- In the Distance, Hernán Díaz
- The Brothers Karamazov, Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Her Body and Other Parties, Carmen Maria Machado
- Know My Name, Chanel Miller
- Cloud Cuckoo Land, Anthony Doerr
- The Stranger, Albert Camus
- Dream Work, Mary Oliver
- The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini
- 1984, George Orwell
- A Thousand Splendid Suns, Khaled Hosseini
- When Breath Becomes Air, Paul Kalanithi
- The Glass Castle, Jeannette Walls
- To the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf
- Project Hail Mary, Andy Weir
- Why Fish Don’t Exist, Lulu Miller
- The Gangster We Are All Looking For, lê thị diễm thúy
- Pachinko, Min Jin Lee
- Go Tell It on the Mountain, James Baldwin
- How to Pronounce Knife, Souvankham Thammavongsa
- Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut