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Arabella of Mars
David D. Levine
The Underground Railroad
Colson Whitehead
The Fisherman
John Langan
Disappearance at Devil’s Rock
Paul Tremblay
The Tiger and the Wolf
Adrian Tchaikovsky
Europe in Winter
Dave Hutchinson
Reservoir 13
Jon McGregor
We’ll All Be Burnt in Our Beds Some Night
Joel Thomas Hynes
The Way of the Strangers: Encounters with the Islamic State
Graeme Wood
On Not Losing My Father’s Ashes in the Flood
Richard Harrison
Readopolis
Oana Avasilichioaei
When We Were Alone
David Alexander Robertson and Julie Flett
The Obelisk Gate
N. K. Jemisin
A General Theory of Oblivion
José Eduardo Agualusa
Central Station
Lavie Tidhar
All the Birds in the Sky
Charlie Jane Anders
Henry David Thoreau: A Life
Laura Dassow Walls
Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right’s Stealth Plan for America
Nancy MacLean
Sour Heart, Lenny
Jenny Zhang
The Death and Life of the Great Lakes
Dan Egan
A Book of American Martyrs
Joyce Carol Oates
Incendiary Art: Poems
Patricia Smith
Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst
Robert M. Sapolsky
Long Way Down
Jason Reynolds
Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder
Caroline Fraser
You Play the Girl: On Playboy Bunnies, Stepford Wives, Trainwrecks, & Other Mixed Messages
Carina Chocano
The Evangelicals: The Struggle to Shape America
Frances FitzGerald
Whereas
Layli Long Soldier
All the Birds in the Sky
Charlie Jane Anders
The Mercy Journals
Claudia Casper
The Return: Fathers, Sons and the Land in Between
Hisham Matar
The Underground Railroad
Colson Whitehead
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
Matthew Desmond
Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy
Heather Ann Thompson
The Future is Blue
Catherynne M. Valente
The Sudden Appearance of Hope
Claire North
Sydney MacKenzie Knocks ’em Dead
Cindy Callaghan
Glass Houses
Louise Penny
Hollywood Homicide
Kellye Garrett
In Farleigh Field
Rhys Bowen
From Holmes to Sherlock
Mattias Bostrom
The Bear Ate your Sandwich
Julia Sarcone-Roach
In the Embers
Robin Miles, Edwin Strout, Dean Johnson, Jacquie Maddix and a full cast; music by Mike Wheaton
Hamilton: The Revolution
Mariska Hargitay, with the authors
The Greatest: My Own Story
Dion Graham
Humans Need Not Apply
John Pruden
How to Train Your Dragon: How to Fight a Dragon’s Fury
David Tennant
28 Days: Moments in Black History That Changed the World
Dion Graham, William Jackson Harper, Zainab Jah, January LaVoy, Robin Miles, Lizan Mitchell, Jonathan Earl Peck and Carter Woodson Redwood
Marriage Games
Sebastian York and Elena Wolfe
The Hike
Christopher Lane
Sister of Mine
Bahni Turpin
In Harm’s Way: The Sinking of the U.S.S. Indianapolis and the Extraordinary Story of Its Survivors
Mark Boyett
I’m Judging You
Luvvie Ajayi
Risen: The Novelization of the Major Motion Picture
P.J. Ochlan and Alana Kerr Collins
The Awakening of HK Derryberry
Milton Bagby
Homegoing
Dominic Hoffman
Small Great Things
Audra McDonald, Cassandra Campbell, and Ari Fliakos
The Crossing
Titus Welliver
A Life in Parts
Bryan Cranston
Hillbilly Elegy
J.D. Vance
The Dispatcher
Zachary Quinto
Ghost Gifts
Nicol Zanzarella
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Marc Thompson
The Brink: Stories
Austin Bunn, Luke Daniels, Tanya Eby, Ralph Lister, Amy McFadden, Mikael Naramore, and Nick Podehl
Be Frank with Me
Tavia Gilbert
Cross Justice
Ruben Santiago Hudson and Jefferson Mays
Salt to the Sea
Jorjeana Marie, Will Damron, Cassandra Morris, and Michael Crouch
The Association of Small Bombs
Karan Mahajan
Roller Girl
Victoria Jamieson
I’m Trying to Love Spiders
Bethany Barton
The Book with No Pictures
B.J. Novak
A Night Divided
Jennifer A. Nielsen
Another Brooklyn
Jacqueline Woodson
The Wild Robot
Peter Brown
A Night Divided
Jennifer A. Nielsen
The Sun is Also a Star
Nicola Yoon
Best Frints in the Whole Universe
Antoinette Portis
Roller Girl
Victoria Jamieson
The Hate U Give
Angie Thomas
Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers
Deborah Heiligman
Freedom Over Me
Ashley Bryan
Borderlands 6
Thomas F. Monteleone
The Doll-Master and Other Tales of Terror
Joyce Carol Oates
Kolchak the Night Stalker: The Forgotten Lore of Edgar Allan Poe
James Chambers
The Winter Box
Tim Waggoner
Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life
Ruth Franklin
Brothel
Stephanie M. Wytovich
A Perfectly Messed-Up Story
Patrick McDonnell
Ninjabread Man, The
C.J. Leigh
Everything Everything
Nicola Yoon
Radiant Child
Javaka Steptoe
The Underground Railroad
Colson Whitehead
Salt to the Sea
Ruta Sepetys
Freedom in Congo Square
Carole Boston Weatherford
Six of Crows
Leigh Bardugo
March Book: Three
John Lewis and Andrew Aydin
Radiant Child
Javaka Steptoe
Inside the Wave
Helen Dunmore
The Explorer
Katherine Rundell
Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine
Gail Honeyman
The Veins of the Ocean
Patricia Engel
Jim Butcher’s The Dresden Files: Wild Card
Jim Butcher
The Changeling
Victor D. Lavalle
Iron Dragoons
Richard Fox
Babylon’s Ashes
James S.A. Corey
The Hammer of Thor
Rick Riordan
The High Places
Fiona McFarlane
Under the Harrow
Flynn Berry
The Shattered Tree
Charles Todd
Before the Fall
Noah Hawley
We Are Growing!
Laurie Keller
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Old School
Jeff Kinney
The Day the Crayons Came Home
Drew Daywalt
Rump: The True Story of Rumpelstiltskin
Liesl Shurliff
Monsters Love Underpants
Claire Freedman
There Is a Tribe of Kids
Lane Smith
The Underground Railroad
Colson Whitehead
Sour Heart: Stories
Jenny Zhang
A Book of American Martyrs
Joyce Carol Oates
Long Way Down
Jason Reynolds
Woodpecker Wants a Waffle
Steve Breen
A Great Reckoning
Louise Penny
Sara Paretsky: A Companion to the Mystery Fiction
Margaret Kinsman
Heart of Stone
James W. Ziskin
The Girl Who Drank the Moon
Kelly Barnhill
Behold the Dreamers
Imbolo Mbue
The Golden Spider
Anne Renwick
Must Love Kilts
Angela Quarles
Mated in Mist
Carrie Ann Ryan
The Spirit
Harper Jameson
Must Love Kilts
Angela Quarles
Warrior Wench
Marie Andreas
Warrior Untamed
Shannon Curtis
The Golden Spider
Anne Renwick
Full of Beans
Jennifer L. Holm
Where It Hurts
Reed Farrel Coleman
Romeo’s Way
James Scott Bell
Before the Fall
Noah Hawley
The Body Reader
Anne Frasier
Big Momma
Joyce Carol Oates
Chronicle of the Murdered House
Lúcio Cardoso
The Serpent King
Jeff Zentner