2026
April — 8 books
Yesteryear Caro Claire Burke
Transcription Ben Lerner
Terminal Boredom: Stories Izumi Suzuki, Polly Barton, Sam Bett, David Boyd, Daniel Joseph, Aiko Masubuchi, Helen O'Horan
The Line of Beauty Alan Hollinghurst
Hit Parade of Tears Izumi Suzuki
The Sunken Land Begins to Rise Again M. John Harrison
The Pastel City M. John Harrison, Bruce Pennington
Light M. John Harrison
February — 1 book
Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia David Graeber
January — 8 books
Michel the Giant: An African in Greenland Tété-Michel Kpomassie
Watching Over Her Jean-Baptiste Andrea
Strangers I Know Claudia Durastanti, Elizabeth Harris
Lost Lambs Madeline Cash
Hemlock: A Novel Melissa Faliveno
Underground Barbie Maša Kolanović, Ena Selimovic
Moderation Elaine Castillo
Territory of Light Yuko Tsushima, Geraldine Harcourt
2025
December — 1 book
Killing Thatcher Rory Carroll
November — 2 books
The Miernik Dossier Charles McCarry
The Tears of Autumn Charles McCarry
August — 1 book
Kairos Jenny Erpenbeck
July — 2 books
The Aeneid Virgil, Philip Hardie, Robert Fitzgerald
Gilgamesh: A New Translation of the Ancient Epic Anonymous, Sophus Helle
June — 10 books
Dune Messiah Frank Herbert
The Möbius Book Catherine Lacey
The Warm Hands of Ghosts Katherine Arden
The Go-Between L.P. Hartley, Douglas Brooks-Davis
1453 Roger Crowley
Native Nations: A Millennium in North America Kathleen DuVal
The Greek Revolution and the Violent Birth of Nationalism Yanni Kotsonis
The Death of Stalin Sheila Fitzpatrick
Revolutionary Spring Christopher Clark
Culture Creep: Notes on the Pop Apocalypse Alice Bolin
May — 3 books
The Listeners Maggie Stiefvater
Finding Grace Loretta Rothschild
Katabasis R.F. Kuang
April — 2 books
Year of the Rat: Undercover in the British Far Right Harry Shukman
Dombey and Son Charles Dickens
March — 2 books
Everything Must Go: The Stories We Tell About The End of the World Dorian Lynskey
The Frozen River Ariel Lawhon
January — 1 book
Birnam Wood Eleanor Catton
2024
December — 1 book
The Children of the Dead Elfriede Jelinek, Gitta Honegger
November — 2 books
The Melancholy of Resistance László Krasznahorkai, George Szirtes
War and War László Krasznahorkai, George Szirtes
October — 14 books
Eurotrash Christian Kracht, Daniel Bowles
Jagua Nana Cyprian Ekwensi
Mood Indigo Boris Vian
The Dear Green Place Archie Hind
Ex-Wife Ursula Parrott, Alissa Bennett, Marc Parrott
The Stepdaughter Caroline Blackwood
In This Sign Joanne Greenberg
The Kreutzer Sonata Leo Tolstoy, David Duff
Satantango László Krasznahorkai, George Szirtes
Come Closer Sara Gran
Autumn Journal Louis MacNeice
The Sufferings of Young Werther Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Stanley Corngold, Daniel May
The Anatomy of Melancholy Robert Burton, Angus Gowland
The Island Ana María Matute, Laura Lonsdale
September — 2 books
Vertigo: The Rise and Fall of Weimar Germany Harald Jähner
Correction Thomas Bernhard, Sophie Wilkins
August — 10 books
Djinns Fatma Aydemir, Jon Cho-Polizzi
Background to danger Eric Ambler
The Third Man Graham Greene, William B. Barrie
The Day of the Jackal Frederick Forsyth
Stars and Bars William Boyd
Veronica Mary Gaitskill
Beautiful Days: Stories Zach Williams
Intermezzo Sally Rooney
The End of Love Eva Illouz
Evenings and Weekends Oisín McKenna
July — 17 books
In the Blink of an Eye Walter Murch
The Great Movies Roger Ebert, Mary Corliss
Making Movies Sidney Lumet
The Passion According to G.H. Clarice Lispector, Ronald W. Sousa
The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise Olivia Laing
Bel Canto Ann Patchett
How to Be Both Ali Smith
The Corner That Held Them Sylvia Townsend Warner, Claire Harman
The Monk: A Romance Matthew Gregory Lewis
The Prophet Kahlil Gibran
Mariette in Ecstasy Ron Hansen
The Weary Blues Langston Hughes
The History of Jazz Ted Gioia
Hybrids of Plants and of Ghosts Jorie Graham
The Jazz Poetry Anthology Sascha Feinstein, Yusef Komunyakaa
Invisible Man Ralph Ellison
The Collected Dorothy Parker Dorothy Parker
June — 1 book
Gender codes Thomas J. Misa
May — 4 books
Fixers: Agency, Translation, and the Early Global History of Literature Zrinka Stahuljak
Ours Phillip B. Williams
Before European Hegemony: The World System A.D. 1250-1350 Janet L. Abu-Lughod
You Could Do Something Amazing with Your Life Andrew Hankinson
April — 20 books
Eve's Hollywood Eve Babitz
The Theory of the Leisure Class Thorstein Veblen, Alan Wolfe
The Obscene Madame D Hilda Hilst, Rachel Gontijo Araujo, Nathanaël, John Keene
Leisure the Basis of Culture Josef Pieper, Alexander Dru, T.S. Eliot
Bunny Mona Awad
The Night Battles Carlo Ginzburg, John Tedeschi, Anne Tedeschi
The Great Cat Massacre Robert Darnton
Porn: An Oral History Polly Barton
Bugsy & Other Stories Rafael Frumkin
Women! In! Peril! Jessie Ren Marshall
Say Hello to My Little Friend Jennine Capo Crucet
The Principle of Rapid Peering Sylvia Legris
Grief Is for People Sloane Crosley
The Wounded World: W. E. B. Du Bois and the First World War Chad L. Williams
Pym Mat Johnson
We Are a Haunting Tyriek White
Headshot Rita Bullwinkel
The Weeds Katy Simpson Smith
Lake of Urine Guillermo Stitch
A Far Cry from Kensington Muriel Spark
March — 25 books
City of Laughter Temim Fruchter
The Children Act Ian McEwan
Of Cattle and Men Ana Paula Maia, Zoë Perry
Klara and the Sun Kazuo Ishiguro
The Years Annie Ernaux, Alison L. Strayer
Simple Passion Annie Ernaux, Tanya Leslie
South and West: From a Notebook Joan Didion
Happening Annie Ernaux, Tanya Leslie
The Cement Garden Ian McEwan
A Girl's Story Annie Ernaux, Alison L. Strayer
Getting Lost Annie Ernaux, Alison L. Strayer
The Memory Police Yōko Ogawa, Stephen Snyder, Markus Juslin
Kudos Rachel Cusk
Come and Get It Kiley Reid
Prophet Song Paul Lynch
Baumgartner Paul Auster
Greek Lessons Han Kang, Deborah Smith, Emily Yae Won
Cursed Bunny Bora Chung, Anton Hur
Who's Afraid of Gender? Judith Butler
The Rehearsal Eleanor Catton
Out Natsuo Kirino
Kapo Aleksandar Tišma, Richard Williams
The Deorhord: An Old English Bestiary Hana Videen
The Barbara Johnson Reader: The Surprise of Otherness Barbara Johnson, Bill Johnson González, Melissa Feuerstein, Lili Porten, Keja L. Valens
Goodbye Tsugumi Banana Yoshimoto, Michael Emmerich
February — 3 books
Immediacy: Or, The Style of Too Late Capitalism Anna Kornbluh
The War That Killed Achilles Caroline Alexander
Talk Linda Rosenkrantz, Stephen Koch
January — 6 books
Awake Harald Voetmann
Tone Sofia Samatar, Kate Zambreno
Beautyland Marie-Helene Bertino
Tripping on Utopia: Margaret Mead, the Cold War, and the Troubled Birth of Psychedelic Science Benjamin Breen
Sheridan’s Secret Mission: How the South Won the War After the Civil War Robert Cwiklik
Sex with a Brain Injury: On Concussion and Recovery Annie Liontas
2023
December — 29 books
How to Draw a Novel Martin Solares
The Zone of Interest Martin Amis
Marzahn, mon amour Katja Oskamp, Jo Heinrich
Bliss Montage Ling Ma
Journey to the End of the Night Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Ralph Manheim, Angela Cismaş, William T. Vollmann
Solenoid Mircea Cărtărescu
The Devil Takes You Home Gabino Iglesias
Nostalgia Mircea Cărtărescu
Wittgenstein's Poker: The Story of a Ten-Minute Argument Between Two Great Philosophers David Edmonds, John Eidinow
Antkind Charlie Kaufman
The Letters of Gustave Flaubert Gustave Flaubert
Ægypt John Crowley
The Best of Everything Rona Jaffe
There Is No Antimemetics Division qntm
The Bee Sting Paul Murray
The Overstory Richard Powers
The Apple in the Dark Clarice Lispector, Benjamin Moser
The Book at War: Libraries and Readers in an Age of Conflict Andrew Pettegree
Minor Detail Adania Shibli, Elisabeth Jaquette
Big Swiss Jen Beagin
Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues Jonathan Kennedy
Blackouts Justin Torres
DallerGut Dream Department Store Lee Mi-ye
There Will Be Fire: Margaret Thatcher, the IRA, and Two Minutes That Changed History Rory Carroll
The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder David Grann
The Marriage Portrait Maggie O'Farrell
Mitz Sigrid Nunez, Peter Cameron
Salt Lick Lulu Allison
In Search of Berlin: The Story of A Reinvented City John Kampfner
November — 11 books
The Mystery Guest Nita Prose
Alice Sadie Celine Sarah Blakley-Cartwright
We Must Not Think of Ourselves Lauren Grodstein
Human Capital: A History of Putting Refugees to Work Laura Robson
We Have Always Lived in the Castle Shirley Jackson
The Unquiet Englishman: A Life of Graham Greene Richard Greene
Brainwyrms Alison Rumfitt
The Walking Man Jirō Taniguchi
Dust: The Modern World in a Trillion Particles Jay Owens
Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech Brian Merchant
Mild Vertigo Mieko Kanai, Polly Barton
October — 2 books
The Kremlin's Candidate Jason Matthews
Palace of Treason Jason Matthews
September — 3 books
Cloven Country: The Devil and the English Landscape Jeremy Harte
Second Place Rachel Cusk
Under Western Eyes Joseph Conrad, Stephen Donovan, J.H. Stape
August — 1 book
Tomás Nevinson Javier Marías
July — 3 books
The World of Yesterday Stefan Zweig, Harry Zohn
Boys Weekend Mattie Lubchansky
Fabulosa!: The Story of Polari, Britain’s Secret Gay Language Paul Baker
June — 8 books
You Look Like a Thing and I Love You: How Artificial Intelligence Works and Why It's Making the World a Weirder Place Janelle Shane
Being There: Putting Brain, Body, and World Together Again Andy Clark
The Soul of a New Machine Tracy Kidder
Who Controls the Internet?: Illusions of a Borderless World Jack L. Goldsmith, Tim Wu
The Rhetorics of Feminism: Readings in Contemporary Cultural Theory and the Popular Press Lynne Pearce
Life in Code Ellen Ullman
Cwen Alice Albinia
Post-Traumatic Chantal V. Johnson
May — 2 books
Hild Nicola Griffith, Pearl Hewitt
The White Goddess: A Historical Grammar of Poetic Myth Robert Graves
April — 1 book
The Newtonian Casino Thomas A. Bass
March — 5 books
Broad Band Claire L. Evans
The Jews of Summer: Summer Camp and Jewish Culture in Postwar America Sandra Fox
The Odyssey Lara Williams
Germinal Émile Zola, Stanley Hochman, Eleanor Hochman, Irving Howe
I Want to Die but I Want to Eat Tteokbokki Baek Se-hee
February — 4 books
The Political Unconscious Fredric Jameson
The Globalization of Wheat: A Critical History of the Green Revolution Marci Baranski
Europe Central William T. Vollmann
Speak Not James Griffiths
January — 6 books
The Shards Bret Easton Ellis
The English Understand Wool Helen DeWitt
The Birthday Party Laurent Mauvignier, Daniel Levin Becker
How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures Sabrina Imbler
Short Stories in German, Erzählungen auf Deutsch: New Penguin Parallel Text Ernst Zillekens
Parallel Text: German Short Stories: Deutsche Kurzgeschichten Richard Newnham, Heinrich Böll, Reinhard Lettau, Ilse Aichinger, Hans Bender, Gertrud Fussenegger, Gerd Gaiser, Wolfdietrich Schnurre, Wolfgang Borchert
2022
December — 12 books
The Little Friend Donna Tartt
Sea of Tranquility Emily St. John Mandel
Emergent Tokyo: Designing the Spontaneous City Jorge Almazán, Joe McReynolds
The Office of Good Intentions. Human(s) Work Florian Idenburg, LeeAnn Suen, Iwan Baan, Zoë Ritts, Duncan Scovil
Showroom City: Real Estate and Resistance in the Furniture Capital of the World John Joe Schlichtman
Into the Universe of Technical Images Vilém Flusser, Nancy Ann Roth
Towards a Philosophy of Photography Vilém Flusser, Hubertus Von Amelunxen, Anthony Mathews
Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò
The Book of Goose Yiyun Li
Checkout 19 Claire-Louise Bennett
Either/Or Elif Batuman
Aesthetica Allie Rowbottom
November — 20 books
There Once Lived a Girl Who Seduced Her Sister's Husband, and He Hanged Himself Ludmilla Petrushevskaya
Septology Jon Fosse, Damion Searls
LOTE Shola von Reinhold
The Books of Jacob Olga Tokarczuk, Jennifer Croft
The Word for World Is Forest Ursula K. Le Guin
Invisible Cities Italo Calvino, Anthony Doerr, Karina Maria Puente Frantzen
All Our Yesterdays Natalia Ginzburg, Angus Davidson, Sally Rooney
Cryptonomicon Neal Stephenson
Ferdinand, the Man with the Kind Heart Irmgard Keun
Ancient Evenings Norman Mailer
The Difference Engine William Gibson, Bruce Sterling
The Sirens of Titan Kurt Vonnegut
Insane Rainald Goetz, Adrian Nathan West
Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen Christopher McDougall, Fred Sanders
Howdie-Skelp Paul Muldoon
Distant Star Roberto Bolaño, Chris Andrews
This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyberweapons Arms Race Nicole Perlroth
Iron Kingdom Christopher Clark
Martin Luther Martin Brecht, James L. Schaaf
The Stars at Noon Denis Johnson
October — 6 books
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test Tom Wolfe
The Story of Art without Men Katy Hessel
España: A Brief History of Spain Giles Tremlett
The Pahrump Report Lisa Crystal Carver
The Lisa Diaries Lisa Crystal Carver
Drugs are Nice: A Post-Punk Memoir Lisa Crystal Carver
September — 2 books
Baby, I Don't Care Chelsey Minnis
The Babel Message: A Love Letter to Language Keith Kahn-Harris
August — 3 books
The Cuckoo's Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage Clifford Stoll
The Interim Isabel Fargo Cole, Wolfgang Hilbig
C: The Secret Life of Sir Stewart Graham Menzies, Spymaster to Winston Churchill Anthony Cave Brown
July — 3 books
The World for Sale: Money, Power and the Traders Who Barter the Earth’s Resources Javier Blas, Jack Farchy
A Global History of Money Akinobu Kuroda
A Brief History of Everyone who Ever Lived: The Stories in Our Genes Adam Rutherford
June — 1 book
Nebelkinder Stefanie Gregg
April — 1 book
Boy Parts Eliza Clark
March — 5 books
The Cartographers Peng Shepherd
Last Exit Max Gladstone
How High We Go in the Dark Sequoia Nagamatsu
Opening Up: Youth Sex Culture and Market Reform in Shanghai James Farrer
Red Azalea Anchee Min
February — 2 books
The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility, and Other Writings on Media Walter Benjamin, Michael W. Jennings, Harry Zohn, Brigid Doherty, Edmund F.N. Jephcott, Rodney Livingstone, Howard Eiland, Thomas Y. Levin
Why Marx Was Right Terry Eagleton
January — 2 books
Electrify Saul Griffith
Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry into the Value of Work Matthew B. Crawford
2021
December — 1 book
The Sentence Louise Erdrich
November — 1 book
Board and Table Games from Many Civilizations Robert Charles Bell
October — 11 books
The Mass Psychology of Fascism Wilhelm Reich, Vincent R. Carfagno
Harlem Shuffle Colson Whitehead
Zone One Colson Whitehead
Black Boy: A Record of Youth and Childhood Richard Wright
Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea Guy Delisle, Helge Dascher
Billy Liar Keith Waterhouse, Nick Bentley
The Pessimists Bethany Ball
Dictionary of Untranslatables: A Philosophical Lexicon Barbara Cassin, Emily Apter, Jacques Lezra
Immigration, Poverty, and Socioeconomic Inequality David Card, Steven Raphael
John Brown W.E.B. Du Bois
The New Me Halle Butler
September — 14 books
Tenth of December George Saunders
The Food Lab J. Kenji López-Alt
Tuff Paul Beatty
The Black Death Rosemary Horrox
The Bookseller's Tale Ann Swinfen
An Island Karen Jennings
Egon Schiele Egon Schiele
Notes on Camp Susan Sontag
The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam Barbara W. Tuchman
Precarious Life Judith Butler
Foucault's Pendulum Umberto Eco
On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint Maggie Nelson
Stone Butch Blues Leslie Feinberg
Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War Viet Thanh Nguyen
August — 4 books
We Real Cool bell hooks
Racism Without Racists Eduardo Bonilla-Silva
The Season Kristen Richardson
Afropean Johny Pitts
July — 3 books
Plain Bad Heroines Emily M. Danforth, Xe Sands
Medieval Ethiopian Kingship, Craft, and Diplomacy with Latin Europe Verena Krebs
The Death of Democracy
June — 4 books
Summa Contra Gentiles Thomas Aquinas
Somebody's Daughter Ashley C. Ford
City for Sale: Ed Koch and the Betrayal of New York Jack Newfield, Wayne Barrett
Subway Lives: 24 Hours in the Life of the New York City Subway Jim Dwyer
May — 9 books
The Secret Lives of Church Ladies Deesha Philyaw
A Cure for Darkness Alex Riley
Chatter dispatches from the secret world of global eavesdropping Patrick Radden Keefe
Against Interpretation and Other Essays Susan Sontag
Sociobiology: The New Synthesis Edward O. Wilson
The Trouble with Testosterone and Other Essays on the Biology of the Human Predicament Robert M. Sapolsky
Must I Go Yiyun Li, Jane Alexander, Alex McKenna, John Rubinstein
The Life of the Mind Christine Smallwood
The Last Libertines Benedetta Craveri, Aaron Kerner
April — 2 books
The Incendiaries R.O. Kwon
How To Survive A Plague David France
2020
December — 1 book
Excavation Wendy C. Ortiz
November — 10 books
London Fields Martin Amis
The Talented Mr Ripley Patricia Highsmith
Autobiography of Red Anne Carson
Feral George Monbiot
A Civic Technologist's Practice Guide Cyd Harrell
Subprime Attention Crisis Tim Hwang
The Smart Enough City: Putting Technology in Its Place to Reclaim Our Urban Future Ben Green, Jascha Franklin-Hodge
Logical chess move by move Irving Chernev
The Lonely Londoners Sam Selvon, Susheila Nasta
The Boundless Sea: A Human History of the Oceans David Abulafia
October — 1 book
Feminism, Interrupted Lola Olufemi
September — 1 book
The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot Robert Macfarlane
July — 3 books
A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland and The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides Samuel Johnson, James Boswell, Peter Levi
Staying Power: The History of Black People in Britain Peter Fryer, Gary Younge, Paul Gilroy
A Theory of the Drone GrŽgoire Chamayou
June — 1 book
The Blacker the Berry Wallace Thurman
May — 1 book
A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction Christopher W. Alexander, Sara Ishikawa, Murray Silverstein, Max Jacobson, Ingrid Fiksdahl-King, Shlomo Angel
April — 2 books
Underworld Don DeLillo
UNIX and Linux System Administration Handbook Evi Nemeth, Garth Snyder, Trent R. Hein, Ben Whaley
March — 3 books
Kurt Vonnegut letters Dan Wakefield, Kurt Vonnegut
Slapstick, or Lonesome No More! Kurt Vonnegut
The Chronology of Water Lidia Yuknavitch
February — 4 books
Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President Candice Millard
Nox Anne Carson
Mortal Republic Edward J. Watts
A Mathematician's Apology G.H. Hardy, C.P. Snow
January — 45 books
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day Winifred Watson
Parliament: The Biography Chris Bryant
The Black Prince Iris Murdoch, Christopher Cornford
Underland Robert Macfarlane
Greek and Roman Myths: A Guide to the Classical Stories Philip Matyszak
Wolf Hall Hilary Mantel
The Graduate Charles Webb, Hanif Kureishi
Medea and Other Plays Euripides, Richard Rutherford, John Davie
A Place of Greater Safety Hilary Mantel
Remarkable Birds Mark Avery
Zami: A New Spelling of My Name Audre Lorde
Bring Up the Bodies Hilary Mantel
The Division Bell Mystery Ellen Wilkinson
Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency Olivia Laing
What Is the Grass: Walt Whitman in My Life Mark Doty
A Tale of Two Cities Charles Dickens
The Count of Monte Cristo Alexandre Dumas
Like Ali Smith
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn Betty Smith
Little Women Louisa May Alcott, Anna Bond
Not Working Josh Cohen
Up Down Inside Out Joohee Yoon
Old Drift Namwali Serpell
Modern Classical Physics Kip S. Thorne, Roger D. Blandford
Wild Game: My Mother, Her Lover, and Me Adrienne Brodeur
After the Ice Steven Mithen
The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World Andrea Wulf
How to Invent Everything: A Survival Guide for the Stranded Time Traveler Ryan North
Let It Come Down Paul Bowles
Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets Svetlana Alexievich, Bela Shayevich
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York Robert A. Caro
Society Of The Spectacle Guy Debord
Prozac Nation: Young & Depressed In America: A Memoir Elizabeth Wurtzel
Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin Timothy Snyder
The Book of the City of Ladies Christine de Pizan, Earl Jeffrey Richards, Marina Warner
The Bonjour Effect Julie Barlow, Jean-Benoit Nadeau
Greater Gotham Mike Wallace
No. 10: The Geography of Power at Downing Street Jack Brown
Gingerbread Helen Oyeyemi
Lucky Per Henrik Pontoppidan
The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming David Wallace-Wells
The World Doesn't Require You Rion Amilcar Scott
The Organs of Sense Adam Ehrlich Sachs
How to Read Wittgenstein Ray Monk
Recursion Blake Crouch
2019
September — 1 book
The diary of Anaïs Nin. Anaïs Nin
July — 1 book
My Brilliant Friend Elena Ferrante, Ann Goldstein
April — 4 books
Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors Susan Sontag
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History Elizabeth Kolbert
The Castle diaries, 1964-70 Barbara Castle
Women of Westminster: The MPs who Changed Politics Rachel Reeves
March — 224 books
The Blood of Emmett Till Timothy B. Tyson
Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat: Mastering the Elements of Good Cooking Samin Nosrat, Wendy MacNaughton
Tangerine Christine Mangan
The Pisces Melissa Broder
The Reformation Diarmaid MacCulloch
Rogue Empires: Contracts and Conmen in Europe’s Scramble for Africa Steven Press
Let Them Eat Chaos Kate Tempest
Smart Cities Anthony M. Townsend
Lenin on the Train Catherine Merridale
A Boy in Winter Rachel Seiffert
Learning from Las Vegas Rev Ed
SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome Mary Beard
Life Between Buildings Jan Gehl
The Good Immigrant Nikesh Shukla, Varaidzo, Chimene Suleyman, Vera Chok, Daniel York Loh, Himesh Patel, Nish Kumar, Reni Eddo-Lodge, Wei Ming Kam, Darren Chetty, Kieran Yates, Coco Khan, Inua Ellams, Sabrina Mahfouz, Riz Ahmed, Sarah Sahim, Salena Godden, Miss L., Bim Adewunmi, Vinay Patel, Musa Okwonga
The Nice and the Good Iris Murdoch
Now It Can Be Told Philip Gibbs
Domesday Book G. H. Martin, Ann Williams
Who Governs? Robert A. Dahl
The Wasp Factory Iain Banks
A Perfect Vacuum Stanisław Lem, Michael Kandel
The Anglo Saxon Chronicle Various, Benjamin Thorpe
Course in General Linguistics Ferdinand de Saussure, Roy Harris
Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene Donna J. Haraway
The Silk Roads: A New History of the World Peter Frankopan
Black Skin, White Masks Frantz Fanon, Theo Solomon
Dialogue: The Art of Verbal Action for Page, Stage, and Screen Robert McKee
Democracy for Realists Why Elections Do Not Produce Responsive Government Christopher H. Achen, Larry M. Bartels
They Were Sisters Dorothy Whipple
The Bonfire of the Vanities Tom Wolfe
On Writers and Writing Margaret Atwood
The Gathering Storm Winston S. Churchill
Das Kapital (Abridged) Karl Marx
Places of the Heart Colin Ellard
Utilitarianism John Stuart Mill, George Sher
Les Misérables Victor Hugo, Norman Denny
The Establishment: And How They Get Away with It Owen Jones
The Principia Isaac Newton, Andrew Motte
A Manual for Cleaning Women: Selected Stories Lucia Berlin, Stephen Emerson, Lydia Davis
On the Reproduction of Capitalism: Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses Louis Althusser
Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions Brian Christian, Tom Griffiths
While the City Slept Eli Sanders
Zen in the Art of Writing Ray Bradbury
The Mitfords: Letters Between Six Sisters Charlotte Mosley
Architecture for the Poor: An Experiment in Rural Egypt Hassan Fathy
Introducing Lyotard Bill Readings
Jesus' Son Denis Johnson
You All Grow Up and Leave Me: A Memoir of Teenage Obsession Piper Weiss
This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate Naomi Klein
Understanding power Noam Chomsky, Peter R. Mitchell, John Schoeffel
Architecture Theory Since 1968 K. Michael Hays
The Sublime Object of Ideology Slavoj Žižek
Bad Feminist Roxane Gay, Laurel Lefkow
Twelve Who Ruled R.R. Palmer, Isser Woloch
Close to Home: A Materialist Analysis of Women's Oppression Christine Delphy, Rachel Hills, Diana Leonard
Candide Voltaire
Quantum Mechanics: The Theoretical Minimum Leonard Susskind, Art Friedman
Alias Grace Margaret Atwood
Design as Art Bruno Munari
Sharp Objects Gillian Flynn
Liquid Modernity Zygmunt Bauman
Nothing to Envy: Real Lives in North Korea Barbara Demick
NW Zadie Smith
The Enemy Within Seumas Milne
How to Study Public Life Jan Gehl, Birgitte Svarre
Rebecca Daphne du Maurier
After Dark Haruki Murakami, Jay Rubin
South of the Border, West of the Sun Haruki Murakami, Philip Gabriel
The Visual Display of Quantitative Information Edward R. Tufte
The semisovereign people : a realist's view of democracy in America E.E. Schattschneider
A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge George Berkeley, Jonathan Dancy
The making of the English working class E.P. Thompson
The Elephant Vanishes Haruki Murakami, Alfred Birnbaum, Jay Rubin
Cosmos Carl Sagan, Paulo Geiger
Relativity Albert Einstein
Aloha Betrayed: Native Hawaiian Resistance to American Colonialism Noenoe K. Silva
Ethics Baruch Spinoza, R.H.M. Elwes
Classical Mechanics: The Theoretical Minimum Leonard Susskind, George Hrabovsky
A Theory of Good City Form Kevin Lynch
Science and the Common Understanding J. Robert Oppenheimer
Microcognition: Philosophy, Cognitive Science, and Parallel Distributed Processing Andy Clark
The Moral Law: Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals Immanuel Kant, H.J. Paton
One Way Street And Other Writings Walter Benjamin, Edmund F.N. Jephcott, K. Shorter
Crime and Punishment Fyodor Dostoevsky, Leonard Stanton, James D. Hardy Jr., Sidney Monas, Robin Feuer Miller
The Nature of Code Daniel Shiffman
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Edward Gibbon, Daniel J. Boorstin, Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Hans-Friedrich Mueller
Emma Jane Austen, Fiona Stafford
A Song of Ice and Fire books 1-5: A Game of Thrones/A Clash of Kings/A Storm of Swords/A Feast for Crows/A Dance with Dragons George R.R. Martin
Cognitive Science José Luis Bermúdez
Italian Folktales Italo Calvino, George Martin
Reflections on the revolution in France L.G. Mitchell, Edmund Burke
The Naked Lunch William S. Burroughs
The Classical Language of Architecture John Summerson
If They Come in the Morning: Voices of Resistance Angela Y. Davis
Letters on England Voltaire
A Treatise of Human Nature David Hume
Writing and Difference Jacques Derrida, Alan Bass
Song of Solomon Toni Morrison
Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture, and the Body Susan Bordo, Leslie Heywood
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love Raymond Carver
The Chrysalids John Wyndham
Pacific Worlds Matt K. Matsuda
A Wild Sheep Chase Haruki Murakami, Alfred Birnbaum
Gramatologia Jacques Derrida
Simians, Cyborgs, and Women: The Reinvention of Nature Donna J. Haraway
Convenience Store Woman Sayaka Murata, Ginny Tapley Takemori
A Certain Idea of France: The Life of Charles de Gaulle Julian T. Jackson
Crudo: A Novel Olivia Laing
Jazz Toni Morrison
A Man of the People Chinua Achebe
She Would Be King Wayétu Moore
Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West Cormac McCarthy
Washington Black Esi Edugyan
The Modern Cook’s Year Anna Jones
2666 Roberto Bolaño, Natasha Wimmer
Not All Dead White Men: Classics and Misogyny in the Digital Age Donna Zuckerberg
All Roads Lead to Blood Bonnie Chau
On Liberty John Stuart Mill
Into the Raging Sea Rachel Slade
Differend: Phrases in Dispute Jean-François Lyotard
How Europe Underdeveloped Africa Walter Rodney, Angela Y. Davis
The Sense of an Ending Frank Kermode
Milkman Anna Burns
But Some of Us are Brave Akasha Gloria Hull, Barbara Smith
Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character Richard P. Feynman, Микола Климчук
How Democracies Die Steven Levitsky, Fred Sanders
Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs Harold Abelson, Julie Sussman, Gerald Jay Sussman
Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury
One-Dimensional Man Herbert Marcuse
Ernest Hemingway on Writing Larry W. Phillips
Story: Substance, Structure, Style, and the Principles of Screenwriting Robert McKee
Call Me by Your Name Andre Aciman
French Exit Patrick deWitt
Kids These Days Malcolm Harris
The edifice complex Deyan Sudjic
Critical Race Theory: The Key Writings That Formed the Movement Kimberlé Crenshaw, Neil Gotanda, Garry Peller, Kendall Thomas, Cornel West
Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers: A History of Lesbian Life in Twentieth-Century America Lillian Faderman
Junky William S. Burroughs
Playing with Fire: The 1968 Election and the Transformation of American Politics Lawrence O'Donnell
Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community Robert D. Putnam
Nationalism and the Imagination Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
Sexual Anarchy Elaine Showalter
Salafi-Jihadism: The History of an Idea Shiraz Maher
God Reza Aslan
The Collected Essays of Elizabeth Hardwick Elizabeth Hardwick, Darryl Pinckney
What Happened Hillary Rodham Clinton
Infra Richard Mosse, Adam Hochschild
A World Without "Whom" Emmy J. Favilla, BuzzFeed
The Silence of the Sea / Le Silence de la mer Vercors, James Ward Brown, Lawrence D. Stokes, Cyril Connelly
World Without Mind Franklin Foer
The Kites Romain Gary, Miranda Richmond Mouillot
The Call of Cthulu and Other Stories H. P. Lovecraft
Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power Audre Lorde
American War Omar El Akkad
Teaching Critical Thinking: Practical Wisdom bell hooks
The Marx-Engels Reader Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Robert C. Tucker
Black and British: A Forgotten History David Olusoga
Border Lines: The Partition of Judaeo-Christianity Daniel Boyarin
The Holocaust Laurence Rees
Do Not Say We Have Nothing Madeleine Thien
Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine Gail Honeyman
Midnight's Children Salman Rushdie
But how Do it Know? J. Clark Scott
The Six Day War: The Breaking of the Middle East Guy Laron
The God of Small Things Arundhati Roy
Art Forms in Nature Ernst Haeckel, Richard P. Hartmann, Olaf Breidbach, Irenäus Eibl-Eibesfeldt, Michele Schons, Michael Ashdown
Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman Haruki Murakami
Lenin's Tomb David Remnick
Private Truths, Public Lies Timur Kuran
Constituting Feminist Subjects Kathi Weeks
Insurrecto Gina Apostol
Early Work Andrew Martin
Ideas Pertaining to a Pure Phenomenology and to a Phenomenological Philosophy: First Book: General Introduction to a Pure Phenomenology Edmund Husserl, F. Kersten
Rice's Church Primer Matthew Rice
Jean-François Lyotard Simon Malpas
Dragnet Nation: A Quest for Privacy, Security, and Freedom in a World of Relentless Surveillance Julia Angwin
Parliamentary Versus Presidential Government Arend Lijphart
Social Media: A Critical Introduction Christian Fuchs
The Urban Design Reader Michael Larice, Elizabeth MacDonald
The Voyage of the Beagle: Complete and Unabridged Charles Darwin, Walter Sullivan
QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter Richard P. Feynman
Critique of Pure Reason Immanuel Kant, Paul Guyer, Allen W. Wood
In God's Path: The Arab Conquests and the Creation of an Islamic Empire Robert G. Hoyland
Dear Leader: Poet, Spy, Escapee - A Look Inside North Korea Jang Jin-sung, Shirley Lee
A Loeb Classical Library Reader Loeb Classical Library
Euclid's Elements Euclid, Dana Densmore, Thomas Little Heath
I Can't Breathe Matt Taibbi
Kant's 'Critique of Pure Reason' Theodor W. Adorno, Rodney Livingstone, Rolf Tiedemann
Land and Freedom: The MST, the Zapatistas and Peasant Alternatives to Neoliberalism Leandro Vergara-Camus
The City Assembled Spiro Kostof, Richard Tobias
The Design Dimension of Planning: Theory, content and best practice for design policies Matthew Carmona, John Punter
Forward Ever. Kwame Nkrumah: A Biography June Milne
Andreas Gursky Andreas Gursky, Peter Galassi
The Lukacs Reader Arpad Kadarkay
A Plague on Your Houses: How New York Was Burned Down and National Public Health Crumbled Deborah Wallace, Rodrick Wallace
Rule Britannia: Brexit and the End of Empire Danny Dorling
Social Infrastructure: New York: Douglas Durst and Bjarke Ingels Douglas Durst, Bjarke Ingels, Nina Rappaport, James Andrachuk, Andrew Benner
Structural Design: A Practical Guide for Architects James R. Underwood, Michele Chiuini
Tweeting to Power: The Social Media Revolution in American Politics Jason Gainous, Kevin M. Wagner
Connectionism and the Mind: Parallel Processing, Dynamics, and Evolution in Networks William Bechtel, Adele Abrahamsen
Imperial Bedrooms Bret Easton Ellis
Orientalism Edward W. Said
Family Trust Kathy Wang
Patterns of Democracy: Government Forms and Performance in Thirty-Six Countries Arend Lijphart
The Sovereignty of Good Iris Murdoch
Cities for People Jan Gehl
Selections from the Prison Notebooks Antonio Gramsci, Geoffrey Nowell-Smith, Quintin Hoare
The Virgin Suicides Jeffrey Eugenides
The History of Terrorism: From Antiquity to al Qæda Gérard Chaliand, Arnaud Blin
Neuromancer William Gibson
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding John Locke
A Gift of Fire: Social, Legal, and Ethical Issues for Computers and the Internet Sara Baase
Runaway: Stories Alice Munro
Something Happened Joseph Heller
Being and Time Martin Heidegger, John MacQuarrie, Edward Schouten Robinson, Taylor Carman
The Sense of an Ending Julian Barnes
On Intersectionality Kimberlé Crenshaw
Phänomenologie des Geistes georg-wilhelm-friedrich-hegel
The Satanic Verses Salman Rushdie
The Idiot Fyodor Dostoevsky, Frederick Whishaw
The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath Sylvia Plath, Karen V. Kukil
The Sea, the Sea Iris Murdoch, John Burnside
Beyond the Pale Vron Ware
Pocket Atlas of Remote Islands: Fifty Islands I Have Not Visited and Never Will Judith Schalansky
Aeschyli Eumenides Aeschylus
February — 1 book
Killing Commendatore Haruki Murakami, Philip Gabriel, Ted Goossen
January — 3 books
Grant Ron Chernow
The Woman in Black Susan Hill
Homesick for Another World Ottessa Moshfegh
2018
July — 1 book
The letters of Vincent van Gogh Vincent van Gogh, Ronald de Leeuw, Arnold J. Pomerans
January — 5 books
Brief Interviews with Hideous Men David Foster Wallace
A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments David Foster Wallace
Tolkien On Fairystories J.R.R. Tolkien
Men Without Women Haruki Murakami, Ted Goossen, Philip Gabriel
A Little Life Hanya Yanagihara
2016
August — 1 book
Lincoln's Melancholy: How Depression Challenged a President and Fueled His Greatness Joshua Wolf Shenk
July — 8 books
Aunt Harriet's underground railroad in the sky Faith Ringgold
The Feminine Mystique Betty Friedan, Anna Quindlen
Grid Systems in Graphic Design/Raster Systeme Fur Die Visuele Gestaltung (German and English Edition) Josef Müller-Brockmann
Feminism is for Everybody: Passionate Politics bell hooks
The Sense of Style Steven Pinker
The Female Eunuch Germaine Greer
The Beautiful Struggle: A Father, Two Sons and an Unlikely Road to Manhood Ta-Nehisi Coates
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness Michelle Alexander, Karen Chilton
March — 16 books
The Science of Interstellar Kip S. Thorne, Christopher J. Nolan
Trouble In Paradise Slavoj Žižek
Blackass A. Igoni Barrett
The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression Andrew Solomon
Living in the End Times Slavoj Žižek
Enjoy Your Symptom! Jacques Lacan in Hollywood and Out Slavoj Žižek
Walkable City Jeff Speck, Daiva Vilkelytė, Aldas Stulpinas
First as Tragedy, Then as Farce Slavoj Žižek
Salvage the Bones Jesmyn Ward
The Elements of Typographic Style Robert Bringhurst
Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason Michel Foucault, Richard Howard
Cities by Design: The Social Life of Urban Form Fran Tonkiss
By-Line Ernest Hemingway Ernest Hemingway
Airline Visual Identity: 1945–1975 M.C. Huhne
Good Neighbors: Gentrifying Diversity in Boston's South End Sylvie Tissot, David Broder, Catherine Romatowski
When Media Goes to War: Hegemonic Discourse, Public Opinion, and the Limits of Dissent Anthony DiMaggio