- Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
- Eleni by Nicholas Gage
- A Star Called Henry by Roddy Doyle
- Feast of Love by Charles Baxter
- Belle Tuscany by Frances Mayle
- Amy and Isabel by Elizabeth Strout
- Good Scent From a Strange Mountain by Robert Olen Butler
- The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
- Girl With a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier
- House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus III
- Bridgit Jones' Diary by Helen Fielding
- Wind Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
- Music and Silence by Rose Tremain
- Bee Season by Myla Goldberg
- Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood
- Waiting by Ha Jin
- Hyssop by Kevin McIlvoy
- Jim the Boy by Tony Earley
- Death of Vishnu by Manil Suri
- The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse by Louise Erdrich
- Homestead by Rosina Lippi
- Personal History by Katharine Graham
- Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
- The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
- The Dive From Clauson's Pier by Ann Packer
- The Life of Pi by Yann Martel
- Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie
- Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
- Peace Like a River by Leif Enger
- The Colony of Unrequited Dreams by Wayne Johnson
- Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer
- Bel Canto by Ann Pachett
- Why are all the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria by Beverly Daniel Tatum
- Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee
- Monkey Hunting by Julia Alvarez
- The Time Traveller's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
- The Transit of Venus by Shirley Hazzard
- The Kite Runner by Khaled Hossein
- Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
- The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon
- Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi
- The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields
- The News from Paraguay by Lily Tuck
- Ideas of Heaven by Joan Silber
- All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy
- Pope Joan by Donna Cross
- Moons of Jupiter by Alice Munroe
- Three Junes by Julia Glass
- Empire Falls by Richard Russo
- Wicked by Gregory Maguire
- Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
- The Antelope Wife by Louise Erdrich
- Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood by Alexandra Fuller
- Fallen by David Maine
- Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
- Who Will Run the Frog Hospital?by Lorrie Moore
- The World to Come by Dara Horn
- Snow by Orhan Pamuk
- Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
- Flight by Sherman Alexie
- Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky
- The Hummingbird's Daughter by Luis Alberto Urrea
- The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai
- The Eighth Promise by William Poy Lee
- The Welsh Girl by Peter Ho Davies
- My House in Umbria by William Trevor
- Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson
- The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
- Digging to America by Anne Tyler
- Snow by Orhan Pamuk
- A Mercy by Toni Morrison
- March by Geraldine Brooks
- Monsters of Templeton by Lauren Groff
- Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
- The World to Come by Dana Horn
- Out Stealing Horses by Per Patterson
- Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
- Say You're One of Them by Uwem Akpan
- St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves by Karen Russell
- Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann
- Brooklyn by Colm Toibin
- Long for This World by Michael Byers
- The Art Student's War by Brad Leithauser
- Miles from Nowhere by Numi Moon
- Away by Amy Bloom
- I Was Amelia Earhart by Jane Mendelsohn
- The Maytrees by Annie Dillard
- missing about 10+ books or so here....
- A Visit from the Good Squad by Jennifer Egan
- Wolf Hall by Hillary Mantel
- Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese
- The Facts of Life by Graham Joyce
- The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach
- Kindred by Octavia Butler
- Memory Wall by Anthony Doerr
- The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery
- Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
- The Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood
- Maddaddam by Margaret Atwood
- The Burgess Boys by Elizabeth Strout
- Just Kids by Patti Smith
- The Flamethrowers by Rachel Kushner
- Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler
- The Buddha in the Attic by Julia Otsuka
- The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
- Stone Mattress by Margaret Atwood
- All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
- The Autobiography of Red by Anne Carson
- Flight Behavior by Barbara Kingsolver
- The Talented Mr Ripley by Patricia Highsmith
- The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman
- The Illusion of Separateness by Simon Van Booy
- The Roundhouse by Louise Erdrich
- My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante
- The Good Lord Bird by James McBride
- Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich
- Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler
- Going to Meet the Man by James Baldwin
- A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman
- Without You There is No Us by Suki Kim
- H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald
- A Manual for Cleaning Women by Lucia Berlin
- The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
- Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly
- Zone One by Colson Whitehead
- The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen
- What is Not Yours is Not Yours by Helen Oyeyemi
- Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
- After Long Silence by Helen Fremont
- The Color of Lightning by Paulette Jiles
- Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin
- Swing Time by Zadie Smith
- A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
- Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- My Name is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout
- Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders
- Beautiful Music by Michael Zandoorian
- Less by Andrew Sean Greer
- The Bookshop by Penelope Fitzgerald
- Exit/West by Mohsin Hamid
- Last Stories by William Trevor
- Circe by Madeline Miller
- There There by Tommy Orange
- Lucy Gayheart by Willa Cather
- Autumn by Ali Smith
- Outline by Rachel Cusk
- Olive, Again by Elizabeth Strout
- The Wrong Heaven by Amy Bonnaffons
- Educated by Tara Westover
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