2023
Fiction
(2018) The Boat People, Sharon Bala
(2020) Leave the World Behind, Rumaan Alam
(2017) White Tears, Hari Kunzru
(2017) Association of Small Bombs, Karan Mahajan
(2020) The Death of Vivek Oji, Akwaeke Emezi
(2021) Klara and the Sun, Kazuo Ishiguro
(2008) The Lost Daughter, Elena Ferrante
(2015) Home Fire, Kamila Shamsie
(2018) Severance, Ling Ma
(2022) Four Aunties and a Wedding, Jesse Q. Sutanto
(2021) One Last Stop, Casey McQuiston
(2019) Inland, Teá Obreht
(2020) Nives, Sacha Naspini
(2022) The Family Chao, Lan Samantha Chan
(2019) Trust Exercise, Susan Choi
(2011) Salvage The Bones, Jesamyn Ward
(2021) The Other Black Girl, Zakiya Harris
(2022) When We Were Sisters, Fatima Asghar
Poetry
(2015) Black Movie, Danez Smith
(2022) Dear Bones, Dear God, Dear Yellow, Noor Hindi
(2022) Return Flight, Jennifer Huang
(2018) Citizen Illegal, Jose Olivarez
(2023) Couplets, Maggie Milner
(2019) Magical Negro: Poems, Morgan Parker
Nonfiction
(2018) Barracoon: The Story of the Last Black Cargo, Zora Neale Hurston
(1935) Mules and Men, Zora Neale Hurston
(1938) Tell My Horse: Voodoo and Life in Haiti and Jamaica, Zora Neale Hurston
(2022) You Cannot Resist Me When My Hair is in Braids, Frances Kai-Hwa Wang
Audiobooks
(2021) Dial A for Aunties, Jesse Q. Sutanto
(2022) Bibingka and Blackmail, Mia P. Manasalan
(2021) Grave Reservations, Cherie Priest
(2022) The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches, Sangu Bandanna
(2009) The Summer I Turned Pretty, Jenny Han
(2010) It’s Not Summer Without You, Jenny Han
(2011) We’ll Always Have Summer, Jenny Han
(2021) Finlay Donovan is Killing It, Ellie Cosimano
(2022) Flight Risk, Cherie Priest
(2022) Lessons in Chemistry, Bonnie Garmus
(2023) Romantic Comedy, Curtis Sittenfield
(2022) Small Game, Blair Braverman
(2022) Crying in H-Mart, Michelle Zauner
2022
Fiction
(2020) Beach Read, Emily Henry
(2019) Lost Children Archive, Valeria Luiselli
(2009) Sag Harbor, Colson Whitehead
(2021) People We Meet on Vacation, Emily Henry
(1993) Parable of the Sower, Octavia Butler
(2000) Parable of the Talents, Octavia Butler
(2020) Like a Bird, Fariha Rósín
(2020) The Party Upstairs, Lee Connell
(2020) The Margot Affair, Sanaë Lemoine
(2017) The Idiot, Elif Batuman
(2022) Disorientation, Elaine Hsieh Chou
(2022) The Verifiers, Jane Pek
(2013) Long Division, Kiese Laymon
(2011) The Cat’s Table, Michael Ondaatje
(1990) White People, Allan Gurganus
(1987) Tales from Firozshabaag, Rohinton Mistry
(2021) Gold Diggers, Sanjena Sathien
(2021) Arsenic and Adobo, Mia P Manasalan
(1992/2006) Troubling Love, Elena Ferrante
(2005/2006) Days of Abandonment, Elena Ferrante
(2019/2020) The Lying Life of Adults, Elena Ferrante
(2021) Homicide and Halo Halo, Mia P Manasalan
Poetry
(2011) Head Off and Split, Nikki Finney
(2017) Electric Arches, Eve L. Ewing
(2015) Bastards of the Reagan Era, Reginald Dwayne Betts
(2019) Feed, Tommy Pico
Nonfiction
(2021) Southbound, Anjali Enjeti
(2019) Incidental Inventions, Elena Ferrante
2021
Fiction
(2000) Anil’s Ghost, Michael Ondaatje
(2020) A Suitable Boy, Vikram Seth
(1999) The Intuitionist, Colson Whitehead
(2011) Attachments, Rainbow Rowell
(2018) Normal People, Sally Rooney
(1992) The English Patient, Michael Ondaatje
(2021) Detransition, Baby, Torrey Peters
(2019) Red at the Bone, Jacqueline Woodson
(2020) Catherine House, Elisabeth Thomas
(2021) A Burning, Megha Majumdar
(2021) Love in Color, Bolu Babalola
(2020) The Vanishing Half, Brit Bennett
(1987) In the Skin of a Lion, Michael Ondaatje
(1948) Seraph on the Suwanee, Zora Neale Hurston
(2010) Burnt Shadows, Kamila Shamsie
(2021) The Parted Earth, Anjali Enjeti
(2020) Mexican Gothic, Sylvia Moreno-Garcia
(1979) Kindred, Octavia Butler
(2017) Sour Heart, Jenny Zheng
(2020) The Secret Lives of Church Ladies, Deesha Philyaw
(2020) The Office of Historical Corrections, Danielle Evans
Non-Fiction/Essays
(2020) Wow, No Thank You, Samantha Irby
(2021) We Do This ‘Til we Free Us, Mariame Kaba
(1994) Bird by Bird, Anne Lamott
(2019) In The Dream House, Carmen Maria Machado
2020
Fiction
(2018) The Proposal, Jasmine Guillory
(2017) Sing, Unburied, Sing, Jesamyn Ward
(2014) To All the Boys I’ve Ever Loved Before, Jenny Han
(2019) Evvie Drake Starts Over, Linda Holmes
(2016) Homegoing, Yaa Gyasi
(2020) Little Fires Everywhere, Celeste Ng
(2011) Zone One, Colson Whitehead
(2010) Great House, Nicole Krauss
(2018) Where the Crawdads Sing, Delia Owens
(2016) The Mothers, Britt Bennett
(2019) The Nickel Boys, Colson Whitehead
(2005) The Position, Meg Wolitzer
(2008) A Mercy, Toni Morrison
(1998) The Farming of Bones, Edwige Danticat
(2019) The Unlikely Adventures of the Shergill Sisters, Balli Kaur Jaswal
(2017) Conversations with Friends, Sally Rooney
(2019) Such a Fun Age, Kiley Reid
(2010) One Part Woman, Perumal Murugan Short Stories (2)
(1994) Open Secrets, Alice Munro
(2020) Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick, Zora Neale Hurston
Plays/Drama (1)
(1970) Les Blancs, Lorraine Hansberry
Non-Fiction/Essays (2)
(2013) Meaty, Samantha Irby
(2011) Blue Nights, Joan Didion
2019
Fiction
(1879) The Brothers Karamazov, Fyodor Dostoyevsky
(2004) Gilead, Marilyn Robinson
(2008) Home, Marilyn Robinson
(2014) Lila, Marilyn Robinson
(2017) Exit West, Mohsin Hamid
(2018) There, There, Tommy Orange
(1931) Sanctuary, William Faulkner
(1927) Mosquitos, William Faulkner
(2019) Royal Holiday, Jasmine Guillory
(2019) Bunny, Mona Awad Short Stories (5)
(2018) If You See Me Don’t Say Hi, Neel Patel
(2017) Her Body and Other Parties, Carmen Maria Machado
(2017) The Dark Dark, Samantha Hunt
(2018) Go Home Anthology, Rowan Hisayo Buchanan
(1911) Ethan Frome, Edith Wharton
Poetry
(2012) A Thousand Mornings, Mary Oliver
(1979) Good Night Willie Lee, I’ll See You in the Morning, Alice Walker
(2005) American Sublime, Elizabeth Alexander
(2018) Not Here, Hieu Minh Nguyen
Plays/Drama
(1964) Dutchman, Amiri Baraka
(1964) The Slave, Amiri Baraka
(1959) A Raisin in the Sun, Lorraine Hansberry
(1964) The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window, Lorraine Hansberry
(2015) Sweat, Lynn Nottage
(2001) Top Dog Under Dog, Suzan-Lori Parks
(2014) Octaroon, Brandon Jacob-Jenkins
(2013) Appropriate, Brandon Jacob-Jenkins
(2015) Guards at the Taj, Rajiv Joseph
Non-Fiction/Essays
(2018) What Are We Doing Here, Marilynne Robinson
(2019) Thick and Other Essays, Tressie McMillan Cottom
(2018) The Seaweed Chronicles, Susan Hand Shetterly
(2003) Susan Sontag, Regarding the Pain of Others
(2017) Curry: Eating, Reading, Race, Naben Ruthnum
(1980) Camera Lucida, Roland Barthes
2018
Fiction
(2017) Forest Dark, Nicole Krauss
(2017) Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows, Balli Kaur Jaswal
(2008) Dear American Airlines, Jonathan Miles
(2015) Dragonfish, Vu Tran
(2005) The History of Love, Nicole Krauss
(2017) Rich People Problems, Kevin Kwan
(1988) Love in the Time of Cholera, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
(1956) Giovanni’s Room, James Baldwin
(1970) Play It As It Lays, Joan Didion
(2018) The Wedding Date, Jasmine Guillory
(2015) The Turner House, Angela Flournoy
Poetry
(2017) There Are More Beautiful Things than Beyoncé, Morgan Parker
(2018) If They Come For Us, Fatima Asghar
Non-Fiction/Essays
(1977) On Photography, Susan Sontag
(2017) Hunger, Roxane Gay
(2012) Both Flesh and Not, David Foster Wallace
(2009) Changing My Mind, Occasional Essays, Zadie Smith
2017
Fiction
(2015) Flood of Fire, Amitav Ghosh
(2011) My Brilliant Friend, Elena Ferrante
(2009) The Immortals, Amit Chaudhari
(1935) Tortilla Flat, John Steinbeck
(1935) Invitation to a Beheading, Vladimir Nabokov
(2012) Story of a New Name, Elena Ferrante
(2013) Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay, Elena Ferrante
(2014) Story of the Lost Child, Elena Ferrante
(2008) Runaway, Alice Munro
(2007) Divisadero, Michael Ondaatje
(2016) The Wangs versus the World, Jade Chang
(2008) Family Planning, Karan Mahajan
(2015) The Sympathizer, Viet Thanh Nguyen
(2015) Year of the Runaways, Sunjeev Sahota
Poetry
(2014) Milk and Honey, Rupi Kaur
Non-Fiction/Essays
(2017) One Day We Will All Be Dead and None of this Will Matter, Scaachi Koul
(2013) Discontent and It’s Civilizations, Mohsin Hamid
(2017) Difficult Women, Roxane Gay
(2017) South and West, Joan Didion
2016
Fiction
(2000) The Glass Palace, Amitav Ghosh
(2004) The Hungry Tide, Amitav Ghosh
(2008) Sea of Poppies, Amitav Ghosh
(2011) River of Smoke, Amitav Ghosh
(2015) Satin Island, Tom McCarthy
(2016) Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl, Mona Awad
(1929) The Sound and the Fury, William Faulkner
(1998) Hullabaloo and the Guava Orchard, Kiran Desai
(2015) The Cosmopolitans, Anjum Hassan
(2015) China Rich Girlfriend, Kevin Kwan
(1992) Troubling Love, Elena Ferrante
(1967) One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
(2002) The Autograph Man, Zadie Smith
(1984) Democracy, Joan Didion
(1961) Run River, Joan Didion
(1953) Go Tell It On The Mountain, James Baldwin
Non-Fiction
(2015) The Argonauts, Maggie Nelson
(2005) Consider the Lobster, David Foster Wallace
2015
Fiction
(2011) Open City, Teju Cole
(2014) Family Life, Akhil Sharma
(2008) The Invention of Everything Else, Samantha Hunt
(2013) Americanah, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
(1990) The Black Book, Orhan Pamuk
(2007) The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Junot Diaz
(1871) Middlemarch, George Eliot
(2014) Dear Committee Members, Julie Schumacher
(2008) The Museum of Innocence, Orhan Pamuk
(1970) The Bluest Eye, Toni Morrisson
(1973) Sula, Toni Morrison
(1937) Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston
(1977) Song of Solomon, Toni Morrison
(1981) Tar Baby, Toni Morrison
(1987) Beloved, Toni Morrison
(2000) Salt and Saffron, Kamila Shamsie
(2005) Broken Verses, Kamila Shamsie
(2014) Crazy Rich Asians, Kevin Kwan
Non-Fiction/Essays
(2003) Istanbul, Orhan Pamuk
(2014) Bad Feminist, Roxane Gay
2014
Fiction
(2009) Solo, Rana Dasgupta
(2005) Tokyo Cancelled, Rana Dasgupta
(2011) Swamplandia, Karen Russell
(2012) NW, Zadie Smith
(2000) Moth Smoke, Mohsin Hamid
(2013) How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia, Mohsin Hamid
(1905) House of Mirth, Edith Wharton
(2008) Between the Assassinations, Aravind Adiga
(1851) Moby Dick, Herman Melville Non-Fiction/Essays (3)
Non-Fiction/Essays
(2014) Capital, Rana Dasgupta
(1968) Slouching Towards Bethlehem, Joan Didion
(1992) After Henry, Joan Didion
2013
Fiction
(1877) Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
(2000) White Teeth, Zadie Smith
(2008) The Reluctant Fundamentalist, Mohsin Hamid
(1995) The Calcutta Chromosome, Amitav Ghosh
Non-Fiction/Essays
(2002) The Imam and the Indian, Amitav Ghosh