Literary Studies Book List 2017-2018 Book Author Literature I Night Train to Lisbon Pascal Mercier The Hero's Walk Anita Rau Badami City of Friends Joanna Trollope Major Pettigrew's Last Stand Helen Simonson Dead Wake Erik Larson The Right to be Cold Sheila Watt-Cloutier 17 Carnations Andrew Morton Purple Hibiscus Chimamanda Ngozi Adichi Literature II Travelling to Infinity June Hawking Salmon Fishing in the Yemen Paul Torday Ru Kim Thuy Orphan Train Christina Baker Kline The Light Between Oceans M.L. Stedman Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day Winifred Watson The Nightingale Kristin Hannah Daughters of the Nile Stephanie Dray Literature III My Brilliant Friend Elena Ferrante & Ann Goldstein The High Mountains of Portugal Yann Martel The Cat's Table Michael Ondaatje A Great Reckoning Louise Penny A Thousand Splendid Suns Khaled Hosseini Nora Webster Colm Tóibín Hope Has Two Daughters Monia Mazigh The Inconvenient Indian Thomas King Literature IV The Woman in Cabin 10 Ruth Ware The Language of Flowers Vanessa Diffenbaugh A Gentleman in Moscow Amor Towles A Spy Among Friends Ben MacIntyre Lara Anna Pasternak The Light Between Oceans M.L. Stedman The Hillbilly Elegy J.D. Vance Do Not Say We Have Nothing Madeleine Thien Literature V Barkskins Annie Proulx A Trial in Venice Roberta Rich The Wonder Emma Donoghue The German Girl Armando Lucas Correa In This Grave Hour Jacqueline Winspear Hagseed Margaret Atwood They Left Us Everything Plum Johnson What the Psychic Told the Pilgrim Jane Christmas Literature VI The Little Paris Book Shop Nina George The Rosie Project Graeme Simsion Nutshell Ian McEwan The Evening Chorus Helen Humphreys The Parcel Anosh Irani Who Has Seen the Wind W. O. Mitchell The Stone Angel Margaret Laurence The Aviator's Wife Melanie Benjamin Literature VII Hillbilly Elegy J. D. Vance Matrons and Madams Sharon Johnson The Right to Be Cold Sheila Watt-Cloutier Born A Crime Trevor Noah Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind Yuval Noah Harari The Woman In Cabin 10 Ruth Ware The Promise of Canada Charlotte Gray Us Conductors Sean Michaels Crime Fiction The Blackhouse Peter May Fire in the Stars Barbara Fradkin Dissolution C.J. Samson Burial Rites Hannah Kent Murder in Memoriam Didier Daeninckx The Girl on the Train Paula Hawkins Frost at Christmas R. D. Wingfield A Twist of the Knife Becky Masterman The Silent World of Nicholas Quinn Colin Dexter Historical Fiction Us Conductors Sean Michaels The Colony of Unrequited Dreams Wayne Johnston History’s People Margaret MacMillan The Ashes of London Andrew Taylor Orphan Train Christina Baker Kline Burial Rites Hannah Kent The Sympathizer Viet Thanh Nguyen Barkskins Anne Proulx Do Not Say We Have Nothing Madeleine Thien.