July
I Who Have Never Known Men (Jacqueline Harpman, 1995)
Breakfast at the Victory (James P. Carse, 1994)
The Inner Game of Tennis (W. Timothy Gallwey, 1977)
Notes of a Painter (Henri Matisse, 1908)
June
Let My People Go Surfing (Yvon Chouinard, 2016)
Finite and Infinite Games (James P. Carse, 1986)
May
Practical Yoga (Professor Ernest E. Wood, 1948)
April
The Art of Communicating (Thich Nhat Hanh, 2013)
The Night Shift (Natalka Burian, 2022)
March 2024
A Tale for the Time Being (Ruth Ozeki, 2013)
December 2023
Babel (R.F. Kuang, 2022)
October
The Library at Mount Char (Scott Hawkins, 2015)
September
The Namesake (Jhumpa Lahiri, 2003)
The Master and Margarita (Mikhail Bulgakov, 1967)
August
The Creative Act: A Way of Being (Rick Rubin, 2023)
The Hindu Yogi Science of Breath (Theron Q. Dumont, 1903)
The Only Good Indians (Stephen Graham Jones, 2020)
July
Caravaggio: A Life Sacred and Profane (Andrew Graham-Dixon, 2010)
Mayflies (Andrew O’Hagan, 2020)
The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea (Yukio Mishima, 1963)
June
Cutting For Stone (Abraham Verghese, 2009)
In Praise of Shadows (Junichiro Tanizaki, 1933)
The Third Life of Grange Copeland (Alice Walker, 1970)
Ms. Ice Sandwich (Mieko Kawakami, 2013)
Never Let Me Go (Kazuo Ishiguro, 2005)
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running (Haruki Murakami, 2007)
If an Egyptian Cannot Speak English (Noor Naga, 2022)
The Book of Night Women (Marlon James, 2009)
The Medical Cannabis Primer (Ruth D. Fisher, Ph.D., 2018)
May
The Lie (Kathryn Croft, 2023)
The Trial (Franz Kafka, 1925)
An Artist of the Floating World (Kazuo Ishiguro, 1986)
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow (Gabrielle Zevin, 2022)
Notes From Underground (Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1864)
April
Black Rice: The African Origins of Rice Cultivation in the Americas (Judith A. Carey, 2001)
A Handful of Dust (Evelyn Waugh, 1934)
Kafka On The Shore (Haruki Murakami, 2002)
A Dance With Dragons (George R. R. Martin, 2011)
March
A Feast For Crows (George R. R. Martin, 2005)
The Power of Now (Eckhart Tolle, 1999)
February
A Swarm of Swords (George R. R. Martin, 2000)
A Clash of Kings (George R. R. Martin, 1999)
January 2023
A Game of Thrones (George R. R. Martin, 1996)
The Poetics of Space (Gatson Bachelard, 1958)
A Personal Matter (Kenzaburo Oe, 1964)
December
Kindred (Octavia Butler, 1979)
A Gentleman in Moscow (Amor Towles, 2016)
A Psalm For The Wild-Built (Becky Chambers, 2021)
November
A Brief History of Seven Killings (Marlon James, 2015)
October
We Have Always Lived in the Castle (Shirley Jackson, 1962)
Norwegian Wood (Haruki Murakami, 1987)
The Messenger Boy Murders (Perihan Magden, 1991)
The Phantom Tollbooth (Norton Juster, 1961)
John Crow’s Devil (Marlon James, 2005)
September
Invitation To A Beheading (Vladimir Nabokov, 1959)
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress (Dai Sijie, 2001)
Letters to Milena (Franz Kafka, 1953)
The Guest Cat (Takashi Hiraide, 2014)
The Art of Communicating (Thich Nhat Hanh, 2013)
My Year of Rest and Relaxation (Ottessa Moshfegh, 2018)
The Death of Vivek Oji (Akwaeke Emezi, 2020)
The Remains of the Day (Kazuo Ishiguro, 1989)
August
The Hike (Drew Magary, 2016)
The Paper Door and Other Stories (Shiga Naoya, 1987)
Dandelion Wine (Ray Bradbury, 1957)
The Awakened Kingdom (N.K. Jemisin, 2014)
The Kingdom of Gods (N.K. Jemisin, 2011)
July
The Broken Kingdoms (N.K. Jemisin, 2010)
The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms (N.K. Jemisin, 2010)
June
When We Were Orphans (Kazuo Ishiguro, 2000)
The Art of Hearing Heartbeats (Jan-Philipp Sendker, 2002)
The Queen’s Gambit (Walter Tevis, 1983)
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World (Haruki Murakami, 1985)
April 2022