It’s June, which means it’s time for the annual EDIWTB crowdsourced reading list. Thanks to my readers and Facebook friends for submitting their favorite reads from the last year. I always like this list because there are many books on it that I’d probably not read on my own, and therefore would not include on the blog. You’re getting a much more well-rounded list than I’d come up with myself.
Here’s what the crowd came up with. I’ve put ** next to those that were recommended by more than one person. When it’s a book I’ve read too, I’ve included a link to my EDIWTB review.
**The Nix by Nathan Hill
**Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
Red Clocks by Leni Zumas
I Am I Am I Am by Maggie O’Farrell
**Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi (reviewed here)
**The Power by Naomi Alderman
**American Fire by Monica Hesse
**The Seven Husbands Of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid
News Of The World by Paulette Giles
Hunger by Roxanne Gay
Brotopia by Emily Chang
My Absolute Darling by Gabriel Tallent
Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate
Bad Blood: Secrets And Lies In A Silicon Valley Startup by John Carreyrou
The Last Ballad by Wiley Cash
Young Jane Young, Gabrielle Zevin
**The Leavers by Lisa Ko (reviewed here)
**The Heart’s Invisible Furies by John Boyne
**Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman (reviewed here)
**This Is How It Always Is by Laurie Frankel (reviewed here)
Commonwealth by Ann Patchett (reviewed here)
Unabrow by Una LaMarche
An American Marriage by Tayari Jones (reviewed here)
You Think It, I’ll Say It by Curtis Sittenfeld (reviewed here)
**Saints For All Occasions by J. Courtney Sullivan
Star Of The North by D. B. John
Mrs. by Caitlyn Macy
Only Child by Rhiannon Navin
Between Me And You by Allison Winn Scotch,
We Were The Lucky Ones by Georgia Hunter
**A Gentleman In Moscow by Amor Towles
**Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward
Circling The Sun by Paula McClain
March by Geraldine Brooks
The Sleeping Dictionary by Sujata Massey
Time Of The Locust by Morowa Yejide
A Long Way From Verona by Jane Gardam
Priestdaddy by Patricia Lockwood
The Black Penguin by Andrew Evans
The Music Shop by Rachel Joyce
The Broken Girls by Simone St. James
**Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng (reviewed here)
Summit Lake by Charlie Donlea
Hillbilly Elegy by J.D. Vance (reviewed here)
The Lost Girls by Heather Young
**The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
The Perfect Mother by Aimee Molloy
The Wife by Alafair Burke
A Closed And Common Orbit by Becky Chambers
The Genius Plague by David Walton
The Great Quake by Henry Fountain
Vacationland by John Hodgman
Our Short History by Lauren Grodstein (reviewed here)
Vintage Hughes by Langston Hughes
My Last Continent by Midge Raymond
Educated by Tara Westover
Lab Girl by Hope Jahren
The Idiot by Elif Batuman
The Female Persuasion by Meg Wolitzer (reviewed here)
Silver Girl by Leslie Pietrzyk
White Houses by Amy Bloom
Gateway to the Moon by Mary Morris
Elmet by Fiona Mozley
**The Twelve Lives Of Samuel Hawley by Hannah Tinti
Behind the Beautiful Forevers by Katherine Boo
The Leftovers by Tom Perrotta (reviewed here)
The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen
I Liked My Life by Abby Fabiaschi (reviewed here)
The Two Family House by Lynda Cohen Loigman (reviewed here)
The Husband’s Secret by Liane Moriarty (reviewed here)
So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed by Jon Ronson
Circe by Madeline Miller
The Girl With All The Gifts by M.R. Carey
Dark Matter by Blake Crouch
Calypso, David Sedaris
The High Season by Judy Blundell
The Paris Seamstress by Natasha Lester
The Undoing Project by Michael Lewis