Naked
Jean-Philippe Toussaint

How to Do Nothing
Jenny Odell

The Idiot
Elif Batuman

Outline
Rachel Cusk

Transit
Rachel Cusk

Kudos
Rachel Cusk

The Factory
Hiroko Oyamada

Crossroads
Jonathan Franzen

The Anomaly
Hervé Le Tellier

Stay and Fight
Madeline ffitch

Cuyahoga
Pete Beatty

Klara and the Sun
Kazuo Ishiguro

The Remains of the Day
Kazuo Ishiguro

Weather
Jenny Offill

Jakob von Gunten
Robert Walser

There There
Tommy Orange

The Great Believers
Rebecca Makkai

Dinner
César Aira

The Lazarus Project
Alexander Hemon

The Crying of Lot 49
Thomas Pynchon

Conversations with Friends
Sally Rooney

A Doll’s House
Henrik Ibsen

Modern Lovers
Emma Straub

Mammother
Zachary Schomburg

Crossing to Safety
Wallace Stegner

My Idea of Fun
Will Self

The Pale King
David Foster Wallace

The Floating Opera
John Barth

Super Sad True Love Story
Gary Shteyngart

Borne
Jeff VanderMeer

Exit West
Mohsin Hamid

Bel Canto
Ann Pachett

The Sellout
Paul Beatty

The Broom of the System
David Foster Wallace

Fates and Furies
Lauren Groff

The Cartel
Don Winslow

The Left Hand of Darkness
Ursula K. Le Guin

Commonwealth
Ann Patchett

Between the World and Me
Ta-Nehisi Coates

C
Tom McCarthy

Remainder
Tom McCarthy

Satin Island
Tom McCarthy

Whiskey Tango Foxtrot
David Schafer

Annihilation
Jeff VanderMeer

Americanah
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Nobody’s Fool
Richard Russo

Submission
Michel Houellebecq

The Martian
Andy Weir

The Flame Alphabet
Ben Marcus

The Psychopath Test
Jon Ronson

My Brilliant Friend
Elena Ferrante

The Story of a New Name
Elena Ferrante

Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay
Elena Ferrante

The Story of the Lost Child
Elena Ferrante

A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again
David Foster Wallace

Tenth of December
George Saunders

Birds of America
Lorrie Moore

Silence Once Begun
Jesse Ball

Everything I Never Told You
Celeste Ng

The Circle
Dave Eggers

The First Bad Man
Miranda July

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Rebecca Skloot

The Marriage Plot
Jeffrey Eugenides

Hope: A Tragedy
Shalom Auslander

Freedomland
Richard Price

I Am the Cheese
Robert Cormier

The Flamethrowers
Rachel Kushner

The Art of Hearing Heartbeats
Jan-Philipp Sendker

About a Mountain
John D'Agata

The Secret History
Dona Tartt

Post Office
Charles Bukowski

The Alchemist
Paulo Coelho

The Book Thief
Markus Zusak

The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
Tom Wolfe

Where’d You Go, Bernadette
Maria Semple

The Fault In Our Stars
John Green

Boomsday
Christopher Buckley

The Cat’s Table
Michael Ondaatje

The Magus
John Fowles

The Grapes of Wrath
John Steinbeck

Gilead
Marilynne Robinson

The World Without Us
Alan Weisman

Fahrenheit 451
Ray Bradbury

Ilustrado
Miguel Syjuco

Angle of Repose
Wallace Stegner

The Handmaid’s Tale
Margaret Atwood

The Big Sleep
Raymond Chandler

Swamplandia!
Karen Russell

Salvage the Bones
Jesmyn Ward

Quiet
Susan Cain

The Sense of an Ending
Julian Barnes

The City and the City
China Mieville

Outliers
Malcolm Gladwell

Hard Rain Falling
Don Carpenter

The Secret Adversary
Agatha Christie

Skippy Dies
Paul Murray

The History of Love
Nicole Krauss

Lowboy
John Wray

Cloud Atlas
David Mitchell

Girl in Landscape
Jonathan Lethem

The Member of the Wedding
Carson McCullers

Dune
Frank Herbert

The Puttermesser Papers
Cynthia Ozick

Freedom
Jonathan Franzen

Crime and Punishment
Fyodor Dostoevsky

The Miracle Life of Edgar Mint
Brady Udall

Disgrace
J. M. Coetzee

The Lonely Polygamist
Brady Udall

The Hunger Games
Suzanne Collins

The Art of Fielding
Chad Harbach

World War Z
Max Brooks

The Man from Beijing
Henning Mankell

See Under: Love
David Grossman

Fault Lines
Nancy Huston

Griftopia
Matt Taibbi

Lolita
Vladimir Nabokov

The Savage Detectives
Roberto Bolaño

American Pastoral
Philip Roth

Nothing To Envy
Barbara Demick

A Game of Thrones
George R. R. Martin

A Clash of Kings
George R. R. Martin

A Storm of Swords
George R. R. Martin

A Feast for Crows
George R. R. Martin

A Dance with Dragons
George R. R. Martin