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The Night Watchman by Louise ErdrichA Children's Bible by Lydia Millet
Best of: Fino's Pulitzer 2021 Picks: The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich
54 books — 3 voters
Memorial Drive by Natasha Trethewey
Memoir Published in Year: 2020
296 books — 84 voters

The Nickel Boys by Colson WhiteheadOn Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean VuongLost Children Archive by Valeria LuiselliThe Other Americans by Laila LalamiSabrina & Corina by Kali Fajardo-Anstine
2020 Aspen Literary Prize
5 books — 1 voter
Disappearing Earth by Julia PhillipsTrust Exercise by Susan ChoiThe River by Peter HellerThe Weight of a Piano by Chris CanderBowlaway by Elizabeth McCracken
Best Books of 2019
1,389 books — 1,961 voters

The Friend by Sigrid NunezAn American Marriage by Tayari JonesThere There by Tommy OrangeThe Great Believers by Rebecca MakkaiHeads of the Colored People by Nafissa Thompson-Spires
Kirkus Reviews Best Ficton of 2018
102 books — 18 voters
The Friend by Sigrid NunezThere There by Tommy OrangeThe Great Believers by Rebecca MakkaiWashington Black by Esi Edugyan
The 2019 Tournament of Books Longlist
76 books — 431 voters

There There by Tommy OrangeThe House of Broken Angels by Luis Alberto Urrea
Anticipated Literary Reads For Readers of Color 2018
258 books — 283 voters
Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward
Man Booker Prize Eligible 2018
158 books — 237 voters

Educated by Tara WestoverAn American Marriage by Tayari JonesCirce by Madeline MillerThe Wife Between Us by Greer Hendricks
Best Books of 2018
1,652 books — 2,959 voters
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
PBS’s The Great American Read: List of America’s Top 100 Books
100 books — 2,378 voters

Stung by Bethany WigginsGolden Boy by Tara SullivanCounting by 7s by Holly Goldberg SloanPrisoner 88 by Leah PileggiFar Far Away by Tom McNeal
Golden Sower YA 2015-16
10 books — 1 voter
Where'd You Go, Bernadette by Maria SempleLandline by Rainbow Rowell
What Women Born in the 80s Read in 2014
978 books — 189 voters

The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd
The Millions' Most Anticipated: The Great 2014 Book Preview
94 books — 402 voters
The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk KiddAll the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
Book Group Worthy Titles for 2014
243 books — 1,193 voters

Jefferson's Sons by Kimberly Brubaker BradleyMatched by Ally CondiePayback Time by Carl DeukerThe Prisoner of Cell 25 by Richard Paul EvansDark Life by Kat Falls
Golden Sower Young Adult Nominees 2013-14
10 books — 4 voters
Unbroken by Laura HillenbrandCutting for Stone by Abraham VergheseThe Book Thief by Markus ZusakThe Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann ShafferThe Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
Book Club List
739 books — 772 voters

The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg LarssonA Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled HosseiniSuite Française by Irène NémirovskyA Prayer for Owen Meany by John IrvingThe Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
The End of Your Life Book Club - Discussed Books
112 books — 90 voters
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeThe Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
Books that Changed the Way You View Life
10,491 books — 5,742 voters

Unbroken by Laura HillenbrandThe Book Thief by Markus ZusakThe Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann ShafferThe Invisible Bridge by Julie OrringerCity of Thieves by David Benioff
Holocaust
126 books — 60 voters
The House at Riverton by Kate MortonThe Light Between Oceans by M.L. StedmanThe Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton
Best Beach Reads 2013
2,203 books — 4,188 voters

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
Best Historical Fiction
7,392 books — 25,577 voters
City of Thieves by David BenioffUnbroken by Laura Hillenbrand
World War II Fiction & Non-fiction
779 books — 407 voters

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark HaddonWater for Elephants by Sara GruenThe Glass Castle by Jeannette WallsThe Book Thief by Markus ZusakA Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
The Best Books for a Book Club
652 books — 454 voters
Water for Elephants by Sara GruenThe Help by Kathryn StockettThe Glass Castle by Jeannette WallsThe Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann ShafferThe Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
Top Book Club Recommendations
676 books — 687 voters

Boyd McCloyd and the Perpetual Motion Machine by Randall P. Girdner
Best Children's Fantasy
966 books — 1,110 voters