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Italicized books are in progress; bolded books represent the best of the year.
🎧 denotes audiobooks
🔮 denotes Advance Reader Copies


(1) Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin 🎧
(2) Mickey7 by Edward Ashton
(3) The World According to Cunk by Philomena Cunk
(4) Dive by John David Anderson 🔮
(5) Pure Innocent Fun by Ira Madison III 🔮
(6) Cocktails with George and Martha: Movies, Marriage, and the Making of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Philip Gefter
(7) Margo’s Got Money Troubles by Rufi Thorpe
(8) Cole and Laila are Just Friends by Bethany Turner
(9) Party of One: Be Your Own Best Life Partner by Meghan Keane
(10) Rani Choudhury Must Die by Adiba Jaigirdar
(11) The Broposal by Sonora Reyes 🔮
(12) Fences by August Wilson
(13) My Government Means to Kill Me by Rasheed Newson
(14) The Other March Sisters by Linda Epstein, Ally Malinenko, and Liz Parker 🔮
(15) There’s Nothing Wrong With Her by Kate Weinberg 🎧
(16) They Both Die at the End by Adam Silvera
(17) Harriet Tubman: Live in Concert by Bob the Drag Queen 🔮
(18) Overthinking About You by Allison Raskin
(19) The First to Die at the End by Adam Silvera 🎧
(20) On Earth As It Is on Television by Emily James
(21) In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado
(22) Save the Date by Allison Raskin 🔮
(23) Typhoid Mary: An Urban Historical by Anthony Bourdain
(24) I Want to Burn This Place Down: Essays by Maris Kreizman 🔮
(25) Let Them Stare by Jonathan van Ness and Julie Murphy 🔮
(26) Your Pasta Sucks by Matteo Lane
(27) Tipping the Velvet by Sarah Waters
(28) Love at Full Tilt by Jenny Howe 🔮
(29) Strangers by Taichi Yamada
(30) Patricia Wants to Cuddle by Samantha Allen
(31) A Journey for the Ages by Matthew Henson
(32) So Many Beginnings by Bethany C. Morrow 🎧
(33) Sunny Song Will Never Be Famous by Suzanne Park
(34) Romantic Comedy by Curtis Sittenfeld 🎧
(35) Parable of the Talents by Octavia Butler
(36) The Survivor Wants to Die at the End by Adam Silvera
(37) Skin and Bones by Renee Watson
(38) Eligible by Curtis Sittenfeld 🎧
(39) Flirting Lessons by Jasmine Guillory
(40) Sunny Disposition by Deanna Grey 🎧
(41) I Might Be in Trouble by Daniel Aleman
(42) The Wild Robot Protects by Peter Brown
(43) Dan in Green Gables by Rey Terciero
(44) The Book Censor’s Library by Buthaina Al Eissa 🎧
(45) Shoot Your Shot by Lexi LaFleur Brown
(46) The Friendship Study by Ruby Barrett
(47) Iris Kelly Doesn’t Date by Ashley Herring Blake
(48) Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi 🎧
(49) Audition by Katie Kitamura
(50) Audre and Bash are Just Friends by Tia Williams
(51) The Genius of Judy: How Judy Blume Rewrote Childhood for All of Us by Rachelle Bergstein
(52) Iggie’s House by Judy Blume
(53) James by Percival Everett
(54) Our Missing Hearts by Celeste Ng 🎧
(55) Rules for Fake Girlfriends by Raegan Revord
(56) Team Players by Deanna Grey
(57) The Color of a Lie by Kim Johnson
(58) My Life with the Walter Boys by Ali Novak
(59) My Return to the Walter Boys by Ali Novak
(60) All Systems Red by Martha Wells
(61) The Other Olympians by Michael Walters
(62) Wake Up Nat and Darcy by Kate Cochrane
(63) The Man of Many Fathers by Roy Wood Jr. 🔮
(64) Ordinary People by Judith Guest
(65) Try Your Worst by Chatham Greenfield
(66) Love, Theoretically by Ali Hazelwood 🎧
(67) Seven Days in July by Tia Williams
(68) Darius the Great is Not Okay by Adib Khorram
(69) Darius the Great Deserves Better by Adib Khorram
(70) The Donut Daddy Cookbook by Anthony Randello-Jahn 🔮
(71) Death of the Author by Nnedi Okorafor
(72) This is Not a Book About Benedict Cumberbatch by Tabitha Carvan
(73) The History of Sound: Stories by Ben Shattuck
(74) Strong Female Character by Fern Brady
(75) Prescription for Murder by Jessica Fletcher (and Donald Bain)
(76) The Long Secret by Louise Fitzhugh