* recommended

2024

• Roots by Alex Haley
• Margo's Got Money Troubles by Rufi Thorpe
• The Bee Sting by Paul Murray
• The Mill On the Floss by George Eliot *
• The Ghost Brigades by John Scalzi
• Old Man's War by John Scalzi
• The Future by Naomi Alderman
• The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia by Ursula K. Le Guin *
• The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Men Who Hate Women) by Stieg Larsson
• The Return of the King by J.R.R. Tolkien
• The Two Towers by J.R.R. Tolkien
• The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien
• The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro *
• Babel, or the Necessity of Violence by R. F. Kuang

2023

• The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. LeGuin
• A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara *
• Wager by David Grann
• Making it So by Patrick Stewart
• Pageboy by Elliot Page
• The Last Devil to Die by Richard Osman
• The Bullet that Missed by Richard Osman
• Streets of Laredo by Larry McMurtry
• Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry *
• Birnam Wood by Eleanor Catton
• Sphere by Michael Crichton
• Murder Must Advertise by Dorothy L. Sayers
• Neuromancer by William Gibson
• Beautiful Ruins by Jess Walter
• Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
• The Other Wind by Ursula K. Le Guin
• Tales from Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin
• Tehanu by Ursula K. Le Guin
• Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
• The Tombs of Atuan by Ursula K. Le Guin
• A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin *
• White Teeth by Zadie Smith

2022

• Everyone Knows Your Mother is a Witch by Rivka Galchen
• Matrix by Lauren Groff
• Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin *
• Exit Strategy by Martha Wells
• Rogue Protocol by Martha Wells
• Artificial Condition by Martha Wells
• All Systems Red by Martha Wells
• The Dark Forest by Cixin Liu
• The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu *
• A Desolation Called Peace by Arkady Martine
• A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine
• A Perfect Spy by John le Carré
• The Anomaly by Hervé Le Tellier
• Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel
• A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
• The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon *
• Termination Shock by Neal Stephenson
• The King at the Edge of the World by Arthur Phillips
• The Committed by Viet Thanh Nguyen
• The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen

2021

• World War Z by Max Brooks
• Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie
• Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro
• The Man Who Died Twice by Richard Osman
• The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman
• Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson *
• Normal People by Sally Rooney *
• Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain
• Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
• Severance by Ling Ma
• Lavinia by Ursula K. Le Guin
• iWoz by Steve Wozniak
• A Promised Land by Barack Obama

2020

• The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley
• Foundation's Edge by Isaac Asimov
• Second Foundation by Isaac Asimov
• Foundation by Isaac Asimov *