(*unanimous vote)
↑ Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George
↑ The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles
↑↓→Beloved by Toni Morrison
↑Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt
↑The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
↑Sisters of the Lost Nation by Nick Medina
↑Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus*
↑Apeirogon by Colum McCann*
↑The Testaments by Margaret Atwood
↑Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer
→ The Other
Einstein by Marie Benedict
→
Nothing Daunted: The Unexpected Education of Two Society Girls in the West by Dorothy Wickenden
↑ Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng
↑ Unsheltered by Barbara Kingsolver
↑ An Unfinished Life by Mark Spragg
→ Now is Not the Time to Panic by Kevin Wilson
↑ Other Birds by Sarah Addison Allen
→ Under the Whispering Door by T.J. Klune
↑ Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr
↑ Wish You Were Here by Jodi Piccoult
↑ West With Giraffes by Lynda Rutledge
↑ The Absolute True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Alexie Sherman
The Other Side by Mark Leichliter
Less by Andrew Sean Greer
The Flight Girls by Noelle Salazar
Valentine: A Novel by Elizabeth Wetmore
Perestroika in Paris by Jane Smiley
We Begin at the End by Chris Whitaker
Book Woman of Troublesome Creek by Kim Michele Richardson
Inheritance: A Memoir of Geneology, Paternity, and Love by Dani Shapiro
The Lost Apothecary by Sarah Penner
Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell
The Bones of Paradise by Jonis Agee
The Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams
Bowlaway by Elizabeth McCracken
The Book of Longings by Sue Monk Kidd
Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century by Jessica Bruder
Inland by Tea Obreht
Above All Things by Tanis Rideout
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah
The Dutch House by Anne Patchett
Girl Guards of Wyoming: The Lost Miltia by Dan Lyon
The Book of Lost Names by Kristin Harmel
Aloha Rodeo: Three Hawaiian Cowboys, the World's Greatest Rodeo, and a Hidden History of the American West by David Wolman
Boundary Waters Search and Rescue: Beyond Belief (Book One in the BoundaryWaters Search and Rescue Series) by Joy Harding
The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman
The Library Book by Susan Orlean
A River of Creeks by Kerry Grande
Once Upon a River by Diane Setterfield
In Our Time by Ernest Hemingway
The Tenth Muse by Catherine Chung
Dead Mountain: The Untold True Story of The Dyatlov Pass Incident by Donnie Eichar
This Tender Land by William Kent Krueger
Carnegie's Maid by Marie Benedict
The Hearts of Men by Nickolas Butler
Red at the Bone by Jacqueline Woodson
Bone by Fae Myenne Ng
Blue Highways by William Least Heat-Moon
Enchantress of Numbers by Jennifer Chiavierni
The Professor and the Madman by Simon Winchester
People of the Moon by W. Michael Gear and Kathleen O'Neal Gear
An Unspoken Hunger: Stories from the Field by Terry Tempest Williams
Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann
These Is My Words: The Diary of Sarah Agnes Prine, 1881-1901: Arizona Territories: A Novel by Nancy E. Turner
Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng
The Tattooist of Auschwitz: A Novel by Heather Morris
Educated: A Memoir by Tara Westover
Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
All the Wild that Remains by David Gessner
The Accidental Tourist by Anne Tyler
Hillbilly Elegy by J.D. Vance
The History of Love by Nicole Krauss
Cowboys and East Indians by Nina McConigley
Beyond the Hundredth Meridian: John Wesley Powell
and the Second Opening of the West by Wallace Stegner
Manhattan Beach by Jennifer Egan
The Oregon Trail: A New American Journey by Rinker Buck
Everyone Brave is Forgiven by Chris Cleave
I Let You Go by Clare Mackintosh
The Book of Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World by Dalai Lama XIV,
Desmond Tutu, & Douglas Carlton Abrams
A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson
A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
The Beekeeper's Apprentice by Laurie R. King
Our Souls at Night by Kent Haruf
Doc by Mary Doria Russell
The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy: Four women undercover in the Civil War by Karen Abbott
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemmingway
Circling the Sun by Paula McLain
Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown
Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl
Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin
A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J. Gaines
Mary Coin by Marisa Silver
Ordinary Grace by William Kent Krueger
Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand
To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
The Whistling Season by Ivan Doig
Wild by Cheryl Strayed
Say You're One of Them by Akpan Uwem
I Am A Man by Joe Starita
The Dovekeepers by Alice Hoffman
Emma by Jane Austen
Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
The Night Journal by Elizabeth Crook
In the Chameleon's Shadow by Mark Hummel
What You See in Clear Water by Geoffrey O'Gara
Close Range by Annie Proulx
Where Rivers Change Direction by Mark Spragg
Windmill: Essays from Four Mile Ranch by David Romtvedt
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
May's Notebook by Isabel Allende
The Round House by Lousie Erdrich
Conquistadora by Esmeralda Santiago
The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
Angel of Repose by Wallace Stegner
The Bad Seed by William March
All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy
Charlatan by Pope Brock
The Tiger's Wife by Tea Obreht
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
The Glass Castle: A Memiorby Jeannette Walls
Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese
The Legend of Colton H. Bryant by Alexandra Fuller
Wishin' and Hopin' by Wally Lamb
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Sijie Dai
The Road to Wellville by T.C. Boyle
Sophie's Choice by William Styron
Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Letham
The Kitchen God's Wife by Amy Tan
The Paris Wife by Paula McLain
The Dirty Life: A Memior of Farming, Food, and Love by Kristin Kimball
The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid
Look at Me by Jennifer Egan
State of Wonder by Ann Patchett
Half the Sky: Turing Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide by Nicholas D. Kristof
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
Shadow Drivers by Robert Kurson
War Dances by Sherman Alexie
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Finn by Jon Clinch
I See You Everywhere by Julia Glass
Mystic River by Dennis Lehane
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
The Hours by Michael Cunningham
Holidays on Ice by David Sedaris
The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yoko Ogawa
Broken for You by Stephanie Kallos
Wish You Well by David Baldaucci
The Brief Wonderous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
Where Rivers Change Direction by Mark Spragg
Maus by Art Spieglman
Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight by Alexandera Fuller
Waiting for the Barbarians by J.M. Coetzee
The Lacuan by Barbara Kingsolver
Hannah Coulter by Wendell Berry
The Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk
Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson