John's Books 2017

1. Another Brooklyn
by Jacqueline Woodson

2.  Going After Cacciato
by Tim O'Brien

3.  East of Eden
by John Steinbeck

4.  Heirlooms
by Rachel Hall

5.  Can't Stop Won't Stop
by Jeff Chang

6.  The Letter Writer
by Dan Fesperman

7.  The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
by Junot Diaz

8.  So Far From God
by Ana Castillo

9.  Bellevue
by David Oshinsky

10.  Night Sky With Exit Wounds
by Ocean Vuong

11.  Girl Code
by Andrea Gonzalez and Sophie Houser

12.  Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko

13.  The Gargoyle Hunters
by John Freeman Gill

14.  Letters to a Young Writer
by Colum McCann

15.  Fog and Car
by Eugene Lim

16.  Dear Cyborgs
by Eugene Lim

17.  Home
by Marilynne Robinson

18. Lila
by Marilynne Robinson

19.  Gowanus:  Brooklyn's Curious Canal
by Joseph Alexia

20.  Fatale
by Jean-Patrick Machete

21.  Giovanni's Room
by James Baldwin

22.  Thrall
by Natasha Trethaway

23.  Interpreter of Maladies
by Jhumpa Lahiri

24.  Book of My Nights
by Li-Young Lee

25.  White-Trash:  The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America
by Nancy Isenberg

26. The Inheritance of Loss
by Kiran Desai

27.  Leaving Saturn
by Major Jackson

28.  Otis Redding, An Incomplete Life
by Jonathan Gould

29.  New York 2140
by Kim Stanley Robinson

30.  The Lobster Coast
by Colin Woddard

31.  The Green Road
by Anne Enright

32.  Behind My Eyes
by Li-Young Lee

33.  A Fine Balance
by Rohinton Mistry

34.  Dragonfish
by Vu Tran

35.  Lock and Load
ed by Deirdra McAfee and BettyJoyce Nash

36.  The Refugees
by Viet Thanh Nguyen

37.  February House
by Sherrell Tippins

38.  The Bread of Time
by Philip Levine

39.  Leaving Saturn
by Major Jackson

40.  Shame
by Salman Rushdie

41.  Bummy Davis vs Murder Inc.
by Ron Ross

42.  Heart of Darkness
by Joseph Conrad

43.  Caramelo
by Sandra Cisneros

44.  Manhattan Beach
by Jennifer Egan

45.  Tenements, Towers and Trash
by Julia Wertz