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Welcome to the Between Two Books list. BCR updates this list by the 10th of each month.
| Title | Author | Pick | Month |
| There are Rivers in the Sky | Elif Shafak | 62 | June 2025 |
| Parable of the Sower | Octavia E. Butler | 61 | March 2025 |
| Hagstone | Sinead Gleeson | 60 | October 2024 |
| Piranesi | Susanna Clarke | 59 | January 2024 |
| Priestdaddy | Patricia Lockwood | 58 | April 2023 |
| The Haunting of Hill House | Shirley Jackson | 57 | October 2022 |
| Our Wives Under the Sea | Julia Armfield | 56 | April 2022 |
| Her Body and Other Parties | Carmen Maria Machado | 55 | October 2021 |
| If I Had Your Face | Frances Cha | 54 | |
| The Year of Magical Thinking | Joan Didion | 53 | |
| Everything You Ever Wanted | Luiza Sauma | 52 | |
| Writing | Marguerite Duras | 51 | |
| Year of the Monkey | Patti Smith | 50 | |
| How Much of These Hills is Gold | C. Pam Zhang | 49 | |
| The Undying | Anne Boyer | 48 | |
| Trick Mirror | Jia Tolentino | 47 | |
| My Year of Rest and Relaxation | Ottessa Moshfegh | 46 | |
| Minor Feelings | Cathy Park Hong | 45 | |
| Rest and Be Thankful | Emma Glass | 44 | |
| The Importance of Music to Girls | Lavinia Greenlaw | 43 | |
| Read and Riot: A Pussy Riot Guide to Activism | Nadya Tolokonnikova | 42 | |
| My Mother was a Freedom Fighter | Aja Monet | 41 | |
| The Terrible | Yrsa Daley-Ward | 40 | |
| The Summer Book | Tove Jansson | 39 | |
| Pamper Me to Hell & Back | Hera Lindsay Bird | 38 | |
| Hera Lindsay Bird | Hera Lindsay Bird | 37 | |
| Daniel Deronda | George Eliot | 36 | |
| Normal People | Sally Rooney | 35 | |
| The Lonely City | Olivia Laing | 34 | |
| On Boxing | Joyce Carol-Oates | 33 | |
| The Empathy Exams | Leslie Jamison | 32 | |
| The Argonauts | Maggie Nelson | 31 | |
| The Outrun | Amy Liptrot | 30 | |
| Too Much and Not the Mood | Durga Chew-Bose | 29 | |
| The Lesser Bohemians | Eimear McBride | 28 | |
| Here I Am | Jonathan Safran-Froer | 27 | |
| Last Exit to Brooklyn | Hubert Selby Jr | 26 | |
| In Praise of Shadows | Jun’ichiro Tanizaki | 25 | |
| The Descent of Man | Grayson Perry | 24 | |
| The Rose That Grew From Concrete | Tupac Shakur | 23 | |
| Geek Love | Katherine Dunn | 22 | |
| Bone | Yrsa Daley-Ward | 21 | |
| salt. | Nayyirah Waheed | 20 | |
| Fates & Furies | Lauren Groff | 19 | |
| The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle | Haruki Murakami | 18 | |
| Night Flower: The Life and Art of Vali Myers | Martin McIntosh & Gemma Jones | 17 | |
| Just Kids | Patti Smith | 16 | |
| Birthday Letters | Ted Hughes | 15 | |
| I Will Never Be Beautiful Enough to Make Us Beautiful Together | Mira Gonzalez | 14 | |
| Heartburn | Nora Ephron | 13 | |
| Not That Kind of Girl | Lena Dunham | 12 | |
| The Goldfinch | Donna Tartt | 11 | |
| The Day of the Triffids | John Wyndham | 10 | |
| The Marriage Plot | Jeffrey Eugenides | 9 | |
| The Great Gatsby | F. Scott Fitzgerald | 8 | |
| A Confederacy of Dunces | John Kennedy Toole | 7 | |
| Songs of the Dragons Flying to Heaven and Other Plays | Young Jean Lee | 6 | |
| Their Eyes Were Watching God | Zora Neale Hurston | 5 | |
| Why Not Say What Happened? | Ivana Lowell | 4 | |
| Your Voice in My Head | Emma Forrest | 3 | |
| The Ice Age | Kirsten Reed | 2 | |
| Opposed Positions | Gwendoline Riley | 1 |