- The Story of a New Name by Elena Ferrante
- Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay by Elena Ferrante
- The Story of the Lost Child by Elena Ferrante
- A Better Man by Louise Penny
- The Remarkable Journey of Coyote Sunrise by Dan Gemeinhart * kid lit
- The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
- Trust Exercise by Susan Choi
- Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli * kid lit
- Everybody's Fool by Richard Russo * I must share that this read was my second time around. Truly, this story and these characters are genuine Comfort Food for me. I wish I could spend time in Bath, New York, at the bar with Sully and his gang of lovable miscreants. Thank you, Mr. Russo, for this hilarious, poignant, portrait of a small town.
- Deacon King Kong by James McBride
- The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen
- Finding Orion by John David Anderson * kid lit
- Hatshepsut: The Princess Who Became King by Ellen Galford * elementary nonfiction
