2026
July — 4 books
Year Zero: A History of 1945 Ian Buruma
The Lesser Evil Victor Klemperer, Martin Chalmers
German autumn Stig Dagerman
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
Story of O Pauline Réage, Jean Paulhan, Sabine d'Estree, André Pieyre de Mandiargues
Erotism: Death and Sensuality Georges Bataille, Mary Dalwood
SM 101: A Realistic Introduction
Women: A Novella Chloe Caldwell
Thinking Kink: The Collision of BDSM, Feminism and Popular Culture Catherine Scott
The Codebreakers: The Comprehensive History of Secret Communication from Ancient Times to the Internet David Kahn
Lightning Rods Helen DeWitt
Now I Surrender Álvaro Enrigue, Natasha Wimmer
The Doloriad Missouri Williams
Angel Down Daniel Kraus
Things in Nature Merely Grow Yiyun Li
The Complete Stories Clarice Lispector, Katrina Dodson, Benjamin Moser
No Way Home T.C. Boyle
Go Gentle Maria Semple
Gifted Suzumi Suzuki, Allison Markin Powell
House of Fury Evelio Rosero, Victor Meadowcroft
What Belongs to You Garth Greenwell
The Looming Tower: Al Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 Lawrence Wright
Chess Story Stefan Zweig, Peter Gay, Joel Rotenberg
An Academic Question Barbara Pym
Rise and Kill First Ronen Bergman
The Obsessed Lizzie Buehler
Mexico Unconquered: Chronicles of Power and Revolt John Gibler
Postal Intelligence Rachel Midura
Flat Earth Anika Jade Levy
If This Be Magic: The Unlikely Art of Shakespeare in Translation Daniel Hahn
Between Two Fires Christopher Buehlman
UNABLE TO ACHIEVE BROAD RECOGNITION IN MY LIFETIME, I LABOURED IN OBSCURITY UNTIL MY DEATH LAST YEAR. SHARON. KIVLAND
The Duke Matteo Melchiorre, Antonella Lettieri
April — 52 books
Piranesi Susanna Clarke
Our Wives Under the Sea Julia Armfield
How It Works Out Myriam Lacroix
Natural Beauty Ling Ling Huang
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
Cecilia K-Ming Chang
Immaculate Conception Ling Ling Huang
The Country Will Bring Us No Peace Matthieu Simard, Pablo Strauss
Sky Daddy Kate Folk
We Spread Iain Reid
Dengue Boy Michel Nieva, Rahul Bery
This Thing Between Us Gus Moreno, Robb Moreira
Interesting Facts About Space Emily Austin
Land of Milk and Honey C Pam Zhang
Private Rites Julia Armfield
Transcription Ben Lerner
The Line of Beauty Alan Hollinghurst
Terminal Boredom: Stories Izumi Suzuki, Polly Barton, Sam Bett, David Boyd, Daniel Joseph, Aiko Masubuchi, Helen O'Horan
Hit Parade of Tears Izumi Suzuki
Light M. John Harrison
The Sunken Land Begins to Rise Again M. John Harrison
The Pastel City M. John Harrison, Bruce Pennington
February — 1 book
Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia David Graeber
January — 8 books
Watching Over Her Jean-Baptiste Andrea
Michel the Giant: An African in Greenland Tété-Michel Kpomassie
Strangers I Know Claudia Durastanti, Elizabeth Harris
Hemlock Melissa Faliveno
Lost Lambs Madeline Cash
Territory of Light Yuko Tsushima, Geraldine Harcourt
Moderation Elaine Castillo
Underground Barbie Maša Kolanović, Ena Selimovic
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 Möbius Book Catherine Lacey
The Go-Between L.P. Hartley, Douglas Brooks-Davis
The Warm Hands of Ghosts Katherine Arden
1453 Roger Crowley
The Greek Revolution and the Violent Birth of Nationalism Yanni Kotsonis
Revolutionary Spring Christopher Clark
The Death of Stalin Sheila Fitzpatrick
Native Nations: A Millennium in North America Kathleen DuVal
Culture Creep: Notes on the Pop Apocalypse Alice Bolin
May — 4 books
Finding Grace Loretta Rothschild
The Listeners Maggie Stiefvater
Katabasis R.F. Kuang
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
Satantango László Krasznahorkai, George Szirtes
Jagua Nana Cyprian Ekwensi
In This Sign Joanne Greenberg
Autumn Journal Louis MacNeice
Ex-Wife Ursula Parrott, Bennett, Ursula Parrott
Mood Indigo Boris Vian
Come Closer Sara Gran
The Stepdaughter Caroline Blackwood
The Dear Green Place Archie Hind
The Kreutzer Sonata Leo Tolstoy, Simon Prebble
Brat: A Novel Gabriel Smith
The Anatomy of Melancholy Robert Burton, Angus Gowland
The Sorrows of Young Werther Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Michael Hulse
The Island Ana María Matute, Laura Lonsdale
September — 2 books
Vertigo: The Rise and Fall of Weimar Germany Harald Jähner
Correction Thomas Bernhard, Sophie Wilkins
August — 10 books
Background to danger Eric Ambler
Beautiful Days: Stories Zach Williams
Stars and Bars William Boyd
The Day of the Jackal Frederick Forsyth
The Third Man Graham Greene, William B. Barrie
Djinns Fatma Aydemir, Jon Cho-Polizzi
Veronica Mary Gaitskill
Intermezzo Sally Rooney
The End of Love Eva Illouz
Evenings and Weekends Oisín McKenna
July — 17 books
In the Blink of an Eye Walter Murch
Making Movies Sidney Lumet
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
How to Be Both Ali Smith
Bel Canto Ann Patchett
The Corner That Held Them Sylvia Townsend Warner, Claire Harman
The Monk: A Romance Matthew Gregory Lewis
Mariette in Ecstasy Ron Hansen
The Prophet Kahlil Gibran
Invisible Man Ralph Ellison
The Collected Dorothy Parker Dorothy Parker
The Jazz Poetry Anthology Sascha Feinstein, Yusef Komunyakaa
The Weary Blues Langston Hughes
The History of Jazz Ted Gioia
Hybrids of Plants and of Ghosts Jorie Graham
June — 1 book
Gender Codes: Why Women Are Leaving Computing Thomas J. Misa
May — 5 books
Fixers: Agency, Translation, and the Early Global History of Literature Zrinka Stahuljak
Before European Hegemony: The World System A.D. 1250-1350 Janet L. Abu-Lughod
Ours Phillip B. Williams
You Could Do Something Amazing with Your Life Andrew Hankinson
The Guest Emma Cline
April — 20 books
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 Obscene Madame D Hilda Hilst, Rachel Gontijo Araujo, Nathanaël, John Keene
Porn: An Oral History Polly Barton
Bunny Mona Awad
The Night Battles Carlo Ginzburg, John Tedeschi, Anne Tedeschi
The Great Cat Massacre Robert Darnton
Women! In! Peril! Jessie Ren Marshall
Say Hello to My Little Friend Jennine Capo Crucet
Bugsy & Other Stories Rafael Frumkin
We Are a Haunting Tyriek White
Lake of Urine Guillermo Stitch
Headshot Rita Bullwinkel
The Wounded World: W. E. B. Du Bois and the First World War Chad L. Williams
Pym Mat Johnson
Grief Is for People Sloane Crosley
The Weeds Katy Simpson Smith
A Far Cry from Kensington Muriel Spark
The Principle of Rapid Peering Sylvia Legris
March — 24 books
Of Cattle and Men Ana Paula Maia, Zoë Perry
Happening Annie Ernaux, Tanya Leslie
Baumgartner Paul Auster, Cristiana Mennella
Come and Get It Kiley Reid
Kudos Rachel Cusk
City of Laughter Temim Fruchter
Greek Lessons Han Kang, Deborah Smith, Emily Yae Won
Getting Lost Annie Ernaux, Alison L. Strayer
The Memory Police Stephen Snyder, Markus Juslin, Yoko Ogawa
A Girl's Story Annie Ernaux, Alison L. Strayer
Cursed Bunny Bora Chung, Anton Hur
Prophet Song Paul Lynch
The Cement Garden Ian McEwan
Klara and the Sun Kazuo Ishiguro
South and West: From a Notebook Joan Didion
The Children Act Ian McEwan
Simple Passion Annie Ernaux, Tanya Leslie
Who's Afraid of Gender? Judith Butler
The Rehearsal Eleanor Catton
Out Natsuo Kirino
Kapo Aleksandar Tišma, Richard Williams
The Deorhord: An Old English Bestiary Hana Videen
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
Tripping on Utopia: Margaret Mead, the Cold War, and the Troubled Birth of Psychedelic Science Benjamin Breen
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
2023
December — 29 books
How to Draw a Novel Martin Solares
The Zone of Interest Martin Amis
Marzahn, mon amour Katja Oskamp, Jo Heinrich
Journey to the End of the Night Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Ralph Manheim, Angela Cismaş, William T. Vollmann
The Devil Takes You Home Gabino Iglesias
Bliss Montage Ling Ma
Solenoid Mircea Cărtărescu
Nostalgia Mircea Cărtărescu
Wittgenstein's Poker: The Story of a Ten-Minute Argument Between Two Great Philosophers David Edmonds, John Eidinow
The Letters of Gustave Flaubert Gustave Flaubert
Antkind Charlie Kaufman
The Apple in the Dark Clarice Lispector, Benjamin Moser
There Is No Antimemetics Division qntm
Minor Detail Adania Shibli, Elisabeth Jaquette
The Bee Sting Paul Murray
Ægypt John Crowley
The Best of Everything Rona Jaffe
The Book at War: Libraries and Readers in an Age of Conflict Andrew Pettegree
The Overstory Richard Powers
Big Swiss Jen Beagin
There Will Be Fire: Margaret Thatcher, the IRA, and Two Minutes That Changed History Rory Carroll
DallerGut Dream Department Store Lee Mi-ye
Blackouts Justin Torres
Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues Jonathan Kennedy
The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder David Grann
Mitz Sigrid Nunez, Peter Cameron
The Marriage Portrait Maggie O'Farrell
Salt Lick Lulu Allison
In Search of Berlin: The Story of A Reinvented City John Kampfner
November — 11 books
The Mystery Guest Nita Prose
Alice Sadie Celine Sarah Blakley-Cartwright
We Must Not Think of Ourselves Lauren Grodstein
Human Capital: A History of Putting Refugees to Work Laura Robson
We Have Always Lived in the Castle Shirley Jackson
The Unquiet Englishman: A Life of Graham Greene Richard Greene
Brainwyrms Alison Rumfitt
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
The Kremlin's Candidate Jason Matthews
Palace of Treason Jason Matthews
September — 3 books
Cloven Country: The Devil and the English Landscape Jeremy Harte
Second Place Rachel Cusk
Under Western Eyes Joseph Conrad
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
Who Controls the Internet?: Illusions of a Borderless World Jack L. Goldsmith, Tim Wu
Life in Code Ellen Ullman
The Rhetorics of Feminism: Readings in Contemporary Cultural Theory and the Popular Press Lynne Pearce
The Soul of a New Machine Tracy Kidder
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
The Odyssey Lara Williams
Germinal Émile Zola, Stanley Hochman, Eleanor Hochman, Irving Howe
I Want to Die but I Want to Eat Tteokbokki Baek Se-hee
February — 4 books
The Political Unconscious Fredric Jameson
The Globalization of Wheat: A Critical History of the Green Revolution Marci Baranski
Europe Central William T. Vollmann
Speak Not James Griffiths
January — 6 books
The Birthday Party Laurent Mauvignier, Daniel Levin Becker
The Shards Bret Easton Ellis
The English Understand Wool Helen DeWitt
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
The Little Friend Donna Tartt
Sea of Tranquility Emily St. John Mandel
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
Emergent Tokyo: Designing the Spontaneous City Jorge Almazán, Joe McReynolds
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
Checkout 19 Claire-Louise Bennett
Aesthetica Allie Rowbottom
The Book of Goose Yiyun Li
Either/Or Elif Batuman
November — 20 books
LOTE Shola von Reinhold
Cryptonomicon Neal Stephenson
The Difference Engine William Gibson, Bruce Sterling
The Books of Jacob Olga Tokarczuk, Jennifer Croft
Ancient Evenings Norman Mailer
Insane Rainald Goetz, Adrian Nathan West
Ferdinand, the Man with the Kind Heart Irmgard Keun
All Our Yesterdays Natalia Ginzburg, Angus Davidson, Sally Rooney
Invisible Cities Italo Calvino, Anthony Doerr, Karina Maria Puente Frantzen
Septology Jon Fosse, Damion Searls
The Word for World Is Forest Ursula K. Le Guin
The Sirens of Titan Kurt Vonnegut
There Once Lived a Girl Who Seduced Her Sister's Husband, and He Hanged Himself Ludmilla Petrushevskaya
Howdie-Skelp Paul Muldoon
Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen Christopher McDougall
This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyberweapons Arms Race Nicole Perlroth
Iron Kingdom Christopher Clark
Distant Star Roberto Bolaño, Chris Andrews
Martin Luther Martin Brecht, James L. Schaaf
The Stars at Noon Denis Johnson
October — 6 books
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test Tom Wolfe
España: A Brief History of Spain Giles Tremlett
The Story of Art without Men Katy Hessel
The Pahrump Report Lisa Crystal Carver
Drugs are Nice: A Post-Punk Memoir Lisa Crystal Carver
The Lisa Diaries Lisa Crystal Carver
September — 2 books
Baby, I Don't Care Chelsey Minnis
The Babel Message: A Love Letter to Language Keith Kahn-Harris
August — 3 books
The Cuckoo's Egg 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
Last Exit Max Gladstone
The Cartographers Peng Shepherd
How High We Go in the Dark Sequoia Nagamatsu
Red Azalea Anchee Min
Opening Up: Youth Sex Culture and Market Reform in Shanghai James Farrer
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
Zone One Colson Whitehead
Black Boy: A Record of Youth and Childhood Richard Wright
Billy Liar Keith Waterhouse, Nick Bentley
Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea Guy Delisle, Helge Dascher
Harlem Shuffle Colson Whitehead
Immigration, Poverty, and Socioeconomic Inequality David Card, Steven Raphael
The Pessimists Bethany Ball
Dictionary of Untranslatables: A Philosophical Lexicon Barbara Cassin, Emily Apter, Jacques Lezra
John Brown W.E.B. Du Bois
The New Me Halle Butler
September — 14 books
The Black Death Rosemary Horrox
Tuff Paul Beatty
Tenth of December George Saunders
The Food Lab J. Kenji López-Alt
The Bookseller's Tale Ann Swinfen
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
On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint Maggie Nelson
Precarious Life Judith Butler
Stone Butch Blues Leslie Feinberg
Foucault's Pendulum Umberto Eco
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
Subway Lives: 24 Hours in the Life of the New York City Subway Jim Dwyer
City for Sale: Ed Koch and the Betrayal of New York Jack Newfield, Wayne Barrett
May — 9 books
The Secret Lives of Church Ladies Deesha Philyaw
A Cure for Darkness Alex Riley
Chatter Patrick Radden Keefe
Sociobiology: The New Synthesis Edward O. Wilson
Against Interpretation and Other Essays Susan Sontag
The Trouble with Testosterone and Other Essays on the Biology of the Human Predicament Robert M. Sapolsky
The Last Libertines Benedetta Craveri, Aaron Kerner
Must I Go Yiyun Li, Jane Alexander, Alex McKenna, John Rubinstein
The Life of the Mind Christine Smallwood
April — 2 books
How To Survive A Plague David France
The Incendiaries R.O. Kwon
2020
December — 1 book
Excavation Wendy C. Ortiz
November — 10 books
Autobiography of Red Anne Carson
The Talented Mr Ripley Patricia Highsmith
London Fields Martin Amis
Feral rewilding the land, the sea, and human life George Monbiot
The Smart Enough City: Putting Technology in Its Place to Reclaim Our Urban Future Ben Green, Jascha Franklin-Hodge
A Civic Technologist's Practice Guide Cyd Harrell
Logical chess move by move Irving Chernev
Subprime Attention Crisis Advertising and the Time Bomb at the Heart of the Internet Tim Hwang
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
The Black Prince Iris Murdoch, Candia McWilliam
A Place of Greater Safety Hilary Mantel
The Graduate Charles Webb, Hanif Kureishi
Medea and Other Plays Euripides, Richard Rutherford, John Davie
Underland Robert Macfarlane
Remarkable Birds Mark Avery
Parliament: The Biography Chris Bryant
The Division Bell Mystery Ellen Wilkinson
Greek and Roman Myths: A Guide to the Classical Stories Philip Matyszak
Wolf Hall Hilary Mantel
Bring Up the Bodies Hilary Mantel
Zami: A New Spelling of My Name Audre Lorde
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
Little Women Louisa May Alcott, Anna Bond
The Count of Monte Cristo Alexandre Dumas
Like Ali Smith
A Tale of Two Cities Charles Dickens
Not Working Josh Cohen
Up Down Inside Out Joohee Yoon
Wild Game: My Mother, Her Lover, and Me Adrienne Brodeur
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York Robert A. Caro
Let It Come Down Paul Bowles
How to Read Wittgenstein Ray Monk
Greater Gotham Mike Wallace
Modern Classical Physics Kip S. Thorne, Roger D. Blandford
The Bonjour Effect Julie Barlow, Jean-Benoit Nadeau
Prozac Nation: Young & Depressed In America: A Memoir Elizabeth Wurtzel
The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World Andrea Wulf
After the Ice Steven Mithen
How to Invent Everything: A Survival Guide for the Stranded Time Traveler Ryan North
The Society of the Spectacle Guy Debord, Guy Debord, Ron. Adams, Donald Nicholson-Smith, Colectivo Maldeojo
Old Drift Namwali Serpell
Gingerbread Helen Oyeyemi
Lucky Per Henrik Pontoppidan
The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming David Wallace-Wells
The World Doesn't Require You Rion Amilcar Scott
The Organs of Sense Adam Ehrlich Sachs
Recursion Blake Crouch
Bloodlands Timothy Snyder
The Book of the City of Ladies Christine de Pizan, Earl Jeffrey Richards
Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets Svetlana Alexievich, Bela Shayevich
No. 10: The Geography of Power at Downing Street Jack Brown
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
Women of Westminster: The MPs who Changed Politics Rachel Reeves
The Castle diaries, 1964-70 Barbara Castle
March — 224 books
The Sense of an Ending Frank Kermode
How Europe Underdeveloped Africa Walter Rodney, Angela Y. Davis
Differend: Phrases in Dispute Jean-François Lyotard
Into the Raging Sea Rachel Slade
On Liberty John Stuart Mill
All Roads Lead to Blood Bonnie Chau
Not All Dead White Men: Classics and Misogyny in the Digital Age Donna Zuckerberg
Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power Audre Lorde
2666 Roberto Bolaño, Natasha Wimmer
Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West Cormac McCarthy
Teaching Critical Thinking: Practical Wisdom bell hooks
The Marx-Engels Reader Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Robert C. Tucker
She Would Be King Wayétu Moore
Border Lines: The Partition of Judaeo-Christianity Daniel Boyarin
A Man of the People Chinua Achebe
Jazz Toni Morrison
A Certain Idea of France: The Life of Charles de Gaulle Julian T. Jackson
But Some of Us Are Brave: Black Women's Studies Akasha Gloria Hull, Patricia Bell-Scott, Brittney Cooper, Barbara Smith
Family Trust Kathy Wang
Convenience Store Woman Sayaka Murata, Ginny Tapley Takemori
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
Crudo: A Novel Olivia Laing
Washington Black Esi Edugyan
Milkman Anna Burns
The Modern Cook's Year Anna Jones
Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character Richard P. Feynman, Raymond Todd
The Reformation Diarmaid MacCulloch
How Democracies Die Steven Levitsky, Fred Sanders
One-Dimensional Man Herbert Marcuse
Call Me by Your Name Andre Aciman
French Exit Patrick deWitt
Kids These Days: Human Capital and the Making of Millennials Malcolm Harris
The edifice complex Deyan Sudjic
Critical Race Theory: The Key Writings That Formed the Movement Kimberlé Crenshaw, Neil Gotanda, Garry Peller, Kendall Thomas, Cornel West
Playing with Fire: The 1968 Election and the Transformation of American Politics Lawrence O'Donnell
Sexual Anarchy Elaine Showalter
Life Between Buildings Jan Gehl
Salafi-Jihadism: The History of an Idea Shiraz Maher
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
The Wasp Factory Iain Banks
A World Without "Whom" Emmy J. Favilla, BuzzFeed
The Anglo Saxon Chronicle Various, Benjamin Thorpe
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
Midnight's Children Salman Rushdie
Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers: A History of Lesbian Life in Twentieth-Century America Lillian Faderman
Nationalism and the Imagination Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
Story: Substance, Structure, Style, and the Principles of Screenwriting Robert McKee
Ernest Hemingway on Writing Larry W. Phillips
Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury
Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs Harold Abelson, Julie Sussman, Gerald Jay Sussman
Beyond the Pale Vron Ware
Lenin's Tomb David Remnick
Private Truths, Public Lies Timur Kuran
Constituting Feminist Subjects Kathi Weeks
Ideas Pertaining to a Pure Phenomenology and to a Phenomenological Philosophy: First Book: General Introduction to a Pure Phenomenology Edmund Husserl, F. Kersten
Simians, Cyborgs, and Women: The Reinvention of Nature Donna J. Haraway
Rice's Church Primer Matthew Rice
Jean-François Lyotard Simon Malpas
Insurrecto Gina Apostol
Parliamentary Versus Presidential Government Arend Lijphart
Social Media: A Critical Introduction Christian Fuchs
The Urban Design Reader Michael Larice, Elizabeth MacDonald
Early Work Andrew Martin
Dragnet Nation: A Quest for Privacy, Security, and Freedom in a World of Relentless Surveillance Julia Angwin
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
A Loeb Classical Library Reader Loeb Classical Library
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
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
Euclid's Elements Euclid, Dana Densmore, Thomas Little Heath
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
Junky William S. Burroughs
Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community Robert D. Putnam
The Gathering Storm Winston S. Churchill
But how Do it Know? J. Clark Scott
The Six Day War: The Breaking of the Middle East Guy Laron
Utilitarianism John Stuart Mill, George Sher
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
Rogue Empires: Contracts and Conmen in Europe’s Scramble for Africa Steven Press
Let Them Eat Chaos Kate Tempest
Smart Cities Anthony M. Townsend
Lenin on the Train Catherine Merridale
A Boy in Winter Rachel Seiffert
Learning from Las Vegas Rev Ed
SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome Mary Beard
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
Jesus' Son Denis Johnson
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
Black Skin, White Masks Frantz Fanon, Richard Philcox, Kwame Anthony Appiah
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
Alias Grace Margaret Atwood
Design as Art Bruno Munari
Les Misérables Victor Hugo, Christine Donougher, Jillian Tamaki, Robert Tombs
The Establishment: And How They Get Away with It Owen Jones
The Principia Isaac Newton, Andrew Motte
A Manual for Cleaning Women: Selected Stories Lucia Berlin, Stephen Emerson, Lydia Davis
Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea Barbara Demick
The Enemy Within Seumas Milne
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
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
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
Understanding power Noam Chomsky, Peter R. Mitchell, John Schoeffel
A Theory of Good City Form Kevin Lynch
Architecture Theory Since 1968 K. Michael Hays
Microcognition: Philosophy, Cognitive Science, and Parallel Distributed Processing Andy Clark
The Sublime Object of Ideology Slavoj Žižek, Chris MacDonnell
Bad Feminist Roxane Gay, Laurel Lefkow
Twelve Who Ruled R.R. Palmer, Isser Woloch
Crime and Punishment Fyodor Dostoevsky, Leonard Stanton, James D. Hardy Jr., Sidney Monas, Robin Feuer Miller
Close to Home: A Materialist Analysis of Women's Oppression Christine Delphy, Rachel Hills, Diana Leonard
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Edward Gibbon, Daniel J. Boorstin, Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Hans-Friedrich Mueller
Emma Jane Austen, Fiona Stafford
Candide Voltaire
If They Come in the Morning...: Voices of Resistance Angela Y. Davis
Cognitive Science José Luis Bermúdez
Quantum Mechanics: The Theoretical Minimum Leonard Susskind, Art Friedman
Italian Folktales Italo Calvino, George Martin
Sharp Objects Gillian Flynn
The Naked Lunch William S. Burroughs
Letters on England Voltaire
A Treatise of Human Nature David Hume
Writing and Difference Jacques Derrida, Alan Bass
Liquid Modernity Zygmunt Bauman
NW Zadie Smith
How to Study Public Life Jan Gehl, Birgitte Svarre
Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture, and the Body Susan Bordo, Leslie Heywood
Rebecca Daphne du Maurier
After Dark Haruki Murakami, Jay Rubin
The Chrysalids John Wyndham
South of the Border, West of the Sun Haruki Murakami, Philip Gabriel
The Visual Display of Quantitative Information Edward R. Tufte
Gramatologia Jacques Derrida
A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge George Berkeley, Jonathan Dancy
Patterns of Democracy: Government Forms and Performance in Thirty-Six Countries Arend Lijphart
Relativity Albert Einstein
Cities for People Jan Gehl
Aloha Betrayed: Native Hawaiian Resistance to American Colonialism Noenoe K. Silva
Selections from the Prison Notebooks Antonio Gramsci, Geoffrey Nowell-Smith, Quintin Hoare
Ethics Baruch Spinoza, R.H.M. Elwes
Classical Mechanics: The Theoretical Minimum Leonard Susskind, George Hrabovsky
Science and the Common Understanding J. Robert Oppenheimer
The Moral Law: Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals Immanuel Kant, H.J. Paton
One Way Street And Other Writings Walter Benjamin, Edmund F.N. Jephcott, K. Shorter
The Nature of Code Daniel Shiffman
The History of Terrorism: From Antiquity to al Qæda Gérard Chaliand, Arnaud Blin
Imperial Bedrooms Bret Easton Ellis
Neuromancer William Gibson
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
Reflections on the revolution in France L.G. Mitchell, Edmund Burke
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding John Locke
A Gift of Fire: Social, Legal, and Ethical Issues for Computers and the Internet Sara Baase
The Classical Language of Architecture John Summerson
Song of Solomon Toni Morrison
Being and Time Martin Heidegger, John MacQuarrie, Edward Schouten Robinson, Taylor Carman
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love Raymond Carver
Pacific Worlds Matt K. Matsuda
Phänomenologie des Geistes georg-wilhelm-friedrich-hegel
A Wild Sheep Chase Haruki Murakami, Alfred Birnbaum
The Sovereignty of Good Iris Murdoch
The Virgin Suicides Jeffrey Eugenides
Orientalism Edward W. Said
Runaway: Stories Alice Munro
Something Happened Joseph Heller
The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath Sylvia Plath, Karen V. Kukil
The Sense of an Ending Julian Barnes
On Intersectionality Kimberlé Crenshaw
The Satanic Verses Salman Rushdie
Pocket Atlas of Remote Islands: Fifty Islands I Have Not Visited and Never Will Judith Schalansky
The Idiot Fyodor Dostoevsky, Frederick Whishaw
The Sea, the Sea Iris Murdoch, John Burnside
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
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness Michelle Alexander, Karen Chilton
The Sense of Style Steven Pinker
The Female Eunuch Germaine Greer
The Beautiful Struggle: A Father, Two Sons and an Unlikely Road to Manhood Ta-Nehisi Coates
Feminism is for Everybody: Passionate Politics bell hooks
The Feminine Mystique Betty Friedan, Anna Quindlen
Grid Systems in Graphic Design/Raster Systeme Fur Die Visuele Gestaltung (German and English Edition) Josef Müller-Brockmann
March — 16 books
Blackass A. Igoni Barrett
First as Tragedy, Then as Farce Slavoj Žižek
Trouble In Paradise Slavoj Žižek
Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason Michel Foucault, Richard Howard
The Science of Interstellar Kip S. Thorne, Christopher J. Nolan
Airline Visual Identity: 1945–1975 M.C. Huhne
When Media Goes to War: Hegemonic Discourse, Public Opinion, and the Limits of Dissent Anthony DiMaggio
Cities by Design: The Social Life of Urban Form Fran Tonkiss
Good Neighbors: Gentrifying Diversity in Boston's South End Sylvie Tissot, David Broder, Catherine Romatowski
Living in the End Times Slavoj Žižek
Walkable City Jeff Speck, Daiva Vilkelytė, Aldas Stulpinas
Salvage the Bones Jesmyn Ward
The Elements of Typographic Style Robert Bringhurst
Enjoy Your Symptom! Jacques Lacan in Hollywood and Out Slavoj Žižek
The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression Andrew Solomon
By-Line Ernest Hemingway Ernest Hemingway