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Works (146)

TitlesOrder
Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Thomas PikettyU.K., 2014
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah2016
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond — not in English Common Knowledge2016
The Girls by Emma Cline2016
Grief is the Thing with Feathers by Max Porter — not in English Common Knowledge2016
Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi — not in English Common Knowledge2016
How to Be a Person in the World: Ask Polly's Guide Through the Paradoxes of Modern Life by Heather Havrilesky — not in English Common Knowledge2016
Innocents and Others by Dana Spiotta2016
Lust & Wonder: A Memoir by Augusten Burroughs2016
Party of One: A Memoir in 21 Songs by Dave Holmes — not in English Common Knowledge2016
Problems by Jade Sharma — not in English Common Knowledge2016
Proxies: Essays Near Knowing by Brian Blanchfield2016
The Queen of the Night by Alexander Chee2016
The Red Parts: Autobiography of a Trial by Maggie Nelson — not in English Common Knowledge2016
The Return: Fathers, Sons and the Land in Between by Hisham Matar — not in English Common Knowledge2016
Rich and Pretty by Rumaan Alam — not in English Common Knowledge2016
Seinfeldia: How a Show About Nothing Changed Everything by Jennifer Keishin Armstrong — not in English Common Knowledge2016
Seven Brief Lessons on Physics by Carlo Rovelli2016
Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman by Lindy West2016
Sweetbitter by Stephanie Danler — not in English Common Knowledge2016
Swing Time by Zadie Smith — not in English Common Knowledge2016
The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead — not in English Common Knowledge2016
Victoria: The Queen by Julia Baird2016
What Belongs to You by Garth Greenwell2016
What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours by Helen Oyeyemi — not in English Common Knowledge2016
Abandon Me: Memoirs by Melissa Febos2017
American War by Omar El Akkad — not in English Common Knowledge2017
The Answers by Catherine Lacey — not in English Common Knowledge2017
Anything Is Possible by Elizabeth Strout — not in English Common Knowledge2017
The Arrangement: A Novel by Sarah Dunn — not in English Common Knowledge2017
Artemis by Andy Weir2017
Autumn by Karl Ove Knausgård — not in English Common Knowledge2017
The Awkward Thoughts of W. Kamau Bell by W. Kamau Bell — not in English Common Knowledge2017
The Book of Joan by Lidia Yuknavitch2017
Celine by Peter Heller2017
The Destroyers by Christopher Bollen — not in English Common Knowledge2017
The Dinner Party: Stories by Joshua Ferris — not in English Common Knowledge2017
Eastman Was Here by Alex Gilvarry — not in English Common Knowledge2017
Exit West by Mohsin Hamid — not in English Common Knowledge2017
Forest Dark by Nicole Krauss2017
The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia by Masha Gessen — not in English Common Knowledge2017
The Golden House: A Novel by Salman Rushdie2017
Goodbye, Vitamin by Rachel Khong2017
Grace by Paul Lynch2017
Heather, the Totality by Matthew Weiner — not in English Common Knowledge2017
Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders — not in English Common Knowledge2017
Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng2017
Magpie Murders by Anthony Horowitz2017
Manhattan Beach by Jennifer Egan — not in English Common Knowledge2017
Marlena by Julie Buntin2017
Men Without Women by Haruki Murakami — not in English Common Knowledge2017
The Ministry of Utmost Happiness by Arundhati Roy — not in English Common Knowledge2017
Moving Kings by Joshua Cohen2017
Mrs. Fletcher by Tom Perrotta — not in English Common Knowledge2017
New People by Danzy Senna — not in English Common Knowledge2017
Pachinko by Min Jin Lee — not in English Common Knowledge2017
The Refugees by Viet Thanh Nguyen2017
Rich People Problems by Kevin Kwan — not in English Common Knowledge2017
The River of Consciousness by Oliver Sacks2017
The Rules Do Not Apply: A Memoir by Ariel Levy — not in English Common Knowledge2017
Running: A Novel by Cara Hoffman — not in English Common Knowledge2017
Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward — not in English Common Knowledge2017
Sour Heart by Jenny Zhang2017
Startup by Doree Shafrir — not in English Common Knowledge2017
The State of Affairs: Rethinking Infidelity by Esther Perel — not in English Common Knowledge2017
Stephen Colbert's Midnight Confessions by Stephen Colbert — not in English Common Knowledge2017
Thanks, Obama: My Hopey, Changey White House Years by David Litt2017
They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us by Hanif Abdurraqib — not in English Common Knowledge2017
Things That Happened Before the Earthquake: A Novel by Chiara Barzini — not in English Common Knowledge2017
Three Daughters of Eve by Elif Shafak — not in English Common Knowledge2017
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
What We Lose by Zinzi Clemmons2017
Who thought this was a good idea? by Alyssa Mastromonaco — not in English Common Knowledge2017
The Windfall by Diksha Basu — not in English Common Knowledge2017
All the Lives We Never Lived by Anuradha Roy2018
American Like Me: Reflections on Life Between Cultures by America Ferrera — not in English Common Knowledge2018
An American Marriage by Tayari Jones — not in English Common Knowledge2018
The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters by Priya Parker — not in English Common Knowledge2018
Back Talk: Stories by Danielle Lazarin — not in English Common Knowledge2018
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup by John Carreyrou — not in English Common Knowledge2018
Becoming by Michelle Obama2018
Brother by David Chariandy — not in English Common Knowledge2018
Census by Jesse Ball — not in English Common Knowledge2018
Cherry by Nico Walker2018
Creative Quest by Questlove — not in English Common Knowledge2018
Crudo by Olivia Laing — not in English Common Knowledge2018
Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress by Steven Pinker2018
Everything's Trash, But It's Okay by Phoebe Robinson2018
Fashion Climbing: A Memoir with Photographs by Bill Cunningham — not in English Common Knowledge2018
Feel Free: Essays by Zadie Smith — not in English Common Knowledge2018
French Exit by Patrick deWitt — not in English Common Knowledge2018
Futureface: A Family Mystery, an Epic Quest, and the Secret to Belonging by Alex Wagner — not in English Common Knowledge2018
Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women's Anger by Rebecca Traister — not in English Common Knowledge2018
The Gunners by Rebecca Kauffman2018
How Are You Going to Save Yourself by J. M. Holmes — not in English Common Knowledge2018
How to be Famous by Caitlin Moran — not in English Common Knowledge2018
In Extremis: The Life and Death of the War Correspondent Marie Colvin by Lindsey Hilsum2018
Katerina by James Frey — not in English Common Knowledge2018
A Ladder to the Sky by John Boyne — not in English Common Knowledge2018
Lake Success by Gary Shteyngart — not in English Common Knowledge2018
Laura & Emma by Kate Greathead — not in English Common Knowledge2018
Like Brothers by Mark Duplass — not in English Common Knowledge2018
A Long Way from Home by Peter Carey — not in English Common Knowledge2018
Look Alive Out There: Essays by Sloane Crosley — not in English Common Knowledge2018
Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know: The Fathers of Wilde, Yeats and Joyce by Colm Tóibín — not in English Common Knowledge2018
Maeve in America: Essays by a Girl from Somewhere Else by Maeve Higgins — not in English Common Knowledge2018
The Mars Room by Rachel Kushner — not in English Common Knowledge2018
The Messy Middle: Finding Your Way Through the Hardest and Most Crucial Part of Any Bold Venture by Scott Belsky — not in English Common Knowledge2018
Miss Ex-Yugoslavia: A Memoir by Sofija Stefanovic — not in English Common Knowledge2018
The Opposite of Hate: A Field Guide to Repairing Our Humanity by Sally Kohn2018
The Pisces by Melissa Broder2018
Raw: My Journey into the Wu-Tang by Lamont "U-God" Hawkins — not in English Common Knowledge2018
The Sadness of Beautiful Things: Stories by Simon Van Booy2018
Sexographies by Gabriela Wiener — not in English Common Knowledge2018
Silicon States: The Power and Politics of Big Tech and What It Means for Our Future by Lucie Greene — not in English Common Knowledge2018
Small Country by Gaël Faye — not in English Common Knowledge2018
A Terrible Country by Keith Gessen — not in English Common Knowledge2018
There There by Tommy Orange — not in English Common Knowledge2018
Those Who Knew by Idra Novey — not in English Common Knowledge2018
Warlight by Michael Ondaatje — not in English Common Knowledge2018
Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World by Anand Giridharadas2018
The Wisdom of Wolves by Jim Dutcher — not in English Common Knowledge2018
Yes We (Still) Can: Politics in the Age of Obama, Twitter, and Trump by Dan Pfeiffer — not in English Common Knowledge2018
You're on an Airplane: A Self-Mythologizing Memoir by Parker Posey — not in English Common Knowledge2018
Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language by Gretchen McCullochNonfiction, 2019
Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Think, and Do by Jennifer L. Eberhardt PhD 2019
For the Love of Men: A New Vision for Mindful Masculinity by Liz PlankNonfiction, 2019
Formation: A Woman's Memoir of Stepping Out of Line by Ryan Leigh DostieNonfiction, 2019
In the Dream House: A Memoir by Carmen Maria MachadoNonfiction, 2019
I Like to Watch: Arguing My Way Through the TV Revolution by Emily NussbaumNonfiction, 2019
Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls: A Memoir by T Kira MaddenNonfiction, 2019
Make It Scream, Make It Burn: Essays by Leslie JamisonNonfiction, 2019
I Miss You When I Blink: Essays by Mary Laura PhilpottNonfiction, 2019
No Visible Bruises: What We Don’t Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us by Rachel Louise SnyderNonfiction, 2019
Nobody's Victim: Fighting Psychos, Stalkers, Pervs, and Trolls by Carrie GoldbergNonfiction, 2019
Rough Magic: Riding the World's Loneliest Horse Race by Lara Prior-PalmerNonfiction, 2019
Savage Appetites: Four True Stories of Women, Crime and Obsession by Rachel MonroeNonfiction, 2019
Shapes of Native Nonfiction: Collected Essays by Contemporary Writers by Elissa WashutaNonfiction, 2019
She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement by Jodi KantorNonfiction, 2019
Things We Didn't Talk About When I Was a Girl: A Memoir by Jeannie VanascoNonfiction, 2019
Three Women by Lisa TaddeoNonfiction, 2019
Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion by Jia TolentinoNonfiction, 2019
What My Mother and I Don't Talk About: Fifteen Writers Break the Silence by Michele FilgateNonfiction, 2019
The Witches Are Coming by Lindy WestNonfiction, 2019
Working by Robert A. CaroNonfiction, 2019