- The Bastard of Istanbul, Elif Shafak ⭐⭐⭐⭐
- The Architect’s Apprentice, Elif Shafak ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
- The Manager’s Path, Camille Fournier ⭐⭐⭐⭐
- Dear Girls, Ali Wong ⭐⭐⭐
- The Dutch House, Ann Patchett ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
- On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous, Ocean Vuong ⭐⭐⭐⭐
- Uncanny Valley, Anna Weiner ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
- Lab Girl, Hope Jahren ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
- Edge: Turning Adversity into Advantage, Laura Huang ⭐⭐⭐⭐
- The Joy of Movement, Kelly McGonigal ⭐⭐⭐⭐
- Exhalation, Ted Chiang ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
- Beloved, Toni Morrison ⭐⭐⭐⭐
- The Water Dancer, Ta-Nehisi Coates ⭐⭐⭐
- Dreamland, Sam Quinones ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
- The Color Purple, Alice Walker ⭐⭐⭐⭐
- The Perfect Predator, Steffanie Strathdee and Thomas Patterson ⭐⭐⭐⭐
- The Silence of the Girls, Pat Barker ⭐⭐⭐⭐
- Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How It Changed the World, Laura Spinney ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ (extra star for relevance to 2020)
- Minor Feelings: A Reckoning on Race and the Asian Condition, Cathy Park Hong ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
- The Starless Sea, Erin Morgenstern ⭐⭐⭐
- Such a Fun Age, Kiley Reid ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
- Weather, Jenny Offill ⭐⭐⭐
- Frankissstein, Jeanette Winterson ⭐⭐⭐
- Convenience Store Woman, Sayaka Murata ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
- Exciting Times, Naoise Dolan ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
- Roar: How to Match Your Food and Fitness to Your Female Physiology for Optimum Performance, Great Health, and a Strong, Lean Body for Life, Dr. Stacy T. Sims ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
- Also Human: The Inner Lives of Doctors, Caroline Elton ⭐⭐⭐⭐
- How Much of These Hills Is Gold, C. Pam Zhang ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
- The Dollmaker, Nina Allan ⭐⭐⭐⭐
- Hamnet, Maggie O’Farrell ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
- Girl, Woman, Other, Bernadine Evaristo ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
- Winter in Sokcho, Elisa Shua Dusapin ⭐⭐⭐⭐
- On Chapel Sands: My Mother and Other Missing Persons, Laura Cumming ⭐⭐⭐
- The Map of Knowledge, Violet Moller ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
- Natives: Race & Class in the Ruins of Empire, Akala ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
- The Disaster Tourist, Yun Ko-eun ⭐⭐⭐
- The Vanishing Half, Brit Bennett ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
- Rodham, Curtis Sittenfeld ⭐⭐⭐⭐
- The Overstory, Richard Powers ⭐⭐⭐⭐
- The Well-Gardened Mind: Rediscovering Nature in the Modern World, Sue Stuart-Smith ⭐⭐⭐⭐
- The Great Believers, Rebecca Makkai ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
- The Henna Artist, Alka Joshi ⭐⭐⭐⭐
- Breasts and Eggs, Mieko Kawakami ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
- Fracture, Andrés Neuman ⭐⭐⭐⭐
- Burnt Sugar, Avna Doshi ⭐⭐⭐⭐
- Minor Detail, Adania Shibli ⭐⭐⭐
- Silver Sparrow, Tayari Jones ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
- If I Never Met You, Mhairi McFarlane ⭐⭐⭐⭐
- The Glass Hotel, Emily St. John Mandel ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
- The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals that Protest Us from Violence, Gavin de Becker ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
- Loathe at First Sight, Suzanne Park ⭐⭐⭐
- The Man Who Didn’t Call, Rosie Walsh ⭐⭐⭐⭐
- 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World, Elif Shafak ⭐⭐⭐⭐
- Azadi, Arundhati Roy ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
- The Guest List, Rosie Walsh ⭐⭐⭐⭐
- Billion Dollar Whale: The Man Who Fooled Wall Street, Hollywood, and the World, Tom Wright & Bradley Hope ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
- How to Stay Sane in an Age of Division, Elif Shafak ⭐⭐⭐⭐
- Real Life, Brandon Taylor ⭐⭐⭐⭐
- Rootbound: Rewilding a Life, Alice Vincent ⭐⭐⭐
- The Hidden Life of Trees, Peter Wohlleben ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
- Skincare: The Ultimate No-Nonsense Guide, Caroline Hirons ⭐⭐⭐
- The Lonely City: Adventure in the Art of Being Alone, Olivia Laing ⭐⭐⭐⭐
- Life’s Too Short to Go So F*cking Slow, Susan Lacke ⭐⭐⭐
- Love After Love, Ingrid Persaud ⭐⭐⭐⭐
- Invisible Women: Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men, Caroline Criado Perez ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
- This Mournable Body, Tsitsi Dangarembga ⭐⭐⭐⭐
- The Sympathizer, Viet Thanh Nguyen ⭐⭐⭐⭐
- The Opposite of Loneliness, Marina Keegan ⭐⭐⭐
- The New Wilderness, Diane Cook ⭐⭐⭐⭐
- The Bridge of San Luis Rey, Thornton Wilder ⭐⭐⭐
- The Soul of an Octopus, Sy Montgomery ⭐⭐⭐⭐
- Self Care, Leigh Stein ⭐⭐⭐
- How to Be an Antiracist, Ibram X. Kendi ⭐⭐⭐⭐
- Wow, No Thank You, Samantha Irby ⭐⭐
- The Shadow King, Maaza Mengiste ⭐⭐⭐⭐
- The Girl with the Louding Voice, Abi Daré ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
- Twilight of Democracy: The Failure of Politics and the Parting of Friends, Anne Applebaum ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
- The Flat Share, Beth O’Leary ⭐⭐⭐
- Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
- The Girl Who Reads on the Métro, Christine Féret-Fleury ⭐⭐⭐
- The Tattooist of Auschwitz, Heather Morris ⭐⭐⭐
- The Handsome Monk, Tsering Döndrup ⭐⭐⭐⭐
- Queenie, Candice Carty-Williams ⭐⭐⭐⭐
- Postcolonial Love Poem, Natalie Diaz ⭐⭐⭐⭐
- Milkman, Anna Burns ⭐⭐⭐

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