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TitlesOrder
Molecules of the Mind by Jon FranklinNonfiction
The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey by Candice Millard
Anti-Memoirs by André Malraux1968
A Cab at the Door by V. S. Pritchett1968
The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell. Volume 1. An Age Like This: 1920-1940 by George Orwell1968
The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell. Volume 2. My Country Right or Left: 1940-1943 by George Orwell1968
The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell. Volume 4. In Front of Your Nose: 1945-1950 by George Orwell1968
Confessions of a Disloyal European by Jan Myrdal1968
The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA by James D. Watson1968
The First Circle by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn1968
His Toy, His Dream, His Rest: 308 Dream Songs by John Berryman1968
Lytton Strachey: A Biography by Michael Holroyd1968
The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer1968
Soul on Ice by Eldridge Cleaver1968
Akenfield: Portrait of an English Village by Ronald Blythe1969
Castle to Castle by Louis-Ferdinand Céline1969
The Collected Stories of Jean Stafford by Jean Stafford1969
Gandhi's Truth: On the Origins of Militant Nonviolence by Erik H. Erikson1969
Huey Long by T. Harry Williams1969
Portnoy's Complaint by Philip Roth1969
Present at the Creation: My Years in the State Department by Dean Acheson1969
The Science of Freedom by Peter Gay1969
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut1969
Them by Joyce Carol Oates1969
Bech: A Book by John Updike1970
City Life by Donald Barthelme1970
Cocteau: A Biography by Francis Steegmuller1970
The Coming Crisis of Western Sociology by Alvin W. Gouldner1970
Crisis In The Classroom, The Remaking of American Education by Charles E. Silberman1970
Inside the Third Reich : Memoirs by Albert Speer by Albert Speer1970
Jefferson the President: First Term, 1801-1805 by Dumas Malone1970
Losing Battles by Eudora Welty1970
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez1970
Roosevelt: The Soldier of Freedom, 1940-1945 by James MacGregor Burns1970
Sexual Politics: A Surprising Examination of Society's Most Arbitrary Folly by Kate Millett1970
Zelda: A Biography by Nancy Milford1970
Bound to Violence by Yambo Ouologuem1971
Eleanor and Franklin by Joseph P. Lash1971
The European Discovery of America: Vol 1: The Northern Voyages A.D. 500-1600 by Samuel Eliot Morison1971
The Gift Relationship: From Human Blood to Social Policy by Richard Morris Titmuss1971
Rabbit Redux by John Updike1971
Upstate: Records and Recollections of Northern New York by Edmund Wilson1971
The Waste Land by T. S. Eliot1971
The Children of Pride: A True Story of Georgia and the Civil War by Robert Manson Myers1972
The Coming of Age by Simone de Beauvoir1972
Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam by Frances FitzGerald1972
Henry James: The Master, 1901-1916 by Leon Edel1972
A Theory of Justice by John Rawls1972
Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon1973
Macaulay, the Shaping of the Historian by John Leonard Clive1973
The Summer Before The Dark by Doris Lessing1973
All God's Dangers: The Life of Nate Shaw by Theodore Rosengarten1974
Darwin on Man: A Psychological Study of Scientific Creativity by Howard E. Gruber1974
Dog Soldiers by Robert Stone1974
The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn1974
The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation (Volume One, Parts I-II) by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn1974
Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made by Eugene D. Genovese1974
Something Happened by Joseph Heller1974
Watership Down by Richard Adams1974
Against Our Will: Men, Women, and Rape by Susan Brownmiller1975
The Dead Father by Donald Barthelme1975
Edith Wharton: A Biography by R. W. B. Lewis1975
Far Tortuga by Peter Matthiessen1975
The Great Railway Bazaar by Paul Theroux1975
Guerrillas by V. S. Naipaul1975
The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation (Volume Two, Parts III-IV) by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn1975
Humboldt's Gift by Saul Bellow1975
The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution, 1770-1823 by David Brion Davis1975
Ragtime by E. L. Doctorow1975
A Sorrow Beyond Dreams by Peter Handke1975
The War Against the Jews: 1933-1945 by Lucy S. Dawidowicz1975
I Would Have Saved Them If I Could by Leonard Michaels1975
Andre Malraux by Jean Lacouture1976
The Autumn of the Patriarch by Gabriel García Márquez1976
Born on the Fourth of July by Ron Kovic1976
Damnable Question: A Study of Anglo-Irish Relations by George Dangerfield1976
Details of a Sunset and Other Stories by Vladimir Nabokov1976
The Easter Parade by Richard Yates1976
Hearing Secret Harmonies by Anthony Powell1976
Heat and Dust by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala1976
October Light by John Gardner1976
Roots by Alex Haley1976
Speedboat by Renata Adler1976
To Jerusalem and Back: A Personal Account by Saul Bellow1976
The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales by Bruno Bettelheim1976
A Voice from the Chorus by Andrei Sinyavsky1976
The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts by Maxine Hong Kingston1976
Women of Shadows: A Study of the Wives and Mothers of Southern Italy by Ann Cornelisen1976
World of Our Fathers by Irving Howe1976
Afterimages by Arlene Croce1977
A Book of Common Prayer by Joan Didion1977
Chinese Shadows by Simon Leys1977
Coming into the Country by John McPhee1977
Day by Day by Robert Lowell1977
Delmore Schwartz: The Life of an American Poet by James Atlas1977
Dispatches by Michael Herr1977
Every child's birthright: In defense of mothering by Selma H. Fraiberg1977
Falconer by John Cheever1977
Gates of Eden: American Culture in the Sixties by Morris Dickstein1977
The Gentle Barbarian: The Life and Work of Turgenev by V. S. Pritchett1977
India: A Wounded Civilization by V. S. Naipaul1977
Letters on literature and politics, 1912-1972 by Edmund Wilson1977
On Photography by Susan Sontag1977
The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914 by David McCullough1977
Robert Frost: The Work of Knowing by Richard Poirier1977
Samuel Johnson by W. Jackson Bate1977
Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison1977
Staying On by Paul Scott1977
The Coup by John Updike1978
Discipline & Punish: The Birth of the Prison by Michel Foucault1978
E. M. Forster: A Life by P. N. Furbank1978
The Eye of the Story: Selected Essays and Reviews by Eudora Welty1978
The Facts of Life by Maureen Howard1978
Final Payments by Mary Gordon1978
The Flounder by Günter Grass1978
In Patagonia by Bruce Chatwin1978
Inventing America: Jefferson's Declaration of Independence by Garry Wills1978
Lying Low by Diane Johnson1978
A Savage War of Peace: Algeria 1954-1962 by Alistair Horne1978
Stories by Doris Lessing1978
The Stories of John Cheever by John Cheever1978
Trotsky by Irving Howe1978
The World According to Garp by John Irving1978
Wrinkles by Charles Simmons1978
A Bend in the River by V. S. Naipaul1979
The Boer War by Thomas Pakenham1979
The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in an Age of Diminishing Expectations by Christopher Lasch1979
Dear Bunny, Dear Volodya: The Nabokov-Wilson Letters, 1940-1971, Revised and Expanded Edition by Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov1979
The Eighth Day of Creation: Makers of the Revolution in Biology by Horace Freeland Judson1979
The Executioner's Song by Norman Mailer1979
The Ghost Writer by Philip Roth1979
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas R. Hofstadter1979
The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor by Flannery O'Connor1979
King of the Jews by Leslie Epstein1979
The man who kept the secrets: Richard Helms & the CIA by Thomas Powers1979
The Maples Stories by John Updike1979
The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt by Edmund Morris1979
Sideshow by William Shawcross1979
Sleepless Nights by Elizabeth Hardwick1979
The White Album by Joan Didion1979
White House Years by Henry A. Kissinger1979
China Men by Maxine Hong Kingston1980
Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality by John Boswell1980
The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty by Eudora Welty1980
Conrad in the Nineteenth Century by Ian Watt1980
The cost of good intentions : New York City and the liberal experiment, 1960-1975 by Charles R. Morris1980
Falling in Place by Ann Beattie1980
Italian Folktales by Italo Calvino1980
Loon Lake by E. L. Doctorow1980
Man in the Holocene by Max Frisch1980
Nature and Culture: American Landscape and Painting, 1825-1875 by Barbara Novak1980
Walt Whitman: A Life by Justin Kaplan1980
Bad Blood: The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment, New and Expanded Edition by James H. Jones1981
The Chaneysville Incident by David Bradley1981
A Flag for Sunrise by Robert Stone1981
The Gate of Heavenly Peace: The Chinese and Their Revolution by Jonathan D. Spence1981
Haydn : chronicle and works / Haydn : the years of 'The creation', 1796-1800 by H. C. Robbins Landon1981
Haydn : the early years, 1732-1765 by H. C. Robbins Landon1981
Haydn at Eszterhaza, 1766-1790 (Haydn : Chronicle and Works) by H. C. Robbins Landon1981
Haydn in England 1791-1795 (Haydn : Chronicle and Works) by H. C. Robbins Landon1981
Haydn the Late Years, 1801-1809. (Haydn: Chronicles and Works, Volume 5) by H. C. Robbins Landon1981
Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson1981
Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie1981
Old Glory: A Voyage Down the Mississippi by Jonathan Raban1981
Philosophical Explanations by Robert Nozick1981
Prisoner without a Name, Cell without a Number by Jacobo Timerman1981
Rabbit Is Rich by John Updike1981
The White Hotel by D. M. Thomas1981
World Without End by Francine du Plessix Gray1981
Zuckerman Unbound by Philip Roth1981
Aké: The Years of Childhood by Wole Soyinka1982
Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter by Mario Vargas Llosa1982
Bech Is Back by John Updike1982
Bronx Primitive: Portraits in a Childhood by Kate Simon1982
The Burning House by Ann Beattie1982
Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant by Anne Tyler1982
The Fate of the Earth by Jonathan Schell1982
Isak Dinesen: The Life of a Storyteller by Judith Thurman1982
Schindler's List by Thomas Keneally1982
Tumultuous Years: The Presidency of Harry S Truman, 1949-1953 by Robert J. Donovan1982
Waiting for the Barbarians by J. M. Coetzee1982
Years of Upheaval by Henry Kissinger1982
The Anatomy Lesson by Philip Roth1983
Attlee by Kenneth Harris1983
Cathedral: Stories by Raymond Carver1983
Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel Garcia Marquez1983
During the Reign of the Queen of Persia by Joan Chase1983
Hugging the Shore: Essays and Criticism by John Updike1983
Ironweed by William J. Kennedy1983
Modern Times: The World from the Twenties to the Nineties by Paul Johnson1983
The Moons of Jupiter by Alice Munro1983
The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco1983
The Price of Power: Kissinger in the Nixon White House by Seymour M. Hersh1983
The Rosenberg File by Ronald Radosh1983
The Social Transformation of American Medicine: The Rise of a Sovereign Profession and the Making of a Vast Industry by Paul Starr1983
Brothers and Keepers by John Edgar Wideman1984
Deadly gambits : the Reagan administration and the stalemate in nuclear arms control by Strobe Talbott1984
Education of the Senses by Peter Gay1984
Him With His Foot in His Mouth and Other Stories by Saul Bellow1984
In Her Own Right: The Life of Elizabeth Cady Stanton by Elisabeth Griffith1984
Life & Times of Michael K by J. M. Coetzee1984
Lives of the Poets: Six Stories and a Novella by E. L. Doctorow1984
Machine Dreams by Jayne Anne Phillips1984
The Memory Palace of Matteo Ricci by Jonathan D. Spence1984
The Quality of Mercy: Cambodia, Holocaust and Modern Conscience by William Shawcross1984
The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera1984
Walt Whitman: The Making of the Poet by Paul Zweig1984
The War of the End of the World by Mario Vargas Llosa1984
With a Daughter's Eye: A Memoir of Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson by Mary Catherine Bateson1984
The Abandonment of the Jews: America and the Holocaust 1941-1945 by David S. Wyman1985
All Fall Down: America's Tragic Encounter With Iran by Gary Sick1985
Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families by J. Anthony Lukas1985
Flaubert's Parrot by Julian Barnes1985
Footsteps: adventures of a romantic biographer by Richard Holmes1985
House by Tracy Kidder1985
Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich1985
Move Your Shadow: South Africa, Black and White by Joseph Lelyveld1985
Mr. Palomar by Italo Calvino1985
The Oracle at Stoneleigh Court : Stories by Peter Taylor1985
The Periodic Table by Primo Levi1985
Arab and Jew: Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land by David K. Shipler1986
Arctic Dreams by Barry Lopez1986
Black Venus by Angela Carter1986
Crossing the Line: A Year in the Land of Apartheid by William Finnegan1986
FDR: New York Years 1928-1933 by Kenneth S. Davis1986
FDR: The New Deal Years 1933-1937 by Kenneth S. Davis1986
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood1986
John Maynard Keynes, Vol. 1: Hopes Betrayed, 1883-1920 by Robert Skidelsky1986
The Life of Langston Hughes. Volume 1, 1902–1941, I, Too, Sing America by Arnold Rampersad1986
A Machine That Would Go of Itself: The Constitution in American Culture by Michael Kammen1986
The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat: And Other Clinical Tales by Oliver Sacks1986
Out of India: Selected Stories by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala1986
A Perfect Spy by John le Carré1986
The Progress of Love by Alice Munro1986
Roger's Version by John Updike1986
The Vanished Imam: Musa Al Sadr and the Shia of Lebanon by Fouad Ajami1986
Velazquez: Painter and Courtier by Jonathan Brown1986
Whites by Norman Rush1986
An Arrow in the Wall: Selected Poetry and Prose by Andrei Voznesensky1987
Beloved by Toni Morrison1987
The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe1987
Chaos: Making a New Science by James Gleick1987
The Counterlife by Philip Roth1987
The Embarrassment of Riches: An Interpretation of Dutch Culture In the Golden Age by Simon Schama1987
Evelyn Waugh: The Early Years, 1903-1939 by Martin Stannard1987
The Fatal Shore by Robert Hughes1987
The Ice: A Journey to Antarctica by Stephen J. Pyne1987
Life and Death in Shanghai by Nien Cheng1987
The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes1987
More Die of Heartbreak by Saul Bellow1987
Staring at the Sun by Julian Barnes1987
The Truly Disadvantaged: The Inner City, the Underclass, and Public Policy by William Julius Wilson1987
Veil: The Secret Wars of the CIA, 1981-1987 by Bob Woodward1987
World's End by T. C. Boyle1987
Arabesques by Anton Shammas1988
Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era by James M. McPherson1988
Bernard Shaw, Volume 1: 1856-1898; The Search for Love by Michael Holroyd1988
A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes by Stephen Hawking1988
A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam by Neil Sheehan1988
Coming of Age in the Milky Way by Timothy Ferris1988
Dictionary of the Khazars: A Lexicon Novel in 100,000 Words {unspecified Editions} by Milorad Pavić1988
Libra by Don DeLillo1988
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez1988
The Magic Lantern: An Autobiography by Ingmar Bergman1988
Original Intent and the Framers' Constitution by Leonard W. Levy1988
Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954–63 by Taylor Branch1988
The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers by Paul Kennedy1988
Stories in an Almost Classical Mode by Harold Brodkey1988
The Tenants of Time by Thomas Flanagan1988
Where I'm Calling From: New and Selected Stories by Raymond Carver1988
Billy Bathgate by E. L. Doctorow1989
Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution by Simon Schama1989
Federico García Lorca: A Life by Ian Gibson1989
From Beirut to Jerusalem by Thomas L. Friedman1989
Harold Macmillan: Volume 1: 1894-1956 by Alistair Horne1989
Harold Macmillan: Volume 2: 1957-1986 by Alistair Horne1989
A History of the World in 10½ Chapters by Julian Barnes1989
How War Came: The Immediate Origins of the Second World War by Donald Cameron Watt1989
If the River Was Whiskey by T. C. Boyle1989
A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East by David Fromkin1989
The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro1989
The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie1989
The Shawl: A Story and Novella by Cynthia Ozick1989
Biting at the Grave: The Irish Hunger Strikes and the Politics of Despair by Padraig O'Malley1990
The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova by Anna Akhmatova1990
Friend of My Youth: Stories by Alice Munro1990
Lawrence of Arabia: The Authorized Biography of T.E. Lawrence by Jeremy Wilson1990
London Fields by Martin Amis1990
My Son's Story by Nadine Gordimer1990
Omeros by Derek Walcott1990
Possession by A. S. Byatt1990
Rabbit at Rest by John Updike1990
The Search for Modern China by Jonathan D. Spence1990
Simone de Beauvoir: A Biography by Deirdre Bair1990
The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien1990
Tropical Gangsters: One Man's Experience With Development And Decadence In Deepest Africa by Robert Klitgaard1990
Vladimir Nabokov: The Russian Years by Brian Boyd1990
Complete Collected Stories by V. S. Pritchett1991
Consciousness Explained by Daniel C. Dennett1991
Holocaust Testimonies: The Ruins of Memory by Lawrence L. Langer1991
The Journals of John Cheever by John Cheever1991
A Life of Picasso, Volume 1: 1881-1906 by John Richardson1991
Mating by Norman Rush1991
Maus II: A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began by Art Spiegelman1991
The Truth About Chernobyl by Grigori Medvedev1991
Two Lives: Reading Turgenev and My House in Umbria by William Trevor1991
Wartime Lies by Louis Begley1991
The Ant and the Peacock: Altruism and Sexual Selection from Darwin to Today by Helena Cronin1992
The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje1992
Jazz by Toni Morrison1992
Kissinger: A Biography by Walter Isaacson1992
Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America by Garry Wills1992
The Lost Upland: Stories of Southwestern France by W. S. Merwin1992
Outerbridge Reach by Robert Stone1992
Regeneration by Pat Barker1992
Young Men and Fire by Norman Maclean1992
Across the Bridge by Mavis Gallant1993
Balkan Ghosts: A Journey Through History by Robert D. Kaplan1993
Before Night Falls by Reinaldo Arenas1993
Collected Stories by William Trevor1993
The Fate of the Elephant by Douglas H. Chadwick1993
The Island: Three Tales by Gustaw Herling-Grudziński1993
Jesus' Son: Stories by Denis Johnson1993
Judge On Trial by Ivan Klima1993
The Last Panda by George B. Schaller1993
Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire by David Remnick1993
Mazurka for Two Dead Men by Camilo José Cela1993
A Moment of War by Laurie Lee1993
Shylock: A Legend and Its Legacy by John Gross1993
Travels With Lizbeth: Three Years on the Road and on the Streets by Lars Eighner1993
Balzac: A Biography by Graham Robb1994
Conquest: Cortes, Montezuma, and the Fall of Old Mexico by Hugh Thomas1994
A Frolic of His Own by William Gaddis1994
In the Lake of the Woods by Tim O'Brien1994
The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language by Steven Pinker1994
The Moral Animal : Why We Are the Way We Are: The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology by Robert Wright1994
Naturalist by Edward O. Wilson1994
Open Secrets by Alice Munro1994
Stalin and the Bomb: The Soviet Union and Atomic Energy, 1939-1956 by David Holloway1994
W. E. B. Du Bois, 1868-1919: Biography of a Race by David Levering Lewis1994
A Way in the World by V. S. Naipaul1994
The Haunted Land: Facing Europe's Ghosts After Communism by Tina Rosenberg1995
In Confidence: Moscow's Ambassador to America's Six Cold War Presidents (1962-1986) by Anatoly Dobrynin1995
Independence Day by Richard Ford1995
The Information by Martin Amis1995
The Island of the Day Before by Umberto Eco1995
The Life of Graham Greene, Volume II: 1939-1955 by Norman Sherry1995
Lincoln by David Herbert Donald1995
Overcoming Law by Richard A. Posner1995
Sabbath's Theater by Philip Roth1995
The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov by Vladimir Nabokov1995
Zola: A Life by Frederick Brown1995
After Rain: Stories by William Trevor1996
Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt1996
Bad Land: An American Romance by Jonathan Raban1996
The Collected Stories of Mavis Gallant by Mavis Gallant1996
The Life of Nelson A. Rockefeller by Cary Reich1996
Selected Stories by Alice Munro1996
The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinction by David Quammen1996
American Scripture: Making the Declaration of Independence by Pauline Maier1997
The Blue Flower by Penelope Fitzgerald1997
Huxley: From Devil's Disciple to Evolution's High Priest by Adrian Desmond1997
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster by Jon Krakauer1997
Mason & Dixon by Thomas Pynchon1997
The Puttermesser Papers by Cynthia Ozick1997
Toward the End of Time by John Updike1997
Underworld by Don DeLillo1997
Virginia Woolf by Hermione Lee1997
The Whole Shebang: A State-of-the-Universe(s) Report by Timothy Ferris1997
Birds of America: Stories by Lorrie Moore1998
Cloudsplitter by Russell Banks1998
Life: A Natural History of the First Four Billion Years of Life on Earth by Richard A. Fortey1998
The Love of a Good Woman: Stories by Alice Munro1998
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver1998
Preston Falls: A Novel by David Gates1998
Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr. by Ron Chernow1998
To End a War by Richard Holbrooke1998
The Unknown Matisse by Hilary Spurling1998
Victor Hugo: A Biography by Graham Robb1998
We wish to inform you that tomorrow we will be killed with our families: Stories from Rwanda by Philip Gourevitch1998
An Affair of State: The Investigation, Impeachment, and Trial of President Clinton by Richard A. Posner1999
Close Range by Annie Proulx1999
Coleridge: Darker Reflections, 1804-1834 by Richard Holmes1999
Disgrace by J. M. Coetzee1999
The Feeling of What Happens: Body and Emotion in the Making of Consciousness by Antonio Damasio1999
The First World War by John Keegan1999
Headlong by Michael Frayn1999
Morgan: American Financier by Jean Strouse1999
Reading the Holocaust by Inga Clendinnen1999
Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of Colette by Judith Thurman1999
A Star Called Henry by Roddy Doyle1999
Being Dead by Jim Crace2000
Beowulf by Seamus HeaneySeamus Heaney translation, 2000
Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters by Matt Ridley2000
Gertrude and Claudius by John Updike2000
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers2000
The Human Stain by Philip Roth2000
One Palestine, Complete: Jews and Arabs Under the British Mandate by Tom Segev2000
Rimbaud: A Biography by Graham Robb2000
Way Out There In the Blue: Reagan, Star Wars and the End of the Cold War by Frances FitzGerald2000
Austerlitz by W. G. Sebald2001
Borrowed Finery by Paula Fox2001
The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen2001
Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage: Stories by Alice Munro2001
John Henry Days by Colson Whitehead2001
The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America by Louis Menand2001
True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey2001
Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood by Oliver Sacks2001
Anthony Blunt: His Lives by Miranda Carter2002
Atonement by Ian McEwan2002
Bad Blood: A Memoir by Lorna Sage2002
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides2002
Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World by Margaret MacMillan2002
Roscoe by William Kennedy2002
Seeing in the dark by Timothy Ferris2002
The Bounty: The True Story of the Mutiny on the Bounty by Caroline Alexander2003
Brick Lane by Monica Ali2003
Drop City by T. C. Boyle2003
The Fortress of Solitude by Jonathan Lethem2003
Khrushchev: The Man and His Era by William Taubman2003
The Known World by Edward P. Jones2003
Living to Tell the Tale by Gabriel García Márquez2003
Random Family: Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age in the Bronx by Adrian Nicole LeBlanc2003
Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow2004
Chronicles: Volume One by Bob Dylan2004
The Master by Colm Tóibín2004
The Plot Against America by Philip Roth2004
Runaway by Alice Munro2004
Snow by Orhan Pamuk2004
War Trash by Ha Jin2004
The Assassins' Gate: America in Iraq by George Packer2005
Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami2005
de Kooning: An American Master by Mark Stevens2005
The Lost Painting: The Quest for a Caravaggio Masterpiece by Jonathan Harr2005
On Beauty by Zadie Smith2005
Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945 by Tony Judt2005
Prep by Curtis Sittenfeld2005
Saturday by Ian McEwan2005
Veronica by Mary Gaitskill2005
The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion2005
Absurdistan by Gary Shteyngart2006
The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel by Amy Hempel2006
The Emperor's Children by Claire Messud2006
Falling Through the Earth: A Memoir by Danielle Trussoni2006
The Lay of the Land by Richard Ford2006
The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 by Lawrence Wright2006
Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War by Nathaniel Philbrick2006
The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals by Michael Pollan2006
The Places In Between by Rory Stewart2006
Special Topics in Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessl2006
Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone by Rajiv Chandrasekaran2007
Little Heathens by Mildred Armstrong Kalish2007
Man Gone Down: A Novel by Michael Thomas2007
The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court by Jeffrey Toobin2007
The Ordeal of Elizabeth Marsh: A Woman in World History by Linda Colley2007
Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson2007
The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century by Alex Ross2007
The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolaño2007
Then We Came to the End by Joshua Ferris2007
Tree of Smoke by Denis Johnson2007
2666 by Roberto Bolaño2008
Dangerous Laughter: Thirteen Stories by Steven Millhauser2008
The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How The War on Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals by Jane Mayer2008
The Forever War by Dexter Filkins2008
A Mercy by Toni Morrison2008
Netherland by Joseph O'Neill2008
Nothing to Be Frightened Of by Julian Barnes2008
This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War (Vintage Civil War Library) by Drew Gilpin Faust2008
Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri2008
The World Is What It Is: The Authorized Biography of V. S. Naipaul by Patrick French2008
The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science by Richard Holmes2009
Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It by Maile Meloy2009
Chronic City by Jonathan Lethem2009
A Gate at the Stairs by Lorrie Moore2009
The Good Soldiers by David Finkel2009
Half Broke Horses by Jeannette Walls2009
Lit: A Memoir by Mary Karr2009
Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World by Liaquat Ahamed2009
Raymond Carver: A Writer's Life by Carol Sklenicka2009
A Short History of Women by Kate Walbert2009
Apollo's Angels : A History of Ballet by Jennifer Homans2010
Cleopatra: A Life by Stacy Schiff2010
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer by Siddhartha Mukherjee2010
Finishing the Hat by Stephen Sondheim2010
Freedom by Jonathan Franzen2010
The New Yorker stories by Ann Beattie2010
Room by Emma Donoghue2010
Selected Stories by William Trevor2010
A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan2010
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson2010
11/22/63 by Stephen King2011
Arguably: Essays by Christopher Hitchens by Christopher Hitchens2011
The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach2011
The Boy in the Moon: A Father's Search for His Disabled Son by Ian Brown2011
Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention by Manning Marable2011
Swamplandia! by Karen Russell2011
Ten Thousand Saints by Eleanor Henderson2011
Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman2011
The Tiger's Wife by Téa Obreht2011
A World on Fire: Britain's Crucial Role in the American Civil War by Amanda Foreman2011
Behind the Beautiful Forevers by Katherine Boo2012
Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel2012
Building Stories by Chris Ware2012
Far From the Tree: Parents, Children and the Search for Identity by Andrew Solomon2012
A Hologram for the King by Dave Eggers2012
NW by Zadie Smith2012
The Passage of Power by Robert A. Caro2012
The Patriarch: The Remarkable Life and Turbulent Times of Joseph P. Kennedy by David Nasaw2012
Why Does the World Exist?: An Existential Detective Story by Jim Holt2012
The Yellow Birds by Kevin Powers2012
Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Fiction, 2013
The Flamethrowers by Rachel Kushner Fiction, 2013
The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt Fiction, 2013
Life After Life by Kate Atkinson Fiction, 2013
Tenth of December: Stories by George SaundersFiction, 2013
After the Music Stopped: The Financial Crisis, the Response, and the Work Ahead by Alan S. BlinderNonfiction, 2013
Days of Fire: Bush and Cheney in the White House by Peter BakerNonfiction, 2013
Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital by Sheri Fink Nonfiction, 2013
The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914 by Christopher ClarkNonfiction, 2013
Wave by Sonali Deraniyagala Nonfiction, 2013
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr Fiction, 2014
Dept. of Speculation by Jenny OffillFiction, 2014
Euphoria by Lily King Fiction, 2014
Family Life by Akhil SharmaFiction, 2014
Redeployment by Phil KlayFiction, 2014
Can't We Talk about Something More Pleasant? A Memoir by Roz ChastNonfiction, 2014
On Immunity: An Inoculation by Eula BissNonfiction, 2014
Penelope Fitzgerald: A Life by Hermione Lee Nonfiction, 2014
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History by Elizabeth Kolbert Nonfiction, 2014
Thirteen Days in September: Carter, Begin, and Sadat at Camp by Lawrence WrightNonfiction, 2014
The Door by Magda SzabóFiction, 2015
A Manual for Cleaning Women: Selected Stories by Lucia BerlinFiction, 2015
Outline by Rachel CuskFiction, 2015
The Sellout by Paul BeattyFiction, 2015
The Story of the Lost Child by Elena Ferrante Fiction, 2015
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates Nonfiction, 2015
Empire of Cotton: A Global History by Sven BeckertNonfiction, 2015
H Is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald Nonfiction, 2015
The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World by Andrea WulfNonfiction, 2015
One of Us: The Story of Anders Breivik and the Massacre in Norway by Åsne Seierstad Nonfiction, 2015
The Association of Small Bombs by Karan MahajanFiction, 2016
The North Water by Ian McGuire Fiction, 2016
The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead Fiction, 2016
The Vegetarian by Han KangFiction, 2016
War and Turpentine by Stefan HertmansFiction, 2016
At the Existentialist Café: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails with Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Albert Camus, Martin Heidegger, Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Others by Sarah BakewellNonfiction, 2016
Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right by Jane Mayer Nonfiction, 2016
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond Nonfiction, 2016
In the Darkroom by Susan FaludiNonfiction, 2016
The Return: Fathers, Sons and the Land in Between by Hisham Matar Nonfiction, 2016
Autumn by Ali SmithFiction, 2017
Exit West by Mohsin HamidFiction, 2017
Pachinko by Min Jin LeeFiction, 2017
The Power by Naomi AldermanFiction, 2017
Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward 2017
The Evolution of Beauty: How Darwin's Forgotten Theory of Mate Choice Shapes the Animal World - and Us by Richard O. PrumNonfiction, 2017
Grant by Ron ChernowNonfiction, 2017
Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America by James Forman Jr.Nonfiction, 2017
Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder by Caroline Fraser Nonfiction, 2017
Priestdaddy: A Memoir by Patricia LockwoodNonfiction, 2017
Asymmetry by Lisa HallidayFiction, 2018
The Great Believers by Rebecca MakkaiFiction, 2018
Lullaby by Leïla SlimaniFiction, 2018
There There by Tommy OrangeFiction, 2018
Washington Black by Esi EdugyanFiction, 2018
American Prison: A Reporter's Undercover Journey into the Business of Punishment by Shane Bauer Nonfiction, 2018
Educated: A Memoir by Tara Westover Nonfiction, 2018
Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom by David W. Blight Nonfiction, 2018
How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence by Michael PollanNonfiction, 2018
Small Fry by Lisa Brennan-JobsNonfiction, 2018
Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration by Nicole R. Fleetwood 2020