Table of Contents

I've been keeping track of the books I read since the early 2000s, but pre-1999 is incomplete. For example, I don't have a list of the hundreds of Babysitters Club books I read as a pre-teen.

Look for the highlighted titles—those are my all-time favorites.

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1993

• The Cay by Theodore Taylor

1994

• The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
• The Doll in the Garden: A Ghost Story by Mary Downing Hahn
• Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell

1995

• Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
• Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls
• A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
• A Wind in the Door by Madeleine L'Engle
• A Swiftly Tilting Planet by Madeleine L'Engle

1996

• On the Road by Jack Kerouac

1999

• Dangerous Angels by Francesca Lia Block
• Girl Goddess #9: Nine Stories by Francesca Lia Block
• Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson
• Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman
• Stardust by Neil Gaiman
• Foxfire: Confessions of a Girl Gang by Joyce Carol Oates
• The Diary of Anaïs Nin Vol. 1: 1931-1934 by Anaïs Nin
• The Diary of Anaïs Nin Vol. 2: 1934-1939 by Anaïs Nin
• The Diary of Anaïs Nin Vol. 3: 1939-1944 by Anaïs Nin
• The Diary of Anaïs Nin Vol. 4: 1944-1947 by Anaïs Nin
• The Diary of Anaïs Nin Vol. 5: 1947-1955 by Anaïs Nin

2000

• Death: The High Cost of Living by Neil Gaiman
• Violet & Claire by Francesca Lia Block
• The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
• The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
• Harlequin Valentine by Neil Gaiman
• Sandman, Vol. 1: Preludes & Nocturnes by Neil Gaiman
• The Hanged Man by Francesca Lia Block
• Death: The Time of Your Life by Neil Gaiman
• Pieces: A Collection of New Voices edited by Stephen Chbosky
• The Rose and the Beast: Fairy Tales Retold by Francesca Lia Block
• I Was a Teenage Fairy by Francesca Lia Block
• Girl by Blake Nelson
• Art & Lies: A Piece for Three Voices and a Bawd by Jeanette Winterson

2001

• House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
• The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
• Outline of My Lover by Douglas A. Martin
• Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
• Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
• Smoke and Mirrors: Short Fiction and Illusions by Neil Gaiman
• Echo by Francesca Lia Block
• Nymph by Francesca Lia Block
• Drawing Blood by Poppy Z. Brite
• Lost Souls by Poppy Z. Brite
• The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
• Fences by August Wilson
• Wicked by Gregory Maguire
• Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
• Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson
• Other Voices, Other Rooms by Truman Capote
• Valencia by Michelle Tea
• The Passionate Mistakes and Intricate Corruption of One Girl in America by Michelle Tea
• The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
• Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling
• The Sandman Vol. 2: The Doll's House by Neil Gaiman
• The Sandman Vol. 3: Dream Country by Neil Gaiman
• The Sandman Vol. 4: Season of Mists by Neil Gaiman
• The Sandman Vol. 5: A Game of You by Neil Gaiman
• The Sandman Vol. 6: Fables & Reflections by Neil Gaiman
• The Sandman Vol. 7: Brief Lives by Neil Gaiman
• The Celluloid Closet by Vito Russell

2002

• The Triggering Town: Lectures and Essays on Poetry and Writing by Richard Hugo
• Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
• American Gods by Neil Gaiman
• The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
• Ecstasia by Francesca Lia Block
• Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
• Jitterbug Perfume by Tom Robbins
• The Powerbook by Jeanette Winterson
• Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling
• Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling
• The Sandman Vol. 8: Worlds' End by Neil Gaiman
• The Sandman Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones by Neil Gaiman
• The Sandman Vol. 10: The Wake by Neil Gaiman
• Gut Symmetries by Jeanette Winterson
• Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
• Allan Stein by Matthew Stadler and Allan Stadler
• Beloved by Toni Morrison
• Nightwood by Djuna Barnes
• Possessing The Secret Of Joy by Alice Walker
• Written on the Body by Jeanette Winterson
• The Collected Works of Billy the Kid by Michael Ondaatje
• Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino
• Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
• Coraline by Neil Gaiman
• The Passion by Jeanette Winterson
• The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
• The Odyssey by Homer
• Confessions by Augustine
• Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
• Tess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy

2003

• Off the Map by Kika Kat and Hib Chickena
• The Sandman: Endless Nights by Neil Gaiman
• Atonement by Ian McEwan
• Days of War Nights of Love: Crimethink for Beginners by CrimethInc.
• Sexing The Cherry by Jeanette Winterson
• Spider Woman's Granddaughters: Traditional Tales and Contemporary Writing by Native American Women by Paula Gunn Allen
• Primavera by Francesca Lia Block
• In Favor of the Sensitive Man and Other Essays by Anaïs Nin
• Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture by Douglas Coupland
• The Real Life of Sebastian Knight by Vladimir Nabokov
• Bastard Out of Carolina by Dorothy Allison
• Y: The Last Man Vol. 1: Unmanned by Brian K. Vaughan et al.
• Selected Short Stories by D.H. Lawrence
• Nisei Daughter by Monica Itoi Sone
• Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
• The Chelsea Whistle by Michelle Tea
• Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov
• The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X and Alex Haley
• The Lives of the Muses: Nine Women and the Artists They Inspired by Francine Prose
• For colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf by Ntozake Shange
• White Apples by Jonathan Carroll
• No Logo by Naomi Klein
• The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
• The Wolves in the Walls by Neil Gaiman
• Paradise by Toni Morrison
• Neon Vernacular: New and Selected Poems by Yusef Komunyakaa
• Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle by Vladimir Nabokov
• The World and Other Places: Stories by Jeanette Winterson

2004

• Autobiography of Red by Anne Carson
• Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
• Wasteland by Francesca Lia Block
• Marvel 1602 by Andy Kubert, Todd Klein, Peter Sanderson, Neil Gaiman, Richard Isanove
• Wanderlust: A History of Walking by Rebecca Solnit
• The Luzhin Defense by Vladimir Nabokov
• Cane by Jean Toomer
• The Gift by Vladimir Nabokov
• Plainwater: Essays and Poetry by Anne Carson
• Love and Garbage by Ivan Klíma
• Tales of the Jazz Age by F. Scott Fitzgerald
• Tender Is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
• Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books by Azar Nafisi
• One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
• Guarding the Moon: A Mother's First Year by Francesca Lia Block
• Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand
• Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim by David Sedaris
• Transparent Things by Vladimir Nabokov
• Mary by Vladimir Nabokov
• Time's Magpie: A Walk in Prague by Myla Goldberg
• Possession by A.S. Byatt
• Fences and Windows: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Globalization Debate by Naomi Klein
• The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye by A.S. Byatt

2005

• Men in the Off Hours by Anne Carson
• Eros the Bittersweet by Anne Carson
• The Beauty of the Husband by Anne Carson
• Recipes for Disaster: An Anarchist Cookbook by CrimethInc.
• Four Plays: The Clouds/The Birds/Lysistrata/The Frogs by Aristophanes
• Our Ecstatic Days by Steve Erickson
• The Sea Came in at Midnight by Steve Erickson
• Number9Dream by David Mitchell
• Lighthousekeeping by Jeanette Winterson
• Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman
• The Beautiful: Collected Poems by Michelle Tea
• Cinderella's Big Score: Women of the Punk and Indie Underground by Maria Raha
• Battle Royale by Yuji Oniki and Koushun Takami
• Pussy, King of the Pirates by Kathy Acker
• Crossing to Avalon: A Woman's Midlife Quest for the Sacred Feminine by Jean Shinoda Bolen
• Goddesses in Everywoman by Jean Shinoda Bolen
• Rent Girl by Laurenn McCubbin and Michelle Tea
• Elementals: Stories of Fire and Ice by A.S. Byatt
• The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
• The Unending Mystery: A Journey Through Labyrinths and Mazes by David Willis McCullough
• Little Black Book of Stories by A.S. Byatt
• The Couriers Volume 1 by Brian Wood and Rob Goodridge
• Zero Girl by Sam Kieth
• Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl, and Sir Orfeo by Unknown, J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien

2006

• Art Through the Ages by Christin J. Mamiya, Helen Gardner, Fred S. Kleiner
• Decreation: Poetry, Essays, Opera by Anne Carson
• Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders by Neil Gaiman
• The Sleepwalkers: A History of Man's Changing Vision of the Universe by Herbert Butterfield and Arthur Koestler
• Finding Serenity: Anti-Heroes, Lost Shepherds, and Space Hookers in Joss Whedon's Firefly by Jennifer Goltz et al.
• Handwriting by Michael Ondaatje
• Anil's Ghost by Michael Ondaatje
• Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
• The Aeneid by Virgil and Robert Fitzgerald
• Violent Cases by Dave McKean and Neil Gaiman
• Weight: The Myth of Atlas and Heracles by Jeanette Winterson
• Divisadero by Michael Ondaatje
• Visions and Longings: Medieval Women Mystics by Monica Furlong
• Channel Zero by Warren Ellis and Brian Wood
• Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
• Serenity: The Official Visual Companion by Joss Whedon
• The Faery Reel: Tales from the Twilight Realm by Various Authors
• Seductress: Women Who Ravished the World and Their Lost Art of Love by Elizabeth Prioleau
• Cathedral of the Black Madonna: The Druids and the Mysteries of Chartres by Jean Markale and Jon Graham
• Serenity: Those Left Behind by Brett Matthews et al.
• Necklace of Kisses by Francesca Lia Block
• Voodoo Queen: The Spirited Lives of Marie Laveau by Martha Ward
• His Dark Materials Trilogy by Philip Pullman
• My Invented Country: A Memoir by Isabel Allende
• Aphrodite: A Memoir of the Senses by Isabel Allende
• We3 by Frank Quitely and Grant Morrison
• After the Dance: A Walk Through Carnival in Jacmel and Haiti by Edwidge Danticat
• The Farming of Bones by Edwidge Danticat
• A Wolf at the Door: And Other Retold Fairy Tales edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling
• Demo: The Collection by Becky Cloonan and Brian Wood
• Swan Sister: Fairy Tales Retold edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling
• Black Hole by Charles Burns
• The Secret Hour by Scott Westerfeld
• The Green Man: Tales from the Mythic Forest edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling
• Topdog/Underdog by Suzan-Lori Parks
• The Book of the Courtesans: A Catalogue of Their Virtues by Susan Griffin
• Madame de Pompadour: Mistress of France by Christine Pevitt
• Supermarket by Brian Wood
• Memories of My Melancholy Whores by Gabriel García Márquez
• Touching Darkness by Scott Westerfeld
• A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail by Bill Bryson
• Blankets by Craig Thompson
• Severance by Robert Olen Butler
• The Ladies of Grace Adieu and Other Stories by Susanna Clarke

2007

• Ghostwritten by David Mitchell
• Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer Vol. 16: Slayer, Interrupted by Various Authors
• The Collected Stories by Amy Hempel
• Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel
• Loveless Vol. 1: A Kin of Homecoming by Brian Azzarello et al.
• King Dork by Frank Portman
• It's Kind of a Funny Story by Ned Vizzini
• DMZ Vol. 1: On the Ground by Brian Azzarello et al.
• Buddha by Karen Armstrong
• Adverbs by Daniel Handler
• Runaways Deluxe Vol. 1 by Adrian Alphona et al.
• Him Her Him Again the End of Him by Patricia Marx
• Transcreation of the Bhagavad Gita by Ashok Kumar Malhotra
• Mariana by Katherine Vaz
• Special Topics in Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessl
• This Is Not Chick Lit: Original Stories by America's Best Women Writers by Elizabeth Merrick
• A Curtain of Green and Other Stories by Eudora Welty
• Love Is a Mix Tape by Rob Sheffield
• Prayer: A History by Carol Zaleski and Philip Zaleski
• Best of the Oxford American: Ten Years from the Southern Magazine of Good Writing by Various Authors
• Blue Noon by Scott Westerfeld
• Runaways Deluxe Vol. 2 by Adrian Alphona et al.
• New Orleans, Mon Amour: Twenty Years of Writings from the City by Andrei Codrescu
• Pride of Baghdad by Brian K. Vaughan
• Tapping the Dream Tree by Charles de Lint
• The End of Mr. Y by Scarlett Thomas
• The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides
• Foxfire: Confessions of a Girl Gang by Joyce Carol Oates (reread)
• 1984 by George Orwell
• Hamlet by William Shakespeare
• High Fidelity by Nick Hornby
• The Book of Laughter and Forgetting by Milan Kundera
• The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain (reread)
• A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Long Way Home by Joss Whedon
• Bitchfest: Ten Years of Cultural Criticism from the Pages of Bitch Magazine by Various Authors
• 13 Little Blue Envelopes by Maureen Johnson
• The Ruby in the Smoke by Philip Pullman
• Strapless: John Singer Sargent and the Fall of Madame X by Deborah Davis
• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling
• Runaways Deluxe Vol. 3 by Adrian Alphona et al.
• Magic for Beginners by Kelly Link
• Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling
• Y: The Last Man Vol. 2: Cycles by José Marzán Jr. et al.
• Y: The Last Man Vol. 3: One Small Step by José Marzán Jr. et al.
• Y: The Last Man Vol. 4: Safeword by José Marzán Jr. et al.
• Y: The Last Man Vol. 5: Ring of Truth by José Marzán Jr. et al.
• Y: The Last Man, Vol. 6: Girl on Girl by José Marzán Jr. et al.
• Y: The Last Man Vol. 7: Paper Dolls by José Marzán Jr. et al.
• Ghost World by Daniel Clowes
• The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova
• Firebirds Rising: An Anthology of Original Science Fiction and Fantasy by Various Authors
• Young Avengers Volume 1: Sidekicks by Allan Heinberg et al.
• Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke
• White Walls: Collected Stories by Tatyana Tolstoya
• Lady Chatterley's Lover by D.H. Lawrence
• Fray: Future Slayer by Joss Whedon
• If on a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino
• Young Avengers Volume 2: Family Matters by Andrea Di Vito et al.
• JLA: Earth 2 by Frank Quitely and Grant Morrison
• The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
• Zeroville by Steve Erickson
• Pretties by Scott Westerfeld
• Uglies by Scott Westerfeld
• The New Avengers, Volume 1: Breakout by Brian Michael Bendis et al.
• Civil War: Young Avengers & Runaways by Zeb Wells et al.
• Watchmen by Alan Moore
• Preacher, Volume 1: Gone to Texas by Steve Dillon et al.
• Preacher, Volume 2: Until the End of the World by Steve Dillon et al.
• In Memoriam by Alfred Tennyson
• Looking for Alaska by John Green
• Gossip Girl by Cecily von Ziegesar
• Specials by Scott Westerfeld
• The Stone Gods by Jeanette Winterson
• Lyric Poems by John Keats
• French Women for All Seasons: A Year of Secrets, Recipes, and Pleasure by Mireille Guiliano

2008

• The Dud Avocado by Elaine Dundy
• Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist by Rachel Cohn and David Levithan
• JPod by Douglas Coupland
• Will the Circle be Unbroken: Country Music in America by Alanna Nash, Willie Nelson, and Paul Kingsbury
• Peeps by Scott Westerfeld
• Someplace to Be Flying by Charles de Lint
• Devilish by Maureen Johnson
• Y: The Last Man Vol. 8: Kimono Dragons by José Marzán Jr., Pia Guerra, Brian K. Vaughan, and Goran Sudžuka
• The Shadow in the North by Philip Pullman
• Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion
• The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood
• Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
• The Making of a Marchioness by Frances Hodgson Burnett
• Athenais: The Life of Louis XIV's Mistress and the Real Queen of France by Lisa Hilton
• Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day by Winifred Watson
• Blood Roses by Francesca Lia Block
• Extras by Scott Westerfeld
• Girl at Sea by Maureen Johnson
• The Starry Rift: Tales of New Tomorrows by Various Authors
• Suite Scarlett by Maureen Johnson
• The Secret History by Donna Tartt
• Les Liaisons dangereuses by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
• The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
• Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings by Jorge Luis Borges
• The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz
• Nine Stories by J.D. Salinger
• Naomi and Ely's No Kiss List by Rachel Cohn and David Levithan
• Twilight by Stephenie Meyer
• Speaking of Faith by Krista Tippett
• New Moon by Stephenie Meyer
• Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer
• Pretty Monsters: Stories by Kelly Link
• Jane Austen: A Life by Carol Shields

2009

• Runaways Vol. 8: Dead End Kids by Michael Ryan, Christina Strain, and Joss Whedon
• His Majesty's Dragon by Naomi Novik
• Better Days by Brett Matthews, Will Conrad, and Joss Whedon
• Passions of the Mind: Selected Writings by A.S. Byatt
• Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
• Scott Pilgrim's Precious Little Life by Bryan Lee O'Malley
• Friday's Child by Georgette Heyer
• Wise Blood by Flannery O'Connor
• Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood by Marjane Satrapi
• Coming Through Slaughter by Michael Ondaatje
• Mojo Triangle: Birthplace of Country, Blues, Jazz, and Rock 'n' Roll by James L. Dickerson
• The Moviegoer by Walker Percy
• The Coyote Road: Trickster Tales edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling
• Scott Pilgrim vs. The World by Bryan Lee O'Malley
• Your Body Is Changing by Jack Pendarvis
• Scott Pilgrim & The Infinite Sadness by Bryan Lee O'Malley and Steve Buccellato
• The Epic of Gilgamesh
• Travels with Herodotus by Ryszard Kapuściński
• Scott Pilgrim Gets It Together by Bryan Lee O'Malley
• An Open Life: Joseph Campbell in Conversation with Michael Toms by Joseph Campbell and Michael Toms
• At the Root of This Longing: Reconciling a Spiritual Hunger and a Feminist Thirst by Carol Lee Flinders
• The Bible: A Biography by Karen Armstrong
• Skinny Dipping in the Lake of the Dead by Anya Johanna DeNiro
• The Faerie Queene by Edmund Spenser
• Beowulf by A.J. Church, Gareth Hinds
• The Plain Janes by Cecil Castellucci and Jim Rugg
• The New York Four by Ryan Kelly, Brian Wood
• Scott Pilgrim vs. the Universe by Bryan Lee O'Malley
• The Old Man and Me by Elaine Dundy
• The New Avengers Volume 3: Secrets and Lies by Brian Michael Bendis, Frank Cho, David Finch
• Runaways Vol. 9: Dead Wrong by Christina Strain, Terry Moore, Dave Meikis, Humberto Ramos
• The New Avengers Volume 4: The Collective by Mike Deodato, Brian Michael Bendis, Steve McNiven
• The Mighty Avengers Vol. 3: Secret Invasion Vol. 1 by Brian Michael Bendis, Alex Maleev, Khoi Pham
• Mary Jane Volume 1: Circle of Friends by Sean McKeever, Takeshi Miyazawa
• The New Avengers Volume 8: Secret Invasion Book 1 by Brian Michael Bendis, Michael Gaydos, David W. Mack, Billy Tan, Jim Cheung
• The Mighty Avengers Vol. 2: Venom Bomb by Brian Michael Bendis, Mark Bagley
• The New Avengers Volume 5: Civil War by Howard Chaykin, Olivier Coipel, Pasqual Ferry, Brian Michael Bendis, Leinil Francis Yu, Jim Cheung
• The Mighty Avengers Vol. 1: The Ultron Initiative by Brian Michael Bendis, Frank Cho
• The New Avengers Volume 2: Sentry by Brian Michael Bendis, Steve McNiven
• Secret Invasion: Runaways/Young Avengers by Matthew Ryan, Rick Ketcham, Christina Strain, Christopher Yost, Michael Ryan, Takeshi Miyazawa
• Vulcan's Glory by D.C. Fontana
• The New Avengers Volume 9: Secret Invasion Book 2 by Brian Michael Bendis, Michael Gaydos, Billy Tan, Jim Cheung
• The New Avengers Volume 7: The Trust by Brian Michael Bendis, Leinil Francis Yu
• Young Avengers Presents: 1-6 by Paul Cornell, Ed Brubaker, Paco Medina, Harvey Tolibao, Alan Davis, Mark Brooks, Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, Brian Reed, Matt Fraction
• Runaways Vol. 10: Rock Zombies by Terry Moore, Takeshi Miyazawa
• The New Avengers Volume 6: Revolution by Brian Michael Bendis, Alex Maleev, Leinil Francis Yu
• Mary Jane Volume 2: Homecoming by Sean McKeever, Takeshi Miyazawa
• MySpace Dark Horse Presents: Volume 1
• The River of Lost Footsteps: Histories of Burma by Thant Myint-U
• Outcasts United: A Refugee Team and an American Town by Warren St. John
• This Girl for Hire by G.G. Fickling
• A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf
• River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West by Rebecca Solnit
• Persuasion by Jane Austen
• London: A History by A.N. Wilson
• Middlemarch by George Eliot
• A Natural History of Love by Diane Ackerman
• What Time Devours by A.J. Hartley
• The Mammoth Book of 20th Century Ghost Stories by Various Authors
• The Land of Laughs by Jonathan Carroll
• Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
• The Restless Dead: Ten Original Stories of the Supernatural by Various Authors
• Street Gang: The Complete History of Sesame Street by Michael Davis
• Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger
• Paper Towns by John Green
• Willful Creatures by Aimee Bender
• The Oxford Book of Modern Fairy Tales by Alison Lurie
• A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle
• The Mammoth Book of Fairy Tales by Mike Ashley

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

2020

• My Year of Meats by Ruth Ozeki
• The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism by Naomi Klein
• Queering Anarchism: Addressing and Undressing Power and Desire by J. Rogue, Deric Shannon, C.B. Daring, Abbey Volcano
• Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds by adrienne maree brown
• The New Education: How to Revolutionize the University to Prepare Students for a World In Flux by Cathy N. Davidson
• How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy by Jenny Odell
• On Immunity: An Inoculation by Eula Biss
• The Regrets by Amy Bonnaffons
• The Corpse Steps Out by Craig Rice
• The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone by Olivia Laing
• As Black As Resistance: Finding the Conditions for Liberation by William C. Anderson and Zoé Samudzi
• Guerrillas of Desire: Notes on Everyday Resistance and Organizing to Make a Revolution Possible by Kevin Van Meter
• The Crying Book by Heather Christle
• No Shortcuts: Organizing for Power in the New Gilded Age by Jane McAlevey
• This Is How You Lose the Time War by Max Gladstone, Amal El-Mohtar
• Art Starts with a Line by Erin McManness
• The Creature Garden: An Illustrator's Guide to Beautiful Beasts & Fictional Fauna by Harry Goldhawk, Zanna Goldhawk
• Mini Kawaii Doodle Class by Zainab Khan
• How to Know the Birds: The Art and Adventure of Birding by Ted Floyd
• The Last Samurai by Helen DeWitt
• Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
• Get Started with Gouache by Emma Block

2021

• The Art of Creative Watercolor by Danielle Donaldson
• The Joy of Watercolor by Emma Block
• Everyday Watercolor by Jenna Rainey
• Wilderness Watercolor Landscapes by Kolbie Blume
• Geninne's Art: Birds in Watercolor, Collage, and Ink by Geninne D. Zlatkis
• Nature Obscura: A City's Hidden Natural World by Kelly Brenner
• The Curious Nature Guide: Explore the Natural Wonders All Around You by Clare Walker Leslie
• Keeping a Nature Journal, 3rd Edition: Deepen Your Connection with the Natural World All Around You by Clare Walker Leslie
• Creative Watercolor by Ana Victoria Calderón
• Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity in This Crisis (And the Next) by Dean Spade
• God Save Texas: A Journey Into the Soul of the Lone Star State by Lawrence Wright
• The Secret Lives of Color by Kassia St Clair
• Tender by Sofia Samatar
• Everyday Watercolor Flowers: A Modern Guide to Painting Blooms, Leaves, and Stems Step by Step by Jenna Rainey
• No One Is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood
• Whose Story Is This? Old Conflicts, New Chapters by Rebecca Solnit
• The Care Manifesto: The Politics of Interdependence by The Care Collective, Andreas Chatzidakis, Jamie Hakim, Catherine Rottenberg, Jo Littler, Lynne Segal
• How to Be an Anticapitalist in the Twenty-First Century by Erik Olin Wright
• Times Square Red, Times Square Blue by Samuel R. Delany
• A Collective Bargain: Unions, Organizing, and the Fight for Democracy by Jane F. McAlevey
• Being Numerous: Essays on Non-Fascist Life by Natasha Lennard
• The Nonexistent Knight by Italo Calvino
• Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell
• Ghost Wall by Sarah Moss
• The Wrong Murder by Craig Rice
• W.E.B. Du Bois's Data Portraits: Visualizing Black America by Silas Munro
• Why We Fight: Essays on Fascism, Resistance, and Surviving the Apocalypse by Shane Burley
• Memoir of a Race Traitor by Mab Segrest
• Our Word is Our Weapon by Subcomandante Marcos

2022

• Paint With Thread by Emillie Ferris
• The Right Murder by Craig Rice
• Trial By Fury by Craig Rice
• The Big Midget Murders by Craig Rice
• I’d Rather Be Reading by Anne Bogel
• Easy Riders, Raging Bulls by Peter Biskind
• 13 Ways of Looking at the Novel by Jane Smiley
• Political Animals by So Mayer

2023

• Devil House by John Darnielle
• Prairie by Candace Savage
• The Hollywood Studios by Ethan Mordden
• Radical Hope: A Teaching Manifesto by Kevin Gannon

2024

• The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
• The Women of Weird Tales edited by Melanie R. Anderson
• Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer
• A Third University Is Possible by la paperson
• Sedition Hunters by Ryan J. Reilly 
• We Are Proud Boys by Andy Campbell 
• Bring the War Home by Kathleen Belew
• Black Pill by Elle Reeve 
• Almost Home by Damien Echols 
• The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson (reread)
• Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer (reread)
• New Queer Cinema by B. Ruby Rich

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