2026
March — 1 book
Drayton and MackenzieAlexander Starritt
February — 4 books
The Seventh FloorDavid McCloskey
Moscow XDavid McCloskey
The New York TrilogyPaul Auster
Mi6Stephen Dorril
January — 7 books
City of GlassPaul Auster
The Silver EggheadsFritz Leiber
Road to NowhereParis Marx
The Savage DetectivesRoberto Bolaño
I'm a FanSheena Patel
Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin WallAnna Funder
Her Majesty's Secret ServiceChristopher Andrew
2025
December — 9 books
An Instance of the FingerpostIain Pears
A Sunny Place for Shady PeopleMariana Enríquez, Megan McDowell
A History of JudaismMartin Goodman
A Study in Scarlet WomenSherry Thomas
Damascus StationDavid McCloskey
Titus AndronicusWilliam Shakespeare, David Troughton, Harriet Walker
The Finest Hotel in Kabul
The Haves and Have-YachtsEvan Osnos
The Art of Betrayal: Life and Death in the British Secret ServiceGordon Corera
November — 5 books
Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible: The Surreal Heart of the New RussiaPeter Pomerantsev
Sad TigerNeige Sinno, Natasha Lehrer
The Good ApprenticeIris Murdoch
Unconditional SurrenderEvelyn Waugh
Granta 173: IndiaThomas Meaney
October — 4 books
Our Ancestors: Cloven Viscount; Baron in the Trees; Non-Existent KnightItalo Calvino, Archibald Colquhoun
Evil Paradises: Dreamworlds of NeoliberalismMike Davis, Daniel Bertrand Monk
Where Eagles DareAlistair MacLean
Rock CrystalAdalbert Stifter
September — 3 books
The SafekeepYael van der Wouden
Alphabetical DiariesSheila Heti
If on a Winter's Night a TravelerItalo Calvino
August — 4 books
Equal RitesTerry Pratchett
Small GodsTerry Pratchett
The Good Soldier SvejkJaroslav Hašek
AssemblyNatasha Brown
July — 4 books
Super Sad True Love StoryGary Shteyngart
Granta 131: The Map is Not the TerritorySigrid Rausing
Granta 172: BadlandsThomas Meaney
On Art and LifeJohn Ruskin
June — 6 books
Merchants of CultureJohn Brookshire Thompson
The BombshellDarrow Farr
Our GameJohn le Carré
Ethan FromeEdith Wharton
The JungleUpton Sinclair, Eric Schlosser, Ronald S. Gottesman
The Secret PilgrimJohn le Carré
May — 3 books
Elect Mr. Robinson for a Better WorldDonald Antrim
Still LifeSarah Winman
RejectionTony Tulathimutte
April — 5 books
Granta 171: Dead FriendsThomas Meaney
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against ThisOmar El Akkad
PerfectionVincenzo Latronico, Sophie Hughes
Every Man for Himself and God Against All: A MemoirWerner Herzog, Michael Hofmann
A Spy AloneCharles Beaumont
March — 2 books
Gabriel's MoonWilliam Boyd
The Troublesome Offspring of Cardinal GuzmánLouis de Bernières
February — 2 books
Granta 170: WinnersThomas Meaney
Empire Of The SunJ. G. Ballard
January — 2 books
Study for ObedienceSarah Bernstein
n+1 Issue 47: Passagen+1, Saree Makdisi, Kay Gabriel, Laura Preston, Mitchell Morgan Johnson, Iman Mersal, Nausicaa Renner, Paul Soto, Nicholas Hamburger, Nicole Lipman, William Harris, David Wingrave
2024
December — 5 books
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & ClayMichael Chabon
Diary of a Foreigner in ParisCurzio Malaparte, Stephen Twilley, Edmund White
Karla's Choice: A John le Carré NovelNick Harkaway
Brazzaville BeachWilliam Boyd
Edith's DiaryPatricia Highsmith
November — 2 books
When We Cease to Understand the WorldBenjamín Labatut, Adrian Nathan West
10:04Ben Lerner
October — 8 books
Mr Ma and SonLao She
Future SexEmily Witt
Bend SinisterVladimir Nabokov
Brat: A NovelGabriel Smith
Badenheim 1939Aharon Appelfeld, Dalya Bilu
The Quest for CorvoA.J.A. Symons, Julian Symons
The Covenant of WaterAbraham Verghese
Girls Against GodJenny Hval, Marjam Idriss
September — 6 books
Long Live the Post Horn!Vigdis Hjorth, Charlotte Barslund
A Handful of DustEvelyn Waugh
Diary of a VoidEmi Yagi
TellJonathan Buckley
Granta 168: Significant OtherThomas Meaney
The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin OlympicsDaniel James Brown
August — 6 books
LiarsSarah Manguso
The Empusium: A Health Resort Horror StoryOlga Tokarczuk, Antonia Lloyd-Jones
Selected Stories Volume Two: 1995-2009: 1995-2009Alice Munro
The Tenderness of WolvesStef Penney
Truth & DareSo Mayer
My FriendsMatar Hisham
July — 5 books
A Woman's StoryAnnie Ernaux, Tanya Leslie
The Rachel PapersMartin Amis
Wise ChildrenAngela Carter
Like Love: Essays and ConversationsMaggie Nelson
The GluttonA.K. Blakemore
June — 4 books
The Midnight LibraryMatt Haig
Burmese DaysGeorge Orwell
The EnemyLee Child
August BlueDeborah Levy
May — 4 books
NostromoJoseph Conrad, Veronique Pauly, J.H. Stape
Decline and FallEvelyn Waugh, David Bradshaw
American GodsNeil Gaiman
The InterrogatorsAllan Prior
April — 10 books
A Sort of LifeGraham Greene
Demon CopperheadBarbara Kingsolver
The Buried GiantKazuo Ishiguro
RipeSarah Rose Etter
The LibrarianistPatrick deWitt, Jim Meskimen
I Have Some Questions For YouRebecca Makkai
PersuasionJane Austen, Gillian Beer
Glorious ExploitsFerdia Lennon
Officers and GentlemenEvelyn Waugh
You Dreamed of EmpiresÁlvaro Enrigue, Natasha Wimmer
March — 11 books
Men at ArmsEvelyn Waugh
Granta 166: GenerationsThomas Meaney
Sweet ToothIan McEwan
A Man's PlaceAnnie Ernaux, Tanya Leslie, Francine Prose
The passion of new EveAngela Carter
The GuestEmma Cline
NightbitchRachel Yoder, Cassandra Campbell
Martyr! A NovelKaveh Akbar
Tropic of CancerHenry Miller
The Other Name: Septology I-IIJon Fosse, Damion Searls
The Ten Loves of Mr NishinoAllison Markin Powell, Hiromi Kawakami
February — 5 books
The Tombs of AtuanUrsula K. Le Guin
The Farthest ShoreUrsula K. Le Guin
A Wizard of EarthseaUrsula K. Le Guin
Jerusalem: The BiographySimon Sebag Montefiore
Play it as it laysJoan Didion
January — 8 books
The French Lieutenant's WomanJohn Fowles
The MagusJohn Fowles, Nicholas Boulton
SymposionPlato
E-flux Journal: The Internet Does Not ExistJulieta Aranda, Brian Kuan Wood, Anton Vidokle
LessonsIan McEwan
LibraDon DeLillo
So Much For LifeMark Hyatt, Sam Ladkin, Luke Roberts
The Golden NotebookDoris Lessing
2023
December — 4 books
Do the Windows Open?Julie Hecht
A Legacy of SpiesJohn le Carré
OrbitalSamantha Harvey
AtonementIan McEwan
November — 1 book
The Tenth ManGraham Greene
October — 1 book
Caste: The Origins of Our DiscontentsIsabel Wilkerson
September — 10 books
Pink SlimeFernanda Trías, Heather Cleary
Homage To CataloniaGeorge Orwell
DuneFrank Herbert, Brian Herbert
Napoleon The LittleVictor Hugo
A Spy In the House of LoveAnaïs Nin
The looking-glass war.John le Carré
SilverviewJohn le Carré, Toby Jones
KaputtCurzio Malaparte, Giorgio Pinotti
The Jewish WritingsHannah Arendt
Fletch and the man whoGregory Mcdonald
August — 6 books
Cards on the TableAgatha Christie
Story of the EyeGeorges Bataille, Joachim Neugroschel, Roland Barthes, Susan Sontag
Bright Young PeopleD.J. Taylor
Vile BodiesEvelyn Waugh
Homo FaberMax Frisch
All SoulsJavier Marías
June — 4 books
Red SparrowJason Matthews
Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the WorldMalcolm Harris
Tender Is the FleshAgustina Bazterrica, Sarah Moses
Some Do Not...Ford Madox Ford, Max Saunders
May — 3 books
While We Were DreamingClemens Meyer, Katy Derbyshire
TaipeiTao Lin
The MasterColm Tóibín
April — 3 books
The Philosopher's PupilIris Murdoch
Goodbye to All ThatRobert Graves
CherryNico Walker
March — 6 books
Less Than ZeroBret Easton Ellis
AlmondWon-pyung Sohn, Sandy Joosun Lee
Thérèse RaquinÉmile Zola, Katia Lysy, Guy de Maupassant
MotherthingAinslie Hogarth
WeYevgeny Zamyatin, Clarence Brown
I Fear My Pain Interests YouStephanie LaCava
February — 4 books
Berlin Alexanderplatz: The Story of Franz BiberkopfAlfred Döblin, Eugene Jolas
ImmunePhilipp Dettmer
Reflections: Essays, Aphorisms, Autobiographical WritingsWalter Benjamin, Edmund F.N. Jephcott, Peter Demetz, Leon Wieseltier
The Aosawa MurdersRiku Onda, Alison Watts
January — 4 books
The Little Drummer GirlJohn le Carré
Babel, or The Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' RevolutionR.F. Kuang
Happy HourMarlowe Granados
One Day in the Life of Ivan DenisovichAleksandr Solzhenitsyn, H.T. Willetts
2022
December — 4 books
High-RiseJ. G. Ballard
Grand Hotel AbyssStuart Jeffries
The Candy HouseJennifer Egan
The Inugami CurseSeishi Yokomizo, Yumiko Yamakazi
November — 17 books
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and TomorrowGabrielle Zevin
The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New HumanSiddhartha Mukherjee
A Murder of QualityJohn le Carré
Last WitnessesSvetlana Alexievich, Richard Pevear, Larissa Volokhonsky
LapvonaOttessa Moshfegh
The Naked and the DeadNorman Mailer
RaveRainald Goetz
Liberation DayGeorge Saunders
The Employees: A workplace novel of the 22nd centuryOlga Ravn
Notebook Otherlands: A World in the MakingThomas Halliday
VoxNicholson Baker
Somebody with a Little Hammer: EssaysMary Gaitskill
The Shortest History of GermanyJames Hawes
The NovelistJordan Castro
Don't CryMary Gaitskill
Martin LutherEric Metaxas
Tree of SmokeDenis Johnson
October — 6 books
The Artificial Silk GirlIrmgard Keun, Katharina von Ankum
Short Stories in German for BeginnersOlly Richards
Alone in BerlinMichael Hofmann, Hans Falada
Nazi Billionaires: The Dark History of Germany's Wealthiest DynastiesDavid de Jong
The Leadership Pipeline: How to Build the Leadership Powered CompanyRam Charan, Stephen Drotter, Jim Noel
Call for the DeadJohn le Carré
September — 7 books
Berlin: Life and Death in the City at the Center of the WorldSinclair McKay
The SilmarillionJ.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien
Memories of My Melancholy WhoresGabriel García Márquez, Edith Grossman
The Russia HouseJohn le Carré, Michael Jayston, René Basilico, Tom Baker
The Heart of the MatterGraham Greene
A severed head.Iris Murdoch
Slow Days, Fast CompanyEve Babitz
August — 3 books
Agent Running in the FieldJohn le Carré
Absolute FriendsJohn le Carré
The OdysseyHomer, Robert Fagles, Bernard Knox
July — 10 books
An American dreammailer-norman
The Human FactorGraham Greene
The InnocentIan McEwan
The Fire and the Sun: Why Plato Banished the ArtistsIris Murdoch
When I Was MortalJavier Marías
AmsterdamIan McEwan
CosmopolisDon DeLillo, Will Patton
The Quiet AmericanGraham Greene, Robert Stone
The Adventures of Huckleberry FinnMark Twain, Guy Cardwell, John Seelye, Walter Trier, E.W. Kemble
First Love, Last Rites: StoriesIan McEwan
June — 5 books
Fates and FuriesLauren Groff, Will Damron, Julia Whelan
Termination ShockNeal Stephenson
The ConfusionNeal Stephenson
The Mission SongJohn le Carré
The System of the WorldNeal Stephenson
April — 2 books
Hotel du LacAnita Brookner
Pure ColourSheila Heti
March — 3 books
What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex TraumaStephanie Foo
Heart of Europe: A History of the Holy Roman EmpirePeter H. Wilson
The Naked Don't Fear the Water: An Underground Journey with Afghan RefugeesMatthieu Aikins
February — 5 books
The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a human-centered planetJohn Green
CivilWarLand in Bad DeclineGeorge Saunders
The Tyranny of Merit: What's Become of the Common Good?Michael J. Sandel
The Dialectics of SeeingSusan Buck-Morss
The Brain-Dead MegaphoneGeorge Saunders
January — 5 books
Good GirlAnna Fitzpatrick
No One Is Talking About ThisPatricia Lockwood
Cloud Cuckoo LandAnthony Doerr
EarthlingsSayaka Murata, Ginny Tapley Takemori
Black SpartacusSudhir Hazareesingh
2021
December — 1 book
The Honourable SchoolboyJohn le Carré
November — 2 books
AnimalLisa Taddeo
Beautiful World, Where Are YouSally Rooney
October — 10 books
Our Country FriendsGary Shteyngart
MatrixLauren Groff
The Information BombPaul Virilio
How to Blow Up a PipelineAndreas Malm
VladimirJulia May Jonas
Whore of New York: A ConfessionLiara Roux
Project Hail MaryAndy Weir
CAPS LOCKRuben Pater
Milk FedMelissa Broder
Index, a History of TheDennis Duncan
September — 9 books
Make Room! Make Room!Harry Harrison, Eric Michael Summerer
Detransition, BabyTorrey Peters, Victory Matsui
Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898Edwin G. Burrows, Mike Wallace
Great CircleMaggie Shipstead
PastoraliaGeorge Saunders
The Bass RockEvie Wyld
The NetanyahusJoshua Cohen
House of GlassHadley Freeman
The Guns of AugustBarbara W. Tuchman, Robert K. Massie
August — 8 books
Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and WorstRobert M. Sapolsky
Hard TimesCharles Dickens, Kate Flint
A Ship-wrecked SailorGabriel García Márquez
The Dangers of Smoking in Bed: StoriesMariana Enriquez, Megan McDowell
Washington BulletsVijay Prashad
Stories of Your Life and OthersTed Chiang
Tomorrow They Won't Dare to Murder UsJoseph Andras, Simon Leser
Back Channel to Cuba: The Hidden History of Negotiations between Washington and HavanaWilliam M. Leogrande, Peter Kornbluh
July — 5 books
Cold New ClimateIsobel Wohl
The Ministry for the FutureKim Stanley Robinson
Metaphors We Live ByGeorge Lakoff, Mark Johnson
A Slow Death: 83 Days of Radiation SicknessNHK TV Crew
HeavenMieko Kawakami, Sam Bett, David Boyd
June — 6 books
The German Language Today: A Linguistic IntroductionCharles V.J. Russ
AusterlitzW.G. Sebald, Anthea Bell
The Life Before UsRomain Gary, Ralph Manheim
Hurricane SeasonFernanda Melchor, Sophie Hughes
Black DogsIan McEwan
The Dry HeartNatalia Ginzburg, Frances Frenaye, نازنین احسانیطباطبایی
May — 8 books
My Name Is LeonKit de Waal
The Dog of the MarriageAmy Hempel
Where the Crawdads SingDelia Owens
A Box of MatchesNicholson Baker
Putin's PeopleCatherine Belton
Fake AccountsLauren Oyler, Rebecca Lowman
LusterRaven Leilani
Silence Once BegunJesse Ball
April — 6 books
The Iliac CrestCristina Rivera Garza, Sarah Booker
The Inheritance of LossKiran Desai
TransitRachel Cusk
KitchenBanana Yoshimoto
The InterestingsMeg Wolitzer
How Much of These Hills Is GoldC Pam Zhang
March — 3 books
King at the Edge of the WorldArthur Phillips
SistersDaisy Johnson
BeheldTaraShea Nesbit
February — 2 books
The Spy Who Came In From The ColdJohn le Carré
Death's EndCixin Liu, Ken Liu
January — 1 book
The Dark ForestCixin Liu, Joel Martinsen
2020
December — 2 books
The Tidal ZoneSarah Moss
Look at MeAnita Brookner
November — 8 books
MoneyMartin Amis, Graeme Malcolm
Exciting TimesNaoise Dolan
Strangers on a TrainPatricia Highsmith, Paula Hawkins
Interpreter of MaladiesJhumpa Lahiri
Burnt SugarAvni Doshi
ScoopEvelyn Waugh
Bonjour TristesseFrançoise Sagan
The Comfort of StrangersIan McEwan
October — 3 books
The 99% Invisible City: A Field Guide to the Hidden World of Everyday DesignRoman Mars, Kurt Kohlstedt
Tinker Tailor Soldier SpyJohn le Carré
A History of the Bible: The Book and Its FaithsJohn Barton
September — 1 book
City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los AngelesMike Davis, Robert Morrow
August — 4 books
The Italian GirlIris Murdoch
Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of LanguageGretchen McCulloch
Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-DelusionJia Tolentino
Baghdad: City of Peace, City of BloodJustin Marozzi
July — 2 books
Citizens: A Chronicle of the French RevolutionSimon Schama
The Fifth Head of CerberusGene Wolfe
June — 1 book
The End of PolicingAlex S. Vitale
May — 12 books
Time's ArrowMartin Amis
The Name of the RoseUmberto Eco, William Weaver
Ghost WallSarah Moss
Sweet Lamb of HeavenLydia Millet
A Children's BibleLydia Millet
MauriceCornelia Marinescu, E. M. Forster
Breasts and EggsMieko Kawakami, Sam Bett, David Boyd
After the QuakeHaruki Murakami
Around India in 80 TrainsMonisha Rajesh
Love of CountryMadeleine Bunting
The Masque of the Red DeathEdgar Allan Poe
KindredOctavia E. Butler
April — 3 books
SleepHaruki Murakami
Strange HotelEimear McBride
The Fifth SeasonN. K. Jemisin
March — 4 books
OutlineRachel Cusk
Bad BehaviorMary Gaitskill
Childhood In Malabar-Mod ClassKamala Suraiyya Das
My GitaDevdutt Pattanaik
February — 3 books
Minds, Brains and ScienceJohn Rogers Searle
Resilient ManagementLara Hogan
Girl, Woman, OtherBernardine Evaristo
January — 27 books
The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the WorldElaine Scarry
Brideshead RevisitedEvelyn Waugh
PninVladimir Nabokov
The Night ManagerJohn le Carré
Death in Her HandsOttessa Moshfegh
The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being AloneOlivia Laing
Such a Fun AgeKiley Reid
CleannessGarth Greenwell
The MetamorphosisFranz Kafka
MacbethWilliam Shakespeare, Roma Gill
FrankensteinMary Shelley, Siv Jansson
Brave New World / Brave New World RevisitedAldous Huxley, Christopher Hitchens
LolitaVladimir Nabokov, Martin Amis
Romeo and JulietWilliam Shakespeare
n+1 Issue 35: Savior Complexn+1, Mark Greif, Adam Kotsko, Lorelei Lee, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, Dan Sinykin, Alice Abraham, Trevor Shikaze, Tony Tulathimutte, Sarah Resnick, A.S. Hamrah, Maggie Gram
Offscreen, Issue 22Kai Brach, Kieran O'Hare
In the Dream HouseCarmen Maria Machado
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the DeadOlga Tokarczuk, Antonia Lloyd-Jones
The Age of Surveillance CapitalismShoshana Zuboff
Women TalkingMiriam Toews
Uncanny ValleyAnna Wiener, Suehyla El-Attar
The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century MillerCarlo Ginzburg, John Tedeschi, Anne Tedeschi
ExhalationTed Chiang
QuicksilverNeal Stephenson
Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of EvilHannah Arendt
Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern IrelandPatrick Radden Keefe
FlightsOlga Tokarczuk, Jennifer Croft
2019
December — 6 books
The Topeka SchoolBen Lerner
Lonely Planet South India & KeralaLonely Planet, Isabella Noble, Paul Harding, Kevin Raub, Sarina Singh, Iain Stewart
Before the Coffee Gets ColdToshikazu Kawaguchi, Geoffrey Trousselot
At the PondAva Wong Davies, Margaret Drabble, Esther Freud, Sophie Mackintosh, Nell Frizzell, Amy Key, Jessica J. Lee, Eli Goldstone, So Mayer, Nina Mingya Powles, Sharlene Teo, Leanne Shapton, Lou Stoppard, Deborah Moggach
Tinfoil ButterflyRachel Eve Moulton
A Small Town in GermanyJohn le Carré, René Basilico, Helena Fraga, Kenneth Haigh, Bernard Hepton
November — 2 books
As You Like It William Shakespeare
A Perfect SpyJohn le Carré
October — 1 book
Delta of VenusAnaïs Nin
September — 5 books
The Sheltering Sky / Let It Come Down / The Spider's HousePaul Bowles, Daniel Halpern
The WaspsAristophanes
Love in a Cold ClimateNancy Mitford
Haven't You Heard?: Gossip, Politics and PowerMarie Le Conte
Henry and JuneAnaïs Nin
August — 6 books
Norse MythologyNeil Gaiman
On Earth We're Briefly GorgeousOcean Vuong
Histories of Nations: How Their Identities Were ForgedPeter Furtado
Her Body and Other PartiesCarmen Maria Machado
The White AlbumJoan Didion
Superior: The Return of Race ScienceAngela Saini
July — 2 books
The Art of Cruelty: A ReckoningMaggie Nelson
NutshellIan McEwan
June — 7 books
The Shepherd's Life: Modern Dispatches from an Ancient LandscapeJames Rebanks
The EndSamuel Beckett
First Love and Other NovellasSamuel Beckett, Gerry Dukes
The ExpelledSamuel Beckett
The Last SamuraiHelen DeWitt
Machines Like MeIan McEwan
EileenOttessa Moshfegh
May — 4 books
The Wicked + The Divine, Vol. 1: The Faust ActKieron Gillen, Jamie McKelvie, Matt Wilson, Nathan Fairbairn, Clayton Cowles
The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian MedicineLindsey Fitzharris
ParadiseEdna O'Brien
The Comedy of ErrorsWilliam Shakespeare
April — 6 books
The Heart of the RaceBeverley Bryan, Stella Dadzie, Suzanne Scafe
Love's labour's lostWilliam Shakespeare
The AccidentalAli Smith
Mythos: The Greek Myths RetoldStephen Fry
The Culture of Connectivity: A Critical History of Social MediaJosé van Dijck
Reality is Not What it SeemsCarlo Rovelli, Simon Carnell, Erica Segre
March — 59 books
Catch-22Joseph Heller
The RoadCormac McCarthy
SeveranceLing Ma
MelmothSarah Perry
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of CancerSiddhartha Mukherjee
CirceMadeline Miller
The CollectorJohn Fowles
AmerikaWilla Muir, Edwin Muir, Klaus Mann, E.L. Doctorow, Franz Kafka
Sister Outsider: Essays and SpeechesAudre Lorde, Robin Eller
Ecclesiastical History of the English PeopleBede, Leo Sherley-Price, David Hugh Farmer, Ronald E. Latham
The Silence of the GirlsPat Barker
The CorrectionsJonathan Franzen
Powers of Horror: An Essay on AbjectionJulia Kristeva, Leon S. Roudiez
Flowers for AlgernonDaniel Keyes
Little Fires EverywhereCeleste Ng
The Wretched of the EarthFrantz Fanon, Jean-Paul Sartre, Richard Philcox, Homi K. Bhabha
Women, Race & ClassAngela Y. Davis
Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Explain Everything About the WorldTim Marshall
LittleEdward Carey
My Sister, the Serial KillerOyinkan Braithwaite
The MabinogionCharlotte Guest, R. Williams
Free Food for MillionairesMin Jin Lee
American PastoralPhilip Roth
The Heart Goes LastMargaret Atwood
The Unwomanly Face of WarSvetlana Alexievich
The Problems of PhilosophyBertrand Russell
Rice's Architectural PrimerMatthew Rice
Queer City: Gay London from the Romans to the Present DayPeter Ackroyd
The Secret Lives of ColourKassia St Clair
The Great BelieversRebecca Makkai
One Hundred Years of SolitudeGabriel García Márquez
The Hunchback of Notre-DameVictor Hugo, Walter J. Cobb
What I Talk About When I Talk About RunningHaruki Murakami, Philip Gabriel
HHhHLaurent Binet, Sam Taylor
NevadaImogen Binnie
The IdiotElif Batuman
Madame BovaryGustave Flaubert, Sérgio Duarte
No Longer at EaseChinua Achebe
The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Lovebell hooks
The House of MirthEdith Wharton
The VorrhBrian Catling, Alan Moore
AdèleLeïla Slimani
FreshwaterAkwaeke Emezi
The Water CureSophie Mackintosh
Van Gogh: The Complete PaintingsIngo F. Walther
SchieleReinhard Steiner
Grief is the Thing with FeathersMax Porter
DegasBernd Growe
Edward Hopper: Portraits Of AmericaWieland Schmied, Edward Hopper
Sprint: How to Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five DaysJake Knapp
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the WorldHaruki Murakami, Alfred Birnbaum
The Red PartsMaggie Nelson
Women, Fire and Dangerous Things: What Categories Reveal About the MindGeorge Lakoff
Portnoy's ComplaintPhilip Roth
The Three-Body ProblemCixin Liu, Ken Liu
Saul LeiterSaul Leiter, Max Kozloff
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in AmericaIbram X. Kendi, Christopher Dontrell Piper
The Perfect NannyLeïla Slimani
The Libation BearersAeschylus, E.D.A. Morshead
February — 7 books
The Penguin History of Modern China: The Fall and Rise of a Great Power, 1850-2008Jonathan Fenby
The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The EumenidesAeschylus, Robert Fagles, William Bedell Stanford
King Henry VWilliam Shakespeare, Andrew Gurr
Невыносимая любовьIan McEwan, Иэн Макьюэн, Эвелина Новикова
The Secret HistoryDonna Tartt
Conversations with FriendsSally Rooney
The Testament of MaryColm Tóibín
January — 7 books
My Year of Rest and RelaxationOttessa Moshfegh
A Girl Is a Half-formed ThingEimear McBride
Difficult WomenRoxane Gay
BluetsMaggie Nelson
Enigma VariationsAndre Aciman
Paradise RotJenny Hval, Marjam Idriss, Brie Jackman
The Screwtape LettersC. S. Lewis
2018
December — 8 books
The LuminariesEleanor Catton
The ArgonautsMaggie Nelson
Mr SalarySally Rooney
The Days of the French RevolutionChristopher Hibbert
The Aleph and Other Stories 1933-1969Jorge Luis Borges, Norman Thomas di Giovanni
MotherhoodSheila Heti
The PastTessa Hadley
Normal PeopleSally Rooney
November — 3 books
Fox 8George Saunders, Chelsea Cardinal
The BellIris Murdoch, A.S. Byatt
Under the netIris Murdoch
October — 5 books
Lincoln in the BardoGeorge Saunders
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American CityMatthew Desmond
The Fire Next TimeJames Baldwin
The Age of InnocenceEdith Wharton, Laura Dluzynski Quinn, Sarah Blackwood, Elif Batuman
Purple HibiscusChimamanda Ngozi Adichie
September — 4 books
The Lesser BohemiansEimear McBride
The GoldfinchDonna Tartt
If We Were VillainsM.L. Rio
Where Angels Fear to TreadE. M. Forster
August — 7 books
Slouching Towards BethlehemJoan Didion
True at First LightErnest Hemingway, Patrick Hemingway
Mother NightKurt Vonnegut
Twitter and Tear GasZeynep Tufekci
Lighter Than My ShadowKatie Green
The Romanovs: 1613-1918Simon Sebag Montefiore
Stick and rudderWolfgang Langewiesche
July — 5 books
Human ActsHan Kang, Deborah Smith
Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary UnderbellyAnthony Bourdain
I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State KillerMichelle McNamara, Gillian Flynn, Patton Oswalt, Gabra Zackman
The Death and Life of Great American CitiesJane Jacobs
Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens DemocracyCathy O'Neil
June — 8 books
Our Man in HavanaGraham Greene, Tom Jupp
Teaching Community: A Pedagogy of Hopebell hooks
On Writing: A Memoir of the CraftStephen King
The World As It IsBen Rhodes
Private Island: Why Britain Now Belongs to Someone ElseJames Meek
Language of the Third ReichVictor Klemperer
A Study on AuthorityHerbert Marcuse
A History of the Arab PeoplesAlbert Hourani
May — 9 books
All's Well That Ends WellWilliam Shakespeare, Barbara A. Mowat, Paul Werstine
Riot DaysMaria Alyokhina
ImpressionismKarin H. Grimme, Norbert Wolf
MonetChristoph Heinrich
To Have and Have NotErnest Hemingway
Hamilton : the revolutionLin-Manuel Miranda, Jeremy McCarter
In Evil HourGabriel García Márquez, Gregory Rabassa
A Journal of the TerrorJean-Baptiste Cléry
The Death of Ivan IlychLeo Tolstoy, Aylmer Maude, رضی هیرمند, Ευγενία Ζήκου
April — 27 books
The Pragmatic Programmer: Your Journey to Mastery, 20th Anniversary EditionAndrew Hunt, Dave Thomas
Half of a Yellow SunChimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Mumbo JumboIshmael Reed
Technically Wrong: Sexist Apps, Biased Algorithms, and Other Threats of Toxic TechSara Wachter-Boettcher
Hunger: A Memoir of (My) BodyRoxane Gay
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in CrisisJ.D. Vance
On IdeologyLouis Althusser, Ben Brewster
Tubes a journey to the center of the InternetAndrew Blum
Big Bang: The Origin of the UniverseSimon Singh
Introducing Continental Philosophy: A Graphic GuideChristopher Kul-Want, Piero
Postmodernism: A Very Short IntroductionChristopher Butler
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of EverythingSteven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner
No Is Not Enough: Resisting Trump's Shock Politics and Winning the World We NeedNaomi Klein
To Be a Machine: Adventures Among Cyborgs, Utopians, Hackers, and the Futurists Solving the Modest Problem of DeathMark O'Connell
Philosophy: A Very Short IntroductionEdward Craig
Introducing Freud: A Graphic GuideOscar Zárate, Richard Appignanesi
The Postmodern Condition: A Report on KnowledgeJean-François Lyotard, Brian Massumi, Geoffrey Bennington, Fredric Jameson
Post-Truth: How Bullshit Conquered the WorldJames Ball
The Communist ManifestoKarl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Leon Trotsky, Samuel Moore, Erkin Özalp, Amanda Lee, Antonio Carlos Braga, Aldrin Alexander Evies, Oqtay Eloğlu
Grays AnatomyHenry Gray
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster CapitalismNaomi Klein
American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert OppenheimerKai Bird, Martin J. Sherwin
Alexander HamiltonRon Chernow
Against Everything: EssaysMark Greif
Introducing Slavoj Zizek: A Graphic GuideChristopher Kul-Want, Piero
Poststructuralism: A Very Short IntroductionCatherine Belsey
When Breath Becomes AirPaul Kalanithi, Abraham Verghese
March — 8 books
The Road to Wigan PierGeorge Orwell, Richard Hoggart
How Parliament WorksPaul Silk
Fear and TremblingSoren Kierkegaard, Alastair Hannay, Johannes de Silentio
Conjectures and RefutationsKarl Popper
Radical Candor: Be a Kick-Ass Boss Without Losing Your HumanityKim Malone Scott
Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About RaceReni Eddo-Lodge, Zuzana Szabóová
Eat Up: Food, Appetite and Eating What You WantRuby Tandoh
On the Road Jack Kerouac
February — 6 books
Swing TimeZadie Smith
The Kite RunnerKhaled Hosseini
CoriolanusWilliam Shakespeare, William Aldis Wright, Roma Gill, Francis Fergusson
A Brief History of TimeStephen Hawking
BelovedToni Morrison, A.S. Byatt
Ruling The Void: The Hollowing Of Western DemocracyPeter Mair
January — 14 books
AutumnAli Smith
Imagined Communities: Reflections On The Origin And Spread Of NationalismBenedict Anderson
Who Really Runs Britain?: The Private Companies Taking Control of Benefits, Prisons, Asylum, Deportation, Security, Social Care and the NHSAlan White
The DispossessedUrsula K. Le Guin
The Attention Merchants: The Epic Scramble to Get Inside Our HeadsTim Wu
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?Philip K. Dick
Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White HouseMichael Wolff
You Tarzan: Masculinity, Movies and MenPat Kirkham, Janet Thumim
The SeagullAnton Chekhov, Richard Nelson, Richard Pevear, Larissa Volokhonsky
Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War EraJames M. McPherson
PachinkoMin Jin Lee
StalinNikolaus Basseches, E.W. Dickes
The Old Man and the SeaErnest Hemingway
Exit WestMohsin Hamid
2017
December — 20 books
Men Explain Things to MeRebecca Solnit
Dialectic of EnlightenmentTheodor W. Adorno, Max Horkheimer, John Cumming
We Were Eight Years in Power: An American TragedyTa-Nehisi Coates
Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of PilgrimageHaruki Murakami, Philip Gabriel
Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminismbell hooks
The Origins of TotalitarianismHannah Arendt
NauseaJean-Paul Sartre, Lloyd Alexander, James Wood, Richard Howard
Notes from UndergroundFyodor Dostoevsky, Richard Pevear, Larissa Volokhonsky
The Sun Also RisesErnest Hemingway
Regarding the Pain of OthersSusan Sontag
1Q84: Book 1Haruki Murakami
In Defense of Lost CausesSlavoj Žižek
Simulacra and SimulationJean Baudrillard, Sheila Faria Glaser
Dance Dance DanceHaruki Murakami, Alfred Birnbaum
Death In The AfternoonErnest Hemingway
The 7th Function of LanguageLaurent Binet, Sam Taylor
The TrialBreon Mitchell, Franz Kafka
AmericanahChimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Jashar Awan
Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the PrisonMichel Foucault, Alan Sheridan
PoliticsAristotle
October — 1 book
Augustus: The BiographyJochen Bleicken, Anthea Bell
2016
September — 5 books
The Unbearable Lightness of BeingMilan Kundera, Michael Henry Heim
For Whom the Bell TollsErnest Hemingway
A Moveable FeastErnest Hemingway
A Farewell to ArmsErnest Hemingway
The RebelAlbert Camus, Anthony Bower, Herbert Read
August — 6 books
The Koran: A Very Short IntroductionMichael A. Cook
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the GalaxyDouglas Adams
MeditationsMarcus Aurelius, Martin Hammond
1Q84Haruki Murakami, Jay Rubin, Philip Gabriel
SiddharthaHermann Hesse
Notes from a Small IslandBill Bryson
July — 43 books
Persepolis 2: The Story of a ReturnMarjane Satrapi, Anjali Singh
Sputnik SweetheartHaruki Murakami, Philip Gabriel
How to Read Towns and Cities: A Crash Course in Urban ArchitectureJonathan Glancey
The Wind-Up Bird ChronicleHaruki Murakami, Jay Rubin
Neither Here nor There: Travels in EuropeBill Bryson
Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming ProductsNir Eyal
Norwegian WoodHaruki Murakami, Jay Rubin
Harry Potter and the Deathly HallowsJ.K. Rowling
Where the Wild Things AreMaurice Sendak
Life of PiYann Martel
KennedyBrett Harper
Jane EyreCharlotte Brontë
Harry Potter and the Goblet of FireJ.K. Rowling, Mary GrandPré
A Pelican Introduction: Social Class in the 21st CenturyMike Savage
Outline of a Theory of PracticePierre Bourdieu
MY BOOKY WOOKRussell Brand
Captain Corelli's MandolinLouis de Bernières
Sapiens: A Brief History of HumankindYuval Noah Harari
Tender Is the NightF. Scott Fitzgerald
The Death of a President: November 20 - November 25, 1963William Manchester, Joe Barrett
The Handmaid’s TaleMargaret Atwood
The Bell JarSylvia Plath
The Lion, the Witch and the WardrobeC. S. Lewis, Pauline Baynes
Oliver TwistCharles Dickens, Philip Horne
Black Swan GreenDavid Mitchell
Brave New WorldAldous Huxley
Between the World and MeTa-Nehisi Coates
Triumph of the CityEdward L. Glaeser
On violence.Hannah Arendt
The Book ThiefMarkus Zusak
Fail Fast, Fail Often: How Losing Can Help You WinRyan Babineaux, John Krumboltz
Never Let Me GoKazuo Ishiguro
The Time Traveler’s WifeAudrey Niffenegger
Who Governs Britain?Anthony King
The Tales of Beedle the BardJ.K. Rowling, Hermione Granger (Translator
The BeachAlex Garland
The European Union: A Citizen's GuideChristopher J. Bickerton
Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?Beverly Daniel Tatum
The HostStephenie Meyer
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of AzkabanJ.K. Rowling
The Boy in the Striped PyjamasJohn Boyne
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-TimeMark Haddon
Fight ClubChuck Palahniuk
March — 79 books
The Secret AgentJoseph Conrad
OthelloWilliam Shakespeare
White NoiseDon DeLillo, Richard Powers
Capital in the Twenty-First CenturyThomas Piketty, Arthur Goldhammer
Emotionally WeirdKate Atkinson
The Catcher in the RyeJ. D. Salinger
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering GeniusDave Eggers
Welcome to the Desert of the Real: Five Essays on September 11 and Related DatesSlavoj Žižek
The StrangerAlbert Camus, Matthew Ward
1984George Orwell, Peter Hobley Davison, Shepard Fairey
Kafka on the ShoreHaruki Murakami, Philip Gabriel
The Great GatsbyF. Scott Fitzgerald
All Quiet on the Western FrontErich Maria Remarque
Paradise LostJohn Milton, John Leonard
V for VendettaAlan Moore
WatchmenAlan Moore
The Language Instinct: The New Science of Language and MindSteven Pinker
Second Treatise of GovernmentJohn Locke, C.B. MacPherson
How Democratic Is the American Constitution?Robert A. Dahl
The Autobiography of Malcolm XMalcolm X, Alex Haley
Asterios PolypDavid Mazzucchelli
As I Lay DyingWilliam Faulkner
The PrinceNiccolò Machiavelli, Rufus Goodwin, Benjamin Martinez
The Norton Anthology of Theory and CriticismWilliam E. Cain, Laurie A. Finke, John P. McGowan, T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting, Jeffrey J. Williams
The History of White PeopleNell Irvin Painter
Persepolis, Volume 1Marjane Satrapi
The Plot Against AmericaPhilip Roth
GileadMarilynne Robinson
Theories of the democratic stateJohn S. Dryzek
The Economics of InequalityThomas Piketty
The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No HorseLouise Erdrich
Infinite JestDavid Foster Wallace
The World of Ice and Fire: The Untold History of Westeros and the Game of ThronesGeorge R.R. Martin, Linda Antonsson, Elio M. García Jr.
It's not how good you are, it's how good you want to bePaul Arden, Roger Kennedy
Old schoolTobias Wolff
Wall and PieceBanksy
AmericaJean Baudrillard, Geoff Dyer, Chris Turner
The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human NatureSteven Pinker
MythologiesRoland Barthes, Annette Lavers
Sir Gawain and the Green KnightGreen Knight Poet, Burton Raffel
ApologyPlato
God's cenuryDaniel Philpott
Animal FarmGeorge Orwell, Russell Baker, C.M. Woodhouse
Let the Great World SpinColum McCann
Pale FireVladimir Nabokov
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young ManJames Joyce, Seamus Deane
The MartianAndy Weir
HabibiCraig Thompson
The Lovely BonesAlice Sebold
The Color PurpleAlice Walker
A Discourse on InequalityJean-Jacques Rousseau
To the LighthouseVirginia Woolf, David Bradshaw
The Social ContractJean-Jacques Rousseau, Maurice Cranston
Slaughterhouse-FiveKurt Vonnegut
Falling ManDon DeLillo
LeviathanThomas Hobbes, Richard Tuck
The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has DeclinedSteven Pinker, Arthur Morey
Steve JobsWalter Isaacson
PoeticsAristotle, James Hutton, David Gorman, Michelle Zerba
Things I have learned in my life so farStefan Sagmeister, Daniel Nettle, Nancy Spector, Steven Heller
Understanding Public Policy: Theories and IssuesPaul Cairney
Black Girl/White GirlJoyce Carol Oates
To Kill A MockingbirdHarper Lee
The Hunger GamesSuzanne Collins
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's StoneJ.K. Rowling
The Works of John DonneJohn Donne
Washington SquareHenry James
Ways of SeeingJohn Berger
No god but God: The Origins, Evolution, and Future of IslamReza Aslan, Shishir Kurup
The Good SoldierFord Madox Ford
A Doll's HouseHenrik Ibsen, Kenneth McLeish, Trevor R Griffiths, Simon Trussler
Lady Chatterley's LoverD.H. Lawrence
T. S. Eliot: The waste landHelen Williams
American Government: Political Development and Institutional ChangeCalvin C. Jillson
Visual Thesaurus: A Quick Flip Brainstorming Tool for Graphic DesignersHatmaker
The Analects of ConfuciusConfucius, James Legge
Happy CityCharles Montgomery
BeowulfSeamus Heaney, Unknown
The Bloody ChamberAngela Carter, Helen Simpson, Parra
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