Society Books

All the Light We Cannot See (2017)
Anthony Doerr

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay (2000)
by Michael Chabon

American Pastoral (1997)
by Phillip Roth

The Art of Fielding: A Novel (2011)
by Chad Harbach

The Assistant (1957)
by Bernard Malamud

Born A Crime (2016)
by Trevor Noah

The Boy Detective Fails (2006)
by Joe Meno

The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin  Olympics (2013)
by Daniel James Brown

Charlie Wilson's War (2003)
by George Crile

A Conspiracy of Paper (2000)
by David Liss

County: Life, Death, and Politics at Chicago's Public Hospital (2010)
by David Ansell

Cutting for Stone (2009)
by Abraham Verghese

Darkness at Noon (1941)
by Arthur Koestler

The Da Vinci Code (2003)
by Dan Brown

The Dean’s December (1982)
by Saul Bellow

The Defender: How the Legendary Black Newspaper Changed America (2016)
by Ethan Michaeli

Doc (2011)
by Mary Doria Russell

The Elegance of the Hedgehog (2006)
by Muriel Barbery

Empire Falls (2001)
by Richard Russo

Everything is Illuminated (2002)
by Jonathan Safran Foer

Every Man Dies Alone (1947)
by Hans Fallada

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1971)
by Hunter S. Thompson

The Finkler Question (2010)
by Howard Jacobson

Fortress of Solitude (2003)
by Jonathan Lethem

Full Swing: Hits, Runs and Errors in a Writer's Life (2006)
by Ira Berkow

The Gospel According to Jesus Christ (1991)
by Jose Saramago

The Hamilton Affair (2016)
by Elizabeth Cobbs

A Handful of Dust (1977)
by Evelyn Waughn

Herzog (1964)
by Saul Bellow

The Human Stain (2000)
by Philip Roth

In Cold Blood (1965)
by Truman Capote

In the Lake of the Woods (1994)
by Tim O’Brien

In the Sanctuary of Outcasts: A Memoir (2009)
by Neil White

Invisible Man (1947)
by Ralph Ellison

Let the Great World Spin (2009)
by Colum McCann

The Light Between Oceans (2012)
by ML Stedman

The Living & the Dead: Robert McNamara and Five Lives of a Lost War (1996)
by Paul Hendrickson

Lolita (1955)
by Vladimir Nabokov

Lucky Medicine: A Memoir of Success beyond Segregation (2023)

by Lester W. Thompson

The Man With the Golden Arm (1949)
by Nelson Algren

The Moor’s Last Sigh (1995)
by Salman Rushdie

Motherless Brooklyn (1999)
by Jonathan Lethem

Not Me (2005)
by Michael Lavigne

News of the World (2016)
by Paulette Jiles

The Outfit: The Role of Chicago's Underworld in the Shaping of Modern America (2001)
by Gus Russo

Planes (2022)
by Peter C. Baker

Playing the Moldovans at Tennis (2001)
by Tony Hawks

The Plot Against America (2004)
by Philip Roth

The Promise (2021)

by Damon Galgut

The Red Fox (1982)

by Anthony Hyde

Sabbath's Theater (1995)
by Philip Roth

Slaughterhouse Five (1969)
by Kurt Vonnegut

The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz (2020)
by Erik Larson

Stormy Weather (1995)
by Carl Hiaasen

The Sympathizer (2015)
by Viet Thanh Nguyen

The Things They Carried (1990)
by Tim O’Brien

The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration (2010)
by Isabel Wilkerson

Water Music (1980)
by T.C. Boyle

When Nietzsche Wept (1992)
by Irvin D. Yalom

White Noise (1984)
by Don DeLillo

Wise Blood (1952)

by Flannery O'Connor

The Yiddish Policemen's Union (2007)
by Michael Chabon