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"Olive, Again: A Novel" by Elizabeth Strout — Feb 7, 2020 6:18:12 PM
"Amy and Isabelle" by Elizabeth Strout — Jan 19, 2020 6:37:18 PM
"No Visible Bruises: What We Don't Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us" by Rachel Louise Snyder — Jan 17, 2020 7:30:48 PM
"My Sister's Keeper" by Jodi Picoult — Jan 16, 2020 5:51:29 PM
"Women Talking" by Miriam Toews — Dec 4, 2019 6:51:33 PM
"Autism in Heels: The Untold Story of a Female Life on the Spectrum" by Jennifer Cook O'Toole — Nov 16, 2019 9:05:37 PM
"Olive Kitteridge" by Elizabeth Strout — Nov 3, 2019 3:50:41 PM
"Manual for Cleaning Women: Selected Stories, A" by Lucia Berlin — Aug 6, 2019 5:30:33 PM
"Rules of Civility: A Novel" by Amor Towles — Aug 6, 2019 5:13:01 PM
"Women Rowing North: Navigating Life's Currents and Flourishing As We Age" by Mary Pipher — Jul 7, 2019 6:03:52 PM
"Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States, An" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz — Mar 23, 2019 4:37:42 PM
"Unsheltered: A Novel" by Barbara Kingsolver — Mar 22, 2019 5:17:45 PM
"Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive" by Stephanie Land — Mar 9, 2019 8:04:33 PM
"Perfect Nanny, The" by Leila Slimani — Jan 1, 2019 8:24:19 PM
"Lake Success: A Novel" by Gary Shteyngart — Oct 6, 2018 4:30:53 PM
"Story of a New Name, The" by Elena Ferrante — Oct 1, 2018 4:29:23 PM
"Red Famine: Stalin’s War on Ukraine" by Anne Applebaum — Sep 5, 2018 12:58:25 AM
"Hag-Seed" by Margaret Atwood — May 16, 2018 6:04:01 AM
"Enchantment" by Orson Scott Card — May 4, 2018 1:24:09 AM
"No Man Knows My History" by Fawn M. Brodie — Apr 20, 2018 4:10:58 PM
"Britt-Marie Was Here: A Novel" by Fredrik Backman — Apr 20, 2018 1:01:55 AM
"Common Good, The" by Robert Reich — Mar 5, 2018 9:37:33 PM
"Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng — Mar 5, 2018 9:35:56 PM
"Being Esther" by Miriam Karmel — Nov 2, 2017 7:03:04 PM
"Alice Network, The" by Kate Quinn — Nov 2, 2017 7:02:03 PM
"Glass House: The 1% Economy and the Shattering of the All-American Town" by Brian Alexander — Sep 21, 2017 5:02:31 PM
"I Will Always Write Back: How One Letter Changed Two Lives" by Caitlin Alifirenka & Martin Ganda — Aug 14, 2017 4:18:45 PM
"Season of the Witch: Enchantment, Terror and Deliverance in the City of Love" by David Talbot — Jun 19, 2017 8:51:08 PM
"Bringing Up Bébé: One American Mother Discovers the Wisdom of French Parenting" by Pamela Druckerman — Jun 19, 2017 8:49:42 PM
"Cutting Back: My Apprenticeship in the Gardens of Kyoto" by Leslie Buck — Apr 12, 2017 10:44:52 PM
"Rules Do Not Apply: A Memoir, The" by Ariel Levy — Apr 12, 2017 10:41:13 PM
"Girl with a Pearl Earring" by Tracy Chevalier — Apr 5, 2017 9:08:38 PM
"At Home: A Short History of Private Life" by Bill Bryson — Feb 13, 2017 9:56:33 PM
"Tulipomania" by Mike Dash — Jan 6, 2017 1:05:41 AM
"Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis" by J. D. Vance — Nov 4, 2016 5:36:38 PM
"Before I Go to Sleep" by S. J. Watson — Sep 23, 2016 10:54:35 PM
"Martian, The" by Andy Weir — Sep 8, 2016 6:49:23 AM
"Stories of John Cheever, The" by John Cheever — Aug 4, 2016 9:15:14 PM
"Elon Musk, Tesla, Space X, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future" by Ashlee Vance — Jul 14, 2016 11:17:47 PM
"In the Shadow of the Banyan" by Vaddey Ratner — Jul 7, 2016 7:20:34 AM
"About Grace" by Anthony Doerr — Jul 7, 2016 7:02:22 AM
"My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey" by Jill Bolte Taylor — Mar 3, 2016 4:58:44 PM
"My Korean Deli: Risking It All for a Convenience Store" by Ben Ryder Howe — Mar 3, 2016 4:55:35 PM
"Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age" by Sherry Turkle — Feb 4, 2016 6:02:34 AM
"Admissions, The" by Meg Mitchell Moore — Feb 4, 2016 5:56:17 AM
"Sandcastle Girls" by Chris Bohjalian — Jan 31, 2016 8:53:20 PM
"Perfect Nazi: Uncovering My Grandfather's Secret Past, The" by Martin Davidson — Jan 15, 2016 12:25:34 AM
"Funny in Farsi" by Firoozeh Dumas — Jan 15, 2016 12:22:53 AM
"Our Like Will Not Be There Again: Notes from the West of Ireland" by Lawrence Millman — Jan 15, 2016 12:21:53 AM
"Infidel (2007)/Nomad (2010)" by Ayan Hirsi Ali — Jan 15, 2016 12:20:54 AM
"Dressmaker of Khair Khana, The" by Gayle Tzemach Lemmon — Jan 15, 2016 12:19:41 AM
"Cradle of Gold: The Story of Hiram Bingham, a Real-Life Indiana Jones, and the Search for Machu Picchu" by Christopher Heaney — Jan 15, 2016 12:17:09 AM
"Efronia" by Stina, Efronia and Herant Katchadourian — Jan 15, 2016 12:15:13 AM
"Lapp King's Daughter: A Family Journey Through Finland's Wars, The" by Stina Katchadourian — Jan 15, 2016 12:13:58 AM
"Enemies of the People" by Kati Marton — Jan 15, 2016 12:12:33 AM
"Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong" by James Loewen — Jan 15, 2016 12:10:25 AM
"World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies?, The" by Jared Diamond — Jan 14, 2016 11:55:48 PM
"World is Flat" by Thomas Friedman — Jan 14, 2016 11:54:37 PM
"Social Animal: The Hidden Sources of Love, Character, and Achievement " by David Brooks — Jan 14, 2016 11:53:26 PM
"Midnight Disease: The Drive to Write, Writer's Block, and the Creative Brain, The" by Alice W. Flaherty — Jan 14, 2016 11:52:12 PM
"History of the Wife, A" by Marilyn Yalom — Jan 14, 2016 11:50:37 PM
"God’s Hotel: A Doctor, a Hospital and a Pilgrimage to the Heart of Medicine" by Victoria Sweet, M.D. — Jan 14, 2016 11:44:40 PM
"Crazy Like Us: The Globalization of the American Psyche" by Ethan Waters — Jan 14, 2016 11:31:50 PM
"Zeitoun" by Dave Eggers — Jan 14, 2016 11:30:43 PM
"Talk to the Hand" by Lynn Truss — Jan 14, 2016 11:29:11 PM
"Butterfly Mosque" by Willow Wilson — Jan 14, 2016 6:15:24 AM
"West With the Night" by Beryl Markham — Jan 14, 2016 6:13:17 AM
"In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and An American Family in Hitler's Berlin" by Erik Larson — Jan 14, 2016 5:26:40 AM
"Stiff: Curious lives of cadavers" by Mary Roach — Jan 14, 2016 5:25:38 AM
"Alone in America: Search for Companionship" by Louise Berkinow — Jan 14, 2016 5:24:37 AM
"Mistress of the Art of Death" by Aliana Franklin — Jan 14, 2016 5:22:57 AM
"Orphan Master's Son" by Adam Johnson — Jan 14, 2016 5:20:27 AM
"Gone to Soldiers" by Marge Piercy — Jan 14, 2016 5:19:28 AM
"Wine of Solitude" by Irene Nemerovsky — Jan 14, 2016 5:17:10 AM
"Sweet Tooth" by Ian McEwan — Jan 14, 2016 5:16:18 AM
"Stranger, The" by Albert Camus — Jan 14, 2016 5:15:23 AM
"Winds of War" by Herman Wouk — Jan 14, 2016 5:14:25 AM
"Lysistrata" by Aristophanes — Jan 14, 2016 4:45:55 AM
"Canada" by Richard Ford — Jan 14, 2016 4:43:34 AM
"Push" by Sapphire — Jan 14, 2016 4:42:25 AM
"Old Ladies: Stories" by Nancy Huddleston Packer — Jan 14, 2016 4:41:32 AM
"Emily, Alone" by Steward O’Nan — Jan 14, 2016 4:40:21 AM
"Memories from Cherry Harvest" by Amy Wachspress — Jan 14, 2016 4:39:24 AM
"Sarah’s Key" by Tatiana de Rosnay — Jan 14, 2016 4:38:02 AM
"Prague Cemetery, The" by Umberto Eco — Jan 14, 2016 4:36:39 AM
"Elegance of the Hedgehog" by Muriel Barbery — Jan 14, 2016 4:35:35 AM
"Wolf Totem" by Jiang Rong (aka Lu Jiamin) — Jan 14, 2016 4:34:42 AM
"Memoirs of A Geisha" by Arthur Golden — Jan 14, 2016 4:33:10 AM
"Abide with Me" by Elizabeth Strout — Jan 14, 2016 3:28:08 AM
"Room" by Emma Donoghue — Jan 7, 2016 11:42:44 PM
"Crashing Through" by Robert Kurson — Jan 7, 2016 11:38:09 PM
"Zinky Boys" by Svetlana Alexievich — Oct 18, 2015 4:13:19 PM
"Nine Lives: Death and Life in New Orleans" by Dan Baum — Sep 20, 2015 3:23:50 AM
"Long Way Home: A Memoir, A" by Saroo Brierley — Sep 20, 2015 3:18:45 AM
"Fires of Autumn, The" by Irène Némirovsky — Sep 7, 2015 5:31:32 AM
"Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures, The" by Anne Fadiman — Sep 7, 2015 4:19:44 AM