Stickeen: The Story of a Dog

John Muir

★★★☆☆

Sourdough

Robin Sloan

★★★☆☆

Every Day is for the Thief

Teju Cole

★★★☆☆

Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking

Susan Cain

★★☆☆☆

The Beautiful Struggle: A Father, Two Sons, and an Unlikely Road to Manhood

Ta-Nehisi Coates

★★★★☆

Pig-Tail Days in Old Seattle

Sophie Frye Bass

★★★☆☆

The Fall

Albert Camus

★★☆☆☆

All I Did Was Ask: Conversations with Writers, Actors, Musicians, and Artists

Terry Gross

★★☆☆☆

The Quiet American

Graham Greene

★★★☆☆

The History of Rock ‘n’ Roll in Ten Songs

Greil Marcus

★★★☆☆

Eileen

Ottessa Moshfegh

★★★☆☆

Love Goes to Buildings on Fire: Five Years in New York That Changed Music Forever

Will Hermès

★★★☆☆

The Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin

Masha Gessen

★★★★☆

After Henry: Essays

Joan Didion

★★★★☆

Life in Code: A Personal History of Technology

Ellen Ullman

★★★★☆

The Last Love Song: A Biography of Joan Didion

Tracy Daugherty

★★★☆☆

The Invisible Bridge: The Fall of Nixon and the Rise of Reagan

Rick Perlstein

★★★★☆

Bring Up the Bodies

Hilary Mantel

★★★★★

The Memory of War: Poems 1968-1982

James Fenton

★★☆☆☆

Wolf Hall

Hilary Mantel

★★★★★

The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone

Olivia Laing

★★★★☆

The Autobiography of John Stuart Mill

John Stuart Mill

★★★☆☆

The Country Ahead of Us, The Country Behind

David Guterson

★★★☆☆

The Fire Next Time

James Baldwin

★★★★★

The Encyclopedia of Trouble and Spaciousness

Rebecca Solnit

★★★★☆

The Mirror Thief

Martin Seay

★★★★☆

Known and Strange Things: Essays

Teju Cole

★★★☆☆

Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World

Cal Newport

★★★☆☆

How to Catch a Russian Spy: The True Story of an American Civilian Turned Double Agent

Naveed Jamali

★★★☆☆

Joe Gould’s Teeth

Jill Lepore

★★★☆☆

Then We Came to the End

Joshua Ferris

★★★★☆

Open City

Teju Cole

★★★☆☆

Why Not Me?

Mindy Kaling

★★☆☆☆

Just Kids

Patti Smith

★★★★★

Here is New York

E.B. White

★★★☆☆

Spain in Our Hearts: Americans in the Spanish Civil War, 1936–1939

Adam Hochschild

★★★★☆

Hello, New York: An Illustrated Love Letter to the Five Boroughs

Julia Rothman

★★☆☆☆

The Bone Season

Samantha Shannon

★★☆☆☆

Citizen: An American Lyric

Claudia Rankine

★★★★☆

The Complacent Class: The Self-Defeating Quest for the American Dream

Tyler Cowen

★★★★☆

Wm & H’ry: Literature, Love, and the Letters between William & Henry James

J.C. Hallman

★★★☆☆

Lincoln in the Bardo

George Saunders

★★★★★

The Daily Show (The Book): An Oral History

Chris Smith

★★★☆☆

The Last Interview and Other Conversations

James Baldwin

★★★☆☆

Offshore

Penelope Fitzgerald

★★★☆☆

Against Everything: Essays

Mark Greif

★★★★☆

Your Heart is a Muscle the Size of a Fist

Sunil Yapa

★★★☆☆

Notes of a Native Son

James Baldwin

★★★★☆

Very Recent History: An Entirely Factual Account of a Year (c. AD 2009) in a Large City

Choire Sicha

★★★☆☆

Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl

Carrie Brownstein

★★★☆☆

The Old in Their Knowing

Robert Bringhurst

★★★☆☆

JavaScript for Web Designers

Mat Marquis

★★★☆☆