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2010

• Batwoman: Elegy by J.H. Williams III and Greg Rucka
• Poe's Children: The New Horror by Peter Straub
• The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle
• Ten Great Mysteries by Edgar Allan Poe
• The Invincible Iron Man Volume 2: World's Most Wanted Book 1 by Matt Fraction, Frank D'Armata, and Salvador Larroca
• Patsy Walker: Hellcat by John Rauch, Natalie Lanphear, Kathryn Immonen, David Lafuente, Stuart Immonen, and David Lanphear
• The Waters & the Wild by Francesca Lia Block
• Dark Reign: Young Avengers by Paul Cornell and Mark Brooks
• The Mighty Avengers Vol. 6: The Unspoken by Dan Slott and Khoi Pham
• The Sign of Four by Arthur Conan Doyle
• Nomad: Girl Without a World by Ed Brubaker, Rafael Albuquerque, Sean McKeever, and David Baldeón
• The Mighty Avengers Vol. 4: Secret Invasion Vol. 2 by Brian Michael Bendis, Lee Weeks, Steve Kurth, Carlo Pagulayan, Khoi Pham, Stefano Caselli, and Jim Cheung
• The Invincible Iron Man Volume 1: The Five Nightmares by Matt Fraction, Frank D'Armata, and Salvador Larroca
• The Mighty Avengers Vol. 5: Earth's Mightiest by Dan Slott, Rafa Sandoval, Stephen Segovia, and Khoi Pham
• American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang
• Good Night, Mr. Holmes by Carole Nelson Douglas
• World's Finest by Fernando Dagnino, Gerry Conway, Julián López, Ramón F. Bachs, Jamal Igle, Sterling Gates, Geoff Johns, and Phil Noto
• Red Robin Vol. 1: The Grail by Art Thibert, Ramón F. Bachs, Christopher Yost
• The Traveling Death and Resurrection Show by Ariel Gore
• Native Guard by Natasha Trethewey
• A Grief Observed by C.S. Lewis
• Atlas of the Human Heart by Ariel Gore
• The Pursuit of Love & Love in a Cold Climate by Nancy Mitford
• The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
• Daisy Miller by Henry James
• The Tiger in the Well by Philip Pullman
• The Tin Princess by Philip Pullman
• London: The Biography by Peter Ackroyd
• The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century by Alex Ross
• Batgirl Volume 1: Batgirl Rising by Bryan Q. Miller, Cully Hamner, Trevor Scott, Lee Garbett, Phil Noto
• Scott Pilgrim's Finest Hour by Bryan Lee O'Malley
• New Manners for New Times : A Complete Guide to Etiquette by Letitia Baldrige
• Life in the Iron Mills and Other Stories by Rebecca Harding Davis
• Henry VI Part 1 by William Shakespeare
• King Henry VI Part 3 by William Shakespeare
• Making Sense of Taste: Food & Philosophy by Carolyn Korsmeyer
• Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser
• Anthills of the Savannah by Chinua Achebe
• King Henry VI Part 2 by William Shakespeare
• Our Sister Killjoy by Ama Ata Aidoo
• The Turn of the Screw & In the Cage by Henry James
• A God Somewhere by Peter Snejbjerg, John Arcudi
• The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man by James Weldon Johnson
• Desertion by Abdulrazak Gurnah
• Ancestor Stones by Aminatta Forna
• The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
• Summer by Edith Wharton
• King Henry IV Part 1 by William Shakespeare
• Maps by Nuruddin Farah
• Richard III by William Shakespeare
• Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
• A Historical Guide to Edith Wharton by Carol J. Singley
• Richard II by William Shakespeare
• Batgirl Volume 2: The Flood by Bryan Q. Miller, Pere Pérez, Trevor Scott, Lee Garbett
• Henry IV Part 2 by William Shakespeare
• Edith Wharton and the Politics of Race by Jennie A. Kassanoff
• July's People by Nadine Gordimer
• Henry V by William Shakespeare
• The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
• The Blessing by Nancy Mitford
• After Claude by Iris Owens
• Passing by Nella Larsen
• Walks with Men by Ann Beattie
• The Tempest by William Shakespeare
• The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare
• Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare (reread)
• Macbeth by Gareth Hinds
• Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare (reread)

2011

• Sula by Toni Morrison
• Sesame and Lilies by John Ruskin
• Melville: His World and Work by Andrew Delbanco
• My Dog Tulip by J.R. Ackerley
• Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life by Herman Melville
• The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
• Redburn by Herman Melville
• Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson
• "Goblin Market" by Christina Rossetti
• Moby-Dick by Herman Melville
• King Solomon's Mines by H. Rider Haggard
• The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë
• Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
• Tracks by Louise Erdrich
• Batgirl Volume 3: The Lesson by Dustin Nguyen, Bryan Q. Miller, Pere Pérez, Derek Fridolfs
• Gallia by Menie Muriel Dowie
• The Gate to Women's Country by Sheri S. Tepper
• Alternative Alcott (The American Women Writers) by Louisa May Alcott
• The Confidence-Man by Herman Melville
• Dracula by Bram Stoker
• Imperial Leather: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in the Colonial Contest by Anne McClintock
• The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
• Pierre; or, The Ambiguities by Herman Melville
• Love and Eugenics in the Late Nineteenth Century: Rational Reproduction and the New Woman by Angelique Richardson
• The Custom of the Country by Edith Wharton
• Green Lantern Corps: Recharge by Patrick Gleason, Christian Alamy, Geoff Johns, Dave Gibbons
• Batman: R.I.P. by Alex Sinclair, Sandu Florea, Guy Major, Alex Ross, Grant Morrison, Trevor Scott, Randy Gentile, Tony S. Daniel, Jared K. Fletcher, Lee Garbett, Nick J. Napolitano
• Batman: Knight and Squire by Paul Cornell, Staz Johnson, Jimmy Broxton
• All-Star Superman Vol. 1 by Frank Quitely, Grant Morrison
• Batman: Whatever Happened to the Caped Crusader? by Mark Buckingham, Andy Kubert, Simon Bisley, Bernie Mireault, Neil Gaiman, Matt Wagner
• All-Star Superman Vol. 2 by Frank Quitely, Grant Morrison
• The Uncanny by Sigmund Freud
• American Gothic Fiction: An Introduction by Allan Lloyd Smith
• The Voyage Out by Virginia Woolf
• Graduate Study for the Twenty-First Century: How to Build an Academic Career in the Humanities by Gregory M. Colon Semenza
• Virginia Woolf by Hermione Lee
• Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction by Jonathan D. Culler
• Edgar Huntly or, Memoirs of a Sleep-Walker by Charles Brockden Brown
• Nice Big American Baby by Judy Budnitz
• The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Robert S. Levine
• The Ghost Stories of Edith Wharton by Edith Wharton
• Moments of Being: A Collection of Autobiographical Writing by Virginia Woolf
• "The Jolly Corner" by Henry James
• To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
• Literary Theory: A Guide for the Perplexed by Mary Klages
• Literary Theory: An Anthology by Julie Rivkin, Michael Ryan
• The Magazine Novels of Pauline Hopkins (including Hagar's Daughter, Winona, and of One Blood) by Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins
• Orlando by Virginia Woolf
• Teaching Literature by Elaine Showalter
• Ugly Feelings by Sianne Ngai
• Gentlemen Prefer Blondes and But Gentlemen Marry Brunettes by Anita Loos
• Innocence and Rapture: The Erotic Child in Pater, Wilde, James, and Nabokov by Kevin Ohi

2012

• Avengers Academy Volume 3: Second Semester by Christos Gage, Tom Raney, Sean Chen, Tom Grummett
• The Wild & Weedy Apothecary by Doreen Shababy
• Avengers Academy Volume 1: Permanent Record by Mike McKone, Christos Gage
• Fear Itself: Avengers Academy by Andrea Di Vito, Christos Gage, Tom Raney, Sean Chen
• Strong Poison by Dorothy L. Sayers
• Fear Itself: Youth In Revolt by Mike Norton, Sean McKeever, Paul Mounts, Giuseppe Camuncoli
• The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
• Avengers Vol. 1 by Brian Michael Bendis, John Romita Jr.
• Quicksand and Passing by Nella Larsen
• Edith Wharton by Hermione Lee
• A Study in Sherlock: Stories Inspired by the Holmes Canon by S.J. Rozan, Jerry Margolin, Jan Burke, Phillip Margolin, Lionel Chetwynd, Dana Stabenow, Margaret Maron, Jacqueline Winspear, Colin Cotterill, Charles Todd, Gayle Lynds, Alan Bradley, Lee Child, Leslie S. Klinger, Tony Broadbent, John Sheldon, Neil Gaiman, Laurie R. King, Laura Lippman, Thomas Perry
• Avengers Academy Volume 2: Will We Use This in the Real World? by Mike McKone, Christos Gage
• The Mother's Recompense by Edith Wharton
• Secret Avengers Volume 1: Mission to Mars by Mike Deodato, Ed Brubaker, David Aja, Dave Lanphear, Will Conrad, Stefano Gaudiano, José Villarrubia, Michael Lark, Rain Beredo, Marko Djurdjevic
• The Affect Theory Reader by Melissa Gregg, Gregory J. Seigworth
• Secret Avengers: Run the Mission, Don't Get Seen, Save the World by Jamie McKelvie, Stuart Immonen, David Aja, Kev Walker, Warren Ellis, Alex Maleev, Michael Lark
• Secret Avengers Volume 2: Eyes of the Dragon by Mike Deodato, Ed Brubaker, Will Conrad, Rain Beredo
• Anita Loos Rediscovered: Film Treatments and Fiction by Anita Loos, Creator of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes by Anita Loos, Cari Beauchamp
• Kiss Hollywood Goodbye by Anita Loos
• The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
• Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins
• Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins
• Swamplandia! by Karen Russell
• A New Culture of Learning by Douglas Thomas, John Seely Brown
• Flags in the Dust by William Faulkner
• The Mysterious Stranger by Mark Twain
• The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
• Collected Stories by William Faulkner
• The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain
• Roughing It by Mark Twain
• Light in August by William Faulkner
• Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain
• As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
• Sanctuary by William Faulkner
• Mark Twain On The Loose: A Comic Writer And The American Self by Bruce Michelson
• The Unvanquished by William Faulkner
• Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner
• A Tramp Abroad by Mark Twain
• Go Down, Moses by William Faulkner
• The Hamlet by William Faulkner
• A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain

2013

• Shame and Its Sisters by Silvan S. Tomkins
• London Journal 1762-1763 by James Boswell
• The Cultural Politics of Emotion by Sara Ahmed
• Selected Poems by Robert Lowell
• The Collected Prose by Elizabeth Bishop
• Poems by Elizabeth Bishop
• The Common Reader by Virginia Woolf
• Against Interpretation and Other Essays by Susan Sontag
• Journals and Letters by Frances Burney
• Elizabeth Bishop: Life and the Memory of It by Brett C. Millier
• Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
• The Life of Samuel Johnson by James Boswell
• One Art by Elizabeth Bishop
• Edgar Allan Poe & The Juke-Box: Uncollected Poems, Drafts, and Fragments by Elizabeth Bishop
• Elizabeth Bishop and The New Yorker: The Complete Correspondence by Elizabeth Bishop
• Bluets by Maggie Nelson
• Something Bright, Then Holes by Maggie Nelson
• Women, the New York School, and Other True Abstractions by Maggie Nelson
• Selected Poems by John Ashbery
• The Selected Letters by Marianne Moore
• Complete Poems by Marianne Moore
• The Day of the Locust by Nathanael West

2014

• Memoirs of Emma Courtney by Mary Hays
• Letters Written During a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway and Denmark by Mary Wollstonecraft
• Shadowed Dreams: Women's Poetry of the Harlem Renaissance by Maureen Honey
• Timebound by Rysa Walker
• Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving by Pete Walker
• Show Boat by Edna Ferber
• How to Keep a Naturalist's Notebook by Susan Leigh Tomlinson
• The Art of Cruelty: A Reckoning by Maggie Nelson
• Reservation Blues by Sherman Alexie
• The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
• The Lost Lunar Baedeker by Mina Loy
• Equal Rites by Terry Pratchett
• In Our Time by Ernest Hemingway
• Holding On Upside Down: The Life and Work of Marianne Moore by Linda Leavell
• Jazz by Toni Morrison
• The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry by Walter Pater
• The Italian by Ann Radcliffe
• Jane Austen's Manuscript Works by Jane Austen
• Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology by David Graeber
• The Golden Bowl by Henry James
• Have His Carcase by Dorothy L. Sayers
• The Last September by Elizabeth Bowen
• Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
• Loving by Henry Green
• Poetry, Drama, Prose by W.B. Yeats
• Emma by Jane Austen
• Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein
• Tam Lin by Pamela Dean
• The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin
• Gaudy Night by Dorothy L. Sayers
• Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell
• Charlotte Temple by Susanna Rowson
• Fan Art by Sarah Tregay
• A Hero at the End of the World by Erin Claiborne
• The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
• Mrs Yaga by Michal Wojcik
• From Coping to Thriving: How to Turn Self-care into a Way of Life by Hannah Braime
• The Day of the Locust by Nathanael West
• Our Lady of the Artichokes and Other Portuguese-American Stories by Katherine Vaz
• The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. Du Bois
• Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine
• Your Illustrated Guide to Becoming One with the Universe by Yumi Sakugawa
• Busman's Honeymoon by Dorothy L. Sayers

2015

• The Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin
• Cross Creek by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
• Walden by Henry David Thoreau
• The Blithedale Romance by Nathaniel Hawthorne
• The Selected Poetry by Edna St. Vincent Millay
• Three Lives & Tender Buttons by Gertrude Stein
• The Fan Fiction Studies Reader by Kristina Busse, Karen Hellekson
• The Collected Poems Vol. 1: 1909-1939 by William Carlos Williams
• Yes Please by Amy Poehler
• Memoirs of the Author of a Vindication of the Rights of Woman by William Godwin
• The Selected Letters by Willa Cather
• Hello Cruel World: 101 Alternatives to Suicide for Teens, Freaks, and Other Outlaws by Kate Bornstein
• Everyday Reading: Poetry and Popular Culture in Modern America by Mike Chasar
• Dream Work by Mary Oliver
• O Pioneers! by Willa Cather
• Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination by Toni Morrison
• Selected Poems by Rita Dove
• Selected Poems by Gwendolyn Brooks
• Montage of a Dream Deferred by Langston Hughes
• Mumbo Jumbo by Ishmael Reed
• The Nature Principle: Human Restoration and the End of Nature-Deficit Disorder by Richard Louv
• Tripmaster Monkey: His Fake Book by Maxine Hong Kingston
• The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin
• An Altar in the World: A Geography of Faith by Barbara Brown Taylor
• The Permaculture Garden by Graham Bell
• The Fact of a Doorframe: Poems Selected and New, 1950-1984 by Adrienne Rich
• Learning to Walk in the Dark by Barbara Brown Taylor
• Jejuri by Arun Kolatkar
• If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho by Sappho, Anne Carson
• Blue Lily, Lily Blue by Maggie Stiefvater
• The Dream Thieves by Maggie Stiefvater
• Permaculture in Pots: How to Grow Food in Small Urban Spaces by Juliet Kemp
• The Earth Path: Grounding Your Spirit in the Rhythms of Nature by Starhawk
• Gaia's Garden: A Guide to Home-scale Permaculture by Toby Hemenway
• The Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater
• Down to Earth: Practical Thoughts for Passionate Gardeners by Margot Rochester
• Earthly Delights: Gardening by the Seasons the Easy Way by Margot Rochester
• The Morville Hours by Katherine Swift
• The Twelve Wild Swans: A Journey to the Realm of Magic, Healing, and Action by Hillary Valentine, Starhawk
• Cross Creek Cookery by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
• The Bridge of Beyond by Simone Schwarz-Bart
• The Dead Ladies Project: Exiles, Expats, and Ex-Countries by Jessa Crispin
• The Art of Slow Writing: Reflections on Time, Craft, and Creativity by Louise DeSalvo
• Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader by Anne Fadiman
• Acedia & Me: A Marriage, Monks, and a Writer's Life by Kathleen Norris
• Pastrix: The Cranky and Beautiful Faith of a Sinner & Saint by Nadia Bolz-Weber
• The Kitchn Cookbook by Faith Durand, Sara Kate Gillingham-Ryan
• The Journal, 1837-1861 by Henry David Thoreau, John R. Stilgoe, Damion Searls
• Highland Fling by Nancy Mitford
• Finding Yourself in the Kitchen: Kitchen Meditations and Inspired Recipes from a Mindful Cook by Dana Velden
• Check, Please!: Year One by Ngozi Ukazu
• Cassandra at the Wedding by Dorothy Baker
• Book by Book: Notes on Reading and Life by Michael Dirda
• The Goshawk by T.H. White
• Nature Stories by Pierre Bonnard, Jules Renard, Douglas Parmée
• Better Than Before: Mastering the Habits of Our Everyday Lives by Gretchen Rubin
• Selected Letters of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings by Gordon E. Bigelow
• The Weather by Lisa Robertson
• Spending by Mary Gordon
• Get in Trouble by Kelly Link
• 84, Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff
• Don't Look Now and Other Stories by Daphne du Maurier
• Fic: Why Fanfiction is Taking Over the World by Anne Jamison
• Collected Poems, 1912-1944 by H.D.
• My Ántonia by Willa Cather
• When Books Went to War: The Stories that Helped Us Win World War II by Molly Guptill Manning
• Hauntings and Other Fantastic Tales by Vernon Lee

2016

• Book Lust: Recommended Reading for Every Mood, Moment, and Reason by Nancy Pearl
• The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity by Julia Cameron
• Savage Creatures by Natalie Wilkinson
• Juniper Lane by Dylan Morrison
• The Doll in the Garden by Mary Downing Hahn (reread)
• Before the Awakening by Greg Rucka and Phil Noto
• Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs
• The Vet's Daughter by Barbara Comyns
• Readings: Essays and Literary Entertainments by Michael Dirda
• H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald
• Writing out of Place: Regionalism, Women, and American Literary Culture by Judith Fetterley and Marjorie Pryse
• Dawn Light: Dancing with Cranes and Other Ways to Start the Day by Diane Ackerman
• Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom by bell hooks
• Miss Buncle's Book by D.E. Stevenson
• Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
• The Art of Stillness: Adventures in Going Nowhere by Pico Iyer
• Men Explain Things to Me by Rebecca Solnit
• All About Love: New Visions by bell hooks
• The Feminist Utopia Project: Fifty-Seven Visions of a Wildly Better Future by S.E. Smith, Rachel Kauder Nalebuff, Alexandra Brodsky
• The Encyclopedia of Trouble and Spaciousness by Rebecca Solnit
• The Empathy Exams by Leslie Jamison
• The End of Men: And the Rise of Women by Hanna Rosin
• Smith Blue by Camille T. Dungy
• The Wander Society by Keri Smith
• Walking by Henry David Thoreau
• A Philosophy of Walking by John Howe, Frédéric Gros, Clifford Harper
• A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction by Ingrid Fiksdahl-King, Christopher W. Alexander, Max Jacobson, Shlomo Angel, Murray Silverstein, Sara Ishikawa
• Toward A Minor Architecture by Jill Stoner
• The Raven King by Maggie Stiefvater
• Mani: Travels in the Southern Peloponnese by Patrick Leigh Fermor
• The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend by Katarina Bivald
• Venice: Pure City by Peter Ackroyd
• A Stranger in Olondria by Sofia Samatar
• The Mirror of Love by Alan Moore, José Villarrubia
• The Creative Tarot: A Modern Guide to an Inspired Life by Jessa Crispin
• Pretty Deadly Vol. 1: The Shrike by Emma Ríos, Kelly Sue DeConnick
• March: Book One by John Lewis, Andrew Aydin
• Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation by Michael Pollan
• Alif the Unseen by G. Willow Wilson
• Gratitude by Oliver Sacks
• Whose Body? by Dorothy L. Sayers
• The Fangirl Life: A Guide to All the Feels and Learning How to Deal by Kathleen Smith
• Clouds of Witness by Dorothy L. Sayers
• Unnatural Death by Dorothy L. Sayers
• Doing Cultural Studies: The Story of the Sony Walkman by Linda Janes, Stuart Hall, Paul du Gay, Hugh Mackay, Keith Negus
• The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club by Dorothy L. Sayers
• Deathless by Catherynne M. Valente
• Create Dangerously: The Immigrant Artist at Work by Edwidge Danticat
• Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement by Angela Y. Davis
• How to Write a Lot: A Practical Guide to Productive Academic Writing by Paul J. Silvia
• Hope in the Dark by Rebecca Solnit
• Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures by Mary Ruefle
• Three Guineas by Virginia Woolf
• Ghost Stories of an Antiquary by M.R. James
• The Scrapbook in American Culture by Susan Tucker, Katherine Ott
• Scrapbooks: An American History by Jessica Helfand

2017

• Intimate Practices: Literacy and Cultural Work in U.S. Women's Clubs, 1880-1920 by Ann Gere
• Saudade by Katherine Vaz
• Q's Legacy: A Delightful Account of a Lifelong Love Affair with Books by Helene Hanff
• Grassroots: A Field Guide for Feminist Activism by Amy Richards, Jennifer Baumgardner
• These Dreams of You by Steve Erickson
• Urgent Message from Mother: Gather the Women and Save the World by Jean Shinoda Bolen
• The New Better Off: Reinventing the American Dream by Courtney E. Martin
• Necessary Trouble: Americans In Revolt by Sarah Jaffe
• Savage Dreams: A Journey into the Landscape Wars of the American West by Rebecca Solnit
• How to Thrive in the Next Economy by John Thackara
• Your Heart Is a Muscle the Size of a Fist by Sunil Yapa
• We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
• Fair Play by Tove Jansson
• The Devil Finds Work by James Baldwin
• Paradise Under Glass: An Amateur Creates a Conservatory Garden by Ruth Kassinger
• Spark Joy: An Illustrated Master Class on the Art of Organizing and Tidying Up by Marie Kondō
• Our Hearts Were Young and Gay: An Unforgettable Comic Chronicle of Innocents Abroad in the 1920s by Cornelia Otis Skinner, Emily Kimbrough
• The Princess Diarist by Carrie Fisher
• Lord Peter Views the Body by Dorothy L. Sayers
• Embroidered Effects: Projects and Patterns to Inspire Your Stitching by Jenny Hart, Aimée Herring
• Free-Form Embroidery with Judith Baker Montano: Transforming Traditional Stitches Into Fiber Art by Judith Baker Montano
• A Literary Companion To Venice: Including Seven Walking Tours by Ian Littlewood
• Elements of Venice by Giulia Foscari
• Stitch Zakka: 22 Projects to Sew & Embellish 25 Embroidery Stitches by Leanne Beasley, Gailen Runge, Lynette Anderson, Amy Adams
• I Love Patchwork by Rashida Coleman-Hale
• The Game of Kings by Dorothy Dunnett
• American Women Regionalists: A Norton Anthology by Judith Fetterley, Marjorie Pryse
• Brave New Quilts: 12 Projects Inspired by 20th-Century Art by Kathreen Ricketson
• Patchwork Embroidery by Aimee Ray
• Sew Organized for the Busy Girl: Tips to Make the Most of Your Time and Space by Heidi Staples
• The Little Book of Hygge: The Danish Way to Live Well by Meik Wiking
• She Rises by Kate Worsley
• South and West: From a Notebook by Joan Didion
• The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks about Race edited by Jesmyn Ward
• On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century by Timothy Snyder
• Browsings: A Year of Reading, Collecting and Living with Books by Michael Dirda
• Shadowbahn by Steve Erickson
• Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook by Mark Bray
• The Mother of All Questions by Rebecca Solnit
• White is for Witching by Helen Oyeyemi
• We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy by Ta-Nehisi Coates
• Hotel Florida: Truth, Love, and Death in the Spanish Civil War by Amanda Vaill
• The Five Red Herrings by Dorothy L. Sayers
• We Were Witches by Ariel Gore
• Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza by Gloria E. Anzaldúa
• Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado
• Colour Confident Stitching: How to Create Beautiful Colour Palettes by Karen Barbé
• Feminism without Borders: Decolonizing Theory and Practicing Solidarity by Chandra Talpade Mohanty
• A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki
• Embroider Your Life: Simple Techniques & 150 Stylish Motifs to Embellish Your World by Nathalie Mornu
• The Old Magic of Christmas: Yuletide Traditions for the Darkest Days of the Year by Linda Raedisch
• Lagom: The Swedish Art of Balanced Living by Linnea Dunne
• Loki: Agent of Asgard Vol. 1: Trust Me by Jenny Frison, Jorge Coelho, Al Ewing, Lee Garbett
• Cloth Lullaby: The Woven Life of Louise Bourgeois by Isabelle Arsenault, Amy Novesky
• Young Avengers Volume 3: Mic-Drop at the Edge of Time and Space by Kieron Gillen
• Young Avengers Volume 2: Alternative Culture by Jamie McKelvie, Matthew Wilson, Kieron Gillen, Kate Brown
• Young Avengers Volume 1: Style > Substance by Kieron Gillen
• The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue by Mackenzi Lee

2018

• The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins by Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing
• The Faithful Gardener: A Wise Tale About That Which Can Never Die by Clarissa Pinkola Estés
• Literary Witches: A Celebration of Magical Women Writers by Katy Horan, Taisia Kitaiskaia
• Heart Berries by Terese Marie Mailhot
• Backwards and in Heels: The Past and Present and Future of Women Working in Film by Alicia Malone
• The Embroidered Garden: Stitching through the Seasons of a Flower Garden by Kazuko Aoki
• She of the Mountains by Vivek Shraya
• Christmas Pudding and Pigeon Pie by Nancy Mitford
• Seduction and Betrayal: Women and Literature by Elizabeth Hardwick
• Practical Permaculture: for Home Landscapes, Your Community, and the Whole Earth by Jessi Bloom, David Boehnlein
• Red Clocks by Leni Zumas
• Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler
• Black Widow: The Name of the Rose by Nate Piekos, Daniel Acuña, Marjorie M. Liu
• Hawkeye Volume 1: My Life as a Weapon by Matt Hollingsworth, Chris Eliopoulos, Annie Wu, David Aja, Javier Pulido, Alan Davis, Francesco Francavilla, Matt Fraction
• Hawkeye Volume 2: Little Hits by Matt Hollingsworth, Jesse Hamm, Steve Lieber, Chris Eliopoulos, Annie Wu, David Aja, Francesco Francavilla, Matt Fraction
• America Vol. 1: The Life and Times of America Chavez by Gabby Rivera, Joe Quiñones
• The Philosopher's Flight by Tom Miller
• The Ten Thousand Things by Maria Dermoût, Hans Koning
• The Bell by Iris Murdoch
• Landmarks by Robert Macfarlane
• Slowness by Milan Kundera
• The Argonauts by Maggie Nelson
• Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin
• Why Art? by Eleanor Davis
• The Last Equation of Isaac Severy by Nova Jacobs
• Red Doc> by Anne Carson
• The City of Falling Angels by John Berendt
• I'll Be Gone in the Dark by Michelle McNamara
• Women & Power: A Manifesto by Mary Beard
• Massive: Gay Erotic Manga and the Men Who Make It by Chip Kidd, Jiraiya, Graham Kolbeins, Anne Ishii, Gengoroh Tagame
• Who Is Vera Kelly? by Rosalie Knecht
• Papeles falsos by Valeria Luiselli
• Zakka Embroidery: Simple One- and Two-Color Embroidery Motifs and Small Crafts by Yumiko Higuchi
• Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in 40 Questions by Valeria Luiselli
• The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma by Bessel van der Kolk
• The New Bottoming Book by Janet W. Hardy, Dossie Easton
• Uprooted by Naomi Novik
• Simply Stitched: Beautiful Embroidery Motifs and Projects with Wool and Cotton by Yumiko Higuchi
• A Year of Embroidery: A Month-To-Month Collection of Motifs for Seasonal Stitching by Yumiko Higuchi
• The Walkable City: From Haussmann's Boulevards to Jane Jacobs' Streets and Beyond by Mary Soderstrom
• City on the Verge: Atlanta and the Fight for America's Urban Future by Mark Pendergrast
• Where We Want to Live: Reclaiming Infrastructure for a New Generation of Cities by Ryan Gravel
• More Ghost Stories of an Antiquary by M.R. James
• In Calabria by Peter S. Beagle
• A Thin Ghost and Others by M.R. James
• The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie
• Love at First Stitch: Demystifying Dressmaking by Tilly Walnes

2019

• Ramona by Helen Hunt Jackson
• 8 Faces at 3 by Craig Rice
• How to Get Dressed: A Costume Designer's Secrets for Making Your Clothes Look, Fit, and Feel Amazing by Alison Freer
• Home Sweet Homicide by Craig Rice
• In a Lonely Place by Dorothy B. Hughes, Paula Rabinowitz
• Madame Fourcade's Secret War: The Daring Young Woman Who Led France's Largest Spy Network Against Hitler by Lynne Olson
• Washington Black by Esi Edugyan
• Poison Penmanship: The Gentle Art of Muckraking by Jessica Mitford
• Stay Sexy & Don't Get Murdered: The Definitive How-To Guide by Georgia Hardstark, Karen Kilgariff
• The I-5 Killer by Ann Rule
• Queens' Play by Dorothy Dunnett
• Chase Darkness with Me: How One True-Crime Writer Started Solving Murders by Billy Jensen
• Dust Tracks on a Road by Zora Neale Hurston
• The Art of Simple Food: Notes, Lessons, and Recipes from a Delicious Revolution by Alice Waters
• Nature by Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Sew Many Dresses, Sew Little Time: The Ultimate Dressmaking Guide by Tanya Whelan
• Writing with Scissors: American Scrapbooks from the Civil War to the Harlem Renaissance by Ellen Gruber Garvey
• The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage by Sydney Padua
• Go West, Young Women!: The Rise of Early Hollywood by Hilary Hallett
• Circe by Madeline Miller
• A Time of Gifts by Patrick Leigh Fermor
• A Month in the Country by J.L. Carr
• Nobody's Girl Friday: The Women Who Ran Hollywood by J.E. Smyth
• Disney Declassified by Aaron H. Goldberg
• The Wonders of Walt Disney World by Aaron H. Goldberg
• Laura by Vera Caspary
• Mr. Splitfoot by Samantha Hunt
• Opal by Maggie Stiefvater
• Call Down the Hawk by Maggie Stiefvater
• The Quirt by B.M. Bower (western)
• Black Spire by Delilah S. Dawson
• Art Before Breakfast by Danny Gregory
• More Was Lost by Eleanor Perenyi

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