January
■ The Heir Apparent (David Ives; 2011. Drama.)
■ Neighbors (Jan T. Gross; 2001. Non-fiction.)
■ Our Class (Tadeusz Słobodzianek (adaptation by Ryan Craig); 2009. Drama.)
■ Scored (Lauren McLaughlin; 2011. Fiction.)
■ Ready Player One (Ernest Kline; 2011. Fiction.)
■ Arcadia (Tom Stoppard; 1993. Drama.)
■ Purge (Sofi Oksanen; 2008. Fiction.)
■ Revival, Volume 6: Thy Loyal Sons & Daughters (Tim Seeley; 2016. Graphic fiction.)
February
■ The Shawl (Cynthia Ozick; 1990. Fiction.)
■ The Book of Jonas (Stephen Dau; 2012. Fiction.)
■ The Bunker, Volume 3 (Joshua Hale Fialkov; 2015. Graphic fiction.)
■ The Squirrel Mother (Megan Kelso; 2006. Graphic fiction.)
■ The Silence of Our Friends (Mark Long; 2012. Graphic fiction.)
■ Lazarus, Volume 4: Poison (Greg Rucka; 2016. Graphic fiction.)
■ Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World (Cal Newport; 2016. Non-fiction.)
■ When Breath Becomes Air (Paul Kalanithi; 2016. Non-fiction.)
■ The Invaders (Karolina Waclawiak; 2015. Fiction.)
■ A Mother’s Reckoning: Living in the Aftermath of Tragedy (Sue Klebold; 2016. Non-fiction.)
March
■ In a Dark, Dark Wood (Ruth Ware; 2015. Fiction.)
■ What She Left Behind (Ellen Marie Wiseman; 2013. Fiction.)
■ Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town (Jon Krakauer; 2015. Non-fiction.)
■ Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore (Robin Sloan; 2013. Fiction.)
■ Othello (William Shakespeare; 1603. Drama.)
■ The Cold Song (Linn Ullmann; 2014. Fiction.)
■ The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry (Gabrielle Zevin; 2014. Fiction.)
■ Pax (Sara Pennypacker; 2016. Fiction.)
■ The Call of the Wild (Jack London; 1903. Fiction.)
■ The Life of Galileo (Bertolt Brecht; 1940. (Trans. John Willett; 1994.) Drama.)
April
■ The First Time She Drowned (Kerry Kletter; 2016. Fiction.)
■ Shelter (Jung Yun; 2016. Fiction.)
■ The Nest (Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney; 2016. Fiction.)
■ Cardenio (William Shakespeare and John Fletcher; 1613. (Adapted by Charles Mee and Stephen Greenblatt; 1994.) Drama.)
■ Long Day’s Journey into Night (Eugene O’Neill; 1956. Drama.)
■ Richard III (William Shakespeare; 1592. Drama.)
May
■ Imaginary Girls (Nova Ren Suma; 2011. Fiction.)
■ The Vanishing Neighbor: The Transformation of American Community (Marc J. Dunkelman; 2014. Non-fiction.)
■ The Odd Woman and the City: A Memoir (Vivian Gornick; 2015. Non-fiction.)
■ The Walking Dead, Volume 25: No Turning Back (Robert Kirkman; 2016. Graphic fiction.)
■ Paper Girls, Volume 1 (Brian K. Vaughan; 2016. Graphic fiction.)
■ They’re Not Like Us, Volume 2: Us Against You (Eric Stephenson; 2016. Graphic fiction.)
■ Sleeping Giants (Sylvain Neuvel; 2016. Fiction.)
■ Symmetry, Volume 1 (Matt Hawkins; 2016. Graphic fiction.)
■ Letter 44, Volume 3: Dark Matter (Charles Soule; 2016. Graphic fiction.)
■ Who Do You Love (Jennifer Weiner; 2015. Fiction.)
■ Making Toast: A Family Story (Roger Rosenblatt; 2010. Non-fiction.)
June
■ The Sparrow (Mary Doria Russell; 1996. Fiction.)
■ Heart of Darkness (Joseph Conrad; 1899. Fiction.)
■ The Fireman (Joe Hill; 2016. Fiction.)
■ A Good School (Richard Yates; 1978. Fiction.)
■ The Girls (Emma Cline; 2016. Fiction.)
■ Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders (Vincent Bugliosi; 1974. Non-fiction.)
■ Outcast, Vol. 3: This Little Light (Robert Kirkman; 2016. Graphic fiction.)
■ Postal, Vol. 3 (Bryan Hill; 2016. Graphic fiction.)
■ Saga, Vol. 6 (Brian K. Vaughan; 2016. Graphic fiction.)
■ Monstress Vol. 1: Awakening (Marjorie Liu; 2016. Graphic fiction.)
■ Edward III (William Shakespeare; 1596. Drama.)
■ Henry VI, Part I (William Shakespeare; 1591. Drama.)
■ Why We Get Fat and What to Do about It (Gary Taubes; 2011. Non-fiction.)
■ Think Thin, Be Thin (Doris Wild Helmering; 2004. Non-fiction.)
■ Descender, Vol. 2: Machine Moon (Jeff Lemire; 2016. Graphic fiction.)
■ The Mandibles: A Family, 2029-2047 (Lionel Shriver; 2016. Fiction.)
■ The Only Ones (Carola Dibbell; 2015. Fiction.)
■ I Let You Go (Clare Mackintosh; 2016. Fiction.)
■ The Blondes (Emily Schultz; 2015. Fiction.)
July
■ Where They Found Her (Kimberly McCreight; 2015. Fiction.)
■ The Hidden Child (Camilla Läckberg; 2014. Fiction.)
■ Wonder (RJ Palacio; 2012. Fiction.)
■ The Easter Parade (Richard Yates; 1976. Fiction.)
■ Fell, Volume 1, Feral City (Warren Ellis; 2007. Graphic fiction.)
■ Injection, Volume 1 (Warren Ellis; 2015. Graphic fiction.)
■ Trees, Volume 1 (Warren Ellis; 2015. Graphic fiction.)
■ The Curse of the Good Girl (Rachel Simmons; 2009. Non-fiction.)
■ The Elementals (Michael McDowell; 1981. Fiction.)
■ Huck, Volume 1 (Mark Millar; 2016. Graphic fiction.)
■ Kill Shakespeare, Volume 3: The Tide of Blood (Conor McCreery Millar; 2013. Graphic fiction.)
■ Skim (Mariko Tomaki; 2008. Graphic fiction.)
■ Dubliners (James Joyce; 1914. Fiction.)
■ Lab Girl (Hope Jahren; 2016. Non-fiction.)
■ I’m Thinking of Ending Things (Iain Reid; 2016. Fiction.)
■ Truly Madly Guilty (Liane Moriarty; 2016. Fiction.)
■ The Merchant of Venice (William Shakespeare; 1599. Drama.)
August
■ You Will Know Me (Megan Abbott; 2016. Fiction.)
■ You’re Never Weird on the Internet (Almost) (Felicia Day; 2015. Non-fiction.)
■ My Name Is Lucy Barton (Elizabeth Strout; 2016. Fiction.)
■ A Study in Scarlet (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle; 1887. Fiction.)
■ Injection, Volume 2 (Warren Ellis; 2016. Graphic fiction.)
■ Eileen (Ottessa Moshfegh; 2015. Fiction.)
September
■ The Code of the Woosters (P.J. Wodehouse; 1938. Fiction.)
■ Slaughterhouse-Five (Kurt Vonnegut; 1970. Fiction.)
■ The Walking Dead, Volume 26: Call to Arms (Robert Kirkman; 2016. Graphic fiction.)
■ Revival, Volume 7: Forward (Tim Seeley; 2016. Graphic fiction.)
■ Jack of Spades (Joyce Carol Oates; 2015. Fiction.)
■ Smarter Faster Better (Charles Duhigg; 2016. Non-fiction.)
■ A Fair Maiden (Joyce Carol Oates; 2010. Fiction.)
■ Julius Caesar (William Shakespeare; 1599. Drama.)
October
■ Zen in the Art of Archery (Eugen Herrigel; 1953. Non-fiction.)
■ Henry VI, Part II (William Shakespeare; 1591. Drama.)
■ Henry VI, Part III (William Shakespeare; 1591. Drama.)
■ Henry V (William Shakespeare; 1599. Drama.)
■ Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves (P.J. Wodehouse; 1963. Fiction.)
■ The Turn of the Screw (Henry James; 1898. Fiction.)
■ The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (Mark Haddon; 2003. Fiction.)
November
■ Bloodshot, Volume 1: Colorado (Jeff Lemire; 2015. Graphic fiction.)
■ Dark Matter (Blake Crouch; 2016. Fiction.)
■ The Light Fantastic (Sarah Combs; 2016. Fiction.)
■ The Strain (Guillermo del Torro and Chuck Hogan; 2009. Fiction.)
■ Trees, Volume 2 (Warren Ellis; 2016. Graphic fiction.)
■ The Couple Next Door (Shari Lapena; 2016. Fiction.)
■ I Hunt Killers (Barry Lyga; 2012. Fiction.)
■ A.D.: After Death, Book 1 (Scott Snyder; 2016. Graphic fiction.)
■ The Last Policeman (Ben Winters; 2013. Fiction.)
December
■ Plutona (Jeff Lemire; 2016. Graphic fiction.)
■ The Forever War (Joe Haldeman; 1974. Fiction.)
■ After the Apocalypse (Maureen McHugh; 2011. Fiction.)
■ Postal, Volume 4 (Bryan Hill; 2016. Graphic fiction.)
■ Into the Fire (Pete Liney; 2015. Fiction.)
■ Symmetry, Volume 2 (Matt Hawkins; 2016. Graphic fiction.)
■ The Vegetarian (Han Kang; 2015. Fiction.)
■ Paper Girls, Volume 2 (Brian K. Vaughan; 2016. Graphic fiction.)
■ One of Us: The Story of a Massacre in Norway — and Its Aftermath (Åsne Seierstad; 2015. Non-fiction.)
■ Angel Catbird, Volume 1 (Margaret Atwood; 2016. Graphic fiction.)
■ Descender, Vol. 3: Singularities (Jeff Lemire; 2016. Graphic fiction.)
■ Life Reimagined: The Science, Art, and Opportunity of Midlife (Barbara Bradley Hagerty; 2016. Non-fiction.)