2026
August — 4 books
Spy Catcher: The Candid Autobiography of a Senior Intelligence OfficerPeter Wright, Paul Greengrass
London Falling: A Mysterious Death in a Gilded City and a Family's Search for TruthPatrick Radden Keefe
Strangers: A Memoir of MarriageBelle Burden
The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Life After AI: How to Think About Artificial Intelligence Before It’s Too LateCory Doctorow, Violet Dine
July — 4 books
The Yiddish Policemen's UnionMichael Chabon
The World at NightAlan Furst
The DirectorDaniel Kehlmann, Ross Benjamin
LázárNelio Biedermann
June — 6 books
The Precarious Migrant Worker: The Socialization of PrecarityPanos Theodoropoulos
Supergirl: Woman of TomorrowBilquis Evely, Mat Lopes, Tom King
The Tailor of PanamaJohn le Carré
Granta 175: ScandinaviaThomas Meaney
Blood of VictoryAlan Furst
YesteryearCaro Claire Burke
May — 10 books
American PsychoBret Easton Ellis
Washington, D.C.Gore Vidal
Every Drop Is a Man's NightmareMegan Kamalei Kakimoto
The Polish OfficerAlan Furst
The MezzanineNicholson Baker
Young MungoDouglas Stuart
Go As A RiverShelley Read
The Pigeon Tunnel: Stories from My LifeJohn le Carré
The Mask of DimitriosEric Ambler, Mark Mazower
The YearsAnnie Ernaux, Alison L. Strayer
April — 11 books
JamesPercival Everett
TarántulaEduardo Halfon
You Are the Führer's Unrequited LoveJean-Noël Orengo
Oaxaca JournalOliver Sacks
Set My Heart on FireIzumi Suzuki, Helen O'Horan
Ordinary NotesChristina Sharpe
Drayton and MackenzieAlexander Starritt
The Spy in the ArchiveGordon Corera
The Course of the HeartM. John Harrison
Debt: The First 5,000 YearsDavid Graeber
The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our WorldVincent Bevins
February — 4 books
The Seventh FloorDavid McCloskey
Moscow XDavid McCloskey
The New York TrilogyPaul Auster
City of GlassPaul Auster
March — 2 books
Mi6Stephen Dorril
An Instance of the FingerpostIain Pears
January — 7 books
The Silver EggheadsFritz Leiber
Road to NowhereParis Marx
The Savage DetectivesRoberto Bolaño
I'm a FanSheena Patel
Her Majesty's Secret ServiceChristopher Andrew
Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin WallAnna Funder
A Sunny Place for Shady PeopleMariana Enríquez, Megan McDowell
2025
December — 10 books
A History of JudaismMartin Goodman
A Study in Scarlet WomenSherry Thomas
Damascus StationDavid McCloskey
Titus AndronicusWilliam Shakespeare, Eugene M. Waith
The Finest Hotel in Kabul
The Haves and Have-YachtsEvan Osnos
The Art of Betrayal: Life and Death in the British Secret ServiceGordon Corera
Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible: The Surreal Heart of the New RussiaPeter Pomerantsev
The Empusium: A Health Resort Horror StoryOlga Tokarczuk, Antonia Lloyd-Jones
Nazi Billionaires: The Dark History of Germany's Wealthiest DynastiesDavid de Jong
November — 5 books
The Good ApprenticeIris Murdoch
Sad TigerNeige Sinno, Natasha Lehrer
Unconditional SurrenderEvelyn Waugh
Granta 173: IndiaThomas Meaney
Our Ancestors: Cloven Viscount; Baron in the Trees; Non-Existent KnightItalo Calvino, Archibald Colquhoun
October — 4 books
Evil Paradises: Dreamworlds of NeoliberalismMike Davis, Daniel Bertrand Monk
Rock CrystalAdalbert Stifter
Where Eagles DareAlistair MacLean
LibraDon DeLillo, Michael Prichard
September — 4 books
The SafekeepYael van der Wouden
Alphabetical DiariesSheila Heti
If on a Winter's Night a TravelerItalo Calvino
Small GodsTerry Pratchett
August — 4 books
Equal RitesTerry Pratchett
The Fateful Adventures of the Good Soldier Švejk During the World WarJaroslav Hašek, Josef Lada, Lumír Nahodil, Cecil Parrott
AssemblyNatasha Brown, Pippa Bennett-Warner
LiarsSarah Manguso
July — 6 books
Granta 131: The Map is Not the TerritorySigrid Rausing
Super Sad True Love StoryGary Shteyngart
On Art and LifeJohn Ruskin
Granta 172: BadlandsThomas Meaney
Pink SlimeFernanda Trías, Heather Cleary
High-RiseJ.G. Ballard
June — 6 books
Merchants of Culture: The Publishing Business in the Twenty-First CenturyJohn Brookshire Thompson
The BombshellDarrow Farr
Our GameJohn le Carré
The JungleUpton Sinclair, Eric Schlosser, Ronald S. Gottesman
Ethan FromeEdith Wharton
The Secret PilgrimJohn le Carré
May — 2 books
Elect Mr. Robinson for a Better WorldDonald Antrim
Still LifeSarah Winman
April — 5 books
Granta 171: Dead FriendsThomas Meaney
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against ThisOmar El Akkad
Every Man for Himself and God Against All: A MemoirWerner Herzog, Michael Hofmann
PerfectionVincenzo Latronico, Sophie Hughes
A Spy AloneCharles Beaumont
March — 2 books
Gabriel's MoonWilliam Boyd
The Troublesome Offspring of Cardinal GuzmánLouis de Bernières
February — 2 books
Granta 170: WinnersThomas Meaney
Empire of the SunJ.G. Ballard
January — 1 book
n+1 Issue 47: Passagen+1, Saree Makdisi, Kay Gabriel, Laura Preston, Mitchell Morgan Johnson, Iman Mersal, Nausicaa Renner, Paul Soto, Nicholas Hamburger, Nicole Lipman, William Harris, David Wingrave
2024
December — 5 books
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & ClayMichael Chabon
Diary of a Foreigner in ParisCurzio Malaparte, Stephen Twilley, Edmund White
Karla's Choice: A John le Carré NovelNick Harkaway
Brazzaville BeachWilliam Boyd
Edith's DiaryPatricia Highsmith
November — 2 books
When We Cease to Understand the WorldBenjamín Labatut, Adrian Nathan West
10:04Ben Lerner
October — 7 books
Mr Ma and SonLao She
Future SexEmily Witt
Bend SinisterVladimir Nabokov
Badenheim 1939Aharon Appelfeld, Dalya Bilu
The Quest for CorvoA.J.A. Symons, Julian Symons
The Covenant of WaterAbraham Verghese
Girls Against GodJenny Hval, Marjam Idriss
September — 6 books
Long Live the Post Horn!Vigdis Hjorth, Charlotte Barslund
A Handful of DustEvelyn Waugh
Diary of a VoidEmi Yagi
TellJonathan Buckley
The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin OlympicsDaniel James Brown
Granta 168: Significant OtherThomas Meaney
August — 4 books
Selected Stories Volume Two: 1995-2009: 1995-2009Alice Munro
The Tenderness of WolvesStef Penney
Truth & DareSo Mayer
My FriendsMatar Hisham
July — 5 books
A Woman's StoryAnnie Ernaux, Tanya Leslie
The Rachel PapersMartin Amis
Wise ChildrenAngela Carter
Like Love: Essays and ConversationsMaggie Nelson
The GluttonA.K. Blakemore
June — 4 books
Burmese DaysGeorge Orwell
The Midnight LibraryMatt Haig
The EnemyLee Child
August BlueDeborah Levy
May — 4 books
NostromoJoseph Conrad, Veronique Pauly, J.H. Stape
Decline and FallEvelyn Waugh, David Bradshaw
American GodsNeil Gaiman
The InterrogatorsAllan Prior
April — 10 books
A Sort of LifeGraham Greene
Demon CopperheadBarbara Kingsolver
The Buried GiantKazuo Ishiguro
The LibrarianistPatrick deWitt, Jim Meskimen
RipeSarah Rose Etter
I Have Some Questions for YouRebecca Makkai, Julia Whelan, J.D. Jackson
PersuasionJane Austen, Gillian Beer
Officers And GentlemenEvelyn Waugh
Glorious ExploitsFerdia Lennon
You Dreamed of EmpiresÁlvaro Enrigue, Natasha Wimmer
March — 10 books
Men at ArmsEvelyn Waugh
Granta 166: GenerationsThomas Meaney
SWEET TOOTHIan McEwan
Martyr!Kaveh Akbar
NightbitchRachel Yoder
The passion of new EveAngela Carter
A Man's PlaceAnnie Ernaux, Tanya Leslie, Francine Prose
Tropic of CancerHenry Miller
The Other Name: Septology I-IIJon Fosse, Damion Searls
The Ten Loves of Mr NishinoAllison Markin Powell, Hiromi Kawakami
February — 5 books
The Tombs of AtuanUrsula K. Le Guin
The Farthest ShoreUrsula K. Le Guin
A Wizard of EarthseaUrsula K. Le Guin
Jerusalem: The BiographySimon Sebag Montefiore
Play It As It LaysJoan Didion
January — 7 books
The French Lieutenant's WomanJohn Fowles
The MagusJohn Fowles, Nicholas Boulton
SymposiumPlato, Benjamin Jowett
E-flux Journal: The Internet Does Not ExistJulieta Aranda, Brian Kuan Wood, Anton Vidokle
LessonsIan McEwan
So Much For LifeMark Hyatt, Sam Ladkin, Luke Roberts
The Golden NotebookDoris Lessing
2023
December — 5 books
Do the Windows Open?Julie Hecht
A Legacy of SpiesJohn le Carré
OrbitalSamantha Harvey
AtonementIan McEwan
MotherthingAinslie Hogarth
November — 1 book
The Tenth ManGraham Greene
October — 1 book
Caste: The Origins of Our DiscontentsIsabel Wilkerson
September — 9 books
Homage To CataloniaGeorge Orwell
Napoleon The LittleVictor Hugo
DuneFrank Herbert, Brian Herbert
A Spy In the House of LoveAnaïs Nin
The Looking Glass WarJohn le Carré
SilverviewJohn le Carré, Toby Jones
KaputtCurzio Malaparte, Giorgio Pinotti
The Jewish WritingsHannah Arendt
Fletch And The Man WhoGregory McDonald
August — 6 books
Cards on the TableAgatha Christie
Story of the EyeGeorges Bataille, Joachim Neugroschel, Roland Barthes, Susan Sontag
Vile BodiesEvelyn Waugh
Bright Young PeopleD.J. Taylor
Homo FaberMax Frisch
All SoulsJavier Marías
June — 4 books
Red SparrowJason Matthews
Palo AltoMalcolm Harris
Tender Is the FleshAgustina Bazterrica, Sarah Moses
Some Do Not...Ford Madox Ford, Max Saunders
May — 3 books
TaipeiTao Lin
While We Were DreamingClemens Meyer, Katy Derbyshire
The MasterColm Tóibín
April — 3 books
The Philosopher's PupilIris Murdoch
Goodbye to All ThatRobert Graves
CherryNico Walker
March — 5 books
Less Than ZeroBret Easton Ellis
Thérèse RaquinÉmile Zola, Katia Lysy, Guy de Maupassant
AlmondWon-pyung Sohn, Sandy Joosun Lee
WeYevgeny Zamyatin, Clarence Brown
I Fear My Pain Interests YouStephanie LaCava
February — 4 books
Berlin Alexanderplatz: The Story of Franz BiberkopfAlfred Döblin, Eugene Jolas
Immune: A Journey into the Mysterious System That Keeps You AlivePhilipp Dettmer, Philip Laibacher
Reflections: Essays, Aphorisms, Autobiographical WritingsWalter Benjamin, Edmund F.N. Jephcott, Peter Demetz, Leon Wieseltier
The Aosawa MurdersRiku Onda, Alison Watts
January — 4 books
The Little Drummer GirlJohn le Carré
Babel, or The Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' RevolutionR.F. Kuang
Happy HourMarlowe Granados
CliffNotes on One day in the Life of Ivan DenisovichAleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Ralph Parker
2022
December — 3 books
Grand Hotel AbyssStuart Jeffries
The Candy HouseJennifer Egan
The Inugami CurseSeishi Yokomizo, Yumiko Yamakazi
November — 17 books
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and TomorrowGabrielle Zevin
The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New HumanSiddhartha Mukherjee
A Murder of QualityJohn le Carré
Last WitnessesSvetlana Alexievich, Richard Pevear, Larissa Volokhonsky
LapvonaOttessa Moshfegh
RaveRainald Goetz
The Naked and the DeadNorman Mailer
The EmployeesOlga Ravn, Martin Aitken
Liberation DayGeorge Saunders
Notebook Otherlands: A World in the MakingThomas Halliday
The Shortest History of GermanyJames Hawes
VoxNicholson Baker
Somebody with a Little Hammer: EssaysMary Gaitskill
The NovelistJordan Castro
Don't CryMary Gaitskill
Martin LutherEric Metaxas
Tree of SmokeDenis Johnson
October — 5 books
The Artificial Silk GirlIrmgard Keun, Katharina von Ankum
Short Stories in German for BeginnersOlly Richards
Alone in BerlinHans Fallada, Michael Hofmann, Geoff Wilkes
The Leadership Pipeline: How to Build the Leadership Powered CompanyRam Charan, Stephen Drotter, Jim Noel
Call for the DeadJohn le Carré
September — 7 books
Berlin: Life and Death in the City at the Center of the WorldSinclair McKay
The SilmarillionJ.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien
Memories of My Melancholy WhoresGabriel García Márquez, Edith Grossman
The Russia HouseJohn le Carré, Michael Jayston, René Basilico, Tom Baker
The Heart of the MatterGraham Greene
Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A.: TalesEve Babitz
A Severed HeadIris Murdoch
August — 3 books
Absolute FriendsJohn le Carré
Agent Running in the FieldJohn le Carré
The OdysseyHomer, Emily Wilson
July — 10 books
The Human FactorGraham Greene
An American DreamNorman Mailer
The InnocentIan McEwan
The Fire and the Sun: Why Plato Banished the ArtistsIris Murdoch
When I Was MortalJavier Marías
CosmopolisDon DeLillo, Will Patton
AmsterdamIan McEwan
The Adventures of Huckleberry FinnMark Twain, Guy Cardwell, John Seelye, Walter Trier, E.W. Kemble
The Quiet AmericanGraham Greene, Robert Stone
First Love, Last RitesIan McEwan
June — 5 books
Fates and FuriesLauren Groff, Will Damron, Julia Whelan
The System of the WorldNeal Stephenson
The ConfusionNeal Stephenson
Termination ShockNeal Stephenson
The Mission SongJohn le Carré
April — 2 books
Hotel du LacAnita Brookner
Pure ColourSheila Heti
March — 3 books
What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex TraumaStephanie Foo
Heart of Europe: A History of the Holy Roman EmpirePeter H. Wilson
The Naked Don't Fear the Water: An Underground Journey with Afghan RefugeesMatthieu Aikins
February — 5 books
The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a human-centered planetJohn Green
CivilWarLand in Bad DeclineGeorge Saunders
The Tyranny of Merit: What's Become of the Common Good?Michael J. Sandel
The Dialectics of SeeingSusan Buck-Morss
The Brain-Dead MegaphoneGeorge Saunders
January — 4 books
Good GirlAnna Fitzpatrick
No One Is Talking About ThisPatricia Lockwood
Cloud Cuckoo LandAnthony Doerr
Black SpartacusSudhir Hazareesingh
2021
December — 1 book
The Honourable SchoolboyJohn le Carré
November — 2 books
AnimalLisa Taddeo
Beautiful World, Where Are YouSally Rooney
October — 10 books
Our Country FriendsGary Shteyngart
MatrixLauren Groff
The Information BombPaul Virilio
How to Blow Up a PipelineAndreas Malm
Whore of New York: A ConfessionLiara Roux
VladimirJulia May Jonas
Project Hail MaryAndy Weir
CAPS LOCKRuben Pater
Milk FedMelissa Broder
Index, a History of TheDennis Duncan
September — 9 books
Make Room! Make Room!Harry Harrison, Eric Michael Summerer
Detransition, BabyTorrey Peters, Victory Matsui
PastoraliaGeorge Saunders
Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898Edwin G. Burrows, Mike Wallace
Great CircleMaggie Shipstead
The NetanyahusJoshua Cohen
The Bass RockEvie Wyld
House of GlassHadley Freeman
The Guns of AugustBarbara W. Tuchman, Robert K. Massie
August — 8 books
Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and WorstRobert M. Sapolsky
Hard TimesCharles Dickens, Kate Flint
The Story of a Shipwrecked SailorGabriel García Márquez, Randolph Hogan
The Dangers of Smoking in Bed: StoriesMariana Enriquez, Megan McDowell
Stories of Your Life and OthersTed Chiang
Washington BulletsVijay Prashad
Tomorrow They Won't Dare to Murder UsJoseph Andras, Simon Leser
Back Channel to Cuba: The Hidden History of Negotiations between Washington and HavanaWilliam M. Leogrande, Peter Kornbluh
July — 5 books
Cold New ClimateIsobel Wohl
The Ministry for the FutureKim Stanley Robinson
Metaphors We Live ByGeorge Lakoff, Mark Johnson
A Slow Death: 83 Days of Radiation SicknessNHK TV Crew
HeavenMieko Kawakami, Sam Bett, David Boyd
June — 6 books
The German Language Today: A Linguistic IntroductionCharles V.J. Russ
AusterlitzW.G. Sebald, Anthea Bell
The Life Before UsRomain Gary, Ralph Manheim
Hurricane SeasonFernanda Melchor, Sophie Hughes
Black DogsIan McEwan
The Dry HeartNatalia Ginzburg, Frances Frenaye, نازنین احسانیطباطبایی
May — 8 books
My Name Is LeonKit de Waal
The Dog of the MarriageAmy Hempel
Where the Crawdads SingDelia Owens
A Box of MatchesNicholson Baker
Putin's PeopleCatherine Belton
LusterRaven Leilani
Fake AccountsLauren Oyler, Rebecca Lowman
Silence Once BegunJesse Ball
April — 6 books
The Iliac CrestCristina Rivera Garza, Sarah Booker
The Inheritance of LossKiran Desai
TransitRachel Cusk
KitchenBanana Yoshimoto
The InterestingsMeg Wolitzer
How Much of These Hills Is GoldC Pam Zhang
March — 3 books
King at the Edge of the WorldArthur Phillips
BeheldTaraShea Nesbit
SistersDaisy Johnson
February — 2 books
The Spy Who Came In From The ColdJohn le Carré
Death's EndCixin Liu, Ken Liu
January — 1 book
The Dark ForestCixin Liu, Joel Martinsen
2020
December — 2 books
The Tidal ZoneSarah Moss
Look at MeAnita Brookner
November — 8 books
Burnt SugarAvni Doshi
MoneyMartin Amis
Strangers on a TrainPatricia Highsmith, Paula Hawkins
Interpreter of MaladiesJhumpa Lahiri
Exciting TimesNaoise Dolan
ScoopEvelyn Waugh
Bonjour TristesseFrançoise Sagan
The Comfort of StrangersIan McEwan
October — 3 books
The 99% Invisible City: A Field Guide to the Hidden World of Everyday DesignRoman Mars, Kurt Kohlstedt
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, SpyJohn le Carré
A History of the Bible: The Book and Its FaithsJohn Barton
September — 1 book
City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los AngelesMike Davis, Robert Morrow
August — 5 books
The Italian GirlIris Murdoch
Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of LanguageGretchen McCulloch
Baghdad: City of Peace, City of BloodJustin Marozzi
Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-DelusionJia Tolentino
Portnoy's ComplaintPhilip Roth
July — 2 books
Citizens: A Chronicle of the French RevolutionSimon Schama
The Fifth Head of CerberusGene Wolfe
June — 1 book
The End of PolicingAlex S. Vitale
May — 12 books
Time's ArrowMartin Amis
The Name of the RoseUmberto Eco, William Weaver
Ghost WallSarah Moss
A Children's BibleLydia Millet
Sweet Lamb of HeavenLydia Millet
MauriceCornelia Marinescu, E. M. Forster
Breasts and EggsMieko Kawakami, Sam Bett, David Boyd
After the QuakeHaruki Murakami
Love of CountryMadeleine Bunting
Around India in 80 TrainsMonisha Rajesh
The Masque of the Red DeathEdgar Allan Poe
KindredOctavia E. Butler
April — 3 books
SleepHaruki Murakami
Strange HotelEimear McBride
The Fifth SeasonN. K. Jemisin
March — 4 books
OutlineRachel Cusk
Bad BehaviorMary Gaitskill
Childhood In Malabar-Mod ClassKamala Suraiyya Das
My GitaDevdutt Pattanaik
February — 3 books
Minds, Brains and ScienceJohn Rogers Searle
Resilient ManagementLara Hogan, Lara Callender Hogan
Girl, Woman, OtherBernardine Evaristo
January — 27 books
The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the WorldElaine Scarry
Brideshead RevisitedEvelyn Waugh
The Night ManagerJohn le Carré
PninVladimir Nabokov, David Lodge
Such a Fun AgeKiley Reid
Death in Her HandsOttessa Moshfegh
The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being AloneOlivia Laing
CleannessGarth Greenwell
Brave New World / Brave New World RevisitedAldous Huxley, Christopher Hitchens
MacbethWilliam Shakespeare, Roma Gill
The MetamorphosisFranz Kafka, Michael Hofmann
Romeo and JulietWilliam Shakespeare
Frankenstein: The 1818 TextMary Shelley
LolitaVladimir Nabokov, Martin Amis
n+1 Issue 35: Savior Complexn+1, Mark Greif, Adam Kotsko, Lorelei Lee, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, Dan Sinykin, Alice Abraham, Trevor Shikaze, Tony Tulathimutte, Sarah Resnick, A.S. Hamrah, Maggie Gram
In the Dream HouseCarmen Maria Machado
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the DeadOlga Tokarczuk, Antonia Lloyd-Jones
Offscreen, Issue 22Kai Brach, Kieran O'Hare
QuicksilverNeal Stephenson
Uncanny ValleyAnna Wiener, Suehyla El-Attar
Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern IrelandPatrick Radden Keefe
ExhalationTed Chiang
The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century MillerCarlo Ginzburg, John Tedeschi, Anne Tedeschi
The Age of Surveillance CapitalismShoshana Zuboff
Women TalkingMiriam Toews
Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of EvilHannah Arendt
FlightsOlga Tokarczuk, Jennifer Croft
2019
December — 6 books
The Topeka SchoolBen Lerner
Lonely Planet South India & KeralaLonely Planet, Isabella Noble, Paul Harding, Kevin Raub, Sarina Singh, Iain Stewart
At the PondAva Wong Davies, Margaret Drabble, Esther Freud, Sophie Mackintosh, Nell Frizzell, Amy Key, Jessica J. Lee, Eli Goldstone, So Mayer, Nina Mingya Powles, Sharlene Teo, Leanne Shapton, Lou Stoppard, Deborah Moggach
Before the Coffee Gets ColdToshikazu Kawaguchi, Geoffrey Trousselot
Tinfoil ButterflyRachel Eve Moulton
A Small Town in GermanyJohn le Carré, René Basilico, Helena Fraga, Kenneth Haigh, Bernard Hepton
November — 2 books
As You Like It William Shakespeare
A Perfect SpyJohn le Carré
October — 1 book
Delta of VenusAnaïs Nin
September — 5 books
The Sheltering Sky / Let It Come Down / The Spider's HousePaul Bowles, Daniel Halpern
The WaspsAristophanes
Love in a Cold ClimateNancy Mitford
Haven't You Heard?: Gossip, Politics and PowerMarie Le Conte
Henry and June: From "A Journal of Love," The Unexpurgated Diary (1931–1932) of Anaïs NinAnaïs Nin
August — 6 books
Norse MythologyNeil Gaiman
On Earth We're Briefly GorgeousOcean Vuong
Her Body and Other PartiesCarmen Maria Machado
Histories of Nations: How Their Identities Were ForgedPeter Furtado
The White AlbumJoan Didion
Superior: The Return of Race ScienceAngela Saini
July — 2 books
The Art of Cruelty: A ReckoningMaggie Nelson
NutshellIan McEwan
June — 7 books
The Shepherd's Life: Modern Dispatches from an Ancient LandscapeJames Rebanks
The ExpelledSamuel Beckett
The EndSamuel Beckett
First Love and Other NovellasSamuel Beckett, Gerry Dukes
The Last SamuraiHelen DeWitt
Machines Like MeIan McEwan
EileenOttessa Moshfegh
May — 4 books
The Wicked + The Divine, Vol. 1: The Faust ActKieron Gillen, Jamie McKelvie, Matt Wilson, Nathan Fairbairn, Clayton Cowles
The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian MedicineLindsey Fitzharris
ParadiseEdna O'Brien
The Comedy of ErrorsWilliam Shakespeare
April — 6 books
Love's Labour's LostWilliam Shakespeare
The Heart of the RaceBeverley Bryan, Stella Dadzie, Suzanne Scafe
The AccidentalAli Smith
Mythos: The Greek Myths RetoldStephen Fry
The Culture of Connectivity: A Critical History of Social MediaJosé van Dijck
Reality is Not What it SeemsCarlo Rovelli, Simon Carnell, Erica Segre
March — 57 books
Catch-22Joseph Heller
The RoadCormac McCarthy
The House of MirthEdith Wharton
The Red Parts: Autobiography of a TrialMaggie Nelson
Queer City: Gay London from the Romans to the Present DayPeter Ackroyd
Rice's Architectural PrimerMatthew Rice
The Problems of PhilosophyBertrand Russell
The Great BelieversRebecca Makkai
The Unwomanly Face of WarSvetlana Alexievich
No Longer at EaseChinua Achebe
The Hunchback of Notre DameVictor Hugo, Tim Wynne-Jones
HHhHLaurent Binet, Sam Taylor
Flowers for AlgernonDaniel Keyes
Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Explain Everything About the WorldTim Marshall
Little Fires EverywhereCeleste Ng
The IdiotElif Batuman
The MabinogionCharlotte Guest, R. Williams
What I Talk About When I Talk About RunningHaruki Murakami, Philip Gabriel
Edward Hopper: Portraits Of AmericaWieland Schmied, Edward Hopper
SeveranceLing Ma
MelmothSarah Perry
DegasBernd Growe
CircéMadeline Miller
AdèleLeïla Slimani
SchieleReinhard Steiner
Grief is the Thing with FeathersMax Porter
Van Gogh: The Complete PaintingsIngo F. Walther
Ecclesiastical History of the English PeopleBede, Leo Sherley-Price, David Hugh Farmer, Ronald E. Latham
The Silence of the GirlsPat Barker
The CorrectionsJonathan Franzen
American PastoralPhilip Roth
LittleEdward Carey
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the WorldHaruki Murakami, Alfred Birnbaum
My Sister, the Serial KillerOyinkan Braithwaite
Free Food for MillionairesMin Jin Lee
Powers of Horror: An Essay on AbjectionJulia Kristeva, Leon S. Roudiez
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of CancerSiddhartha Mukherjee
Sister Outsider: Essays and SpeechesAudre Lorde, Robin Eller
The Three-Body ProblemCixin Liu, Ken Liu
Saul LeiterSaul Leiter, Max Kozloff
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in AmericaIbram X. Kendi
The Wretched of the EarthFrantz Fanon, Jean-Paul Sartre, Richard Philcox, Homi K. Bhabha
Sprint: How to Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five DaysJake Knapp
Women, Race & ClassAngela Y. Davis
NevadaImogen Binnie
The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Lovebell hooks
One Hundred Years of SolitudeGabriel García Márquez
The Heart Goes LastMargaret Atwood
The VorrhBrian Catling, Alan Moore
The CollectorJohn Fowles
AmerikaFranz Kafka, Mark Harman
The Secret Lives of ColourKassia St. Clair
Women, Fire and Dangerous Things: What Categories Reveal About the MindGeorge Lakoff
FreshwaterAkwaeke Emezi
Madame BovaryGustave Flaubert, Sérgio Duarte
The Perfect NannyLeïla Slimani
The Libation BearersAeschylus
February — 7 books
The Penguin History of Modern China: The Fall and Rise of a Great Power, 1850-2008Jonathan Fenby
The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The EumenidesAeschylus, Robert Fagles, William Bedell Stanford
Enduring LoveIan McEwan
Henry VWilliam Shakespeare, Jamie Glover, Brian Cox, Elizabeth Spriggs
The Secret HistoryDonna Tartt
Conversations with FriendsSally Rooney
The Testament of MaryColm Tóibín
January — 5 books
A Girl Is a Half-formed ThingEimear McBride
BluetsMaggie Nelson
Difficult WomenRoxane Gay
Enigma VariationsAndre Aciman
The Screwtape LettersC. S. Lewis
2018
December — 8 books
The LuminariesEleanor Catton
Mr SalarySally Rooney
The ArgonautsMaggie Nelson
The Aleph and Other Stories 1933-1969Jorge Luis Borges, Norman Thomas di Giovanni
The Days of the French RevolutionChristopher Hibbert
MotherhoodSheila Heti
Normal PeopleSally Rooney
The PastTessa Hadley
November — 3 books
Fox 8George Saunders, Chelsea Cardinal
The BellIris Murdoch, A.S. Byatt
Under the NetIris Murdoch
October — 5 books
Lincoln in the BardoGeorge Saunders
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American CityMatthew Desmond
The Fire Next TimeJames Baldwin
The Age of InnocenceEdith Wharton, Laura Dluzynski Quinn, Sarah Blackwood, Elif Batuman
Purple HibiscusChimamanda Ngozi Adichie
September — 4 books
The Lesser BohemiansEimear McBride
The GoldfinchDonna Tartt
If We Were VillainsM.L. Rio
Where Angels Fear to TreadE. M. Forster
August — 7 books
Slouching Towards BethlehemJoan Didion
True at First LightErnest Hemingway, Patrick Hemingway
Mother NightKurt Vonnegut
Lighter Than My ShadowKatie Green
Twitter and Tear GasZeynep Tufekci
The Romanovs: 1613-1918Simon Sebag Montefiore
Stick and rudderWolfgang Langewiesche
July — 5 books
Human ActsHan Kang, Deborah Smith
Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary UnderbellyAnthony Bourdain
I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State KillerMichelle McNamara, Gillian Flynn
The Death and Life of Great American CitiesJane Jacobs
Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens DemocracyCathy O'Neil
June — 8 books
Our Man in HavanaGraham Greene, Tom Jupp
Teaching Community: A Pedagogy of Hopebell hooks
The World As It IsBen Rhodes
On Writing: A Memoir of the CraftStephen King
Private Island: Why Britain Now Belongs to Someone ElseJames Meek
Language of the Third ReichVictor Klemperer
A Study on AuthorityHerbert Marcuse
A History of the Arab PeoplesAlbert Hourani
May — 10 books
All's Well That Ends WellWilliam Shakespeare, Barbara A. Mowat, Paul Werstine
Riot DaysMaria Alyokhina
ImpressionismKarin H. Grimme, Norbert Wolf
MonetChristoph Heinrich
To Have and Have NotErnest Hemingway
In Evil HourGabriel García Márquez, Gregory Rabassa
Hamilton : the revolutionLin-Manuel Miranda, Jeremy McCarter
A Journal of the TerrorJean-Baptiste Cléry
The Death of Ivan IlychLeo Tolstoy, Aylmer Maude, رضی هیرمند, Ευγενία Ζήκου
SchieleReinhard Steiner
April — 27 books
The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to MasterAndrew Hunt, Dave Thomas
Half of a Yellow SunChimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Mumbo JumboIshmael Reed
Technically Wrong: Sexist Apps, Biased Algorithms, and Other Threats of Toxic TechSara Wachter-Boettcher
Hunger: A Memoir of (My) BodyRoxane Gay
The Postmodern Condition: A Report on KnowledgeJean-François Lyotard, Brian Massumi, Geoffrey Bennington, Fredric Jameson
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in CrisisJ. D. Vance
Big Bang: The Origin of the UniverseSimon Singh
Tubes a journey to the center of the InternetAndrew Blum
Philosophy: A Very Short IntroductionEdward Craig
Introducing Continental Philosophy: A Graphic GuideChristopher Kul-Want, Piero
Postmodernism: A Very Short IntroductionChristopher Butler
When Breath Becomes AirPaul Kalanithi, Abraham Verghese
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of EverythingSteven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner
To Be a Machine : Adventures Among Cyborgs, Utopians, Hackers, and the Futurists Solving the Modest Problem of DeathMark O'Connell
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster CapitalismNaomi Klein
Against Everything: EssaysMark Greif
American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert OppenheimerKai Bird, Martin J. Sherwin
The Communist ManifestoKarl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Leon Trotsky, Samuel Moore, Erkin Özalp, Amanda Lee, Antonio Carlos Braga, Aldrin Alexander Evies, Oqtay Eloğlu
Poststructuralism: A Very Short IntroductionCatherine Belsey
Introducing Freud: A Graphic GuideOscar Zárate, Richard Appignanesi
Introducing Slavoj Zizek: A Graphic GuideChristopher Kul-Want, Piero
No Is Not Enough: Resisting Trump's Shock Politics and Winning the World We NeedNaomi Klein
Alexander HamiltonRon Chernow
On IdeologyLouis Althusser, Ben Brewster
Grays AnatomyHenry Gray
Post-Truth: How Bullshit Conquered the WorldJames Ball
March — 8 books
The Road to Wigan PierGeorge Orwell, Richard Hoggart
How Parliament WorksPaul Silk
Fear and TremblingSoren Kierkegaard, Alastair Hannay, Johannes de Silentio
Conjectures and Refutations, the Growth of Scientific KnowledgeKarl Popper, Michelle Irene, de Launay Marc B., Melitta Mew
Radical Candor: Be a Kick-Ass Boss Without Losing Your HumanityKim Malone Scott, Kim Scott
Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About RaceReni Eddo-Lodge, Zuzana Szabóová
Eat Up: Food, Appetite and Eating What You WantRuby Tandoh
On the RoadJack Kerouac
February — 6 books
Swing TimeZadie Smith
The Kite RunnerKhaled Hosseini
CoriolanusWilliam Shakespeare, William Aldis Wright, Roma Gill, Francis Fergusson
A Brief History of TimeStephen Hawking
BelovedToni Morrison, A.S. Byatt
Ruling The Void: The Hollowing Of Western DemocracyPeter Mair
January — 14 books
AutumnAli Smith
Imagined Communities: Reflections On The Origin And Spread Of NationalismBenedict Anderson
Who Really Runs Britain?: The Private Companies Taking Control of Benefits, Prisons, Asylum, Deportation, Security, Social Care and the NHSAlan White
The DispossessedUrsula K. Le Guin
The Attention Merchants: The Epic Scramble to Get Inside Our HeadsTim Wu
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?Philip K. Dick
Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White HouseMichael Wolff
You Tarzan: Masculinity, Movies and MenPat Kirkham, Janet Thumim
Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War EraJames M. McPherson
The SeagullAnton Chekhov, Laurence Senelick
PachinkoMin Jin Lee
The Old Man and the SeaErnest Hemingway
StalinNikolaus Basseches, E.W. Dickes
Exit WestMohsin Hamid
2017
December — 20 books
The PoliticsAristotle, T.A. Sinclair, Trevor J. Saunders
Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of PilgrimageHaruki Murakami, Philip Gabriel
In Defense of Lost CausesSlavoj Žižek
Men Explain Things to MeRebecca Solnit
Simulacra and SimulationJean Baudrillard, Sheila Faria Glaser
The 7th Function of LanguageLaurent Binet, Sam Taylor
NauseaJean-Paul Sartre, Lloyd Alexander, James Wood, Richard Howard
1Q84: Book 1Haruki Murakami
The Origins of TotalitarianismHannah Arendt
The TrialFranz Kafka, Breon Mitchell
Death In The AfternoonErnest Hemingway
Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the PrisonMichel Foucault, Alan Sheridan
Regarding the Pain of OthersSusan Sontag
Dance Dance DanceHaruki Murakami, Alfred Birnbaum
Notes from UndergroundFyodor Dostoevsky, Richard Pevear, Larissa Volokhonsky
AmericanahChimamanda Ngozi Adichie
We Were Eight Years in Power: An American TragedyTa-Nehisi Coates
Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminismbell hooks
The Sun Also RisesErnest Hemingway
Dialectic of EnlightenmentTheodor W. Adorno, Max Horkheimer, John Cumming
October — 1 book
Augustus: The BiographyJochen Bleicken, Anthea Bell
2016
September — 5 books
The Unbearable Lightness of BeingMilan Kundera, Michael Henry Heim
For Whom the Bell TollsErnest Hemingway
A Moveable FeastErnest Hemingway
A Farewell to ArmsErnest Hemingway
The RebelAlbert Camus
August — 6 books
The Koran: A Very Short IntroductionMichael A. Cook
1Q84Haruki Murakami, Jay Rubin, Philip Gabriel
MeditationsMarcus Aurelius, Martin Hammond
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the GalaxyDouglas Adams
SiddharthaHermann Hesse
Notes from a Small IslandBill Bryson
July — 43 books
Persepolis 2: The Story of a ReturnMarjane Satrapi, Anjali Singh
Sputnik SweetheartHaruki Murakami, Philip Gabriel
How to Read Towns and Cities: A Crash Course in Urban ArchitectureJonathan Glancey
The Wind-Up Bird ChronicleHaruki Murakami, Jay Rubin
Neither Here nor There: Travels in EuropeBill Bryson
Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming ProductsNir Eyal
Norwegian WoodHaruki Murakami, Jay Rubin
Where the Wild Things AreMaurice Sendak
A Pelican Introduction: Social Class in the 21st CenturyMike Savage
KennedyBrett Harper
Brave New WorldAldous Huxley
The Book ThiefMarkus Zusak
Between the World and MeTa-Nehisi Coates
Triumph of the CityEdward L. Glaeser
Sapiens: A Brief History of HumankindYuval Noah Harari
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of AzkabanJ.K. Rowling
Fail Fast, Fail Often: How Losing Can Help You WinRyan Babineaux, John Krumboltz
Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? And Other Conversations about RaceBeverly Daniel Tatum
Fight ClubChuck Palahniuk
Who Governs Britain?Anthony King
Outline of a Theory of PracticePierre Bourdieu
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-TimeMark Haddon
Harry Potter and the Goblet of FireJ.K. Rowling, Mary GrandPré
Tender Is the NightF. Scott Fitzgerald
Black Swan GreenDavid Mitchell
The BeachAlex Garland
The Time Traveler’s WifeAudrey Niffenegger
Harry Potter and the Deathly HallowsJ.K. Rowling
The Death of a President: November 20 - November 25, 1963William Manchester, Joe Barrett
Life of PiYann Martel
The Tales of Beedle the BardJ.K. Rowling
The HostStephenie Meyer
The Handmaid’s TaleMargaret Atwood
On violence.Hannah Arendt
Never Let Me GoKazuo Ishiguro
The Boy in the Striped PyjamasJohn Boyne
The European Union: A Citizen's GuideChristopher J. Bickerton
Jane EyreCharlotte Brontë
The Lion, the Witch and the WardrobeC. S. Lewis, Pauline Baynes
My Booky WookRussell Brand
Oliver TwistVincent Buranelli, Charles Dickens, Hieronimus Fromm
Captain Corelli's MandolinLouis de Bernières
The Bell JarSylvia Plath
March — 79 books
Happy CityCharles Montgomery
The Social ContractJean-Jacques Rousseau, Maurice Cranston
MythologiesRoland Barthes, Annette Lavers
AmericaJean Baudrillard, Geoff Dyer, Chris Turner
Slaughterhouse-FiveKurt Vonnegut
The Bloody ChamberAngela Carter, Helen Simpson, Parra
Falling ManDon DeLillo
White NoiseDon DeLillo, Richard Powers
The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has DeclinedSteven Pinker
LeviathanThomas Hobbes, Richard Tuck
How Democratic Is the American Constitution?Robert A. Dahl
Infinite JestDavid Foster Wallace
The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No HorseLouise Erdrich
The Secret AgentJoseph Conrad
A Doll's HouseHenrik Ibsen
OthelloWilliam Shakespeare
Second Treatise of GovernmentJohn Locke, C.B. MacPherson
PoeticsAristotle, Malcolm Heath
Theories of the democratic stateJohn S. Dryzek
GileadMarilynne Robinson
The Plot Against AmericaPhilip Roth
The Lovely BonesAlice Sebold
Ways of SeeingJohn Berger
Understanding Public Policy: Theories and IssuesPaul Cairney
Black Girl/White GirlJoyce Carol Oates
The Hunger GamesSuzanne Collins
HabibiCraig Thompson
Persepolis, Volume 1Marjane Satrapi
The Economics of InequalityThomas Piketty
Emotionally WeirdKate Atkinson
The History of White PeopleNell Irvin Painter
All Quiet on the Western FrontErich Maria Remarque, A.W. Wheen
The Catcher in the RyeJ. D. Salinger
The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human NatureSteven Pinker
The Works of John DonneJohn Donne
Washington SquareHenry James
The Norton Anthology of Theory and CriticismWilliam E. Cain, Laurie A. Finke, John P. McGowan, T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting, Jeffrey J. Williams
Wall and PieceBanksy, Robin Bansky
Sir Gawain and the Green KnightGreen Knight Poet, Burton Raffel
Old schoolTobias Wolff
It's not how good you are, it's how good you want to bePaul Arden, Roger Kennedy
No god but God: The Origins, Evolution, and Future of IslamReza Aslan, Shishir Kurup
As I Lay DyingWilliam Faulkner
The Good SoldierFord Madox Ford
WatchmenAlan Moore
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's StoneJ.K. Rowling
To Kill A MockingbirdHarper Lee
The Great GatsbyF. Scott Fitzgerald
The Language Instinct: The New Science of Language and MindSteven Pinker
Kafka on the ShoreHaruki Murakami, Philip Gabriel
Lady Chatterley's LoverD.H. Lawrence
The StrangerAlbert Camus, Matthew Ward
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering GeniusDave Eggers
V for VendettaAlan Moore
T. S. Eliot: The waste landHelen Williams
American Government: Political Development and Institutional ChangeCalvin C. Jillson
Visual Thesaurus: A Quick Flip Brainstorming Tool for Graphic DesignersHatmaker
God's cenuryDaniel Philpott
Paradise LostJohn Milton, John Leonard
The MartianAndy Weir
Welcome to the Desert of the Real: Five Essays on September 11 and Related DatesSlavoj Žižek
1984George Orwell, Peter Hobley Davison, Shepard Fairey
Things I have learned in my life so farStefan Sagmeister, Daniel Nettle, Nancy Spector, Steven Heller
Discourse On The Origin Of InequalityJean-Jacques Rousseau
BeowulfSeamus Heaney, Unknown
The Autobiography of Malcolm XMalcolm X, Alex Haley
Asterios PolypDavid Mazzucchelli
Capital in the Twenty-First CenturyThomas Piketty, Arthur Goldhammer
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young ManJames Joyce, Seamus Deane
The World of Ice and Fire: The Untold History of Westeros and the Game of ThronesGeorge R.R. Martin, Linda Antonsson, Elio M. García Jr.
Pale FireVladimir Nabokov
The PrinceNiccolò Machiavelli, Rufus Goodwin, Benjamin Martinez
Let the Great World SpinColum McCann
The Color PurpleAlice Walker
Animal FarmGeorge Orwell
ApologyPlato
The AnalectsConfucius, James Legge, Bruno Roubicek
Steve JobsWalter Isaacson
To the LighthouseVirginia Woolf, David Bradshaw