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2024

  • May 21: Butcher - Joyce Carol Oates (USA) stats | contour
  • March 19: James - Percival Everett (USA) stats | contour
  • February 6: Burma Sahib - Paul Theroux (USA) stats | contour
  • January 30: Good Material - Dolly Alderton (UK) stats | contour
  • January 23: Martyr! - Kaveh Akbar (USA) stats | contour

2023

  • October 24: Let Us Descend - Jesmyn Ward (USA) stats | contour
  • September 19: Mr. Texas - Lawrence Wright (USA) stats | contour
  • September 5: Holly - Stephen King (USA) stats | contour
  • August 1: Tom Lake - Ann Patchett (USA) stats | contour
  • May 16: Yellowface - R. F. Kuang (USA) stats | contour
  • May 2: Fourth Wing - Rebecca Yarros (USA) stats | contour
  • April 4: Romantic Comedy - Curtis Sittenfeld (USA) stats | contour
  • March 7: Birnam Wood - Eleanor Catton (NZ) stats | contour
  • February 7: Victory City - Salman Rushdie (UK) stats | contour

2022

  • December 6: Stella Maris - Cormac McCarthy (USA) stats | contour
  • October 25: The Passenger - Cormac McCarthy (USA) stats | contour
  • July 12: Winter Work - Dan Fesperman (USA) stats | contour
  • July 5: Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow - Gabrielle Zevin (USA) stats | contour
  • May 24: Avalon - Nell Zink (USA) stats | contour
  • May 3: Trust - Hernan Diaz (USA) stats | contour
  • April 5: Sea of Tranquility - Emily St. John Mandel (USA) stats | contour
  • April 5: The Candy House - Jennifer Egan (USA) stats | contour
  • April 5: Lessons in Chemistry - Bonnie Garmus (USA) stats | contour
  • February 15: Cold Enough for Snow - Jessica Au (Australia) stats | contour
  • January 4: The School for Good Mothers - Jessamine Chan (USA) stats | contour

2021

  • October 5: Crossroads - Jonathan Franzen (USA) stats | contour
  • September 28: When We Cease to Understand the World - Benjamín Labatut (Spain, trans. by Adrian Nathan West) stats | contour
  • September 7: Matrix - Lauren Groff (USA) stats | contour
  • July 20: Intimacies - Katie Kitamura (USA) stats | contour
  • June 22: The Netanyahus - Joshua Cohen (USA) stats | contour
  • May 11: The Plot - Jean Hanff Korelitz (USA) stats | contour
  • April 6: The Promise - Damon Galgut (S. Africa) stats | contour
  • March 2: Klara and the Sun - Kazuo Ishiguro (UK) stats | contour
  • February 16: No One Is Talking About This - Patricia Lockwood (USA) stats | contour

2020

  • October 27: Inside Story - Martin Amis (UK) stats | contour
  • September 1: The Lying Life of Adults - Elena Ferrante (Italy, trans. by Ann Goldstein) stats | contour
  • September 1: Red Pill - Hari Kunzru (USA) stats | contour
  • July 21: Hamnet - Maggie O'Farrell (UK) stats | contour
  • June 2: The Vanishing Half - Brit Bennett (USA) stats | contour
  • June 2: A Burning - Megha Majumdar (USA) stats | contour
  • March 3: Deacon King Kong - James McBride (USA) stats | contour
  • February 25: Apeirogon - Colum McCann (Ireland) stats | contour
  • February 11: Shuggie Bain - Douglas Stuart (USA) stats | contour
  • February 11: Weather - Jenny Offill (USA) stats | contour
  • January 28: Interior Chinatown - Charles Yu (USA) stats | contour

2019

  • October 22: Agent Running in the Field - John le Carré (UK) stats | contour
  • October 15: Olive, Again - Elizabeth Strout (USA) stats | contour
  • September 10: The Testaments - Margaret Atwood (Canada) stats | contour
  • August 13: Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead - Olga Tokarczuk (Poland, trans. by Antonia Lloyd-Jones) stats | contour
  • July 23: Lady in the Lake - Laura Lippman (USA) stats | contour
  • July 16: The Nickel Boys - Colson Whitehead (USA) stats | contour
  • June 18: Fleishman is in Trouble - Taffy Brodesser-Akner (USA) stats | contour
  • June 4: On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous - Ocean Vuong (USA) stats | contour
  • April 9: Trust Exercise - Susan Choi (USA) stats | contour
  • April 2: Lost and Wanted - Nell Freudenberger (USA) stats | contour
  • February 19: Bangkok Wakes to Rain - Pitchaya Sudbanthad (USA) stats | contour
  • February 12: American Spy - Lauren Wilkinson (USA) stats | contour

2018

  • November 20: Newcomer - Keigo Higashino (Japan, trans. by Giles Murray) stats | contour
  • October 9: The Witch Elm - Tana French (Ireland) stats | contour
  • June 5: There There - Tommy Orange (USA) stats | contour
  • June 5: Kudos - Rachel Cusk (UK) stats | contour
  • April 3: The Female Persuasion - Meg Wolitzer (USA) stats | contour
  • March 6: The House of Broken Angels - Luis Alberto Urrea (USA) stats | contour
  • February 6: Asymmetry - Lisa Halliday (USA) stats | contour

2017

  • October 3: Origin - Dan Brown (USA) stats | contour
  • August 1: Mrs. Fletcher - Tom Perrotta (USA) stats | contour
  • July 18: Less - Andrew Sean Greer (USA) stats | contour
  • May 7: Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine - Gail Honeyman (UK) stats | contour
  • March 7: Exit West - Mohsin Hamid (UK) stats | contour
  • February 28: The Hate U Give - Angie Thomas (USA) stats | contour

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  • June 29: Margo's Got Money Troubles - Rufi Thorpe (USA, 2024) @ Main Boulder Library & online [REGISTER HERE]

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