A noncomprehensive record updated when I remember/bother to. The read previously list is particularly incomplete since I import it by hand from Goodreads when I have time & need something mindless to do.
currently reading
| Title | Author | Format | Started |
|---|---|---|---|
| London Rules | Mick Herron | Hardback (library) | |
| Godel, Escher, Bach An Eternal Golden Braid |
Douglas R. Hofstadter | Big | 16 May 2025 |
| *Pilgrim at Tinker Creek | Annie Dillard | Hardback | |
| The Art of William Carlos Williams | James Guimond | Softcover | |
| Contellation Route (poems) | Matthew Olzmann | Paperback |
previously read
| Title | Author | Format | Started | Finished |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Major Arcana | John Pistelli | Softback | 20 Apr 2025 | |
| Holy the Firm | Annie Dillard | Paperback | 22 May 2025 | 23 May 2025 |
| Summer Snow (poems) | Robert Hass | Hardcover (library) | 6 Apr 2025 | |
| Hold Everything Dear (essays) Dispatches on Survival and Resistance |
John Berger | Paperback (library) | 25 Apr 2025 | 23 May 2025 |
| Probable Imposibilities Musings on Beginnings and Endings |
Alan Lightman | Hardcover (small) (library) | 30 Mar 2025 | |
| Cherished Belonging The Healing Power of Love in Divided Times |
Greg Boyle | Hardcover (library) | 6 Apr 2025 | |
| Becoming Wise | Krista Tippett | Audiobook (library) | 2 Apr 2025 | 6 Apr 2025 |
| The Mighty Red | Louise Erdrich | Ebook (library) 8 Mar 2025 | 29 Mar 2025 | |
| Aspects (again) | John M. Ford | Ebook | ||
| Luna trilogy | Ian McDonald | Ebook | ||
| The Making of the Atomic Bomb | Richard Rhodes | Audiobook | 22 Dec 2024 | 17 Feb 2025 |
| The River of the Gods | Candice Millard | Audiobook | 15 Nov 2024 | 15 Dec 2024 |
| Rejection | Tony Tulathimutte | Ebook (library) | 3 Dec 2024 | 9 Dec 2024 |
| The Fraud | Zadie Smith | Ebook & Audiobook | 16 Oct 2024 | 5 Dec 2024 |
| The Magician King The Magicians (2) |
Lev Grossman | Audiobook | 4 Nov 2024 | 17 Nov 2024 |
| The Passenger | Cormac McCarthy | Audiobook | 4 Nov 2024 | Not finished |
| Paddle Your Own Canoe | Nick Offerman | Ebook & Audiobook | 30 Oct 2024 | Not finished |
| Beautiful World, Where Are You | Sally Rooney | Audiobook | 29 Oct 2024 | 5 Nov 2024 |
| The Panda’s Thumb More Reflections in Natural History |
Stephen Jay Gould | Paperback | ||
| The Tomb of Tutankhamun (vol I & II) | Howard Carter | E-book | ||
| Evidence (poems) | Mary Oliver | Paperback | ||
| The Well Wrought Urn Studies in the Structure of Poetry |
Cleanth Brooks | Paperback | 17 Jul 2024 | |
| America’s Rise to World Power: 1898–1954 | Foster Rhea Dulles | Paperback | ||
| Nine Gates Entering the Mind of Poetry |
Jane Hirshfield | Paperback | ||
| Poems, Prose, and Letters | Elizabeth Bishop | Hardcover (LOA) | ||
| Lincoln in the Bardo | George Saunders | Ebook (library) | 26 Feb 2024 | |
| Treason (poems) | Hedi Kaddour, tr. Marilyn Hacker | Paperback | ||
| The Charioteer | Mary Renault | Ebook (library) | 12 Feb 2024 | 24 Feb 2024 |
| The Seven Ages (poems) | Louise Gluck | Paperback (library) | ||
| Bodies | Si Spencer | Graphic novel | ||
| The Mirror & The Light | Hilary Mantel | Audiobook (library) | 14 Jan 24 | 13 Feb 24 |
| Bring Up the Bodies | Hilary Mantel | Audiobook (library) | 23 Dec 23 | 13 Jan 2024 |
| Craeft An Inquiry into the Origins and True Meaning of Traditional Crafts |
Alexander Langlands | Hardcover (library) | ||
| Wolf Hall | Hilary Mantel | Audiobook (library) | 26 Nov 2023 | 22 Dec 2023 |
| The Night Circus | Erin Morgenstern | Audiobook (library) | ||
| Red Seas Under Red Skies | Scott Lynch | Audiobook (library) | ||
| The Lies of Locke Lamora | Scott Lynch | Audiobook (library) | ||
| Tower of Birds (stories) | trans. Holly Smith | Softcover | 16 Jun 2023 | |
| Essays | R.W. Emerson | Hardcover (LOA) | ||
| The Wager | David Grann | Audiobook (library) | 19 Aug 2023 | |
| Where the Deer and the Antelope Play | Nick Offerman | Audiobook (library) | 24 Aug 2023 | |
| Pride and Prejudice | Jane Austen | Paperback | ||
| Time Travel | James Gleick | Audiobook (library) | 3 Aug 2023 | 21 Aug 2023 |
| Selected Poems | Osip Mandelstam | Paperback | 13 Jul 2023 | |
| Inciting Joy (essays) | Ross Gay | Hardcover | 16 Jul 2023 | |
| The Splendid and the Vile | Erik Larson | Audiobook (library) | 17 Jul 2023 | 6 Aug 2023 |
| The Starless Sea | Erin Morgenstern | Audiobook (library) | 12 Jul 2023 | 31 Jul 2023 |
| The Order of Time | Carlo Rovelli | Audiobook (library) | 11 Jul 2023 | 16 Jul 2023 |
| Essays (1993-2017) | Wendell Berry | Hardcover (LOA) | 15 Jun 2023 | 16 Jul 2023 |
| The Narrow Road to the Interior | Basho | Paperback | 28 Jun 2023 | 4 Jul 2023 |
| Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow | Gabrielle Zevin | Audiobook (library) | 16 Jun 2023 | 4 Jul 2023 |
| Time’s Arrow, Time’s Cycle Myth & Metaphor in the Discovery of Geological Time |
Stephen Jay Gould | Softcover | ||
| Patterson | William Carlos Williams | Softcover | ||
| Essays | Robert Louis Stevenson | Hardcover | ||
| How it Went (stories) | Wendell Berry | Hardcover (library) | ||
| Crooked Kingdom | Leigh Bardugo | E-book (library) | ||
| Six of Crows | Leigh Bardugo | E-book (library) | ||
| Magic, a History From Alchemy to Witchcraft, from the Ice Age to the Present |
Chris Gosden | E-book | 24 Dec 2022 | 31 May 2023 |
| Dance for Two (essays) | Alan Lightman | |||
| Pictures from Brueghel (poems) | William Carlos Williams | |||
| Station Eleven | Emily St. John Mandel | Audiobook (library) | 9 Apr 2023 | 4 Apr 2023 |
| Traveling Mercies Some Thoughts on Faith |
Anne Lamott | Hardcover (library) | 19 Mar 2023 | 14 Apr 2023 |
| Watt’s Perfect Engine | Ben Marsden | Hardcover (library) | 5 Apr 2023 | 13 Apr 2023 |
| Beyond Measure The Hidden History of Measurement from Cubits to Quantum Constants |
James Vincent | Hardcover (library) | 24 Mar 2023 | 4 April 2023 |
| Harvest Poems (poems) | Carl Sandburg | |||
| Music for Chameleons (shorts) | Truman Capote | |||
| Leviathan Falls The Expanse (9) |
James S.A. Corey | Audiobook (library) | 25 Feb 2023 | 29 Mar 2023 |
See more
| Previously read, cont’d | Author | Format | Started | Finished |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Real World of Technology CBC Massey Lectures |
Ursula Franklin | E-book | 18 Mar 2023 | 23 Mar 2023 |
| Mask of the Sun The Science, History, & Forgotten Lore of Eclipses |
John Dvorak | Hardcover (library) | 11 Mar 2023 | |
| The Need to Be Whole Patriotism & the History of Prejudice |
Wendell Berry | Paperback (library) | 27 Feb 2023 | 17 Feb 2023 |
| The Abundance (essays) | Annie Dillard | Paperback | ||
| Tiamat’s Wrath The Expanse (8) | James S.A. Corey | Audiobook (library) | 26 Feb 2023 | |
| Mortal Acts, Mortal Words (poems) | Galway Kinnell | Paperback | 28 Dec 2022 | |
| The Wind’s Twelve Quarters (short stories) | Ursula K. Le Guin | Paperback | ||
| Mr. Wilson’s Cabinet of Wonder | Lawrence Weschler | Hardcover | 28 Jan 2023 | 28 Jan 2023 |
| Also a Poet: Frank O’Hara, My Father & Me | Ada Calhoun | Hardcover (library) | 21 Jan 2023 | |
| Persepolis Rising | James S.A. Corey | Audiobook (library) |
| 2022 | Author | Format | Started | Finished |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Selected Poems | A.R. Ammons | Hardcover | 18 Nov 2022 | |
| The Hero of Ages | Brandon Sanderson | Paperback (GW) | 15 Oct 2022 | 29 Dec 2022 |
| Calendar: Humanity’s Epic Struggle to Determine a True and Accurate Year | David Ewing Duncan | Paperback | 13 Nov 2022 | 23 Dec 2022 |
| Strange Dogs The Expanse (6.5)The Expanse (6) | James S.A. Corey | Audiobook (library) | 4 Dec 2022 | 15 Dec 2022 |
| Curbing Traffic: the Human Case for Fewer Cars in Our Lives | Melissa & Chris Bruntlett | Paperback (library) | 29 Nov 2022 | 5 Dec 2022 |
| The Art of Loving | Erich Fromm | Paperback (library) | 13 Nov 2022 | 20 Nov 2022 |
| The Ecological Thought | Timothy Morton | Hardcover (library) | 08 Nov 2022 | 18 Nov 2022 |
| A Marianne Moore Reader (poems & essays) | Marianne Moore | Paperback | 17 Oct 2022 | |
| Dynamics of Faith | Paul Tillich | Hardcover | 10 Nov 2022 | 13 Nov 2022 |
| Tools for Conviviality | Ivan Illich | Hardcover | 02 Nov 2022 | 08 Nov 2022 |
| The Argonauts | Maggie Nelson | Hardcover (library) | 06 Nov 2022 | 07 Nov 2022 |
| Nemesis Games The Expanse (5) | James S. A. Corey | Ebook & E-Audiobook (library) | 31 Oct 2022 | 06 Nov 2022 |
| On Freedom | Maggie Nelson | Hardcover (library) | 19 Oct 2022 | 01 Nov 2022 |
| All the Living and the Dead: the People Who Have Made Death Their Life’s Work | Hayley Campbell | Hardcover (library) | 18 Oct 2022 | 27 Oct 2022 |
| Ways of Being: Animals, Plants, Machines: the Search for a Planetary Intelligence | James Bridle | Hardcover (library) | 3 Oct 2022 | 18 Oct 2022 |
| Collected Poems | Dylan Thomas | Softcover | 28 Jul 2022 | |
| The Well of Ascension | Brian Sanderson | Paperback (GW) | 22 Aug 2022 | 7 Oct 2022 |
| About Time: A History of Civilization in Twelve Clocks | David Rooney | Hardcover (library) | 23 Sep 2022 | 2 Oct 2022 |
| Bird by Bird: Some Advice on Writing & Life | Anne Lamott | Softcover | 20 Sep 2022 | 26 Sep 2022 |
| Reign of Terror: How the 9/11 Era Destabilized America & Produced Trump | Spencer Ackerman | Hardcover (library) 17 Sep 2022 | 27 Sep 2022 | |
| The Unconquerable World: Power, Nonviolence, & the Will of the People | Jonathan Schell | Hardcover (LOA) | 19 Jul 2022 | 16 Sep 2022 |
| Two Wheels Good: the History & Mystery of the Bicycle | Jody Rosen | Hardcover (library) | 1 Sep 2022 | 10 Sep 2022 |
| The Timeless Way of Building | Christopher Alexander | Hardcover (library) | 15 Aug 2022 | 6 Sep 2022 |
| Mistborn | Brian Sanderson | E-book | 17 Jul 2022 | 20 Aug 2022 |
| Lunch Poems | Frank O’Hara | Hardcover | 22 Jun 2022 | |
| The Deviant’s War: the Homosexual vs. the United States | Eric Cervini | E-book | 2 Jul 2022 | 19 Jul 2022 |
| The Fire Next Time | James Baldwin | Softcover | 4 Jul 2022 | 4 Jul 2022 |
| Let the People Pick the President: the Case for Abolishing the Electoral College | Jesse Wegman | Hardcover (library) | 20 Jun 2022 | 3 Jul 2022 |
| The Wise Man’s Fear Kingkiller Chronicle (2) |
Pat Rothfuss | Softcover | 13 Jun | 1 Jul 2022 |
| The Abolition | Jonathan Schell | Hardcover (LOA) | 8 Jun 2022 | 18 Jun 2022 |
| The Fate of the Earth | Jonathan Schell | Hardcover (LOA) | 29 May 2022 | 7 Jun 2022 |
| The Inner Room (poems) | James Merrill | Softcover | 14 May 2022 | 14 Jun 2022 |
| Aspects | John M. Ford | Hardcover (library) | 27 May 2022 | 13 Jun 2022 |
| How We See the Sky: A Naked–Eye Tour of Day & Night | Thomas Hockey | Softcover | 20 May 2022 | 27 May 2022 |
| Mortal Questions | Thomas Nagel | Hardcover (library) | 25 Apr 2022 | 23 May 2022 |
| All the Young Dudes | MsKingBean89 | E-book | Feb 2022 | May 2022 (Twice through) |
| Orwell’s Roses | Rebecca Solnit | Hardcover | 11 May 2022 | 20 May 2022 |
| Fixed Ideas: America Since 9/11 | Joan Didion | Softcover | 19 May 2022 | 19 May 2022 |
| Poems | James Merrill | Pocket hardcover | 28 Mar 2022 | |
| An Inky Business: A History of Newspapers from the English Civil Wars to the American Civil War | Matthew J. Shaw | Hardcover (library) | 26 Apr 2022 | 9 May 2022 |
| The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How they Communicate | Peter Wohlleben | E-book (library) | 20 Apr 2022 | 25 Apr 2022 |
| How to Be Normal (Essays) | Phil Christman | Paperback | 15 Apr 2022 | 24 Apr 2022 |
| The Seasons Alter: How to Save Our Planet in Six Acts | Philip Kitcher & Evelyn Fox Keller | Hardcover | 18 Apr 2022 | 19 Apr 2022 |
| The Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence | Carl Sagan | Paperback | 13 Apr 2022 | 17 Apr 2022 |
| Beautiful Minds: The Parallel Lives of Great Apes and Dolphins | Maddalena Bearzi & Craig B. Stanford | Hardcover | 9 Apr 2022 | 12 Apr 2022 |
| What Is Time? | Truls Wyller | Paperback | 28 Mar 2022 | 06 Apr 2022 |
| Ledger: Poems | Jane Hirschfeld | Softcover | 1 Jan 2022 | |
| An Anthropologist on Mars | Oliver Sacks | Paperback | 15 Feb 2022 | 27 Mar 2022 |
| On Revolution | Hannah Arendt | Paperback | 2 Jan 2022 | 25 Feb 2022 |
| Delusions, etc. | John Berryman | Softcover | 21 Dec 2021 | |
| The Name of the Wind Kingkiller Chronicle (1) |
Patrick Rothfuss | Paperback | 28 Nov 2021 | 12 Jan 2022 |
| 2021 | Author | Format | Started | Finished |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| To Fight Against This Age: On Fascism & Humanism | Rob Riemen | Hardcover (library) | 11 Dec 2021 | 29 Dec 2021 |
| Selected Poems | John Berryman | Hardcover (library) | 01 Nov 2021 | 01 Dec 2021 |
| A Conjuring of Light Shades of Magic (3) |
V.E. Schwab | Hardcover (library) | 26 Oct 2021 | 25 Nov 2021 |
| Midwest Futures | Phil Christman | Hardcover (library) | 07 Nov 2021 | 20 Nov 2021 |
| The Death and Life of Great American Cities | Jane Jacobs | Paperback (library) | 07 Oct 2021 | 01 Nov 2021 |
| A Gathering of Shadows Shades of Magic (2) |
V.E. Schwab | Hardcover (library) | 27 Sep 2021 | 26 Oct 2021 |
| Wanderlust: A History of Walking | Rebecca Solnit | Softcover | 19 Sep 2021 | 12 Oct 2021 |
| A Darker Shade of Magic Shades of Magic (1) |
V.E. Schwab | E-book (library) | 19 Sep 2021 | |
| Watership Down | Richard Adams | Paperback | 01 Aug 2021 | 08 Sep 2021 |
| Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore | Robin Sloan | E-book | 25 Jul 2021 | 28 Jul 2021 |
| Gentlemen Bootleggers: The True Story of Templeton Rye, Prohibition, and a Small Town in Cahoots | Bryce T. Bauer | Hardcover (library) | 15 Jul 2021 | 25 Jul 2021 |
| Assassins Apprentice Farseer Trilogy (1) |
Robin Hobb | E-book | 20 Jun 2021 | 17 Jul 2021 |
| From Prairie to Cornbelt: Farming on the Illinois and Iowa Prairies in the 19th Century | Allen G. Bogue | Hardcover (library) | 13 Jun 2021 | 17 Jul 2021 |
| Sixteen Ways to Defend a Walled City The Siege (1) |
K.J. Parker | E-book | 13 Jun 2021 | 18 Jun 2021 |
| Noise | Rupert Taylor | Paperback | 8 Jun 2021 | 20 Jun 2021 |
| The Ministry for the Future | Kim Stanley Robinson | E-book | 12 Jun 2021 | |
| The Anthropocene Reviewed | John Green | Hardcover | 18 May 2021 | 29 May 2021 |
| The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics | Daniel James Brown | Hardcover (family) | 27 Mar 2021 | 08 Jun 2021 |
| The Anxiety of Influence: A Theory of Poetry | Harold Bloom | Hardcover (library) | 13 Mar 2021 | 28 Mar 2021 |
| The Song of Achilles | Madeline Miller | E-book | 01 Mar 2021 | 10 Mar 2021 |
| The Sea of Monsters Percy Jackson and the Olympians (2) |
Rick Riordan | E-book | 25 Feb 2021 | 01 Mar 2021 |
| A Year With Swollen Appendices: Brian Eno’s Diary | Brian Eno | Hardcover | 15 Feb 2021 | 20 Mar 2021 |
| The Abolition of Man | C.S. Lewis | E-book | 14 Feb 2021 | 16 Feb 2021 |
| Mere Christianity | C.S. Lewis | E-book | 06 Feb 2021 | 14 Feb 2021 |
| Come, Thief: Poems | Jane Hirshfield | Paperback | 04 Feb 2021 | 17 April 2021 |
| Maximus Poems | Charles Olson | Paperback | 21 Jan 2021 | 04 Feb 2021 |
| Malafrena | Ursula K. Le Guin | Hardcover | 21 Jan 2021 | 21 Feb 2021 |
| If Then: How the Simulmatics Corporation Invented the Future | Jill Lepore | E-Book | 16 Jan 2021 | 09 Feb 2021 |
| A Promised Land | Barack Obama | Hardcover (family) | 28 Nov 2020 | 15 Jan 2021 |
| What Can a Body Do? How We Meet the Built World | Sara Hendren | Hardcover | 31 Dec 2020 | 04 Jan 2021 |
| Cibola Burn The Expanse (4) |
James S.A. Corey | E-book | 25 Dec 2020 | 14 Jan 2021 |
| 2020 | Author | Format | Started | Finished |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Abbadon’s Gate The Expanse (3) |
James S.A. Corey | E-book | 19 Dec 2020 | 25 Dec 2020 |
| Caliban’s War The Expanse (2) |
James S.A. Corey | E-book | 12 Dec 2020 | 19 Dec 2020 |
| Leviathan Wakes The Expanse (1) |
James S.A. Corey | E-book | 12 Dec 2020 | |
| On Liberty | J.S. Mill | Paperback (library) | 12 Dec 2020 | |
| Strangers in their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right | Arlie Russell Hochschild | E-book | 09 Nov 2020 | 21 Nov 2020 |
| Four Essays on Liberty | Isaiah Berlin | Paperback (library) | 30 Oct 2020 | 23 Dec 2020 |
| The Farthest Shore Earthsea Cycle (3) |
Ursula K. Le Guin | Paperback | 11 Oct 2020 | 30 Oct 2020 |
| The Tombs of Atuan Earthsea Cycle (2) |
Ursula K. Le Guin | Paperback | 05 Oct 2020 | 11 Oct 2020 |
| Gilead | Marilynne Robinson | Paperback | 05 Oct | |
| Crises of the Republic (political essays) | Hannah Arendt | Hardcover (library) | 01 Oct 2020 |
on the back burner
| Title | Author | Format | Started |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Dawn of Everything | David Graeber & David Wengrow | Paperback | |
| From Urbanization to Cities The Politics of Democratic Municipalism |
Murray Bookchin | Paperback | |
| The Shaping Forces in Music | Ernst Toch | Paperback | |
| Debt The First 5,000 Years |
David Graeber | E-book (library) | Res. 3 Jul 2023 |
| Don Quixote | Cervantes | Paperback | Need to get a better translation! |
| Moby-Dick | Herman Melville | Audiobook (library) | 17 Apr 2023 |
| The Lies of Locke Lamora Gentleman Bastards (1) |
Scott Lynch | Paperback | 8 Oct 2022 |
| Objective Troy: A Terrorist, a President, and the Rise of the Drone | Scott Shane | Softcover | 28 Sep 2022 |
| Ruin the Sacred Truths: Poetry & Belief from the Bible to the Present | Harold Bloom | Hardcover | 19 Jun 2022 |
| The Age of Federalism: The Early American Republic, 1788-1800 | Stanley Elkins & Eric McKitrick | E-book | 15 Nov 2021 |
| The Changing Light at Sandover | James Merrill | Softcover | 20 Jun 2022 |
abandoned
| Title | Author | Started | Abandoned | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The King Must Die | Mary Renault | Hardcover | 5 Apr 2025 | |
| Who’s Afraid of Gender? | Judith Butler | Audiobook (library) | 17 Jul 2024 | |
| Hyperobjects | Timothy Morton | Hardcover (library) | 6 Dec 2022 | |
| Too Like the Lightning Terra Ignota (1) |
Ada Palmer | 17 Jan 2022 | 01 Feb 2022 | |
| 77 Dream Songs | John Berryman | 01 Dec 2021 | 11 Dec 2021 | A weirder voice than I’m down for right now. And I’m bad at extended/long narrative poems—how to approach them. Had same problem with Deaf Republic. |
| Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution | Simon Schama | 07 Aug 2021 | 18 Sept 2021 | Couldn’t stay focused on this one. Desperately wanted to love it; perhaps expectations were too great for it to bear. Intend to return: praps as part of early–republic thread. |
| Deaf Republic | Ilya Kaminsky | 18 Sep 2021 | 26 Oct 2021 | Not abandoned exactly, just trailed off and never finished. Would like to return |
| Royal Assassin Farseer Trilogy (2) |
Robin Hobb | 17 Jul 2021 | 25 Jul 2021 | Didn’t capture me as thoroughly as the first book of the series… |
| Sans | G.L. Ford | 17 May 2021 | Random pickup from the English Dept. free books table. |
intended
The ever–growing to–read pile…
thread: the early republic
- Age of Federalism - Elkins
- History of the United States (2) - Adams
- Democracy in America - Toqueville
nonfic & essay
- Reign of Terror - Ackerman
- 533 Days - Cees Nooteboom
- You Tell the Stories You Need to Believe - Brown
- Dawn of Everything - Graber & Wengrow
- How We See the Sky -
- The Internet Is Not What You Think It Is - Smith
- Homo Ludens - Huizinga
- Old Growth - Orion Magazine
- All We Can Save - Johnson & Wilkinson
- Analogia - Dyson
- Thinking Like a Parrot - Bond & Diamond
- Typographic Firsts - Boardley
- Why North is Up - Ashworth
- The Writer’s Map - Lewis-Jones
- Eaters of the Dead - Wetmore, Jr.
- Secrets of the Great Ocean Liners - Sayers
- An Inky Business - Shaw
- In Praise of the Bicycle - Augé
- Vincent’s Books - Guzzoni
- Mushroom @ the End of the World - Tsing
- Hundred Little Pieces on the End of the World - Rember
- At the End of the World - Millman
- An Anthropologist on Mars - Sacks
- On a Farther Shore: Rachel Carson - Souder
- God: An Anatomy - Stavrakopoulou
- Orwell’s Roses - Solnit
- Analogia Dyson
- Islands of Abandonment - Flyn
- The Footnote: A Curious History - Grafton
- An Inventory of Losses - Schalansky
- Why Fish Don’t Exist - Miller
- Essays in Understanding - Arendt
- Transcendentalists: An Anthology - Miller
- How to Disappear - Busch
- A Philosophy of Loneliness - Svendsen
- Almost Everything: Notes on Hope - Lamott
- The Art of Gathering - Parker
- Teaching a Stone to Talk - Dillard
- When Things Fall Apart - Chödrön
- Water and What We Know - Babine
- Notes to Myself: My Struggle to Become a Person - Prather
- The Tragic Sense of Life - Miguel de Unamuno
- The Art of Listening - Fromm
- My Belief - Hesse
- Becoming Wise - Tippett
- Hope in the Dark - Solnit
- Tomorrow is Now - Roosevelt
fic
- The Animals In That Country - McKay
- Good Company - Sweeney
- Nine Lives - Swanson
- Reynard the Fox - Avery
- The Maidens - Michaelides
- Death of a River Guide - Flanagan
- Wolf Hall - Mantel
- Sea of Poppies - Ghosh
- Light - Harrison
- The Library Book - Orlean
- What If It’s Us - Albertalli
- The Immortalists - Benjamin
- The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle - Turton
- White Houses - Bloom
- The Bird’s Nest - Jackson
- Lincoln in the Bardo - Saunders
- The Brothers Karamazov - Dostoyevsky
- The Old Man and the Sea - Hemingway
- A Tree Grows in Brooklyn - Smith
- Children Playing Before a Statue of Hercules
- Einstein’s Dreams
- All the Light We Cannot See
- Tower of Birds - Russian stories
classics, philosophy, religion
- Pan - Robichaud
- The Rabbit Between Us - Menza
- Sever Ways of Looking at Pointless Suffering - Samuelson
- A History of Crete - Moorey
- Gladius - Bedoyere
- The War that Killed Achilles - Alexander
- Achilles in Vietnam - Shay
- The War That Never Was - Kemp
- The ‘Book of Common Prayer’: A Biography - Jacobs
- Classical Spies - Allen
- Mythologies - Barthes
scifi & fantasy
- Wild & Wicked Things - May
- Sweep of Stars - Broaddus
- Terra Ignota (1) - Palmer
- The Man Who Spoke Snakish - Kivirähk
- Stormlight Archive (4) - Sanderson
- A Peculiar Peril - VanderMeer
- Discworld - Pratchett
- Dune - Herbert
- Winter Tide - Emrys
- The Wanderers - Howrey
- Gentleman Bastard (3) - Lynch
politics & society
- Trapped in the Present Tense - Brooks
- The Torture Letters - Ralph
- Law, Legislation, Liberty - Hayek
- Presidents, Populism, the Crisis of Democracy - Howell & Moe
- Resowing the Seeds of War - Heidt
- American Dove - Shirkey
- All We Can Save - Johnson
- Ruling Oneself Out - Ermakoff
- Let Us Dream - Franciscus
- Metamorphoses of the City - Manent
- The Fall of Public Man - Sennett
- Capital in the 21st Century - Piketty
- Trade Wars Are Class Wars - Klein
- The Unnamable Present - Calasso
- Why Cities Lose - Rodden
- Law and Legitimacy in the Supreme
Court - Fallon - The Fifth Risk - Lewis
- Unexceptional Politics: Obstruction, Impasse, Impolitic - Apter - The Poverty of Nations - Grudem
- Gandhi’s Truth: Origins of Militant Nonviolence - Erikson
liberalism, enlightenment, rights
- Isaiah Berlin - Ignatieff
- Liberty, Equality, Fraternity - Stephen
- The Racial Contract - Mills
- Globalization and Liberalism: Montesquieu, Tocqueville,
and Manent - Shelley - The English Libertarian Heritage - Jacobson
- The Lost History of Liberalism - Rosenblatt
- To Fight Against This Age - Riemen
history & lit
- Dinner with Joseph Johnson - Hay
- Minutemen & Their World, Transcendentalists & Their World - Gross
- The Cause: The American Revolution & Its Discontents - Ellis
- A Swim in a Pond in the Rain - Saunders
- Hannah Arendt - Hill
- The Zealot & the Emancipator - Brands
- Blood & Ruins - Overy
- Citizens - Schama
- The Year of Our Lord 1943 - Jacobs
- The Tyrannicide Brief - Robertson
- The Lost World of Thomas Jefferson
- Gladstone: A Biography - Jenkins
- The Second Creation - Gienapp
- Ratification - Maier
- In the Garden of Beasts - Larson
- The True Flag: Roosevelt, Twain, Am. Empire - Kinzer
- Sir Isaac Newton - C. Andrade
- The Inner Life of Empires - Rothschild
writing, music, poetry
- Too Like the Lightning - Palmer
- I Praise My Destroyer: Poems - Ackerman
- What to Listen for in Music - Copland
- On Reading - Kertész
- The Enchafed Flood - Auden
- Lectures on Literature - Nabokov
- The Writing Life - Dillard
- On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft - King
- Musicophillia - Sacks
- Counting Descent - Smith
- Writing Degree Zero - Barthes
- The Pleasure of the Text - Barthes
- Song of Two Worlds
- Bird by Bird - Lamott
art, arch, design
- The Ruins Lesson - Stewart
- The 99% Invisible City
- Insights and Manipulations: Classical Geometry - Flaumenhaft
- The Timeless Way of Building - Alexander
time
- Probable Impossibilities - Lightman
- The Global Transformation of Time - Ogle
- Caesar’s Calendar - Feeney
- What is Time? -