CR |
9/15/94 |
Imagining Argentina by Lawrence Thornton |
TW |
10/20/94 |
October 1964 by David Halberstam |
MF |
11/30/94 |
The Abuse Excuse by Alan Dershowitz |
GF |
1/26/95 |
The Seven Summits by Dick Bass |
KK |
2/24/95 |
Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel Garcia Marquez |
JO |
5/?/95 |
A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain by Robert Olen Butler |
EN |
6/14/95 |
Achilles in Vietnam by Jonathan Shay, M.D., Ph.D. |
KB |
9/?/95 |
All The Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy |
CR |
10/24/95 |
Age of Iron by J. Coatzee |
TW |
11/?/95 |
The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx |
GF |
2/15/96 |
Eccentrics by Dr. David Weeks and Jamie James |
EN |
3/28/96 |
Savages by Joe Kane |
PP |
4/25/96 |
Love in the Ruins by Walker Percy |
KK |
7/3/96 |
Welcome to Heights High by Diane Tittle |
TM |
8/28/96 |
Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson |
KL |
9/24/96 |
Kate Vaiden by Reynolds Price |
CR |
10/29/96 |
The Unvanquished by William Faulkner |
TW |
11/26/96 |
Whisky Island Magazine (Poetry Edition, Summer 1995) |
GF |
1/14/97 |
Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev |
EN |
Silicon Snake Oil by Clifford Stoll | |
PP |
4/8/97 |
The Storyteller by Mario Vargas Llosa |
KW |
5/21/97 |
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston |
KK |
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain | |
TM |
8/26/97 |
Naked by David Sedaris |
KL |
10/1/97 |
The Garden of Eden by Ernest Hemingway |
CR |
10/28/97 |
An American Requiem by James Carroll |
TW |
11/25/97 |
Reading the River by John Hildebrand |
GF |
1/13/98 |
The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett |
EN |
2/24/98 |
Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier |
PP |
4/30/98 |
V. by Thomas Pynchon |
KW |
5/19/98 |
Which Side Are You On? by Thomas Geoghegan |
KK |
6/17/98 |
A Fan’s Notes by Frederick Exley |
TM |
7/21/98 |
Einstein’s Dreams by Alan P. Lightman |
CR |
9/13/98 |
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner |
TW |
10/13/98 |
The Perfect Storm by Sebastian Junger |
KL |
11/24/98 |
Where I'm Calling From by Raymond Carver |
EN |
1/26/99 |
Black Sea by Neal Ascherson |
PP |
2/23/99 |
The Two Cultures by C.P. Snow |
KW |
3/23/99 |
The Ice at the Bottom of the World by Marc Richard |
KK |
4/27/99 |
The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy |
TM |
6/1/99 |
The Day of the Locust by Nathanael West |
KL |
7/20/99 |
The Guns of August by Barbara Tuchman |
CR |
9/10/99 |
“The Dead” from Dubliners by James Joyce “The Future of Fiction” issue of The New Yorker, June 21 & 28, 1999 |
TW |
10/13/99 |
Let Us Now Praise Famous Men by James Agee and Walker Evans |
PP |
11/30/99 |
Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson |
EN |
1/12/00 |
The Love of a Good Woman by Alice Munro |
KK |
2/21/00 |
King of the World by David Remnick |
KW |
4/2/00 |
Double Down by Frederick & Steven Barthelme |
TM |
5/15/00 |
The Size of the World by Jeff Greenwald |
KL |
6/29/00 |
The Afterlife by John Updike |
CR |
9/8/00 |
A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson |
TW |
10/29/00 |
MacBeth by William Shakespeare |
EN |
12/7/00 |
The Art of War by Sun Tzu |
PP |
1/23/01 |
The Big Test by Nicholas Lemann |
KK |
2/27/01 |
In the Lake of the Woods by Tim O’Brien |
KW |
4/10/01 |
All the Little Live Things by Wallace Stegner |
KL |
5/21/01 |
A Roomful of Hovings by John McPhee |
CR |
7/15/01 |
The Human Stain by Philip Roth |
TW |
8/28/01 |
The Book of Honor by Ted Gup |
EN |
10/2/01 |
The Debt by Randall Robinson |
PP |
11/6/01 |
Damascas Gate by Robert Stone |
JG |
1/8/02 |
Citizen Soldiers by Stephen E. Ambrose |
KW |
2/11/02 |
Larry’s Party by Carol Shields |
KK |
3/26/02 |
Suburban Nation by Duany, Plater-Zyberk, and Speck Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser |
KL |
4/30/02 |
Among the Missing by Dan Chaon |
CR |
7/17/02 |
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce |
TW |
8/28/02 |
Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer |
EN |
10/2/02 |
Walden by Henry David Thoreau |
JG |
11/11/02 |
Havana Bay by Martin Cruz Smith |
PP |
1/13/03 |
The Future of Ideas by Lawrence Lessig |
KW |
3/10/03 |
Peace Like a River by Leif Enger |
KK |
4/14/03 |
Women in Their Beds by Gina Berriault |
KL |
6/2/03 |
WAR Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning by Chris Hedges |
CR |
7/14/03 |
Framing Dropouts by Michelle Fine |
TW |
8/29/03 |
Seabiscuit: An American Legend by Laura Hillenbrand |
EN |
9/30/03 |
The Origin of Satan by Elaine Pagels |
PP |
11/4/03 |
Poor Things by Alasdair Gray |
JG |
1/12/04 |
Profiles in Courage by John F. Kennedy |
KW |
2/24/04 |
Life of Pi by Yann Martel |
KK |
3/30/04 |
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald |
KL |
5/4/04 |
Benjamin Franklin by Edmund S. Morgan |
TW |
6/15/04 |
The Botany of Desire by Michael Pollan |
CR |
7/21/04 |
The Iliad by Homer |
EN |
9/22/04 |
Pattern Recognition by William Gibson |
PP |
10/27/04 |
Set This House in Order by Matt Ruff |
JG |
2/2/05 |
Titan by Ron Chernow |
KW |
3/14/05 |
An Italian Education by Tim Parks |
KK |
4/24/05 |
A Gathering of Old Men by Ernest J. Gaines |
KL |
6/7/05 |
A Simple Habana Melody by Oscar Hijuelos |
CR |
7/10/05 |
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini |
TW |
9/13/05 |
Summer for the Gods by Edward J. Larson |
EN |
10/26/05 |
don’t think of an elephant by George Lakoff |
PP |
1/18/06 |
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov |
JG |
3/15/06 |
Rules for Old Men Waiting by Peter Pouncey |
KW |
4/26/06 |
Chronicles: Volume One by Bob Dylan |
KK |
6/15/06 |
The End of Detroit by Micheline Maynard |
KL |
7/13/06 |
The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven by Sherman Alexie |
CR |
9/17/06 |
Ulysses by James Joyce |
TW |
11/8/06 |
Under the Naked Sky ed/tran by Denys Johnson-Davies |
EN |
12/13/06 |
On Bullshit by Harry G. Frankfurt |
PP |
1/17/07 |
Isaac Newton by James Gleick |
JG |
2/28/07 |
The Right Nation by Micklethwait & Woolridge |
KW |
3/28/07 |
Confederates in the Attic by Tony Horwitz |
KK |
5/30/07 |
A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J. Gaines |
TM |
7/11/07 |
The Photography Book by the editors of Phaidon Press |
CR |
8/31/07 |
Imagining Argentina by Lawrence Thornton |
KL |
10/10/07 |
Arc of Justice by Kevin Boyle |
TW |
11/28/07 |
The Road by Cormac McCarthy |
EN |
1/30/08 |
Suite Française by Irène Némirovsky |
JG |
5/6/08 |
The Architecture of Happiness by Alain De Botton |
PP |
6/10/08 |
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon |
KK |
8/12/08 |
The Omnivore’s Dilemma by Michael Pollan |
CR |
9/14/08 |
Everyman by Philip Roth |
TM |
10/29/08 |
The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler |
RS |
12/9/08 |
We Were the Mulvaneys by Joyce Carol Oates |
KL |
1/14/09 |
Five Short Stories by Anton Chekhov |
EN |
2/18/09 |
The Audacity of Hope by Barack Obama |
TW |
4/1/09 |
The Seagull by Anton Chekhov |
PP |
7/8/09 |
Finding Darwin’s God by Kenneth R. Miller |
JG |
8/18/09 |
The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón |
CR |
9/18/09 |
Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald |
KK |
11/18/09 |
The Studs Terkel Reader: My American Century by Studs Terkel |
TM |
1/13/10 |
Cannery Row by John Steinbeck |
RS |
2/24/10 |
A Crack in the Edge of the World by Simon Winchester |
KL |
3/31/10 |
Nine Stories by J.D. Salinger |
TW |
5/19/10 |
The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga |
CR |
6/23/10 |
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger |
EN |
8/18/10 |
Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal by Ayn Rand |
JG |
10/20/10 |
Fun with Problems by Robert Stone |
PP |
12/7/10 |
Parrot and Olivier in America by Peter Carey |
KK |
2/2/11 |
The Big Burn by Timothy Egan |
TM |
3/10/11 |
Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson |
RS |
4/21/11 |
The Confessions of Nat Turner by William Styron |
KL |
6/2/11 |
The Rise and Fall of the Bible by Timothy Beal |
TW |
7/14/11 |
The Wild Trees by Richard Preston |
CR |
8/31/11 |
Room by Emma Donoghue |
EN |
10/5/11 |
New Selected Poems by Philip Levine |
PP |
11/30/11 |
The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David Mitchell |
JG |
2/8/12 |
Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand |
TM |
3/20/12 |
The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes |
KL |
4/25/12 |
City of Thieves by David Benioff |
KK |
5/30/12 |
Manhood for Amateurs by Michael Chabon Sh*t My Dad Says by Justin Halpern |
RS |
7/18/12 |
Underworld by Don DeLillo |
CR |
8/26/12 |
god is not Great by Christopher Hitchens |
TW |
10/10/12 |
The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach |
EN |
11/28/12 |
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf |
PP |
1/29/13 |
The Righteous Mind by Jonathan Haidt |
KK |
2/26/13 |
Beloved by Toni Morrison |
TM |
4/16/13 |
Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote |
KL |
5/13/13 |
Krik? Krak! by Edwidge Danticat |
RS |
7/1/13 |
This is Your Brain on Music by Daniel J. Levitin |
ZG |
8/20/13 |
Truth and Method by Hans-Georg Gadamer |
AM |
9/24/13 |
The Compleat Works of Wllm Shkspr (abridged) by The Reduced Shakespeare Co. |
CR |
10/22/13 |
A Separate Peace by John Knowles |
TW |
12/10/13 |
A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan |
EN |
1/28/14 |
Something I've Been Meaning To Tell You by Alice Munro |
PP |
3/25/14 |
Bleeding Edge by Thomas Pynchon |
JG |
5/6/14 |
Double Cross by Ben Macintyre |
KK |
6/10/14 |
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe |
TM |
8/5/14 |
Mother Night by Kurt Vonnegut |
RS |
9/23/14 |
The Old Gringo by Carlos Fuentes |
KL |
11/4/14 |
To End All Wars by Adam Hochschild |
ZG |
12/9/14 |
Confessions of a Sociopath by M.E. Thomas |
AM |
1/20/15 |
Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy |
CR |
3/10/15 |
Confidence Men by Ron Suskind |
TW |
4/7/15 |
A Short History of Tractors in Ukranian by Marina Lewycka |
EN |
5/12/15 |
Best Editorial Cartoons of the Year (Series) edited by Charles Brooks & others |
JG |
6/30/15 |
Deep Down Dark by Héctor Tobar |
PP |
9/1/15 |
Field Notes from a Catastrophe by Elizabeth Kolbert |
KK |
11/3/15 |
World's Fair by E.L. Doctorow |
RS |
1/12/16 |
All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren |
KL |
2/29/16 |
What Men Live By by Leo Tolstoy |
ZG |
4/20/16 |
Bear by Marian Engel |
AM |
6/1/16 |
All The Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr |
CR |
7/27/16 |
Infinite Jest (first half) by David Foster Wallace |
KK |
9/6/16 |
Listen, Liberal by Thomas Frank |
TW |
10/12/16 |
TransAtlantic by Colum McCann |
EN |
11/29/16 |
The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown |
| PP | 1/31/17 | Infinite Jest (second half) by David Foster Wallace |
| JG | 3/13/17 | Hillbilly Elegy by J.D. Vance |
| RS | 5/9/17 | A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller, Jr. |
| ZG | 6/27/17 | Solaris by Stanislaw Lem |
| TT | 8/8/17 | English Creek by Ivan Doig |
| AM | 9/19/17 | The Razor´s Edge by W. Somerset Maugham |
| SS | 10/31/17 | Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk by Ben Fountain |
| CR | 12/5/17 | Welcome to the Monkey House by Kurt Vonnegut |
| TW | 1/16/18 | Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders |
| EN | 3/13/18 | American Nations by Colin Woodard |
| JG | 4/24/18 | The Book of Joy by The Dalai Lama & Desmond Tutu |
| KW | 5/30/18 | Ill Will by Dan Chaon |
| PP | 8/7/18 | Our Towns by James Fallows and Deborah Fallows |
| KK | 10/3/18 | We Were Eight Years in Power by Ta-Nahisi Coates |
| JL | 11/13/18 | Arrival: Stories of Your Life by Ted Chiang |
| RS | 1/22/19 | Pacific by Simon Winchester |
| AM | 3/5/19 | Strawberry Fields by Marina Lewycka |
| ZG | 4/9/19 | 1984 by George Orwell |
| CR | 6/18/19 | The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by Anne Fadiman |
| TW | 7/30/19 | Washington Black by Esi Edugyan |
| EN | 9/19/19 | The Shape of Water by Andrea Camilleri |
| PP | 11/7/19 | White Noise by Don DeLillo |
| JG | 1/7/20 | Educated by Tara Westover |
| KW | 2/4/20 | Outline by Rachel Cusk |
| KK | 4/1/20 | Desk 88 by Sherrod Brown |
| RS | 5/12/20 | My Family and Other Animals by Gerald Durrell |
| ZG | 6/23/20 | The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels |
| JL | 7/21/20 | How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi |
| AM | 9/8/20 | The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison |
| CR | 10/13/20 | Beyond Category: The Life and Genius of Duke Ellington by John Edward Hasse |
| TW | 11/10/20 | Nutshell by Ian McEwan |
| EN | 12/15/20 | Green: The History of a Color by Michel Pastoureau |
| PP | 2/2/21 | Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk |
| JG | 3/30/21 | The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead |
| KW | 5/4/21 | Nine Horses by Billy Collins |
| KK | 6/15/21 | The Lost Ravioli Recipes of Hoboken by Laura Schenone |
| RS | 8/10/21 | A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles |
| ZG | 9/21/21 | Notes from Undergound by Fyodor Dostoevsky |
| JL | 11/2/21 | The Anthropocene Reviewed by John Green |
| AM | 1/11/22 | The Bastard Brigade by Sam Kean |
| CR | 3/1/22 | Dark Star Safari by Paul Theroux |
| TW | 4/5/22 | No One Is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood |
| EN | 5/17/22 | Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad |
| JM | 6/28/22 | The Road to Unfreedom by Timothy Snyder |
| PP | 8/9/22 | Major Labels by Kelefa Sanneh |
| JG | 9/20/22 | The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros |
| KW | 10/18/22 | The Lost Daughter by Elena Ferrante |
| KK | 12/6/22 | The Sellout by Paul Beatty |
| JL | 2/7/23 | Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr |
| ZG | 2/21/23 | Who is Banksy? by Perspective |
| AM | 4/11/23 | The Quiet American by Graham Greene |
| CR | 5/16/23 | The Midnight Library by Matt Haig |
| TW | 6/28/23 | Talking to Strangers by Malcolm Gladwell |
| EN | 8/15/23 | A Kidnapped West by Milan Kundera |
| JM | 10/3/23 | One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez |
| PP | 12/12/23 | Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver |
| JG | 1/16/24 | The Wager by David Grann |
| KW | 2/27/24 | Dream Town by Laura Meckler |
| KK | 4/2/24 | The Good Lord Bird by James McBride |
| ZG | 5/21/24 | The Order of Time by Carlo Rovelli |
| JL | 7/16/24 | Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari |
| AM | 9/3/24 | Poverty, by America by Matthew Desmond |
| HB | 11/12/24 | James by Percival Everett |
| CR | 1/14/25 | This Is Your Mind on Plants by Michael Pollan |