Full book list

1. The Ballad of Bob Dylan: A Portrait

   Daniel Mark Epstein

   ★★★☆☆ - Sep 3, 2025
2. Charity

   Len Deighton

   ★★★☆☆ - Aug 29, 2025
3. Hope

   Len Deighton

   ★★★☆☆ - Aug 27, 2025
4. Faith

   Len Deighton

   ★★★☆☆ - Aug 26, 2025
5. The Rivals

   Jane Pek

   ★★☆☆☆ - Aug 23, 2025
6. Spy Sinker

   Len Deighton

   ★★★☆☆ - Aug 22, 2025
7. Spy Line

   Len Deighton

   ★★★☆☆ - Aug 19, 2025
8. Spy Hook

   Len Deighton

   ★★★☆☆ - Aug 15, 2025
9. A Handbook of Disappointed Fate

   Anne Boyer

   ★★★☆☆ - Aug 13, 2025
10. London Match

    Len Deighton

    ★★★☆☆ - Aug 9, 2025
11. Mexico Set

    Len Deighton

    ★★★★☆ - Aug 3, 2025
12. Berlin Game

    Len Deighton

    ★★★★☆ - Jul 29, 2025
13. Tabula Rasa: Volume 1

    John McPhee

    ★★★★☆ - Jul 27, 2025
14. Other Thing

    Craig Mod

    ★★★☆☆ - Jul 24, 2025
15. Designing Interface Animation: Meaningful Motion for User Experience

    Val Head

    ★★★☆☆ - Jul 18, 2025
16. The Book Business: What Everyone Needs to Know

    Mike Shatzkin & Robert Paris Riger

    ★★☆☆☆ - Jul 18, 2025
17. Our Strangers

    Lydia Davis

    ★★★☆☆ - Jul 16, 2025
18. Abstract City

    Christoph Niemann

    ★★☆☆☆ - Jul 11, 2025
19. What Nails It

    Greil Marcus

    ★★★★☆ - Jul 10, 2025
20. When We Were Orphans

    Kazuo Ishiguro

    ★★☆☆☆ - Jul 9, 2025
21. Learning the Names

    Ursula K. Le Guin

    ★★☆☆☆ - Jul 9, 2025
22. Shopkeeping: Stories, Advice, and Observations

    Peter Miller

    ★★★★★ - Jul 1, 2025
23. Mortality

    Christopher Hitchens

    ★★★☆☆ - Jun 7, 2025
24. Call Them by Their True Names: American Crises (and Essays)

    Rebecca Solnit

    ★★★☆☆ - Jun 7, 2025
25. Annabel Scheme and the Adventure of the New Golden Gate

    Robin Sloan

    ★★★☆☆ - 2025
26. The Count of Monte Cristo

    Alexandre Dumas

    ★★★☆☆ - Jun 1, 2025
27. The All-Road Bike Revolution

    Jan Heine

    ★★★☆☆ - May 29, 2025
28. Rhine Journey

    Ann Schlee

    ★★★★☆ - May 8, 2025
29. The Tainted Cup

    Robert Jackson Bennett

    ★★★☆☆ - Apr 19, 2025
30. Question 7

    Richard Flanagan

    ★★★★☆ - Apr 12, 2025
31. The Verifiers

    Jane Pek

    ★★★☆☆ - Apr 10, 2025
32. Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath

    Heather Clark

    ★★★★★ - Mar 30, 2025
33. Orbital

    Samantha Harvey

    ★★☆☆☆ - Mar 25, 2025
34. Ariel

    Sylvia Plath

    ★★★★★ - Jan 28, 2025
35. Everything Now: Lessons from the City-State of Los Angeles

    Rosecrans Baldwin

    ★★★★☆ - Jan 14, 2025
36. Paradises Lost

    Ursula K. Le Guin

    ★★★☆☆ - Dec 29, 2024
37. The Will of the Many

    James Islington

    ★★★☆☆ - Dec 28, 2024
38. Savage Conversations

    LeAnne Howe

    ★★☆☆☆ - Dec 26, 2024
39. Sunday Sketching: The Creativity of Christoph Niemann

    Christoph Niemann

    ★★★☆☆ - Dec 20, 2024
40. Agent Running in the Field

    John Le Carré

    ★★★☆☆ - Dec 17, 2024
41. Karla’s Choice

    Nick Harkaway

    ★★★★☆ - Nov 19, 2024
42. The Monocle Book of Gentle Living: A guide to slowing down, enjoying more and being happy

    Monocle

    ★★☆☆☆ - Nov 17, 2024
43. Train Dreams

    Denis Johnson

    ★★★★☆ - Nov 11, 2024
44. The White Book

    Han Kang

    ★★★☆☆ - Nov 2, 2024
45. Make Something Wonderful: Steve Jobs in his own words

    Steve Jobs

    ★★★★☆ - 2024
46. American Recordings

    Tony Tost

    ★★☆☆☆ - Oct 5, 2024
47. Livesuit

    James S. A. Corey

    ★★★☆☆ - Oct 5, 2024
48. Creation Lake

    Rachel Kushner

    ★★★★☆ - Sep 30, 2024
49. The Mercy of Gods

    James S. A. Corey

    ★★★★☆ - Aug 15, 2024
50. Titanium Noir

    Nick Harkaway

    ★★★☆☆ - Aug 3, 2024
51. Tokyo y Yo: A Compilation of Small Stories

    Luis Mendo

    ★★★☆☆ - Jul 27, 2024
52. The Secret Hours

    Mick Herron

    ★★★☆☆ - Jul 24, 2024
53. Moonbound

    Robin Sloan

    ★★★★★ - Jul 14, 2024
54. Standing by the Wall: The Collected Slough House Novellas

    Mick Herron

    ★★★☆☆ - Jul 5, 2024
55. Bad Actors

    Mick Herron

    ★★★☆☆ - Jun 30, 2024
56. Slough House

    Mick Herron

    ★★★☆☆ - Jun 29, 2024
57. Joe Country

    Mick Herron

    ★★★☆☆ - Jun 25, 2024
58. London Rules

    Mick Herron

    ★★★☆☆ - Jun 24, 2024
59. Spook Street

    Mick Herron

    ★★★☆☆ - Jun 20, 2024
60. Real Tigers

    Mick Herron

    ★★★★☆ - Jun 18, 2024
61. Dead Lions

    Mick Herron

    ★★★★☆ - Jun 15, 2024
62. Slow Horses

    Mick Herron

    ★★★★☆ - Jun 12, 2024
63. A Hitch in Time: Reflections Ready for Reconsideration

    Christopher Hitchens

    ★★★☆☆ - May 31, 2024
64. Roseanna: A Martin Beck Police Mystery

    Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö

    ★★☆☆☆ - May 27, 2024
65. Back in the World

    Tobias Wolff

    ★★☆☆☆ - May 24, 2024
66. Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne

    Katherine Rundell

    ★★★☆☆ - May 22, 2024
67. Old School

    Tobias Wolff

    ★★★★☆ - May 13, 2024
68. The Variations

    Patrick Langley

    ★★★☆☆ - May 11, 2024
69. In Pharoah’s Army: Memories of the Lost War

    Tobias Wolff

    ★★★☆☆ - May 1, 2024
70. This Boy’s Life: A Memoir

    Tobias Wolff

    ★★★★☆ - Apr 30, 2024
71. The English Understand Wool

    Helen DeWitt

    ★★★★☆ - Apr 23, 2024
72. The MANIAC

    Benjamín Labatut

    ★★★☆☆ - Apr 22, 2024
73. The Secret Life of John Le Carré

    Adam Sisman

    ★★★☆☆ - Apr 10, 2024
74. Inherent Vice

    Thomas Pynchon

    ★★★☆☆ - Mar 30, 2024
75. Another Country

    James Baldwin

    ★★★☆☆ - Mar 2, 2024
76. A Room of One’s Own

    Virginia Woolf

    ★★★★☆ - Mar 1, 2024
77. Jobst Brandt Ride Bike!

    Max Leonard et al.

    ★★★☆☆ - Feb 8, 2024
78. Exit Interview: The Life and Death of My Ambitious Career

    Kristi Coulter

    ★★★☆☆ - Feb 6, 2024
79. The Unconsoled

    Kazuo Ishiguro

    ★★★☆☆ - Jan 20, 2024
80. The Call of the Wild

    Jack London

    ★★★☆☆ - Jan 9, 2024
81. Liberation Day

    George Saunders

    ★★★☆☆ - Jan 6, 2024
82. Piranesi

    Susanna Clarke

    ★★★★★ - Jan 3, 2024
83. The Gardener and the Carpenter: What the New Science of Child Development Tells Us About the Relationship Between Parents and Children

    Alison Gopnik

    ★★★☆☆ - Jan 1, 2024
84. The Making of a Manager

    Julie Zhuo

    ★★★☆☆ - Dec 30, 2023
85. The Hero of Ages

    Brandon Sanderson

    ★★★☆☆ - Dec 29, 2023
86. A Book of Days

    Patti Smith

    ★★★★☆ - Dec 23, 2023
87. The Well of Ascension

    Brandon Sanderson

    ★★★★☆ - Dec 23, 2023
88. Mistborn: The Final Empire

    Brandon Sanderson

    ★★★★☆ - Dec 18, 2023
89. To the Lighthouse

    Virginia Woolf

    ★★★★☆ - Dec 4, 2023
90. Visualizing Complexity: Modular Information Design Handbook

    Darjan Hil & Nicole Lachenmeier

    ★☆☆☆☆ - Nov 28, 2023
91. Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

    Gabrielle Zevin

    ★★★☆☆ - Nov 12, 2023
92. The Wild Iris

    Louise Glück

    ★★★★☆ - Nov 8, 2023
93. The Twilight World

    Werner Herzog (trans. Michael Hofmann)

    ★★★★☆ - Oct 27, 2023
94. Prophet

    Helen MacDonald & Sin Blanché

    ★★★☆☆ - Oct 11, 2023
95. The System of the World

    Neal Stephenson

    ★★★☆☆ - Oct 8, 2023
96. The Confusion

    Neal Stephenson

    ★★★☆☆ - Sep 30, 2023
97. Quicksilver

    Neal Stephenson

    ★★★★☆ - Sep 2, 2023
98. The Making of the Atomic Bomb

    Richard Rhodes

    ★★★★★ - Aug 14, 2023
99. The Moscow Sleepers

    Stella Rimington

    ★★★☆☆ - Jul 19, 2023
100. Breaking Cover

     Stella Rimington

     ★★★☆☆ - Jul 16, 2023
101. Close Call

     Stella Rimington

     ★★★☆☆ - Jul 14, 2023
102. The Geneva Trap

     Stella Rimington

     ★★★☆☆ - Jul 14, 2023
103. Rip Tide

     Stella Rimington

     ★★★☆☆ - Jul 9, 2023
104. Present Danger

     Stella Rimington

     ★★★☆☆ - Jul 6, 2023
105. Dead Line

     Stella Rimington

     ★★★☆☆ - Jul 4, 2023
106. Illegal Action

     Stella Rimington

     ★★★☆☆ - Jul 3, 2023
107. Secret Asset

     Stella Rimington

     ★★★☆☆ - Jul 2, 2023
108. At Risk

     Stella Rimington

     ★★★☆☆ - Jul 1, 2023
109. Notes from a Small Island

     Bill Bryson

     ★★☆☆☆ - Jun 26, 2023
110. All We Know: Three Lives

     Lisa Cohen

     ★★★★☆ - Jun 23, 2023
111. Clouds of Witness

     Dorothy Sayers

     ★★★☆☆ - May 20, 2023
112. Whose Body?

     Dorothy Sayers

     ★★★☆☆ - May 1, 2023
113. Stella Maris

     Cormac McCarthy

     ★★★☆☆ - Apr 22, 2023
114. The Passenger

     Cormac McCarthy

     ★★★★☆ - Apr 16, 2023
115. The Philosophy of Modern Song

     Bob Dylan

     ★★★★☆ - Mar 26, 2023
116. The Son

     Philipp Meyer

     ★★★☆☆ - Mar 11, 2023
117. Wading in Waist-High Water: The Lyrics of Fleet Foxes

     Robin Pecknold

     ★★★☆☆ - Feb 28, 2023
118. Jennifer Bartlett: Early Plate Work

     Brenda Richardson

     ★★★☆☆ - Feb 26, 2023
119. Three Roads Back: How Emerson, Thoreau, and William James Responded to the Greatest Losses of Their Lives

     Robert D. Richardson

     ★★★☆☆ - Feb 19, 2023
120. The Mountain in the Sea

     Ray Nayler

     ★★★☆☆ - Feb 18, 2023
121. A Desolation Called Peace

     Arkady Martine

     ★★★★☆ - Feb 16, 2023
122. American Utopia

     David Byrne & Maira Kalman

     ★★☆☆☆ - Feb 5, 2023
123. Why We Drive: Toward a Philosophy of the Open Road

     Matthew Crawford

     ★★★☆☆ - Feb 3, 2023
124. A Memory Called Empire

     Arkady Martine

     ★★★★☆ - Jan 15, 2023
125. Talent: How to Identify Energizers, Creatives, and Winners Around the World

     Tyler Cowen and Daniel Gross

     ★★☆☆☆ - Jan 10, 2023
126. John Le Carré: The Biography

     Adam Sisman

     ★★★☆☆ - Jan 7, 2023
127. Working in Public: The Making and Maintenance of Open Source Software

     Nadia Eghbal

     ★★★☆☆ - Dec 25, 2022
128. Matrix

     Lauren Groff

     ★★★★★ - Dec 17, 2023
129. Room Temperature

     Nicholson Baker

     ★★☆☆☆ - Dec 11, 2022
130. Status and Culture: How Our Desire for Social Rank Creates Taste, Identity, Art, Fashion, and Constant Change

     W. David Marx

     ★★★☆☆ - Dec 10, 2022
131. What Can a Body Do?: How We Meet the Built World

     Sara Hendren

     ★★★★★ - Dec 1, 2022
132. The Overstory

     Richard Powers

     ★★★★☆ - Oct 19, 2022
133. The Shadowed Sun

     N. K. Jemisin

     ★★★☆☆ - Oct 10, 2022
134. The Killing Moon

     N. K. Jemisin

     ★★★☆☆ - Sep 28, 2022
135. The Hurting Kind

     Ada Limón

     ★★★★☆ - Aug 31, 2022
136. Real Estate: A Living Autobiography

     Deborah Levy

     ★★★☆☆ - Aug 21, 2022
137. Every Day I Pray For Love

     Yayoi Kusama

     ★★★☆☆ - Aug 19, 2022
138. I’m Your Man: The Life of Leonard Cohen

     Sylvie Simmons

     ★★★☆☆ - Aug 16, 2022
139. I Must Say: My Life as a Humble Comedy Legend

     Martin Short

     ★★★☆☆ - Aug 10, 2022
140. Utopia Avenue

     David Mitchell

     ★★★☆☆ - Jul 15, 2022
141. Faithful and Virtuous Night

     Louise Glück

     ★★★★☆ - Jul 7, 2022
142. The Secret Pilgrim

     John Le Carré

     ★★★★☆ - Jun 29, 2022
143. Happy-Go-Lucky

     David Sedaris

     ★★★☆☆ - Jun 26, 2022
144. Smiley’s People

     John Le Carré

     ★★★☆☆ - Jun 12, 2022
145. The Honourable Schoolboy

     John Le Carré

     ★★☆☆☆ - 2022
146. Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy

     John Le Carré

     ★★★☆☆ - May 15, 2022
147. Things I Don’t Want to Know: On Writing

     Deborah Levy

     ★★★☆☆ - May 8, 2022
148. The Looking Glass War

     John Le Carré

     ★★☆☆☆ - May 8, 2022
149. The Spy Who Came in from the Cold

     John Le Carré

     ★★★☆☆ - Apr 27, 2022
150. A Murder of Quality

     John Le Carré

     ★★☆☆☆ - Apr 23, 2022
151. Nobody Knows My Name

     James Baldwin

     ★★☆☆☆ - Apr 16, 2022
152. The Scholars of Night

     John M. Ford

     ★★☆☆☆ - Apr 14, 2022
153. A Beginner’s Guide to Japan: Observations and Provocations

     Pico Iyer

     ★★★★☆ - Apr 6, 2022
154. The Cost of Living: A Working Autobiography

     Deborah Levy

     ★★★★☆ - Mar 20, 2022
155. The Mirror & the Light

     Hilary Mantel

     ★★★★★ - Mar 16, 2022
156. Tokyo Ueno Station

     Yu Miri

     ★☆☆☆☆ - Mar 6, 2022
157. Inhabiting the Negative Space

     Jenny Odell

     ★★★☆☆ - Mar 4, 2022
158. Why We Make Things and Why It Matters: The Education of a Craftsman

     Peter Korn

     ★★★☆☆ - Feb 8, 2022
159. The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows

     John Koenig

     ★★★★☆ - Jan 23, 2022
160. The History of Rock ‘n’ Roll in Ten Songs

     Greil Marcus

     ★★☆☆☆ - Feb 2, 2022
161. Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals

     Oliver Burkeman

     ★★★★☆ - Jan 2, 2022
162. LaserWriter II

     Tamara Shopsin

     ★★★☆☆ - Dec 29, 2021
163. The Bell Jar

     Sylvia Plath

     ★★★★★ - Dec 26, 2021
164. Secret Seattle: An Illustrated Guide to the City’s Offbeat and Overlooked History

     Susanna Ryan

     ★★★☆☆ - Dec 24, 2021
165. The New Father: A Dad’s Guide to the First Year

     Armin Brott

     ★★☆☆☆ - Dec 19, 2021
166. The Topeka School

     Ben Lerner

     ★★★★☆ - Dec 12, 2021
167. Kid Gloves: Nine Months of Careful Chaos

     Lucy Knisley

     ★★★☆☆ - Dec 12, 2021
168. Go to Sleep (I Miss You): Cartoons from the Fog of New Parenthood

     Lucy Knisley

     ★★★☆☆ - Dec 11, 2021
169. Into the War

     Italo Calvino

     ★★★☆☆ - Dec 6, 2021
170. Leviathan Falls

     James S. A. Corey

     ★★★☆☆ - Dec 4, 2021
171. The World-Ending Fire: The Essential Wendell Berry

     Wendell Berry

     ★★★☆☆ - Nov 29, 2021
172. Tiamat’s Wrath

     James S. A. Corey

     ★★★☆☆ - Nov 28, 2021
173. Persepolis Rising

     James S. A. Corey

     ★★★☆☆ - Nov 22, 2021
174. Birth Strike: The Hidden Fight Over Women’s Work

     Jenny Brown

     ★★★☆☆ - Nov 6, 2021
175. Babylon’s Ashes

     James S. A. Corey

     ★★★★☆ - Nov 6, 2021
176. Nemesis Games

     James S. A. Corey

     ★★★★☆ - Oct 26, 2021
177. The Happiest Baby on the Block: The New Way to Calm Crying and Help Your Newborn Baby Sleep Longer

     Harvey Karp

     ★★★☆☆ - Oct 24, 2021
178. Cibola Burn

     James S. A. Corey

     ★★★☆☆ - Oct 16, 2021
179. The Autobiography of Malcolm X

     Malcolm X and Alex Haley

     ★★★☆☆ - Oct 10, 2021
180. Abbadon’s Gate

     James S. A. Corey

     ★★★★☆ - Oct 2, 2021
181. Caliban’s War

     James S. A. Corey

     ★★★★☆ - Sep 23, 2021
182. Leviathan Wakes

     James S. A. Corey

     ★★★★☆ - Sep 6, 2021
183. The Liars’ Club: A Memoir

     Mary Karr

     ★★★★☆ - Sep 1, 2021
184. Beowulf

     Maria Dahvana Headley

     ★★★☆☆ - Aug 26, 2021
185. On the Move: A Life

     Oliver Sacks

     ★★★★☆ - Aug 22, 2021
186. A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life

     George Saunders

     ★★★☆☆ - Aug 13, 2021
187. No One is Talking About This

     Patricia Lockwood

     ★★★★☆ - Jul 24, 2021
188. The New One: Painfully True Stories from a Reluctant Dad

     Mike Birbiglia

     ★★★★☆ - Jul 23, 2021
189. Can’t Even: How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation

     Anne Helen Peterson

     ★★★★☆ - Jul 22, 2021
190. A Memory of Light

     Robert Jordan & Brandon Sanderson

     ★★★★☆ - Jul 16, 2021
191. The Towers of Midnight

     Robert Jordan & Brandon Sanderson

     ★★★☆☆ - Jul 12, 2021
192. The Gathering Storm

     Robert Jordan & Brandon Sanderson

     ★★★☆☆ - Jul 7, 2021
193. Knife of Dreams

     Robert Jordan

     ★★★☆☆ - Jul 3, 2021
194. Crossroads of Twilight

     Robert Jordan

     ★★★☆☆ - Jun 22, 2021
195. Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son’s First Year

     Anne Lamott

     ★★★★☆ - Jun 15, 2021
196. Winter’s Heart

     Robert Jordan

     ★★★☆☆ - Jun 4, 2021
197. The Essential Emily Dickinson

     Emily Dickinson

     ★★★★★ - May 26, 2021
198. Cribsheet: A Data-Driven Guide to Better, More Relaxed Parenting, from Birth to Preschool

     Emily Oster

     ★★★☆☆ - May 25, 2021
199. The Path of Daggers

     Robert Jordan

     ★★★☆☆ - May 22, 2021
200. Amazon Unbound: Jeff Bezos and the Creation of a Global Empire

     Brad Stone

     ★★★☆☆ - May 12, 2021
201. A Crown of Swords

     Robert Jordan

     ★★★☆☆ - 2021
202. The Lord of Chaos

     Robert Jordan

     ★★★☆☆ - May 2, 2021
203. A Random Walk Down Wall Street: The Time-Tested Strategy for Successful Investing

     Burton Malkiel

     ★★☆☆☆ - Apr 16, 2021
204. The Shadow Rising

     Robert Jordan

     ★★★☆☆ - Apr 6, 2021
205. The Panic-Free Pregnancy: An Ob-GYN Separates Fact from Fiction on Food, Exercise, Travel, Pets, Coffee, and Other Concerns You Have While You Are Expecting

     Michael Broder

     ★★★☆☆ - Apr 3, 2021
206. Recollections of My Nonexistence

     Rebecca Solnit

     ★★★★☆ - Mar 28, 2021
207. The Dragon Reborn

     Robert Jordan

     ★★★☆☆ - Mar 22, 2021
208. Expecting Better: Why the Conventional Pregnancy Wisdom Is Wrong — And What You Really Need to Know

     Emily Oster

     ★★★★☆ - Mar 22, 2021
209. The Great Hunt

     Robert Jordan

     ★★★☆☆ - Mar 14, 2021
210. The Eye of the World

     Robert Jordan

     ★★★★☆ - Mar 4, 2021
211. Breaking Bread with the Dead: A Reader’s Guide to a More Tranquil Mind

     Alan Jacobs

     ★★★★☆ - Feb 24, 2021
212. Agency

     William Gibson

     ★★★★☆ - Feb 13, 2021
213. Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life

     Jon Kabat-Zinn

     ★★☆☆☆ - Feb 7, 2021
214. Clean Hands

     Patrick Hoffman

     ★★★☆☆ - Feb 7, 2021
215. Summer Snow

     Robert Hass

     ★★★☆☆ - Feb 3, 2021
216. The Wise Man’s Fear

     Patrick Rothfuss

     ★★★★☆ - Feb 1, 2021
217. A Promised Land

     Barack Obama

     ★★★☆☆ - Jan 31, 2021
218. Barrel Fever: Stories and Essays

     David Sedaris

     ★★★☆☆ - Jan 23, 2021
219. The City is More than Human: An Animal History of Seattle

     Frederick L. Brown

     ★★★☆☆ - Jan 18, 2021
220. Exhalation

     Ted Chiang

     ★★★☆☆ - Jan 17, 2021
221. The Snow Leopard

     Peter Matthiessen

     ★★★★★ - Jan 9, 2021
222. Subprime Attention Crisis: Advertising and the Time Bomb at the Heart of the Internet

     Tim Hwang

     ★★★★☆ - Dec 26, 2020
223. Seeing with Fresh Eyes: Meaning Space Data Truth

     Edward Tufte

     ★★☆☆☆ - Dec 24, 2020
224. Never Let Me Go

     Kazuo Ishiguro

     ★★★☆☆ - Dec 19, 2020
225. Giovanni’s Room

     James Baldwin

     ★★★☆☆ - Dec 10, 2020
226. Nothing to See Here

     Kevin Wilson

     ★★★☆☆ - Dec 6, 2020
227. What It Takes: The Way to the White House

     Richard Ben Cramer

     ★★★★☆ - Dec 5, 2020
228. Dissident Gardens

     Jonathan Lethem

     ★★★☆☆ - Nov 24, 2020
229. Mindful Tech: How to Bring Balance to our Digital Lives

     David M. Levy

     ★★★☆☆ - Nov 22, 2020
230. Ragtime

     E. L. Doctorow

     ★★★☆☆ - Nov 7, 2020
231. The Name of the Wind

     Patrick Rothfuss

     ★★★★★ - Nov 19, 2020
232. Keep Going: 10 Ways to Stay Creative in Good Times and Bad

     Austin Kleon

     ★★★☆☆ - Nov 7, 2020
233. The Road to Concord: How Four Stolen Cannon Ignited the Revolutionary War

     J. L. Bell

     ★★★☆☆ - Nov 1, 2020
234. How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us about Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence

     Michael Pollan

     ★★★☆☆ - Oct 25, 2020
235. The Abundance: Narrative Essays Old and New

     Annie Dillard

     ★★★★☆ - Oct 23, 2020
236. The Wild God of the World: An Anthology of Robinson Jeffers

     Robinson Jeffers

     ★★★☆☆ - 2020
237. Kissa by Kissa

     Craig Mod

     ★★★★☆ - Oct 13, 2020
238. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

     James Joyce

     ★★☆☆☆ - Oct 11, 2020
239. Undermajordomo Minor

     Patrick DeWitt

     ★★★☆☆ - Oct 10, 2020
240. The Managed Heart: Commercialization of Human Feeling

     Arlie Russell Hochschild

     ★★★★☆ - Oct 10, 2020
241. We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy

     Ta-Nehisi Coates

     ★★★★☆ - Sep 27, 2020
242. Nicely Said: Writing for the Web with Style and Purpose

     Nicole Fenton & Kate Kiefer Lee

     ★★★★☆ - Sep 25, 2020
243. Let it Be (33 ⅓)

     Colin Meloy

     ★★★☆☆ - Sep 20, 2020
244. Pattern Recognition

     William Gibson

     ★★★★☆ - Sep 19, 2020
245. William James in the Maelstrom of American Modernism

     Robert D. Richardson

     ★★★★☆ - Sep 13, 2020
246. The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail – But Some Don’t

     Nate Silver

     ★★★☆☆ - Aug 28, 2020
247. A Visit from the Goon Squad

     Jennifer Egan

     ★★★☆☆ - Aug 23, 2020
248. How to Succeed in Business Without Really Crying: Lessons from a Life in Comedy

     Carol Leifer

     ★★☆☆☆ - Aug 19, 2020
249. A Continuous Harmony: Essays Cultural and Agricultural

     Wendell Berry

     ★★☆☆☆ - Aug 15, 2020
250. 7 Steps to a Pain-Free Life: How to Rapidly Relieve Back, Neck, and Shoulder Pain

     Robin McKenzie & Craig Kubey

     ★★★☆☆ - Aug 12, 2020
251. The Last Thing He Wanted

     Joan Didion

     ★★☆☆☆ - Aug 2, 2020
252. The Odyssey [trans. Emily Wilson]

     Homer

     ★★★★☆ - Aug 1, 2020
253. Circe

     Madeline Miller

     ★★★★★ - Jul 23, 2020
254. My Year of Rest and Relaxation

     Ottessa Moshfegh

     ★★★☆☆ - Jul 18, 2020
255. Second Foundation

     Isaac Asimov

     ★★☆☆☆ - Jul 7, 2020
256. Foundation and Empire

     Isaac Asimov

     ★★☆☆☆ - Jul 4, 2020
257. Foundation

     Isaac Asimov

     ★★★☆☆ - Jul 4, 2020
258. The Shipping News

     Annie Proulx

     ★★★★☆ - Jul 4, 2020
259. No Time to Spare: Thinking About What Matters

     Ursula K. Le Guin

     ★★★☆☆ - Jun 28, 2020
260. Coventry: Essays

     Rachel Cusk

     ★★★★☆ - Jun 27, 2020
261. Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities

     Rebecca Solnit

     ★★★☆☆ - Jun 15, 2020
262. Out Stealing Horses

     Per Petterson

     ★★★★☆ - May 31, 2020
263. Uncanny Valley: A Memoir

     Anna Wiener

     ★★★★★ - May 25, 2020
264. The Bells of Old Tokyo: Meditations on Time and a City

     Anna Sherman

     ★★★★★ - May 16, 2020
265. Our Man in Havana

     Graham Greene

     ★★☆☆☆ - May 11, 2020
266. When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice

     Terry Tempest Williams

     ★★★☆☆ - Apr 28, 2020
267. My Life in Print

     Emmett Watson

     ★★☆☆☆ - Apr 28, 2020
268. Killing Commendatore

     Haruki Murakami

     ★★★☆☆ - Apr 19, 2020
269. Garments Against Women

     Anne Boyer

     ★★★☆☆ - Apr 18, 2020
270. The Mastermind: Drugs. Empire. Murder. Betrayal.

     Evan Ratliff

     ★★★☆☆ - Apr 13, 2020
271. The Story of America: Essays on Origins

     Jill Lepore

     ★★★★☆ - Apr 12, 2020
272. Saga: Compendium One

     Brian K. Vaughan & Fiona Staples

     ★★★★☆ - Mar 30, 2020
273. Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup

     John Carreyrou

     ★★★☆☆ - Mar 22, 2020
274. Year of the Monkey

     Patti Smith

     ★★★☆☆ - Mar 14, 2020
275. Fall, or Dodge in Hell

     Neal Stephenson

     ★★★☆☆ - Mar 7, 2020
276. British Ice

     Owen D. Pomery

     ★★☆☆☆ - Feb 21, 2020
277. Infinite Detail

     Tim Maughan

     ★★★☆☆ - Feb 16, 2020
278. The Little Book of Common Sense Investing

     John C. Bogle

     ★★★☆☆ - Feb 15, 2020
279. Waterway: The Story of Seattle’s Locks and Ship Canal

     David B. Williams and Jennifer Ott

     ★★★☆☆ - Feb 9, 2020
280. The Emissary

     Yoko Tawada

     ★★★☆☆ - Feb 4, 2020
281. So, Anyway…

     John Cleese

     ★★☆☆☆ - Jan 30, 2020
282. How Your House Works: A Visual Guide to Understanding and Maintaining Your Home

     Charlie Wing

     ★★★☆☆ - Jan 18, 2020
283. Pops: Fatherhood in Pieces

     Michael Chabon

     ★★★☆☆ - Jan 18, 2020
284. Lafayette in the Somewhat United States

     Sarah Vowell

     ★★★★☆ - Jan 8, 2020
285. Death’s End

     Cixin Liu

     ★★★☆☆ - Jan 3, 2020
286. The Dark Forest

     Cixin Liu (trans. Joel Martinsen)

     ★★★★★ - Dec 31, 2019
287. The Three-Body Problem

     Cixin Liu (trans. Ken Liu)

     ★★★★★ - Dec 29, 2019
288. Extinctions

     Josephine Wilson

     ★★☆☆☆ - Dec 24, 2019
289. lucky wreck

     Ada Limón

     ★★★☆☆ - Dec 23, 2019
290. Obata’s Yosemite: Art and Letters of Obata from His Trip to the High Sierra in 1927

     Chiura Obata

     ★★★★★ - Dec 22, 2019
291. Normal People

     Sally Rooney

     ★★★★☆ - Dec 22, 2019
292. Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion

     Jia Tolentino

     ★★★★☆ - Dec 21, 2019
293. Middlemarch, a Study of Provincial Life

     George Eliot

     ★★★★★ - Dec 19, 2019
294. Seattle Walk Report: An Illustrated Walking Tour through 23 Seattle Neighborhoods

     Susanna Ryan

     ★★★★★ - Dec 15, 2019
295. My Private Property

     Mary Ruefle

     ★★★☆☆ - Dec 15, 2019
296. Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley

     Antonio Garcia Martinez

     ★☆☆☆☆ - Dec 12, 2019
297. Creative Selection: Inside Apple’s Design Process During the Golden Age of Steve Jobs

     Ken Kocienda

     ★★★★☆ - Dec 4, 2019
298. The Raven Tower

     Ann Leckie

     ★★★★☆ - Dec 2, 2019
299. A Model World and Other Stories

     Michael Chabon

     ★★☆☆☆ - Nov 28, 2019
300. Six Encounters with Lincoln: A President Confronts Democracy and its Demons

     Elizabeth Brown Pryor

     ★★★☆☆ - Nov 21, 2019
301. Akira, Vol. 1

     Katsuhiro Otomo

     ★★★☆☆ - Nov 16, 2019
302. Laying the Foundations: A Book about Design Systems

     Andrew Couldwell

     ★★★☆☆ - Nov 11, 2019
303. Seattle, Now and Then, Vol. 1

     Paul Dorpat

     ★★★★☆ - Nov 9, 2019
304. Seattleness: A Cultural Atlas

     Tera Hatfield, Jenny Kempson, & Natalie Ross

     ★★☆☆☆ - Nov 3, 2019
305. Inclusive Components: Accessible Web Interfaces, Piece by Piece

     Heydon Pickering

     ★★★☆☆ - Oct 11, 2019
306. Makeshift Metropolis: Ideas About Cities

     Witold Rybczynski

     ★★★☆☆ - Oct 5, 2019
307. Hild

     Nicola Griffith

     ★★★☆☆ - Sep 14, 2019
308. Sea Stories: My Life in Special Operations

     William McRaven

     ★★★☆☆ - Sep 3, 2019
309. The Pigeon Tunnel: Stories from My Life

     John Le Carré

     ★★★☆☆ - Aug 25, 2019
310. At the Existentialist Café: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails

     Sarah Bakewell

     ★★★★☆ - Aug 23, 2019
311. The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York

     Robert Caro

     ★★★★★ - Aug 14, 2019
312. Testimony

     Robbie Robertson

     ★★★☆☆ - Aug 10, 2019
313. The Lonesome Bodybuilder: Stories

     Yukiko Motoya [trans. Asa Yoneda]

     ★★★★☆ - Aug 7, 2019
314. Small Fry: A Memoir

     Lisa Brennan-Jobs

     ★★★★★ - Jul 22, 2019
315. How to Make a Cup of Coffee

     Katsuji Daibo (trans. Michael Emmerich)

     ★★★★★ - Jul 14, 2019
316. The Emperor’s Children

     Claire Messud

     ★★☆☆☆ - Jul 14, 2019
317. American Ulysses: A Life of Ulysses S. Grant

     Ronald C. White Jr.

     ★★★★☆ - Jul 3, 2019
318. Convenience Store Woman

     Sayaka Murata (trans. Ginny Tapley Takemori)

     ★★★★☆ - Jun 29, 2019
319. South and West: From a Notebook

     Joan Didion

     ★★★☆☆ - Jun 25, 2019
320. Some Trick: Thirteen Stories

     Helen DeWitt

     ★★★☆☆ - Jun 16, 2019
321. To the Back of Beyond

     Peter Stamm (trans. Michael Hofmann)

     ★★★☆☆ - May 25, 2019
322. How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy

     Jenny Odell

     ★★★★★ - May 12, 2019
323. Balloon Pop Outlaw Black

     Patricia Lockwood

     ★★☆☆☆ - May 10, 2019
324. A Wild Sheep Chase

     Haruki Murakami

     ★★★☆☆ - May 5, 2019
325. Number9Dream

     David Mitchell

     ★★★☆☆ - Apr 22, 2019
326. Billie Holiday

     José Muñoz and Carlos Sampayo

     ★☆☆☆☆ - Apr 19, 2019
327. Working: Researching, Interviewing, Writing

     Robert Caro

     ★★★★★ - Apr 13, 2019
328. Where’d You Go, Bernadette?

     Maria Semple

     ★★☆☆☆ - Apr 7, 2019
329. Shadow Country

     Peter Matthiessen

     ★★★★☆ - Apr 24, 2019
330. Pastoralia

     George Saunders

     ★★★★★ - Mar 9, 2019
331. Kudos

     Rachel Cusk

     ★★★☆☆ - Mar 3, 2019
332. Inventing Japan: 1853–1964

     Ian Buruma

     ★★★☆☆ - Feb 23, 2019
333. Postwar: A History of Europe since 1945

     Tony Judt

     ★★★☆☆ - Feb 17, 2019
334. Home Buying for Dummies

     Eric Tyson and Ray Brown

     ★★★☆☆ - Feb 16, 2019
335. The Age of Innocence

     Edith Wharton

     ★★★★☆ - Jan 30, 2019
336. Long Life: Essays and Other Writings

     Mary Oliver

     ★★★☆☆ - Jan 26, 2019
337. The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O.

     Neal Stephenson and Nicole Galland

     ★★★☆☆ - Jan 15, 2019
338. Persons and Places: The Background of My Life

     George Santayana

     ★★☆☆☆ - Jan 6, 2019
339. French Exit

     Patrick DeWitt

     ★★★★☆ - Dec 31, 2018
340. A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again

     David Foster Wallace

     ★★★★★ - Dec 29, 2018
341. Arbitrary Stupid Goal

     Tamara Shopsin

     ★★★★★ - Nov 25, 2018
342. The Fifth Risk

     Michael Lewis

     ★★★★☆ - Nov 24, 2018
343. Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch

     Henry Miller

     ★★☆☆☆ - Nov 21, 2018
344. Investing in Your 20s and 30s for Dummies

     Eric Tyson

     ★★★☆☆ - Nov 17, 2018
345. Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration

     Ed Catmull & Amy Wallace

     ★★★☆☆ - Nov 14, 2018
346. The Gone-Away World

     Nick Harkaway

     ★★★★☆ - Nov 9, 2018
347. Motherless Brooklyn

     Jonathan Lethem

     ★★★☆☆ - Oct 27, 2018
348. Pragmatism: an Open Question

     Hilary Putnam

     ★★☆☆☆ - Oct 21, 2018
349. The Constant Gardener

     John Le Carré

     ★★★☆☆ - Oct 20, 2018
350. Artemis

     Andy Weir

     ★★★☆☆ - Oct 14, 2018
351. Redesigning Leadership

     John Maeda

     ★★★☆☆ - Oct 13, 2018
352. It Doesn’t Have to Be Crazy at Work

     Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson

     ★★★★☆ - Oct 12, 2018
353. The Rings of Saturn

     W.G. Sebald

     ★★★☆☆ - Oct 11, 2018
354. A Burglar’s Guide to the City

     Geoff Manaugh

     ★★★★☆ - Sep 30, 2018
355. 29 Master Prints

     M.C. Escher

     ★★★★★ - Sep 22, 2018
356. M Train

     Patti Smith

     ★★★★★ - Sep 22, 2018
357. Nonstop Metropolis: A New York City Atlas

     Rebecca Solnit & Joshua Jelly-Schapiro

     ★★★★☆ - Sep 16, 2018
358. The Secret History

     Donna Tartt

     ★★★★★ - Sep 14, 2018
359. The Prince of Tides

     Pat Conroy

     ★★★☆☆ - Sep 3, 2018
360. Lanterne Rouge: The Last Man in the Tour de France

     Max Leonard

     ★★★☆☆ - Aug 24, 2018
361. City on Fire

     Garth Risk Hallberg

     ★★★☆☆ - Aug 15, 2018
362. Priestdaddy: A Memoir

     Patricia Lockwood

     ★★★★★ - Jul 30, 2018
363. Transit

     Rachel Cusk

     ★★★★☆ - Jul 16, 2018
364. The 25th Hour

     David Benioff

     ★★★☆☆ - Jul 16, 2018
365. Blitzed: Drugs in the Third Reich

     Norman Ohler

     ★★★☆☆ - Jul 9, 2018
366. Too Much and Not the Mood: Essays

     Durga Chew-Bose

     ★★★★☆ - Jul 8, 2018
367. Calypso

     David Sedaris

     ★★★★★ - Jul 5, 2018
368. Ties

     Domenico Starnone

     ★★★★☆ - Jun 25, 2018
369. Reporter: A Memoir

     Seymour Hersh

     ★★★★☆ - Jun 20, 2018
370. The Giant, O’Brien

     Hilary Mantel

     ★★★☆☆ - Jun 9, 2018
371. Bullshit Jobs: A Theory

     David Graeber

     ★★★★★ - May 6, 2018
372. How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They’re Built

     Stewart Brand

     ★★★★★ - May 26, 2018
373. Normal

     Warren Ellis

     ★★★☆☆ - May 20, 2018
374. Pulse: Stories

     Julian Barnes

     ★★★☆☆ - May 13, 2018
375. To Rise Again at a Decent Hour

     Joshua Ferris

     ★★☆☆☆ - May 6, 2018
376. A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership

     James Comey

     ★★★☆☆ - Apr 15, 2018
377. The Invisibility Cloak

     Ge Fei

     ★★★☆☆ - Apr 14, 2018
378. The New CSS Layout

     Rachel Andrew

     ★★★★☆ - Apr 14, 2018
379. The Remains of the Day

     Kazuo Ishiguro

     ★★★★★ - Apr 12, 2018
380. Beautiful Ruins

     Jess Walter

     ★★★★☆ - Apr 7, 2018
381. Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman

     Lindy West

     ★★★☆☆ - Apr 2, 2018
382. Sharks in the Rivers

     Ada Limón

     ★★★★☆ - Apr 1, 2018
383. The Art of Cruelty: A Reckoning

     Maggie Nelson

     ★★★★☆ - Apr 1, 2018
384. Binti

     Nnedi Okorafor

     ★★★★☆ - Mar 3, 2018
385. Acceptance

     Jeff VanderMeer

     ★★★☆☆ - Mar 2, 2018
386. Authority

     Jeff VanderMeer

     ★★★☆☆ - Feb 27, 2018
387. Annihilation

     Jeff VanderMeer

     ★★★★☆ - Feb 25, 2018
388. If on a winter’s night a traveler

     Italo Calvino

     ★★★☆☆ - Feb 23, 2018
389. A Colony in a Nation

     Chris Hayes

     ★★★☆☆ - Feb 17, 2018
390. Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life

     William Finnegan

     ★★★★☆ - Feb 15, 2018
391. The Dispossessed

     Ursula K. Le Guin

     ★★★☆☆ - Feb 10, 2018
392. Outline

     Rachel Cusk

     ★★★★★ - Jan 22, 2018
393. Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body

     Roxane Gay

     ★★★☆☆ - Jan 13, 2018
394. Montaigne

     Stefan Zweig

     ★★★★☆ - Jan 10, 2018
395. How to Think: A Survival Guide for a World at Odds

     Alan Jacobs

     ★★★☆☆ - Jan 9, 2018
396. The Last Samurai

     Helen DeWitt

     ★★★★★ - Jan 1, 2018
397. Stickeen: The Story of a Dog

     John Muir

     ★★★☆☆ - Dec 31, 2017
398. Sourdough

     Robin Sloan

     ★★★☆☆ - Dec 30, 2017
399. Every Day is for the Thief

     Teju Cole

     ★★★☆☆ - Dec 19, 2017
400. Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking

     Susan Cain

     ★★☆☆☆ - Dec 17, 2017
401. The Beautiful Struggle: A Father, Two Sons, and an Unlikely Road to Manhood

     Ta-Nehisi Coates

     ★★★★☆ - Dec 7, 2017
402. Pig-Tail Days in Old Seattle

     Sophie Frye Bass

     ★★★☆☆ - Nov 24, 2017
403. The Fall

     Albert Camus

     ★★☆☆☆ - Nov 12, 2017
404. All I Did Was Ask: Conversations with Writers, Actors, Musicians, and Artists

     Terry Gross

     ★★☆☆☆ - Nov 11, 2017
405. The Quiet American

     Graham Greene

     ★★★☆☆ - Nov 11, 2017
406. The History of Rock ‘n’ Roll in Ten Songs

     Greil Marcus

     ★★★☆☆ - Oct 28, 2017
407. Eileen

     Ottessa Moshfegh

     ★★★☆☆ - Oct 13, 2017
408. Love Goes to Buildings on Fire: Five Years in New York That Changed Music Forever

     Will Hermès

     ★★★☆☆ - Oct 10, 2017
409. The Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin

     Masha Gessen

     ★★★★☆ - Sep 24, 2017
410. After Henry: Essays

     Joan Didion

     ★★★★☆ - Sep 17, 2017
411. Life in Code: A Personal History of Technology

     Ellen Ullman

     ★★★★☆ - Sep 5, 2017
412. The Last Love Song: A Biography of Joan Didion

     Tracy Daugherty

     ★★★☆☆ - Sep 3, 2017
413. The Invisible Bridge: The Fall of Nixon and the Rise of Reagan

     Rick Perlstein

     ★★★★☆ - Aug 21, 2017
414. Bring Up the Bodies

     Hilary Mantel

     ★★★★★ - Jul 30, 2017
415. The Memory of War: Poems 1968-1982

     James Fenton

     ★★☆☆☆ - Jul 26, 2017
416. Wolf Hall

     Hilary Mantel

     ★★★★★ - Jul 26, 2017
417. The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone

     Olivia Laing

     ★★★★☆ - Jun 25, 2017
418. The Autobiography of John Stuart Mill

     John Stuart Mill

     ★★★☆☆ - Jun 23, 2017
419. The Country Ahead of Us, The Country Behind

     David Guterson

     ★★★☆☆ - Jun 18, 2017
420. The Fire Next Time

     James Baldwin

     ★★★★★ - May 31, 2017
421. The Encyclopedia of Trouble and Spaciousness

     Rebecca Solnit

     ★★★★☆ - May 22, 2017
422. The Mirror Thief

     Martin Seay

     ★★★★☆ - May 13, 2017
423. Known and Strange Things: Essays

     Teju Cole

     ★★★☆☆ - May 9, 2017
424. Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World

     Cal Newport

     ★★★☆☆ - Apr 30, 2017
425. How to Catch a Russian Spy: The True Story of an American Civilian Turned Double Agent

     Naveed Jamali

     ★★★☆☆ - Apr 29, 2017
426. Joe Gould’s Teeth

     Jill Lepore

     ★★★☆☆ - Apr 16, 2017
427. Then We Came to the End

     Joshua Ferris

     ★★★★☆ - Apr 15, 2017
428. Open City

     Teju Cole

     ★★★☆☆ - Apr 10, 2017
429. Why Not Me?

     Mindy Kaling

     ★★☆☆☆ - Apr 1, 2017
430. Just Kids

     Patti Smith

     ★★★★★ - Mar 26, 2017
431. Here is New York

     E.B. White

     ★★★☆☆ - Mar 25, 2017
432. Spain in Our Hearts: Americans in the Spanish Civil War, 1936–1939

     Adam Hochschild

     ★★★★☆ - Mar 24, 2017
433. Hello, New York: An Illustrated Love Letter to the Five Boroughs

     Julia Rothman

     ★★☆☆☆ - Mar 19, 2017
434. The Bone Season

     Samantha Shannon

     ★★☆☆☆ - Mar 19, 2017
435. Citizen: An American Lyric

     Claudia Rankine

     ★★★★☆ - Mar 16, 2017
436. The Complacent Class: The Self-Defeating Quest for the American Dream

     Tyler Cowen

     ★★★★☆ - Mar 14, 2017
437. Wm & H’ry: Literature, Love, and the Letters between William & Henry James

     J.C. Hallman

     ★★★☆☆ - Mar 12, 2017
438. Lincoln in the Bardo

     George Saunders

     ★★★★★ - Mar 5, 2017
439. The Daily Show (The Book): An Oral History

     Chris Smith

     ★★★☆☆ - Feb 25, 2017
440. The Last Interview and Other Conversations

     James Baldwin

     ★★★☆☆ - Mar 4, 2017
441. Offshore

     Penelope Fitzgerald

     ★★★☆☆ - Feb 18, 2017
442. Against Everything: Essays

     Mark Greif

     ★★★★☆ - Feb 18, 2017
443. Your Heart is a Muscle the Size of a Fist

     Sunil Yapa

     ★★★☆☆ - Jan 20, 2017
444. Notes of a Native Son

     James Baldwin

     ★★★★☆ - Jan 4, 2017
445. Very Recent History: An Entirely Factual Account of a Year (c. AD 2009) in a Large City

     Choire Sicha

     ★★★☆☆ - Jan 2, 2017
446. Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl

     Carrie Brownstein

     ★★★☆☆ - Jan 2, 2017
447. The Old in Their Knowing

     Robert Bringhurst

     ★★★☆☆ - Jan 1, 2017
448. JavaScript for Web Designers

     Mat Marquis

     ★★★☆☆ - Jan 1, 2017
449. Political Fictions

     Joan Didion

     ★★★★☆ - Dec 25, 2016
450. How We Got to Now: Six Innovations that Made the Modern World

     Steven Johnson

     ★★☆☆☆ - Dec 23, 2016
451. Twenty Minutes in Manhattan

     Michael Sorkin

     ★★☆☆☆ - Dec 12, 2016
452. I Am Sorry to Think I Have Raised a Timid Son

     Kent Russell

     ★★★★☆ - Dec 8, 2016
453. The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America

     George Packer

     ★★★★★ - Dec 1, 2016
454. Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America

     Rick Perlstein

     ★★★★★ - Nov 13, 2016
455. The Dylanologists: Adventures in the Land of Bob

     David Kinney

     ★★★★☆ - Oct 22, 2016
456. Food Rules: An Eater’s Manual

     Michael Pollan

     ★★★☆☆ - Oct 31, 2016
457. The Shadow of the Wind

     Carlos Ruiz Zafón

     ★★★★☆ - Sep 18, 2016
458. Conversations with Jorge Luis Borges

     Richard Burgin

     ★★★☆☆ - Sep 20, 2016
459. Homage to Barcelona

     Colm Tóibín

     ★★★☆☆ - Sep 19, 2016
460. President Nixon: Alone in the White House

     Richard Reeves

     ★★★☆☆ - Sep 15, 2016
461. How to Live: Or a Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer

     Sarah Bakewell

     ★★★★★ - Sep 1, 2016
462. The Rider

     Tim Krabbé

     ★★★☆☆ - Sep 3, 2016
463. Sass for Web Designers

     Dan Cederholm

     ★★★★☆ - Aug 24, 2016
464. Magic & Loss: The Internet as Art

     Virginia Heffernan

     ★★★★☆ - Aug 8, 2016
465. The Fireman

     Joe Hill

     ★★★☆☆ - Aug 8, 2016
466. Bright Dead Things

     Ada Limón

     ★★★★☆ - Jul 19, 2016
467. Oblivion: Stories

     David Foster Wallace

     ★★★☆☆ - Jul 17, 2016
468. Disrupted: My Misadventure in the Start-Up Bubble

     Dan Lyons

     ★★★☆☆ - Jul 6, 2016
469. Inventing the Future: Postcapitalism and a World Without Work

     Nick Srnicek & Alex Williams

     ★★★★☆ - Jun 30, 2016
470. William James and the Art of Popular Statement

     Paul Stob

     ★★★☆☆ - Jun 19, 2016
471. Stalin: The Kremlin Mountaineer

     Paul Johnson

     ★★★☆☆ - Jun 17, 2016
472. Writing on the Wall: Social Media – The First 2,000 Years

     Tom Standage

     ★★☆☆☆ - May 27, 2016
473. Something New: Tales from a Makeshift Bride

     Lucy Knisley

     ★★★★☆ - May 21, 2016
474. The Men Who Stare at Goats

     Jon Ronson

     ★★★★☆ - May 6, 2016
475. Mycroft Holmes

     Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Anna Waterhouse

     ★★★☆☆ - Apr 29, 2016
476. Ready Player One

     Ernest Cline

     ★★★★☆ - Apr 25, 2016
477. The Story of the Lost Child

     Elena Ferrante

     ★★★★☆ - Apr 17, 2016
478. Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay

     Elena Ferrante

     ★★★★☆ - Apr 15, 2016
479. How Google Works

     Eric Schmidt and Jonathan Rosenberg

     ★★★☆☆ - Apr 6, 2016
480. The Story of a New Name

     Elena Ferrante

     ★★★★☆ - Apr 3, 2016
481. Lost at Sea: The Jon Ronson Mysteries

     Jon Ronson

     ★★★☆☆ - Mar 25, 2016
482. Design Leadership

     Richard Banfield

     ★★★☆☆ - Mar 18, 2016
483. The Dog Walker: An Anarchist’s Encounters with the Good, the Bad, and the Canine

     Joshua Stephens

     ★★☆☆☆ - Mar 11, 2016
484. The Meursault Investigation

     Kamel Daoud

     ★★☆☆☆ - Mar 6, 2016
485. Call for the Dead

     John Le Carré

     ★★★☆☆ - Mar 6, 2016
486. The Fry Chronicles

     Stephen Fry

     ★★★☆☆ - Mar 5, 2016
487. My Brilliant Friend

     Elena Ferrante

     ★★★★☆ - Mar 5, 2016
488. Modern Romance

     Aziz Ansari and Eric Klinenberg

     ★★★☆☆ - Mar 3, 2016
489. Moab is My Washpot

     Stephen Fry

     ★★★☆☆ - Mar 1, 2016
490. Wolf in White Van

     John Darnielle

     ★★★★☆ - Feb 8, 2016
491. The Solid Form of Language

     Robert Bringhurst

     ★★☆☆☆ - Jan 8, 2016
492. Show Your Work! 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered

     Austin Kleon

     ★★★☆☆ - Jan 6, 2016
493. Temptation in the Archives

     Lisa Jardine

     ★★★☆☆ - Jan 5, 2016
494. The White House Mess

     Christopher Buckley

     ★★★☆☆ - Jan 2, 2016
495. Congratulations, by the Way: Some Thoughts on Kindness

     George Saunders

     ★★☆☆☆ - Dec 30, 2015
496. The House of Wigs

     Joshua Allen

     ★★★☆☆ - Dec 25, 2015
497. 1Q84

     Haruki Murakami

     ★★★★☆ - Dec 24, 2015
498. Killing and Dying: Stories

     Adrian Tomine

     ★★★☆☆ - Dec 22, 2015
499. H is for Hawk

     Helen Macdonald

     ★★★★☆ - Dec 21, 2015
500. Hannah Arendt: A Life in Dark Times

     Anne Heller

     ★★★☆☆ - Dec 12, 2015
501. What We See When We Read

     Peter Mendelsund

     ★★★★☆ - Dec 1, 2015
502. The Book of Strange New Things

     Michel Faber

     ★★★☆☆ - Nov 27, 2015
503. Dylan, Disc by Disc

     Jon Bream

     ★★☆☆☆ - Nov 27, 2015
504. Terra Firma Triptych

     J.M. Ledgard

     ★★★☆☆ - Nov 12, 2015
505. The Stockholm Octavo

     Karen Engelmann

     ★★★★☆ - Nov 4, 2015
506. A Double Sorrow: a Version of Troilus and Criseyde

     Lavinia Greenlaw

     ★★★☆☆ - Nov 2, 2015
507. The Woman Upstairs

     Claire Messud

     ★★★☆☆ - Nov 1, 2015
508. Managing Humans: Biting and Humorous Tales of a Software Engineering Manager

     Michael Lopp

     ★★★☆☆ - Oct 17, 2015
509. Snow Falling on Cedars

     David Guterson

     ★★★★★ - Oct 16, 2015
510. The Braindead Megaphone

     George Saunders

     ★★★☆☆ - Oct 10, 2015
511. A Load of Hooey

     Bob Odenkirk

     ★★☆☆☆ - Oct 2, 2015
512. The Night of the Gun

     David Carr

     ★★★★☆ - Sep 29, 2015
513. Victory: An Island Tale

     Joseph Conrad

     ★★☆☆☆ - Sep 22, 2015
514. Washington Schlepped Here: Walking in the Nation’s Capital

     Christopher Buckley

     ★★★★☆ - Sep 8, 2015
515. Washington, D.C.

     Gore Vidal

     ★★★☆☆ - Sep 7, 2015
516. Born Standing Up: A Comic’s Life

     Steve Martin

     ★★★☆☆ - Sep 4, 2015
517. Between the World and Me

     Ta-Nehisi Coates

     ★★★★☆ - Sep 2, 2015
518. Johnny Carson

     Henry Bushkin

     ★★☆☆☆ - Sep 1, 2015
519. Confronting the Classics: Traditions, Adventures, and Innovations

     Mary Beard

     ★★★☆☆ - Aug 30, 2015
520. I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead: The Dirty Life and Times of Warren Zevon

     Crystal Zevon

     ★★★☆☆ - Aug 26, 2015
521. David Crockett: The Lion of the West

     Michael Wallis

     ★★★☆☆ - Aug 22, 2015
522. Andre the Giant: Life and Legend

     Box Brown

     ★★☆☆☆ - Aug 18, 2015
523. The Ecstasy of Influence: Nonfictions, Etc.

     Jonathan Lethem

     ★★☆☆☆ - Aug 15, 2015
524. Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future

     Ashlee Vance

     ★★★☆☆ - Aug 1, 2015
525. Moriarty

     Anthony Horowitz

     ★★★☆☆ - Aug 6, 2015
526. A Small Place

     Jamaica Kincaid

     ★★★★☆ - Jul 19, 2015
527. We Live in Water: Stories

     Jess Walter

     ★★★★☆ - Jul 18, 2015
528. The Sisters Brothers

     Patrick DeWitt

     ★★★★☆ - Jul 17, 2015
529. The House of Silk: A Sherlock Holmes Novel

     Anthony Horowitz

     ★★★★☆ - Jul 13, 2015
530. Madame Bovary (trans. Lydia Davis)

     Gustave Flaubert

     ★★★☆☆ - Jul 6, 2015
531. Seattle and the Demons of Ambition: A Love Story

     Fred Moody

     ★★★☆☆ - Jul 1, 2015
532. Cunning Plans

     Warren Ellis

     ★★☆☆☆ - Jun 24, 2015
533. Seveneves

     Neal Stephenson

     ★★★★★ - Jun 20, 2015
534. It’s All About the Bike: The Pursuit of Happiness on Two Wheels

     Robert Penn

     ★★★☆☆ - Jun 13, 2015
535. Farewell, My Lovely

     Raymond Chandler

     ★★★★☆ - Jun 12, 2015
536. Can’t and Won’t: Stories

     Lydia Davis

     ★★★★★ - Jun 6, 2015
537. The Road to Character

     David Brooks

     ★★☆☆☆ - Jun 6, 2015
538. 10:04

     Ben Lerner

     ★★★★☆ - May 23, 2015
539. Rational Ritual: Culture, Coordination, and Common Knowledge

     Michael Suk-Young Chwe

     ★★☆☆☆ - May 16, 2015
540. Displacement: A Travelogue

     Lucy Knisley

     ★★★☆☆ - May 16, 2015
541. An Age of License: A Travelogue

     Lucy Knisley

     ★★☆☆☆ - May 16, 2015
542. The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy

     David Graeber

     ★★★★☆ - May 9, 2015
543. Why I Read: The Serious Pleasure of Books

     Wendy Lesser

     ★★★☆☆ - May 3, 2015
544. Graphic Design

     Milton Glaser

     ★★★☆☆ - May 3, 2015
545. Ancillary Justice

     Ann Leckie

     ★★★☆☆ - May 1, 2015
546. The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat: And Other Clinical Tales

     Oliver Sacks

     ★★☆☆☆ - Apr 25, 2015
547. The Sculptor

     Scott McCloud

     ★★★★★ - Apr 19, 2015
548. The Writing Life

     Annie Dillard

     ★★★☆☆ - Apr 18, 2015
549. Letter Composed During a Lull in the Fighting: Poems

     Kevin Powers

     ★★★★☆ - Apr 12, 2015
550. Thoughts on Design

     Paul Rand

     ★★☆☆☆ - Apr 12, 2015
551. The Circle

     Dave Eggers

     ★★★☆☆ - Apr 11, 2015
552. Becoming Steve Jobs: The Evolution of a Reckless Upstart into a Visionary Leader

     Brent Schlender & Rick Tetzeli

     ★★★☆☆ - Apr 10, 2015
553. Dog Sense: How the New Science of Dog Behavior Can Make You a Better Friend to Your Pet

     John Bradshaw

     ★★★☆☆ - Apr 5, 2015
554. A Few Seconds of Radiant Filmstrip: A Memoir of Seventh Grade

     Kevin Brockmeier

     ★★★☆☆ - Apr 5, 2015
555. The Handmaid’s Tale

     Margaret Atwood

     ★★★★☆ - Mar 29, 2015
556. Sometimes an Art: Nine Essays on History

     Bernard Bailyn

     ★★★☆☆ - Mar 21, 2015
557. The Queen’s Gambit

     Walter Tevis

     ★★★☆☆ - Mar 23, 2015
558. No One Belongs Here More Than You

     Miranda July

     ★★☆☆☆ - Mar 17, 2015
559. The Letters of William James, Vol. 2

     William James (ed. Henry James Jr.)

     ★★★★☆ - Mar 14, 2015
560. Invisible Cities

     Italo Calvino

     ★★★☆☆ - Mar 11, 2015
561. My First Summer in the Sierra

     John Muir

     ★★☆☆☆ - Mar 4, 2015
562. The Other Wind

     Ursula K. Le Guin

     ★★★☆☆ - Feb 21, 2015
563. Dard Hunter: The Graphic Works

     Lawrence Kreisman

     ★★☆☆☆ - Feb 20, 2015
564. Tales from Earthsea

     Ursula K. Le Guin

     ★★★☆☆ - Feb 14, 2015
565. Tehanu

     Ursula K. Le Guin

     ★★★★☆ - Feb 8, 2015
566. Bad Feminist: Essays

     Roxane Gay

     ★★★★☆ - Feb 7, 2015
567. The Farthest Shore

     Ursula K. Le Guin

     ★★★☆☆ - Feb 1, 2015
568. Relish: My Life in the Kitchen

     Lucy Knisley

     ★★★★★ - Feb 1, 2015
569. How to Be Black

     Baratunde Thurston

     ★★★☆☆ - Jan 31, 2015
570. The Tombs of Atuan

     Ursula K. Le Guin

     ★★★☆☆ - Jan 27, 2015
571. French Milk

     Lucy Knisley

     ★★★☆☆ - Jan 25, 2015
572. Intertwingled: Information Changes Everything

     Peter Morville

     ★★☆☆☆ - Jan 24, 2015
573. A Wizard of Earthsea

     Ursula K. Le Guin

     ★★★☆☆ - Jan 21, 2015
574. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West

     Dee Brown

     ★★★☆☆ - Jan 17, 2015
575. The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up

     Marie Kondo

     ★★★☆☆ - Jan 18, 2015
576. The Letters of William James, Vol. 1

     William James (ed. Henry James Jr.)

     ★★★★☆ - Jan 17, 2015
577. The Strange Library

     Haruki Murakami

     ★★☆☆☆ - Jan 10, 2015
578. Idea Man: A Memoir by the Cofounder of Microsoft

     Paul Allen

     ★★☆☆☆ - Jan 10, 2015
579. Why We Fail: Learning from Experience Design Failures

     Victor Lombardi

     ★★★☆☆ - Jan 5, 2015
580. The Martian

     Andy Weir

     ★★★★☆ - Jan 3, 2015
581. The Manual, Vol. 1

     The Manual

     ★★★☆☆ - Dec 30, 2014
582. The Complete Sherlock Holmes (The Heirloom Collection)

     Arthur Conan Doyle

     ★★★★★ - Dec 14, 2014
583. The Inspection House: An Impertinent Field Guide to Modern Surveillance

     Tim Maly & Emily Horne

     ★★★★☆ - Nov 29, 2014
584. Cover

     Peter Mendelsund

     ★★★★☆ - Nov 29, 2014
585. Golden Retrievers For Dummies

     Nona Kilgore Bauer

     ★★★☆☆ - Nov 27, 2014
586. Men Explain Things to Me

     Rebecca Solnit

     ★★★☆☆ - Nov 27, 2014
587. At Play in the Fields of the Lord

     Peter Matthiessen

     ★★☆☆☆ - Nov 26, 2014
588. The Peripheral

     William Gibson

     ★★★★★ - Nov 19, 2014
589. Six Days of the Condor

     James Grady

     ★☆☆☆☆ - Nov 15, 2014
590. Six Memos for the Next Millennium

     Italo Calvino

     ★★☆☆☆ - Nov 9, 2014
591. The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival

     John Vaillant

     ★★★★☆ - Nov 7, 2014
592. The Last Interview and Other Conversations

     David Foster Wallace

     ★★☆☆☆ - Nov 2, 2014
593. Dad is Fat

     Jim Gaffigan

     ★★★☆☆ - Oct 31, 2014
594. Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness

     William Styron

     ★★★★★ - Oct 24, 2014
595. The Real World of Technology

     Ursula Franklin

     ★★★☆☆ - Oct 24, 2014
596. The Bone Clocks

     David Mitchell

     ★★★★☆ - Oct 23, 2014
597. Amsterdam: A History of the World’s Most Liberal City

     Russell Shorto

     ★★★★☆ - Oct 17, 2014
598. Assassination Vacation

     Sarah Vowell

     ★★★★☆ - Oct 9, 2014
599. Evil by Design: Interaction Design to Lead Us into Temptation

     Chris Nodder

     ★★★☆☆ - Oct 3, 2014
600. Five Hundred Years of Book Design

     Alan Bartram

     ★★★★☆ - Sep 29, 2014
601. When I Was a Child I Read Books

     Marilynne Robinson

     ★★☆☆☆ - Sep 21, 2014
602. The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis

     Lydia Davis

     ★★★★☆ - Sep 6, 2014
603. Electric Aphorisms

     John Roderick

     ★★★☆☆ - Aug 24, 2014
604. Lunch Poems

     Frank O'Hara

     ★★★☆☆ - Aug 23, 2014
605. On Web Typography

     Jason Santa Maria

     ★★★☆☆ - Aug 15, 2014
606. Things a Little Bird Told Me: Confessions of the Creative Mind

     Biz Stone

     ★★★☆☆ - Aug 11, 2014
607. A Dance with Dragons

     George R. R. Martin

     ★★★★☆ - Aug 9, 2014
608. A Feast for Crows

     George R. R. Martin

     ★★★☆☆ - Aug 2, 2014
609. Designing Together: The collaboration and conflict management handbook for creative professionals

     Dan Brown

     ★★★☆☆ - Jul 28, 2014
610. A Clash of Kings

     George R. R. Martin

     ★★★★☆ - Jul 11, 2014
611. Bob Dylan: The Essential Interviews

     Jonathan Cott

     ★★★★☆ - Jul 5, 2014
612. Angelmaker

     Nick Harkaway

     ★★★★★ - Jun 28, 2014
613. Joseph Anton: A Memoir

     Salman Rushdie

     ★★★☆☆ - Jun 20, 2014
614. Library: An Unquiet History

     Matthew Battles

     ★★☆☆☆ - Jun 13, 2014
615. Outside Looking In: Adventures of an Observer

     Garry Wills

     ★★★☆☆ - Jun 6, 2014
616. Pnin

     Vladimir Nabokov

     ★★★☆☆ - May 18, 2014
617. The Goldfinch

     Donna Tartt

     ★★★★★ - May 17, 2014
618. The Last Days of Socrates

     Plato

     ★★☆☆☆ - Apr 28, 2014
619. Prejudices: First Series

     H. L. Mencken

     ★★☆☆☆ - Apr 22, 2014
620. Berkeley: A City in History

     Charles Wollenberg

     ★★★★☆ - Apr 15, 2014
621. 24/7: Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep

     Jonathan Crary

     ★★★☆☆ - Apr 2, 2014
622. Homage to Catalonia

     George Orwell

     ★★★☆☆ - Mar 24, 2014
623. In Praise of Shadows

     Junichiro Tanizaki

     ★★★☆☆ - Mar 13, 2014
624. Blue Nights

     Joan Didion

     ★★★★☆ - Mar 12, 2014
625. Distrust That Particular Flavor

     William Gibson

     ★★★☆☆ - Mar 3, 2014
626. It’s Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens

     danah boyd

     ★★★☆☆ - Mar 2, 2014
627. Levels of Life

     Julian Barnes

     ★★★★★ - Mar 2, 2014
628. The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Vol. 4: The Passage of Power

     Robert Caro

     ★★★★★ - Mar 1, 2014
629. Truth Like the Sun

     Jim Lynch

     ★★★☆☆ - Feb 15, 2014
630. Pulphead: Essays

     John Jeremiah Sullivan

     ★★★★☆ - Feb 9, 2014
631. The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Vol. 3: Master of the Senate

     Robert Caro

     ★★★★★ - Feb 8, 2014
632. Every Love Story is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace

     D.T. Max

     ★★★☆☆ - Jan 18, 2014
633. Average is Over: Powering America Beyond the Age of the Great Stagnation

     Tyler Cowen

     ★★★★☆ - Dec 31, 2014
634. Border Songs

     Jim Lynch

     ★★★☆☆ - Dec 25, 2013
635. Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking

     Daniel Dennett

     ★★★☆☆ - Dec 25, 2013
636. The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Vol. 2: Means of Ascent

     Robert Caro

     ★★★★☆ - Dec 22, 2013
637. Remote: Office Not Required

     Jason Fried & David Heinemeier Hansson

     ★★★★☆ - Dec 16, 2013
638. Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things that Happened

     Allie Brosh

     ★★★★☆ - Dec 8, 2013
639. The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction

     Alan Jacobs

     ★★★★★ - Dec 7, 2013
640. The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Vol. 1: The Path to Power

     Robert Caro

     ★★★★★ - Dec 7, 2013
641. A Perfect Spy

     John Le Carré

     ★★★★★ - Nov 27, 2013
642. The Selected Essays of Gore Vidal

     Gore Vidal

     ★★★☆☆ - Oct 31, 2013
643. The Ballad of Bob Dylan: A Portrait

     Daniel Mark Epstein

     ★★★★☆ - Oct 27, 2013
644. The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon

     Brad Stone

     ★★★★☆ - Oct 19, 2013
645. Letters

     Kurt Vonnegut

     ★★★☆☆ - Oct 12, 2013
646. College Unbound: The Future of Higher Education and What It Means for Students

     Jeffrey Selingo

     ★★★☆☆ - Oct 5, 2013
647. Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England

     William Cronon

     ★★★☆☆ - Sep 28, 2013
648. Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore

     Robin Sloan

     ★★★★☆ - Sep 28, 2013
649. Templar

     Jordan Mechner

     ★★★★☆ - Sep 26, 2013
650. A Field Guide to Getting Lost

     Rebecca Solnit

     ★★★★☆ - Sep 21, 2013
651. The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry

     Jon Ronson

     ★★★☆☆ - Sep 21, 2013
652. Make It So: Interaction Design Lessons from Science Fiction

     Nathan Shedroff and Christopher Noessel

     ★★★☆☆ - Sep 16, 2013
653. The Ocean at the End of the Lane

     Neil Gaiman

     ★★★★★ - Sep 3, 2013
654. The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age

     Sven Birkerts

     ★★★☆☆ - Aug 30, 2013
655. Solomon’s Thieves

     Jordan Mechner

     ★★★★☆ - Aug 24, 2013
656. American Pastoral

     Philip Roth

     ★★★★☆ - Aug 24, 2013
657. Daily Rituals: How Artists Work

     Mason Currey

     ★★☆☆☆ - Aug 13, 2013
658. The Making of Prince of Persia: Journals 1985-1993

     Jordan Mechner

     ★★★☆☆ - Aug 8, 2013
659. Historical Thinking and Other Unnatural Acts: Charting the Future of Teaching the Past

     Sam Wineburg

     ★★★☆☆ - Aug 3, 2013
660. What I Talk About When I Talk About Running: A Memoir

     Haruki Murakami

     ★★☆☆☆ - Jul 26, 2013
661. The New York Trilogy

     Paul Auster

     ★★★★☆ - Jul 25, 2013
662. The Faraway Nearby

     Rebecca Solnit

     ★★★★☆ - Jul 20, 2013
663. Angle of Repose

     Wallace Stegner

     ★★★★☆ - Jul 19, 2013
664. Stoner

     John Williams

     ★★☆☆☆ - Jul 18, 2013
665. Lean UX: Applying Lean Principles to Improve User Experience

     Jeff Gothelf with Josh Seiden

     ★★★★☆ - Jul 8, 2013
666. Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within

     Natalie Goldberg

     ★★★☆☆ - Jul 7, 2013
667. West Wind: Poems and Prose Poems

     Mary Oliver

     ★★★★☆ - Jul 2, 2013
668. Memories and Studies

     William James

     ★★★☆☆ - Jun 28, 2013
669. Tenth of December: Stories

     George Saunders

     ★★★★☆ - Jun 25, 2013
670. Infinite Jest

     David Foster Wallace

     ★★★★★ - Jun 20, 2013
671. These Days

     Jack Cheng

     ★★☆☆☆ - Jun 15, 2013
672. Why I Left Goldman Sachs: A Wall Street Story

     Greg Smith

     ★★★☆☆ - Jun 13, 2013
673. Redshirts

     John Scalzi

     ★★★☆☆ - May 30, 2013
674. Microinteractions: Designing with Details

     Dan Saffer

     ★★★☆☆ - May 29, 2013
675. Diamonds Are Forever

     Ian Fleming

     ★★☆☆☆ - May 28, 2013
676. Field Guide

     Robert Hass

     ★★★☆☆ - May 27, 2013
677. The Elements of Typographic Style

     Robert Bringhurst

     ★★★★☆ - May 26, 2013
678. The Forever War

     Joe Haldeman

     ★★★★☆ - May 23, 2013
679. A Moveable Feast

     Ernest Hemingway

     ★★★★★ - May 17, 2013
680. Feynman

     Jim Ottaviani and Leland Myrick

     ★★★★★ - May 5, 2013
681. The Discomfort Zone: A Personal History

     Jonathan Franzen

     ★★★☆☆ - Apr 27, 2013
682. Burning the Page

     Jason Merkoski

     ★★★☆☆ - Apr 17, 2013
683. Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisited

     Vladimir Nabokov

     ★★★★★ - 2013
684. Democracy

     Joan Didion

     ★★★★☆ - 2013
685. Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything

     Joshua Foer

     ★★★★★ - 2013
686. Debt: The First 5,000 Years

     David Graeber

     ★★★★☆ - 2013
687. Common Sense and Nuclear Warfare

     Bertrand Russell

     ★★★★☆ - 2013
688. Search Inside Yourself: The Unexpected Path to Achieving Success, Happiness (and World Peace)

     Chade-Meng Tan

     ★★★☆☆ - 2013
689. Future Perfect: The Case For Progress In A Networked Age

     Steven Johnson

     ★★★☆☆ - 2013
690. Under The Dome

     Stephen King

     ★★★☆☆ - 2013
691. The Duel

     Anton Chekhov

     ★★☆☆☆ - 2013
692. Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings

     Jorge Luis Borges

     ★★★★☆ - 2013
693. The Library at Night

     Alberto Manguel

     ★★★☆☆ - 2013
694. 79 Short Essays on Design

     Michael Bierut

     ★★★☆☆ - 2013
695. Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry into the Value of Work

     Matthew Crawford

     ★★★☆☆ - 2013
696. Twilight of the Elites: America After Meritocracy

     Christopher Hayes

     ★★★☆☆ - 2013
697. City of Thieves

     David Benioff

     ★★★★★ - 2013
698. The Information: A History, A Theory, A Flood

     James Gleick

     ★★★★★ - 2013
699. Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

     Anne Lamott

     ★★★★★ - 2013
700. Parrot & Olivier in America

     Peter Carey

     ★★★★☆ - 2012
701. One Click: Jeff Bezos and the Rise of Amazon.com

     Richard L. Brandt

     ★★☆☆☆ - Dec 25, 2012
702. Shipping Greatness: Practical lessons on building and launching outstanding software, learned on the job at Google and Amazon

     Chris Vander Mey

     ★★★☆☆ - 2012
703. Maphead: Charting the Wide, Weird World of Geography Wonks

     Ken Jennings

     ★★★★☆ - 2012
704. Content Strategy for Mobile

     Karen McGrane

     ★★★★★ - 2012
705. Close to the Machine: Technophilia and Its Discontents

     Ellen Ullman

     ★★★☆☆ - 2012
706. The Confessions of Nat Turner

     William Styron

     ★★★☆☆ - 2012
707. What Is Reading For?

     Robert Bringhurst

     ★★★★☆ - 2012
708. What Light Can Do: Essays on Art, Imagination, and the Natural World

     Robert Hass

     ★★★★☆ - Dec 3, 2012
709. Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking

     William James

     ★★★★★ - 2012
710. Don’t Make Me Think: A Common-Sense Guide to Web Usability

     Steve Krug

     ★★★★☆ - 2012
711. Lincoln: The Biography of a Writer

     Fred Kaplan

     ★★★☆☆ - 2012
712. A Project Guide to UX Design: For user experience designers in the field or in the making

     Russ Unger and Carolyn Chandler

     ★★★☆☆ - 2012
713. The Little Sister

     Raymond Chandler

     ★★☆☆☆ - 2012
714. The Third Man

     Graham Greene

     ★★★☆☆ - 2012
715. A Degree of Mastery: A Journey Through Book Arts Apprenticeship

     Annie Tremmel Wilcox

     ★★★☆☆ - 2012
716. Scrolling Forward: Making Sense of Documents in the Digital Age

     David Levy

     ★★★★☆ - 2012
717. Fathers and Sons

     Ivan Turgenev

     ★★★☆☆ - 2012
718. The Invention of Air: A Story Of Science, Faith, Revolution, and the Birth of America

     Steven Johnson

     ★★★★☆ - 2012
719. Home Game: An Accidental Guide to Fatherhood

     Michael Lewis

     ★★★☆☆ - 2012
720. The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet

     David Mitchell

     ★★★★★ - 2012
721. J. Edgar Hoover: The Man and the Secrets

     Curt Gentry

     ★★★★★ - 2012
722. Some Remarks: Essays and Other Writing

     Neal Stephenson

     ★★★☆☆ - 2012
723. Cadence & Slang

     Nick Disabato

     ★★★★★ - 2012
724. I Remember Nothing, and Other Reflections

     Nora Ephron

     ★☆☆☆☆ - 2012
725. The Clock of the Long Now: Time and Responsibility, the Ideas Behind the World’s Slowest Computer

     Stewart Brand

     ★★★★☆ - 2012
726. Hamlet

     William Shakespeare

     ★★★★★ - 2012
727. Cities of the Plain

     Cormac McCarthy

     ★★★★☆ - 2012
728. Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street

     Herman Melville

     ★☆☆☆☆ - 2012
729. Thinking with Type: A Critical Guide for Designers, Writers, Editors, & Students

     Ellen Lupton

     ★★★★☆ - 2012
730. Fear of Music

     Jonathan Lethem

     ★★★☆☆ - 2012
731. The Blind Giant: Being Human in a Digital World

     Nick Harkaway

     ★★★★☆ - 2012
732. Angels and Ages: A Short Book about Darwin, Lincoln, and Modern Life

     Adam Gopnik

     ★★★★★ - 2012
733. The Victorian Internet: The Remarkable Story of the Telegraph and the Nineteenth Century’s On-line Pioneers

     Tom Standage

     ★★☆☆☆ - 2012
734. The Sense of an Ending

     Julian Barnes

     ★★★★★ - 2012
735. A Game of Thrones

     George R. R. Martin

     ★★★★☆ - 2012
736. The Great Gatsby

     F. Scott Fitzgerald

     ★★★★★ - 2012
737. The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering

     Frederick P. Brooks

     ★★★☆☆ - 2012
738. Heyday

     Kurt Andersen

     ★★★☆☆ - 2012
739. Soul on Ice

     Eldridge Cleaver

     ★☆☆☆☆ - 2012
740. Night Swimming: Stories

     Pete Fromm

     ★★★☆☆ - 2012
741. The Shape of Design

     Frank Chimero

     ★★★★☆ - 2012
742. The High Window

     Raymond Chandler

     ★★★☆☆ - 2012
743. A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail

     Bill Bryson

     ★★★☆☆ - 2012
744. Amazonia: Five Years at the Epicenter of the Dot.Com Juggernaut

     James Marcus

     ★★☆☆☆ - 2012
745. To Purge This Land With Blood: A Biography of John Brown

     Stephen B. Oates

     ★★★★☆ - 2012
746. This Wheel’s On Fire: Levon Helm and the Story of The Band

     Levon Helm with Stephen Davis

     ★★★☆☆ - 2012
747. I, Robot

     Isaac Asimov

     ★★★☆☆ - 2012
748. Design is a Job

     Mike Monteiro

     ★★★★☆ - 2012
749. The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

     Michelle Alexander

     ★★★★☆ - 2012
750. Wanderlust: A History of Walking

     Rebecca Solnit

     ★★★☆☆ - 2012
751. Thinking, Fast and Slow

     Daniel Kahneman

     ★★★★☆ - 2012
752. Designing Devices

     Dan Saffer

     ★★★☆☆ - 2012
753. Building Enterprise Taxonomies

     Darin L. Stewart

     ★★★☆☆ - 2012
754. Sketching User Experiences: Getting the Design Right and the Right Design

     Bill Buxton

     ★★★★☆ - 2012
755. Pale Fire

     Vladimir Nabokov

     ★★★★★ - 2012
756. Confessions of a Public Speaker

     Scott Berkun

     ★★★★☆ - 2012
757. The Stand: The Complete & Uncut Edition

     Stephen King

     ★★★★☆ - 2012
758. The Elements of User Experience: User-Centered Design for the Web

     Jesse James Garrett

     ★★★☆☆ - 2012
759. Meditations

     Marcus Aurelius

     ★★★★★ - 2012
760. No Country For Old Men

     Cormac McCarthy

     ★★★★☆ - 2012
761. Abraham Lincoln: The War Years, Vol. 3

     Carl Sandburg

     ★★★★★ - 2012
762. Rethinking Powerpoint: Designing & Delivering Presentations that Engage the Mind

     Ron Galloway and Allyssa Rich

     ★★☆☆☆ - 2012
763. The Great Stagnation: How America Ate All The Low-Hanging Fruit of Modern History, Got Sick, and Will (Eventually) Feel Better

     Tyler Cowen

     ★★★★☆ - 2012
764. Defensive Design for the Web

     Matt Linderman and Jason Fried

     ★★☆☆☆ - 2012
765. Music: What Happened?

     Scott Miller

     ★★★☆☆ - 2012
766. Beautiful Evidence

     Edward Tufte

     ★★★★☆ - 2011
767. A Turn in the South

     V. S. Naipaul

     ★★★☆☆ - 2011
768. Inventing American History

     William Hogeland

     ★★★☆☆ - 2011
769. 11/22/63

     Stephen King

     ★★★★★ - 2011
770. Carl Sandburg

     Harry Golden

     ★★★☆☆ - 2011
771. Designing For Emotion

     Aarron Walter

     ★★★★☆ - 2011
772. Mobile First

     Luke Wroblewski

     ★★★☆☆ - 2011
773. The Prisoner of Zenda

     Anthony Hope

     ★★★☆☆ - 2011
774. The Design of Everyday Things

     Donald Norman

     ★★★★★ - 2011
775. Tapworthy: Designing Great iPhone Apps

     Josh Clark

     ★★★★☆ - 2011
776. What We Talk About When We Talk About Love

     Raymond Carver

     ★★★★☆ - 2011
777. Responsive Web Design

     Ethan Marcotte

     ★★★★☆ - 2011
778. Steve Jobs

     Walter Isaacson

     ★★★★☆ - 2011
779. Reamde

     Neal Stephenson

     ★★★★☆ - 2011
780. A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy

     William B. Irvine

     ★★★★☆ - 2011
781. Time’s Arrow

     Martin Amis

     ★★★☆☆ - 2011
782. The Crossing

     Cormac McCarthy

     ★★★★★ - 2011
783. All the Pretty Horses

     Cormac McCarthy

     ★★★★★ - 2011
784. The Republic

     Plato

     ★★☆☆☆ - 2011
785. What The Dormouse Said: How the Sixties Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer Industry

     John Markoff

     ★★★★☆ - 2011
786. On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

     Stephen King

     ★★★★★ - 2011
787. The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare

     G. K. Chesterton

     ★★★☆☆ - 2011
788. Zeitoun

     Dave Eggers

     ★★★★★ - 2011
789. Seize The Day

     Saul Bellow

     ★★★☆☆ - 2011
790. Play It As It Lays

     Joan Didion

     ★★★☆☆ - 2011
791. Don’t Get Too Comfortable: The Indignities of Coach Class, The Torments of Low Thread Count, The Never- Ending Quest for Artisanal Olive Oil, and Other First World Problems

     David Rakoff

     ★★☆☆☆ - 2011
792. Fury

     Salman Rushdie

     ★★★☆☆ - 2011
793. The Cognitive Style of Powerpoint: Pitching Out Corrupts Within

     Edward Tufte

     ★★★★☆ - 2011
794. American Studies

     Louis Menand

     ★★★☆☆ - 2011
795. Claudius the God and his Wife, Messalina

     Robert Graves

     ★★★☆☆ - 2011
796. The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America

     Louis Menand

     ★★★★☆ - 2011
797. Bossypants

     Tina Fey

     ★★★☆☆ - 2011
798. Colonel Roosevelt

     Edmund Morris

     ★★★★★ - 2011
799. The Elements of Content Strategy

     Erin Kissane

     ★★☆☆☆ - 2011
800. Where I Was From

     Joan Didion

     ★★★★★ - 2011
801. Reading Obama: Dreams, Hope, and the American Political Tradition

     James T. Kloppenberg

     ★★★★★ - 2011
802. The Shoemaker and the Tea Party: Memory and the American Revolution

     Alfred F. Young

     ★★★★☆ - 2011
803. The Life and Adventures of Joaquín Murieta, the Celebrated California Bandit

     John Rollin Ridge

     ★★☆☆☆ - 2011
804. Rebels Rising: Cities and the American Revolution

     Benjamin Carp

     ★★★★☆ - 2011
805. Hamlet’s Blackberry: A Practical Philosophy for Building a Good Life in the Digital Age

     William Powers

     ★★★☆☆ - 2011
806. Together Forever: An Invitation to Physical Immortality

     Charles Paul Brown, BernaDeane, and James Russell Strole

     ☆☆☆☆☆ - 2011
807. The Social Life of Information

     Paul Duguid and John Seely Brown

     ★★★★☆ - 2011
808. Life of P. T. Barnum, Written by Himself, Including his Golden Rules for Money-Making, Brought Up to 1888.

     P. T. Barnum

     ★★★☆☆ - 2011
809. Reluctant Revolutionaries: New York City and the Road to Independence, 1763–1776

     Joseph S. Tiedemann

     ★★★☆☆ - 2011
810. As If an Enemy’s Country: The British Occupation of Boston and the Origins of Revolution

     Richard Archer

     ★★★★☆ - 2011
811. Memoirs of Samuel Smith, a Soldier of the Revolution, 1776–1786

     Samuel Smith

     ★☆☆☆☆ - 2011
812. A People in Revolution: The American Revolution and Political Society in New York, 1760-1790

     Edward Countryman

     ★★☆☆☆ - 2011
813. City Reading: Written Words and Public Spaces in Antebellum New York

     David M. Henkin

     ★★★★☆ - 2011
814. Howl and Other Poems

     Allen Ginsberg

     ★★★☆☆ - 2011
815. Children of Dune

     Frank Herbert

     ★★★☆☆ - 2011
816. The Road to Mobocracy: Popular Disorder in New York City, 1763–1834

     Paul Gilje

     ★★★☆☆ - 2011
817. American Insurgents, American Patriots: The Revolution of the People

     T. H. Breen

     ★★★☆☆ - 2011
818. Our Nig, or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Black

     Harriet Wilson

     ★★☆☆☆ - 2011
819. Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb, An American Slave, Written by Himself

     Henry Bibb

     ★★☆☆☆ - 2011
820. The Adventures of Ebenezer Fox, in the Revolutionary War

     Ebenezer Fox

     ★★★☆☆ - 2011
821. Common as Air: Revolution, Art, and Ownership

     Lewis Hyde

     ★★★★★ - 2011
822. After Dark

     Haruki Murakami

     ★★★☆☆ - 2011
823. Dylan Redeemed: From Highway 61 to Saved

     Stephen Webb

     ★★☆☆☆ - 2011
824. The Trial of the British Soldiers, of the 29th Regiment of Foot, for the Murder of Crispus Attucks, Samuel Gray, Samuel Maverick, James Caldwell, and Patrick Carr, on Monday Evening, March 5, 1770…

     ?

     ★★☆☆☆ - 2011
825. Dune Messiah

     Frank Herbert

     ★★★★☆ - 2011
826. Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age

     Clay Shirky

     ★★★★☆ - 2011
827. Dune

     Frank Herbert

     ★★★★☆ - 2011
828. A Simple Twist of Fate: Bob Dylan and the Making of Blood on the Tracks

     Andy Gill and Kevin Odegard

     ★★☆☆☆ - 2011
829. Chicago Poems

     Carl Sandburg

     ★★★★★ - 2011
830. Boston under Military Rule, 1768–1769, as Revealed in a Journal of the Times

     Oliver Morton Dickerson, ed.

     ★★★★☆ - 2011
831. Program or Be Programmed: Ten Commands for a Digital Age

     Douglas Rushkoff

     ★★★★☆ - 2011
832. History of My Own Times, Or, The Life and Adventures of William Otter, Sr., Comprising a Series of Events, and Musical Incidents Altogether Original

     William Otter

     ★★☆☆☆ - 2011
833. The March

     E. L. Doctorow

     ★★★★☆ - 2011
834. Positively Main Street: An Unorthodox View of Bob Dylan

     Toby Thompson

     ★★★☆☆ - 2011
835. A Narrative of the Life of David Crockett of the State of Tennessee

     Davy Crockett

     ★★★☆☆ - 2011
836. Talks To Teachers On Psychology; and to Students on Some of Life’s Ideals

     William James

     ★★★★★ - 2011
837. Chronicles, Vol. 1

     Bob Dylan

     ★★★★★ - 2011
838. Now Wait For Last Year

     Philip K. Dick

     ★★★☆☆ - 2011
839. Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation

     Steven Johnson

     ★★★★☆ - 2011
840. CSS3 for Web Designers

     Dan Cederholm

     ★★★☆☆ - 2011
841. HTML5 for Web Designers

     Jeremy Keith

     ★★★★☆ - 2011
842. John Quincy Adams: A Public Life, A Private Life

     Paul Nagel

     ★★★★☆ - 2011
843. Bob Dylan by Greil Marcus: Writings 1968–2010

     Greil Marcus

     ★★★★☆ - 2011
844. Cloud Atlas

     David Mitchell

     ★★★★★ - 2011
845. Prospero’s America: John Winthrop, Jr., Alchemy, and the Creation of New England Culture, 1606–1676

     Walter Woodward

     ★★★★☆ - 2010
846. Maps & Legends: Reading and Writing Along the Borderlands

     Michael Chabon

     ★★★☆☆ - 2010
847. I, Claudius

     Robert Graves

     ★★★☆☆ - 2010
848. John the Revelator

     Peter Murphy

     ★★★☆☆ - 2010
849. A Sand County Almanac, with Essays on Conservation from Round River

     Aldo Leopold

     ★★★☆☆ - 2010
850. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

     Arthur Conan Doyle

     ★★★★☆ - 2010
851. American Nerd: The Story of My People

     Benjamin Nugent

     ★☆☆☆☆ - 2010
852. The Whites of Their Eyes: The Tea Party’s Revolution and the Battle over American History

     Jill Lepore

     ★★★★★ - 2010
853. The Pearl

     John Steinbeck

     ★★★☆☆ - 2010
854. Bomb Power: The Modern Presidency and the National Security State

     Garry Wills

     ★★★★☆ - 2010
855. Let the Great World Spin

     Colum McCann

     ★★★☆☆ - 2010
856. Screening Out the Past: The Birth of Mass Culture and the Motion Picture Industry

     Lary May

     ★★★☆☆ - 2010
857. The British in Boston: Being the Diary of Lieutenant John Barker of the King’s Own Regiment

     John Barker

     ★★★☆☆ - 2010
858. They Live

     Jonathan Lethem

     ★★★★☆ - 2010
859. Invisible Ink: Spycraft of the American Revolution

     John A. Nagy

     ★★☆☆☆ - 2010
860. If He Hollers Let Him Go

     Chester Himes

     ★☆☆☆☆ - 2010
861. Learning from Las Vegas: The Forgotten Symbolism of Architectural Form

     Robert Venturi, Steven Izenour, & Denise Scott Brown

     ★★☆☆☆ - 2010
862. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

     Frederick Douglass

     ★★★☆☆ - 2010
863. The Hound of the Baskervilles

     Arthur Conan Doyle

     ★★★★☆ - 2010
864. Abraham Lincoln: The War Years, Vol. 2

     Carl Sandburg

     ★★★★★ - 2010
865. Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

     Harriet Jacobs

     ★★★☆☆ - 2010
866. America’s First Black Woman Political Writer: Essays and Speeches

     Maria W. Stewart

     ★★☆☆☆ - 2010
867. David Walker’s Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World

     David Walker

     ★★☆☆☆ - 2010
868. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

     Thomas S. Kuhn

     ★★★☆☆ - 2010
869. For Cause & Comrades: Why Men Fought In The Civil War

     James McPherson

     ★★★★☆ - 2010
870. Bob Dylan in America

     Sean Wilentz

     ★★★☆☆ - 2010
871. Science: The Endless Frontier

     Vannevar Bush

     ★★☆☆☆ - 2010
872. Johnny Tremain

     Esther Forbes

     ★★★★☆ - 2010
873. Rework

     Jason Fried & David Hansson

     ★★★★☆ - 2010
874. Modern Arms and Free Men: A Discussion of the Role of Science in Preserving Democracy

     Vannevar Bush

     ★★★☆☆ - 2010
875. The Making of a Radical: A Political Autobiography

     Scott Nearing

     ★★★☆☆ - 2010
876. The Varieties of Religious Experience

     William James

     ★★★★★ - 2010
877. Social Sanity: A Preface to the Book of Social Progress

     Scott Nearing

     ★★☆☆☆ - 2010
878. God is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything

     Christopher Hitchens

     ★★★★☆ - 2010
879. Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World

     Mark Twain

     ★★★★☆ - 2010
880. The Souls of Black Folk

     W. E. B. Du Bois

     ★★★★☆ - 2010
881. Black Majority: Negroes in Colonial South Carolina from 1670 through the Stono Rebellion

     Peter H. Wood

     ★★★☆☆ - 2010
882. Intimate Frontiers: Sex, Gender, and Culture in Old California

     Albert Hurtado

     ★★★★☆ - 2010
883. The Theory of the Leisure Class

     Thorstein Veblen

     ★★★★☆ - 2010
884. Soul By Soul: Life Inside the Antebellum Slave Market

     Walter Johnson

     ★★★★☆ - 2010
885. The Slave Power: The Free North and Southern Domination, 1780–1860

     Leonard L. Richards

     ★★★☆☆ - 2010
886. Consider The Lobster and Other Essays

     David Foster Wallace

     ★★★★★ - 2010
887. The Slave Ship: A Human History

     Marcus Rediker

     ★★★★☆ - 2010
888. The Apple Trees at Olema: New and Selected Poems

     Robert Hass

     ★★★★★ - 2010
889. The Crying of Lot 49

     Thomas Pynchon

     ★★☆☆☆ - 2010
890. Crime and Punishment [trans. Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky]

     Fyodor Dostoyevsky

     ★★★★★ - 2010
891. The Picture of Dorian Grey

     Oscar Wilde

     ★★★★☆ - 2010
892. Shalimar the Clown

     Salman Rushdie

     ★★★★☆ - 2010
893. The Age of the Infovore: Succeeding in the Information Economy

     Tyler Cowen

     ★★★☆☆ - 2010
894. At Day’s Close: Night in Times Past

     A. Roger Ekirch

     ★★★★☆ - 2010
895. The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov

     Vladimir Nabokov

     ★★★★★ - 2010
896. The Radicalism of the American Revolution

     Gordon Wood

     ★★★★☆ - 2010
897. Girl With Curious Hair

     David Foster Wallace

     ★★★★☆ - 2010
898. Bicycle Diaries

     David Byrne

     ★★★☆☆ - 2010
899. Body Toxic: An Environmental Memoir

     Susanne Antonetta

     ★★★★☆ - 2010
900. Herzog

     Saul Bellow

     ★★★★★ - 2010
901. The Big Test: The Secret History of the American Meritocracy

     Nicholas Lemann

     ★★★★★ - 2010
902. The Sound and The Fury

     William Faulkner

     ★★☆☆☆ - 2010
903. Highway 61 Revisited: Bob Dylan’s Road from Minnesota to the World

     Colleen J. Sheehy & Thomas Swiss, ed.

     ★★★☆☆ - 2010
904. Spreading the News: The American Postal System from Franklin to Morse

     Richard R. John

     ★★★★☆ - 2010
905. Moby-Dick, or, The Whale

     Herman Melville

     ★★★★★ - 2010
906. Suttree

     Cormac McCarthy

     ★★★★☆ - 2010
907. The Paranoid Style in American Politics and Other Essays

     Richard Hofstadter

     ★★★★★ - 2010
908. The Waste Land and Other Poems

     T. S. Eliot

     ★★★★☆ - 2010
909. The Savage Detectives

     Roberto Bolaño

     ★★☆☆☆ - 2010
910. The Disappointment Artist: Essays

     Jonathan Lethem

     ★★☆☆☆ - 2010
911. The Rough Riders

     Theodore Roosevelt

     ★★★☆☆ - 2010
912. Kafka on the Shore

     Haruki Murakami

     ★★★★☆ - 2010
913. Heroes and Villains: Essays on Music, Movies, Comics, and Culture

     David Hajdu

     ★★★★☆ - 2010
914. Fight Club

     Chuck Palahnuik

     ★★☆☆☆ - 2010
915. Time and Materials: Poems, 1997–2005

     Robert Hass

     ★★★★☆ - 2010
916. The Long Goodbye

     Raymond Chandler

     ★★★★☆ - 2010
917. Gandhi: His Life and Message for the World

     Louis Fischer

     ★★☆☆☆ - 2010
918. The Possessed (Demons) [trans. Constance Garnett]

     Fyodor Dostoyevsky

     ★★☆☆☆ - 2010
919. Town Born: The Political Economy of New England from Its Founding to the Revolution

     Barry Levy

     ★★★★☆ - 2010
920. The Old Man and the Sea

     Ernest Hemingway

     ★★★★★ - 2010
921. The Illustrated Man

     Ray Bradbury

     ★★★★☆ - 2010
922. The Book of Disquiet [trans. Richard Zenith]

     Fernando Pessoa

     ★★★★☆ - 2010
923. Snow Country [trans. Edward G. Seidensticker]

     Yasunari Kawabata

     ★★★★☆ - 2010
924. Wampeters, Foma, & Granfalloons (Opinions)

     Kurt Vonnegut

     ★★★☆☆ - 2010
925. Size Matters: How Height Affects the Health, Happiness, and Success of Boys—and the Men They Become

     Stephen S. Hall

     ★☆☆☆☆ - 2010
926. Between the Wars: America, 1919–1941

     David A. Shannon

     ★★★☆☆ - 2010
927. Ubik

     Philip K. Dick

     ★★★☆☆ - 2010
928. Jack Tar vs. John Bull: The Role of New York’s Seamen in Precipitating the Revolution

     Jesse Lemisch

     ★★★★☆ - 2010
929. Farmers & Fishermen: Two Centuries of Work in Essex County, Massachusetts, 1630–1830

     Daniel Vickers

     ★★★☆☆ - 2010
930. Prom Night: Youth, Schools, and Popular Culture

     Amy L. Best

     ★★★☆☆ - 2010
931. For Whom the Bell Tolls

     Ernest Hemingway

     ★★★★★ - 2010
932. Crossing to Safety

     Wallace Stegner

     ★★★★☆ - 2010
933. The Golden Ass, or, Metamorphoses [trans. E. J. Kenney]

     Apuleius

     ★★★☆☆ - 2010
934. Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families

     J. Anthony Lukas

     ★★★★★ - 2010
935. The White Album

     Joan Didion

     ★★★★★ - 2010
936. Gun, With Occasional Music

     Jonathan Lethem

     ★★★☆☆ - 2010
937. The Dharma Bums

     Jack Kerouac

     ★★★★☆ - 2010
938. Land of Desire: Merchants, Power, and the Rise of a New American Culture

     William Leach

     ★★★★☆ - 2010
939. The Strange Career of Jim Crow

     C. Vann Woodward

     ★★★☆☆ - 2010
940. The Postal Age: The Emergence of Modern Communications in Nineteenth-Century America

     David M. Henkin

     ★★★★☆ - 2010
941. Dylan’s Visions of Sin

     Christopher Ricks

     ★★★★★ - 2010
942. Music from Big Pink

     John Niven

     ★★★★☆ - 2010
943. Vampires, Dragons, and Egyptian Kings: Youth Gangs in Postwar New York

     Eric Schneider

     ★★★☆☆ - 2010
944. Slapstick

     Kurt Vonnegut

     ★★☆☆☆ - 2010
945. Abraham Lincoln: The War Years, Vol. I

     Carl Sandburg

     ★★★★★ - 2010
946. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

     Philip K. Dick

     ★★★★☆ - 2010
947. The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch

     Philip K. Dick

     ★★★☆☆ - 2010
948. The Man in the High Castle

     Philip K. Dick

     ★★★★☆ - 2010
949. The Diverted Dream: Community Colleges and the Promise of Educational Opportunity in America, 1900–1985

     Steven Brint & Jerome Karabel

     ★★★★☆ - 2010
950. The Education of Henry Adams

     Henry Adams

     ★★★☆☆ - 2010
951. The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America

     Erik Larson

     ★★★☆☆ - 2010
952. God’s Country, Uncle Sam’s Land: Faith and Conflict in the American West

     Todd M. Kerstetter

     ★★★★★ - 2010
953. Highway 61 Revisited

     Mark Polizzotti

     ★★★☆☆ - 2010
954. Supercapitalism: The Transformation of Business, Democracy, and Everyday Life

     Robert Reich

     ★★★★★ - 2010
955. From Front Porch to Back Seat: Courtship in Twentieth-Century America

     Beth L. Bailey

     ★★★★☆ - 2010
956. Buffalo Bill’s Wild West: Celebrity, Memory, and Popular History

     Joy S. Kasson

     ★★★☆☆ - 2010
957. Babylon Revisited and Other Stories

     F. Scott Fitzgerald

     ★★★☆☆ - 2010
958. The Education of Blacks in the South, 1860–1935

     James D. Anderson

     ★★★★☆ - 2010
959. The Era of Reconstruction, 1865–1877

     Kenneth M. Stampp

     ★★★★☆ - 2010
960. Pragmatism

     William James

     ★★★★★ - 2010
961. Tinkering Toward Utopia: A Century of Public School Reform

     David Tyack & Larry Cuban

     ★★★☆☆ - 2010
962. Learning to Forget: Schooling and Family Life in New Haven’s Working Class, 1870–1940

     Stephen Lassonde

     ★★☆☆☆ - 2010
963. The Cello Suites: J.S. Bach, Pablo Casals, and the Search for a Baroque Masterpiece

     Eric Siblin

     ★★★☆☆ - 2010
964. That Noble Dream: The “Objectivity Question” and the American Historical Profession

     Peter Novick

     ★★★☆☆ - 2010
965. Letters to a Young Contrarian

     Christopher Hitchens

     ★★★☆☆ - 2010
966. Cheap Amusements: Working Women and Leisure in Turn-of-the-Century New York

     Kathy Peiss

     ★★★☆☆ - 2010
967. Daisy Miller

     Henry James

     ★★☆☆☆ - 2010
968. The Turn of the Screw

     Henry James

     ★★☆☆☆ - 2010
969. The Final Solution: A Story of Detection

     Michael Chabon

     ★★★☆☆ - 2010
970. Chronic City

     Jonathan Lethem

     ★★★★☆ - 2010
971. The Wordy Shipmates

     Sarah Vowell

     ★★★★☆ - 2010
972. What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815–1848

     Daniel Walker Howe

     ★★★☆☆ - 2010
973. Blood Meridian, or The Evening Redness in the West

     Cormac McCarthy

     ★★★☆☆ - 2010
974. Dr. Bloodmoney, or How We Got Along After The Bomb

     Phillip K. Dick

     ★★★☆☆ - 2010
975. Look at the Birdie: Unpublished Short Fiction

     Kurt Vonnegut

     ★★★☆☆ - 2010
976. Martian Time-Slip

     Philip K. Dick

     ★★★☆☆ - 2009
977. Einstein’s Dreams

     Alan Lightman

     ★★★☆☆ - 2009
978. The Deep Range

     Arthur C. Clarke

     ★★★★☆ - 2009
979. Reading Lolita in Tehran

     Azar Nafisi

     ★★★☆☆ - 2009
980. Big Sur

     Jack Kerouac

     ★★★☆☆ - 2009
981. The Martian Chronicles

     Ray Bradbury

     ★★★★★ - 2009
982. A Theory of Justice

     John Rawls

     ★★★★☆ - 2009
983. Revolution in the Air: The Songs of Bob Dylan, 1957–1973

     Clinton Heylin

     ★★★★☆ - 2009
984. Slouching Towards Bethlehem

     Joan Didion

     ★★★★★ - 2009
985. Locked in the Cabinet

     Robert Reich

     ★★★★☆ - 2009
986. The Seven Worlds of Theodore Roosevelt

     Edward Wagenknecht

     ★★★☆☆ - 2009
987. Justice as Fairness: A Restatement

     John Rawls

     ★★★★☆ - 2009
988. Theodore Roosevelt: Preacher of Righteousness

     Joshua Hawley

     ★★★☆☆ - 2009
989. The Restructuring of Social and Political Theory

     Richard J. Bernstein

     ★☆☆☆☆ - 2009
990. In the American Grain

     William Carlos Williams

     ★★☆☆☆ - 2009
991. Men in the Sun and Other Palestinian Stories

     Ghassan Kanafani

     ★★★☆☆ - 2009
992. The Jeffersonian Transformation: Passages From The “History”

     Henry Adams

     ★★★★☆ - 2009
993. Riprap and Cold Mountain Poems

     Gary Snyder

     ★★★★★ - 2009
994. Slaughter-House Five, or, The Children’s Crusade

     Kurt Vonnegut

     ★★★★★ - 2009
995. Hunting the Grisly and Other Sketches

     Theodore Roosevelt

     ★★★☆☆ - 2009
996. Thomas Jefferson: Author of America

     Christopher Hitchens

     ★★★☆☆ - 2009
997. The Strenuous Life

     Theodore Roosevelt

     ★★★☆☆ - 2009
998. The Significance of the Frontier in American History

     Frederick Jackson Turner

     ★★★★☆ - 2009
999. Beer in the Snooker Club

     Waguih Ghali

     ★★★★☆ - 2009
1000. Trouble is My Business

      Raymond Chandler

      ★★★★☆ - 2009
1001. The Doors of Perception

      Aldous Huxley

      ★★★☆☆ - 2009
1002. A Stroll With William James

      Jacques Barzun

      ★★★★★ - 2009
1003. The Corrections

      Jonathan Franzen

      ★★★★★ - 2009
1004. The Evolutionists: American Thinkers Confront Charles Darwin, 1860–1920

      J. David Hoeveler

      ★★★☆☆ - 2009
1005. Playback

      Raymond Chandler

      ★★★☆☆ - 2009
1006. Moll Flanders

      Daniel Defoe

      ★★☆☆☆ - 2009
1007. When You Are Engulfed in Flames

      David Sedaris

      ★★★★☆ - 2009
1008. Turtle Island

      Gary Snyder

      ★★★★☆ - 2009
1009. Looking Backward: 2000–1887

      Edward Bellamy

      ★★★☆☆ - 2009
1010. ZOT! The Complete Black and White Collection: 1987–1991

      Scott McCloud

      ★★★☆☆ - 2009
1011. Atlas Shrugged

      Ayn Rand

      ★☆☆☆☆ - 2009
1012. Natural Science and Religion

      Asa Grey

      ★★☆☆☆ - 2009
1013. The Stranger

      Albert Camus

      ★★★★★ - 2009
1014. The Dark Side of Camelot

      Seymour Hersh

      ★★★★☆ - 2009
1015. Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion

      David Hume

      ★★★☆☆ - 2009
1016. The Complete Persepolis

      Marjane Satrapi

      ★★★★☆ - 2009
1017. Deer Hunting With Jesus: Dispatches From America’s Class War

      Joe Bageant

      ★★★☆☆ - 2009
1018. Dance Dance Dance

      Haruki Murakami

      ★★★★☆ - 2009
1019. Generation Kill: Devil Dogs, Iceman, Captain America, and the New Face of American War

      Evan Wright

      ★★★★☆ - 2009
1020. The Year of Magical Thinking

      Joan Didion

      ★★★★★ - 2009
1021. Going Nucular: Language, Politics, and Culture in Controversial Times

      Geoffrey Nunberg

      ★★★★☆ - 2009
1022. The Enchantress of Florence

      Salman Rushdie

      ★★★☆☆ - 2009
1023. I Shot a Man in Reno: A History of Death by Murder, Suicide, Fire, Flood, Drugs, Disease, and General Misadventure, As Related In Popular Song

      Graeme Thomson

      ★★★★☆ - 2009
1024. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius

      Dave Eggers

      ★★★★☆ - 2009
1025. I Was Told There’d Be Cake: Essays

      Sloane Crosley

      ★★★☆☆ - 2009
1026. The Blind Watchmaker

      Richard Dawkins

      ★★★☆☆ - 2009
1027. The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin

      Gordon Wood

      ★★★★☆ - 2009
1028. The Plot Against America

      Philip Roth

      ★★★★★ - 2009
1029. The Land Where The Blues Began

      Alan Lomax

      ★★★★☆ - 2009
1030. The Trial of Henry Kissinger

      Christopher Hitchens

      ★★★★☆ - 2009
1031. A Confederacy of Dunces

      John Kennedy Toole

      ★★★★☆ - 2009
1032. The Shape of Things To Come: Prophecy & the American Voice

      Greil Marcus

      ★★★☆☆ - 2009
1033. The Diamond Age, or: A Young Lady’s Illustrated Primer

      Neal Stephenson

      ★★★☆☆ - 2009
1034. Spock Must Die!

      James Blish

      ★★★☆☆ - 2009
1035. A Short History of the United States

      Allan Nevins & Henry Steele Commager

      ★★★☆☆ - 2009
1036. A Canticle for Leibowitz

      Walter M. Miller

      ★★★★☆ - 2009
1037. Alexander Hamilton

      Ron Chernow

      ★★★★☆ - 2009
1038. Discover Your Inner Economist: Use Incentives to Fall in Love, Survive Your Next Meeting, and Motivate Your Dentist

      Tyler Cowen

      ★★★★★ - 2009
1039. On the Shortness of Life

      Seneca

      ★★★★★ - 2009
1040. New Ideas from Dead Economists: An Introduction to Modern Economic Thought

      Todd Buchholz

      ★★★☆☆ - 2009
1041. The Way We Talk Now: Commentaries on Language and Culture from NPR’s Fresh Air

      Geoffrey Nunberg

      ★★★☆☆ - 2009
1042. The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution

      Bernard Bailyn

      ★★★★☆ - 2009
1043. In the Beginning… was the Command Line

      Neal Stephenson

      ★★★☆☆ - 2009
1044. Wuthering Heights

      Emily Bronte

      ★★☆☆☆ - 2009
1045. The Curious Life of Robert Hooke: The Man Who Measured London

      Lisa Jardine

      ★★★★☆ - 2009
1046. The Writings of Samuel Adams, Volume 1: 1764–1769

      Samuel Adams

      ★★★☆☆ - 2009
1047. Born in the U.S.A.

      Geoffrey Himes

      ★★★☆☆ - 2009
1048. Peter Oliver’s Origin and Progress of the American Rebellion: A Tory View

      Peter Oliver

      ★★★☆☆ - 2009
1049. The Stamp Act Crisis: Prologue to Revolution

      Edmund & Helen Morgan

      ★★★★★ - 2009
1050. Liberty Tree: Ordinary People and the American Revolution

      Alfred F. Young

      ★★★☆☆ - 2009
1051. Faces of Revolution: Personalities and Themes in the Struggle for American Independence

      Bernard Bailyn

      ★★★★☆ - 2009
1052. Pride and Prejudice

      Jane Austen

      ★★☆☆☆ - 2009
1053. Stick to Drawing Comics, Monkey Brain!

      Scott Adams

      ★★☆☆☆ - 2009
1054. Two Cheers for Democracy

      E. M. Forster

      ★★★★☆ - 2009
1055. In Our Time

      Ernest Hemingway

      ★★★★☆ - 2009
1056. Why I Write

      George Orwell

      ★★★★★ - 2009
1057. The Ghost Map: The Story of London’s Most Terrifying Epidemic and How it Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World

      Steven Johnson

      ★★★★☆ - 2009
1058. The Marketplace of Revolution: How Consumer Politics Shaped American Independence

      T. H. Breen

      ★★★☆☆ - 2009
1059. From Resistance to Revolution: Colonial Radicals and the Development of American Opposition to Britain, 1765–1776

      Pauline Maier

      ★★★★☆ - 2009
1060. The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

      Benjamin Franklin

      ★★★★☆ - 2009
1061. The Big Sleep

      Raymond Chandler

      ★★★★★ - 2009
1062. Neuromancer

      William Gibson

      ★★☆☆☆ - 2009
1063. Liberation: Being the Adventures of the Slick Six After the Collapse of the United States of America

      Brian F. Slattery

      ★★★★☆ - 2009
1064. The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories

      Ernest Hemingway

      ★★★★☆ - 2009
1065. Evolution: The History of an Idea

      Peter Bowler

      ★★☆☆☆ - 2009
1066. Essay on Man and Other Poems

      Alexander Pope

      ★★☆☆☆ - 2009
1067. The War That Made America: A Short History of the French and Indian War

      Fred Anderson

      ★★★★☆ - 2009
1068. The Sovereignty & Goodness of God

      Mary Rowlandson

      ★★☆☆☆ - 2009
1069. Gulliver’s Travels

      Jonathan Swift

      ★★★★☆ - 2009
1070. The Satanic Verses

      Salman Rushdie

      ★★★☆☆ - 2009
1071. Alan’s War: The Memories of G.I. Alan Cope

      Emmanuel Guibert & Alan Cope

      ★★★☆☆ - 2009
1072. How To Break a Terrorist: The U.S. Interrogators Who Used Brains, Not Brutality, to Take Down the Deadliest Man in Iraq

      Matthew Alexander

      ★★★☆☆ - 2009
1073. American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer

      Kai Bird & Martin Sherwin

      ★★★★☆ - 2009
1074. Travels with Charley: in Search of America

      John Steinbeck

      ★★★★★ - 2009
1075. The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil

      Philip Zimbardo

      ★★★☆☆ - 2009
1076. The American Revolution

      Gordon Wood

      ★★★★☆ - 2009