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The 42nd Parallel: Volume One of the U.S.A. Trilogy by John Dos Passos

Empty Mansions: The Mysterious Life of Huguette Clark and the Spending of a Great American Fortune by Bill Dedman, Paul Clark Newell Jr.

Informative, Interesting, Insightful

Difficult Women by Roxane Gay

Dramatic, Dark, Beautiful

The Little Paris Bookshop: A Novel by Nina George

Romantic, Adventurous, Interesting

Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine

Insightful

LaRose: A Novel by Louise Erdrich

Interesting, Dramatic, Insightful

Mislaid: A Novel by Nell Zink

The One-in-a-Million Boy by Monica Wood

Insightful, Optimistic, Inspiring

Golden Hill: A Novel of Old New York by Francis Spufford

Poorly Written, Interesting, Fun

Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson

Informative, Insightful, Inspiring

Do Not Become Alarmed: A Novel by Maile Meloy

Unconvincing, Pointless

The Light Between Oceans: A Novel by M.L. Stedman

Dramatic, Interesting, Insightful

Lilac Girls: A Novel by Martha Hall Kelly

Informative, Dramatic, Inspiring

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle: A Novel by Haruki Murakami

Addictive, Brilliant, Fantastic

Where'd You Go, Bernadette: A Novel by Maria Semple

Fun, Interesting, Adventurous

A Wrinkle in Time (Time Quintet) by Madeleine L'Engle

Adventurous, Inspiring, Interesting

Bluebird, Bluebird by Attica Locke

The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard Flanagan

Graphic, Dramatic, Epic

The Leavers (National Book Award Finalist): A Novel by Lisa Ko

Informative, Difficult, Inspiring

Love in the Time of Cholera (Oprah's Book Club) by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Slow, Difficult, Confusing

What Belongs to You: A Novel by Garth Greenwell

House of Lords and Commons: Poems by Ishion Hutchinson

Option B: Facing Adversity, Building Resilience, and Finding Joy by Sheryl Sandberg, Adam Grant

Interesting, Optimistic, Informative

Mudbound (movie tie-in) by Hillary Jordan

Addictive, Difficult, Dramatic

Behold the Dreamers (Oprah's Book Club): A Novel by Imbolo Mbue

Informative, Insightful, Interesting

Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis by J. D. Vance

Informative, Insightful, Interesting

The Four Tendencies: The Indispensable Personality Profiles That Reveal How to Make Your Life Better (and Other People's Lives Better, Too) by Gretchen Rubin

Interesting

The Whole Town's Talking: A Novel by Fannie Flagg

Fun, Pointless, Optimistic

Everybody's Son: A Novel by Thrity Umrigar

Interesting, Insightful, Dramatic

Lab Girl by Hope Jahren

Informative, Interesting, Inspiring

Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race by Margot Lee Shetterly

Informative, Slow, Boring

Undertow: My Escape from the Fundamentalism and Cult Control of the Way International by Charlene L Edge

The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro

Beautiful, Interesting, Slow

Still Alice by Lisa Genova

Insightful, Informative, Interesting

Sing, Unburied, Sing: A Novel by Jesmyn Ward

Dark, Difficult, Dramatic

When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi

Inspiring, Insightful, Informative

Jayber Crow by Wendell Berry

Beautiful, Inspiring, Boring

We Crossed a Bridge and It Trembled: Voices from Syria by Wendy Pearlman

The World According To Garp by John Irving

Interesting, Beautiful, Fun

The Bright Hour: A Memoir of Living and Dying by Nina Riggs

Beautiful, Difficult, Insightful

An American Marriage (Oprah's Book Club): A Novel by Tayari Jones

Dramatic, Interesting, Insightful

4 3 2 1: A Novel by Paul Auster

Confusing, Epic, Interesting

Exit West: A Novel by Mohsin Hamid

Interesting, Insightful, Beautiful

The Woman in the Window: A Novel by A. J Finn

Addictive, Dramatic, Interesting

The Nightingale: A Novel by Kristin Hannah

Dramatic, Informative, Inspiring

The Great Alone: A Novel by Kristin Hannah

Adventurous, Dramatic, Addictive

Origin: A Novel by Dan Brown

Adventurous, Interesting, Insightful

Midnight's Children: A Novel (Modern Library 100 Best Novels) by Salman Rushdie

Adventurous, Fantastic, Epic

The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America by George Packer

Persuasive, Insightful, Informative

The Bluest Eye (Vintage International) by Toni Morrison

Dark, Difficult, Informative

White Houses: A Novel by Amy Bloom

Interesting, Informative, Romantic

A Gentleman in Moscow by AMOR TOWLES

Beautiful, Brilliant, Insightful

The Kremlin Conspiracy by Joel C. Rosenberg

Adventurous, Interesting, Addictive

One Good Mama Bone: A Novel (Story River Books) by Bren McClain

Optimistic, Inspiring, Beautiful

Red Clocks: A Novel by Leni Zumas

Slow, Unconvincing, Pointless

The Power by Naomi Alderman

Graphic, Interesting, Dramatic

Manhattan Beach by Jennifer Egan

Informative, Slow, Dramatic

There There by Tommy Orange

Dark, Insightful, Interesting

A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan

Confusing, Pointless, Interesting

An Unrestored Woman by Shobha Rao

Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine: A Novel by Gail Honeyman

Interesting, Insightful, Fun

Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson

Interesting, Informative, Insightful

The Silence of the Girls: A Novel by Pat Barker

Girls Burn Brighter: A Novel by Shobha Rao

Dark, Difficult, Gloomy

Letters From Father Christmas by J.R.R. Tolkien

In the Midst of Winter: A Novel by Isabel Allende

Informative, Unconvincing, Insightful

Florida by Lauren Groff

Dark, Insightful, Pointless

The Lost Landscape: A Writer's Coming of Age by Joyce Carol Oates

The Girl with Seven Names by Hyeonseo Lee

Informative, Insightful, Interesting

Gun Love: A Novel by Jennifer Clement

Little Fires Everywhere: A Novel by Celeste Ng

Interesting, Dramatic, Insightful

Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham

Modern Romance by Aziz Ansari, Eric Klinenberg

Insightful, Interesting, Informative

The Tattooist of Auschwitz: A Novel by Heather Morris

Romantic, Informative, Inspiring

The Librarian of Auschwitz by Antonio Iturbe

Informative, Insightful, Dramatic

The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane: A Novel by Lisa See

Informative, Interesting, Insightful

Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries by Kory Stamper

Fun, Insightful, Informative

Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows: A Novel by Balli Kaur Jaswal

Fun, Interesting, Adventurous

Cutting for Stone: A Novel by Abraham Verghese

Informative, Dramatic, Interesting

The Rent Collector by Camron Wright

Inspiring, Informative, Insightful

Educated: A Memoir by Tara Westover

Interesting, Inspiring, Dramatic

Flight of the Sparrow: A Novel of Early America by Amy Belding Brown

Informative, Insightful, Interesting

Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis by J. D. Vance

Insightful, Interesting, Informative

Dracula by Bram Stoker

Scary, Adventurous, Brilliant

The Burning Girl: A Novel by Claire Messud

Interesting, Insightful

Becoming by Michelle Obama

Inspiring, Insightful, Interesting

The Hellfire Club by Jake Tapper

Poorly Written, Interesting, Adventurous

Ohio by Stephen Markley

Idaho: A Novel by Emily Ruskovich

Pointless, Beautiful, Dark

Cooking for Picasso: A Novel by Camille Aubray

Romantic, Fun, Dramatic

Venus in Retrograde: poems by Susan Lilley

I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer by Michelle McNamara

Informative, Dark, Scary

Go Tell It on the Mountain (Vintage International) by James Baldwin

The Art of Racing in the Rain Tie-in: A Novel by Garth Stein

Adventurous, Fun, Inspiring

The Overstory: A Novel by Richard Powers

Insightful, Beautiful, Adventurous

The Library Book by Susan Orlean

Informative, Interesting, Insightful

Daisy Jones & The Six: A Novel by Reid Taylor Jenkins

Interesting, Fun, Addictive

The Cadaver King and the Country Dentist: A True Story of Injustice in the American South by Radley Balko, Tucker Carrington

Once Upon a River: A Novel by Diane Setterfield

Adventurous, Dramatic, Beautiful

Machines Like Me: A Novel by Ian McEwan

My Lovely Wife by Samantha Downing

Dark, Addictive, Interesting

Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak

Dark, Dramatic, Beautiful

The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West by David McCullough

Adventurous, Slow, Informative

Fruit of the Drunken Tree: A Novel by Ingrid Rojas Contreras

Informative, Insightful, Interesting

Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo

Insightful, Beautiful, Confusing

A Christmas Memory: One Christmas, and The Thanksgiving Visitor (Modern Library) by Truman Capote

Insightful, Fun, Beautiful

They Called Us Enemy by George Takei, Justin Eisinger, Steven Scott

CIRCE by Madeline Miller

Adventurous, Interesting, Epic

The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas

Insightful, Inspiring, Life Changing

Left Neglected by Lisa Genova

Informative, Interesting, Inspiring

White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo

Poorly Written, Unconvincing, Pointless

The Nickel Boys: A Novel by Colson Whitehead

Informative, Insightful, Dark

The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai

Beautiful, Insightful, Brilliant

Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens

Beautiful, Interesting, Inspiring

The Wife: A Novel by Meg Wolitzer

Addictive, Unconvincing

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo: A Novel by Reid Taylor Jenkins

Addictive, Dramatic, Interesting

Una educación / Educated: A Memoir (Spanish Edition) by Tara Westover

The Map of Salt and Stars: A Novel by Zeyn Joukhadar

Adventurous, Difficult, Informative

Lives of Girls and Women: A Novel by Alice Munro

Insightful

Small Great Things: A Novel by Jodi Picoult

Informative, Insightful, Difficult

Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi

Informative, Beautiful, Insightful

The Astonishing Color of After by Emily X.R. Pan

Fantastic, Brilliant, Beautiful

Travel as a Political Act (Rick Steves) by Rick Steves

Half Broke Horses: A True-Life Novel by Jeannette Walls

Adventurous, Interesting, Inspiring

Census by Jesse Ball

Vox by Christina Dalcher

Dark, Poorly Written, Insightful

A Place for Us: A Novel by Fatima Farheen Mirza

Informative, Interesting, Insightful

Solito, Solita: Crossing Borders with Youth Refugees from Central America (Voice of Witness) by

On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous: A Novel by Ocean Vuong

Beautiful, Boring, Confusing

Lake Life: A Novel by Poissant David James

Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life by Barbara Kingsolver, Camille Kingsolver, Steven L. Hopp

Informative, Inspiring, Persuasive

The Lost for Words Bookshop: A Novel by Stephanie Butland

Beautiful, Optimistic, Interesting

Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Wilkerson Isabel

Informative, Unconvincing, Persuasive

Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah

Interesting, Insightful, Informative

The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz by Erik Larson

Inspiring, Informative, Brilliant

This Tender Land: A Novel by William Kent Krueger

Adventurous, Beautiful, Inspiring

American Dirt: A Novel by Jeanine Cummins

Addictive, Dramatic, Adventurous

Native Son (Perennial Classics) by Richard Wright

Graphic, Gloomy, Beautiful

The Other Einstein: A Novel by Marie Benedict

Interesting, Informative, Insightful

The Opioid Fix: America's Addiction Crisis and the Solution They Don't Want You to Have by Barbara Andraka-Christou

A Gentleman in Moscow by AMOR TOWLES

Beautiful, Brilliant, Insightful

Mostly Dead Things by Kristen Arnett

Gloomy, Dramatic, Beautiful

Red Notice: A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man's Fight for Justice by Bill Browder

Informative, Interesting, Adventurous

Becoming Mrs. Lewis: The Improbable Love Story of Joy Davidman and C. S. Lewis by Patti Callahan

Interesting, Adventurous, Inspiring

Spying on the South: An Odyssey Across the American Divide by Tony Horwitz

The Storyteller's Secret: A Novel by Sejal Badani

Interesting, Beautiful, Inspiring

The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek: A Novel by Kim Michele Richardson

Informative, Inspiring, Interesting

I Was Their American Dream: A Graphic Memoir by Gharib Malaka

The Book of Longings: A Novel by Sue Monk Kidd

Inspiring, Beautiful, Life Changing

The All-Girl Filling Station's Last Reunion: A Novel by Fannie Flagg

Fun, Informative, Interesting

A Long Petal of the Sea: A Novel by Isabel Allende

Dramatic, Adventurous, Informative

Clara and Mr. Tiffany: A Novel by Susan Vreeland

Informative, Slow, Interesting

Lost Children Archive: A novel by Valeria Luiselli

Interesting

The Vanishing Half: A Novel by Bennett Brit

Insightful, Interesting, Dramatic

A Thread of Grace by Mary Doria Russell

Informative, Adventurous, Insightful

The Poet of Tolstoy Park: A Novel (Reader's Circle) by Sonny Brewer

Insightful, Optimistic, Beautiful

This Is Your Mind on Plants by Michael Pollan

The Giver of Stars: A Novel by Jojo Moyes

Adventurous, Inspiring, Informative

The Rise of Wolf 8: Witnessing the Triumph of Yellowstone's Underdog by Rick McIntyre

Exhalation: Stories by Ted Chiang

Dramatic, Difficult, Interesting

West with Giraffes: A Novel by Lynda Rutledge

Adventurous, Inspiring, Interesting

The Rose Code: A Novel by Kate Quinn

Interesting, Informative, Dramatic

The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row (Oprah's Book Club Summer 2018 Selection) by Anthony Ray Hinton, Lara Love Hardin

Life Changing, Inspiring, Insightful

I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death by Maggie O'Farrell

Slow, Interesting, Dramatic

The Lincoln Highway: A Novel by Amor Towles

Adventurous, Insightful, Dramatic

Good Morning, Monster: A Therapist Shares Five Heroic Stories of Emotional Recovery by Catherine Gildiner

Interesting, Insightful, Informative

Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry

Epic, Adventurous

A Molecule Away from Madness: Tales of the Hijacked Brain by Manning Sara Peskin

Beautiful Ruins: A Novel by Jess Walter

Romantic, Interesting, Beautiful

The Netanyahus by Joshua Cohen

Insightful, Fun, Dark

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