swinarski
• A Season of Perfect Happiness by Maribeth Fischer
• The Net Beneath Us by Carol Dunbar

Nonfiction: 

• Wisconsin Death Trip by Michael Lesy
• Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond
• Brick Through the Window: An Oral History of Punk Rock, New Wave and Noise in Milwaukee, 1964-1984 by Steven Nodine
• Building the Brewers: Bud Selig and the Return of Major League Baseball to Milwaukee by Chris Zantow

Fiction:

• Hawk’s Nest by Hubert Skidmore
• The Grand Design by Joy Callaway
• Whiskey Chaser by Lucy Score with Claire Kingsley
• John Henry Days by Colson Whitehead
• Night Watch by Jayne Anne Phillips
• Rednecks by Taylor Brown
• Lark and Termite by Jayne Anne Phillips
• Alone Together by Lindsey Jesionowski
• Bright’s Passage by Josh Ritter
• The Listeners by Maggie Stiefvater
• In the Shadow of the Greenbrier by Emily Matchar

Nonfiction: 

• The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
• Rocket Boys by Homer H. Hickam
• The Buffalo Creek Disaster by Gerald M. Stern

Fiction:

• Cowboys and East Indians by Nina McConigley
• The Lost Book of First Loves by RaeAnne Thayne          
• One for the Blackbird, One for the Crow by Olivia Hawker
• Happiness for Beginners by Katherine Center
• Done and Dusted by Lyla Sage
• Brokeback Mountain by Annie Proulx
• Celine by Peter Heller

Nonfiction: 

• The Grizzly Years by Doug Peacock
• The Journey of Crazy Horse by Joseph M. Marshall III
• Merle’s Door by Ted Kerasote
• The Legend of Colton H. Bryant by Alexandra Fuller
• The Solace of Open Spaces by Gretel Ehrlich

Fiction:

• The Taste of Sugar by Marisel Vera
• The Storyteller’s Death by Ann Dávila Cardinal
• Murder Under the Mango Tree by James Rose King
• Olga Dies Dreaming by Xochitl Gonzalez
• A Woman of Endurance by Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa
• Don’t Make Me Turn This Life Around by Camille Pagan
• The Things We Didn’t Know by Elba Iris Pérez

Nonfiction: 

• The Not-Quite States of America: Dispatches from the Territories and Other Far-Flung Outposts of the USA by Doug Mack
• We Fed an Island: The True Story of Rebuilding Puerto Rico, One Meal at a Time by José Andrés with Richard Wolffe

Fiction:

• Winter in Paradise by Elin Hilderbrand
• No Virgin Island by C. Michele Dorsey
• The Marriage of Opposites by Alice Hoffman
• Revenge Café by Lisa Shiroff
• The Lesson by Cadwell Turnbull
• Monster in the Middle by Tiphanie Yanique
• My Next Husband Will Be Normal – a St. John Adventure by Rae Ellen Lee

Nonfiction: 

• The Not-Quite States of America: Dispatches from the Territories and Other Far-Flung Outposts of the USA by Doug Mack

Fiction:

• Secret Shopper by Tanya Taimanglo
• Keeper of the Night by Kimberly Willis Holt

Nonfiction: 

• The Not-Quite States of America: Dispatches from the Territories and Other Far-Flung Outposts of the USA by Doug Mack
• No Country for Eight-Spot Butterflies by Julian Aguon

Fiction:

• Pago Pago Tango by John Enright
• The Smell of the Moon by Lemanatele Mark Kneubuhl
• The Keepsake by Julie Brooks

Nonfiction: 

• The Not-Quite States of America: Dispatches from the Territories and Other Far-Flung Outposts of the USA by Doug Mack
• Tropic of Football: The Long and Perilous Journey of Samoans to the NFL by Rob Ruck
• Explore American Samoa: The Complete Guide to Tutuila, Aunu’u, and Manu’a Islands by Melinda Clayville
• Gridiron Capital: How American Football Became a Samoan Game by Lisa Uperesa
• Coming of Age in Samoa by Margaret Mead

Fiction:

• Flying Blind by Max Allan Collins
• Shattered Jade: A Novel of Saipan by Larry Alexander

Nonfiction: 

• The Not-Quite States of America: Dispatches from the Territories and Other Far-Flung Outposts of the USA by Doug Mack
• Saipan: The Battle That Doomed Japan in World War II by James H. Hallas