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Works (811)

TitlesOrder
Benjamin Franklin, American Genius: His Life and Ideas with 21 Activities (For Kids series) by Brandon Marie Miller
The Bone Detectives: How Forensic Anthropologists Solve Crimes and Uncover Mysteries of the Dead by Donna M. Jackson
Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators by Ronan Farrow
Extreme Scientists: Exploring Nature's Mysteries from Perilous Places (Scientists in the Field Series) by Donna M. Jackson
Paper Towns by John Green
Very, Very, Very Dreadful: The Influenza Pandemic of 1918 by Albert Marrin
Detransition, Baby by Torrey Peters — not in English Common Knowledge 2021
Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty by Patrick Radden Keefe — not in English Common Knowledge 2021
The Five Wounds by Kirstin Valdez Quade — not in English Common Knowledge 2021
Harlem Shuffle by Colson Whitehead — not in English Common Knowledge 2021
The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers — not in English Common Knowledge 2021
Matrix by Lauren Groff — not in English Common Knowledge 2021
The Sentence by Louise Erdrich 2021
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson — not in English Common Knowledge 2020
The City We Became by N. K. Jemisin — not in English Common Knowledge 2020
The Cold Millions by Jess Walter 2020
Deacon King Kong by James McBride — not in English Common Knowledge 2020
Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell — not in English Common Knowledge 2020
Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family by Robert Kolker — not in English Common Knowledge 2020
Leave the World Behind by Rumaan Alam — not in English Common Knowledge 2020
Luster by Raven Leilani — not in English Common Knowledge 2020
Memorial Drive: A Daughter's Memoir by Natasha Trethewey — not in English Common Knowledge 2020
Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart — not in English Common Knowledge 2020
The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett — not in English Common Knowledge 2020
Circus: An Album by DK1998
The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan2005
The Outcasts of 19 Schuyler Place by E. L. Konigsburg2005
The Seer of Shadows by Avi2008
The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate by Jacqueline Kelly2010
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr — not in English Common KnowledgeTop ten, 2014
I Am Pilgrim by Terry Hayes — not in English Common KnowledgeFiction, 2014
Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer — not in English Common KnowledgeFiction, 2014
Astoria: John Jacob Astor and Thomas Jefferson's Lost Pacific Empire: A Story of Wealth, Ambition, and Survival by Peter Stark — not in English Common KnowledgeNonfiction, 2014
Bad Feminist: Essays by Roxane Gay — not in English Common KnowledgeTop ten, 2014
Bedrock Faith by Eric Charles May — not in English Common KnowledgeFiction, 2014
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande — not in English Common KnowledgeNonfiction, 2014
Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty — not in English Common KnowledgeTop ten, 2014
The Birth of the Pill: How Four Crusaders Reinvented Sex and Launched a Revolution by Jonathan Eig — not in English Common KnowledgeNonfiction, 2014
The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell — not in English Common KnowledgeFiction, 2014
The Book of Unknown Americans by Cristina Henríquez — not in English Common KnowledgeFiction, 2014
A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James — not in English Common KnowledgeTop ten, 2014
Can't We Talk about Something More Pleasant? A Memoir by Roz Chast — not in English Common KnowledgeTop ten, 2014
Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Piketty — not in English Common KnowledgeNonfiction, 2014
Citizens Creek : a novel by Lalita Tademy — not in English Common KnowledgeFiction, 2014
Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage by Haruki Murakami — not in English Common KnowledgeFiction, 2014
The Dead in Their Vaulted Arches by Alan Bradley — not in English Common KnowledgeFiction, 2014
Deep Down Dark: The Untold Stories of 33 Men Buried in a Chilean Mine, and the Miracle That Set Them Free by Héctor Tobar — not in English Common KnowledgeNonfiction, 2014
Dept. of Speculation by Jenny Offill — not in English Common KnowledgeFiction, 2014
Dr. Mutter's Marvels: A True Tale of Intrigue and Innovation at the Dawn of Modern Medicine by Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz — not in English Common KnowledgeNonfiction, 2014
The Empathy Exams: Essays by Leslie Jamison — not in English Common KnowledgeNonfiction, 2014
Empire of Sin: A Story of Sex, Jazz, Murder, and the Battle for Modern New Orleans by Gary Krist — not in English Common KnowledgeNonfiction, 2014
The Enchanted by Rene Denfeld — not in English Common KnowledgeFiction, 2014
The Escape by Mary Balogh — not in English Common KnowledgeFiction, 2014
Euphoria by Lily King — not in English Common KnowledgeTop ten, 2014
Fire Shut Up in My Bones by Charles M. Blow — not in English Common KnowledgeNonfiction, 2014
Five Came Back: A Story of Hollywood and the Second World War by Mark Harris — not in English Common KnowledgeNonfiction, 2014
Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt by Michael Lewis — not in English Common KnowledgeNonfiction, 2014
The Good Spy: The Life and Death of Robert Ames by Kai Bird — not in English Common KnowledgeNonfiction, 2014
The Guts by Roddy Doyle — not in English Common KnowledgeFiction, 2014
The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism by Edward E. BaptistNonfiction, 2014
How We Got to Now: Six Innovations That Made the Modern World by Steven Johnson — not in English Common KnowledgeNonfiction, 2014
I'll Take You There: Mavis Staples, the Staple Singers, and the March up Freedom's Highway by Greg Kot — not in English Common KnowledgeNonfiction, 2014
In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette by Hampton Sides — not in English Common KnowledgeNonfiction, 2014
The Innovators: How a Group of Inventors, Hackers, Geniuses and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution by Walter Isaacson — not in English Common KnowledgeNonfiction, 2014
The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd — not in English Common KnowledgeFiction, 2014
The Invisible Bridge: The Fall of Nixon and the Rise of Reagan by Rick Perlstein — not in English Common KnowledgeNonfiction, 2014
Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson — not in English Common KnowledgeNonfiction, 2014
Lila by Marilynne Robinson — not in English Common KnowledgeFiction, 2014
Lives in Ruins: Archaeologists and the Seductive Lure of Human Rubble by Marilyn Johnson — not in English Common KnowledgeNonfiction, 2014
The Long Way Home by Louise Penny — not in English Common KnowledgeFiction, 2014
The Magician's Land by Lev Grossman — not in English Common KnowledgeFiction, 2014
The Martian by Andy Weir — not in English Common KnowledgeFiction, 2014
Michael Jordan: The Life by Roland Lazenby — not in English Common KnowledgeNonfiction, 2014
The Nazis Next Door: How America Became a Safe Haven for Hitler's Men by Eric Lichtblau — not in English Common KnowledgeNonfiction, 2014
No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State by Glenn Greenwald — not in English Common KnowledgeNonfiction, 2014
Nora Webster by Colm Tóibín — not in English Common KnowledgeFiction, 2014
Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's Learned by Lena DunhamNonfiction, 2014
On Immunity: An Inoculation by Eula Biss — not in English Common KnowledgeTop ten, 2014
The One Plus One by Jojo Moyes — not in English Common KnowledgeFiction, 2014
Orfeo by Richard Powers — not in English Common KnowledgeFiction, 2014
The Paying Guests by Sarah Waters — not in English Common KnowledgeFiction, 2014
The Peripheral by William Gibson — not in English Common KnowledgeFiction, 2014
Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More by Janet Mock — not in English Common KnowledgeNonfiction, 2014
Redeployment by Phil Klay — not in English Common KnowledgeTop ten, 2014
The Secret Place by Tana French — not in English Common KnowledgeFiction, 2014
The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace: A Brilliant Young Man Who Left Newark for the Ivy League by Jeff Hobbs — not in English Common KnowledgeNonfiction, 2014
The Silkworm by Robert Galbraith — not in English Common KnowledgeFiction, 2014
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History by Elizabeth Kolbert — not in English Common KnowledgeTop ten, 2014
Skin Game by Jim Butcher — not in English Common KnowledgeFiction, 2014
Some Luck by Jane Smiley — not in English Common KnowledgeFiction, 2014
A Spy Among Friends: Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal by Ben Macintyre — not in English Common KnowledgeNonfiction, 2014
Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel — not in English Common KnowledgeTop ten, 2014
The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons: The History of the Human Brain as Revealed by True Stories of Trauma, Madness, and Recovery by Sam Kean — not in English Common KnowledgeNonfiction, 2014
This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate by Naomi Klein — not in English Common KnowledgeNonfiction, 2014
Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay by Elena Ferrante — not in English Common KnowledgeFiction, 2014
An Untamed State by Roxane Gay — not in English Common KnowledgeFiction, 2014
Us by David Nicholls — not in English Common KnowledgeFiction, 2014
We are Not Ourselves by Matthew Thomas — not in English Common KnowledgeFiction, 2014
What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions by Randall Munroe — not in English Common KnowledgeNonfiction, 2014
Wolf by Mo Hayder — not in English Common KnowledgeFiction, 2014
Written in My Own Heart's Blood by Diana Gabaldon — not in English Common KnowledgeFiction, 2014
Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future by Peter Thiel — not in English Common KnowledgeNonfiction, 2014
The Aeronaut's Windlass by Jim ButcherFiction, 2015
Best Boy by Eli Gottlieb — not in English Common KnowledgeFiction, 2015
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates — not in English Common KnowledgeTop ten, 2015
Black-Eyed Susans by Julia HeaberlinFiction, 2015
The Book of Aron by Jim Shepard — not in English Common KnowledgeFiction, 2015
The Cartel by Don WinslowTop ten, 2015
Church of Marvels by Leslie Parry 2015
City on Fire by Garth Risk Hallberg — not in English Common KnowledgeFiction, 2015
A Curious Beginning by Deanna RaybournFiction, 2015
A Darker Shade of Magic by V. E. SchwabFiction, 2015
Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania by Erik LarsonTop ten, 2015
Delicious Foods by James Hannaham — not in English Common KnowledgeTop ten, 2015
Displacement: A Travelogue by Lucy KnisleyNonfiction, 2015
Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death, and Brain Surgery by Henry Marsh — not in English Common KnowledgeNonfiction, 2015
Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic by Sam QuinonesNonfiction, 2015
Epitaph by Mary Doria RussellFiction, 2015
Fates and Furies by Lauren Groff — not in English Common KnowledgeFiction, 2015
Furiously Happy by Jenny LawsonNonfiction, 2015
The Gay Revolution: The Story of the Struggle by Lillian FadermanNonfiction, 2015
Ghettoside: A True Story of Murder in America by Jill Leovy 2015
Girl at War by Sara Novic — not in English Common KnowledgeFiction, 2015
Girl Waits With Gun by Amy StewartFiction, 2015
H Is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald — not in English Common KnowledgeTop ten, 2015
Hold Still: A Memoir with Photographs by Sally Mann — not in English Common KnowledgeNonfiction, 2015
Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl: A Memoir by Carrie BrownsteinNonfiction, 2015
In the Country: Stories by Mia AlvarFiction, 2015
The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World by Andrea Wulf — not in English Common KnowledgeNonfiction, 2015
Jade Dragon Mountain by Elsa Hart — not in English Common KnowledgeFiction, 2015
Jimmy Bluefeather by Kim HeacoxFiction, 2015
Kitchens of the Great Midwest by J. Ryan StradalTop ten, 2015
The Light of the World: A Memoir by Elizabeth AlexanderNonfiction, 2015
A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara — not in English Common KnowledgeFiction, 2015
A Manual for Cleaning Women: Selected Stories by Lucia Berlin — not in English Common KnowledgeFiction, 2015
The Mare by Mary Gaitskill — not in English Common KnowledgeFiction, 2015
Negroland: A Memoir by Margo JeffersonNonfiction, 2015
The Nightingale by Kristin HannahTop ten, 2015
One of Us: The Story of Anders Breivik and the Massacre in Norway by Åsne SeierstadNonfiction, 2015
Our Souls at Night by Kent HarufFiction, 2015
Pirate Hunters: Treasure, Obsession, and the Search for a Legendary Pirate Ship by Robert Kurson — not in English Common KnowledgeNonfiction, 2015
Pretty Girls by Karin SlaughterFiction, 2015
Purity by Jonathan Franzen — not in English Common KnowledgeFiction, 2015
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah HarariTop ten, 2015
The Sellout by Paul Beatty — not in English Common KnowledgeFiction, 2015
The Shepherd's Life: Modern Dispatches from an Ancient Landscape by James Rebanks — not in English Common KnowledgeNonfiction, 2015
Slade House by David Mitchell — not in English Common KnowledgeFiction, 2015
So You've Been Publicly Shamed by Jon Ronson 2015
SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome by Mary Beard — not in English Common KnowledgeNonfiction, 2015
The Story of the Lost Child by Elena Ferrante — not in English Common KnowledgeTop ten, 2015
The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen — not in English Common Knowledge 2015
This Is Your Life, Harriet Chance! by Jonathan EvisonFiction, 2015
Uprooted by Naomi NovikFiction, 2015
The Wright Brothers by David McCulloughNonfiction, 2015
All the Single Ladies: Unmarried Women and the Rise of an Independent Nation by Rebecca Traister2016
American Heiress: The Wild Saga of the Kidnapping, Crimes and Trial of Patty Hearst by Jeffrey Toobin — not in English Common Knowledge2016
Another Brooklyn: A Novel by Jacqueline Woodson — not in English Common Knowledge2016
Another Day in the Death of America by Gary Younge — not in English Common Knowledge2016
Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are? by Frans de Waal2016
The Arm: Inside the Billion-Dollar Mystery of the Most Valuable Commodity in Sports by Jeff Passan2016
At the Existentialist Café: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails with Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Albert Camus, Martin Heidegger, Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Others by Sarah Bakewell — not in English Common Knowledge2016
Barkskins by Annie Proulx2016
Before the Fall by Noah Hawley2016
Behold the Dreamers by Imbolo Mbue — not in English Common Knowledge2016
Bellevue: Three Centuries of Medicine and Mayhem at America's Most Storied Hospital by David Oshinsky2016
Blood at the Root: A Racial Cleansing in America by Patrick Phillips — not in English Common KnowledgeTop ten, 2016
Born to Run: The Autobiography by Bruce Springsteen2016
Brighton by Michael Harvey — not in English Common Knowledge2016
Children of the New World: Stories by Alexander Weinstein — not in English Common Knowledge2016
Commonwealth by Ann Patchett — not in English Common KnowledgeTop ten, 2016
I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life by Ed Yong2016
Dark Matter by Blake Crouch2016
Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right by Jane Mayer — not in English Common Knowledge2016
Darktown by Thomas Mullen2016
Do Not Say We Have Nothing by Madeleine Thien — not in English Common Knowledge2016
Dodgers by Bill Beverly — not in English Common Knowledge2016
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond — not in English Common KnowledgeTop ten, 2016
The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks about Race by Jesmyn Ward — not in English Common Knowledge2016
The Firebrand and the First Lady: Portrait of a Friendship: Pauli Murray, Eleanor Roosevelt, and the Struggle for Social Justice by Patricia Bell-Scott — not in English Common Knowledge2016
The Gene: An Intimate History by Siddhartha Mukherjee — not in English Common Knowledge2016
A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles2016
The Girls by Emma ClineTop ten, 2016
The Glorious Heresies by Lisa McInerney — not in English Common Knowledge2016
Grief is the Thing with Feathers by Max Porter — not in English Common Knowledge2016
Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War by Mary Roach — not in English Common Knowledge2016
Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race by Margot Lee Shetterly — not in English Common Knowledge2016
His Bloody Project: Documents Relating to the Case of Roderick Macrae by Graeme Macrae Burnet — not in English Common Knowledge2016
Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi — not in English Common Knowledge2016
Imagine Me Gone by Adam Haslett — not in English Common Knowledge2016
In the Country We Love: My Family Divided by Diane Guerrero2016
In the Darkroom by Susan Faludi — not in English Common Knowledge2016
The Invisible Library by Genevieve Cogman — not in English Common Knowledge2016
Jane Steele by Lyndsay Faye2016
Kill 'Em and Leave: Searching for James Brown and the American Soul by James McBride — not in English Common Knowledge2016
Lab Girl by Hope Jahren — not in English Common KnowledgeTop ten, 2016
The Last Painting of Sara de Vos by Dominic Smith — not in English Common Knowledge2016
I Let You Go by Clare Mackintosh — not in English Common Knowledge2016
Lilac Girls by Martha Hall Kelly2016
Mischling by Affinity Konar2016
Miss Jane by Brad Watson — not in English Common Knowledge2016
Moonglow by Michael Chabon — not in English Common Knowledge2016
Morning Star by Pierce Brown2016
The Mothers by Brit Bennett — not in English Common Knowledge2016
My Name Is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout — not in English Common Knowledge2016
News of the World by Paulette Jiles — not in English Common KnowledgeTop ten, 2016
The Nix by Nathan Hill2016
The North Water by Ian McGuire — not in English Common Knowledge2016
The Return: Fathers, Sons and the Land in Between by Hisham Matar — not in English Common Knowledge2016
Rise of the Rocket Girls: The Women Who Propelled Us, from Missiles to the Moon to Mars by Nathalia Holt — not in English Common Knowledge2016
Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets by Svetlana Alexievich — not in English Common Knowledge2016
The Secrets of Wishtide by Kate Saunders — not in English Common Knowledge2016
Seven Brief Lessons on Physics by Carlo Rovelli2016
Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman by Lindy West2016
The South Side: A Portrait of Chicago and American Segregation by Natalie Y. Moore2016
Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right by Arlie Russell Hochschild — not in English Common Knowledge2016
A Study in Scarlet Women by Sherry Thomas2016
The Summer Before the War by Helen Simonson — not in English Common Knowledge2016
Swing Time by Zadie Smith — not in English Common KnowledgeTop ten, 2016
Thus Bad Begins by Javier Marías2016
To the Bright Edge of the World by Eowyn Ivey — not in English Common Knowledge2016
The Trespasser by Tana French2016
The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead — not in English Common Knowledge 2016
Unseen City: The Majesty of Pigeons, the Discreet Charm of Snails & Other Wonders of the Urban Wilderness by Nathanael Johnson — not in English Common Knowledge2016
The Vegetarian by Han Kang — not in English Common KnowledgeTop ten, 2016
Victoria: The Queen by Julia Baird2016
Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy by Cathy O'NeilTop ten, 2016
What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours by Helen Oyeyemi2016
Whatever Happened to Interracial Love?: Stories by Kathleen Collins — not in English Common Knowledge2016
When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi2016
White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America by Nancy Isenberg — not in English Common Knowledge2016
The Widow by Fiona Barton2016
Wolf Boys: Two American Teenagers and Mexico's Most Dangerous Drug Cartel by Dan Slater — not in English Common Knowledge2016
The Wonder by Emma Donoghue — not in English Common Knowledge2016
Ali: A Life by Jonathan Eig2017
The Alice Network by Kate Quinn2017
Alone: Britain, Churchill, and Dunkirk: Defeat Into Victory by Michael Korda — not in English Common Knowledge2017
American War by Omar El Akkad — not in English Common Knowledge2017
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry by Neil deGrasse Tyson2017
Autumn by Ali Smith — not in English Common Knowledge2017
The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden2017
Beartown by Fredrik Backman — not in English Common Knowledge2017
Becoming Ms. Burton: From Prison to Recovery to Leading the Fight for Incarcerated Women by Susan Burton2017
The Blood of Emmett Till by Timothy B. Tyson — not in English Common Knowledge2017
Bluebird, Bluebird by Attica Locke2017
Body Horror: Capitalism, Fear, Misogyny, Jokes by Anne Elizabeth Moore2017
Borne by Jeff VanderMeer2017
The Bright Hour: A Memoir of Living and Dying by Nina Riggs — not in English Common Knowledge2017
Bunk: The Rise of Hoaxes, Humbug, Plagiarists, Phonies, Post-Facts, and Fake News by Kevin Young — not in English Common Knowledge2017
Cannibalism: A Perfectly Natural History by Bill Schutt — not in English Common Knowledge2017
Caroline: Little House, Revisited by Sarah Miller2017
Chester B. Himes: A Biography by Lawrence P. Jackson2017
The City of Brass by S. A. Chakraborty2017
Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers of World War II by Liza Mundy2017
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein — not in English Common Knowledge2017
The Cooking Gene: A Journey Through African American Culinary History in the Old South by Michael W. Twitty — not in English Common Knowledge2017
Days without End by Sebastian Barry — not in English Common Knowledge2017
The Death and Life of the Great Lakes by Dan Egan — not in English Common Knowledge2017
Defectors by Joseph Kanon — not in English Common Knowledge2017
Difficult Women by Roxane Gay2017
The Dry by Jane Harper — not in English Common Knowledge2017
Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman — not in English Common Knowledge2017
Electric Arches by Eve L. EwingTop ten, 2017
Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows by Balli Kaur Jaswal2017
The Essex Serpent by Sarah Perry — not in English Common Knowledge2017
Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are by Seth Stephens-Davidowitz — not in English Common Knowledge2017
Exit West by Mohsin Hamid — not in English Common KnowledgeTop ten, 2017
An Extraordinary Union by Alyssa Cole2017
The Fact of a Body: A Murder and a Memoir by Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich — not in English Common Knowledge2017
Fever Dream by Samanta Schweblin — not in English Common Knowledge2017
Five-Carat Soul by James McBride2017
The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia by Masha Gessen — not in English Common Knowledge2017
Gilded Cage by Vic James2017
Ginny Moon by Benjamin Ludwig — not in English Common Knowledge2017
Golden Hill by Francis Spufford — not in English Common Knowledge2017
Good Me Bad Me by Ali Land2017
Grant by Ron Chernow — not in English Common Knowledge2017
Grief Cottage by Gail Godwin2017
Henry David Thoreau: A Life by Laura Dassow Walls — not in English Common Knowledge2017
Her Body and Other Parties: Stories by Carmen Maria Machado — not in English Common Knowledge2017
History of Wolves by Emily Fridlund — not in English Common Knowledge2017
Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie — not in English Common Knowledge2017
Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow by Yuval Noah Harari — not in English Common Knowledge2017
Hostage by Guy Delisle — not in English Common Knowledge2017
Hue 1968: A Turning Point of the American War in Vietnam by Mark Bowden2017
Human Acts by Kang Han — not in English Common Knowledge2017
Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body by Roxane Gay — not in English Common KnowledgeTop ten, 2017
The Hunting Accident: A True Story of Crime and Poetry by David L. Carlson — not in English Common Knowledge2017
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann — not in English Common KnowledgeTop ten, 2017
A Kind of Freedom by Margaret Wilkerson Sexton — not in English Common Knowledge2017
The Last Ballad by Wiley Cash2017
The Last Mrs. Parrish by Liv Constantine2017
A Legacy of Spies by John le Carré2017
Leonardo da Vinci by Walter Isaacson2017
Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk by Kathleen Rooney2017
Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders — not in English Common KnowledgeTop ten, 2017
Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste NgTop ten, 2017
The Lost City of the Monkey God: A True Story by Douglas Preston2017
Lucía the Luchadora by Cynthia Leonor Garza2017
The Lying Game by Ruth Ware2017
Magpie Murders by Anthony Horowitz2017
Manhattan Beach by Jennifer Egan — not in English Common KnowledgeTop ten, 2017
My Favorite Thing Is Monsters by Emil FerrisTop ten, 2017
The Ninth Hour by Alice McDermott — not in English Common Knowledge2017
Nomadland by Jessica Bruder2017
Notes on a Foreign Country: An American Abroad in a Post-American World by Suzy Hansen2017
An Odyssey: A Father, A Son, and an Epic by Daniel Mendelsohn — not in English Common Knowledge2017
Pachinko by Min Jin Lee — not in English Common KnowledgeTop ten, 2017
The Power by Naomi Alderman — not in English Common Knowledge2017
Rabbit Cake by Annie Hartnett2017
Rabbit: The Autobiography of Ms. Pat by Patricia Williams — not in English Common Knowledge2017
The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women by Kate Moore2017
The Refugees {stories} by Viet Thanh Nguyen2017
Reincarnation Blues: A Novel by Michael Poore — not in English Common Knowledge2017
The Rules Do Not Apply: A Memoir by Ariel Levy — not in English Common Knowledge2017
Setting Free the Kites by Alex George — not in English Common Knowledge2017
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid2017
Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward — not in English Common KnowledgeTop ten, 2017
Solar Bones by Mike McCormack — not in English Common Knowledge2017
Sourdough by Robin Sloan2017
Stay with Me by Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀ — not in English Common Knowledge2017
Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America by Michael Eric Dyson2017
Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in 40 Questions by Valeria Luiselli — not in English Common Knowledge2017
This is How It Always Is by Laurie Frankel2017
This Is How We Do It: One Day in the Lives of Seven Kids from around the World by Matt Lamothe2017
An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon2017
We Are Never Meeting in Real Life: Essays by Samantha Irby — not in English Common Knowledge2017
We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy by Ta-Nehisi Coates — not in English Common Knowledge2017
We're Going to Need More Wine: Stories That Are Funny, Complicated, and True by Gabrielle Union2017
What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky by Lesley Nneka Arimah — not in English Common Knowledge2017
What She Ate: Six Remarkable Women and the Food That Tells Their Stories by Laura Shapiro — not in English Common Knowledge2017
Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries by Kory Stamper — not in English Common Knowledge2017
The Wrong Way to Save Your Life: Essays by Megan Stielstra — not in English Common Knowledge2017
You Don't Have to Say You Love Me: A Memoir by Sherman Alexie — not in English Common Knowledge2017
Young Jane Young by Gabrielle Zevin2017
All You Can Ever Know: A Memoir by Nicole Chung — not in English Common Knowledge2018
America Is Not the Heart by Elaine Castillo2018
An American Marriage by Tayari Jones — not in English Common KnowledgeTop ten, 2018
American Prison: A Reporter's Undercover Journey into the Business of Punishment by Shane Bauer — not in English Common Knowledge2018
Asymmetry by Lisa Halliday — not in English Common Knowledge2018
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup by John Carreyrou — not in English Common Knowledge2018
Bearskin by James A. McLaughlin2018
Beneath a Ruthless Sun: A True Story of Violence, Race, and Justice Lost and Found by Gilbert King2018
The Big Fella: Babe Ruth and the World He Created by Jane Leavy2018
Blackfish City by Sam J. Miller2018
Burning Down the Haus: Punk Rock, Revolution, and the Fall of the Berlin Wall by Tim Mohr2018
The Cabin at the End of the World by Paul Tremblay2018
Calypso by David Sedaris2018
Circe by Madeline Miller — not in English Common KnowledgeTop ten, 2018
The Court Dancer by Kyung-sook Shin2018
The Death of Mrs. Westaway by Ruth Ware2018
Directorate S: The C.I.A. and America's Secret Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan by Steve Coll — not in English Common Knowledge2018
Disoriental by Négar Djavadi — not in English Common Knowledge2018
Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America by Beth Macy2018
Educated: A Memoir by Tara Westover2018
Eternal Life: A Novel by Dara Horn2018
Everything Here Is Beautiful by Mira T. Lee2018
A False Report: A True Story of Rape in America by T. Christian Miller2018
The Feather Thief: Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century by Kirk Wallace Johnson2018
Feel Free: Essays by Zadie Smith2018
The Female Persuasion by Meg Wolitzer2018
Flights by Olga Tokarczuk — not in English Common Knowledge2018
Florida by Lauren Groff — not in English Common Knowledge2018
Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom by David W. Blight — not in English Common Knowledge2018
Freshwater by Akwaeke Emezi2018
Friday Black by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah2018
The Friend by Sigrid Nunez — not in English Common Knowledge2018
Fruit of the Drunken Tree by Ingrid Rojas Contreras2018
The Girl Who Smiled Beads: A Story of War and What Comes After by Clemantine Wamariya2018
Girls Burn Brighter by Shobha Rao2018
God Save Texas: A Journey into the Soul of the Lone Star State by Lawrence Wright2018
The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai — not in English Common KnowledgeTop ten, 2018
Heads of the Colored People: Stories by Nafissa Thompson-Spires — not in English Common Knowledge2018
Heart Berries: A Memoir by Terese Marie Mailhot — not in English Common Knowledge2018
Heartland: A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth by Sarah Smarsh — not in English Common Knowledge2018
Heavy: An American Memoir by Kiese LaymonTop ten, 2018
High-Risers: Cabrini-Green and the Fate of American Public Housing by Ben Austen2018
The House of Broken Angels by Luis Alberto Urrea2018
How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence by Michael Pollan — not in English Common Knowledge2018
How to Write an Autobiographical Novel: Essays by Alexander Chee — not in English Common Knowledge2018
I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer by Michelle McNamara — not in English Common KnowledgeTop ten, 2018
The Kiss Quotient by Helen Hoang2018
A Ladder to the Sky by John Boyne — not in English Common Knowledge2018
The Lake on Fire by Rosellen Brown — not in English Common Knowledge2018
The Largesse of the Sea Maiden: Stories by Denis Johnson — not in English Common Knowledge2018
The Library Book by Susan Orlean — not in English Common Knowledge2018
The Line Becomes a River: Dispatches from the Border by Francisco Cantú2018
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Read Dangerously: The Subversive Power of Literature in Troubled Times by Azar Nafisi — not in English Common Knowledge2022
Sandy Hook: An American Tragedy and the Battle for Truth by Elizabeth Williamson — not in English Common Knowledge2022
Scattered All Over the Earth by Yōko Tawada — not in English Common Knowledge2022
The School for Good Mothers by Jessamine Chan — not in English Common Knowledge2022
Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel — not in English Common Knowledge2022
Seeking Fortune Elsewhere by Sindya Bhanoo2022
Siren Queen by Nghi Vo2022
Solito: A Memoir by Javier Zamora — not in English Common KnowledgeTop ten, 2022
Stay True: A Memoir by Hua Hsu — not in English Common KnowledgeTop ten, 2022
Sweet, Soft, Plenty Rhythm by Laura Warrell — not in English Common Knowledge2022
The Swimmers by Julie Otsuka2022
Take My Hand by Dolen Perkins-Valdez — not in English Common Knowledge2022
Tasha: A Son's Memoir by Brian Morton — not in English Common Knowledge2022
This Time Tomorrow by Emma Straub — not in English Common Knowledge2022
Thistlefoot by GennaRose Nethercott — not in English Common Knowledge2022
Time Is a Mother by Ocean Vuong — not in English Common Knowledge2022
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin — not in English Common KnowledgeTop ten, 2022
The Treeline: The Last Forest and the Future of Life on Earth by Ben Rawlence — not in English Common Knowledge2022
True Biz by Sara Novic — not in English Common Knowledge2022
Trust by Hernan Diaz — not in English Common Knowledge2022
Under the Skin: The Hidden Toll of Racism on American Lives and on the Health of Our Nation by Linda Villarosa2022
Vagina Obscura: An Anatomical Voyage by Rachel E. Gross — not in English Common Knowledge2022
The Village Idiot by Steve Stern — not in English Common Knowledge2022
The Violin Conspiracy by Brendan Slocumb — not in English Common Knowledge2022
The Viral Underclass: The Human Toll When Inequality and Disease Collide by Steven W. Thrasher2022
Vladimir by Julia May Jonas — not in English Common Knowledge2022
We Don't Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Modern Ireland by Fintan O'Toole — not in English Common Knowledge2022
What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma by Stephanie Foo — not in English Common Knowledge2022
When Women Were Dragons by Kelly Barnhill — not in English Common Knowledge2022
Yonder by Jabari Asim — not in English Common Knowledge2022
Young Mungo by Douglas Stuart — not in English Common Knowledge2022