My Brilliant Friend (The Neapolitan Novels, #1)

Elena Ferrante

The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration

Isabel Wilkerson

Wolf Hall (Thomas Cromwell, #1)

Hilary Mantel

The Known World

Edward P. Jones

The Corrections

Jonathan Franzen

2666

Roberto Bolaño

The Underground Railroad

Colson Whitehead

Austerlitz

W.G. Sebald

Never Let Me Go

Kazuo Ishiguro

Gilead (Gilead, #1)

Marilynne Robinson

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

Junot Díaz

The Year of Magical Thinking

Joan Didion

The Road

Cormac McCarthy

Outline

Rachel Cusk

Pachinko

Min Jin Lee

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay

Michael Chabon

The Sellout

Paul Beatty

Lincoln in the Bardo

George Saunders

Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland

Patrick Radden Keefe

Erasure

Percival Everett

Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City

Matthew Desmond

Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity

Katherine Boo

Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage: Stories

Alice Munro

The Overstory

Richard Powers

Random Family: Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age in the Bronx

Adrian Nicole LeBlanc

Atonement

Ian McEwan

Americanah

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Cloud Atlas

David Mitchell

The Last Samurai

Helen DeWitt

Sing, Unburied, Sing

Jesmyn Ward