The Dark Forest

Cixin Liu (trans. Joel Martinsen)

★★★★★

The Three-Body Problem

Cixin Liu (trans. Ken Liu)

★★★★★

Extinctions

Josephine Wilson

★★☆☆☆

lucky wreck

Ada Limón

★★★☆☆

Obata’s Yosemite: Art and Letters of Obata from His Trip to the High Sierra in 1927

Chiura Obata

★★★★★

Normal People

Sally Rooney

★★★★☆

Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion

Jia Tolentino

★★★★☆

Middlemarch, a Study of Provincial Life

George Eliot

★★★★★

Seattle Walk Report: An Illustrated Walking Tour through 23 Seattle Neighborhoods

Susanna Ryan

★★★★★

My Private Property

Mary Ruefle

★★★☆☆

Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley

Antonio Garcia Martinez

★☆☆☆☆

Creative Selection: Inside Apple’s Design Process During the Golden Age of Steve Jobs

Ken Kocienda

★★★★☆

The Raven Tower

Ann Leckie

★★★★☆

A Model World and Other Stories

Michael Chabon

★★☆☆☆

Six Encounters with Lincoln: A President Confronts Democracy and its Demons

Elizabeth Brown Pryor

★★★☆☆

Akira, Vol. 1

Katsuhiro Otomo

★★★☆☆

Laying the Foundations: A Book about Design Systems

Andrew Couldwell

★★★☆☆

Seattle, Now and Then, Vol. 1

Paul Dorpat

★★★★☆

Seattleness: A Cultural Atlas

Tera Hatfield, Jenny Kempson, & Natalie Ross

★★☆☆☆

Inclusive Components: Accessible Web Interfaces, Piece by Piece

Heydon Pickering

★★★☆☆

Makeshift Metropolis: Ideas About Cities

Witold Rybczynski

★★★☆☆

Hild

Nicola Griffith

★★★☆☆

Sea Stories: My Life in Special Operations

William McRaven

★★★☆☆

The Pigeon Tunnel: Stories from My Life

John Le Carré

★★★☆☆

At the Existentialist Café: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails

Sarah Bakewell

★★★★☆

The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York

Robert Caro

★★★★★

Testimony

Robbie Robertson

★★★☆☆

The Lonesome Bodybuilder: Stories

Yukiko Motoya [trans. Asa Yoneda]

★★★★☆

Small Fry: A Memoir

Lisa Brennan-Jobs

★★★★★

How to Make a Cup of Coffee

Katsuji Daibo (trans. Michael Emmerich)

★★★★★

The Emperor’s Children

Claire Messud

★★☆☆☆

American Ulysses: A Life of Ulysses S. Grant

Ronald C. White Jr.

★★★★☆

Convenience Store Woman

Sayaka Murata (trans. Ginny Tapley Takemori)

★★★★☆

South and West: From a Notebook

Joan Didion

★★★☆☆

Some Trick: Thirteen Stories

Helen DeWitt

★★★☆☆

To the Back of Beyond

Peter Stamm (trans. Michael Hofmann)

★★★☆☆

How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy

Jenny Odell

★★★★★

Balloon Pop Outlaw Black

Patricia Lockwood

★★☆☆☆

A Wild Sheep Chase

Haruki Murakami

★★★☆☆

Number9Dream

David Mitchell

★★★☆☆

Billie Holiday

José Muñoz and Carlos Sampayo

★☆☆☆☆

Working: Researching, Interviewing, Writing

Robert Caro

★★★★★

Where’d You Go, Bernadette?

Maria Semple

★★☆☆☆

Shadow Country

Peter Matthiessen

★★★★☆

Pastoralia

George Saunders

★★★★★

Kudos

Rachel Cusk

★★★☆☆

Inventing Japan: 1853–1964

Ian Buruma

★★★☆☆

Postwar: A History of Europe since 1945

Tony Judt

★★★☆☆

Home Buying for Dummies

Eric Tyson and Ray Brown

★★★☆☆

The Age of Innocence

Edith Wharton

★★★★☆

Long Life: Essays and Other Writings

Mary Oliver

★★★☆☆

The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O.

Neal Stephenson and Nicole Galland

★★★☆☆

Persons and Places: The Background of My Life

George Santayana

★★☆☆☆