- The Poet X – Elizabeth Acevedo (poetry)
- Joy on Demand – Chade-Meng Tan
- Half of a Yellow Sun – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- Appalachian Elegy – bell hooks (poetry)
- Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World – Cal Newport
- Shoe Dog – Phil Knight (Parents’ Book Club Read)
- Nothing to See Here – Kevin Wilson
- How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America – Kiese Laymon
- American Dirt – Jeanne Cummins
- Sula – Toni Morrison
- The Dutch House – Ann Pachett
- Pachinko – Min Jin Lee
- Measure What Matters – John Doerr
- Untamed – Glennon Doyle (memoir)
- Well-Read Black Girl – Glory Edim (essays)
- The Giver of Starts – Jojo Moyes
- The Meaning of Michelle: 16 Writers on the Iconic First Lady and How Her Journey Inspires Our Own – Veronica Chambers (essays)
- Daisy Jones and The Six – Taylor Jenkins Reid (fiction)
- The Simple Wild – K.A. Tucker (fiction)
- Maybe You Should Talk to Someone – Lori Gottlieb
- Citizen: An American Lyric – Claudia Rankine (poetry)
- The Moth Presents All These Wonders: True Stories About Facing the Unknown – Catherine Burns (short stories; non-fiction)
- Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don’t Know – Malcolm Gladwell
- Let Love Have the Last Word – Common (memoir)
- Being Peace – Thich Nhat Hanh (spirituality, buddhism, non-fiction, philosophy)