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350 pages or less

Crescent
Diana Abu-Jaber
Call Me By Your Name
André Aciman
Purple Hibiscus
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Homeland Elegies
Ayad Akhtar
Leave the World Behind
Rumaan Alam
The Hospital: Life, Death, and Dollars in a Small American Town
Brian Alexander
The New Jim Crow : Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
Michelle Alexander
A Long Petal of the Sea
Isabel Allende
Afterlife
Julia Alvarez
The Cemetery of Untold Stories
Julia Alvarez
How the García Girls Lost Their Accents
Julia Alvarez
From Hardship to Hope: Crossing the Great Divides of Age, Race, Wealth, Equity, and Health
Judith Gwinn Adrian and Jaylin M. Stueber
The Personal Librarian
Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray
Carry the One
Carol Anshaw
Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth
Reza Aslan
Behind the Scenes at the Museum
Kate Atkinson
Case Histories
Kate Atkinson
The Handmaid's Tale
Margaret Atwood
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen
Honey and Spice
Bolu Babalola
Anxious People
Fredrik Backman
A Man Called Ove
Fredrik Backman
The Elegance of the Hedgehog
Muriel Barbery
The Sense of an Ending
Julian Barnes
Driving Miss Norma: One Family's Journey Saying "Yes" to Living
Tim Bauerschmidt and Ramie Liddle
The Sellout
Paul Beatty
The Immortalists
Chloe Benjamin
The Vanishing Half
Brit Bennett
The Postmistress
Sarah Blake
Away
Amy Bloom
The Poison Squad: One Chemist's Single-minded Crusade for Food Safety at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
Deborah Blum
Blue Lake
Jeffrey D. Boldt
I’m Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness
Austin Channing Brown
The Weird Sisters
Eleanor Brown
The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid
Bill Bryson
A Walk in the Woods
Bill Bryson
We Need New Names
NoViolet Bulawayo
Little Faith
Nickolas Butler
Parable of the Sower
Octavia E. Butler
Shotgun Lovesongs
Nickolas Butler
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
Susan Cain
Farm City: the Education of an Urban Farmer
Novella Carpenter
32 Candles
Ernessa T. Carter
My Antonia
Willa Cather
Learning to Stay
Erin Celello
The School for Good Mothers
Jessamine Chan
Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant?
Roz Chast
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Stephen Chbosky
The Man Who Was Thursday
G.K. Chesterton
Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982
Cho Nam-Joo
Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother
Amy Chua
The Person You Mean to Be
Dolly Chugh
Shoulder Season
Christina Clancy
The Girls
Emma Cline
Between the World and Me
Ta-Nehisi Coates
Educating Esme
Esme Codell
Blacktop Wasteland
S.A. Cosby
Dominicana
Angie Cruz
The Nest
Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney
You Had Me at Hola
Alexis Daria
The Last Thing He Told Me
Laura Dave
The Inheritance of Loss
Kiran Desai
White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism
Robin DiAngelo
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Junot Diaz
Mink River
Brian Doyle
Untamed
Glennon Doyle
Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America
Firoozeh Dumas
My Family and Other Animals
Gerald Durrell
The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl
Timothy Egan
You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty
Akwaeke Emezi
The Garden of Evening Mists
Tan Twan Eng
Infinite Country
Patricia Engel
I Feel Bad About My Neck: And Other Thoughts on Being a Woman
Nora Ephron
The Round House
Louise Erdrich
The Office of Historical Corrections: A Novella and Stories
Danielle Evans
James
Percival Everett
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down
Anne Fadiman
Woman of Light
Kali Fajardo-Anstine
Lucy
Ellen Feldman
My Brilliant Friend
Elena Ferrante
Bossypants
Tina Fey
The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit
Michael Finkel
The Turner House
Angela Flournoy
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet
Jamie Ford
Every Summer After
Carley Fortune
Send for Me
Lauren Fox
The Ocean at the End of the Lane
Neil Gaiman
Bad Axe County
John Galligan
Like a Mother: A Feminist Journey Through the Science and Culture of Pregnancy
Angela Garbes
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
Atul Gawande
Still Alice
Lisa Genova
Maame
Jessica George
The Hungry Tide
Amitav Ghosh
All We Ever Wanted
Emily Giffin
Vintage
Susan Gloss
Strangers No Longer: Latino Belonging and Faith in Twentieth-century Wisconsin
Sergio M. González
A Reliable Wife
Robert Goolrick
Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World
Henry Grabar
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
David Grann
Libertie
Kaitlyn Greenidge
Less
Andrew Sean Greer
Matrix
Lauren Groff
Ape House
Sara Gruen
Water for Elephants
Sara Gruen
The Wedding Date
Jasmine Guillory
The Rabbit Hutch
Tess Gunty
Homegoing
Yaa Gyasi
Transcendent Kingdom
Yaa Gyasi
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
Mark Haddon
The Midnight Library
Matt Haig
I Could Live Here Forever
Hanna Halperin
Blood, Bones and Butter: the Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef
Gabrielle Hamilton
The Maltese Falcon
Dashiell Hammett
The Beauty in Breaking: A Memoir
Michele Harper
The Memo: What Women of Color Need to Know to Secure a Seat at the Table
Minda Harts
Plainsong
Kent Haruf
The Girl on the Train
Paula Hawkins
Early Morning Riser
Katherine Heiny
The Great Divide
Cristina Henríquez
Clark and Division
Naomi Hirahara
The Removed
Brandon Hobson
Calling for a Blanket Dance
Oscar Hokeah
All the Things You Are
Declan Hughes
Klara and the Sun
Kazuo Ishiguro
Pineapple Street
Jenny Jackson
Lab Girl
Hope Jahren
Death Comes to Pemberley
P. D. James
Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows
Balli Kaur Jaswal
What Happened to Ruthy Ramirez
Claire Jiménez
All Boys Aren’t Blue: A Memoir-Manifesto
George M. Johnson
An American Marriage
Tayari Jones
That Librarian: The Fight Against Book Banning in America
Amanda Jones
The Uninvited Guests
Sadie Jones
When Breath Becomes Air
Paul Kalanithi
The Problem of Alzheimer's: How Science, Culture, and Politics Turned a Rare Disease into a Crisis and What We Can Do About It
Jason Karlawish
How to Be an Antiracist
Ibram X. Kendi
Darius the Great is Not Okay
Adib Khorram
The Secret Life of Bees
Sue Monk Kidd
The Strength in What Remains
Tracy Kidder
Euphoria
Lily King
The Bean Trees
Barbara Kingsolver
The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts
Maxine Hong Kingston
Orphan Train
Christina Baker Kline
The Leavers
Lisa Ko
Gender Queer: A Memoir
Maia Kobabe
Where They Bury You
Steven W. Kohlhagen
Ordinary Grace
William Kent Krueger
The Lowland
Jhumpa Lahiri
Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive
Stephanie Land
Welcome to the Great Mysterious
Lorna Landvik
We Are the Brennans
Tracey Lange
Isaac's Storm
Erik Larson
Let's Pretend This Never Happened : (A Mostly True Memoir)
Jenny Lawson
Agent Running in the Field
John Le Carré
Go Set a Watchman
Harper Lee
Small Mercies
Dennis Lehane
Luster
Raven Leilani
The Soloist
Steve Lopez
Prophet Song
Paul Lynch
H Is for Hawk
Helen Macdonald
A Burning
Megha Majumdar
The Glass Hotel
Emily St. John Mandel
Sea of Tranquility
Emily St. John Mandel
Life of Pi
Yann Martel
Crossing Over: a Mexican Family on the Migrant Trail
Ruben Martinez
All This Could Be Different
Sarah Thankam Mathews
Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times
Katherine May
Diary of a Young Naturalist
Dara McAnulty
The Color of Water
James McBride
The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency
Alexander McCall Smith
The Tears of the Giraffe
Alexander McCall Smith
Let the Great World Spin
Colum McCann
I’m Glad My Mom Died
Jennette McCurdy
The Paris Wife
Paula McLain
How Minds Change: The Surprising Science of Belief, Opinion, and Persuasion
David McRaney
Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President
Candice Millard
A Gate at the Stairs
Lorrie Moore
Mexican Gothic
Silvia Moreno-Garcia
A Mercy
Toni Morrison
Hell of a Book
Jason Mott
Norwegian Wood
Haruki Murakami
Dewey: the Small Town Library Cat
Vicki Myron
Dear Edward
Ann Napolitano
Enrique's Journey
Sonia Nazario
Neither Wolf Nor Dog: On Forgotten Roads With an Indian Elder
Kent Nerburn
Sandwich
Catherine Newman
World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments
Aimee Nezhukumatathil
Little Fires Everywhere
Celeste Ng
Our Missing Hearts
Celeste Ng
Under the Sky We Make: How to Be Human in a Warming World
Kimberly Nicholas, PhD
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood
Trevor Noah
Love, InshAllah: The Secret Love Lives of American Muslim Women
Ayesha Mattu and Nura Maznavi
The Light We Carry
Michelle Obama
So You Want to Talk About Race
Ijeoma Oluo
There There
Tommy Orange
Wandering Stars
Tommy Orange
The Library Book
Susan Orlean
1984
George Orwell
I Know What You Did
Cayce Osborne
The Thursday Murder Club
Richard Osman
Hamnet
Maggie O’Farrell
The Marriage Portrait
Maggie O’Farrell
Commonwealth
Ann Patchett
The Dutch House
Ann Patchett
Run
Ann Patchett
Tom Lake
Ann Patchett
Northwoods
Amy Pease
Still Life
Louise Penny
Mrs. Fletcher
Tom Perrotta
Population 485: Meeting Your Neighbors One Siren at a Time
Michael Perry
Truck: A Love Story
Michael Perry
The Berry Pickers
Amanda Peters
Detransition, Baby
Torrey Peters
Fire Road: The Napalm Girl's Journey Through the Horrors of War to Faith, Forgiveness, and Peace
Kim Phúc
The Virgin of Small Plains
Nancy Pickard
Women Rowing North: Navigating Life’s Currents and Flourishing as We Age
Mary Bray Pipher
A Council of Dolls
Mona Susan Power
Dead Man Walking
Helen Prejean
The Secrets We Kept
Lara Prescott
We Are Not Like Them
Christine Pride and Jo Piazza
The Maid
Nita Prose
Blessings
Anna Quindlen
Every Last One
Anna Quindlen
Yellowface
Kuang R. F.
Killers of a Certain Age
Deanna Raybourn
Radioactive: Marie & Pierre Curie: a Tale of Love and Fallout
Lauren Redniss
Tender at the Bone: Growing Up at the Table
Ruth Reichl
Such a Fun Age
Kiley Reid
Graceland, At Last: Notes on Hope and Heartache from the American South
Margaret Renkl
The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek
Kim Michele Richardson
Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal
Mary Roach
Fruit of the Drunken Tree
Ingrid Rojas Contreras
Normal People
Sally Rooney
The Guncle
Steven Rowley
The Happiness Project: or, the Way I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right...
Gretchen Rubin
We are Staying: Eighty Years in the Life of a Family, a Store, and a Neighborhood
Jen Rubin
Swamplandia!
Karen Russell
That Old Cape Magic
Richard Russo
West with Giraffes
Lynda Rutledge
Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor
Layla F. Saad
The Cherry Harvest
Lucy Sanna
Persepolis
Marjane Satrapi
Lincoln in the Bardo
George Saunders
An Invisible Thread: The True Story of an 11-Year Old Panhandler, a Busy Sales Executive, and an Unlikely Meeting With Destiny
Laura Schroff
Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim
David Sedaris
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
Lisa See
The Bookseller of Kabul
Asne Seierstad
Where'd You Go Bernadette?
Maria Semple
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
Mary Ann and Annie Barrows Shaffer
Challenger Deep
Neal Shusterman
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
Dal Sijie
Settlin': Stories of Madison's Early African American Families
Muriel Simms
The Rosie Project
Graeame Simsion
Romantic Comedy
Curtis Sittenfeld
The Violin Conspiracy
Brendan Slocumb
How the Word is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America
Clint Smith
Maus: A Survivor's Tale
Art Spiegelman
The Chai House
Priti Srivastava
Station Eleven
Emily St. John Mandel
The Light Between Oceans
M. L. Stedman
The Turk and My Mother
Mary Helen Stefaniak
Crossing to Safety
Wallace Stegner
The Art of Racing in the Rain
Garth Stein
Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption
Bryan Stevenson
Saturday Night at the Lakeside Supper Club
J. Ryan Stradal
This Time Tomorrow
Emma Straub
The Vacationers
Emma Straub
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
Cheryl Strayed
Brothers on Three: A True Story of Family, Resistance, and Hope on a Reservation in Montana
Abe Streep
The Burgess Boys
Elizabeth Strout
My Name Is Lucy Barton
Elizabeth Strout
Olive Kitteridge
Elizabeth Strout
Olive, Again
Elizabeth Strout
Three Women
Lisa Taddeo
Sitting Pretty: The View from My Ordinary Resilient Disabled Body
Rebekah Taussig
Real Life
Brandon Taylor
Come Home, Indio
Jim Terry
The Age of Miracles
Karen Thompson Walker
Brooklyn
Colm Toibin
The Hobbit
J. R. R. Tolkien
Blackouts
Justin Torres
Everything You Wanted to Know About Indians but Were Afraid to Ask
Anton Treuer
Black Man in a White Coat: A Doctor's Reflections on Race and Medicine
Damon Tweedy
Clock Dance
Anne Tyler
Digging to America
Anne Tyler
The Dressmaker of Khair Khana
Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
How to Make a Life: A Tibetan Refugee Family and the Midwestern Woman They Adopted
Madeline Uraneck
The House of Broken Angels
Luis Alberto Urrea
The Boy in the Shadows
Carl-Johan Vallgren
Hillbilly Elegy
J. D. Vance
Decolonizing Wealth
Edgar Villanueva
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
Ocean Vuong
The Glass Castle: A Memoir
Jeannette Walls
Half Broke Horses: A True-Life Novel
Jeannette Walls
Hang the Moon
Jeannette Walls
The Silver Star
Jeannette Walls
Chemistry
Weike Wang
Let Us Descend
Jesmyn Ward
Sing, Unburied, Sing
Jesmyn Ward
Memorial
Bryan Washington
Winter Counts
David Heska Wanbli Weiden
The World Without Us
Alan Weisman
Educated: A Memoir
Tara Westover
Harlem Shuffle
Colson Whitehead
The Nickel Boys
Colson Whitehead
The Underground Railroad
Colson Whitehead
Bread and Butter
Michelle Wildgen
Seven Days in June
Tia Williams
The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary
Simon Winchester
Before We Were Yours
Lisa Wingate
The White Lady
Jacqueline Winspear
Red at the Bone
Jacqueline Woodson
I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban
Malala Yousafzai
For Keeps: Women Tell the Truth About Their Bodies, Growing Older, and Acceptance
Victoria Zackheim
Crying in H Mart: A Memoir
Michelle Zauner