Lithub's Emily Temple has read 41 lists totalling 952 books to distill the most frequently included titles that zigzag between fiction and non-fiction and back again.
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Rating
Intimations
3.74
What Are You Going Through
Sigrid Nunez
4.06
The Dragons, the Giant, the Women: A Memoir
Wayétu Moore
0
Notes on a Silencing
Lacy Crawford
4.25
The Cold Millions
Jess Walter
3.86
Vesper Flights
Helen Macdonald
4.17
Homie
4.65
Rodham
Curtis Sittenfeld
3.9
My Dark Vanessa
Kate Elizabeth Russell
4.23
World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments
Aimee Nezhukumatathil
4.2
Utopia Avenue
David Mitchell
4.05
His Only Wife
Peace Adzo Medie
3.7
The Only Good Indians
Stephen Graham Jones
3.79
The Night Watchman
Louise Erdrich
4.02
The New Wilderness
Diane Cook
3.6
When No One is Watching
Alyssa Cole
3.58
African American Poetry: 250 Years of Struggle and Song
0
Sharks in the Time of Saviors
Kawai Strong Washburn
4.21
Jack
Marilynne Robinson
4
The Splendid and the Vile
Erik Larson
4.19
Actress
Anne Enright
0
Plain Bad Heroines
Emily M. Danforth
3.68
Blacktop Wasteland
S. A. Cosby
4.41
The Undocumented Americans
4.21
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
V. E. Schwab
4.1
The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X
Les Payne
Tamara Payne
4.75
Mexican Gothic
Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Dan Sociu (Translator)
3.74
Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot