2026
August — 14 books
Dogs of SummerAndrea Abreu López, Julia Sanches
PermanenceSophie Mackintosh
The SingularityDino Buzzati, Anne Milano Appel
Role PlayClara Drummond, Daniel Hahn
PermafrostEva Baltasar, Julia Sanches
Love NovelIvana Sajko, Mima Simić
The Bluest EyeToni Morrison
Bad FruitElla King
Waist DeepLinea Maja Ernst, Sherilyn Nicolette Hellberg
Elena KnowsClaudia Piñeiro, Frances Riddle
UltramarineMariette Navarro, Cory Stockwell
AbigailMagda Szabó, Len Rix
ChoucasZofia Nałkowska, Ursula Phillips
NebraskaMonica Datta
July — 4 books
Year Zero: A History of 1945Ian Buruma
The Lesser EvilVictor Klemperer, Martin Chalmers
German autumnStig Dagerman
RougeMona Awad
June — 2 books
The Predator State: How Conservatives Abandoned the Free Market and Why Liberals Should TooJames K. Galbraith
How to See Like a Machine: Images After AITrevor Paglen
May — 29 books
SM 101: A Realistic Introduction
The Codebreakers: The Comprehensive History of Secret Communication from Ancient Times to the InternetDavid Kahn
Story of OPauline Réage, Jean Paulhan, Sabine d'Estree, André Pieyre de Mandiargues
Thinking Kink: The Collision of BDSM, Feminism and Popular CultureCatherine Scott
Women: A NovellaChloe Caldwell
Erotism: Death and SensualityGeorges Bataille, Mary Dalwood
Lightning RodsHelen DeWitt
The DoloriadMissouri Williams
Now I SurrenderÁlvaro Enrigue, Natasha Wimmer
Things in Nature Merely GrowYiyun Li
Angel DownDaniel Kraus
The DukeMatteo Melchiorre, Antonella Lettieri
No Way HomeT.C. Boyle
Mexico Unconquered: Chronicles of Power and RevoltJohn Gibler
GiftedSuzumi Suzuki, Allison Markin Powell
The Looming Tower: Al Qaeda and the Road to 9/11Lawrence Wright
Rise and Kill FirstRonen Bergman
The ObsessedLizzie Buehler
House of FuryEvelio Rosero, Victor Meadowcroft
What Belongs to YouGarth Greenwell
Postal IntelligenceRachel Midura
The Complete StoriesClarice Lispector, Katrina Dodson, Benjamin Moser
Flat EarthAnika Jade Levy
UNABLE TO ACHIEVE BROAD RECOGNITION IN MY LIFETIME, I LABOURED IN OBSCURITY UNTIL MY DEATH LAST YEAR.SHARON. KIVLAND
If This Be Magic: The Unlikely Art of Shakespeare in TranslationDaniel Hahn
An Academic QuestionBarbara Pym
Chess StoryStefan Zweig, Peter Gay, Joel Rotenberg
Go GentleMaria Semple
Between Two FiresChristopher Buehlman
April — 52 books
Perfume & PainAnna Dorn
Patricia Wants to CuddleSamantha Allen
And Then She FellAlicia Elliott
Deliver MeElle Nash
Stag DanceTorrey Peters
We Are LightGerda Blees, Michele Hutchison
New AnimalElla Baxter
Blue HungerViola Di Grado, Jamie Richards
I'm F*cking AmazingAnoushka Warden
Cursed BreadSophie Mackintosh, Genevieve Gaunt
Weird FucksLynne Tillman
DefenestrateRenee Branum
Portalmania: StoriesDebbie Urbanski
AuditionKatie Kitamura
Mrs JekyllEmma Glass
The WallMarlen Haushofer, Shaun Whiteside
BrutesDizz Tate
HunchbackSaou Ichikawa, Polly Barton
She's a Lamb!Meredith Hambrock
Mood SwingsFrankie Barnet
CeciliaK-Ming Chang
Immaculate ConceptionLing Ling Huang
The Country Will Bring Us No PeaceMatthieu Simard, Pablo Strauss
PiranesiSusanna Clarke
Our Wives Under the SeaJulia Armfield
How It Works OutMyriam Lacroix
Natural BeautyLing Ling Huang
Interesting Facts About SpaceEmily Austin
Land of Milk and HoneyC Pam Zhang
Private RitesJulia Armfield
Sky DaddyKate Folk
We SpreadIain Reid
Dengue BoyMichel Nieva, Rahul Bery
This Thing Between UsGus Moreno, Robb Moreira
My HusbandMaud Ventura, Emma Ramadan
The CoinYasmin Zaher
A Touch of JenBeth Morgan
Creep: A Love StoryEmma van Straaten
Valid: Dystopian AutofictionChris Bergeron, Natalia Hero
Organ MeatsK-Ming Chang
Y/NEsther Yi
DyketteJenny Fran Davis
Out There: StoriesKate Folk
ChlorineJade Song
The Other ValleyScott Alexander Howard
TranscriptionBen Lerner
Hit Parade of TearsIzumi Suzuki
Terminal Boredom: StoriesIzumi Suzuki, Polly Barton, Sam Bett, David Boyd, Daniel Joseph, Aiko Masubuchi, Helen O'Horan
The Line of BeautyAlan Hollinghurst
The Sunken Land Begins to Rise AgainM. John Harrison
LightM. John Harrison
The Pastel CityM. John Harrison, Bruce Pennington
February — 1 book
Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real LibertaliaDavid Graeber
January — 8 books
Michel the Giant: An African in GreenlandTété-Michel Kpomassie
Strangers I KnowClaudia Durastanti, Elizabeth Harris
Watching Over HerJean-Baptiste Andrea
HemlockMelissa Faliveno
Lost LambsMadeline Cash
ModerationElaine Castillo
Territory of LightYuko Tsushima, Geraldine Harcourt
Underground BarbieMaša Kolanović, Ena Selimovic
2025
December — 1 book
Killing ThatcherRory Carroll
November — 2 books
The Miernik DossierCharles McCarry
The Tears of AutumnCharles McCarry
August — 1 book
KairosJenny Erpenbeck
July — 2 books
Gilgamesh: A New Translation of the Ancient EpicAnonymous, Sophus Helle
The AeneidVirgil, Elaine Fantham, Frederick Ahl
June — 10 books
Dune MessiahFrank Herbert
The Go-BetweenL.P. Hartley, Douglas Brooks-Davis
The Warm Hands of GhostsKatherine Arden
The Möbius BookCatherine Lacey
1453Roger Crowley
Native Nations: A Millennium in North AmericaKathleen DuVal
Revolutionary SpringChristopher Clark
The Death of StalinSheila Fitzpatrick
The Greek Revolution and the Violent Birth of NationalismYanni Kotsonis
Culture Creep: Notes on the Pop ApocalypseAlice Bolin
May — 4 books
Finding GraceLoretta Rothschild
The ListenersMaggie Stiefvater
KatabasisR.F. Kuang
RejectionTony Tulathimutte
April — 2 books
Year of the Rat: Undercover in the British Far RightHarry Shukman
Dombey and SonCharles Dickens
March — 2 books
The Frozen RiverAriel Lawhon
Everything Must Go: The Stories We Tell About The End of the WorldDorian Lynskey
January — 2 books
Birnam WoodEleanor Catton
Study for ObedienceSarah Bernstein
2024
December — 1 book
The Children of the DeadElfriede Jelinek, Gitta Honegger
November — 2 books
The Melancholy of ResistanceLászló Krasznahorkai, George Szirtes
War and WarLászló Krasznahorkai, George Szirtes
October — 15 books
EurotrashChristian Kracht
Mood IndigoBoris Vian
Ex-WifeUrsula Parrott, Bennett, Ursula Parrott
Come CloserSara Gran
Autumn JournalLouis MacNeice
Brat: A NovelGabriel Smith
In This SignJoanne Greenberg
The Dear Green PlaceArchie Hind
Jagua NanaCyprian Ekwensi
The StepdaughterCaroline Blackwood
Die KreutzersonateLeo Tolstoy
SatantangoLászló Krasznahorkai, George Szirtes
The Anatomy of MelancholyRobert Burton, Angus Gowland
The Sorrows of Young WertherJohann Wolfgang von Goethe, Michael Hulse
The IslandAna María Matute, Laura Lonsdale
September — 2 books
Vertigo: The Rise and Fall of Weimar GermanyHarald Jähner
CorrectionThomas Bernhard, Sophie Wilkins
August — 9 books
DjinnsFatma Aydemir, Jon Cho-Polizzi
The Day of the JackalFrederick Forsyth
The Third ManGraham Greene, William B. Barrie
Beautiful Days: StoriesZach Williams
Stars and BarsWilliam Boyd
IntermezzoSally Rooney
VeronicaMary Gaitskill
The End of LoveEva Illouz
Evenings and WeekendsOisín McKenna
July — 17 books
Making MoviesSidney Lumet
The Great MoviesRoger Ebert
In the Blink of an EyeWalter Murch
The Passion According to G.H.Clarice Lispector, Idra Novey, Caetano Veloso, Benjamin Moser
The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common ParadiseOlivia Laing
Bel CantoAnn Patchett
How to Be BothAli Smith
Mariette in EcstasyRon Hansen
The Corner That Held ThemSylvia Townsend Warner, Claire Harman
The ProphetKahlil Gibran
The Monk: A RomanceMatthew Gregory Lewis
The Weary BluesLangston Hughes
The History of JazzTed Gioia
Invisible ManRalph Ellison
Hybrids of Plants and of GhostsJorie Graham
The Collected Dorothy ParkerDorothy Parker
The Jazz Poetry AnthologySascha Feinstein, Yusef Komunyakaa
June — 1 book
Gender Codes: Why Women Are Leaving ComputingThomas J. Misa
May — 5 books
Fixers: Agency, Translation, and the Early Global History of LiteratureZrinka Stahuljak
OursPhillip B. Williams
Before European Hegemony: The World System A.D. 1250-1350Janet L. Abu-Lughod
You Could Do Something Amazing with Your LifeAndrew Hankinson
The GuestEmma Cline
April — 20 books
The Theory of the Leisure ClassThorstein Veblen, Alan Wolfe
The Obscene Madame DHilda Hilst, Rachel Gontijo Araujo, Nathanaël, John Keene
Eve's HollywoodEve Babitz
Leisure the Basis of CultureJosef Pieper, Alexander Dru, T.S. Eliot
The Night BattlesCarlo Ginzburg, John Tedeschi, Anne Tedeschi
Porn: An Oral HistoryPolly Barton
BunnyMona Awad
The Great Cat MassacreRobert Darnton
Women! In! Peril!Jessie Ren Marshall
Say Hello to My Little FriendJennine Capo Crucet
Bugsy & Other StoriesRafael Frumkin
Lake of UrineGuillermo Stitch
A Far Cry from KensingtonMuriel Spark
PymMat Johnson
HeadshotRita Bullwinkel
The Principle of Rapid PeeringSylvia Legris
The WeedsKaty Simpson Smith
The Wounded World: W. E. B. Du Bois and the First World WarChad L. Williams
Grief Is for PeopleSloane Crosley
We Are a HauntingTyriek White
March — 24 books
Prophet SongPaul Lynch
Of Cattle and MenAna Paula Maia, Zoë Perry
BaumgartnerPaul Auster, Cristiana Mennella
Come and Get ItKiley Reid
City of LaughterTemim Fruchter
Getting LostAnnie Ernaux, Alison L. Strayer
The Cement GardenIan McEwan
HappeningAnnie Ernaux, Tanya Leslie
The Children ActIan McEwan
The Memory PoliceStephen Snyder, Markus Juslin, Yoko Ogawa
Greek LessonsHan Kang, Deborah Smith, Emily Yae Won
South and West: From a NotebookJoan Didion
KudosRachel Cusk
A Girl's StoryAnnie Ernaux, Alison L. Strayer
Cursed BunnyBora Chung, Anton Hur
Simple PassionAnnie Ernaux, Tanya Leslie
Klara and the SunKazuo Ishiguro
OutNatsuo Kirino
The RehearsalEleanor Catton
Who's Afraid of Gender?Judith Butler
KapoAleksandar Tišma, Richard Williams
The Deorhord: An Old English BestiaryHana Videen
The Barbara Johnson Reader: The Surprise of OthernessBarbara Johnson, Bill Johnson González, Melissa Feuerstein, Lili Porten, Keja L. Valens
Goodbye TsugumiBanana Yoshimoto, Michael Emmerich
February — 3 books
Immediacy: Or, The Style of Too Late CapitalismAnna Kornbluh
The War That Killed AchillesCaroline Alexander
TalkLinda Rosenkrantz, Stephen Koch
January — 6 books
AwakeHarald Voetmann
ToneSofia Samatar, Kate Zambreno
BeautylandMarie-Helene Bertino
Tripping on Utopia: Margaret Mead, the Cold War, and the Troubled Birth of Psychedelic ScienceBenjamin Breen
Sex with a Brain Injury: On Concussion and RecoveryAnnie Liontas
Sheridan’s Secret Mission: How the South Won the War After the Civil WarRobert Cwiklik
2023
December — 29 books
How to Draw a NovelMartin Solares
The Zone of InterestMartin Amis
Bliss MontageLing Ma
The Devil Takes You HomeGabino Iglesias
Marzahn, mon amour: Geschichten einer FußpflegerinKatja Oskamp
Journey to the End of the NightLouis-Ferdinand Céline, Ralph Manheim, Angela Cismaş, William T. Vollmann
SolenoidMircea Cărtărescu
NostalgiaMircea Cărtărescu
AntkindCharlie Kaufman
The Letters of Gustave FlaubertGustave Flaubert
Wittgenstein's Poker: The Story of a Ten-Minute Argument Between Two Great PhilosophersDavid Edmonds, John Eidinow
The Bee StingPaul Murray
The OverstoryRichard Powers
The Book at War: Libraries and Readers in an Age of ConflictAndrew Pettegree
There Is No Antimemetics Divisionqntm
The Apple in the DarkClarice Lispector, Benjamin Moser
ÆgyptJohn Crowley
Minor DetailAdania Shibli, Elisabeth Jaquette
The Best of EverythingRona Jaffe
Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight PlaguesJonathan Kennedy
BlackoutsJustin Torres
DallerGut Dream Department StoreLee Mi-ye
Big SwissJen Beagin
There Will Be Fire: Margaret Thatcher, the IRA, and Two Minutes That Changed HistoryRory Carroll
The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and MurderDavid Grann
MitzSigrid Nunez, Peter Cameron
Salt LickLulu Allison
The Marriage PortraitMaggie O'Farrell
In Search of Berlin: The Story of A Reinvented CityJohn Kampfner
November — 11 books
The Mystery GuestNita Prose
Alice Sadie CelineSarah Blakley-Cartwright
We Must Not Think of OurselvesLauren Grodstein
Human Capital: A History of Putting Refugees to WorkLaura Robson
We Have Always Lived in the CastleShirley Jackson
The Unquiet Englishman: A Life of Graham GreeneRichard Greene
BrainwyrmsAlison Rumfitt
The Walking ManJirō Taniguchi
Dust: The Modern World in a Trillion ParticlesJay Owens
Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big TechBrian Merchant
Mild VertigoMieko Kanai, Polly Barton
October — 2 books
Palace of TreasonJason Matthews
The Kremlin's CandidateJason Matthews
September — 3 books
Second PlaceRachel Cusk
Cloven Country: The Devil and the English LandscapeJeremy Harte
Under Western EyesJoseph Conrad
August — 1 book
Tomás NevinsonJavier Marías
July — 3 books
The World of YesterdayStefan Zweig, Harry Zohn
Fabulosa!: The Story of Polari, Britain’s Secret Gay LanguagePaul Baker
Boys WeekendMattie Lubchansky
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 PlaceJanelle Shane
The Rhetorics of Feminism: Readings in Contemporary Cultural Theory and the Popular PressLynne Pearce
Being There: Putting Brain, Body, and World Together AgainAndy Clark
Who Controls the Internet?: Illusions of a Borderless WorldJack L. Goldsmith, Tim Wu
The Soul of a New MachineTracy Kidder
Life in CodeEllen Ullman
CwenAlice Albinia
Post-TraumaticChantal V. Johnson
May — 2 books
HildNicola Griffith, Pearl Hewitt
The White Goddess: A Historical Grammar of Poetic MythRobert Graves
April — 1 book
The Newtonian CasinoThomas A. Bass
March — 5 books
Broad BandClaire L. Evans
The Jews of Summer: Summer Camp and Jewish Culture in Postwar AmericaSandra Fox
The OdysseyLara Williams
GerminalÉmile Zola, Stanley Hochman, Eleanor Hochman, Irving Howe
I Want to Die but I Want to Eat TteokbokkiBaek Se-hee
February — 4 books
The Political UnconsciousFredric Jameson
The Globalization of Wheat: A Critical History of the Green RevolutionMarci Baranski
Europe CentralWilliam T. Vollmann
Speak NotJames Griffiths
January — 6 books
The ShardsBret Easton Ellis
The English Understand WoolHelen DeWitt
The Birthday PartyLaurent Mauvignier, Daniel Levin Becker
How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea CreaturesSabrina Imbler
Short Stories in German, Erzählungen auf Deutsch: New Penguin Parallel TextErnst Zillekens
Parallel Text: German Short Stories: Deutsche KurzgeschichtenRichard Newnham, Heinrich Böll, Reinhard Lettau, Ilse Aichinger, Hans Bender, Gertrud Fussenegger, Gerd Gaiser, Wolfdietrich Schnurre, Wolfgang Borchert
2022
December — 12 books
The Little FriendDonna Tartt
Sea of TranquilityEmily St. John Mandel
Showroom City: Real Estate and Resistance in the Furniture Capital of the WorldJohn Joe Schlichtman
Emergent Tokyo: Designing the Spontaneous CityJorge Almazán, Joe McReynolds
The Office of Good Intentions. Human(s) WorkFlorian Idenburg, LeeAnn Suen, Iwan Baan, Zoë Ritts, Duncan Scovil
Towards a Philosophy of PhotographyVilém Flusser, Hubertus Von Amelunxen, Anthony Mathews
Into the Universe of Technical ImagesVilém Flusser, Nancy Ann Roth
Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity PoliticsOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò
AestheticaAllie Rowbottom
The Book of GooseYiyun Li
Checkout 19Claire-Louise Bennett
Either/OrElif Batuman
November — 20 books
The Books of JacobOlga Tokarczuk, Jennifer Croft
All Our YesterdaysNatalia Ginzburg, Angus Davidson, Sally Rooney
Invisible CitiesItalo Calvino, Anthony Doerr, Karina Maria Puente Frantzen
Ferdinand, the Man with the Kind HeartIrmgard Keun
InsaneRainald Goetz, Adrian Nathan West
Ancient EveningsNorman Mailer
There Once Lived a Girl Who Seduced Her Sister's Husband, and He Hanged HimselfLudmilla Petrushevskaya
CryptonomiconNeal Stephenson
The Difference Engine William Gibson, Bruce Sterling
The Word for World Is ForestUrsula K. Le Guin
The Sirens of TitanKurt Vonnegut
SeptologyJon Fosse, Damion Searls
LOTEShola von Reinhold
Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never SeenChristopher McDougall
Howdie-SkelpPaul Muldoon
Distant StarRoberto Bolaño, Chris Andrews
This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyberweapons Arms RaceNicole Perlroth
Iron KingdomChristopher Clark
Martin LutherMartin Brecht, James L. Schaaf
The Stars at NoonDenis Johnson
October — 6 books
The Story of Art without MenKaty Hessel
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid TestTom Wolfe
España: A Brief History of SpainGiles Tremlett
The Pahrump ReportLisa Crystal Carver
The Lisa DiariesLisa Crystal Carver
Drugs are Nice: A Post-Punk MemoirLisa Crystal Carver
September — 2 books
Baby, I Don't CareChelsey Minnis
The Babel Message: A Love Letter to LanguageKeith Kahn-Harris
August — 3 books
The Cuckoo's EggClifford Stoll
The InterimIsabel Fargo Cole, Wolfgang Hilbig
C: The Secret Life of Sir Stewart Graham Menzies, Spymaster to Winston ChurchillAnthony Cave Brown
July — 3 books
The World for Sale: Money, Power and the Traders Who Barter the Earth’s ResourcesJavier Blas, Jack Farchy
A Global History of MoneyAkinobu Kuroda
A Brief History of Everyone who Ever Lived: The Stories in Our GenesAdam Rutherford
June — 1 book
NebelkinderStefanie Gregg
April — 1 book
Boy PartsEliza Clark
March — 5 books
Last ExitMax Gladstone
The CartographersPeng Shepherd
How High We Go in the DarkSequoia Nagamatsu
Red AzaleaAnchee Min
Opening Up: Youth Sex Culture and Market Reform in ShanghaiJames Farrer
February — 2 books
The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility, and Other Writings on MediaWalter Benjamin, Michael W. Jennings, Harry Zohn, Brigid Doherty, Edmund F.N. Jephcott, Rodney Livingstone, Howard Eiland, Thomas Y. Levin
Why Marx Was RightTerry Eagleton
January — 3 books
EarthlingsSayaka Murata, Ginny Tapley Takemori
ElectrifySaul Griffith
Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry into the Value of WorkMatthew B. Crawford
2021
December — 1 book
The SentenceLouise Erdrich
November — 1 book
Board and Table Games from Many CivilizationsRobert Charles Bell
October — 11 books
The Mass Psychology of FascismWilhelm Reich, Vincent R. Carfagno
Billy LiarKeith Waterhouse, Nick Bentley
Zone OneColson Whitehead
Harlem ShuffleColson Whitehead
Black Boy: A Record of Youth and ChildhoodRichard Wright
Pyongyang: A Journey in North KoreaGuy Delisle, Helge Dascher
Dictionary of Untranslatables: A Philosophical LexiconBarbara Cassin, Emily Apter, Jacques Lezra
The PessimistsBethany Ball
Immigration, Poverty, and Socioeconomic InequalityDavid Card, Steven Raphael
John BrownW.E.B. Du Bois
The New MeHalle Butler
September — 14 books
TuffPaul Beatty
The Black DeathRosemary Horrox
The Bookseller's TaleAnn Swinfen
Tenth of DecemberGeorge Saunders
The Food LabJ. Kenji López-Alt
An IslandKaren Jennings
Egon Schiele: Arbeiten auf Papier = works on paperMaria Costantino
Notes on CampSusan Sontag
The March of Folly: From Troy to VietnamBarbara W. Tuchman
Foucault's PendulumUmberto Eco
On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and ConstraintMaggie Nelson
Stone Butch BluesLeslie Feinberg
Precarious LifeJudith Butler
Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of WarViet Thanh Nguyen
August — 4 books
We Real Coolbell hooks
Racism Without RacistsEduardo Bonilla-Silva
The SeasonKristen Richardson
AfropeanJohny Pitts
July — 3 books
Plain Bad HeroinesEmily M. Danforth
Medieval Ethiopian Kingship, Craft, and Diplomacy with Latin EuropeVerena Krebs
The Death of DemocracyBenjamin Carter Hett
June — 4 books
Summa Contra GentilesThomas Aquinas
Somebody's DaughterAshley C. Ford
City for Sale: Ed Koch and the Betrayal of New YorkJack Newfield, Wayne Barrett
Subway Lives: 24 Hours in the Life of the New York City SubwayJim Dwyer
May — 9 books
The Secret Lives of Church LadiesDeesha Philyaw
A Cure for DarknessAlex Riley
ChatterPatrick Radden Keefe
Sociobiology: The New SynthesisEdward O. Wilson
Against Interpretation and Other EssaysSusan Sontag
The Trouble with Testosterone and Other Essays on the Biology of the Human PredicamentRobert M. Sapolsky
The Last LibertinesBenedetta Craveri, Aaron Kerner
The Life of the MindChristine Smallwood
Must I GoYiyun Li, Jane Alexander, Alex McKenna, John Rubinstein
April — 2 books
The IncendiariesR.O. Kwon
How To Survive A PlagueDavid France
2020
December — 1 book
ExcavationWendy C. Ortiz
November — 10 books
London FieldsMartin Amis
Autobiography of RedAnne Carson
The Talented Mr RipleyPatricia Highsmith
Feral rewilding the land, the sea, and human lifeGeorge Monbiot
The Smart Enough City: Putting Technology in Its Place to Reclaim Our Urban FutureBen Green, Jascha Franklin-Hodge
Logical chess move by moveIrving Chernev
Subprime Attention Crisis: Advertising and the Time Bomb at the Heart of the InternetTim Hwang
A Civic Technologist's Practice GuideCyd Harrell
The Lonely LondonersSam Selvon, Susheila Nasta
The Boundless Sea: A Human History of the OceansDavid Abulafia
October — 1 book
Feminism, InterruptedLola Olufemi
September — 1 book
The Old Ways: A Journey on FootRobert Macfarlane
July — 3 books
A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland and The Journal of a Tour to the HebridesSamuel Johnson, James Boswell, Peter Levi
Staying Power: The History of Black People in BritainPeter Fryer, Gary Younge, Paul Gilroy
A Theory of the DroneGrŽgoire Chamayou
June — 1 book
Blacker the BerryWallace Thurman, Shirlee Taylor Haizlip
May — 1 book
A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, ConstructionChristopher W. Alexander, Sara Ishikawa, Murray Silverstein, Max Jacobson, Ingrid Fiksdahl-King, Shlomo Angel
April — 2 books
UnderworldDon DeLillo
UNIX and Linux System Administration HandbookEvi Nemeth, Garth Snyder, Trent R. Hein, Ben Whaley
March — 3 books
Kurt Vonnegut lettersDan Wakefield, Kurt Vonnegut
Slapstick, or Lonesome No More!Kurt Vonnegut
The Chronology of WaterLidia Yuknavitch
February — 4 books
Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a PresidentCandice Millard
NoxAnne Carson
Mortal RepublicEdward J. Watts
A Mathematician's ApologyG.H. Hardy, C.P. Snow
January — 45 books
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a DayWinifred Watson
The GraduateCharles Webb, Hanif Kureishi
Parliament: The BiographyChris Bryant
Bring Up the BodiesHilary Mantel
A Place of Greater SafetyHilary Mantel
UnderlandRobert Macfarlane
Wolf HallHilary Mantel
Medea and Other PlaysEuripides, Richard Rutherford, John Davie
Greek and Roman Myths: A Guide to the Classical StoriesPhilip Matyszak
Zami: A New Spelling of My NameAudre Lorde
The Black PrinceIris Murdoch, Candia McWilliam
Remarkable BirdsMark Avery
The Division Bell MysteryEllen Wilkinson
Funny Weather: Art in an EmergencyOlivia Laing
What Is the Grass: Walt Whitman in My LifeMark Doty
A Tale of Two CitiesCharles Dickens
The Count of Monte CristoAlexandre Dumas
A Tree Grows in BrooklynBetty Smith
Little WomenLouisa May Alcott, Anna Bond
LikeAli Smith
Not WorkingJosh Cohen
Up Down Inside OutJoohee Yoon
The Organs of SenseAdam Ehrlich Sachs
No. 10: The Geography of Power at Downing StreetJack Brown
Modern Classical PhysicsKip S. Thorne, Roger D. Blandford
RecursionBlake Crouch
Secondhand Time: The Last of the SovietsSvetlana Alexievich, Bela Shayevich
The Bonjour EffectJulie Barlow, Jean-Benoit Nadeau
Let It Come DownPaul Bowles
The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New WorldAndrea Wulf
Lucky PerHenrik Pontoppidan
GingerbreadHelen Oyeyemi
The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After WarmingDavid Wallace-Wells
How to Invent Everything: A Survival Guide for the Stranded Time TravelerRyan North
The World Doesn't Require YouRion Amilcar Scott
Prozac Nation: Young & Depressed In America: A MemoirElizabeth Wurtzel
The Book of the City of LadiesChristine de Pizan, Earl Jeffrey Richards
Greater GothamMike Wallace
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New YorkRobert A. Caro
Wild Game: My Mother, Her Lover, and MeAdrienne Brodeur
How to Read WittgensteinRay Monk
BloodlandsTimothy Snyder
Old DriftNamwali Serpell
After the IceSteven Mithen
The Society of the SpectacleGuy Debord, Guy Debord, Ron. Adams, Donald Nicholson-Smith, Colectivo Maldeojo
2019
September — 1 book
The diary of Anaïs Nin.Anaïs Nin
July — 1 book
My Brilliant FriendElena Ferrante, Ann Goldstein
June — 1 book
The Water CureSophie Mackintosh
April — 4 books
Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its MetaphorsSusan Sontag
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural HistoryElizabeth Kolbert
The Castle diaries, 1964-70Barbara Castle
Women of Westminster: The MPs who Changed PoliticsRachel Reeves
March — 224 books
Simians, Cyborgs, and Women: The Reinvention of NatureDonna J. Haraway
Places of the HeartColin Ellard
Les MisérablesVictor Hugo, Christine Donougher, Jillian Tamaki, Robert Tombs
Das Kapital (Abridged)Karl Marx
On Writers and WritingMargaret Atwood
The Bonfire of the VanitiesTom Wolfe
The Establishment: And How They Get Away with ItOwen Jones
They Were SistersDorothy Whipple
Democracy for Realists: Why Elections Do Not Produce Responsive GovernmentChristopher H. Achen, Larry M. Bartels
Dialogue: The Art of Verbal Action for Page, Stage, and ScreenRobert McKee
Black Skin, White MasksFrantz Fanon, Richard Philcox, Kwame Anthony Appiah
The Silk Roads: A New History of the WorldPeter Frankopan
Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the ChthuluceneDonna J. Haraway
The PrincipiaIsaac Newton, Andrew Motte
A Manual for Cleaning Women: Selected StoriesLucia Berlin, Stephen Emerson, Lydia Davis
Course in General LinguisticsFerdinand de Saussure, Roy Harris
A Perfect VacuumStanisław Lem, Michael Kandel
Who Governs?Robert A. Dahl
Domesday BookG. H. Martin, Ann Williams
Now It Can Be ToldPhilip Gibbs
The Nice and the GoodIris Murdoch
The Good ImmigrantNikesh 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
SPQR: A History of Ancient RomeMary Beard
Learning from Las Vegas Rev Ed
A Boy in WinterRachel Seiffert
Lenin on the TrainCatherine Merridale
Smart CitiesAnthony M. Townsend
On the Reproduction of Capitalism: Ideology and Ideological State ApparatusesLouis Althusser
Let Them Eat ChaosKate Tempest
Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human DecisionsBrian Christian, Tom Griffiths
Rogue Empires: Contracts and Conmen in Europe’s Scramble for AfricaSteven Press
The PiscesMelissa Broder
TangerineChristine Mangan
Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat: Mastering the Elements of Good CookingSamin Nosrat, Wendy MacNaughton
The Blood of Emmett TillTimothy B. Tyson
While the City SleptEli Sanders
Zen in the Art of WritingRay Bradbury
The Six Day War: The Breaking of the Middle EastGuy Laron
But how Do it Know?J. Clark Scott
Midnight's ChildrenSalman Rushdie
Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely FineGail Honeyman
The Mitfords: Letters Between Six SistersCharlotte Mosley
Do Not Say We Have NothingMadeleine Thien
The HolocaustLaurence Rees
Black and British: A Forgotten HistoryDavid Olusoga
American WarOmar El Akkad
The Call of Cthulu and Other StoriesH. P. Lovecraft
The KitesRomain Gary, Miranda Richmond Mouillot
World Without MindFranklin Foer
The Silence of the Sea / Le Silence de la merVercors, James Ward Brown, Lawrence D. Stokes, Cyril Connelly
A World Without "Whom"Emmy J. Favilla, BuzzFeed
InfraRichard Mosse, Adam Hochschild
Architecture for the Poor: An Experiment in Rural EgyptHassan Fathy
What HappenedHillary Rodham Clinton
The Collected Essays of Elizabeth HardwickElizabeth Hardwick, Darryl Pinckney
God: A Human HistoryReza Aslan
Salafi-Jihadism: The History of an IdeaShiraz Maher
Sexual AnarchyElaine Showalter
Playing with Fire: The 1968 Election and the Transformation of American PoliticsLawrence O'Donnell
Critical Race Theory: The Key Writings That Formed the MovementKimberlé Crenshaw, Neil Gotanda, Garry Peller, Kendall Thomas, Cornel West
The edifice complexDeyan Sudjic
Kids These Days: Human Capital and the Making of MillennialsMalcolm Harris
French ExitPatrick deWitt
Call Me by Your NameAndre Aciman
One-Dimensional ManHerbert Marcuse
How Democracies DieSteven Levitsky, Fred Sanders
Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious CharacterRichard P. Feynman, Raymond Todd
Introducing LyotardBill Readings
The Modern Cook's YearAnna Jones
MilkmanAnna Burns
Washington BlackEsi Edugyan
Crudo: A NovelOlivia Laing
Convenience Store WomanSayaka Murata, Ginny Tapley Takemori
Family TrustKathy Wang
But Some of Us Are Brave: Black Women's StudiesAkasha Gloria Hull, Patricia Bell-Scott, Brittney Cooper, Barbara Smith
A Certain Idea of France: The Life of Charles de GaulleJulian T. Jackson
You All Grow Up and Leave Me: A Memoir of Teenage ObsessionPiper Weiss
JazzToni Morrison
A Man of the PeopleChinua Achebe
She Would Be KingWayétu Moore
Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the WestCormac McCarthy
This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the ClimateNaomi Klein
2666Roberto Bolaño, Natasha Wimmer
Not All Dead White Men: Classics and Misogyny in the Digital AgeDonna Zuckerberg
All Roads Lead to BloodBonnie Chau
On LibertyJohn Stuart Mill
Into the Raging SeaRachel Slade
Differend: Phrases in DisputeJean-François Lyotard
How Europe Underdeveloped AfricaWalter Rodney, Angela Y. Davis
The Sense of an EndingFrank Kermode
Understanding powerNoam Chomsky, Peter R. Mitchell, John Schoeffel
Structure and Interpretation of Computer ProgramsHarold Abelson, Julie Sussman, Gerald Jay Sussman
Fahrenheit 451Ray Bradbury
Ernest Hemingway on WritingLarry W. Phillips
Story: Substance, Structure, Style, and the Principles of ScreenwritingRobert McKee
Architecture Theory Since 1968K. Michael Hays
The Sublime Object of IdeologySlavoj Žižek, Chris MacDonnell
Bad FeministRoxane Gay, Laurel Lefkow
Twelve Who RuledR.R. Palmer, Isser Woloch
Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers: A History of Lesbian Life in Twentieth-Century AmericaLillian Faderman
JunkyWilliam S. Burroughs
Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American CommunityRobert D. Putnam
Nationalism and the ImaginationGayatri Chakravorty Spivak
Close to Home: A Materialist Analysis of Women's OppressionChristine Delphy, Rachel Hills, Diana Leonard
CandideVoltaire, John Everett Butt
Quantum Mechanics: The Theoretical MinimumLeonard Susskind, Art Friedman
Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as PowerAudre Lorde
Sharp ObjectsGillian Flynn
Teaching Critical Thinking: Practical Wisdombell hooks
The Marx-Engels ReaderKarl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Robert C. Tucker
Border Lines: The Partition of Judaeo-ChristianityDaniel Boyarin
The God of Small ThingsArundhati Roy
Art Forms in NatureErnst Haeckel, Richard P. Hartmann, Olaf Breidbach, Irenäus Eibl-Eibesfeldt, Michele Schons, Michael Ashdown
Blind Willow, Sleeping WomanHaruki Murakami
Liquid ModernityZygmunt Bauman
NWZadie Smith
The ReformationDiarmaid MacCulloch
How to Study Public LifeJan Gehl, Birgitte Svarre
RebeccaDaphne du Maurier
After DarkHaruki Murakami, Jay Rubin
South of the Border, West of the SunHaruki Murakami, Philip Gabriel
Life Between BuildingsJan Gehl
The Visual Display of Quantitative InformationEdward R. Tufte
A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human KnowledgeGeorge Berkeley, Jonathan Dancy
The Wasp FactoryIain Banks
The Anglo Saxon ChronicleVarious, Benjamin Thorpe
RelativityAlbert Einstein
The Gathering StormWinston S. Churchill
Aloha Betrayed: Native Hawaiian Resistance to American ColonialismNoenoe K. Silva
UtilitarianismJohn Stuart Mill, George Sher
EthicsBaruch Spinoza, R.H.M. Elwes
Classical Mechanics: The Theoretical MinimumLeonard Susskind, George Hrabovsky
Science and the Common UnderstandingJ. Robert Oppenheimer
The Moral Law: Groundwork of the Metaphysics of MoralsImmanuel Kant, H.J. Paton
One Way Street And Other WritingsWalter Benjamin, Edmund F.N. Jephcott, K. Shorter
The Nature of CodeDaniel Shiffman
Jesus' SonDenis Johnson
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 DragonsGeorge R.R. Martin
Reflections on the revolution in FranceL.G. Mitchell, Edmund Burke
The Classical Language of ArchitectureJohn Summerson
Song of SolomonToni Morrison
Alias GraceMargaret Atwood
Design as ArtBruno Munari
What We Talk About When We Talk About LoveRaymond Carver
Pacific WorldsMatt K. Matsuda
A Wild Sheep ChaseHaruki Murakami, Alfred Birnbaum
Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North KoreaBarbara Demick
The Sovereignty of GoodIris Murdoch
The Enemy WithinSeumas Milne
The Virgin SuicidesJeffrey Eugenides
The semisovereign people : a realist's view of democracy in AmericaE.E. Schattschneider
The Making of the English Working ClassE.P. Thompson, Michael Kenny
The Elephant VanishesHaruki Murakami
CosmosCarl Sagan, Paulo Geiger
A Theory of Good City FormKevin Lynch
Microcognition: Philosophy, Cognitive Science, and Parallel Distributed ProcessingAndy Clark
Runaway: StoriesAlice Munro
Something HappenedJoseph Heller
Crime and PunishmentFyodor Dostoevsky, Leonard Stanton, James D. Hardy Jr., Sidney Monas, Robin Feuer Miller
The Sense of an EndingJulian Barnes
The Decline and Fall of the Roman EmpireEdward Gibbon, Daniel J. Boorstin, Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Hans-Friedrich Mueller
EmmaJane Austen, Fiona Stafford
If They Come in the Morning...: Voices of ResistanceAngela Y. Davis
Cognitive ScienceJosé Luis Bermúdez
Italian FolktalesItalo Calvino, George Martin
On IntersectionalityKimberlé Crenshaw
The Naked LunchWilliam S. Burroughs
Letters on EnglandVoltaire
A Treatise of Human NatureDavid Hume
Writing and DifferenceJacques Derrida, Alan Bass
Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture, and the BodySusan Bordo, Leslie Heywood
The ChrysalidsJohn Wyndham
GramatologiaJacques Derrida
The Satanic VersesSalman Rushdie
Patterns of Democracy: Government Forms and Performance in Thirty-Six CountriesArend Lijphart
Cities for PeopleJan Gehl
Selections from the Prison NotebooksAntonio Gramsci, Geoffrey Nowell-Smith, Quintin Hoare
The IdiotFyodor Dostoevsky, Frederick Whishaw
The History of Terrorism: From Antiquity to al QædaGérard Chaliand, Arnaud Blin
NeuromancerWilliam Gibson
An Essay Concerning Human UnderstandingJohn Locke
A Gift of Fire: Social, Legal, and Ethical Issues for Computers and the InternetSara Baase
Being and TimeMartin Heidegger, John MacQuarrie, Edward Schouten Robinson, Taylor Carman
The Sea, the SeaIris Murdoch, John Burnside
Beyond the PaleVron Ware
Lenin's TombDavid Remnick
Private Truths, Public LiesTimur Kuran
Pocket Atlas of Remote Islands: Fifty Islands I Have Not Visited and Never WillJudith Schalansky
Constituting Feminist SubjectsKathi Weeks
Ideas Pertaining to a Pure Phenomenology and to a Phenomenological Philosophy: First Book: General Introduction to a Pure PhenomenologyEdmund Husserl, F. Kersten
Rice's Church PrimerMatthew Rice
Jean-François LyotardSimon Malpas
Parliamentary Versus Presidential GovernmentArend Lijphart
Social Media: A Critical IntroductionChristian Fuchs
The Urban Design ReaderMichael Larice, Elizabeth MacDonald
InsurrectoGina Apostol
Early WorkAndrew Martin
A Loeb Classical Library ReaderLoeb Classical Library
I Can't BreatheMatt 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 NeoliberalismLeandro Vergara-Camus
The City AssembledSpiro Kostof, Richard Tobias
The Design Dimension of Planning: Theory, content and best practice for design policiesMatthew Carmona, John Punter
Forward Ever. Kwame Nkrumah: A BiographyJune Milne
Andreas GurskyAndreas Gursky, Peter Galassi
The Lukacs ReaderArpad Kadarkay
A Plague on Your Houses: How New York Was Burned Down and National Public Health CrumbledDeborah Wallace, Rodrick Wallace
Rule Britannia: Brexit and the End of EmpireDanny Dorling
Social Infrastructure: New York: Douglas Durst and Bjarke IngelsDouglas Durst, Bjarke Ingels, Nina Rappaport, James Andrachuk, Andrew Benner
Structural Design: A Practical Guide for ArchitectsJames R. Underwood, Michele Chiuini
Tweeting to Power: The Social Media Revolution in American PoliticsJason Gainous, Kevin M. Wagner
Connectionism and the Mind: Parallel Processing, Dynamics, and Evolution in NetworksWilliam Bechtel, Adele Abrahamsen
Dragnet Nation: A Quest for Privacy, Security, and Freedom in a World of Relentless SurveillanceJulia Angwin
The Voyage of the BeagleCharles Darwin, David Quammen
The Phenomenology of SpiritGeorg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Terry Pinkard, Michael Baur
QED: The Strange Theory of Light and MatterRichard P. Feynman
Critique of Pure ReasonImmanuel Kant, Paul Guyer, Allen W. Wood
In God's Path: The Arab Conquests and the Creation of an Islamic EmpireRobert G. Hoyland
Dear Leader: Poet, Spy, Escapee - A Look Inside North KoreaJang Jin-sung, Shirley Lee
Euclid's ElementsEuclid, Dana Densmore, Thomas Little Heath
Imperial BedroomsBret Easton Ellis
OrientalismEdward W. Said
The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia PlathSylvia Plath, Karen V. Kukil
Aeschyli EumenidesAeschylus
February — 1 book
Killing CommendatoreHaruki Murakami, Philip Gabriel, Ted Goossen
January — 5 books
My Year of Rest and RelaxationOttessa Moshfegh
GrantRon Chernow
The Woman in BlackSusan Hill
Paradise RotJenny Hval, Marjam Idriss
Homesick for Another WorldOttessa Moshfegh
2018
July — 1 book
The letters of Vincent van GoghVincent van Gogh, Ronald de Leeuw, Arnold J. Pomerans
January — 5 books
Brief Interviews with Hideous MenDavid Foster Wallace
A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and ArgumentsDavid Foster Wallace
Tolkien On FairystoriesJ.R.R. Tolkien
Men Without WomenHaruki Murakami, Ted Goossen, Philip Gabriel
A Little LifeHanya Yanagihara
2016
August — 1 book
Lincoln's Melancholy: How Depression Challenged a President and Fueled His GreatnessJoshua Wolf Shenk
July — 8 books
Aunt Harriet's Underground Railroad in the SkyFaith Ringgold
Grid Systems in Graphic Design/Raster Systeme Fur Die Visuele Gestaltung (German and English Edition)Josef Müller-Brockmann
The Sense of StyleSteven Pinker
The Female EunuchGermaine Greer
The Feminine MystiqueBetty Friedan, Anna Quindlen
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of ColorblindnessMichelle Alexander, Karen Chilton
Feminism is for Everybody: Passionate Politicsbell hooks
The Beautiful Struggle: A Father, Two Sons and an Unlikely Road to ManhoodTa-Nehisi Coates
March — 16 books
The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of DepressionAndrew Solomon
Enjoy Your Symptom! Jacques Lacan in Hollywood and OutSlavoj Žižek
Living in the End TimesSlavoj Žižek
By-Line Ernest HemingwayErnest Hemingway
Good Neighbors: Gentrifying Diversity in Boston's South EndSylvie Tissot, David Broder, Catherine Romatowski
First as Tragedy, Then as FarceSlavoj Žižek
Salvage the BonesJesmyn Ward
Walkable CityJeff Speck, Daiva Vilkelytė, Aldas Stulpinas
When Media Goes to War: Hegemonic Discourse, Public Opinion, and the Limits of DissentAnthony DiMaggio
The Science of InterstellarKip S. Thorne, Christopher J. Nolan
Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of ReasonMichel Foucault, Richard Howard
Cities by Design: The Social Life of Urban FormFran Tonkiss
The Elements of Typographic StyleRobert Bringhurst
Airline Visual Identity: 1945–1975M.C. Huhne
Trouble In ParadiseSlavoj Žižek
BlackassA. Igoni Barrett