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Favorites
  1. Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro
  2. A Stranger in This World, Kevin Canty
  3. Annihilation, Jeff VanderMeer
  4. Cancer Ward, Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
  5. Old School, Tobias Wolff
  6. Facing the Music, Larry Brown
  7. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Hunter S. Thompson
  8. Post Office, Charles Bukowski
  9. The Goldfinch, Donna Tartt
  10. The Chosen, Chaim Potok

Classical
  1. The Oresteia, Aeschylus
  2. Prometheus Bound, Aeschylus
  3. Summa Theologiae, Thomas Aquinas
  4. Birds, Aristophanes
  5. The Clouds, Aristophanes
  6. Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle
  7. Physics, Aristotle
  8. Metaphysics, Aristotle
  9. On the Soul, Aristotle
  10. Poetics, Aristotle
  11. Politics, Aristotle
  12. Meditations, Marcus Aurelius
  13. The Canterbury Tales, Geoffrey Chaucer
  14. Discourses, Epictetus
  15. The Bacchae, Euripides
  16. Medea, Euripides
  17. The Histories, Herodotus
  18. The Iliad, Homer
  19. The Odyssey, Homer
  20. On the Nature of Things, Titus Lucretius Carus
  21. The Guide of the Perplexed, Moses Maimonides
  22. Paradise Lost, John Milton
  23. Apology, Plato
  24. Crito, Plato
  25. Gorgias, Plato
  26. Meno, Plato
  27. Phaedo, Plato
  28. Phaedrus, Plato
  29. The Republic, Plato
  30. The Sophist, Plato
  31. Timaeus, Plato
  32. Symposium, Plato
  33. Theaetetus, Plato
  34. Enneads, Plotinus
  35. Confessions, St. Augustine
  36. Romeo and Juliet, William Shakespeare
  37. Henry V, William Shakespeare
  38. Hamlet, William Shakespeare
  39. Othello, William Shakespeare
  40. King Lear, William Shakespeare
  41. Macbeth, William Shakespeare
  42. The Taming of the Shrew, William Shakespeare
  43. Much Ado About Nothing, William Shakespeare
  44. As You Like It, William Shakespeare
  45. Ajax, Sophocles
  46. Oedipus the King, Sophocles
  47. Oedipus at Kolonos, Sophocles
  48. Philoktetes, Sophocles
  49. Antigone, Sophocles
  50. Annals of Imperial Rome, Tacitus
  51. The Peloponnesian War, Thucydides
  52. Beowulf, Unknown
  53. The Aeneid, Virgil

Fiction
  1. Watership Down, Richard Adams
  2. The Outlander, Gil Adamson
  3. Indian Killer, Sherman Alexie
  4. The Evil B. B. Chow and Other Stories, Steve Almond
  5. My Life in Heavy Metal, Steve Almond
  6. Candyfreak: A Journey through the Chocolate Underbelly of America, Steve Almond
  7. Perhaps Women, Sherwood Anderson
  8. Nemesis, Isaac Asimov
  9. The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood
  10. Beware of God, Shalom Auslander
  11. Foreskin's Lament, Shalom Auslander
  12. Jonathan Livingston Seagull, Richard Bach
  13. Foregone, Russell Banks
  14. A Permanent Member of the Family, Russell Banks
  15. Lost Memory of Skin, Russell Banks
  16. The Sweet Hereafter, Russell Banks
  17. Cloudsplitter, Russell Banks
  18. The Reserve, Russell Banks
  19. Continental Drift, Russell Banks
  20. Trailer Park, Russell Banks
  21. Rule of the Bone, Russell Banks
  22. Affliction, Russell Banks
  23. The Hermit's Story, Rick Bass
  24. Big Swiss, Jen Beagin
  25. Eon, Greg Bear
  26. The Doctor's House, Ann Beattie
  27. Henderson the Rain King, Saul Bellow
  28. More Die of Heartbreak, Saul Bellow
  29. The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake, Aimee Bender
  30. Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, John Berendt
  31. Civil War Stories, Ambrose Bierce
  32. A Man for All Seasons, Robert Bolt
  33. The Wettest County in the World (also published as Lawless), Matt Bondurant
  34. Drop City, T. Coraghessan Boyle
  35. The Martian Chronicles, Ray Douglas Bradbury
  36. Fahrenheit 451, Ray Douglas Bradbury
  37. The Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown
  38. A Miracle of Catfish, Larry Brown
  39. Big Bad Love, Larry Brown
  40. Billy Ray's Farm, Larry Brown
  41. Dirty Work, Larry Brown
  42. Facing the Music, Larry Brown
  43. Father and Son, Larry Brown
  44. Fay, Larry Brown
  45. Joe, Larry Brown
  46. The Good Earth, Pearl S. Buck
  47. Factotum, Charles Bukowski
  48. Post Office, Charles Bukowski
  49. Ham on Rye, Charles Bukowski
  50. Women, Charles Bukowski
  51. The Captain, Charles Bukowski
  52. The Most Beautiful Woman in Town: Stories, Charles Bukowski
  53. A Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess
  54. Naked Lunch, William S. Burroughs
  55. Junkie, William S. Burroughs
  56. Queer, William S. Burroughs
  57. Cities of the Red Night, William S. Burroughs
  58. Erewhon, Samuel Butler
  59. Tobacco Road, Erskine Caldwell
  60. The Stranger, Albert Camus
  61. The Underworld, Kevin Canty
  62. Where the Money Went: Stories, Kevin Canty
  63. Into the Great Wide Open, Kevin Canty
  64. Nine Below Zero, Kevin Canty
  65. Honeymoon, Kevin Canty
  66. Winslow in Love, Kevin Canty
  67. A Stranger in this World: Stories, Kevin Canty
  68. Apaches, Lorenzo Carcaterra
  69. Gangster, Lorenzo Carcaterra
  70. Sleepers, Lorenzo Carcaterra
  71. The Signal, Ron Carlson
  72. Madonna Red, James Carroll
  73. The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman, Angela Carter
  74. What We Talk about When We Talk about Love: Stories, Raymond Carver
  75. Where I'm Calling From, Raymond Carver
  76. Fires, Raymond Carver
  77. Spartina, John Casey
  78. My Antonia, Willa Cather
  79. Falconer, John Cheever
  80. The Complete Short Novels, Anton Chekhov
  81. Ward No. 6 and Other Stories, 1892-1895, Anton Chekhov
  82. The Alchemist, Paul Coelho
  83. Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad
  84. The Secret Sharer, Joseph Conrad
  85. The Red Badge of Courage, Stephen Crane
  86. The Complete Poems of Stephen Crane, Stephen Crane
  87. A Feast of Snakes, Harry Crews
  88. Florida Frenzy: Essays, Harry Crews
  89. The Mulching of America, Harry Crews
  90. The Sleepy Hollow Family Almanac, Kris D'Agostino
  91. The Farming of Bones, Edwidge Danticat
  92. White Noise, Don DeLillo
  93. Paris Trout, Pete Dexter
  94. Drown: Stories, Junot Diaz
  95. This is How You Lose Her, Junot Diaz
  96. City of God, E. L. Doctorow
  97. All the Light We Cannot See, Anthony Doerr
  98. The Shell Collector: Stories, Anthony Doerr
  99. Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  100. My Only Sunshine, Lou Dischler
  101. Adultery and Other Choices, Andre Dubus
  102. Selected Stories, Andre Dubus
  103. Dancing After Hours: Stories, Andre Dubus
  104. The Cage Keeper and Other Stories, Andre Dubus
  105. So Much a Part of You, Polly Dugan
  106. The Lover, Marguerite Duras
  107. The French Broad, Wilma Dykeman
  108. Walking Across Egypt, Clyde Edgerton
  109. A Visit from the Goon Squad, Jennifer Egan
  110. What is the What, Dave Eggers
  111. The Collected Stories of Deborah Eisenberg, Deborah Eisenberg
  112. Silas Marner, George Eliot
  113. Selected Poems, T. S. Eliot
  114. Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison
  115. Ask the Dust, John Fante
  116. April Morning, Howard Fast
  117. The Sound and the Fury, William Cuthbert Faulkner
  118. The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
  119. Gone Girl, Gillian Flynn
  120. Sharp Objects, Gillian Flynn
  121. The Ticking Is the Bomb, Nick Flynn
  122. Everything Is Illuminated, Jonathan Safran Foer
  123. Independence Day, Richard Ford
  124. The Sportswriter, Richard Ford
  125. Women with Men, Richard Ford
  126. Wildlife, Richard Ford
  127. Rock Springs, Richard Ford
  128. Canada, Richard Ford
  129. Palo Alto, James Franco
  130. Cold Mountain, Charles Frazier
  131. Nightwoods, Charles Frazier
  132. The O. Henry Prize Stories, 2003, Laura Furman (ed.)
  133. Food: A Love Story, Jim Gaffigan
  134. Bad Behavior, Mary Gaitskill
  135. The Mare, Mary Gaitskill
  136. The Tesseract, Alex Garland
  137. The Beach, Alex Garland
  138. Memoirs of a Geisha, Arthur Golden
  139. Strangers to Temptation, Scott Gould
  140. Swimming to Cambodia, Spalding Gray
  141. Monster in a Box, Spalding Gray
  142. Lord of the Flies, William Golding
  143. Autobiography of a Face, Lucy Grealy
  144. The Secret River, Kate Grenville
  145. The Idea of Perfection, Kate Grenville
  146. The Lieutenant, Kate Grenville
  147. Black Like Me, John Howard Griffin
  148. Follow Me: Stories, Paul Griner
  149. New Stories from the South: 2006, Allan Gurganus (ed.)
  150. Bound for Glory, Woody Guthrie
  151. A Real Good War, Sam Halpert
  152. Hunger, Knut Hamsun
  153. Airships, Barry Hannah
  154. Legends of the Fall, Jim Harrison
  155. The Beast God Forgot to Invent, Jim Harrison
  156. The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne
  157. Catch-22, Joseph Heller
  158. Green Hills of Africa, Ernest Hemingway
  159. The Old Man and the Sea, Ernest Hemingway
  160. For Whom the Bell Tolls, Ernest Hemingway
  161. A Farewell to Arms, Ernest Hemingway
  162. The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel, Amy Hempel
  163. Stranger in a Strange Land, Robert A. Heinlein
  164. Lost Horizon, James Hilton
  165. Smilla's Sense of Snow, Peter Hoeg
  166. High Fidelity, Nick Hornby
  167. Fireman's Fair, Josephine Humphreys
  168. Nowhere Else on Earth, Josephine Humphreys
  169. Rich in Love, Josephine Humphreys
  170. Dreams of Sleep, Josephine Humphreys
  171. Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
  172. A Prayer for Owen Meany, John Irving
  173. Last Night at Twisted River, John Irving
  174. Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro
  175. A Pale View of Hills, Kazuo Ishiguro
  176. The Buried Giant, Kazuo Ishiguro
  177. The Lottery and other Stories, Shirley Jackson
  178. Jesus' Son, Denis Johnson
  179. Tree of Smoke, Denis Johnson
  180. Dubliners, James Joyce
  181. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, James Joyce
  182. Pu-239: a Novella and Stories, Ken Kalfus
  183. Love Me, Garrison Keillor
  184. The Book of Guys: Stories, Garrison Keillor
  185. Legs, William Kennedy
  186. Demon Box, Ken Kesey
  187. Sometimes a Great Notion, Ken Kesey
  188. Flowers for Algernon, Daniel Keyes
  189. Captains Courageous, Rudyard Kipling
  190. Redeployment, Phil Klay
  191. My Struggle, Book 1, Karl Ove Knausgaard
  192. A Separate Peace, John Knowles
  193. Bird by Bird, Anne Lamott
  194. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Stieg Larsson
  195. Aaron's Rod, D. H. Lawrence
  196. Lady Chatterley's Lover, D. H. Lawrence
  197. Independent People, Halldor Laxness
  198. The Fish Can Sing, Halldor Laxness
  199. Disquiet, Julia Leigh
  200. A Wrinkle in Time, Madeleine L'Engle
  201. A Wind in the Door, Madeleine L'Engle
  202. Survival in Auschwitz, Primo Levi
  203. The Screwtape Letters, C. S. Lewis
  204. Main Street, Sinclair Lewis
  205. The Job, Sinclair Lewis
  206. White Fang, Jack London
  207. The Call of the Wild, Jack London
  208. Evangeline, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
  209. The Falling Boy, David Long
  210. Island, Alistair MacLeod
  211. God's Grace, Bernard Malamud
  212. The Assistant, Bernard Malamud
  213. Pictures of Fidelman, Bernard Malamud
  214. The Tenants, Bernard Malamud
  215. The Magic Barrel: Stories, Bernard Malamud
  216. The Fixer, Bernard Malamud
  217. The Natural, Bernard Malamud
  218. The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher, Hilary Mantel
  219. Matterhorn, Karl Marlantes
  220. One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  221. Life of Pi, Yann Martel
  222. In Paradise, Peter Matthiessen
  223. In the Spirit of Crazy Horse, Peter Matthiessen
  224. The Orchard Keeper, Cormac McCarthy
  225. No Country for Old Men, Cormac McCarthy
  226. The Road, Cormac McCarthy
  227. Outer Dark, Cormac McCarthy
  228. The Crossing, Cormac McCarthy
  229. Blood Meridian, Cormac McCarthy
  230. All the Pretty Horses, Cormac McCarthy
  231. The Passenger, Cormac McCarthy
  232. Stella Maris, Cormac McCarthy
  233. The Ballad of the Sad Cafe, Carson McCullers
  234. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, Carson McCullers
  235. Charming Billy, Alice McDermott
  236. On Chesil Beach, Ian McEwan
  237. Tularosa, Michael McGarrity
  238. Lake Overturn, Vestal McIntyre
  239. Lonesome Dove, Larry McMurtry
  240. The Fear of Everything: Stories, John McNally
  241. Yaqui Delgado Wants to Kick Your Ass, Meg Medina
  242. Moby Dick, Herman Melville
  243. The Best American Short Stories, 2004, Lorrie Moore (ed.)
  244. Travelers Rest, Keith Lee Morris
  245. Call it What You Want, Keith Lee Morris
  246. The Dart League King, Keith Lee Morris
  247. The Greyhound God, Keith Lee Morris
  248. The Best Seats in the House and Other Stories, Keith Lee Morris
  249. The Best American Short Stories, 2003, Walter Mosley (ed.)
  250. Half a Life, V. S. Naipaul
  251. Sweat, Lynn Nottage
  252. Black Elk Speaks, as told through John G. Neihardt
  253. Bone, Fae Myenne Ng
  254. The Refugees, Viet Thanh Nguyen
  255. The Sympathizer, Viet Thanh Nguyen
  256. Flannery O'Connor the Complete Stories, Flannery O'Connor
  257. Master and Commander, Patrick O'Brian
  258. Tomcat in Love, Tim O'Brien
  259. Northern Lights, Tim O'Brien
  260. Going After Cacciato, Tim O'Brien
  261. The Nuclear Age, Tim O'Brien
  262. In the Lake of the Woods, Tim O'Brien
  263. The Things They Carried, Tim O'Brien
  264. July, July, Tim O'Brien
  265. The English Patient, Michael Onadaatje
  266. Burmese Days, George Orwell
  267. Animal Farm, George Orwell
  268. Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell
  269. Fight Club, Chuck Palahniuk
  270. Choke, Chuck Palahniuk
  271. Bel Canto, Ann Patchett
  272. Truth and Beauty, Ann Patchett
  273. Refresh, Refresh, Benjamin Percy
  274. The Wilding, Benjamin Percy
  275. The Second Coming, Walker Percy
  276. The Moviegoer, Walker Percy
  277. Bad Haircut: Stories, Tom Perrotta
  278. Joe College, Tom Perrotta
  279. Little Children, Tom Perrotta
  280. The Abstinence Teacher, Tom Perrotta
  281. Election, Tom Perrotta
  282. The Leftovers, Tom Perrotta
  283. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Robert M. Pirsig
  284. Knockemstiff, Donald Ray Pollock
  285. My Name is Asher Lev, Chaim Potok
  286. The Gift of Asher Lev, Chaim Potok
  287. The Chosen, Chaim Potok
  288. The Promise, Chaim Potok
  289. The Book of Lights, Chaim Potok
  290. Accordion Crimes, E. Annie Proulx
  291. The Shipping News, E. Annie Proulx
  292. That Old Ace in the Hole, E. Annie Proulx
  293. The Fountainhead, Ayn Rand
  294. Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand
  295. The Cove, Ron Rash
  296. Serena, Ron Rash
  297. One Foot in Eden, Ron Rash
  298. Saints at the River, Ron Rash
  299. The World Made Straight, Ron Rash
  300. Casualties: Stories, Ron Rash
  301. New Stories from the South: 2005, Shannon Ravenel (ed.)
  302. New Stories from the South: 2004, Shannon Ravenel (ed.)
  303. New Stories from the South: 2003, Shannon Ravenel (ed.)
  304. New Stories from the South: 2001, Shannon Ravenel (ed.)
  305. New Stories from the South: 1995, Shannon Ravenel (ed.)
  306. Rain Dragon, Jon Raymond
  307. Livability, Jon Raymond
  308. Cannibals in Love, Mike Roberts
  309. Red Hills and Cotton: An Upcountry Memory, Ben Robertson
  310. The Mathematician's Shiva, Stuart Rojstaczer
  311. American Pastoral, Philip Roth
  312. The Counterlife, Philip Roth
  313. St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves, Karen Russell
  314. Vampires in the Lemon Grove, Karen Russell
  315. I Am Sorry to Think I Have Raised a Timid Son, Kent Russell
  316. Chances Are, Richard Russo
  317. The Destiny Thief, Richard Russo
  318. That Old Cape Magic, Richard Russo
  319. Bridge of Sighs, Richard Russo
  320. Straight Man, Richard Russo
  321. Mohawk, Richard Russo
  322. The Whore's Child and Other Stories, Richard Russo
  323. Empire Falls, Richard Russo
  324. The Risk Pool, Richard Russo
  325. Nobody's Fool, Richard Russo
  326. Everybody's Fool, Richard Russo
  327. Elsewhere: A Memoir, Richard Russo
  328. Trajectory, Richard Russo
  329. Nine Stories, J. D. Salinger
  330. The Catcher in the Rye, J. D. Salinger
  331. Tenth of December, George Saunders
  332. Happy-Go-Lucky, David Sedaris
  333. The Best of Me, David Sedaris
  334. Calypso, David Sedaris
  335. Theft by Finding, David Sedaris
  336. Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls, David Sedaris
  337. Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk, David Sedaris
  338. Holidays on Ice, David Sedaris
  339. When You Are Engulged in Flames, David Sedaris
  340. Me Talk Pretty One Day, David Sedaris
  341. Barrel Fever, David Sedaris
  342. Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim, David Sedaris
  343. Naked, David Sedaris
  344. Children Playing Before a Statue of Hercules, David Sedaris, ed.
  345. The Killer Angels, Michael Shaara
  346. To the Last Man, Jeff Shaara
  347. The Last Full Measure, Jeff Shaara
  348. Love and Hydrogen: New and Selected Stories, Jim Shepard
  349. Project X, Jim Shepard
  350. Like You'd Understand, Anyway, Jim Shepard
  351. You Think That's Bad, Jim Shepard
  352. Larry's Party, Carol Shields
  353. Unless, Carol Shields
  354. Stray Decorum, George Singleton
  355. Novel: A Novel, George Singleton
  356. The Baptism of Billy Bean: A Novel, Roger Alan Skipper
  357. Gorky Park, Martin Cruz Smith
  358. Cancer Ward, Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
  359. The First Circle, Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
  360. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
  361. "We Never Make Mistakes": Two Short Novels, Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
    • An Incident at Krechetovka Station,
    • Matryona's House,
  362. Dear John, Nicholas Sparks
  363. The Big Rock Candy Mountain, Wallace Stegner
  364. Angle of Repose, Wallace Stegner
  365. Working Days, the Journals of `The Grapes of Wrath', 1938-1941, John Steinbeck
  366. Travels with Charley, John Steinbeck
  367. The Long Valley, John Steinbeck
  368. Cannery Row, John Steinbeck
  369. The Moon is Down, John Steinbeck
  370. To a God Unknown, John Steinbeck
  371. The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck
  372. Dog Soldiers, Robert Stone
  373. Bear and His Daughter, Robert Stone
  374. The Door, Magda Szabo
  375. The Goldfinch, Donna Tartt
  376. The Secret History, Donna Tartt
  377. The Little Friend, Donna Tartt
  378. The Mosquito Coast, Paul Theroux
  379. Generation of Swine, Hunter S. Thompson
  380. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Hunter S. Thompson
  381. The Hobbit, J. R. R. Tolkien
  382. The Lord of the Rings, J. R. R. Tolkien
  383. The Silmarillion, J. R. R. Tolkien
  384. Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
  385. Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned, Wells Tower
  386. Dragonfish, Vu Tran
  387. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Mark Twain
  388. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain
  389. Pudd'nhead Wilson, Mark Twain
  390. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Mark Twain
  391. Annihilation, Jeff VanderMeer
  392. Authority, Jeff VanderMeer
  393. Acceptance, Jeff VanderMeer
  394. Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea, Jules Verne
  395. Cat's Cradle, Kurt Vonnegut
  396. Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut
  397. God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater, Kurt Vonnegut
  398. Night Rider, Robert Penn Warren
  399. The War of the Worlds, H. G. Wells
  400. The First Men in the Moon, H. G. Wells
  401. The Robber Bridegroom, Eudora Welty
  402. The Ponder Heart, Eudora Welty
  403. The Bridge of San Luis Rey, Thornton Wilder
  404. Right Ho, Jeves, P. G. Wodehouse
  405. A Man in Full, Tom Wolfe
  406. The Bonfire of the Vanities, Tom Wolfe
  407. The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, Tom Wolfe
  408. From Bauhaus to Our House, Tom Wolfe
  409. The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby, Tom Wolfe
  410. In Pharaoh's Army, Tobias Wolff
  411. The Barracks Thief, Tobias Wolff
  412. Old School, Tobias Wolff
  413. The Night in Question: Stories, Tobias Wolff
  414. In the Garden of the North American Martyrs: Stories, Tobias Wolff
  415. The Sun is Also a Star, Nicola Yoon
  416. The Last Kabbalist of Lisbon, Richard Zimler
  417. The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds, Paul Zindel

Non-Fiction (very incomplete list)
  1. Desert Solitaire, Edward Abbey
  2. A Little Devil in America, Hanif Abdurraqib
  3. Animal Joy, Nuar Alsadir
  4. The Elephant Whisperer, Lawrence Anthony
  5. Ogallala Blue, William Ashworth
  6. Beyond Control, James F. Barnett, Jr.
  7. Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How it Changed America, John M. Barry
  8. Mohawk Blood, Michael Baughman
  9. Eccentric Orbits: The Iridium Story, John Bloom
  10. The Water Hustlers, Robert H. Boyle, John Graves, T. H. Watkins
  11. Nomadland, Jessica Bruder
  12. At Home: A Short History of Private Life, Bill Bryson
  13. A Short History of Nearly Everything, Bill Bryson
  14. Notes from a Small Island, Bill Bryson
  15. A Walk in the Woods, Bill Bryson
  16. The Road to Little Dribbling, Bill Bryson
  17. The Body, Bill Bryson
  18. Bicycle Diaries, David Byrne
  19. The Shallows, Nicholas Carr
  20. The Secret Knowledge of Water, Craig Childs
  21. Almost Midnight, Michael W. Cuneo
  22. Cherokee Place Names, John Currahee
  23. Daily Rituals, Mason Currey
  24. The Years, Annie Ernaux
  25. A Woman's Story, Annie Ernaux
  26. The Big Thirst, Charles Fishman
  27. No Time Like the Future, Michael J. Fox
  28. On the Rez, Ian Frazier
  29. Great Plains, Ian Frazier
  30. Stasiland, Anna Funder
  31. Better, Atul Gawande
  32. Killers of the Flower Moon, David Grann
  33. Empire of the Summer Moon, S. C. Gwynne
  34. Sleepless Nights, Elizabeth Hardwick
  35. Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments, Saidiya Hartman
  36. The Island of Lost Maps, Miles Harvey
  37. A Year in the Maine Woods, Bernd Heinrich
  38. A Naturalist at Large, Bernd Heinrich
  39. Mind of the Raven, Bernd Heinrich
  40. King Leopold's Ghost, Adam Hochschild
  41. Odd Type Writers, Celia Blue Johnson
  42. The Ten Most Beautiful Experiments, George Johnson
  43. Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln, Doris Kearns Goodwin
  44. Hearing Homer's Song, Robert Kaniegel
  45. The Imitation of Christ, Thomas à Kempis
  46. The Soul of a New Machine, Tracy Kidder
  47. Mountains Beyond Mountains, Tracy Kidder
  48. Cod, Mark Kurlansky
  49. Salt, Mark Kurlansky
  50. Scale Invariance, Annick Lesne & Michel Lagües
  51. The Girl with Seven Names, Hyeonseo Lee
  52. Freakonomics, Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
  53. The Winters of the World, Edited by Brian S. John
  54. Lord of Publishing: A Memoir, Sterling Lord
  55. H is for Hawk, Helen Macdonald
  56. The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Alone, 1932-1940, William Manchester
  57. 1491, Charles C. Mann
  58. 1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created, Charles C. Mann
  59. Born to Run, Christopher McDougall
  60. The Control of Nature, John McPhee
  61. The Pine Barrens, John McPhee
  62. The Curve of Binding Enery, John McPhee
  63. Deep Work, Cal Newport
  64. Lanterns on the Levee, William Alexander Percy
  65. Hamlet's Blackberry, William Powers
  66. A Deadly Wandering, Matt Richtel
  67. The Pine Barrens of New Jersey, Karen F. Riley
  68. Red Hills and Cotton, Ben Robertson
  69. Cherokee Voices: Early Accounts of Cherokee Life in the East, Vicki Rozema
  70. Wicked River, Lee Sandlin
  71. The Distancers, Lee Sandlin
  72. The Intellectual Life, A. G. Sertillanges
  73. Enriching the Earth: Fritz Haber, Carl Bosch and the Transformation of World Food Production, Vaclav Smil
  74. The Monster of Florence, Douglas Preston and Mario Spezi
  75. Still Waters: The Secret World of Lakes, Curt Stager
  76. The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable, Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  77. Hillbilly Elegy, J. D. Vance
  78. How Old is the Universe?, David A. Weintraub
  79. The Goshawk, T. H. White
  80. Outposts, Simon Winchester
  81. The Professor and the Madman, Simon Winchester
  82. On Writing Well, William Zinsser