Bold = Top recommendation

Italics = Disappointing

Novels

• Amy Tan, “The Joy Luck Club”
• Emma Donoghue, “Learned By Heart”
• Kali Fajardo-Anstine, “Woman of Light”
• Nuruddin Farah, “Hiding in Plain Sight”
• Alice McDermott, “After This”
• Shelley Read, “Go As a River”
• John Knowles, “A Separate Peace”
• E.M. Forster, “Maurice”
• Lily King, “Euphoria”
• Eliza Barry, “The Hearing Test”
• Anne Enright, “The Wren, the Wren”
• George Eliot, “Middlemarch”
• Moa Backe Astot, “Fire from the Sky”
• Gabrielle Zevin, “Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow”
• E.M. Forster, “Howard’s End”
• Gary Schmidt, “Orbiting Jupiter”
• Freeman Ng, “Bridge Across the Sky”
• Helen Humphreys, “Followed by the Lark”
• Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, “Americanah”
• Gary Schmidt, “Jupiter Rising”
• Claire Keegan, “Small Things Like These”
• Tae Keller, “When You Trap a Tiger”
• Fyodor Dostoevsky, “The Brothers Karamazov”

Poetry & Nonfiction

• Christian Wiman, “Once in the West”
• Franz Wright, “Walking to Martha’s Vineyard”
• Mary Oliver, “Upstream”
• Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Nature”
• Thomas Merton, “Contemplative Prayer”
• Flannery O’Connor, “A Prayer Journal”
• Ocean Vuong, “Time is a Mother”
• Bert Hornback, “Middlemarch: A Novel of Reform”
• Emily Wilson, “The Iliad”
• T.S. Eliot, “The Wasteland and Other Poems”