The Short List

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• Only Ever Her

  Marybeth Mayhew Whalen

• Feel Free: Essays

  Zadie Smith

• A Complex Accident of Life

  Jessica McHugh

• The Escape Room

  Megan Goldin

• We Are Monsters

  Brian Kirk

• Death on the Nile (Hercule Poirot, #17)

  Agatha Christie

• Black Skin, White Masks

  Frantz Fanon

• The Girlfriend

  Sarah J. Naughton

• The Swallows

  Lisa Lutz

• This Is How It Always Is

  Laurie Frankel

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  Ducks, Newburyport

  Lucy Ellmann

• She Said Destroy

  Nadia Bulkin

• Treeborne

  Caleb Johnson

• Kill Sleep Repeat

  Britney King

• The Wildling Sisters

  Eve Chase

• Evil Never Dies (Lizzy Gardner, #6)

  T.R. Ragan

• Summerwater

  Sarah Moss

• The Robber Bride

  Margaret Atwood

• Your Life Is Mine

  Nathan Ripley

• Where They Found Her

  Kimberly McCreight

• Breakfast on Pluto

  Patrick McCabe

• The White Queen (The Cousins' War, #1)

  Philippa Gregory

• Cove

  Cynan Jones

• Tomorrow Will Be Different: Love, Loss, and the Fight for Trans Equality

  Sarah McBride

• As Bright as Heaven

  Susan Meissner

• Last Woman Standing

  Amy Gentry

• Horns

  Joe Hill

• The Valedictorian of Being Dead: The True Story of Dying Ten Times to Live

  Heather B. Armstrong

• The Sunday Girl

  Pip Drysdale

• The Snowman (Harry Hole, #7)

  Jo Nesbø

• A House at the Bottom of a Lake

  Josh Malerman

• Brideshead Revisited

  Evelyn Waugh

• The Darkling Bride

  Laura Andersen

• The Periodic Table: A Field Guide to the Elements

  Paul Parsons

• Daughters of Rome (The Empress of Rome, #2)

  Kate Quinn

• Finale (Caraval, #3)

  Stephanie Garber

• Tony and Susan

  Austin Wright

• The Turtle Boy (Timmy Quinn #1)

  Kealan Patrick Burke

• The Night Watch

  Sarah Waters

• Future Home of the Living God

  Louise Erdrich

• Blood Wedding

  Pierre Lemaitre

• The One

  John Marrs

• Tear Me Apart

  J.T. Ellison

• The Nowhere Girls

  Amy Reed

• The Two Mrs. Carlyles

  Suzanne Rindell

• Finders Keepers (Bill Hodges Trilogy, #2)

  Stephen King

• Notes from the Upside Down: An Unofficial Guide to Stranger Things

  Guy Adams

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  The Fisherman

  John Langan

• First Cut (Jessie Teska, #1)

  Judy Melinek

• Murder in Little Shendon

  A.H. Richardson

• The Forgotten Garden

  Kate Morton

• Things That Happened Before the Earthquake

  Chiara Barzini

• Poetics

  Aristotle

• The Sisters Brothers

  Patrick deWitt

• Saints for All Occasions

  J. Courtney Sullivan

• And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic

  Randy Shilts

• Little Women

  Louisa May Alcott

• Charlatan: America's Most Dangerous Huckster, the Man Who Pursued Him, and the Age of Flimflam

  Pope Brock

• The Ice Twins

  S.K. Tremayne

• The Complete Stories and Poems

  Edgar Allan Poe

• Bearskin

  James A. McLaughlin

• The Fever

  Megan Abbott

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  The Shadows

  Alex North

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  Blue Nights

  Joan Didion

• The Behavior of Love

  Virginia Reeves

• The Midnight Assassin: Panic, Scandal, and the Hunt for America's First Serial Killer

  Skip Hollandsworth

• Feminists Don't Wear Pink (and other lies): Amazing women on what the F-word means to them

  Scarlett Curtis

• Anthem

  Ayn Rand

• The Broken Girls

  Simone St. James

• The Other Couple

  Louise Candlish

• A Column of Fire (Kingsbridge, #3)

  Ken Follett

• The Door

  Margaret Atwood

• Naturally Tan

  Tan France

• Magic, Witchcraft, and Religion

  Arthur C. Lehmann

• Sometimes I Lie

  Alice Feeney

• Rant

  Chuck Palahniuk

• The Unwilling

  Kelly Braffet

• Blood: A Memoir

  Allison Moorer

• Black Chalk

  Christopher J. Yates

• The Husband Hour

  Jamie Brenner

• Without Merit

  Colleen Hoover

• Touch

  Courtney Maum

• Dear Theo

  Vincent van Gogh

• Stone Mothers

  Erin Kelly

• Harleen

  Stjepan Šejić

• The Dead Still Here

  Laura Valeri

• The Idiot

  Elif Batuman

• The Trial of Lizzie Borden

  Cara Robertson

• Rewind

  Catherine Ryan Howard

• What Happened That Night

  Sandra Block

• Boy Swallows Universe

  Trent Dalton

• Die for You

  Lisa Unger

• The Last Stone

  Mark Bowden

• All the Light We Cannot See

  Anthony Doerr

• The Forgotten Girls (Louise Rick #7)

  Sara Blaedel

• Just What Kind of Mother Are You?

  Paula Daly

• Whiskey in a Teacup: What Growing Up in the South Taught Me About Life, Love, & Baking Biscuits

  Reese Witherspoon

• The Guest Book

  Sarah Blake

• The Bobcat

  Katherine Forbes Riley