2026
July — 4 books
The Lesser Evil Victor Klemperer, Martin Chalmers
German autumn Stig Dagerman
Year Zero: A History of 1945 Ian Buruma
Rouge Mona Awad
June — 2 books
The Predator State: How Conservatives Abandoned the Free Market and Why Liberals Should Too James K. Galbraith
How to See Like a Machine: Images After AI Trevor Paglen
May — 29 books
SM 101: A Realistic Introduction
Erotism: Death and Sensuality Georges Bataille, Mary Dalwood
Women: A Novella Chloe Caldwell
Thinking Kink: The Collision of BDSM, Feminism and Popular Culture Catherine Scott
Story of O Pauline Réage, Jean Paulhan, Sabine d'Estree, André Pieyre de Mandiargues
The Codebreakers: The Comprehensive History of Secret Communication from Ancient Times to the Internet David Kahn
Lightning Rods Helen DeWitt
The Doloriad Missouri Williams
Now I Surrender Álvaro Enrigue, Natasha Wimmer
Things in Nature Merely Grow Yiyun Li
Angel Down Daniel Kraus
No Way Home T.C. Boyle
Mexico Unconquered: Chronicles of Power and Revolt John Gibler
The Duke Matteo Melchiorre, Antonella Lettieri
Rise and Kill First Ronen Bergman
Between Two Fires Christopher Buehlman
Go Gentle Maria Semple
Chess Story Stefan Zweig, Peter Gay, Joel Rotenberg
An Academic Question Barbara Pym
If This Be Magic: The Unlikely Art of Shakespeare in Translation Daniel Hahn
The Looming Tower: Al Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 Lawrence Wright
UNABLE TO ACHIEVE BROAD RECOGNITION IN MY LIFETIME, I LABOURED IN OBSCURITY UNTIL MY DEATH LAST YEAR. SHARON. KIVLAND
Flat Earth Anika Jade Levy
The Complete Stories Clarice Lispector, Katrina Dodson, Benjamin Moser
Postal Intelligence Rachel Midura
What Belongs to You Garth Greenwell
House of Fury Evelio Rosero, Victor Meadowcroft
The Obsessed Lizzie Buehler
Gifted Suzumi Suzuki, Allison Markin Powell
April — 52 books
Cecilia K-Ming Chang
Perfume & Pain Anna Dorn
I'm F*cking Amazing Anoushka Warden
Out There: Stories Kate Folk
A Touch of Jen Beth Morgan
My Husband Maud Ventura, Emma Ramadan
The Coin Yasmin Zaher
Creep: A Love Story Emma van Straaten
Valid: Dystopian Autofiction Chris Bergeron, Natalia Hero
Organ Meats K-Ming Chang
Y/N Esther Yi
Dykette Jenny Fran Davis
Chlorine Jade Song
The Other Valley Scott Alexander Howard
New Animal Ella Baxter
Blue Hunger Viola Di Grado, Jamie Richards
Cursed Bread Sophie Mackintosh, Genevieve Gaunt
Patricia Wants to Cuddle Samantha Allen
And Then She Fell Alicia Elliott
Deliver Me Elle Nash
Stag Dance Torrey Peters
We Are Light Gerda Blees, Michele Hutchison
Weird Fucks Lynne Tillman
Defenestrate Renee Branum
Portalmania: Stories Debbie Urbanski
Audition Katie Kitamura
Mrs Jekyll Emma Glass
The Wall Marlen Haushofer, Shaun Whiteside
Brutes Dizz Tate
Hunchback Saou Ichikawa, Polly Barton
She's a Lamb! Meredith Hambrock
Mood Swings Frankie Barnet
Immaculate Conception Ling Ling Huang
The Country Will Bring Us No Peace Matthieu Simard, Pablo Strauss
Piranesi Susanna Clarke
Our Wives Under the Sea Julia Armfield
How It Works Out Myriam Lacroix
Natural Beauty Ling Ling Huang
Interesting Facts About Space Emily Austin
Land of Milk and Honey C Pam Zhang
Private Rites Julia Armfield
Sky Daddy Kate Folk
We Spread Iain Reid
Dengue Boy Michel Nieva, Rahul Bery
This Thing Between Us Gus Moreno, Robb Moreira
Transcription Ben Lerner
The Line of Beauty Alan Hollinghurst
Hit Parade of Tears Izumi Suzuki
Terminal Boredom: Stories Izumi Suzuki, Polly Barton, Sam Bett, David Boyd, Daniel Joseph, Aiko Masubuchi, Helen O'Horan
The Pastel City M. John Harrison, Bruce Pennington
Light M. John Harrison
The Sunken Land Begins to Rise Again M. John Harrison
February — 1 book
Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia David Graeber
January — 8 books
Strangers I Know Claudia Durastanti, Elizabeth Harris
Michel the Giant: An African in Greenland Tété-Michel Kpomassie
Watching Over Her Jean-Baptiste Andrea
Hemlock Melissa Faliveno
Lost Lambs Madeline Cash
Moderation Elaine Castillo
Underground Barbie Maša Kolanović, Ena Selimovic
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
Gilgamesh: A New Translation of the Ancient Epic Anonymous, Sophus Helle
The Aeneid Virgil, Elaine Fantham, Frederick Ahl
June — 10 books
Dune Messiah Frank Herbert
The Warm Hands of Ghosts Katherine Arden
The Go-Between L.P. Hartley, Douglas Brooks-Davis
The Möbius Book Catherine Lacey
1453 Roger Crowley
The Death of Stalin Sheila Fitzpatrick
Revolutionary Spring Christopher Clark
Native Nations: A Millennium in North America Kathleen DuVal
The Greek Revolution and the Violent Birth of Nationalism Yanni Kotsonis
Culture Creep: Notes on the Pop Apocalypse Alice Bolin
May — 4 books
The Listeners Maggie Stiefvater
Katabasis R.F. Kuang
Finding Grace Loretta Rothschild
Rejection Tony Tulathimutte
April — 2 books
Year of the Rat: Undercover in the British Far Right Harry Shukman
Dombey and Son Charles Dickens
March — 2 books
The Frozen River Ariel Lawhon
Everything Must Go: The Stories We Tell About The End of the World Dorian Lynskey
January — 2 books
Birnam Wood Eleanor Catton
Study for Obedience Sarah Bernstein
2024
December — 1 book
The Children of the Dead Elfriede Jelinek, Gitta Honegger
November — 2 books
War and War László Krasznahorkai, George Szirtes
The Melancholy of Resistance László Krasznahorkai, George Szirtes
October — 15 books
Eurotrash Christian Kracht
Jagua Nana Cyprian Ekwensi
The Stepdaughter Caroline Blackwood
Mood Indigo Boris Vian
In This Sign Joanne Greenberg
Autumn Journal Louis MacNeice
Brat: A Novel Gabriel Smith
Ex-Wife Ursula Parrott, Bennett, Ursula Parrott
Satantango László Krasznahorkai, George Szirtes
The Dear Green Place Archie Hind
Come Closer Sara Gran
Die Kreutzersonate Leo Tolstoy
The Island Ana María Matute, Laura Lonsdale
The Anatomy of Melancholy Robert Burton, Angus Gowland
The Sorrows of Young Werther Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Michael Hulse
September — 2 books
Vertigo: The Rise and Fall of Weimar Germany Harald Jähner
Correction Thomas Bernhard, Sophie Wilkins
August — 9 books
Beautiful Days: Stories Zach Williams
Intermezzo Sally Rooney
Stars and Bars William Boyd
The Third Man Graham Greene, William B. Barrie
Veronica Mary Gaitskill
Djinns Fatma Aydemir, Jon Cho-Polizzi
The Day of the Jackal Frederick Forsyth
The End of Love Eva Illouz
Evenings and Weekends Oisín McKenna
July — 17 books
Making Movies Sidney Lumet
In the Blink of an Eye Walter Murch
The Great Movies Roger Ebert
The Passion According to G.H. Clarice Lispector, Idra Novey, Caetano Veloso, Benjamin Moser
The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise Olivia Laing
Bel Canto Ann Patchett
How to Be Both Ali Smith
The Monk: A Romance Matthew Gregory Lewis
The Prophet Kahlil Gibran
The Corner That Held Them Sylvia Townsend Warner, Claire Harman
Mariette in Ecstasy Ron Hansen
The History of Jazz Ted Gioia
The Collected Dorothy Parker Dorothy Parker
The Jazz Poetry Anthology Sascha Feinstein, Yusef Komunyakaa
Invisible Man Ralph Ellison
The Weary Blues Langston Hughes
Hybrids of Plants and of Ghosts Jorie Graham
June — 1 book
Gender Codes: Why Women Are Leaving Computing Thomas J. Misa
May — 5 books
Ours Phillip B. Williams
Before European Hegemony: The World System A.D. 1250-1350 Janet L. Abu-Lughod
Fixers: Agency, Translation, and the Early Global History of Literature Zrinka Stahuljak
You Could Do Something Amazing with Your Life Andrew Hankinson
The Guest Emma Cline
April — 20 books
The Obscene Madame D Hilda Hilst, Rachel Gontijo Araujo, Nathanaël, John Keene
The Theory of the Leisure Class Thorstein Veblen, Alan Wolfe
Leisure the Basis of Culture Josef Pieper, Alexander Dru, T.S. Eliot
Eve's Hollywood Eve Babitz
The Great Cat Massacre Robert Darnton
Porn: An Oral History Polly Barton
The Night Battles Carlo Ginzburg, John Tedeschi, Anne Tedeschi
Bunny Mona Awad
Say Hello to My Little Friend Jennine Capo Crucet
Bugsy & Other Stories Rafael Frumkin
Women! In! Peril! Jessie Ren Marshall
Grief Is for People Sloane Crosley
The Weeds Katy Simpson Smith
The Wounded World: W. E. B. Du Bois and the First World War Chad L. Williams
Lake of Urine Guillermo Stitch
The Principle of Rapid Peering Sylvia Legris
A Far Cry from Kensington Muriel Spark
Pym Mat Johnson
Headshot Rita Bullwinkel
We Are a Haunting Tyriek White
March — 24 books
The Children Act Ian McEwan
The Memory Police Stephen Snyder, Markus Juslin, Yoko Ogawa
Greek Lessons Han Kang, Deborah Smith, Emily Yae Won
Happening Annie Ernaux, Tanya Leslie
Kudos Rachel Cusk
Baumgartner Paul Auster, Cristiana Mennella
Come and Get It Kiley Reid
City of Laughter Temim Fruchter
The Cement Garden Ian McEwan
A Girl's Story Annie Ernaux, Alison L. Strayer
Cursed Bunny Bora Chung, Anton Hur
Klara and the Sun Kazuo Ishiguro
Of Cattle and Men Ana Paula Maia, Zoë Perry
Simple Passion Annie Ernaux, Tanya Leslie
Prophet Song Paul Lynch
South and West: From a Notebook Joan Didion
Getting Lost Annie Ernaux, Alison L. Strayer
The Rehearsal Eleanor Catton
Who's Afraid of Gender? Judith Butler
Out Natsuo Kirino
Kapo Aleksandar Tišma, Richard Williams
The Deorhord: An Old English Bestiary Hana Videen
Goodbye Tsugumi Banana Yoshimoto, Michael Emmerich
The Barbara Johnson Reader: The Surprise of Otherness Barbara Johnson, Bill Johnson González, Melissa Feuerstein, Lili Porten, Keja L. Valens
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
Sex with a Brain Injury: On Concussion and Recovery Annie Liontas
Beautyland Marie-Helene Bertino
Sheridan’s Secret Mission: How the South Won the War After the Civil War Robert Cwiklik
Tripping on Utopia: Margaret Mead, the Cold War, and the Troubled Birth of Psychedelic Science Benjamin Breen
2023
December — 29 books
How to Draw a Novel Martin Solares
The Zone of Interest Martin Amis
Marzahn, mon amour Katja Oskamp, Jo Heinrich
The Devil Takes You Home Gabino Iglesias
Bliss Montage Ling Ma
Journey to the End of the Night Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Ralph Manheim, Angela Cismaş, William T. Vollmann
Solenoid Mircea Cărtărescu
Nostalgia Mircea Cărtărescu
The Letters of Gustave Flaubert Gustave Flaubert
Wittgenstein's Poker: The Story of a Ten-Minute Argument Between Two Great Philosophers David Edmonds, John Eidinow
Antkind Charlie Kaufman
The Bee Sting Paul Murray
Minor Detail Adania Shibli, Elisabeth Jaquette
The Apple in the Dark Clarice Lispector, Benjamin Moser
Ægypt John Crowley
The Book at War: Libraries and Readers in an Age of Conflict Andrew Pettegree
The Overstory Richard Powers
There Is No Antimemetics Division qntm
The Best of Everything Rona Jaffe
Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues Jonathan Kennedy
There Will Be Fire: Margaret Thatcher, the IRA, and Two Minutes That Changed History Rory Carroll
DallerGut Dream Department Store Lee Mi-ye
Big Swiss Jen Beagin
Blackouts Justin Torres
The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder David Grann
Mitz Sigrid Nunez, Peter Cameron
Salt Lick Lulu Allison
The Marriage Portrait Maggie O'Farrell
In Search of Berlin: The Story of A Reinvented City John Kampfner
November — 11 books
Human Capital: A History of Putting Refugees to Work Laura Robson
Alice Sadie Celine Sarah Blakley-Cartwright
The Mystery Guest Nita Prose
We Must Not Think of Ourselves Lauren Grodstein
We Have Always Lived in the Castle Shirley Jackson
The Unquiet Englishman: A Life of Graham Greene Richard Greene
Brainwyrms Alison Rumfitt
Dust: The Modern World in a Trillion Particles Jay Owens
The Walking Man Jirō Taniguchi
Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech Brian Merchant
Mild Vertigo Mieko Kanai, Polly Barton
October — 2 books
Palace of Treason Jason Matthews
The Kremlin's Candidate Jason Matthews
September — 3 books
Second Place Rachel Cusk
Cloven Country: The Devil and the English Landscape Jeremy Harte
Under Western Eyes Joseph Conrad
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
The Soul of a New Machine Tracy Kidder
The Rhetorics of Feminism: Readings in Contemporary Cultural Theory and the Popular Press Lynne Pearce
Life in Code Ellen Ullman
Who Controls the Internet?: Illusions of a Borderless World Jack L. Goldsmith, Tim Wu
Being There: Putting Brain, Body, and World Together Again Andy Clark
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
Germinal Émile Zola, Stanley Hochman, Eleanor Hochman, Irving Howe
The Odyssey Lara Williams
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 English Understand Wool Helen DeWitt
The Birthday Party Laurent Mauvignier, Daniel Levin Becker
The Shards Bret Easton Ellis
How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures Sabrina Imbler
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
Short Stories in German, Erzählungen auf Deutsch: New Penguin Parallel Text Ernst Zillekens
2022
December — 12 books
Sea of Tranquility Emily St. John Mandel
The Little Friend Donna Tartt
Emergent Tokyo: Designing the Spontaneous City Jorge Almazán, Joe McReynolds
Showroom City: Real Estate and Resistance in the Furniture Capital of the World John Joe Schlichtman
The Office of Good Intentions. Human(s) Work Florian Idenburg, LeeAnn Suen, Iwan Baan, Zoë Ritts, Duncan Scovil
Towards a Philosophy of Photography Vilém Flusser, Hubertus Von Amelunxen, Anthony Mathews
Into the Universe of Technical Images Vilém Flusser, Nancy Ann Roth
Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò
Either/Or Elif Batuman
Checkout 19 Claire-Louise Bennett
Aesthetica Allie Rowbottom
The Book of Goose Yiyun Li
November — 20 books
The Sirens of Titan Kurt Vonnegut
The Difference Engine William Gibson, Bruce Sterling
Cryptonomicon Neal Stephenson
The Word for World Is Forest Ursula K. Le Guin
Invisible Cities Italo Calvino, Anthony Doerr, Karina Maria Puente Frantzen
Ferdinand, the Man with the Kind Heart Irmgard Keun
The Books of Jacob Olga Tokarczuk, Jennifer Croft
Ancient Evenings Norman Mailer
Septology Jon Fosse, Damion Searls
LOTE Shola von Reinhold
There Once Lived a Girl Who Seduced Her Sister's Husband, and He Hanged Himself Ludmilla Petrushevskaya
All Our Yesterdays Natalia Ginzburg, Angus Davidson, Sally Rooney
Insane Rainald Goetz, Adrian Nathan West
Howdie-Skelp Paul Muldoon
Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen Christopher McDougall
Distant Star Roberto Bolaño, Chris Andrews
Iron Kingdom Christopher Clark
This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyberweapons Arms Race Nicole Perlroth
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
The Babel Message: A Love Letter to Language Keith Kahn-Harris
Baby, I Don't Care Chelsey Minnis
August — 3 books
The Cuckoo's Egg 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 — 3 books
Earthlings Sayaka Murata, Ginny Tapley Takemori
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
Black Boy: A Record of Youth and Childhood Richard Wright
Zone One Colson Whitehead
Harlem Shuffle Colson Whitehead
Billy Liar Keith Waterhouse, Nick Bentley
Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea Guy Delisle, Helge Dascher
Dictionary of Untranslatables: A Philosophical Lexicon Barbara Cassin, Emily Apter, Jacques Lezra
Immigration, Poverty, and Socioeconomic Inequality David Card, Steven Raphael
The Pessimists Bethany Ball
John Brown W.E.B. Du Bois
The New Me Halle Butler
September — 14 books
The Black Death Rosemary Horrox
The Food Lab J. Kenji López-Alt
The Bookseller's Tale Ann Swinfen
Tuff Paul Beatty
Tenth of December George Saunders
An Island Karen Jennings
Notes on Camp Susan Sontag
Egon Schiele: Arbeiten auf Papier = works on paper Maria Costantino
The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam Barbara W. Tuchman
Stone Butch Blues Leslie Feinberg
On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint Maggie Nelson
Foucault's Pendulum Umberto Eco
Precarious Life Judith Butler
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 Benjamin Carter Hett
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 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
The Last Libertines Benedetta Craveri, Aaron Kerner
The Life of the Mind Christine Smallwood
Must I Go Yiyun Li, Jane Alexander, Alex McKenna, John Rubinstein
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
The Talented Mr Ripley Patricia Highsmith
London Fields Martin Amis
Autobiography of Red Anne Carson
Feral rewilding the land, the sea, and human life George Monbiot
Logical chess move by move Irving Chernev
The Smart Enough City: Putting Technology in Its Place to Reclaim Our Urban Future Ben Green, Jascha Franklin-Hodge
Subprime Attention Crisis Advertising and the Time Bomb at the Heart of the Internet Tim Hwang
A Civic Technologist's Practice Guide Cyd Harrell
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
Blacker the Berry Wallace Thurman, Shirlee Taylor Haizlip
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 Division Bell Mystery Ellen Wilkinson
A Place of Greater Safety Hilary Mantel
Wolf Hall Hilary Mantel
Underland Robert Macfarlane
The Black Prince Iris Murdoch, Candia McWilliam
Bring Up the Bodies Hilary Mantel
Remarkable Birds Mark Avery
Zami: A New Spelling of My Name Audre Lorde
Medea and Other Plays Euripides, Richard Rutherford, John Davie
The Graduate Charles Webb, Hanif Kureishi
Greek and Roman Myths: A Guide to the Classical Stories Philip Matyszak
Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency Olivia Laing
What Is the Grass: Walt Whitman in My Life Mark Doty
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn Betty Smith
Like Ali Smith
The Count of Monte Cristo Alexandre Dumas
A Tale of Two Cities Charles Dickens
Little Women Louisa May Alcott, Anna Bond
Not Working Josh Cohen
Up Down Inside Out Joohee Yoon
The Organs of Sense Adam Ehrlich Sachs
Old Drift Namwali Serpell
How to Read Wittgenstein Ray Monk
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York Robert A. Caro
Greater Gotham Mike Wallace
Recursion Blake Crouch
The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World Andrea Wulf
Let It Come Down Paul Bowles
Wild Game: My Mother, Her Lover, and Me Adrienne Brodeur
After the Ice Steven Mithen
No. 10: The Geography of Power at Downing Street Jack Brown
The Society of the Spectacle Guy Debord, Guy Debord, Ron. Adams, Donald Nicholson-Smith, Colectivo Maldeojo
Modern Classical Physics Kip S. Thorne, Roger D. Blandford
Gingerbread Helen Oyeyemi
Lucky Per Henrik Pontoppidan
Bloodlands Timothy Snyder
The Book of the City of Ladies Christine de Pizan, Earl Jeffrey Richards
The Bonjour Effect Julie Barlow, Jean-Benoit Nadeau
The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming David Wallace-Wells
The World Doesn't Require You Rion Amilcar Scott
Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets Svetlana Alexievich, Bela Shayevich
Prozac Nation: Young & Depressed In America: A Memoir Elizabeth Wurtzel
How to Invent Everything: A Survival Guide for the Stranded Time Traveler Ryan North
2019
September — 1 book
The diary of Anaïs Nin. Anaïs Nin
July — 1 book
My Brilliant Friend Elena Ferrante, Ann Goldstein
June — 1 book
The Water Cure Sophie Mackintosh
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 Reformation Diarmaid MacCulloch
A Boy in Winter Rachel Seiffert
Learning from Las Vegas Rev Ed
SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome Mary Beard
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
Life Between Buildings Jan Gehl
Simians, Cyborgs, and Women: The Reinvention of Nature Donna J. Haraway
Who Governs? Robert A. Dahl
A Perfect Vacuum Stanisław Lem, Michael Kandel
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
The Wasp Factory Iain Banks
Black Skin, White Masks Frantz Fanon, Richard Philcox, Kwame Anthony Appiah
The Anglo Saxon Chronicle Various, Benjamin Thorpe
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
Das Kapital (Abridged) Karl Marx
Places of the Heart Colin Ellard
Les Misérables Victor Hugo, Christine Donougher, Jillian Tamaki, Robert Tombs
The Gathering Storm Winston S. Churchill
The Establishment: And How They Get Away with It Owen Jones
Utilitarianism John Stuart Mill, George Sher
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
You All Grow Up and Leave Me: A Memoir of Teenage Obsession Piper Weiss
This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate Naomi Klein
Jesus' Son Denis Johnson
Understanding power Noam Chomsky, Peter R. Mitchell, John Schoeffel
Architecture Theory Since 1968 K. Michael Hays
The Sublime Object of Ideology Slavoj Žižek, Chris MacDonnell
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
Sharp Objects Gillian Flynn
Alias Grace Margaret Atwood
Design as Art Bruno Munari
Liquid Modernity Zygmunt Bauman
NW Zadie Smith
How to Study Public Life Jan Gehl, Birgitte Svarre
Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea Barbara Demick
Rebecca Daphne du Maurier
The Enemy Within Seumas Milne
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
A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge George Berkeley, Jonathan Dancy
Relativity Albert Einstein
The semisovereign people : a realist's view of democracy in America E.E. Schattschneider
The making of the English working class E.P. Thompson
The Elephant Vanishes Haruki Murakami
Cosmos Carl Sagan, Paulo Geiger
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
Science and the Common Understanding J. Robert Oppenheimer
A Theory of Good City Form Kevin Lynch
The Moral Law: Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals Immanuel Kant, H.J. Paton
Microcognition: Philosophy, Cognitive Science, and Parallel Distributed Processing Andy Clark
One Way Street And Other Writings Walter Benjamin, Edmund F.N. Jephcott, K. Shorter
The Nature of Code Daniel Shiffman
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
Crime and Punishment Fyodor Dostoevsky, Leonard Stanton, James D. Hardy Jr., Sidney Monas, Robin Feuer Miller
Reflections on the revolution in France L.G. Mitchell, Edmund Burke
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Edward Gibbon, Daniel J. Boorstin, Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Hans-Friedrich Mueller
Emma Jane Austen, Fiona Stafford
The Classical Language of Architecture John Summerson
If They Come in the Morning...: Voices of Resistance Angela Y. Davis
Cognitive Science José Luis Bermúdez
Italian Folktales Italo Calvino, George Martin
The Naked Lunch William S. Burroughs
Song of Solomon Toni Morrison
Letters on England Voltaire
A Treatise of Human Nature David Hume
Writing and Difference Jacques Derrida, Alan Bass
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love Raymond Carver
Pacific Worlds Matt K. Matsuda
Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture, and the Body Susan Bordo, Leslie Heywood
A Wild Sheep Chase Haruki Murakami, Alfred Birnbaum
The Chrysalids John Wyndham
The Sovereignty of Good Iris Murdoch
Gramatologia Jacques Derrida
The Virgin Suicides Jeffrey Eugenides
Patterns of Democracy: Government Forms and Performance in Thirty-Six Countries Arend Lijphart
The Modern Cook's Year Anna Jones
Call Me by Your Name Andre Aciman
Milkman Anna Burns
French Exit Patrick deWitt
Washington Black Esi Edugyan
Crudo: A Novel Olivia Laing
Convenience Store Woman Sayaka Murata, Ginny Tapley Takemori
Family Trust Kathy Wang
But Some of Us Are Brave: Black Women's Studies Akasha Gloria Hull, Patricia Bell-Scott, Brittney Cooper, Barbara Smith
Kids These Days: Human Capital and the Making of Millennials Malcolm Harris
A Certain Idea of France: The Life of Charles de Gaulle Julian T. Jackson
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
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
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
Playing with Fire: The 1968 Election and the Transformation of American Politics Lawrence O'Donnell
Sexual Anarchy Elaine Showalter
Salafi-Jihadism: The History of an Idea Shiraz Maher
Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs Harold Abelson, Julie Sussman, Gerald Jay Sussman
Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury
Orientalism Edward W. Said
Ernest Hemingway on Writing Larry W. Phillips
Story: Substance, Structure, Style, and the Principles of Screenwriting Robert McKee
God: A Human History Reza Aslan
The Collected Essays of Elizabeth Hardwick Elizabeth Hardwick, Darryl Pinckney
What Happened Hillary Rodham Clinton
Infra Richard Mosse, Adam Hochschild
Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers: A History of Lesbian Life in Twentieth-Century America Lillian Faderman
Junky William S. Burroughs
Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community Robert D. Putnam
Nationalism and the Imagination Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
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
American War Omar El Akkad
Black and British: A Forgotten History David Olusoga
The Holocaust Laurence Rees
Do Not Say We Have Nothing Madeleine Thien
Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine Gail Honeyman
Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power Audre Lorde
Midnight's Children Salman Rushdie
Teaching Critical Thinking: Practical Wisdom bell hooks
The Marx-Engels Reader Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Robert C. Tucker
Border Lines: The Partition of Judaeo-Christianity Daniel Boyarin
But how Do it Know? J. Clark Scott
The Six Day War: The Breaking of the Middle East Guy Laron
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 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
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
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 Charles Darwin, David Quammen
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
The Phenomenology of Spirit Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Terry Pinkard, Michael Baur
Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character Richard P. Feynman, Raymond Todd
How Democracies Die Steven Levitsky, Fred Sanders
One-Dimensional Man Herbert Marcuse
Cities for People Jan Gehl
Selections from the Prison Notebooks Antonio Gramsci, Geoffrey Nowell-Smith, Quintin Hoare
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
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
Lenin's Tomb David Remnick
Aeschyli Eumenides Aeschylus
February — 1 book
Killing Commendatore Haruki Murakami, Philip Gabriel, Ted Goossen
January — 5 books
My Year of Rest and Relaxation Ottessa Moshfegh
Grant Ron Chernow
The Woman in Black Susan Hill
Homesick for Another World Ottessa Moshfegh
Paradise Rot Jenny Hval, Marjam Idriss
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
A Little Life Hanya Yanagihara
Men Without Women Haruki Murakami, Ted Goossen, Philip Gabriel
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
Grid Systems in Graphic Design/Raster Systeme Fur Die Visuele Gestaltung (German and English Edition) Josef Müller-Brockmann
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
Feminism is for Everybody: Passionate Politics bell hooks
The Sense of Style Steven Pinker
The Feminine Mystique Betty Friedan, Anna Quindlen
March — 16 books
Good Neighbors: Gentrifying Diversity in Boston's South End Sylvie Tissot, David Broder, Catherine Romatowski
Living in the End Times Slavoj Žižek
The Science of Interstellar Kip S. Thorne, Christopher J. Nolan
When Media Goes to War: Hegemonic Discourse, Public Opinion, and the Limits of Dissent Anthony DiMaggio
Trouble In Paradise Slavoj Žižek
Blackass A. Igoni Barrett
The Elements of Typographic Style Robert Bringhurst
Salvage the Bones Jesmyn Ward
Airline Visual Identity: 1945–1975 M.C. Huhne
Cities by Design: The Social Life of Urban Form Fran Tonkiss
Walkable City Jeff Speck, Daiva Vilkelytė, Aldas Stulpinas
Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason Michel Foucault, Richard Howard
Enjoy Your Symptom! Jacques Lacan in Hollywood and Out Slavoj Žižek
By-Line Ernest Hemingway Ernest Hemingway
The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression Andrew Solomon
First as Tragedy, Then as Farce Slavoj Žižek