title / author / date completed – – – – bolded titles are year’s favorite(s)
2020
- The Right Stuff (Tom Wolfe); Jan 3
- Life Studies (Robert Lowell); Jan 16
- Bel Canto (Anne Patchett); Jan 26
- Atomic Habits (James Clear); Feb 1
- Middlesex (Jeffrey Eugenides); Feb 7
- The Geography of Bliss (Eric Weiner): Mar 5
- Dusk and Other Stories (James Salter); Mar 15
- The Nix (Nathan Hill); Mar 20
- The Power Broker (Robert Caro); Apr 9
- Begin Mortal (Atul Gawande); Apr 11
- Antipoems (Nicanor Parra, trans Liz Werner); Apr 15
- There Is No Good Card For This (Kelsey Crowe, Emily McDowell); Apr 22
- Think and Grow Rich (Napoleon Hill); Apr 25
- This Side of Brightness (Collum McCann); May 2
- House of Leaves (Mark Z. Danielewski); June 3
- Hitomi (NIck Jaina); June 7
- True Grit (Charles Portis); June 20
- The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (Jean-Dominique Bauby); June 30
- Loving Frank (Nancy Horan); July 25
- Buddha’s Office (Dan Zigmond); July 31
- Build A Career in Data Science (Emily Robinson, Jacqueline Nolis); Aug 3
- The Biggest Bluff (Maria Konnikova); Aug 14
- The Alienist (Caleb Carr); Aug 21
- The Devil In The White City (Erik Larson); Aug 22 – audiobook
- On The Move (Oliver Sacks); Sept 4
- The Natural (Bernard Malamud); Sept 10
- We Ride Upon Sticks (Quan Barry); Sept 16
- The Bronx is Burning (Jonathan Mahler); Sept 26
- City Poet: The Life and Times of Frank O’Hara (Brad Gooch); Oct 7
- Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (John Berendt); Oct 21
- Sweet Theft: A Poet’s Commonplace Book (J.D. McCatchy); Nov 12
- A Gentleman In Moscow (Amos Towles) Nov 27
- The Wolf of Sarajevo (Matthew Palmer): Dec 17
- Fates & Furies (Lauren Groff); Dec 24
- How Not To Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking (Jordan Ellenberg); Dec 25
- Night Sky With Exit Wounds (Ocean Vuong); Dec 26
2019
- Dotcom Secrets: The Underground Playbook for Growing Your Company (Russell Brunson); Jan 2
- Parable Of The Sower (Octavia E. Butler); Jan 5
- Dr. Zhivago (Boris Pasternak); Jan 20
- Building A Storybrand (Donald Miller); Feb 4
- Crossing To Safety (Wallace Stegner); Feb 6
- Midwives (Chris Bohjalian); Feb 22
- How To Change Your Mind (Michael Pollan); Feb 24
- The Spirit of Science Fiction (Roberto Bolaño); Mar 4
- The Mastermind (Evan Ratliff); Mar 12
- Light Years (James Salter); Mar 21
- This is The Story Of A Happy Marriage (Ann Patchett); Apr 16
- The Sportswriter (Richard Ford); May 1
- Asymmetry (Lisa Halliday); June 13
- The Boys In The Boat (Daniel James Brown); June 26
- To Sell Is Human (Daniel Pink); June 29
- Wildlife (Richard Ford); July 9
- Inherent Vice (Thomas Pynchon); July 18
- Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Yuval Noah Harari); July 29 (audiobook)
- The Sympathizer (Viet Thanh Nguyen); Aug 18
- Under The Volcano (Malcolm Lowry); Aug 26
- The Moviegoer (Walker Percy); Sept 3
- Robert Lowell in Love (Jeffrey Meyers); Sept 9
- Don’t Save Anything: Uncollected Essays (James Salter); Sept 10
- The Golden Ticket: P, NP, and the Search for the Impossible (Lance Fortnow); Sept 25
- Neon In Daylight (Hermione Hoby); Sept 30
- How To Do Nothing (Jenny Odell); Oct 10
- On Earth, We’re Briefly Gorgeous (Ocean Vuong); Oct 24
- The Vegetarian (Han Kang); Nov 1
- 722 Miles: The Building of the Subways…. (Clifton Hood); Nov 3
- The Botany of Desire (Michael Pollan); Nov 7
- Garden Time (W.S. Merwin); Nov 14
- Cigarettes, Inc. (Nan Enstad); Nov 18
- Marshall McLuhan: The Medium And the Messenger (Philip Marchand); Dec 5
- Lost in Translation (Eva Hoffman); Dec 15
- Tribe Of Mentors (Tim Ferriss); Dec 18
- The Dolphin (Robert Lowell); Dec 21
- Man’s Search For Meaning (Victor Frankl); Dec 24
2018
- The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay (Michael Chabon); March 25
- The Secret History (Donna Tartt); April 23
- The Goldfinch (Donna Tartt); May 6
- Horace and Me (Harry Eyres); May 9
- The Little Friend (Donna Tartt); May 20
- Notes on Camp (Susan Sontag); June 12
- Siddhartha (Herman Hesse); June 16
- Special Topics in Calamity Physics (Marisha Pessl); July 13
- The Caveman’s Valentine (George Dawes Green); July 19
- The Immortalists (Chloe Benjamin); July 21
- My Absolute Darling (Gabriel Tallent); July 23
- Less (Andrew Sean Greer); July 26
- Your Heart Is A Muscle The Size Of a Fist (Sunil Yapa); Aug 2
- Colorless Tsukuru Tazkai And His Years Of Pilgrimage (Haruki Murakami); Aug 6
- A Little Life (Hanya Yanagihara); August 18
- American Psycho (Bret Easton Ellis); August 24
- Old School (Tobias Wolff); September 1
- Lincoln In The Bardo (George Saunders); September 23
- The City In Which I Love You (Li-Young Lee): September 25
- The Hours (Michael Cunningham); September 27
- A Way In The World (V.S. Naipaul); Oct 1
- The Rosie Project (Graeme Simsion); Oct 3
- What Wast Lost (Catherine O’Flynn); Oct 8
- The Underground Railroad (Colson Whitehead); Oct 21
- The Game (Neil Strauss); Oct 23
- Self-Editing for Fiction Writers (Renni Browne, Dave King); Oct 23
- The Circle (Dave Eggers); Oct 26
- The Sellout (Paul Beatty); Nov 13
- Poetry Will Save Your Life (Jill Bialosky); Nov 21
- Letters To A Young Writer (Colum McCann): Nov 27
- Draft #4 (John McPhee); Dec 1
- Angle of Repose (Wallace Stegner); Dec 13
- Memory Wall (Anthony Doerr); Dec 16
- The Locals (Jonathan Dee); Dec 21
- Bright Lights, Big City (Jay McInerney) Dec 23