Books

2025

1. American Short Fiction, Volume 28, Issue 81, Spring 2025

2. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

3. Tell Them of Battles, Kings & Elephants by Mathias Énard, trans. Charlotte Mandell

4. On Heroes and Tombs by Ernesto Sabato, trans. Helen R. Lane

5. The Wife of Bath: A Biography by Marion Turner

6. The City of Carcassonne by Jean-Pierre Panouillé

7. Chemistry by Weike Wang

8. F. Scott Fitzgerald On Writing, ed. Larry W. Phillips

9. Twenty-Nine Goodbyes: An Introduction to Chinese Poetry by Timothy Billings

10. Bel Canto by Ann Patchett

11. Dr. Faustus by Christopher Marlowe, ed. Brian Gibbons (from New Mermaids Christopher Marlowe - Four Plays)

12. Goethe's Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, trans. Walter Kaufmann (all of Part I with excerpts from Part II)

13. American Short Fiction, Volume 27, Issue 80, Fall 2024

14. The Denial of Death by Ernest Becker

15. Anagrams by Lorrie Moore

16. Back to Manderley: A Sleep No More Companion: Volume I by Robert L. Camaj

2024

17. The Hero with a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell

18. Witches and Jesuits: Shakespeare's Macbeth by Garry Wills

19. The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien (includes The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, & The Return of the King)

20. Ilium by Dan Simmons

21. The Albigensian Crusade by Jonathan Sumption

22. Eyrbyggja Saga, trans. Hermann Pálsson and Paul Edwards

23. Istanbul: A Tale of Three Cities by Bettany Hughes

24. The Saga of Grettir the Strong, trans. Bernard Scudder

25. How Iceland Changed the World by Egill Bjarnason

26. The Sagas of Icelanders (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition), including:

    1. Egil's Saga, trans. Bernard Scudder

    2. The Saga of the People of Vatnsdal, trans. Andrew Wawn

    3. The Saga of the People of Laxardal & Bolli Bollason's Tale, trans. Keneva Kunz

    4. The Saga of Hrafnkel Frey's Godi, trans. Terry Gunnell

    5. The Saga of the Confederates, trans. Ruth C. Ellison

    6. Gisli Sursson's Saga trans. Martin S. Regal

    7. The Saga of Gunnlaug Serpent-tongue, trans. Katrina C. Attwood

    8. The Saga of Ref the Sly, trans. George Clark

    9. The Vinland Sagas (The Saga of the Greenlanders & Eirik the Red's Saga), trans. Keneva Kunz

27. Njal's Saga, trans. Robert Cook

28. Intermezzo by Sally Rooney

29. My Name Is Red by Orhan Pamuk, trans. Erdağ M. Göknar

30. Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino, trans. William Weaver

31. Macbeth by William Shakespeare, ed. Stephen Orgel (The Penguin Shakespeare)

32. HHhH by Laurent Binet, trans. Sam Taylor

33. Lives of the Monster Dogs by Kirsten Bakis

34. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

35. Three Parts Dead by Max Gladstone

36. The Spanish Tragedy by Thomas Kyd, ed. J. R. Mulryne and Andrew Gurr

37. Autobiography of a Corpse by Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky, trans. Joanne Turnbull and Nikolai Formozov

38. The Sources of Hamlet by Israel Gollancz (includes translations of Saxo Grammaticus and Belleforest)

39. Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison

40. Hamlet in Iceland: The Ambales Saga by Israel Gollancz

41. The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander

42. Light Years by James Salter

43. Four Quartets by T.S. Eliot

44. Turtle Diary by Russell Hoban

45. The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories by Ken Liu 

46. Chinese Calligraphy: From Pictograph to Ideogram: The History of 214 Essential Chinese/Japanese Characters by Edoardo Fazzioli

47. The Beauty by Aliya Whiteley ("The Beauty" only)

48. Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver by Mary Oliver

49. The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner

50. The Wright Brothers by David McCullough

51. Cassandra at the Wedding by Dorothy Baker

52. Edward Hopper's New York by Kim Conaty

53. Battle for the Marble Palace: Abe Fortas, Earl Warren, Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, and the Forging of the Modern Supreme Court by Michael Bobelian

54. Richard Serra: Torqued Ellipses by Lynne Cooke, Michael Govan, and Mark Taylor

55. The Languages of China by S. Robert Ramsey

56. So Much Blue by Percival Everett

57. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway

58. American Short Fiction, Volume 27, Issue 79, Spring 2024

59. The Malady of Death by Marguerite Duras, trans. Barbara Bray

60. Like Life by Lorrie Moore

61. Poems Retrieved by Frank O'Hara

62. The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer from The Riverside Chaucer (in the original Middle English)

63. To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis

64. Pitch Dark by Renata Adler

65. Love Poems of Catullus by Catullus, ed. Tynan Kogane, various translators

66. Laughter in the Dark by Vladimir Nabokov

67. Kingdom of Characters: The Language Revolution That Made China Modern by Jing Tsu

68. The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Vol. IV by Robert A. Caro

69. The Plot Against America by Philip Roth

70. Presumed Guilty: How the Supreme Court Empowered the Police and Subverted Civil Rights by Erwin Chemerinsky

71. Atonement by Ian McEwan

72. Save Me the Waltz by Zelda Fitzgerald

73. Hamlet: The Texts of 1603 and 1623 by William Shakespeare (Arden 3rd Edition, Q1 and F)

74. Liberation Day by George Saunders

75. War of the Foxes by Richard Siken

76. Hamlet by William Shakespeare (Arden 3rd Edition, Q2)

77. Journey Into the Past by Stefan Zweig, trans. Anthea Bell

78. Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin

79. A Familiar Beast by Panio Gianopoulos

80. Till We Have Faces by C.S. Lewis

81. Best Barbarians: Poems by Roger Reeves

82. On Photography by Susan Sontag

2023

1. The Song of Roland and Other Poems of Charlemange, trans. Simon Gaunt and Karen Pratt

2. Nutshell by Ian McEwan

3. Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Vol. III by Robert A. Caro

4. The Archive of Feelings by Peter Stamm, trans. Michael Hofmann

5. The Captain's Verses by Pablo Neruda, trans. Donald D. Walsh

6. Hamlet in Purgatory by Stephen Greenblatt

7. Natural Causes by Nina Lykke, trans. B. L. Crook

8. Paradise Lost by John Milton

9. 19 Ways of Looking at Wang Wei: With More Ways by Eliot Weinberger

10. Nine Stories by J. D. Salinger

11. Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour an Introduction by J. D. Salinger

12. In the Lake of the Woods by Tim O'Brien

13. Outline by Rachel Cusk

14. Grendel by John Gardner

15. Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman

16. Selections from The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2023, ed. R. F. Kuang

    1. "Termination Stories for the Cyberpunk Dystopia Protagonist" by Isabel J. Kim

17. The Iliad by Homer, trans. Emily Wilson

18. The Rubáiyát by Omar Khayyám, trans. Edward FitzGerald

19. Songs and Poems by Alfred Lord Tennyson

20. Unruly: A History of England's Kings and Queens by David Mitchell

21. Portnoy's Compliant by Philip Roth

22. What Happens in Hamlet by John Dover Wilson

23. On Love by Charles Bukowski

24. Collected Poems by Philip Larkin

25. Stoner by John Williams

26. A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare: 1599 by James Shapiro

27. The Three-Text Hamlet: Parallel Texts of the First and Second Quartos and First Folio by William Shakespeare, ed. Paul Bertram and Bernice W. Kilman

28. Alive: New and Collected Poems by Emily Willis

29. An Apprenticeship or the Book of Pleasures by Clarice Lispector, trans. Stefan Tobler

30. Gilgamesh trans. Sophus Helle

31. I Have Seen the Bluest Blue by Natalee Cruz

32. Transparent Things by Vladimir Nabokov

33. Hamlet and the Vision of Darkness by Rhodri Lewis

34. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard

35. Selections from The Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald: A New Collection by F. Scott Fitzgerald, ed. Matthew J. Bruccoli

    1. "Head and Shoulders"

    2. "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button"

    3. "Babylon Revisited"

    4. "Six of One"

    5. "Crazy Sunday"

36. My Lost City: Personal Essays, 1920-1940 by F. Scott Fitzgerald

37. The Anthropocene Reviewed by John Green

38. An Abundance of Katherines by John Green

39. Just Kids by Patti Smith

40. red doc> by Anne Carson

41. Autobiography of Red by Anne Carson

42. Piranesi by Susanna Clarke

43. Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman

44. Shutter Island by Dennis Lehane

45. Galatea: A Short Story by Madeline Miller

46. Hamlet: Poem Unlimited by Harold Bloom

47. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

48. Eros the Bittersweet: An Essay by Anne Carson

49. The Shadow Docket: How the Supreme Court Uses Stealth Rulings to Amass Power and Undermine the Republic  by Stephen Vladeck

50. Hamlet by William Shakespeare (Wordsworth Classics Edition)

51. Erratic Facts by Kay Ryan

52. The Nenoquich by Henry Bean

53. The Best of It: New and Selected Poems by Kay Ryan

54. Working by Robert A. Caro

55. Flesh and Blood: Poems by C. K. Williams

56. Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf

57. Franny and Zooey by J. D. Salinger

58. Extracting the Stone of Madness: Poems 1962-1972 by Alejandra Pizarnik, trans. Yvette Siegert

59. Means of Ascent: The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Vol. II by Robert A. Caro

60. Glass, Irony & God by Anne Carson

61. The Mouse That Roared by Leonard Wibberley

62. The Secret History by Donna Tartt

63. The Path to Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Vol. I by Robert A. Caro

64. The Red Wheelbarrow and Other Poems by William Carlos Williams

65. Time is a Mother by Ocean Vuong

66. Kairos by Jenny Erpenbeck, trans. Michael Hofmann

67. A Dream of Mind by C. K. Williams

68. Four in Hand: Poems by Alicia Mountain

69. Love and Other Poems by Alex Dimitrov

70. Selected Poems by Emily Dickinson

71. The Book of Laughter and Forgetting by Milan Kundera, trans. Michael Henry Heim

72. Trimalchio: An Early Version of The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

73. The Vegetable by F. Scott Fitzgerald

74. Young Once by Patrick Modiano, trans. Damion Searls

75. Cold Enough for Snow by Jessica Au

76. Gatsby's Oxford: Scott, Zelda, and the Jazz Age Invasion of Britain: 1904 - 1929 by Christopher A. Snyder

77. The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro

78. If On a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino, trans. William Weaver

79. American Short Fiction, Volume 26, Issue 77, Spring 2023

80. The Yiddish Policeman's Union by Michael Chabon

81. Chess Story by Stefan Zweig, trans. Joel Rotenberg

82. Greek Lessons  by Han Kang, trans. Deborah Smith and Emily Yae Won

83. Forget Thee by Ian Dreiblatt

84. Home Bound by Vanessa A. Bee

85. Jewish History: A Very Short Introduction by David N. Myers

86. Judaism: A Very Short Introduction by Norman Solomon

87. Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil by Hannah Arendt

88. A Place of Greater Safety by Hilary Mantel

89. Enheduana: The Complete Poems of the World's First Author, trans. Sophus Helle

90. Kindest Regards: New and Selected Poems by Ted Kooser

91. Hunger by Lan Samantha Chang

92. Nothing but the Night by John Williams

93. It's the End of the World, My Love by Alla Gorbunova, trans. Elina Alter

94. Lunch Poems by Frank O'Hara

95. The Sonnets by William Shakespeare

96. Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie

97. The Solitude of Prime Numbers by Paolo Giordano

98. The Stories of John Cheever by John Cheever

99. Goodby, Columbus by Philip Roth

100. The Story of Hebrew by Lewis Glinert

101. The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, trans. Burton Pike

102. The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Shehan Karunatilaka

103. The Foucault Reader by Michel Foucault, ed. Paul Rabinow, various translators

104. The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera, trans. Michael Henry Heim

105. Founding Gods, Inventing Nations: Conquest and Culture Myths from Antiquity to Islam by William F. McCants

106. Billy Budd, Sailor by Herman Melville

107. Play It As It Lays by Joan Didion

108. My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh

109. Thirst for Salt by Madelaine Lucas

110. Usual Cruelty: The Complicity of Lawyers in the Criminal Injustice System by Alec Karakatsanis

111. Touch by Olaf Olafsson

112. Gilgamesh, trans. Sophus Helle

113. Bartleby the Scrivener by Herman Melville

114. Japanese Mythology by Juliet Piggott

115. The Ruined Elegance: Poems by Fiona Sze-Lorrain

116. My Cat Yugoslavia by Pajtim Statovci, trans. David Hackston

117. erotic poems  by e. e. cummings

118. Moby-Dick; or, The Whale by Herman Melville

119. Life on Mars by Tracy K. Smith

120. The Tailor-King: The Rise and Fall of the Anabaptist Kingdom of Münster by Anthony Arthur

121. Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin

122. I Will Destroy You: Poems by Nick Flynn

123. A Writer's Diary by Virginia Woolf, ed. Leonard Woolf

124. Winter Recipes from the Collective by Louise Glück

125. Crush by Richard Siken

126. 100 Selected Poems by e.e. cummings

127. A History of Japan (Revised Edition) by R.H.P Mason and J.G. Caiger

128. Selected Poetry by Federico García Lorca, various translators

129. Ava by Carole Maso

130. Autobiography of Red by Anne Carson

131. The Waste Land and Other Poems by T. S. Eliot

132. Rome: Poems by Dorothea Lasky

133. Images and Shadows: Part of a Life by Iris Origo

134. Elder Race by Adrian Tchaikovsky

135. Ariel by Sylvia Plath

2022 (Count: 111)

1. Last Summer in the City by Gianfranco Calligarich, trans. Howard Curtis

2. After Claude by Iris Owens

3. Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair by Pablo Neruda, trans. W.S. Merwin

4. The Devil in the Flesh by Raymond Radiguet, trans. Robert Baldick

5. The Drunken Boat: Selected Writings by Arthur Rimbaud, trans. Mark Polizzotti

6. On Beauty by Zadie Smith

7. The Season of the Hare (poetry anthology), ed. Courtney Buoncore

8. Bitter in the Belly by John Emil Vincent

9. Winter Love by Han Suyin

10. Lyra's Oxford by Philip Pullman

11. The Amber Spyglass by Philip Pullman (#100)

12. The Subtle Knife by Philip Pullman 

13. The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman

14. The Reader by Bernhard Schlink, trans. Carol Brown Janeway

15. The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa, trans. Stephen Snyder

16. Priest Turned Therapist Treats Fear of God by Tony Hoagland

17. Be Here to Love Me at the End of the World by Sasha Fletcher

18. Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi, trans. Geoffrey Trousselot

19. She is Haunted by Paige Clark

20. Nostalgia by Mircea Cărtărescu, trans. Julian Semilian

21. Swann's Way (Book One of In Search of Lost Time) by Marcel Proust, trans. Lydia Davis

22. The Shawl by Cynthia Ozick

23. All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque

24. Two or Three Things I Know for Sure by Dorothy Allison

25. Flights of Love by Bernhard Schlink, trans. John E. Woods

26. Maus II: A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began by Art Spiegelman

27. Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History by Art Spiegelman

28. The Genius and the Goddess by Aldous Huxley

29. The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye: Five Fairy Stories by A. S. Byatt

30. A Sand County Almanac: And Sketches Here and There by Aldo Leopold

31. Henri Duchemin and His Shadows by Emmanuel Bove, trans. Alyson Waters

32. Augustus by John Williams

33. Butcher's Crossing by John Williams

34. Exhalation by Ted Chiang

35. Sleepless Nights by Elizabeth Hardwick

36. The Unhappiness of Being a Single Man by Franz Kafka, trans. Alexander Starritt

37. Last Words from Montmartre by Qiu Miaojin, trans. Ari Larissa Heinrich

38. The Weight of Ink by Rachel Kadish

39. The Hurting Kind by Ada Limón

40. Then the War by Carl Phillips

41. Refusing Heaven by Jack Gilbert

42. Night Sky with Exit Wounds by Ocean Vuong

43. A Summer Day in the Company of Ghosts by Wang Yin, trans. Andrea Lingenfelter

44. A Musical Hell by Alejandra Pizarnik, trans. Yvette Siegert

45. The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien

46. What If? 2: Additional Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions by Randall Munroe

47. Turn Up the Ocean: Poems by Tony Hoagland

48. James Acaster's Guide to Quitting Social Media: Being the Best YOU You Can Be and Saving Yourself From Loneliness: Volume I by James Acaster

49. Lectures on Don Quixote by Vladimir Nabokov, ed. Fredson Bowers

50. Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes, trans. Edith Grossman

51. The Silmarillion by J. R. R. Tolkien, ed. Christopher Tolkien

52. The Professor and the Siren by Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa, trans. Stephen Twilley

53. The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway

54. The Razor's Edge by W Somerset Maugham

55. The Complete Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi

56. Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century by Kim Fu

57. Speedboat by Renata Adler

58. Contact by Carl Sagan

59. About Abortion: Terminating Pregnancy in Twenty-First-Century America by Carol Sanger

60. Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang

61. The Seducer's Diary by Søren Kierkegaard, trans. Howard V. Hong and Edna H. Hong (Excerpted From Either/Or) 

62. The Sea, the Sea by Iris Murdoch (#50)

63. Boxer (33 1/3) by Ryan Pinkard

64. Dubliners by James Joyce

65. The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion

66. And the Earth Will Sit on the Moon: Essential Stories by Nikolai Gogol, trans. Oliver Ready

67. Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald

68. Lives and Deaths: Essential Stories by Leo Tolstoy, trans. Boris Dralyuk

69. On Grand Strategy by John Lewis Gaddis

70. Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion

71. Either/Or by Elif Batuman

72. The Tale of Genji by  Murasaki Shikibu, trans. Royall Tyler

73. The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke by Rainer Maria Rilke, trans. Stephen Mitchell

74. The Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa, ed. Maria José de Lancastre, trans. Margaret Jull Costa

75. The Selected Poetry of Edna St. Vincent Millay by Edna St. Vincent Millay

76. Daytripper by Fábio Moon, art. Gabriel Bá

77. Stoner by John Williams

78. The Idiot by Elif Batuman

79. If This Isn't Nice, What Is?: The Graduation Speeches and Other Words to Live By (Third Edition) by Kurt Vonnegut

80. Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Süskind, trans. John E. Woods

81. The Hour of the Star by Clarice Lispector, trans. Benjamin Moser

82. A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan

83. The Hard Hours by Anthony Hecht

84. Let the World Have You by Mikko Harvey

85. Something to Do with Paying Attention by David Foster Wallace (an excerpt from The Pale King published by McNally Editions)

86. The Ada Poems by Cynthia Zarin

87. This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life by David Foster Wallace

88. Zuleika Dobson: Or, an Oxford Love Story by Max Beerbohm

89. Selections from The David Foster Wallace Reader by David Foster Wallace

    • "The Planet Trillaphon as It Stands in Relation to the Bad Thing" (short story)

    • From Girl with Curious Hair (short story collection)

      • "Little Expressionless Animals"

      • "My Appearance"

    • From Brief Interviews with Hideous Men (short story collection)

      • "A Radically Condensed History of Postindustrial Life"

      • "B.I. #14"

      • "B.I. #40"

      • "Forever Overhead"

      • "The Depressed Person"

    • From Oblivion (short story collection)

      • "Good Old Neon"

      • "Incarnations of Burned Children"

      • "The Suffering Channel"

    • Teaching Materials (in toto)

    • Nonfiction

      • "E Unibus Pluram"

      • "Getting Away from Already Pretty Much Being Away from It All"

      • "A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again"

      • "The View from Mrs. Thompson's"

      • "Consider the Lobster"

90. Someone Who Will Love You in All Your Damaged Glory: Stories by Raphael Bob-Waksberg

91. The Loser by Thomas Bernhard, trans. Jack Dawson

92. I'd Die for You and Other Lost Stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald, ed. Anne Margaret Daniel

93. V for Vendetta by Alan Moore, art. David Lloyd

94. All About Love: New Visions by bell hooks

95. To Be a Man by Nicole Krauss

96. The History of Rome, Books 1-5: The Early History of Rome by Livy, trans. Aubrey de Sélincourt

97. No Matter the Wreckage by Sarah Kay

98. The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century  by Amia Srinivasan

99. Poems on the Underground ed. Judith Chernaik, Gerard Benson, Cicely Herbert

100. The Power by Naomi Alderman

101. An Amorous Discourse in the Suburbs of Hell by Deborah Levy

102. Galatea by Madeline Miller

103. The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov, trans. Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky

104. Ficciones by Jorge Luis Borges, trans. Anthony Kerrigan

105. On the Road by Jack Kerouac

106. The Village: A History of Greenwich Village by John Strausbaugh

107. The End of the Affair by Graham Greene

108. Beautiful World, Where Are You by Sally Rooney

109. Ulysses by James Joyce, ann. Sam Slote, Marc Mamigonian, John Turner

110. Lectures on Literature by Vladimir Nabokov (Ulysses section only)

111. The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas by Machado de Assis, trans. Flora Thomson-DeVeaux

2021

1. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee

2. King Leopold's Ghost by Adam Hochschild

3. The Stranger by Albert Camus, trans. Matthew Ward

4. Six Tales of the Jazz Age and Other Stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald

5. American Pastoral by Philip Roth

6. Seize the Day  by Saul Bellow

7. Axiom's End by Lindsay Ellis

8. The Hours by Michael Cunningham

9. Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier

10. Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer

11. How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain by Lisa Feldman Barrett

12. Crossing to Safety by Wallace Stegner

13. Looking For Alaska by John Green

14. The Beautiful and Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald

15. The O. Henry Prize Stories 2016 ed. Laura Furman

16. A Haunted House and Other Short Stories by Virginia Woolf

17. Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace

18. I'm Thinking of Ending Things by Ian Reid

19. The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York by Robert A. Caro

20. Metamorphoses by Ovid, trans. Charles Martin

21. The Fifth Risk by Michael Lewis

22. Good Old Neon by David Foster Wallace

23. The Spectator Bird by Wallace Stegner

24. Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro

25. James Acaster's Classic Scrapes by James Acaster

26. Back Story by David Mitchell

27. Information: A Very Short Introduction by Luciano Floridi

28. The Odyssey by Homer, trans. Emily Wilson

29. The Roommate by Rosie Danan

30. Civilization and Its Discontents by Sigmund Freud, trans. James Strachey

2020

1. Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow

2. Speaker for the Dead by Orson Scott Card

3. A Promised Land by Barack Obama

4. Meditations in an Emergency by Frank O'Hara

5. Essential Bukowski: Poetry by Charles Bukowski, ed. Abel Debritto

6. Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin

7. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce

8. Narrative of the Life of Fredrick Douglass: An American Slave by Fredrick Douglass, ed. David W. Blight

9. Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other by Sherry Turkle

10. Orlando by Virginia Woolf

11. Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman

12. "A Problem From Hell": America and the Age of Genocide by Samantha Power

13. Why We're Polarized by Ezra Klein

14. The Gettysburg Campaign: A Study in Command by Edwin B. Coddington

15. Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders

16. Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution by Simon Schama

17. Men Without Women by Haruki Murakami, trans. Philip Gabriel and Ted Goosen

18. Conversations With Friends by Sally Rooney

19. The Three Theban Plays: Antigone, Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus by Sophocles, trans. Robert Fagles

20. The Love of the Last Tycoon by F. Scott Fitzgerald, ed. Matthew J. Bruccoli

21. The Waves by Virginia Woolf

22. A Dreamer's Tales by Lord Dunsany

23. Death in Venice by Thomas Mann, trans. Joachim Neugroschel

24. How To by Randall Munroe

25. Spoon River Anthology by Edgar Lee Masters

2019

1. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

2. Howl and Other Poems by Allen Ginsberg

3. The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene

4. Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf

5. Cassandra: A Novel and Four Essays by Christa Wolf, trans. Jan Van Heurck

6. Lysistrata by Aristophanes, trans. Douglass Parker

7. A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen, Bartholomew House translation, ed. Philip Smith

8. Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith

9. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

10. History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides, trans. Rex Warner

11. Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books by Azar Nafisi

12. This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald

13. Tokyo Ghoul, Volume 1 by Sui Ishida, trans. Joe Yamazaki

14. Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides

15. A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf

16. Heart of Darkness & The Secret Sharer by Joseph Conrad

17. Siddhartha by Herman Hesse, trans. Stanley Appelbaum

18. The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien

19. Logan's Run by William F. Nolan and George Clayton Johnson

20. The Testaments by Margaret Atwood

21. The Course of Love by Alain de Botton

22. The Waves by Virginia Woolf

23. Black Venus by Angela Carter

24. The Crack Up (Alma Classics Edition With Notebooks) by F. Scott Fitzgerald

25. Storm of Steel by Ernst Jünger, trans. Michael Hoffmann

26. The Mighty Dead: Why Homer Matters by Adam Nicolson

27. Normal People by Sally Rooney

28. Women and Power: A Manifesto (Updated) by Mary Beard

29. Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

30. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

31. Trimalchio's Feast by Petronius, trans. J. P. Sullivan

32. To The Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf

33. The Vegetarian by Han Kang, trans. Deborah Smith

34. Pale Fire by Victor Nabokov

35. Scott Fitzgerald by Andrew Turnbull

36. Autobiography by Morrissey

37. Circe by Madeline Miller

38. Achilles in Vietnam by Jonathan Shay

39. The Turn of the Screw by Henry James

40. The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett

41. The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon

42. The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger

43. The Oresteia by Aeschylus, trans. Robert Fagles

44. The Crack Up by F. Scott Fitzgerald

45. The Histories by Herodotus, trans. Tom Holland

46. Gatsby at Trinity by Ian Flintoff

47. If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho by Sappho, trans. Anne Carson

48. The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller

49. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey

50. The Twelve Caesars by Suetonius, trans. Robert Graves

51. The Symposium by Plato, trans. Christopher Gill

52. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight trans. Simon Armitage

53. So We Read On: How The Great Gatsby Came to Be and Why It Endures by Maureen Corrigan

2018

1. The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch

2. The Guns of August by Barbara W. Tuchman

3. A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway

4. I, Robot by Isaac Asimov

5. King Lear by William Shakespeare

6. The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón, trans. Lucia Graves

7. X Y & Z: The Real Story of How Enigma Was Broken by Dermot Turing

8. Hamlet by William Shakespeare

9. The Diamond as Big as the Ritz by F. Scott Fitzgerald

10. Scott Pilgrim's Finest Hour by Bryan Lee O'Malley

11. Scott Pilgrim vs. the Universe by Bryan Lee O'Malley

12. Scott Pilgrim Gets It Together by Bryan Lee O'Malley

13. Scott Pilgrim and the Infinite Sadness by Bryan Lee O'Malley

14. Scott Pilgrim vs. the World by Bryan Lee O'Malley

15. The Last Samurai by Helen Dewitt

16. Scott Pilgrim's Miserable Little Life by Bryan Lee O'Malley

17. Faust: Part I by Goethe, trans. David Luke

18. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? By Philip K. Dick

19. Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami, trans. Jay Rubin

20. Claudius The God by Robert Graves

21. I, Claudius by Robert Graves

22. The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Frederick Engels

23. The Testament of Gideon Mack by James Robertson

24. Useless Magic by Florence Welch

25. Beloved by Toni Morrison

26. Beowulf, trans. Seamus Heaney

27. Gilgamesh (by Sîn-lēqi-unninni), trans. Stephen Mitchell

28. The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka, trans. Stanley Corngold

29. List of the Lost by Morrissey

30. The Gallic War by Julius Caesar, trans. Carolyn Hammond

31. The History of Love by Nicole Krauss

32. The Pearl by John Steinbeck

33. Player Piano by Kurt Vonnegut

34. The Aeneid by Virgil, trans. Robert Fagles

35. The Poems of Catullus by Catullus, trans. Horace Gregory

36. Lolita by Victor Nabokov

37. Watchmen by Alan Moore, art. Dave Gibbons

38. The Odyssey by Homer, trans. Robert Fagles

39. The Iliad by Homer, trans. Robert Fagles

40. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

41. The Restaurant at the End of the Universe by Douglas Adams

42. The Canterbury Tales by Geoffery Chaucer, trans. R. M. Lumainsky

43. The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood

44. Hocus Pocus by Kurt Vonnegut

45. The Last Unicorn by Peter Beagle

46. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

47. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess

48. Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin

2017

1. The Storm Before the Storm by Mike Duncan

2. Judgment at Appomattox by Ralph Peters

3. Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut

4. This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald

5. The Sign of the Four by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

6. A Study in Scarlet by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

7. Prisoners of Geography by Tim Marshall

8. When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi

9. The Graduate by Charles Webb

10. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime by Mark Haddon

11. The Divine Comedy: Inferno by Dante Alighieri, trans. C. H. Sisson

12. Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies by Nick Bostrom

13. The Princess Bride by William Goldman

14. The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis