Memorable reading, from 2016 on.
2024 (41): Dwight Garner, The Upstairs Delicatessen: On Eating, Reading, Reading About Eating, and Eating While Reading... Virginia Woolf, Genius and Ink: Virginia Woolf on How to Read... Dwight Garner, Garner's Quotations: A Modern Miscellany... Ariel Dorfman, The Suicide Museum. A Novel... Virginia Woolf, The Diary of Virginia Woolf, Vol. 1: 1915-19 (2x read; new edition)... Bernard Moitessier, The Long Way... Tracy Daugherty, Larry McMurtry: A Life... George Getschow (ed.), Pastures of the Empty Page: Fellow Writers on the Life and Legacy of Larry McMurtry... Teju Cole, Black Paper. Writing in a Dark Time... Frank Herbert, Dune... Mick Herron, Bad Actors... Tim Peake, Space: The Human Story... Luis Alberto Urrea, Good Night, Irene... Doris Kearns Goodwin, Team of Rivals... Charles Frazier, The Trackers... Willa Cather, Death Comes for the Archbishop... Andrey Kurkov, The Silver Bone... Alison Bechdel, Are You My Mother?... Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle... Hilary Mantel, A Memoir of My Former Self... Colombe Schneck, La tendresse du crawl... André Alexis, Fifteen Dogs... Barbara Kingsolver, Demon Copperhead... Jayne Anne Phillips, Night Watch...Phillip Gefter, Cocktails with George and Martha: Movies, Marriage, and the Making of Who's Afraid of Virgnia Woolf?... Elizabeth O'Connor, Whale Fall... Martin Riker, Samuel Johnson's Eternal Return... Percival Everett, James... Colombe Schenk, Dix-sept ans... Simon Kuper, Impossible city: Paris in the Twenty-First Century... Abdulrazak Gurnah, Admiring Silence... Tana French, The Searcher... Geraldine Brooks, Horse... Christine Coulson, One Woman Show... Natalie Dykstra, Chasing Beauty: The Life of Isabella Stewart Gardner... Mick Herron, The Secret Hours... Tana French, The Hunter... Janet Malcolm, Still Pictures: On Photography and Memory... Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business... Hampton Sides, The Wide, Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact, and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook... Carolyn Burke, Lee Miller: A Life...
2023 (52): Jeanine Basinger, Sam Wasson, Hollywood: The Oral History... Prince Harry, Spare... Stephen Sondheim, Look, I Made a Hat... Claire Keegan, Foster... Pekka Hämäläinen, Indigenous Continent: The Epic Contest for North America... Tim Cornwell, ed., A Private Spy: The Letters of John le Carré... Mary Karr, The Art of Memoir... Adam Sisman, John le Carré: The Biography... John le Carré, The Looking-Glass War... J. R. Moehringer, The Tender Bar... Tom Reiss, The Orientalist... Sembene Ousmane, God's Bits of Wood... E. H. Carr, The Romantic Exiles... Ed Yong, An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the World Around Us... Ann Napolitano, Hello Beautiful... Colm Toíbin, The Magician... Carmela Ciuraru, Lives of the Wives... Walter Mosley, Devil in a Blue Dress... Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human... David Grann, The Wager: A Tale of Mutiny, Shipwreck, and Murder... Walter Mosley, Red Death (Rawlins #2)... Walter Mosley, White Butterfly... Les Payne, The Dead Are Rising: The Life of Malcolm X... Hernan Diaz, Trust... Linda Colley, The Gun, the Ship, and the Pen: Warfare, Constitutions, and the Making of the Modern World... Bella Freud, I Couldn't Love You More... Tom Hanks, The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece... Celia Paul, Letters to Gwen John... Deborah Levy, August Blue... Richard Russo, Nobody's Fool... David Michaelis, Eleanor… Juan Gabriel Vásquez, Volver la Vista Atras… James McBride, The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store… Ann Patchett, Tom Lake… Michael Finkel, The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession… Claire Dederer, Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma... Clare Carlisle, The Marriage Question: George Eliot's Double Life... Craig Brown, Haywire: The Best of Craig Brown... Jenny Erpenbeck, Kairos... Mick Herron, Real Tigers... Mick Herron, Spook Street... Teju Cole, Open City... John Berger, Landscapes... Mick Herron, London Rules... Claire Keegan, So Late in the Day... Barbra Streisand, My Name Is Barbra... J. M. Coetzee, The Pole... Daniel Mason, North Woods... Mick Herron, Joe Country... John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley... Mick Herron, Slough House... Zadie Smith, The Fraud...
2022 (53): Rachel Cusk, Second Place... Joan Didion, Let Me Tell You What I Mean... Lili Anolik, Hollywood's Eve... W. G. Sebald, The Emigrants... Jonathan Franzen, Crossroads... James Lapine, Putting It Together: How Stephen Sondheim and I Created 'Sunday in the Park with George'... Massimo Montanari, A Short History of Spaghetti with Tomato Sauce... Percival Everett, Erasure... Julie Schumacher, Dear Committee Members... Clint Smith, How the Word Is Passed... J. Drew Lanham, The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man's Love Affair with Nature... Kathryn Schulz, Lost & Found... Tom Stoppard, The Invention of Love... Gabriel García Lorca, Bodas de sangre... Ayad Akhtar, Junk... Isaac Babel, Red Cavalry... Maja Lunde, The History of the Bees...Antonio Buero Vallejo, Historia de una escalera... Kate Atkinson, Case Histories... Miguel Mihura, Maribel y la extraña familia... Fernando Fernán-Gómez, Las bicicletas son para el verano... Tom Stoppard, Leopoldstadt... Kate Atkinson, One Good Turn... Nuala O'Faolain, My Dream of You... Laurie Lee, As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning... Haruki Murakami, First Person Singular… Jeremy Denk, Every Good Boy Does Fine: A Love Story in Music Lessons… Julian Barnes, Elizabeth Finch…. Isaac Butler, The Method: How the Twentieth Century Learned to Act… Gary Gerstle, The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order... Kate Atkinson, When Will There Be Good News?... Haruki Murakami, Killing Commendatore... Rick Bass, The Traveling Feast... Maggie Shipstead, Great Circle... George Saunders, Pastoralia... Frederico Falco, A Perfect Cemetary.... Tom Stoppard, Rock 'n' Roll... Nick Offerman, Where the Deer and the Antelope Play: The Pastoral Observations of One Ignorant American Who Loves to Walk Outside... David Hare, Straight Line Crazy... Tom Stoppard, The Hard Problem... Kate Atkinson, Started Early, Took the Dog... Emily St John Mandel, Sea of Tranquility... Mary Rodgers Guettel, Shy: The Alarmingly Outspoken Memoirs of Mary Rodgers... Hanif Abdurraqib, A Little Devil in America: In Praise of Black Performance... Claire Keegan, Small Things Like These... Andrea Wulf, Magnificent Rebels: The First Romantics and the Invention of Self... Alexandra Horowitz, Inside of a Dog... Amy Hempel, The Collected Stories... Polly Barton, Fifty Sounds... Paul Newman, The Extraordinary Life of an Ordinary Man... Kate Atkinson, Behind the Scenes at the Museum... Helen DeWitt, The English Understand Wool... Gayle Jones, The Birdcatcher... Rebecca Solnit, Orwell's Roses... Hugh Eakin, Picasso's War: How Modern Art Came to America... Helen DeWitt, The Last Samurai... Stephen Sondheim, Finishing the Hat: Collected Lyrics (1954--1981)...
2021 (52): Mark Glancy, Cary Grant: The Making of a Hollywood Legend... Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life... Barack Obama, A Promised Land... James McBride, Kill 'Em and Leave: Searching for James Brown and the American Soul... Alan Lightman, In Search of Stars on an Island in Maine... Daniel E. Lieberman, Exercised: Why Something We Never Evolved to Do Is Healthy and Rewarding... Mark Harris, Mike Nichols: A Life... Magda Szabó, The Door... Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind... Tom Stoppard, Arcadia... Tom Stoppard, Rosenkrantz and Guidenstern Are Dead... Homeira Qaderi, Dancing in the Mosque... John le Carré, The Looking Glass War... John le Carré, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy... Tom Stoppard, The Real Thing... Hope Jahren, Lab Girl... Brian Dillon, Suppose a Sentence... Tom Stoppard, The Coast of Utopia, Part I: Voyage... Hermione Lee, Tom Stoppard: A Life... John Mauceri, For the Love of Music: A Conductor's Guide to the Art of Listening... Tom Stoppard, Jumpers... Annette Gordon-Reed, On Juneteenth... Stephen Greenblatt, Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare... Edward White, The Twelve Lives of Alfred Hitchcook... Kenan Malik, The Quest of a Moral Compass: A Global History of Ethics... Fredrik Backman, Anxious People... Magda Szabó, Abigail... Samantha Power, The Education of an Idealist... Tessa Hadley, The Past... David Diop, At Night All Blood Is Black... Deborah Levy, Things I Don't Want to Know... Anders Winroth, The Age of Vikings... Ingrid D. Rowland, From Pompeii: The Afterlife of a Roman Town... Edward St Aubyn, Double Blind... Deborah Levy, The Cost of Living... Jan Morris, Allegorizings... Maggie Nelson, Bluets... Andrés Reséndez, Conquering the Pacific: An Unknown Mariner and the Final Great Voyage of the Age of Discovery... Tom Stoppard, The Coast of Utopia, Part II: Shipwreck... Ayad Akhtar, Homeland Elegies... Brit Bennett, The Vanishing Half... Deborah Levy, Real Estate. A Living Autobiography... Ayad Akhtar, Disgraced... Sally Rooney, Normal People... Isaiah Berlin, Russian Thinkers... Tom Stoppard, The Coast of Utopia, Part III: Salvage... Neil Price, The Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings... Linn Ullmann, Unquiet... George Saunders, A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life... Laurent Binet, Civilizations... Laurie Woolever, Anthony Bourdain: The Definitive Oral Biography... Amor Towles, Rules of Civility...
2020 (42): Sarah M. Broom, The Yellow House... Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye... Marcel Proust, Stéphane Heuet, In Search of Lost Time: Swann's Way, The Graphic Novel... Marcel Proust, Stéphane Heuet, In Search of Lost Time: In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower, The Graphic Novel... Michelle Obama, Becoming... Ben Lerner, Leaving Atocha Station... Andrew Miller, Now We Shall Be Entirely Free... Ash Carter & Sam Kashner, Life Isn't Everything: Mike Nichols, as Remembered by 150 of His Closest Friends... Ann Patchett, The Dutch House... Kermit Lynch, Adventures on the Wine Route: A Wine Buyer's Tour of France... Julia Phillips, Disappearing Earth... Julian Barnes, The Man in the Red Coat... Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall... Hilary Mantel, Bring Up the Bodies... Bill Bryson, The Body: A Guide for Occupants... Andrew Miller, Pure... Jonathan Rosenberg, Dangerous Melodies: Classical Music in America from the Great War through the Cold War... Bill Buford, Dirt: Adventures in Lyon as a Chef in Training, Father, and Sleuth Looking for the Secret of French Cooking... Jenny Offill, Dept. of Speculation... Matt Goulding, Rice Noodle Fish: Deep Travels through Japan's Food Culture... Pico Iyer, A Beginner's Guide to Japan... Anne Enright, Actress... Zachary D. Carter, The Price of Peace: Money, Democracy, and the Life of John Maynard Keynes... James McBride, Deacon King Kong... Zadie Smith, Intimations... Hisham Mater, A Month in Siena... Amy Stanley, Stranger in the Shogun's City: A Japanese Woman and Her World... Jane Gardam, Old Filth... Darin Strauss, The Queen of Tuesday... James McBride, The Color of Water... Byron Lane, A Star Is Bored... James McBride, The Good Lord Bird... Robert Macfarlane, Underland... Melissa Harrison, All Among the Barley... Craig Brown, One, Two, Three, Four: The Beatles in Time... James Rebanks, English Pastoral... Eddie S. Glaude, Jr., Begin Again: James Baldwin's American and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own... Rose Macauley, My World, My Wilderness... John Birdsall, The Man Who Ate Too Much: The Life of James Beard... Alex Ross, Wagnerism: Art and Politics in the Shadow of Music... Kyle Chayka, The Longing for Less: Living with Minimalism... Scott Eyman, Cary Grant: A Brilliant Disguise...
2019 (40): Gary Giddens, Bing Crosby: Swinging on a Star: The War Years, 1940-1946... Paul Kildea, Chopin's Piano: In Search of the Instrument That Transformed Music... Tim Pears, The Horseman... Tim Pears, The Wanderers... Tim Pears, The Redeemed... Patrick Radden Keefe, Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland... Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita... Tana French, The Witch Elm... Mary Norris, Between You and Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen... Madeline Miller, Circe... Ruth Reichl, Save Me the Plums... Ian Mount, The Vineyard at the End of the World: Maverick Winemakers and the Rebirth of Malbec... Sarah Moss, Names for the Sea: Strangers in Iceland... Yuval Taylor, Zora and Langston: A Story of Friendship and Betrayal... Wynton Marsalis, Moving to Higher Ground: How Jazz Can Change Your Life... Nicola Lagioia, Ferocity... Mary Norris, Greek to Me: Adventures of the Comma Queen... Roger Deakin, Woodland... Carolyn Burke, Foursome: Alfred Stieglitz, Georgia O'Keeffe, Paul Strand, Rebecca Salisbury... Laura Cumming, On Chapel Sands: My Mother and Other Missing Persons... Tan Twan Eng., Garden of Evening Mists... Peter Frankopan, The New Silk Roads: The Present and Future of the World... Ian Kershaw, To Hell and Back: Europe, 1914-1949... Viet Thanh Nguyen, The Sympathizer... Richard Powers, The Overstory... Catherine Cosset, Life of David Hockney... Isabella Hammad, The Parisian... Charles King, Gods of the Upper Air: How a Circle of Renegade Anthropologists Reinvented Race, Sex, and Gender in the Twentieth Century... Ta-Nahisi Coates, The Water Dancer... Patti Smith, M Train... Deborah Levy, The Man Who Saw Everything... Ronan Farrow, Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, & a Conspiracy to Protect Predators... Rachel Cusk, Kudos... Susan Orlean, The Library Book... Patti Smith, Year of the Monkey... Susan Orlean, Rin Tin Tin: The Life and the Legend... John LeCarré, Agent Running in the Field... Bee Wilson, The Way We Eat Now: How the Food Revolution Has Transformed Our Lives, Our Bodies, and Our World... Kate Clifford Larson, Bound for the Promised Land. Harriet Tubman, Portrait of an American Hero... Sybille Bedford, A Legacy... Jim Ottaviani & Maris Wicks, Primates: The Fearless Science of Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey, and Biruté Galdikas...
2018 (33): Jon McGregor, Reservoir 13... James Scott, Against the Grain... Langston Hughes, The Big Sea... Denis Johnson, Jesus' Son... MacLaverty, Midwinter Break... Joan Silber, Improvement... Hari Kunzru, White Tears... Fred Hersch, Good Things Happen Slowly... Mary Shelley, Frankenstein... Adam Rutherford, The History of Everyone Who Has Ever Lived... Domenico Starnone, Ties... Allan Jenkins, Morning... Craig Brown, Ma'am Darling: 99 Glimpses of Princess Margaret... E. M. Forster, Howards End... James Pope-Hennessey (ed. Vickers), The Quest for Queen Mary... Scott Deveaux and Gary Giddens, Jazz... Todd S. Purdum, Something Wonderful: Rodgers and Hammerstein's Broadway Revolution... Simon Callow, Being Wagner: The Story of the Most Provocative Composer Who Ever Lived... Alan Hollinghurst, The Sparsholt Affair... Jamie Bernstein, Famous Father Girl: A Memoir of Growing Up Bernstein... Lisa Halliday, Asymmetry... Gary Krist, Empire of Sin: A Story of Sex, Jazz, Murder and the Battle for Modern New Orleans... Tommy Orange, There, There... Leo Tolstoy (Pevear and Volokhonsky), War & Peace... Domenico Starnone, Trick... Kate Atkinson, Transcription... Pemble, The Rome We Have Lost... Kyle Harper, The Fate of Rome: Climate, Disease, and the End of an Empire... Jill Lepore, These Truths: A History of the United States .... Claire Tomalin, A Life of My Own: A Memoir... Miller, Gloucester Crescent: Me, My Dad, and Other Grown-ups... Alan Bennett, Keeping on keeping on...
2017 (24): Ta-Nihisi Coates, We Were Eight Years in Power... Joan Didion, The White Album... Joan Didion, Slouching towards Bethlehem (2nd time)... Jennifer Erpenback, Visitation... Atul Gawande, Being Mortal... Nathan Englander, Dinner at the Center of the Earth... Laurent Binet, The Seventh Function of Language... Lucia Berlin, Manual for a Cleaning Woman... Corn, The Great American Thing: Modern Art and National Identity, 1915-1935... Laird, Modern Gods... Le Carré, The Pigeon Tunnel: Stories from My Life... Bruce Springsteen, Born to Run... Julian Barnes, The Noise of Time... Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails with Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Bouvoir, Albert Camus, Martin Heidegger, Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Others... George Saunders, Lincoln in the Bardo... Rachel Cusk, Transit... Harrison, An Introduction to Art... Morgan, The Sport of Kings... Ruth Scurr, John Aubrey, My Own Life... Rachel Cusk, The Country Life... Rachel Cusk, The Lucky Ones... Perry & Frascina, Primitivism, Cubism, Abstraction: The Early Twentieth Century... Rachel Cusk, Outline... Ratcliff & Lewison, Abstract Expressionism.
2016 (31): Ann Patchett, Commonwealth... Hayes, My Face for the World to See... Frascina & Garb, Modernity and Modernism: French Painting in the 19th century... Fer, On Abstract Art... O'Brian, Ruthless Hedonism: The American Reception of Matisse... Tomine, Killing and Dying... Bee Wilson, First Bite... Zadie Smith, Swing Time... Elizabeth Strout, My Name is Lucy Barton... Cole, Known and Strange Things... E. L. Doctorow, Ragtime... O'Hagan, The Illuminations... Ron Chernow, Alexander Hamilton... Peter Frankopan, The Silk Roads: A New History of the World... Bill Buford, Heat... Geoffrey Dyer, The Missing of the Somme... Penelope Fitzgerald, The Bookshop... Olivia Laing, The Trip to Echo Spring: On Writers and Drinking... Appel, Jazz Modernism: From Ellington and Armstrong to Matisse and Joyce... Geoffrey Dyer, But Beautiful: A Book About Jazz... Olivia Laing, The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone... Thomas Brothers, Louis Armstrong: Master of Modernism... Mary Beard, SPQR... Joseph Conrad, The Secret Agent... Elena Ferrante, L'amica geniale... Johnson, The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man... Larsen, Passing... Jean Toomer, Cane... John Williams, Butcher's Crossing... Luc Sante, The Other Paris... Klaus Ove Knausgaard, Dancing in the Dark.
2023 (52): Jeanine Basinger, Sam Wasson, Hollywood: The Oral History... Prince Harry, Spare... Stephen Sondheim, Look, I Made a Hat... Claire Keegan, Foster... Pekka Hämäläinen, Indigenous Continent: The Epic Contest for North America... Tim Cornwell, ed., A Private Spy: The Letters of John le Carré... Mary Karr, The Art of Memoir... Adam Sisman, John le Carré: The Biography... John le Carré, The Looking-Glass War... J. R. Moehringer, The Tender Bar... Tom Reiss, The Orientalist... Sembene Ousmane, God's Bits of Wood... E. H. Carr, The Romantic Exiles... Ed Yong, An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the World Around Us... Ann Napolitano, Hello Beautiful... Colm Toíbin, The Magician... Carmela Ciuraru, Lives of the Wives... Walter Mosley, Devil in a Blue Dress... Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human... David Grann, The Wager: A Tale of Mutiny, Shipwreck, and Murder... Walter Mosley, Red Death (Rawlins #2)... Walter Mosley, White Butterfly... Les Payne, The Dead Are Rising: The Life of Malcolm X... Hernan Diaz, Trust... Linda Colley, The Gun, the Ship, and the Pen: Warfare, Constitutions, and the Making of the Modern World... Bella Freud, I Couldn't Love You More... Tom Hanks, The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece... Celia Paul, Letters to Gwen John... Deborah Levy, August Blue... Richard Russo, Nobody's Fool... David Michaelis, Eleanor… Juan Gabriel Vásquez, Volver la Vista Atras… James McBride, The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store… Ann Patchett, Tom Lake… Michael Finkel, The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession… Claire Dederer, Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma... Clare Carlisle, The Marriage Question: George Eliot's Double Life... Craig Brown, Haywire: The Best of Craig Brown... Jenny Erpenbeck, Kairos... Mick Herron, Real Tigers... Mick Herron, Spook Street... Teju Cole, Open City... John Berger, Landscapes... Mick Herron, London Rules... Claire Keegan, So Late in the Day... Barbra Streisand, My Name Is Barbra... J. M. Coetzee, The Pole... Daniel Mason, North Woods... Mick Herron, Joe Country... John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley... Mick Herron, Slough House... Zadie Smith, The Fraud...
2022 (53): Rachel Cusk, Second Place... Joan Didion, Let Me Tell You What I Mean... Lili Anolik, Hollywood's Eve... W. G. Sebald, The Emigrants... Jonathan Franzen, Crossroads... James Lapine, Putting It Together: How Stephen Sondheim and I Created 'Sunday in the Park with George'... Massimo Montanari, A Short History of Spaghetti with Tomato Sauce... Percival Everett, Erasure... Julie Schumacher, Dear Committee Members... Clint Smith, How the Word Is Passed... J. Drew Lanham, The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man's Love Affair with Nature... Kathryn Schulz, Lost & Found... Tom Stoppard, The Invention of Love... Gabriel García Lorca, Bodas de sangre... Ayad Akhtar, Junk... Isaac Babel, Red Cavalry... Maja Lunde, The History of the Bees...Antonio Buero Vallejo, Historia de una escalera... Kate Atkinson, Case Histories... Miguel Mihura, Maribel y la extraña familia... Fernando Fernán-Gómez, Las bicicletas son para el verano... Tom Stoppard, Leopoldstadt... Kate Atkinson, One Good Turn... Nuala O'Faolain, My Dream of You... Laurie Lee, As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning... Haruki Murakami, First Person Singular… Jeremy Denk, Every Good Boy Does Fine: A Love Story in Music Lessons… Julian Barnes, Elizabeth Finch…. Isaac Butler, The Method: How the Twentieth Century Learned to Act… Gary Gerstle, The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order... Kate Atkinson, When Will There Be Good News?... Haruki Murakami, Killing Commendatore... Rick Bass, The Traveling Feast... Maggie Shipstead, Great Circle... George Saunders, Pastoralia... Frederico Falco, A Perfect Cemetary.... Tom Stoppard, Rock 'n' Roll... Nick Offerman, Where the Deer and the Antelope Play: The Pastoral Observations of One Ignorant American Who Loves to Walk Outside... David Hare, Straight Line Crazy... Tom Stoppard, The Hard Problem... Kate Atkinson, Started Early, Took the Dog... Emily St John Mandel, Sea of Tranquility... Mary Rodgers Guettel, Shy: The Alarmingly Outspoken Memoirs of Mary Rodgers... Hanif Abdurraqib, A Little Devil in America: In Praise of Black Performance... Claire Keegan, Small Things Like These... Andrea Wulf, Magnificent Rebels: The First Romantics and the Invention of Self... Alexandra Horowitz, Inside of a Dog... Amy Hempel, The Collected Stories... Polly Barton, Fifty Sounds... Paul Newman, The Extraordinary Life of an Ordinary Man... Kate Atkinson, Behind the Scenes at the Museum... Helen DeWitt, The English Understand Wool... Gayle Jones, The Birdcatcher... Rebecca Solnit, Orwell's Roses... Hugh Eakin, Picasso's War: How Modern Art Came to America... Helen DeWitt, The Last Samurai... Stephen Sondheim, Finishing the Hat: Collected Lyrics (1954--1981)...
2021 (52): Mark Glancy, Cary Grant: The Making of a Hollywood Legend... Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life... Barack Obama, A Promised Land... James McBride, Kill 'Em and Leave: Searching for James Brown and the American Soul... Alan Lightman, In Search of Stars on an Island in Maine... Daniel E. Lieberman, Exercised: Why Something We Never Evolved to Do Is Healthy and Rewarding... Mark Harris, Mike Nichols: A Life... Magda Szabó, The Door... Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind... Tom Stoppard, Arcadia... Tom Stoppard, Rosenkrantz and Guidenstern Are Dead... Homeira Qaderi, Dancing in the Mosque... John le Carré, The Looking Glass War... John le Carré, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy... Tom Stoppard, The Real Thing... Hope Jahren, Lab Girl... Brian Dillon, Suppose a Sentence... Tom Stoppard, The Coast of Utopia, Part I: Voyage... Hermione Lee, Tom Stoppard: A Life... John Mauceri, For the Love of Music: A Conductor's Guide to the Art of Listening... Tom Stoppard, Jumpers... Annette Gordon-Reed, On Juneteenth... Stephen Greenblatt, Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare... Edward White, The Twelve Lives of Alfred Hitchcook... Kenan Malik, The Quest of a Moral Compass: A Global History of Ethics... Fredrik Backman, Anxious People... Magda Szabó, Abigail... Samantha Power, The Education of an Idealist... Tessa Hadley, The Past... David Diop, At Night All Blood Is Black... Deborah Levy, Things I Don't Want to Know... Anders Winroth, The Age of Vikings... Ingrid D. Rowland, From Pompeii: The Afterlife of a Roman Town... Edward St Aubyn, Double Blind... Deborah Levy, The Cost of Living... Jan Morris, Allegorizings... Maggie Nelson, Bluets... Andrés Reséndez, Conquering the Pacific: An Unknown Mariner and the Final Great Voyage of the Age of Discovery... Tom Stoppard, The Coast of Utopia, Part II: Shipwreck... Ayad Akhtar, Homeland Elegies... Brit Bennett, The Vanishing Half... Deborah Levy, Real Estate. A Living Autobiography... Ayad Akhtar, Disgraced... Sally Rooney, Normal People... Isaiah Berlin, Russian Thinkers... Tom Stoppard, The Coast of Utopia, Part III: Salvage... Neil Price, The Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings... Linn Ullmann, Unquiet... George Saunders, A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life... Laurent Binet, Civilizations... Laurie Woolever, Anthony Bourdain: The Definitive Oral Biography... Amor Towles, Rules of Civility...
2020 (42): Sarah M. Broom, The Yellow House... Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye... Marcel Proust, Stéphane Heuet, In Search of Lost Time: Swann's Way, The Graphic Novel... Marcel Proust, Stéphane Heuet, In Search of Lost Time: In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower, The Graphic Novel... Michelle Obama, Becoming... Ben Lerner, Leaving Atocha Station... Andrew Miller, Now We Shall Be Entirely Free... Ash Carter & Sam Kashner, Life Isn't Everything: Mike Nichols, as Remembered by 150 of His Closest Friends... Ann Patchett, The Dutch House... Kermit Lynch, Adventures on the Wine Route: A Wine Buyer's Tour of France... Julia Phillips, Disappearing Earth... Julian Barnes, The Man in the Red Coat... Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall... Hilary Mantel, Bring Up the Bodies... Bill Bryson, The Body: A Guide for Occupants... Andrew Miller, Pure... Jonathan Rosenberg, Dangerous Melodies: Classical Music in America from the Great War through the Cold War... Bill Buford, Dirt: Adventures in Lyon as a Chef in Training, Father, and Sleuth Looking for the Secret of French Cooking... Jenny Offill, Dept. of Speculation... Matt Goulding, Rice Noodle Fish: Deep Travels through Japan's Food Culture... Pico Iyer, A Beginner's Guide to Japan... Anne Enright, Actress... Zachary D. Carter, The Price of Peace: Money, Democracy, and the Life of John Maynard Keynes... James McBride, Deacon King Kong... Zadie Smith, Intimations... Hisham Mater, A Month in Siena... Amy Stanley, Stranger in the Shogun's City: A Japanese Woman and Her World... Jane Gardam, Old Filth... Darin Strauss, The Queen of Tuesday... James McBride, The Color of Water... Byron Lane, A Star Is Bored... James McBride, The Good Lord Bird... Robert Macfarlane, Underland... Melissa Harrison, All Among the Barley... Craig Brown, One, Two, Three, Four: The Beatles in Time... James Rebanks, English Pastoral... Eddie S. Glaude, Jr., Begin Again: James Baldwin's American and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own... Rose Macauley, My World, My Wilderness... John Birdsall, The Man Who Ate Too Much: The Life of James Beard... Alex Ross, Wagnerism: Art and Politics in the Shadow of Music... Kyle Chayka, The Longing for Less: Living with Minimalism... Scott Eyman, Cary Grant: A Brilliant Disguise...
2019 (40): Gary Giddens, Bing Crosby: Swinging on a Star: The War Years, 1940-1946... Paul Kildea, Chopin's Piano: In Search of the Instrument That Transformed Music... Tim Pears, The Horseman... Tim Pears, The Wanderers... Tim Pears, The Redeemed... Patrick Radden Keefe, Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland... Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita... Tana French, The Witch Elm... Mary Norris, Between You and Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen... Madeline Miller, Circe... Ruth Reichl, Save Me the Plums... Ian Mount, The Vineyard at the End of the World: Maverick Winemakers and the Rebirth of Malbec... Sarah Moss, Names for the Sea: Strangers in Iceland... Yuval Taylor, Zora and Langston: A Story of Friendship and Betrayal... Wynton Marsalis, Moving to Higher Ground: How Jazz Can Change Your Life... Nicola Lagioia, Ferocity... Mary Norris, Greek to Me: Adventures of the Comma Queen... Roger Deakin, Woodland... Carolyn Burke, Foursome: Alfred Stieglitz, Georgia O'Keeffe, Paul Strand, Rebecca Salisbury... Laura Cumming, On Chapel Sands: My Mother and Other Missing Persons... Tan Twan Eng., Garden of Evening Mists... Peter Frankopan, The New Silk Roads: The Present and Future of the World... Ian Kershaw, To Hell and Back: Europe, 1914-1949... Viet Thanh Nguyen, The Sympathizer... Richard Powers, The Overstory... Catherine Cosset, Life of David Hockney... Isabella Hammad, The Parisian... Charles King, Gods of the Upper Air: How a Circle of Renegade Anthropologists Reinvented Race, Sex, and Gender in the Twentieth Century... Ta-Nahisi Coates, The Water Dancer... Patti Smith, M Train... Deborah Levy, The Man Who Saw Everything... Ronan Farrow, Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, & a Conspiracy to Protect Predators... Rachel Cusk, Kudos... Susan Orlean, The Library Book... Patti Smith, Year of the Monkey... Susan Orlean, Rin Tin Tin: The Life and the Legend... John LeCarré, Agent Running in the Field... Bee Wilson, The Way We Eat Now: How the Food Revolution Has Transformed Our Lives, Our Bodies, and Our World... Kate Clifford Larson, Bound for the Promised Land. Harriet Tubman, Portrait of an American Hero... Sybille Bedford, A Legacy... Jim Ottaviani & Maris Wicks, Primates: The Fearless Science of Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey, and Biruté Galdikas...
2018 (33): Jon McGregor, Reservoir 13... James Scott, Against the Grain... Langston Hughes, The Big Sea... Denis Johnson, Jesus' Son... MacLaverty, Midwinter Break... Joan Silber, Improvement... Hari Kunzru, White Tears... Fred Hersch, Good Things Happen Slowly... Mary Shelley, Frankenstein... Adam Rutherford, The History of Everyone Who Has Ever Lived... Domenico Starnone, Ties... Allan Jenkins, Morning... Craig Brown, Ma'am Darling: 99 Glimpses of Princess Margaret... E. M. Forster, Howards End... James Pope-Hennessey (ed. Vickers), The Quest for Queen Mary... Scott Deveaux and Gary Giddens, Jazz... Todd S. Purdum, Something Wonderful: Rodgers and Hammerstein's Broadway Revolution... Simon Callow, Being Wagner: The Story of the Most Provocative Composer Who Ever Lived... Alan Hollinghurst, The Sparsholt Affair... Jamie Bernstein, Famous Father Girl: A Memoir of Growing Up Bernstein... Lisa Halliday, Asymmetry... Gary Krist, Empire of Sin: A Story of Sex, Jazz, Murder and the Battle for Modern New Orleans... Tommy Orange, There, There... Leo Tolstoy (Pevear and Volokhonsky), War & Peace... Domenico Starnone, Trick... Kate Atkinson, Transcription... Pemble, The Rome We Have Lost... Kyle Harper, The Fate of Rome: Climate, Disease, and the End of an Empire... Jill Lepore, These Truths: A History of the United States .... Claire Tomalin, A Life of My Own: A Memoir... Miller, Gloucester Crescent: Me, My Dad, and Other Grown-ups... Alan Bennett, Keeping on keeping on...
2017 (24): Ta-Nihisi Coates, We Were Eight Years in Power... Joan Didion, The White Album... Joan Didion, Slouching towards Bethlehem (2nd time)... Jennifer Erpenback, Visitation... Atul Gawande, Being Mortal... Nathan Englander, Dinner at the Center of the Earth... Laurent Binet, The Seventh Function of Language... Lucia Berlin, Manual for a Cleaning Woman... Corn, The Great American Thing: Modern Art and National Identity, 1915-1935... Laird, Modern Gods... Le Carré, The Pigeon Tunnel: Stories from My Life... Bruce Springsteen, Born to Run... Julian Barnes, The Noise of Time... Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails with Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Bouvoir, Albert Camus, Martin Heidegger, Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Others... George Saunders, Lincoln in the Bardo... Rachel Cusk, Transit... Harrison, An Introduction to Art... Morgan, The Sport of Kings... Ruth Scurr, John Aubrey, My Own Life... Rachel Cusk, The Country Life... Rachel Cusk, The Lucky Ones... Perry & Frascina, Primitivism, Cubism, Abstraction: The Early Twentieth Century... Rachel Cusk, Outline... Ratcliff & Lewison, Abstract Expressionism.
2016 (31): Ann Patchett, Commonwealth... Hayes, My Face for the World to See... Frascina & Garb, Modernity and Modernism: French Painting in the 19th century... Fer, On Abstract Art... O'Brian, Ruthless Hedonism: The American Reception of Matisse... Tomine, Killing and Dying... Bee Wilson, First Bite... Zadie Smith, Swing Time... Elizabeth Strout, My Name is Lucy Barton... Cole, Known and Strange Things... E. L. Doctorow, Ragtime... O'Hagan, The Illuminations... Ron Chernow, Alexander Hamilton... Peter Frankopan, The Silk Roads: A New History of the World... Bill Buford, Heat... Geoffrey Dyer, The Missing of the Somme... Penelope Fitzgerald, The Bookshop... Olivia Laing, The Trip to Echo Spring: On Writers and Drinking... Appel, Jazz Modernism: From Ellington and Armstrong to Matisse and Joyce... Geoffrey Dyer, But Beautiful: A Book About Jazz... Olivia Laing, The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone... Thomas Brothers, Louis Armstrong: Master of Modernism... Mary Beard, SPQR... Joseph Conrad, The Secret Agent... Elena Ferrante, L'amica geniale... Johnson, The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man... Larsen, Passing... Jean Toomer, Cane... John Williams, Butcher's Crossing... Luc Sante, The Other Paris... Klaus Ove Knausgaard, Dancing in the Dark.