2017 Recommended Reading List from Publishers

Penguin Random House (Suggested by Steve Atinsky and Wade Lucas)

• The Nix: A Novel by Nathan Hill
• Eligible: A Modern Retelling of Pride and Prejudice by Curtis Sittenfeld
• Lab Girlby Hope Jahren
• The Book of Aron by Jim Shepard
• Homegoing: A Novel by Yaa Gyasi

Macmillan (Suggested by Talia Sherer)

• Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America by Michael Eric Dyson
• A Hope More Powerful Than the Sea: One Refugee’s Incredible Story of Love, Loss, and Survival by Melissa Fleming
• My Life, My Love, My Legacy by Coretta Scott King

Simon & Schuster (Suggested by Kelly Stidham)

• All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
• Please Enjoy Your Happiness: A Memoir by Paul Brinkley-Rogers
• The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness by Sy Montgomery
• The Japanese Lover: A Novel by Isabel Allende

Penguin Random House (Suggested by Tom Benton & Amy Comito)

• Fates and Furies: A Novel by Lauren Groff
• Harmony: A Novel by Carolyn Parkhurst
• The Association of Small Bombs: A Novel by Karan Mahajan
• The Portable Veblen by Elizabeth McKenzie
• Daredevils: A Novel by Shawn Vestal
• The Garden of Small Beginnings by Abbi Waxman
• Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life by William Finnegan
• Dog Medicine: How My Dog Saved Me from Myself by Julie Barton
• Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World by Adam Grant
• The Mothers: A Novel by Brit Bennett

Bonus Book: Adventures by the Book (Suggested by Susan McBeth)

• The Someday Birds by Sally J. Pla

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