Contemporary Fiction:

1.  Offshore, Penelope Fitzgerald
2. Interior Chinatown, Charles Yu
3. The Hare, Melanie Finn
4. Bring up the Bodies, Hilary Mantel
5. Trio, William Boyd
6. So Long, See you Tomorrow, William Maxwell

Short Stories:

1. The Doctor Stories, William Carlos Williams
2. Dusk and Other Stories, James Salter

Classic Literature:

1. It Can’t Happen Here, Sinclair Lewis
2. The Bridge of San Luis Rey, Thornton Wilder
3. Kidnapped, Robert Louis Stevenson
4. The Turn of the Screw, Henry James

Non-Fiction:

1. Walking with Ghosts, Gabriel Byrne
2. The Undoing Project, Michael Lewis
3. We Keep the Dead Close, Becky Cooper

Essays:

1. The Best American Essays: 2020, ed Andre Aciman
2. Essays, Wallace Shawn
3. Feel Free, Zadie Smith
4. Field Guide to Getting Lost, Rebecca Solnit
5. One Writer’s Beginnings, Eudora Welty
6. Lamentations of the Father, Ian Frazier

Poetry/Drama:

1. Our Town, Thornton Wilder
2. Dearly: New Poems, Margaret Atwood
3. The Alexander Plays, Adrienne Kennedy

Art/Architecture:

1.  Chairs by Architects, Agata Tormonoff

2.  Alice Neel Uptown, Hilton Als

Science/Nature/Gardening:

1.  Black Hole Survival Guide, Janna Levin
2. Wildwood: A Journey Through Trees, Roger Deakin
3. The Green Garden, Ellen Sousa
4. The Curve of Binding Energy, John McPhee

Mysteries:

1. Maigret at the Gai-Moulin, Georges Simenon
2. Eddie’s Boy, Thomas Perry
3. Maigret and the Tavern by the Seine, Georges Simenon
4. Maigret Mystified, Georges Simenon
5. The Sentinel, Lee and Andrew Child