Book List 2023
- I Remain in Darkness by Annie Ernaux
- Doctor Thorpe by Anthony Trollope
- Barchester Towers by Anthony Trollope
- The Small House at Allington by Anthony Trollope
- Vagina Obscura by Rachel Gross
- Framley Parsonage by Anthony Trollope
- Checkpoint 19 by Claire-Louise Bennett
- The Candy House by Jennifer Egan
- The Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein
- Notes On An Execution by Danya Kukafka
- Return to Latvia by Marina Jarre
- The Devil's Pool by George Sand
- Euphoria by Lily King
- Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
- Trust by Hernan Diaz
- The Anarchy by William Dalrymple
- River of the Gods by Candice Millard
- A Fatal Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum by Emma Southon
- The Fall of Constantinople by Steven Runciman
- Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino
- Kaikeyi by Vaishnari Patel
- We Were Once A Family by Roxanna Asgarian
- Our Share of Night by Mariana Enriquez
- Journey to Portugal by Jose Saramago
- We Carry Their Bones by Erin Kimmerle
- The Lost Family by Libby Copeland
Book List 2021 60 Books
- 4 Lost Cities by Annalee Newitz
- Bad Blood by John Carreyou
- Bandit Love by Massimo Carlotto
- Conviction by Denise Mina
- Darktown by Thomas Mullen
- Dying of Whiteness by Jonathan M. Metzl
- Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell
- Highway of Tears by Jessica McDiarmid
- I'll Be Gone in the Dark by Michelle McNamara
- If We Were Villains by M.L.Rio
- Interior Chinatown by Charles Yu
- Memory Drive by Natasha Trethewey
- Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
- Midnight in Mexico by Alfredo Corchado
- Mind's Eye by Hakan Nesser
- Murder in Rue Dumas by M.L. Longworth
- Nomadland by Jessica Bruder
- Outline by Rachel Cusk
- Recollections of My Nonexistence by Rebecca Solnit
- Shirley Jackson, A Rather Haunted Life by Ruth Franklin
- So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
- Talking to Strangers by Malcolm Gladwell
- The Adventurer's Som by Roman Dial
- The Aosawa Murders by Riku Onda
- The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2011 ed. by Dave Eggers
- The Brothers of Gwynedd by Edith Pargeter
- The Cove by Ron Rash
- The Dead Are Arising by Les Payne
- The Flight of the Maidens by Jane Gardam
- The Golden Cage by Camilla Lackberg
- The Grace of Kings by Ken Liu
- The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
- The Illness Lesson by Clare Beams
- The Janissary Tree by Jason Goodwin
- The Last Love Song by Tracy Daugherty
- The Less People Know About Us by Axton Betz-Hamilton
- The Love Of A Good Woman by Alice Munro
- The Only Child by M-ae Seo
- The Quiet Girl by S.F. Kosa
- The Searcher by Tana French
- The Spy and The Traitor by Ben Macintyre
- The Third Rainbow Girl by Emma Copley Eisenberg
- The Three Body Problem by Cixin Liu
- Victim 2117 by Jussi Adler-Olsen
- Villain by Shuichi Yoshida
- Last Call by Elon Green
- People Like Them by Samira Sedira
- The Hidden Life of Trees by Peter Wohlleben
- The Price for Their Pound of Flesh by Daina Ramey Berry
- Transit by Rachel Cusk
- The A26 by Pascal Garnier
- The Panda Theory by Pascal Garnier
- The Front Seat Passenger by Pascal Garnier
- How's the Pain by Pascal Garnier
- Small Favors by Erin Craig
- Cultish by Amanda Montell
- The Book of Unconformities by Hugh Raffles
- The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa
- Uncanny Valley by Anna Wiener
- The Mercies by Kiran Millwood Hargrave
Book List 2020
- The Master of Knots by Massimo Carlotto
- The Columbian Mule by Massimo Carlotto
- The Collected Schizophrenics by Esme Weijun Wang
- Bad Faith by Paul A. Offit
- Stony the Road by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
- The Witch Elm by Tana French
- The Cheltenham Square Murder by John Bude
- The Sussex Downs Murder by John Bude
- The Mirror and the Light by Hilary Mantel
- From the Ashes by Jesse Thistle
- Caste by Isabel Wilkerson
- What's Left of Me Is Yours by Stephanie Scott
- Walking the Dog by Elizabeth Swados
- Sontag, Her Life and Work by Benjamin Moser
- Heart Berries by Therese Marie Mailhot
- On Immunity by Eula Biss
- Disappearing Earth by Julia Phillips
- The Glass Hotel by Emily St. John Mandel
- Heavens Are Empty by Avrom Bendavid-Val
- I Want You To Know We're Still Here by Esther Safran Foer
- Sword of Kings by Bernard Cornwell
- Bloodfeud:Murder and Revenge by Richard Fletcher
- The Darwin Affair by Tim Mason
- War of the Wolf by Bernard Cornwell
- Underland by Robert MacFarlane
- Hidden Valley Road by Robert Kolker
- How Literature Saved My Life by David Shields
- Dark Matter and The Dinosaurs by Lisa Randall
- The Flame Bearer by Bernard Cornwell
- The Empty Throne by Bernard Cornwell
- Into the Planet by Jill Heinerth
- Warriors of the Storm by Bernard Cornwell
- Wild Game by Adrienne Brodeur
- Yellow Bird by Sierra Crane Murdoch
- The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee by David Treuer
- The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte
- 18 Tiny Deaths by Bruce Goldfarb
- The People of the Trees by Hanya Yanagihara
- Guest House for Young Widows by Azadeh Moaveni
- Bellefleur by Joyce Carol Oates
- My Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth Russell
- Catch and Kill by Ronan Farrow
- My Life as a Rat by Joyce Carol Oates
- Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
- The Brontes bu Juliet Barker
- Stealing the Show by John Barelli
- Machines Like Me by Ian McEwan
- The Terracotta Warriors by Edward Burman
- Blue Lightnin by Ann Cleeves
- Cold Earth by Ann Cleeves
- Wild Fire by Ann Cleeves
Total Books 51
Book List 2019
Dead Water by Ann Cleeves
Game of Thrones by George RR Martin
The Months, Days, Years by Yan Lianke
Days of Rage by Bryan Burrough
Stiff by Mary Roach
Red Bones by Ann Cleeves
Blitzed by Norman Ohler
Enduring Love by Ian McEwan
The Fall of the Ottomans by Eugene Rogen
Gallows Lane by Brian McGilloway
Borderlands by Brian McGilloway
White Nights by Ann Cleeves
The Ruin by Dervla McTiernan
Missing, Presumed by Susan Steiner
Last Winter We Parted by Fuminori Nakamura
Inheritance by Dani Shapiro
Raven Black by Ann Cleeves
The Astor Orphan by Alexandra Aldrich
Breaking Blue by Timothy Egan
Normal People by Sally Rooney
A Venetian Affair by Andrea di Robilant
Assassins of the Turquoise Palace by Roya Hakakian
Istanbul by Thomas F. Madden
Dinner with Persephone by Patricia Storace
Mani by Patrick Leigh Fermor
Spring Snow by Yukio Mishima
The Master by Colm Toibin
SPQR by Mary Beard
Say Nothing by Patrick Radden Keefe
Stamped From the Beginning by Ibram X. Kendi
The Story of the Lost Child by Elena Ferrante
Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay by Elena Ferrante
Claire DeWitt and the City of the Dead by Sara Gran
The Story of a New Name by Elena Ferrante
My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante
American Prison by Shane Bauer
The Scarlet Lion by Elizabeth Chadwick
The Greatest Knight by Elizabeth Chadwick
A Place Beyond Courage by Elizabeth Chadwick
Milkman by Anna Burns
The Power and The Glory by Graham Greene
Tyrant by Stephen Greenblatt
The Quiet American by Graham Greene
Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom by Stephen R. Platt
Acceptance by Jeff Vandermeer
American Overdose by Chris McGreal
The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
Conversations With Friends by Sally Rooney
Cult X by Fuminori Nakamura
Heartland by Sarah Smarsh
Wonder Valley by Ivy Pochoda
The Thief by Fuminori Nakamura
Authority by Jeff Vandermeer
The Paying Guests by Sarah Waters
Book List 2018
Total 69 books
- Poldark by Winston Graham
- The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters
- Last Friends by Jane Gardam
- The Man in the Wooden Hat by Jane Gardam
- A Book of American Martyrs by Joyce Carol Oates
- Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
- Dopesick by Beth Macy
- Filth by Jane Gardam
- Heads of the Colored People by Nafissa Thompson-Spires
- Annihilation by Jeff Vandermeer
- The Witch Elm by Tana French
- Vox by Christina Dalcher
- The Life We Bury by Allen Eskens
- The Dragons of Eden by Carl Sagan
- Ghost on the Throne by James Romm
- Death of a Nightingale by Lene Kaaberbol
- In a Dark, Dark Wood by Ruth Ware
- Invisible Murder by Lene Kaaberbol
- The Boy in the Suitcase by Lene Kaaberbol
- The Last Painting of Sara De Vos by Dominic Smith
- The Devil's Cup by Stewart Lee Allen
- I Will Send Rain by Rae Meadows
- The Dry by Jane Harper
- The Lying Game by Ruth Ware
- The Woman in the Window by A.J. Finn
- Tangerine by Christine Mangan
- The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas by Gertrude Stein
- Beneath A Ruthless Sun by Gilbert King
- Education by Tara Westover
- The Monk of Mokha by Dave Eggers
- Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler
- A Death in Vienna by Daniel Silva
- The Confessor by Daniel Silva
- The English Assassin by Daniel Silva
- The Kill Artist by Daniel Silva
- Little Wolves by Thomas Maltman
- Winter at Death's Hotel by Kenneth Cameron
- Black Earth by Timothy Snyder
- The Western Star by Craig Johnson
- The Circle by Dave Eggers
- Spy Princess/ The Life of Noor Inayat Khan by Shrabani Basu
- A False Report/ A True Story of Rape in America by T.Christian Miller & Ken Armstrong
- Ill Will by Dan Chaon
- Reindeer Moon by Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
- An Iron Wind by Peter Fritzche
- When We Were Orphans by Kazuo Ishiguro
- The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro
- Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion
- The Rise and Fall of Great Powers by Tom Rachman
- Rywka's Diary by Rywka Lipszyc
- Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
- The Perfect Nanny by Leila Slimani
- Theft by Finding Diaries 1977-2002 by David Sedaris
- Ice Ghosts by Paul Watson
- Anatomy of a Genocide by Omer Bartov
- The Man From the Train by Bill James
- The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
- A German Requiem by Philip Kerr
- Kill 'Em And Leave by James McBride
- The Infatuations by Javier Marias
- Sugar in the Blood by Andrea Stuart
- The Librarian of Auschwitz by Antonio Iturbe
- The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst
- Rez Life by David Treuer
- The Scarred Woman by Jussi Adler-Olsen
- A Beautiful Terrible Thing by Jen White
- You Don't Have to Say You Love Me by Sherman Alexie
- For the Children by Erica P. Meiners
- Iron Lake by William Kent Krueger
Book List 2017
94 books
- The Devotion of Suspect X by Keigo Higashino
- The Pale Criminal by Philip Kerr
- Desert Solitaire by Edward Abbey
- The Breakdown by B.A.Paris
- The Emperor's Children by Claire Messud
- Once We Were Sisters by Sheila Kohler
- American Pain by John Temple
- Happy Birthday, Turk! by Jakob Arjouni
- This House of Sky by Ivan Doig
- Reckless Daughter, A Portrait or Joni Mitchell by David Yaffe
- Wife of the Gods by Kwei Quartey
- The Murder Room by Michael Capuzzo
- Salvation of a Saint by Keigo Higashino
- March Violets by Philip Kerr
- A Small Furry Prayer by Steven Kotler
- The Woman Upstairs by Claie Messud
- The Child Finder by Rene Denfeld
- Prussian Blue by Philip Kerr
- Under the Midnight Sun by Keigo Higashino
- Finders Keepers by Craig Childs
- Hypothermia by Arnaldur Indridason
- Field Gray by Philip Kerr
- We Need To Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver
- Coffin Road by Peter May
- Outrage by Arnaldur Indridason
- Arctic Chill by Arnaldur Indridason
- Bad Intentions by Karin Fossum
- Behind Closed Doors by B.A. Paris
- Voices by Arnaldur Indridason
- The Highwayman by Craig Johnson
- Six Four by Hideo Yokoyama
- The Draining Lake by Arnaldur Indridason
- Travels in Vermeer by Michael White
- Jar City by Arnaldur Indridason
- Silence of the Grave by Arnaldur Indridason
- Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann
- House of Rain by Craig Childs
- In The Darkroom by Susan Faludi
- The Road to Jonestown by Jeff Guinn
- The Net Delusion by Evgeny Morozov
- Secondhand Time by Svetlana Alexievich
- The Stonecutter by Camilla Lackberg
- The Wicked Boy by Kate Summerscale
- The Caller by Karin Fossum
- Anne Perry and the Murder of the Century by Peter Graham
- Ravenspur by Conn Iggulden
- Lost Girls by Robert Kolker
- The House at the Edge of Night by Catherine Banner
- A Breach of Promise by Anne Perry
- White Trash, The 400 Year Untold Story of Class in America by Nancy Isenberg
- Weighed In The Balance by Anne Perry
- The Silent Cry by Anne Perry
- Dark Places by Gillian Flynn
- The Sea of Glory by Nathaniel Philbrick
- The Strangler Vine by M.J. Carter
- Dry Bones by Craig Johnson
- A Dog's Ransom by Patricia Highsmith
- The Lost City of the Monkey God by Douglas Preston
- The Long Shadow of Small Ghosts by Laura Tillman
- The Theft of Memory by Jonathan Kozol
- Cain His Brother by Anne Perry
- Borkmann's Point by Hakan Nesser
- A Fair Maiden by Joyce Carol Oates
- The Murder of Harriet Krohn by Karin Fossum
- Kinder Than Solitude by Yiyun Li
- The Sins of the Wolf by Anne Perry
- When the Devil Holds the Candle by Karin Fossum
- Black Seconds by Karin Fossum
- A Sudden Fearful Death by Anne Perry
- Defend and Retreat by Anne Perry
- A Dangerous Mourning by Anne Perry
- The Face of the Stranger by Anne Perry
- The Indian Bride by Karin Fossum
- The Drowned Boy by Karin Fossum
- Blood at the Root by Peter Robinson
- In the Darkness (Eva's Eye) by Karin Fossum
- He Who Fears the Wolf by Karin Fossum
- Don't Look Back by Karin Fossum
- A Dedicated Man by Peter Robinson
- The Fire Dance by Helene Tursten
- The Leopard by Giuseppe de Lampedusa
- The Ice Princess by Camilla Lackberg
- The Torso by Helene Tursten
- Black Dogs by Ian McEwan
- The Glass Devil by Helene Tursten
- Bloodline by Conn Iggulden
- Margaret of Anjou by Conn Iggulden
- Night Rounds by Helene Tursten
- The Preacher by Camilla Lackberg
- The Stranger by Camilla Lackberg
- Nutshell by Ian McEwan
- Detective Inspector Huss by Helene Tursten
- Return of the King by William Dalrymple
- White Mughal by William Dalrymple
