Milkman — Anna Burns ★★★★☆

Dune — Frank Herbert ★★★★★

Your Utopia — Bora Chung ★★★★☆

So Sad Today — Melissa Broder ★★★☆☆

Middlemarch — George Eliot ★★★★☆

In Cold Blood — Truman Capote ★★★★☆

If You Leave Me — Crystal Hana Kim ★★★★☆

Never Let Me Go — Kazuo Ishiguro ★★★★★

1984 — George Orwell ★★★★★

Klara and the Sun — Kazuo Ishiguro ★★★★☆

The Subject Was Roses — Frank D. Gilroy ★★★☆☆

The Trial — Franz Kafka ★★★★☆

The Great Gatsby — F. Scott Fitzgerald ★★★★★

Sapiens — Yuval Noah Harari ★★★★★

Dopamine Nation — Anna Lembke ★★★★☆

South of the Border, West of the Sun — Haruki Murakami ★★★★☆

And the Band Played On — Randy Shilts ★★★★★

Midnight's Children — Salman Rushdie ★★★★★

All the Light We Cannot See — Anthony Doerr ★★★★★

Skin in the Game — Nassim Nicholas Taleb ★★★★☆

Animal Farm — George Orwell ★★★★★

The Road to Oxiana — Robert Byron ★★★★☆

The Man Without Qualities — Robert Musil ★★★☆☆

The Overstory — Richard Powers ★★★★☆

The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner — Alan Sillitoe ★★★☆☆

The Crucible — Arthur Miller ★★★★☆

The Plague — Albert Camus ★★★★☆

The Color Purple — Alice Walker ★★★★★

The Stranger — Albert Camus ★★★★☆

Too Big to Fail — Andrew Ross Sorkin ★★★★★

Postwar — Tony Judt ★★★★★

Wit — Margaret Edson ★★★★☆

Interpreter of Maladies — Jhumpa Lahiri ★★★★★

The Tale of Genji — Murasaki Shikibu ★★★☆☆

All the President's Men — Bob Woodward & Carl Bernstein ★★★★☆

The Handmaid's Tale — Margaret Atwood ★★★★★

The Fifth Risk — Michael Lewis ★★★★★

Celestial Bodies — Jokha Alharthi ★★★★☆

The Emperor of All Maladies — Siddhartha Mukherjee ★★★★★

The Memory Police — Yoko Ogawa ★★★★☆

Homage to Catalonia — George Orwell ★★★★☆

For Whom the Bell Tolls — Ernest Hemingway ★★★★★

The Folded Clock — Heidi Julavits ★★★☆☆

Temporary — Hilary Leichter ★★★☆☆

Danube — Claudio Magris ★★★☆☆

Normal People — Sally Rooney ★★★★☆

Brave New World — Aldous Huxley ★★★★☆

Drinking Coffee Elsewhere — ZZ Packer ★★★★☆

The Boat — Nam Le ★★★★☆

Exit West — Mohsin Hamid ★★★★☆

The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test — Tom Wolfe ★★★★☆

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo — Taylor Jenkins Reid ★★★★☆

White Teeth — Zadie Smith ★★★★☆

Belzhar — Meg Wolitzer ★★★☆☆

Bluets — Maggie Nelson ★★★★☆

The Underground Railroad — Colson Whitehead ★★★★★

The Road — Cormac McCarthy ★★★★★

Homo Deus — Yuval Noah Harari ★★★★☆

Homegoing — Yaa Gyasi ★★★★★

Station Eleven — Emily St. John Mandel ★★★★☆

The Warmth of Other Suns — Isabel Wilkerson ★★★★★

Native Speaker — Chang-rae Lee ★★★★☆

Slaughterhouse-Five — Kurt Vonnegut ★★★★★

Man's Search for Meaning — Viktor E. Frankl ★★★★★

The Employees — Olga Ravn ★★★★☆

A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius — Dave Eggers ★★★★☆

One Hundred Years of Solitude — Gabriel García Márquez ★★★★★

Can't and Won't — Lydia Davis ★★★★☆

Lincoln in the Bardo — George Saunders ★★★★☆

Outliers — Malcolm Gladwell ★★★★☆

The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas — Ursula K. Le Guin ★★★★★

The Dispossessed — Ursula K. Le Guin ★★★★★

The Left Hand of Darkness — Ursula K. Le Guin ★★★★★

How Much of These Hills Is Gold — C Pam Zhang ★★★★☆

The Goldfinch — Donna Tartt ★★★★☆

We the Animals — Justin Torres ★★★★☆

Weather — Jenny Offill ★★★☆☆

Go Home! — Edited by Rowan Hisayo Buchanan ★★★☆☆

Everything I Never Told You — Celeste Ng ★★★★☆

Call Me Zebra — Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi ★★★☆☆

The Year of Magical Thinking — Joan Didion ★★★★★

The Double Helix — James D. Watson ★★★☆☆

The Catcher in the Rye — J.D. Salinger ★★★★☆

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao — Junot Díaz ★★★★★

The Namesake — Jhumpa Lahiri ★★★★☆

Beloved — Toni Morrison ★★★★★

In Search of Lost Time — Marcel Proust ★★★☆☆

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings — Maya Angelou ★★★★★

Blood Meridian — Cormac McCarthy ★★★★☆

The Man in the High Castle — Philip K. Dick ★★★★★

The Alchemist — Paulo Coelho ★★★☆☆

The Sad Part Was — Prabda Yoon ★★★☆☆

Frankenstein — Mary Shelley ★★★★☆

The Sellout — Paul Beatty ★★★★☆

Speedboat — Renata Adler ★★★☆☆

Circe — Madeline Miller ★★★★☆

To the Lighthouse — Virginia Woolf ★★★★☆

The Sympathizer — Viet Thanh Nguyen ★★★★★

The Sun Also Rises — Ernest Hemingway ★★★★☆

No One Is Talking About This — Patricia Lockwood ★★★★☆

The Kite Runner — Khaled Hosseini ★★★★☆

The Remains of the Day — Kazuo Ishiguro ★★★★★