Akhila Balakrishnan's Bookshelves

The Little Prince
by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry and Richard Howard

Sirens & Muses
by Antonia Angress

Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
by Benjamin Alire Sáenz

Recursion
by Blake Crouch

Lessons in Chemistry
by Bonnie Garmus

The Singing Trees
by Boo Walker

The Late Americans
by Brandon Taylor

Queenie
by Candice Carty-Williams

Our Missing Hearts
by Celeste Ng

The Immortalists
by Chloe Benjamin

The Memory of Animals
by Claire Fuller

It Ends with Us
by Colleen Hoover

Flowers for Algernon
by Daniel Keyes

Every Day
by David Levithan

Where the Crawdads Sing
by Delia Owens

Duty of Care
by Dominic Pimenta

The Goldfinch
by Donna Tart

Family of Liars
by E. Lockhart

The Island of Missing Trees
by Elif Shafak

Olive, Again
by Elizabeth Strout

Book Lovers
by Emily Henry

Tweet Cute
by Emma Lord

Ace of Spades
by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé

Dune
by Frank Herbert

A Man Called Ove
by Fredrik Backman

Anxious People
by Fredrik Backman and Neil Smith

The Housemaid
by Freida McFadden

Memories of my Melancholy Whores
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Adelaide
by Genevieve Wheeler

Animal Farm
by George Orwell

Dark Places
by Gillian Flynn

Sharp Objects
by Gillian Flynn

Where the Forest Meets the Stars
by Glendy Vanderah

The Time Machine
by H. G. Wells

A Little Life
by Hanya Yanagihara

To Kill a Mockingbird
by Harper Lee

Birthday Stories
by Haruki Murakami and David Foster Wallace and Paul Theroux and Claire Keegan and Lewis Robinson and L

Siddhartha
by Hermann Hesse and Hilda Rosner

Trust
by Hernan Diaz

A Good Girl's Guide to Murder
by Holly Jackson

Stay True
by Hua Hsu

The Cipher
by Isabella Maldonado

American Dirt
by Jeanine Cummins

I'm Glad My Mom Died
by Jennette McCurdy

Dept. of Speculation
by Jenny Offill

Wish You Were Here
by Jodi Picoult

Mad Honey
by Jodi Picoult and Jennifer Finney Boylan

The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
by John Boyne

Bad Blood
by John Carreyrou

An Abundance of Katherines
by John Green

Will Grayson Will Grayson
by John Green and David Levithan

Hiroshima
by John Hersey

One of Us Is Lying
by Karen M. McManus

One of Us Is Next
by Karen M. McManus

The Devotion of Suspect X
by Keigo Higashino and Alexander O. Smith

The Nightingale
by Kristin Hannah

Ninth House
by Leigh Bardugo

The Guest List
by Lucy Foley

Things We Never Got Over
by Lucy Score

A Wrinkle in Time
by Madeleine L'Engle

The End of the Ocean
by Maja Lunde and Diane Oatley

Gone With the Wind
by Margaret Mitchell

The Stationery Shop
by Marjan Kamali

Everything is F*cked
by Mark Manson

The Book Thief
by Markus Zusak

The Midnight Library
by Matt Haig

Grief is the thing with feathers
by Max Porter

Shy
by Max Porter

You Only Live Once
by Maxine Morrey

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
by Maya Angelou

A Burning
by Megha Majumdar

The Unbearable Lightness of Being
by Milan Kundera and Michael Henry Heim

Pachinko
by Min Jin Lee

The Power
by Naomi Alderman

The Scarlet Letter
by Nathaniel Hawthorne and Thomas E. Connolly and Nina Baym

Dating Dr. Dil
by Nisha Sharma

On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
by Ocean Vuong

The Employees
by Olga Ravn and Martin Aitken

The Picture of Dorian Gray
by Oscar Wilde and Jeffrey Eugenides

When Breath Becomes Air
by Paul Kalanithi and Abraham Verghese

The Girl On The Train
by Paula Hawkins

The Alchemy of Secrets
by Priya Balasubramanian

Wonder
by R.J. Palacio

Dear Life
by Rachel Clarke

The Thursday Murder Club
by Richard Osman

The Turn of the Key
by Ruth Ware

The Woman in Cabin 10
by Ruth Ware

The Outsiders
by S.E. Hinton

Beautiful World, Where Are You
by Sally Rooney

Dear Love
by Sarah Bahbah

Still Life
by Sarah Winman

Convenience Store Woman
by Sayaka Murata and Ginny Tapley Takemori

Small Moods
by Shane Kowalski

The Friend
by Sigrid Nunez

The Laughter
by Sonora Jha

The Bell Jar
by Sylvia Plath

The Water Dancer
by Ta-Nehisi Coates

Lord of the Flies
by William Golding

In Order to Live
by Yeonmi Park and Maryanne Vollers

Sapiens
by Yuval Noah Harari

Where Waters Meet
by Zhang Ling