• Trust Exercise by Susan Choi
• The Water Dancer: A Novel by Ta-Nehisi Coates
• The Innocents: A Novel by Michael Crummey
• Dominicana: A Novel by Angie Cruz
• Everything Inside: Stories by Edwidge Danticat
• Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo
• Sabrina & Corina: Stories by Kali Fajardo-Anstine
• The Topeka School by Ben Lerner
• Lost Children Archive: A Novel by Valeria Luiselli
• Lanny: A Novel by Max Porter
• Normal People: A Novel by Sally Rooney
• On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous: A Novel by Ocean Vuong
• The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead

Non-Fiction

• Elderhood: Redefining Aging, Transforming Medicine, Reimagining Life by Louise Aronson
• Yellow House by Sarah M. Broom
• Thick: And Other Essays by Tressie McMillan Cottom
• A Good Provider is One Who Leaves: One Family and Migration in the 21st Century by Jason DeParle
• Mama's Last Hug: Animal Emotions and What They Tell Us About Themselves by Frans De Waal
• Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster by Adam Higginbotham
• Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland by Patrick Radden Keefe
• Underland: A Deep Time Journey by Robert Macfarlane
• Late Migrations: A Natural History of Love and Loss by Margaret Renkl
• The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming by David Wallace-Wells
• The Impeachers: The Trial of Andrew Johnson and the Dream of a Just Nation by Brenda Wineapple

Poetry

• The Tradition by Jericho Brown
• Deaf Republic: Poems by Ilya Kaminsky