Subprime Attention Crisis: Advertising and the Time Bomb at the Heart of the Internet

Tim Hwang

★★★★☆

Seeing with Fresh Eyes: Meaning Space Data Truth

Edward Tufte

★★☆☆☆

Never Let Me Go

Kazuo Ishiguro

★★★☆☆

Giovanni’s Room

James Baldwin

★★★☆☆

Nothing to See Here

Kevin Wilson

★★★☆☆

What It Takes: The Way to the White House

Richard Ben Cramer

★★★★☆

Dissident Gardens

Jonathan Lethem

★★★☆☆

Mindful Tech: How to Bring Balance to our Digital Lives

David M. Levy

★★★☆☆

Ragtime

E. L. Doctorow

★★★☆☆

The Name of the Wind

Patrick Rothfuss

★★★★★

Keep Going: 10 Ways to Stay Creative in Good Times and Bad

Austin Kleon

★★★☆☆

The Road to Concord: How Four Stolen Cannon Ignited the Revolutionary War

J. L. Bell

★★★☆☆

How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us about Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence

Michael Pollan

★★★☆☆

The Abundance: Narrative Essays Old and New

Annie Dillard

★★★★☆

The Wild God of the World: An Anthology of Robinson Jeffers

Robinson Jeffers

★★★☆☆

Kissa by Kissa

Craig Mod

★★★★☆

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

James Joyce

★★☆☆☆

Undermajordomo Minor

Patrick DeWitt

★★★☆☆

The Managed Heart: Commercialization of Human Feeling

Arlie Russell Hochschild

★★★★☆

We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy

Ta-Nehisi Coates

★★★★☆

Nicely Said: Writing for the Web with Style and Purpose

Nicole Fenton & Kate Kiefer Lee

★★★★☆

Let it Be (33 ⅓)

Colin Meloy

★★★☆☆

Pattern Recognition

William Gibson

★★★★☆

William James in the Maelstrom of American Modernism

Robert D. Richardson

★★★★☆

The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail – But Some Don’t

Nate Silver

★★★☆☆

A Visit from the Goon Squad

Jennifer Egan

★★★☆☆

How to Succeed in Business Without Really Crying: Lessons from a Life in Comedy

Carol Leifer

★★☆☆☆

A Continuous Harmony: Essays Cultural and Agricultural

Wendell Berry

★★☆☆☆

7 Steps to a Pain-Free Life: How to Rapidly Relieve Back, Neck, and Shoulder Pain

Robin McKenzie & Craig Kubey

★★★☆☆

The Last Thing He Wanted

Joan Didion

★★☆☆☆

The Odyssey [trans. Emily Wilson]

Homer

★★★★☆

Circe

Madeline Miller

★★★★★

My Year of Rest and Relaxation

Ottessa Moshfegh

★★★☆☆

Second Foundation

Isaac Asimov

★★☆☆☆

Foundation and Empire

Isaac Asimov

★★☆☆☆

Foundation

Isaac Asimov

★★★☆☆

The Shipping News

Annie Proulx

★★★★☆

No Time to Spare: Thinking About What Matters

Ursula K. Le Guin

★★★☆☆

Coventry: Essays

Rachel Cusk

★★★★☆

Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities

Rebecca Solnit

★★★☆☆

Out Stealing Horses

Per Petterson

★★★★☆

Uncanny Valley: A Memoir

Anna Wiener

★★★★★

The Bells of Old Tokyo: Meditations on Time and a City

Anna Sherman

★★★★★

Our Man in Havana

Graham Greene

★★☆☆☆

When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice

Terry Tempest Williams

★★★☆☆

My Life in Print

Emmett Watson

★★☆☆☆

Killing Commendatore

Haruki Murakami

★★★☆☆

Garments Against Women

Anne Boyer

★★★☆☆

The Mastermind: Drugs. Empire. Murder. Betrayal.

Evan Ratliff

★★★☆☆

The Story of America: Essays on Origins

Jill Lepore

★★★★☆

Saga: Compendium One

Brian K. Vaughan & Fiona Staples

★★★★☆

Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup

John Carreyrou

★★★☆☆

Year of the Monkey

Patti Smith

★★★☆☆

Fall, or Dodge in Hell

Neal Stephenson

★★★☆☆

British Ice

Owen D. Pomery

★★☆☆☆

Infinite Detail

Tim Maughan

★★★☆☆

The Little Book of Common Sense Investing

John C. Bogle

★★★☆☆

Waterway: The Story of Seattle’s Locks and Ship Canal

David B. Williams and Jennifer Ott

★★★☆☆

The Emissary

Yoko Tawada

★★★☆☆

So, Anyway…

John Cleese

★★☆☆☆

How Your House Works: A Visual Guide to Understanding and Maintaining Your Home

Charlie Wing

★★★☆☆

Pops: Fatherhood in Pieces

Michael Chabon

★★★☆☆

Lafayette in the Somewhat United States

Sarah Vowell

★★★★☆

Death’s End

Cixin Liu

★★★☆☆