COJ BOOK RECS

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Flight: A Novel

Lynn Steger Strong

The Book of Goose

The Book of Goose

Yiyun Li

A Heart That Works

Rob Delaney

We All Want Impossible Things: A Novel

Catherine Newman

The Long Answer: A Novel

Anna Hogeland

The Book of Unknown Americans

Cristina Henríquez

All of This: A Memoir of Death and Desire

Rebecca Woolf

The Last White Man

Mohsin Hamid

Acne: A Memoir

Laura Chinn

Beautiful Country: A Memoir

Qian Julie Wang

Acceptance: A Memoir

Emi Nietfeld

Black Girl, Call Home

Jasmine Mans

Huda F Are You?

Huda Fahmy

Invisible Child

Andrea Elliott

Normal Family

Chrysta Bilton

I’ll Show Myself Out

Jessi Klein

In Love: A Memoir of Love and Loss

Amy Bloom

Please Don’t Sit on My Bed in Your Outside Clothes

Phoebe Robinson

Oh William!

Elizabeth Strout

What Kind of Woman

Kate Baer

Crying in H Mart

Michelle Zauner

Shit, Actually

Lindy West

Matrix

Lauren Groff

Shuggie Bain

Douglas Stuart

Somebody’s Daughter

Ashley C. Ford

Joan is Okay

Weike Wang

The Paper Palace

Miranda Cowley Heller

The Mothers

Brit Bennett

Heating & Cooling

Beth Ann Fennelly

You’ll Never Believe What Happened to Lacey

Amber Ruffin

Edie Richter Is Not Alone

Rebecca Handler

Stranger Care

Sarah Sentilles

The Boy Kings of Texas: A Memoir

Domingo Martinez

Normal People

Sally Rooney

Sorrow and Bliss

Meg Mason

Small Fry

Lisa Brennan-Jobs

Family Life by Akhil Sharma

Family Life

Akhil Sharma

Hunger

Roxane Gay

Chemistry

Weike Wang

Migrations

Charlotte McConaghy

The Catcher in the Rye

J.D. Salinger

Writers & Lovers

Lily King

Wave

Sonali Deraniyagala

Silver Sparrow

Tayari Jones

When Breath Becomes Air

Paul Kalanithi

Hamnet

Maggie O'Farrell

Know My Name

Chanel Miller

Once More We Saw Stars

Jayson Greene

Between Two Kingdoms

Suleika Jaouad

The Girl on the Train

Paula Hawkins

Blackout: Remembering the Things I Drank to Forget

Sarah Hepola

Interpreter of Maladies

Jhumpa Lahiri

All the Light We Cannot See

Anthony Doerr

My Sister, The Serial Killer

Oyinkan Braithwaite

Dept. of Speculation

Jenny Offill

Whale Day

Billy Collins

Open: An Autobiography

Andre Agassi

Gone Girl

Gillian Flynn

The Bright Hour

Nina Riggs

So Help Me Gosh

Brooke Barker

Good Talk

Mira Jacob

The Glass Castle

Jeannette Walls

You’ll Grow Out of It

Jessi Klein

Persepolis

Marjane Satrapi

Dancing at the Pity Party

Tyler Feder

Educated

Tara Westover

Why Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me

Mindy Kaling

Olive Kitteridge

Elizabeth Strout

An American Marriage

Tayari Jones

My Name Is Lucy Barton

Elizabeth Strout

Away from Her

Alice Munro

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