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The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian	Sherman Alexie
The Alaskan Laundry	Brenden Jones
The Alchemist: A Novel	Paul Coelho
American Catch: The Fight for Our Local Seafood	Paul Greenberg
American Gods	Neil Gaiman
An American Marriage	Tayari Jones
*The Anxious Generation	Johnathan Haidt
The Art of Racing in the Rain	Garth Stein

Becoming Dr. Q: My Journey from Migrant Farm Worker to Brain Surgeon	Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa
Before the Fall	Noah Hawley
Behind the Beautiful Forevers	Katherine Boo
*The Berry Pickers	Amanda Peters
Between the World and Me	Ta-Nehisi Coates
Blonde Indian: an Alaska Native Memoir	Ernestine Hayes
Blood, Bones and Butter: The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef	Gabrielle Hamilton
The Body Keeps the Score	Bessel Van der Kolk
The Book that Matters Most	Ann Hood
The Book Thief	Marcus Zusak
The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek	Kim Michele Richardson
Born a Crime	Trevor Noah
Born to Run: a Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen	Christopher McDougall
The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics	Daniel Brown
Braiding Sweetgrass	Robin Wall Kimmerer
Breakfast with Buddha	Roland Merullo
Bridging Differences for Better Mentoring	Lisa Z. Fain
Burial Rites	Hannah Kent

The Call of the Wild	Jack London
Call Us What We Carry	Amanda Gorman
*Catcher in the Rye	J.D.. Salinder
Cascadia	Harold Bernard
Chasing Fireflies	Charles Martin
Community	Peter Block
The Complete Persepolis	Marjane Satrapi
Crucial Conversations	Kerry Patterson

Dare to Lead	Brené Brown
Dark Places	Gillian Flynn
Death on the Nile	Agatha Christie
*Demon Copperhead	Barbara Kingsolver
Did You Ever Have a Family: A Novel	Bill Clegg
Dietland	Sarai Waiker
The Dinner	Herman Koch
Disappearing Earth	Julia Phillips

E=mc2: A Biography of the World’s Most Famous Equation	David Bodanis
Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine	Gail Honeyman
Ella Minnow Pea: A Novel in Letters	Mark Dunn
Ender’s Game	Orson Scott Card
Escape from Camp 14	Blaine Harden
The Eternal Wonder: A Novel	Pearl S. Buck
Everything I Never Told You	Celeste Ng

Fahrenheit 451	Ray Bradbury
Fighter in Velvet Gloves	Annie Boochever
Find the Good	Heather Lende
Finding Bethany	Glen Klinkhart
Fluke	Christopher Moore
*The Four Agreements	Don Miguel Ruiz
Frankenstein, or, the Modern Prometheus	Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
The Friend	Sigrid Nunez
*The Frozen River	Ariel Lawhon

The Geography of Bliss	Eric Weiner
The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are	Brené Brown
Girl in Translation	Jean Kwok
The Girl on the Train	Paula Hawkins
Glaciers: A Novel	Alexis Smith
The Glass Castle: A Memoir	Jeannette Walls
The Good Earth	Pearl S. Buck
The Good Thief	Hannah Tinti
Grandma Gatewood's Walk	Ben Montgomery
The Great Alone	Kristin Hannah
The Great Quake: How the Biggest Earthquake in North America Changed Our Understanding of the Planet	Henry Fountain
Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance	Angela Duckworth
Growing Up Native in Alaska	A. J. McClanahan
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society	Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows
Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal	Mary Roach

H is for Hawk	Helen MacDonald
Half Broke Horses	Jeannette Walls
The Handmaid’s Tale	Margaret Atwood
Hillbilly Elegy: a Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis	J.D. Vance
The Hobbit	J.R.R. Tolkien
Homegoing: A Novel	Yaa Gyasi
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet	Jamie Ford
The House in the Cerulean Sea	TJ Klune
*The House on Mango Street	Sandra Cisneros
Housekeeping	Marilynne Robinson

I Am Malala : the Girl Who Stood up for Education and was Shot by the Taliban	Malala Yousafzai
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings	Maya Angelou
I Married the Klondike	Laura Beatrice Berton
I, Robot	Isaac Asimov
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks	Rebecca Skloot
In the Garden of Beasts	Erik Larson
In the Heart of the Sea	Nathaniel Philbrick
The Influencing Machine: Brooke Gladstone on the Media	Brooke Gladstone

Killers of the Flower Moon: the Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI	David Grann
*Klara and the Sun	Kazuo Ishiguro

Lab Girl	Hope Jahren
The Lace Reader: A Novel	Brunonia Barry
The Language of Flowers: A Novel	Vanessa Diffenbaugh
The Last Bookshop in London	Madeline Martin
Last Letters From Attu: The True Story of Etta Jones, Alaska Pioneer and Japanese P.O.W.	Mary Breu
*Lessons in Chemistry	Bonne Garmus
Let's Pretend This Never Happened	Jenny Lawson
The Library Book	Susan Orlean
The Life We Bury: A Novel	Allen Eskens
The Light Between Oceans: A Novel	M. L. Stedman
Lilac Girls: A Novel	Martha Hall Kelly
Little Bee: A Novel	Chris Cleave
Little Fires Everywhere	Celeste Ng
The Little Liar	Mitch Albom
The Little Old Lady Who Broke All the Rules	Catharina Ingelman-Sundberg
Long Ride Home	Filipe Masetti Leite
Look Again: A Novel	Lisa Scottoline
Lost in Shangri-la	Mitchell Zuckoff
The Lost Wife	Alyson Richman

The Maid	Nita Prose
Make Your Bed	William McRaven
A Man Called Ove: A Novel	Fredrik Backman
The Map of Salt and Stars	Jennifer Zeynab Joukhadar
The Marrow Thieves	Cherie Dimaline
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children	Ransom Riggs
Modoc: The True Story of the Greatest Elephant That Ever Lived	Ralph Helfer
Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World	Tracy Kidder
My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry	Fredrik Backman
My Grandmother's Hands	Resmaa Menakem
My Name is Lucy Barton: a Novel	Elizabeth Strout

The Night Circus	Erin Morgenstern
The Nightingale	Kristin Hannah
The No.1 Ladies’ Detective Agency	Alexander McCall Smith
Nuking Alaska	Peter Dunlap Shohl

Of Bears and Ballots	Heather Lende
On Heaven's Hill	Kim Heacox
Ordinary Grace: A Novel	William Kent Krueger
The Orphan Master's Son: A Novel	Adam Johnson
Orphan Train: A Novel	Christina Kline
The Outlander: A Novel	Gil Adamson
Outliers: the Story of Success	Malcolm Gladwell
The Outsiders	S.E. Hinton

Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void	Mary Roach
The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake: A Novel	Aimee Bender
*The Personal Librarian	Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray
Pieces of Me: Rescuing My Kidnapped Daughters	Lizbeth Meredith
Point of Direction: A Novel	Rachel Weaver
Poison Squad: One Chemist's Single-minded Crusade for Food Safety at the Turn of the Twentieth Century	Deborah Blum
*The Power of Habit	Charles Duhigg

Zeitoun	Dave Eggers
The Zookeeper’s Wife: A War Story	Diane Ackerman

Radio Girls	Sarah Jane Stratford
The Radium Girls: the Dark Story of America's Shining Women	Kate Moore
The Raven's Gift	Don Reardern
The Red Tent	Anita Diamant
The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving	Johnathan Evison
Rise of the Rocket Girls	Nathalia Hold
The Rosie Project: A Novel	Graeme Simison
Rowing to Latitude: Journeys along the Arctic’s Edge	Jill A. Fredston
Rules of Civility: A Novel	Amor Towles

The Salt Path	Raynor Winn
*The Seed Keeper	Diane Wilson
The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle	Stuart Turton
Sitting Pretty: the View from My Ordinary Resilient Disabled Body	Rebekah Taussig
Sivulliq: Ancestor	Lily H. Tuzroyluke
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History	Elizabeth Kolbert
The Smell of Other People's Houses	Bonnie-Sue Hitchcock
The Snow Child: A Novel	Eowyn Ivey
Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel	David Guterson
Sold on a Monday	Kristina McMorris
Steam Laundry	Nicole Stellon O'Donnell
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers	Mary Roach
The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry	Gabrielle Zevin
Storms of Denali: A Novel	Nicholas O'Connell
The Storyteller's Death	Ann Dávila Cardinal
The Stranger in the Woods: the Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit	Michael Finkel
The Sun is a Compass	Caroline Van Hemert
Swamplandia!: A Novel	Karen Russell
The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie: A Novel	C. Alan Bradley

A Taint in the Blood: A Kate Shugak Novel	Dana Stabenow
A Tale for the Time Being: A Novel	Ruth Ozeki
The Tao of Raven	Ernestine Hayes
The Tattooist of Auschwitz	Heather Morris
The Tender Bar: a Memoir	J. R. Moehringer
They Called Us Enemy	George Takei
A Thread of Grace: a Novel	Mary Doria Russell
The Thursday Murder Club	Richard Osman
The Tiger’s Wife: a Novel	Téa Obreht
Tisha: The Story of a Young Teacher in the Alaska Wilderness	Robert Specht
To Kill a Mockingbird: A Novel	Harper Lee
To the Bright Edge of the World	Eowyn Ivey
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow	Gabrielle Zevin
The Tortilla Curtain: A Novel	T. Coraghessan Boyle
Trail of Crumbs	Kim Sunee
The Trap	John Smelcer
Travel as a Political Act: How to Leave Your Baggage Behind	Rick Steves
*Tuesdays with Morrie	Mitch Albom
The Twelve Lives of Samuel Hawley	Hannah Tinti
Two Old Women	Velma Wallis

The Ultimate Gift: A Novel	Jim Stovall
The Underground Girls of Kabul: In Search of a Hidden Resistance in Afghanistan	Jenny Nordberg
The Underground Railroad	Colson Whitehead
The Unexpected Inheritance of Inspector Chopra	Vaseemm Khan
Uninvited: A Novel	Lysa TerKeurst

Warrior's Creed	Roger Sparks
Water for Elephants: A Novel	Sara Gruen
We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves	Karen Joy Fowler
We Have Not Stopped Trembling Yet: Letters to My Filipino-Athabascan Family	E.J.R. David
West with Giraffes	Lynda Rutledge
The Whale and the Supercomputer on the Northern Front of Climate Change	Charles P. Wohlforth
Where'd You Go, Bernadette: A Novel	Maria Semple
White Fragility: Why it’s so Hard to Talk to White People About Racism	Robin Di Angelo
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail	Cheryl Strayed
Winter Garden: A Novel	Kristin Hannah
The Woman's Hour	Elaine Weiss
Women Talking	Miriam Toews
A Wrinkle in Time	Madeleine L'Engle

The Year of Magical Thinking	Joan Didion
Yuuyaraq: The Way of the Human Being, with Commentary	Harold Napoleon

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