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*specially selected 2020:
Luster by Raven LeilaniCaucasia by Danzy Senna
The Margot Affair by Sanaë Lemoine
Stray by Stephanie Danler
Temporary by Hilary Leiter
Heavy by Kiese Laymon
Disappearing Earth by Julia Phillips
Apartment by Teddy Wayne
Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
Writers and Lovers by Lily King
Uncanny Valley by Anna Wiener
The Lure of the Local by Lucy Lippard
The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich
In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado
Pretend I’m Dead by Jen Beagin
Moving Toward Life by Anna Halprin
A Year Without a Name by Cyrus Grace Dunham
Oaxaca Journal by Oliver Sacks
2019:
The Crying Book by Heather ChristlePretend I’m Dead by Jen Beagin
How to Disappear: Notes on Invisiblity in a Time of Transparency by Akiko Busch
Black Light: Stories by Kimberly Kim Parsons
Career Women by Joanna Scott
Fleishman is in Trouble by Taffy Brodesser-Akner
Daisy Jones and the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Rainsongs by Sue Hubbard
Wright and New York: The Making of America’s Architect by Anthony Alofsin
The Absent Hand: Reimagining the American Landscape by Suzannah Lessard
I’m Supposed to Protect You from All This by Nadja Spiegelman
Early Work by Andrew Martin
Lab Girl by Hope Jahren
Nourished by Lia Huber
Three Women by Lisa Taddeo
The Island of Sea Women by Lisa See
How to Do Nothing by Jenny Odell
The Reckonings by Lacy M. Johnson
2018:
The Pisces by Melissa BroderSeverance by Ling Ma
My Own Devices by Dessa
The Golden State by Lydia Kiesling
The Grip of It by Jac Jemc
The Third Hotel by Laura van den Berg
My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh
The Girl Who Smiled Beads by Clementine Wamariya
I’ll Be Gone in the Dark by Michelle McNamara
Bright Lines by Tanwi Nandini Islam
Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech
No One Tells You This by Glynnis Macnicol
History of Wolves by Emily Fridlund
They Can’t Kill Us Until They Kill Us by Hanif Abdurraqib
Motherhood by Shiela Heti
Abandon Me by Melissa Febos
The Wrong Way to Save Your Life by Megan Steilstra
2017:
Arbitrary Stupid Goal by Tamara ShopsinHer Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado
The Fact of a Body by Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich
Bluets by Maggie Nelson
Too Much and Not the Mood by Durga Chew-Bose
Born a Crime by Trevor Noah
The Idiot by Elif Batuman
Learning by Heart by Sister Corita Kent
Standard Deviation by Katherine Heiny
Black Cool by Rebecca Walker
Hourglass: Time, Memory Marriage by Dani Shapiro
Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde
2016:
Upstream by Mary OliverNew Slow City by William Powers
Approaching Eye Level by Vivian Gornick
Odd Woman and the City by Vivian Gornick
Drawing Blood by Molly Crabapple
2015:
A Field Guide to Getting Lost by Rebecca SolnitAmericanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Q by Evan Mandery
The Opposite of Loneliness by Marina Keegan
2014:
Untamed State by Roxane GayWhite Teeth by Zadie Smith
Just Kids by Patti Smith
1Q84 by Haruki Murakami
Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke