• Annie John by Jamaica Kinkaid (August 2021)

• Facing the Sun by Janice Lynn Mathers (December 2021)

• How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House by Cherie Jones (January 2022)

• Beka Lamb by Zee Edgell (February 2022)

• Our Dead World by Liliana Colanzi, translated by Sequeira Jessica (January 2022)

• Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery

• Run Towards the Danger by Sarah Polley (June 2022)

• Study for Obedience by Sarah Bernstein (December 2023)

See Also

• We Have Always Been Here by Samra Habib

• Before Night Falls: A Memoir by Reinaldo Arenas (May 2021)

• How to Say Babylon by Safiya Sinclair (December 2023)

• Love After Love by Ingrid Persaud (July 2023)

As an American, a large majority of what I read comes from the United States. I have included a small number of books that I thought would be of interest to readers outside of the U.S. The American experience is wide-ranging and this in no way reflects every aspect of American life, just as one or two books from each country does not wholly depict each country.

• Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson (July 2020)

• Nomadland by Jessica Bruder (April 2021)

• The Not-Quite States of America: Dispatches from the Territories and Other Far-Flung Outposts of the USA by Doug Mack (June 2017)

• The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of 9/11 by Garrett M. Graff  (May 2021)

• What Unites Us: Reflections on Patriotism by Dan Rather (May 2018)