Tuesday, January 17, 2006

Billy's Books 2018

1. Evicted
by Matthew Desmond

2. Impeachment: A Citizen's Guide
by Cass Sunstein

3. The Hate U Give
by Angie Thomas

4. Speak
by Laurie Halse Anderson

5. The Wise Man's Fear
by Patrick Rothfuss

6. Tomorrow Will Be Different
by Sarah McBride

7. Salvage the Bones
by Jesmyn Ward

8.Without a Country
by Ayse Kulin

9. Bonk
by Mary Roach

10. Her Body and Other Parties
by Carmen Maria Machado

11. The Power
by Naomi Alderman

12. Carry On
by Rainbow Rowell

13. The Nix
by Nathan Hill

14. Tell the Wolves I'm Home
by Carol Rifka Brunt

15. Queer: A Graphic History
by Meg-John Barker

16. Dread Nation
by Justina Ireland

Thursday, January 12, 2006

Randy's Books 2020

(1) 51 Imperfect Solutions: States and the Making of American Constitutional Law
by Judge Jeffrey S. Sutton

(2) Hybrid Creatures
by Matthew Baker

(3) Just Mercy
by Bryan Stevenson

(4) Sweet Promised Land
by Robert Laxalt

(5) Maus I: My Father Bleeds History

(6) Maus II: And Here My Troubles Began

(7) Watchmen
by Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons

(8) The Years of Lyndon Johnson: Means of Ascent
by Robert A. Caro

(9) The Chief: The Life and Turbulent Times of Chief Justice John Roberts
by Joan Biskupic

(10) "Object Lessons": The Paris Review presents The Art of the Short Story

(11) The Paris Review, No. 231, Winter 2019

(12) U.S.!
by Chris Bachelder

(13) How to Become a Federal Criminal: An Illustrated Handbook for the Aspiring Offender
by Mike Chase

(14) Godzilla on My Mind: Fifty Years of the King of Monsters
by William M. Tsutsui

(15) The Paris Review, No. 232, Spring 2020

(16) The Dark Forest
by Cixin Liu

(17) Death's End
by Cixin Liu

(18) Radical Candor
by Kim Scott

(19) On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
by Ocean Vuong

(20) How to Be an Antiracist
by Ibram X. Kendi

(21) Race-ing Justice, En-gendering Power: Essays on Anita Hill, Clarence Thomas, and the Construction of Social Reality
edited by Toni Morrison

(22) Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind
by Hayao Miyazaki

(23) The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir
by John Bolton

(24) The Demagogue's Playbook: The Battle for American Democracy from the Founders to Trump
by Eric A. Posner

(25) The Paris Review, No. 232, Summer 2020

(26) Interior Chinatown
by Charles Yu

(27) Exploring Calvin and Hobbes: An Exhibition Catalogue
by Bill Watterson

(28) Policing the Black Man
Angela J. Davis, Editor

(29) Taking Back the Constitution: Activist Judges and the Next Age of American Law
by Mark Tushnet

(30) The Calvin and Hobbes Tenth Anniversary Book
by Bill Watterson

(31) The Cycles of Constitutional Time
by Jack M. Balkin

(32) Why We're Polarized
by Ezra Klein

(33) Thinking without a Banister
by Hannah Arendt

(34) The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution
by Eric Foner

(35) Grant
by Ron Chernow

(36) Enduring Conviction: Fred Korematsu and His Quest for Justice
by Lorraine K. Bannai

(37) House of Leaves
by Mark Z. Danielewski

(38) Quichotte
Salman Rushdie

(39) Ain't Never Not Been Black
by Javon Johnson

(41) Dune
by Frank Herbert

(42) Surviving Autocracy
by Masha Gessen

Sunday, January 8, 2006

Saturday, January 7, 2006

Chloe's Books 2016

1. The Tsar of Love and Techno by Anthony Marra
2. My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante
3-4. L'Arabe du Futur 1&2 by Riad Sattouf
5. Loitering with Intent by Muriel Spark
6. Lexicon by Max Barry
7. Lyra's Oxford by Phillip Pullman
8. Once Upon a Time in the North by Phillip Pullman
9. The Collector by Phillip Pullman
10.The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie Kondo
11. NW by Zadie Smith
12. Becoming Nicole by Amy Ellis Nutt
13. Shrek! by William Steig and Critique of Judgement by Kant
14. Yellow and Pink by William Steig and Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion by Hume
15. Brooklyn by Colm Toibin
16. A Hundred Thousand Worlds by Bob Proehl
17. The Orphan Master's Son by Adam Johnson
18. Ways to Disappear by Idra Novey
19. Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
20. The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
21. The Girl You Left Behind by Jojo Moyes
22. The Wonder Spot by Melissa Bank
23. Mr. Penumbra's 24 Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan
24. Tell the Wolves I'm Home by Carol Rifka Brunt
25. The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
26. Sisterland by Curtis Sittenfeld
27. The Book of Salt by Monique Truong
28. A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
29. Switch by Chip and Dan Heath
30. For White Folks who Teach in the Hood by Christopher Emdin
31. The Lives of Girls and Women by Alice Munro
32. A Far Cry from Kensington by Muriel Spark
33. The Nest by Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney
34. Irmina by Barbara Yelin
35. I'll Give You the Sun by Jandy Nelson
36. Inside of a Dog by Alexandra Horowitz
37. Trauma Stewardship by Laura van Dermoot Lipsky and Connie Burk
38. No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy
39. Strangers in Their Own Land by Arlie Russel Hochschild
40. Great by Sara Benicasa
41. Carry this Book by Abbi Jacobson
42. Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote
43. Happy Birthday, Wanda June by Kurt Vonnegut
44. Thirteen Ways of Looking by Colum McCann
45. The Member of the Wedding by Carson McCullers
46. Flying Couch by Amy Kurzweil
47. Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant? Roz Chast
48. Maus by Art Spiegelman
49. Fun Home by Alison Bechdel
50. The Optimist's Daughter by Eudora Welty

Best of 2016!


Thursday, January 5, 2006

Danny's Books 2012

16. The Loser-Thomas Bernhard
15. Homage to Catalonia-George Orwell
14. The Book Thief-Markus Zuzak
13. Black Swan Green-David Mitchell
12. Jitterbug Perfume-Tom Robbins
11. Runaway-Alice Munro
10. A Confederacy of Dunces-John Kennedy Toole
9. Sag Harbor-Colson Whitehead
8. The Hunger Games-Suzanne Collins
7. The Red and The Black-Stendhal
6. Lolita-Vladimir Nabokov
5. The Girl Who Played With Fire-Stieg Larsson
4. Butcher's Crossing-John Williams
3. The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet-David Mitchell
2. The Scarlet Letter-Nathaniel Hawthorne
1. There are Little Kingdoms-Kevin Barry

Randy's Books 2016

Courtney's Books 2016

Amanda's Books 2016

Dani's Books 2016

1. Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
2. The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
3. A Wind in the Door by Madeleine L'Engle
4. Gorgias by Plato

(Short) Children's Literature
Harold and the Purple Crayon by Crockett Johnson

Randy's Books 2016

(1) The Familiar, Volume 2: Into the Forest
by Mark Z. Danielewski

(2) The Paris Review, No. 215, Winter 2015

(3) Collected Haiku of Yosa Buson
translated by W.S. Merwin & Takako Lento

(4) The Legacy of Ruth Bader Ginsburg
edited by Scott Dodson

(5) Notes from a Dead House
by Fyodor Dostoevsky

(6) The Partisan: The Life of William Rehnquist
by John A. Jenkins

(7) Small Gods
by Terry Pratchett

(8) A Lesson Before Dying
by Ernest J. Gaines

(9) Roughing It
by Mark Twain

(10) The Last Interview and Other Conversations: Hannah Arendt

(11) The Paris Review, No. 216, Spring 2016

(12) Reading for the Plot: Design and Intention in Narrative
by Peter Brooks

(13) On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
by Stephen King

(14) The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven
by Sherman Alexie

(15) On Violence
by Hannah Arendt

(16) Dead Man Walking
by Sister Helen Prejean

(17) The Years of Lyndon Johnson: The Path to Power
by Robert Caro

(18) Between the World and Me
by Ta-Nehisi Coates

(19) The Bluest Eye
by Toni Morrison

(20) The Paris Review, No. 217, Summer 2016

(21) The Count of Monte Cristo
by Alexandre Dumas

(22) The Paris Review, No. 218, Fall 2016

(23) From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in America
by Elizabeth Hinton

(24) Pre-Suasion: A Revolutionary Way to Influence and Persuade
by Robert Cialdini

Best of, 2016.

Brittany's Books 2016

Brittany's Top Books of 2016

54. Eileen by Ottessa Moshfegh

53. Lair of Dreams (The Diviners #2) by Libba Bray

52. The Diviners by Libba Bray (audiobook/real book mix)

51. The Girl on the Train by

50. Fear Nothing by Dean Koontz

49. Life is Funny by E. R. Frank

48. The Coolest Race on Earth: Mud, Madmen, Glaciers, and Grannies at the Antartica Marathon by John Hanc

47. Eat and Run by Scott Jurek

46. My Heart and Other Black Holes by Jasmine Warga (audiobook)

45. Me and Earl and the Dying Girl by Jesse Andrews (audiobook)

44. Beautiful Creatures by Kami Garcia (audiobook)

43. Okay for Now by Gary D. Schmidt

42. Huntress by Malinda Lo

41. Drama by Raina Telgemeier

40. A Long Walk to Water by Linda Sue Park

39. Soldier Bear by Bibi Dumon Tak

38. If I Ever Get Out of Here by Eric Gansworth

37. Virals by Kathy Reichs (audiobook)

36. Elephant Whisperer: My Life with the Herd in the African Wild by Lawrence Anthony and Graham Spence

35. I Am Malala: Young Readers Edition by Malala Yousafzai and Patricia McCormick

34. Mexican Whiteboy by Matt de la Pena

33. Beauty Queens by Linda Bray (audiobook)

32. The Crown by Kiera Cass

31. The Heir by Kiera Cass

30. The One by Kiera Cass

29. The Elite by Kiera Cass

28. The Selection by Kiera Cass (audiobook)

27. The Running Dream by Wendelin Van Draanen

26. Skellig by David Almond (audiobook)

25. The Schwa Was Here by Neal Shusterman (audiobook)

24. Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell (audiobook)

23. Strike!: The Farm Workers' Fight for Their Rights

22. Stonewall: Breaking Out in the Fight for Gay Rights by Ann Bausum

21. Most Dangerous by Steve Sheinkin

20. The Boys who Challenged Hitler by Phillip Hoose

19. Beyond Magenta by Susan Kuklin

18. The Soul of an Octopus by Sy Montgomery

17. The Borden Murders by Sarah Miller

16. Audacity by Melanie Crowder

15. The Watch That Ends the Night by Allan Wolf

14. The Art of Asking by Amanda Palmer

13. The Family Romanaov: Murder, Rebellion, and the Fall of Imperial Russia by Candace Fleming

12. Frida & Diego: Art, Love, Life by Catherine Reef

11. Albert Einstein (Giants of Science) by Kathleen Krull

10. Almost Astronauts by Tanya Lee Stone

9. The Port Chicago 50 by Steve Sheinkin

8. Tracking Down Typhoid Mary by Gail Jarrow

7. Upside Down in the Middle of Nowhere by Julie T. Lamana (Juvenile)

6. Drowned City: Hurricane Katrina and New Orleans by Don Brown (Juvenile Graphic Novel)

5. The Good Girl by Mary Kubica

4. Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl by Carrie Brownstein

3. The First Bad Man by Miranda July

2. Notorious RBG by Irin Carmon and Shana Knizhnik

1. Gold Fame Citrus by Claire Vaye Watkins


Children and YA Books Under 100 Pages
xix. Can I Play, Too?
xviii. Jacob's New Dress
xvii. Hidden: A Child's Story of the Holocaust
xvi. Secret of the Dance
xv. When Thunder Comes
xiv. Click Clack Moo
xiii. How My Parents Learned to Eat
xii. Mixed Me!
xi. Neighborhood Sharks by Katherine Roy
x. Funny Bones by Duncan Tonatiuh
ix. The Octopus Scientists by Sy Montgomery
viii. The Man Who Walked Between the Towers by Mordicai Gerstein
vii. Tricky Vic by Greg Pizzoli
vii. Yummy: The Last Days of a Southside Shorty by G. Neri and Randy Duburke
vi. You Can't Ride a Bicycle to the Moon by Harriet Ziefert
v. Wilma Unlimited: How Wilma Rudolph Became the World's Fastest Woman by Kathleen Krull and David Diaz
iv. We Are The Ship: The Story of Negro League Baseball by Kadir Nelson
iii. Place Hacking: Venturing Off Limits by Michael J. Rosen
ii. The Elephant Scientist (Scientists in the Field Series) by Caitlin O'Connell
i. Gravity by Jason Chin

Billy's Books 2016

1. The Good Girls Revolt
by Lynn Povich

2. Unspeakable
by Meghan Daum

3. Just Mercy
by Bryan Stevenson

4. Mislaid
by Nell Zink

5. War Brides
Helen Bryan

6. Sex Object
by Jessica Valenti

7. Timebound
by Rysa Walker

8. Before I Go to Sleep
by S.J. Watson

9. Time's Echo
by Rysa Walker

10. Time's Edge
by Rysa Walker

11. Time's Mirror
by Rysa Walker

12. Time's Divide
by Rysa Walker

13. The Gunslinger
by Stephen King

14. The Drawing of the Three
by Stephen King

15. The Hopefuls
by Jennifer Close

16. She's Not There
by Jennifer Finney Boylan

Brent's Books 2016

50. Oblivion
David Foster Wallace

49. Turtle Diary
Russell Hoban

48. The Doors of the Sea: Where Is God In the Tsunami?
David Bentley Hart

47. The True Deciever
Tove Jansson

46. The Summer Book
Tove Jansson

45. We Should All Be Feminists
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

44. Rescuing the Gospel: The Story and Significance of the Reformation
Irwin W. Lutzer

43. Benefit of the Doubt: Smashing the Idol of Certainty
Gregory Boyd

42. The Takeover
Muriel Spark

41. The White Tiger
Aravind Adiga

40. The New Asceticism: Sexuality, Gender, and the Quest for God
Sarah Coakley

39. Ant Colony
Michael DeForge

38. A Long Faithlessness: The Case for Christian Perseverance
Scot McKnight

37. Epistle to the Corinthians
Clement of Rome

36. Lady Susan
Jane Austen

35. The Bible Tells Me So: Why Defending Scripture Has Made Us Unable to Read It
Peter Enns

34. Day of the Triffids
John Wyndam

33. Hillbilly Elegy
J. D. Vance

32. Mouse Guard: Tales of the Guard
David Petersen

31. A Farewell to Mars
Brian Zahnd

30. Portnoy's Compaint
Philip Roth

29. The Death Ray
Daniel Clowes

28. The Men Who Stare at Goats
Jon Ronson

27. The Last Gentleman
Walker Percy

26. The Elephant in the Room
Jon Ronson

25. Surprised by Hope
N.T. Wright

24. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Philip K. Dick

23. Antony and Cleapatro
William Shakespeare

22. Bloodchild and Other Stories
Octavia Butler

21. The Headmaster's Wife
Thomas Christopher Greene

20. A Kiss Before Dying
Ira Levin

19. Between the World and Me
Ta-Neishi Coates

18. Beloved
Toni Morrison

17. The Didache
The Twelve Apostles

16. Batman: The Black Mirror
Scott Snyder and Franco Francavilla

15. American Rose: A Nation Laid Bare, the Story of Gypsy Lee Rose
Karen Abbott

14. Water to Wine
Brian Zahnd

13. Tracks
Louise Erdrich

12. Northanger Abbey
Jane Austen

11. Winter of Our Discontent
John Steinbeck

10. Dear Life
Alice Munro

9. The Beggar
Naguib Mahfouz

8. The Twits
Roald Dahl

7. For Calvinism
Michael Horton

6. The Name of the Rose
Umberto Eco

5. The Fall
Albert Camus

4. Going Clear
Lawrence Right

3. Crossing to Safety
Wallace Stegner

2. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Roald Dahl

1. Silence
Shusako Endo

Christopher's Books 2016

50. Ancillary Justice
by Ann Leckie
49. The Summer Book
by Tove Jansson
48. The Dud Avocado
by Elaine Dundy
47. The Takeover
by Muriel Spark
46. Olive Kitteridge
by Elizabeth Strout
45. Invisible Cities
by Italo Calvino
44. The Floating Opera
by John Barth
43. The Three Christs of Ypsilanti
by Milton Rokeach
42. The Other
by Thomas Tryon
41. Lady Susan
by Jane Austen
40. All the Pretty Horses
by Cormac McCarthy
39. Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said
by Philip K. Dick
38. The Progress of Love
by Alice Munro
37. Appointment in Samarra
by John O'Hara
36. Losing Battles
by Eudora Welty
35. Tracks
by Louise Erdrich
34. The Death of the Heart
by Elizabeth Bowen
33. The Ballad of Peckham Rye
by Muriel Spark
32. A Severed Head
by Iris Murdoch
31. Heroes of the Frontier
by Dave Eggers
30. Chronicle of a Death Foretold
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
29. The Golden Child
by Penelope Fitzgerald
28. Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
by Jeanette Winterson
27. The Man Who Loved Children
by Christina Stead
26. The Slynx
by Tatyana Tolstaya
25. Speedboat
by Renata Adler
24. The Thanatos Syndrome
by Walker Percy
23. The Human Stain
by Philip Roth
22. Lives of Girls and Women
by Alice Munro
21. Tempest-Tost
by Robertson Davies
20. Anne of Green Gables
by Lucy Maud Montgomery
19. Reckless Eyeballing
by Ishmael Reed
18. The Ballad of the Sad Cafe
by Carson McCullers
17. Despair
by Vladimir Nabokov
16. Wide Sargasso Sea
by Jean Rhys
15. Kangaroo
by D. H. Lawrence
14. SPQR
by Mary Beard
13. The Napoleon of Notting Hill
by G. K. Chesterton
12. Sula
by Toni Morrison
11. The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch
by Philip K. Dick
10. Krik? Krak!
by Edwidge Danticat
9. Argall
by William T. Vollmann
8. The Beginning of Spring
by Penelope Fitzgerald
7. Typee
by Herman Melville
6. The Moon and Sixpence
by W. Somerset Maugham
5. Interpreter of Maladies
by Jhumpa Lahiri
4. The Unicorn
by Iris Murdoch
3. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
by Edward Albee
2. Nostromo
by Joseph Conrad
1. The Givenness of Things
by Marilynne Robinson

Wednesday, January 4, 2006

Travis' Books 2012


1. I Believe: Exploring the Apostles' Creed by Alistair McGrath
2. Father, Son, & Holy Spirit: Relationships, Roles, & Relevance by Bruce A. Ware
3. Crazy Love: Overwhelmed by a Relentless God by Francis Chan
4. The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II by Iris Chang
5. Called to be Holy by John Oswalt
6. Death of Kings by Bernard Cornwell
7. Five Views on Sanctification. Editor, Stanley N. Gundry
8. Canons of the Second Council of Orange by F.H. Woods
9. Man's Faith and Freedom: The Theological Influence of Jacobus Arminius. Editor, Gerald O. McCulloh
10. Preaching that Connects: Using Techniques of Journalists to Add Impact to Your Sermons by Mark Galli & Craig Brian Larson
11. Mr. Monk is Miserable by Lee Goldberg
12. The Garner Files, a Memoir by James Garner and Jon Winokur
13. The Pursuit of Holiness by Jerry Bridges
14. Discovering Christian Holiness: The Heart of Wesleyan-Holiness Theology by Diane Leclerc
15. Counterfeit Revival by Hank Hanegraaff
16. The Holy Spirit by J. Patout Burns and Father Gerald M. Fagin
17. After Nathaniel by Kristina Clemens
18. Columbo: The Helter Skelter Murders by William Harrington
19. Star Wars: Darth Plagueis by James Luceno
20
Son of a Wanted Man by Louis L'Amour
21. Fire in the Sky by Don Pendleton
22. The Disappearing Floor by Franklin W. Dixon
23. The Cost of Discipleship by Dietrich Bonhoeffer
24. Visioneering: God's Blueprint for Developing and Maintaining Vision by Andy Stanley
25. In My Time by Dick Cheney
26. Life With God: Reading the Bible for Spiritual Transformation by Richard Foster
27. Psalms: The Prayer Book of the Bible by Dietrich Bonhoeffer

 


Billy's Books 2012

1. 11/22/63
by Stephen King
2. Post-Apocalyptic Nomadic Warriors
by Benjamin Wallace
3. Duke Sucks
by Reed Tucker and Andy Bagwell
4. The Miseducation of Cameron Post
by Emily Danforth

Nathan's Books 2012

8. Difficult Loves by Italo Calvino
7. The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
6. The Sisters Brothers by Patrick DeWitt
5. The Book of Hours by Rainer Maria Rilke
4. All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy
3. A Place of My Own by Michael Pollan
2. Rashomon and Other Stories by Ryunosuke Akutagawa
1. Empire of the Summer Moon by S. C. Gwynne

Brent's Books 2012

50. The Elizabethan World Picture
E.M.W. Tillyard

49. Inventing English
 Seth Lerer

48. The Cambridge Introduction to Eighteenth Century Poetry
John Sitter

47. The Art of Civilized Conversation
Margaret Shephard

46. Scenes From An Impending Marriage
Adrian Tomine

45. Only Joking: What's So Funny About Making People Laugh?
Jimmy Carr / Lucy Greeves

44. Flight Behavior
Barbara Kingsolver

43. What Every Web Developer Should Know About HTTP
K. Scott Allen

42. Because You Have To
Joan Frank

41. And Now We Shall Do Manly Things
Craig J. Heimbuch

40. Reinventing Comics
Scott McCloud

39. The Tempest
William Shakespeare

28-38. The Reptile Room, The Wide Window, The Miserable Mill, The Austere Academy, The Ersatz Elevator, The Vile Village, The Hostile Hospital, The Carnivorous Carnival, The Slippery Slope, The Grim Grotto, The Penultimate Peril
Lemony Snicket

27. The Shakespeare Wars
Ron Rosenblum

26. The Professor and the Madman
Simon Winchester

25. The Bridge to San Luis Rey
Thornton Wilder

24. Congress of the Animals
Jim Woodring

23. The Good Pope
Greg Tobin

22. A Time Traveler's Guide to Medieval England
Ian Mortimer

21. Millie Fierce
Jane Manning

20. The Merchant of Venice
William Shakespeare

19. Looking for Alaska
John Green

18. The Last of the Innocent
Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips

17. The Postmortal
Drew Magary

16. Fast Food Nation
Eric Schlosser

15. The American Bible
 Stephen Prothero

14. You Never Give Me Your Money: The Beatles After the Breakup
Peter Doggett

13. Virgil and Beatrice
 Yann Martel

12. American Pastoral
Philip Roth

11. The Dip
Seth Godin

10. Babywise
Gary Ezzo

9. Hail to the Chief
Ed McBain

8. My Teacher Is An Alien
Bruce Coville

7. Shakespeare: The World As a Stage
Bill Bryson

6. Supergods
Grant Morrison

5. Island of the Blue Dolphins
Scott O'Dell

4. The Light Fantastic
Terry Pratchett

3. Coriolanus
William Shakespeare

2. Tractatus-Logico-Philosophicus
Ludwig Wittgenstein

1. Matilda
Roald Dahl

Christopher's Books 2012

55. VALIS
by Philip K. Dick
54. Middlemarch
by George Eliot
53. Flesh of My Flesh
by Kaja Silverman
52. Titus Andronicus
by William Shakespeare
51. Timon of Athens
by William Shakespeare
50. A Midsummer Night's Dream
by William Shakespeare
49. Faust
by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
48. Flight Behavior
by Barbara Kingsolver
47. The Merry Wives of Windsor
by William Shakespeare
46. The Last Temptation of Christ
by Nikos Kazantzakis
45. Henry VI, Part Two
by William Shakespeare
44. The Fifth Queen Crowned
by Ford Madox Ford
43. The Comedy of Errors
by William Shakespeare
42. Literary Theory: An Introduction
by Terry Eagleton
41. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
by Philip K. Dick
40. Introductory Lectures on Aesthetics
by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
39. The Namesake
by Jhumpa Lahiri
38. The Century
by Alain Badiou
37. The Cockatoos
by Patrick White
36. Call it Sleep
by Henry Roth
35. The Birth of Tragedy
by Friedrich Nietzsche
34. Sabbath's Theater
by Philip Roth
33. The Theory of the Novel
by Georg Lukacs
32. The Lost Books of the Odyssey
by Zachary Mason
31. Offshore
by Penelope Fitzgerald
30. Measure for Measure
by William Shakespeare
29. Anna Karenina
by Leo Tolstoy
28. The Confessions of Nat Turner
by William Styron
27. The Crying of Lot 49
by Thomas Pynchon
26. Privy Seal
by Ford Madox Ford
25. Summer
by Edith Wharton
24. Troilus and Cressida
by William Shakespeare
23. The Shakespeare Wars
by Ron Rosenbaum
22. Northanger Abbey
by Jane Austen
21. Miss Lonelyhearts
by Nathanael West
20. Henry IV, Part Two
by William Shakespeare
19. Jude the Obscure
by Thomas Hardy
18. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
by Carson McCullers
17. The Chosen
by Chaim Potok
16. Housekeeping
by Marilynne Robinson
15. Baudolino
by Umberto Eco
14. Never Let Me Go
by Kazuo Ishiguro
13. The Fifth Queen
by Ford Madox Ford
12. The Blue Flower
by Penelope Fitzgerald
11. Sister Carrie
by Theodore Dreiser
10. Their Eyes Were Watching God
by Zora Neale Hurston
9. Watership Down
by Richard Adams
8. Black Boy
by Richard Wright
7. Untimely Matter in the Time of Shakespeare
by Jonathan Gil Harris
6. Richard III
by William Shakespeare
5. Coriolanus
by William Shakespeare
4. Twelfth Night
by William Shakespeare
3. The Mandelbaum Gate
by Muriel Spark
2. Pride and Prejudice
by Jane Austen1. This Side of Paradise
by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Monday, January 2, 2006

Brent's Books 2019

Randy's Books 2019

(1) Folktales of Okinawa

(2) Strangers from a Different Shore: A History of Asian Americans
by Ronald Takaki

(3) My Year of Rest and Relaxation
by Otessa Moshfegh

(4) The Paris Review, No. 227, Winter 2018

(5) Orientalism
by Edward Said

(6) Monsignor Quixote
Graham Greene

(7) Gilead
by Marilynne Robinson

(8) The Paris Review, No. 228, Spring 2019

(9) The Company They Keep: How Partisan Divisions Came to the Supreme Court
by Neal Devins & Lawrence Baum

(10) The Sympathizer
by Viet Thanh Nguyen

(11) On Speaking Well: How to Give a Speech with Style, Substance, and Clarity
by Peggy Noonan

(12) Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
by J.K. Rowling
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(13) Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
by J.K. Rowling

(14) Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
by J.K. Rowling

(15) Oliver Wendell Holmes: A Life in War, Law, and Ideas
by Stephen Budiansky

(16) Semicolon: The Past, Present and Future of  a Misunderstood Mark
by Cecelia Watson

(17) Ohio
by Stephen Markley

(18) The Prestige
by Christopher Priest

(19) The Paris Review, No. 229, Summer 2019

(20) The Three-Body Problem
by Liu Cixin

(21) The Incendiaries
by R.O. Kwon

(22) A Dictionary of Color Combinations
by Sanzo Wada

(23) Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
by J.K. Rowling

(24) It's Not the How or the What but the Who: Succeed by Surrounding Yourself with the Best
by Claudio Fernandez-Araoz

(25) Rusty Brown
by Chris Ware

(26) The Leadership Pipeline: How to Build the Leadership Powered Company
by Ram Charan, Steve Drotter, Jim Noel

(27) The Little Blue Kite
by Mark Z. Danielewski

(28) Impeach: The Case Against Donald Trump
by Neal Katyal

(29) The Paris Review, No. 230, Fall 2019

(30) The Enigma of Clarence Thomas
by Corey Robin

Best of, 2019

John's Books 2019

Christopher's Books 2019

85. Ellen Foster
by Kaye Gibbons
84. Kristin Lavransdatter III: The Cross
by Sigrid Undset
83. Green Grass, Running Water
by Thomas King
82. Braiding Sweetgrass
by Robin Wall Kimmerer
81. Never Let Me Go
by Kazuo Ishiguro
80. Flights
by Olga Tokarczuk
79. Light in August
by William Faulkner
78. My Antonia
by Willa Cather
77. Gef! The Strange Tale of an Extra-Special Talking Mongoose
by Christopher Josiffe
76. Swamplandia!
by Karen Russell
75. The Catherine Wheel
by Jean Stafford
74. Lancelot
by Walker Percy
73. The Memory Police
by Yoko Ogawa
72. The Woman in the Dunes
by Kobo Abe
71. Trinity
by Louisa Hall
70. On the Beach
by Nevil Shute
69. The Devil's Knot: The True Story of the West Memphis Three
by Mara Leveritt
68. Station Eleven
by Emily St. John Mandel
67. City Primeval: High Noon in Detroit
by Elmore Leonard
66. Angels and Insects
by A. S. Byatt
65. Dr. Bloodmoney
by Philip K. Dick
64. Household Words
by Joan Silber
63. The Catcher in the Rye
by J. D. Salinger
62. Burger's Daughter
by Nadine Gordimer
61. The Screwtape Letters
by C. S. Lewis
60. Bird by Bird
by Anne Lamott
59. The Collected Stories
by Grace Paley
58. Outline
by Rachel Cusk
57. Friday Black
by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
56. Satan's Silence
by Debbie Nathan and Michael Snedeker
55. East of Eden
by John Steinbeck
54. Lakota Woman
by Mary Crow Dog
53. Native American Fiction: A User's Manual
by David Treuer
52. Jamaica Inn
by Daphne du Maurier
51. Snow Falling on Cedars
by David Guterson
50. Carpentaria
by Alexis Wright
49. The Songlines
by Bruce Chatwin
48. Stones for Ibarra
by Harriet Doerr
47. The Ice-Shirt
by William T. Vollmann
46. The Shipping News
by Annie Proulx
45. The Bird Artist
by Howard Norman
44. Island
by Alistair MacLeod
43. Republic of Lies
by Anna Merlan
42. The Fifth Season
by N. K. Jemisin
41. World of Wonders
by Robertson Davies
40. Eternal Life
by Dara Horn
39. St. Urbain's Horseman
by Mordecai Richler
38. Picnic at Hanging Rock
by Joan Lindsay
37. Middle Passage
by Charles Johnson
36. The Public Image
by Muriel Spark
35. Foucault's Pendulum
by Umberto Eco
34. The Love of a Good Woman
by Alice Munro
33. Angels
by Denis Johnson
32. Home
by Toni Morrison
31. The Land Breakers
by John Ehle
30. Bastard Out of Carolina
by Dorothy Allison
29. True History of the Kelly Gang
by Peter Carey
28. Veronica
by Mary Gaitskill
27. The Shadow of the Torturer
by Gene Wolfe
26. The Waves
by Virginia Woolf
25. The Lion of Boaz-Jachin and Jachin-Boaz
by Russell Hoban
24. Future Home of the Living God
by Louise Erdrich
23. The Eye of the Storm
by Patrick White
22. Thoughts in Solitude
by Thomas Merton
21. Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing
by May Sarton
20. The Hour of the Star
by Clarice Lispector
19. The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee
by David Treuer
18. Steering the Craft
by Ursula K. Le Guin
17. Milkman
by Anna Burns
16. House Made of Dawn
by N. Scott Momaday
15. The Sound of Waves
by Yukio Mishima
14. The Story of a New Name
by Elena Ferrante
13. There There
by Tommy Orange
12. The Ten Thousand Things
by Maria Dermout
11. Fools Crow
by James Welch
10. Clock Without Hands
by Carson McCullers
9. Libra
by Don DeLillo
8. American Indian Stories, Legends, and Other Writings
by Zitkala-Sa
7. Barabbas
by Par Lagerkvist
6. Florida
by Lauren Groff
5. Burning Down the House
by Charles Baxter
4. Love Medicine
by Louise Erdrich
3. The Sympathizer
by Viet Thanh Nguyen
2. Not All Dead White Men
by Donna Zuckerberg
1. Tree of Smoke
by Denis Johnson

Chloe's Books 2019

1. Hiddensee by Gregory Maguire
2. Milkman by Anna Burns
3. Asymmetry by Lisa Halliday
4. Pride by Ibi Zoboi
5. Educated by Tara Westover
6. You Think It, I'll Say It by Curtis Sittenfeld
7. Paris by the Book by Liam Callanan
8. The Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin
9. The Dreamers by Karen Thompson Walker
10. Daring Greatly by Brene Brown
11. The Incendiaries by R.O. Kwon
12. Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
13. Number One Chinese Restaurant by Lillian Li
14. Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie
15. Crib Sheet by Emily Oster
16. How to Raise a Boy: The Power of Connection to Build Good Men by Michael Reichert
17. This is How it Always Is by Laurie Frankel
18. There There by Tommy Orange
19. Good to Go by Christie Aschwanden
20. The Hotel at the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford
21. The Circle by Dave Eggers
22. Barrier Island by CHRISTOPHER CHILTON
23. Longbourn by Jo Baker
24. The Amateur Marriage by Anne Tyler
25. The Golden State by Lydia Kiesling
26. Goodbye Vitamin by Rachel Khong
27. The Testaments by Margaret Atwood
28. New and Selected Poems by Mary Oliver
29. On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong
30. Virgil Wander by Leif Enger
31. The Revisioners by Margaret Wilkerson Sexton
32. American Street by Ibi Zoboi
34. Dare to Lead by Brene Brown
35. Fleishman is in Trouble by Taffy Brodesser-Akner
36. The Captain and the Glory by Dave Eggers





Brittany's Books 2019

(my keyboard is currently stuck as a Spanish keyboard, so please pardon any typos)

Brittany´s Top Books of 2019

67. Borderlands / La Frontera: The New Mestiza - Gloria E. Anzaldúa
66. Trust Exercises - Susan Choi
65. Permanent Record - Mary H. K. Choi
64. Mostly Dead Things - Kristen Arnett
63. Her Body and Other Parties - Carmen Maria Macahdo
62. La Selección - Kiera Cass (translated by Jorge Medina Rizzo)
61. Yaqui Delgado Wants to Kick Your Ass - Meg Medina
60. Where the Dead Sit Talking - Brandon Hobson
59. The Book of Unknown Americans - Cristina Henríquez
58. Witchmark - C. L. Polk
57. The Bride Test - Helen Hoang
56. When Katie Met Cassidy - Camille Perry
55. A Prince on Paper - Alyssa Cole
54. Red, White, and Royal Blue - Casey McQuiston
53. Once Ghosted, Twice Shy - Alyssa Cole
52. The Right Swipe - Alisha Rai
51. Maid - Stephanie Land
50. Can´t Escape Love - Alyssa Cole
49. A Duke by Default - Alyssa Cole
48. A Bollywood Affair - Sonali Dev
47. The Kiss Quotient - Helen Hoang
46. The Wedding Party - Jasmine Guillory
45. It´s Not Like It´s a Secret - Misa Sugiura
44. First and Then - Emma Mills
43. Austenland - Shannon Hale
42. Text Me When You Get Home - Kayleen Schaefer
41. Love Sugar Magic - Anna Meriano
40. Little and Lion - Brandy Colbert
39. One Day In December - Josie Silver
38. Twilight - Stephenie Meyer (I was in Forks, Washington - give me a break!)
37. Friday Black - Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
36. Little Fires Everywhere - Celeste Ng
35. All You Can Ever Know - Nicole Chung
34. I´ll Give You The Sun - Jandy Nelson
33. Sorry Please Thank You - Charles Yu
32. Huck and Holden - Rajiv Joseph
31. Bingo Love - Tee Franklin
30. Pride - Ibi Zoboi
29. The Displaced - edited by Viet Than Nguyen
28. House of the Spirits - Isabel Allende
27. Longbourn - Jo Baker
26. Unmarriageable - Soniah Kamal
25. Eligible - Curtis Sittenfeld
24. Educated - Tara Westover
23. The Proposal - Jasmine Guillory
22. The Wedding Date - Jasmine Guillory
21. Good Talk - Mira Jacob
20. On the Come Up - Angie Thomas
19. Merci Suárez Changes Gears - Meg Medina
18. What It Means When a Man Falls From The Sky - Lesley Nneka Arimah
17. Lost Children Archive - Valeria Luiselli
16. Friend and Foe - Adam Galinsky and Maurice Schweitzer
15. Darius the Great Is Not Okay - Adib Khorram
14. Bone Gap - Laura Ruby
13. The Leavers - Lisa Ko
12. The Day the World Came to Town - Jim DeFede
11. Becoming - Michelle Obama
10. Gabi: A Girl In Pieces - Isabel Quintero
9. Battleborn - Claire Vaye Watkins
8. Building Stories - Chris Ware
7. My Year of Rest and Relaxation - Ottessa Moshfegh
6. Citizen Illegal -  José Olivarez
5. Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race - Reni Eddo-Lodge
4. Everything, Everything - Nicola Yoon
3. Booked - Kwame Alexander
2. Men Explain Things to Me - Rebecca Solnit
1. Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi

Brent's Books 2019

78. Some Stories
Clarice Lispector

77. Grand Hotel
Vicki Baum

76. The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee
David Treuer

75. Meridian
Alice Walker

74. David's Story
Zoe Witcomb

73. Samson Agonistes
John Milton

72. Paradise Regained
John Milton

71. Jeremiah: Pain and Promise
Kathleen O'Conner

70. Thank You, Jeeves
P. G. Wodehouse

69. Endless Night
Agatha Christie

68. Very Good, Jeeves
P. G. Wodehouse

67. Milkman
Anna Burns

66. Right Ho, Jeeves
P. G. Wodehouse

65. Learning to Pray
Fr. Anthony Bloom

64. Code of the Woosters
P. G. Wodehouse

63. The Antelope Woman
Lousie Erdrich

62. Assassin's Apprentice
Robin Hobb

61. Event Factory
Renee Gladman

60. 99 Stories of God
Joy Williams

59. To the Lighthouse
Virginia Woolf

58. The Taiga Syndrome
Cristina Rivera Garza

57. Jesus' Son
Denis Johnson

56. The Moons of Jupiter
Alice Munro

55. Lost in the Cosmos: The Last Self-Help Book
Walker Percy

54. Jesus' Son
Denis Johnson

53. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
Dee Brown

52. The Arm of the Starfish
Madeline L'Engle

51. Men Explain Things to Me
Rebecca Solnit

50. Outline
Rachel Cusk

49. On the Resurrection of the Soul (Popular Patristics)
Gregory of Nyssa

48. Capitalism v. Freedom: The Toll Road to Serfdom
Rob Larson

47. Thinking About God
Dorothee Sölle

46. Paradise Lost
John Milton

45. Sikhism: A Very Short Introduction
Eleanor Nesbitt

44. July's People
Nadine Gordimer

43. Bread in the Wilderness
Thomas Merton

42. Uncovering Paul's Women
Lucy Peppiat

41. Sing, Unburied, Sing
Jesmyn Ward

40. Orlando: A Biography
Virginia Woolf

39. The Death of Napoleon
Simon Leys

38. At the End of the Century: Stories
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

37. Passage to India
E. M. Forster

36. Parenting Forward: How to Raise Kids With Justice, Mercy, and Kindness
Cindy Wang Brandt

35. The Emmisary
Yoko Tawada

34. The Crucifixion: Understanding the Death of Jesus
Fleming Rutledge

33. Texts of Terror: Literary Feminists Readings of the Old Testament
Phylis Trible

32. Hallelujah Anyway: Reflections on Mercy
Anne LaMott

31. The Bone Clocks
David Mitchell

30. A Collapse of Horses: A Collection of Stories
Brian Evenson

29. Finding God Among Our Neighbors
Kristen Johnston Largen

28. Down Girl
Kate Manne

27. It Doesn't Have to Be Crazy at Work
Jason Freid and David Hanneman Hanson

26. The Chrysalids
John Wenham

25. Train Dreams
Denis Johnson

24. Feminist Theology
Elizabeth Watson

23. Forsaken: The Cross, the Trinity, and Why It Matters
Tom McCall

22. The Diary of a Young Girl
Anne Frank

21. Paul Among the People
Sarah Ruden

20. Malacqua
Nicola Pugliese

19. New Seeds of Contemplation
Thomas Merton

18. The Trinity and the Kingdom
Jurgen Moltmann

17. Ariel
Sylvia Plath

16. Iza's Ballad
Magda Szabó

15. The Ballad of Peckham Rye
Muriel Spark

14. The Violins of Saint-Jaques
Patrick Leigh Fermer

13. The Rhetoric of Reaction
Albert O. Hirshman

12. My Mortal Enemy
Willa Cather

11. Utopia for Realists
Rutger Bregman

10. The Mountain Lion
Jean Stafford

9. The Story of a Name
Elena Ferrante

8. The Go-Between
L. P. Hartley

7. Wuthering Heights
Emily Brontë

6. A Far Cry From Kensington
Muriel Spark

5. Fathers and Sons
Ivan Turgenev

4. Breathing Underwater
Richard Rohr

3. 1 and 2 Thessalonians
Beverly Roberts-Gaventa

2. Possession
A. S. Byatt

1. The Inescapable Love of God
Thomas Talbott

Billy's Books 2019

1. The Book of Speculation
by Erika Swyler

2. I Totally Meant to Do That
by Jane Borden

3. Thanks, Obama
by David Litt

4. Exit West
by Mohsin Hamid

5. His Favorites
by Kate Walbert

6. Rabbit
by Patricia Williams

7. Little Fires Everywhere
by Celeste Ng

8. Georgia Peaches and Other Forbidden Fruit
by Jaye Robin Brown

9. Born a Crime
by Trevor Noah

10. Women
by Chloe Caldwell

11. Leaving Atlanta
by Tayari Jones

12. The Female Persuasion
by Meg Wolitzer

13. They Both Die at the End
by Adam Silvera

14. Faith Unraveled: How a Girl Who Knew All the Answers Learned to Ask Questions
by Rachel Held Evans

15. So You Want to Talk About Race
by Ijeoma Oluo

16. Someone Was Here
by George Whitmore

17. March (Book 1)
by John Lewis and Andrew Aydin

18. The Reluctant Fundamentalist
by Mohsin Hamid

19. Shameless
by Nadia Bolz-Weber

20. Say Nothing
by Patrick Radden Keefe

21. Ash
by Malinda Lo

22. A River in Darkness: One Man's Escape from North Korea
by Masaji Ishikawa

23. Normal People
by Sally Rooney

24. Washington Black
by Esi Edugyan

25. Red, White & Royal Blue
by Casey McQuiston

26. Less
by Andrew Sean Greer

27. Queer Intentions
by Amelia Abraham

28. The Importance of Being Earnest
by Oscar Wilde

29. All Out: The No Longer Secret Stories of Queer Teens Throughout the Ages
edited by Saundra Mitchell

30. George
by Alex Gino

31. What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Blacker
by Damon Young

32. Milk and Honey
by Rupi Kaur

33. The Wedding Date
by Jasmine Guillory

34. In the Heat of the Light
by Stephen Kearse

35. The Overdue Life of Amy Byler
by Kelly Harms

36. Real Queer America
by Samantha Allen

37. Down to the Last Pitch
by Tim Wendel

38. Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
by Fannie Flagg

39. The Mothers
by Brit Bennett

40. Honeymoon for One
by Keira Andrews

41. Impeachment: A Citizen's Guide
by Cass Sunstein

42. Calypso
by David Sedaris

43. Scrappy Little Nobody
by Anna Kendrick

44. When Katie Met Cassidy
by Camille Perri

45. Becoming Nicole
by Amy Ellis Nutt

46. My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness
by Kabi Nagata

47. On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
by Ocean Vuong

48. Into the Woods
by Tana French

49. This America: The Case for the Nation
by Jill Lepore

50. The Likeness
by Tana French

Randy's Books 2022

(1) Hannah Arendt
by Samantha Rose Hill

(2) The Paris Review, Summer 2021, No. 237

(3) Making Habeas Work: A Legal History
by Eric M. Freedman

(4) Judging Statutes
by Robert A. Katzman

Caitlin's Books 2022

Brent's Books 2022

1. Joy in the Morning
P. G. Wodehouse

2. Lolly Willowes
Sylvia Townsend Warner

3. The God Who Sees
Karen Gonzales

4. Too Loud a Solitude
Borumil Hrabal

5. The House on Mango Street
Sandra Cisneros

6. Being Consumed: Economics and Christian Desire
William T. Cavanaugh

7. The Tao Te Ching
Lao Tzu (trans. Brian Browne Walker)

8. Abandon
Sangeeta Bandyopadhyay (tran. by Arunava Sinha)

9. The Fugitive (tran. Willem Samuels)
Pramoedya Ananta Toer

10. This Book Is For You: I Hope You Find It Mildly Uplifting
Worry Lines

11. Bible of the Oppressed
Elsa Tamez

12. Exactly As You Are: The Life and Faith of Mister Rogers
Shea Tuttle

13. Madman at Kilifi
Clifton Gachagua

14. The Weary Blues
Langston Hughes

15. Harrow
Joy Williams

16. Season of Migration to the North
Tayeb Salih

17. Returning
Henry Green

18. Jesus Christ and Mythology
Rudolf Bultmann

19. The Art of Asking Your Boss For a Raise
Georges Perec

20. Imaginary Museums
Nicolette Polek

21. Thirst
Amélie Nothomb

22. The Cabinet
Kim Un-su

23. Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont
Elizabeth Taylor

24. Sonnets from the Portuguese
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

25. Multiple Choice
Alejandro Zambra

26. On Juneteenth
Annette Gordon-Reed

27. Father Abraham's Children: The Bible In a World of Religious Difference
Tyler D. Mayer

28. Rabbit 8
George Saunders

29. The Mandlebaum Gate
Muriel Spark

30. The Age of Cage
Keith Phipps

31. St. Sebastian's Abyss
Mark Haber

32. McGlue
Otessa Mosfegh

33. Crucifixion
Martin Hengel

34. The Silence
Don DeLillo

35. An Introduction to Womanist Biblical Interpretation
Nyasha Junior

36. Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay
Elena Ferrante

37. A Psalm for the Wild-Built
Becky Chambers

38. Devil House
John Darnielle

39. The Doloriad
Missouri Williams

40. The Aenid
Virgil, trans. Sarah Ruden

41. A Ghost in the Throat
Doireann Ni Ghriofa

42. Catch a Wave: The Rise, Fall, and Redemption of the Beach Boys’ Brian Wilson
Peter Ames Carlin

43. The Fifties
David Halberstam

44. When Women Kill
Alia Trabucco Zeran, trans. Sophie Hughes

45. McMindfulness: How Mindfulness Became the New Capitalist Spirituality
Ronald E. Purser

46. Open Secrets
Alice Munro

47. A Farewell to Arms
Ernest Hemingway

48. Forty Stories
Donald Barthelme

49. Your Brain’s Not Broken
Tamara Rosier, Ph. D.

50. A Prayer for the Crown Shy
Becky Chambers

51. The Republic
Plato

52. Evangelical Anxiety
Charles Marsh

53. A Wizard of Earthsea
Ursula K. LeGuin

54. Before Freedom: When I Just Can Remember
Various, Edited by Belinda Hurmence

55. Short Stories by Jesus: The Enigmatic Parables of a Controversial Rabbi
Amy Jill-Levine
 
56. Siddhartha
Herman Hesse 

57. The Magician's Elephant
Kate DiCamillo

58. Exercises in Style
Raymond Queneau
 
59. God's Country
Percival Everett
 
60. Distant Star
Roberto Bolaño
 
61. No One Is Talking About This
Patricia Lockwood
 
62. Spadework for a Palace
László Krasznahorkai 
 
63. The Cave and the Light: Plato Versus Aristotle, and the Struggle for the Soul of Western Civilization
Arthur Herman
 
64. Free Day
Inez Cagnati



Billy's Books 2022

1. Packing for Mars
by Mary Roach

2. Polar Vortex
by Shani Mootoo

3. Fuzz 
by Mary Roach

4. The House in the Cerulean Sea
by T.J. Klune

5. Homie
by Danez Smith

6. A Dream of a Woman
by Casey Plett

7. She Kills Me
by Jennifer Wright

8. 100 Boyfriends
by Brontez Purnell

9. Tunnel 29
by Helena Merriman

10. Messy Roots
by Laura Gao

11. Dead Wake
by Erik Larson

12. Sarahland
by Sam Cohen

13. They Said They Wanted Revolution
by Neda Toloui-Semnani

14. Filthy Animals
by Brandon Taylor

15. I Kissed Shara Wheeler
by Casey McQuiston

16. Witch Please
by Ann Aguirre

17. The Left Hand of Darkness
by Ursula K. Le Guin

18. Swimming in the Dark
by Tomasz Jedrowski

19. Read Between the Lines
by Rachel Lacey

20. The Chosen and the Beautiful
by Nghi Vo

21. Gender Euphoria
by Laura Kate Dale

22. Nevada
by Imogen Binnie

23. How the Word is Passed
by Clint Smith III

24. Bolla
by Pajtim Statovci

25. Hot Stew
by Fiona Mozley

26. Lie With Me
by Philippe Besson

27. Intimacies
by Katie Kitamura

28. Husband Material
by Alexis Hall

29. By Way of Sorrow
by Robyn Gigl

30. Love Lives Here
by Amanda Jette Knox

31. Northern Spy
by Flynn Berry

32. Memorial
by Bryan Washington

33. Native Country of the Heart
by Cherrie Moraga

34. Satisfaction Guaranteed
by Karlia Stetz-Waters

35. Unfortunate Elements of My Anatomy
by Hailey Piper

36. Happy Go Lucky
by David Sedaris

37. Payback's a Witch
by Lana Harper

38. Guncle
by Steven Rowley

39. M is for Monster
by Talia Dutton

40. Amora
by Natalia Borges Polesso

41. Manhunt
by Gretchen Felker-Martin

42. Fairy Tale
by Stephen King

Brittany's Books 2022

Christopher's Books 2022

110. The Passenger
by Cormac McCarthy
109. The Cross
by Sigrid Undset
108. A Maze of Death
by Philip K. Dick
107. A Curtain of Green
by Eudora Welty
106. Deep South
by Paul Theroux
105. The Scapegoat
by Daphne du Maurier
104. The Lathe of Heaven
by Ursula K. Le Guin
103. Divine Invasions
by Lawrence Sutin
102. What's Bred in the Bone
by Robertson Davies
101. Two Girls, Fat and Thin
by Mary Gaitskill
100. Six Walks
by Ben Shattuck
99. The Wedding
by Dorothy West
98. The Ministry of Fear
by Graham Greene
97. Beka Lamb
by Zee Edgell
96. Invitation to a Beheading
by Vladimir Nabokov
95. My Phantoms
by Gwendoline Riley
94. Guerrillas
by V. S. Naipaul
93. Infinity in the Palm of Her Hand
by Gioconda Belli
92. This Earth of Mankind
by Pramoedya Ananta Toer
91. A View of the Harbour
by Elizabeth Taylor
90. The Park and the People
by Roy Rosenzwieg and Elizabeth Blackmar
89. Mr. Beethoven
by Paul Griffiths
88. Our Lady of the Nile
by Scholastique Mukasonga
87. A Kindness Cup
by Thea Astley
86. The Topeka School
by Ben Lerner
85. The Wichita Lineman
by Dylan Jones
84. Gorilla, My Love
by Toni Cade Bambara
83. Awake
by Harald Voetmann
82. Birds of America
by Mary McCarthy
81. This Blinding Absence of Light
by Tahar Ben Jelloun
80. Yonnondio
by Tillie Olsen
79. The Organs of Sense
by Adam Ehrlich Sachs
78. Little Eyes
by Samantha Schweblin
77. Devil House
by John Darnielle
76. Even As We Breathe
by Annette Saunooke Clapsaddle
75. Jesus and John Wayne
by Kristin Kobes Du Mez
74. When Rain Clouds Gather
by Bessie Head
73. Europe Central
by William T. Vollmann
72. As I Lay Dying
by William Faulkner
71. High Tide
by Inga Abele
70. Fiskadoro
by Denis Johnson
69. Painting Time
by Maylis de Kerangal
68. Blindness
by Henry Green
67. Run River
by Joan Didion
66. The Little Town Where Time Stood Still
by Bohumil Hrabal
65. The Cost of Living
by Mavis Gallant
64. Northland
by Porter Fox
63. Too Much Happiness
by Alice Munro
62. Explosion in a Cathedral
by Alejandro Carpentier
61. Wild Souls
by Emma Marris
60. Lonesome Dove
by Larry McMurtry
59. Nobody Gets Out Alive
by Leigh Newman
58. Adventures in the Alaskan Skin Trade
by John Hawkes
57. The Unpassing
by Chia-Chia Lin
56. The Citadel of the Autarch
by Gene Wolfe
55. The Pickup
by Nadine Gordimer
54. God's Bits of Wood
by Sembene Ousmane
53. The Lover
by Marguerite Duras
52. Brotherhood
by Mohamed Mbougar Sarr
51. Consider This, Senora
by Harriet Doerr
50. Earthworks Rising
by Chadwick Allen
49. Shell Shaker
by LeAnne Howe
48. Memoirs of Many in One
by Patrick White
47. Desperate Characters
by Paula Fox
46. Driftless
by David Rhodes
45. Breaking and Entering
by Joy Williams
44. The Red Badge of Courage
by Stephen Crane
43. March
by Geraldine Brooks
42. The Diary of a Country Priest
by George Bernanos
41. The Lying Life of Adults
by Elena Ferrante
40. Anagrams
by Lorrie Moore
39. Afterparties
by Anthony Veasna So
38. One of Ours
by Willa Cather
37. Gods Without Men
by Hari Kunzru
36. Storm
by George R. Stewart
35. Lost Children Archive
by Valeria Luiselli
34. Saint Sebastian's Abyss
by Mark Haber
33. Versailles
by Kathryn Davis
32. House Made of Dawn
by N. Scott Momaday
31. Voices from Chernobyl
by Svetlana Alexievich
30. The Use of Man
by Aleksandar Tisma
29. La Bastarda
by Trifonia Melibea Obono
28. Paradise
by Abdulrazak Gurnah
27. Celestial Bodies
by Jokha Alharthi
26. The Villagers
by Jorge Icaza
25. The Tragic and Wondrous Life of Ivan and Ivana
by Maryse Conde
24. The Day Lasts More Than a Hundred Years
by Chingiz Aitmatov
23. The Bridegroom Was a Dog
by Yoko Tawada
22. Search History
by Eugene Lim
21. Under the Sea Wind
by Rachel Carson
20. On Lighthouses
by Jazmina Barrera
19. Pedro Paramo
by Juan Rulfo
18. Winter in Sokcho
by Elisa Shua Dusapin
17. The Old Gringo
by Carlos Fuentes
16. Annie John
by Jamaica Kincaid
15. The Pilgrim Hawk
by Glenway Wescott
14. Hoarders
by Kate Durbin
13. When We Cease to Understand the World
by Benjamin Labatut
12. Heaven
by Mieko Kawakami
11. Not to Disturb
by Muriel Spark
10. White Noise
by Don DeLillo
9. The Death of Jim Loney
by James Welch
8. An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States
by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
7. My Heart is a Chainsaw
by Stephen Graham Jones
6. Solar Storms
by Linda Hogan
5. Sacred Smokes
by Theo C. Van Alst Jr.
4. The Antelope Wife
by Louise Erdrich
3. Prudence
by David Treuer
2. Ceremony
by Leslie Marmon Silko
1. J R
by William Gaddis