November 2009 "Shadow Country" by Peter Mattheison
December 2009 "The way we live now" by Anthony Trollope
January 2010 "Chronic City" by Jonathan Lethem
February 2010 "Bridge of sighs" by Richard Russo
February 2010 "Three cups of tea" by Greg Mortenson
February 2010 "Reasons for and advantages of breathing" by Lydia Peele
March 10, 2010 "Lit" by Mary Karr
April 6, 2010 "The story of Edgar Sawtelle" by David Wroblewski
April 14, 2010 "Mothers and daughters; Women of the intelligentsia in 19th century Russia" by Barbara AlpernEngel
May 20, 2010 "31 Bond" by Ellen Horan
May 28, 2010 "Let the great world spin" by Colum McCann
June 14, 2010 "The snow leopard" by Peter Mattheison
June 26, 2010 "All the shah's men" by Stephen Kinzer
August 20, 2010 "Anna Karenina" by Leo Tolstoy
September 19, 2010 "A good fall" by Ha Jin
September 25, 2010 "The Bolter" by Frances Osborne
October 2, 2010 "The ghost of Milagro creek" by Melanie Sumner
October 31, 2010 "Freedom" by Jonathan Franzen
November 16, 2010 "Buddah's orphans" by Samrat Upadhyay
December 22, 2010 "The life of Isamu Noguchi; Journey without borders" by Masayo Duus
December 26, 2010 "Tinkers" by Paul Harding
January 1, 2011 "Parrot and Olivier in America" by Peter Carey
January 26, 2011 "Just kids" by Patti Smith
January 30, 2011 "Room" by Emma Donoghue
February 6, 2011 "Redemption - The last battle of the Civil War" by Nicholas Lemann
March 6, 2011 "Desert Queen" by Janet Wallach
April 9, 2011 "Devil in the kitchen" by Marco Pierre White
April 18, 2011 "Blood, bones and butter" by Gabrielle Hamilton
May 13, 2011 "Tabloid City" by Pete Hamill
May 23, 2011 "The apprentice - my life in the kitchen" by Jaques Pepin
June 22, 2011 "To the end of the land" by David Grossman
July 16, 2011 "Heat" by Bill Buford
July 26, 2011 "Gastronomical me" by M.F.K. Fisher
August 2, 2011 "Bossy pants" by Tina Fey
August 10, 2011 "Midnights - a year with the Wellfleet police department" by Alec Wilkinson
August 12, 2011 "Great house" by Nicole Krauss
August 15, 2011 "Mary Heaton Vorse - The life of an American insurgent" by Dee Garrison
August 19, 2011 "A Cape Cod journal" by Erma J. Fisk
August 23, 2011 "Hooked" by Catherine Greenman
August 30, 2011 "Sarah's key" by Tatiana de Kosnay
September 10, 2011 "The house at Otowi bridge" by Peggy Pond Church
October 1, 2011 "Quitting the mob" by Michael Franzese and Dory Matera
November 22, 2011 "China Road" by Rob Gifford
December 8, 2011 "The Tiger's Wife" by Tea Obreht
December 17, 2011 "The Peacocks of Baboquivari" by Erma J. Fisk
January 2, 2012 "Visit from the goon squad" by Jennifer Egen
January 6, 2012 "Woman in Levis" by Eulalia Bourne
January 28, 2012 "Steve Jobs" by Walter Isaacson
February 13, 2012 "Sea of Poppies" by Amitav Ghosh
March 25, 2012 "Mortals" by Norman Rush
April 19, 2012 "River of Smoke" by Amitav Ghosh
April 23, 2012 "Why be happy when you could be normal?" by Jeanette Winterson
May 18, 2012 "Imagine" by Jonah Lehrer
May 24, 2012 "Guest of Honor" by Deborah Davis
May 30, 2012 "Old Filth" by Jane Gardham
June 11, 2012 "The Moviegoer" by Walker Percy
June 28, 2012 "The Sportswriter" by Richard Ford
July 5, 2012 "Swamplandia!" by Karen Russell
July 14, 2012 "To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee
August 6,2012 "The Nantucket Way" by Robert Mooney + Andre Sigourney
August 12, 2012 "Salvage the Bone" by Jesmyn Ward
August 16, 2012 "Durable Goods" by Elizabeth Berg
August 23, 2012 "Still Midnight" by Denise Mina
September 15, 2012 "Gone Girl" by Gillian Flynn
October 13, 2012 "Hey Day" by Kurt Anderson
October 21, 2012 "This is how you lose her" by Juno Diaz
November 8, 2012 "More powerful than dynamite" by Tai Jones
November 29, 2012 "In Sunlight and in Shadow" by Mark Helprin
December 8, 2012 "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway
December 18, 2012 "Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk" by Ben Fountain
December 22, 2012 "Cezanne, the Steins and their circle" by John Rewald
January 6, 2013 "Telegraph Avenue" by Michael Chabon
February 5, 2013 "12 Tribes of Hattie" by Ayana Mathis
March 17, 2013 "For Whom the Bell Tolls" by Ernest Hemingway
March 30, 2013 "The Sea" by John Banville
May 13, 2013 "Wolf Hall" by Hilary Mantel
May 23, 2013 "Tenth of December" by George Saunders
June 10, 2013 "Art of Fielding" by Chad Harbach
June 22, 2013 "Bring up the Bodies" by Hilary Mantel
July 20, 2013 "Second Coming" by Walker Percy
September 1, 2013 "Cooked" by Michael Pollen
October 15, 2013 "Orphan Master's Son" by Adam Johnson
October 27, 2013 "The Maid's Version" by Daniel Woodrell
January 28, 2014 "The Goldfinch" by Donna Tartt
March 3, 2014 "Aimless Love" by Billy Collins
November 30, 2014 "Lila" by Marilynne Robinson
December 28, 2014 "Gilead" by Marilynne Robinson
January 27, 2015 "Home" by Marilynne Robinson
July 20, 2015 "Where'd you go Bernadette" by Maria Semple
August 22, 2015"Euphoria" by Lily King
November 11, 2015 "The Moor's Account" by Laila Lalami
November 25, 2015 "Between the World and Me" by Ta-Nehisi Coates
December 16, 2015 "Brooklyn" by Colm Toibin
January 3, 2016 "Fates and Furies" by Lauren Groff
March 20, 2016 "My Name Is Lucy Barton" by Elizabeth Strout
July 17, 2016 "Flood of Fire" by Amitav Ghosh
October 10, 2016 "Hillbilly Elegy" by JD Vance
November 6, 2016 "Here I Am" by Jonathan Safran Foer
November 29, 2016 "We The Animals" by Justin Torres
December 13, 2016 "Nutshell" by Ian McEwan
January 7, 2017 "Underground Railroad" by Colson Whitehead
January 25, 2017 "The ballad of the Sad Cafe and other stories" by Carson McCullers
May 29, 2017 "Between Them" by Richard Ford
June 10, 2017 "Anything is Possible" by Elizabeth Strout
July 2, 2017 "A Horse Walks into a Bar" by David Grossman
September 5, 2017 "I Remember" by Joe Brainard
September 26, 2017 "Minor Characters" by Joyce Johnson
October 3, 2017 "So Long, See You Tomorrow" by William Maxwell
October 19, 2017 "In Search of Lost Time - Swann's Way" by Marcel Proust
November 2, 2017 "Syllabus" by Lynda Barry
November 6, 2017 "To the Lighthouse" by Virginia Woolf
November 14, 2017 "The Lover" by Marguerite Duras
November 28, 2017 "Negroland" by Margo Jefferson
December 13, 2017 "The Emigrants" by W.G. Sebald
January 27, 2018 "The Collected Works of Billy The Kid" by Michael Ondaatje
February 4, 2018 "Bluets" by Maggie Nelson
February 7, 2018 "This is not a novel" by David Markson
February 12, 2018 "Maus" by Art Spiegelman
February 21, 2018 "Uncreative Writing" by Kenneth Goldsmith
February 25, 2018 "Against Expression" - anthology
February 28, 2018 "A Girl is a Half Formed Thing" by Eimear McBride
March 29, 2018 "Citizen" by Claudia Rankine
April 5, 2018 "Fires in the Mirror" by Anna Deavere Smith
April 10, 2018 "I Love Dick" by Chris Kraus
April 25, 2018 "That This" by Susan Howe
May 2, 2018 "Tender Buttons" by Gertrude Stein
May 6, 2018 "A Family of Strangers" by Deborah Tall
September 2, 2018 "Train Dreams" by Denis Johnson
September 5, 2018 "Salvador" by Joan Didion
October 1, 2018 “Finding Shakespeare” by Daniel Fromson
October 9, 2018 “52 Blue” by Leslie Jamison
October 12, 2018 “Between the World and Me” by Ta-Nehisi Coates
October 17, 2018 “A Room of One’s Own” by Virginia Woolf
October 30, 2018 “The Program Era: Postwar Fiction and the Rise of Creative Writing” by Mark McGurl
November 14, 2018 “Workshops of Empire: Stegner, Engle and American Creative Writing during the Cold War” by Eric Bennett
November 19, 2019 “Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom” by Bell Hooks
December 20, 2018 “Meditations in an Emergency” by Frank O’Hara
December 26, 2018 “Lunch Poems” by Frank O’Hara
January 3, 2019 “Pedagogy of the Opressed” by Paulo Freire
January 26, 2019 “Writing Fiction: A Guide to Narrative Craft” by Janet Burroway, Elizabeth Stuckey-French, Ned Stuckey-French
April 2, 2019 “How to Set Yourself on Fire” by Julia Dixon Evens
April 8, 2019 “Things That Need Doing” by Sean Manning
April 16, 2019 “Friday Black” by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
April 22, 2019 “The Way of the Writer” by Charles Johnson
May 15, 2019 “Her Body and Other Parties” by Carmen Maria Machado
June 29, 2019 “Another Brooklyn” by Jaqueline Woodson
July 5, 2019 “Sing Unbruied Sing” by Jesmyn Ward
July 9, 2019 “Washington Black” by Esi Edugyan
July 17, 2019 “A Thousand Mornings” by Mary Oliver
July 23, 2019 “The Age of Grief” by Jane Smiley
August 7, 2019 “Baby, I Don’t Care” by Chelsey Minnis
September 8, 2019 “Housekeeping” by Marilynne Robinson
January 1. 2020 “Africaville” by Jeffrey Colvin
February 20, 2020 “Pachinko” by Min Jin Lee
February 29, 2020 “The Lager Queen of Minnesota” by J. Ryan Stradal
March 15, 2020 “The Argonaughts” by Maggie Nelson
March 24, 2020 “Our Town” by Thorton Wilder
April 16, 2020 “The Weight of Ink” by Rachel Kadish
April 25, 2020 “Writers and Lovers” by Lily King
April 30, 2020 “Little Fires Everywhere” by Celeste Ng
May 29, 2020 “They Lived They Were at Brighton Beach” by Ivan Brave
June 2, 2020 “There There” by Tommy Orange
June 14, 2020 “The Light That’s left” by Carissa Chesanek
June 18, 2020 “Educated” by Tara Westover
June 27, 2020 “Normal People” by Sally Rooney
July 27, 2020 “The Story of My Teeth” by Valeria Luiselli
August 25, 2020 “Wild game” by Adrienne Brodeur
August 28, 2020 “The Autograph Man” by Zadie Smith
September 25, 2020 “A Long Petal of The Sea” by Isabel Allende
October 16, 2020 “Ruby” by Cynthia Bond
October 19, 2020 “The Bluest Eye” by Toni Morrison
November 10, 2020 “The Vanishing Half” by Brit Bennett
January 18, 2021 “Hamnet” by Maggie O’Farrell
February 9, 2021 “The Good Lord Bird” by James McBride
February 27, 2021 “Long Live the Post Horn!” by Vigdis Hjorth
April 10, 2021 ”Silence Is My Mother Tongue” by Sulaiman Addonia
August 30, 2021 “The Institute of Solace” by Will Lupins
September 9, 2021 “The Life & Times of Michael K” by J.M. Coetzee
October 2, 2021 “The Book of Difficult Fruit” by Kate Lebo
November 4, 2021 “The Progress of Love” by Alice Munro
November 20, 2021 “Beautiful World Where Are You” by Sally Rooney
November 28, 2021 “Outline” by Rachel Cusk
December 11, 2021 “Punch Me Up to the Gods” by Brian Broome
December 18, 2021 “The Essential Gwendolyn Brooks” edited by Elizabeth Alexander
December 26, 2021 “Planet Palm: how palm oil ended up in everything - and endangered the world” by Jocelyn C. Zuckerman
January 22, 2022 “The Little Red Chairs” by Edna O’Brien
February 6, 2022 “For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When The Rainbow Is Enuf” by Ntozake Shange
March 10, 2022 “The White Album” by Joan Didion
April 14, 2020 “Booth” by Karen Joy Fowler
April 28, 2022 “Fleishman is in Trouble” by Taffy Brodesser-Akner
May 21, 2022 “The Sentence” by Louise Erdrich
May 28, 2022 “The Candy House” by Jennifer Egan
June 11, 2022 “Last Chance Texaco” by Rickie Lee Jones
June 14, 2022 “State of the Union” by Nick Hornby
July 13, 2022 “Cloud Cuckoo Land” by Anthony Doerr
August 6, 2022 “Someone” by Alice McDermott
August 18, 2022 “Greenland” by David Santos Donaldson
October 12, 2022 “On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous” by Ocean Vuong
November 24, 2022 “Pocket 8s” by Amy Sewell
January 23, 2023 “Less” by Andrew Sean Greer
April 8, 2023 “Demon Copperhead” by Barbara Kingsolver
May 25, 2023 “The Last Animal” by Ramona Ausubel
September 27, 2023 “Crying in H-mart” by Michelle Zauner
December 2, 2023 “Blackouts” by Justin Torres
December 15, 2023 “Play it as it lays” by Joan Didion
January 19, 2024 “The Netanyahus” by Joshua Cohen
February 12, 2024 “The Peach Seed” by Anita Gail Jones
February 15, 2024 “The Ally” by Itmar Moses
February 25, 2024 “North Woods” by Daniel Mason
