This list is updated annually in January. Last updated on January 16, 2020.

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FICTION, SCI FI AND fANTASY

• The Aleph by Jorge Luis Borges
• Antelope Woman by Louise Erdrich
• Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne
• The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
• Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
• The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter
• Caramba! by Nina Marie Martinez
• Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko
• The Circle by Dave Eggers
• Crossing to Safety by Wallace Stegner
• The Danish Girl by David Ebershoff
• Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather
• Dubliners by James Joyce
• Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng
• Exit West by Mohsin Hamid
• Fortune Smiles by Adam Johnson
• Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin
• The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
• A Good Man is Hard to Find by Flannery O'Connor
• The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
• The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
• Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
• The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
• It Can't Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis
• Kindred by Octavia E. Butler
• The Last Bookaneer by Matthew Pearl
• The Last Painting of Sara de Vos by Dominic Smith
• Life After Life by Kate Atkinson
• Lolita by Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov
• Lucky Boy by Shanthi Sekaran
• Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis
• A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman
• The Ministry of Utmost Happiness by Arundhati Roy
• My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante
• Native Son by Richard Wright
• The Nest by Cynthia d'Aprix Sweeney
• The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
• Nightwood by Djuna Eliot Barnes, T. S. (Thomas Stearns)
• Nutshell by Ian McEwan
• The Patriots by Sana Krasikov
• The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark
• The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend by Katarina Bivald
• Sacre Bleu by Christopher Moore
• Saint Mazie by Jami Attenberg
• The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen
• Tevye the Dairyman by Sholem Aleichem
• Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
• Titus Groan by Mervyn Peake
• True Grit by Charles Portis
• The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
• Uprooted by Naomi Novik
• A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
• What is Not Yours is Not Yours by Helen Oyeyemi
• Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
• A Wild Sheep Chase by Haruki Murakami

NON-FICTION AND BIOGRAPHY

• The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu by Joshua Hammer
• Being Mortal by Atul Gawande
• Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
• Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant? by Roz Chast
• Dead Wake by Erik Larson
• The Emerald Mile by Kevin Fedarko
• Evicted by Matthew Desmond
• Fences by August Wilson
• Five Plays by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
• Gilgamesh by Stephen Mitchell
• Going Clear by Lawrence Wright
• H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald
• Hunger by Roxane Gay
• Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson
• Lab Girl by Hope Jahren
• Medium Raw by Anthony Bourdain
• Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass
• Power of Myth by Joseph Campbell
• Rain by Cynthia Barnett
• The Reason I Jump by Naoki Higashida
• The Screwtape Letters by C. S. Lewis
• The Snow Leopard by Peter Matthiessen
• The Waste Land and other poems by T. S. Eliot (Thomas Stearns)

MYSTERY

• And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
• The Bastards of Pizzofalcone by Maurizio De Giovanni
• Beam of Light by Andrea Camilleri
• Berlin Noir by Philip Kerr
• The Bertie Project by Alexander McCall Smith
• Blood on Snow by Jo Nesbo
• Blood Strand by Chris Ould
• Brooklyn on Fire by Lawrence H. Levy
• Camino Island by John Grisham
• Career of Evil by Robert Galbraith
• Celine by Peter Heller
• The Coroner's Lunch by Colin Cotterill
• The Doorbell Rang by Rex Stout
• A Drink Before the War by Dennis Lehane
• The Dry by Jane Harper
• Eeny Meeny by M. J. Arlidge
• Gaudy Night by Dorothy Sayers
• In a Dry Season by Peter Robinson
• Journey to Munich by Jacqueline Winspear
• The Life We Bury by Allen Eskens
• Magpie Murders by Anthony Horowitz
• A Murder of Magpies by Judith Flanders
• The Necessary Murder of Nonie Blake by Terry Shames
• No Good Deed by Allison Brennan
• Perfect Shot by Robin Yocum
• Plain Confession by Emma Miller
• Rain Dogs by Adrian McKinty
• Razor Girl by Carl Hiaasen
• Scot Free by Catriona McPherson
• The Secrets of the Bastide Blanche by M. L. Longworth (Mary Lou)
• See Also Proof by Larry D. Sweazy
• Two Kinds of Truth by Michael Connelly
• The Woman in Cabin 10 by Ruth Ware

YOUNG ADULT

• Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Saenz
• Black Panther by Ta-Nehisi Coates
• The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
• Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs
• Passion of Dolssa by Julie Berry
• Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
• Scythe by Neal Shusterman

KIDS

• Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
• Awkward by Svetlana Chmakova
• Bomb by Steve Sheinkin
• Book Scavenger by Jennifer Chambliss Bertman
• The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind by William Kamkwamba
• Brave by Svetlana Chmakova
• The Crossover by Kwame Alexander
• The Dark is Rising by Susan Cooper
• Diary of a Wimpy Kid by Jeff Kinney
• Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules by Jeff Kinney
• The First Rule of Punk by Celia C. Pérez
• Hello, Universe. by Erin Entrada Kelly
• Island Treasures by Alma Flor Ada
• It Ain't so Awful, Falafel by Firoozeh Dumas
• One Dead Spy by Nathan Hale
• Story Thieves by James Riley
• When the Sea Turned to Silver by Grace Lin
• When you Reach Me by Rebecca Stead
• The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame

LIBROS EN ESPAÑOL

• Arrancame la Vida by Ángeles Mastretta
• El Canto del Agua by Nelly Rosario
• Las Christmas by Christmas
• Cuando Fui Mortal by Javier Marías
• Cuando Ya No Importe by Juan Carlos Onetti
• Diarios de Motocicleta by Che Guevara
• Dias y Noches de Amor y de Guerra by Eduardo Galeano
• Dulce Compania by Laura Restrepo
• Los Ejercitos by Evelio Rosero Diago
• Final del Juego by Julio Cortázar
• El Loro en el Horno by Victor Martinez
• Las Memorias de Mama Blanca by Teresa de la Parra
• Mundo del Fin del Mundo/ The World at the End of the World by Luis Sepulveda
• Nada by Carmen Laforet
• Nocturno de Chile by Roberto Bolaño
• Oscar y las Mujeres by Santiago Roncagliolo
• El Pais de las Mujeres by Gioconda Belli
• El Proyecto Esposa by Graeme C. Simsion
• Lo Que Esta en mi Corazon by Marcela Serrano
• Quien Mato a Palmino Molero? by Mario Vargas Llosa
• Las Reputaciones by Juan Gabriel Vásquez
• Return of the River by Roberto Sosa
• San Juan Noir by editado por Mayra Santos-Febres
• Si Quieres Casarte con mi Hija, Debemos Hablar by Carlos Cuauhtémoc Sánchez
• Sin Tetas No Hay Paraiso by Gustavo Bolívar Moreno
• La Sirena Negra by Emilia Pardo Bazán
• La Sirvienta y el Luchador by Horacio Castellanos Moya
• Soldados de Salamina by Javier Cercas
• Soñar en Cubano by Cristina García
• También esto Pasará by Milena Busquets
• Transportes Gonzalez e Hija by María Amparo Escandó
• El Tunel by Ernesto R. Sábato
• La Truega by Mario Benedetti
• Una Región de Historias by Sergio Ramírez