Fiction:

1. Stoner, John Williams (#1960)
2. The Man with the Wooden Hat, Jane Gardam (#1964)
3. Libra, Don DeLillo (#1971)
4. The Constellation of Vital Phenomena, Anthony Marra (#1982)
5. Life after Life, Kate Atkinson (#1989)
6. The Ancient Minstrel, Jim Harrison (#1995)
7. The Art Forger, B.A. Shapiro (#2003)
8. Killer Angels, Michael Shaara (#2010)
9. The Bookshop, Penelope Fitzgerald (#2026)
10. My Name is Lucy Barton, Elizabeth Strout (#2030)
11. City Baker’s Guide to Country Living, Louise Miller (#2064)
12. Light Years, James Salter (#2068)

Short Stories:

1. Archangel, Andrea Barrett   (#1962)
2. Brief Interviews with Hideous Men, David Foster Wallace (#1988)
3. There’s Something I Want you To Do, Charles Baxter (#1997)
4. Half Wild, Robin MacArthur (#2056)
5. A Manual for Cleaning Women, Lucia Berlin (#2066)
6. Elbow Room, James Alan McPherson (#2074)

English 166b: Harvard College Course, American Modernism, Prof. Alworth

1. The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway  (#2057)
2. The Wasteland, T.S. Eliot (#2058)
3. The Souls of Black Folk, W.E.B. DuBois (#2067)
4. Cane, Jean Toomer (#2070)

Non-Fiction:

1. 10% Happier, Dan Harris (#1965)
2. Looking at Mindfulness, Christophe Andre (#2004)
3. How to Walk, Thich Nhat Hanh (#2009)
4. Mindfulness, Meditation, and Mind Fitness, J. and M. Levey (#2062)
5. The Path: What Chinese Philosophers Can Teach us About the Good Life, M. Puett (#2051)
6. H is for Hawk, Helen Macdonald (#1978)
7. My Reading Life, Pat Conroy (#1993)
8. Between the World and Me, Ta-Nehisi Coates (#1996)
9. The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery, E. Foner (#2005)
10. The Interrogative Mood, Padgett Powell (#2008)
11. The Silent Woman, Janet Malcolm (#2020)
12. The Road to Little Dribbling, Bill Bryson (#2025)
13. Walking to Vermont, Christopher Wren (#2027)
14. Frank, Barney Frank (#2028)
15. The Lonely City, Olivia Lang (#2022)
16. Reader’s Delight, Noel Perrin (#2036)
17. The Violet Hour, Katie Roiphe (#2037)
18. The Big House, George Howe Colt (#2039)
19. When Breath Becomes Air, Paul Kalanithi (#2044)
20. Musicophilia, Oliver Sacks (#2047)
21. Old Age: A Beginner’s Guide, Michael Kinsley (#2050)
22. Epitaph: A Dying Art, Samuel Fanous (#2052)
23. On Trails: An Exploration, Robert Moor (#2055)
24. Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant, Roz Chast (#2061)
25. Living with Books, Alan Powers (#2059)
26. Sapiens, Yuval Noah Harari (#2065)
27. The Old Ways, Robert Macfarlane (#2079)

Classics:

1. The Old Man and the Sea, Ernest Hemingway (#1967)
2. Lord of the Flies, William Golding (#1980)
3. The Growth of the Soil, Knut Hamsun  (#2013)
4. The Crying of Lot 49, Thomas Pynchon (#2038)
5. Walking, Henry David Thoreau (#2035)
6. The Fire Next Time, James Baldwin (#2040)
7. The Outsider, Albert Camus (#2046)
8. Night, Elie Wiesel (#2072)
9. Moby Dick, Herman Melville (#2082)
10. The Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens (#2088)

Essays:

1. The City at 3PM, Peter LaSalle (#1969)
2. and yet….., Christopher Hitchens (#1970)
3. Gratitude, Oliver Sacks (#1983)
4. The Poet, The Lion, Talking Pictures, El Farolito, a Wedding in St. Roch, the Big Box Store, the Warp in the Mirror, Spring, Midnights, Fire & All, C.D. Wright (#1999)
5. Browsings, Michael Dirda (#2002)
6. The Abundance, Annie Dillard (#2014)
7. Our Only World, Wendell Berry (#2015)
8. White Sands, Geoff Dyer (#2029)
9. The Best American Essays: 1997, Ian Frazier, editor  (#2041)
10. This Old Man, Roger Angell (#2042)
11. Alive, Alive Oh!, Diana Athill (#2071)
12. Upstream, Mary Oliver (#2081)

Poetry and Drama:

1. Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude, Ross Gay (#1966)
2. Sweet Will and A Walk with Tom Jefferson, Philip Levine (#1968)
3. The Singing, K. Williams  (#1973)
4. The Selected Poems of Donald Hall, Donald Hall (#1974)
5. Emblems of the Passing World, Adam Kirsch and August Sander (#1975)
6. This Present Moment, Gary Snyder (#1990)
7. Dead Man’s Float, Jim Harrison (#1991)
8. Winter Morning Walks, Ted Kooser (#2012)
9. Low Sweet Notes, Robert C. Williams (#2024)
10. Shallcross, C.D. Wright (#2033)
11. Felicity, Mary Oliver (#2032)
12. Passerby, Emily Axelrod (#2053)
13. The Rain in Portugal, Billy Collins (#2076)
14. Recalculating, Charles Bernstein (#2084)
15. Moment to Moment, David Budbill (#2086)
16. On Elizabeth Bishop, Colm Toibin (#1985)
17. On Walt Whitman, C.K. Williams (#1984)
18. Last Looks, Last Books, Helen Vendler (#1998)
19. The Plough and the Stars, Sean O’Casey (#2054)

Art and Architecture:

1. Six Drawing Lessons, William Kentridge  (#1972)
2. Ephemeral Work, 2004-2014, Andy Goldsworthy (#1987)
3. Hopper, Mark Strand (#2016)
4. Artists Living with Art, Stacey Goergen and Amanda Blenchley (#2063)

Science, Nature and Gardening:

1. Outstanding American Gardens, P. Dickey and M. Brenner (#1976)
2. The Art of Gardening, R. William Thomas (#1981)
3. The Intimate Garden, Gordon and Mary Heyward (#2021)
4. Gardening Wisdom, Douglas Green  (#2031)
5. The Inspired Landscape, Susan Cohen (#2075)
6. King Solomon’s Ring, Konrad Lorenz (#2000)
7. The Sixth Extinction, Elizabeth Kolbert (#2001)
8. The Double Helix, James Watson (#2007)
9. Scratching the Woodchuck, David Kline (#2019)
10. Listening to Stone, Dan Snow (#2023)
11. The Forest Unseen, David George Haskell (#2034)
12. I Contain Multitudes, Ed Yong (#2060)
13. The Shepherd’s View, James Rebanks (#2077)
14. The Hidden Life of Trees, Peter Wohlleben (#2080)
15. The Moth Snowstorm, Michael McCarthy (#2083)
16. Drawn to Nature, Clare Walker Leslie (#2085)

Mysteries:

1. The Promise, Robert Crais (#1961)
2. The First Rule, Robert Crais (#2018)
3. Night at the Crossroads, Georges Simenon (#1963)
4. Maigret and the Reluctant Witnesses, Georges Simenon (#1977)
5. Maigret has Scruples, Georges Simenon (#1979)
6. Maigret’s Boyhood Friend, Georges Simenon (#1986)
7. Maigret in Court, Georges Simenon (#1992)
8. Maigret Afraid, Georges Simenon (#1994)
9. Maigret Goes to School, Georges Simenon (#2017)
10. Maigret in New York, Georges Simenon (#2043)
11. Maigret’s Christmas, Georges Simenon (#2045)
12. The Necessary Death of Lewis Winter, Malcolm Mackay (#2006)
13. Robert B. Parker’s Blackjack, Robert Knott (#2011)
14. The Nature of the Beast, Louise Penny (#2048)
15. The Man Who Smiled, Henning Mankell (#2049)
16. The Wrong Side of Goodbye, Michael Connelly (#2069)
17. The Waters of Eternal Youth, Donna Leon (#2073)
18. Night School, Lee Child (#2078)
19. The Secret Place, Tana French  (#2087)