Editor's Picks
47 books hand-selected by Ada
These are the books our editorial team — led by Ada — believes are exceptional. Not just well-reviewed, but genuinely worth your time: titles that changed how we think, moved us, or simply refused to leave our minds.
A Little Life
Hanya Yanagihara
A Short History of Nearly Everything
Bill Bryson
A Wizard of Earthsea
Ursula K. Le Guin
Act Your Age, Eve Brown
Talia Hibbert
An Ember in the Ashes
Sabaa Tahir
An Unquiet Mind
Kay Redfield Jamison
And Then There Were None
Agatha Christie
Atlas of the Heart
Brené Brown
Becoming
Michelle Obama
Beloved
Toni Morrison
Big Little Lies
Liane Moriarty
Columbine
Dave Cullen
Detransition, Baby
Torrey Peters
Dune
Frank Herbert
Ender's Game
Orson Scott Card
Four Thousand Weeks
Oliver Burkeman
Freakonomics
Steven D. Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner
Hamnet
Maggie O'Farrell
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Maya Angelou
I'll Be Gone in the Dark
Michelle McNamara
In the Woods
Tana French
It
Stephen King
Just Kids
Patti Smith
Kindred
Octavia Butler
Lost Connections
Johann Hari
Mexican Gothic
Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Outlander
Diana Gabaldon
Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl
Andrea Lawlor
People We Meet on Vacation
Emily Henry
Quiet
Susan Cain
Remarkably Bright Creatures
Shelby Van Pelt
Speak
Laurie Halse Anderson
The Bell Jar
Sylvia Plath
The Body Keeps the Score
Bessel van der Kolk
The Book Thief
Markus Zusak
The Devil in the White City
Erik Larson
The Everything Store
Brad Stone
The Fault in Our Stars
John Green
The Hellbound Heart
Clive Barker
The Lean Startup
Eric Ries
The Name of the Wind
Patrick Rothfuss
The Night Circus
Erin Morgenstern
The Noonday Demon
Andrew Solomon
The Price of Salt
Patricia Highsmith
The Sixth Extinction
Elizabeth Kolbert
Untamed
Glennon Doyle
Wolf Hall
Hilary Mantel