American Library Association

Great Black Hope

Rob Franklin

Guatemalan Rhapsody

Jared Lemus

Small Ceremonies

Kyle Edwards

The Dream Hotel

Laila Lalami

The Emperor of Gladness

Ocean Vuong

The Ferryman and His Wife

Frode Grytten

Translated by Alison McCullough

The Lilac People

Milo Todd

The Slip

Lucas Schaefer

The Sunflower Boys

Sam Wachman

Where Are You Really From

Elaine Hsieh Chou

A Flower Traveled in My Blood

Haley Cohen Gilliland

America, América

Greg Grandin

Everything Is Tuberculosis

John Green

Is a River Alive?

Robert Macfarlane

Looking at Women, Looking at War

Victoria Amelina

No More Tears

Gardiner Harris

One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This

Omar El Akkad

Original Sins

Eve L. Ewing

Strangers in the Land

Michael Luo

There Is No Place for Us

Brian Goldstone

Things in Nature Merely Grow

Yiyun Li

Valley of Forgetting

Jennie Erin Smith

Becoming Ghost

Cathy Linh Che

Gaza

Nasser Rabah

Translated by Ammiel Alcalay, Emna Zghal and Khaled Al-Hilli

Resting Bitch Face

Taylor Byas

The Opposite of Cruelty

Steven Leyva