books we've read

Here's a chronology of the Norfolk Library Book Group:

6/4/2010 Simon Mawer, THE GLASS ROOM (2009)

6/25/2010 Louise Erdrich, SHADOW TAG (2010)

7/9/2010 Kay Ryan, THE NIAGARA RIVER (2005)

7/30/2010 Rebecca Newberger Goldstein, 36 ARGUMENTS FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD: A WORK OF FICTION (2010)

8/20/2010 Dan Chaon, AWAIT YOUR REPLY (2010)

9/3/2010 Muriel Barbery, THE ELEGANCE OF THE HEDGEHOG (2006)

9/17/2010 James Hamilton-Paterson, COOKING WITH FERNET BRANCA (2005)

10/1/2010 Jane Gardam, OLD FILTH (2006)

10/15/2010 Ian McEwan, SOLAR (2010)

10/29/2010 Henry James, WASHINGTON SQUARE (1880)

12/3/2010 Colum McCann, LET THE GREAT WORLD SPIN (2009)

1/7/2011 Ian McEwan, ENDURING LOVE (1997)

2/4/2011 David Mitchell, THE THOUSAND AUTUMNS OF JACOB DE ZOET (2010)

2/18/2011 Anthony Trollope, THE WARDEN (1855)

3/4/2011 Anita Brookner, HOTEL DU LAC (1984)

3/25/2011 Elena Ferrante, DAYS OF ABANDONMENT (2005)

4/8/2011 Emma Donoghue, ROOM (2010)

4/22/2011 Willa Cather, MY ANTONIA (1918)

4/29/2011 Alison Bechdel, FUN HOME (2006)

5/27/2011 Ian McEwan, ATONEMENT (2003)

6/17/2011 Daniel Defoe, ROXANA (1724)

7/8/2011 Toni Morrison, SONG OF SOLOMON (1977)

7/29/2011 Louise Erdrich, LOVE MEDICINE (1984)

8/12/2011 David Levithan, A LOVER'S DICTIONARY (2011)

9/6/2011 Anne Michaels, FUGITIVE PIECES (1996)

9/23/2011 Philip Roth, AMERICAN PASTORAL (1997)

10/14/2011 Frederick Douglass, MY BONDAGE AND MY FREEDOM (1855)

11/4/2011 William Faulkner, LIGHT IN AUGUST (1932)

11/18/2011 Willa Cather, O PIONEERS! (1913)

12/9/2011 Mark Twain, ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN (1885)

1/13/2012 to 2/24/2012 George Eliot, MIDDLEMARCH (1871 - 1872)

3/30/2012 William Faulkner, THE HAMLET (1940)

4/27/2012 Willa Cather, THE SONG OF THE LARK (1915)

5/11/2012 David Eagleman, SUM: FORTY TALES OF THE AFTERLIVES (2010)

6/1/2012Edith Wharton, THE CUSTOM OF THE COUNTRY (1915)

6/29/2012 Aldous Huxley, ANTIC HAY (1923)

7/27/2012 F. Scott Fitzgerald, THIS SIDE OF PARADISE (1920)

8/17/2012 Evelyn Waugh, DECLINE AND FALL (1928)

9/14/2012 Nathaniel Hawthorne, THE BLITHEDALE ROMANCE (1852)

10/5 and 10/17/2012 Henry James, THE BOSTONIANS (1886)

11/9/2012 Charlotte Perkins Gilman, HERLAND (1915)

11/30/2012 Ursula Le Guin, THE LEFT HAND OF DARKNESS (1969)

12/14/2012 Philip Roth, NEMESIS (2010)

1/11/2013 Hilary Mantel, WOLF HALL (2010)

2/1/2013 Julian Barnes, THE SENSE OF AN ENDING (2011)

2/22/2013 Rachel Joyce, THE UNLIKELY PILGRIMAGE OF HAROLD FRY (2012)

3/22/2013 Richard Ford, CANADA (2012)

4/12/2013 Louise Erdrich, THE PLAGUE OF DOVES (2008)

5/3/2013 Michael Ondaatje, THE CAT'S TABLE (2012)

5/31/2013 Jeanette Winterson, WHY BE HAPPY WHEN YOU COULD BE NORMAL? (2011)

6/21/2013 Per Petterson, OUT STEALING HORSES (2003)

7/19/2013 Carlos Ruiz Zafón, THE SHADOW OF THE WIND (2001)

8/16/2013 Manil Suri, THE DEATH OF VISHNU (2001)

9/13/2013 William Dean Howells, A HAZARD OF NEW FORTUNES (1890)

10/5/2013 Abraham Cahan, THE RISE OF DAVID LEVINSKY (1917)

10/25/2013 Edith Wharton, THE AGE OF INNOCENCE (1920)

11/15/2013 Nathanael West, MISS LONELYHEARTS (1933) and THE DAY OF THE LOCUST (1939)

12/6/2013 Daschiell Hammett, THE THIN MAN (1936)

1/24/2014 through 3/7/2014 Charles Dickens, OUR MUTUAL FRIEND (1865)

3/28/2014 Julie Otsuka, THE BUDDHA IN THE ATTIC (2012)

4/25/2014 Elena Ferrante, MY BRILLIANT FRIEND (2011)

5/16/2014 William Faulkner, AS I LAY DYING (1930)

6/13/2014 Kate Atkinson, LIFE AFTER LIFE (2014)

7/11/2014 Colm McCann, TRANSATLANTIC (2014)

8/15/2014 Elena Ferrante, THE STORY OF A NEW NAME (2012)

9/12/2014 Mary Rowlandson, THE SOVEREIGNTY AND GOODNESS OF GOD (1682)

10/3/2014 Catherine Maria Sedgwick, HOPE LESLIE (1827)

10/24/2014 Mark Twain, A CONNECTICUT YANKEE IN KING ARTHUR'S COURT (1889)

11/14/2014 Sarah Orne Jewett, THE COUNTRY OF THE POINTED FIRS (1899)

12/12/2014 Philip Roth, THE HUMAN STAIN (2000)

1/9 - 2/6/2015 Henry James, THE PORTRAIT OF A LADY (1881)

3/13/2015 Diogo Mainardi, THE FALL: A FATHER'S MEMOIR IN 424 STEPS (2014)

4/10/2015 Elena Ferrante, THOSE WHO LEAVE AND THOSE WHO STAY (2014)

5/15/2015 William Faulkner, GO DOWN, MOSES (1942)

6/12/2015 Kate Atkinson, HUMAN CROQUET (1997)

8/14/2015 Michel Faber, THE CRIMSON PETAL AND THE WHITE (2002)

9/11/2015 and 9/25/2015 Minae Mizumura, A TRUE NOVEL (2002)

10/16/2015 Amara Lakhous, CLASH OF CIVILIZATIONS OVER AN ELEVATOR IN PIAZZA VITTORIO (2008)

11/13/2015 Alina Bronsky, THE HOTTEST DISHES OF THE TARTAR CUISINE (2010)

12/11/2015 Timur Vermes, LOOK WHO'S BACK (2012)

1/8/2016 - 2/19/2016 George Eliot, DANIEL DERONDA (1876)

3/18/2016 Haruki Murakami, KAFKA ON THE SHORE (2002)

4/8/2016 Elena Ferrante, THE STORY OF THE LOST CHILD (2014)

4/29/2016 Gavin McCrea, MRS. ENGELS (2015)

5/20/2016 André Schwartz-Bart, THE LAST OF THE JUST (1959)

6/17/2016 Hanya Yanagihara, A LITTLE LIFE (2016)

7/15/2016 Magda Szabó, THE DOOR (2005)

8/19/2016 Kent Haruf, THE TIE THAT BINDS (2000)

9/9/2016 and 9/23/2016 Emily Brontë, WUTHERING HEIGHTS (1847)

10/14/2016 and 10/28/2016 Charlotte Brontë, JANE EYRE (1847)

11/18/2016 Anne Brontë, AGNES GREY (1847)

12/9/2016 Anne Brontë, THE TENANT OF WILDFELL HALL (1848)

1/13, 1/27, and 2/10/2017 Charlotte Brontë, VILLETTE (1853)

3/17/2017 Amitav Ghosh, THE GLASS PALACE (2000)

4/7/2017 Paula Whyman, YOU MAY SEE A STRANGER (2016)

4/28/2017 David Szalay, ALL THAT MAN IS (2016)

5/18/2017 Alexander Weinstein, CHILDREN OF THE NEW WORLD (2016)

6/9/2017 Francesca Marciano, THE OTHER LANGUAGE (2014)

8/11/2017 Nathan Hill, THE NIX (2016)

9/15/2017 and 9/29/2017    Thomas Hardy, THE RETURN OF THE NATIVE (1878)

10/20/2017     Damian Wilkins, MAX GATE (2016)

11/10/2017       Thomas Hardy, TESS OF THE D'URBERVILLES (1891)

12/08/2017     Christopher Nicholson, WINTER (2016)

1/5/2018 through 2/16/2018   Henry Fielding's TOM JONES, THE HISTORY OF A FOUNDLING (1749)

3/16/2018   Yaa Gyasi, HOMEGOING (2016)

4/13/2018   Karan Mahajan, THE ASSOCIATION OF SMALL BOMBS (2016)

5/11/2018   Paul Beatty, THE SELLOUT (2016)

6/8/2018   Paul Murray, SKIPPY DIES (2010)

8/17/2018 Anthony Trollope, CAN YOU FORGIVE HER? (1865)

9/14/2018  Sarah Fielding, THE ADVENTURES OF DAVID SIMPLE, Books 1 and 2 (1744)

9/28/2018  Sarah Fielding, THE ADVENTURES OF DAVID SIMPLE, Book the Last (1753)

10/19/2018 Tobias Smollett, THE EXPEDITION OF HUMPHRY CLINKER (1771)

11/16/2018 Fanny Burney, EVELINA (1778)

12/14/2018 Jane Austen, SENSE AND SENSIBILITY (1811)

1/11/2019 through 2/8/2019 Leo Tolstoy, ANNA KARENINA (1878)

3/8/2019 Daisy Johnson, EVERYTHING UNDER (2018)

3/29/2019 Julian Barnes, THE ONLY STORY (2018)

4/26/2019 George Saunders, LINCOLN IN THE BARDO (2017)

5/17/2019 Helen Klein Ross, WHAT WAS MINE (2016)

6/14/2019 Geoff Ryman, WAS (1997)

8/16/2019 Anthony Trollope, PHINEAS FINN (1868)

9/13/2019 and 9/27/2019 Harriet Beecher Stowe, UNCLE TOM’S CABIN (1852)

10/18/2019 William Wells Brown, CLOTEL; OR, THE PRESIDENT’S DAUGHTER (1853)

11/15/2019 Elizabeth Stoddard, THE MORGESONS (1862)

12/13/2019 Zora Neale Hurston, THEIR EYES WERE WATCHING GOD (1937)

1/10/2020 through 2/21/2020 Charles Dickens, BLEAK HOUSE (1853)

4/2/2020 Louise Erdrich, THE NIGHT WATCHMAN (2020)

4/16/2020 Elif Shafak, 10 MINUTES 38 SECONDS IN THIS STRANGE WORLD (2019)

5/7/2020 Bernardine Evaristo, GIRL, WOMAN, OTHER (2019)

5/28/2020 Sylvia Townsend Warner, THE CORNER THAT HELD THEM (1948)

6/11/2020 Robin Robertson, THE LONG TAKE (2018)

7/2/2020 Kiran Millwood Hargrave, THE MERCIES (2019)

7/23/2020 Chigozie Obioma, AN ORCHESTRA OF MINORITIES (2019)

8/13/2020 Ocean Vuong, ON EARTH WE’RE BRIEFLY GORGEOUS (2019)

9/17/2020 Shokoofeh Azar, THE ENLIGHTENMENT OF THE GREENGAGE TREE (2017)

10/8/2020 Daniel Kehlmann, TYLL (2017)

10/29/2020 Yoko Ogawa, THE MEMORY POLICE (1994)

11/19/2020 Fernanda Melchor, HURRICANE SEASON (2016)

12/10/2020 Olga Tokarczuk, DRIVE YOUR PLOW OVER THE BONES OF THE DEAD (2009)

1/7, 1/21, 2/4, and 2/18/2021 Anthony Trollope, THE WAY WE LIVE NOW (1875)

4/8/2021 Margo Jefferson, NEGROLAND (2015)

4/29/2021 Daniel Mendelsohn, AN ODYSSEY (2017)

5/20/2021 Nora Krug, BELONGING (2018)

6/10/2021 Maggie Nelson, THE ARGONAUTS (2015)

7/22/2021 Lina Meruane, SEEING RED (2012)

8/12/2021 Ayad Akhtar’s HOMELAND ELEGIES (2020)

9/23/2021 Maria Stepanova’s IN MEMORY OF MEMORY (2018)

10/14/2021 David Small’s STITCHES: A MEMOIR (2009)

11/4/2021 Haruki Murakami’s AFTER DARK (2004)

12/9/2021 Robert Kolker, HIDDEN VALLEY ROAD (2020)

1/13/2022, 1/27/2022, and 2/10/2022 Fyodor Dostoevsky, DEMONS (1871)

3/10/2022 Gavin McCrae, THE SISTERS MAO (2021)

3/31/2022 Keum Suk Gendry Kim, GRASS (2017)

4/21/2022 Zachary Mason, THE LOST BOOKS OF THE ODYSSEY (2010)

5/12/2022 Kobo Abé, THE WOMAN IN THE DUNES (1964)

6/9/2022 Louise Erdrich, LAROSE (2016)

7/7/2022 Philip Roth, THE COUNTERLIFE (1986)

8/4/2022 Ian Pisarcik, BEFORE FAMILIAR WOODS (2020)

9/29/2022 Ivan Turgenev, HOME OF THE GENTRY (1859)

10/20/2022 Ivan Turgenev, FATHERS AND CHILDREN (1862)

11/17/2022 Ivan Turgenev, SPRING TORRENTS (1872)

12/15/2022 Ivan Turgenev, VIRGIN SOIL (1877)

1/12, 1/26, and 2/9/2023 Thomas Pynchon, MASON & DIXON (1997)

3/9/2023 Chan Koonchung, THE FAT YEARS (2009)

3/30/2023 Hoda Barakat, VOICES OF THE LOST (2017)

4/20/2023 Annie Ernaux, THE YEARS (2008)

5/11/2023 Percival Everett, THE TREES (2021)

6/1/2023 William Brewer, THE RED ARROW (2022)

7/6/2023 Sylvia Townsend Warner, SUMMER WILL SHOW (1936)

8/10/2023 Tove Jansson, THE SUMMER BOOK (1972)

9/14/2023 Marilynne Robinson, GILEAD (2004)

10/12/2023 Marilynne Robinson, HOME (2008)

11/9/2023 Marilynne Robinson, LILA (2014)

12/7/2023 Marilynne Robinson, JACK (2020)

1/11, 1/25, and 2/8/2024 Jon Fosse’s SEPTOLOGY (2022)

3/7/2024 Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio, THE INTERROGATION (1963)

3/28/2024 Annie Ernaux, A MAN’S PLACE (1983)

4/18/2024 Patrick Modiano, YOUNG ONCE (1981)

5/9/2024 Abdulrazak Gurnah, PARADISE (1994)

5/30/2024 Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio, DÉSERT (1980)

6/20/2024 Annie Ernaux, SHAME (1997)

7/11/2024 Patrick Modiano, IN THE CAFÉ OF LOST YOUTH (2007)

8/8/2024 Abdulzazak Gurnah, AFTERLIVES (2022)

9/26/2024 Gaël Faye, SMALL COUNTRY (2016)

10/17/2024 Vigdis Hjorth, WILL AND TESTAMENT (2016)

11/14/2024 Georgi Gospodinov, TIME SHELTER (2020)

 And here’s a list of our titles in historical order:

1682

Mary Rowlandson, THE SOVEREIGNTY AND GOODNESS OF GOD

1724

Daniel Defoe, ROXANA

1744

Sarah Fielding, THE ADVENTURES OF DAVID SIMPLE, Books 1 & 2

1749

Henry Fielding, TOM JONES

1753

Sarah Fielding, THE ADVENTURES OF DAVID SIMPLE, Book the Last

1771

Tobias Smollett, THE EXPEDITION OF HUMPHRY CLINKER

1778

Fanny Burney, EVELINA

1811

Jane Austen, SENSE AND SENSIBILITY

1827

Catherine Maria Sedgwick, HOPE LESLIE

1847

Charlotte Brontë, JANE EYRE

Anne Brontë, AGNES GREY

Emily Brontë, WUTHERING HEIGHTS

1848

Anne Brontë, THE TENANT OF WILDFELL HALL

1852

Nathaniel Hawthorne, THE BLITHEDALE ROMANCE

Harriet Beecher Stowe, UNCLE TOM’S CABIN

1853

William Wells Brown, CLOTEL; OR, THE PRESIDENT’S DAUGHTER

Charlotte Brontë, VILLETTE

Charles Dickens, BLEAK HOUSE

1854

Anthony Trollope, THE WARDEN

1855

Frederick Douglass, MY BONDAGE AND MY FREEDOM

1859

Ivan Turgenev, HOME OF THE GENTRY

1862

Ivan Turgenev, FATHERS AND CHILDREN

1863

Elizabeth Stoddard, THE MORGESONS

1865

Anthony Trollope, CAN YOU FORGIVE HER?

Charles Dickens, OUR MUTUAL FRIEND

1868

Anthony Trollope, PHINEAS FINN

1871

Fyodor Dostoevsky, DEMONS

1872

George Eliot, MIDDLEMARCH

Ivan Turgenev, SPRING TORRENTS

1875

Anthony Trollope, THE WAY WE LIVE NOW

1876

George Eliot, DANIEL DERONDA

1877

Ivan Turgenev, VIRGIN SOIL

1878

Thomas Hardy, THE RETURN OF THE NATIVE

Leo Tolstoy, ANNA KARENINA

1880

Henry James, WASHINGTON SQUARE

1881

Henry James, THE PORTRAIT OF A LADY

1885

Mark Twain, ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN

1886

Henry James, THE BOSTONIANS

1889

Mark Twain, A CONNECTICUT YANKEE IN KING ARTHUR'S COURT

1890

William Dean Howells, A HAZARD OF NEW FORTUNES

1891

Thomas Hardy, TESS OF THE D'URBERVILLES

1899

Sarah Orne Jewett, THE COUNTRY OF THE POINTED FIRS

1913

Willa Cather, O PIONEERS!

1915

Willa Cather, THE SONG OF THE LARK

Charlotte Perkins Gilman, HERLAND

Edith Wharton, THE CUSTOM OF THE COUNTRY

1917

Abraham Cahan, THE RISE OF DAVID LEVINSKY

1918

Willa Cather, MY ANTONIA

1920

Edith Wharton, THE AGE OF INNOCENCE

F. Scott Fitzgerald, THIS SIDE OF PARADISE

1923

Aldous Huxley, ANTIC HAY

1928

Evelyn Waugh, DECLINE AND FALL

1930

William Faulkner, AS I LAY DYING

1932

William Faulkner, LIGHT IN AUGUST

1933

Nathanael West, MISS LONELYHEARTS

1936

Dashiell Hammett, THE THIN MAN

Sylvia Townsend Warner, SUMMER WILL SHOW

1937

Zora Neale Hurston, THEIR EYES WERE WATCHING GOD

1939

Nathanael West, THE DAY OF THE LOCUST

1940

William Faulkner, THE HAMLET

1942

William Faulkner, GO DOWN, MOSES

1948

Sylvia Townsend Warner, THE CORNER THAT HELD THEM

1959

André Schwartz-Bart, THE LAST OF THE JUST

1963

Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio, THE INTERROGATION

1964

Kobo Abé, THE WOMAN IN THE DUNES

1969

Ursula Le Guin, THE LEFT HAND OF DARKNESS

1972

Tove Jansson, THE SUMMER BOOK

1977

Toni Morrison, SONG OF SOLOMON

1980

Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio, DÉSERT

1981

Patrick Modiano, YOUNG ONCE

1983

Annie Ernaux, A MAN’S PLACE

1984

Anita Brookner, HOTEL DU LAC

Louise Erdrich, LOVE MEDICINE

1987

Philip Roth, THE COUNTERLIFE

1994

Yoko Ogawa, THE MEMORY POLICE

Abdulrazak Gurnah, PARADISE

1996

Anne Michaels, FUGITIVE PIECES

1997

Ian McEwan, ENDURING LOVE

Annie Ernaux, SHAME

Thomas Pynchon, MASON & DIXON

Philip Roth, AMERICAN PASTORAL

Kate Atkinson, HUMAN CROQUET

Geoff Ryman, WAS

2000

Philip Roth, THE HUMAN STAIN

Kent Haruf, THE TIE THAT BINDS

Amitav Ghosh, THE GLASS PALACE

2001

Manil Suri, THE DEATH OF VISHNU (2001)

Carlos Ruiz Zafón, THE SHADOW OF THE WIND

2002

Michel Faber, THE CRIMSON PETAL AND THE WHITE

Haruki Murakami, KAFKA ON THE SHORE

Minae Mizumura, A TRUE NOVEL

2003

Per Petterson, OUT STEALING HORSES

Ian McEwan, ATONEMENT

2004

Haruki Murakami, AFTER DARK

Marilynne Robinson, GILEAD

2005

Kay Ryan, THE NIAGARA RIVER

James Hamilton-Paterson, COOKING WITH FERNET BRANCA

Magda Szabó, THE DOOR

Elena Ferrante, DAYS OF ABANDONMENT

2006

Jane Gardam, OLD FILTH

Muriel Barbery, THE ELEGANCE OF THE HEDGEHOG

Alison Bechdel, FUN HOME

2007

Patrick Modiano, IN THE CAFÉ OF LOST YOUTH

2008

Louise Erdrich, THE PLAGUE OF DOVES

Marilynne Robinson, HOME

Amara Lakhous, CLASH OF CIVILIZATIONS OVER AN ELEVATOR IN PIAZZA VITTORIO

Annie Ernaux, THE YEARS

2009

David Small, STITCHES: A MEMOIR

Simon Mawr, THE GLASS ROOM

Colum McCann, LET THE GREAT WORLD SPIN

Chan Koonchung, THE FAT YEARS

Olga Tokarczuk, DRIVE YOUR PLOW OVER THE BONES OF THE DEAD

2010

Ian McEwan, SOLAR

Emma Donoghue, ROOM

Paul Murray, SKIPPY DIES

Dan Chaon, AWAIT YOUR REPLY

Rebecca Newberger Goldstein, 36 ARGUMENTS FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD

Louise Erdrich, SHADOW TAG

David Mitchell, THE THOUSAND AUTUMNS OF JACOB DE ZOET

Philip Roth, NEMESIS

Zachary Mason, THE LOST BOOKS OF THE ODYSSEY

Paul Murray, SKIPPY DIES

David Eagleman, SUM

Alina Bronsky, THE HOTTEST DISHES OF THE TARTAR CUISINE

Hilary Mantel, WOLF HALL

2011

Elena Ferrante, MY BRILLIANT FRIEND

David Levithan, A LOVER'S DICTIONARY

Julian Barnes, THE SENSE OF AN ENDING

Jeanette Winterson, WHY BE HAPPY WHEN YOU COULD BE NORMAL?

2012

Rachel Joyce, THE UNLIKELY PILGRIMAGE OF HAROLD FRY

Richard Ford, CANADA

Michael Ondaatje, THE CAT'S TABLE

Lina Meruane, SEEING RED

Timur Vermes, LOOK WHO'S BACK

Julie Otsuka, THE BUDDHA IN THE ATTIC

Elena Ferrante, THE STORY OF A NEW NAME

2013

Kate Atkinson, LIFE AFTER LIFE

Colm McCann, TRANSATLANTIC

Elena Ferrante, THOSE WHO LEAVE AND THOSE WHO STAY

2014

Elena Ferrante, THE STORY OF THE LOST CHILD

Marilynne Robinson, LILA

Diogo Mainardi, THE FALL: A FATHER'S MEMOIR IN 424 STEPS

Francesca Marciano, THE OTHER LANGUAGE

2015

Gavin McCrea, MRS. ENGELS

Margo Jefferson, NEGROLAND

Maggie Nelson, THE ARGONAUTS

Hanya Yanigahara, A LITTLE LIFE

2016

Paula Whyman, YOU MAY SEE A STRANGER

Louise Erdrich, LAROSE

David Szalay, ALL THAT MAN IS

Christopher Nicholson, WINTER

Damien Wilkins, MAX GATE

Helen Klein Ross, WHAT WAS MINE

Gaël Faye, SMALL COUNTRY

Nathan Hill, THE NIX

Yaa Gyasi, HOMEGOING

Karan Mahajan, THE ASSOCIATION OF SMALL BOMBS

Vigdis Hjorth, WILL AND TESTAMENT (2016)

Alexander Weinstein, CHILDREN OF THE NEW WORLD

Paul Beatty, THE SELLOUT

Fernanda Melchor, HURRICANE SEASON

2017

Daniel Mendelsohn, AN ODYSSEY

Keum Suk Gendry Kim, GRASS

George Saunders, LINCOLN IN THE BARDO

Hoda Barakat, VOICES OF THE LOST

Daniel Kehlmann, TYLL

Shokoofeh Azar, THE ENLIGHTENMENT OF THE GREENGAGE TREE

2018

Julian Barnes, THE ONLY STORY

Maria Stepanova, IN MEMORY OF MEMORY

Robin Robertson, THE LONG TAKE

Daisy Johnson, EVERYTHING UNDER

Nora Krug, BELONGING

2019

Bernardine Evaristo, GIRL, WOMAN, OTHER

Elif Shafak, 10 MINUTES 38 SECONDS IN THIS STRANGE WORLD

Chigozie Obioma, AN ORCHESTRA OF MINORITIES

Ocean Vuong, ON EARTH WE’RE BRIEFLY GORGEOUS

Kiran Millwood Hargrave, THE MERCIES

2020

Louise Erdrich, THE NIGHT WATCHMAN

Ian Pisarcik, BEFORE FAMILIAR WOODS

Georgi Gospodinov, TIME SHELTER (2020)

Ayad Akhtar, HOMELAND ELEGIES

Marilynne Robinson, JACK

Robert Kolker, HIDDEN VALLEY ROAD

2021

Gavin McCrea, THE SISTERS MAO

Percival Everett, THE TREES

2022

William Brewer, THE RED ARROW

Abdulzazak Gurnah, AFTERLIVES

Jon Fosse, SEPTOLOGY