2016
Strangers Drowning: Grappling with Impossible Idealism, Drastic Choices, and the Overpowering Urge to Help by Larissa MacFarquhar
The Miracle Morning: The Not-So-Obvious Secret Gauranteed to Transform Your Life (Before 8am) by Hal Elrod
Sweetbitter by Stephanie Danler
Love Warrior by Glennon Doyle Melton
Disrupted: My Misadventure in the Start-Up Bubble by Dan Lyons
The Quiet American by Graham Greene
The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing by Marie Kondo
The Liars’ Club by Mary Karr
When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanthi
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
The Art of Memoir by Mary Karr
The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman
2015
Sounds Like Me by Sara Bareilles
Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear by Elizabeth Gilbert
The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins
So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed by Jon Ronson
Yes Please by Amy Poehler
Better than Before by Gretchen Rubin
Men Explain Things to Me by Rebecca Solnit
Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty
The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
2014
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl Strayed
Where’d You Go, Bernadette? by Maria Semple
Bright Lights, Big City by Jay McInerney
The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way by Bill Bryson
Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead by Sheryl Sandberg
Night by Elie Wiesel
Blue is the Warmest Color by Julie March
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned by Wells Tower
Down the Rabbit Hole by Juan Pablo Villalobos
SOAR: The Breakthrough Treatment for Fear of Flying by Tom Bunn
Tenth of December by George Saunders
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Changes the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead by Brené Brown
The Girl Who Ate Kalamazoo by Darrin Doyle
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami
Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Geek Love by Katherine Dunn
At Large and At Small: Familiar Essays by Anne Fadiman
American Savage: Insights, Slights, and Fights on Faith, Sex, Love, and Politics by Dan Savage
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within by Natalie Goldberg
Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage by Alice Munro
In the Land of God and Man by Silvana Paternostro
The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation by Lynne Truss
Switch: How to Change When Change Is Hard by Chip Heath and Dan Heath
The Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood
1984 by George Orwell
The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen by Christopher McDougall
Moonwalking with Einstein by Joshua Foer
Suddenly, A Knock on the Door by Etgar Keret
Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson
Writing Successful Software Classes: A Plan for Course Developers and Training Managers by William Rice
You Shall Know Our Velocity! by Dave Eggers