Fall / Winter 2025

• Fresh Green Life Sebastian Castillo #top-reads
• Paradise Logic Sophie Kemp
• Moderation Elaine Castillo
• Possession A.S. Byatt #top-reads
• Red Rising Pierce Brown
• Golden Son Pierce Brown
• Morning Star Pierce Brown
• In Covid’s Wake: How Our Politics Failed Us Stephen Macedo
• The Awakening, and Selected Stories Kate Chopin
• The Dealmaker: Lessons from a Life in Private Equity Guy Hands
• Trick Domenico Starnone #top-reads
• The New Tycoons: Inside the Trillion Dollar Private Equity Industry That Owns Everything Jason Kelly

Spring / Summer 2025

• Stranger than Fiction: Lives of the Twentieth-Century Novel Edwin Frank
• The World According to Garp John Irving
• Storm Bird Einar Kárason
• Co-intelligence: Living and Working with AI Ethan Mollick
• The Trouble with Happiness: And Other Stories Tove Ditlevsen #top-reads
• The Way of Play: Using Little Moments of Big Connection to Raise Calm and Confident Kids Tina Payne Bryson
• Question 7 Richard Flanagan
• Paul Celan & the Trans-Tibetan Angel Yōko Tawada
• Celebration Damir Karakaš
• Banal Nightmare Halle Butler
• All the Lovers in the Night Mieko Kawakami
• Goodbye to All That Robert Graves #top-reads
• King of Capital: The Remarkable Rise, Fall, and Rise Again of Steve Schwartzman and Blackstone David Carey
• The Score Takes Care of Itself: My Philosophy of Leadership Bill Walsh
• The Left Hand of Darkness Ursula K. Le Guin
• The Books of Jacob Olga Tokarczuk
• Highway Thirteen: Stories Fiona McFarlane
• Snow Country Yasunari Kawabata
• Lower Than the Angels: A History of Sex and Christianity Diarmaid MacCulloch #top-reads
• Last Evenings on Earth Roberto Bolaño #top-reads
• The Upside of Stress: Why Stress Is Good for You, and How to Get Good at It Kelly McGonigal

Fall / Winter 2024

• Biography of X Catherine Lacey
• Business for Bohemians Tom Hodgkinson
• Crooked plow Itamar Vieira Junior
• A fairly good time Mavis Gallant
• Paris stories Mavis Gallant
• The safekeep Yael van der Wouden #top-reads
• The crux : how leaders become strategists Richard Rumelt
• Good strategy, bad strategy : the difference and why it matters Richard Rumelt
• Futureproof : 9 rules for humans in the age of automation Kevin Roose
• The house on Via Gemito Domenico Starnone #top-reads
• Chaos kings : how Wall Street traders make billions in the new age of crisis Scott Patterson
• Wiring the winning organization Gene Kim
• Annihilation Michel Houellebecq
• Whale Myŏng-gwan Ch’ŏn
• That All Shall Be Saved David Bentley Hart
• Reading Genesis Marilynne Robinson
• The power broker: Robert Moses and the fall of New York Robert Caro
• Speedboat Renata Adler
• Intermezzo Sally Rooney

Spring / Summer 2024

• The end of the world is a cul de sac Louise Kennedy
• How to measure anything : finding the value of intangibles in business Douglas Hubbard
• The glutton A.K. Blakemore
• Original Prin Randy Boyagoda
• Dante’s Indiana Randy Boyagoda
• Once and forever Kenji Miyazawa
• Mastering small stakes no-limit hold’em Jonathan Little
• The fund : Ray Dalio, Bridgewater Associates, and the unraveling of a Wall Street legend Rob Copeland
• Turn the ship around! : a true story of turning followers into leaders David Marquet #top-reads
• Couplets : a love story Maggie Millner
• Baumgartner Paul Auster
• When they win, you win : being a great manager is simpler than you think Russ Laraway
• High output management Andy Gove
• Jonathan Little on live no-limit cash games. 1. The theory Jonathan Little
• Jonathan Little on Live no-limit cash games. 2, The practice Jonathan Little
• Imperium : the Cicero plays Mike Poulton
• Managing humans : biting and humorous tales of a software engineering manager Michael Lopp
• All things are too small : essays in praise of excess Becca Rothfeld
• The basic laws of human stupidity Carlo Cipolla
• Dead stars : an entertainment Bruce Wagner
• The wolves of eternity Karl Ove Knausgård

Fall / Winter 2023

• Joy at work : organizing your professional life Marie Kondo
• The final table : play your best poker when the most is at stake Gareth James
• The rules of work : a definitive code for personal success Richard Templar
• Trustworthy online controlled experiments : a practical guide to A/B testing Ron Kohavi
• Augustus John Williams #top-reads
• Stella Maris Cormac McCarthy
• The end Karl Ove Knausgård
• Motherhood Sheila Heti
• How big things get done Bent Flyvbjerg
• The psychology of money : timeless lessons on wealth, greed, and happiness Morgan Housel
• When McKinsey comes to town : the hidden influence of the world’s most powerful consulting firm Walt Bogdanich
• Vincent and Alice and Alice Shane Jones
• Greek lessons Kang Han
• Tomás Nevinson Javier Marías

Spring / Summer 2023

• The ice cream man & other stories Sam Pink
• Essays and fictions Brad Phillips
• Cherry Nico Walker #top-reads
• The Sarah book Scott McClanahan #top-reads
• Fuccboi Sean Thor Conroe
• Ogilvy on advertising David Ogilvy
• No one left to come looking for you Sam Lipsyte
• My life as a Russian novel : a memoir Emmanuel Carrère
• YOGA Emmanuel Carrère
• Teenager Bud Smith
• Berta Isla Javier Marías
• I fear my pain interests you Stephanie LaCava
• Palo Alto : a history of California, capitalism, and the world Malcolm Harris
• The future is analog : how to create a more human world David Sax
• Satan in Goray Isaac Bashevis Singer #top-reads
• Viral loop : from Facebook to Twitter, how today’s smartest businesses grow themselves Adam Penenberg
• Secrets of professional tournament poker : the essential guide Jonathan Little
• My phantoms Gwendoline Riley
• Leaders eat last : why some teams pull together and others don’t Simon Sinek
• The rules of attraction Bret Easton Ellis
• The Shards Bret Easton Ellis
• Pretty good house : a guide to creating better homes Dan Kolbert
• The walker : on finding and losing yourself in the modern city Matthew Beaumont
• Wretchedness Andrzej Tichy

Fall / Winter 2022

• Winter journal Paul Auster
• The Idiot Fyodor Dostoyevsky #top-reads
• Jesus' son Denis Johnson
• Foams : spheres III Peter Sloterdijk
• Lessons Ian McEwan
• Status and culture : how our desire for higher social rank creates taste, identity, art, fashion, and constant change David Marx
• Can’t even : how millennials became the burnout generation Anne Helen Petersen
• Innumeracy : mathematical illiteracy and its consequences John Allen Paulos
• Never split the difference : negotiating as if your life depended on It Christopher Voss
• Two nurses, smoking : stories David Means
• The tyranny of merit : what’s become of the common good? Michael Sandel
• Confessions of an advertising man David Ogilvy
• A technique for producing ideas James Young
• Red pill Hari Kunzru
• Liar moon Ben Pastor
• A very old man : stories Italo Svevo
• People from my neighborhood : stories Kawakami, Hiromi
• Catholicism : a global history John McGreevy
• Bring yourself : how to harness the power of connection to negotiate fearlessly Mori Taheripour
• An honest living Dwyer Murphy
• The dominant animal : stories Kathryn Scanlan
• The great man theory Teddy Wayne #top-reads
• Apartment Teddy Wayne #top-reads
• The dead Christian Kracht #top-reads
• Better off : flipping the switch on technology Eric Brende
• Lumen Ben Pastor
• The plains Gerald Murnane
• Tell me I’m an artist Chelsea Martin
• The unstoppable startup : mastering Israel’s secret rules of Chutzpah Uri Adoni

Spring / Summer 2022

• Volt : stories Alan Heathcock #top-reads
• First Love Gwendoline Riley #top-reads
• 40 Alan Heathcock
• The way home : tales from a life without technology Mark Boyle #top-reads
• Bad eminence James Greer
• Earthlings Sayaka Murata
• Wonderlands : essays on the life of literature Charles Baxter
• Pure colour Sheila Heti #top-reads
• Life ceremony : stories Sayaka Murata
• Total : stories Rebecca Miller
• Avalon Nell Zink
• Acts of Service Lillian Fishman
• The path of aliveness Christian Dillo
• Devil House John Darnielle
• The trouble with happiness : and other stories Tove Ditlevsen
• Rouge street : three novellas Shuang Xuetao #top-reads
• Talent Tyler Cowen and Daniel Gross #top-reads
• The town of Babylon Alejandro Varela
• A memory called empire Arkady Martine
• A little life Hanya Yanagihara
• The anomaly Hervé Le Tellier

Fall / Winter 2021

• It’s getting dark : stories Peter Stamm
• The outlaw ocean: journeys across the last untamed frontier Ian Urbina
• The cold start problem : how to start and scale network effects Andrew Chen
• Serotonin Michel Houellebecq
• The power law : venture capital and the making of the new future Sebastian Mallaby
• This is how they tell me the world ends : the cyber-weapons arms race Nicole Pelroth
• Four thousand weeks : time management for mortals Oliver Burkeman
• In praise of shadows Jun’ichirō Tanizaki
• Matrix Lauren Groff
• Silverview John Le Carré
• A ghost in the throat Doireann Ní Ghríofa
• Subprime attention crisis : advertising and the time bomb at the heart of the Internet Tim Hwang
• Free to Learn Peter Gray
• Florida Lauren Groff
• Trust Domenico Starnone #top-reads
• Last summer in the city Gianfranco Calligarich #top-reads
• Something new under the sun Alexandra Kleeman
• Hurricane season Fernanda Melchor
• Flow: the psychology of optimal experience Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
• Live work work die: a journey into the savage heart of Silicon Valley Corey Pein
• It doesn’t have to be crazy at work Jason Fried
• Even the dogs Jon McGregor
• Paris is a party, Paris is a ghost David Hoon Kim
• The morning star Karl Ove Knausgård
• At the end of the world: a true story of murder in the Arctic Lawrence Millman
• Cool for America Andrew Martin #top-reads
• The life of the mind Christine Smallwood #top-reads
• Rationalism in politics and other essays Michael Oakeshott
• There’s no such thing as an easy job Kiukio Tsumura
• No one is talking about this Patricia Lockwood
• Beautiful world, where are you Sally Rooney
• Suppose a sentence Brian Dillon
• The biggest bluff Maria Konnikova
• The Bachelor Andrew Palmer

Spring / Summer 2021

• How buildings learn : what happens after they’re built Stewart Brand
• Klara and the sun Kazuo Ishiguro
• The woman from Uruguay Pedro Mairal
• Mona Pola Oloixarac
• Animales Hebe Uhart
• Storyworthy : engage, teach, persuade, and change your life through the power of storytelling Matthew Dicks
• Heaven Mieko Kawakami #top-reads
• Weather Jenny Offill
• Little platoons : a defense of family in a competitive age Matt Feeney
• Savage theories Pola Oloixarac
• Kin Miljenko Jergović
• Team topologies : organizing business and technology teams for fast flow Matthew Skelton and Manuel Pais
• How to do nothing : resisting the attention economy Jenny Odell
• Remote : office not required Jason Fried
• Kristin Lavransdatter Sigrid Undset
• Dark constellations Pola Oloixarac
• Range: why generalists triumph in a specialized world David Epstein
• The Ratline: the exalted life and mysterious death of a Nazi fugitive Philippe Sands
• The practice: shipping creative work Seth Godin
• Life among the savages Shirley Jackson
• The buried giant Kazuo Ishiguro #top-reads
• Ways of seeing John Berger
• Savage gods Paul Kingsnorth
• A philosophy of walking Frédéric Gros
• Eve’s Hollywood Eve Babitz
• The Summer book Tove Jansson #top-reads
• Dyer’s hand : and other essays W.H. Auden
• The powerless church and other selected writings, 1955-1985 Ivan Illich
• If then: how the Simulmatics Corporation invented the future Jill Lepore
• The child that books built : a life in reading Francis Spufford
• Golden Hill Francis Spufford
• A secular age Charles Taylor
• That old country music Kevin Barry #top-reads
• Linchpin: are you indispensable? Seth Godin
• Drive your plow over the bones of the dead Olga Tokarczuk
• My private property Mary Ruefle
• Life is a miracle : an essay against modern superstition Wendell Berry
• To begin where I am : selected essays Czesław Miłosz #top-reads
• The transit of Venus Shirley Hazzard #top-reads
• The Oregon Experiment Christopher Alexander
• The Dutch house Anne Patchett
• How to be idle Tom Hodgkinson
• The idle parent Tom Hodgkinson #top-reads
• Smarter than you think Clive Thompson
• The Political economy of merchant empires James Tracy
• Snow crash Neal Stephenson
• The outlaw sea: a world of freedom, chaos, and crime William Langewiesche

Fall / Winter 2020

• The man without talent Tsuge Yoshiharu
• The explosive child Ross Greene
• The broken road: from the Iron Gates to Mount Athos Patrick Leigh Fermor
• In the land of good living : a journey to the heart of Florida Kent Russell
• Breaking bread with the dead : a guide to a tranquil mind Alan Jacobs
• Japanese interior design Michelle Galindo
• Be so good they can’t ignore you Cal Newport
• Inspired: how to create tech products customers love Marty Cagan #top-reads
• Only the paranoid survive! Andrew Grove
• How to think: a survival guide for a world at odds Alan Jacobs
• I am sorry to think I have raised a timid son : essays Kent Russell
• A pattern language: towns, buildings, construction Christopher Alexander
• Sleeveless: fashion, image, media, New York 2011-2019 Natasha Stagg
• The timeless way of building Christopher Alexander
• No filter: the inside story of Instagram Sarah Frier
• In the presence of Schopenhauer Michel Houelllebecq #top-reads
• Europe against the Jews: 1880-1945 Götz Aly

Spring / Summer 2020

• Digital minimalism: choosing a focused life in a noisy world Cal Newport
• Get your house right: architectural elements to use & avoid Marianne Cusato
• Open source architecture Carlo Ratti
• Night boat to Tangier Kevin Barry #top-reads
• A distant mirror : the calamitous 14th century Barbara Tuchman
• Exhalation Ted Chiang #top-reads
• The night watchman Louise Erdrich
• Anything you want : 40 lessons for a new kind of entrepreneur Derek Sivers
• Masha Regina V. Levental
• How to talk so kids will listen & listen so kids will talk Adele Faber
• The hermit Thomas Rydahl
• Bringing up girls James Dobson
• A perfect crime A Yi #top-reads
• The Topeka school Ben Lerner
• The Third Reich at war, 1939-1945 Richard Evans #top-reads
• Under a cruel star: a life in Prague 1941-1968 Heda Kovály #top-reads
• Between the woods and the water Patrick Leigh Fermor
• The aviator Eugene Vodolazkin
• Nothing to see here Kevin Wilson
• Lurking: how a person became a user Joanne McNeil
• Super thinking: the big book of mental models Gabriel Weinberg
• The long goodbye Raymond Chandler #top-reads
• The factory Hiroko Oyamada #top-reads
• Ancient light John Banville
• Atomic Habits: tiny changes, remarkable results James Clear
• The Orvis guide to beginning fly fishing Tom Rosenbauer
• The organized mind Daniel Levitin
• Rivers Martin Driessen #top-reads
• The day the sun died Lianke Yan

Fall / Winter 2019

• The design of everyday things Donald Norman
• Antisocial Andrew Marantz
• Wa : the essence of Japanese design Rossella Menegazzo
• Mid-life: a comic book Joe Ollmann
• Growing things : and other stories Paul Tremblay
• The elements of typographic style Robert Bringhurst
• Black lamb and grey falcon : a journey through Yugoslavia Rebecca West
• Young once Patrick Modiano #top-reads
• The houses of Belgrade Borislav Pekić
• The peregrine John Baker
• Mimesis and theory: essays on literature and criticism, 1953-2005 Rene Girard
• The death of Napoleon Simon Leys #top-reads
• In the cafe of lost youth Patrick Modiano #top-reads
• Heather, the totality Matthew Weiner

Spring / Summer 2019

• Winners take all: the elite charade of changing the world Anand Giridharadas
• Death by water Kenzaburō Ōe
• The blue room Georges Simenon
• Jillian Halle Butler #top-reads
• The new me Halle Butler #top-reads
• Such fine boys Patrick Modiano #top-reads
• Mislaid Nell Zink
• Intimations: stories Alexandra Kleeman
• How to win in a winner-take-all world Neil Irwin
• My year of rest and relaxation Ottessa Moshfegh
• Early work Andrew Martin #top-reads
• The Third Reich in power, 1933-1939 Richard Evans #top-reads
• The anatomy of fascism Robert Paxton
• The coming of the Third Reich Richard Evans #top-reads
• The darkroom of Damocles Willem Hermans #top-reads
• The following story Cees Nooteboom
• If not now, when? Primo Levi
• Milkman Anna Burns
• Transit Rachel Cusk
• Tenth of December: stories George Saunders #top-reads
• A bend in the river V.S. Naipaul
• Conversations with friends Sally Rooney
• Lost in the cosmos: the last self-help book Walker Percy
• NW Zadie Smith
• American pastoral Philip Roth
• The Odyssey Homer, trans. Emily Wilson
• Is God happy?: selected essays Leszek Kołakowski
• The bullet journal method Ryder Carroll
• Dieter Rams: as little design as possible Sophie Lovell
• The four books Lianke Yan
• Endgame Samuel Beckett
• The sellout Paul Beatty
• Nohow on : three novels Samuel Beckett
• Sleep of memory Patrick Modiano
• Sundays in August Patrick Modiano
• Causality: models, reasoning, and inference Judea Pearl #top-reads
• The house that Pinterest built Diane Keaton
• The map and the territory Michel Houellebecq
• Flock of brown birds Fei Ge
• Scale Geoffrey West