The Library

(The Most Lit)

• Our Woman in Moscow by Beatriz Williams
• Beach Read by Emily Henry
• The Book Thief by Marcus Zusak
• The Wedding Date by Jasmine Guillory
• Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi
• The Lies That Bind by Emily Giffin (also on The Biblio Files)
• The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
• The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón (also on The Biblio Files)
• A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
• City of Girls by Elizabeth Gilbert (also on The Biblio Files)
• The Dutch House by Ann Patchett
• Ask Again, Yes by Mary Beth Keane
• The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
• Educated by Tara Westover
• The Proposal by Jasmine Guillory
• Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom
• Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate
• The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls (also on The Biblio Files)
• Becoming by Michelle Obama
• There There by Tommy Orange
• Rich People Problems by Kevin Kwan
• My Dear Hamilton by Stephanie Dray and Laura Kamoie
• All We Ever Wanted by Emily Giffin
• Exit West by Mohsin Hamid
• Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan
• Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng (also on The Biblio Files)
• The Good Girls Revolt by Lynn Povich
• Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders
• My (Not So) Perfect Life (guest reviewed) by Sophie Kinsella

(Potentially Combustible)

• The Mother Tongue by Bill Bryson
• Seven Days in June by Tia Williams
• Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
• Passing by Nella Larsen
• Royal Holiday by Jasmine Guillory
• When No One is Watching by Alyssa Cole
• Patsy by Nicole Dennis-Benn
• We’re Going to Need More Wine by Gabrielle Union
• A Burning by Megha Majumdar
• The Kiss Quotient by Helen Hoang
• My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite
• The Wedding Party by Jasmine Guillory
• The Existence of Amy by Lana Grace Riva
• Garlic and Sapphires by Ruth Reichl
• The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
• A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
• American Spy by Lauren Wilkinson
• The Colossus of New York by Colson Whitehead
• White Fragility: Why It’s so Hard for White People to Talk about Racism: by Robin DiAngelo
• Three-Fifths by John Vercher (also on The Biblio Files)
• Red, White & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston
• Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid
• The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown
• Here Comes the Sun by Nicole Dennis-Benn
• The Overstory by Richard Powers (also on The Biblio Files)
• Friday Night Lights by H.G. Bissinger (also on The Biblio Files)
• Behold the Dreamers by Imbolo Mbue (also on The Biblio Files)
• The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai
• Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
• The Turn of the Key by Ruth Ware
• The Dogs of Babel by Carolyn Parkhurst
• How Not to Die Alone by Richard Roper
• Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
• In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
• Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows by Balli Kaur Jaswal
• The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
• The Women in the Castle by Jessica Shattuck
• The Wife by Meg Wolitzer
• Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman
• To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
• The Last Black Unicorn by Tiffany Haddish
• The Birth of Venus by Sarah Dunant
• Still Me by Jojo Moyes
• An American Marriage by Tayari Jones
• The Futures by Anna Pitoniak
• The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch
• In a Dark, Dark Wood by Ruth Ware
• The Patriots by Sana Krasikov
• The Ice Cream Queen of Orchard Street by Susan Jane Gilman
• A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
• Tell the Wolves I’m Home by Carol Rifka Brunt
• The Nest by Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney
• Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi

(A Contained Flame)

• Red Sparrow by Jason Matthews
• Stay with Me by Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀
• Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card
• Waiting for Tom Hanks by Kerry Winfrey
• Paris for One and Other Stories by Jojo Moyes
• The Mango Season by Amulya Malladi
• Normal People by Sally Rooney (also on The Biblio Files)
• The Widow of Wall Street by Randy Susan Meyers
• The Dancing Girls by M.M. Chouinard
• The Giver of Stars by Jojo Moyes
• Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams
• Tell Me Lies by Carola Lovering
• The 100-Yard Journey: A Life in Coaching and Battling for the Win by Gary Pinkel and Dave Matter
• My Husband’s Wife by Jane Corry
• The Red Coat: A Novel of Boston by Dolley Carlson
• The Female Persuasion by Meg Wolitzer
• Warlight by Michael Ondaatje
• The Forever War by Joe Haldeman
• China Rich Girlfriend by Kevin Kwan
• The Underwriting by Michelle Miller
• Miss You by Kate Eberlen
• The Ninth Hour by Alice McDermott
• Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward
• Manhattan Beach by Jennifer Egan
• Kitchens of the Great Midwest by J. Ryan Stradal
• Another Brooklyn by Jacqueline Woodson
• Modern Lovers by Emma Straub
• Truly Madly Guilty by Liane Moriarty

(Barely Ignited)

• Supper Club by Lara Williams
• Beloved by Toni Morrison
• Revolutionary by Alex Myers
• The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah
• Border Child by Michel Stone
• The Dinner List by Rebecca Serle
• Forest Dark by Nicole Krauss
• Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
• One Summer Day in Rome by Mark Lamprell
• New People by Danzy Senna

(Extinguished)

• The Book of Lost Friends by Lisa Wingate