"Find Me" by André Aciman
Isabella B., Riverside, Illinois
"Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adiche
Clara J., Tampa, Florida
"The White Tiger" by Aravind Adiga
Kazi I., Dhaka, Bangladesh
"Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott
Brooke A., Blacklick, Ohio
Michaela S., Skokie, Illinois
"Oryx and Crake" by Margaret Atwood
Elijah K., Austin, Texas
"The Handmaid’s Tale" by Margaret Atwood
Emma B., Cranbury, New Jersey
"Alex's Adventure in Numberland" by Alex Bellos
Aleeza A., Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan
"Nevada" by Imogen Binnie
Nathaniel R., Silver Spring, Maryland
"Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom" by David Blight
Alex C., Chevy Chase, Maryland
"The Heart's Invisible Furies" by John Boyne
Karina B., Northbrook, Illinois
"Summer" by Albert Camus
Oke O., Bornova, Izmir, Turkey
"How to Win Friends and Influence People" by Dale Carnegie
Evelyne P., Bucharest, Romania
"Ill Will" by Dan Chaon
Avery P., Pacific Palisades, California
"Between the World and Me" by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Elise R., Northridge, California
"The Alchemist" by Paulo Coelho
Abdul-Rahman I., Kumasi, Ghana
"Heart of Darkness" by Joseph Conrad
Emma D., Marietta, Georgia
"Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick
Christian S., West Palm Beach, Florida
"Humiliated and Insulted" by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Liwa S., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
"Crime and Punishment" by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Triet H., Ho Chí Minh City, Vietnam
"Fires of Faith: Catholic England Under Mary Tudor" by Eamon Duffy
Sophia-Joy P., Tulsa, Oklahooma
"Baudolino" by Umberto Eco
Karis D., Takoma Park, Maryland
"Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison
Isabella H., Herndon, Virginia
“Love Medicine” by Louise Erdrich
Sahil P., Santa Cruz, California
"My Brilliant Friend" by Elena Ferrante
Georgia C., New York, New York
"The Beautiful and the Damned" by F. Scott. Fitzgerald
Vilma K., Tempe, Arizona
"A Dream About Lightning Bugs" by Ben Folds
Colter A., Falls Church, Virginia
"The Spellbook of Lost and Found" by Moïra Fowley-Doyle
Katherine B., Menlo Park, California
"Five Photons" by James Geach
Fabrizio V., Resistencia, Chaco, Argentina
"Less" by Andrew Sean Grear
Aayush B., Suryavinayak, Bhaktapur, Nepal
"The Boatbuilder" by Daniel Gumbiner
Hayden R., Indianapolis, Indiana
"Homegoing" by Yaa Gyasi
Charlotte W., Glendale, California
"Dear Bully" by Megan Kelly Hall and Carrie Jones
Jaquana F., Cleveland, Ohio
"Les Misérables" by Victor Hugo
Md.Furkan M., Dhaka, Bangladesh
"Here All Along" by Sarah Hurwitz
Tatum F., Lexington, Kentucky
"Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley
Xander Z., Weston, Connecticut
"Annie John" by Jamaica Kincaid
Nonso O., Kaduna, Nigeria
"The History of Love" by Nicole Krauss
Isaac J. , Saint Paul, Minnesota
"The Ecstatic" by Victor LaValle
Jordan E., Durham, North Carolina
"Pachinko" by Min Jin Lee
Dassel J., Cypress, California
"Sixty Meters to Anywhere" by Brendan Leonard
Jack B., Portsmouth, New Hampshire
"Empire of Storms" by Sarah J. Maas
Sam F., N Branford, Connecticut
"Catwoman: Soulstealer" by Sarah J. Maas
Jaimee G., Granville, Ohio
"Stalking Jack the Ripper" by Kerri Maniscalco
Leah S., Columbus, Ohio
"One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel García Márquez
Angela B., Staten Island, New York
"Love in The Time of Cholera" by Gabriel García Márquez
Ethan P., Fort Worth, Texas
"Who Thought This Was a Good Idea?: And Other Questions You Should Have Answers to When You Work in the White House" by Alyssa Mastromonaco
Jack S., Olney, Maryland
"Atonement" by Ian McEwan
Katharine C., Farragut, Tennessee
Alex Y., Chantilly, Virginai
"The Other Wes Moore" by Wes Moore
Yulia H., Blacklick, Ohio
"All the Living" by C.E. Morgan
Abigail P., San Francisco, California
"The Gene: An Intimate History" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
Sophia L., Ukiah, California
"The Unforgiving Minute: A Soldier's Education" by Craig Mullaney
Bradley G., Festus, Missouri
"What I Talk About When I Talk About Running: A Memoir" by Haruki Murakami
Theo S., New York, New York
"Lolita" by Vladimir Nabokov
Noah B., Wilmington, North Carolina
Ella J., Palo Alto, California
"Hit Refresh: The Quest to Rediscover Microsoft’s Soul and Imagine a Better Future for Everyone (Employee’s Edition)" by Satya Nadella
Divaker G., Kolkata, West Bengal, India
"All the Bright Places" by Jennifer Niven
Clarissa G., Sunnyvale, California
"Who Fears Death" by Nnedi Okorafor
Edlawit L., Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
"Where the Crawdads Sing" by Delia Owens
Avery M., Needham Heights, Massachusetts
"Stone's Fall" by Ian Pears
Nana E., Takoradi, Western Region, Ghana
"Timaeus" by Plato
Rafaela C., Nusta, Vukovarsko-Srijemska, Croatia
"Citizen: An American Lyric" by Claudia Rankine
Amber R., New York, New York
"The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss
Sarah N., Salem, Massachusetts
"The Stranger Beside Me" by Ann Rule
Ellie D., Bronxville, New York
"Katherine" by Anya Seton
Natalie L., Rocky Mount, Virginia
"Frankenstein" by Mary Shelley
Gracie C., Mill Valley, California
"Challenger Deep" by Neal Shusterman
Sabine H., Seoul, South Korea
"Call Down the Hawk" by Maggie Stiefvater
Colleen B., Salem, Ohio
"The Joy Luck Club" by Amy Tan
Jessica K., Sioux Falls, South Dakota
"The Goldfinch" by Donna Tartt
Aliya H., Tucson, Arizona
"The Hate U Give" by Angie Thomas
Eliza K., Stockbridge, Massachusetts
"The Future of Spacetime" by Kip Thorne, Stephen Hawking and Timothy Ferris
Ben P., Great Falls, Virginia
"The Silmarillion" by J.R.R Tolkien
William P., Jacksonville, Florida
"The 7 and 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle" by Stuart Turton
Anna P., Anacortes, Washington
"Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen" by Jose Antonio Vargas
Benjamin C., Gregory, Michigan
"Slaughterhouse Five" by Kurt Vonnegut
Aditya B., Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
"Breakfast of Champions" by Kurt Vonnegut
Isabelle W., Mill Valley, California
"In a Dark, Dark Wood" by Ruth Ware
Izzy A., Takoma Park, Maryland
"Educated" by Tara Westover
Avery B., Needham, Massachusetts
"Mrs. Dalloway" by Virginia Woolf
Emily S., Austin, Texas
"The Dream of the Red Chamber" by Cao Xueqin
Xinran C., Hefei, Anhui, China
"The Shadow of the Wind" by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Avery A., Miami, Florida
"The Dancing Wu Li Masters" by Gary Zukav
Shane S., Eldersburg, Maryland
"The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" by Douglas Adams and Eoin Colfer
Maria G., Pasadena, California
"Purple Hibiscus" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Akua A., Columbus, Ohio
“Americanah” by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Anna C., Providence, Rhode Island
Adeline H., Mogadore, Ohio
“Girls of Riyadh” by Rajaa al-Sanea
Evelyn F., Pasadena, California
"Symphony for the City of the Dead: Dmitri Shostakovich and the Siege of Leningrad" by M.T. Anderson
Angela E., Lorton, Virginia
"Emma" by Jane Austen
Crandall K., Concord, North Carolina
"Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen
Christine F., Greenwich, Connecticut
"My Grandmother Asked You To Tell Her She’s Sorry" by Fredrik Backman
Zoey L., Mill Valley, California
"So Long a Letter" by Mariama Bâ
Nicole C., Vienna, Virginia
“Wuthering Heights” by Emily Brontë
Abigail H., Danville, California
"The Social Animal" by David Brooks
Eve D., Brooklyn, New York
"The Plague" by Albert Camus
Nikhil B., Aurora, Illinois
"The Stranger" by Albert Camus
Lukas K., Andover, Massachusetts
"In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote
Andrew H., Georgetown, Kentucky
"Autobiography of Red" by Anne Carson
Ana B., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
"Don Quixote" by Miguel de Cervantes
Sam F., North Branford Town, Connecticut
"Murder on the Orient Express" by Agatha Christie
Ari H., Highland Park, Illinois
"Between the World and Me" by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Ben B., Evanston, Illinois
"The Alchemist" by Paulo Coelho
Keren M., Ann Arbor, Michigan
"The God Delusion" by Richard Dawkins
Estelle R., Bloomington, Indiana
"Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City" by Matthew Desmond
Alex D., Orinda, California
"Guns, Germs, and Steel" by Jared Diamond
Ben F., Aurora, Illinois
"White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism" by Robin DiAngelo
Scarlette Anne M., Lafayette, California
"The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao" by Junot Díaz
Matt B., Hanover, New Hampshire
Maria G., Pasadena, California
Eliana R., Washington, D.C.
"A Tale of Two Cities" by Charles Dickens
Ben B., Evanston, Illinois
"David Copperfield" by Charles Dickens
Genevieve P., Columbus, Ohio
"All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
Elijah M., South Bend, Indiana
Joy T., Taipei, Taiwan
"White Nights" by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Sophie K., Tulsa,Oklahoma
"The Valley of Fear" by Arthur Conan Doyle
Mairely A., Prospect Park, New Jersey
"The Three Musketeers" by Alexandre Dumas
Connor D., Purcellville, Virginia
"Submarine" by Joe Dunthorne
Felicia G., Washington, D.C.
"The Division of Labor in Society" by Émile Durkheim
Theodore C., Bentonville, Arizona
"The Woman in the Window" by A.J. Finn
Avery B., Needham, Massachusetts
"The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Michelle Z., Davie, Florida
"How to Read Literature Like a Professor Revised: A Lively and Entertaining Guide to Reading Between the Lines" by Thomas C Foster
Emma H., Columbus, Ohio
Alyssa S., Alhambra, California
"Stardust" by Neil Gaiman
Maria G., Pasadena, California
"American Gods" by Neil Gaiman
Eli C., Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
"I Will Always Write Back: How One Letter Changed Two Lives" by Caitlin Alifirenka, Liz Welch and Martin Ganda
Tali M., Los Angeles, California
"Hunger" by Roxane Gay
Elise H., East Greenwich, Rhode Island
"Not Forsaken: Finding Freedom as Sons & Daughters of a Perfect Father" by Louie Giglio
Jennifer B., New Albany, Ohio
"The Old Man and the Sea" by Ernest Hemingway
Christopher L., Boylston, Massachusetts
“The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace: A Brilliant Young Man Who Left Newark for the Ivy League" by Jeff Hobbs
Lilly G., Wayne, Pennsylvania
"The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini
Andrew B., Twinsburg, Ohio
"Their Eyes Were Watching God" by Zora Neale Hurston
Julia W., Georgetown, Massachusetts
"An Enemy of the People Play" by Henrik Ibsen
Diana L., Miami Gardens, Florida
“A Prayer for Owen Meany” by John Irving
Timothy K., La Cañada Flintridge, California
“The Berlin Stories” by Christopher Isherwood
Juniper G., Fairfield, Ohio
"Never Let Me Go" by Kazuo Ishiguro
Jocelyn C., Cleveland, Ohio
"Allegedly" by Tiffany D. Jackson
Chidimma O., Bowie, Maryland
"Let Me Hear a Rhyme Novel" by Tiffany D. Jackson
Ava F., Scottsdale, Arizona
"An Unquiet Mind" by Kay Redfield Jamison
Emma C., Brookline, Massachusetts
“When Breath Becomes Air” by Paul Kalanithi
Adeline H., Mogadore, Ohio
"The Sun and Her Flowers" by Rupi Kaur
Ashtyn F., Colfax, Illinois
"On the Road" by Jack Kerouac
Theodore C., Bentonville, Arizona
Andrew W., Austin, Texas
"Darius the Great is Not Okay" by Adib Khorram
Natalie F., Frederick, Maryland
"The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
Harry D., Airmont, New York
Lydia S., Chicago, Illinois
"The Bazaar of Bad Dreams" by Stephen King
Mia S., Granger, Indiana
"The Bond: A Novel" by Robin Kirk
Caitlyne M., San Francisco, California
"Palaces for the People: How Social Infrastructure Can Help Fight Inequality, Polarization, and the Decline of Civic Life" by Eric Klinenberg
Julia N., Hillsboro, Oregon
"The Red and the Blue (The 1990s and the Birth of Political Tribalism)" by Steve Kornacki
Kyra T., Pleasanton, California
"Savage Inequalities" by Jonathan Kozol
Nathaniel D., St Louis, Missouri
“Interpreter of Maladies” by Jhumpa Lahiri
Adeline H., Mogadore, Ohio
"Pachinko" by Min Jin Lee
Naomi R., Chatham, New Jersey
"Ask Me Anything" by Moly Lee
Cori S.
"The Dispossessed" by Ursula K. Le Guin
Henry D., Wilmington, North Carolina
"Measurement" by Paul Lockheart
Jack S., Dayton, Ohio
"Throne of Glass" by Sarah J. Maas
Sophia A., Menlo Park, California
"A Court of Thorns and Roses" by Sarah J. Maas
Holden H., Alamo, California
"The Prince" by Machiavelli
Teagan D., Douglassville, Pennsylvania
“The Road" by Cormac McCarthy
Chloe C., Evanston, Illinois
"Beloved" by Toni Morrison
Lukas T., Deerfield, Massachusetts
Yang S., Qingdao, Shandong, China
"The Bluest Eyes" by Toni Morrison
Carli W., Pls Vrds Est, California
"Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World" by Haruki Murakami
Luc T., Portland, Oregon
"Everything I Never Told You" by Celeste Ng
Sophie H., Overland Park, Kansas
"Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng
Elizabeth K., Palo Alto, California
“Born A Crime” by Trevor Noah
Mercy A., Columbus, Ohio
Joe M., Lexington, Massachusetts
"Becoming Michelle Obama" by Michelle Obama
Benjamin S., New York, New York
Claire S., New York, New York
"Create or die" by Andres Oppenheimer
Maria S., Santa Cruz, Bolivia
"1984" by George Orwell
Anna C., Providence, Rhode Island
Crya L., Whitewater, Wisconsin
Nate S., Chicago, Illinois
"No Longer Human" by Dazai Osamu
Liwa S., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
"Gingerbread" by Helen Oyeyemi
Paige B., Englewood Colorado
"Women of Will" by Tina Packer
William M., Warwick, Rhode Island
"Wonder" by RJ Palacio
Nathalie G., Chicago, Illinois
"The Circadian Code" by Satchin Panda
Jack S., Dayton, Ohio
"Cry, the Beloved Country" by Alan Paton
Adela L., Mytilini, Greece
"The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath
Ryan R., Strongsville, Ohio
Audrey H., Evanston, Illinois
"The Tell-Tale Heart" by Edgar Allan Poe
Mohamed A., Giza, Egypt
"The Theory of Light and Matter" by Andrew Porter
Yu Jin S., Seoul, South Korea
"The Overstory" by Richard Powers
Aviva K., Chicago, Illinois
"Bowling Alone" by Robert Putnam
Simon H., Holland, Michigan
"The Fountainhead" by Ayn Rand
Samuel E., Austin, Texas
"Girls Burn Brighter" by Shobha Rao
Mary F., San Diego, California
"Harry Potter and the Cursed Child" by J.K. Rowling
Loana C., Riverside, California
"The Catcher in the Rye" by J.D. Salinger
Qike H., Herndon, Virginia
Alexis S., Prosper, Texas
"Walking on the Ceiling: A Novel" by Ayşegül Savaş
Turner B., Newbury, Massachusetts
"Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim" by David Sedaris
Lara K., Barrington, Rhode Island
"Moral Epistles and Letters from a Stoic" by Seneca the Younger
Jack B., Portsmouth, New Hampshire
"Frankenstein" by Mary Shelley
Maria G., Pasadena, California
Nicolas N., Fishers, Indiana
"Ilium" by Dan Simmons
Noah G., Chapel Hill, North Carolina
"Swing Time" by Zadie Smith
Sophie H., Overland Park, Kansas
"The Hidden Hand" by E.D.E.N. Southworth
Rachel B.
"The Grapes of Wrath" by John Steinbeck
Ben B., Evanston, Illinois
"Freefall" by John Steinbeck
Ben B., Evanston, Illinois
"The Goldfinch" by Donna Tartt
Alice T., West Chester. Pennsylvania
Jessica Y., Warren, New Jersey
"Hells Angels" by Hunter S. Thompson
Peter M., Coral Gables, Florida
"A Calendar of Wisdom" by Leo Tolstoy
Theodore C., Bentonville, Arkansas
"A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole
Angelica S., Tucson, Arizona
"The King of Attolia" by Megan Whalen Turner
Maggie D., Mountain Brook, Alabama
"The Miracle Life of Edgar Mint" by Brady Udall
Rebecca F., Wallingford, Pennsylvania
"Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut
Mitchell E., East Lansing, Michigan
"The Color People" by Alice Walker
Emma P., Ballwin, Missouri
"Infinite Jest" by David Foster Wallace
Tyler R., Waxhaw, North Carolina
"The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls
Charlie K., Lafayette, California
"Home Remedies" by Xuan Juliana Wang
Lindsay W., Pleasanton, California
"All the King's Men" by Robert Penn Warren
Paul C., Madison, Wisconsin
“Educated” by Tara Westover
Sophia B.
Stefanie D., New York, New York
Baye F., Baye, Pennsylvania
"Brown Girl Dreaming" by Jacqueline Woodson
Brenna H., South Bend, Indiana
"A Little Life" by Hanya Yanagihara
Nina B., Farmington, Minnesota
"The Book Thief" by Marcus Zusak
Timothy K., La Canada, Canada
“Things Fall Apart” by Chinua Achebe
Tina V., Chula Vista, California
Margaret E., Andover, Massachusetts
“The Power” by Naomi Alderman
Eva B., Columbus, Ohio
“Why the Caged Bird Sings” by Maya Angelou
Emma I., Portland, Maine
“Sons of Fortune” by Jeffrey Archer
Gideon A., Atonsu, Ghana
“Nicomachean Ethic” by Aristotle
Kagan K., Karabaglar, Izmir, Turkey
“Art & Fear” by David Bayles and Ted Orland
“Story-Wallah” edited by Shyam Selvadurai
Thomas S., Arlington, Massachusetts
“Seize the Day” by Saul Bellow
Augustus K., Cincinnati
“Foundryside” by Robert Jackson Bennett
Hena D., Westlake, Ohio
“A Clockwork Orange” by Anthony Burgess
“Lethal White” by Robert Galbraith
Christian L., Akron, Ohio
“The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay” by Michael Chabon
Paige K, Park Ridge, Illinois
“And Then There Were None” by Agatha Christie
Joshua E., Los Angeles
“The Richest Man in Babylon” by George S. Clason
“Gone with the Wind” by Margaret Mitchell
“The Strange Death of Europe” by Douglas Murray
Mallory B., Indianapolis, Indiana
“The Zahir” by Paul Coelho
Chi V., Hanoi, Vietnam
“The Power of One” by Bryce Courtenay
Jonathan R., Barrington, Rhode Island
“The Miseducation of Cameron Post” by Emily M. Danforth
Gabriella B., Glen Rock, New Jersey
“Great Expectations” by Charles Dickens
Kashvi K., Aurora, Colorado
“All the Light We Cannot See” by Anthony Doerr
Julia W., Georgetown, Massachusetts
“American Psycho” by Bret Easton Ellis
Sam E., Austin, Texas
“The Invisible Man” by Ralph Ellison
Halle N., Burlington, Vermont
“Deng Xiaoping and the Making of Modern China” by Richard Evans
Liam W., Mclean, Virginia
“War on Peace” by Ronan Farrow
Alexandra F., Boca Raton, Florida
“Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?” by Mark Fisher
Manon M., Dallas, Texas
“The Great Gatsby” by F. Scott Fitzgerald
George A., Charlotte, North Carolina
“Outliers” by Malcolm Gladwell
Connor S., St Petersburg, Florida
“The Long Gaze Back: An Anthology of Irish Women Writers” edited by Sinéad Gleeson
Olivia L., Chesterfield, Missouri
“The Island of Knowledge” by Marcelo Gleiser
Fiona M., Portland, Oregon
“Love Does” by Bob Goff
Jacob H., Sarasota, Florida
“Fates and Furies” by Lauren Groff
“Human Acts” by Han Kang
“Humans Dark with Sugar” by Brenda Shaughnessy
“Pray Me Stay Eager” by Ellen Doré Watson
Anastasia L., San Jose, California
“Homegoing” by Yaa Gyasi
Vivian H., Buffalo, New York
Letícia M., São Paulo, Brazil
“Tess of the D'Urbervilles” by Thomas Hardy
Konrad O., Aurora, Illinois
“American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin” by Terrance Hayes
Diana T., Zion, Illinois
“Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind” by Yuval Noah Harari
Niki W., Phoenix, Arizona
“Catch-22” by Joseph Heller
Cody P., Centreville, Maryland
“A Brave New World” by Aldous Huxley
Mariah S., Annapolis, Maryland
“The Horse Boy: A Father's Quest to Heal His Son” by Rupert Isaacson
Kate H., Sepastopol, California
“The Woman Who Had Two Navels and Tales of the Tropical Gothic” by Nick Joaquín
Tekla C., Burlingame, California
“The Ghost Map” by Steven Johnson
Elliot M., Portland, Oregon
“Rouge” by Julie Kagawa
Vaughn H., Ann Arbor, Michigan
“On the Road” by Jack Kerouac
Yaru H., Zhengzhou, Henan, China
“One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest” by Ken Kesey
John F., Evergreen, Colorado
“Misery” by Stephen King
Daniel P., Powell, Ohio
“The Poisonwood Bible” by Barbara Kingsolver
Lucy V., Palo Alto, California
“Luckiest Girl Alive” by Jessica Knoll
Katrina C., Haverford, Pennsylvania
“Into Thin Air” by Jon Krakauer
Jiyu S., Seoul, South Korea
“Into the Wild” by Jon Krakauer
Molly M., Fairfield, Connecticut
“The Fifth Risk” by Michael Lewis
William T., Glencoe, Illinois
“The Dunwich Horror” by H.P Lovecraft
Jack N., Grand Rapids, Michigan
“The Coddling of the American: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure” by Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt
Kayla M., Rio Rancho, New Mexico
“Hawk Quest” by Robert Lyndon
Benjamin S., San Jose, California
“The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck” by Mark Manson
Siddhanta P., Bhaktapur, Madhyapurthimi-15, Nepal
“In Evil Hour” by Gabriel García Márquez
“The Temple of Dawn” by Yukio Mishima
HongJing Y., Shanghai, China
“Since You’ve Been Gone” by Morgan Matson
Kaitlyn C., La Grange, Illinois
“Dear Nobody: The True Diary of Mary Rose” by Gillian McCain and Legs McNeil
Katherine C., Ramsey, New Jersey
“Inferno” by Eileen Miles
Jasmine D., Bridgewater, New Jersey
“Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch” by Henry Miller
Chloe Z., Hidden Hills, California
“Runaway Horses” by Yukio Mishima
Gregory G., Valley Village, California
“Cloud Atlas” by David Mitchell
Julian N., Houston, Texas
“The Tattooist of Auschwitz” by Heather Morris
Rachel H., Darien, Connecticut
“Song of Solomon” by Toni Morrison
Sonya D., Silver Spring, Maryland
“Paradise” by Toni Morrison
Kayla K., Southfield, Michigan
“The Red Parts” by Maggie Nelson
Aidan A., Athelstane, Wisconsin
“Little Fires Everywhere” by Celeste Ng
Kathryn Z., Tenafly, New Jersey
“The Sympathizer” by Viet Thanh Nguyen
Ryan W., Dallas, Texas
“The Things They Carried” by Tim O’Brien
Ariel L., Croton on Hudson, New York
“Animal Farm” by George Orwell
Ian C., Arlington, Massachusetts
“A Tale for the Time Being” by Ruth Ozeki
“The Female Persuasion” by Meg Wolitzer
Wendy B., Alexandria, Virginia
“Doctor Zhivago” by Boris Pasternak
Lara P., Rochester, Minnesota
“12 Rules for Life” by Jordan Peterson
Daniel M., Redwood City, California
“Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance” by Robert M. Pirsig
Addison S., Kansas City, Missouri
“Reincarnation Blues” by Michael Poore
Ever C., Bexley, Ohio
“Mason & Dixon” by Thomas Pynchon
Prathik G., Bloomington, Illinois
“The Fountainhead” by Ayn Rand
Aanji S., S Pasadena, California
“The Iguana Killer” by Alberto Alvaro Ríos
Jonathan L., Oakland, New Jersey
“Skyward” by Brandon Sanderson
Anthony M., Birmingham, Michigan
“Essays In Existentialism” by Jean-Paul Sartre
Juan M., Houston, Texas
“The Alchemist” by Michael Scott
Alexis E., Brentwood, Tennessee
“Caucasia” by Danzy Senna
Julia S.
“Discourses Concerning Government” by Algernon Sidney
Sundari U., Gilbert, Arizona
“Travels with Charley” by John Steinbeck
Sarah S., Paradise Vly, Arizona
“The Secret History” by Donna Tartt
Catherine C., Encino, California
“The Goldfinch” by Donna Tartt
Charles B., Charlotte, North Carolina
“Death of Innocence” by Mamie Till-Mobley and Christopher Benson
Autumn M., Sewickley, Pennsylvania
“Breakfast of Champions” by Kurt Vonnegut
Caroline B., Cohasset, Massachusetts
“The Color Purple” by Alice Walker
Maia K., Minneapolis, Minnesota
“The Conscience of a Liberal” by Paul Wellstone
Jerrett A., Bloomington, Indiana
“Slaughterhouse-Five” by Kurt Vonnegut
Israa S., Avon Lake, Ohi0
“They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us” by Hanif Abdurraqib
Emma J., Charlottesville, Virginia
“Call Me By Your Name” by André Aciman
Asvena S., Columbus, Ohio
“Alias Grace” by Margaret Atwood
Emma P., Terre Haute, Indiana
“Feed” by M.T. Anderson
Sam U., Winnetka, Illinois
“Persuasion” by Jane Austen
Madison D., Lexington, Kentucky
“Beartown” by Fredrik Backman
William E., Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
"The Idiot" by Elif Batuman
Natalia P., Guilford, Connecticut
"The Darkest Minds" by Alexandra Bracken
Alyssa M., Baton Rouge, Louisiana
“Wuthering Heights” by Emily Brontë
Lydia L., Irvine, California
“Braving the Wilderness” by Brené Brown
Michael B., Montgomery, Alabama
“High Performance Habits” by Brendon Burchard
Monirul H., Dhaka, Bangladesh
"The Ferryman" by Jez Butterworth
Madeline G., Sagaponack, California
“The Plague” by Albert Camus
Becca G., Kensington, Maryland
“We Were Eight Years in Power” by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Danielle J., Carteret, New Jersey
"Guns, Germs, and Steel" by Jared Diamond
Autumn M., Sewickley, Pennsylvania
"A Tale of Two Cities" by Charles Dickens
Michelle H., Youngstown, Ohio
“All The Light We Cannot See” by Anthony Doerr
Carolyn S., Los Angeles, California
“The Black Penguin” by Andrew Evans
Maggie E., Andover, Massachusetts
"The Man From St. Petersburg" by Ken Follett
Laura D., Chandler, Arizona
“American Gods“ by Neil Gaiman
Natalie K., Hong Kong
"The Origin of Language" by Eric Gans
Kyle P., San Carlos, California
“Love Poems & A Good Cry” by Nikki Giovanni
Zoe N., Raleigh, North Carolina
“Blink” by Malcolm Gladwell
Cassie C., Stuart, Florida
“Suicide of the West” by Jonah Goldberg
Barry G., Minneapolis, Minnesota
"The Fabric of The Cosmos" by Brian Greene
Benjamin C., Brooklyn, New York
"Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari
Nathaniel B., Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
"Far from the Madding Crowd" by Thomas Hardy
Vera B., Oujda, Morocco
“Dune” by Frank Herbert
Richard S., Glencoe, Illinois
"Black Like Me" by John Howard Griffin
Lina L., Louisville, Kentucky
"The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini
Anvitha C., Fairfax, Virginia
“A Prayer for Owen Meany” by John Irving
Samantha G., Wellesley, Massachusetts
"Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder
Isabella C., Danville, California
“Captains Courageous” by Rudyard Kipling
Benjamin M., Edwardsville, Illinois
"Angels in America" by Tony Kushner
Lucy O., Portland, Maine
“In the Shadow of Statues” by Mitch Landrieu
Tatum H., Danville, California
"Pachinko" by Min Jin Lee
Lily H., Naperville, Illinois
"Truman" by David McCullough
River S., Murrysville, Pennsylvania
“The Kindness of Strangers: Penniless Across America” by Mike McIntyre
Param V., Fullerton, California
“Both Ways Is The Only Way I Want It” by Maile Meloy
Hana W., Milton, Massachusetts
"Moby-Dick" by Herman Melville
Patricia T., Bedford, New Hampshire
"The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness" by Sy Montgomery
Thomas S., Arlington, Massachusetts
"Song Of Solomon" by Toni Morrison
Gabriel A., Brookline, Massachusetts
“Elmet” by Fiona Mozley
Lang C., Medford, Massachusetts
"1Q84" by Haruki Murakami
Kathryn Y., Burke, Virginia
"Kafka on the Shore" by Haruki Murakami
Brooke B., Royal Oak, Michigan
“Purple Hibiscus” by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Rebecca S., Suzhou, China
“In Order to Live” by Yeonmi Park
Jane A., Weston, Connecticut
“Mrs. Fletcher” by Tom Perrotta
Olivia T., San Francisco, California
"Out Stealing Horses" by Per Petterson
"Frankenstein in Baghdad" by Ahmed Sadaawi
"Burnt Shadows" by Kamila Shamsie
"Hungry Hearts" by Anzia Yezierska"
Thalia P. , New Haven, Connecticut
“Housekeeping” by Marilynne Robinson
Isabel K., Los Angeles, California
“Gilead” by Marilynne Robinson
Noah C., West Chicago, Illinois
“Midnight's Children” by Salman Rushdie
Mahesh A., South Berwick, Maine
“Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction” by J.D. Salinger
Elisabeth S., Georgetown, Kentucky
“The Catcher in the Rye” by J.D. Salinger
Crandall K., Concord, North Carolina
“A Tree Grows in Brooklyn” by Betty Smith
Niki W., Phoenix, Arizona
“The Grapes of Wrath” by John Steinbeck
Sarah A., Windsor, Colorado
“Reamde” by Neal Stephenson
Nolan B., Cincinnati, Ohio
“Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption” by Bryan Stevenson
Solomon P., Washington, D.C.
"The Joy Luck Club" by Amy Tan
Somya P., Acton, Massachusetts
“The Hellfire Club” by Jake Tapper
Molly M., Fairfield, Connecticut
“Tao Te Ching” by Lao-Tzu
Iris W., Plainfield, Illinois
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong
Andrew A.
“The Glass Castle” by Jeannette Walls
Maya G., Flagstaff, Arizona
“Artemis” by Andy Weir
Benjamin M., Owings Mills, Maryland
“Educated: A Memoir” by Tara Westover
Breana A., San Jose, California
"The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
Carrie S., Tulsa, Oklahoma
“The Underground Railroad” by Colson Whitehead
Alexandra V., Hingham, Massachusetts
"The Interestings" by Meg Wolitzer
Sylvia C., Lake Stevens, Wisconsin