- Me by Elton John
- Dear Edward by Ann Napolitano
- Saint X by Alexis Schaitkin
- Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid
- The Library Book by Susan Orlean
- A Long Petal of the Sea by Isabel Allende
- American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins
- Followers by Megan Angelo
- The Wolf Wants In by Laura McHugh
- A Curse So Dark and Lonely (Cursebreakers, #1) by Brigid Kemmerer
- The Sun Down Motel by Simon St. James
- Lovely War by Julie Berry
- The Gown: A Novel of the Royal Wedding by Jennifer Robson
- The Care and Feeding of Ravenously Hungry Girls by Anissa Gray
- The Girl With the Louding Voice by Abi Daré
- Burnout: The Secret To Unlocking the Stress Cycle by Emily & Amelia Nagoski
- Tuesday Mooney Talks To Ghosts by Kate Racculia
- 🎧 Open Book by Jessica Simpson
- Darling Rose Gold by Stephanie Wrobel
- Me & White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor by Layla F. Saad
- Big Lies in a Small Town by Diane Chamberlain
- The Water Will Come: Rising Seas, Sinking Cities, and the Remaking of the Civilized World by Jeff Goodell
- The Holdout by Graham Moore
- In Five Years by Rebecca Serle
- From Scratch: A Memoir of Love, Sicily, and Finding Home by Tembi Locke
- Severance by Ling Ma
- 🎧 Running With Sherman by Christopher McDougall
- You Are Not Alone by Greer Hendricks & Sarah Pekkanen
- Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis by J.D. Vance
- 🎧 Make It Scream, Make It Burn by Leslie Jamison
- Lab Girl by Hope Jahren
- A Good Neighborhood by Therese Anne Fowler
- Under the Rainbow by Celia Laskey
- Anna K by Jenny Lee
- 🎧 The Witches Are Coming by Lindy West
- The Two Lives of Lydia Bird by Josie Silver
- Untamed by Glennon Doyle
- Ninth House (Alex Stern, #1) by Leigh Bardugo
- The Long Flight Home by Alan Hlad
- The Simple Wild (Wild, #1) by KA Tucker
- The Book of Rosy: A Mother’s Story of Separation at the Border by Rosayra Pablo Cruz & Julie Schwietert Callazo
- The Knockout Queen by Rufi Thorpe
- The Affairs of the Falcóns by Melissa Rivero
- Oona Out of Order by Margarita Montimore
- Writers & Lovers by Lily King
- Decoding Boys: New Science Behind the Subtle Art of Raising Sons by Cara Natterson
- A Prayer for Travelers by Ruchika Tomar
- Recipe for the Perfect Wife by Karma Brown
- Dancing at the Pity Party by Tyler Feder
- All Adults Here by Emma Struab
- 🎧 Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators by Ronan Farrow
- The Book of Longings by Sue Monk Kidd
- My Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth Russell
- Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties by Tom O’Neill
- 🎧 We Are Not From Here by Jenny Torres Sanchez
- Silver Sparrow by Tayari Jones
- Beach Read by Emily Henry
- The Second Life of Tiger Woods by Michael Bamberger
- The Last Train to Key West by Chanel Cleeton
- Big Summer by Jennifer Weiner
- When All Is Said by Anne Griffin
- Rodham by Curtis Sittenfeld
- The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennet
- White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo
- Real Life by Brandon Taylor
- On the Come Up by Angie Thomas
- My Time Among the Whites: Notes From an Unfinished Education by Jennine Capó Crucet
- As Bright As Heaven by Susan Meissner
- Conjure Women by Afia Atakora
- Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo
- How To Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
- Majesty (American Royals, #2) by Katharine McGee
- Saving Ruby King by Catharine Adel West
- Allegedly by Tiffany D. Jackson
- The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix
- Deacon King Kong by James McBride
- Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
- 🎧 Ordinary Girls by Jaquira Díaz
- 🎧 Craigslist Confessional: A Collection of Secrets from Anonymous Strangers by Helena Dea Bala
- Head Over Heels by Hannah Orenstein
- Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi
- Your House Will Pay by Steph Cha
- The Beauty in Breaking by Michele Harper
- A Good Marriage by Kimberly McCreight
- Golden Gates: Fighting for Housing in America by Conor Dougherty
- Stamped From the Beginning: The Difinitive History of Racist Ideas in America by Ibram X. Kendi
- The Overstory by Richard Powers
- The Secrets We Kept by Lara Prescott
- The Revisioners by Margaret Wilkerson Sexton
- Wanderers by Chuck Wendig
- Stray by Stephanie Danler
- A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder (A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder, #1) by Holly Jackson
- The Comeback by Ella Berman
- The Night Swim by Megan Goldin
- Luster by Raven Leilani
- One To Watch by Kate Stayman-London
- Shiner by Amy Jo Burns
- The Bright Lands by John Fram
- Quit Like a Woman: The Radical Choice to Not Drink in a Culture Obsessed with Alcohol by Holly Whitaker
- The Astonishing Color of After by Emily XR Pan
- Florence Adler Swims Forever by Rachel Beanland
- Good Morning, Destroyer of Men’s Souls: A Memoir of Women, Addiction, and Love by Nina Renata Aron
- Rabbits For Food by Binnie Kirshenbaum
- Coreyography by Corey Feldman
- Magic Lessons (Practical Magic, #0.1) by Alice Hoffman
- Let the People Pick the President: The Case for Abolishing the Electoral College by Jesse Wegman
- Why We’re Polarized by Ezra Klein
- Girl, Serpent, Thorn by Melissa Bashardoust
- His Only Wife by Peace Adzo Medie
- Freshwater by Akwaeke Emezi
- The Death of Vivek Oji by Akwaeke Emezi
- A Witch in Time by Constance Sayers
- Home Before Dark by Riley Sager
- The Aftergrief: Finding Your Way Along the Long Arc of Loss by Hope Edelman
- Don’t Look For Me by Wendy Walker
- Smacked: A Story of White-Collar Ambition, Addiction, and Tragedy by Eilene B. Zimmerman
- They Wish They Were Us by Jessica Goodman
- A Knock at Midnight by Brittany K. Barnett
- Winter Counts by David Heska Wanbli Weiden
- Harrow Lake by Kat Ellis
- I’m So Effing Tired: A Proven Plan to Beat Burnout, Boost Your Energy, and Reclaim Your Life by Amy Shah
- The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
- Memorial Drive by Natasha Trethewey
- Valentine by Elizabeth Wetmore
- The Address Book: What Street Addresses Reveal About Identity, Race, Wealth, and Power by Dierdre Mask
- Betty by Tiffany McDaniel
- Where the Lost Wander by Amy Harmon
- 🎧 Leave the World Behind by Rumaan Alam
- Shit, Actually: The Definitive, 100% Objective Guide to Modern Cinema by Lindy West
- Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson
- The All-Night Sun by Diane Zinna
- The Companion by Katie Allender
- Anxious People by Fredrick Backman
- A Burning by Megha Majumdar
- 🎧 Greenlights by Matthew McConaughey
- Interior Chinatown by Charles Yu
- 🎧 The Wife Upstairs by Rachel Hawkins
- Dog Flowers by Danielle Geller
- Happy Habits: 50 Science-Backed Rituals to Adopt (or Stop) to Boost Health and Happiness by Karen Salmansohn
- Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson
DNFs
- The Garden of Small Beginnings by Abbi Waxman
- Maybe In Another Life by Taylor Jenkins Reid
- Strung Out: One Last Hit and Other Lies That Nearly Killed Me by Erin Khar
- Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
- The Mountains Sing by Nguyen Phan Que Mai
- When We Were Vikings by Andrew David MacDonald
- There Will Be No Miracles Here by Casey Gerald
- Wyoming by J.P. Gritton
- America Was Hard To Find by Kathleen Alcott
- Scythe (Arc of a Scythe, #1) by Neal Shusterman
- The Women’s War (Women’s War, #1) by Jenna Glass
- Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot by Mikki Kendall
- Ingredients: The Strange Chemistry of What We Put in Us and on Us by George Zaidan
- Lily and the Octupus by Steven Rowley
- The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
- The Tatooist of Auschwitz (The Tattooist of Auschwitz, #1) by Heather Morris
- 🎧 His & Hers by Alice Feeney
- If You Tell: A True Story of Murder, Family Secrets, and the Unbreakable Bond of Sisterhood by Gregg Olsen
- Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland by Patrick Radden Keefe
- Friends and Strangers by J. Courtney Sullivan
- Wierd But Normal by Mia Mercado
- Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuck
- Not Like the Movies (Waiting for Tom Hanks, #2) by Kerry Winfrey
- Death in Her Hands by Ottessa Moshfegh
- A Burning by Megha Majumdar
- Hollywood Park by Mikel Jollett
- Devolution: A Firsthand Account of the Rainier Sasquatch Massacre by Max Brooks
- The Ringmaster’s Daughter by Carly Schabowski
- The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab
- Mean by Myriani Gurba
- I’ll Be Seeing You by Elizabeth Berg
- Fairest by Meredith Talusan
- 🎧 A Very Punchable Face by Colin Jost
