1. 1. The Aosawa Murders - Riku Onda. Translated by Alison Watts. (Bitter Lemon)
  2. 2. The Beauty in Breaking: A Memoir - Michele Harper. (Riverhead)
  3. 3. The Beauty of Your Face - Sahar Mustafah. (Norton)
  4. 4. Becoming Wild: How Animal Cultures Raise Families, Create Beauty, and Achieve Peace - Carl Safina. (Holt)
  5. 5. Beheld - TaraShea Nesbit. (Bloomsbury)
  6. 6. The Biggest Bluff: How I Learned to Pay Attention, Master Myself, and Win - Maria Konnikova. (Penguin Press)
  7. 7. Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East - Kim Ghattas. (Holt)
  8. 8. Blacktop Wasteland - S. A. Cosby. (Flatiron)
  9. 9. The Book of Eels: Our Enduring Fascination With the Most Mysterious Creature in the Natural World - Patrik Svensson. (Ecco)
  10. 10. The Boy In The Field - Margot Livesey. (HarperCollins)
  11. 11. Breasts and Eggs - Mieko Kawakami. Translated by Sam Bett and David Boyd. (Europa)
  12. 12. A Burning - Megha Majumdar. (Knopf)
  13. 13. Burning Down the House: Newt Gingrich, the Fall of a Speaker, and the Rise of the New Republican Party - Julian E. Zelizer. (Penguin Press)
  14. 14. Caste: The Origins of our Discontents - Isabel Wilkerson. (Random House)
  15. 15. * A Children's Bible - Lydia Millet. (Norton)
  16. 16. Cleanness - Garth Greenwell. (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
  17. 17. * Deacon King Kong - James McBride. (Riverhead)
  18. 18. The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X - Les Payne and Tamara Payne. (Liveright)
  19. 19. The Death of Jesus - J. M. Coetzee. (Viking)
  20. 20. The Death of Vivek Oji - Akwaeke Emezi. (Riverhead)
  21. 21. Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism - Anne Case and Angus Deaton. (Princeton University)
  22. 22. Desert Notebooks: A Road Map for the End of Time - Ben Ehrenreich. (Counterpoint)
  23. 23. Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line - Deepa Anappara. (Random House)
  24. 24. A Dominant Character: The Radical Science and Restless Politics of J. B. S. Haldane - Samanth Subramanian. (Norton)
  25. 25. The Dragons, the Giant, the Women: A Memoir - Wayétu Moore. (Graywolf)
  26. 26. The Duke Who Didn't - Courtney Milan. (Self-published)
  27. 27. Earthlings - Sayaka Murata. Translated by Ginny Tapley Takemori. (Grove Press)
  28. 28. Eat the Buddha: Life and Death in a Tibetan Town - Barbara Demick. (Random House)
  29. 29. The End of Everything: (Astrophysically Speaking) - Katie Mack. (Scribner)
  30. 30. Everywhere You Don't Belong - Gabriel Bump. (Algonquin)
  31. 31. Exercise of Power: American Failures, Successes, and a New Path Forward in the Post-Cold War World - Robert M. Gates. (Knopf)
  32. 32. Fallout: The Hiroshima Cover-Up and the Reporter Who Revealed It to the World - Lesley M. M. Blume. (Simon & Schuster)
  33. 33. Feed - Tommy Pico. (Tin House)
  34. 34. Felon: Poems - Reginald Dwayne Betts. (Norton)
  35. 35. The Glass Kingdom - Lawrence Osborne. (Hogarth)
  36. 36. The Hardhat Riot: Nixon, New York City, and the Dawn of the White Working-Class Revolution - David Paul Kuhn. (Oxford University)
  37. 37. * Hamnet - Maggie O'Farrell. (Knopf)
  38. 38. * Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family - Robert Kolker. (Doubleday)[/u
  39. 39. His Only Wife - Peace Adzo Medie. (Algonquin)
  40. 40. * Homeland Elegies - Ayad Akhtar. (Little, Brown)
  41. 41. How Much of These Hills Is Gold - C Pam Zhang. (Riverhead)
  42. 42. Hurricane Season - Fernanda Melchor. Translated by Sophie Hughes. (New Directions)
  43. 43. The Inevitability of Tragedy: Henry Kissinger and His World - Barry Gewen. (Norton)
  44. 44. Jack - Marilynne Robinson. (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
  45. 45. Just Us: An American Conversation - Claudia Rankine. (Graywolf)
  46. 46. Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 - Cho Nam-Joo. Translated by Jamie Chang. (Liveright)
  47. 47. The King at the Edge of the World - Arthur Phillips. (Random House)
  48. 48. Little Eyes - Samanta Schweblin. Translated by Megan McDowell. (Riverhead)
  49. 49. The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Cartoonist - Adrian Tomine. (Drawn + Quarterly)
  50. 50. Luster - Raven Leilani. (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
  51. 51. Man of My Time - Dalia Sofer. (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
  52. 52. The Man Who Ran Washington: The Life and Times of James A. Baker III - Peter Baker and Susan Glasser. (Doubleday)
  53. 53. Memorial - Bryan Washington. (Riverhead)
  54. 54. Memorial Drive: A Memoir - Natasha Trethewey. (Ecco)
  55. 55. The Memory Monster - Yishai Sarid. Translated by Yardenne Greenspan. (Restless Books)
  56. 56. The Mercies - Kiran Millwood Hargrave. (Little, Brown)
  57. 57. Minor Detail - Adania Shibli. Translated by Elisabeth Jaquette. (New Directions)
  58. 58. The Mirror & the Light - Hilary Mantel. (Holt)
  59. 59. Missionaries - Phil Klay. (Penguin Press)
  60. 60. Monogamy - Sue Miller. (Harper/HarperCollins)
  61. 61. 97,196 Words: Essays - Emmanuel Carrère. Translated by John Lambert. (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
  62. 62. Notes on a Silencing: A Memoir - Lacy Crawford. (Little, Brown)
  63. 63. Obit: Poems - Victoria Chang. (Copper Canyon.
  64. 64. Overground Railroad: The Green Book and the Roots of Black Travel in America - by Candacy Taylor. (Abrams)
  65. 65. Owls of the Eastern Ice: A Quest to Find and Save the World’s Largest Owl - Jonathan C. Slaght. (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
  66. 66. A Peculiar Indifference: The Neglected Toll of Violence on Black America - Elliott Currie. (Metropolitan)
  67. 67. A Pilgrimage to Eternity: From Canterbury to Rome in Search of a Faith - Timothy Egan. (Viking)
  68. 68. * A Promised Land - Barack Obama. (Crown)
  69. 69. The Quiet Americans: Four CIA Spies at the Dawn of the Cold War — a Tragedy in Three Acts - Scott Anderson. (Doubleday)
  70. 70. Reaganland: America’s Right Turn, 1976-1980 - Rick Perlstein. (Simon & Schuster)
  71. 71. Real Life - Brandon Taylor. (Riverhead)
  72. 72. Red Pill - Hari Kunzru. (Knopf)
  73. 73. The Saddest Words: William Faulkner’s Civil War - Michael Gorra. (Liveright)
  74. 74. Saint X - Alexis Schaitkin. (Celadon)
  75. 75. Sea Wife - Amity Gaige. (Knopf)
  76. 76. The Selected Letters of Ralph Ellison - Edited by John F. Callahan and Marc C. Conner. (Random House)
  77. 77. * Shakespeare in a Divided America: What His Plays Tell Us About Our Past and Future - James Shapiro. (Penguin Press)
  78. 78. Sharks in the Time of Saviors - Kawai Strong Washburn. (MCD/Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
  79. 79. Shuggie Bain - Douglas Stuart. (Grove)
  80. 80. The Sirens of Mars: Searching for Life on Another World - Sarah Stewart Johnson. (Crown)
  81. 81. Sisters - Daisy Johnson. (Riverhead)
  82. 82. Soul Full of Coal Dust: A Fight for Breath and Justice in Appalachia - Chris Hamby. (Little, Brown)
  83. 83. The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz - Erik Larson. (Crown)
  84. 84. The Third Rainbow Girl: The Long Life of a Double Murder in Appalachia - Emma Copley Eisenberg. (Hachette)
  85. 85. This Is All I Got: A New Mother’s Search for Home - Lauren Sandler. (Random House)
  86. 86. Tokyo Ueno Station - Yu Miri. Translated by Morgan Giles. (Riverhead)
  87. 87. The Tunnel - A. B. Yehoshu. Translated by Stuart Schoffman. (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
  88. 88. * Uncanny Valley: A Memoir - Anna Wiener. (MCD/Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
  89. 89. The Undocumented Americans - Karla Cornejo Villavicencio. (One World)
  90. 90. Until the End of Time: Mind, Matter, and Our Search for Meaning in an Evolving Universe - Brian Greene. (Knopf)
  91. 91. * The Vanishing Half - Brit Bennett. (Riverhead)
  92. 92. The Vapors: A Southern Family, the New York Mob, and the Rise and Fall of Hot Springs, America’s Forgotten Capital of Vice - David Hill. (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
  93. 93. Wagnerism: Art and Politics in the Shadow of Music - Alex Ross. (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
  94. 94. * War: How Conflict Shaped Us - Margaret MacMillan. (Random House)
  95. 95. The Weirdest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous - Joseph Henrich. (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
  96. 96. Who Gets in and Why: A Year Inside College Admissions - Jeffrey Selingo. (Scribner)
  97. 97. Why I Don't Write: And Other Stories - Susan Minot. (Knopf)
  98. 98. A Woman Like Her: The Story Behind the Honor Killing of a Social Media Star - Sanam Maher. (Melville House)
  99. 99. Writers & Lovers - Lily King. (Grove)
  100. 100. Yellow Bird: Oil, Murder, and a Woman’s Search for Justice in Indian Country - Sierra Crane Murdoch. (Random House)