As always, it is interesting to look back over what I read a few years ago, and see what has stuck with me and what has not. There are many books I really liked on this list; I think my favorites are The Marriage Plot, The Rules of Civility, Await Your Reply, Bitter in the Mouth, The Fran Liebowitz Reader, the Chekhov stories, and (most of all!) A Visit from the Goon Squad.
- In the Garden of Beasts by Erik Larson
- Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self by Danielle Evans
- Zippermouth by Laurie Weeks
- The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides
- The Whisperers by Orlando Figes
- Havana Real by Yoani Sanchez
- The Rules of Civility by Amor Towles
- Maine by J. Courtney Sullivan
- Like You'd Understand, Anyway by Jim Shepard
- The Crazed by Ha Jin
- Await Your Reply by Dan Chaon
- The Blessing of a B Minus by Wendy Mogel
- Murder in the Latin Quarter by Cara Black
- Bitter in the Mouth by Monique Truong
- Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned by Wells Tower
- The Book of Salt by Monique Truong
- The Paris Wife by Paula McLain
- The Girls Who Went Away by Ann Fessler
- The Bad Girl by Mario Vargas Llosa
- Sold by Patricia McCormick
- The Fran Lebowitz Reader
- Unbroken by Lauren Hillibrand
- My Life in France by Julia Child
- Ward No. 6 and Other Stories by Anton Chekhov
- A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
- The Zero by Jess Walter
- American Woman by Susan Choi
- The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
- Slow Man by J.M. Coetzee
- The Call of the Wild by Jack London
- This Body of Death by Elizabeth George
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