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- Margaret Millar, Beast in View
- Scott McClanahan, Hill William
- Rainbow Rowell, Eleanor & Park
- Maggie Nelson, Jane, A Murder
- Elizabeth Gilbert, The Signature of All Things
- Kiese Laymon, Long Division
- Kate Atkinson, Life After Life
- Mia Couto, The Tuner of Silences
- Rex Stout, Murder by the Book
- Ruth Ozeki, A Tale for the Time Being
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- Octavia Butler, Kindred
- Jenny Offill, Dept. of Speculation
- Sara Levine, Treasure Island!!!
- Elissa Schappell, Blueprints for Building Better Girls
- Sarah MacLean, A Rogue By Any Other Name
- Wayne Koestenbaum, My 1980s and Other Essays
- Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch
- Agatha Christie, And Then There Were None
- Vanessa Blakeslee, Train Shots: Stories
- Chris Pavone, The Expats
- Anthony Trollope, Can You Forgive Her?
- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Americanah
- Erle Stanley Gardner, The Case of the Glamorous Ghost
- Robert Atwan, ed. The Best American Essays 2013
- Iris Owen, After Claude
- Justin Hocking, The Great Floodgates of the Wonder World: A Memoir
- Tiphanie Yanique, Land of Love and Drowning
- Richard Yates, Revolutionary Road
- Roxane Gay, An Untamed State
- Jenny Offill, Dept. of Speculation
- Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
- Sarah Manguso, The Guardians: An Elegy for a Friend
- Ira Levin, A Kiss Before Dying
- Meg Wolitzer, The Ten-Year Nap
- Siri Hustvedt, The Blazing World
- Rebecca Brown, The Terrible Girls
- Eula Biss, Notes from No Man’s Land: American Essays
- Peter Mendelsund, What We See When We Read
- Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild
- Elena Ferrante, Days of Abandonment
- Eula Biss, On Immunity: An Inoculation
- Sarah Waters, The Paying Guests
- N+1, No Regrets: Three Discussions
- Matthew Salesses, I’m Not Saying, I’m Just Saying
- J.C. Hallman, ed. The Story About the Story, Vol. II
- Megan Abbott, The Fever
- Mary Stewart, My Brother Michael
- Kathryn Schulz, Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error
- Nella Larsen, Passing
- Nella Larsen, Quicksand
- Rebecca Mead, My Life in Middlemarch
- Hilton Als, The Women
- Ian McEwan, Atonement
- Joanna Ruocco, Dan
- Kathryn Harrison, The Kiss
- Ian McEwan, The Children Act
- Karen Green, Bough Down
- Michelle Bailat-Jones, Fog Island Mountains
- Heather Lewis, Notice
- Lynne Sharon Schwartz, Ruined by Reading: A Life in Books
- Charles D’Ambrosio, Loitering: New and Collected Essays
- Attica Locke, Black Water Rising
- E. Lockhart, We Were Liars
- Lee Ki-Ho, At Least We Can Apologize
- Jennifer Egan, Look At Me
- Julia Spencer-Fleming, One Was a Soldier
- James Baldwin, Notes of a Native Son
- Michelle Bailat-Jones, Fog Island Mountains
- Roz Chast, Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant?
- Jesmyn Ward, Men We Reaped
- Samantha Harvey, Dear Thief
- Malory Ortberg, Texts From Jane Eyre
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