2009

 

      January

• What It Is – Lynda Barry 10
• Pretty Monsters – Kelly Link 9
• Collections of Nothing – William Davies King 8
• The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao – Junot Diaz 6
• The Gone-Away World – Nick Harkaway 6
• The Visible and the Invisible – Maurice Merleau-Ponty (trans: Alphonso Lingis) 7
• Evocative Objects – Sherry Turkle 5
• Just After Sunset – Stephen King 6
• The Library at Night – Alberto Manguel 7
• The Graveyard Book – Neil Gaiman 7

      February

• The Man Who Was Thursday – G.K. Chesterton 8
• A Thousand Years of Good Prayers – Yiyun Li 9
• The Vagrants – Yiyun Li 8
• Factory Girls – Leslie T. Chang 9
• The Arrival – Shaun Tan 10

      March

• Notes on the Underground – Rosalind Williams 9

      April

• The Journal of Jules Renard (trans: Louise Bogan & Elizabeth Roget) 9

      May

• Celine Dion’s Let’s Talk About Love: A Journey to the End of Taste – Carl Wilson 9 

      July

• Flannery – Brad Gooch 6
• A User’s Guide to the Brain – John J. Ratey 6
• Your Inner Fish – Neil Shubin 8
• The 10,000 Year Explosion – Gregory Cochran & Henry Harpending 4
• Reading the OED – Ammon Shea 7
• Space and Place – Yi-Fu Tuan 8
• Metaphors We Live By – George Lakoff & Mark Johnson 6
• Tiananmen Moon – Philip J. Cunningham 6
• China Witness – Xinran (trans: Julia Lovell, Esther Tyldesley, & Nicky Harman) 7
• 20 Fragments of a Ravenous Youth – Xiaolu Guo 5
• The Evolution of God – Robert Wright 6
• Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned – Wells Tower 7
• Jesus, Interrupted – Bart D. Ehrman 7
• How We Decide – Jonah Lehrer 6
• The Seven Beauties of Science Fiction – Istvan Csicsery-Ronay Jr. 6

      August

• Blue Light in the Sky & Other Stories – Can Xue (trans: Karen Gernant, Chen Zeping) 9
• On the Origin of Stories – Brian Boyd 7
• The Philosophical Baby – Alison Gopnik 6
• The Wine-Dark Sea – Robert Aickman 9
• Cold Hand in Mine – Robert Aickman 8
• The Best of Gene Wolfe 7
• Asterios Polyp – David Mazzucchelli 6

      September

• Shop Class as Soulcraft – Matthew B. Crawford 8
• Animals Make Us Human – Temple Grandin & Catherine Johnson 7
• The Private Life of Chairman Mao – Li Zhisui (trans: Tai Hung-Chao) 8

      October

• The Complete Stories – Flannery O’Connor 10
• The Lottery and Other Stories – Shirley Jackson 7
• Half the Sky – Sheryl WuDunn & Nicholas D. Kristof 9
• When Everything Changed – Gail Collins 7 

      November

• My Country and My People – Lin Yutang 8

      December

• Booklife – Jeff VanderMeer 6
• The Magicians – Lev Grossman 5
• Walk Two Moons – Sharon Creech 7
• About Writing – Samuel R. Delany 7

 

      2010

 

      January

• The Art Instinct – Denis Dutton 6
• The One vs. the Many – Alex Woloch 7

      February

• The Long Goodbye – Raymond Chandler 9
• Nothing to Envy – Barbara Demick 8
• Country Driving – Peter Hessler 7
• The Earth After Us – Jan Zalasiewicz 5
• Eating Animals – Jonathan Safran Foer 5
• Memories of the Future – Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky (trans: Joanne Turnbull) 9
• American Fantastic Tales: Terror & the Uncanny, 1940s to Now – Peter Straub (ed) 7
• The Giver – Lois Lowry 4
• Becoming a Writer – Dorothea Brande 9

      March

• Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell – Susanna Clarke 7

      April

• The Corpse Walker – Liao Yiwu (trans: Wen Huang) 7
• The Spirit of the Chinese People – Ku Hung-Ming 2

      May

• The City & the City – China Mieville 9
• A Good Fall – Ha Jin 3
• The Age of Wonder – Richard Holmes 9

      June

• The Passage – Justin Cronin 4

      July

• The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet – David Mitchell 9

      August

• China Mountain Zhang – Maureen McHugh 9 (r)
• Extra Lives – Tom Bissell 6
• Annabel Scheme – Robin Sloan 6
• Jealousy – Alain Robbe-Grillet (trans: Richard Howard) 8
• The Complete Stories – Franz Kafka 9 (r)

      September

• Freedom – Jonathan Franzen 8
• Ficciones – Jorge Luis Borges 10 (r)
• Phenomenology of Perception – Maurice Merleau-Ponty (trans: Colin Smith) 10 (r)
• The Public Domain – James Boyle 7
• Little Brother – Cory Doctorow 6
• The Future of Ideas – Lawrence Lessig 6

      October

• Autobiography – John Stuart Mill 5
• At the Mountains of Madness – H.P. Lovecraft 7
• Notes from No Man’s Land – Eula Biss 6
• All Is Forgotten, Nothing Is Lost – Lan Samantha Chang 3
• What I Talk About When I Talk About Running – Haruki Murakami (trans: Philip Gabriel) 7
• The Red Guard – Hans Granqvist (trans: Erik J. Friis) 5
• The Shallows – Nicholas Carr 8
• Room – Emma Donoghue 7
• The Facebook Effect – David Kirkpatrick 7
• The Party – Richard McGregor 7
• Bird by Bird – Anne Lamott 7
• You Are Not a Gadget – Jaron Lanier 7
• Gamespite Quarterly 5: The NES Turns 25 – Jeremy Parish et al. 7
• Gold Boy, Emerald Girl – Yiyun Li 6
• Bright-sided – Barbara Ehrenreich 6
• Stuff: Compulsive Hoarding & the Meaning of Things – Gail Steketee & Randy Frost 8
• Pastoralia – George Saunders 9 (r)

      November

• Dreaming in Chinese – Deborah Fallows 3
• On Being Certain – Robert Burton 6
• The Beijing Consensus – Stefan Halper 7
• How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe – Charles Yu 4
• Flow – Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi 7
• The Rational Optimist – Matt Ridley 7
• Changing My Mind – Zadie Smith 9
• The Art of Choosing – Sheena Iyengar 4
• In Persuasion Nation – George Saunders 6
• The Program Era – Mark McGurl 6
• Long for This World – Jonathan Weiner 7
• Luka and the Fire of Life – Salman Rushdie 3
• Prisoner of the State: The Secret Journal of Premier Zhao Ziyang 7
• How Pleasure Works – Paul Bloom 8

      December

• Googled – Ken Auletta 7
• Free: The Future of a Radical Price – Chris Anderson 7
• Blind Descent – James M. Tabor 3
• One! Hundred! Demons! – Lynda Barry 8
• Through the Language Glass – Guy Deutscher 7
• Videogames – James Newman 4
• Ghostwritten – David Mitchell 9 (r)
• Proust and the Squid – Maryanne Wolf 6
• On Writing – Stephen King 8 (r)
• The Art of Time in Fiction – Joan Silber 3
• Reading Obama – James T. Kloppenberg 6
• A Life on Paper – Georges-Olivier Chateaureynaud (trans: Edward Gauvin) 8
• Acme Novelty Library #20 – Chris Ware 7
• Egg on Mao – Denise Chong 8

 

      2011

 

      January

• The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro 10
• The Moral Landscape – Sam Harris 3
• Drive – Daniel H. Pink 5
• Roseannearchy – Roseanne Barr 8
• Super Sad True Love Story – Gary Shteyngart 6
• Disgrace – J.M. Coetzee 8
• Waiting for the Barbarians – J.M. Coetzee 9
• Finite and Infinite Games – James P. Carse 6
• When China Rules the World – Martin Jacques 4

      February

• Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother – Amy Chua 7
• Art as Experience – John Dewey 9

      March

• River Town – Peter Hessler 6 (r)
• Brian Eno’s Another Green World – Geeta Dayal 4
• The Wine-Dark Sea – Robert Aickman 9 (r)

      April

• The Hemlock Cup – Bettany Hughes 7
• Moonwalking with Einstein – Joshua Foer 7
• House of Leaves – Mark Z. Danielewski 5 (r)
• Lucky Wander Boy – D.B. Weiss 5
• Message from an Unknown Chinese Mother – Xinran (trans: Nicky Harman) 7
• On Liberty – John Stuart Mill 8 (r)
• The Use and Abuse of Literature – Marjorie Garber 6
• Collections of Nothing – William Davies King 7 (r)

      May

• Why the West Rules…For Now – Ian Morris 7
• The Anatomy of Disgust – William Ian Miller 7
• A Game of Thrones – George R. R. Martin 8
• A Clash of Kings – George R.R. Martin 7
• A Visit from the Goon Squad – Jennifer Egan 6
• On China – Henry Kissinger 2
• The Geeks Shall Inherit the Earth – Alexandra Robbins 6

      June

• In the Plex – Steven Levy 7
• The Psychopath Test – Jon Ronson 7
• A Storm of Swords – George R.R. Martin 9
• A Feast for Crows – George R.R. Martin 6
• The Filter Bubble – Eli Pariser 7
• The Secret Lives of Hoarders – Matt Paxton 5
• The Lost Art of Reading – David L. Ulin 6

      July

• Robopocalypse – Daniel Wilson 4
• Unnatural Selection – Mara Hvistendahl 7
• This Gaming Life – Jim Rossignol 6
• Notes on the Underground – Rosalind Williams 9 (r)
• A Dance with Dragons – George R.R. Martin 8

      August

• The Unwritten (vol. 1) – Mike Carey and Peter Gross 7
• The Unwritten (vol. 2) – Mike Carey and Peter Gross 6
• The Unwritten (vol. 3) – Mike Carey and Peter Gross 5
• Supergods – Grant Morrison 6
• Alone Together – Sherry Turkle 8
• A Drifting Life – Yoshihiro Tatsumi (trans: Taro Nettleton) 8
• Super Mario – Jeff Ryan 4
• Shortcomings – Adrian Tomine 6
• Absolute Planetary (vol. 1) – Warren Ellis and John Cassaday 7
• Absolute Planetary (vol. 2) – Warren Ellis and John Cassaday 4

      September

• Brain Bugs – Dean Buonomano 6
• The Magician King – Lev Grossman 6
• The Lost Thing – Shaun Tan 7
• The Information – James Gleick 8
• Wicked – Gregory Maguire 8
• Red Dust – Ma Jian (trans: Flora Drew) 8
• Y: The Last Man (vol. 1-10) – Brian K. Vaughan & Pia Guerra 6

      October

• The Beginning of Infinity – David Deutsch 7
• Surviving the Dragon – Arjia Rinpoche 6
• Maphead – Ken Jennings 8
• Ready Player One – Ernest Cline 2
• Uncreative Writing – Kenneth Goldsmith 8
• The Better Angels of Our Nature – Steven Pinker 6

      November

• It’s So Magic – Lynda Barry 8
• The Freddie Stories – Lynda Barry 7
• 1Q84 – Haruki Murakami (trans: Jay Rubin & Philip Gabriel) 2
• Under a Cruel Star – Heda Margolius Kovaly (trans: Helen Epstein) 8
• What It Is – Lynda Barry 10 (r)
• Thinking, Fast and Slow – Daniel Kahneman 8

      December

• Daytripper – Fabio Moon & Gabriel Ba 7
• We Have Always Lived in the Castle – Shirley Jackson 8
• The Chinese – David Bonavia 5
• Chinese Characteristics – Arthur Henderson Smith 8
• Reality Hunger – David Shields 8
• The Secret Life of Pronouns – James W. Pennebaker 7
• China in Ten Words – Yu Hua (trans: Allan H. Barr) 7
• Bringing Down the Great Wall – Fang Lizhi (trans: James H. Williams) 8

 

      2012

 

      January

• GameSpite Journal 10: Super NES Turns 20 – Jeremy Parish et al. 5
• GameSpite Quarterly 8: Playstation, 15 Years Later – Jeremy Parish et al. 6
• Socrates in Sichuan – Peter J. Vernezze 2
• A History of the World in 100 Objects – Neil MacGregor 7
• No Enemies, No Hatred – Liu Xiaobo 8
• The Geography of Thought – Richard E. Nisbett 5

      February

• The Hunger Games – Suzanne Collins 7
• Steve Jobs – Walter Isaacson 5
• Ai Weiwei’s Blog: 2006-2009 (trans: Lee Ambrozy) 7
• The Fat Years – Chan Koonchung (trans: Michael S. Duke) 4
• Zona – Geoff Dyer 9
• Catching Fire – Suzanne Collins 6

      March

• Mockingjay – Suzanne Collins 6
• Space and Place – Yi-Fu Tuan 7 (r)
• Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert (trans: Lydia Davis) 10 (r)
• Quiet – Susan Cain 4

      April

• Extra Lives – Tom Bissell 5 (r)
• Against Expression – Craig Dworkin & Kenneth Goldsmith (eds) 8
• The Lifespan of a Fact – John D’Agata & Jim Fingal 7

      May

• The Power of Habit – Charles Duhigg 4
• Banner in the Sky – James Ramsey Ullman 4
• Rise of the Videogame Zinesters – Anna Anthropy 7
• Otherwise Known as the Human Condition – Geoff Dyer 8
• Tubes: A Journey to the Center of the Internet – Andrew Blum 8

      June

• Mystery and Manners – Flannery O’Connor 8
• Unnatural Wonders – Arthur C. Danto 8
• Harriet the Spy – Louise Fitzhugh 8 (r)
• The Spying Heart – Katherine Paterson 7

      July

• The Great Gilly Hopkins – Katherine Paterson 9
• Gates of Excellence – Katherine Paterson 7
• Consent of the Networked – Rebecca MacKinnon 6
• Falling Leaves – Adeline Yen Mah 7
• The Age of Miracles – Karen Thompson Walker 3
• Farther Away – Jonathan Franzen 5
• The Good Women of China – Xinran (trans: Esther Tyldesley) 7

      August

• Little Green – Chun Yu 5
• Factory Girls – Leslie T. Chang 8 (r)
• Phenomenology of Perception – Maurice Merleau-Ponty 10 (r)
• Understanding Comics – Scott McCloud 8 (r)
• The Phantom Tollbooth – Norton Juster 8
• Red Scarf Girl – Ji-li Jiang 8
• After the Nightmare – Liang Heng & Judith Shapiro 7
• Revolution Is Not a Dinner Party – Ying Chang Compestine 5
• The Crazed – Ha Jin 3

      September

• James Joyce: A New Biography – Gordon Bowker 4
• How Music Works – David Byrne 5
• Every Day – David Levithan 3
• Borges at Eighty: Conversations – Willis Barnstone (ed) 7

      October

• Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore – Robin Sloan 3
• Mortality – Christopher Hitchens 7
• Some Kind of Fairy Tale – Graham Joyce 7
• From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler – E.L. Konigsburg 6
• Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story – D.T. Max 4
• The Dog Stars – Peter Heller 5
• This Is How You Lose Her – Junot Diaz 5

      November

• The End of Men – Hanna Rosin 6
• The White Album – Joan Didion 7
• Makers – Chris Anderson 5
• The Signal and the Noise – Nate Silver 7
• Remainder – Tom McCarthy 9 (r)
• Gone Girl – Gillian Flynn 4
• Being Wrong – Kathryn Schulz 9
• Far from the Tree – Andrew Solomon 6

      December

• Are You My Mother? – Alison Bechdel 4
• Escape from Camp 14 – Blaine Harden 6
• Red Azalea – Anchee Min 8
• Wild Ginger – Anchee Min 3
• Katherine – Anchee Min 5
• Killing Is Harmless – Brendan Keogh 4
• Jacob Have I Loved – Katherine Paterson 8
• The Walking Dead: Compendium One – Robert Kirkman 4
• People Who Eat Darkness – Richard Lloyd Parry 5
• How Should a Person Be? – Sheila Heti 9
• Book Was There – Andrew Piper 8
• Against Interpretation – Susan Sontag 9
• The Republican Brain – Chris Mooney 6
• Alien vs. Predator – Michael Robbins 8

 

      2013

 

      January

• The Antidote – Oliver Burkeman 6
• Building Stories – Chris Ware 9
• Behind the Beautiful Forevers – Katherine Boo 7
• Gods Like Us – Ty Burr 7
• Yoga for People Who Can’t Be Bothered to Do It – Geoff Dyer 6
• Alif the Unseen – G. Willow Wilson 4
• Tenth of December – George Saunders 9

      February

• In Praise of Messy Lives – Katie Roiphe 4
• How Literature Saved My Life – David Shields 4
• Reborn: Journals & Notebooks, 1947-1963 – Susan Sontag 6
• Magic Hours – Tom Bissell 7
• Give Me Everything You Have – James Lasdun 5
• On Becoming a Novelist – John Gardner 7
• Revenge: Eleven Dark Tales – Yoko Ogawa (trans: Stephen Snyder) 3

      March 

• The World Until Yesterday – Jared Diamond 7
• Sticks and Stones – Emily Bazelon 6
• The Righteous Mind – Jonathan Haidt 4
• Lean In – Sheryl Sandberg 4
• Wave – Sonali Deraniyagala 8

      April

• Bend, Not Break – Ping Fu with MeiMei Fox 6
• The Revolution Was Televised – Alan Sepinwall 7
• The New Mind of the South – Tracy Thompson 6
• Locke & Key (Vol. 1) – Joe Hill & Gabriel Rodriguez 4

      May

• Present Shock – Douglas Rushkoff 7
• A Field Guide to Getting Lost – Rebecca Solnit 8
• Missing Out: In Praise of the Unlived Life – Adam Phillips 8
• The Cooked Seed – Anchee Min 7

      June

• River of Shadows – Rebecca Solnit 7
• You – Austin Grossman 2
• A Tale for the Time Being – Ruth Ozeki 6
• The Flamethrowers – Rachel Kushner 9
• Daily Rituals – Mason Currey (ed) 4

      July

• The Faraway Nearby – Rebecca Solnit 6
• The Ocean at the End of the Lane – Neil Gaiman 7

      August

• Difficult Men – Brett Martin 4

      September

• I Wear the Black Hat – Chuck Klosterman 7

      October

• For a Song and a Hundred Songs – Liao Yiwu (trans: Wenguang Huang) 7
• The Reason I Jump – Naoki Higashida (trans: KA Yoshida & David Mitchell) 7
• God Lives in St. Petersburg – Tom Bissell 5
• Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth – Reza Aslan 8

      November

• The 7 Laws of Magical Thinking – Matthew Hutson 7
• The Circle – Dave Eggers 3

 

      2014

 

      January

• On Such a Full Sea – Chang Rae-Lee 4
• How To Do Things with Videogames – Ian Bogost 6
• Wonderbook – Jeff Vandermeer 6

      February

• Why I Read – Wendy Lesser 6
• The Golem and the Jinni – Helene Wecker 5
• Earthbound – Ken Baumann 7

      March

• The Improbability Principle – David Hand 7
• The Triple Package – Amy Chua and Jed Rubenfeld 3
• All Joy and No Fun – Jennifer Senior 6

      April

• The New Jim Crow – Michelle Alexander 9
• Blood Will Out – Walter Kirn 3
• Mindwise – Nicholas Epley 3
• Kinder than Solitude – Yiyun Li 4
• Encounters with Chinese Writers – Annie Dillard 5
• Writing Life – Annie Dillard 6

      May

• Living with a Wild God – Barbara Erhenreich 4
• The Fault in Our Stars – John Green 7
• ZZT – Anna Anthropy 5

      July

• The Diary of Anne Frank 10 (r)
• The Empathy Exams – Leslie Jamison 6
• Saga, Vol. 1 – Brian K. Vaughan & Fiona Staples 6

      August

• Saga, Vol. 2 – Brian K. Vaughan & Fiona Staples 5
• Saga, Vol. 3 – Brian K. Vaughan 7 Fiona Staples 4
• Men Explain Things to Me – Rebecca Solnit 7
• Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage – Haruki Murakami (trans: Philip Gabriel) 3
• What We See When We Read – Peter Mendelsund 6
• Bad Feminist – Roxanne Gay 4
• Another Great Day at Sea – Geoff Dyer 7

      September

• The Bone Clocks – David Mitchell 3
• Triumphs of Experience – George Vaillant 7
• Stuff Matters – Mark Miodownik 8

      October

• Not that Kind of Girl – Lena Dunham 4
• The Sense of Style – Steven Pinker 4
• Enchanted Objects – David Rose 3
• Can’t We Talk about Something More Pleasant? – Roz Chast 8
• Geek Sublime – Vikram Chandra 7
• Wolf in White Van – John Darnielle 7

      November

• Waking up – Sam Harris 3
• On Immunity – Eula Biss 5
• The Unpersuadables – Will Storr 8
• Excellent Sheep – William Deresiewicz 6
• Age of Ambition – Evan Osnos 6
• Dataclysm – Christian Rudder 6

      December

• Police Brutality: An Anthology – Jill Nelson (ed) 8
• The Meaning of Human Existence – Edward O. Wilson 6
• Seconds – Bryan Lee O’Malley 3
• Without You, There Is No Us – Suki Kim 7
• People’s Republic of Amnesia – Louisa Lim 8
• The Poetics of Space – Gaston Bachelard (trans: Maria Jolas) 9

 

      2015

 

      January

• Leave Me Alone: A Novel of Chengdu – Murong Xuecun (trans: Harvey Thomlinson) 7
• Now I Know Who My Comrades Are – Emily Parker 6
• The Three-Body Problem – Liu Cixin (trans: Ken Liu) 3
• The Last Policeman – Ben Winters 6
• Information Doesn’t Want To Be Free – Cory Doctorow 4

      February

• The Unspeakable – Meghan Daum 6
• Satin Island – Tom McCarthy 8

      March

• An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States – Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz 8
• Thrown – Kerry Howley 7
• Nevada – Imogen Binnie 7
• Fresh Off the Boat – Eddie Huang 7
• The Makioka Sisters – Junichiro Tanizaki (trans: Edward Seidensticker) 8
• Transgender History – Susan Stryker 6
• The Sculptor – Scott McCloud 3

      April

• Annihilation – Jeff Vandermeer 7
• A Primer for the Gradual Understanding of Gertrude Stein – Robert Haas (ed)  5
• The World Beyond Your Head – Matthew B. Crawford 5
• Authority – Jeff Vandermeer 5
• Acceptance – Jeff Vandermeer 3
• So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed – Jon Ronson 5

      May

• Whipping Girl – Julia Serano 8
• Hand to Mouth – Linda Tirado 7
• Process – Sarah Stodola 5
• Nimona – Noelle Stevenson 5
• Motherland, Fatherland, Homelandsexuals – Patricia Lockwood 8

      June

• The Almost Nearly Perfect People – Michael Booth 7
• Ghost Cities of China – Wade Shepard 6
• The Hidden Wound – Wendell Berry 6
• Belonging – bell hooks 5

      July

• The Argonauts – Maggie Nelson 5
• The Souls of Black Folk – W.E.B. Du Bois 9
• Between the World and Me – Ta-Nehisi Coates 9
• Notes of a Native Son – James Baldwin 8
• The Fire Next Time – James Baldwin 10

      August

• The Other Serious – Christy Wampole 4
• The Door – Magda Szabo (trans: Len Rix) 8

      September

• SuperMutant Magic Academy – Jillian Tamaki 8
• In Real Life – Cory Doctorow & Jen Wang 3
• This One Summer – Mariko Tamaki & Jillian Tamaki 8
• The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism – Edward E. Baptist 8
• Gamelife – Michael Clune 5

      October

• Hold Still – Sally Mann 8
• A Little Life – Hanya Yanagihara 3

      November

• The Sandman: Overture – Neil Gaiman, J.H. Williams III, & Dave Stewart 8
• Slade House – David Mitchell 3
• The Art of Memoir – Mary Karr 7
• Accidental Saints – Nadia Bolz-Weber 6
• Becoming Nicole – Amy Ellis Nutt 4
• The Soul of an Octopus – Sy Montgomery 6

      December

• How to Talk about Videogames – Ian Bogost 3
• A Brief History of Video Games – Richard Stanton 7
• Shadow of the Colossus – Nick Suttner 3
• Embed with Games – Cara Ellison 4
• Peaceful Neighbor – Michael Long 4
• The State of Play – Daniel Goldberg & Linus Larsson (eds) 5
• Killing and Dying – Adrian Tomine 6
• Bitch Planet (Vol. 1) – Kelly Sue DeConnick & Valentine De Landro 5

 

      2016

 

      January

• Ain’t I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism – bell hooks 8
• Woman on the Other Shore – Mitsuyo Kakuta (trans: Wayne P. Lammers) 6

      February

• Blood and Guts in High School – Kathy Acker 8 (r)
• Against Method – Paul Feyerabend 7
• Being Wrong – Kathryn Schulz 8 (r)
• Diary of a Teenage Girl – Phoebe Gloeckner 4
• The Vegetarian – Han Kang (trans: Deborah Smith) 5
• Orality and Literacy – Walter J. Ong 9 (r)

      March

• Ancillary Justice – Ann Leckie 6
• Spooky Action at a Distance – George Musser 7
• Spelunky – Derek Yu 7
• The Buried Giant – Kazuo Ishiguro 8
• My Country and My People – Lin Yutang 7 (r)

      April

• Beijing Comrades – Bei Tong (trans: Scott Myers) 6
• Pretentiousness – Dan Fox 4
• Broken Glass – Alain Mabanckou (trans: Helen Stevenson) 5
• Patience – Daniel Clowes 2
• A Private Life – Chen Ran (trans: John Howard-Gibbon) 7

      May

• My Father, the Pornographer – Chris Offutt 5
• You Died – Keza Macdonald & Jason Killingsworth 4
• Bright Dead Things – Ada Limon 4
• White Sands – Geoff Dyer 4
• Essays in Idleness – Kenko (trans: Donald Keene) 8 (r)

      June

• But What if We’re Wrong? – Chuck Klosterman 6
• All the Single Ladies – Rebecca Traister 8
• You May Also Like – Tom Vanderbilt 6

      July

• Solaris – Stanislaw Lem (trans: Joanna Kilmartin & Steve Cox) 9
• The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up – Marie Kondo (trans: Cathy Hirano) 7
• The Cultural Revolution: A People’s History, 1962-1976 – Frank Dikotter 6
• Paper Girls (Vol. 1) – Brian K. Vaughan, Cliff Chiang, Jared K. Fletcher, & Matt Wilson 3
• Critics, Monsters, Fanatics, & Other Literary Essays – Cynthia Ozick 4
• Tribe – Sebastian Junger 5
• Underground Airlines – Ben Winters 5
• Monstress (Vol. 1: Awakening) – Marjorie Liu & Sana Takeda 8
• The Girls – Emma Cline 6

      August

• Roadside Picnic – Arkady and Boris Strugatsky (trans: Olena Bormashenko) 4
• The Lifecycle of Software Objects – Ted Chiang 7
• Landmarks – Robert Macfarlane 7
• The Stars My Destination – Alfred Bester 4
• The Living Mountain – Nan Shepherd 7
• Near to the Wild Heart – Clarice Lispector (trans: Alison Entrekin) 10
• The Fire This Time – Jesmyn Ward (ed) 7
• The Woman in the Dunes – Kobo Abe (trans: E. Dale Saunders) 6
• A Year with Swollen Appendices – Brian Eno 7 (r)

      September

• The Fifth Season – N.K. Jemisin 6
• View with a Grain of Sand – Wislawa Szymborska (trans: Stanislaw Baranczak & Clare Cavanagh) 9
• The Selfishness of Others – Kristin Dombek 6
• The Last Wish – Andrzej Sapkowski (trans: Danusia Stok) 7
• Panther – Brecht Evens 8
• Play Anything – Ian Bogost 4

      October

• Hillbilly Elegy – J.D. Vance 2
• Harry Potter and the Cursed Child – Jack Thorne & J.K. Rowling 3
• We Gon’ Be Alright – Jeff Chang 7
• The Poetics of Space – Gaston Bachelard (trans: Maria Jolas) 9 (r)
• Time Travel: A History – James Gleick 4
• The Obelisk Gate – N.K. Jemisin 5
• Hatred of Poetry – Ben Lerner 6
• Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman – Lindy West 8
• Something Torn and New: An African Renaissance – Ngugi wa Thiong’o 7

      November

• Dog Whistle Politics – Ian Haney Lopez 7
• Snow Country – Yasunari Kawabata (trans: Edward Seidensticker) 5
• How to Read Water – Tristan Gooley 8
• The Voices Within – Charles Fernyhough 5
• The Absolutely True Story of a Part-Time Indian – Sherman Alexie 8

      December

• At the Existentialist Café – Sarah Bakewell 8
• The Poetics of Reverie – Gaston Bachelard (trans: Daniel Russell) 4
• The Philosopher: A History in Six Types – Justin E. H. Smith 6
• Pretty Deadly (Vol. 1) – Kelly Sue Deconnick, Emma Rios, Jordie Bellaire, Clayton Cowles 3
• Descender (Vol. 1) – Jeff Lemire & Dustin Nguyen 6
• The Reactionary Mind – Corey Robin 4
• How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America – Kiese Laymon 7
• Muslim Girl – Amani Al-Khatahtbeh 6
• Descender (Vol. 2) – Jeff Lemire & Dustin Nguyen 7
• Citizen: An American Lyric – Claudia Rankine 6
• Nobody – Marc Lamont Hill 5

 

      2017

 

      January

• Becoming Unbecoming – Una 7
• The Marvelous Clouds – John Durham Peters 7
• Other Minds – Peter Godfrey-Smith 5
• Archeophonics – Peter Gizzi 4
• Strangers in Their Own Land – Arlie Russell Hochschild 4
• On Female Body Experience – Iris Marion Young 8
• The Hour of the Star – Clarice Lispector (trans: Benjamin Moser) 8

      February

• The True Believer – Eric Hoffer 7
• Their Eyes Were Watching God – Zora Neale Hurston 9
• Universal Harvester – John Darnielle 4
• A Cup of Rage – Raduan Nassar (trans: Stefan Tobler) 6
• Ongoingness – Sarah Manguso 4
• The Captive Mind – Czeslaw Milosz 7

      March

• Stamped from the Beginning – Ibram X. Kendi 8
• White Rage – Carol Anderson 6
• The Strange Case of Rachel K – Rachel Kushner 4
• The Girl at the Baggage Claim – Gish Jen 6

      April

• Being Mortal – Atul Gawande 7
• Changing My Mind – Zadie Smith 8 (r)
• Somebody with a Little Hammer – Mary Gaitskill 7
• The Mother of All Questions – Rebecca Solnit 5
• Tears We Cannot Stop – Michael Eric Dyson 6
• Nabokov’s Favorite Word Is Mauve – Ben Blatt 4
• On Trails – Robert Moor 8

      May

• Bluets – Maggie Nelson 6
• On Tyranny – Timothy Snyder 5
• The Book of Yokai – Michael Dylan Foster (illustrator: Shinonome Kijin) 7
• The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas – Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis (trans: Gregory Rabassa) 9
• At the Lightning Field – Laura Raicovich 3
• Unwanted Advances – Laura Kipnis 6
• Wisdom Sits in Places: Landscape & Language among the Western Apache – Keith H. Basso 8
• Dear Friend, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life – Yiyun Li 5
• Typewriters, Bombs, Jellyfish – Tom McCarthy 3
• The Correspondence – J.D. Daniels 3
• Unflattening – Nick Sousanis 3

      June

• Collections of Nothing – William Davies King 6 (r)
• Boundless – Jillian Tamaki 4
• Bending Adversity – David Pilling 5
• The Art of Description – Mark Doty 5
• Garden – Yuichi Yokoyama (trans: Taro Nettleton with Ryan Holmberg) 9
• The End of Eddy – Edouard Louis (trans: Michael Lucey) 5 
• Selected Cronicas – Clarice Lispector (trans: Giovanni Pontiero) 6
• Travel – Yuichi Yokoyama 5
• The Global Novel – Adam Kirsch 3
• When I Grow Up I Want To Be a List of Further Possibilities – Chen Chen 7
• In Praise of Shadows – Junichiro Tanizaki (trans: Thomas Harper & Edward Seidensticker) 7
• Love and Trouble – Claire Dederer 5
• Existence – David Hinton 6
• Hunger – Roxane Gay 6
• A History of Pictures – David Hockney & Martin Gayford 8

      July

• The Bathroom – Jean-Philippe Toussaint (trans: Shauna Ross) 3
• The Interview – Manuele Fior (trans: Jaime Richards) 7
• 5,000 km per second – Manuele Fior (trans: Jaime Richards) 4
• The Journal of Jules Renard (trans: Louise Bogan & Elizabeth Roget) 9 (r)
• Principles of Chinese Painting – George Rowley 8
• Speculum of the Other Woman – Luce Irigaray (trans: Gillian Gill) 7
• The Second Sex – Michael Robbins 6
• The Ends of the World – Peter Brannen 8
• 300 Arguments – Sarah Manguso 3
• Queer Phenomenology – Sara Ahmed 7
• Otaku: Japan’s Database Animals – Hiroki Azuma (trans: Jonathan Abel & Shion Kono) 3
• Anya’s Ghost – Vera Brosgol 4
• Final Fantasy V – Chris Kohler 4

      August

• Japanese Notebooks – Igort 4
• White – Kenya Hara 5
• The Limits of Critique – Rita Felski 7
• Monstress (Vol. 2: The Blood) – Marjorie Liu & Sana Takeda 7
• Everybody Lies – Seth Stephens-Davidowitz 5
• The Best We Could Do – Thi Bui 5
• Sour Heart – Jenny Zhang 8
• Why Poetry – Matthew Zapruder 6

      September

• The Stone Sky – N.K. Jemisin 7
• Koji Kondo’s Super Mario Bros. Soundtrack – Andrew Schartmann 4
• Nas’ Illmatic – Matthew Gasteier 6
• Crash Override – Zoe Quinn 7
• I AM ERROR – Nathan Altice 6
• Expedition – Wayne Douglas Barlowe 8
• The Waste Books – Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (trans: R.J. Hollingdale) 8
• Racing the Beam – Nick Montfort & Ian Bogost 5
• Blood, Sweat, and Pixels – Jason Schreier 4
• The Virginia State Colony for Epileptics and Feebleminded – Molly McCully Brown 7
• Little Soldiers – Lenora Chu 4

      October

• Significant Zero – Walt Williams 4
• Fantasyland – Kurt Andersen 4
• Elements of Taste – Benjamin Errett 3
• Before You Know It – John Bargh 5
• The Triggering Town – Richard Hugo 7
• Reading the Rocks – Marcia Bjornerud 6
• Ozu’s Anti-Cinema – Yoshida Kiju (trans: Daisuke Miyao & Kyoko Hirano) 4

      November

• We Were Eight Years in Power – Ta-Nehisi Coates 8
• Her Body and Other Parties – Carmen Maria Machado 4
• The House on Mango Street – Sandra Cisneros 8
• An Artist of the Floating World – Kazuo Ishiguro 9
• How We Talk – N.J. Enfield 6
• The Book of Endings – Leslie Harrison 8
• The Origins of Creativity – Edward O. Wilson 3
• On Looking – Alexandra Horowitz 5
• An Odyssey – Daniel Mendelsohn 8

      December

• Map to the Stars – Adrian Matejka 6
• Book of Hours – Kevin Young 7
• The Deep Zoo – Rikki Ducornet 5
• everyone’s a aliebn when ur a aliebn too – jomny sun 7
• In the Language of My Captor – Shane McCrae 6
• The Power – Naomi Alderman 2
• Life in Code – Ellen Ullman 8
• The Authoritarian Dynamic – Karen Stenner 7
• The Name of the Wind – Patrick Rothfuss 3

 

      2018

 

      January

• Close to the Machine – Ellen Ullman 6
• The Will to Change – bell hooks 5

      February

• Bakkhai – Euripides (trans: Anne Carson) 6
• Complete Minimal Poems – Aram Saroyan 8
• Some Beheadings – Aditi Machado 4
• Women and Power – Mary Beard 6
• A Poetics – Charles Bernstein 4
• Map of an Onion – Kenji C. Liu 3
• Displacement – Leslie Harrison 5
• Rhythmanalysis – Henri Lefebvre (trans: Stuart Elden & Gerald Moore) 6
• Extracting the Stone of Madness – Alejandra Pizarnik (trans: Yvette Siegert) 5
• So You Want To Talk about Race – Ijeoma Oluo 7
• Names of the Lion – Al-Husayn ibn Ahmad ibn Khalawayh (trans: David Larsen) 9
• Achtung Baby – Sara Zaske 5
• The Oresteia – Aeschylus (trans: David Slavitt) 8 (r)
• Ecstatic Poems – Mirabai (trans: Robert Bly & Jane Hirshfield) 7
• Puppet: An Essay on Uncanny Life – Kenneth Gross 8
• Essay on Exoticism – Victor Segalen (trans: Yael Rachel Schlick) 7

      March

• The Nature of Things – Francis Ponge (trans: Lee Fahnestock) 4
• Journey to the Land of the Real – Victor Segalen (trans: Natasha Lehrer) 8
• Faces in the Water – Janet Frame 9
• A Barbarian in Asia – Henri Michaux (trans: Sylvia Beach) 7
• Stroke by Stroke – Henri Michaux (trans: Richard Sieburth) 9
• Windows and Doors – Natasha Saje 5
• Witch Wife – Kiki Petrosino 4
• The Half-Finished Heaven – Tomas Transtromer (trans: Robert Bly) 7
• Lost Connections – Johann Hari 4
• God: A Human History – Reza Aslan 4
• Iceland – Yuichi Yokoyama (trans: Ryan Holmberg) 3
• Remarks on Colour – Ludwig Wittgenstein (trans: Linda McAlister & Margarete Schattle) 6

      April

• The Luminous and the Grey – David Batchelor 7
• The Strange Order of Things – Antonio Damasio 7
• Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret. – Judy Blume 5
• The Well-Played Game – Bernard De Koven 8
• Blubber – Judy Blume 3
• Chocolate Cities – Marcus Anthony Hunter & Zandria F. Robinson 6
• Super Power, Spoony Bards, and Silverware – Dominic Arsenault 5
• Fascism: A Warning – Madeleine Albright 4
• Ambient Media – Paul Roquet 6

      May

• Book of Rhymes – Adam Bradley 7
• A Distant Center – Ha Jin 3
• Place and Experience – Jeff Malpas 4
• Oceanic – Aimee Nezhukumatathil 4
• Motherhood – Sheila Heti 8
• The Merry Spinster – Daniel Mallory Ortberg 6
• In the Distance – Hernan Diaz 10
• Borges, between History and Eternity – Hernan Diaz 4
• How to American – Jimmy O. Yang 4
• Barracoon – Zora Neale Hurston 7

      June

• The Outsider – Stephen King 2
• The Secret Life of Puppets – Victoria Nelson 4
• On Writer’s Block – Victoria Nelson 8
• On Color – David Scott Kastan 4
• Country Dark – Chris Offutt 4
• A Play of Bodies – Brendan Keogh 3
• Convenience Store Woman – Sayaka Murata (trans: Ginny Tapley Takemori) 6
• The Wisdom of the Desert – Thomas Merton 6
• Thoughts in Solitude – Thomas Merton 2
• Death Notice – Zhou Haohui (trans: Zac Haluza) 3
• Slow Boat – Hideo Furukawa (trans: David Boyd) 7
• Ms Ice Sandwich – Mieko Kawakami (trans: Louise Heal Kawai) 8

      July

• The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro 10 (r)
• The Tea Master and the Detective – Aliette de Bodard 5
• How To Change Your Mind – Michael Pollan 7
• The Plains – Gerald Murnane 3
• Eye Level – Jenny Xie 5
• Aphorisms – Franz Kafka (trans: Willa Muir, Edwin Muir, & Michael Hofmann) 7
• Heart Berries – Terese Marie Mailhot 8
• The Gone World – Tom Sweterlitsch 3
• Afrofuturism – Ytasha L. Womack 5

      August

• The Desert Year – Joseph Wood Krutch 6
• Sympathetic Little Monster – Cameron Awkward-Rich 5
• My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness – Nagata Kabi 5
• Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now – Jaron Lanier 4
• Yurei – Zack Davisson 5
• Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars – Kai Cheng Thom 6
• The Line Becomes a River – Francisco Cantu 6 
• The Black Tides of Heaven – Neon Yang 3
• Sabrina – Nick Drnaso 6
• Beverly – Nick Drnaso 5
• Art and China after 1989: Theater of the World 9
• On a Red Station, Drifting – Aliette de Bodard 8
• Coagulations – Jayne Cortez 4
• My Dirty Dumb Eyes – Lisa Hanawalt 6

      September

• The Dawning Moon of the Mind – Susan Brind Morrow 9
• The Modernist Response to Chinese Art – Zhaoming Qian 5
• Brother in Ice – Alicia Kopf (trans: Mara Faye Lethem) 4
• Leonora Carrington: Surrealism, Alchemy, and Art – Susan L. Aberth 6
• Down Below – Leonora Carrington 7
• The Splintering of the American Mind – William Egginton 3
• Familiar Things – Hwang Sok-yong (trans: Sora Kim-Russell) 7
• Observations – Marianne Moore 4
• Nature Poem – Tommy Pico 7
• Flights – Olga Tokarczuk (trans: Jennifer Croft) 8
• feeld – Jos Charles 9
• If They Come for Us – Fatimah Asghar 5
• Monstress (Vol. 3: Haven) – Marjorie Liu & Sana Takeda 5
• Woman World – Aminder Dhaliwal 5
• Human Hours – Catherine Barnett 4
• Don’t Let Me Be Lonely – Claudia Rankine 4
• Best American Poetry 2018 – Dana Gioia (ed) 4
• A Hunger – Lucie Brock-Broido 8

      October

• Unincorporated Persons in the Late Honda Dynasty – Tony Hoagland 2
• Calling a Wolf a Wolf – Kaveh Akbar 4
• Middle Kingdom – Adrienne Su 4
• Belonging – Nora Krug 5
• Tales from the Loop – Simon Stalenhag 6
• Things from the Flood – Simon Stalenhag 7
• Indecency – Justin Phillip Reed 4
• Rising Out of Hatred – Eli Saslow 5
• Rage Becomes Her – Soraya Chemaly 6
• Wonderland – Matthew Dickman 3

      November

• The Electric State – Simon Stalenhag 3
• Scriptorium – Melissa Range 4
• Brown – Kevin Young 5
• Isako Isako – Mia Ayumi Malhotra 6
• Floating, Brilliant, Gone – Franny Choi 5
• Mad Honey Symposium – Sally Wen Mao 6
• the black maria – Aracelis Girmay 9
• The Psychoanalysis of Fire – Gaston Bachelard (trans: Alan C.M. Ross) 7
• Half-Hazard – Kristen Tracy 5
• Monument – Natasha Trethewey 5
• Wobble – Rae Armantrout 5
• Kingdom Animalia – Aracelis Girmay 5
• Friday Black – Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah 4
• The Collected Poems of Chika Sagawa (trans: Sawako Nakayasu) 5
• The Personality Brokers – Merve Emre 4

      December

• Mortal Republic – Edward J. Watts 4
• Field Theories – Samiya Bashir 5
• Olives – A.E Stallings 6
• Sheila Hicks: Lifelines – Michel Gauthier (ed) 7
• Buttermilk Graffiti – Edward Lee 7
• If You’ve Forgotten the Names of Clouds, You’ve Lost Your Way – Russell Means & Bayard Johnson 5
• Otherwise – Eleanor Wilner 3
• Bucolics – Maurice Manning 8

 

      2019

 

      January

• The Haunting of Hill House – Shirley Jackson 8
• On Haiku – Hiroaki Sato 5
• After Finitude – Quentin Meillassoux (trans: Ray Brassier) 4
• Little Man, Little Man – James Baldwin & Yoran Cazac 8
• The Spring of My Life – Kobayashi Issa (trans: Sam Hamill) 6
• Cup-of-Tea Poems – Kobayashi Issa (trans: David G. Lanoue) 9
• Schoolgirl – Osamu Dazai (trans: Allison Markin Powell) 4
• Betraying Big Brother – Leta Hong Fincher 5
• The Broken Ladder – Keith Payne 5
• Hater: On the Virtues of Utter Disagreeability – John Semley 3
• Toddler-Hunting and Other Stories – Taeko Kono (trans: Lucy North) 8

      February

• Fresco: Selected Poetry of Luljeta Lleshanaku 5
• Windows on the World – Matteo Pericoli 7
• How Democracies Die – Steven Levitsky & Daniel Ziblatt 5
• Anni Albers – Ann Coxon, Briony Fer, Maria Muller-Schareck (eds) 7
• Where Reasons End – Yiyun Li 7
• The Collected Schizophrenias – Esme Weijun Wang 4
• Underground – Will Hunt 6
• Thick and Other Essays – Tressie McMillan Cottom 8
• Sea Summit – Yi Lu (trans: Fiona Sze-Lorrain) 4
• Ekke – Klara du Plessis 8
• East of West (Vol. 1) – Jonathan Hickman & Nick Dragotta 4

      March

• American Cosmic: UFOs, Religion, Technology – D.W. Pasulka 3
• The Twenty-Ninth Year – Hala Alyan 5
• salt. – nayyirah waheed 8
• Moby Dick – Herman Melville 10
• How to Hide an Empire – Daniel Immerwahr 8
• Famous Men Who Never Lived – K Chess 4
• Perception – Christina Pugh 5
• Dazzle Ships – Jamie Sharpe 6
• Madwomen: The “Locas mujeres” Poems of Gabriela Mistral (trans: Randall Couch) 8

      April

• Bonsai – Alejandro Zambra (trans: Carolina De Robertis) 4
• The Passion According to G.H. – Clarice Lispector (trans: Idra Novey) 9
• Educated – Tara Westover 5
• The Uninhabitable Earth – David Wallace-Wells 5
• Book of My Nights – Li-Young Lee 4
• The Beans of Egypt, Maine – Carolyn Chute 9
• Seasons: Desert Sketches – Ellen Meloy 8

      May

• The Selected Poems of Wang Wei (trans: David Hinton) 6 (r)
• Diffusion of Distances: Dialogues Between Chinese and Western Poetics – Wai-Lim Yip 7
• Cozy: The Art of Arranging Yourself in the World – Isabel Gillies 6
• 19 Ways of Looking at Wang Wei – Eliot Weinberger 6
• The Selected Poems of Du Fu (trans: David Hinton) 7 (r)
• The Selected Poems of Bai Juyi (trans: David Hinton) 8 (r)
• The Late Poems of Meng Chiao (trans: David Hinton) 7
• Agua Viva – Clarice Lispector (trans: Stefan Tobler) 7
• Blabber Blabber Blabber: Volume 1 of Everything – Lynda Barry 5
• At the Sky’s Edge – Bei Dao (trans: David Hinton) 5
• The Late Poems of Wang An-Shih (trans: David Hinton) 7
• The Mountain Poems of Meng Hao-Jan (trans: David Hinton) 6

      June

• Brocade River Poems – Xue Tao (trans: Jeanne Larsen) 6
• How Art Works – Ellen Winner 4
• Ghosts of Gold Mountain – Gordon H. Chang 8
• Underland – Robert Macfarlane 4
• The House of the Pain of Others – Julian Herbert (trans: Christina MacSweeney) 5
• Giovanni’s Room – James Baldwin 3
• Aug 9 — Fog – Kathryn Scanlan 4
• Entering the Blobosphere: A Musing on Blobs – Laura Hyunjhee Kim 7
• Soft Science – Franny Choi 6

      July

• Shut Up You’re Pretty – Tea Mutonji 7
• Nobody Knows My Name – James Baldwin 9
• Kid Gloves – Lucy Knisley 5
• The Scandal of the Century & Other Writings – Gabriel Garcia Marquez (trans: Anne McLean) 6
• The Weather Machine – Andrew Blum 4
• Tender Buttons – Gertrude Stein 9
• Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me – Mariko Tamaki & Rosemary Valero-O’Connell 5
• Fierce Attachments – Vivian Gornick 9
• The Situation and the Story – Vivian Gornick 7
• I Like To Watch – Emily Nussbaum 5
• Vija Celmins: To Fix the Image in Memory – Gary Garrels (ed) 8
• Good Talk – Mira Jacob 7
• A Theory of the Aphorism – Andrew Hui 6
• At the Mind’s Limits – Jean Amery (trans: Stella & Sidney Rosenfeld) 8
• Hot, Cold, Heavy, Light: 100 Art Writings, 1988-2018 – Peter Schjeldahl 6

      August

• Fragments: The Collected Wisdom of Heraclitus (trans: Brooks Haxton) 5
• Maxims – La Rochefoucauld (trans: Stuart D. Warner & Stephane Douard) 8
• Martin Ramirez – Brooke Davis Anderson et al. (American Folk Art Museum) 7
• Landscape Painting Now – Barry Schwabsky, Todd Bradway, et al. 7
• The Year of Blue Water – Yanyi 5
• Hard Child – Natalie Shapero 7
• Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion – Jia Tolentino 2
• No Object – Natalie Shapero 8
• It Came from Something Awful – Dale Beran 6
• Gods of the Upper Air – Charles King 8
• Heaven’s Breath: A Natural History of the Wind – Lyall Watson 8
• Cult of the Ibis – Daria Tessler 5
• How To See – Thich Nhat Hanh 5

      September

• White Flights – Jess Row 5
• Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead – Olga Tokarczuk (trans: Antonia Lloyd-Jones) 8
• From the Shadows – Juan Jose Millas (trans: Thomas Bunstead & Daniel Hahn) 6
• Because Internet – Gretchen McCulloch 5
• Rusty Brown – Chris Ware 4
• This Life – Martin Hagglund 6

      October

• Rethinking Consciousness – Michael S.A. Graziano 5
• The Selected Poems of Emily Dickinson (Modern Library Classics) 8 (r)
• The Crazy Bunch – Willie Perdomo 7
• Out of Darkness, Shining Light – Petina Gappah 8
• My Tender Matador – Pedro Lemebel (trans: Katherine Silver) 8
• A Beginner’s Guide to Japan – Pico Iyer 2
• Bodega – Su Hwang 4

      November

• The Dreaming (Vol. 1) – Simon Spurrier, Bilquis Evely, & Mat Lopes 7
• Diary: How To Improve the World (You Will Only Make Matters Worse) – John Cage 4
• Resistance, Rebellion, and Death – Albert Camus (trans: Justin O’Brien) 6
• Space Invaders – Nona Fernandez (trans: Natasha Wimmer) 4
• Little Weirds – Jenny Slate 7
• Making Comics – Lynda Barry 8
• A Double Life – Karolina Pavlova (trans: Barbara Heldt) 4

      December

• Ink Art: Past as Present in Contemporary China – Maxwell K. Hearn 7
• tsunami vs. the fukushima 50 – Lee Ann Roripaugh 3
• Audience of One – James Poniewozik 5
• The Black Condition ft. Narcissus – jayy dodd 5
• Library of Small Catastrophes – Alison C. Rollins 3
• Pocket Mirror – Janet Frame 8
• Stop Being Reasonable – Eleanor Gordon-Smith 4
• The Spread Mind: Why Consciousness and the World Are One – Riccardo Manzotti 8
• In the Dream House – Carmen Maria Machado 4
• Limbo – Dan Fox 5
• The Storyteller Essays – Walter Benjamin (trans: Tess Lewis) 6
• Space Struck – Paige Lewis 4
• Feed – Tommy Pico 6
• Awakened Cosmos: The Mind of Classical Chinese Poetry – David Hinton 7

 

      2020

 

      January

• The Dark Fantastic – Ebony Elizabeth Thomas 6
• A Fire Story – Brian Fies 5
• How To Be a Dictator – Frank Dikotter 4
• The Pocket: A Hidden History of Women’s Lives, 1660-1900 – Barbara Burman & Ariane Fennetaux 5
• Essays One – Lydia Davis 4
• Bullets and Opium – Liao Yiwu (trans: Jessie and David Cowhig, Ross Perlin) 7
• Fourth Person Singular – Nuar Alsadir 6
• The Clouds Float North: The Complete Poems of Yu Xuanji (trans: David Young & Jiann I. Linn) 8
• Owls Do Cry – Janet Frame 6
• A Memory Called Empire – Arkady Martine 5
• A Gold Orchid: The Love Poems of Tzu Yeh (trans: Lenore Mayhew & William Mcnaughton) 6
• Derangements of My Contemporaries – Li Shangyin (trans: Chloe Garcia-Roberts) 2
• Uncanny Valley – Anna Wiener 4
• The Works of Li Qingzhao (trans: Ronald Egan) 6
• The Selected Poems of T’ao Ch’ien (trans: David Hinton) 8

      February

• The Dreaming (Vol. 2) – Simon Spurrier, Bilquis Evely, Abigail Larson, Mat Lopes, Quinton Winter 7
• Tao Yuanming & Manuscript Culture – Xiaofei Tian 8
• Minor Feelings – Cathy Park Hong 5

      March

• The Song of Kieu – Nguyen Du (trans: Timothy Allen) 7
• The World of a Tiny Insect – Zhang Daye (trans: Xiaofei Tian) 7
• Pale Colors in a Tall Field – Carl Phillips 6
• When the Whales Leave – Yuri Rytkheu (trans: Ilona Yazhbin Chavasse) 8

      April & May

• The Pillow Book – Sei Shonagon (unabridged, trans: Ivan Morris) 10 (r)

      June

• Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 – Cho Nam-joo (trans: Jamie Chang) 3
• Magical Negro – Morgan Parker 7
• The Book of Eels – Patrik Svensson (trans: Agnes Broome) 7

      July

• The Fire Next Time – James Baldwin 10 (r)
• Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio – Pu Songling (trans: John Minford) 9
• Diary of a Madman and Other Stories – Lu Xun (trans: William Lyell) 9
• Sand Talk – Tyson Yunkaporta 7
• The Maintenance of Headway – Magnus Mills 8

      August

• Little Bird, Vol. 1: The Fight for Elder’s Hope – Darcy van Poelgeest, Ian Bertram, Matt Hollingworth 3
• Heating & Cooling – Beth Ann Fennelly 4
• Our Aesthetic Categories: Zany, Cute, Interesting – Sianne Ngai 4
• Afropessimism – Frank B. Wilderson III  9
• Cruddy – Lynda Barry 8
• Resistance – Tori Amos 5

      September

• Lurking: How a Person Became a User – Joanne McNeil 6
• One! Hundred! Demons! – Lynda Barry 8 (r)
• The Dreaming (Vol. 3) – Simon Spurrier, Bilquis Evely, Abigail Larson, Mat Lopes, Quinton Winter 7
• Twilight of Democracy – Anne Applebaum 2
• Surviving Autocracy – Masha Gessen 4
• Pragmatism and Other Writings – William James 8
• By Steppe, Desert, and Ocean: The Birth of Eurasia – Barry Cunliffe 7

      October

• Piranesi – Susanna Clarke 5
• Liquid Rules – Mark Miodownik 3
• The Ink Dark Moon – Ono no Komachi & Izumi Shikibu (trans: Jane Hirshfield & Mariko Aratani) 4
• Three Rings – Daniel Mendelsohn 3
• Beowulf: A New Translation – Maria Dahvana Headley 8
• Intimations – Zadie Smith 3
• The Naked Woman – Armonia Somers (trans: Kit Maude) 9
• Apsara Engine – Bishakh Som 5

      November

• Having and Being Had – Eula Biss 3
• In Defense of Looting – Vicky Osterweil 9
• Girlfriends, Ghosts, and Other Stories – Robert Walser 8
• Blanche Passes Go – Barbara Neely 8
• Earthlings – Sayaka Murata (trans: Ginny Tapley Takemori) 4
• The Cult of Smart – Fredrik deBoer 4
• The Silence – Don Delillo 1
• Seven of Infinities – Aliette de Bodard 4
• An Event, Perhaps: A Biography of Jacques Derrida – Peter Salmon 6

      December

• Nervous Conditions – Tsitsi Dangarembga 9
• Metazoa: Animal Life and the Birth of the Mind – Peter Godfrey-Smith 8
• Magic: A History – Chris Gosden 7
• Glitch Feminism: A Manifesto – Legacy Russell 5
• She Come by It Natural – Sarah Smarsh 6
• Entangled Life – Merlin Sheldrake 8
• Felon – Reginald Dwayne Betts 6
• The Maze of Transparencies – Karen An-Hwei Lee 6
• Mediocre – Ijeoma Oluo 6
• Invasion of the Space Invaders – Martin Amis 6
• Pilgrim in the Microworld – David Sudnow 7

 

      2021

 

      January

• Our Sister Killjoy – Ama Ata Aidoo 10
• Travel Writings – Matsuo Basho (trans/ed: Steven D. Carter) 4
• Jurassic Park – Michael Crichton 7
• The Great Nocturnal – Jean Ray (trans: Scott Nicolay) 5
• The Sky Is Blue with a Single Cloud – Kuniko Tsurita 7
• Red Colored Elegy – Seiichi Hayashi 4
• Lecture – Mary Capello 4
• Tiger Writing – Gish Jen 5
• Time of the Magicians – Wolfram Eilenberger (trans: Shaun Whiteside) 6
• The Swamp – Yoshiharu Tsuge 7
• The Art of the Novel – Milan Kundera 7
• Know My Name – Chanel Miller 9

      February

• Fundamentals – Frank Wilczek 6
• Die, My Love – Ariana Harwicz 8
• Hooked: Art and Attachment – Rita Felski 7
• One-Way Street – Walter Benjamin (trans: Edmund Jephcott) 4
• If You Want to Write – Brenda Ueland 7
• The Elegant Life of the Chinese Literati – Wen Zhenheng (trans: Tony Blishen) 4

      March

• How to Order the Universe – Maria Jose Ferrada (trans: Elizabeth Bryer) 7
• The Silmarillion – J.R.R. Tolkien 7
• China Root – David Hinton 5
• Craft in the Real World – Matthew Salesses 6
• No One Is Talking About This – Patricia Lockwood 6
• The Complete Perfectionist – Juan Ramon Jimenez (trans/ed: Christopher Maurer) 3
• Going to Meet the Man – James Baldwin 5
• Peach Blossom Paradise – Ge Fei (trans: Canaan Morse) 9

      April

• Evidence – Mary Oliver 6
• The Hidden Spring: A Journey to the Source of Consciousness – Mark Solms 8
• No Sweetness Here and Other Stories – Ama Ata Aidoo 8
• Popular Longing – Natalie Shapero 4
• Immortal Sisters – Thomas Cleary (trans/ed) 3
• Klara and the Sun – Kazuo Ishiguro 7
• Fake Accounts – Lauren Oyler 2
• The Devil You Know: A Black Power Manifesto – Charles M. Blow 8
• To the Is-Land – Janet Frame 9
• First Person Singular – Haruki Murakami (trans: Philip Gabriel) 1
• We Do This ‘Til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice – Mariame Kaba 7

      May

• The Disordered Cosmos – Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 6
• The Grande Odalisque – Bastien Vives, Florent Ruppert, Jerome Mulot 2
• The Wild Fox of Yemen – Threa Almontaser 8
• How to Be Animal – Melanie Challenger 7
• Second Place – Rachel Cusk 3
• Wild Geese Returning: Chinese Reversible Poems – Michele Metail (trans: Jody Gladding) 6
• The Flowers of Evil (Vol. 1) – Shuzo Oshimi (trans: Paul Starr) 5
• Soulstorm – Clarice Lispector (trans: Alexis Levitin) 9

      June

• Childhood – Tove Ditlevsen (trans: Tiina Nunnally and Michael Favala Goldman) 6
• The Wild Duck – Henrik Ibsen 6
• Poetics of Work – Noemi Lefebvre (trans: Sophie Lewis) 5
• Whereabouts – Jhumpa Lahiri 8
• Neotenica – Joon Oluchi Lee 7
• If This Is the Age We End Discovery – Rosebud Ben-Oni 5
• Heaven – Mieko Kawakami (trans: Sam Bett & David Boyd) 9
• How to Be a Good Girl – Jamie Hood 5
• Terminal Boredom – Izumi Suzuki 5

      July

• An Angel at My Table – Janet Frame 10
• A Pale View of Hills – Kazuo Ishiguro 4
• In Other Words – Jhumpa Lahiri (trans: Ann Goldstein) 6
• Feebleminded – Ariana Harwicz (trans: Annie McDermott & Carolina Orloff) 6
• Fashion Forecasts – Yumi Sakugawa 7
• Demos – Benjamin Naka-Hasebe Kingsley 3
• The Devil Finds Work – James Baldwin 8
• Ghost Forest – Pik-Shuen Fung 4
• A Manual for Cleaning Women – Lucia Berlin 9

      August

• The Psychopathology of Everyday Life – Sigmund Freud (trans: Anthea Bell) 5
• Imagine Us, The Swarm – Muriel Leung 4
• Anatomy of a Witch – Laura Tempest Zakroff 6
• Brainscapes – Rebecca Schwarzlose 7
• The Membranes – Chi Ta-wei (trans: Ari Larissa Heinrich) 3
• Anne of Green Gables – L.M. Montgomery 8

      September

• Stone Fruit – Lee Lai 5
• Shenzhen: A Travelogue from China – Guy Delisle 4
• The Cretaceous Past – Liu Cixin (trans: Elizabeth Hanlon) 6
• Fireflies – Luis Sagasti (trans: Fionn Petch) 3
• Melissa – Alex Gino 4
• A Psalm for the Wild-Built – Becky Chambers 6
• Playlist for the Apocalypse – Rita Dove 4
• Superdoom – Melissa Broder 7
• Leaving the Atocha Station – Ben Lerner 2
• Below the Edge of Darkness – Edith Widder 8
• Hecuba – Euripides (trans: William Arrowsmith) 6
• The Devil You Know – Gwen Adshead & Eileen Horne 3
• The Trojan Women – Euripides (trans: Richmond Lattimore) 8
• Euripides’ The Trojan Women: A Comic – Rosanna Bruno & Anne Carson 3
• Pilgrim Bell – Kaveh Akbar 7

      October

• Misfits – Michaela Coel 3
• Gideon the Ninth – Tamsyn Muir 8
• Matrix – Lauren Groff 4
• Harrow the Ninth – Tamsyn Muir 8
• Fantastic Creatures of the Mountains and Seas – Siyu Chen (illust), Jiankun Sun (text), Howard Goldblatt (trans) 7
• Changing – Lily Hoang 6
• The Envoy from Mirror City – Janet Frame 9

      November

• In. – Will McPhail 3
• Seek You – Kristen Radtke 3
• Let’s Not Talk Anymore – Weng Pixin 7
• The Shijing (The Book of Songs, The Classic of Poetry) – Arthur Waley (trans) 8
• When We Cease to Understand the World – Benjamin Labatut (trans: Adrian Nathan West) 5
• Pond – Claire-Louise Bennett 9
• Hyperobjects – Timothy Morton 3
• Water: A Biography – Giulio Boccaletti 4

      December

• Great Reckonings in Little Rooms – Bert O. States 7
• Winter Recipes from the Collective – Louise Glück 3
• My Body – Emily Ratajkowski 5
• The Waiting – Keum Suk Gendry-Kim (trans: Janet Hong) 4
• The Natural Mother of the Child – Krys Malcolm Belc 6
• Philomath – Devon Walker-Figueroa 4
• Sweet Days of Discipline – Fleur Jaeggy (trans: Tim Parks) 6
• No Longer Human – Osamu Dazai (trans: Donald Keene) 3
• On Wanting to Change – Adam Phillips 3

 

      2022

 

      January

• The Poetics of Early Chinese Thought – Michael Hunter 5
• Night Train – A.L. Snijders (trans: Lydia Davis) 3
• Tunnels – Rutu Modan (trans: Ishai Mishory) 3
• Ghost of – Diana Khoi Nguyen 5
• Network Effect (The Murderbot Diaries #5) – Martha Wells 8
• The Dreaming: Waking Hours – G. Willow Wilson, Nick Robles, et al. 1
• Djeliya: a West African Fantasy Epic – Juni Ba 8
• Authority and Freedom: a Defense of the Arts – Jed Perl 2
• All Systems Red (Murderbot #1) – Martha Wells 6
• The Arab of the Future (1978-1984) – Riad Sattouf (trans: Sam Taylor) 4
• Artificial Condition (Murderbot #2) – Martha Wells 7
• The Impossible Art: Adventures in Opera – Matthew Aucoin 6
• Rogue Protocol (Murderbot #3) – Martha Wells 6
• The Changing Room – Zhai Yongming (trans: Andrea Lingenfelter) 6
• Exit Strategy (Murderbot #4) – Martha Wells 6
• A Phone Call from Dalian – Han Dong (ed: Nicky Harman) 4
• Fugitive Telemetry (Murderbot #6) – Martha Wells 5
• Doubled Shadows – Ouyang Jianghe (trans: Austin Woerner) 8

      February

• Waves and Beaches – Willard Bascom and Kim McCoy 7
• Vibrant Matter: A Political Ecology of Things – Jane Bennett 4
• Sunday Sparrows – Song Lin (trans: Jami Proctor Xu) 3
• The Face: A Time Code – Ruth Ozeki 3
• Blockchain Chicken Farm – Xiaowei Wang 5
• Leading a Worthy Life – Leon Kass 1
• Fuccboi – Sean Thor Conroe 7
• Pure Colour – Sheila Heti 6
• In the Eye of the Wild – Natassja Martin (trans: Sophie Lewis) 4
• Photo Poetics: Chinese Lyricism and Modern Media Culture – Shengqing Wu 7
• The Garbage Times – Sam Pink 5
• All the Flowers Kneeling – Paul Tran 8

      March

• Floral Mutter – Ya Shi (trans: Nick Admussen) 3
• Checkout 19 – Claire-Louise Bennett 4
• Internet Literature in China – Michel Hockx 3
• A Different Distance: A Renga – Marilyn Hacker & Karthika Nair 5
• The Space Between Worlds – Micaiah Johnson 5
• Moonlight Rests on My Left Palm – Yu Xiuhua (trans: Fiona Sze-Lorrain) 5
• Burying the Mountain – Shangyang Fang 8
• The Subplot: What China Is Reading and Why It Matters – Megan Walsh 5
• The Nineties – Chuck Klosterman 2

      April

• A Defense of Judgment – Michael Clune 4
• The Ballad of Black Tom – Victor LaValle 6
• Tacky: Love Letters to the Worst Culture We Have to Offer – Rax King 7
• Elder Race – Adrian Tchaikovsky 3
• Refuse to Be Done – Matt Bell 5
• Lost & Found – Kathryn Schulz 7
• Trampoline – Robert Gipe 8
• Selected Poems – Gwendolyn Brooks 9
• Come Over Come Over – Lynda Barry 8

      May

• Scattered All Over the Earth – Yoko Tawada (trans: Margaret Mitsutani) 8
• a Year & other poems – Jos Charles 6
• The Internet Is Not What You Think It Is – Justin E.H. Smith 4
• Time Is a Mother – Ocean Vuong 8
• Trust – Hernan Diaz 4
• All the Lovers in the Night – Mieko Kawakami (trans: Sam Bett & David Boyd) 8
• Life Between the Tides – Adam Nicolson 8
• Story Mode: Video Games & the Interplay Between Consoles & Culture – Trevor Strunk 2
• Phantasmal Spaces: Archetypical Venues in Computer Games – Mathias Fuchs 3

      June

• The Hurting Kind – Ada Limon 2
• Private Notebooks: 1914-1916 – Ludwig Wittgenstein (trans: Marjorie Perloff) 3
• Messy Roots: A Graphic Memoir of a Wuhanese American – Laura Gao 7
• The High Desert: Black. Punk. Nowhere. – James Spooner 7
• Let There Be Light: The Real Story of Her Creation – Liana Finck 4
• The Complete Dublin Diary – Stanislaus Joyce 5
• The Wet Hex – Sun Yung Shin 7
• There Are Places in the World Where Rules Are Less Important Than Kindness – Carlo Rovelli 5
• You’ve Changed: Fake Accents, Feminism, & Other Comedies from Myanmar – Pyae Moe Thet War 7

      July

• The Unnamable – Samuel Beckett 7
• Time Zone J – Julie Doucet 3
• An Immense World – Ed Yong 8
• Hung in the Middle – Alana Nicole Sholar 8
• The Power Worshippers – Katherine Stewart 5
• Lolly Willowes – Sylvia Townsend Warner 7

      August

• How To Read Now – Elaine Castillo 5
• Golden Age – Wang Xiaobo (trans: Yan Yan) 6
• Chinatown – Thuan (trans: Nguyen An Ly) 7

      September

• The City of Belgium – Brecht Evens 5
• Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency – Chen Chen 7
• Nona the Ninth – Tamsyn Muir 4

      October

• Bloom – Xi Chuan (trans: Lucas Klein) 8
• Tell Me I’m an Artist – Chelsea Martin 7
• Diary of a Void – Emi Yagi (trans: David Boyd & Lucy North) 6
• The Diary of a Nobody – George and Weedon Grossmith 8
• The Rupture Tense – Jenny Xie 3
• Sorting Facts, or Nineteen Ways of Looking at Marker – Susan Howe 4
• Notes on the Mosquito – Xi Chuan (trans: Lucas Klein) 5
• Beautiful World, Where Are You? – Sally Rooney 2
• Liberation Day – George Saunders 2

      November

• Stay True – Hua Hsu 4
• Permanent Volta – Rosie Stockton 3
• Normal Distance – Elisa Gabbert 6
• Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence – R.F. Kuang 7
• Otherlands – Thomas Halliday 8
• Best Barbarian – Roger Reeves 5
• Crying in the Bathroom – Erika Sanchez 2
• On Not Knowing – Emily Ogden 7
• The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On – Franny Choi 4

      December

• One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (tr: Ralph Parker) 8
• A Catalog of Such Stuff as Dreams Are Made On – Dung Kai-cheung (trans: Bonnie McDougall & Anders Hansson) 8
• The Gentrification of the Mind – Sarah Schulman 9

 

      2023

 

      January

• The Years – Annie Ernaux (trans: Alison Strayer) 5
• Housebreak – Shareen Murayama 4
• Mind of My Mind – Octavia Butler 4
• The Mountain in the Sea – Ray Nayler 3
• Happening – Annie Ernaux (trans: Tanya Leslie) 7
• Beyond Measure – James Vincent 7
• A Companion for Owls – Maurice Manning 9
• Picture Bride – Cathy Song 8
• Snowflake / different streets – Eileen Myles 6
• Seduced by Story – Peter Brooks 2
• The Common Man – Maurice Manning 3
• Voyage Around My Room – Xavier de Maistre (trans: Stephen Sartarelli) 7

      February

• The Topeka School – Ben Lerner 2
• Unbound: A Book of AIDS – Aaron Shurin 9
• How to Carry Water – Lucille Clifton 9
• Black Aliveness, or A Poetics of Being – Kevin Quashie 9
• Poetics of Liveliness: Molecules, Fibers, Tissues, Clouds – Ada Smailbegovic 4
• Elite Capture – Olufemi Taiwo 5
• Being You – Anil Seth 6
• A Foray into the Worlds of Animals and Humans – Jakob von Uexkull (trans: Joseph O’Neil) 8

      March

• Nova – Samuel Delany 5
• The Black Notebooks – Toi Derricotte 9
• Tori Amos’s Boys for Pele – Amy Gentry 6
• Black and Female – Tsitsi Dangarembga 5
• Thinking in an Emergency – Elaine Scarry 7
• Lysistrata – Aristophanes (trans: Alan Sommerstein) 6
• Worse Than Nothing: The Dangerous Fallacy of Originalism – Erwin Chemerinsky 7
• Medea – Euripides (trans: Philip Vellacott) 8
• Boulder – Eva Baltasar (trans: Julia Sanches) 3
• Sula – Toni Morrison 7
• Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia – David Graeber 4
• Bronzeville Boys and Girls – Gwendolyn Brooks (illus: Faith Ringgold) 8
• Talk – Linda Rosenkrantz 5
• I’m Glad My Mom Died – Jennette McCurdy 7
• Memorial: A Version of Homer’s Iliad – Alice Oswald 8
• Gigantic Cinema: A Weather Anthology – Alice Oswald & Paul Keegan (eds.) 2

      April

• On Writing and Failure – Stephen Marche 3
• Slime: A Natural History – Susanne Wedlich (trans: Ayca Turkoglu) 5
• Skeleton Crew – Stephen King 7
• Unexhausted Time – Emily Berry 6
• The Red Scholar’s Wake – Aliette de Bodard 4
• White Cat, Black Dog – Kelly Link 5
• Esther’s Notebooks – Riad Sattouf (trans: Sam Taylor) 8
• Y/N – Esther Yi 7

      May

• Look at the Lights, My Love – Annie Ernaux (trans: Alison Strayer) 4
• Monsters: A Fan’s Dilemma – Claire Dederer 3
• The Tradition – Jericho Brown 5
• The World Is Round – Gertrude Stein 8
• Yesterday – Agota Kristof (trans: David Watson) 4
• Ordinary Notes – Christina Sharpe 7
• The Experience Machine – Andy Clark 7
• The Sorrows of Others – Ada Zhang 4

      June

• Yellowface – R.F. Kuang 8
• The Five Sorrowful Mysteries of Andy Africa – Stephen Buoro 5
• Mild Vertigo – Mieko Kanai (trans: Polly Barton) 9
• Pink Noise – Kevin Holden 3
• In the Same Light – Wong May 5
• Ink Blood Sister Scribe – Emma Torzs 3
• PPPPPP – Kurt Schwitters (trans: Jerome Rothenberg & Pierre Joris) 7
• Word Book – Mieko Kanai (trans: Paul McCarthy) 7

      July

• The Lagoon and Other Stories – Janet Frame 8
• Witch King – Martha Wells 7
• Outline – Rachel Cusk 6
• Translation State – Ann Leckie 2
• Open Throat – Henry Hoke 1
• The Lying Life of Adults – Elena Ferrante (trans: Ann Goldstein) 9

      August

• A Breath of Life – Clarice Lispector (trans: Johnny Lorenz) 6
• Chinese Whispers: Toward a Transpacific Poetics – Yunte Huang 7
• Black Dignity: The Struggle Against Domination – Vincent Lloyd 5
• Beijing Sprawl – Xu Zechen (trans: Eric Abrahamsen & Jeremy Tiang) 8
• Out There – Kate Folk 2
• Elsewhere – Yan Ge 2
• The Voice That Murmurs in the Darkness – James Tiptree Jr. 4

      September

• Holly – Stephen King 8
• Wasteland – Oliver Franklin-Wallis 5
• Nationalism and Gender – Chizuko Ueno (trans: Beverly Yamamoto) 7
• Atlas: The Archaeology of an Imaginary City – Dung Kai-cheung (trans: Bonnie McDougall & Anders Hansson) 6

      October

• Red Memory – Tania Branigan 8
• Ruan Lingyu: Her Life and Career – Patrick Galvan 4

      November

• System Collapse – Martha Wells 5
• Minor Detail – Adania Shibli (trans: Elisabeth Jaquette) 9

      December

• The Kingdom of Surfaces – Sally Wen Mao 4
• Phantom Pain Wings – Kim Hyesoon (trans: Don Mee Choi) 8

 

      2024

 

      January

• Conflict Is Not Abuse – Sarah Schulman 6
• You Are What You Watch – Walter Hickey 4
• Telling Details: Chinese Fiction, World Literature – Jiwei Xiao 8
• Vignettes from the Late Ming: A Hsiao-p’in Anthology – Yang Ye (trans/ed) 6
• Shame Is an Ocean I Swim Across – Mary Lambert 6

      February

• Females – Andrea Long Chu 4
• John Dewey in China – Jessica Ching-Sze Wang 5
• Emily Wilde’s Encyclopaedia of Faeries – Heather Fawcett 3
• Symptoms of an Unruly Age – Rivi Handler-Spitz 7
• The Intelligence of Flowers – Maurice Maeterlinck 8

      March

• The Chapter – Nicholas Dames 9
• Reading Genesis – Marilynne Robinson 2
• A Short History of Trans Misogyny – Jules Gill-Peterson 8

      April

• No Judgment – Lauren Oyler 2
• Autobiography of Death – Kim Hyesoon (trans: Don Mee Choi) 6
• Theaetetus – Plato (trans: Benjamin Jowett) 8 (r)
• All Things Are Too Small – Becca Rothfeld 3
• King Kong Theory – Virginie Despentes (trans: Frank Wynne) 9
• Gospel of Matthew 3 (r)
• Gospel of Mark 6 (r)
• Gospel of Luke 5 (r)
• Gospel of John 8 (r)

      May

• Acts of the Apostles 4
• Epistles of Paul 2
• Epistle to the Hebrews 7
• General Epistles 3
• Book of Revelation 2 (r)
• The Hall of Uselessness – Simon Leys 8
• Deadpan: The Aesthetics of Black Inexpression – Tina Post 7
• Laughter: An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic – Henri Bergson 9
• what purpose did i serve in your life – Marie Calloway 8

      June

• Magnolia Wu Unfolds It All – Chanel Miller 4
• Service Model – Adrian Tchaikovsky 4
• A Line in the World – Dorthe Nors (trans: Caroline Waight) 8

      July

• Orlando – Virginia Woolf 9
• Pedagogy of the Oppressed – Paulo Freire (trans: Myra Bergman Ramos) 7
• The Days of Abandonment – Elena Ferrante (trans: Ann Goldstein) 9
• A Last Supper of Queer Apostles – Pedro Lemebel (trans: Gwendolyn Harper) 8
• In Ascension – Martin MacInnes 6

      August

• Tell Me I’m Worthless – Alison Rumfitt 4
• From From – Monica Youn 5
• Other Rivers: A Chinese Education – Peter Hessler 4
• West: A Translation – Paisley Rekdal 7
• Any Man – Amber Tamblyn 4
• Tar Hollow Trans – Stacy Jane Grover 3
• Night Bus – Zuo Ma (trans: Orion Martin) 6
• Tripas – Brandon Som 7
• Ninth Building – Zou Jingzhi (trans: Jeremy Tiang) 8
• Elegy Landscapes: Constable and Turner and the Intimate Sublime – Stanley Plumly 6
• Alphabetical Diaries – Sheila Heti 9
• Some Desperate Glory – Emily Tesh 6
• A Life’s Work – Rachel Cusk 8

      September

• The Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger 8 (r)
• Immediacy: Or, The Style of Too Late Capitalism – Anna Kornbluh 1
• Rejection – Tony Tulathimutte 8
• Alcestis – Euripides (trans: Rachel Kitzinger) 3
• The Grounds of the Novel – Daniel Wright 5

      October

• The Epic of Gilgamesh – (trans: Gerald Davis) 8
• What It Is – Lynda Barry 10 (r)
• Journey to the West, Vol. 1 – Wu Cheng’en (trans: Anthony Yu) 9