This list is updated annually in January. Last updated on April 25, 2022.

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FICTION, SCI FI AND fANTASY

• The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
• The Aleph by Jorge Luis Borges
• Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne
• The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
• The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter
• The Book of Unknown Americans by Cristina Henríquez
• Born a Crime : Stories from a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah
• Call Me By Your Name by André Aciman
• Caramelo, or, Puro Cuento: a novel by Sandra Cisneros
• Caramba! by Nina Marie Martinez
• Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko
• Cimarron by Edna Ferber
• The Complete Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
• Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton
• The Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey
• Dubliners by James Joyce
• Earth Abides by George R. Stewart
• Exit West by Mohsin Hamid
• Fates and Furies by Lauren Groff
• Fortune Smiles by Adam Johnson
• The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
• The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
• Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado
• Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
• Kindred by Octavia E. Butler
• The Last Bookaneer by Matthew Pearl
• Less by Andrew Sean Greer
• Lucky Boy by Shanthi Sekaran
• Narcissus and Goldmund by Hermann Hesse
• 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
• Player Piano by Kurt Vonnegut
• The Power by Naomi Alderman
• The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark
• Riders of the Purple Sage by Zane Grey
• Sacre Bleu by Christopher Moore
• Tevye the Dairyman by Sholem Aleichem
• Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
• The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu
• Titus Groan by Mervyn Peake
• True Grit by Charles Portis
• A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
• What is Not Yours is Not Yours by Helen Oyeyemi
• The Wife by Alafair Burke
• The Yellow Wall-paper and Other Writings by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

NON-FICTION AND BIOGRAPHY

• Born A Crime: stories from a South African childhood by Trevor Noah
• 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
• Hunger by Roxane Gay
• Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson
• Lost at Sea:  the Jon Ronson Mysteries by Jon Ronson
• Radium Girls by Kate Moore
• Tao Te Ching by Laozi
• The Waste Land and other poems by T. S. Eliot (Thomas Stearns)
• White Fragility by Robin J. DiAngelo

MYSTERY

• And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
• Berlin Noir by Philip Kerr
• The Bertie Project by Alexander McCall Smith
• Camino Island by John Grisham
• Cape Diamond by Ron Corbett
• Celine by Peter Heller
• The Colorado Kid by Stephen King
• The Coroner's Lunch by Colin Cotterill
• The Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey
• The Disappeared by C.J. Box
• The Doorbell Rang by Rex Stout
• A Drink Before the War by Dennis Lehane
• Force of Nature by Jane Harper
• Gaudy Night by Dorothy Sayers
• In a Dry Season by Peter Robinson
• Journey to Munich by Jacqueline Winspear
• Magpie Murders by Anthony Horowitz
• The Mitford Murders by Jessica Fellowes
• Money in the Morgue by Ngaio Marsh
• A Murder of Magpies by Judith Flanders
• Perfect Shot by Robin Yocum
• The Punishment She Deserves by Elizabeth George
• Scot & Soda by Catriona McPherson
• Scot Free by Catriona McPherson
• The Secrets of the Bastide Blanche by M. L. Longworth (Mary Lou)
• See Also Proof by Larry D. Sweazy
• The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
• The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith
• Too Far Gone by Allison Brennan
• Two Kinds of Truth by Michael Connelly
• The Western Star by Craig Johnson
• The Woman in Cabin 10 by Ruth Ware

YOUNG ADULT

• Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Saenz
• The Astonishing Color of After by Emily X.R. Pan
• The Borden Murders by Sarah Elizabeth Miller
• Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi
• Darius the Great is Not Okay by Adib Khorram
• Heretics Anonymous by Katie Henry
• I am not your Perfect Mexican Daughter by Erika L. Sanchez
• The Loneliest Girl in the Universe by Lauren James
• Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds
• Passion of Dolssa by Julie Berry
• The Prince and the Dressmaker by Jen Wang
• Salt to the Sea by Ruta Sepetys
• Unbroken:  13 Stories Starring Disabled Teens by Marieke Nijkamp
• We are Okay by Nina LaCour

KIDS

• Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
• Awkward by Svetlana Chmakova
• Bomb by Steve Sheinkin
• Book Scavenger by Jennifer Chambliss Bertman
• Brave by Svetlana Chmakova
• The Crossover by Kwame Alexander
• The Dark is Rising by Susan Cooper
• A Dash of Trouble by Anna Meriano
• Donner Dinner Party by Nathan Hale
• Dragons in a Bag by Zetta Elliott
• Fire the Depths by Peter Lerangis
• The First Rule of Punk by Celia C. Perez
• Hello, Universe. by Erin Entrada Kelly
• The Hidden Witch by Molly Knox Ostertag
• The House that Lou Built by Mae Respicio
• Island Treasures by Alma Flor Ada
• It Ain't so Awful, Falafel by Firoozeh Dumas
• The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis
• The Midwife’s Apprentice by Karen Cushman
• One Dead Spy by Nathan Hale
• Out of Left Field by Ellen Klages
• The Owls Have Come to Take Us Away by Ronald L. Smith
• The Parker Inheritance by Varian Johnson
• 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
• The Witch Boy by Molly Knox Ostertag

LIBROS EN ESPAÑOL

• Arrancame la Vida by Ángeles Mastretta
• Cuando Fui Mortal by Javier Marías
• Cuando Ya No Importe by Juan Carlos Onetti
• Dias y Noches de Amor y de Guerra by Eduardo Galeano
• Los Ejercitos by Evelio Rosero Diago
• La Fruta del Borrachero by Ingrid Rojas Contreras
• La Invención de Morel by Adolfo Bioy Casares
• Largo Petalo de Mar by Isabel Allende
• Mundo del Fin del Mundo/ The World at the End of the World by Luis Sepulveda
• Un Mundo Para Julius by Alfredo Bryce Echenique
• Nocturno de Chile by Roberto Bolaño
• Lo Que Esta en mi Corazon by Marcela Serrano
• Rayuela by Julio Cortázar
• El Reino De Este Mundo by Alejo Carpentier
• 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
• La Sirvienta y el Luchador by Horacio Castellanos Moya
• Soldados de Salamina by Javier Cercas
• El Tunel by Ernesto R. Sábato
• Una Región de Historias by Sergio Ramírez