- The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe (Chronicles of Narnia, #1) by C.S. Lewis
- The Magician’s Nephew (Chronicles of Narnia, #6) by C.S. Lewis
- The Twelve Lives of Samuel Hawley by Hannah Tinti
- A Mother’s Reckoning: Living in the Aftermath of Tragedy by Sue Klebold
- Carry On, Warrior: Thoughts on Life Unarmed by Glennon Doyle
- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Harry Potter, #6) by J.K. Rowling
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows (Harry Potter, #7) by J.K. Rowling
- The Kitchen House by Kathleen Grissom
- Hamilton: The Revolution by Lin-Manuel Miranda
- A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
- Troublemaker: Surviving Hollywood and Scientology by Leah Remini
- Dark Matter by Blake Crouch
- Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond
- The Vegetarian by Han Kang
- The One-in-a-Million Boy by Monica Wood
- Swing Time by Zadie Smith
- Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
- Commonwealth by Ann Patchett
- The Things We Wish Were True by Marybeth Mayhew Whalen
- The Road Back to You: An Enneagram Journey to Self-Discovery by Ian Morgan Cron & Suzanne Stabile
- The Warden’s Daughter by Jerry Spinelli
- Lilac Girls (Lilac Girls, #1) by Martha Hall Kelly
- Swimming Lessons by Claire Fuller
- Bad Feminist: Essays by Roxane Gay
- The Wonder by Emma Donoghue
- Marlena by Julie Buntin
- Exit West by Mohsin Hamid
- Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders
- The Hate U Give (The Hate U Give, #1) by Angie Thomas
- American Fire: Love, Arson, and Life in a Vanishing Land by Monica Hesse
- The Sound of Gravel by Ruth Wariner
- Girl in Snow by Danya Kukafka
- Spoonbenders by Daryl Gregory
- The Light We Lost by Jill Santopolo
- One of Us Is Lying (One of Us is Lying, #1) by Karen M. McManus
- After the Eclipse: A Mother’s Murder, a Daughter’s Search by Sarah Perry
- Winter Street (Winter, #1) by Elin Hilderbrand
- My Name Is Venus Black by Heather Lloyd
- Chasing Slow: Courage to Journey Off the Beaten Path by Erin Loechner
- The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*uck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life by Mark Manson
- The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin
- News of the World by Paulette Jiles
- Hag-Seed by Margaret Atwood
- Today Will Be Different by Maria Semple
- The Handmaid’s Tale (The Handmaid’s Tale, #1) by Margaret Atwood
- Tools of Titans: The Tactics, Routines, and Habits of Billionaires, Icons, and World-Class Performers by Timothy Ferriss
- This Is How It Always Is by Laurie Frankel
- Behind Her Eyes by Sarah Pinborough
- The Best We Could Do by Thi Bui
- American War by Omar El Akkad
- One Day We’ll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter by Scaachi Koul
- The Nix by Nathan Hill
- Hourglass: Time, Memory, Marriage by Dani Shapiro
- The Love Interest by Cale Dietrich
- The Secret History by Donna Tartt
- Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America by Michael Eric Dyson
- Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson
- All the Missing Girls by Megan Miranda
- The Patriots by Sana Krasikov
- The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield
- Salt Houses by Hala Alyan
- The Woman in Cabin 10 by Ruth Ware
- 🎧 The Rules Do Not Apply by Ariel Levy
- We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last Ture Hermit by Michael Finkel
- Dreamland Burning by Jennifer Latham
- November 9 by Colleen Hoover
- Ginny Moon by Benjamin Ludwig
- Caraval (Caraval, #1) by Stephanie Garber
- The Golden House by Salman Rushdie
- The Orphan’s Tale by Pam Jenoff
- Saints for All Occasions by J. Courtney Sullivan
- The Roanoke Girls by Amy Engel
- Fierce Kingdom by Gin Phillips
- Cicada Summer by Maureen Leurck
- The Resurrection of Joan Ashby by Cherise Wolas
- The Glass Eye: A Memoir by Jeannie Vanasco
- Stella By Starlight by Sharon M. Draper
- Inside Out and Back Again by Thanhha Lai
- Still Life (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #1) by Louise Penny
- Stay With Me by Ayòbámi Adébáyò
- Always by Sarah Jio
- The Heart’s Invisible Furies by John Boyne
- Turtles All the Way Down by John Green
- Refugee by Alan Gratz
- Heating & Cooling: 52 Micro-Memoirs by Beth Ann Fennelly
- Mental: Lithium, Love, and Losing My Mind by Jaime Lowe
- The Power by Naomi Alderman
- The Good Daughter by Karin Slaughter
- The End We Start From by Megan Hunter
- My Absolute Darling by Gabriel Tallent
- Braving the Wilderness: The Quest for True Belonging and the Courage to Stand Alone by Brené Brown
- 🎧 One True Loves by Taylor Jenkins Reid
- Ranger Games: A Story of Soldiers, Family, and an Inexplicable Crime by Ben Blum
- Reading People: How Seeing the World Through the Lens of Personality Changes Everything by Anne Bogel
- The Alice Network by Kate Quinn
- Reading With Patrick: A Teacher, a Student, and a Life-Changing Friendship by Michelle Kuo
- A Good Country by Laleh Khadivi
- Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah
- The Dry (Aaron Falk, #1) by Jane Harper
- Be Frank With Me by Julia Claiborne Johnson
- The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo by Amy Schumer
- Imagine Me Gone by Adam Haslett
- Hello, Sunshine by Laura Dave
- The Graybar Hotel: Stories by Curtis Dawkins
- Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman
- Beartown (Beartown, #1) by Fredrik Backman
- The Life-Changing Magic of Not Giving a F*ck: How to Stop Spending Time You Don’t Have with People You Don’t Like Doing Things You Don’t Want to Do by Sarah Knight
- Fitness Junkie by Lucy Sykes
- Eden by Jeanne McWilliams Blasberg
- Moonglow by Michael Chabon
- Milk and Honey by Rupi Kaur
- Final Girls by Riley Sager
- The Bright Hour: A Memoir of Living and Dying by Nina Riggs
- Young Jane Young by Gabrielle Zevin
- Our Short History by Lauren Grodstein
- The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid
- This Life I Live: One Man’s Extraordinary, Ordinary Life and the Woman Who Changed It Forever by Rory Feek
- Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
- Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
- Castle of Water by Dane Huckelbridge
- Are You Sleeping by Kathleen Barber
- Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body by Roxane Gay
- Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward
- Reincarnation Blues by Michael Poore
- Emma in the Night by Wendy Walker
- The Best of Us by Joyce Maynard
DNFs
- Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
- Goodbye, Vitamin by Rachel Khong