Wow. This one is late this year:
1) Pachinko (Min Jin Lee)
2) Once There Were Wolves (Charlotte McConaghy)
3) Our Missing Hearts (Celeste Ng)
4) Women Rowing North (Mary Phipher)
5) The Great Alone (Kristin Hannah)
6) A Very Punchable Face (Colin Jost)
7) Migrations (Charlotte McConaghy)
8) Fun Home (Alison Bechdel)
9) Demon Copperhead (Barbara Kingsolver)
10) As Long As the Lemon Tree Grows (Zoulfa Katouh)
11) Someday, Maybe (Onyi Nwabineli)
12) Someone Else’s Shoes (Jojo Moyes)
13) Pineapple Street (Jenny Jackson)
14) Really Good, Actually (Monica Heisey)
15) Mad Honey (Jodi Picault and Jennifer Finney Boylan)
16) Spare (Prince Harry)
17) The Age of Vice (Deepti Kapoor)
18) Romantic Comedy (Curtis Sittenfeld)
19) Wayward (Emilia Hart)
20) My Underground American Dream (Julissa Are)
21) The Love Songs of WEB DuBois (Honoree Fannon Jeffers)
22) Black Cake (Charmaine Wilkerson)
23) Yours Truly (Abby Jimenez)
24) Because of Miss Bridgerton (Julia Quinn)
25) Hello Beautiful (Ann Napolitano)
26) When He was Wicked (Julia Quinn)
27) The Last Flight (Julie Clark)
28) The Friend Zone (Abby Jimenez)
29) The Happily Ever After Playlist (Abby Jimenez)
30) Happy Place (Emily Henry)
31) The Light Pirate (Lily Brooks-Dalton)
32) The Five-Star Weekend (Elin Hilderbarnd)
33) Lady Tan’s Circle of Women (Lisa See)
34) Hello Stranger (Katherine Center)
35) I’m Glad My Mom Died (Jennette McCurdy)
36) Calypso (David Sedaris)
37) The Covenant of Water (Abraham Verghese)
38) The Spectacular (Fiona Davis)
39) Gender Queer (Maia Kobabe)
40) Little Monsters (Adrienne Brodeur)
41) The Roommate Pact (Allison Ashley)
42) The Many Lives of Mama Love (Lara Love Hinton)
43) Would You Rather (Allison Ashley)
44) Yellowface (RF Kuang)
45) You, Again (Kate Goldbeck)
46) Happiness Falls (Angie Kim)
47) Upright Women Wanted (Sarah Gailey)
48) Booth (Karen Joy Fowler)
49) Life’s Too Short (Abby Jimenez)
50) The Leftover Woman (Jean Kwok)
51) All My Rage (Sabaa Tahir)
52) How to Say Babylon (Safia Sinclair)
53) Let Us Descend (Jesmyn Ward)
54) While You Were Out (Meg Kissinger)
55) The Love of Singular Men (Victor Heringer)
56) The Heart’s Invisible Furies (John Boyle)
57) The Gentleman’s Gambit (Evie Dunmore)
58) You Could Make This Place Beautiful (Maggie Smith)
59) The Frozen River (Ariel Lawhon)
60) The Second Chance Year (Melissa Wiesmer)
61) Strangers to Ourselves (Rachel Aviv)
62) Spy School Project x (Stuart Gibbs)
63) Alice Sadie Celine (Sarah Blakley-Cartwright)
I liked a lot of these books! My favorites are in bold.
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