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I'm So Glad We Had This Time Together by Maurice VellekoopThe Fox Wife by Yangsze ChooMadness by Antonia HyltonWhat Happened to Nina? by Dervla McTiernanAutocracy, Inc. by Anne Applebaum
Best Books of 2024
830 books — 923 voters
Not Quite a Husband by Sherry Thomas
Historical Romance Set in India
43 books — 17 voters

The Bombay Prince by Sujata MasseyThe Widows of Malabar Hill by Sujata MasseyThe Man Who Died Twice by Richard OsmanThe Silent Girl by Tess GerritsenDissolution by C.J. Sansom
Best Mysteries of the 21st Century
201 books — 266 voters
The House Is on Fire by Rachel BeanlandI Have Some Questions for You by Rebecca MakkaiSorry, Bro by Taleen VoskuniAna María and the Fox by Liana De la RosaThe Museum of Failures by Thrity Umrigar
Best Books of 2023
1,217 books — 1,840 voters

The Afghanistan Papers by Craig WhitlockThe Heart Principle by Helen HoangHooked by Sutton FosterIda B. the Queen by Michelle DusterThe Night Hawks by Elly Griffiths
Best Books of 2021
1,434 books — 1,625 voters
Olga Dies Dreaming by Xóchitl GonzálezNotes on an Execution by Danya KukafkaThe School for Good Mothers by Jessamine ChanTrust by Hernan DiazPeach Blossom Spring by Melissa Fu
Best Books of 2022
1,543 books — 1,854 voters

Walking the Bowl by Chris LockhartThe Palace Papers by Tina BrownThe School for Good Mothers by Jessamine ChanThe Return of Faraz Ali by Aamina AhmadThe Rabbit Hutch by Tess Gunty
New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2022
100 books — 41 voters
The Death and Life of Aida Hernandez by Aaron Bobrow-Strain
Non-Fiction Published in Year: 2019
371 books — 90 voters

White Rage by Carol AndersonThe Classic Slave Narratives-paperback by Henry Louis Gates Jr.Lies My Teacher Told Me by James W. LoewenThe Color of Law by Richard RothsteinSister Citizen by Melissa V. Harris-Perry
#BlackLivesMatter Reading List
625 books — 292 voters
When Death Comes Stealing by Valerie Wilson WesleyIf I Should Die by Grace F. EdwardsBlanche Cleans Up by Barbara NeelyThe Unquiet Dead by Ausma Zehanat KhanDead Time by Eleanor Taylor Bland
Mystery & Detective Novels by Women of Color
139 books — 85 voters

The Polysyllabic Spree by Nick HornbyThe Nanny Diaries by Emma McLaughlinBalzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai SijieThe Master and Margarita by Mikhail BulgakovDaughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende
Rory's Book Club
173 books — 91 voters
The Mirror of Beauty by Shamsur Rahman FaruqiThe Sun that Rose from the Earth by Shamsur Rahman Faruqi
Task 9 #ReadHarder 2019
216 books — 23 voters

Amazing Grace by Jonathan KozolBehind the Beautiful Forevers by Katherine BooAmerican Dream by Jason DeParleThe Price of Thirst by Karen PiperWhen Affirmative Action Was White by Ira Katznelson
Books on Poverty and Inequality
218 books — 116 voters
Killers of the Flower Moon by David GrannEvicted by Matthew DesmondDirectorate S by Steve CollWar on Peace by Ronan FarrowThe World As It Is by Ben Rhodes
Fresh Air 2018
160 books — 58 voters

An American Summer by Alex KotlowitzInvisible Women by Caroline Criado PérezWorking by Robert A. CaroMaid by Stephanie LandFrederick Douglass by David W. Blight
Fresh Air 2019 (Jan-June)
53 books — 14 voters
Red Mandarin Dress by Qiu Xiaolong
CHINESE crime noir, detective mysteries and thrillers set in CHINA
43 books — 22 voters

Like Water for Chocolate by Laura EsquivelInvisible Man by Ralph EllisonSnow Falling on Cedars by David GutersonMurder in Samarkand by Craig MurrayChina in Ten Words by Yu Hua
New York Times 52 Books for 52 Places
52 books — 3 voters
Winners Take All by Anand GiridharadasThe Fifth Risk by Michael LewisBad Blood by John CarreyrouThe Library Book by Susan OrleanEternal Life by Dara Horn
NYT 100 Notable Books of 2018
100 books — 82 voters

Gaudy Night by Dorothy L. SayersIn the Last Analysis by Amanda CrossThus Was Adonis Murdered by Sarah CaudwellThe Moving Toyshop by Edmund CrispinCrocodile on the Sandbank by Elizabeth Peters
Mystery Novels about Academia and Academics
190 books — 17 voters
The Feather Thief by Kirk Wallace JohnsonSomething Wonderful by Todd S. PurdumFrederick Douglass by David W. BlightHeartland by Sarah SmarshThe Tangled Tree by David Quammen
Non-Fiction Published in Year: 2018
401 books — 185 voters

Priestdaddy by Patricia LockwoodVoices from Chernobyl by Svetlana AlexievichA Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon JamesFamily Life by Akhil SharmaMen We Reaped by Jesmyn Ward
A Premature Attempt at the 21st Century Canon
100 books — 22 voters
City of Shadows by Ariana Franklin
Fiction featuring the Romanov Family
77 books — 111 voters

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca SklootHomicide by David Simon
Baltimore
202 books — 46 voters
Our Mutual Friend by Charles DickensHaroun and the Sea of Stories by Salman RushdieEvil Under the Sun by Agatha ChristieThe Turn of the Screw by Henry JamesJurassic Park by Michael Crichton
LOST Book Club
80 books — 119 voters

White Rage by Carol AndersonAll the Single Ladies by Rebecca TraisterIn the Country We Love by Diane GuerreroShrill by Lindy WestThe Arab of the Future 3 by Riad Sattouf
Non-Fiction Published in Year: 2016
106 books — 16 voters
What Happened by Hillary Rodham ClintonThe Vanity Fair Diaries by Tina BrownKillers of the Flower Moon by David GrannNo One Can Pronounce My Name by Rakesh SatyalAmerican Fire by Monica Hesse
Non-Fiction Published in Year: 2017
188 books — 32 voters

The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel WilkersonEmpire of the Summer Moon by S.C. GwynneA Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer EganThe Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca SklootThe Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest by Stieg Larsson
New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2010 (fiction and nonfiction)
100 books — 664 voters
The Round House by Louise ErdrichSpillover by David QuammenBlasphemy by Sherman AlexieThis Is How You Lose Her by Junot DíazBehind the Beautiful Forevers by Katherine Boo
New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2012 (fiction and nonfiction)
100 books — 506 voters

Empire of Cotton by Sven BeckertThe Beautiful Bureaucrat by Helen PhillipsThe Unraveling by Emma Sky$2.00 a Day by Kathryn J. EdinKatrina by Gary Rivlin
New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2015 (fiction and nonfiction)
100 books — 205 voters
Ohio by Stephen MarkleyMacbeth by Jo NesbøThe Broken Girls by Simone St. JamesSpinning Silver by Naomi Novik
Best Books of 2018
1,652 books — 2,959 voters


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