Booklist 2011-

This is the list of books I’m reading or have read.

• 14 Mar 2013:  From From, by Monica Youn.
• 4 Mar 2023: Asymmetry, by Lisa Halliday.
• 10 Feb 2023: The Alteration, by Kingsley Amis.
• 3 Feb 2023:  The Sibyl, by Per Lagerkvist.
• 17 Jan 2023:  The Autumn Ghost, by Hannah Wunsch.

• 16 Dec 2022:  The Talisman, by Stephen King and Peter Straub (first read, 1987)
• 16 Nov 2022:  Normal Distance, by Elisa Gabbert.
• 14 Oct 2022: The Wrenchies, by Farel Dalrymple.
• 3 Oct 2022:  Major Labels, by Kelefa Sanneh.
• 24 Sep 2022:  Compulsory Games, by Robert Aikman.
• Aug-Sep 2022:  I must have been reading something but I forgot to put it in here.
• 29 Jul 2022:  Acceptance, Emi Nietfeld.
• 14 Jul 2022:  The Last Resort, by Sarah Stodola.
• 9 Jul 2022:  Nine Stories, by J.D. Salinger (first read, 1988)
• 19 Jun 2022: Heaven Help Us!, by Herbert Tarr (first read, 1985)
• 5 Jun 2022: The Mosquito Coast, by Paul Theroux (first read, 1987)
• 6 May 2022: The Bell Jar, by Sylvia Plath (first read, 1990)
• 1 May 2022:  Fifty Short Science Fiction Tales, Isaac Asimov and Groff Conklin, ed. (first read, 1984)
• 20 Apr 2022: The Secret Life of Groceries, by Benjamin Lorr.
• 23 Mar 2022: The Shame Machine, by Cathy O’Neil.
• 5 Mar 2022:  Either/Or, by Elif Batuman.
• 26 Feb 2022: Raise High The Roofbeams, Carpenters, by J.D. Salinger (first read, 1989)
• 15 Feb 2022:  Psychoanalysis: The Impossible Profession, by Janet Malcolm (first read, 1992)
• 6 Feb 2022:  In the Freud Archives, by Janet Malcolm (first read, 1992)
• 3 Feb 2022:  Barrel Fever, by David Sedaris (first read, 1994)
• 1 Feb 2022: The Rez Road Follies, by Jim Northrup.
• 19 Jan 2022:  Rage, by Stephen King (as Richard Bachmann) (first read, 1986)
• 16 Jan 2022:  Matt’s Mitt, by Marilyn Sachs (first read, 1976)
• 14 Jan 2022:  The Catcher in the Rye, by J.D. Salinger (first read, 1987)
• 6 Jan 2022:  The Running Man, by Stephen King (as Richard Bachmann) (first read, 1986)

• 30 Dec 2021:  Project Hail Mary, by Andy Weir.
• 5 Dec 2021: The Green Futures of Tycho, by William Sleator.
• 30 Nov 2021:  The Cup of Fury, by Upton Sinclair.
• 28 Nov 2021: Horse Walks Into A Bar, by David Grossman (Jessica Cohen, trans.)
• 5 Nov 2021: All Of The Marvels, by Douglas Wolk.
• 13 Oct 2021: Great Days, by Donald Barthelme.
• 30 Sep 2021:  Beautiful World, Where Are You? by Sally Rooney.
• 18 Sep 2021:  Because Internet, by Gretchen McCulloch.
• 10 Sep 2021:  Hidden Valley Road, by Robert Kolker.
• 26 Aug 2021:  The Hairdresser of Harare, by Tendai Huchu.
• 7 Aug 2021:  Max Beckmann at the St. Louis Art Museum:  The Paintings, by Lynette Roth.
• 2 Aug 2021:  To Live, by Yu Hua. (Michael Berry, trans.)
• 1 Aug 2021:  Blackman’s Burden, by Mack Reynolds.
• 29 Jul 2021:  Highly Irregular, by Arika Okrent.
• 21 Jul 2021: Sleeping Beauties, by Stephen King and Owen King.
• 12 Jul 2021:  Giovanni’s Room, by James Baldwin.
• 7 Jul 2021:  Daisy Miller, by Henry James.
• 29 Jun 2021:  Parable of the Sower, by Octavia Butler.
• 6 Jun 2021:  Walkman, by Michael Robbins.
• 4 Jun 2021:  Darryl, by Jackie Ess.
• 25 May 2021:  Likes, by Sarah Shun-Lien Bynum.
• 18 May 2021:  Subdivision, by J. Robert Lennon.
• 20 Apr 2021:  Big Trouble, by J. Anthony Lukas (not finished yet, will I finish it?)
• 15 Apr 2021:  No More Parades, by Ford Madox Ford (not finished yet, will I finish it? (Finished Sep 2021)
• 26 Mar 2021:  Some Do Not…, by Ford Madox Ford.
• 15 Feb 2021:  Piranesi, by Susanna Clarke.
• 12 Jan 2021:  Metropolitan Life, by Fran Lebowitz.

• 26 Dec 2020: Surrender on Demand, by Varian Fry.
• 15 Dec 2020: He Knew He Was Right, by Anthony Trollope.
• 20 Nov 2020: The Secret of Chimneys, by Agatha Christie.
• 15 Nov 2020: The Man In The Brown Suit, by Agatha Christie.
• 2 Nov 2020:  And Then There Were None, by Agatha Christie.
• 15 Oct 2020:  The Camel, the Hare, and the Hyrax, by Nosson Slifkin.
• 10 Oct 2020:  selections from Portrait of Delmore (journals of Delmore Schwartz, 1939-1959)
• 1 Oct 2020:  Murder on the Orient Express, by Agatha Christie.
• 25 Sep 2020:  The Spy Who Came In From the Cold, by John LeCarre.
• 17 Sep 2020:  4:50 from Paddington, by Agatha Christie.
• 10 Sep 2020:  The Silver Arrow, by Lev Grossman.
• 8 Sep 2020:  The Lying Lives of Adults, by Elena Ferrante.
• 2 Sep 2020:  I Left My Homework in the Hamptons, by Blythe Grossberg.
• 25 Aug 2020: The Unreality of Memory, by Elisa Gabbert.
• 17 Aug 2020:  Journal of a Disappointed Man, by W.N.P. Barbellion.
• 16 Jul 2020:  A Working Girl Can’t Win, by Deborah Garrison.
• 4 Jul 2020: Bullies, by George W.S. Trow.
• 30 Jun 2020:  Diary of a Flying Man, by Randy Cohen.
• 20 Jun 2020: The Game-Players of Titan, by Philip K. Dick.
• 11 May 2020: Interstellar Pig, by William Sleator.
• 25 Apr 2020:  The War Between the Pitiful Teachers and the Splendid Kids, by Stanley Keisel.
• 15 Apr 2020:  Edith Wharton, by Hermione Lee.
• 10 Apr 2020:  old 1980s issues of Elementals and Squadron Supreme
• 3 Apr 2020: Weather, by Jenny Offill.
• 20 Mar 2020: Powers of X / House of X #1-6, Jonathan Hickman.
• 10 Feb 2020: The New York Stories of Edith Wharton (Roxana Robinson, ed.)
• 8 Feb 2020: Jews and Judaism in New York, Moses Weinberger (Jonathan Sarna, trans.)
• 4 Jan 2020: Scythe, by Neal Shusterman.

• 11 Dec 2019: The Factory, by Hiroko Oyamada (David Boyd, trans.)
• 2 Dec 2019: City, by Clifford Simak.
• 20 Nov 2019: The Institute, by Stephen King.
• 15 Oct 2019: The Topeka School, by Ben Lerner.
• 29 Sep 2019: The Outsider, by Stephen King.
• 20 Sep 2019: The Gentleman from San Francisco, by Ivan Bunin. (David Richards and Sophie Lund, trans.)
• 31 Aug 2019: Family Lexicon, by Natalia Ginzburg.  (Jenny McPhee, trans.)
• 19 Aug 2019: The Dry Heart, by Natalia Ginzburg.  (Frances Frenaye, trans.)
• 23 Jul 2019:  Wisconsin, The New Home of the Jew: 150
  Years of Jewish Life at the University of
  Wisconsin-Madison, by Jonathan Z.S. Pollack.
• 18 Jul 2019: Last Witnesses:  Unchildlike Stories, by Svetlana Alexievich. (Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, trans.)
• 14 June 2019:  Something Deeply Hidden, by Sean Carroll.
• 10 May 2019:  Against the Grain, by James Scott.
• 2 Apr 2019: Nobody’s Looking At You, by Janet Malcolm.
• 23 Mar 2019: The Weil Conjectures, by Karen Olsson.
• 28 Feb 2019:  The Rescue of Joshua Glover: A Fugitive Slave, the Constitution, and the Coming of the Civil War, by H. Robert Baker.
• 24 Feb 2019: Hey Ladies, by Caroline Moss and Michelle Markowitz.
• 1 Feb 2019: Hark, by Sam Lipsyte.

• 20 Dec 2018: Vanity Fair, by William Makepeace Thackeray (1848)
• 3 Dec 2018:  Meditations of Marcus Aurelius (Gregory Hays, trans.) (161-180)
• 24 Nov 2018:  The Word Pretty, by Elisa Gabbert.
• 15 Nov 2018:  The Fiancée, and Other Stories, by Anton Chekhov (Ronald Wilks, trans.) (1904)
• 19 Oct 2018:  Wieland, by Charles Brockden Brown (1798)
• 7 Oct 2018:  Bleak House, by Charles Dickens (1852-53)
• 6 Oct 2018:  Mr. Eternity, by Aaron Thier.
• 15 Sep 2018:  Mind and Matter, by John Urschel and Louisa Thomas.
• 6 Sep 2018:  A Spy In Time, by Imraan Coovadia.
• 1 Sep 2018:  Cat Country (貓城記), by Lao She (William Lyell, trans.) (1932)
• 10 Aug 2018:  Maigret and the Headless Corpse, by Georges Simenon (Howard Curtis, trans.) (1955)
• 31 Jul 2018:  Before The Golden Age:  A Science Fiction Anthology of the 1930s (Isaac Asimov, ed.)
• 26 Jun 2018:  Less, by Andrew Sean Greer.
• 20 May 2018: “The Young Newcomer in the Organization Department,” by Wang Ming (1956)
• 10 May 2018:  The Dud Avocado, by Elaine Dundy (1958)
• 1 Apr 2018:  Indoctrinaire, by Christopher Priest (1970)
• 28 Mar 2018:  Riots (Problems of American Society series), Anita Monte and Gerald Leinwand, eds. (1970)
• 14 Mar 2018:  The Surprising Place, by Malinda McCollum.
• 9 Mar 2018:  99 Variations on a Proof, by Philip Ording.
• 18 Feb 2018:  How To Leave, by Erin Clune.
• 10 Feb 2018:  The Subtle Knife, by Philip Pullman.
• 27 Jan 2018:  Cat’s Cradle, by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (1963)
• 19 Jan 2018: Society is Nix: Gleeful Anarchy at the Dawn of the American Comic Strip 1895-1915 (Peter Maresca, ed.)
• 10 Jan 2018:  The Golden Compass, by Philip Pullman.
• 4 Jan 2018:  Why Men Fail, Morris Fishbein and William White, eds. (1928)

• 30 Dec 2017:  The Red Men, by Matthew De Abaitua
• 24 Dec 2017:  Inside Graduate Admissions:  Merit, Diversity, and Faculty Gatekeeping, by Julie R. Posselt.
• 20 Dec 2017:  La Belle Sauvage, by Philip Pullman.
• 16 Nov 2017:  Nightwings, by Robert Silverberg.
• 15 Oct 2017:  MaddAddam, by Margaret Atwood.
• 25 Sep 2017: The Year of the Flood, by Margaret Atwood.
• 14 Aug 2017:  The Island, by T.M. Wright.
• 10 Aug 2017: Sick in the Head, Judd Apatow (ed.)
• 23 Jul 2017:  Who Is Rich?  by Matthew Klam.
• 9 Jul 2017:  Broken River, by J. Robert Lennon.
• 15 Jun 2017:  Bitwise, by David Auerbach.
• 8 Jun 2017:  Novelties & Souvenirs, by John Crowley.
• 29 May 2017:  The End of Eternity, by Isaac Asimov.
• 13 May 2017:  I Do Not Come To You By Chance, by Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani.
• 25 Apr 2017:  The Idiot, by Elif Batuman.
• 18 Mar 2017:  Divergent, by Veronica Roth.
• 12 Feb 2017:  Blackass, by A. Igoni Barrett.
• 9 Jan 2017: Flash Boys, by Michael Lewis.
• 7 Jan 2017:  The Alcoholic, by Jonathan Ames (Dean Haspiel, art)
• 7 Jan 2017:  Wonder, by R.J. Palacio.

• 31 Dec 2016:  Troubling Love, by Elena Ferrante (Ann Goldstein, trans.)
• 27 Dec 2016:  The Civil Servant’s Notebook, by Wang Xiaofang (Eric Abrahamsen, trans.)
• 16 Dec 2016:  Nirmala, by Premchand (David Rubin, trans.)
• 16 Dec 2016:  A Long Walk to Water, by Linda Sue Park
• 1 Dec 2016:  Nabokov’s Favorite Word is Mauve, by Ben Blatt
• 24 Nov 2016: HHhH, by Laurent Binet (Sam Taylor, trans.)
• 21 Nov 2016:  Secondhand Time, by Svetlana Alexievich (Bela Shayevich, trans.)
• 20 Nov 2016:  Twenty-Four Hours in the Life of a Woman, by Stefan Zweig (Anthea Bell, trans.)
• 6 Nov 2016:  Houseboy, by Ferdinand Oyono (John Reed, trans.)
• 3 Nov 2016:  The Good Life Elsewhere, by Vladimir Lorchenkov (Ross Ufberg, trans.)
• 12 Oct 2016:  Tales of the Hasidim:  The Early Masters, by Martin Buber (Olga Marx, trans.)
• 1 Oct 2016:  Hit Makers, by Derek Thompson
• 25 Sep 2016:  The Fireman, by Joe Hill
• 19 Sep 2016:  Ghosts, by Raina Telgemeier
• 3 Sep 2016:  The Queue, by Basma Abdel Aziz (Elizabeth Jaquette, trans.)
• 11 Aug 2016:  City of Mirrors, by Justin Cronin
• 26 Jul 2016:  Why I Killed My Best Friend, by Amanda Michalopoulou (Karen Emmerich, trans.)
• 19 Jul 2016:  1Q84, by Haruki Murakami (Philip Gabriel and Jay Rubin, trans.)
• 10 Jul 2016:  The Story of My Teeth, by Valeria Luiselli (Christina MacSweeney, trans.)
• 1 Jul 2016:  So You Don’t Get Lost In The Neighborhood, by Patrick Modiano (Euan Cameron, trans.)
• 13 May 2016:  Weapons of Math Destruction, by Cathy O’Neil
• 2 May 2016:  Sh*tty Mom for All Seasons, by Erin Clune
• 20 Apr 2016:  There’s Nothing I Can Do When I Think of You Late at Night, by Cao Naiqian (John Balcom, trans.)
• 1 Apr 2016:  The Story of the Lost Child, by Elena Ferrante (Ann Goldstein, trans.)
• 25 Feb 2016:  Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay, by Elena Ferrante (Ann Goldstein, trans.)
• 10 Feb 2016:  Voices from Chernobyl, by Svetlana Alexievich (Keith Gessen, trans.)
• 1 Feb 2016:  The Story of a New Name, by Elena Ferrante (Ann Goldstein, trans.)
• 9 Jan 2016:  Amy and Laura, by Marilyn Sachs
• 7 Jan 2016:  My Brilliant Friend, by Elena Ferrante (Ann Goldstein, trans.)

• 31 Dec 2015:  Oryx and Crake, by Margaret Atwood.
• 27 Dec 2015:  Loki’s Wolves, by K.L. Armstrong and M.A. Marr.
• 26 Dec 2015:  Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant? by Roz Chast.
• 25 Dec 2015:  Bad Feminist, by Roxane Gay.
• 20 Dec 2015: “Bunner Sisters,” by Edith Wharton.
• 15 Dec 2015:  The Compass Rose, by Ursula K. LeGuin.
• 10 Dec 2015:  Ethan Frome, by Edith Wharton.
• 29 Nov 2015:  Ancillary Justice, by Ann Leckie.
• 16 Nov 2015:  The Wind’s Twelve Quarters, by Ursula K. LeGuin.
• 1 Nov 2015:  You Too Can Have A Body Like Mine, by Alexandra Kleeman (had to return to library before finishing)
• 20 Oct 2015:  Not That Kind of Girl, by Lena Dunham.
• 16 Oct 2015:  The Beautiful Bureaucrat, by Helen Phillips.
• 11 Oct 2015:  Gilead, by Marilynne Robinson.
• 4 Oct 2015:  A Wizard of Earthsea, by Ursula K. LeGuin.
• 28 Sep 2015:  NW, by Zadie Smith.
• 15 Sep 2015:  Happenthing in Travel On, by Carol Spearin McCauley
• 30 Aug 2015:  Foreign Bodies, by Cynthia Ozick.
• 28 Aug 2015:  The Mysterious Benedict Society, by Trenton Lee Stewart.
• 15 Aug 2015:  Come Closer, by Sara Gran.
• 1 Aug 2015:  Twilight Sleep, by Edith Wharton (abandoned)
• 26 Jul 2015:  The Age of Innocence, by Edith Wharton.
• 12 Jul 2015:  Genius at Play, by Siobhan Roberts.
• 1 Jul 2015:  The Invention of Morel, by Adolfo Bioy Casares (Ruth L.C. Simms, trans.)
• 19 Jun 2015:  On the Shortness of Life, by Seneca. (C.D.N. Costa, trans.)
• 1 Jun 2015:  Dept. of Speculation, by Jenny Offill.
• 27 May 2015: On The Run, by Alice Goffman.
• 23 May 2015: Children of the Island, by T.M. Wright.
• 24 May 2015: All-Season Stephanie, by Stephanie Burt.
• 13 May 2015:  Citizen, by Claudia Rankine.
• 5 May 2015:  Trefethen’s Index Cards:  40 years of notes about people, words, and mathematics, by Lloyd N. Trefethen.
• 3 May 2015:  Drama, by Raina Telgemeier.
• 20 Apr 2015:  Station Eleven, by Emily St. John Mandel.
• 27 Mar 2015:  10:04, by Ben Lerner.
• 19 Mar 2015:  The First Bad Man, by Miranda July.
• 18 Feb 2015:  Wolf in White Van, by John Darnielle.
• 24 Jan 2015:  Preparation for the Next Life, by Atticus Lish.
• 13 Jan 2015:  How To Bake π, by Eugenia Cheng.
• 5 Jan 2015:  O Pioneers!  by Willa Cather.

• 23 Dec 2014:  Your Call Is (Not Very) Important To Us, Emily Yellin.
• 15 Dec 2014:  The Unspeakable, Meghan Daum.
• 12 Dec 2014:  Essays, Wallace Shawn.
• 11 Dec 2014:  The Imperfectionists, Tom Rachman.
• 8 Dec 2014:  Americanah, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.
• 10 Nov 2014:  Mathematics Without Apologies, Michael Harris.
• 28 Oct 2014:  Dear Committee Members, Julie Schumacher.
• 27 Oct 2014:  The Athletic Revolution, Jack Scott.
• 26 Oct 2014:  Alan Mendelsohn, the Boy from Mars, Daniel Pinkwater (read to CJ.)
• 23 Oct 2014:  How I Became A Famous Novelist, Steven Hely.
• 14 Oct 2014:  Bark, Lorrie Moore.
• 2 Oct 2014:  Just As I Thought, Grace Paley.
• 27 Sep 2014:  NOS4A2, Joe Hill.
• 18 Sep 2014:  The World of the End, Ofir Touche Gafla (author, trans.)
• 13 Aug 2014:  Dataclysm, Christian Rudder.
• 11 Aug 2014:  Who Was Alexander Grothendieck?  Part I:  Anarchy, Winfried Scharlau (Melissa Schneps, trans.)
• 10 Aug 2014:   The Island, T. M. Wright.
• 8 Aug 2014:  Authority, Jeff VanderMeer.
• 24 Jul 2014:  Gone Girl, Gillian Flynn.
• 22 Jul 2014:  The Invisible History of the Human Race, Christine Kenneally.
• 24 Jun 2014:  The Magician’s Land, Lev Grossman.
• 17 Jun 2014:  Big Planet, Jack Vance.
• 10 Jun 2014:  The Cloud of Unknowing, Mimi Lipson.
• 21 Apr 2014:  Doctor Sleep, Stephen King.
• 5 Apr 2014:  Annihilation, Jeff VanderMeer.
• 29 Mar 2014:  Family Life, Akhil Sharma.
• 28 Mar 2014:  Dirty Snow, Georges Simenon (Marc Romano and Louise Varese, trans.)
• 20 Mar 2014:  Karate Chop, Dorthe Nors (Martin Aitken, trans.)
• 13 Feb 2014:  How Should a Person Be?,  Sheila Heti.
• 1 Feb 2014:  Pandora’s Lunchbox, Melanie Warner.
• 5 Jan 2014:  The Sugar-Frosted Nutsack, Mark Leyner.

• 31 Dec 2013:  The Yacoubian Building, Alaa Al Aswany.
• 17 Dec 2013: The Custom of the Country, Edith Wharton.
• 29 Nov 2013:  Infinitesimal, Amir Alexander.
• 19 Nov 2013:  The Simpsons and Their Mathematical Secrets, Simon Singh.
• 2 Nov 2013:  The Panic Virus, Seth Mnookin.
• 29 Oct 2013:  Taipei, Tao Lin.
• 22 Oct 2013:  The Twelve, Justin Cronin.
• 7 Oct 2013:  Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science, Martin Gardner.
• 15 Sep 2013:  The More You Ignore Me, Travis Nichols.
• 11 Sep 2013:  Undiluted Hocus-Pocus:  The Autobiography of Martin Gardner.
• 1 Sep 2013:  Joyland, Stephen King.
• 27 Aug 2013:  The Ninjas, Jane Yeh.
• 20 Aug 2013:  Time of the Great Freeze, Robert Silverberg.
• 11 Aug 2013:  The Buddha in the Attic, Julie Otsuka.
• 29 Jul 2013:  Lexicon, Max Barry.
• 20 Jul 2013: Forty-One False Starts, Janet Malcolm.
• 12 Jul 2013: Thinking in Numbers, Daniel Tammet.
• 10 Jul 2013:  Boundaries, T.M. Wright.
• 26 Jun 2013:  Let’s Talk About Love:  A Journey to the End of Taste, by Carl Wilson.
• 15 Jun 2013:  Goslings, J.D. Beresford.
• 1 Jun 2013:  You, Austin Grossman.
• 25 May 2013:  The Night Land, William Hope Hodgson.
• 10 May 2013:  20th Anniversary Report of the Harvard-Radcliffe Class of 1993
• 5 May 2013:  The Vanishers, Heidi Julavits.
• 17 Apr 2013:  Belmont, Stephanie Burt.
• 10 Apr 2013:  Among Others, Jo Walton.
• 2 Apr 2013:  Math on Trial, by Leila Schneps and Coralie Colmez.
• 25 Mar 2013:  The Fun Parts, Sam Lipsyte.
• 14 Mar 2013:  Mathematical Apocrypha, Steven Krantz.
• 7 Mar 2013:  The Magic Circle, Jenny Davidson.
• 2 Mar 2013: Snow, Adam Roberts.
• 24 Feb 2013:  A Hologram for the King, Dave Eggers.
• 9 Feb 2013:  The Wind Through the Keyhole, Stephen King.
• 8 Feb 2013:  The Life and Opinions of a College Class, the Harvard Class of 1926.
• 15 Jan 2013:  When the Tripods Came, John Christopher.

• 11 Nov 2012:  The Passage, by Justin Cronin.
• 31 Oct 2012:  Too Good To Be True, Benjamin Anastas.
• 22 Oct 2012:  vN, Madeline Ashby.
• 13 Oct 2012:  Although Of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself, David Lipsky.
• 6 Oct 2012:  11/22/63, Stephen King.
• 15 Sep 2012:   The Signal and the Noise, Nate Silver.
• 26 Aug 2012:  Mr. Smartypants, Michael Showalter.
• 24 Aug 2012: Immobility, Brian Evenson.
• 11 Aug 2012:  Permanent Emergency, Kip Hawley.
• 10 Aug 2012:  Against Security, Harvey Molotch.
• 6 Aug 2012:  Liars and Outliers, Bruce Schneier.
• 25 Jul 2012:  The Man in the Maze, Robert Silverberg.
• 14 Jul 2012:  The Pale King, David Foster Wallace.
• 5 Jun 2012:  The Red Book, Deborah Copaken Kogan.
• 20 May 2012:  The Outsourced Self, Arlie Russell Hochschild.
• 13 May 2012:  Laughing Man, T.M. Wright.
• 11 May 2012:  Strange Seed, T. M. Wright.
• 6 May 2012:  The Scarlet Plague, Jack London.
• 2 May 2012:  The Nephew, James Purdy.
• 24 Apr 2012:  Life Would Be Perfect If I Lived In That House, Meghan Daum.
• 1 Apr 2012:  The Hunger Games, Suzanne Collins.
• 26 Mar 2012: 1001, Jason Grote.
• 13 Mar 2012: The Chicagoan 1.
• 3 Feb 2012:  Simon: The Genius in my Basement, Alexander Masters.
• 28 Jan 2012: Malcolm, James Purdy.
• 22 Jan 2012:  In Pursuit of the Traveling Salesman, William J. Cook.
• 18 Jan 2012:  Freedom, Jonathan Franzen.

• 24 Dec 2011:  High Low In-Between, Imraan Coovadia.
• 18 Dec 2011:  Color of Darkness, James Purdy.
• 21 Nov 2011: The Big Short, Michael Lewis.
• 22 Sep 2011: The Chairs Are Where The People Go, Misha Glouberman and Sheila Heti.
• 10 Sep 2011: Zone One, Colson Whitehead.
• 20 Aug 2011: The Magician King, Lev Grossman.
• 31 Jul 2011: Girls to the Front, Sara Marcus.
• 18 Jul 2011:  The Uses of Enchantment, Heidi Julavits.
• 19 June 2011:  A Well-Paid Slave, Brad Snyder.
• 8 June 2011: The Invisible Line, Daniel Sharfstein.
• 7 May 2011: Live At The Apollo, Douglas Wolk.
• 6 May 2011:  Indecision, Benjamin Kunkel.
• 5 Apr 2011: China Welcomes You, Tom Scocca.
• 19 Mar 2011: Ignatz, Monica Youn.
• 14 Feb 2011:101 Things I Learned in Fashion School, Alfredo Cabrera.
• 3 Feb 2011: Pattern Recognition, William Gibson.
• 19 Jan 2011:  The Bedwetter, Sarah Silverman.
• 10 Jan 2011:  Gang Leader for a Day, Sudhir Venkatesh.
• 5 Jan 2011: Mad Travelers, Ian Hacking.