To continue your Literary Forensics journey, you’ll need to read. While any novel will work, here are over fifty recent novels that I’ve already curated with my Writers Who Read study group. They are organized by year published, and then alphabetically. Each novel’s title links to a presentation deck that will help direct discussion for your own study group.
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2022
- Avalon – Nell Zink (USA)
- The Candy House – Jennifer Egan (USA)
- Cold Enough for Snow – Jessica Au (Australia)
- The Passenger – Cormac McCarthy (USA)
- The School for Good Mothers – Jessamine Chan (USA)
- Sea of Tranquility – Emily St. John Mandel (USA)
- Stella Maris – Cormac McCarthy (USA)
- Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow – Gabrielle Zevin (USA)
- Trust – Hernan Diaz (USA)
- Winter Work – Dan Fesperman (USA)
2021
- Crossroads – Jonathan Franzen (USA)
- Intimacies – Katie Kitamura (USA)
- Klara and the Sun – Kazuo Ishaguro (UK)
- Matrix – Lauren Groff (USA)
- The Netanyahus – Joshua Cohen (USA)
- No One Is Talking About This – Patricia Lockwood (USA)
- The Plot – Jean Hanff Korelitz (USA)
- The Promise – Damon Galgut (S. Africa)
- When We Cease to Understand the World – Benjamin Labatut (Spain) trans. by Adrian Nathan West
2020
- Apeirogon – Colum McCann (Ireland)
- A Burning – Megha Majumdar (USA)
- Deacon King Kong – James McBride (USA)
- Hamnet – Maggie O’Farrell(UK)
- Inside Story – Martin Amis (UK)
- Interior Chinatown – Charles Yu (USA)
- The Lying Life of Adults – Elena Ferrante (Italy) trans. by Ann Goldstein
- Red Pill – Hari Kunzru (USA)
- Shuggie Bain – Douglas Stuart (USA)
- The Vanishing Half – Brit Bennett (USA)
- Weather – Jenny Offill (USA)
2019
- Agent Running in the Field – John le Carré (England)
- American Spy – Lauren Wilkinson (USA)
- Bangkok Wakes to Rain – Pitchaya Sudbanthad (USA)
- Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead – Olga Tokarczuk (Poland) trans. by Antonia Lloyd-Jones
- Fleishman is in Trouble – Taffy Brodesser-Akner (USA)
- Lady in the Lake – Laura Lippman (USA)
- Lost and Wanted – Nell Freudenberger (USA)
- The Nickel Boys – Colson Whitehead (USA)
- Olive, Again – Elizabeth Strout (USA)
- On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous – Ocean Vuong (USA)
- The Testaments – Margaret Atwood (Canada)
- Trust Exercise – Susan Choi (USA)
2018
- Asymmetry – Lisa Halliday (USA)
- The Female Persuasion – Meg Wolitzer (USA)
- The House of Broken Angels – Luis Alberto Urrea (USA)
- Kudos – Rachel Cusk (UK)
- Newcomer – Keigo Higashino (Japan) trans. by Giles Murray
- There There – Tommy Orange (USA)
- The Witch Elm – Tana French (Ireland)
2017
- Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine – Gail Honeyman (Scotland)
- Exit West – Mohsin Hamid (UK-Pakistan)
- The Hate U Give – Angie Thomas (USA)
- Less – Andrew Sean Greer (USA)
- Mrs. Fletcher – Tom Perrotta (USA)
- Origin – Dan Brown (USA)
