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American Terroir: Savoring the Flavors of Our Woods, Waters, and Fields by Rowan Jacobsen — not in English Common Knowledge2010
Bleeding Edge by Thomas Pynchon — not in English Common Knowledge2010
By Nightfall by Michael Cunningham — not in English Common Knowledge2010
Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation by Michael Pollan — not in English Common Knowledge2010
Freedom by Jonathan Franzen — not in English Common Knowledge2010
How to Live: Or A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer by Sarah Bakewell — not in English Common Knowledge2010
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot — not in English Common Knowledge2010
The Passage by Justin Cronin — not in English Common Knowledge2010
Room by Emma Donoghue — not in English Common Knowledge2010
The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival by John Vaillant — not in English Common Knowledge2010
Walker Evans: Decade by Decade by James Crump — not in English Common Knowledge2010
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson — not in English Common Knowledge2010
The Woman Who Lost Her Soul by Bob Shacochis — not in English Common Knowledge2010
1Q84 by Haruki Murakami — not in English Common Knowledge2011
Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty by Andrew Bolton — not in English Common Knowledge2011
The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined by Steven Pinker — not in English Common Knowledge2011
The Buddha in the Attic by Julie Otsuka — not in English Common Knowledge2011
The Empty Family: Stories by Colm Tóibín — not in English Common Knowledge2011
Midnight Rising: John Brown and the Raid That Sparked the Civil War by Tony Horwitz — not in English Common Knowledge2011
Silver Sparrow by Tayari Jones — not in English Common Knowledge2011
Tides of War by Stella Tillyard — not in English Common Knowledge2011
The Tiger's Wife by Téa Obreht — not in English Common Knowledge2011
The Tragedy of Arthur by Arthur Phillips — not in English Common Knowledge2011
Behind the Beautiful Forevers by Katherine Boo — not in English Common Knowledge2012
Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk by Ben Fountain — not in English Common Knowledge2012
By the Iowa Sea: A Memoir by Joe Blair — not in English Common Knowledge2012
Crusoe: Daniel Defoe, Robert Knox, and the Creation of a Myth by Katherine Frank — not in English Common Knowledge2012
The Lady in Gold: The Extraordinary Tale of Gustav Klimt's Masterpiece, Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer by Anne-Marie O'Connor — not in English Common Knowledge2012
A Land More Kind than Home by Wiley Cash — not in English Common Knowledge2012
NW by Zadie Smith — not in English Common Knowledge2012
Some Kind of Fairy Tale by Graham Joyce — not in English Common Knowledge2012
The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller — not in English Common Knowledge2012
Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar by Cheryl Strayed2012
Claire of the Sea Light by Edwidge Danticat — not in English Common Knowledge2013
A Constellation of Vital Phenomena by Anthony Marra — not in English Common Knowledge2013
Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital by Sheri Fink — not in English Common Knowledge2013
How to Create the Perfect Wife: Britain's Most Ineligible Bachelor and his Enlightened Quest to Train the Ideal Mate by Wendy Moore — not in English Common Knowledge2013
NOS4A2 by Joe Hill — not in English Common Knowledge2013
The Panopticon by Jenni Fagan — not in English Common Knowledge2013
The Searchers: The Making of an American Legend by Glenn Frankel — not in English Common Knowledge2013
The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell2014
A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James2014
Empire of Sin: A Story of Sex, Jazz, Murder, and the Battle for Modern New Orleans by Gary Krist2014
Five Came Back: A Story of Hollywood and the Second World War by Mark Harris2014
No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State by Glenn Greenwald2014
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History by Elizabeth Kolbert2014
Some Luck by Jane Smiley2014
The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin2014
An Untamed State by Roxane Gay2014
Us by David Nicholls2014
Best Boy by Eli Gottlieb — not in English Common Knowledge2015
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates — not in English Common Knowledge2015
Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania by Erik Larson2015
Did You Ever Have a Family by Bill Clegg — not in English Common Knowledge2015
Fates and Furies by Lauren Groff — not in English Common Knowledge2015
H Is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald — not in English Common Knowledge2015
A Kim Jong-Il Production: The Extraordinary True Story of a Kidnapped Filmmaker, His Star Actress, and a Young Dictator's Rise to Power by Paul Fischer2015
Pacific: Silicon Chips and Surfboards, Coral Reefs and Atom Bombs, Brutal Dictators, Fading Empires, and the Coming Collision of the World's Superpowers by Simon Winchester — not in English Common Knowledge2015
The Song Machine: Inside the Hit Factory by John Seabrook2015
The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen — not in English Common Knowledge2015
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
Blood at the Root: A Racial Cleansing in America by Patrick Phillips — not in English Common Knowledge2016
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond — not in English Common Knowledge2016
The Gene: An Intimate History by Siddhartha Mukherjee — not in English Common Knowledge2016
In the Darkroom by Susan Faludi — not in English Common Knowledge2016
The Nix by Nathan Hill2016
To the Bright Edge of the World by Eowyn Ivey — not in English Common Knowledge2016
The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead — not in English Common Knowledge2016
While the City Slept: A Love Lost to Violence and a Young Man's Descent into Madness by Eli Sanders2016
Ghost of the Innocent Man: A True Story of Trial and Redemption by Benjamin Rachlin2017
Ginny Moon by Benjamin Ludwig — not in English Common Knowledge2017
Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie — not in English Common Knowledge2017
Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body by Roxane Gay — 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 Knowledge2017
Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders — not in English Common Knowledge2017
Lucky Boy by Shanthi Sekaran2017
The Ninth Hour by Alice McDermott — not in English Common Knowledge2017
Nomadland by Jessica Bruder2017
You Don't Have to Say You Love Me: A Memoir by Sherman Alexie — not in English Common Knowledge2017