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Past Reads

The Original Lit Chicks (Prior to 2017)

  • The Beekeeper's Apprentice (Laurie R. King)
  • The Book Thief (Markus Zusak)
  • The Book of Unknown Americans (Cristina Hernandez)
  • The Buddah In the Attic (Julia Otsuka)
  • Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness (Susannah Callahan)
  • The Bungalow (Sarah Jio)
  • The Cellist of Sarajevo (Steven Galloway)
  • Cinder (Marissa Meyer)
  • A Crime in the Neighborhood (Suzanne Berne)
  • Dancing on Broken Glass (Ka Hancock)
  • Delancey: a Man, a Woman, a Restaurant, a Marriage (Molly Wizenberg)
  • The Descendants (Kaui Hart Hemmings)
  • The Devil in the White City (Erik Larson)
  • Everything, Everything (Nicola Yoon)
  • The Forgotten Garden (Kate Morton)
  • Gift From the Sea (Anne Morrow Lindbergh)
  • The Gift of Rain (Tan Twan Eng)
  • Glitter and Glue (Kelly Corrigan)
  • The Goldfinch (Donna Tartt)
  • The Handmaid's Tale (Margaret Atwood)
  • Heat and Dust (Ruth Prawer Jhabvala)
  • The Heart Goes Last (Margaret Atwood)
  • Homecoming of Samuel Lake (Jenny Wingfield)
  • A House in the Clouds (Amanda Lindhout & Sara Corbett)
  • How to be a Woman (Caitlin Moran)
  • The Hundred-Year Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared (Jonas Jonasson)
  • I Was Told There'd Be Cake (Sloane Crosley)
  • Imperfectionists (Tom Rachman)
  • The Kitchen House (Kathleen Grissom)
  • The Know-It-All (A.J. Jacobs)
  • Last Days of Summer (Steve Kluger)
  • The Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles (Julie Andrews)
  • Let's Pretend This Never Happened (Jenny Lawson)
  • The Life List (Lori Nelson Spielman)
  • The Light Between Oceans (M.L. Stedman)
  • Little Bee (Chris Cleave)
  • Loving Frank (Nancy Horan)
  • The Mighty Queens of Freeville (Emily Dickinson)
  • Mirror Mirror Off the Wall (Kjerstin Gruys)
  • Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (Ransom Rigg)
  • Moloka'i (Alan Brennert)
  • Mornings in Jenin (Susan Abulhawa)
  • Night Film (Marisha Pessl)
  • Norwegian Wood (Haruki Murakami)
  • The Only Ones (Carola Dibbell)
  • The Opposite of Me (Sarah Pekkane)
  • The Orphan Master's Son (Adam Johnson)
  • The Painter From Shanghai (Jennifer Cody Epstein)
  • Palisades Park (Alan Brennert)
  • The Paris Wife (Paula McLain)
  • The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake (Aimee Bender)
  • The Peachkeeper (Sarah Addison Allen)
  • The Phantom Tollbooth (Norton Juster)
  • The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane (Katherine Howe)
  • Plain Truth (Jodi Picoult)
  • The Postmistress (Sarah Blake)
  • The Remains of the Day (Kazuo Ishiguro)
  • Rooftops of Tehran (Mahbod Seraji)
  • The Rest of Her Life (Laura Moriarty)
  • Russian Winter: A Novel (Daphne Kalotay)
  • A Scattered Life (Karen McQuestion)
  • The Secrets of Mary Bowser (Lois Leveen)
  • Serena (Ron Rash)
  • The Shadow of the Wind (Carlos Ruis Zafon)
  • She's Come Undone (Wally Lamb)
  • The Sisters Brothers (Patrick DeWitt)
  • ​Soy Sauce for Beginners ​(Kristin Chen)
  • Station Eleven (Emily St. John Mendel)
  • Storied Life of A.J. Filkry (Gabrielle Zevin)
  • Summer at Tiffany (Marjorie Hart)
  • This is Where I Leave You (Jonathan Tropper)
  • Those Who Save Us (Jenna Blum)
  • True Grit (Charles Portis)
  • Truth and Consequences (Alison Lurie)
  • Valley of the Dolls (Jacqueline Susan)
  • The Wierd Sisters (Eleanor Brown)​
  • Year of Yes (Shonda Rhimes)

The New Lit Chicks (2015 thru 2016)

  • And the Mountain's Echoed (Kahled Hosseini)
  • ​Break in Case of Emergency (Jessica Winter)
  • Bright Lights, Big City (Jay McInerney)
  • Fates and Furies (Lauren Groff)
  • The Girl on the Train (Paula Hawkins)
  • The Housekeeper and the Professor (Yoko Ogawa)
  • How to be a Woman (Caitlin Moran)
  • In the Woods (Tana French)
  • Land of Love and Drowning (Thiphanie Yanique)
  • The Light Between Oceans (M.L. Stedman)

  • Making Faces (Amy Harmon)
  • The Nuns of Sant'Ambrogio (Hubert Wolf)
  • She Poured Out Her Heart (Jean Thompson)
  • Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers (Mary Roach)
  • Thirteen Reasons Why (Jay Asher)
  • A Train in Winter (Caroline Moorehead)​
  • The Wives of Los Alamos (TaraShae Nesbit)
  • The Woman in Cabin 10 (Ruth Wear)  

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