| 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 |
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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 |
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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 |
| TW |
3/4/25 |
Embrace Fearlessly the Burning World by Barry Lopez |
| EN |
4/22/25 |
The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller |
| JM |
5/20/25 |
The Lost Art of Dying by L.S. Dugdale |
| PP |
8/5/25 |
Playground by Richard Powers |
| JG |
10/14/25 |
Medium Brave by Shelly Andrews-Hinders |
| KW |
11/20/25 |
Intermezzo by Sally Rooney |
| KK |
1/13/26 |
The Gales of November by John U. Bacon |
| JL |
3/10/26 |
In The Garden of Beasts by Erik Larson |
