Book of the Month Reviews

2017:
The Power by Naomi Alderman
The Heart's Invisible Furies by John Boyne
The City of Brass by S.A. Chakraborty
Future Home of the Living God by Louise Erdrich
Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann
Goodbye, Vitamin by Rachel Khong
Beasts of Extraordinary Circumstance by Ruth Emmie Lang
Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
Since We Fell by Dennis Lehane
Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng
Fierce Kingdom by Gin Phillips
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk by Kathleen Rooney
Final Girls by Riley Sager
The Chalk Man by C.J. Tudor
Emma in the Night by Wendy Walker
Chemistry by Weike Wang
Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward

2017 Book of the Month Semifinalists and Finalists
My Ranking of 2017 Selections

2018:
No Exit by Taylor Adams
The Silence of the Girls by Pat Barker
Rainbirds by Clarissa Goenawan
An Absolutely Remarkable Thing by Hank Green
The Proposal by Jasmine Guillory
Severance by Ling Ma
Circe by Madeline Miller
The Perfect Mother by Aimee Molloy
Nine Perfect Strangers by Liane Moriarty
Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik
The Astonishing Color of After by Emily X.R. Pan
The Last Time I Lied by Riley Sager
Calypso by David Sedaris
The Dinner List by Rebecca Serle
The Broken Girls by Simone St. James
The Book of Essie by Meghan Maclean Weir
Red Clocks by Leni Zumas

2018 Book of the Month Semifinalists and Finalists
My Ranking of 2018 Selections

2019:
Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo
Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams
Recursion by Blake Crouch
Bringing Down the Duke by Evie Dunmore
Early Riser by Jasper Fforde
Fate of the Fallen by Kel Kate
Miracle Creek by Angie Kim
This Tender Land by William Kent Krueger
Red, White, and Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston
The Giver of Stars by Jojo Meyes
The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides
Gods of Jade and Shadow by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
The Whisper Man by Alex North
Necessary People by Anna Pitoniak
Daisy Jones and The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid
A Woman is No Man by Etaf Rum
Lock Every Door by Riley Sager
The Chestnut Man by Soren Sveistrup
The Turn of the Key by Ruth Ware
Nothing to See Here by Kevin Wilson

2019 Book of the Month Semifinalists and Finalists
My Ranking of 2019 Selections

2020:
The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
The Library of Legends by Janie Chang
The Girl With the Louding Voice by Abi Daré
The Guest List by Lucy Foley
A Good Neighborhood by Therese Ann Fowler
These Violent Delights by Chloe Gong
The Wife Upstairs by Rachel Hawkins
The Space Between Worlds by Micaiah Johnson
The Book of Longings by Sue Monk Kidd
The Last Story of Mina Lee by Nancy Jooyoun Kim
People Like Her by Ellery Lloyd
Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
The Shadows by Alex North
Head Over Heels by Hannah Orenstein
Home Before Dark by Riley Sager
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab
The Unraveling of Cassidy Holmes by Elissa R. Sloan
The Sun Down Motel by Simone St. James
One to Watch by Kate Stayman-London
The Knockout Queen by Rufi Thorpe
Memorial by Bryan Washington
Valentine by Elizabeth Wetmore

2020 Book of the Month Semifinalists and Finalists
My Ranking of 2020 Selections

2021:
Everything We Didn't Say by Nicole Baart
The Inheritance of Orquidea Divina by Zoraida Cordova
Razorblade Tears by S.A. Cosby
Girl A by Abigail Dean
The Perishing by Natasha Deon
A History of Wild Places by Shea Ernshaw
Rock Paper Scissors by Alice Feeney
Olga Dies Dreaming by Xochitl Gonzalez
The Four Winds by Kristen Hannah
People We Meet on Vacation by Emily Henry
The Heart Principle by Helen Hoang
The Removed by Brandon Hobson
The Family by Naomi Krupitsky
We Are the Brennans by Tracey Lange
Arsenic and Adobo by Mia P. Manansala
Once There Were Wolves by Charlotte McConaghy
One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston
Velvet Was the Night by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
The Lost Apothecary by Sarah Penner
Malibu Rising by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Survive the Night by Riley Sager
Ariadne by Jennifer Saint
What Comes After by Joanne Tompkins
The Final Revival of Opal and Nev by Dawnie Walton
Imposter Syndrome by Kathy Wang

2021 Book of the Month Semifinalists and Finalists
My Ranking of 2021 Selections

2022:
The Stardust Thief by Chelsea Abdullah
The Hacienda by Isabel Cañas
Upgrade by Blake Crouch
The Many Daughters of Afong Moy by Jamie Ford
Hunger by Roxane Gay
Fiona and Jane by Jean Chen Ho
Love & Other Disasters by Anita Kelly
Darling Girl by Liz Michalski
Small Angels by Lauren Owen
Kaikeyi by Vaishnavi Patel
Killers of a Certain Age by Deanna Raybourn
A River Enchanted by Rebecca Ross
The House Across the Lake by Riley Sager
The Book of Cold Cases by Simone St. James
My Friend Anna by Rachel DeLoache Williams
Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin