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- Dominicana: A Novel, Angie Cruz
- Taxi: Stories from the Back Seat, Aimée de Jongh, tr. (Dutch)
- Algeria Is Beautiful like America, Olivia Burton, Mahi Grand, tr. Edward Gauvin
- "P" is for Peril (Kinsey Millhone Alphabet Mysteries), Sue Grafton
- Quiet Girl in a Noisy World: An Introvert's Story, Debbie Tung
- The Ashes of London, Andrew Taylor
- The Mars Room: A Novel, Rachel Kushner
- Almost American Girl: An Illustrated Memoir, Robin Ha
- Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic, Alison Bechdel
- Don't Look and It Won't Hurt, Richard Peck
- The Mischief, Assia Djebar, tr. Frances Frenaye
- Two Girls Down, Louisa Luna
- Heart Berries: A Memoir, Terese Marie Mailhot
- Penny Nichols, MK Reed, Greg Means, Matt Wiegle
- Code Name: Lise: The True Story of the Woman Who Became WWII's Most Highly Decorated Spy, Larry Loftis
- Sanditon: [Jane Austen], Kate Riordan
- Belonging: A German Reckons with History and Home, Nora Krug
Books Read in 2019
- Dark Passage, David Goodis
- Honeymoon to Nowhere, Akimitsu Takagi, tr. Sadako Mizuguchi
- Childhood, Tove Ditlevsen, tr. Tiina Nunnally
- A Curious Beginning (A Veronica Speedwell Mystery), Deanna Raybourn
- "O" is for Outlaw (Kinsey Millhone Alphabet Mysteries), Sue Grafton
- The American Agent Jacqueline Winspear
- The Deep Blue Good-by: A Travis McGee Novel, John D. MacDonald
- Stillmeadow Calendar: A Countrywoman's Journal, Gladys Taber
- The Earthquake Bird, Susanna Jones
- Purple Hibiscus: A Novel, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- Dear Mrs. Bird: A Novel, AJ Pearce
- Autumn: A Novel (Seasonal Quartet), Ali Smith
- Suite for Barbara Loden, Nathalie Leger, tr. Natasha Lehrer and Cecile Menon
- To Die But Once, Jacqueline Winspear
- "N" is for Noose (Kinsey Millhone Alphabet Mysteries), Sue Grafton
- The Dutch House: A Novel, Ann Patchett
- Be Prepared, Vera Brosgol, Alec Longstreth
- Sula, Toni Morrison
- The Flower Arranger, JJ Ellis
- The Secrets We Kept, Lara Prescott
- Rule Britannia, Alec Marsh
- Eve Green, Susan Fletcher
- The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side: A Miss Marple Mystery, Agatha Christie
- Durable Goods, Elizabeth Berg
- "M" is for Malice (Kinsey Millhone Alphabet Mysteries), Sue Grafton
- The Beguiled: A Novel, Thomas Cullinan
- The Old Capital, Yasunari Kawabata, tr. J. Martin Holman
- Manhattan Beach: A Novel, Jennifer Egan
- Moshi Moshi, Banana Yoshimoto, tr. Asa Yoneda
- Mr. Hire's Engagement, Georges Simenon, tr. Anna Moschovakis
- As Close to Us as Breathing, Elizabeth Poliner
- The Virgin Suicides: A Novel, Jeffrey Eugenides
- From Doon with Death, Ruth Rendell
- The Handmaid’s Tale: The Graphic Novel, Margaret Atwood, Renee Nault
- Searching for Sylvie Lee: A Novel, Jean Kwok
- "L" is for Lawless (Kinsey Millhone Alphabet Mysteries), Sue Grafton
- All She Was Worth, Miyuki Miyabe, tr. Alfred Birnbaum
- All the Beautiful Girls, Elizabeth J. Church
- Points and Lines, Seicho Matsumoto, tr.Makiko Yamamoto and Paul C. Blum
- Tender at the Bone: Growing Up at the Table, Ruth Reichl
- Freya: A Novel, Anthony Quinn
- The New House, Lettice Cooper
- The Janus Stone, Elly Griffiths
- Restaurant of Love Regained, Ito Ogawa, tr. David Karashima
- Masks, Fumiko Enchi, tr.Juliet Winters Carpenter
- Nisei Daughter, Monica Itoi Sone
- Just So Happens, Fumio Obata
- “K” is for Killer (Kinsey Millhone Alphabet Mysteries), Sue Grafton
- The Sunday Philosophy Club, Alexander McCall Smith
- Living on the Border, Esther De Waal
- To Davy Jones Below, Carola Dunn
- The Aftermath, Rhidian Brook
- I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer, Michelle McNamara
- "J" is for Judgment (Kinsey Millhone Alphabet Mysteries), Sue Grafton
- An American Marriage: A Novel, Tayari Jones
- A Pale View of Hills, Kazuo Ishiguro
- Maigret Sets a Trap, Georges Simenon, tr. Sian Reynolds
- Welcome Strangers (Virago Modern Classics), Mary Hockimg
- Devil's Daughter, Lisa Kleypas
- Lock 14, Georges Simenon, tr. Robert Baldick
- The Island of Sea Women: A Novel, Lisa See
- Red Princess: A Revolutionary Life, Sofka Zinovieff
- The Land of My Dreams: War at Home, 1916, Cynthia Harrod-Eagles
- Normal People: A Novel, Sally Rooney
- Return from the Ashes, Hubert Monteilhet, tr. Richard Howard
- The Unexpected Education of Emily Dean, Mira Robertson
- Indifferent Heroes (Virago Modern Classics), Mary Hocking
- "I" is for Innocent (Kinsey Millhone Alphabet Mysteries), Sue Grafton
- Nothing but the Night (NYRB Classics), John Williams
- A Spring of Love, Celia Dale
- Good Daughters (Virago Modern Classics), Mary Hocking
- The Paragon Hotel, Lyndsay Faye
- An Experiment in Love: A Novel, Hilary Mantel
- Death in the Air: The True Story of a Serial Killer, the Great London Smog, and the Strangling of a City, Kate Winkler Dawson
- "H" is for Homicide (Kinsey Millhone Alphabet Mysteries), Sue Grafton
- The Alice Network: A Novel, Kate Quinn
- Little Dancer Aged Fourteen: The True Story Behind Degas's Masterpiece, Camille Laurens, tr. Willard Wood
- Maigret's Mistake, Georges Simenon, tr. Howard Curtis
- "G" is for Gumshoe (Kinsey Millhone Alphabet Mysteries), Sue Grafton
- Emma, Vol. 1: Kaoru Mori
Books Read in 2018
- A Dark Corner, Celia Dale
- Christmas at High Rising (Virago Modern Classics), Angela Thirkell
- My Brilliant Friend: Neapolitan Novels, Elena Ferrante, tr. Ann Goldstein
- Before Mars (A Planetfall Novel), Emma Newman
- Sheep's Clothing (Virago Modern Classics), Celia Dale
- Sweet Caress: The Many Lives of Amory Clay, William Boyd
- "F" is for Fugitive (Kinsey Millhone Alphabet Mysteries), Sue Grafton
- The Mitford Murders: A Mystery: Jessica Fellowes
Audio Book - The Second Rider, Alex Beer, tr. Tim Mohr
- Call of the Cats: What I Learned about Life and Love from a Feral Colony, Andrew Bloomfield
- The Clockmaker's Daughter: A Novel, Kate Morton
- Convenience Store Woman, Sayaka Murata, tr. Ginny Tapley Takemori
- E is for Evidence (Kinsey Millhone Alphabet Mysteries), Sue Grafton
- Curtain Call, Anthony Quinn
- November Road: A Novel, Lou Berney
- The Haunting of Hill House, Shirley Jackson
- An Absolutely Remarkable Thing: A Novel, Hank Green
- A Shilling for Candles, Josephine Tey
- D is for Deadbeat (Kinsey Millhone Alphabet Mysteries), Sue Grafton
- Attachments: A Novel, Rainbow Rowell
- C Is for Corpse (Kinsey Millhone Alphabet Mysteries), Sue Grafton
- On the Edge, Peter Lovesey
- A Little Bird Told Me, Marianne Holmes
- B is for Burglar (Kinsey Millhone Alphabet Mysteries), Sue Grafton
- August is a Wicked Month, Edna O'Brien
- A is for Alibi (Kinsey Millhone Alphabet Mysterie), Sue Grafton
- Tennison: Prime Suspect 1973, Lynda La Plante
- The Wildling Sisters, Eve Chase
- A Chill in the Air: An Italian War Diary, 1939-1940 (NYRB Classics), Iris Origo
- Holloway, Robert MacFarlane, Stanley Donwood & Dan Richards
- Sabrina, Nick Drnaso
- Clock Dance: A Novel, Anne Tyler
- How to Find Love in a Bookshop: A Novel, Veronica Henry
- The Cat's Table, Michael Ondaatje
- Everything I Never Told You, Celeste Ng
- Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets, J. K. Rowling
- Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine: A Novel, Gail Honeyman
- I See You, Clare Mackintosh
- Act Like It, Lucy Parker
- Green Almonds: Letters from Palestine, Anaële Hermans, Delphine Hermans
- Miss Buncle's Book: D.E. Stevenson
- Coronet Among The Weeds, Charlotte Bingham
- Vinegar Girl: A Novel (Hogarth Shakespeare), Anne Tyler
- The Room on Rue Amélie, Kristin Harmel
- Merry Hall, Beverley Nichols
- Paper Girls Volume 2, Brian K Vaughan, Cliff Chiang, Jared K. Fletcher, Matt Wilson
- The Light of Paris, Eleanor Brown
- Howards End Is on the Landing: A Year of Reading from Home, Susan Hill
- Sight: A Novel, Jessie Greengrass
- A Baby's Bones (Sage Westfield), Rebecca Alexander
- Tirra Lirra by the River: A Novel, Jessica Anderson
- The Female Persuasion: A Novel, Meg Wolitzer
- Paper Girls Volume 1, Brian K Vaughan, Cliff Chiang, Jared K. Fletcher, Matthew Wilson
- Basic Black With Pearls (NYRB Classics), Helen Weinzweig
- We All Wish for Deadly Force, Leela Corman
- Medea [and Other Plays], Euripides, tr. Philip Vellacott
- Invitation to the Waltz (Virago Modern Classics), Rosamond Lehmann
- All for Nothing (NYRB Classics), Walter Kempowski, tr. Anthea Bell
- Keep the Home Fires Burning (War at Home 1915), Cynthia Harrod-Eagles
- Dying Voices, Laura Wilson
- Sweet Bean Paste, Durian Sukegawa, tr. Alison Watts
- The Public Image (Virago Modern Classics), Muriel Spark
- Bodies of Light, Sarah Moss
- Little Reunions (NYRB Classics), Eileen Chang, tr. Martin Merz, tr. Jane Weizhen Pan
- The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Junot Díaz
- Three Floors Up, Eshkol Nevo, tr. Sondra Silverston
- Providence, Anita Brookner
- A London Child of the 1870s, Molly Hughes
- Call Me by Your Name: A Novel, André Aciman
- Exposure, Helen Dunmore
- In Other Words: Jhumpa Lahiri, tr. Ann Goldstein
- The Clothing of Books: Jhumpa Lahiri, tr. Alberto Vourvoulias-Bush
- The Day of the Triffids, John Wyndham
- The Cellars of the Majestic, Georges Simenon, tr. Howard Curtis
- The Girl from the Metropol Hotel: Growing Up in Communist Russia, Ludmilla Petrushevskaya, tr. Anna Summers
- Woman in the Dark, Dashiell Hammett
Books Read in 2017
- Golden Age: The Last Hundred Years Trilogy, Jane Smiley
- We'll Always Have Paris: Trying and Failing to be French, Emma Beddington
- Locked Rooms, Laurie R. King
- Carney's House Party, Maud Hart Lovelace
- My Family and Other Animals, Gerald Durrell
- The Bastards of Pizzofalcone, Maurizio de Giovanni, tr. Antony Shugaar
- Bread and Butter Stories, Mary Norton
- Browse: The World in Bookshops, Henry Hitchings
- Appointment with Death: A Hercule Poirot Mystery, Agatha Christie
- An Unsuitable Job for a Woman, P.D. James
- The Woolgrower's Companion, Joy Rhoades
- Thornhill, Pam Smy
- The Stepford Wives, Ira Levin
- The Living Infinite: A Novel, Chantel Acevedo
- Carol, Patricia Highsmith
- The Madeleine Project: Clara Beaudoux, tr. Alison Anderson
- The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, Sherman Alexie
- Something Like Happy, John Burnside
- A Cold Day for Murder, Dana Stabenow
- Bilgewater, Jane Gardam
- Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, J.K. Rowling
- Beautiful Animals: A Novel, Lawrence Osborne
- Six Bedrooms: [Short Stories], Tegan Bennett Daylight
- Without You, There Is No Us: Undercover Among the Sons of North Korea's Elite, Suki Kim
- Quartet in Autumn, Barbara Pym
- A Town Like Alice, Nevil Shute
- Stowaway to Mars, John Wyndham
- Under the Harrow: A Novel, Flynn Berry
- Paper Girls: Volume 3, Brian K Vaughan, Cliff Chiang, Matt Wilson
- The Strays, Emily Bitto
- My Holidays, Sylvia Smith
- Hend and the Soldiers, Badriah Albeshr, tr. Sanna Dhahir
- Sindbad the Sailor (Penguin Little Black Classics), Anonymous, tr. Malcolm C. Lyons
- The Forgotten Garden: A Novel, Kate Morton
- The Child, Fiona Barton
- Leaving Home: A Novel, Anita Brookner
- Finding Nouf, Zoë Ferraris
- In Farleigh Field: A Novel of World War II, Rhys Bowen
- The Farm in the Green Mountains (NYRB Classics), Alice Herdan-Zuckmayer, tr. Ida H. Washington and Carol E. Washington
- A Pair of Silk Stockings (Penguin Little Black Classics), Kate Chopin
- Swimming Home: A Novel, Mary-Rose MacColl
- Wait Till Next Year - A Memoir, Doris Kearns Goodwin
- A Likeness In Stone, Julia Wallis Martin
- The Secret Life of Violet Grant, Beatriz Williams
- The Dry: A Novel, Jane Harper
- Family Lexicon (NYRB Classics), Natalia Ginzburg, tr. Jenny McPhee
- In This Grave Hour: A Maisie Dobbs Novel, Jacqueline Winspear
- The Dark Circle, Linda Grant
- Their Finest: A Novel, Lissa Evans
- Dying: A Memoir, Cory Taylor
- Mr. Churchill's Secretary: A Maggie Hope Mystery, Susan Elia MacNeal
- Homegoing: A Novel, Yaa Gyasi
- The Confidant: A Novel, Helene Gremillon, tr. Alison Anderson
- Stay with Me: A Novel, Ayobami Adebayo
- First Love, Gwendoline Riley
- Rosemary's Baby: A Novel, Ira Levin
- Closely Watched Trains, Bohumil Hrabal, tr. Edith Pargeter
- Nights At the Alexandra, William Trevor
- Little Deaths: A Novel, Emma Flint
- The Gingerbread Woman, Jennifer Johnston
- Household Saints, Francine Prose
- Magnus, Sylvie Germain, tr. Christine Donougher
- Persuasion, Jane Austen
- A Touch of Mistletoe, Barbara Comyns
- The Mysterious Affair at Styles, Agatha Christie
- Stolen Beauty: A Novel, Laurie Lico Albanese
- Paper Girls: Volume 2, Brian K Vaughan, Cliff Chiang
- Paper Girls: Volume 1, Brian K Vaughan, Cliff Chiang
- Snow White: A Graphic Novel, Matt Phelan
- A Slip Under the Microscope (Penguin Little Black Classics), H.G.Wells
- The Beautiful Visit, Elizabeth Jane Howard
- Samskara: A Rite for a Dead Man (NYRB Classics), U.R. Ananthamurthy, tr. A. K. Ramanujan
- London Calling, Sara Sheridan
- The Midwich Cuckoos, John Wyndham
- Third Miss Symons (Virago Modern Classics), F. M. Mayor
- A Florence Diary, Diana Athill
Books Read in 2016
- Goodbye, Piccadilly: War at Home - 1914, Cynthia Harrod-Eagles
- Decision at Delphi, Helen Macinnes
- In a Lonely Place: Dorothy B. Hughes
- The Stormy Petrel, Mary Stewart
- Blood Curse: The Springtime of Commissario Ricciardi, Maurizio de Giovanni, tr. Anthony Shugaar
- The Game, Laurie R. King
- Mrs Rosie and the Priest (Penguin Little Black Classics), Giovanni Boccaccio, tr. Peter Hainsworth
- Early Warning, Jane Smiley
- The Invisibility Cloak (NYRB Classics), Ge Fei, tr. Canaan Morse
- Grand Hotel (NYRB Classics), Vicki Baum, tr. Basil Creighton, rev. Margot Bettauer Dembo
- The Saint-Fiacre Affair, Georges Simenon, tr. Shaun Whiteside
- The City Baker's Guide to Country Living: A Novel, Louise Miller
- Fair Play (NYRB Classics), Tove Jansson, tr. Thomas Teal
- Fiercombe Manor: A Novel, Kate Riordan
- Cabaret, Joe Masteroff
- The Crying Child, Barbara Michaels
- Pain, Parties, Work: Sylvia Plath in New York, Summer 1953, Elizabeth Winder
- Saga: Vol. 4, Brian K. Vaughan, Fiona Staples
- Memories: From Moscow to the Black Sea (NYRB Classics), Teffi, tr. Robert Chandler, Anne Marie Jackson, Elizabeth Chandler, Edythe Haber, Irina Steinberg
- The Namesake: A Novel, Jhumpa Lahiri
- Saga: Vol. 3, Brian K Vaughan, Fiona Staples
- The Red Garden, Alice Hoffman
- The Dollhouse: A Novel, Fiona Davis
- A Sensible Life, Mary Wesley
- Family Life: A Novel, Akhil Sharma
- This Must Be the Place: A Novel, Maggie O'Farrell
- Rubyfruit Jungle, Rita Mae Brown
- Indignation, Philip Roth
- Looking for Mr. Goodbar, Judith Rossner
- Some Luck, Jane Smiley
- The Girls in the Garden: A Novel, Lisa Jewell
- Music At Long Verney, Sylvia Townsend Warner
- The Lawyer's Secret, M. E. Braddon
- Brighton Belle (A Mirabelle Bevan Mystery), Sara Sheridan
- Hello Bunny Alice, Laura Wilson
- Rocky Mountain National Park Dining Room Girl: The Summer of 1926 at the Horseshoe Inn, Kay Turnbaugh, Lee Tillotson
- Moon Tiger, Penelope Lively
- A Quiet Drink, Deborah Moggach
- Fall of Giants: Book One of the Century Trilogy, Ken Follett
- If I Forget You: A Novel, Thomas Christopher Greene
- Saga: Vol. 2, Brian K. Vaughan, Fiona Staples
- The Hunters: A Novel, James Salter
- Alex + Ada: Volume 3, Jonathan Luna, Sarah Vaughn
- The Green Road: A Novel, Anne Enright
- The China Factory, Mary Costello
- Alex + Ada: Volume 2, Jonathan Luna, Sarah Vaughn
- The Alchemist's Daughter: A Novel, Katharine McMahon
- The Canterbury Papers: A Novel, Judith Koll Healey
- Saga: Vol. 1, Brian K Vaughan, Fiona Staples
- The Sins of the Fathers, Lawrence Block
- Alex + Ada: Volume 1, Jonathan Luna, Sarah Vaughn
- Hill (NYRB Classics), Jean Giono, tr. Paul Eprile
- The Moomins and the Great Flood, Tove Jansson, tr.David McDuff
- Death in Zanzibar, M. M. Kaye
- What We Talk About When We Talk about the Tube: The District Line, John Lanchester
- Long Red Hair, Meags Fitzgerald
- The Lost Garden: A Novel, Helen Humphreys
- The Blush (Virago Modern Classics), Elizabeth Taylor
- Life Class: A Novel, Pat Barker
- I Will Have Vengeance (Commissario Ricciardi), Maurizio de Giovanni, tr. Anne Milano Appel
- The Woman in the Picture, Katharine McMahon
- In the Café of Lost Youth (NYRB Classics), Patrick Modiano, tr. Chris Clarke
- Sculptor's Daughter: A Childhood Memoir, Tove Jansson, tr. Kingsley Hart
- Foster, Claire Keegan
- 1914: A Novel, Jean Echenoz, tr. Linda Coverdale
- Love and Summer: A Novel, William Trevor
- More Was Lost: A Memoir (NYRB Classics), Eleanor Perenyi
- Petty Theft, Pascal Girard, tr. Helge Dascher
- Peyton Place, Grace Metalious
- The Two-Family House: A Novel, Lynda Cohen Loigman
- Photobooth: A Biography, Meags Fitzgerald
- Storm Warning: Echoes of Conflict, Vanessa Gebbie
- A Good Parcel of English Soil: The Metropolitan Line, Richard Mabey
- Beyond the Glass (Virago Modern Classics), Antonia White
- When Breath Becomes Air, Paul Kalanithi
- Black Wings Has My Angel (NYRB Classics), Elliott Chaze
- Travelling Light: Tove Jansson, tr. Silvester Mazzarella
- Even the Dead: A Quirke Novel, Benjamin Black
- Giovanni's Room, James Baldwin
- The Crimson Rooms, Katharine McMahon
- The Sugar House (Virago Modern Classics), Antonia White
- Journey to Munich: A Maisie Dobbs Novel, Jacqueline Winspear
- My History: A Memoir of Growing Up, Antonia Fraser
- Heads and Straights: The Circle Line, Lucy Wadham
- Somewhere in France: A Novel of the Great War, Jennifer Robson
- A Bitter Truth: A Bess Crawford Mystery, Charles Todd
- The Man Who Planted Trees, Jean Giono , tr. ?
Books Read in 2015
- Poor Cow, Nell Dunn
- The First Four Years, Laura Ingalls Wilder
- These Happy Golden Years, Laura Ingalls Wilder
- An Ember in the Ashes, Sabaa Tahir
- Lanterns Across the Snow, Susan Hill
- A Jest of God, Margaret Laurence
- Jamilti and Other Stories, Rutu Modan, tr. Noah Stollman, Jesse Mishori
- Justice Hall, Laurie R. King
- At the Source: A Writer's Year, Gillian Clarke
- Macbeth, Gareth Hinds
- Little Town on the Prairie, Laura Ingalls Wilder
- Wreath of Roses (Virago Modern Classics), Elizabeth Taylor
- Ship Fever: Stories, Andrea Barrett
- The Property, Rutu Modan, tr. Jessica Cohen
- So Big, Edna Ferber
- Girl Waits with Gun, Amy Stewart
- The Long Winter, Laura Ingalls Wilder
- The Housekeeping Book of Susanna Whatman, Susanna Whatman
- Mrs. Robinson's Disgrace: The Private Diary of a Victorian Lady, Kate Summerscale
- Death on Site, Janet Neel
- Exit Wounds: Rutu Modan, tr. Noah Stollman
- By the Shores of Silver Lake, Laura Ingalls Wilder
- The Shining Girls: A Novel, Lauren Beukes
- My Berlin Child, Anne Wiazemsky, tr. Alison Anderson
- The Portrait of a Lady, Henry James
- My Grandfather Would Have Shot Me: A Black Woman Discovers Her Family's Nazi Past, Jennifer Teege, Nikola Sellmair, tr. Carolin Sommer
- The Lady Agnès Mystery - Volume 1: The Season of the Beast and The Breath of the Rose, Andrea Japp, tr. Lorenza Garcia
- Chocky (NYRB Classics), John Wyndham
- The Devereaux Legacy, Carolyn Hart
- High Wages, Dorothy Whipple
- The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, John Le Carre
- Dominion, C.J. Sansom
- The People in the Photo: Hélène Gestern, tr. Emily Boyce and Ros Schwartz
- Legend in Green Velvet, Elizabeth Peters
- Half of the Human Race, Anthony Quinn
- O Jerusalem, Laurie R. King
- The Serpent and the Scorpion: An Ursula Marlow Mystery, Clare Langley-Hawthorne
- Ross Poldark: A Novel of Cornwall, 1783-1787, Winston Graham
- The Water's Lovely, Ruth Rendell
- The Solace of Open Spaces, Gretel Ehrlich
- Death in the Fog, Mignon G. Eberhart
- A Dangerous Place: A Maisie Dobbs Novel, Jacqueline Winspear
- The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend, Katarina Bivald, tr. Alice Menzies
- Nora Webster: A Novel, Colm Toibin
- Consequences of Sin, Clare Langley-Hawthorne
- A Hundred Summers, Beatriz Williams
- Longbourn, Jo Baker
- All Passion Spent (Virago Modern Classics), Vita Sackville-West
- Sidney Chambers and the Shadow of Death: The Grantchester Mysteries, James Runcie
- A Possibility of Violence: A Novel, D. A. Mishani, tr. Todd Hasak-Lowy
- Burial Rites, Hannah Kent
- Infinite Riches: Classic Stories by Twentieth-Century Women Writers, Lynn Knight
- Rattle His Bones (Daisy Dalrymple Mysteries), Carola Dunn
- The Inn at Lake Devine, Elinor Lipman
- The Hilltop: A Novel, Assaf Gavron, tr. Steven Cohen
- Crooked Heart: A Novel, Lissa Evans
- Baltimore Blues: The First Tess Monaghan Novel, Laura Lippman
- Dolly City, Orly Castel-Bloom, tr. Dalya Bilu
- The Missing File: A Novel, D. A. Mishani, tr. Steven Cohen
- Station Eleven: A novel, Emily St. John Mandel
- Sisters of Shiloh, Kathy Hepinstall, Becky Hepinstall Hilliker
- Gillespie and I: A Novel, Jane Harris
- Hell and Good Company: The Spanish Civil War and the World it Made, Richard Rhodes
- The Garden of the Finzi-Continis, Giorgio Bassani, tr. William Weaver
- Second Person Singular, Sayed Kashua, tr. Mitch Ginsburg
- A Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess
- The Evening Chorus: A Novel, Helen Humphreys
- The People of Forever Are Not Afraid: A Novel, Shani Boianjiu
- The Girl on the Train: A Novel, Paula Hawkins
- Gallows View: The First Inspector Banks Novel, Peter Robinson
- Waltz with Bashir: A Lebanon War Story, Ari Folman, David Polonsky
- Sputnik Sweetheart: A Novel, Haruki Murakami, tr. Philip Gabriel
- The Spy Game: A Novel, Georgina Harding
- Book of Ages: The Life and Opinions of Jane Franklin, Jill Lepore
- Up the Junction (Virago Modern Classics), Nell Dunn