2026
August — 2 books
Strangers: A Memoir of Marriage Belle Burden
The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Life After AI: How to Think About Artificial Intelligence Before It’s Too Late Cory Doctorow, Violet Dine
July — 4 books
The Yiddish Policemen's Union Michael Chabon
The World at Night Alan Furst
The Director Daniel Kehlmann, Ross Benjamin
Lázár Nelio Biedermann
June — 6 books
The Precarious Migrant Worker: The Socialization of Precarity Panos Theodoropoulos
Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow Bilquis Evely, Mat Lopes, Tom King
The Tailor of Panama John le Carré
Blood of Victory Alan Furst
Granta 175: Scandinavia Thomas Meaney
Yesteryear Caro Claire Burke
May — 10 books
American Psycho Bret Easton Ellis
Washington, D.C. Gore Vidal
Every Drop Is a Man's Nightmare Megan Kamalei Kakimoto
The Polish Officer Alan Furst
The Mezzanine Nicholson Baker
Young Mungo Douglas Stuart
Go As A River Shelley Read
The Pigeon Tunnel: Stories from My Life John le Carré
The Mask of Dimitrios Eric Ambler, Mark Mazower
The Years Annie Ernaux, Alison L. Strayer
April — 11 books
James Percival Everett
You Are the Führer's Unrequited Love Jean-Noël Orengo
Tarántula Eduardo Halfon
Oaxaca Journal Oliver Sacks
Set My Heart on Fire Izumi Suzuki, Helen O'Horan
Ordinary Notes Christina Sharpe
Drayton and Mackenzie Alexander Starritt
The Spy in the Archive Gordon Corera
The Course of the Heart M. John Harrison
Debt: The First 5,000 Years David Graeber
The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World Vincent Bevins
February — 4 books
The Seventh Floor David McCloskey
Moscow X David McCloskey
The New York Trilogy Paul Auster
City of Glass Paul Auster
March — 2 books
Mi6 Stephen Dorril
An Instance of the Fingerpost Iain Pears
January — 7 books
The Silver Eggheads Fritz Leiber
Road to Nowhere Paris Marx
I'm a Fan Sheena Patel
The Savage Detectives Roberto Bolaño
Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall Anna Funder
Her Majesty's Secret Service Christopher Andrew
A Sunny Place for Shady People Mariana Enríquez, Megan McDowell
2025
December — 10 books
A History of Judaism Martin Goodman
A Study in Scarlet Women Sherry Thomas
Damascus Station David McCloskey
Titus Andronicus William Shakespeare, Eugene M. Waith
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
Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible: The Surreal Heart of the New Russia Peter Pomerantsev
The Empusium: A Health Resort Horror Story Olga Tokarczuk, Antonia Lloyd-Jones
Nazi Billionaires: The Dark History of Germany's Wealthiest Dynasties David de Jong
November — 5 books
Sad Tiger Neige Sinno, Natasha Lehrer
The Good Apprentice Iris Murdoch
Unconditional Surrender Evelyn Waugh
Granta 173: India Thomas Meaney
Our Ancestors: Cloven Viscount; Baron in the Trees; Non-Existent Knight Italo Calvino, Archibald Colquhoun
October — 4 books
Evil Paradises: Dreamworlds of Neoliberalism Mike Davis, Daniel Bertrand Monk
Rock Crystal Adalbert Stifter
Where Eagles Dare Alistair MacLean
Libra Don DeLillo, Michael Prichard
September — 4 books
The Safekeep Yael van der Wouden
Alphabetical Diaries Sheila Heti
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler Italo Calvino
Small Gods Terry Pratchett
August — 4 books
Equal Rites Terry Pratchett
The Fateful Adventures of the Good Soldier Švejk During the World War Jaroslav Hašek, Josef Lada, Lumír Nahodil, Cecil Parrott
Assembly Natasha Brown, Pippa Bennett-Warner
Liars Sarah Manguso
July — 6 books
Granta 131: The Map is Not the Territory Sigrid Rausing
Super Sad True Love Story Gary Shteyngart
On Art and Life John Ruskin
Granta 172: Badlands Thomas Meaney
Pink Slime Fernanda Trías, Heather Cleary
High-Rise J.G. Ballard
June — 6 books
The Bombshell Darrow Farr
Merchants of Culture: The Publishing Business in the Twenty-First Century John Brookshire Thompson
Our Game John le Carré
The Jungle Upton Sinclair, Eric Schlosser, Ronald S. Gottesman
Ethan Frome Edith Wharton
The Secret Pilgrim John le Carré
May — 2 books
Elect Mr. Robinson for a Better World Donald Antrim
Still Life Sarah Winman
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
A Spy Alone Charles Beaumont
Every Man for Himself and God Against All: A Memoir Werner Herzog, Michael Hofmann
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 — 1 book
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 — 7 books
Mr Ma and Son Lao She
Future Sex Emily Witt
Bend Sinister Vladimir Nabokov
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
The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics Daniel James Brown
Granta 168: Significant Other Thomas Meaney
August — 4 books
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
Burmese Days George Orwell
The Midnight Library Matt Haig
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
The Librarianist Patrick deWitt, Jim Meskimen
Ripe Sarah Rose Etter
Persuasion Jane Austen, Gillian Beer
I Have Some Questions for You Rebecca Makkai, Julia Whelan, J.D. Jackson
Officers And Gentlemen Evelyn Waugh
You Dreamed of Empires Álvaro Enrigue, Natasha Wimmer
Glorious Exploits Ferdia Lennon
March — 10 books
Men at Arms Evelyn Waugh
Granta 166: Generations Thomas Meaney
The passion of new Eve Angela Carter
Nightbitch Rachel Yoder
Martyr! Kaveh Akbar
SWEET TOOTH Ian McEwan
A Man's Place Annie Ernaux, Tanya Leslie, Francine Prose
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 Farthest Shore Ursula K. Le Guin
The Tombs of Atuan 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 — 7 books
The Magus John Fowles, Nicholas Boulton
The French Lieutenant's Woman John Fowles
Symposium Plato, Benjamin Jowett
E-flux Journal: The Internet Does Not Exist Julieta Aranda, Brian Kuan Wood, Anton Vidokle
Lessons Ian McEwan
The Golden Notebook Doris Lessing
So Much For Life Mark Hyatt, Sam Ladkin, Luke Roberts
2023
December — 5 books
Do the Windows Open? Julie Hecht
A Legacy of Spies John le Carré
Orbital Samantha Harvey
Atonement Ian McEwan
Motherthing Ainslie Hogarth
November — 1 book
The Tenth Man Graham Greene
October — 1 book
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents Isabel Wilkerson
September — 9 books
Homage To Catalonia George Orwell
Dune Frank Herbert, Brian Herbert
Napoleon The Little Victor Hugo
A Spy In the House of Love Anaïs Nin
Silverview John le Carré, Toby Jones
The Looking Glass War John le Carré
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
All Souls Javier Marías
Homo Faber Max Frisch
June — 4 books
Red Sparrow Jason Matthews
Tender Is the Flesh Agustina Bazterrica, Sarah Moses
Palo Alto Malcolm Harris
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 — 5 books
Less Than Zero Bret Easton Ellis
Thérèse Raquin Émile Zola, Katia Lysy, Guy de Maupassant
Almond Won-pyung Sohn, Sandy Joosun Lee
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: A Journey into the Mysterious System That Keeps You Alive Philipp Dettmer, Philip Laibacher
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
CliffNotes on One day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Ralph Parker
2022
December — 3 books
Grand Hotel Abyss Stuart Jeffries
The Candy House Jennifer Egan
The Inugami Curse Seishi Yokomizo, Yumiko Yamakazi
November — 17 books
The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human Siddhartha Mukherjee
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow Gabrielle Zevin
Last Witnesses Svetlana Alexievich, Richard Pevear, Larissa Volokhonsky
A Murder of Quality John le Carré
Lapvona Ottessa Moshfegh
Rave Rainald Goetz
The Employees Olga Ravn, Martin Aitken
Liberation Day George Saunders
The Naked and the Dead Norman Mailer
Notebook Otherlands: A World in the Making Thomas Halliday
Somebody with a Little Hammer: Essays Mary Gaitskill
The Novelist Jordan Castro
Vox Nicholson Baker
The Shortest History of Germany James Hawes
Don't Cry Mary Gaitskill
Martin Luther Eric Metaxas
Tree of Smoke Denis Johnson
October — 5 books
The Artificial Silk Girl Irmgard Keun, Katharina von Ankum
Short Stories in German for Beginners Olly Richards
Alone in Berlin Hans Fallada, Michael Hofmann, Geoff Wilkes
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
The Russia House John le Carré, Michael Jayston, René Basilico, Tom Baker
Memories of My Melancholy Whores Gabriel García Márquez, Edith Grossman
The Heart of the Matter Graham Greene
Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A.: Tales Eve Babitz
A Severed Head Iris Murdoch
August — 3 books
Absolute Friends John le Carré
Agent Running in the Field John le Carré
The Odyssey Homer, Emily Wilson
July — 10 books
The Human Factor Graham Greene
An American Dream Norman Mailer
The Innocent Ian McEwan
The Fire and the Sun: Why Plato Banished the Artists Iris Murdoch
When I Was Mortal Javier Marías
Cosmopolis Don DeLillo, Will Patton
Amsterdam Ian McEwan
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain, Guy Cardwell, John Seelye, Walter Trier, E.W. Kemble
The Quiet American Graham Greene, Robert Stone
First Love, Last Rites Ian McEwan
June — 5 books
Fates and Furies Lauren Groff, Will Damron, Julia Whelan
Termination Shock Neal Stephenson
The System of the World Neal Stephenson
The Confusion Neal Stephenson
The Mission Song John le Carré
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 — 4 books
Good Girl Anna Fitzpatrick
Cloud Cuckoo Land Anthony Doerr
No One Is Talking About This Patricia Lockwood
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
Whore of New York: A Confession Liara Roux
Vladimir Julia May Jonas
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
Pastoralia George Saunders
Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898 Edwin G. Burrows, Mike Wallace
Great Circle Maggie Shipstead
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
The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor Gabriel García Márquez, Randolph Hogan
The Dangers of Smoking in Bed: Stories Mariana Enriquez, Megan McDowell
Stories of Your Life and Others Ted Chiang
Washington Bullets Vijay Prashad
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
Beheld TaraShea Nesbit
Sisters Daisy Johnson
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
Burnt Sugar Avni Doshi
Exciting Times Naoise Dolan
Money Martin Amis
Strangers on a Train Patricia Highsmith, Paula Hawkins
Interpreter of Maladies Jhumpa Lahiri
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 — 5 books
The Italian Girl Iris Murdoch
Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language Gretchen McCulloch
Baghdad: City of Peace, City of Blood Justin Marozzi
Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion Jia Tolentino
Portnoy's Complaint Philip Roth
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
The Name of the Rose Umberto Eco, William Weaver
Time's Arrow Martin Amis
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, Lara Callender Hogan
Girl, Woman, Other Bernardine Evaristo
January — 27 books
The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World Elaine Scarry
Pnin Vladimir Nabokov, David Lodge
The Night Manager John le Carré
Brideshead Revisited Evelyn Waugh
Cleanness Garth Greenwell
Such a Fun Age Kiley Reid
The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone Olivia Laing
Death in Her Hands Ottessa Moshfegh
Brave New World / Brave New World Revisited Aldous Huxley, Christopher Hitchens
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text Mary Shelley
Romeo and Juliet William Shakespeare
The Metamorphosis Franz Kafka, Michael Hofmann
Lolita Vladimir Nabokov, Martin Amis
Macbeth William Shakespeare, Roma Gill
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
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead Olga Tokarczuk, Antonia Lloyd-Jones
In the Dream House Carmen Maria Machado
Quicksilver Neal Stephenson
The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century Miller Carlo Ginzburg, John Tedeschi, Anne Tedeschi
Uncanny Valley Anna Wiener, Suehyla El-Attar
Women Talking Miriam Toews
Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland Patrick Radden Keefe
Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil Hannah Arendt
Exhalation Ted Chiang
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism Shoshana Zuboff
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
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
Before the Coffee Gets Cold Toshikazu Kawaguchi, Geoffrey Trousselot
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: From "A Journal of Love," The Unexpurgated Diary (1931–1932) of Anaïs Nin Anaïs Nin
August — 6 books
Norse Mythology Neil Gaiman
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous Ocean Vuong
Her Body and Other Parties Carmen Maria Machado
Histories of Nations: How Their Identities Were Forged Peter Furtado
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 Expelled Samuel Beckett
The End Samuel Beckett
First Love and Other Novellas Samuel Beckett, Gerry Dukes
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
The Comedy of Errors William Shakespeare
Paradise Edna O'Brien
April — 6 books
Love's Labour's Lost William Shakespeare
The Heart of the Race Beverley Bryan, Stella Dadzie, Suzanne Scafe
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 — 57 books
Catch-22 Joseph Heller
The Road Cormac McCarthy
Adèle Leïla Slimani
Little Edward Carey
Madame Bovary Gustave Flaubert, Sérgio Duarte
The Silence of the Girls Pat Barker
Ecclesiastical History of the English People Bede, Leo Sherley-Price, David Hugh Farmer, Ronald E. Latham
Schiele Reinhard Steiner
The Idiot Elif Batuman
Van Gogh: The Complete Paintings Ingo F. Walther
My Sister, the Serial Killer Oyinkan Braithwaite
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running Haruki Murakami, Philip Gabriel
American Pastoral Philip Roth
The Red Parts: Autobiography of a Trial Maggie Nelson
Degas Bernd Growe
Free Food for Millionaires Min Jin Lee
Edward Hopper: Portraits Of America Wieland Schmied, Edward Hopper
The Mabinogion Charlotte Guest, R. Williams
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World Haruki Murakami, Alfred Birnbaum
Circé Madeline Miller
The Great Believers Rebecca Makkai
Flowers for Algernon Daniel Keyes
Grief is the Thing with Feathers Max Porter
Melmoth Sarah Perry
Severance Ling Ma
The Secret Lives of Colour Kassia St. Clair
Queer City: Gay London from the Romans to the Present Day Peter Ackroyd
Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection Julia Kristeva, Leon S. Roudiez
Rice's Architectural Primer Matthew Rice
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer Siddhartha Mukherjee
The Problems of Philosophy Bertrand Russell
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches Audre Lorde, Robin Eller
HHhH Laurent Binet, Sam Taylor
The Hunchback of Notre Dame Victor Hugo, Tim Wynne-Jones
The Three-Body Problem Cixin Liu, Ken Liu
Saul Leiter Saul Leiter, Max Kozloff
The Wretched of the Earth Frantz Fanon, Jean-Paul Sartre, Richard Philcox, Homi K. Bhabha
Women, Race & Class Angela Y. Davis
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America Ibram X. Kendi
The Unwomanly Face of War Svetlana Alexievich
Sprint: How to Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days Jake Knapp
Nevada Imogen Binnie
The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love bell hooks
The House of Mirth Edith Wharton
The Vorrh Brian Catling, Alan Moore
Little Fires Everywhere Celeste Ng
No Longer at Ease Chinua Achebe
Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Explain Everything About the World Tim Marshall
The Heart Goes Last Margaret Atwood
The Collector John Fowles
Freshwater Akwaeke Emezi
One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel García Márquez
Women, Fire and Dangerous Things: What Categories Reveal About the Mind George Lakoff
Amerika Franz Kafka, Mark Harman
The Corrections Jonathan Franzen
The Perfect Nanny Leïla Slimani
The Libation Bearers Aeschylus
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
Enduring Love Ian McEwan
Henry V William Shakespeare, Jamie Glover, Brian Cox, Elizabeth Spriggs
The Secret History Donna Tartt
Conversations with Friends Sally Rooney
The Testament of Mary Colm Tóibín
January — 5 books
A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing Eimear McBride
Difficult Women Roxane Gay
Bluets Maggie Nelson
Enigma Variations Andre Aciman
The Screwtape Letters C. S. Lewis
2018
December — 8 books
The Luminaries Eleanor Catton
Mr Salary Sally Rooney
The Argonauts Maggie Nelson
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
Normal People Sally Rooney
The Past Tessa Hadley
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
Lighter Than My Shadow Katie Green
Twitter and Tear Gas Zeynep Tufekci
The Romanovs: 1613-1918 Simon Sebag Montefiore
Stick and rudder Wolfgang Langewiesche
July — 5 books
Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly Anthony Bourdain
Human Acts Han Kang, Deborah Smith
I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer Michelle McNamara, Gillian Flynn
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 — 10 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
In Evil Hour Gabriel García Márquez, Gregory Rabassa
Hamilton : the revolution Lin-Manuel Miranda, Jeremy McCarter
A Journal of the Terror Jean-Baptiste Cléry
The Death of Ivan Ilych Leo Tolstoy, Aylmer Maude, رضی هیرمند, Ευγενία Ζήκου
Schiele Reinhard Steiner
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
Grays Anatomy Henry Gray
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
No Is Not Enough: Resisting Trump's Shock Politics and Winning the World We Need Naomi Klein
The Communist Manifesto Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Leon Trotsky, Samuel Moore, Erkin Özalp, Amanda Lee, Antonio Carlos Braga, Aldrin Alexander Evies, Oqtay Eloğlu
To Be a Machine: Adventures Among Cyborgs, Utopians, Hackers, and the Futurists Solving the Modest Problem of Death Mark O'Connell
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism Naomi Klein
Introducing Freud: A Graphic Guide Oscar Zárate, Richard Appignanesi
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner
Tubes a journey to the center of the Internet Andrew Blum
Big Bang: The Origin of the Universe Simon Singh
American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer Kai Bird, Martin J. Sherwin
Against Everything: Essays Mark Greif
Poststructuralism: A Very Short Introduction Catherine Belsey
Postmodernism: A Very Short Introduction Christopher Butler
Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction Edward Craig
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis J. D. Vance
Introducing Continental Philosophy: A Graphic Guide Christopher Kul-Want, Piero
Alexander Hamilton Ron Chernow
Introducing Slavoj Zizek: A Graphic Guide Christopher Kul-Want, Piero
On Ideology Louis Althusser, Ben Brewster
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, the Growth of Scientific Knowledge Karl Popper, Michelle Irene, de Launay Marc B., Melitta Mew
Radical Candor: Be a Kick-Ass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity Kim Malone Scott, Kim 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, Laurence Senelick
Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era James M. McPherson
Pachinko Min Jin Lee
The Old Man and the Sea Ernest Hemingway
Stalin Nikolaus Basseches, E.W. Dickes
Exit West Mohsin Hamid
2017
December — 20 books
Dialectic of Enlightenment Theodor W. Adorno, Max Horkheimer, John Cumming
Nausea Jean-Paul Sartre, Lloyd Alexander, James Wood, Richard Howard
Men Explain Things to Me Rebecca Solnit
Americanah Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Regarding the Pain of Others Susan Sontag
Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison Michel Foucault, Alan Sheridan
In Defense of Lost Causes Slavoj Žižek
Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism bell hooks
The Politics Aristotle, T.A. Sinclair, Trevor J. Saunders
Death In The Afternoon Ernest Hemingway
Notes from Underground Fyodor Dostoevsky, Richard Pevear, Larissa Volokhonsky
Dance Dance Dance Haruki Murakami, Alfred Birnbaum
The 7th Function of Language Laurent Binet, Sam Taylor
1Q84: Book 1 Haruki Murakami
The Trial Franz Kafka, Breon Mitchell
The Sun Also Rises Ernest Hemingway
Simulacra and Simulation Jean Baudrillard, Sheila Faria Glaser
We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy Ta-Nehisi Coates
Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage Haruki Murakami, Philip Gabriel
The Origins of Totalitarianism Hannah Arendt
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
August — 6 books
The Koran: A Very Short Introduction Michael A. Cook
1Q84 Haruki Murakami, Jay Rubin, Philip Gabriel
Meditations Marcus Aurelius, Martin Hammond
Siddhartha Hermann Hesse
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Douglas Adams
Notes from a Small Island Bill Bryson
July — 43 books
Sputnik Sweetheart Haruki Murakami, Philip Gabriel
Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return Marjane Satrapi, Anjali Singh
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
Never Let Me Go Kazuo Ishiguro
Outline of a Theory of Practice Pierre Bourdieu
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire J.K. Rowling, Mary GrandPré
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time Mark Haddon
Black Swan Green David Mitchell
The Beach Alex Garland
The Time Traveler’s Wife Audrey Niffenegger
Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? And Other Conversations about Race Beverly Daniel Tatum
Fight Club Chuck Palahniuk
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows J.K. Rowling
Tender Is the Night F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Death of a President: November 20 - November 25, 1963 William Manchester, Joe Barrett
Fail Fast, Fail Often: How Losing Can Help You Win Ryan Babineaux, John Krumboltz
Where the Wild Things Are Maurice Sendak
The Bell Jar Sylvia Plath
The Book Thief Markus Zusak
The Host Stephenie Meyer
The European Union: A Citizen's Guide Christopher J. Bickerton
My Booky Wook Russell Brand
Life of Pi Yann Martel
Who Governs Britain? Anthony King
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind Yuval Noah Harari
On violence. Hannah Arendt
The Tales of Beedle the Bard J.K. Rowling, Hermione Granger (Translator
Brave New World Aldous Huxley
Triumph of the City Edward L. Glaeser
The Handmaid’s Tale Margaret Atwood
Jane Eyre Charlotte Brontë
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe C. S. Lewis, Pauline Baynes
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas John Boyne
Oliver Twist Charles Dickens
A Pelican Introduction: Social Class in the 21st Century Mike Savage
Kennedy Brett Harper
Captain Corelli's Mandolin Louis de Bernières
Between the World and Me Ta-Nehisi Coates
March — 79 books
Happy City Charles Montgomery
Second Treatise of Government John Locke, C.B. MacPherson
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.
To the Lighthouse Virginia Woolf, David Bradshaw
The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined Steven Pinker
The Social Contract Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Maurice Cranston
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius Dave Eggers
Things I have learned in my life so far Stefan Sagmeister, Daniel Nettle, Nancy Spector, Steven Heller
Slaughterhouse-Five Kurt Vonnegut
Asterios Polyp David Mazzucchelli
Falling Man Don DeLillo
To Kill A Mockingbird Harper Lee
Welcome to the Desert of the Real: Five Essays on September 11 and Related Dates Slavoj Žižek
Leviathan Thomas Hobbes, Richard Tuck
The Secret Agent Joseph Conrad
The Bloody Chamber Angela Carter, Helen Simpson, Parra
The Autobiography of Malcolm X Malcolm X, Alex Haley
Discourse On The Origin Of Inequality Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Infinite Jest David Foster Wallace
The Catcher in the Rye J. D. Salinger
The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse Louise Erdrich
Poetics Aristotle, Malcolm Heath
The Prince Niccolò Machiavelli, Rufus Goodwin, Benjamin Martinez
The Lovely Bones Alice Sebold
Theories of the democratic state John S. Dryzek
Habibi Craig Thompson
Gilead Marilynne Robinson
Understanding Public Policy: Theories and Issues Paul Cairney
Black Girl/White Girl Joyce Carol Oates
Beowulf Seamus Heaney, Unknown
The Plot Against America Philip Roth
The Language Instinct: The New Science of Language and Mind Steven Pinker
Persepolis, Volume 1 Marjane Satrapi
The Economics of Inequality Thomas Piketty
God's cenury Daniel Philpott
A Doll's House Henrik Ibsen
The History of White People Nell Irvin Painter
Emotionally Weird Kate Atkinson
The Works of John Donne John Donne
Washington Square Henry James
The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism William E. Cain, Laurie A. Finke, John P. McGowan, T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting, Jeffrey J. Williams
Wall and Piece Banksy, Robin Bansky
The Hunger Games Suzanne Collins
Old school Tobias Wolff
The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature Steven Pinker
No god but God: The Origins, Evolution, and Future of Islam Reza Aslan, Shishir Kurup
All Quiet on the Western Front Erich Maria Remarque
The Good Soldier Ford Madox Ford
It's not how good you are, it's how good you want to be Paul Arden, Roger Kennedy
As I Lay Dying William Faulkner
Watchmen Alan Moore
The Martian Andy Weir
Paradise Lost John Milton, John Leonard
V for Vendetta Alan Moore
Lady Chatterley's Lover D.H. Lawrence
The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald
Ways of Seeing John Berger
Kafka on the Shore Haruki Murakami, Philip Gabriel
T. S. Eliot: The waste land Helen Williams
1984 George Orwell, Peter Hobley Davison, Shepard Fairey
Othello William Shakespeare
Animal Farm George Orwell
Let the Great World Spin Colum McCann
White Noise Don DeLillo, Richard Powers
Capital in the Twenty-First Century Thomas Piketty, Arthur Goldhammer
Pale Fire Vladimir Nabokov
How Democratic Is the American Constitution? Robert A. Dahl
Apology Plato
Mythologies Roland Barthes, Annette Lavers
American Government: Political Development and Institutional Change Calvin C. Jillson
The Analects Confucius, James Legge, Bruno Roubicek
Visual Thesaurus: A Quick Flip Brainstorming Tool for Graphic Designers Hatmaker
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man James Joyce, Seamus Deane
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Green Knight Poet, Burton Raffel
America Jean Baudrillard, Geoff Dyer, Chris Turner
Steve Jobs Walter Isaacson
The Stranger Albert Camus, Matthew Ward
The Color Purple Alice Walker
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone J.K. Rowling