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Fiction
84 Charing Cross Road — Helene Hanff
84 Charing Cross Road
Helene Hanff 
All the Birds in the Sky — Charlie Jane Anders
All the Birds in the Sky
Charlie Jane Anders 
All the Light We Cannot See — Anthony Doerr
All the Light We Cannot See
Anthony Doerr 
Altar to an Erupting Sun — Chuck Collins
Altar to an Erupting Sun
Chuck Collins 
American Innovations — Rivka Galchen
American Innovations
Rivka Galchen 
A Month in the Country — J. L. Carr
A Month in the Country
J. L. Carr  Recommended
A Place of Greater Safety — Hilary Mantel
A Place of Greater Safety
Hilary Mantel 
Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret — Judy Blume
Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret
Judy Blume 
Blindsight — Peter Watts
Blindsight
Peter Watts  Recommended
Cinema Speculation — Quentin Tarantino
Cinema Speculation
Quentin Tarantino 
Cities of the Plain — Cormac McCarthy
Cities of the Plain
Cormac McCarthy 
Come Closer — Sara Gran
Come Closer
Sara Gran 
Conversations with Friends — Sally Rooney
Conversations with Friends
Sally Rooney 
First Love — Gwendoline Riley
First Love
Gwendoline Riley 
Florida — Lauren Groff
Florida
Lauren Groff 
Girl, 20 — Kingsley Amis
Girl, 20
Kingsley Amis 
Islands of Silence — Martin Booth
Islands of Silence
Martin Booth 
Ithaca — Claire North
Ithaca
Claire North 
Madonna in a Fur Coat — Sabahattin Ali
Madonna in a Fur Coat
Sabahattin Ali 
My Phantoms — Gwendoline Riley
My Phantoms
Gwendoline Riley  Recommended
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood — Quentin Tarantino
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
Quentin Tarantino 
Picnic at Hanging Rock — Joan Lindsey
Picnic at Hanging Rock
Joan Lindsey 
Play It As It Lays — Joan Didion
Play It As It Lays
Joan Didion 
Post Office — Charles Bukowski
Post Office
Charles Bukowski 
Stella Maris — Cormac McCarthy
Stella Maris
Cormac McCarthy  Reread
The Control of Nature — John McPhee
The Control of Nature
John McPhee 
The Futurological Congress — Stanisław Lem
The Futurological Congress
Stanisław Lem 
The Haunting of Hill House — Shirley Jackson
The Haunting of Hill House
Shirley Jackson 
The Hustler — Walter Tevis
The Hustler
Walter Tevis 
The Ice Storm — Rick Moody
The Ice Storm
Rick Moody 
The Last Good Man — Thomas McMullan
The Last Good Man
Thomas McMullan 
The Left Hand of Darkness — Ursula K. Le Guin
The Left Hand of Darkness
Ursula K. Le Guin 
The Lonely Londoners — Sam Sevlon
The Lonely Londoners
Sam Sevlon  Recommended
The Lying Life of Adults — Elena Ferrante
The Lying Life of Adults
Elena Ferrante 
The Order of the Day — Éric Vuillard
The Order of the Day
Éric Vuillard 
The Passenger — Cormac McCarthy
The Passenger
Cormac McCarthy 
There Are More Things — Yara Rodrigues Fowler
There Are More Things
Yara Rodrigues Fowler 
The Shipping News — Annie Proulx
The Shipping News
Annie Proulx 
The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires: A Novel — Grady Hendrix
The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires: A Novel
Grady Hendrix 
The Unbearable Lightness of Being — Milan Kundera
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Milan Kundera 
The Wolf Wilder — Katherine Rundell
The Wolf Wilder
Katherine Rundell 
The Woman in Black — Susan Hill
The Woman in Black
Susan Hill 
Things Fall Apart — Chinua Achebe
Things Fall Apart
Chinua Achebe 
This Is How You Lose the Time War — Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone
This Is How You Lose the Time War
Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone 
True Grit — Charles Portis
True Grit
Charles Portis  Recommended Reread
Trust — Hernan Diaz
Trust
Hernan Diaz 
Two Serious Ladies — Jane Bowles
Two Serious Ladies
Jane Bowles 
When We Were Orphans — Kazuo Ishiguro
When We Were Orphans
Kazuo Ishiguro 
Classics
An Unsuitable Job for a Woman — P. D. James
An Unsuitable Job for a Woman
P. D. James 
Great Expectations — Charles Dickens
Great Expectations
Charles Dickens 
Keep the Apsidistra Flying — George Orwell
Keep the Apsidistra Flying
George Orwell 
Maurice — E. M. Forster
Maurice
E. M. Forster 
Pride and Prejudice — Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen 
The Kreutzer Sonata — Leo Tolstoy
The Kreutzer Sonata
Leo Tolstoy Audiobook Recommended Reread
The Quiet American — Graham Greene
The Quiet American
Graham Greene 
The Singapore Grip — J. G. Farrell
The Singapore Grip
J. G. Farrell 
The Sun Also Rises — Ernest Hemingway
The Sun Also Rises
Ernest Hemingway 
Where Angels Fear to Tread — E. M. Forster
Where Angels Fear to Tread
E. M. Forster 
Non-fiction
Arrival City: How the Largest Migration in History is Reshaping Our World — Doug Sanders
Arrival City: How the Largest Migration in History is Resha…
Doug Sanders 
A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again — David Foster Wallace
A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again
David Foster Wallace 
Black Skin, White Masks — Frantz Fanon
Black Skin, White Masks
Frantz Fanon 
Capitalist Realism — Mark Fisher
Capitalist Realism
Mark Fisher  Recommended Reread
Crack-Up Capitalism: Market Radicals and the Dream of a World Without Democracy — Quinn Slobodian
Crack-Up Capitalism: Market Radicals and the Dream of a Wor…
Quinn Slobodian Audiobook
Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil — Hannah Arendt
Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil
Hannah Arendt 
Escape Into Meaning: Essays on Superman, Public Benches, and Other Obsessions — Evan Puschak
Escape Into Meaning: Essays on Superman, Public Benches, an…
Evan Puschak 
Future Shock — Alvin Toffler
Future Shock
Alvin Toffler 
Homicide: A Year On the Killing Streets — David Simon
Homicide: A Year On the Killing Streets
David Simon 
How to Read Literature — Terry Eagleton
How to Read Literature
Terry Eagleton 
Imperial Nostalgia: How the British Conquered Themselves — Peter Mitchell
Imperial Nostalgia: How the British Conquered Themselves
Peter Mitchell Audiobook
In The Garden of Beasts: Love and terror in Hitler's Berlin — Erik Larson
In The Garden of Beasts: Love and terror in Hitler's Berlin
Erik Larson 
Into the Black: The electrifying true story of how the first flight of the Space Shuttle nearly ended in disaster — Rowland White
Into the Black: The electrifying true story of how the firs…
Rowland White 
Killers of the Flower Moon: Oil, Money, Murder and the Birth of the FBI — David Grann
Killers of the Flower Moon: Oil, Money, Murder and the Birt…
David Grann 
Living Rooms — Sam Johnson-Schlee
Living Rooms
Sam Johnson-Schlee 
Los Angeles: The Architecture of Four Ecologies — Reyner Banham
Los Angeles: The Architecture of Four Ecologies
Reyner Banham  Recommended
Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster — Adam Higginbotham
Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Grea…
Adam Higginbotham  Recommended
Non-Stop Inertia — Ivor Southwood
Non-Stop Inertia
Ivor Southwood  Recommended
Number Go Up: Inside Crypto’s Wild Rise and Staggering Fall — Zeke Faux
Number Go Up: Inside Crypto’s Wild Rise and Staggering Fall
Zeke Faux Audiobook
Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945 — Tony Judt
Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945
Tony Judt  Recommended
Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now — Douglas Rushkoff
Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now
Douglas Rushkoff 
Reappraisals: Reflections on the Forgotten Twentieth Century — Tony Judt
Reappraisals: Reflections on the Forgotten Twentieth Century
Tony Judt  Recommended
Regarding the Pain of Others — Susan Sontag
Regarding the Pain of Others
Susan Sontag 
Royal Bodies — The London Review of Books
Royal Bodies
The London Review of Books 
Science(ish): The Peculiar Science Behind the Movies — Rick Edwards & Dr. Michael Brooks
Science(ish): The Peculiar Science Behind the Movies
Rick Edwards & Dr. Michael Brooks 
Show Me the Bodies: How We Let Grenfell Happen — Peter Apps
Show Me the Bodies: How We Let Grenfell Happen
Peter Apps Audiobook Recommended
Sisters Come Second — The London Review of Books
Sisters Come Second
The London Review of Books 
Slouching Towards Bethlehem — Joan Didion
Slouching Towards Bethlehem
Joan Didion  Recommended
Status And Culture: How Our Desire for Social Rank Creates Taste, Identity, Art, Fashion, and Constant Change — W. David Marx
Status And Culture: How Our Desire for Social Rank Creates …
W. David Marx Audiobook
Steal as Much as You Can: How to Win the Culture Wars in an Age of Austerity — Nathalie Olah
Steal as Much as You Can: How to Win the Culture Wars in an…
Nathalie Olah 
Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne — Katherine Rundell
Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne
Katherine Rundell 
The Anglo Files: A Field Guide to the British — Sarah Lyall
The Anglo Files: A Field Guide to the British
Sarah Lyall 
The Devil in the White City — Erik Larson
The Devil in the White City
Erik Larson Audiobook Recommended
The Great Movies III — Roger Ebert
The Great Movies III
Roger Ebert 
The Hedgehog and the Fox — Isaiah Berlin
The Hedgehog and the Fox
Isaiah Berlin  Reread
The Hedgehog, the Fox and the Magister's Pox — Stephen Jay Gould
The Hedgehog, the Fox and the Magister's Pox
Stephen Jay Gould 
The Ministry of Nostalgia: Consuming Austerity — Owen Hatherley
The Ministry of Nostalgia: Consuming Austerity
Owen Hatherley 
The Music of The Spheres: Music, Science and the Natural Order of the Universe — Jamie James
The Music of The Spheres: Music, Science and the Natural Or…
Jamie James 
The People of the Abyss — Jack London
The People of the Abyss
Jack London 
The Poetics of Space — Gaston Bachelard
The Poetics of Space
Gaston Bachelard 
The Revolt of the Elites and the Betrayal of Democracy — Christopher Lasch
The Revolt of the Elites and the Betrayal of Democracy
Christopher Lasch Audiobook
The Splendid and the Vile — Erik Larson
The Splendid and the Vile
Erik Larson Audiobook
The Wild Places — Robert Macfarlane
The Wild Places
Robert Macfarlane 
To The Letter — Simon Garfield
To The Letter
Simon Garfield 
Trust the Plan: The Rise of QAnon and the Conspiracy That Reshaped the World — Will Sommer
Trust the Plan: The Rise of QAnon and the Conspiracy That R…
Will Sommer Audiobook
Vichy France: Old Guard and New Order — Robert Paxton
Vichy France: Old Guard and New Order
Robert Paxton 
What Is History, Now? — Suzannah Lipscomb
What Is History, Now?
Suzannah Lipscomb 
Why Fonts Matter — Sarah Hyndman
Why Fonts Matter
Sarah Hyndman 
Written In Bone: hidden stories in what we leave behind — Sue Black
Written In Bone: hidden stories in what we leave behind
Sue Black 
Memoir/biography
Conquest of the Useless: Reflections from the Making of Fitzcarraldo — Werner Herzog
Conquest of the Useless: Reflections from the Making of Fit…
Werner Herzog 
Girl, Interrupted — Susanna Kaysen
Girl, Interrupted
Susanna Kaysen 
Hillbilly Elegy — J. D. Vance
Hillbilly Elegy
J. D. Vance 
Kitchen Confidential — Anthony Bourdain
Kitchen Confidential
Anthony Bourdain Audiobook
Lurking: How a Person Became a User — Joanne McNeil
Lurking: How a Person Became a User
Joanne McNeil Audiobook Recommended
One of Them: An Eton College Memoir — Musa Okwonga
One of Them: An Eton College Memoir
Musa Okwonga Audiobook
Orwell Remembered — Audrey Coppard and Bernard Crick
Orwell Remembered
Audrey Coppard and Bernard Crick 
The Debutante — Jon Ronson
The Debutante
Jon Ronson Audiobook
The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper — Hallie Rubenhold
The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the …
Hallie Rubenhold Audiobook

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