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Homeland Elegies, by Ayad Akhtar*****

A Children's Bible, by Lydia Millet*****

Fight No More: Stories, by Lydia Millet*****

Sweet Lamb of Heaven, by Lydia Millet*****

The Color of Water, by James McBride*****

The Silence of the Girls, by Pat Barker****1/2

Mermaids in Paradise, by Lydia Millet****1/2

Everything I Never Told Her, by Celeste Ng****1/2

Becoming, by Michelle Obama****

Deacon King Kong, by James McBride****1/2

Just Like You, by Nick Hornby****

American Dervish, by Ayad Akhtar*****

Where the Crawdads Sing, by Delia Owens****

Find Me, by Andre Aciman***1/3

The Testaments, by Margaret Atwood****1/2

The Best of Me, by David Sedaris****

Olive Again, by Elizabeth Strout*****

Hidden Valley Road, by Robert Kalker****

We Run the Tides, by Vendela Vida*****

Red at the Bone, by Jaqueline Woodson****

What Are You Going Through, by Sigrid Nunez****1/2

The Cold Millions, by Jess Walter*****

At the Edge of the Haight by Katherine Seligman*****

Of Women and Salt, by Gabriela Garcia****

The Committed, by Viet Than Nguyen****1/2

In the Dream House, by Carmen Maria Machado*****

My Year Abroad, by Chang-Rae Lee****1/2

The Ministry for the Future, by Kim Stanley Robinson*****

Someone, by Alice McDermitt****1/2

Never Let Me Go, by Kazuo Ishiguro*****

Weather, by Jennifer Offill*****

Where the Line Bleeds, by Jesmyn Ward****1/2

Ignorance, by Milan Kundera****1/4

Last Chance Texaco, by Ricki Lee Jones****

My Life in Middlemarch, by Rebecca Mead****1/2

The Tiger's Wife, by Tea Obreht*****

The Promised Land, by Nicholas Lemann*****

Caramelo, by Sandra Cisneros****1/2

Fiebre Tropical, by Juliana Delgado Lopera****

My Education, by Susan Choi****

A Big Storm Knocked It Over, by Laurie Colwin***1/2

Middlemarch, by George Eliot*****

Embassy Wife, by Katie Crouch****

The Emerald Mile, by Kevin Fedarko****1/2

The Broker, by John Grisham****

In the Event of Contact, by Ethel Rohan****1/2

The Great Believers, by Rebecca Makkai****1/2

Frankkissstein, by Jeanette Winterson*****

My Antonia, by Willa Cather*****

City of Thieves, by David Benioff*****

Wayward, by Dana Spiotta*****

On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous, by Ocean Vuong*****

We Live in Water, by Jess Walter***1/2

Emerald City, by Jennifer Egan****

Our Country Friends, by Gary Shteyngart***1/2

Ten Minutes and 38 Seconds in This Strange World, by Elif Shafak*****

Electrify, by Saul Griffith***** (and me)

A Promised Land, by Barack Obama****

Beautiful World, Where Are You, by Sally Rooney*****

The Love Songs of W.E.B. Dubois, by Honoree Fannone Jeffers*****

Orwell's Roses, by Rebecca Solnit*****

Crossroads, by Jonathan Franzen*****