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2024

• Character Limit: How Elon Musk Destroyed Twitter by Kate Conger and Ryan Mac
• Meditations for Mortals: Four Weeks to Embrace Your Limitations and Make Time for What Counts by Oliver Burkeman
• All Fours by Miranda July
• UNIX: A History and a Memoir by Brian Kernighan
• ❊ The Notebook: A History of Thinking on Paper by Roland Allen
• ❊ The Barn: The Secret History of a Murder in Mississippi by Wright Thompson
• How Infrastructure Works: Inside the Systems That Shape Our World by Deb Chachra
• ❊ The Freaks Came Out to Write: The Definitive History of The Village Voice, the Radical Paper that Changed American Culture by Tricia Romano
• Native Tongue by Carl Hiaasen
• Exit Strategy by Martha Wells
• Rogue Protocol by Martha Wells
• The Bee Sting by Paul Murray
• Catholicism: A Global History from the French Revolution to Pope Francis by John T. McGreevy
• If You Want to Write: A Book about Art, Independence and Spirit by Brenda Ueland
• City in Ruins by Don Winslow
• Artificial Condition by Martha Wells
• All Systems Red by Martha Wells
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• No Meat Required: The Cultural History and Culinary Future of Plant-Based Eating by Alicia Kennedy
• ❊ Syrup by Maxx Barry
• Marketing Insights from A to Z: 80 Concepts Every Manager Needs to Know by Philip Kotler
• The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles by Steven Pressfield
• ❊ Empire of the Sum: The Rise and Reign of the Pocket Calculator by Keith Houston
• This Is Marketing: You Can’t Be Seen Until You Learn to See by Seth Godin
• Animal Liberation Now: The Definitive Classic Renewed by Peter Singer
• Flying Blind: The 737 Max Tragedy and the Fall of Boeing by Peter Robison
• The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder by David Grann
• Poverty, by America by Matthew Desmond
• Mating by Norman Rush
• The Matter of Everything: How Curiosity, Physics, and Improbable Experiments Changed the World by Suzie Sheehy
• ❊ The Underworld: Journeys to the Depths of the Ocean by Susan Casey
• Code Gray: Death, Life, and Uncertainty in the ER by Farzon A. Nahvi, MD
• Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World by Naomi Klein
• Florida Roadkill by Tim Dorsey
• The Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet by Jeff Goodell
• Exhalation by Ted Chiang
• Crook Manifesto by Colson Whitehead
• Concrete Planet: The Strange and Fascinating Story of the World’s Most Common Man-Made Material by Robert Courland

2023

• All the Sinners Bleed by S.A. Cosby
• Bottoms Up and the Devil Laughs: A Journey Through the Deep State by Kerry Howley
• Birnam Wood by Eleanor Catton
• The Big Break: The Gamblers, Party Animals, and True Believers Trying to Win in Washington While America Loses Its Mind by Ben Terris
• Gangsters of Capitalism: Smedley Butler, the Marines, and the Making and Breaking of America’s Empire by Jonathan M. Katz
• Beyond Measure: The Hidden History of Measurement from Cubits to Quantum Constants by James Vincent
• The Last Honest Man: The CIA, the FBI, the Mafia, and the Kennedys—and One Senator’s Fight to Save Democracy by James Risen
• Thud! by Terry Pratchett
• Theft by Finding: Diaries (1977–2002) by David Sedaris
• ❊ Humanly Possible: Seven Hundred Years of Humanist Freethinking, Inquiry, and Hope by Sarah Bakewell
• All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me by Patrick Bringley
• King: A Life by Jonathan Eig
• When No One Is Watching by Alyssa Cole
• The Last Samurai by Helen DeWitt
• ❊ Priestdaddy by Patricia Lockwood
• Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock by Jenny Odell
• Cobalt Red: How the Blood of The Congo Powers Our Lives by Siddharth Kara
• Chip War: The Fight for the World’s Most Critical Technology by Chris Miller
• Bootstrapped: Liberating Ourselves from the American Dream by Alissa Quart
• A Place for Everything: The Curious History of Alphabetical Order by Judith Flanders
• ❊ Use Gnu Emacs: The Plain Text Computing Environment by Keith Waclena (writing was still in progress at the time I read it) 
• City of Dreams by Don Winslow
• The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith
• The 12 Week Year: Get More Done in 12 Weeks than Others Do in 12 Months by Brian P. Moran and Michael Lennington
• Whitey Bulger: America’s Most Wanted Gangster and the Manhunt That Brought Him to Justice by Kevin Cullen and Shelley Murphy
• The Country Life by Rachel Cusk
• We Don’t Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Modern Ireland by Fintan O’Toole
• Retail Gangster: The Insane, Real-Life Story of Crazy Eddie by Gary Weiss
• Rogues: True Stories of Grifters, Killers, Rebels and Crooks by Patrick Radden Keefe
• Liberation Day by George Saunders
• Less Is Lost by Andrew Sean Greer
• Write for Your Life by Anna Quindlen
• Slouching Towards Utopia: An Economic History of the Twentieth Century by J. Bradford DeLong
• A Dangerous Business by Jane Smiley
• Handmade: A Scientist’s Search for Meaning Through Making by Anna Ploszajski
• Measuring Eternity: The Search for the Beginning of Time by Martin Gorst
• Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
• ❊ An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us by Ed Yong
• The Man Who Broke Capitalism: How Jack Welch Gutted the Heartland and Crushed the Soul of Corporate America—and How to Undo His Legacy by David Gelles
• Joan Is Okay by Weike Wang
• Mercury Pictures Presents by Anthony Marra

2022

• Shy: The Alarmingly Outspoken Memoirs of Mary Rodgers by Mary Rodgers and Jesse Green
• Whole Earth: The Many Lives of Stewart Brand by John Markoff
• Missionaries by Phil Klay
• The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman
• The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson
• Meet Me by the Fountain: An Inside History of the Mall by Alexandra Lange
• ❊ Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel
• ❊ Scientist: E. O. Wilson: A Life in Nature by Richard Rhodes
• Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism by Anne Applebaum
• Thinking Inside the Box: Adventures With Crosswords and the Puzzling People Who Can’t Live Without Them by Adrienne Raphel
• City on Fire by Don Winslow
• ❊ Galatea 2.2 by Richard Powers
• Either/Or by Elif Batuman
• The Fish That Ate the Whale: The Life and Times of America’s Banana King by Rich Cohen
• Dilla Time: The Life and Afterlife of J Dilla, the Hip-Hop Producer Who Reinvented Rhythm by Dan Charnas
• Two Wheels Good: The History and Mystery of the Bicycle by Jody Rosen
• Foreverland: On the Divine Tedium of Marriage by Heather Havrilesky
• The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie Kondo
• Learning to Pray: A Guide for Everyone by James Martin, SJ
• Reign of Terror: How the 9/11 Era Destabilized America and Produced Trump by Spencer Ackerman
• Index, A History of the: A Bookish Adventure from Medieval Manuscripts to the Digital Age by Dennis Duncan
• How to Think: A Survival Guide for a World at Odds by Alan Jacobs
• Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future by Elizabeth Kolbert
• How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America by Clint Smith
• Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals by Oliver Burkeman
• The Anomaly by Hervé Le Tellier
• Crossroads by Jonathan Franzen
• Mastering Emacs by Mickey Peterson
• The Emergency: A Year of Healing and Heartbreak in a Chicago ER by Thomas Fisher
• ❊ Watergate: A New History by Garrett M. Graff
• The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
• Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation by Kristin Kobes du Mez
• The World for Sale: Money, Power, and the Traders Who Barter the Earth’s Resources by Javier Blas and Jack Farchy
• On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons From the Twentieth Century by Timothy Snyder
• 102 Minutes: The Unforgettable Story of the Fight to Survive Inside the Twin Towers by Jim Dwyer and Kevin Flynn
• Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander by Thomas Merton
• Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism by Amanda Montell
• Tripwire by Lee Child
• The Incomplete Book of Running by Peter Sagal
• The Art of the Wasted Day by Patricia Hampl
• Beautiful World, Where Are You by Sally Rooney
• Every Tool’s a Hammer: Life Is What You Make It by Adam Savage
• ❊ Harlem Shuffle by Colson Whitehead
• Football for Dummies, Sixth Edition by Howie Long and John Czarnecki
• The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia by Masha Gessen
• Suburban Dicks by Fabian Nicieza
• The Hunter by Richard Stark
• LaserWriter II by Tamara Shopsin

2021

• Action Park: Fast Times, Wild Rides, and the Untold Story of America’s Most Dangerous Amusement Park by Andy Mulvihill and Jake Rossen
• Wildland: The Making of America’s Fury by Evan Osnos
• No One Is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood
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• ❊ Matrix by Lauren Groff
• Beloved by Toni Morrison
• The Plot by Jean Hanff Korelitz
• Exercised: Why Something We Never Evolved to Do Is Healthy and Rewarding by Daniel E. Lieberman
• It’s All Too Much: An Easy Plan for Living a Richer Life with Less Stuff by Peter Walsh
• The Appalachian Trail: A Biography by Philip D’Anieri
• On Trails: An Exploration by Robert Moor
• Blacktop Wasteland by S.A. Cosby
• War: How Conflict Shaped Us by Margaret MacMillan
• Fake Accounts by Lauren Oyler
• The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race by Walter Isaacson
• ❊ Great Circle by Maggie Shipstead
• Shape: The Hidden Geometry of Information, Biology, Strategy, Democracy, and Everything Else by Jordan Ellenberg
• This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyberweapons Arms Race by Nicole Perlroth
• Barn 8 by Deb Olin Unferth
• Economics in Two Lessons: Why Markets Work So Well, and Why They Can Fail So Badly by John Quiggin
• Falling by T. J. Newman
• Lab Rats: Tech Gurus, Junk Science, and Management Fads—My Quest to Make Work Less Miserable by Dan Lyons
• Our Endless and Proper Work: Starting (and Sticking to) Your Writing Practice by Ron Hogan
• The Light Fantastic by Terry Pratchett
• ❊ The Terranauts by T.C. Boyle
• Empires of the Sky: Zeppelins, Airplanes, and Two Men’s Epic Duel to Rule the World by Alexander Rose
• Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language by Gretchen McCulloch
• ❊ Ducks, Newburyport by Lucy Ellmann
• Die Trying by Lee Child
• Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones by James Clear
• Money for Nothing: The Scientists, Fraudsters, and Corrupt Politicians Who Reinvented Money, Panicked a Nation, and Made the World Rich by Thomas Levenson
• Kill Switch: The Rise of the Modern Senate and the Crippling of American Democracy by Adam Jentleson
• What Were We Thinking: A Brief Intellectual History of the Trump Era by Carlos Lozada
• Lurking: How a Person Became a User by Joanne McNeil
• If Then: How the Simulmatics Corporation Invented the Future by Jill Lepore
• The Land of Enterprise: A Business History of the United States by Benjamin C. Waterhouse
• ❊ A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life by George Saunders
• Learning SQL: Generate, Manipulate, and Retrieve Data by Alan Beaulieu
• 2034: A Novel of the Next World War by Elliot Ackerman and Adm. James Stavridis
• The Price of Peace: Money, Democracy and the Life of John Maynard Keynes by Zachary D. Carter
• JELL-O Girls: A Family History by Allie Rowbottom
• Just Like You by Nick Hornby
• Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America by Beth Macy
• This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone
• The Price You Pay by Aidan Truhen
• Severance by Ling Ma
• Autumn by Ali Smith
• The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X by Les Payne and Tamara Payne
• Clutter: A History by Jennifer Howard
• The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene
• Pharma: Greed, Lies, and the Poisoning of America by Gerald Posner
• Democracy in One Book or Less: How It Works, Why It Doesn’t, and Why Fixing It Is Easier Than You Think by David Litt
• Squeeze Me by Carl Hiaasen
• The Weather Machine: A Journey Inside the Forecast by Andrew Blum
• Death in Her Hands by Ottessa Moshfegh
• Educated by Tara Westover

2020

• What Tech Calls Thinking: An Inquiry into the Intellectual Bedrock of Silicon Valley by Adrian Daub
• Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion by Jia Tolentino
• Fall; or Dodge in Hell by Neal Stephenson
• What We Talk About When We Talk About Books by Leah Price
• Uncanny Valley: A Memoir by Anna Wiener
• ❊ The Good Lord Bird by James McBride
• The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
• Fallout: The Hiroshima Cover-Up and the Reporter Who Revealed It to the World by Lesley M.M. Blume
• Killing Floor by Lee Child
• The Biggest Bluff: How I Learned to Pay Attention, Master Myself, and Win by Maria Konnikova
• My Mistake: A Memoir by Daniel Menaker
• Trust Exercise by Susan Choi
• Semicolon: The Past, Present, and Future of a Misunderstood Mark by Cecelia Watson
• Run Your Butt Off!: A Breakthrough Plan to Shed Pounds and Start Running by Sarah Lorge Butler, Leslie Bonci and Budd Coates
• Running: A Love Story: 10 Years, 5 Marathons, and 1 Life-Changing Sport by Jen A. Miller
• The City We Became by N. K. Jemisin
• Wow, No Thank You. by Samantha Irby
• On Grand Strategy by John Lewis Gaddis
• Stealth: The Secret Contest to Invent Invisible Aircraft by Peter Westwick
• Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity by David Allen
• The Force of Nonviolence: The Ethical in the Political by Judith Butler
• ❊ Caste: The Origins of our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson
• Dorothy Day: Dissenting Voice of the American Century by John Loughery and Blythe Randolph
• ❊ The Glass Hotel by Emily St. John Mandel
• Agency by William Gibson
• The Lost City of the Monkey God by Douglas Preston
• True Grit by Charles Portis (with Afterword by Donna Tartt)
• ❊ Deacon King Kong by James McBride
• The Testaments by Margaret Atwood
• Small Is Beautiful: Economics As If People Mattered by E. F. Schumacher
• Weather by Jenny Offill
• Transaction Man: The Rise of the Deal and the Decline of the American Dream by Nicholas Lemann
• Inconspicuous Consumption: The Environmental Impact You Don’t Know You Have by Tatiana Schlossberg
• The Wanderers by Meg Howrey
• Politics Is for Power: How to Move Beyond Political Hobbyism, Take Action, and Make Real Change by Eitan Hersh
• Death’s End by Cixin Liu (translated by Ken Liu)
• The Mirage Factory: Illusion, Imagination, and the Invention of Los Angeles by Gary Krist
• Our Man: Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American Century by George Packer
• Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World by David Epstein
• Infinite Powers: How Calculus Reveals the Secrets of the Universe by Steven Strogatz
• A Radical Faith: The Assassination of Sister Maura by Eileen Markey
• The Dog of the South by Charles Portis
• ❊ Why We’re Polarized by Ezra Klein
• Radical: The Science, Culture and History of Breast Cancer in America by Kate Pickert
• First You Write a Sentence: The Elements of Reading, Writing . . . and Life by Joe Moran
• How To: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems by Randall Munroe
• Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber by Mike Isaac
• The Perfectionists: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World by Simon Winchester
• The Idiot by Elif Batuman
• The Mastermind: Drugs. Empire. Murder. Betrayal. by Evan Ratliff
• The Body: A Guide for Occupants by Bill Bryson
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• Kudos by Rachel Cusk

2019

• My Life with Bob: Flawed Heroine Keeps Book of Books, Plot Ensues by Pamela Paul
• The British Are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777 by Rick Atkinson
• ❊ Underland: A Deep Time Journey by Robert Macfarlane
• Infinite Detail by Tim Maughan
• Spying on the South: An Odyssey Across the American Divide by Tony Horwitz
• Fleishman Is In Trouble by Taffy Brodesser-Akner
• New York 2140 by Kim Stanley Robinson
• Three Women by Lisa Taddeo
• Bottle of Lies: The Inside Story of the Generic Drug Boom by Katherine Eban
• The Dark Forest by Cixin Liu (translated by Joel Martinsen)
• We Are the Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast by Jonathan Safran Foer
• Normal People by Sally Rooney
• The Border by Don Winslow
• Dreyer’s English: An Utterly Correct Guide to Clarity and Style by Benjamin Dreyer
• The Origin of Feces: What Excrement Tells Us About Evolution, Ecology, and a Sustainable Society by David Waltner-Toews
• This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate by Naomi Klein
• The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power by Shoshana Zuboff
• Working by Robert A. Caro
• The Mayo Clinic Diet by Donald D. Hensrud, MD
• The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin
• Humans: A Brief History of How We Fucked It All Up by Tom Phillips
• ❊ Bowlaway by Elizabeth McCracken
• Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out? by Bill McKibben
• Clojure for the Brave and True by Daniel Higginbotham
• Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother’s Will to Survive by Stephanie Land
• Losing Earth: A Recent History by Nathaniel Rich
• Acceptance by Jeff VanderMeer
• ❊ Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World’s Greatest Nuclear Disaster by Adam Higginbotham
• No Visible Bruises: What We Don’t Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us by Rachel Louise Snyder
• The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu (translated by Ken Liu)
• The White Road: Journey into an Obsession by Edmund de Waal
• ❊ Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland by Patrick Raden Keefe
• Mama’s Last Hug: Animal Emotions and What They Tell Us about Ourselves by Frans de Waal
• How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy by Jenny Odell
• The Recovering: Intoxication and Its Aftermath by Leslie Jamison
• The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming by David Wallace-Wells
• The Library Book by Susan Orlean
• The Ground Beneath Us: From the Oldest Cities to the Last Wilderness, What Dirt Tells Us About Who We Are by Paul Bogard
• The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
• Fear City: New York’s Fiscal Crisis and the Rise of Austerity Politics by Kim Phillips-Fein
• Milkman by Anna Burns
• The Ultimate Beginner’s Running Guide by Ryan Robert
• Click Here to Kill Everybody: Security and Survival in a Hyper-Connected World by Bruce Schneier
• Bitwise: A Life in Code by David Auerbach
• Leonardo da Vinci by Walter Isaacson
• The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of Their Lost World by Steve Brusatte
• ❊ Washington Black by Esi Edugyan
• The Patch by John McPhee
• The Collapsing Empire by John Scalzi
• The Power by Naomi Alderman
• The Glitch by Elisabeth Cohen
• An Introduction to Programming in Emacs Lisp by Robert J. Chassell
• We the Corporations: How American Businesses Won Their Civil Rights by Adam Winkler
• Asymmetry by Lisa Halliday
• Your Money or Your Life: 9 Steps to Transforming Your Relationship with Money and Achieving Financial Independence by Vicki Robin and Joe Dominguez
• The Judge Hunter by Christopher Buckley
• Counterproductive: Time Management in the Knowledge Economy by Melissa Gregg
• Who Is Rich? by Matthew Klam
• She Has Her Mother’s Laugh: The Powers, Perversions, and Potential of Heredity by Zimmer
• Lghtning Rods by Helen De Witt
• The Force by Don Winslow

2018

• The Mars Room by Rachel Kushner
• Track Changes: A Literary History of Word Processing by Matthew G. Kirschenbaum
• Cherry by Nico Walker
• The Fifth Risk: Undoing Democracy by Michael Lewis
• ❊ Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries by Kory Stamper
• Flights by Olga Tokarczuk
• ❊ There There by Tommy Orange
• How to Make Your Money Last: The Indispensible Retirement Guide by Jane Bryant Quinn
• The Orchid Thief by Susan Orlean
• World Without Mind: The Existential Threat of Big Tech by Franklin Foer
• My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Otessa Moshfegh
• Conan Doyle for the Defense: How Sherlock Holmes’s Creator Turned Real-Life Detective and Freed a Man Wrongly Imprisoned for Murder by Margalit Fox
• How Everything Became War and the Military Became Everything: Tales From the Pentagon by Rosa Brooks
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• My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante (translated by Ann Goldstein)
• This Could Hurt by Jillian Medoff
• Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons From the Crematory by Caitlin Doughty
• Ignition: An Informal History of Liquid Rocket Propellants by John D. Clark
• Leaving Orbit: Notes from the Last Days of American Spaceflight by Margaret Lazarus Dean
• Gnomon by Nick Harkaway
• Being a Dog: Following the Dog Into a World of Smell by Alexandra Horowitz
• Why Time Flies: A Mostly Scientific Investigation by Alan Burdick
• Frenemies: The Epic Disruption of the Advertising Industry (and Why This Matters) by Ken Auletta
• Dear Committee Members by Julie Schumacher
• The Overstory by Richard Powers
• Practical SQL: A Beginner’s Guide to Storytelling with Data by Anthony DeBarros
• The Death of Truth: Notes on Falsehood in the Age of Trump by Michiko Kakutani
• Energy: A Human History by Richard Rhodes
• Candy by Terry Southern and Mason Hoffenberg
• Sociable by Rebecca Harrington
• Learning Web Design, Fifth Edition by Jennifer Robbins
• I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life by Ed Yong
• Learning JavaScript, Third Edition by Ethan Brown
• Free as in Freedom: Richard Stallman’s Crusade for Free Software by Sam Williams
• The Spider Network: How a Math Genius and a Gang of Scheming Bankers Pulled Off One of the Greatest Scams in History by David Enrich
• Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup by John Carreyrou
• The Female Persuation by Meg Wolitzer
• Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward
• My Absolute Darling by Gabriel Tallent
• Behemoth: A History of the Factory and the Making of the Modern World by Joshua B. Freeman
• The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction by Alan Jacobs
• Transit by Rachel Cusk
• You Say to Brick: The Life of Louis Kahn by Wendy Lesser
• Gorbachev: His Life and Times by William Taubman
• Exit West by Mohsin Hamid
• Asymmetry by Lisa Halliday
• Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders
• Henry David Thoreau: A Life by Laura Dassow Walls
• Seven Last Words: An Invitation to a Deeper Friendship with Jesus by James Martin, SJ
• ❊ With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa by E.B. Sledge
• The Dance of the Possible: The Mostly Honest Completely Irreverent Guide to Creativity by Scott Berkun
• Python Tricks: A Buffet of Awesome Python Features by Dan Bader
• Mrs. Fletcher by Tom Perrotta
• World Without Mind: The Existential Threat of Big Tech by Franklin Foer
• ❊ The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner by Daniel Ellsberg
• ❊ Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer
• The Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can’t Stand Positive Thinking by Oliver Burkeman
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• Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body by Roxane Gay
• Made for Love by Alissa Nutting
• Half Empty by David Rakoff

2017

• Old Man’s War by John Scalzi
• The Leftovers by Tom Perrotta
• The Art of Stillness: Adventures in Going Nowhere by Pico Iyer
• Life in Code: A Personal History of Technology by Ellen Ullman
• Devotion by Patti Smith
• My Struggle, Book 2 by Karl Ove Knausgaard
• Ladies and Gentlemen, the Bronx Is Burning: 1977, Baseball, Politics, and the Battle for the Soul of a City by Jonathan Mahler
• Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife by Mary Roach
• Move Fast and Break Things: How Facebook, Google, and Amazon Cornered Culture and Undermined Democracy by Jonathan Taplin
• The Man Who Loved Only Numbers: The Story of Paul Erdős and the Search for Mathematical Truth by Paul Hoffman
• The Stranger in the Woods by Michael Finkel
• The Age of Acquiescence: The Life and Death of American Resistance to Organized Wealth and Power by Steve Fraser
• Authority by Jeff VanderMeer
• The All-or-Nothing Marriage: How the Best Marriages Work by Eli J. Finkel
• The Long Haul: A Trucker’s Tales of Life on the Road by Finn Murphy
• Hue 1968: A Turning Point of the American War in Vietnam by Mark Bowden
• Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann
• Into the Heart of Our World: A Journey to the Center of the Earth; A Remarkable Voyage of Scientific Discovery by David Whitehouse
• The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone by Olivia Laing
• Less by Andrew Sean Greer
• We Are Never Meeting in Real Life by Samantha Irby
• The Profiteers: Bechtel and the Men Who Built the World by Sally Denton
• Version Control by Dexter Palmer
• Atomic Accidents: A History of Nuclear Meltdowns and Disasters from the Ozark Mountains to Fukushima by James Mahaffey
• The Sellout by Paul Beatty
• Mislaid by Nell Zink
• The Nix by Nathan Hill
• The Vacationers by Emma Straub
• The Trespasser by Tana French
• Heat & Light by Jennifer Haigh
• Disrupted: My Misadventure in the Start-Up Bubble by Dan Lyons
• The One Best Way: Frederick Winslow Taylor and the Enigma of Efficiency by Robert Kanigel
• The History and Uncertain Future of Handwriting by Anne Trubek
• Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith by Jon Krakauer
• Great Plains by Ian Frazier
• The Regional Office is Under Attack! by Manuel Gonzales
• Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick
• R for Data Science: Import, Tidy, Transform, Visualize, and Model Data by Hadley Wickham and Garrett Grolemund
• Black Edge: Inside Information, Dirty Money, and the Quest to Bring Down the Most Wanted Man on Wall Street by Sheelah Kolhatkar
• The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
• Between You & Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen by Mary Norris
• Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer
• Five Myths About Nuclear Weapons by Ward Wilson
• Here’s Looking at Euclid: A Surprising Excursion Through the Astonishing World of Math by Alex Bellos
• Almighty: Courage, Resistance, and Existential Peril in the Nuclear Age by Dan Zak
• The Decline and Fall of IBM: End of an American Icon? by Robert X. Cringely
• My Life with the Saints by James Martin, SJ
• How to Survive a Plague: The Inside Story of How Citizens and Science Tamed AIDS by David Frank
• You May Also Like: Taste in an Age of Endless Choice by Tom Vanderbilt
• Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right by Arlie Russell Hochschild
• How to Write: Advice and Reflections by Richard Rhodes
• The Real World of Technology by Ursula Franklin
• Better Living Through Criticism: How to Think About Art, Pleasure, Beauty, and Truth by A.O. Scott
• Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl
• At the Existentialist Café: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails with Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Albert Camus, Martin Heidegger, Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Others by Sarah Blakewell
• The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don’t Work and What to Do About It by Michael E. Gerber
• To the Letter: A Celebration of the Lost Art of Letter Writing by Simon Garfield
• 10:04 by Ben Lerner
• Makers and Takers: How Wall Street Destroyed Main Street by Rana Foroohar
• Arcadia by Lauren Groff
• The Profitable Side Project Handbook by Rachel Andrew
• Razor Girl by Carl Hiaasen

2016

• All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
• Seven Brief Lessons on Physics by Carlo Rovelli
• Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy by Cathy O’Neil
• Listen, Liberal: Or, What Ever Happened to the Party of the People? by Thomas Frank
• Where’d You Go, Bernadette? by Maria Semple
• Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil by Hannah Arendt
• Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis by J. D. Vance
• Commonwealth by Ann Patchett
• Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond
• Magic and Loss: The Internet as Art by Virginia Heffernan
• The Revenge of Analog: Real Things and Why They Matter by David Sax
• Time Travel: A History by James Gleick
• The Mezzanine by Nicholson Baker
• Looking for the Stranger: Albert Camus and the Life of a Literary Classic by Alice Kaplan
• Eccentric Orbits: The Iridium Story by John Bloom
• The Stranger by Albert Camus
• The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
• The Relic Master by Christopher Buckley
• Barbarian DaysL A Surfing Life by William Finnegan
• The Road Taken: The History and Future of America’s Infrastructure by Henry Petroski
• Waterfront: A Walk Around Manhattan by Phillip Lopate
• The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins
• Creating Flow with OmniFocus, 2/e by Kourosh Dini
• Outline by Rachel Cusk
• Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
• The Hopefuls by Jennifer Close
• The Weather Experiment: The Pioneers Who Sought to See the Future by Peter Moore
• The Divide: American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap by Matt Taibbi
• Ghettoside: A True Story of Murder in America by Jill Leovy
• Pond by Claire-Louise Bennett
• The Portable Veblen by Elizabeth Mckenzie
• The End of Overeating: Taking Control of the Insatiable American Appetite by David Kessler
• Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley by Antonio Garcia Martinez
• Living with a Dead Language: My Romance with Latin by Ann Patty
• Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
• Cheap: The High Cost of Discount Culture by Ellen Ruppel Shell
• Purity by Jonathan Franzen
• The Song Machine: Inside the Hit Factory by John Seabrook
• The World Beyond Your Head: On Becoming an Individual in an Age of Distraction by Matthew B. Brawford
• SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome by Mary Beard
• In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette by Hampton Sides
• Lab Girl by Hope Jahren
• Napoleon’s Buttons: How 17 Molecules Changed History by Penny Le Couteur
• We Are Not Ourselves by Matthew Thomas
• Reading The Rocks: The Autobiography of the Earth by Marcia Bjornerud
• Good Prose: The Art of Nonfiction by Tracy Kidder
• Life Reimagined: The Science, Art, and Opportunity of Midlife by Barbara Bradley Hagerty
• The Third Plate: Field Notes on the Future of Food by Dan Barber
• Economics for Dummies by Sean Masaki Flynn
• The Book of Strange New Things by Michel Faber
• M Train by Patti Smith
• Wanderlust: A History of Walking by Rebecca Solnit
• Play It as It Lays by Joan Didion
• Hothouse: The Art of Survival and the Survival of Art at America’s Most Celebrated Publishing House, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux by Boris Kachka
• The Sportswriter by Richard Ford
• Mr. Speaker!: The Life and Times of Thomas B. Reed The Man Who Broke the Filibuster by James Grant
• Martian Summer: My Ninety Days with Interplanetary Pioneers, Temperamental Robots, and NASA’s Phoenix Mars Mission by Andrew Kessler
• The Lost Art of Finding Our Way by John Edward Huth
• Mastering Emacs by Mickey Petersen
• The Road by Cormac McCarthy
• Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World by Cal Newport