2025 Upper School Book Recommendations: Upper School Readers’ Advisory: Pulitzer, Brooker, & National Book Award Winners

Night Watch by Jayne Anne Phillips

Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver

Trust by Hernan Diaz

The Netanyahus by Joshua Cohen

The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich

The Nickel Boys (Winner 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction) by Colson Whitehead

The Overstory by Richard Powers

Less by Andrew Sean Greer

The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead

The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen

All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr

The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt

The Orphan Master's Son by Adam Johnson

A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan

Tinkers by Paul Harding

Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout

Kairos by Jenny Erpenbeck; Michael Hofmann (Translator)

Time Shelter by Georgi Gospodinov; Angela Rodel (Translator)

The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Shehan Karunatilaka

The Promise by Damon Galgut

Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart

The Testaments by Margaret Atwood

Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo

Milkman by Anna Burns

Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders

The Sellout by Paul Beatty; Elizabeth Bruce (Editor)

A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James

The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard Flanagan

The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton

Bring up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel

The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes

The Finkler Question by Howard Jacobson

Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel

James by Percival Everett

Blackouts by Justin Torres

The Rabbit Hutch by Tess Gunty

Hell of a Book by Jason Mott

Interior Chinatown by Charles Yu

Trust Exercise by Susan Choi

The Friend by Sigrid Nunez

Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward

The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead

Fortune Smiles by Adam Johnson

Redeployment by Phil Klay

The Good Lord Bird by James McBride

The Round House by Louise Erdrich

Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward

Lord of Misrule by Jaimy Gordon

Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann