Rating Scale:

★: Eh

★★: Fine

★★★: Good

★★★★: Very Good

★★★★★: Favorite

A

  1.  Ship of Theseus, J.J. Abrams 
  2. The Power, Naomi Alderman ★★★
  3. The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood ★★★★
  4. The Testaments, Margaret Atwood ★★★★
  5. Watership Down, Richard Adams
  6. Life after Life, Kate Atkinson
  7. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, Sherman Alexie
  8. Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
  9. Poems, Anna Akhmatova
  10. Anderson’s Fairy Tales, Hans Christian Andersen

B

  1. The Medusa Chronicles, Stephen Baxter 
  2. The Sense of an Ending, Julian Barnes ★★★★
  3. The Darkness That Comes Before, R. Scott Baker
  4. The Wasp Factory, Iain Banks
  5. Angels & Demons, Dan Brown ★★★
  6. The Course of Love, Alain D eBotton
  7. Bangkok Tattoo, John Burdett
  8. Bangkok 8, John Burdett
  9. The Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown ★★★
  10. A Simple Favor, Darcey Bell ★
  11. The Widow, Fiona Barton
  12. 2666, Roberto Bolano
  13. The Savage Detectives, Roberto Bolano
  14. Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte
  15. Cities of the Red Night, William S. Burroughs
  16. The Whites, Harry Brandt  
  17. A Man Called Ove, Fredrik Backman
  18. The Vanishing Half, Brit Bennett
  19. The Body, Bill Bryson 
  20. The Book of Atlantis Black, Betsy Bonner
  21. Sad Janet, Lucie Britsch
  22. Women, Charles Bukowski 
  23. Ham on Rye, Charles Bukowski 
  24. Factotum, Charles Bukowski 
  25. The Last Night of the Earth Poems, Charles Bukowski 
  26. Play the Piano Drunk Like a Percussion Instrument Until the Fingers Begin to Bleed a Bit, Charles Bukowski 
  27. Mourning Diary, Roland Barthes 
  28. Hyperbole and a Half, Allie Brosh ★★★★

C

  1.  The Trigger, Arthur C. Clarke
  2. The Question for Karla, John Le Carre
  3. A Most Wanted Man, John Le Carre
  4. Call for the Dead: A Murder of Quality, John Le Carre
  5. Consumed, David Cronenberg
  6. Wedding Toasts I’ll Never Give, Ada Calhoun ★★★★★
  7. Imaginary Friend, Stephen Chbosky ★★★★
  8.  Exhilation, Ted Chiang ★★★★
  9. The Passage, Justin Cronin ★★★
  10. Dark Matter, Blake Crouch ★★★★★
  11. Recursion, Blake Crouch ★★★★★
  12. Ender’s Game, Orson Scott Card
  13. The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Stephen Chbosky ★★★★
  14. Shogun, James Clavell
  15. Mr. White’s Confession, Robert Clark
  16. The Constant Gardener, John Le Carre
  17. A Legacy of Spies, John Le Carre
  18. Journey to Ixtlan, Carlos Castaneda
  19. Leviathan Wakes, James S.A. Correy
  20. The Stranger, Albert Camus
  21. Ready Player One, Ernest Cline ★★★★
  22. The Newly Born Woman, Helene Cixous
  23. The Book of Promethea, Helene Cixous
  24. Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, Susanna Clarke
  25. Poems and Songs, Leonard Cohen
  26. Obit, Victoria Chang
  27. Still Just Kidding, Cassandra Calin ★★★★
  28. Don’t Jump, Novella Carpenter
  29. Shop Class as Soulcraft, Matthew Crawford

D

  1. The Lover, Marguerite Duras
  2. White Noise, Don DeLillo 
  3. The Count of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas
  4. The Child Finder, Rene Denfeld
  5. The Year of Magical Thinking, Joan Didion ★★★★
  6. Slouching Toward Bethlehem, Joan Didion
  7. The Truth About The Harry Quebert Affair, Joel Dicker ★★★
  8. Good Morning Midnight, Lily Brooks-Dalton ★★★
  9. House of Leaves, Mark Z. Danielewski ★★★★
  10. The Three Musketeers, Alexandre Dumas
  11. This is How You Lose Her, Junot Diaz
  12. The Man in the High Castle, Philip K. Dick
  13.  The Art of Death, Edwidge Danticat
  14. Evicted, Matthew Desmond

E

  1.  A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, Dave Eggers
  2. The Circle, Dave Eggers ★★★
  3. Women Who Run With the Wolves, Clarissa Pinkola Estés
  4. The Name of the Rose, Umberto Eco
  5. Foucault’s Pendulum, Umberto Eco
  6. Baudolino, Umberto Eco
  7.  The Doomsday Machine, Daniele Ellsberg
  8. Jimmy Stewart Biography, Marc Eliot

F

  1. The List of 7, Mark Frost 
  2. The Twenty-Seventh City, Jonathan Franzen
  3. The Corrections, Johnathan Franzen
  4. The Witch Elm, Tana French
  5. In The Woods, Tana French
  6. The Trespasser, Tana French
  7. Broken Harbor, Tana French
  8. Faithful Place, Tana French
  9. The Woman in the Window, A.J Finn
  10.  Gone Girl, Gillian Flynn ★★★★
  11. Burn Lake, Carrie Fountain
  12. The History of Sexuality, Michel Foucault
  13. Civilization and It’s Discontents, Sigmund Freud

G

  1. Water for Elephants, Sara Gruen ★★★
  2. The Ocean at the End of the Lane, Neil Gaiman
  3. Neverwhere, Neil Gaiman
  4. Good Omens, Neil Gaiman
  5. Neuromancer, William Gibson
  6. Lord of the Flies, William Golding
  7. I Remember Nightfall, di Giorgio 
  8. Words are My Matter, Ursula K. Le Guin 
  9. Turtles All The Way Down, John Green ★★
  10. Fates and Furies, Lauren Groff 
  11. The Left Hand of Darkness, Ursula K. Le Guin
  12. The Cuckoo’s Calling, Robert Galbraith
  13. Hotel Paradise, Martha Grimes
  14. Outlander, Diana Gabaldon
  15. The Beach, Alex Garland
  16. The Magicians, Lev Grossman ★★★
  17. The Magician’s King, Lev Grossman
  18. The Magician’s Land, Lev Grossman
  19. Little Wonders, Kat Gardiner
  20. Sound of Silence, Katrina Goldsaito
  21. Le Petit Nicolas et les Copains, René Goscinny

H

  1. Farewell to Arms, Ernest Hemingway
  2. The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway
  3. Dune, Frank Herbert
  4. The Maltese Falcon, Samuel Hammett
  5. The Iliad, Homer
  6. The Odyssey, Homer
  7. The Ten Thousand Doors of January, Alix E. Harrow
  8. This Book Will Change Your Life, A. M. Homes
  9. Stranger in a Strange Land, Robert A. Heinlein ★★★★
  10. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime, Mark Haddon
  11. Uncommon Type, Tom Hanks ★★
  12. The Girl on the Train, Paula Hawkins
  13. Fourth of July Creek, Smith Henderson
  14. Siddhartha, Hermann Hesse
  15. High Fidelity, Nick Hornby
  16. Catch-22, Joseph Heller
  17. Exit West, Mohsin Hamid
  18. My Best Friend’s Exorcism, Grady Hendrix
  19. An Easy Death, Charlaine Harris
  20. Strange Weather, Joe Hill 
  21. The Fireman, Joe Hill 
  22. NOS4A2, Joe Hill  ★★★★★
  23. Full Throttle, Joe Hill 
  24. Wraith, Joe Hill 
  25. Heart-Shaped Box, Joe Hill ★★★★
  26.  The Triggering Town, Richard Hugo

I

  1. The Buried Giant, Kazuo Ishiguro 
  2. The Terrible and Wonderful Reasons Why I Run Long Distances, Matthew Inman

J

  1. The Haunting of Hill House, Shirley Jackson
  2. Redwall, Brian Jacques
  3. The Residue Years, Mitchell S. Jackson
  4.  Serious Drawings, Marc Johns

K

  1. The Beekeepers Apprentice, Laurie R. King
  2. Girl Interrupted, Susanna Kaysen
  3. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Ken Kesey
  4. The Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver
  5. Crazy Rich Asians, Kevin Kwan ★★★★
  6. China Rich Girlfriend, Kevin Kwan ★★★
  7. Rich People Problems, Kevin Kwan ★★★
  8. Sex and Vanity, Kevin Kwan ★
  9. The Outsider, Stephen King ★★★
  10. Mr. Mercedes, Stephen King ★★★★
  11. Finders Keepers, Stephen King ★★★
  12. Doctor Sleep, Stephen King ★★★
  13. The Bazaar of Bad Dreams, Stephen King ★★★
  14. Revival, Stephen King ★★
  15. Under the Dome, Stephen King ★★★★
  16. If it Bleeds, Stephen King
  17. The Institute, Stephen King ★★★
  18. Gerald’s Game, Stephen King
  19. Gwendy’s Button Box, Stephen King ★★★★
  20. Elevation, Stephen King ★★★
  21. The Bachman Books, Stephen King
  22. Insomnia, Stephen King
  23. The Green Mile, Stephen King
  24. Needful Things, Stephen King ★★★★
  25. Thinner, Stephen King ★★★★
  26. The Drawing of the Three, Stephen King
  27. IT, Stephen King
  28. Dolores Claiborne, Stephen King
  29. The Waste Lands, Stephen King
  30. On Writing, Stephen King ★★★★★
  31. Carrie, Stephen King
  32. Rose Red, Stephen King
  33.  11/22/63, Stephen King ★★★★★
  34. Salem’s Lot, Stephen King
  35. Pet Semetary, Stephen King
  36. Different Seasons, Stephen King
  37. Wizard and Glass, Stephen King
  38. The Gunslinger, Stephen King ★★★★
  39. 1408, Stephen King
  40. Full Dark No Stars, Stephen King
  41. Kingdom of Fear, Stephen King
  42. Sleeping Beauties, Stephen King
  43. The Body Keeps the Score, Bessel van der Kolk
  44. Milk and Honey, Rupi Kaur ★

L

  1.  The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Stieg Larsson
  2. Shutter Island, Dennis Lehane
  3. Gone Baby Gone, Dennis Lehane
  4. Prayers for Rain, Dennis Lehane
  5. The Three, Sarah Lotz
  6. The Splendid and the Vile, Erik Larson
  7. The Devil in the White City, Erik Larson
  8. In the Garden of Beasts, Erik Larson
  9. To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
  10. Motherless Brooklyn, Jonathan Lethem
  11. Bird by Bird, Annee Lamott
  12. XO, Matthew LeMay
  13. The Big Short, Michael Lewis
  14. The Fifth Risk, Michael Lewis
  15. She’s Come Undone, Wally Lamb
  16. Bright Dead Things, Ada Limon
  17. The Cancer Journals, Audre Lorde 

M

  1.  Slade House, David Mitchell ★★★★
  2. The Bone Clocks, David Mitchell 
  3. Tinfoil Butterfly, Rachel Eve Moulton 
  4. Severance, Ling Ma
  5. Moby Dick, Herman Meleville
  6. Nine Perfect Strangers, Liane Moriarty
  7. Hav, Jan Morris
  8. Altered Carbon, Richard K. Morgan
  9. Woken Furies, Richard K. Morgan
  10. Broken Angels, Richard K. Morgan
  11. Eclipse, Stephanie Meyer
  12. 1Q84, Haruki Murakami 
  13. What I talk about when I talk about Running, Haruki Murakami 
  14. Chronicle of a Death Foretold, Gabriel García Márquez
  15. The Price, Machiavelli
  16. The Eye of the Hunter, Dennis L. McKiernan
  17. Wildwood Imperium, Colin Meloy
  18. One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel García Márquez
  19. Machines Like Me, Ian McEwan
  20. My Year of Rest and Relaxation, Ottessa Moshfegh
  21. Game of Thrones, George R.R. Martin
  22. Clash of Kings, George R.R. Martin
  23. A Dance with Dragons, George R.R. Martin
  24. A Feast for Crows, George R.R. Martin
  25. A Storm of Swords, George R.R. Martin
  26. Inspection, Josh Malerman ★★
  27. Heart Berries, Terese Marie Mailhot
  28. A Court of Thorns and Roses, Sarah J. Maas
  29. The Tattooist of Auschwitz, Heather Morris
  30. Do Not Become Alarmed, Maile Meloy
  31. Tropic of Cancer, Henry Miller
  32. Watchmen, Alan Moore
  33. The Sculptor, Scott McCloud ★★★★
  34. Voice, Carla Speed McNeil 
  35. Building a Storybrand, Donald A. Miller ★★★

N

  1. Elliott Smith and the Big Nothing, Benjamin Nugent
  2. The Eye, Vladimir Nabokov ★★★★
  3. Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov ★★★★★
  4. A Literate Passion, Anais Nin 
  5. The Diary of Anais Nin Volume I, Anais Nin ★★★★★
  6. Delta of Venus, Anais Nin
  7. Henry and June, Anais Nin
  8. In Favor of the Sensitive Man and Other Essays, Anais Nin
  9. A Spy in the House of Love, Anais Nin
  10. Kim Jiyoung Born 1982, Cho Nam-Jooo ★★★

O

  1.  Dept of Speculation, Jenny Offill  ★★★★★
  2.  Weather, Jenny Offill
  3. A Poetry Handbook, Mary Oliver

P

  1. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Robert M. Pirsig
  2. I Miss You When I Blink, Mary Laura, Philpott
  3. Footfall, Jerry Pournelle 
  4.  This is The Story of a Happy Marriage, Ann Patchett
  5. Fugitives and Refugees, Chuck Palahniuk
  6. The Shipping News, E. Annie Proulx
  7. Topics of Conversation, Miranda Popkey
  8. The Hot Zone, Richard Preston
  9. The Club Dumas, Arturo Perez-Reverte
  10. The Painter of Battles, Arturo Perez-Reverte
  11. Captain Alatriste, Arturo Perez-Reverte
  12. What We Become, Arturo Perez-Reverte
  13. The Flanders Paneel, Arturo Perez-Reverte
  14. The Fencing Master, Arturo Perez-Reverte
  15. The Seville Communion, Arturo Perez-Reverte
  16. The Queen of the South, Arturo Perez-Reverte
  17. The Nautical Chart, Arturo Perez-Reverte
  18. Grief is the Thing With Feathers, Max Porter
  19. The Tale of Peter Rabbit, Beatrix Potter
  20. Wilder Girls, Rory Power

Q

  1.  

R

  1.  Foe, Iain Reid ★★
  2. The Seven Husband’s of Evelyn Hugo, Taylor Jenkins Reid ★★★★
  3. Anna Akhmatova Poet and Prophet, Roberta Reeder
  4. The Name of the Wind, Patrick Rothfuss
  5. The Wise Man’s Fear, Patrick Rothfuss 
  6.  Normal People, Sally Rooney ★★
  7. The Stranger Beside Me, Ann Rule ★★
  8. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, JK Rowling
  9. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, JK Rowling
  10. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, JK Rowling
  11. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, JK Rowling
  12. Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince, JK Rowling
  13. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, JK Rowling
  14. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, JK Rowling
  15. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, JK Rowling
  16. Harry Potter et la Chambre des secrets, JK Rowling
  17. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (Illustrated Version), JK Rowling
  18.  Dunce, Mary Rueffle
  19. My Private Property, Mary Rueffle
  20. I Don’t Think Of You Until I Do, Tatiana Ryckman
  21.  Cry Heart But Never Break, Glenn Ringtved
  22. We’re Going on a Bear Hunt, Michael Rosen

S

  1.  Endymion, Dan Simmons
  2. The Rise of Endymion, Dan Simmons
  3. The Fall of Hyperion, Dan Simmons
  4. Polar Star, Martin Cruz Smith
  5. Gorky Park, Martin Cruz Smith
  6. December 6, Martin Cruz Smith
  7. Stalin’s Ghost, Martin Cruz Smith
  8. The Girl From Venice, Martin Cruz Smith
  9. Rose, Martin Cruz Smith
  10. Wolves Eat Dogs, Martin Cruz Smith
  11. Red Square, Martin Cruz Smith
  12. Havana Bay, Martin Cruz Smith
  13. Walden Two, BF Skinner
  14. This is Between Us, Kevin Sampsell 
  15. Mr. Penumbra’s 24 Hour Bookstore, Robin Sloan ★★★
  16. Portland Noir, Kevin Sampsell
  17. Super Sad True Love Story, Gary Shteyngart
  18. The Lovely Bones, Alice Sebold ★★★
  19. Where’d You Go Bernadette, Maria Semple ★★★
  20. Contact, Carl Sagan
  21.  You Will Never Be Forgotten, Mary South
  22. The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck
  23. East of Eden, John Steinbeck
  24.  Don’t Call Us Dead, Danez Smith
  25. All We Know of Pleasure, Enid Shomer
  26. Reasons for Moving, Mark Strand ★★★★★
  27. New Selected Poems, Mark Strand ★★★★
  28. American Journal, Tracy K. Smith
  29. Le Petit Prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupery
  30. Big Pumpkin, Erica Silverman
  31. How The Grinch Stole Christmas, Dr Seuss 
  32. Scary Stories 3, Alvin Schwartz
  33. The Queen of Tuesday, Darin Strauss

T

  1.  The Hate U Give, Angie Thomas
  2. The Goldfinch, Donna Tartt ★★★★
  3. The Fellowship of the Ring, JRR Tolkein
  4. The Hobbit, JRR Tolkein 
  5. Spectra, Ashley Toliver
  6. The Bad Girls Guide to the Open Road, Cameron Tuttle

U

  1.  

V

  1. Annihilation, Jeff Vandermeer ★★★★
  2. The Southern Reach Trilogy, Jeff Vandermeer
  3. Cutting for Stone, Abraham Verghese
  4. Slaughterhouse Five, Kurt Vonnegut
  5.  On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous, Ocean Vuong
  6. Mouthful of Forevers, Clementine Von Radics

W

  1. Sexographies, Gabriela Wiener
  2. The Chronicles of Water, Lidia Yuknavitch ★★★★★
  3. Dora: A Headcase, Lidia Yuknavitch
  4. When Women Were Birds, Terry Tempest Williams ★★★★★
  5. Erosion, Terry Tempest Williams
  6. Wanderers, Chuck Wendig
  7. Artemis, Andy Weir
  8. Heart Talk, Cleo Wade

X

  1.  

Y

  1. What About The Rest of Your Life, Sung Yim

Z

  1.  The Shadow of the Wind, Carlos Ruiz Zafón ★★★★★
  2. The Angel’s Game, Carlos Ruiz Zafón
  3. The Prisoner of Heaven, Carlos Ruiz Zafón
  4. The Labyrinth of the Spirits, Carlos Ruiz Zafón

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