This is the time of year I make book lists for the groups I lead in Montreal-area libraries. Here are the ones which made the cut for 2019-2020, in no particular order.
This is not to say there aren't a wonder of other books out there--the library groups are constrained by what's available in number--but I think there's some excellent reading here.
Milkman by Anna Burns
The story hour by Thrity Umrigar
The underground railroad by Colson Whitehead
The only story by Julian Barnes
Nine perfect strangers by Liane Moriarty
Watching you by Lisa Jewel
Where the crawdad sings by Delia Owens
The golden house by Salmon Rushdie
Before we were yours /by Lisa Wingate
The story hour by Thrity Umrigar
The underground railroad by Colson Whitehead
The only story by Julian Barnes
Nine perfect strangers by Liane Moriarty
Watching you by Lisa Jewel
Where the crawdad sings by Delia Owens
The golden house by Salmon Rushdie
Before we were yours /by Lisa Wingate
Eleanor Oliphant is Completely fine by Gail Honeyman
Women Talking by Miriam Toews
Exit West by Mohsin Hamid
The Human
Stain by Philip Roth
The Female Persuasion by Meg Wolitzer
Vinegar girl : The Taming of the Shrew retold by Anne Tyler
A Gentleman
in Moscow by Amor Towles
The Perfect Nanny by Leila Slimani
The
Burning Girl by Claire Messud
Brother by David Chariandy
Farewell to
Arms by Ernest Hemingway
Warlight by
Michael Ondaatje
Small
Country by Gaêl Faye
Before We
Were Yours by Lisa Wingate
Songs for
the Cold of Heart by Éric Dupont (Peter McCambridge, translator)
The Break
by Katerena Vermette
American
War by Omar El Akkad
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