Non-Fiction
Common Ground by J. Anthony Lukas
When A Crocodile Eats the Sun by Peter Godwin
The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit by Lucette Lagnado
The House at Sugar Beach by Helene Cooper
Random Family by Adrian Nicole LeBlanc
Zeitoun by Dave Eggers
The Possessed by Elif Batuman
Nothing to Envy by Barbara Demick
In the Garden of Beasts by Erik Larson
Thank You for Your Service by David Finkel
The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace by Jeff Hobbs
Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson
A Good Provider is One Who Leaves by Jason DeParle
Guest House for Young Widows by Azadeh Moaveni
Invisible Child by Andrea Elliott
The Best Minds by Jonathan Rosen
Fiction
A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks
Palace Walk, Palace of Desire and Sugar Street (Cairo Trilogy) by Naguib Mahfouz
American Pastoral and The Plot Against America by Philip Roth
The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien
Suite Française by Irène Némirovsky
Matrimony by Joshua Henkin
The Beautiful Things that Heaven Bears by Dinaw Mengestu
The Ministry of Special Cases by Nathan Englander
The Weight of Heaven by Thrity Umrigar
Finding Nouf by Zoë Ferraris
Half a Yellow Sun and Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Brooklyn and Nora Webster by Colm Toibin
Beloved by Toni Morrison
What is the What by Dave Eggers
Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese
The Museum of Innocence by Orhan Pamuk
The Walking People and Fever by Mary Beth Keane
Room by Emma Donoghue
The Barbarian Nurseries by Hector Tobar
State of Wonder by Ann Pachett
The Light Between the Oceans by M.L. Stedman
The Newlyweds by Nell Freudenberger
My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante (and her entire Neapolitan trilogy)
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
A Constellation of Vital Phenomena and The Tsar of Love and Techno by Anthony Marra
The Lives of Others by Neel Mukherjee
Wake by Anna Hope
The Signal Flame by Andrew Krivak
Salt Houses by Hala Alya
Go, Went, Gone by Jenny Erpenbeck
A Burning by Megha Majumdar
Apeirogon by Colum McCann
The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai
Enter Ghost by Isabella Hammad
Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar
