The Short List

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• Women Talking

  Miriam Toews

• The Tea Rose (The Tea Rose, #1)

  Jennifer Donnelly

• The Gifted School

  Bruce Holsinger

• The Girl in the Red Coat

  Kate Hamer

• Heaven's Crooked Finger (Earl Marcus #1)

  Hank Early

• The Life List of Adrian Mandrick

  Chris White

• The Lady from the Black Lagoon: Hollywood Monsters and the Lost Legacy of Milicent Patrick

  Mallory O'Meara

• The Last Girl: My Story of Captivity, and My Fight Against the Islamic State

  Nadia Murad

• The Secrets Between Us

  Thrity Umrigar

• Jane Eyre

  Charlotte Brontë

• The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay

  Michael Chabon

• One Night Gone

  Tara Laskowski

• Caged (Agent Sayer Altair, #1)

  Ellison Cooper

• The Tattooist of Auschwitz (The Tattooist of Auschwitz, #1)

  Heather Morris

• There There

  Tommy Orange

• The Nowhere Girls

  Amy Reed

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  Dracula

  Bram Stoker

• No Stone Unturned: The True Story of the World's Premier Forensic Investigators

  Steve Jackson

• Reading with Patrick: A Teacher, a Student, and a Life-Changing Friendship

  Michelle Kuo

• Riddance: Or the Sybil Joines Vocational School for Ghost Speakers & Hearing-Mouth Children

  Shelley Jackson

• Darling Jim

  Christian Mørk

• A Room of One's Own

  Virginia Woolf

• The Incendiaries

  R.O. Kwon

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  Lovecraft Country

  Matt Ruff

• Darkdawn (The Nevernight Chronicle, #3)

  Jay Kristoff

• The Dark Game

  Jonathan Janz

• Whitegirl

  Kate Manning

• I'll Never Tell

  Catherine McKenzie

• Chemistry

  Weike Wang

• When Life Gives You Lululemons (The Devil Wears Prada, #3)

  Lauren Weisberger

• Ugly Love

  Colleen Hoover

• Here Let Us Feast: A Book of Banquets

  M.F.K. Fisher

• The Memory Police

  Yōko Ogawa

• The Victorian and the Romantic: A Memoir, a Love Story, and a Friendship Across Time

  Nell Stevens

• The Two Lila Bennetts

  Liz Fenton

• My Friend Dahmer

  Derf Backderf

• Dreamland Burning

  Jennifer Latham

• Glass Houses (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #13)

  Louise Penny

• Borne (Borne, #1)

  Jeff VanderMeer

• An Absolutely Remarkable Thing (An Absolutely Remarkable Thing, #1)

  Hank Green

• The Glass Hotel

  Emily St. John Mandel

• Eden

  Tim Lebbon

• Skin Deep

  Liz Nugent

• Lost Children Archive

  Valeria Luiselli

• The End of Temperance Dare

  Wendy Webb

• Bitter Orange

  Claire Fuller

• Moby-Dick, or, the Whale

  Herman Melville

• Creatures of Want and Ruin

  Molly Tanzer

• The Forgotten Island: A Horror Novel

  David Sodergren

• The Sun Down Motel

  Simone St. James

• The Immortalists

  Chloe Benjamin

• The Last Book Party

  Karen Dukess

• Desperation

  Stephen King

• Who Is Vera Kelly?

  Rosalie Knecht

• If We Were Villains

  M.L. Rio

• Dirty Rotten Hippies and Other Stories

  Bryan Smith

• And Then There Were None

  Agatha Christie

• Black Chalk

  Christopher J. Yates

• In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom

  Yeonmi Park

• Into the Forest

  Jean Hegland

• An Unwanted Guest

  Shari Lapena

• The Fountainhead

  Ayn Rand

• Dead Girls

  Erik German

• Smoke

  Catherine McKenzie

• Once a Liar

  A.F. Brady

• Tell Me Where It Hurts

  J.R. Rogue

• The Good Girl

  Mary Kubica

• The Furies

  Katie Lowe

• Jar of Hearts

  Jennifer Hillier

• The Mermaid

  Christina Henry

• Gory Details: Adventures from the Dark Side of Science

  Erika Engelhaupt

• Bone Music (Burning Girl, #1)

  Christopher Rice

• True Stories

  Margaret Atwood

• The Honey-Don't List

  Christina Lauren

• Reconstructing Amelia

  Kimberly McCreight

• The Sound and the Fury

  William Faulkner

• Naamah

  Sarah Blake

• The Likeness (Dublin Murder Squad, #2)

  Tana French

• Ordered Universes: Approaches To The Anthropology Of Religion

  Morton Klass

• Mister Tender's Girl

  Carter Wilson

• Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space

  Carl Sagan

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  The Death of Mrs. Westaway

  Ruth Ware

• Big Chief Elizabeth: The Adventures and Fate of the First English Colonists in America

  Giles Milton

• Halcyon

  Rio Youers

• The Color of Bee Larkham's Murder

  Sarah J. Harris

• Missing Person

  Sarah Lotz

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  The Other Mrs.

  Mary Kubica

• Okay Fine Whatever: The Year I Went from Being Afraid of Everything to Only Being Afraid of Most Things

  Courtenay Hameister

• The Chestnut Man

  Søren Sveistrup

• Elizabeth is Missing

  Emma Healey

• Homesick for Another World

  Ottessa Moshfegh

• Goodbye, Sweet Girl: A Story of Domestic Violence and Survival

  Kelly Sundberg

• Inspection

  Josh Malerman

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  The Stranger Diaries

  Elly Griffiths

• Away from Her

  Alice Munro

• All This Could Be Yours

  Jami Attenberg

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  Eight Perfect Murders

  Peter Swanson

• Ginny Moon

  Benjamin Ludwig

• Sonnets

  William Shakespeare