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We asked YBCers to tell us the best books they read this year, and compiled the entire list here. If you’re a bookworm, feel free to sound off in the comment section below, and tell us which books you were loving this year!
Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
A New Earth by Eckhart Tolle
Becoming by Michelle Obama
Artemis by Andy Weir
The 5am Club by Robin Sharma
Looking For Alaska by John Green
Do Your Om Thing: Bending Yoga Tradition to Fit Your Modern Life by Rebecca Pacheco
The Book of Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World by Douglas Carlton Abrams, Dalai Lama, Desmond Tutu
The Power by Naomi Alderman
Revolution of the Soul: Awaken to Love Through Raw Truth, Radical Healing, and Conscious Action by Seane Corn
Educated: A Memoir by Tara Westover
I Might Regret This: Essays, Drawings, Vulnerabilities, and Other Stuff by Abbi Jacobson
An American Marriage: A Novel by Tayari Jones
And the Mountains Echoed by Kahled Hosseini
The Testaments: The Sequel to The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
The Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin
The Library Book by Susan Orlean
City of Girls by Elizabeth Gilbert
Talking to Strangers by Malcolm Gladwell
The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
Normal People by Sally Rooney
Wheels of Life: A User’s Guide to The Chakra System by Anodea Judith
The Guest Book by Sarah Blake
Someone We Know by Shari Lapena
Less by Andrew Sean Greer
Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, HER Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed by Lori Gottlieb
Medical Medium: Secrets Behind Chronic and Mystery Illness and How to Finally Heal by Anthony Willian
The Road Back to You: An Enneagram Journey to Self-Discovery by Ian Morgan Cron
Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng
Profit First: Transform Your Business from a Cash-Eating Monster to a Money-Making Machine by Mike Michalowicz
We Are the Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast by Jonathan Safran Foer
Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators by Ronan Farrow
The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane by Lisa See
Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams
Yes We (Still) Can: Politics in the Age of Obama, Twitter, and Trump by Dan Pfiffer
A Women Is No Man by Etaf Rum
A Spark of Light by Jodi Picoult
A Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh
Dodging Energy Vampires: An Empath’s Guide to Evading Relationships That Drain You and Restoring Your Health and Power by Christiane Northrup
The Roanoke Girls by Amy Engel
Factfulness: Ten Reasons We’re Wrong About the World — and Why Things Are Better Than You Think by Hans Rosling
Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis by J. D. Vance
The Tattoosit of Auschwitz by Heather Morris
Spilled Milk: Based On A True Story by K. L. Randis
Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo
Naturally Tan: A Memoir by Tan France
(Un)Qualified: How God Uses Broken People to Do Big Things by Steven Furtick
How Not to Die: Discover the Foods Scientifically Proven to Prevent and Reverse Disease by Michael Greger MD
Rebel of the Sands by Alwyn Hamilton
Outlander: A Novel by Diana Gabaldon