2026
March — 1 book
Drayton and Mackenzie Alexander Starritt
February — 4 books
The Seventh Floor David McCloskey
Moscow X David McCloskey
The New York Trilogy Paul Auster
Mi6 Stephen Dorril
January — 7 books
City of Glass Paul Auster
The Silver Eggheads Fritz Leiber
Road to Nowhere Paris Marx
The Savage Detectives Roberto Bolaño
I'm a Fan Sheena Patel
Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall Anna Funder
Her Majesty's Secret Service Christopher Andrew
2025
December — 9 books
An Instance of the Fingerpost Iain Pears
A Sunny Place for Shady People Mariana Enríquez, Megan McDowell
A History of Judaism Martin Goodman
A Study in Scarlet Women Sherry Thomas
Damascus Station David McCloskey
Titus Andronicus William Shakespeare, David Troughton, Harriet Walker
The Finest Hotel in Kabul
The Haves and Have-Yachts Evan Osnos
The Art of Betrayal: Life and Death in the British Secret Service Gordon Corera
November — 5 books
Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible: The Surreal Heart of the New Russia Peter Pomerantsev
Sad Tiger Neige Sinno, Natasha Lehrer
The Good Apprentice Iris Murdoch
Unconditional Surrender Evelyn Waugh
Granta 173: India Thomas Meaney
October — 4 books
Our Ancestors: Cloven Viscount; Baron in the Trees; Non-Existent Knight Italo Calvino, Archibald Colquhoun
Evil Paradises: Dreamworlds of Neoliberalism Mike Davis, Daniel Bertrand Monk
Where Eagles Dare Alistair MacLean
Rock Crystal Adalbert Stifter
September — 3 books
The Safekeep Yael van der Wouden
Alphabetical Diaries Sheila Heti
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler Italo Calvino
August — 4 books
Equal Rites Terry Pratchett
Small Gods Terry Pratchett
The Good Soldier Svejk Jaroslav Hašek
Assembly Natasha Brown
July — 4 books
Super Sad True Love Story Gary Shteyngart
Granta 131: The Map is Not the Territory Sigrid Rausing
Granta 172: Badlands Thomas Meaney
On Art and Life John Ruskin
June — 6 books
Merchants of Culture John Brookshire Thompson
The Bombshell Darrow Farr
Our Game John le Carré
Ethan Frome Edith Wharton
The Jungle Upton Sinclair, Eric Schlosser, Ronald S. Gottesman
The Secret Pilgrim John le Carré
May — 3 books
Elect Mr. Robinson for a Better World Donald Antrim
Still Life Sarah Winman
Rejection Tony Tulathimutte
April — 5 books
Granta 171: Dead Friends Thomas Meaney
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This Omar El Akkad
Perfection Vincenzo Latronico, Sophie Hughes
Every Man for Himself and God Against All: A Memoir Werner Herzog, Michael Hofmann
A Spy Alone Charles Beaumont
March — 2 books
Gabriel's Moon William Boyd
The Troublesome Offspring of Cardinal Guzmán Louis de Bernières
February — 2 books
Granta 170: Winners Thomas Meaney
Empire Of The Sun J. G. Ballard
January — 2 books
Study for Obedience Sarah Bernstein
n+1 Issue 47: Passage n+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 & Clay Michael Chabon
Diary of a Foreigner in Paris Curzio Malaparte, Stephen Twilley, Edmund White
Karla's Choice: A John le Carré Novel Nick Harkaway
Brazzaville Beach William Boyd
Edith's Diary Patricia Highsmith
November — 2 books
When We Cease to Understand the World Benjamín Labatut, Adrian Nathan West
10:04 Ben Lerner
October — 8 books
Mr Ma and Son Lao She
Future Sex Emily Witt
Bend Sinister Vladimir Nabokov
Brat: A Novel Gabriel Smith
Badenheim 1939 Aharon Appelfeld, Dalya Bilu
The Quest for Corvo A.J.A. Symons, Julian Symons
The Covenant of Water Abraham Verghese
Girls Against God Jenny Hval, Marjam Idriss
September — 6 books
Long Live the Post Horn! Vigdis Hjorth, Charlotte Barslund
A Handful of Dust Evelyn Waugh
Diary of a Void Emi Yagi
Tell Jonathan Buckley
Granta 168: Significant Other Thomas Meaney
The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics Daniel James Brown
August — 6 books
Liars Sarah Manguso
The Empusium: A Health Resort Horror Story Olga Tokarczuk, Antonia Lloyd-Jones
Selected Stories Volume Two: 1995-2009: 1995-2009 Alice Munro
The Tenderness of Wolves Stef Penney
Truth & Dare So Mayer
My Friends Matar Hisham
July — 5 books
A Woman's Story Annie Ernaux, Tanya Leslie
The Rachel Papers Martin Amis
Wise Children Angela Carter
Like Love: Essays and Conversations Maggie Nelson
The Glutton A.K. Blakemore
June — 4 books
The Midnight Library Matt Haig
Burmese Days George Orwell
The Enemy Lee Child
August Blue Deborah Levy
May — 4 books
Nostromo Joseph Conrad, Veronique Pauly, J.H. Stape
Decline and Fall Evelyn Waugh, David Bradshaw
American Gods Neil Gaiman
The Interrogators Allan Prior
April — 10 books
A Sort of Life Graham Greene
Demon Copperhead Barbara Kingsolver
The Buried Giant Kazuo Ishiguro
Ripe Sarah Rose Etter
The Librarianist Patrick deWitt, Jim Meskimen
I Have Some Questions For You Rebecca Makkai
Persuasion Jane Austen, Gillian Beer
Glorious Exploits Ferdia Lennon
Officers and Gentlemen Evelyn Waugh
You Dreamed of Empires Álvaro Enrigue, Natasha Wimmer
March — 11 books
Men at Arms Evelyn Waugh
Granta 166: Generations Thomas Meaney
Sweet Tooth Ian McEwan
A Man's Place Annie Ernaux, Tanya Leslie, Francine Prose
The passion of new Eve Angela Carter
The Guest Emma Cline
Nightbitch Rachel Yoder, Cassandra Campbell
Martyr! A Novel Kaveh Akbar
Tropic of Cancer Henry Miller
The Other Name: Septology I-II Jon Fosse, Damion Searls
The Ten Loves of Mr Nishino Allison Markin Powell, Hiromi Kawakami
February — 5 books
The Tombs of Atuan Ursula K. Le Guin
The Farthest Shore Ursula K. Le Guin
A Wizard of Earthsea Ursula K. Le Guin
Jerusalem: The Biography Simon Sebag Montefiore
Play it as it lays Joan Didion
January — 8 books
The French Lieutenant's Woman John Fowles
The Magus John Fowles, Nicholas Boulton
Symposion Plato
E-flux Journal: The Internet Does Not Exist Julieta Aranda, Brian Kuan Wood, Anton Vidokle
Lessons Ian McEwan
Libra Don DeLillo
So Much For Life Mark Hyatt, Sam Ladkin, Luke Roberts
The Golden Notebook Doris Lessing
2023
December — 4 books
Do the Windows Open? Julie Hecht
A Legacy of Spies John le Carré
Orbital Samantha Harvey
Atonement Ian McEwan
November — 1 book
The Tenth Man Graham Greene
October — 1 book
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents Isabel Wilkerson
September — 10 books
Pink Slime Fernanda Trías, Heather Cleary
Homage To Catalonia George Orwell
Dune Frank Herbert, Brian Herbert
Napoleon The Little Victor Hugo
A Spy In the House of Love Anaïs Nin
The looking-glass war. John le Carré
Silverview John le Carré, Toby Jones
Kaputt Curzio Malaparte, Giorgio Pinotti
The Jewish Writings Hannah Arendt
Fletch and the man who Gregory Mcdonald
August — 6 books
Cards on the Table Agatha Christie
Story of the Eye Georges Bataille, Joachim Neugroschel, Roland Barthes, Susan Sontag
Bright Young People D.J. Taylor
Vile Bodies Evelyn Waugh
Homo Faber Max Frisch
All Souls Javier Marías
June — 4 books
Red Sparrow Jason Matthews
Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World Malcolm Harris
Tender Is the Flesh Agustina Bazterrica, Sarah Moses
Some Do Not... Ford Madox Ford, Max Saunders
May — 3 books
While We Were Dreaming Clemens Meyer, Katy Derbyshire
Taipei Tao Lin
The Master Colm Tóibín
April — 3 books
The Philosopher's Pupil Iris Murdoch
Goodbye to All That Robert Graves
Cherry Nico Walker
March — 6 books
Less Than Zero Bret Easton Ellis
Almond Won-pyung Sohn, Sandy Joosun Lee
Thérèse Raquin Émile Zola, Katia Lysy, Guy de Maupassant
Motherthing Ainslie Hogarth
We Yevgeny Zamyatin, Clarence Brown
I Fear My Pain Interests You Stephanie LaCava
February — 4 books
Berlin Alexanderplatz: The Story of Franz Biberkopf Alfred Döblin, Eugene Jolas
Immune Philipp Dettmer
Reflections: Essays, Aphorisms, Autobiographical Writings Walter Benjamin, Edmund F.N. Jephcott, Peter Demetz, Leon Wieseltier
The Aosawa Murders Riku Onda, Alison Watts
January — 4 books
The Little Drummer Girl John le Carré
Babel, or The Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution R.F. Kuang
Happy Hour Marlowe Granados
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, H.T. Willetts
2022
December — 4 books
High-Rise J. G. Ballard
Grand Hotel Abyss Stuart Jeffries
The Candy House Jennifer Egan
The Inugami Curse Seishi Yokomizo, Yumiko Yamakazi
November — 17 books
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow Gabrielle Zevin
The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human Siddhartha Mukherjee
A Murder of Quality John le Carré
Last Witnesses Svetlana Alexievich, Richard Pevear, Larissa Volokhonsky
Lapvona Ottessa Moshfegh
The Naked and the Dead Norman Mailer
Rave Rainald Goetz
Liberation Day George Saunders
The Employees: A workplace novel of the 22nd century Olga Ravn
Notebook Otherlands: A World in the Making Thomas Halliday
Vox Nicholson Baker
Somebody with a Little Hammer: Essays Mary Gaitskill
The Shortest History of Germany James Hawes
The Novelist Jordan Castro
Don't Cry Mary Gaitskill
Martin Luther Eric Metaxas
Tree of Smoke Denis Johnson
October — 6 books
The Artificial Silk Girl Irmgard Keun, Katharina von Ankum
Short Stories in German for Beginners Olly Richards
Alone in Berlin Michael Hofmann, Hans Falada
Nazi Billionaires: The Dark History of Germany's Wealthiest Dynasties David de Jong
The Leadership Pipeline: How to Build the Leadership Powered Company Ram Charan, Stephen Drotter, Jim Noel
Call for the Dead John le Carré
September — 7 books
Berlin: Life and Death in the City at the Center of the World Sinclair McKay
The Silmarillion J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien
Memories of My Melancholy Whores Gabriel García Márquez, Edith Grossman
The Russia House John le Carré, Michael Jayston, René Basilico, Tom Baker
The Heart of the Matter Graham Greene
A severed head. Iris Murdoch
Slow Days, Fast Company Eve Babitz
August — 3 books
Agent Running in the Field John le Carré
Absolute Friends John le Carré
The Odyssey Homer, Robert Fagles, Bernard Knox
July — 10 books
An American dream mailer-norman
The Human Factor Graham Greene
The Innocent Ian McEwan
The Fire and the Sun: Why Plato Banished the Artists Iris Murdoch
When I Was Mortal Javier Marías
Amsterdam Ian McEwan
Cosmopolis Don DeLillo, Will Patton
The Quiet American Graham Greene, Robert Stone
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain, Guy Cardwell, John Seelye, Walter Trier, E.W. Kemble
First Love, Last Rites: Stories Ian McEwan
June — 5 books
Fates and Furies Lauren Groff, Will Damron, Julia Whelan
Termination Shock Neal Stephenson
The Confusion Neal Stephenson
The Mission Song John le Carré
The System of the World Neal Stephenson
April — 2 books
Hotel du Lac Anita Brookner
Pure Colour Sheila Heti
March — 3 books
What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma Stephanie Foo
Heart of Europe: A History of the Holy Roman Empire Peter H. Wilson
The Naked Don't Fear the Water: An Underground Journey with Afghan Refugees Matthieu Aikins
February — 5 books
The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a human-centered planet John Green
CivilWarLand in Bad Decline George Saunders
The Tyranny of Merit: What's Become of the Common Good? Michael J. Sandel
The Dialectics of Seeing Susan Buck-Morss
The Brain-Dead Megaphone George Saunders
January — 5 books
Good Girl Anna Fitzpatrick
No One Is Talking About This Patricia Lockwood
Cloud Cuckoo Land Anthony Doerr
Earthlings Sayaka Murata, Ginny Tapley Takemori
Black Spartacus Sudhir Hazareesingh
2021
December — 1 book
The Honourable Schoolboy John le Carré
November — 2 books
Animal Lisa Taddeo
Beautiful World, Where Are You Sally Rooney
October — 10 books
Our Country Friends Gary Shteyngart
Matrix Lauren Groff
The Information Bomb Paul Virilio
How to Blow Up a Pipeline Andreas Malm
Vladimir Julia May Jonas
Whore of New York: A Confession Liara Roux
Project Hail Mary Andy Weir
CAPS LOCK Ruben Pater
Milk Fed Melissa Broder
Index, a History of The Dennis Duncan
September — 9 books
Make Room! Make Room! Harry Harrison, Eric Michael Summerer
Detransition, Baby Torrey Peters, Victory Matsui
Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898 Edwin G. Burrows, Mike Wallace
Great Circle Maggie Shipstead
Pastoralia George Saunders
The Bass Rock Evie Wyld
The Netanyahus Joshua Cohen
House of Glass Hadley Freeman
The Guns of August Barbara W. Tuchman, Robert K. Massie
August — 8 books
Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst Robert M. Sapolsky
Hard Times Charles Dickens, Kate Flint
A Ship-wrecked Sailor Gabriel García Márquez
The Dangers of Smoking in Bed: Stories Mariana Enriquez, Megan McDowell
Washington Bullets Vijay Prashad
Stories of Your Life and Others Ted Chiang
Tomorrow They Won't Dare to Murder Us Joseph Andras, Simon Leser
Back Channel to Cuba: The Hidden History of Negotiations between Washington and Havana William M. Leogrande, Peter Kornbluh
July — 5 books
Cold New Climate Isobel Wohl
The Ministry for the Future Kim Stanley Robinson
Metaphors We Live By George Lakoff, Mark Johnson
A Slow Death: 83 Days of Radiation Sickness NHK TV Crew
Heaven Mieko Kawakami, Sam Bett, David Boyd
June — 6 books
The German Language Today: A Linguistic Introduction Charles V.J. Russ
Austerlitz W.G. Sebald, Anthea Bell
The Life Before Us Romain Gary, Ralph Manheim
Hurricane Season Fernanda Melchor, Sophie Hughes
Black Dogs Ian McEwan
The Dry Heart Natalia Ginzburg, Frances Frenaye, نازنین احسانیطباطبایی
May — 8 books
My Name Is Leon Kit de Waal
The Dog of the Marriage Amy Hempel
Where the Crawdads Sing Delia Owens
A Box of Matches Nicholson Baker
Putin's People Catherine Belton
Fake Accounts Lauren Oyler, Rebecca Lowman
Luster Raven Leilani
Silence Once Begun Jesse Ball
April — 6 books
The Iliac Crest Cristina Rivera Garza, Sarah Booker
The Inheritance of Loss Kiran Desai
Transit Rachel Cusk
Kitchen Banana Yoshimoto
The Interestings Meg Wolitzer
How Much of These Hills Is Gold C Pam Zhang
March — 3 books
King at the Edge of the World Arthur Phillips
Sisters Daisy Johnson
Beheld TaraShea Nesbit
February — 2 books
The Spy Who Came In From The Cold John le Carré
Death's End Cixin Liu, Ken Liu
January — 1 book
The Dark Forest Cixin Liu, Joel Martinsen
2020
December — 2 books
The Tidal Zone Sarah Moss
Look at Me Anita Brookner
November — 8 books
Money Martin Amis, Graeme Malcolm
Exciting Times Naoise Dolan
Strangers on a Train Patricia Highsmith, Paula Hawkins
Interpreter of Maladies Jhumpa Lahiri
Burnt Sugar Avni Doshi
Scoop Evelyn Waugh
Bonjour Tristesse Françoise Sagan
The Comfort of Strangers Ian McEwan
October — 3 books
The 99% Invisible City: A Field Guide to the Hidden World of Everyday Design Roman Mars, Kurt Kohlstedt
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy John le Carré
A History of the Bible: The Book and Its Faiths John Barton
September — 1 book
City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles Mike Davis, Robert Morrow
August — 4 books
The Italian Girl Iris Murdoch
Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language Gretchen McCulloch
Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion Jia Tolentino
Baghdad: City of Peace, City of Blood Justin Marozzi
July — 2 books
Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution Simon Schama
The Fifth Head of Cerberus Gene Wolfe
June — 1 book
The End of Policing Alex S. Vitale
May — 12 books
Time's Arrow Martin Amis
The Name of the Rose Umberto Eco, William Weaver
Ghost Wall Sarah Moss
Sweet Lamb of Heaven Lydia Millet
A Children's Bible Lydia Millet
Maurice Cornelia Marinescu, E. M. Forster
Breasts and Eggs Mieko Kawakami, Sam Bett, David Boyd
After the Quake Haruki Murakami
Around India in 80 Trains Monisha Rajesh
Love of Country Madeleine Bunting
The Masque of the Red Death Edgar Allan Poe
Kindred Octavia E. Butler
April — 3 books
Sleep Haruki Murakami
Strange Hotel Eimear McBride
The Fifth Season N. K. Jemisin
March — 4 books
Outline Rachel Cusk
Bad Behavior Mary Gaitskill
Childhood In Malabar-Mod Class Kamala Suraiyya Das
My Gita Devdutt Pattanaik
February — 3 books
Minds, Brains and Science John Rogers Searle
Resilient Management Lara Hogan
Girl, Woman, Other Bernardine Evaristo
January — 27 books
The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World Elaine Scarry
Brideshead Revisited Evelyn Waugh
Pnin Vladimir Nabokov
The Night Manager John le Carré
Death in Her Hands Ottessa Moshfegh
The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone Olivia Laing
Such a Fun Age Kiley Reid
Cleanness Garth Greenwell
The Metamorphosis Franz Kafka
Macbeth William Shakespeare, Roma Gill
Frankenstein Mary Shelley, Siv Jansson
Brave New World / Brave New World Revisited Aldous Huxley, Christopher Hitchens
Lolita Vladimir Nabokov, Martin Amis
Romeo and Juliet William Shakespeare
n+1 Issue 35: Savior Complex n+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 22 Kai Brach, Kieran O'Hare
In the Dream House Carmen Maria Machado
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead Olga Tokarczuk, Antonia Lloyd-Jones
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism Shoshana Zuboff
Women Talking Miriam Toews
Uncanny Valley Anna Wiener, Suehyla El-Attar
The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century Miller Carlo Ginzburg, John Tedeschi, Anne Tedeschi
Exhalation Ted Chiang
Quicksilver Neal Stephenson
Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil Hannah Arendt
Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland Patrick Radden Keefe
Flights Olga Tokarczuk, Jennifer Croft
2019
December — 6 books
The Topeka School Ben Lerner
Lonely Planet South India & Kerala Lonely Planet, Isabella Noble, Paul Harding, Kevin Raub, Sarina Singh, Iain Stewart
Before the Coffee Gets Cold Toshikazu Kawaguchi, Geoffrey Trousselot
At the Pond Ava 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 Butterfly Rachel Eve Moulton
A Small Town in Germany John le Carré, René Basilico, Helena Fraga, Kenneth Haigh, Bernard Hepton
November — 2 books
As You Like It William Shakespeare
A Perfect Spy John le Carré
October — 1 book
Delta of Venus Anaïs Nin
September — 5 books
The Sheltering Sky / Let It Come Down / The Spider's House Paul Bowles, Daniel Halpern
The Wasps Aristophanes
Love in a Cold Climate Nancy Mitford
Haven't You Heard?: Gossip, Politics and Power Marie Le Conte
Henry and June Anaïs Nin
August — 6 books
Norse Mythology Neil Gaiman
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous Ocean Vuong
Histories of Nations: How Their Identities Were Forged Peter Furtado
Her Body and Other Parties Carmen Maria Machado
The White Album Joan Didion
Superior: The Return of Race Science Angela Saini
July — 2 books
The Art of Cruelty: A Reckoning Maggie Nelson
Nutshell Ian McEwan
June — 7 books
The Shepherd's Life: Modern Dispatches from an Ancient Landscape James Rebanks
The End Samuel Beckett
First Love and Other Novellas Samuel Beckett, Gerry Dukes
The Expelled Samuel Beckett
The Last Samurai Helen DeWitt
Machines Like Me Ian McEwan
Eileen Ottessa Moshfegh
May — 4 books
The Wicked + The Divine, Vol. 1: The Faust Act Kieron Gillen, Jamie McKelvie, Matt Wilson, Nathan Fairbairn, Clayton Cowles
The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine Lindsey Fitzharris
Paradise Edna O'Brien
The Comedy of Errors William Shakespeare
April — 6 books
The Heart of the Race Beverley Bryan, Stella Dadzie, Suzanne Scafe
Love's labour's lost William Shakespeare
The Accidental Ali Smith
Mythos: The Greek Myths Retold Stephen Fry
The Culture of Connectivity: A Critical History of Social Media José van Dijck
Reality is Not What it Seems Carlo Rovelli, Simon Carnell, Erica Segre
March — 59 books
Catch-22 Joseph Heller
The Road Cormac McCarthy
Severance Ling Ma
Melmoth Sarah Perry
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer Siddhartha Mukherjee
Circe Madeline Miller
The Collector John Fowles
Amerika Willa Muir, Edwin Muir, Klaus Mann, E.L. Doctorow, Franz Kafka
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches Audre Lorde, Robin Eller
Ecclesiastical History of the English People Bede, Leo Sherley-Price, David Hugh Farmer, Ronald E. Latham
The Silence of the Girls Pat Barker
The Corrections Jonathan Franzen
Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection Julia Kristeva, Leon S. Roudiez
Flowers for Algernon Daniel Keyes
Little Fires Everywhere Celeste Ng
The Wretched of the Earth Frantz Fanon, Jean-Paul Sartre, Richard Philcox, Homi K. Bhabha
Women, Race & Class Angela Y. Davis
Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Explain Everything About the World Tim Marshall
Little Edward Carey
My Sister, the Serial Killer Oyinkan Braithwaite
The Mabinogion Charlotte Guest, R. Williams
Free Food for Millionaires Min Jin Lee
American Pastoral Philip Roth
The Heart Goes Last Margaret Atwood
The Unwomanly Face of War Svetlana Alexievich
The Problems of Philosophy Bertrand Russell
Rice's Architectural Primer Matthew Rice
Queer City: Gay London from the Romans to the Present Day Peter Ackroyd
The Secret Lives of Colour Kassia St Clair
The Great Believers Rebecca Makkai
One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel García Márquez
The Hunchback of Notre-Dame Victor Hugo, Walter J. Cobb
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running Haruki Murakami, Philip Gabriel
HHhH Laurent Binet, Sam Taylor
Nevada Imogen Binnie
The Idiot Elif Batuman
Madame Bovary Gustave Flaubert, Sérgio Duarte
No Longer at Ease Chinua Achebe
The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love bell hooks
The House of Mirth Edith Wharton
The Vorrh Brian Catling, Alan Moore
Adèle Leïla Slimani
Freshwater Akwaeke Emezi
The Water Cure Sophie Mackintosh
Van Gogh: The Complete Paintings Ingo F. Walther
Schiele Reinhard Steiner
Grief is the Thing with Feathers Max Porter
Degas Bernd Growe
Edward Hopper: Portraits Of America Wieland Schmied, Edward Hopper
Sprint: How to Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days Jake Knapp
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World Haruki Murakami, Alfred Birnbaum
The Red Parts Maggie Nelson
Women, Fire and Dangerous Things: What Categories Reveal About the Mind George Lakoff
Portnoy's Complaint Philip Roth
The Three-Body Problem Cixin Liu, Ken Liu
Saul Leiter Saul Leiter, Max Kozloff
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America Ibram X. Kendi, Christopher Dontrell Piper
The Perfect Nanny Leïla Slimani
The Libation Bearers Aeschylus, E.D.A. Morshead
February — 7 books
The Penguin History of Modern China: The Fall and Rise of a Great Power, 1850-2008 Jonathan Fenby
The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides Aeschylus, Robert Fagles, William Bedell Stanford
King Henry V William Shakespeare, Andrew Gurr
Невыносимая любовь Ian McEwan, Иэн Макьюэн, Эвелина Новикова
The Secret History Donna Tartt
Conversations with Friends Sally Rooney
The Testament of Mary Colm Tóibín
January — 7 books
My Year of Rest and Relaxation Ottessa Moshfegh
A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing Eimear McBride
Difficult Women Roxane Gay
Bluets Maggie Nelson
Enigma Variations Andre Aciman
Paradise Rot Jenny Hval, Marjam Idriss, Brie Jackman
The Screwtape Letters C. S. Lewis
2018
December — 8 books
The Luminaries Eleanor Catton
The Argonauts Maggie Nelson
Mr Salary Sally Rooney
The Days of the French Revolution Christopher Hibbert
The Aleph and Other Stories 1933-1969 Jorge Luis Borges, Norman Thomas di Giovanni
Motherhood Sheila Heti
The Past Tessa Hadley
Normal People Sally Rooney
November — 3 books
Fox 8 George Saunders, Chelsea Cardinal
The Bell Iris Murdoch, A.S. Byatt
Under the net Iris Murdoch
October — 5 books
Lincoln in the Bardo George Saunders
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City Matthew Desmond
The Fire Next Time James Baldwin
The Age of Innocence Edith Wharton, Laura Dluzynski Quinn, Sarah Blackwood, Elif Batuman
Purple Hibiscus Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
September — 4 books
The Lesser Bohemians Eimear McBride
The Goldfinch Donna Tartt
If We Were Villains M.L. Rio
Where Angels Fear to Tread E. M. Forster
August — 7 books
Slouching Towards Bethlehem Joan Didion
True at First Light Ernest Hemingway, Patrick Hemingway
Mother Night Kurt Vonnegut
Twitter and Tear Gas Zeynep Tufekci
Lighter Than My Shadow Katie Green
The Romanovs: 1613-1918 Simon Sebag Montefiore
Stick and rudder Wolfgang Langewiesche
July — 5 books
Human Acts Han Kang, Deborah Smith
Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly Anthony Bourdain
I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer Michelle McNamara, Gillian Flynn, Patton Oswalt, Gabra Zackman
The Death and Life of Great American Cities Jane Jacobs
Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy Cathy O'Neil
June — 8 books
Our Man in Havana Graham Greene, Tom Jupp
Teaching Community: A Pedagogy of Hope bell hooks
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft Stephen King
The World As It Is Ben Rhodes
Private Island: Why Britain Now Belongs to Someone Else James Meek
Language of the Third Reich Victor Klemperer
A Study on Authority Herbert Marcuse
A History of the Arab Peoples Albert Hourani
May — 9 books
All's Well That Ends Well William Shakespeare, Barbara A. Mowat, Paul Werstine
Riot Days Maria Alyokhina
Impressionism Karin H. Grimme, Norbert Wolf
Monet Christoph Heinrich
To Have and Have Not Ernest Hemingway
Hamilton : the revolution Lin-Manuel Miranda, Jeremy McCarter
In Evil Hour Gabriel García Márquez, Gregory Rabassa
A Journal of the Terror Jean-Baptiste Cléry
The Death of Ivan Ilych Leo Tolstoy, Aylmer Maude, رضی هیرمند, Ευγενία Ζήκου
April — 27 books
The Pragmatic Programmer: Your Journey to Mastery, 20th Anniversary Edition Andrew Hunt, Dave Thomas
Half of a Yellow Sun Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Mumbo Jumbo Ishmael Reed
Technically Wrong: Sexist Apps, Biased Algorithms, and Other Threats of Toxic Tech Sara Wachter-Boettcher
Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body Roxane Gay
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis J.D. Vance
On Ideology Louis Althusser, Ben Brewster
Tubes a journey to the center of the Internet Andrew Blum
Big Bang: The Origin of the Universe Simon Singh
Introducing Continental Philosophy: A Graphic Guide Christopher Kul-Want, Piero
Postmodernism: A Very Short Introduction Christopher Butler
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner
No Is Not Enough: Resisting Trump's Shock Politics and Winning the World We Need Naomi Klein
To Be a Machine: Adventures Among Cyborgs, Utopians, Hackers, and the Futurists Solving the Modest Problem of Death Mark O'Connell
Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction Edward Craig
Introducing Freud: A Graphic Guide Oscar Zárate, Richard Appignanesi
The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge Jean-François Lyotard, Brian Massumi, Geoffrey Bennington, Fredric Jameson
Post-Truth: How Bullshit Conquered the World James Ball
The Communist Manifesto Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Leon Trotsky, Samuel Moore, Erkin Özalp, Amanda Lee, Antonio Carlos Braga, Aldrin Alexander Evies, Oqtay Eloğlu
Grays Anatomy Henry Gray
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism Naomi Klein
American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer Kai Bird, Martin J. Sherwin
Alexander Hamilton Ron Chernow
Against Everything: Essays Mark Greif
Introducing Slavoj Zizek: A Graphic Guide Christopher Kul-Want, Piero
Poststructuralism: A Very Short Introduction Catherine Belsey
When Breath Becomes Air Paul Kalanithi, Abraham Verghese
March — 8 books
The Road to Wigan Pier George Orwell, Richard Hoggart
How Parliament Works Paul Silk
Fear and Trembling Soren Kierkegaard, Alastair Hannay, Johannes de Silentio
Conjectures and Refutations Karl Popper
Radical Candor: Be a Kick-Ass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity Kim Malone Scott
Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race Reni Eddo-Lodge, Zuzana Szabóová
Eat Up: Food, Appetite and Eating What You Want Ruby Tandoh
On the Road Jack Kerouac
February — 6 books
Swing Time Zadie Smith
The Kite Runner Khaled Hosseini
Coriolanus William Shakespeare, William Aldis Wright, Roma Gill, Francis Fergusson
A Brief History of Time Stephen Hawking
Beloved Toni Morrison, A.S. Byatt
Ruling The Void: The Hollowing Of Western Democracy Peter Mair
January — 14 books
Autumn Ali Smith
Imagined Communities: Reflections On The Origin And Spread Of Nationalism Benedict Anderson
Who Really Runs Britain?: The Private Companies Taking Control of Benefits, Prisons, Asylum, Deportation, Security, Social Care and the NHS Alan White
The Dispossessed Ursula K. Le Guin
The Attention Merchants: The Epic Scramble to Get Inside Our Heads Tim Wu
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Philip K. Dick
Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House Michael Wolff
You Tarzan: Masculinity, Movies and Men Pat Kirkham, Janet Thumim
The Seagull Anton Chekhov, Richard Nelson, Richard Pevear, Larissa Volokhonsky
Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era James M. McPherson
Pachinko Min Jin Lee
Stalin Nikolaus Basseches, E.W. Dickes
The Old Man and the Sea Ernest Hemingway
Exit West Mohsin Hamid
2017
December — 20 books
Men Explain Things to Me Rebecca Solnit
Dialectic of Enlightenment Theodor W. Adorno, Max Horkheimer, John Cumming
We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy Ta-Nehisi Coates
Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage Haruki Murakami, Philip Gabriel
Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism bell hooks
The Origins of Totalitarianism Hannah Arendt
Nausea Jean-Paul Sartre, Lloyd Alexander, James Wood, Richard Howard
Notes from Underground Fyodor Dostoevsky, Richard Pevear, Larissa Volokhonsky
The Sun Also Rises Ernest Hemingway
Regarding the Pain of Others Susan Sontag
1Q84: Book 1 Haruki Murakami
In Defense of Lost Causes Slavoj Žižek
Simulacra and Simulation Jean Baudrillard, Sheila Faria Glaser
Dance Dance Dance Haruki Murakami, Alfred Birnbaum
Death In The Afternoon Ernest Hemingway
The 7th Function of Language Laurent Binet, Sam Taylor
The Trial Breon Mitchell, Franz Kafka
Americanah Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Jashar Awan
Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison Michel Foucault, Alan Sheridan
Politics Aristotle
October — 1 book
Augustus: The Biography Jochen Bleicken, Anthea Bell
2016
September — 5 books
The Unbearable Lightness of Being Milan Kundera, Michael Henry Heim
For Whom the Bell Tolls Ernest Hemingway
A Moveable Feast Ernest Hemingway
A Farewell to Arms Ernest Hemingway
The Rebel Albert Camus, Anthony Bower, Herbert Read
August — 6 books
The Koran: A Very Short Introduction Michael A. Cook
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Douglas Adams
Meditations Marcus Aurelius, Martin Hammond
1Q84 Haruki Murakami, Jay Rubin, Philip Gabriel
Siddhartha Hermann Hesse
Notes from a Small Island Bill Bryson
July — 43 books
Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return Marjane Satrapi, Anjali Singh
Sputnik Sweetheart Haruki Murakami, Philip Gabriel
How to Read Towns and Cities: A Crash Course in Urban Architecture Jonathan Glancey
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle Haruki Murakami, Jay Rubin
Neither Here nor There: Travels in Europe Bill Bryson
Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products Nir Eyal
Norwegian Wood Haruki Murakami, Jay Rubin
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows J.K. Rowling
Where the Wild Things Are Maurice Sendak
Life of Pi Yann Martel
Kennedy Brett Harper
Jane Eyre Charlotte Brontë
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire J.K. Rowling, Mary GrandPré
A Pelican Introduction: Social Class in the 21st Century Mike Savage
Outline of a Theory of Practice Pierre Bourdieu
MY BOOKY WOOK Russell Brand
Captain Corelli's Mandolin Louis de Bernières
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind Yuval Noah Harari
Tender Is the Night F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Death of a President: November 20 - November 25, 1963 William Manchester, Joe Barrett
The Handmaid’s Tale Margaret Atwood
The Bell Jar Sylvia Plath
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe C. S. Lewis, Pauline Baynes
Oliver Twist Charles Dickens, Philip Horne
Black Swan Green David Mitchell
Brave New World Aldous Huxley
Between the World and Me Ta-Nehisi Coates
Triumph of the City Edward L. Glaeser
On violence. Hannah Arendt
The Book Thief Markus Zusak
Fail Fast, Fail Often: How Losing Can Help You Win Ryan Babineaux, John Krumboltz
Never Let Me Go Kazuo Ishiguro
The Time Traveler’s Wife Audrey Niffenegger
Who Governs Britain? Anthony King
The Tales of Beedle the Bard J.K. Rowling, Hermione Granger (Translator
The Beach Alex Garland
The European Union: A Citizen's Guide Christopher J. Bickerton
Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? Beverly Daniel Tatum
The Host Stephenie Meyer
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban J.K. Rowling
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas John Boyne
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time Mark Haddon
Fight Club Chuck Palahniuk
March — 79 books
The Secret Agent Joseph Conrad
Othello William Shakespeare
White Noise Don DeLillo, Richard Powers
Capital in the Twenty-First Century Thomas Piketty, Arthur Goldhammer
Emotionally Weird Kate Atkinson
The Catcher in the Rye J. D. Salinger
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius Dave Eggers
Welcome to the Desert of the Real: Five Essays on September 11 and Related Dates Slavoj Žižek
The Stranger Albert Camus, Matthew Ward
1984 George Orwell, Peter Hobley Davison, Shepard Fairey
Kafka on the Shore Haruki Murakami, Philip Gabriel
The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald
All Quiet on the Western Front Erich Maria Remarque
Paradise Lost John Milton, John Leonard
V for Vendetta Alan Moore
Watchmen Alan Moore
The Language Instinct: The New Science of Language and Mind Steven Pinker
Second Treatise of Government John Locke, C.B. MacPherson
How Democratic Is the American Constitution? Robert A. Dahl
The Autobiography of Malcolm X Malcolm X, Alex Haley
Asterios Polyp David Mazzucchelli
As I Lay Dying William Faulkner
The Prince Niccolò Machiavelli, Rufus Goodwin, Benjamin Martinez
The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism William E. Cain, Laurie A. Finke, John P. McGowan, T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting, Jeffrey J. Williams
The History of White People Nell Irvin Painter
Persepolis, Volume 1 Marjane Satrapi
The Plot Against America Philip Roth
Gilead Marilynne Robinson
Theories of the democratic state John S. Dryzek
The Economics of Inequality Thomas Piketty
The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse Louise Erdrich
Infinite Jest David Foster Wallace
The World of Ice and Fire: The Untold History of Westeros and the Game of Thrones George R.R. Martin, Linda Antonsson, Elio M. García Jr.
It's not how good you are, it's how good you want to be Paul Arden, Roger Kennedy
Old school Tobias Wolff
Wall and Piece Banksy
America Jean Baudrillard, Geoff Dyer, Chris Turner
The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature Steven Pinker
Mythologies Roland Barthes, Annette Lavers
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Green Knight Poet, Burton Raffel
Apology Plato
God's cenury Daniel Philpott
Animal Farm George Orwell, Russell Baker, C.M. Woodhouse
Let the Great World Spin Colum McCann
Pale Fire Vladimir Nabokov
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man James Joyce, Seamus Deane
The Martian Andy Weir
Habibi Craig Thompson
The Lovely Bones Alice Sebold
The Color Purple Alice Walker
A Discourse on Inequality Jean-Jacques Rousseau
To the Lighthouse Virginia Woolf, David Bradshaw
The Social Contract Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Maurice Cranston
Slaughterhouse-Five Kurt Vonnegut
Falling Man Don DeLillo
Leviathan Thomas Hobbes, Richard Tuck
The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined Steven Pinker, Arthur Morey
Steve Jobs Walter Isaacson
Poetics Aristotle, James Hutton, David Gorman, Michelle Zerba
Things I have learned in my life so far Stefan Sagmeister, Daniel Nettle, Nancy Spector, Steven Heller
Understanding Public Policy: Theories and Issues Paul Cairney
Black Girl/White Girl Joyce Carol Oates
To Kill A Mockingbird Harper Lee
The Hunger Games Suzanne Collins
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone J.K. Rowling
The Works of John Donne John Donne
Washington Square Henry James
Ways of Seeing John Berger
No god but God: The Origins, Evolution, and Future of Islam Reza Aslan, Shishir Kurup
The Good Soldier Ford Madox Ford
A Doll's House Henrik Ibsen, Kenneth McLeish, Trevor R Griffiths, Simon Trussler
Lady Chatterley's Lover D.H. Lawrence
T. S. Eliot: The waste land Helen Williams
American Government: Political Development and Institutional Change Calvin C. Jillson
Visual Thesaurus: A Quick Flip Brainstorming Tool for Graphic Designers Hatmaker
The Analects of Confucius Confucius, James Legge
Happy City Charles Montgomery
Beowulf Seamus Heaney, Unknown
The Bloody Chamber Angela Carter, Helen Simpson, Parra