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   Middlesex   by Jeffrey Eugenides (fiction)

Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides (fiction)

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   The Westing Game   by Ellen Raskin (fiction)

The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin (fiction)

   Collected Works   by Lorine Niedecker (fiction)

Collected Works by Lorine Niedecker (fiction)

   The Ministry of Utmost Happiness   by Arundhati Roy (fiction)

The Ministry of Utmost Happiness by Arundhati Roy (fiction)

   Careless Love: The Unmaking of Elvis Presley   by Peter Guralnick (nonfiction)

Careless Love: The Unmaking of Elvis Presley by Peter Guralnick (nonfiction)

   The Happiness Equation: Want Nothing + Do Anything = Have Everything   by Neil Pasricha (nonfiction)

The Happiness Equation: Want Nothing + Do Anything = Have Everything by Neil Pasricha (nonfiction)

   Five Presidents: My Extraordinary Journey with Eishenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, and Ford   by Clint Hill (biography)

Five Presidents: My Extraordinary Journey with Eishenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, and Ford by Clint Hill (biography)

   Lonesome Dove   by Larry McMurtry (fiction)

Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry (fiction)

   Bel Canto   by Ann Patchett (fiction)

Bel Canto by Ann Patchett (fiction)

   Spring   by Ali Smith (fiction)  The third novel in the sequence,  Fall ,  Winter .

Spring by Ali Smith (fiction)

The third novel in the sequence, Fall, Winter.

   Our Man   by George Packer (biography)  The life of Richard Holbrook. We surely need him now!

Our Man by George Packer (biography)

The life of Richard Holbrook. We surely need him now!

   Underland   by Robert Macfarlane (nonfiction)  Macfarlane is always worth reading.

Underland by Robert Macfarlane (nonfiction)

Macfarlane is always worth reading.

   The Capital   by Robert Menisse (fiction)  The capital is Brussels and the state the EU.

The Capital by Robert Menisse (fiction)

The capital is Brussels and the state the EU.

   Boy Swallows Universe   by Trent Dutton (fiction)

Boy Swallows Universe by Trent Dutton (fiction)

   City of Girls   by Elizabeth Gilbert (fiction)

City of Girls by Elizabeth Gilbert (fiction)

   Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World   by Adam Tooze (nonfiction)

Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World by Adam Tooze (nonfiction)

   Exit West: A Novel   by Moshin Hamid (fiction)

Exit West: A Novel by Moshin Hamid (fiction)

   The Good Neighbor: The Life and Work of Fred Rogers   by Maxwell King (biography)

The Good Neighbor: The Life and Work of Fred Rogers by Maxwell King (biography)

   My Brilliant Friend   by Elena Ferrante (fiction)

My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante (fiction)

   All American Boys   by Jason Reynolds and Brendan Kiely (fiction)

All American Boys by Jason Reynolds and Brendan Kiely (fiction)

   Jitterbug Perfume   by Tom Robbins (fiction)

Jitterbug Perfume by Tom Robbins (fiction)

   Men We Reaped   by Jesmyn Ward (nonfiction)  The adult selection for One Book One Swarthmore.

Men We Reaped by Jesmyn Ward (nonfiction)

The adult selection for One Book One Swarthmore.

   People of the Book   by Geraldine Brooks (fiction)

People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks (fiction)

   Wilding: The Return of Nature to a British Farm   by Isabella Tree (nonfiction)

Wilding: The Return of Nature to a British Farm by Isabella Tree (nonfiction)

   Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America   by Elisa Griswold (nonfiction)

Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America by Elisa Griswold (nonfiction)

   The White Devil’s Daughters: The Women Who Fought Slavery in San Francisco’s Chinatown   by Julia Flynn Siler (nonfiction)

The White Devil’s Daughters: The Women Who Fought Slavery in San Francisco’s Chinatown by Julia Flynn Siler (nonfiction)

   The Mars Room   by Rachel Kushner (fiction)

The Mars Room by Rachel Kushner (fiction)

   The Bretheren: Inside the Supreme Court   by Bob Woodward (nonfiction)

The Bretheren: Inside the Supreme Court by Bob Woodward (nonfiction)

   Cryptonomicon   by Neal Stephenson (fiction)

Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson (fiction)

   It Doesn’t Have to Be Crazy at Work   by Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson (nonfiction)

It Doesn’t Have to Be Crazy at Work by Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson (nonfiction)

   Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, HER Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed   by Lori Gottlieb (nonfiction)

Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, HER Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed by Lori Gottlieb (nonfiction)

   The Personality Brokers: The Strange History of Myers-Briggs and the Birth of Personality Testing   by Marve Emre (nonfiction).

The Personality Brokers: The Strange History of Myers-Briggs and the Birth of Personality Testing by Marve Emre (nonfiction).

   The Girls at 17 Swann Street: A Novel   by Yara Zgheib (fiction)

The Girls at 17 Swann Street: A Novel by Yara Zgheib (fiction)

   The Valedictorian of Being Dead: The True Story of Dying Ten Times to Live   by Heather Armstrong (nonfiction)

The Valedictorian of Being Dead: The True Story of Dying Ten Times to Live by Heather Armstrong (nonfiction)

   Cosmological Koans   by Anthony Aguirre (nonfiction)

Cosmological Koans by Anthony Aguirre (nonfiction)

   Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow   by Henry Louis Gates (nonfiction)

Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow by Henry Louis Gates (nonfiction)

   Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom   by David W. Blight (biography)

Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom by David W. Blight (biography)

   Europe’s Last Summer: Who Started the Great War in 1914?   by David Fromkin (nonfiction)

Europe’s Last Summer: Who Started the Great War in 1914? by David Fromkin (nonfiction)

   An American Marriage   by Tayari Jones (fiction)

An American Marriage by Tayari Jones (fiction)

   The Right Sort of Man   by Allison Montclair (fiction)

The Right Sort of Man by Allison Montclair (fiction)

   The Past   by Tessa Hadley (fiction)

The Past by Tessa Hadley (fiction)

   Training School for Negro Girls   by Camille Acker (fiction)

Training School for Negro Girls by Camille Acker (fiction)

   Useful Phrases for Immigrants   by May Lee Chai (fiction)

Useful Phrases for Immigrants by May Lee Chai (fiction)

   Paris in the Present Tense   by Mark Helprin (fiction)

Paris in the Present Tense by Mark Helprin (fiction)

   The Novel of Ferrara   by Giorgio Bassani (fiction)

The Novel of Ferrara by Giorgio Bassani (fiction)

   The Invention on Murder: How the Victorians Revelled in Death and Detection and Created Modern Crime   by Judith Flanders (nonfiction)

The Invention on Murder: How the Victorians Revelled in Death and Detection and Created Modern Crime by Judith Flanders (nonfiction)

   Notes To Self: Essays   by Emilie Pine (nonfiction)

Notes To Self: Essays by Emilie Pine (nonfiction)

   The Nickel Boys   by Colson Whitehead (fiction)

The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead (fiction)

   Conviction   by Denise Mina (fiction)

Conviction by Denise Mina (fiction)

   Patsy   by Nicole Dennis-Benn (fiction)

Patsy by Nicole Dennis-Benn (fiction)

   The Perfect Child   by Lucinda Berry (fiction)

The Perfect Child by Lucinda Berry (fiction)

   Loudermilk, Or, The Real Poet; Or, the Origin of the World   by Lucy Ives (fiction)

Loudermilk, Or, The Real Poet; Or, the Origin of the World by Lucy Ives (fiction)

   A Delicate Aggression: Savagery and Survival in the Iowa Writers’ Workshop   by David O. Dowling (nonfiction)

A Delicate Aggression: Savagery and Survival in the Iowa Writers’ Workshop by David O. Dowling (nonfiction)

   The Beneficiary: Fortune, Misfortune, and the Story of My Father   by Janny Scott

The Beneficiary: Fortune, Misfortune, and the Story of My Father by Janny Scott

   The Great Believers   by Rebecca Makkai (fiction)

The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai (fiction)

   Summer of ‘69   by Elin Hilderbrand (historical fiction)

Summer of ‘69 by Elin Hilderbrand (historical fiction)

   I’m Fine and Neither are You   by Camille Pagan (fiction)

I’m Fine and Neither are You by Camille Pagan (fiction)

   Black House   by Stephen King and Peter Straub (fiction)

Black House by Stephen King and Peter Straub (fiction)

   A Murder of Crows   by Anne Bishop (fiction)

A Murder of Crows by Anne Bishop (fiction)

   Death of an Honest Man   by M.C. Beaton (fiction)

Death of an Honest Man by M.C. Beaton (fiction)

   The Mueller Report (Washington Post edition)   by A U.S. Government Investigation of Donald Trump (nonfiction)

The Mueller Report (Washington Post edition) by A U.S. Government Investigation of Donald Trump (nonfiction)

   The Biography of Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom   by David W. Blight (nonfiction)

The Biography of Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom by David W. Blight (nonfiction)

   Strangers and Cousins   by Leah Hager Cohen (fiction)

Strangers and Cousins by Leah Hager Cohen (fiction)

   The Most Fun We Ever Had   by Claire Lombardo (fiction)

The Most Fun We Ever Had by Claire Lombardo (fiction)

   The Old Drift   by Namwali Serpell (fiction)

The Old Drift by Namwali Serpell (fiction)

   Outside Looking In   by T.C. Boyle (fiction)

Outside Looking In by T.C. Boyle (fiction)

   Educated   by Tara Westover (memoir)

Educated by Tara Westover (memoir)

   The Man from the Train   by Bill James (nonfiction)

The Man from the Train by Bill James (nonfiction)

   The Beneficiary   by Janny Scott (memoir)

The Beneficiary by Janny Scott (memoir)

   M Train   by Patti Smith

M Train by Patti Smith

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   Middlesex   by Jeffrey Eugenides (fiction)
STR.jpg
FD2.jpg
ELS.jpg
AMM.jpg
RSM.jpg
   The Westing Game   by Ellen Raskin (fiction)
   Collected Works   by Lorine Niedecker (fiction)
   The Ministry of Utmost Happiness   by Arundhati Roy (fiction)
   Careless Love: The Unmaking of Elvis Presley   by Peter Guralnick (nonfiction)
   The Happiness Equation: Want Nothing + Do Anything = Have Everything   by Neil Pasricha (nonfiction)
   Five Presidents: My Extraordinary Journey with Eishenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, and Ford   by Clint Hill (biography)
   Lonesome Dove   by Larry McMurtry (fiction)
   Bel Canto   by Ann Patchett (fiction)
   Spring   by Ali Smith (fiction)  The third novel in the sequence,  Fall ,  Winter .
   Our Man   by George Packer (biography)  The life of Richard Holbrook. We surely need him now!
   Underland   by Robert Macfarlane (nonfiction)  Macfarlane is always worth reading.
   The Capital   by Robert Menisse (fiction)  The capital is Brussels and the state the EU.
   Boy Swallows Universe   by Trent Dutton (fiction)
   City of Girls   by Elizabeth Gilbert (fiction)
   Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World   by Adam Tooze (nonfiction)
   Exit West: A Novel   by Moshin Hamid (fiction)
   The Good Neighbor: The Life and Work of Fred Rogers   by Maxwell King (biography)
   My Brilliant Friend   by Elena Ferrante (fiction)
   All American Boys   by Jason Reynolds and Brendan Kiely (fiction)
   Jitterbug Perfume   by Tom Robbins (fiction)
   Men We Reaped   by Jesmyn Ward (nonfiction)  The adult selection for One Book One Swarthmore.
   People of the Book   by Geraldine Brooks (fiction)
   Wilding: The Return of Nature to a British Farm   by Isabella Tree (nonfiction)
   Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America   by Elisa Griswold (nonfiction)
   The White Devil’s Daughters: The Women Who Fought Slavery in San Francisco’s Chinatown   by Julia Flynn Siler (nonfiction)
   The Mars Room   by Rachel Kushner (fiction)
   The Bretheren: Inside the Supreme Court   by Bob Woodward (nonfiction)
   Cryptonomicon   by Neal Stephenson (fiction)
   It Doesn’t Have to Be Crazy at Work   by Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson (nonfiction)
   Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, HER Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed   by Lori Gottlieb (nonfiction)
   The Personality Brokers: The Strange History of Myers-Briggs and the Birth of Personality Testing   by Marve Emre (nonfiction).
   The Girls at 17 Swann Street: A Novel   by Yara Zgheib (fiction)
   The Valedictorian of Being Dead: The True Story of Dying Ten Times to Live   by Heather Armstrong (nonfiction)
   Cosmological Koans   by Anthony Aguirre (nonfiction)
   Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow   by Henry Louis Gates (nonfiction)
   Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom   by David W. Blight (biography)
   Europe’s Last Summer: Who Started the Great War in 1914?   by David Fromkin (nonfiction)
   An American Marriage   by Tayari Jones (fiction)
   The Right Sort of Man   by Allison Montclair (fiction)
   The Past   by Tessa Hadley (fiction)
   Training School for Negro Girls   by Camille Acker (fiction)
   Useful Phrases for Immigrants   by May Lee Chai (fiction)
   Paris in the Present Tense   by Mark Helprin (fiction)
   The Novel of Ferrara   by Giorgio Bassani (fiction)
   The Invention on Murder: How the Victorians Revelled in Death and Detection and Created Modern Crime   by Judith Flanders (nonfiction)
   Notes To Self: Essays   by Emilie Pine (nonfiction)
   The Nickel Boys   by Colson Whitehead (fiction)
   Conviction   by Denise Mina (fiction)
   Patsy   by Nicole Dennis-Benn (fiction)
   The Perfect Child   by Lucinda Berry (fiction)
   Loudermilk, Or, The Real Poet; Or, the Origin of the World   by Lucy Ives (fiction)
   A Delicate Aggression: Savagery and Survival in the Iowa Writers’ Workshop   by David O. Dowling (nonfiction)
   The Beneficiary: Fortune, Misfortune, and the Story of My Father   by Janny Scott
   The Great Believers   by Rebecca Makkai (fiction)
   Summer of ‘69   by Elin Hilderbrand (historical fiction)
   I’m Fine and Neither are You   by Camille Pagan (fiction)
   Black House   by Stephen King and Peter Straub (fiction)
   A Murder of Crows   by Anne Bishop (fiction)
   Death of an Honest Man   by M.C. Beaton (fiction)
   The Mueller Report (Washington Post edition)   by A U.S. Government Investigation of Donald Trump (nonfiction)
   The Biography of Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom   by David W. Blight (nonfiction)
   Strangers and Cousins   by Leah Hager Cohen (fiction)
   The Most Fun We Ever Had   by Claire Lombardo (fiction)
   The Old Drift   by Namwali Serpell (fiction)
   Outside Looking In   by T.C. Boyle (fiction)
   Educated   by Tara Westover (memoir)
   The Man from the Train   by Bill James (nonfiction)
   The Beneficiary   by Janny Scott (memoir)
   M Train   by Patti Smith
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