Nobody Knows My Name

James Baldwin

★★☆☆☆

The Scholars of Night

John M. Ford

★★☆☆☆

A Beginner’s Guide to Japan: Observations and Provocations

Pico Iyer

★★★★☆

The Cost of Living: A Working Autobiography

Deborah Levy

★★★★☆

The Mirror & the Light

Hilary Mantel

★★★★★

Tokyo Ueno Station

Yu Miri

★☆☆☆☆

Inhabiting the Negative Space

Jenny Odell

★★★☆☆

Why We Make Things and Why It Matters: The Education of a Craftsman

Peter Korn

★★★☆☆

The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows

John Koenig

★★★★☆

The History of Rock ‘n’ Roll in Ten Songs

Greil Marcus

★★☆☆☆

Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals

Oliver Burkeman

★★★★☆

The Writing Life

Annie Dillard

★★★☆☆