- 1984, by George Orwell
- 27 Magic Words, by Sharelle Moranville
- A Call to Action, by Jimmy Carter
- A Fine Balance, by Rohinton Mistry
- A Gentleman in Moscow, by Amor Towles
- A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, by Dave Eggars
- A Land More Kind Than Home, by Wiley Cash
- A Thief of Time, by Tony Hillerman
- Absolution, by Alice McDermott
- All the Light We Cannot See, by Anthony Doerr
- An Altar in the World: A Geography of Faith, by Barbara Brown Taylor
- An American Marriage, by Tayari Jones
- An Invisible Thread, by Laura Schroff
- Animal, Vegetable, Miracle, by Barbara Kingsolver
- Awakenings, by Oliver Sacks
- Becoming, by Michelle Obama
- Before We Were Yours, by Lisa Wingate
- Behold the Dreamers, by Imbolo Mbue
- Being Mortal, by Atul Gawande
- Beloved, by Toni Morrison
- Between the World and Me, by Ta Nehisi Coates
- Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy, by Eric Metaxas
- Braiding Sweetgrass, by Robin Wall Kimmerer
- Braving the Wilderness, by Brené Brown
- Breathing Lessons, by Anne Tyler
- Burn Scars, by Patricia Prijatel
- Bury Your Dead, by Louise Penny
- Can We Talk About Israel? A Guide for the Curious, Confused, and Conflicted, by Daniel Sokatch
- Candide, by Voltaire
- Caste, by Isabel Wilkerson
- Chameleon Days, by Tim Bascom
- Changing the Conversation, by Anthony Robinson
- Classic Restaurants of Des Moines and Their Recipes, by Darcy Dougherty-Maulsby
- Climbing Lessons, by Tim Bascom
- Crossing to Safety, by Wallace Stegner
- Cutting for Stone, by Abraham Verghese
- Daughter of Fortune, by Isabel Allende
- Dead Wake, by Erik Larson
- Dear and Glorious Physician, by Taylor Caldwell
- Dear Life: Stories, by Alice Munro
- Death Comes for the Archbishop, by Willa Cather
- Death Comes to Pemberley, by P.D. James
- Defending Jacob, by William Landay
- Democracy Awakening, by Heather Cox Richardson
- Demon Copperhead, by Barbara Kingsolver
- Destiny of the Republic, by Candice Millard
- Devil in the White City, by Erik Larson
- Dinners with Ruth: A Memoir on the Power of Friendships
- Doppelganger, by Naomi Klein
- Dune, by Frank Herbert
- Educated, by Tara Westover
- Everything I Never Told You, by Celeste Ng
- Evolution of the Word, by Marcus Borg
- Exit West, by Mohsin Hamid
- Flight Behavior, by Barbara Kingsolver
- Foolish Church, by Lee Roorda Schott
- Forget Me Not Blue, by Sharelle Byars Moranville
- Founding Brothers, by Joseph Ellis
- Founding Mothers, by Cokie Roberts
- Gilead, by Marilynne Robinson
- Glass Houses, by Louise Penny
- Half Broke Horses, by Jeannette Walls
- Hallelujah Anyway, by Anne Lamott
- Hamnet, by Maggie O’Farrell
- Harlem Shuffle, by Colson Whitehead
- Hillbilly Elegy, by J.D. Vance
- Horse, by Geraldine Brooks
- How the Light Gets In, by Louise Penny
- How the Word is Passed, by Clint Smith
- How to Read a Book, by Monica Wood
- I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death, by Maggie O’Farrell
- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, by Maya Angelou
- I Shall Not Hate, by Izzeldin Abuelaish
- I Swear: Politics is Messier Than My Minivan, by Katie Porter
- In a Sunburned Country, by Bill Bryson
- In the Garden of Beasts, by Erik Larson
- In the Woods, by Tana French
- Invisible: The Forgotten Story of the Black Woman Lawyer Who Took Down America’s Most Powerful Mobster, by Stephen L. Carter
- Island: The Complete Stories, by Alistair MacLeod
- James, by Percival Everett
- Just Mercy, by Bryan Stevenson
- Killers of the Flower Moon, by David Grann
- Last Bus to Wisdom, by Ivan Doig
- Learning to Walk in the Dark, by Barbara Taylor Brown
- Life of Pi, by Yann Martel
- Little Wolves, by Thomas Maltman
- Love is My Favorite Flavor, by Wini Moranville
- March, by Geraldine Brooks
- Mudbound, by Hillary Jordan
- My Antonia, by Willa Cather
- My Jesus Year: A Rabbi’s Son Wanders the Bible Belt in Search of His Own Faith, by Benyamin Cohen
- Near the Exit, by Lori Erickson
- Neighbors and Other Stories, by Diane Oliver
- News of the World, by Paulette Jiles
- On Trails, by Robert Moor
- One Summer: America, 1927, by Bill Bryson
- Orange is the New Black, by Piper Kerman
- Our Souls at Night, by Kent Haruf
- Out of the Easy, by Ruta Sepetys
- Pachinko, by Min Jin Lee
- People of the Book, by Geraldine Brooks
- Pigs in Heaven, by Barbara Kingsolver
- Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, by Annie Dillard
- Plainsong, by Kent Haruf
- Poverty by America, by Matthew Desmond
- Prague Winter, by Madeleine Albright
- Prodigal Summer, by Barbara Kingsolver
- Proof of Heaven: A Neurosurgeon’s Journey in the Afterlife, by Eben Alexander
- Ragtime, by E. L. Dotorow
- Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
- Rise: How a House Built a Family, by Cara Brookins
- River of the Gods, by Candice Millard
- Room, by Emma Donoghue
- Run, by Ann Patchett
- Sarum: the Novel of England, by Edward Rutherford
- Saving Us: A Climate Scientist’s Case for Hope and Healing in a Divided World
- Say You’re One of Them, by Uwem Akpan
- Sea of Glory, by Nathaniel Philbrick
- Sense and Sensibility (The Austen Project #1), by Joanna Trollope
- She Walks These Hills, by Sharyn McCrumb
- Skinny Dip, by Carl Hiassen
- Sky Bridge, by Laura Pritchett
- Solito, by Javier Zamora
- Songs of America, by Jon Meacham and Tim McGraw
- South of Broad, by Pat Conroy
- Station Eleven, by Emily St. John Mandel
- Strength in What Remains, by Tracy Kidder
- Stolen Focus: Why You Can’t Pay Attention — and How to Think Deeply Again, by Johann Hari
- Take This Bread, by Sara Miles
- Tattoos on the Heart: The Power of Boundless Compassion, by Gregory Boyle
- The Anxious Generation, by Jonathan Haidt
- The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism, by Doris Kearns Goodwin
- The Bean Trees, by Barbara Kingsolver
- The Book Thief, by Markus Zusak
- The Boys in the Boat, by Daniel James Brown
- The Brilliant Life of Eudora Honeysett, by Annie Lyons
- The Brothers Vonnegut, by Ginger Strand
- The Burgess Boys, by Elizabeth Strout
- The Chosen by Chaim Potok
- The Color of Water, by James McBride
- The Covenant of Water, by Abraham Verghese
- The Demon of Unrest, by Erik Larson
- The Devil in the White City, by Erik Larson
- The Dictionary of Lost Words, by Pip Williams
- The Dutch House by Ann Patchett
- The End of Your Life Book Club, by Will Schwalbe
- The Faith Club: A Muslim, A Christian, A Jew, by Rayna Idliby, Suzanne Oliver, and Patricia Warner
- The Feather Thief, by Kirk Wallace Johnson
- The Glass Castle, by Jeannette Walls
- The Grace of Silence: A Memoir, by Michele Norris
- The Great Believers, by Rebecca Makkai
- The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, by Mary Ann Shaffer
- The Hangman’s Beautiful Daughter, Sharyn McCrumb
- The Hate You Give, by Angie Thomas
- The Help, by Kathryn Stockett
- The Hotel at the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, by Jamie Ford
- The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, by Rebecca Skloot
- The Invention of Wings, by Sue Monk Kidd
- The Japanese Lover, by Isabel Allende
- The Kitchen Boy, by Robert Alexander
- The Language of Flowers, by Vanessa Diffenbaugh
- The Last Lecture, by Randy Pausch
- The Last Report on the Miracles of Little No Horse, by Louise Erdrich
- The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid, by Bill Bryson
- The Light Between Oceans, by M. L. Stedman
- The Magician’s Assistant, by Ann Patchett
- The Map that Changed the World, by Simon Winchester
- The Master Butchers Singing Club, by Louise Erdrich
- The Midnight Library, by Matt Haig
- The New Jim Crow, by Michelle Alexander
- The Opposite of Fate: Memories of a Writer’s Life, by Amy Tan
- The Overstory by Richard Powers
- The Path Between the Seas, by David McCulough
- The Poisonwood Bible, by Barbara Kingsolver
- The Promise by Chaim Potok
- The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt’s Darkest Journey, by Candice Millard
- The Road from Coorain, by Jill Ker Conway
- The Round House, by Louise Erdrich
- The Rules of Civility, by Amor Towles
- The Serviceberry, by Robin Wall Kimmerer
- The Silk Roads: A New History of the World, by Peter Frankopan
- The Songcatcher, by Sharyn McCrumb
- The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating, by Elisabeth Tova Bailey
- The Source, by James Michener
- The Sweetness of Water, by Nathan Harris
- The Thursday Murder Club, by Richard Osman
- The Truth About Immigration: Why Successful Societies Welcome Newcomers, by Zeke Hernandez
- The Underneath, by Kathi Appelt
- The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, by Rachel Joyce
- The Warmth of Other Suns, by Isabel Wilkerson
- The Water is Wide, by Pat Conroy
- The Waters, by Bonnie Jo Campbell
- The Weight of Ink, by Rachel Kadish
- The World is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century, by Thomas Friedman
- The Wright Brothers, by David McCulough
- The Year of Magical Thinking, by John Didion
- The Year We Left Home, by Jean Thompson
- Their Eyes Were Watching God, by Zora Neale Hurston
- These Is My Words: The Diary of Sarah Agnes Prine, 1881-1901, by Nancy E. Turner
- Train to Nowhere: Inside an Immigrant Death Investigation, by Colleen Krantz
- Traveling Mercies, by Anne Lamott
- Virgil Wander, by Leif Enger
- Walden on Wheels, by Ken Ilgunas
- Walk in a Relaxed Manner, by Joyce Rupp
- Water for Elephants, by Sara Gruen
- West With Giraffes, by Lynda Rutledge
- What We Talk About When We Talk About God, by Rob Bell
- Where the Crawdads Sing, by Delia Owens
- Who Ate the First Oyster? by Cody Cassidy
- You Don’t Look Like Anyone I Know, by Heather Sellers
- Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth, by Reza Aslan