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2021 Book List

• The Duke and I – Julia Quinn
• The Viscount Who Loved Me – Julia Quinn
• An Offer From a Gentleman – Julia Quinn
• Romancing Mister Bridgerton – Julia Quinn
• When He Was Wicked – Julia Quinn
• To Sir Phillip, With Love – Julia Quinn
• It’s In Hiss Kiss – Julia Quinn
• On the Way to the Wedding – Julia Quinn
• The Wedding Date – Jasmine Guillory
• Indigo – Beverly Jenkins
• Vivid – Beverly Jenkins
• The Untelling – Tayari Jones
• Down the Rabbit Hole: Curious Adventures and Cautionary Tales of a Former Playboy Bunny – Holly Madison
• The Silent Patient – Alex Michaelides
• Destiny’s Embrace – Beverly Jenkins
• The Couple Next Door – Shari Lapena
• Just as I Am: A Memoir – Cicely Tyson
• The Kindest Lie -Nancy Johnson
• Me Before You – Jojo Moyes

2020 Book List

• The Great Believers – Rebecca Makkai
• Stillhouse Lake – Rachel Caine
• Killman Creek – Rachel Caine
• An Untamed State – Roxane Gay
• The Family Upstairs – Lisa Jewell
• Haunted – Christina C. Jones
• The Beautiful Ones – Prince
• Queenie – Candice Carty-Williams
• The Immortalists – Chloe Benjamin
• Educated – Tara Westover
• The Other Wife – Claire McGowan
• Regretting You – Colleen Hoover
• Jay-Z – Michael Eric Dyson
• The Sparrow – Mary Doria Russell
• Everything My Mother Taught Me – Alice Hoffman
• Children of God – Mary Doria Russell
• We Love, Charlie Freeman – Kaitlyn Greenridge
• The Secrets of Lost Stones – Melissa Payne
• Eleanor Oliphant is completely fine – Gail Honeyman
• These Ghosts Are Family – Maisy Card
• The City We Became – N.K. Jemisin
• Paris, He Said – Christine Sneed
• The Vanishing Half – Brit Bennett
• Lovecraft Country – Matt Ruff
• My Sister, The Serial Killer – Oyinkan Braithwaite
• Then She Was Gone – Lisa Jewell
• The Secret Lives of Church Ladies – Deesha Philyaw
• Zikora – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
• You Should Have Known – Jean Hanff Korelitz
• Mansfield Park – Jane Austin

2019 Book List

• A Kind of Freedom – Margaret Wilkerson Sexton
• How Long ’til Black Future Month – N.K. Jemisin
• Us Against the World: Our Secrets to Love, Marriage, and Family – David & Tamela Mann
• Well-Read Black Girl: Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves – Gloy Edim
• The Supremes Sing the Heartache Blues – Edward Kelsey Moore
• The Color Purple – Alice Walker
• Tituba of Salem Village – Ann Petry
• These Are the Moments – Jenny Bravo
• The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo – Taylor Jenkins Reid
• The Marsh King’s Daughter – Karen Dionne
• Disgrace – J.M. Coetzee
• Little Fires Everywhere – Celeste Ng
• The War of Art – Steven Pressfield
• Black Water Rising – Attica Locke
• The Thirteenth Tale – Diane Setterfield
• False Step – Victoria Helen Stone
• In a Dark, Dark Wood – Ruth Ware
• Jane Doe – Victoria Helen Stone
• My Soul to Keep – Tananarive Due
• What You Did – Claire McGowan
• Convenience Store Woman – Sayaka Murata
• Rainwater – Sandra Brown
• Whispering Pines – Kimberly Diede
• Party Girl – Rachel Hollis
• Sweet Girl – Rachel Hollis
• Smart Girl – Rachel Hollis
• Paper Wife – Laila Ibrahim
• The Overdue Life of Amy Byler – Kelly Harms
• Opposite of Always – Justin A Reynolds
• The Mothers – Brit Bennet
• The Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas
• Waking Kate – Sarah Addison Allen
• I Will Remember You – Jaye L. Morgan
• Winter Cottage – Mary Ellen Taylor
• The Writer’s Guide to Agony and Defeat: The 43 Worst Moments in the Writing Life and How to Get Over Them – Jennie Nash
• The Covenants – Jaye L. Morgan
• Pachinko – Min Jin Lee
• The Rise of Magicks – Nora Roberts
• Girl, Woman, Other – Bernadine Evaristo
• Mrs. Everything – Jennifer Weiner
• The Girl with the Hazel Eyes – Callie Browning
• Where the Forest Meets the Stars – Glendy Vanderah
• The Deep – Rivers Solomon
• Inside the Texas Chicken Ranch: The Definitive Account of the Best Little Whorehouse – Jayme Lynn Blaschke
• Trail of Broken Wings – Sejal Badani

2018 Book List

• The Island – Victoria Hislop
• Women Within – Anne Leigh Parrish
• Children of Blood and Bone – Tomi Adeyemi
• The Obelisk Gate – NK Jemisin
• The Stone Sky – NK Jemisin
• The Book of Harlan – Bernice L. McFadden
• Snowdrifts – Kathi Nidd
• All the Birds in the Sky – Charlie Jane Anders
• A Secret History of Witches – Louisa Morgan
• The Hate U Give – Angie Thomas
• The Supremes at Earl’s All-You-Can-Eat – Edward Kelsey Moore
• The Shimmering Road – Hester Young
• Everything Here Is Beautiful – Mira T. Lee
• An American Marriage – Tayari Jones
• All the Ugly and Wonderful Things – Bryn Greenwood
• Voodoo Dreams: A Novel of Marie Laveau – Jewell Parker Rhodes
• The Girl Before – Rena Olsen
• Black Girls Must Die Exhausted – Jayne Allen
• Year One – Nora Roberts
• Of Blood and Bone – Nora Roberts

2017 Book List

(from May 2017). 

• Eve – The Awakening – Jenna Moreci
• The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian – Sherman Alexie
• Secondborn – Amy Bartol
• Lazaretto – Diane McKinney-Whetstone
• Homegoing – Yaa Gyasi
• Halsey Street – Naima Coster
• I’ll Give you the Sun – Jandy Nelson
• The Wide Circumference of Love – Marita Golden
• Silent Child – Sarah A. Denzil
• Everything We Keep – Kerry Lonsdale
• Black Privilege -Opportunity Comes to Those Who Create It – Charlamagne Tha God
• Gwendy’s Button Box – Stephen King and Richard Chizmar
• Version Control – Dexter Palmer
• Charcoal Joe – Walter Mosley
• Alice Walker, A Life – Evelyn C. White
• Blanche on the Lam – Barbara Neely
• Allegedly – Tiffany D. Jackson
• Homegoing – Yaa Gyasi
• Everything I Never Told You – Celeste Ng
• The Wiregrass – Pam Webber
• The Awakening – Kate Chopin
• Silent Child – Sarah A Denzil
• American Gods – Neil Gaiman
• The Ocean at the End of the Lane – Neil Gaiman
• Provenance, a Novel – Donna Drew Sawyer
• Stand Your Ground – Victoria Christopher Murray
• The God of Small Things – Arundhati Roy
• Broken Angels – Gemma Liviero
•  I’m Judging You – Luvvie Ajayi