Non-Fiction
The Checklist Manifesto, by Atul Gawande
The Big Short, by Michael Lewis
Irrepressible, by Leslie Brody
Paris Underground, by Mark Ovenden
1989, by Mary Elise Sarotte
The Egg and I, by Betty McDonald
Hitch-22, by Christopher Hitchens
The Left at War, by Michael Berube
The Bishop’s Daughter, by Honor Moore
Freedom is Not Enough, by James Patterson
Lives Like Loaded Guns, by Lyndall Gordon
Never Say Die, by Susan Jacoby
The Tenth Parallel, by Eliza Griswold
Rebels in White Gloves, by Miriam Horn
House of Happy Endings, by Leslie Garis
The City in History, by Lewis Mumford
Crazy U, by Andrew Ferguson
What’s Liberal About the Liberal Arts?, by Michael Berube
Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, by Amy Chua
Listen to This, by Alex Ross
Mennonite in a Little Black Dress, by Rhoda Janzen
Hellhound on His Trail, by Hampton Sides
River of Doubt, by Candice Millard
Real Boys, by William Pollack
Seaworthy, by Linda Greenlaw
Alone Together, by Sherry Turkle
Cheap, by Ellen Ruppel Shell
At Home, by Bill Bryson
A Whale Hunt, by Robert Sullivan
Horse of a Different Color, by Jim Squires
The Blind Side, by Michael Lewis
Confidence Men, by Ron Suskind
Idiot America, by Charles Pierce
Musicophilia, by Oliver Sacks
New Kids, by Brooke Hauser
Fiction
Joy in the Morning, by Evelyn Waugh
Old Filth, by Jane Gardam
Cutting for Stone, by Abraham Verghese
Little Earthquakes, by Jennifer Weiner
Lord of Misrule, by Jaimy Gordon
Lucky Jim, by Kingsley Amis
Midnight’s Children, by Salman Rushdie
Girls of Riyadh, by Rajaa Alsanea
The Cookbook Collector, by Allegra Goodman
Beloved, by Toni Morrison
Great House, by Nicole Krauss
A Visit From the Goon Squad, by Jennifer Egan
Olive Kitteredge, by Elizabeth Strout
A Very Long Engagement, by Sebastien Japrisot
Amsterdam, by Ian McEwan
Black Swan Green, by David Mitchell
Three Stages of Amazement, by Carol Edgarian
The Wings of the Dove, by Henry James
The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet, by David Mitchell
Parrot and Olivier in America, by Peter Carey
The Beans of Egypt, Maine, by Carolyn Chute
Ten Thousand Saints, by Eleanor Henderson
Snakewoman of Little Egypt, by Robert Hellenga
The Line of Beauty, by Alan Hollinghurst
To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee
The Stranger’s Child, by Alan Hollinghurst
She’s Come Undone, by Wally Lamb
Free Food for Millionaires, by Min Jin Lee
22 Britannia Road, by Amanda Hodgkinson
The American Heiress, by Daisy Goodwin
The Barbarian Nurseries, by Hector Tobar
Microserfs, by Douglas Coupland