To read
Non-fiction
Summer World: A Season of Bounty | Bernd Heinrich
Shadows: Unlocking their Secrets, from Plato to Our Time | Roberto Casati
The Natural History of the Rich | Richard Conniff
The Children’s Blizzard by David Laskin
Hell Creek, Montana: America’s Key to the Prehistoric Past | Lowell Dingus
Solitude: A Return to the Self by Anthony Storr
Fat Land | Greg Critser
Down around midnight | Robert Sabbag
Perfectly Legal: The Covert Campaign to Rig Our Tax System to Benefit the Super Rich–and Cheat Everybody Else | David Cay Johnston
Free Lunch: How the Wealthiest Americans Enrich Themselves at Government Expense | David Cay Johnston
Angels and Ages: A Short Book About Darwin, Lincoln, and Modern Life | Adam Gopnik
Passing Strange | Martha A. Sandweiss
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed | Jared Diamon
Window Seat | Gregory Dicum
Suburban Safari | Hannah Holmes
Inside the Sky: A Meditation on Flight | William Langewiesche
The Outlaw Sea : A World of Freedom, Chaos, and Crime | William Langewiesche
How to Read a Poem: And Fall in Love with Poetry | Edward Hirsch
The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary | Simon Winchester
Living to Tell the Tale |Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Tale of the Rose: The Love Story Behind The Little Prince | Consuelo De Saint-Exupery
Conversations with Gabriel García Márquez | edited by Gene H. Bell-Villada
Lincoln | Richard J. Carwardine
Mornings on Horseback | David McCullough
Rise of Theodore Roosevelt | Edmund Morris
The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop | Lewis Buzbee
Untapped: The Scramble for Africa’s Oil | John Ghazvinian
William Least Heat Moon
The Happiness Hypothesis: finding modern truth in ancient wisdom | Jonathan Haidt
Avoid Boring People : lessons from a life in science | James D. Watson
The Good Heart : a Buddhist perspective on the teachings of Jesus | His Holiness the Dalai Lama
My Pet Virus : the true story of a rebel without a cure | Shawn Decker
Den of Thieves | James B. Stewart
The Stranger Beside Me | Ann Rule
Epidemic: the rot of American culture, absentee and permissive parenting, and the resultant plague of joyless, selfish children | Robert Shaw
Just Enough Liebling: Classic Work by the Legendary New Yorker Writer | A. J. Liebling
The Canon: A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science | Natalie Angier
The Winter Vegetarian: A Warm and Versatile Bounty | Darra Goldstein
Your Money or Your Life
Up in the old hotel : and other stories | Joseph Mitchell
Conversation: A History of a Declining Art | Stephen Miller
The wrecking crew : how conservatives rule / Thomas Frank
Great American Hypocrites : toppling the big myths of Republican politics / Glenn Greenwald
Love by the Glass: Tasting Notes from a Marriage | Dorothy J. Gaiter and John Brecher
Here is New York | E.B. White
From Third World to First: The Singapore Story | Lee Kuan Yew
Bicycle Diaries | David Byrne
Fiction
Little Big | John Crowley
The Housekeeper and the Professor | Yoko Ogawa
Grapes of Wrath | John Steinbeck
Moby Dick | Herman Melville
Blind willow, sleeping woman : twenty-four stories | Haruki Murakami
The Insufficiency of Maps | Nora Pierce
The Last Season | Eric Blehm
The Beggar Maid | Alice Munro
The Sound and the Fury | William Faulkner
Portrait of an Artist | James Joyce
Mary Russell mysteries by Laurie R. King
Bridge of Sighs | Richard Russo
The Almost Moon | Alice Sebold
All Creatures Great and Small | James Herriot
Absalom, Absalom! | Williams Faulkner
As I Lay Dying | William Faulkner
The Golden Notebook | Doris Lessing
Independent People | Halldor Laxness
What is the What |Dave Eggers
Born On A Blue Day | Daniel Tammet
Wonder Boys | Michael Chabon
Ahab’s Wife | Sena J. Naslund
The Bad Girl | Mario Vargos Llosa
Arthur & George | Julian Barnes
Bel Canto | Ann Patchett
Evenings at Five | Gail Godwin
Among Other Things, I’ve Taken Up
Smoking | Aoibheann Sweeney
Jim the Boy | Tony Earley
The Blue Star | Tony Earley
Dom Casmurro | Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
The story of Edgar Sawtelle : a novel / David Wroblewski
Netherland: A Novel| Joseph O’Neill