As chosen by our authors and contributors…

Kim Adrian: The Outline Trilogy by Rachel Cusk

E.B. Bartels: Men We Reaped by Jesmyn Ward

Adam Colman: A Manual for Cleaning Women by Lucia Berlin

Lauren Fournier: South and West by Joan Didion

Matthew Gallaway: The Neapolitan Novels by Elena Ferrante (trans. Ann Goldstein)

Jaime Rochelle Herndon: The Chronology of Water by Lidia Yuknavitch

Brian Hurley: Sudden Death by Álvaro Enrigue (trans. Natasha Wimmer)

Alden Jones: In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado

Michael Moats: Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Piketty (trans. Arthur Goldhammer)

Tochi Onyebuchi: A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James

Stephanie Reents: Nothing to See Here by Kevin Wilson

Jessica Sequeira: El absoluto by Daniel Guebel

J. M. Tyree: Just Kids by Patti Smith