Jay’s Book List
2025
Bel Canto, Ann Patchett
Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguru
Austerlitz, W.G. Sebald
One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
On Beauty, Zadie Smith
The Namesake, Jhumpa Lahiri
Olive Kittredge, Elizabeth Strout
Trust Exercise, Susan Choi
Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Alice Munro
Nothing to See Here, Kevin Wilson
Demon Copperhead, Barbara Kingsolver
Pachinko, Min Jin Lee
Salvage the Bones, Jesmyn Ward
Cloud Atlas, David Mitchell
The Corrections, Jonathan Franzen
Bringing Up the Bodies, Hilary Mantel
The Mirror and the Light, Hilary Mantel
Outline, Rachel Cusk
The Last Samurai, Helen DeWitt
The Years, Annie Ernaux
Life After Life, Kate Atkinson
There There, Tommy Orange
Wandering Stars, Tommy Orange
Orbital, Samantha Harvey
Creation Lake, Rachel Kushner
Martyr!, Kaveh Akbar
Shuggie Bain, Douglas Stuart
The Goldfinch, Donna Tartt
The Emperor of Gladness, Ocean Vuong
Tom Lake, Ann Patchett
My Brilliant Friend, Elena Ferrante
Tell Me Everything, Elizabeth Strout
The God of Small Things, Arundhati Roy
The Sympathizer, Viet Thanh Nguyen
A Brief History of Seven Killings, Marlon James
Sing, Unburied, Sing, Jesmyn Ward
Erasure, Percival Everett
The Underground Railroad, Colson Whitehead
The Yiddish Policeman’s Union, Michael Chabon
The Savage Detectives, Roberto Bolano
The Secret History, Donna Tartt
The Sound and the Fury, William Faulkner
The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
A Farewell to Arms, Ernest Hemingway
Moby Dick, Herman Melville
The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck
The Day of the Locust, Nathaniel West
The Big Sleep, Raymond Chandler
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, Carson McCullers
1984, George Orwell
Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
Slaughterhouse Five, Kurt Vonnegut
2024
Underworld, Don Delillo
White Noise, Don Delillo
Libra, Don Delillo
American Pastoral, Philip Roth
Patrimony, Philip Roth
Sabbath’s Theater, Philip Roth
Ravelstein, Saul Bellow
The Known World, Edward P Jones
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Klay, Michael Chabon
Rise and Fall of the Neo-Liberal Order, Gary Gerstle
The Fortress of Solitude, Jonathan Lethem
Middlesex, Jeffrey Eugenides
The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store, James McBride
White Teeth, Zadie Smith
Gilead, Marilynne Robinson
Housekeeping, Marilynne Robinson
Rabbit Run, John Updike
Rabbit Redux, John Updike
Rabbit is Rich, John Updike
Rabbit at Rest, John Updike
Rabbit Remembered, John Updike
FDR, Jean Edward Smith
Freedom, Jonathan Franzen
Infinite Jest, David Foster Wallace
A Visit from the Goon Squad, Jennifer Egan
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Junot Diaz
Family Family, Laurie Frankel
Falconer, John Cheever
My Promised Land, Avi Shavit
Blood Meridian, Cormac McCarthy
London Fields, Martin Amis
Empire Falls, Richard Russo
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Mark Haddon
Atonement, Ian McEwan
Lessons in Chemistry, Bonnie Garmus
The Shipping News, Annie Proulx
The Candy House, Jennifer Egan
Lincoln in the Bardo, George Saunders
Reality Hunger, David Shields
Tenth of December, George Saunders
CivilWarLand in Bad Decline, George Saunders
Americanah, Chimamanda Ngozi Adiche
Bold Move, Luana Marques
A Confederacy of Dunces, John Kennedy Toole
The Plot Against America, Philip Roth
The Road, Cormac McCarthy
Operation Shylock, Philip Roth
North Woods, Daniel Mason
I Married a Communist, Philip Roth
Pastoralia, George Saunders
Trust, Hernan Diaz
The Overstory, Richard Powers
The Line of Beauty, Alan Hollinghurst
Wolf Hall, Hilary Mantel
