| Title | Author | Rating (0-5) | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Topeka School, the | Ben Lerner | 5 | 2023 |
| Primer for Forgetting, A | Lewis Hyde | 5 | 2023 |
| Public Citizens | Paul Sabin | 4 | 2023 |
| Postwar | Tony Judt | 4 | 2023 |
| Nordic Theory of Everything, the | Anu Partanen | 4 | 2023 |
| Linchpin | Seth Godin | 4 | 2023 |
| Just Ride | Grant Petersen | 4 | 2023 |
| Gödel, Escher, Bach | Douglas Hofstadter | 4 | 2023 |
| Finite and Infinite Games | James Carse | 4 | 2023 |
| Dispossessed, the | Ursula Le Guin | 4 | 2023 |
| Changes in the Land | William Cronon | 4 | 2023 |
| Write Useful Books | Rob Fitzpatrick | 3 | 2023 |
| When We Cease to Understand the World | Benjamin Labatut | 3 | 2023 |
| Very Nice Box, the | Eve Gleichman and Laura Blackett | 3 | 2023 |
| Shadow Rising, the | Robert Jordan | 3 | 2023 |
| Red Rising | Pierce Brown | 3 | 2023 |
| Psychology of Money, the | Morgan Housel | 3 | 2023 |
| Parable of the Talents | Octavia E. Butler | 3 | 2023 |
| Parable of the Sower | Octavia E. Butler | 3 | 2023 |
| Obelisk Gate | N.K. Jemisin | 3 | 2023 |
| Mathematical Proofs, an Introduction to | Nicholas Loehr | 3 | 2023 |
| Master and His Emissary, the | Iain McGilchrist | 3 | 2023 |
| Make Time | Jake Knapp and John Zeratsky | 3 | 2023 |
| Magnificent Rebels | Andrea Wulf | 3 | 2023 |
| Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell | Susanna Clarke | 3 | 2023 |
| How to Read a Book | Mortimer Adler | 3 | 2023 |
| Good Arguments | Bo Seo | 3 | 2023 |
| From Slavery to the Cooperative Commonwealth | Alex Gourevitch | 3 | 2023 |
| Breath | James Nestor | 3 | 2023 |
| Ametora | W. David Marx | 3 | 2023 |
| America's Frozen Neighborhoods | Robert C. Ellickson | 3 | 2023 |
| All the Birds in the Sky | Charlie Jane Anders | 3 | 2023 |
| So Good They Can't Ignore You | Cal Newport | 2 | 2023 |
| Python Crash Course | Eric Matthes | 2 | 2023 |
| Piranesi | Susanna Clarke | 2 | 2023 |
| Neuromancer | William Gibson | 2 | 2023 |
| Morning Star | Pierce Brown | 2 | 2023 |
| Moon Witch, Spider King | Marlon James | 2 | 2023 |
| Left Alternative, the | Roberto Unger | 2 | 2023 |
| Hidden Rhythms | Eviatar Zerubavel | 2 | 2023 |
| Hell Yeah or No | Derek Sivers | 2 | 2023 |
| Good to Go | Christie Aschwanden | 2 | 2023 |
| Golden Son | Pierce Brown | 2 | 2023 |
| God Save Texas | Lawrence Wright | 2 | 2023 |
| Eye of the World, the | Robert Jordan | 2 | 2023 |
| Essential Zen Habits | Leo Babauta | 2 | 2023 |
| Eric | Terry Pratchett | 2 | 2023 |
| Breaking Bread with the Dead | Alan Jacobs | 2 | 2023 |
| Black Leopard, Red Wolf | Marlon James | 2 | 2023 |
| Art of Leadership, the | Michael Lopp | 2 | 2023 |
| 8 Dates | Gottman and Gottman | 2 | 2023 |
| Radical Focus | Christina Wodtke | 1 | 2023 |
| Radical Candor | Kim Scott | 1 | 2023 |
| Myths We Live By, the | Mary Midgley | 1 | 2023 |
| Moving Pictures | Terry Pratchett | 1 | 2023 |
| How to be an Adult in Relationships | David Richio | 1 | 2023 |
| Great Hunt, the | Robert Jordan | 1 | 2023 |
| Fires of Heaven, the | Robert Jordan | 1 | 2023 |
| Employees, the | Olga Ravn | 1 | 2023 |
| Dragon Reborn, the | Robert Jordan | 1 | 2023 |
| Court of Thorns and Roses, A | Sarah J. Maas | 1 | 2023 |
| Beyond Bullet Points | Cliff Atkinson | 1 | 2023 |
| Babel | R.F. Kuang | 1 | 2023 |
| Art of Possibility, the | Roz and Benjamin Zander | 1 | 2023 |
| Strategic Project Management Made Simple | Terry Dean Schmidt | 0 | 2023 |
| Project Management For The Unofficial Project Manager | Kogon, Blakemore, and Wood | 0 | 2023 |
| Essentialism | Greg McKeown | 0 | 2023 |
| Code | Charles Petzold | 0 | 2023 |
| Anathem | Neal Stephenson | 0 | 2023 |
| Sandman volumes 1-6 | Neil Gaiman | 5 | 2022 |
| Leaves of Grass | Walt Whitman | 5 | 2022 |
| How Buildings Learn | Stewart Brand | 5 | 2022 |
| Where Good Ideas Come From | Stephen B. Johnson | 4 | 2022 |
| Way of Kings, the | Brandon Sanderson | 4 | 2022 |
| Some Rain Must Fall | Karl Ove Knausgaard | 4 | 2022 |
| Scrum | Jeff Sutherland | 4 | 2022 |
| Master and his Emissary, the | Iain McGilchrist | 4 | 2022 |
| Enemy of All Mankind | Stephen B. Johnson | 4 | 2022 |
| Dawn of Everything | David Graeber and David Wengrow | 4 | 2022 |
| Wizard of Earthsea, a | Ursula Le Guin | 3 | 2022 |
| Seven Brief Lessons on Physics | Carlo Rovelle | 3 | 2022 |
| Sea of Tranquility | Emily St. John Mandel | 3 | 2022 |
| Rhythm of War | Brandon Sanderson | 3 | 2022 |
| Psalm for the Wild-Built | Becky Chambers | 3 | 2022 |
| Postwar | Tony Judt | 3 | 2022 |
| Nimona | ND Stevenson | 3 | 2022 |
| Mort | Terry Pratchett | 3 | 2022 |
| Lonesome Dove | Larry McMurty | 3 | 2022 |
| Hyperion | Dan Simmons | 3 | 2022 |
| Glass Hotel, the | Emily St. John Mandel | 3 | 2022 |
| Data Detective | Tim Harford | 3 | 2022 |
| Color of Magic, the | Terry Pratchett | 3 | 2022 |
| Big Sleep, the | Raymond Chandler | 3 | 2022 |
| Words of Radiance | Brandon Sanderson | 2 | 2022 |
| Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow | Gabrielle Zevin | 2 | 2022 |
| Socratic Method, the | Ward Farnsworth | 2 | 2022 |
| Oathbringer | Brandon Sanderson | 2 | 2022 |
| Not Enough | Samuel Moyn | 2 | 2022 |
| Mushroom at the End of the World, the | Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing | 2 | 2022 |
| Motherhood | Sheila Heti | 2 | 2022 |
| Let My People Go Surfing | Yvon Chouinard | 2 | 2022 |
| Left Alternative, the | Roberto Unger | 2 | 2022 |
| Interview with the Vampire | Anne Rice | 2 | 2022 |
| How to Take Smart Notes | Sönke Ahrens | 2 | 2022 |
| How to Read a Book | Mortimer J. Adler and Charles Van Doen | 2 | 2022 |
| Flamethrowers, the | Rachel Kushner | 2 | 2022 |
| Fifth Season, the | NK Jemisin | 2 | 2022 |
| Either/Or | Elif Bautman | 2 | 2022 |
| Childhood's End | Arthur C. Clarke | 2 | 2022 |
| Art of Statistics, the | David Spiegelhalter | 2 | 2022 |
| Afternoon Men | Anthony Powell | 2 | 2022 |
| Ways of Being | James Bridle | 1 | 2022 |
| Quick and the Dead, the | Joy Williams | 1 | 2022 |
| Measure What Matters | John Doerr | 1 | 2022 |
| Light Fantastic, the | Terry Pratchett | 1 | 2022 |
| Doing Agile Right | Darrell Rigby, Sarah Elk, Steve Berez | 1 | 2022 |
| Asymmetry | Lisa Halliday | 1 | 2022 |
| 77 Dream Songs | John Berryman | 1 | 2022 |
| Several Short Sentences About Writing | Verlyn Klinkenborg | 5 | 2021 |
| Holy the Firm | Annie Dillard | 5 | 2021 |
| The Pine Barrens | John McPhee | 4 | 2021 |
| Sympathizer, the | Viet Than Nguyen | 4 | 2021 |
| Strong Towns | Charles Mahron | 4 | 2021 |
| Reconstruction, a Short History | Eric Foner | 4 | 2021 |
| Murmur | Will Eaves | 4 | 2021 |
| Kudos | Rachel Cusk | 4 | 2021 |
| Haroun and the Sea of Stories | Salman Rushdie | 4 | 2021 |
| Dancing in the Dark | Karl Ove Knausgaard | 4 | 2021 |
| Confessions | Augustine | 4 | 2021 |
| Coming into the Country | John McPhee | 4 | 2021 |
| Arctic Dreams | Barry Lopez | 4 | 2021 |
| William James: In the Maelstrom of American Modernism | Robert D. Richardson | 3 | 2021 |
| The Great Transformation | Karl Polyani | 3 | 2021 |
| Talks to Teachers | William James | 3 | 2021 |
| Sports Gene, The | David Epstein | 3 | 2021 |
| Right of Way | Angie Schmitt | 3 | 2021 |
| Postmodernism | Frederic Jameson | 3 | 2021 |
| How To Be An Adult | David Richio | 3 | 2021 |
| Fake Accounts | Lauren Oyler | 3 | 2021 |
| Caste | Isabel Wilkerson | 3 | 2021 |
| Bluets | Maggie Nelson | 3 | 2021 |
| Arbitrary Stupid Goal | Tamara Shopsin | 3 | 2021 |
| 4000 Weeks | Oliver Burkeman | 3 | 2021 |
| There There | Tommy Orange | 2 | 2021 |
| Survive the Drive | Tom Dingus | 2 | 2021 |
| Ministry for the Future, the | Kim Stanley Robinson | 2 | 2021 |
| Great Alone, the | Kristin Hannah | 2 | 2021 |
| Economic Sentiments | Emma Rothschild | 2 | 2021 |
| Collected Stories of Lydia Davis | Lydia Davis | 2 | 2021 |
| Absalom, Absalom | William Faulkner | 2 | 2021 |
| Very Short Intro to Augustine | Henry Chadwick | 1 | 2021 |
| Montaigne | Stefan Zweig | 1 | 2021 |
| Draft No. 4 | John McPhee | 1 | 2021 |
| Bird by Bird | Anne Lamont | 0 | 2021 |
| Weather | Jenny Offill | 5 | 2020 |
| Experience And Education | John Dewey | 5 | 2020 |
| Complete Cosmicomics | Italo Calvino | 5 | 2020 |
| Atmospheres | Peter Zumthor | 5 | 2020 |
| Transit | Rachel Cusk | 4 | 2020 |
| Such a Fun Age | Kiley Reid | 4 | 2020 |
| Secret Commonwealth, the (Book of Dust II) | Phillip Pullman | 4 | 2020 |
| Second Nature | Michael Pollan | 4 | 2020 |
| Room of One's Own, a | Virginia Woolf | 4 | 2020 |
| Radical King, the | Martin Luther King and Cornell West | 4 | 2020 |
| On Love | Alain de Botton | 4 | 2020 |
| On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous | Ocean Vuong | 4 | 2020 |
| My Struggle: Book 3 | Karl Ove Knausgaurd | 4 | 2020 |
| La Belle Sauvage (Book of Dust I) | Phillip Pullman | 4 | 2020 |
| Go Tell It On The Mountain | James Baldwin | 4 | 2020 |
| Finite And Infinite Games | James P Carse | 4 | 2020 |
| Figures Of Speech | Arthur Quinn | 4 | 2020 |
| Brief History of Seven Killings, a | Marlon James | 4 | 2020 |
| Blue Highways | William Heat Moon | 4 | 2020 |
| the collected schizophrenias | esme wang | 3 | 2020 |
| range | david epstein | 3 | 2020 |
| how to write an autobiographical novel | alexander chee | 3 | 2020 |
| fear itself | ira katznelson | 3 | 2020 |
| White Fang | Jack London | 3 | 2020 |
| Trick Mirror | jia tolentino | 3 | 2020 |
| Tomboy | liz prince | 3 | 2020 |
| Pillar Of Fire: America In The King Years 1962-65 | taylor branch | 3 | 2020 |
| Pachinko | Min Jin Lee | 3 | 2020 |
| On A Sunbeam | tillie walden | 3 | 2020 |
| Non-Violent Communication | Marshall Rosenberg | 3 | 2020 |
| Heavy | kiese laymon | 3 | 2020 |
| Good Talk | mira jacob | 3 | 2020 |
| Exodus | oral history | 3 | 2020 |
| David Copperfield | Dickens | 3 | 2020 |
| Compleat Sherlock Holmes | Arthur Cohen Doyle (read by Stephen Fry) | 3 | 2020 |
| Alaska Journals | John Muir | 3 | 2020 |
| the conquest of happiness | berty russell | 2 | 2020 |
| i contain multitudes | ed yong | 2 | 2020 |
| Essays in Idleness + Hojoki | Chomei and Kenko | 2 | 2020 |
| Endure | Alex Hutchinson | 2 | 2020 |
| Decent Society | Margalit | 2 | 2020 |
| Braiding Sweetgrass | Robin Wall Kimmerer | 2 | 2020 |
| A Natural History of the Senses | Diane Ackerman | 2 | 2020 |
| Limitless | jo boaler | 1 | 2020 |
| the DC Bar | kaplan | 0 | 2020 |
| Slide:ology | nancy duarte | 0 | 2020 |
| how should a person be | Sheila Heti | 5 | 2019 |
| The Chairs Are Where the People Go | Misha Glouberman with Sheila Heti | 5 | 2019 |
| Small Fry | Lisa Brennan Jobs | 5 | 2019 |
| Philosophy Of Walking, a | Frederic Gros | 5 | 2019 |
| Mating in Captivity | Esther Perel | 5 | 2019 |
| Debt | David Graeber | 5 | 2019 |
| Autobiography of Ben Franklin | Ben Franklin | 5 | 2019 |
| Art of Loving, the | Erich Fromm | 5 | 2019 |
| Art of Gathering, the | Priya Parker | 5 | 2019 |
| story of a new name, the | Elena Ferrante | 4 | 2019 |
| song of achilles, the | Madeline Miller | 4 | 2019 |
| Thermal Delights in Architecture | Lisa Heschong | 4 | 2019 |
| The Gospel in Brief | Leo Tolstoy | 4 | 2019 |
| Outline | Rachel Cusk | 4 | 2019 |
| On Certainty | Ludwig Wittgenstein | 4 | 2019 |
| My Brilliant Friend | Elena Ferrante | 4 | 2019 |
| Last Utopia, the | Sam Moyn | 4 | 2019 |
| Invisible cities | Italio Calvino | 4 | 2019 |
| History of Western Philosophy, the | Bertrand Russell | 4 | 2019 |
| Grand Hotel Abyss, the | Stuart Jeffries | 4 | 2019 |
| Get in Trouble | Kelly Link | 4 | 2019 |
| Enquiry Concerning The Principles Of Morals, an | David Hume | 4 | 2019 |
| Down and Out in Paris and London | George Orwell | 4 | 2019 |
| Wretched of the Earth, the | Frantz Fanon | 3 | 2019 |
| Wild Seed | Octavia Butler | 3 | 2019 |
| Vegetarian, the | Han Kang | 3 | 2019 |
| Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus | Ludwig Wittgenstein | 3 | 2019 |
| Table Talk | William Hazlitt | 3 | 2019 |
| Swamplandia | Karen Russell | 3 | 2019 |
| Self Awakened, the | Roberto Unger | 3 | 2019 |
| SPQR | Mary Beard | 3 | 2019 |
| Pericles' Funeral Oration | Hellenic Parliament / Thycydides | 3 | 2019 |
| Pan | Knut Hamsun | 3 | 2019 |
| Notes from No Man's Land | Eula Biss | 3 | 2019 |
| Nausea | Jean-Paul Sartre | 3 | 2019 |
| Nature + Self Reliance | Ralph Waldo Emerson | 3 | 2019 |
| In a Free State | V.S. Naipaul | 3 | 2019 |
| How To Slowly Kill Yourselves And Others In America | Kiese Laymon | 3 | 2019 |
| Hallucinations | Oliver Sacks | 3 | 2019 |
| Growing Up Absurd | Paul Goodman | 3 | 2019 |
| Essays Of Elia | Charles Lamb | 3 | 2019 |
| Come as You Are | Emily Nagowski | 3 | 2019 |
| Children of Blood and Bone | Tomi Adeyemi | 3 | 2019 |
| Bel Canto | Ann Patchett | 3 | 2019 |
| Thoreau: A Life | Laura Dallis Wallis | 2 | 2019 |
| R.U.R. | Karel Capek | 2 | 2019 |
| Notes on Virginia | Thomas Jefferson | 2 | 2019 |
| No one belongs here more than you. | Miranda July | 2 | 2019 |
| Briefcase, the | Hiromi Kawakami | 2 | 2019 |
| nimrod flip out, the | Etgar keret | 1 | 2019 |
| Library At Mount Char, the | Scott Hawkins | 1 | 2019 |
| Lessons of History, the | Will and Ariel Durant | 1 | 2019 |
| Bullshit Jobs | David Graeber | 1 | 2019 |
| Beyond Trans | Heath Fogg Davis | 1 | 2019 |
| All That Man Is | David Szalay | 1 | 2019 |
| Invention of Morel, the | Adolfo Bioy Casares | 0 | 2019 |
| The Odyssey, | Homer, trans. Emily Wilson | 5 | 2018 |
| The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up | Mari Kondo | 5 | 2018 |
| Souls of Black Folk | W. E. B. DuBois | 5 | 2018 |
| How to Live: A Life of Montaigne | Sarah Bakewell | 5 | 2018 |
| Focus | Daniel Goleman | 5 | 2018 |
| Debt | David Graeber | 5 | 2018 |
| At the Existentialist Cafe | Sarah Bakewell | 5 | 2018 |
| Walden | Thoreau | 4 | 2018 |
| Tangled Tree, the | David Quammen | 4 | 2018 |
| Second Sex, the | Simone de Beauvoir | 4 | 2018 |
| Recovering, the | Leslie Jamison | 4 | 2018 |
| Native Son | James Baldwin | 4 | 2018 |
| Mindset | Carol Dweck | 4 | 2018 |
| In Praise of Idleness | Bertrand Russell | 4 | 2018 |
| Idiot, the | Elif Bautman | 4 | 2018 |
| How to be an Adult | David Richo | 4 | 2018 |
| H is for Hawk | Helen Macdonald | 4 | 2018 |
| Grapes of Wrath | John Stienbeck | 4 | 2018 |
| Freedom and Culture | John Dewey | 4 | 2018 |
| Dept. of Speculation, the | Jenny Offill | 4 | 2018 |
| Barbarian Days | William Finnegan | 4 | 2018 |
| Argonauts, the | Maggie Nelson | 4 | 2018 |
| An Empire of Cotton | Sven Beckert | 4 | 2018 |
| Ways of Seeing | John Berger | 3 | 2018 |
| Way of Zen, the | Alan Watts | 3 | 2018 |
| Wanderlust | Rebecca Solnit | 3 | 2018 |
| Sing, Unburied, Sing | Jesmyn Ward | 3 | 2018 |
| Quack This Way | Bryan Garner and David Foster Wallace | 3 | 2018 |
| Pitch Dark | Renata Adler | 3 | 2018 |
| On the Shortness of Life | Seneca | 3 | 2018 |
| On the Genealogy of Morals | Nietzsche | 3 | 2018 |
| Oaxaca Journal | Oliver Sacks | 3 | 2018 |
| Meditations | Marcus Aurelius | 3 | 2018 |
| Liars Club, the | Mary Karr | 3 | 2018 |
| Letters from a Stoic | Seneca | 3 | 2018 |
| Jitterbug Perfume | Tom Robbins | 3 | 2018 |
| History of Sexuality, Pt 3. | Michel Foucault | 3 | 2018 |
| History of Sexuality, Pt 2 | Michel Foucault | 3 | 2018 |
| History of Sexuality, Pt 1 | Michel Foucault | 3 | 2018 |
| Good Earth, the | Pearl Buck | 3 | 2018 |
| Genesis, the King James Bible | God | 3 | 2018 |
| Gender Trouble | Judith Butler | 3 | 2018 |
| Exit West | Moshin Hamid | 3 | 2018 |
| Essays | Montaigne | 3 | 2018 |
| Bartleby the Scrivener | Herman Melville | 3 | 2018 |
| Angle of Repose | Wallace Stegner | 3 | 2018 |
| Zen Flesh, Zen Bones | Paul Reps | 2 | 2018 |
| Tuesdays with Morrie | Mitch Abum | 2 | 2018 |
| Pride and Prejudice | Jane Austen | 2 | 2018 |
| Negroland: A Memoir | Margo Jefferson | 2 | 2018 |
| Magic Mountain | Thomas Mann | 2 | 2018 |
| How to Change Your Mind | Michael Pollan | 2 | 2018 |
| Home | Marilynne Robinson | 2 | 2018 |
| End of Nature, the | Bill McKibben | 2 | 2018 |
| Collected Essays | John Berger, Ed. Geoff Dwyer | 2 | 2018 |
| A Gardener's Year | Karel Capek | 2 | 2018 |
| 20th Century American Poetry | Ed. Conrad Aiken | 2 | 2018 |
| Potlikker Papers, the | John T. Edge | 1 | 2018 |
| My Gastronomical Self | M. F. K Fisher | 1 | 2018 |
| God of Small Things, the | Arundhati Roy | 1 | 2018 |
| Further Fables | James Thurber | 0 | 2018 |
| Book of Numbers, the | Joshua Cohen | 0 | 2018 |