Fiction:

1.  Exit West, Mohsin Hamid
2. Go, Went, Gone, Jenny Erpenbeck
3. The Friend, Sigrid Nunez
4. Asymmetry, Lisa Halliday
5. The Beginning of the Spring, Penelope Fitzgerald
6. Off Season, James Sturm
7. Sabrina, Nick Drnaso
8. Look at Me, Anita Brookner
9. The River, Peter Heller
10. The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry, Gabrielle Zevin
11. Lords of St. Thomas, Jackson Ellis
12. The Haunting of Hill House, Shirley Jackson
13. Henry, Himself, Stuart O’Nan
14. The Bobcat, Katherine Forbes Riley
15. The Ghost Clause, Howard Norman
16. The Girl From Venice, Martin Cruz Smith
17. The Great Believers, Rebecca Makkai

Short Stories:

1.  Your Duck is My Duck, Deborah Eisenberg
2. Sing To It: New Stories, Amy Hempel
3. Maggie Brown & Others, Peter Orner
4. Street of Widows, Cassie Fancher
5. Grand Union, Zadie Smith
6. Dancing After Hours, Andre Dubus

Classic Literature:

1. Victory, Joseph Conrad
2. To Have and Have Not, Ernest Hemingway
3. The Country of the Pointed Firs, Sarah Orne Jewett
4. Benito Cereno, Herman Melville
5. Bleak House, Charles Dickens
6. The Razor’s Edge, W. Somerset Maugham
7. Death in Venice, Thomas Mann
8. Snow Country, Yasunari Kawabata
9. Herzog, Saul Bellow
10. The Heart of the Matter, Graham Greene
11. Washington Square, Henry James

Non-Fiction:

1.  Those Turbulent Sons of Freedom: Ethan Allen’s Green Moutain Boys and the American Revolution, Christopher Wren
2. Attacks of Taste, eds. E. Byrne and O. Penzler
3. March: Book One, John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, Nate Powell
4. March: Book Two, John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, Nate Powell
5. March: Book Three, John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, Nate Powell
6. Mindfulness in Plain English, Bhante Gunarantana
7. 21 Lessons for the 21st Century, Yuval Noah Harari
8. Stet: An Editor’s Life, Diana Athill
9. The Power of Zero: How to Get to the 0% Tax Bracket, David McKnight
10. A Tale of Love and Darkness, Amos Oz
11. The Order of the Day, Eric Vuillard
12. Hiking with Nietzsche: On Becoming Who You Are, John Kaag
13. The Magnanimous Heart, Narayan Helen Liebson
14. The Headmaster, John McPhee
15. I’d Rather Be Reading: A Library of Art for Booklovers, Guinevere de la Mare
16. Dreyer’s English: An Utterly Correct Guide to Clarity and Style, Benjamin Dreyer
17. Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out, Bill McKibben
18. All the Lives We Ever Lived, Katharine Smyth
19. The Jewish Wedding Now, Anita Diamant
20. Blueprint: The Evolutionary Origins of a Good Society, Nicholas A. Christakis
21. Bookmarked:  William Stoner and the Battle for the Inner Life, Steve Almond
22. Walking: One Step at a Time, Erling Kagge
23. Jacob’s Room is Full of Books: A Year of Reading, Susan Hill
24. If: The Untold Story of Kipling’s American Years, Christopher Benfey
25. Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike, Phil Knight
26. Being Grandma and Grandpa, Emily S. Adler & Michele Hoffnug
27. Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind, Shunryu Suzuki
28. Autumn Light, Pico Iyer
29. A Time To Keep Silence, Patrick Leigh Fermor
30. What We Talk About When We Talk About Books, Leah Price
31. The Anxiety of Influence, Harold Bloom
32. Zen Golf, Joseph Parent
33. Skiing with Henry Knox, Sam Brakeley
34. My Promised Land: The Triumph and Tragedy of Israel, Ari Shavit
35. Learning to Dance, Michael Mayne
36. Max Perkins:  Editor of Genius, A. Scott Berg
37. My Family and Other Animals, Gerald Durrell

Essays:

1. The Best American Essays, 2018, ed. Hilton Als
2. Book-Ends, Michael Chabon
3. Black is the Body:  Stories From my Grandmother’s Time, My Mother’s Time, and Mine, Emily Bernard
4. Nobody’s Looking at You: Essays, Janet Malcolm
5. The Patch, John McPhee
6. Writers on Writing: More Collected Essays from The New York Times
7. Dear Zealots: Letters from a Divided Land, Amos Oz
8. Working, Robert Caro
9. The Empathy Exams, Leslie Jamison
10. Make It Scream, Make It Burn, Leslie Jamison
11. Drunk in the Woods, Tony Whedon

Poetry/Drama:

1. Othello, William Shakespeare
2. The River in the Sky, Clive James
3. Ruined, Lynn Nottage
4. Sweat, Lynn Nottage
5. Pygmalion, George Bernard Shaw
6. A Far Rockaway of the Heart, Lawrence Ferlinghetti
7. A Village Life, Louise Gluck
8. The Year of Blue Water, Yanyi
9. Danger on Peaks, Gary Snyder
10. The World Pushes Back, Garret Keizer
11. Casting Deep Shade, C.D. Wright
12. Bewilderment, David Ferry
13. The Book of Will, Lauren Gunderson
14. Big Cabin, Ron Padgett
15. Except for Love: New England Poets Inspired by Donald Hall, ed. Cynthia Brackett-Vincent
16. My Bishop and Other Poems, Michael Collier
17. Best American Poetry 2019, ed. Major Jackson
18. American Sunrise, Jo Harjo

Art/Architecture:

1. On Kawara, ed.Emily Rales
2. Wood, ed. William Hall
3. How to Architect, Doug Patt
4. The Street Philosophy of Garry Winogrand, Geoff Dyer
5. Small Inventions: The Artist’s Books of Charles Hobson
6. Seeing Venice: An Eye in Love, Frederick Franck
7. Peacock and Vine, A.S. Byatt

Science/Nature/Gardening:

1.  Terrain:  Ideas ad Inspirations for Decorating the Home and Garden, ed. Greg Lehmkuhl
2. Searching for Stars on an Island In Maine, Alan Lightman
3. Rising:  Dispatches from the New American Shore, Elizabeth Rush
4. Magnificent Trees of the New York Botanical Garden, Larry Lederman
5. The Garden in Every Season, Tovah Martin
6. What is a Garden?, W.S. Merwin
7. Gardenotopia, Jan Johnsen
8. Kengo Kuma: Portland Japanese Garden, B. & B. Bognar
9. A Year in the Garden:365 Inspirational Gardens and Gardening Tips, G. Keil & J. Becker
10. Water Connections: What Fresh Water Means to us,What we mean to water, Jim Rousmaniere
11. When Einstein Walked with Goedel, Jim Holt
12. Piet Ouldolf: Landscapes in Landscapes, Noel Kingsbury
13. The Living Forest, Maloof and Llewellyn
14. A Way to Garden: A Hands on Primer for Every Season, Margaret Roach
15. The Twelve Moons of the Year, Hal Borland

Mysteries:

1. The Force, Don Winslow
2. Even Dogs in the Wild, Ian Rankin
3. The Witch Elm, Tana French
4. The Final Detail, Harold Cobren
5. Unto Us a Son Is Given, Donna Leon
6. Maigret Gets Angry, Georges Simenon
7. The Madman of Bergerac (Maigret Travels South), Georges Simenon
8. The Nahour Case, Georges Simenon
9. Long Lost, Harlan Coben
10. Comeback, Richard Stark (aka Donald Westlake)
11. The Hunter, Richard Stark (aka Donald Westlake)
12. A Dangerous Man, Robert Crais
13. Bruno, Chief of Police, Martin Walker
14. Bomber’s Moon, Archer Mayor
15. Backflash, Richard Stark (aka Donald Westlake)
16. The Night Fire, Michael Connelly
17. Flashfire, Richard Stark (aka Donald Westlake)
18. Blue Moon, Lee Child