There There

Tommy Orange

The Emperor of Gladness

Ocean Vuong

On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

Ocean Vuong

Us

David Nicholls

Razorblade Tears

S.A. Cosby

Portrait of a Thief

Grace D. Li

Real Life

Brandon Taylor

I Who Have Never Known Men

Jacqueline Harpman

Seven Days in June

Tia Williams

Exquisite Things

Abdi Nazemian

Project Hail Mary

Andy Weir

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

John Berendt

Pet

Akwaeke Emezi

The Immortalists

Chloe Benjamin

American Psycho

Bret Easton Ellis

The Talented Mr. Ripley

Patricia Highsmith

The Road

Cormac McCarthy

Human Acts

Han Kang

Cloud Cuckoo Land

Anthony Doerr

East of Eden

John Steinbeck

The Glass Castle

Jeannette Walls

Pachinko

Min Jin Lee

Passing

Nella Larsen

Hamnet

Maggie O'Farrell

Yellowface

R.F. Kuang

Rebecca

Daphne du Maurier

Sea of Tranquility

Emily St. John Mandel

Homegoing

Yaa Gyasi

The Secret History

Donna Tartt

You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty

Akwaeke Emezi