Books

  • The Chicken Book by Page Smith and Charles Daniel
  • Absurdistan by Gary Shteyngart
  • Shah of Shahs by Ryszard Kapuscinski
  • Shadow of the Sun by Ryszard Kapuscinski
  • What is the What by Dave Eggers
  • The Art of Frederick Sommer: Photography, Drawing, Collage
  • Theories of Everything: Selected, Collected, and Health-Inspected Cartoons, 1978-2006 by Roz Chast
  • The Rejection Collection: Cartoons You Never Saw, and Never Will See, in The New Yorker by Matthew Diffee
  • The Last American Male by Elizabeth Gilbert
  • Rise of American Democracy from Jefferson to Lincoln by Sean Wilentz
  • Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War by Nathan Philbrick
  • The Known World by Edward P. Jones
  • The Lost City by Edward P. Jones
  • Dark Star Safari by Paul Theroux
  • The River of Doubt by Candice Millard
  • Send: The Essential Guide to Email for Office and Home
  • Joy Comes in the Morning by Jonathan Rosen
  • Ultimate Fitness by Gina Kolata
  • They Call Me Naughty Lola: Personal Ads from the London Review of Books edited by David Rose
  • The Divine Husband by Francisco Goldman
  • The Long Night of the White Chickens by Francisco Goldman
  • Little Heathens by Mildred Armstrong Kalish
  • The Emperor’s Children by Claire Messud
  • Brother I’m Dying by Edwidge Danticat
  • Foreskin’s Lament by Shalom Auslander
  • The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
  • The Hungry Tide by Amitav Ghosh
  • The Botany of Desire by Michael Pollan
  • The Ordinary Seaman by Francisco Goldman
  • The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
  • The Life of the Skies by Jonathan Rosen
  • A Spot of Bother by Mark Haddon
  • Sex Sleep Eat Drink Dream: A Day in the Life of Your Body by Jennifer Ackerman
  • Candy Girl by Diablo Cody
  • The Glass Palace by Amitav Ghosh
  • Drown by Junot Diaz
  • The Dew Breaker by Edwidge Danticat
  • For The Relief of Unbearable Urges by Nathan Englander
  • Ship Fever by Andrea Barrett
  • Servants of the Map by Andrea Barrett
  • Beyond a Boundary by C L R James
  • The Black Jacobins by C L R James
  • Gardening at the Dragon’s Gate by Wendy Johnson
  • Schott’s Miscellany by Eric Schott
  • Close Range by Annie Proulx
  • Bad Dirt by Annie Proulx
  • The Shipping News by Annie Proulx
  • The Omnivore’s Dilemma by Michael Pollan
  • In an Antique Land by Amitav Ghosh
  • The Shadow Lines by Amitav Ghosh
  • Volunteering Around the Globe by Suzanne Stone
  • The Code of the Woosters by P.G. Wodehouse
  • The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolano
  • Postcards by Annie Proulx
  • The Fate of Africa by Martin Meredith
  • The Death of Vishnu by Manil Suri
  • Civilwarland in Bad Decline by George Saunders
  • Bangkok Haunts by John Burdett
  • The Question of Bruno by Aleksandar Hemon
  • Pastoralia by George Saunders
  • My Mercedes Is Not For Sale by Jeroen Van Bergeijk
  • Ten Little Indians by Sherman Alexie
  • Indian Summer by Alex von Tunzelmann
  • Sea of Poppies by Amitav Ghosh
  • That Old Ace in the Hole by Annie Proulx
  • The Great Partition by Yasmin Khan
  • The Braindead Megaphone by George Saunders
  • Netherland by Joseph O’Neill
  • Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer
  • The Lazarus Project by Aleksandar Hemon
  • Passing Strange by Martha Sandweiss
  • House of Happy Endings by Leslie Garis
  • Beat the Reaper by Josh Bazell
  • Losing Mum and Pup by Christopher Buckley
  • The Art of Political Murder by Francisco Goldman
  • The White Rock by Hugh Thomson
  • Accordion Crimes by Annie Proulx
  • Beautiful Children by Charles Bock
  • Open Veins of Latin America by Eduardo Galeano
  • Our Story Begins by Tobias Wolff
  • The Big Necessity by Rose George
  • Zeitoun by Dave Eggers
  • Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
  • FU, Penguin by Matthew Gasteier
  • Incendiary Circumstances by Amitav Ghosh
  • American on Purpose by Craig Ferguson
  • Crow Planet by Lyanda Lynn Haupt
  • Master of the Senate by Robert Caro (re-read part 1)
  • Supreme Courtship by Christopher Buckley
  • A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers
  • Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace (ongoing project)
  • Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
  • Birds of America by Lorrie Moore
  • The Backyard Beekeeper by Kim Flottum
  • Best American Non-Required Reading by Dave Eggers
  • The Hindus by Wendy Doniger
  • The Lost City of Z by David Grann
  • Silk Parachute by John McPhee
  • You Shall Know Our Velocity by Dave Eggers
  • First Lessons in Beekeeping by Keith S. DeLaPlane
  • The Heart of Yoga by TKV Desikachar
  • Mountains Beyond Mountains by Tracy Kidder
  • A Search in Secret India by Paul Brunton

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