Contemporary Fiction:

1. North, Brad Kessler
2. The Strange Library, Haruki Murakami
3. Still Life, Sarah Winman
4. Dream Girl, Laura Lippman
5. The Photograph, Penelope Lively
6. Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead, Olga Tokarczuk
7. Suite Francaise, Irene Nemirovsky
8. Never, Ken Follett
9. The Anomaly, Herve Le Tellier
10. Sea of Tranquility, Emily St John Mendel
11. Companion Piece, Ali Smith
12. Autumn, Ali Smith
13. Cloud Cuckoo Land, Anthony Doerr
14. Forest Dark, Nicole Krauss
15. The Lioness, Chris Bohjalian
16. The Lincoln Highway, Amor Towles
17. The Boy, the Mole, the Fox, and the Horse, Charles Mackesy
18. Afterlives, Abdulrazak Gurnah
19. The Promise, Damon Galgut
20. Lucy at Sea, Elizabeth Strout
21. Small Things Like These, Claire Keegan
22. Elizabeth Finch, Julian Barnes
23. Oh, William, Elizabeth Strout
24. First Light, Charles Baxter
25. But Beautiful: A Book About Jazz, Geoff Dyer
26. Parable of the Sower, Octavia Butler
27. The Passenger, Cormac McCarthy
28. Stella Maris, Cormac McCarthy

Short Stories:

1.  Open Secrets, Alice Munro
2. First Person Singular: Stores, Haruki Murakami
3. Homesickness: Stories, Colin Barrett
4. Natural History: Stories, Andrea Barrett

Classic Literature:

1.  On the Road, Jack Kerouac
2. Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck
3. Persuasion, Jane Austen
4. Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson
5. Giovanni’s Room, James Baldwin

Non-Fiction:

1. Smile: The Story of a Face, Sarah Ruhl
2. Chasing Me to My Grave: An Artist’s Memoir of the Jim Crow South, Winfred Rembert
3. Taste: My Life Through Food, Stanley Tucci
4. Riverman: An American Odyssey, Ben McGrath
5. Index, A History Of:A Bookish Adventure from Medieval Manuscripts to the Digital Age, Dennis Duncan
6. In Love: A Memoir of Love and Loss, Amy Bloom
7. An Inventory of Losses, Judith Schalansky
8. A Month in Siena, Hisham Matar
9. Footsteps: Adventures of a Romantic Biographer, Richard Holmes
10. Wilderness:  A Journal of Quiet Adventure in Alaska, Rockwell Kent
11. The Return: Fathers, Sons, and the Land In Between, Hisham Matar
12. How to Meditate: A Practical Guide to Making Friends with Your Mind, Pema Chodron
13. Pig Years, Ellyn Gaydos
14. The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness, Meghan O’Rourke
15. On Late Style: Music and Literature Against the Grain, Edward W. Said
16. How the Word is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America, Clint Smith
17. Being Peace, Thich Nhat Hanh
18. Accidental Kindness:  A Doctor’s Notes on Empathy, Michael Stein
19. Novelist as a Vocation, Haruki Murakami

Essays:

1. Coventry, Rachel Cusk
2. Packing My Library: An Elegy and Ten Digressions, Alberto Manguel
3. Brooklyn: A Personal Memoir, Truman Capote
4. Let Me Tell You What I Mean, Joan Didion
5. The Art of Solitude, Stephen Batchelor
6. Gallery of Clouds, Rachel Eisendrath
7. Black Paper, Teju Cole
8. American Audacity: In Defense of Literary Daring, William Giraldi
9. The Best American Essays: 2021, ed. Kathryn Shulz
10. The Last Days of Roger Federer And Other Endings, Geoff Dyer
11. Wonderlands: Essays on the Life Of Literature, Charles Baxter
12. Mantel Pieces: Royal Bodies and Other Writing from the London Review of Books, Hilary Mantel
13. Intimations, Zadie Smith
14. The Common Reader, Virginia Woolf
15. Slouching Towards Bethlehem: Essays, Joan Didion

Poetry/Drama:

1.  Committed To Memory:  100 Best Poems to Memorize, ed. John Hollander
2. Skies in Blossom: The Nature Poetry of Emily Dickinson, ed. Jonathan Cott
3. Anna Christie, Eugene O’Neill
4. Poetry as Insurgent Art, Lawrence Ferlinghetti
5. Selected Poems, Robinson Jeffers
6. Uncle Vanya, Anton Chekhov
7. Summer Snow: New Poems, Robert Hass
8. Last Looks, Last Books: Stevens, Plath, Lowell, Bishop, Merrill, Helen Vendler
9. Bloodlines, Ann Bookman
10. One More Mountain: Poems, Kenneth Kaplan
11. Another World: Poetry and Art by Young People, A. and T. Gengarelly
12. Winter Recipes from the Collective: Poems, Louise Gluck
13. Insomnia: Poems, Linda Pastan
14. Red Stilts: Poems, Ted Kooser
15. Against Silence: Poems, Frank Bidart
16. Home: A Collection of Poetry and Art, ed. Stan Tymorek
17. The Beauty: Poems, Jane Hirshfield
18. Ledger: Poems, Jane Hirshfield
19. Fences, August Wilson
20. Faithful and Virtuous Night, Louise Gluck
21. Kicking the Leaves, Donald Hall
22. The Cherry Orchard, Anton Chekhov
23. Lucky Life, Gerald Stern
24. Waiting for Godot, Samuel Beckett
25. Almost Invisible, Mark Strand
26. North Window: Poems, Emily Axelrod

Art/Architecture:

1. Vanish: Disappearing Icons of a Rural America, Jim Westphalen
2. See/Saw: Looking at Photographs, Geoff Dyer
3. The Sleeve Should Be Illegal and Other Reflections on Art at the Frick, ed. Michaelyn Mitchell
4. A Book of Books, Abelardo Morrell
5. Lois Dodd: Catching the Light, Kemper Art Museum
6. Of the Land: The Art and Poetry of Lou Stovall, Will Stovall
7. Godine at Fifty:  A Retrospective of Five Decades in the Life of an Independent Publisher, David Godine
8. Art From Above Vermont, Caleb Kenna
9. Writers: Portraits, Laura Wilson

Science/Nature/Gardening:

1.  Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change our Minds, and Shape our Future, Merlin Sheldrake
2. Octopus, Seahorse, Jellyfish, David Liitschwager
3. Atlas of the Invisible: Maps and Graphics that will Change How you See the World, James Cheshire and Oliver Uberti 
4. Becoming a Gardener: What Reading and Digging Taught Me About Living, Catie Marron
5. Wild: The Naturalistic Garden, Noel Kingsbury & Claire Takacs
6. Paradise Found: Gardening in Unlikely Spaces, Rebecca Cole
7. The Seasonal Gardener:  Creative Planting Combinations, Anna Pavord
8. Life Between the Tides, Adam Nicolson
9. On Animals, Susan Orlean
10. The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human, Siddhartha Mukherjee

Mysteries:

1. Better Off Dead, Lee and Andrew Child
2. The Secret Vanguard, Michael Innes
3. The Man with the Getaway Face, Richard Stark
4. The Maltese Falcon, Dashiell Hammett
5. The Dutch Shoe Mystery, Ellery Queen
6. Early Autumn, Robert B. Parker
7. The Dark Hours, Michael Connelly
8. Give Unto Others, Donna Leon
9. Cecile is Dead, Georges Simenon
10. Maigret and the Fortuneteller, Georges Simenon
11. Walking Shadow, Robert B. Parker
12. Valediction, Robert B. Parker
13. The Sweet Goodbye, Ron Corbett
14. Killing Rain, Barry Eisler
15. Voodoo River, Robert Crais
16. Gangland, Chuck Hogan
17. Silence, Thomas Perry
18. What She Found, Robert Dugoni
19. The Judas Goat, Robert B. Parker
20. No Plan B, Lee and Andrew Child
21. The Jealousy Man & Other Stories, Jo Nesbo
22. The Word is Murder, Anthony Horowitz
23. Desert Star, Michael Connelly