Working in Public: The Making and Maintenance of Open Source Software

Nadia Eghbal

★★★☆☆

Matrix

Lauren Groff

★★★★★

Room Temperature

Nicholson Baker

★★☆☆☆

Status and Culture: How Our Desire for Social Rank Creates Taste, Identity, Art, Fashion, and Constant Change

W. David Marx

★★★☆☆

What Can a Body Do?: How We Meet the Built World

Sara Hendren

★★★★★

The Overstory

Richard Powers

★★★★☆

The Shadowed Sun

N. K. Jemisin

★★★☆☆

The Killing Moon

N. K. Jemisin

★★★☆☆

The Hurting Kind

Ada Limón

★★★★☆

Real Estate: A Living Autobiography

Deborah Levy

★★★☆☆

Every Day I Pray For Love

Yayoi Kusama

★★★☆☆

I’m Your Man: The Life of Leonard Cohen

Sylvie Simmons

★★★☆☆

I Must Say: My Life as a Humble Comedy Legend

Martin Short

★★★☆☆

Utopia Avenue

David Mitchell

★★★☆☆

Faithful and Virtuous Night

Louise Glück

★★★★☆

The Secret Pilgrim

John Le Carré

★★★★☆

Happy-Go-Lucky

David Sedaris

★★★☆☆

Smiley’s People

John Le Carré

★★★☆☆

The Honourable Schoolboy

John Le Carré

★★☆☆☆

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy

John Le Carré

★★★☆☆

Things I Don’t Want to Know: On Writing

Deborah Levy

★★★☆☆

The Looking Glass War

John Le Carré

★★☆☆☆

The Spy Who Came in from the Cold

John Le Carré

★★★☆☆

A Murder of Quality

John Le Carré

★★☆☆☆

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

★★★☆☆