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The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri

Hebdomeros by Giorgio de Chirico

Quer pasticciaccio brutto de via Merulana (That Awful Mess on the Via Merulana) by Carlo Emilio Gadda

Dead Souls: A Poem by Nikolai Gogol

The Odyssey by Homer

La disubbidienza (Disobedience) by Alberto Moravia

Life: A User’s Manual by Georges Perec

The Charterhouse of Parma by Stendhal

The Red and the Black by Stendhal

Jun 20 The Burnout Society by Byung-Chul Han

Jun 16 Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton

Jun 7 Forbidden Notebook by Alba de Céspedes

May 29 Il compagno by Cesare Pavese

May 25 If Not Now, When? by Primo Levi

May 15 In Praise of Shadows by Jun’ichirō Tanizaki

May 11 Changing My Mind by Julian Barnes

May 7 Reasons to Stay Alive by Matt Haig

May 2 Karla’s Choice (George Smiley #3.1) by Nick Harkaway

Apr 28 Upstream: How to solve problems before they happen by Dan Heath

Apr 11 Reset: How to Change What’s Not Working by Dan Heath

Apr 8 Peter Camenzind by Hermann Hesse

Apr 1 Oh William! (Amgash #3) by Elizabeth Strout

Mar 27 A Human’s Guide to Machine Intelligence: How Algorithms Are Shaping Our Lives and How We Can Stay in Control by Kartik Hosanagar

Mar 24 A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift

Mar 22 Manalive by G.K. Chesterton

Mar 14 Navola by Paolo Bacigalupi

Mar 11 On Writers and Writing by Margaret Atwood

Feb 25 Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout by Cal Newport

Feb 21 The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley

Feb 16 The Science of Storytelling by Will Storr

Feb 4 Rest: Why You Get More Done When You Work Less by Alex Soojung-Kim Pang

Feb 4 Select Essays by Michel de Montaigne [Feb 3]

Jan 28 Mr Salary by Sally Rooney

Jan 23 The Art of Physics: Eight elegant ideas to make sense of almost everything by Zahaan Bharmal

Jan 16 The Creative Act: A Way of Being by Rick Rubin

Jan 5 God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater by Kurt Vonnegut

Dec 31 The Dictionary Of Terrible Ideas by Dominic Knight

Dec 28 The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Dec 26 Meditations for Mortals: Four Weeks to Embrace Your Limitations and Make Time for What Counts by Oliver Burkeman

Dec 24 Scoop by Evelyn Waugh

Dec 14 Alien Clay by Adrian Tchaikovsky

Dec 5 Solo: How to Work Alone by Rebecca Seal

Dec 4 MaddAddam (MaddAddam #3) by Margaret Atwood

Nov 28 There Are Places in the World Where Rules Are Less Important Than Kindness by Carlo Rovelli

Nov 26 Finding Your Third Place: Building Happier Communities (and Making Great Friends Along the Way) by Richard Kyte

Nov 23 The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century Miller by Carlo Ginzburg

Nov 17 Roman Stories by Jhumpa Lahiri

Nov 16 Moments of Reprieve by Primo Levi

Nov 10 The Year of the Flood (MaddAddam #2) by Margaret Atwood

Nov 4 Axiomatic by Greg Egan

Nov 2 Carpe Diem: Seizing the Day in a Distracted World by Roman Alexander Krznaric

Oct 25 Knowing What We Know: The Transmission of Knowledge: From Ancient Wisdom to Modern Magic by Simon Wincheste

Oct 23 The Tusks of Extinction by Ray Nayler

Oct 18 The Haunted Boy by Carson McCullers

Oct 14 Oryx and Crake (MaddAddam #1) by Margaret Atwood

Oct 11 Plato and a Platypus Walk Into a Bar: Understanding Philosophy Through Jokes by Thomas Cathcart and Daniel Klein

Oct 3 The Machine Stops by E.M. Forster

Oct 1 Absolute Friends by John le Carré

Sep 21 The Life Impossible by Matt Haig

Sep 18 The Way We Are: Lessons from a lifetime of listening by Hugh Mackay

Sep 12 Eugénie Grandet (La Comédie Humaine #30) by Honoré de Balzac

Sep 6 Memories of My Melancholy Whores by Gabriel García Márquez

Aug 31 Doorways in the Sand by Roger Zelazny

Aug 25 Anything Is Possible (Amgash #2) by Elizabeth Strout

Aug 16 The Moon and Sixpence by W. Somerset Maugham

Aug 11 Service Model by Adrian Tchaikovsky

Aug 5 The Waves by Virginia Woolf

Aug 3 Titanium Noir (Titanium Noir #1) by Nick Harkaway

Jul 24 Walking to Aldebaran by Adrian Tchaikovsky

Jul 21 My Name Is Lucy Barton (Amgash #1) by Elizabeth Strout

Jul 15 Silos, Politics and Turf Wars: A Leadership Fable About Destroying the Barriers That Turn Colleagues Into Competitors by Patrick Lencioni

Jul 12 Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption by Stephen King

Jul 9 Hyperspace: A Scientific Odyssey through Parallel Universes, Time Warps, and the Tenth Dimension by Michio Kaku

Jul 3 The Fallen Idol by Graham Greene

Jun 29 The Third Man by Graham Greene

Jun 25 Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata

Jun 23 Days at the Morisaki Bookshop (Days at the Morisaki Bookshop #1) by Satoshi Yagisawa

Jun 21 Lords of Uncreation (The Final Architecture #3) by Adrian Tchaikovsky

Jun 16 Abel. Un western metafisico by Alessandro Baricco

Jun 12 Last Comes The Raven: And Other Stories by Italo Calvino

Jun 10 The Essential Fromm: Life Between Having and Being by Erich Fromm

Jun 6 Red Side Story (Shades of Grey #2) by Jasper Fforde

Jun 3 On Truth by Harry G. Frankfurt

May 31 The Button Guy by Jasper Fforde

May 29 Eyes of the Void (The Final Architecture #2) by Adrian Tchaikovsky

May 17 The Painted Veil by W. Somerset Maugham

May 12 The Russia House by John le Carré

May 8 The Door-to-Door Bookstore by Carsten Henn

Apr 30 The Watsons by Jane Austen

Apr 26 Great Jones Street by Don DeLillo

Apr 20 Shards of Earth (The Final Architecture #1) by Adrian Tchaikovsky

Apr 17 The Fear of Freedom by Erich Fromm

Apr 8 Elder Race by Adrian Tchaikovsky

Mar 31 Stranger Than Kindness by Nick Cave

Mar 29 Stoner by John Williams

Mar 25 Tender Is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Mar 15 A Perfect Spy by John le Carré

Mar 6 L’infinito tra le note: Il mio viaggio nella musica by Riccardo Muti

Feb 25 Children of Memory (Children of Time #3) by Adrian Tchaikovsky

Feb 18 The Factory by Hiroko Oyamada

Feb 12 Disrupted: Ludicrous Misadventures in the Tech Start-up Bubble by Dan Lyons

Feb 4 Status Anxiety by Alain de Botton [reread]

Jan 31 Due vite (Two Lives) by Emanuele Trevi

Jan 9 Compulsory (The Murderbot Diaries #0.5) by Martha Wells

Jan 8 The Inner Self: The Joy of Discovering Who We Really Are by Hugh Mackay

Dec 30 The Sacco Gang by Andrea Camilleri

Dec 27 Children of Ruin (Children of Time #2) by Adrian Tchaikovsky

Dec 16 Calling Bullshit: The Art of Skepticism in a Data-Driven World by Carl T. Bergstrom and Jevin D. West

Dec 12 The Twenty Days of Turin by Giorgio De Maria

Dec 10 A Prayer for the Crown-Shy (Monk and Robot #2) by Becky Chambers

Dec 6 A Theory of Human Motivation by Abraham H. Maslow

Nov 28 System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries #7) by Martha Wells

Nov 24 Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention by Mihály Csíkszentmihályi

Nov 11 Astrophysics for People in a Hurry by Neil deGrasse Tyson [Nov 10]

Nov 9 A Psalm for the Wild-Built (Monk and Robot #1) by Becky Chambers

Nov 3 The Truth and Other Stories by Stanisław Lem

Oct 31 No Picnic on Mount Kenya: The Story of Three POWs’ Escape to Adventure by Felice Benuzzi

Oct 22 Children of Time (Children of Time #1) by Adrian Tchaikovsky

Oct 20 Well Hello: Meanderings from the world of Chat 10 Looks 3 by Annabel Crabb and Leigh Sales

Oct 8 The Sect of Angels by Andrea Camilleri

Oct 1 Misbelief: What Makes Rational People Believe Irrational Things by Dan Ariely

Sep 27 Translation State by Ann Leckie

Sep 21 High-Rise by J.G. Ballard

Sep 13 La madre by Grazia Deledda

Sep 9 The Practice: Shipping Creative Work by Seth Godin

Sep 1 Fractal Noise by Christopher Paolini

Aug 28 The Things We Make: The Unknown History of Invention from Cathedrals to Soda Cans by Bill Hammack

Aug 25 Impossibile by Erri De Luca

Aug 15 Shy by Max Porter

Aug 13 The Art of Leadership: Small Things, Done Well by Michael Lopp

Aug 11 A Legacy of Spies (George Smiley #9) by John le Carré

Jul 30 A Venetian Reckoning by Donna Leon

Jul 23 Incontro con Neruda by Paolo Manzi

Jul 21 The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader and the Imagination by Ursula K. Le Guin

Jul 16 Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin

Jul 11 Soccermatics: Mathematical Adventures in the Beautiful Game by David Sumpter

Jul 4 Stella Maris (The Passenger #2) by Cormac McCarthy

Jun 29 The School of Life: An Emotional Education edited by Alain de Botton

Jun 21 Six Impossible Things: The ‘Quanta of Solace’ and the Mysteries of the Subatomic World by John Gribbin

Jun 17 Douglas Adams’s Starship Titanic by Terry Jones

Jun 12 Build: An Unorthodox Guide to Making Things Worth Making by Tony Fadell

Jun 9 The Mountain in the Sea by Ray Nayler

Jun 4 The Life-Changing Science of Detecting Bullshit by John V. Petrocelli

May 30 Creative Selection: Inside Apple’s Design Process During the Golden Age of Steve Jobs by Ken Kocienda

May 29 Faith, Hope and Carnage by Nick Cave and Sean O’Hagan

May 24 Happiness, as Such by Natalia Ginzburg

May 13 In Watermelon Sugar by Richard Brautigan

May 10 The Design of Everyday Things: Revised and Expanded Edition by Donald A. Norman

May 6 Trafik by Rikki Ducornet

Apr 30 The Ten Equations That Rule the World: And How You Can Use Them Too by David Sumpter

Apr 28 The Secret Pilgrim (George Smiley #8) by John le Carré

Apr 7 The Birthday of the World and Other Stories by Ursula K. Le Guin

Apr 1 On Bullshit Harry G. Frankfurt

Mar 30 Tripping Over Myself: A Memoir of a Life in Comedy by Shaun Micallef

Mar 20 The Evolving Self: A Psychology for the Third Millennium Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Mar 18 Never the Wind by Francesco Dimitri

Mar 8 Thinking in Systems: A Primer by Donella H. Meadows

Feb 28 No Time to Spare: Thinking About What Matters by Ursula K. Le Guin

Feb 23 The Art of Invisibility: The World’s Most Famous Hacker Teaches You How to Be Safe in the Age of Big Brother and Big Data by Kevin D. Mitnick with Robert Vamosi

Feb 7 Agent Running in the Field by John le Carré

Feb 2 The Silence by Don DeLillo

Jan 27 Why We Make Things and Why It Matters: The Education of a Craftsman by Peter Korn

Jan 18 How Minds Change: The New Science of Belief, Opinion and Persuasion by David McRaney

Jan 13 The Confidential Agent by Graham Greene

Jan 7 The Fall of Númenor: and Other Tales from the Second Age of Middle-earth by J.R.R. Tolkien

Dec 30 The Island of Dr. Moreau by H.G. Wells

Dec 28 The Journey to the East by Hermann Hesse

Dec 25 The Lovers by Paolo Cognetti

Dec 21 The Passenger (The Passenger #1) by Cormac McCarthy

Dec 13 Creativity: A Short and Cheerful Guide by John Cleese

Dec 12 I Am NOT Fine, Thanks by Wil Anderson

Dec 9 Riccardino (Commissario Montalbano #28) by Andrea Camilleri

Dec 5 The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien

Nov 28 The Vendetta (La Comédie Humaine #8) by Honoré de Balzac

Nov 24 Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr

Nov 18 LaserWriter II: A Novel by Tamara Shopsin

Nov 11 Weather by Jenny Offill

Nov 8 Death at Sea (Commissario Montalbano #22.5) by Andrea Camilleri

Nov 5 Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel

Oct 31 How to Stop Time by Matt Haig

Oct 25 A Start in Life (La Comédie Humaine #6) by Honoré de Balzac

Oct 22 Breakfast with Einstein: The Exotic Physics of Everyday Objects by Chad Orzel

Oct 15 The Cook of the Halcyon (Commissario Montalbano #27) by Andrea Camilleri

Oct 10 The Braid by Laetitia Colombani

Oct 7 Smiley’s People (George Smiley #7) by John le Carré

Sep 29 Helgoland by Carlo Rovelli

Sep 26 Childhood’s End by Arthur C. Clarke [Sep 25]

Sep 22 The Sicilian Method (Commissario Montalbano #26) by Andrea Camilleri

Sep 16 The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro

Sep 9 Dedicated: The Case for Commitment in an Age of Infinite Browsing by Pete Davis

Sep 7 An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter by César Aira

Sep 2 The Safety Net (Commissario Montalbano #25) by Andrea Camilleri

Aug 27 A Room with a View by E.M. Forster

Aug 24 Little Misunderstandings of No Importance: And Other Stories by Antonio Tabucchi

Aug 17 Far Eastern Tales by W. Somerset Maugham

Aug 12 The Other End of the Line (Commissario Montalbano #24) by Andrea Camilleri

Aug 8 When We Cease to Understand the World by Benjamín Labatut

Aug 4 Colonel Chabert (La Comédie Humaine #24) by Honoré de Balzac

Aug 2 Kiss & Tell by Alain de Botton

Jul 30 In the Margins: On the Pleasures of Reading and Writing by Elena Ferrante

Jul 26 Five Ways to Forgiveness (Hainish Cycle) by Ursula K. Le Guin

Jul 22 The Overnight Kidnapper (Commissario Montalbano #23) by Andrea Camilleri

Jul 20 The Florentines: From Dante to Galileo by Paul Strathern

Jul 9 Light Chaser by Peter F. Hamilton and Gareth L. Powell

Jul 7 The Pyramid of Mud (Commissario Montalbano #22) by Andrea Camilleri

Jul 7 Handmade: A Scientist’s Search for Meaning through Making by Anna Ploszajski

Jul 1 The Human Factor by Graham Greene

Jun 23 A Nest of Vipers (Commissario Montalbano #21) by Andrea Camilleri

Jun 20 To Have or To Be? by Erich Fromm

Jun 17 Travel Light by Naomi Mitchison

Jun 10 Plays Well with Others: The Surprising Science Behind Why Everything You Know about Relationships Is (Mostly) Wrong by Eric Barker

Jun 4 Politics and the English Language by George Orwell

Jun 1 The End of the Affair by Graham Greene

May 27 The Fairytale: A real and imagined history of Australian sport by H.G. Nelson

May 24 The Honourable Schoolboy (George Smiley #6) by John le Carré

May 17 The Red Tenda of Bologna (Penguin Modern Classics #30) by John Berger

May 11 Varamo by César Aira

May 9 A Voice in the Night (Commissario Montalbano #20) by Andrea Camilleri

May 4 Monsignor Quixote by Graham Greene

May 1 Liars and Outliers: Enabling the Trust that Society Needs to Thrive by Bruce Schneier

Apr 26 Blade of Light (Commissario Montalbano #19) by Andrea Camilleri

Apr 22 How to Be Perfect: The Correct Answer to Every Moral Question by Michael Schur

Apr 21 On Indignation by Don Watson

Apr 14 Game of Mirrors (Commissario Montalbano #18) by Andrea Camilleri

Apr 9 Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman

Apr 4 Dark Matter by Blake Crouch

Mar 30 Angelica’s Smile (Commissario Montalbano #17) by Andrea Camilleri

Mar 27 Lab Rats: How Silicon Valley Made Work Miserable for the Rest of Us by Dan Lyons

Mar 23 Create Dangerously (Penguin Modern Classics #17) by Albert Camus

Mar 21 The Unreal and the Real: Selected Stories, Volume Two: Outer Space, Inner Lands by Ursula K. Le Guin

Mar 14 Treasure Hunt (Commissario Montalbano #16) by Andrea Camilleri

Mar 8 Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (George Smiley #5) by John le Carré

Mar 4 Seize the Day by Saul Bellow

Feb 25 Letter from Birmingham Jail (Penguin Modern Classics #01) by Martin Luther King Jr

Feb 23 The Dance of the Seagull (Commissario Montalbano #15) by Andrea Camilleri

Feb 21 More Rules for Life: A special volume for enthusiasts by Kitty Flanagan

Feb 19 The Flight of the Wild Gander: Explorations in the Mythological Dimension by Joseph Campbell

Feb 15 Everything That Rises Must Converge: Stories by Flannery O’Connor

Feb 12 The Age of Doubt (Commissario Montalbano #14) by Andrea Camilleri

Feb 8 Bird by Bird: Instructions on Writing and Life by Anne Lamott

Feb 3 The Three Electroknights (Penguin Modern Classics #09) by Stanisław Lem

Feb 2 Four Thousand Weeks by Oliver Burkeman

Jan 26 The Unreal and the Real: Selected Stories, Volume One: Where on Earth by Ursula K. Le Guin

Jan 22 Elastic: Flexible Thinking in a Constantly Changing World by Leonard Mlodinow

Jan 18 The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway

Jan 16 The Potter’s Field (Commissario Montalbano #13) by Andrea Camilleri

Jan 13 The Cockroach by Ian McEwan

Jan 10 Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro

Jan 3 And the Ocean Was Our Sky by Patrick Ness

Dec 31 The Hobbit, or There and Back Again (Middle-earth Universe) by J.R.R. Tolkien

Dec 23 The Track of Sand (Commissario Montalbano #12) by Andrea Camilleri

Dec 21 It’s Elemental: The Hidden Chemistry in Everything by Kate Biberdorf

Dec 16 The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett

Dec 14 A World Without Work: Technology, Automation and How We Should Respond by Daniel Susskind

Dec 6 Whereabouts by Jhumpa Lahiri

Dec 3 Wings of the Sphinx (Commissario Montalbano #11) by Andrea Camilleri

Nov 29 Mission Economy: A Moonshot Guide to Changing Capitalism by Mariana Mazzucato

Nov 25 The President’s Brain is Missing by John Scalzi

Nov 24 The Room by Jonas Karlsson

Nov 16 A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories by Flannery O’Connor

Nov 12 Beauty and the Inferno: Essays by Roberto Saviano

Nov 9 The Alchemy of Us: How Humans and Matter Transformed One Another by Ainissa Ramirez

Nov 2 August Heat (Commissario Montalbano #10) by Andrea Camilleri

Oct 29 Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker by Rae Carson

Oct 26 To Hold Up the Sky by Liu Cixin

Oct 16 Birthday by César Aira

Oct 14 Montalbano’s First Case and Other Stories (Inspector Montalbano #8.5) by Andrea Camilleri

Oct 8 How to Make the World Add Up: Ten Rules for Thinking Differently About Numbers by Tim Harford

Sep 30 The Dispossessed (Hainish Cycle #6) by Ursula K. Le Guin

Sep 28 Why Smart People Hurt: A Guide for the Bright, the Sensitive, and the Creative by Eric Maisel

Sep 22 Interior Chinatown by Charles Yu

Sep 18 The Good Life: What Makes a Life Worth Living? by Hugh Mackay

Sep 11 The Paper Moon (Commissario Montalbano #9) by Andrea Camilleri

Sep 6 Home: Habitat, Range, Niche, Territory (The Murderbot Diaries #4.5) by Martha Wells

Sep 3 Brief Notes on the Art and Manner of Arranging One’s Books by Georges Perec

Aug 30 The Comfort Book by Matt Haig

Aug 27 Levels of Life by Julian Barnes

Aug 23 A Desolation Called Peace (Teixcalaan #2) by Arkady Martine

Aug 19 The Literary Conference by César Aira

Aug 13 The Wrench by Primo Levi

Aug 6 The Timewaster Letters Compendium by Robin Cooper

Aug 3 Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment by Daniel Kahneman, Olivier Sibony and Cass R. Sunstein

Jul 31 The Word for World is Forest (Hainish Cycle #5) by Ursula K. Le Guin

Jul 27 The Deficit Myth: Modern Monetary Theory and How to Build a Better Economy by Stephanie Kelton

Jul 24 The Stars My Destination by Alfred Bester

Jul 18 The Patience of the Spider (Commissario Montalbano #8) by Andrea Camilleri

Jul 13 488 Rules for Life: The Thankless Art of Being Correct by Kitty Flanagan

Jul 10 Agency (Jackpot #2) by William Gibson

Jul 6 You Look Like a Thing and I Love You: How Artificial Intelligence Works and Why It’s Making the World a Weirder Place by Janelle Shane

Jun 26 Fugitive Telemetry (The Murderbot Diaries #6) by Martha Wells

Jun 22 First Person Singular: Stories by Haruki Murakami

Jun 19 Dishonesty Is the Second-Best Policy: And Other Rules to Live By by David Mitchell

Jun 15 Rounding the Mark (Commissario Montalbano #7) by Andrea Camilleri

Jun 13 The Ascent of Gravity: The Quest to Understand the Force that Explains Everything by Marcus Chown

Jun 8 The Left Hand of Darkness (Hainish Cycle #4) by Ursula K. Le Guin

Jun 2 Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir

May 29 How to Spot a Fascist by Umberto Eco

May 25 The Player of Games (Culture #2) by Iain M. Banks

May 22 The Scent of the Night (Commissario Montalbano #6) by Andrea Camilleri

May 17 The Man Who Knew Too Much by G.K. Chesterton

May 14 Vesper Flights by Helen Macdonald

May 9 Bridge Burning and Other Hobbies by Kitty Flanagan

May 6 The Constant Rabbit by Jasper Fforde

May 3 The Last Emperox (The Interdependency #3) by John Scalzi

Apr 26 Excursion to Tindari (Commissario Montalbano #5) by Andrea Camilleri

Apr 19 The Power of Moments: Why Certain Experiences Have Extraordinary Impact by Chip Heath and Dan Heath

Apr 10 This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone

Apr 7 From Those Wonderful Folks Who Gave You Pearl Harbor: Front-line Dispatches from the Advertising War by Jerry Della Femina

Apr 2 Voice of the Violin (Commissario Montalbano #4) by Andrea Camilleri

Mar 28 The Consuming Fire (The Interdependency #2) by John Scalzi

Mar 26 Human Compatible: AI and the Problem of Control by Stuart Russell

Mar 18 The Snack Thief (Commissario Montalbano #3) by Andrea Camilleri

Mar 11 The Little Book of Hygge: The Danish Way to Live Well by Meik Wiking

Mar 7 Distrust That Particular Flavor by William Gibson

Mar 3 The Terracotta Dog (Commissario Montalbano #2) by Andrea Camilleri

Feb 26 Piranesi by Susanna Clarke

Feb 16 Sensemaking: The Power of the Humanities in the Age of the Algorithm by Christian Madsbjerg

Feb 14 Yes to Life: In Spite of Everything by Viktor E. Frankl

Feb 14 How To Break Up With Friends: From Friendsh*t to Friendsplit – a guide to ditching crappy companions by Hannah Korrel [Feb 7]

Jan 31 The Order of Time by Carlo Rovelli

Jan 25 The Shape of Water (Commissario Montalbano #1) by Andrea Camilleri

Jan 19 The Bassoon King: My Life in Art, Faith, and Idiocy by Rainn Wilson

Jan 12 Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die by Chip Heath and Dan Heath

Jan 9 Network Effect (The Murderbot Diaries #5) by Martha Wells

Dec 29 Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said by Philip K. Dick

Dec 25 Art: Vintage Minis by Simon Schama

Dec 21 Lady Susan by Jane Austen

Dec 19 Life: A User’s Manual: Philosophy for (Almost) Any Eventuality by Julian Baggini and Antonia Macaro

Dec 14 The Midnight Library by Matt Haig

Dec 6 Stuff Matters: The Strange Stories of the Marvellous Materials that Shape Our Man-made World by Mark Miodownik

Nov 28 Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen

Nov 20 City of Illusions (Hainish Cycle #3) by Ursula K. Le Guin

Nov 15 Exit Strategy (The Murderbot Diaries #4) by Martha Wells

Nov 12 Of Ants and Dinosaurs by Liu Cixin

Nov 8 The Lying Life of Adults by Elena Ferrante

Nov 2 Ikigai: The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life by Hector Garcia Puigcerver and Francesc Miralles

Oct 29 Thrawn: Treason (Star Wars: Thrawn #3) by Timothy Zahn

Oct 22 Home: Vintage Minis by Salman Rushdie

Oct 21 Planet of Exile (Hainish Cycle #2) by Ursula K. Le Guin

Oct 17 Rogue Protocol (The Murderbot Diaries #3) by Martha Wells

Oct 14 Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones by James Clear

Oct 9 Mansfield Park by Jane Austen

Sep 28 Rocannon’s World (Hainish Cycle #1) by Ursula K. Le Guin

Sep 24 Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry Into the Value of Work by Matthew B. Crawford

Sep 19 The Art of Being by Erich Fromm

Sep 14 Artificial Condition (The Murderbot Diaries #2) by Martha Wells

Sep 11 The Hidden Girl and Other Stories by Ken Liu

Sep 2 A Memory Called Empire (Teixcalaan #1) by Arkady Martine

Aug 23 All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries #1) by Martha Wells

Aug 21 Grit: Passion, Perseverance, and the Science of Success by Angela Duckworth

Aug 19 Art, Truth & Politics: The Nobel Lecture by Harold Pinter

Aug 12 A Fire Upon the Deep (Zones of Thought #1) by Vernor Vinge [Aug 11]

Jul 29 The Spy Who Came In from the Cold by John le Carré

Jul 25 Moral Mazes: The World of Corporate Managers by Robert Jackall

Jul 21 Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion by Jia Tolentino

Jul 18 Ablutions by Patrick deWitt

Jul 11 Orwell on Freedom by George Orwell

Jul 9 Emma by Jane Austen

Jun 26 The Universe in Your Hand: A Journey Through Space, Time, and Beyond by Christophe Galfard

Jun 17 The Office: The Untold Story of the Greatest Sitcom of the 2000s by Andy Greene

May 29 101 Weird Words (and 3 Fakes): From Ambidextrous to Zugzwang by David Astle

May 24 Tiny Habits: The Small Changes That Change Everything by B.J. Fogg

May 12 Design as Art by Bruno Munari

May 7 If Cats Disappeared from the World by Genki Kawamura

May 2 My Twentieth Century Evening and Other Small Breakthroughs: The Nobel Lecture by Kazuo Ishiguro

Apr 29 In Praise of Reading and Fiction: The Nobel Lecture by Mario Vargas Llosa

Apr 28 Capital and Ideology by Thomas Piketty

Apr 25 Family Lexicon by Natalia Ginzburg

Apr 9 The City Born Great (Great Cities #0.5) by N.K. Jemisin

Apr 2 Equal Danger by Leonardo Sciascia

Mar 31 Australian Migrant Ships 1946-1977 by Peter Plowman

Mar 30 Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: A BBC Radio 4 Full Cast Dramatisation by Robert M. Pirsig and Peter Flannery [adapter]

Mar 28 Sorry I’m Late, I Didn’t Want to Come: An Introvert’s Year of Living Dangerously by Jessica Pan

Mar 24 A History of the World in 10½ Chapters by Julian Barnes

Mar 8 Lost and Founder: A Painfully Honest Field Guide to the Startup World by Rand Fishkin

Mar 3 Speak Italian: The Fine Art of the Gesture by Bruno Munari

Feb 27 Finite and Infinite Games: A Vision of Life as Play and Possibility by James P. Carse

Feb 25 Uncanny Valley: A Memoir by Anna Wiener

Feb 22 The Musical Brain: And Other Stories by César Aira

Feb 10 Do Humankind’s Best Days Lie Ahead?: The Munk Debates by Steven Pinker, Matt Ridley, Alain de Botton and Malcolm Gladwell

Feb 8 The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: a leadership fable / Patrick Lencioni

Feb 5 The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran

Feb 3 Exactly: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World by Simon Winchester

Jan 31 People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks

Jan 23 A Sense of the Mysterious: Science and the Human Spirit by Alan Lightman

Jan 17 Amazing Decisions: The Illustrated Guide to Improving Business Deals and Family Meals by Dan Ariely with Matt R. Trower (Illustrator)

Jan 13 Meltdown: Why Our Systems Fail and What We Can Do About It by Chris Clearfield and András Tilcsik

Jan 8 The Testaments (The Handmaid’s Tale #2) by Margaret Atwood

Jan 5 Hello World: Being Human in the Age of Algorithms by Hannah Fry

Dec 27 In Praise of Walking: The new science of how we walk and why it’s good for us by Shane O’Mara

Dec 20 Naked Statistics: Stripping the Dread from the Data by Charles Wheelan [Dec 19]

Dec 12 Ajax Penumbra 1969 (Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore 0.5) by Robin Sloan

Dec 8 Incidental Inventions by Elena Ferrante

Dec 5 Wrong Turn at the Office of Unmade Lists by Jane Rawson

Nov 30 To Each His Own by Leonardo Sciascia

Nov 26 The Pier Falls: And Other Stories by Mark Haddon

Nov 22 The Return of the King (The Lord of the Rings #3) by J.R.R. Tolkien

Nov 13 Star Wars after Lucas: A Critical Guide to the Future of the Galaxy by Dan Golding

Nov 11 Picnic at Hanging Rock by Joan Lindsay

Nov 5 Twelve Angry Men by Reginald Rose

Nov 2 The Moro Affair; and The Mystery of Majorana by Leonardo Sciascia

Oct 31 The Two Towers (The Lord of the Rings #2) by J.R.R. Tolkien

Oct 26 The Fifth Risk by Michael Lewis

Oct 21 A Girl Returned by Donatella Di Pietrantonio

Oct 17 The Collapsing Empire (The Interdependency #1) by John Scalzi

Oct 11 Piano Lessons: A Memoir by Anna Goldsworthy

Oct 8 The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings #1) by J.R.R. Tolkien

Sep 24 Walking by Henry David Thoreau

Sep 20 Message from the Shadows: Selected Stories by Antonio Tabucchi

Sep 14 The Hero with a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell

Sep 3 Win Bigly: Persuasion in a World Where Facts Don’t Matter by Scott Adams

Aug 31 The Tiger and the Acrobat by Susanna Tamaro

Aug 23 Eventide (Plainsong #2) by Kent Haruf

Aug 16 It Doesn’t Have to Be Crazy at Work by Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson

Aug 13 Randomistas: How Radical Researchers Changed Our World by Andrew Leigh

Aug 6 The Crossroads (aka As God Commands) by Niccolò Ammaniti

Jul 31 Stand Firm: Resisting the Self-Improvement Craze by Svend Brinkmann

Jul 24 From the Wreck by Jane Rawson

Jul 13 Calm: Vintage Minis by Tim Parks

Jul 10 The Forking Trolley: An Ethical Journey to The Good Place by James M. Russell

Jul 4 Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World by Bruce Schneier

Jun 30 Come Rain or Come Shine: Faber Stories by Kazuo Ishiguro

Jun 26 The Interpreter by Diego Marani

Jun 15 Zen in the Art of Writing by Ray Bradbury

Jun 14 My Man Jeeves (Jeeves #1) by P.G. Wodehouse

Jun 7 Exhalation: Stories by Ted Chiang

May 31 David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits and the Art of Battling Giants by Malcolm Gladwell [May 27]

May 23 Hear the Wind Sing by Haruki Murakami

May 21 Coders: Who They Are, What They Think and How They Are Changing Our World by Clive Thompson

May 16 Anna by Niccolò Ammaniti

May 9 Standpoints: 10 Old Ideas in a New World by Svend Brinkmann

May 4 The Sick Bag Song by Nick Cave

May 1 The Talent Code: Greatness isn’t born. It’s grown by Daniel Coyle

Apr 27 Secrets and Lies: Digital Security in a Networked World by Bruce Schneier

Apr 24 Prayers of a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke

Apr 23 The Heron by Giorgio Bassani

Apr 15 A Man of Shadows (John Nyquist #1) by Jeff Noon

Apr 5 In Search of Good Government: Great Expectations & Political Amnesia by Laura Tingle

Mar 31 Dante and the Lobster: Faber Stories by Samuel Beckett

Mar 26 Artemis by Andy Weir

Mar 19 Messy: How to Be Creative and Resilient in a Tidy-Minded World by Tim Harford

Mar 14 The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark

Mar 6 Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Mar 4 The Ring & The Opposite of Death by Roberto Saviano

Feb 28 Ball Lightning by Liu Cixin

Feb 25 One Hundred Great Books in Haiku by David M. Bader

Feb 21 Killing Commendatore by Haruki Murakami

Feb 7 Taste by Giorgio Agamben

Feb 1 Net Loss: The Inner Life in the Digital Age (Quarterly Essay #72) by Sebastian Smee

Jan 30 How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life by Scott Adams

Jan 28 Alliances (Star Wars: Thrawn #2) by Timothy Zahn

Jan 23 The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories by Ken Liu

Jan 14 A Short History of Truth: Consolations for a Post-Truth World by Julian Baggini

Jan 10 Creative Selection: Inside Apple’s Design Process During the Golden Age of Steve Jobs by Ken Kocienda

Jan 5 The Night Masquerade (Binti #3) by Nnedi Okorafor

Jan 2 The Book of Sand and Shakespeare’s Memory by Jorge Luis Borges

Dec 30 The Analects by Confucius, Annping Chin [trans]

Dec 26 A Dog’s Heart by Mikhail Bulgakov

Dec 21 True Names: and the Opening of the Cyberspace Frontier by Vernor Vinge

Dec 18 Schneier on Security by Bruce Schneier

Dec 12 Home (Binti #2) by Nnedi Okorafor

Dec 9 Follow the Leader: Democracy and the Rise of the Strongman (Quarterly Essay #71) by Laura Tingle

Dec 8 The Philosophy of Coffee by Brian Williams

Dec 6 Bullshit Jobs: A Theory by David Graeber

Nov 30 Distant Light by Antonio Moresco

Nov 27 The Humans by Matt Haig

Nov 22 Work: Vintage Minis by Joseph Heller

Nov 20 God’s Dog by Diego Marani

Nov 15 Tool of War by Paolo Bacigalupi

Nov 12 Switch: How To Change Things When Change Is Hard by Chip Heath and Dan Heath

Nov 8 French Exit by Patrick deWitt

Nov 5 Pathways to Bliss: Mythology and Personal Transformation by Joseph Campbell

Nov 1 At the Mountains of Madness by H.P. Lovecraft

Oct 29 The Rider by Tim Krabbé

Oct 28 Super Better: A Revolutionary Approach to Getting Stronger, Happier, Braver and More Resilient; Powered by the Science of Games by Jane McGonigal

Oct 24 Early Riser by Jasper Fforde

Oct 10 The Last of the Vostyachs by Diego Marani

Oct 4 Beacon 23 by Hugh Howey

Sep 30 In Praise of Wasting Time by Alan Lightman

Sep 28 The Courage Consort by Michel Faber

Sep 26 The Eight Mountains by Paolo Cognetti

Sep 11 Hamlet by William Shakespeare

Sep 7 The Power of Myth by Joseph Campbell with Bill Moyers

Sep 4 Per Isabel. Un mandala by Antonio Tabucchi

Aug 30 Crome Yellow by Aldous Huxley

Aug 24 The Lion and the Unicorn: Socialism and the English Genius by George Orwell

Aug 22 Riot Days by Maria Alyokhina

Aug 16 The Beautiful Summer by Cesare Pavese

Aug 11 I Moved Your Cheese: For Those Who Refuse to Live as Mice in Someone Else’s Maze by Deepak Malhotra

Aug 10 Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

Jul 20 Trickery by Roald Dahl

Jul 16 Slade House by David Mitchell

Jul 14 Encyclical on Climate Change and Inequality: On Care for Our Common Home by Pope Francis, with Naomi Oreskes (Introduction)

Jul 11 The Damned Season by Carlo Lucarelli

Jul 9 Friendship by A.C. Grayling

Jul 5 First Execution by Domenico Starnone

Jul 4 Five-Day Course in Thinking by Edward de Bono

Jun 29 The Egg by Andy Weir

Jun 28 Star Wars: The Last Jedi by Jason Fry

Jun 22 The Turn by Luigi Pirandello

Jun 19 Our Man in Havana by Graham Greene

Jun 18 Building Maintainable Software, Java Edition: Ten Guidelines for Future-Proof Code by Joost Visser

Jun 11 New Finnish Grammar by Diego Marani

Jun 6 Dept. of Speculation by Jenny Offill

Jun 4 The Sense of an Elephant by Marco Missiroli

May 31 Positive Realism by Maurizio Ferraris

May 23 Multiple Choice by Alejandro Zambra

May 21 Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business by Neil Postman

May 17 The Disappearance of Signora Giulia by Piero Chiara

May 14 Democracy and Its Crisis by A.C. Grayling

May 10 Machine Learning: New and Collected Stories by Hugh Howey

May 5 Desire: Vintage Minis by Haruki Murakami

May 1 Dan’s Inferno: A Parody by Dan T. Alighieri

Apr 27 Classics: A Very Short Introduction by Mary Beard & John Henderson

Apr 26 Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf

Apr 12 Weaponized Lies: How to Think Critically in the Post-Truth Era by Daniel J. Levitin

Apr 6 The Grownup by Gillian Flynn

Apr 3 Io e te (Me and You) by Niccolò Ammaniti

Mar 30 Irrationally Yours: On missing socks, pick-up lines and other existential puzzles by Dan Ariely with William Haefeli

Mar 28 The Mercy Journals by Claudia Casper

Mar 22 Trout Fishing in America by Richard Brautigan

Mar 18 Binti by Nnedi Okorafor

Mar 16 The Un-Discovered Islands: An Archipelago of Myths and Mysteries, Phantoms and Fakes by Malachy Tallack

Mar 14 The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula Le Guin

Mar 7 A Short Guide to a Happy Life by Anna Quindlen

Mar 2 The Man Who Lied to His Laptop: What We Can Learn about Ourselves from Our Machines by Clifford Nass with Corina Yen

Feb 25 The Postman’s Fiancée by Denis Thériault

Feb 22 Smith&Wesson by Alessandro Baricco

Feb 19 Managing Oneself by Peter F. Drucker

Feb 17 Clash of Civilizations Over an Elevator in Piazza Vittorio by Amara Lakhous

Feb 13 To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf

Feb 6 Why Grow Up?: Subversive Thoughts for an Infantile Age by Susan Neiman

Feb 3 The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov

Jan 18 Better Call Saul: The World According to Saul Goodman by David Stubbs

Jan 15 What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions by Randall Munroe

Jan 10 Reality is Not What it Seems by Carlo Rovelli

Jan 5 Persuasion by Jane Austen

Dec 22 Philosophy: The Classics by Nigel Warburton

Dec 14 Like Family by Paolo Giordano

Dec 12 Sourdough by Robin Sloan

Dec 8 A Different Sea by Claudio Magris

Dec 5 Follow Your Heart by Susanna Tamaro

Dec 3 Letters to a Young Poet & The Letter from the Young Worker by Rainer Maria Rilke

Dec 1 Investigations of a Dog: And Other Creatures by Franz Kafka

Nov 29 The Girl with the Dogs by Anna Funder

Nov 27 Isn’t This Fun?: Investigating the Serious Business of Enjoying Ourselves by Michael Foley

Nov 18 Fardwor, Russia!: A Fantastical Tale of Life Under Putin by Oleg Kashin

Nov 14 The Assistant by Robert Walser

Nov 5 The Art of Reading by Damon Young

Nov 2 The Festival of Insignificance by Milan Kundera

Oct 31 The Young Bride by Alessandro Baricco

Oct 24 Barking Up the Wrong Tree: The Surprising Science Behind Why Everything You Know About Success Is (Mostly) Wrong by Eric Barker

Oct 17 Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl

Oct 12 Positive Psychology: A Toolkit for Happiness, Purpose and Well-being by Bridget Grenville-Cleave

Oct 12 Morning Sea by Margaret Mazzantini

Oct 7 Making Habits, Breaking Habits: How to Make Any Change Stick by Jeremy Dean

Oct 3 A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf

Sep 26 The Signalman: A Ghost Story by Charles Dickens

Sep 25 The Age Of Absurdity: Why Modern Life Makes It Hard To Be Happy by Michael Foley

Sep 21 The Crocodile by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Sep 20 The Wandering Earth by Cixin Liu

Sep 11 Ties by Domenico Starnone

Sep 4 Store of the Worlds: The Stories of Robert Sheckley by Robert Sheckley

Aug 31 Thrawn by Timothy Zahn

Aug 14 Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

Aug 10 Let the Games Begin by Niccolò Ammaniti

Aug 2 Plainsong by Kent Haruf

Jul 24 The Gold-Rimmed Spectacles by Giorgio Bassani

Jul 20 Carte Blanche by Carlo Lucarelli

Jul 15 The Woman Who Thought She Was a Planet and Other Stories by Vandana Singh

Jul 12 The Peculiar Life of a Lonely Postman by Denis Thériault

Jul 4 Men Without Women: Stories by Haruki Murakami

Jun 29 A Grief Observed by C.S. Lewis

Jun 24 Decline and Fall by Evelyn Waugh

Jun 5 How to Think About Exercise by Damon Young

Jun 1 The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone by Olivia Laing

May 29 Payoff: The Hidden Logic That Shapes Our Motivations by Dan Ariely

May 28 Within the Walls by Giorgio Bassani

May 22 The Day of the Owl by Leonardo Sciascia

May 17 L’amore molesto (Troubling Love) by Elena Ferrante

May 9 To Sell Is Human: The Surprising Truth About Moving Others by Daniel H. Pink

May 5 Rogue One: A Star Wars Story by Alexander Freed

Apr 30 The Counselor: A Screenplay by Cormac McCarthy

Apr 29 Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Apr 11 The World According to Star Wars by Cass R. Sunstein

Apr 7 Death’s End by Cixin Liu

Mar 27 La figlia oscura (The Lost Daughter) by Elena Ferrante

Mar 22 Girlfriends, Ghosts, and Other Stories by Robert Walser

Mar 17 Smarter Faster Better: The Secrets of Being Productive in Life and Business by Charles Duhigg

Mar 13 Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions by Brian Christian and Tom Griffiths

Mar 2 A Nervous Breakdown by Anton Chekhov

Feb 28 The Science of Managing Our Digital Stuff by Ofer Bergman and Steve Whittaker

Feb 24 The Seagull by Anton Chekhov, John Donnelly [trans]

Feb 21 The Confidence Game: Why We Fall for It … Every Time by Maria Konnikova

Feb 13 The Course of Love: A Novel by Alain de Botton

Feb 5 Sorry Please Thank You: Stories by Charles Yu

Jan 31 Stone Mattress: Nine Tales by Margaret Atwood

Jan 29 The Story of the Lost Child by Elena Ferrante

Jan 7 The Mezzanine by Nicholson Baker

Jan 3 Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay by Elena Ferrante

Dec 25 How Much is Enough?: Money and the Good Life by Robert Skidelsky and Edward Skidelsky

Dec 9 Our Souls at Night by Kent Haruf

Dec 7 Stiletto by Daniel O’Malley

Nov 13 The Story of a New Name by Elena Ferrante

Oct 31 Demons (The Possessed) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Oct 23 The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles by Steven Pressfield

Sep 30 The Colour of Magic by Terry Pratchett

Sep 22 Seven Brief Lessons on Physics by Carlo Rovelli

Sep 16 Such, Such Were the Joys by George Orwell

Sep 9 I giorni dell’abbandono (The Days of Abandonment) by Elena Ferrante

Aug 18 Ray by Barry Hannah

Aug 15 Flappers and Philosophers by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Aug 11 Axiomatic by Greg Egan

Aug 4 The Suitcase by Sergei Dovlatov

Jul 31 The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon

Jul 27 Roadside Picnic by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky

Jul 21 ACT Made Simple by Russ Harris

Jul 12 The Cyberiad: Fables for the Cybernetic Age by Stanislaw Lem

Jul 5 Practical Classics: 50 Reasons to Reread 50 Books You Haven’t Touched Since High School by Kevin Smokler

Jun 28 Ancillary Mercy by Ann Leckie

Jun 17 Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life by Jon Kabat-Zinn

Jun 15 Welcome to Night Vale by Joseph Fink and Jeffrey Cranor

Jun 7 My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante

May 24 This Census-Taker by China Miéville

May 11 A Guide for the Perplexed by Ernst F. Schumacher

May 4 The Rights of the Reader by Daniel Pennac

Apr 28 In the Twilight by Anton Chekhov

Apr 15 The Accidental Universe: The World You Thought You Knew by Alan Lightman

Apr 8 The Fatal Eggs by Mikhail Bulgakov

Apr 6 The Story of Don Juan by Alessandro Baricco

Apr 5 Multi-Careering: Do Work That Matters at Every Stage of Your Journey by Bob Goff

Apr 4 A Schoolboy’s Diary and Other Stories by Robert Walser

Mar 28 The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt

Mar 22 Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev

Mar 16 Burning Secret by Stefan Zweig

Mar 15 Grief Is the Thing with Feathers by Max Porter

Mar 11 Eugene Onegin by Alexander Pushkin

Mar 4 The Wine-Dark Sea by Leonardo Sciascia

Feb 28 Star Wars: The Force Awakens by Alan Dean Foster

Feb 23 Stephen Fry’s Incomplete and Utter History of Classical Music: As told to Tim Lihoreau by Stephen Fry and Tim Lihoreau

Feb 19 Dictator by Robert Harris

Feb 10 Quantum Theory Cannot Hurt You: A Guide to the Universe by Marcus Chown

Feb 5 H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald

Jan 29 Serendipities: Language and Lunacy by Umberto Eco

Jan 25 What We See When We Read by Peter Mendelsund

Jan 20 Jakob von Gunten by Robert Walser

Jan 16 Inventing the Enemy: Essays by Umberto Eco

Jan 11 The Dark Forest by Cixin Liu

Dec 31 If Hemingway Wrote JavaScript by Angus Croll

Dec 29 How to Stay Sane by Philippa Perry

Dec 17 Finding Flow: The Psychology of Engagement With Everyday Life by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Dec 11 Dreamland: Adventures in the Strange Science of Sleep by David K. Randall

Dec 4 Numero Zero by Umberto Eco

Nov 28 Childhood Memories and Other Stories by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa

Nov 22 Narcissus and Goldmund by Hermann Hesse

Nov 13 Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes

Nov 6 Redshirts by John Scalzi

Oct 29 Undermajordomo Minor by Patrick deWitt

Oct 23 How We Live Now: Redefining Home and Family in the 21st Century by Bella DePaulo

Oct 14 The Prank: The Best of Young Chekhov by Anton Chekhov

Oct 9 Stop What You’re Doing and Read This! by multiple authors

Oct 6 Acceptance by Jeff VanderMeer

Sep 30 The Paper Chase by John Jay Osborn, Jr.

Sep 27 Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel García Márquez

Sep 23 The New Flatlanders: A Seeker’s Guide to the Theory of Everything by Eric Middleton

Sep 18 The Martian by Andy Weir

Sep 13 Authority by Jeff VanderMeer

Sep 6 The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner

Aug 30 Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai by Tsunetomo Yamamoto

Aug 26 Selections from the Canzoniere and Other Works by Petrarch

Aug 18 Daddy’s Wings by Milena Agus

Aug 13 Living Well: The Psychology Of Everyday Life by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Aug 10 Dubliners by James Joyce

Aug 2 The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu

Jul 22 Three by Georges Perec

Jul 18 Henry IV by Luigi Pirandello

Jul 17 Six Characters In Search of an Author by Luigi Pirandello

Jul 14 A Hero of Our Time by Mikhail Lermontov

Jul 9 The Water Knife by Paolo Bacigalupi

Jul 3 Ancillary Sword by Ann Leckie

Jun 26 Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer

Jun 21 The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling

Jun 16 The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes

Jun 10 A Life Apart by Mariapia Veladiano

Jun 4 Identity by Milan Kundera

May 25 The House in Via Manno by Milena Agus

May 21 The Tent by Margaret Atwood

May 19 Being There by Jerzy Kosinski

May 15 The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell

May 4 The Hedgehog and the Fox: An Essay on Tolstoy’s View of History by Isaiah Berlin

Apr 29 Divine and Human: And Other Stories by Leo Tolstoy

Apr 24 The Art of Asking Your Boss for a Raise by Georges Perec

Apr 23 The Palace of Dreams by Ismail Kadare

Apr 17 The Peripheral by William Gibson

Apr 1 The Captain’s Daughter by Alexander Pushkin

Mar 27 The Double Bass by Patrick Süskind

Mar 26 Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Mar 20 The Strange Library by Haruki Murakami

Mar 19 The Drowned World by J. G. Ballard

Mar 16 The Royal Game, with Letter from an Unknown Woman, and Amok by Stefan Zweig

Mar 12 Trigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances by Neil Gaiman

Mar 6 Son by Lois Lowry

Feb 28 Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie

Feb 22 The Invisible Man by H. G. Wells

Feb 19 Orfeo by Richard Powers

Feb 9 How to Find Fulfilling Work by Roman Krznaric

Feb 5 The Year of Reading Dangerously: How Fifty Great Books Saved My Life by Andy Miller

Jan 29 Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us by Seth Godin

Jan 27 Geek Sublime: Writing Fiction, Coding Software by Vikram Chandra

Jan 21 Agostino by Alberto Moravia

Jan 16 Sand by Hugh Howey

Jan 11 Collection of Sand by Italo Calvino

Dec 31 How to Be Alone by Sara Maitland

Dec 23 Year Zero by Rob Reid

Dec 12 Three Early Stories by J. D. Salinger

Dec 11 Old Man’s War by John Scalzi

Dec 3 Under the Skin by Michel Faber

Nov 28 The Secret Life of Walter Mitty by James Thurber [Nov 27]

Nov 24 The Graduate by Charles Webb

Nov 20 You by Austin Grossman

Nov 12 The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

Nov 6 Italian Literature: A Very Short Introduction by Peter Hainsworth and David Robey

Oct 30 Lost Pages by Paul Di Filippo

Oct 24 We by Yevgeny Zamyatin

Oct 20 At Swim-Two-Birds by Flann O’Brien

Oct 13 Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage by Haruki Murakami

Oct 3 The News: A User’s Manual by Alain de Botton

Sep 30 Ready Player One by Ernest Cline

Sep 18 Smarter Than You Think: How Technology is Changing Our Minds for the Better by Clive Thompson

Sep 9 The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood

Aug 29 Mind Over Mind: The Surprising Power of Expectations by Chris Berdik

Aug 25 Lexicon by Max Barry

Aug 15 You Are Now Less Dumb: How to Conquer Mob Mentality, How to Buy Happiness, and All the Other Ways to Outsmart Yourself by David McRaney

Aug 8 Tigerman by Nick Harkaway

Jul 27 Messenger by Lois Lowry

Jul 23 Think Like a Freak: How to Think Smarter about Almost Everything by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner

Jul 17 Whatever by Michel Houellebecq

Jul 11 The Undercover Economist Strikes Back: How to Run – or Ruin – an Economy by Tim Harford

Jul 7 The Swerve: How the Renaissance Began by Stephen Greenblatt

Jun 27 Gathering Blue by Lois Lowry

Jun 24 More Tales of the Unexpected by Roald Dahl

Jun 21 Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration by Ed Catmull and Amy Wallace

Jun 13 Solaris by Stanislaw Lem

Jun 4 Into the War by Italo Calvino

Jun 3 Noise: A Human History of Sound and Listening by David Hendy

May 31 Jony Ive: The Genius Behind Apple’s Greatest Products by Leander Kahney

May 26 Strange Pilgrims by Gabriel García Márquez

May 20 Armageddon in Retrospect: And Other New and Unpublished Writings on War and Peace by Kurt Vonnegut

May 13 The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad

Apr 30 Leaf Storm by Gabriel García Márquez

Apr 24 Remote: Office Not Required by Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson

Apr 17 The Quiet American by Graham Greene

Apr 10 La Bella Lingua: My Love Affair with Italian, the World’s Most Enchanting Language by Dianne Hales

Apr 3 Rosshalde by Herman Hesse

Mar 31 A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

Mar 27 Help!: How to Become Slightly Happier and Get a Bit More Done by Oliver Burkeman

Mar 21 This Is Your Brain on Music: Understanding a Human Obsession by Daniel Levitin

Mar 11 After the Collapse by Paul di Filippo

Feb 26 Dust by Hugh Howey

Feb 19 The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do, and How to Change by Charles Duhigg

Feb 14 The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Stories by Leo Tolstoy

Feb 6 The Crane Wife by Patrick Ness

Jan 30 You Are Not So Smart: Why You Have Too Many Friends on Facebook, Why Your Memory Is Mostly Fiction, and 46 Other Ways You’re Deluding Yourself by David McRaney

Jan 24 Cannery Row by John Steinbeck

Jan 21 The Giver by Lois Lowry

Jan 18 Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson

Jan 16 Angelmaker by Nick Harkaway

Dec 29 Mastermind: How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes by Maria Konnikova

Dec 21 Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog) by Jerome K. Jerome

Dec 13 Time Warped: Unlocking the Mysteries of Time Perception by Claudia Hammond

Dec 6 Annabel Scheme by Robin Sloan

Dec 3 Indian Nocturne by Antonio Tabucchi

Nov 28 Emmaus by Alessandro Baricco

Nov 22 They’re a Weird Mob by John O’Grady (as Nino Culotta)

Nov 19 The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood by James Gleick

Nov 14 The Rook: A Novel by Daniel O’Malley

Oct 24 Shift by Hugh Howey

Oct 3 The Pearl by John Steinbeck

Sep 27 The Drowned Cities by Paolo Bacigalupi

Sep 20 The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman

Sep 16 The Third Policeman by Flann O’Brien

Sep 5 Wool by Hugh Howey

Aug 20 Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street by Herman Melville

Aug 18 The Prague Cemetery by Umberto Eco

Aug 1 This is How You Lose Her by Junot Díaz

Jul 29 Ship Breaker by Paolo Bacigalupi

Jul 22 One Hand Clapping: A Novel by Anthony Burgess

Jul 15 Mr g: A Novel About The Creation by Alan Lightman

Jul 9 Philosophy for Life: And Other Dangerous Situations by Jules Evans

Jun 28 Puttering About in a Small Land by Philip K. Dick

Jun 18 Pump Six and Other Stories by Paolo Bacigalupi

Jun 5 Il tempo forse by Francesco Genitoni

Jun 1 The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare by G. K. Chesterton

May 22 The Time Machine by H. G. Wells

May 18 The Year of the Hare: A Novel by Arto Paasilinna

May 14 The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction by Alan Jacobs

May 13 Antifragile: How to Live in a World We Don’t Understand by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Apr 26 Getting Real: The smarter, faster, easier way to build a successful web application by Jason Fried, David Heinemeier Hansson and Matthew Linderman

Apr 24 Flourish: A Visionary New Understanding of Happiness and Well-being by Martin Seligman

Apr 16 The Consolation of Philosophy by Ancius Boethius

Apr 9 The Gone-Away World by Nick Harkaway

Mar 21 Stumbling on Happiness by Daniel Gilbert

Mar 8 How to Thrive in the Digital Age by Tom Chatfield

Mar 5 The Resiliency Advantage: Master Change, Thrive Under Pressure, and Bounce Back from Setbacks by Al Siebert

Feb 22 A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller, Jr.

Feb 17 Insanely Simple: The Obsession That Drives Apple’s Success by Ken Segall

Feb 12 The Forever War by Joe Haldeman

Feb 10 CoffeeScript: Accelerated JavaScript Development by Trevor Burnham

Feb 6 The Wonderbox: Curious Histories of How to Live by Roman Krznaric

Jan 27 Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore: A Novel by Robin Sloan

Jan 22 Double Entry: How the merchants of Venice shaped the modern world – and how their invention could make or break the planet by Jane Gleeson-White

Jan 17 Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card

Jan 11 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami

Dec 31 The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine by Michael Lewis

Dec 21 The Apple Experience: Secrets to Building Insanely Great Customer Loyalty by Carmine Gallo

Dec 18 Imagine: How Creativity Works by Jonah Lehrer

Dec 12 Up a Tree at Night in the Park with a Hedgehog by P. Robert Smith

Dec 7 The Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can’t Stand Positive Thinking by Oliver Burkeman

Nov 29 Generazione mille euro (1000 Euro Generation) by Antonio Incorvaia and Alessandro Rimassa

Nov 25 Inside Apple: How America’s Most Admired – and Secretive – Company Really Works by Adam Lashinsky

Nov 20 The (Honest) Truth About Dishonesty: How We Lie to Everyone – Especially Ourselves by Dan Ariely

Nov 13 Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking by Susan Cain

Nov 3 The Age of Miracles by Karen Thompson Walker

Oct 26 The Happiness Trap: Stop Struggling and Start Living by Russ Harris

Oct 20 The Mind’s Eye by Oliver Sacks

Oct 15 Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift

Oct 6 Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons

Sep 28 Doctrines and Visions by Noam Chomsky

Sep 26 The Woman Who Died a Lot by Jasper Fforde

Sep 15 Railsea by China Miéville

Aug 31 How Will You Measure Your Life? by Clayton M. Christensen, James Allworth and Karen Dillon

Aug 27 Soccernomics: Why England Loses, Why Germany and Brazil Win, and Why the US, Japan, Australia, Turkey–and Even Iraq–Are Destined to Become the Kings of the World’s Most Popular Sport by Simon Kuper and Stefan Szymanski

Aug 20 Subliminal: How Your Unconscious Mind Rules Your Behavior by Leonard Mlodinow

Aug 12 Boomerang: Travels in the New Third World by Michael Lewis

Aug 6 Tempo: Timing, Tactics and Strategy in Narrative-driven Decision-making by Venkatesh Rao

Jul 31 A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole

Jul 22 A Life of Being, Having, and Doing Enough by Wayne Muller

Jul 17 Meatball Sundae by Seth Godin

Jul 11 Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error by Kathryn Schulz

Jun 29 The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene

Jun 29 Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life by Martin Seligman (Jun 25)

Jun 15 Moby-Dick; or, The Whale by Herman Melville

May 31 The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi

May 18 The World Jones Made by Philip K. Dick

May 10 Adapt: Why Success Always Starts with Failure by Tim Harford

May 8 Balancing Agility: A Guide for the Perplexed by Barry Boehm and Richard Turner

Apr 30 Over to You: Ten Stories of Flyers and Flying by Roald Dahl

Apr 27 Embassytown by China Miéville

Apr 20 Beautiful Code: Leading Programmers Explain How They Think edited by Andy Oram and Greg Wilson

Apr 14 Civilization: The West and the Rest by Niall Ferguson

Mar 31 Quiet Your Mind by John Selby

Mar 29 The City & the City by China Miéville

Mar 15 The Year 3000: A Dream by Paolo Mantegazza

Mar 14 Metaprogramming Ruby: Program Like the Ruby Pros by Paolo Perrotta

Mar 9 The Elephant Vanishes by Haruki Murakami

Feb 29 Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang

Feb 27 Eloquent Ruby by Russ Olsen

Feb 20 How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe: A Novel by Charles Yu

Feb 15 Eleven Kinds of Loneliness by Richard Yates

Feb 8 Talent Is Overrated: What Really Separates World-Class Performers from Everybody Else by Geoff Colvin

Jan 27 The Language of Things by Deyan Sudjic

Jan 18 The Man of Numbers: Fibonacci’s Arithmetic Revolution by Keith Devlin

Jan 11 Exploring Requirements: Quality Before Design by Donald C. Gause and Gerald M. Weinberg

Dec 31 Introducing Machiavelli: A Graphic Guide by Patrick Curry and Oscar Zarate

Dec 25 Confessions of a Young Novelist by Umberto Eco

Dec 12 The Art of Fiction: Illustrated from Classic and Modern Texts by David Lodge

Nov 25 Three Tales from the Arabian Nights translated by Malcolm C. Lyons and Ursula Lyons

Nov 18 Seven Languages in Seven Weeks: A Pragmatic Guide to Learning Programming Languages by Bruce A. Tate

Nov 8 One of Our Thursdays Is Missing by Jasper Fforde

Oct 27 This Craft of Verse: Charles Eliot Norton Lectures by Jorge Luis Borges

Oct 18 What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami

Oct 7 Good Business: Leadership, Flow, and the Making of Meaning by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Sep 30 Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us by Daniel H. Pink

Sep 25 Hermit in Paris: Autobiographical Writings by Italo Calvino

Sep 16 Just My Type: A Book About Fonts by Simon Garfield

Sep 8 On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft by Stephen King

Sep 2 Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

Aug 25 Enchantment: The Art of Changing Hearts, Minds, and Actions by Guy Kawasaki

Aug 22 Un borghese piccolo piccolo by Vincenzo Cerami

Aug 17 After Dark by Haruki Murakami

Aug 11 Suttree by Cormac McCarthy

Jul 26 The Lost Art of Reading: Why Books Matter in a Distracted Time by David L. Ulin

Jul 20 Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Jul 14 La gente (People) by Vincenzo Cerami

Jul 11 Practical Wisdom: The Right Way to Do the Right Thing by Barry Schwartz and Kenneth Sharpe

Jul 2 To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Jun 17 Dance Dance Dance by Haruki Murakami

Jun 13 The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat by Oliver Sacks

Jun 7 The Laws of Simplicity by John Maeda

Jun 4 Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthy

May 29 Being Geek: The Software Developer’s Career Handbook by Michael Lopp

May 23 South of the Border, West of the Sun by Haruki Murakami

May 19 Poor People/Poor Folk by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

May 8 The Sunset Limited: A Novel in Dramatic Form by Cormac McCarthy

May 5 Lo stralisco by Roberto Piumini

May 2 Super Sad True Love Story by Gary Shteyngart

Apr 23 The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler

Apr 16 The Solitude of Prime Numbers by Paolo Giordano

Apr 11 The Shooting Party by Anton Chekhov

Apr 5 Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

Mar 30 Blunder: Why Smart People Make Bad Decisions by Zachary Shore

Mar 30 The Music Instinct: How Music Works and Why We Can’t Do Without It by Philip Ball

Mar 22 No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy

Mar 15 Pinball, 1973 by Haruki Murakami

Mar 9 The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder

Mar 2 Stuck: Why We Can’t (or Won’t) Move On by Anneli Rufus

Feb 24 From Memex to Hypertext: Vannevar Bush and the Mind’s Machine edited by James M. Nyce and Paul Kahn

Feb 21 Inviting Silence: Universal Principles of Meditation by Gunilla Norris

Feb 19 The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Six Other Stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Feb 11 The Road by Cormac McCarthy

Feb 4 The Snow Goose by Paul Gallico

Feb 2 Zero History by William Gibson

Jan 20 The Cult of the Amateur: How Today’s Internet is Killing Our Culture and Assaulting Our Economy by Andrew Keen

Jan 16 Party of One: The Loners’ Manifesto by Anneli Rufus

Jan 11 The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom a Toltec Wisdom Book by don Miguel Ruiz

Jan 9 Sputnik Sweetheart by Haruki Murakami

Jan 7 The Perfect Egg and Other Secrets by Aldo Buzzi

Jan 5 You Are Not a Gadget: A Manifesto by Jaron Lanier

Dec 29 Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

Dec 23 More iPhone 3 Development: Tackling iPhone SDK 3 by David Mark and Jeff LaMarche

Dec 14 Maxims and Reflections by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Dec 10 Something for the Weekend by Jamie Oliver

Dec 8 Journey to the Land of the Flies and Other Travels by Aldo Buzzi

Nov 28 Ten Thoughts About Time: How to make more of the time in your life by Bodil Jönsson

Nov 23 Liars in Love by Richard Yates

Nov 17 At Home: A Short History of Private Life by Bill Bryson

Nov 8 Rework: Change The Way You Work Forever by Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson

Nov 3 Nocturnes: Five Stories of Music and Nightfall by Kazuo Ishiguro

Oct 31 Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman by Haruki Murakami

Oct 30 In Other Words: A Language Lover’s Guide to the Most Intriguing Words Around the World by Christopher J. Moore

Oct 20 A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary by Alain de Botton

Oct 14 I sommersi e i salvati (The Drowned and the Saved) by Primo Levi

Oct 6 The Scales of Justice by John Mortimer

Oct 1 The Upside of Irrationality: The Unexpected Benefits of Defying Logic at Work and at Home by Dan Ariely

Sep 27 The Design of Design: Essays from a Computer Scientist by Frederick P. Brooks

Sep 16 Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami

Sep 9 Gli occhi dell’imperatore (The Eyes of the Emperor) by Laura Mancinelli

Sep 6 Innocent House by P. D. James

Sep 3 A Wild Sheep Chase by Haruki Murakami

Aug 27 Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder by Evelyn Waugh

Aug 24 Coders at Work: Reflections on the Craft of Programming by Peter Seibel

Aug 18 Seta (Silk) by Alessandro Baricco

Aug 12 Point Omega by Don DeLillo

Aug 10 Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World by Haruki Murakami

Jul 31 Il tempo invecchia in fretta: Nove storie by Antonio Tabucchi

Jul 23 The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol by Nikolai Gogol

Jul 14 Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami

Jul 5 Scale by Will Self

Jul 4 Zodiac by Neal Stephenson

Jun 26 The Twenty-three Days of the City of Alba: Stories by Beppe Fenoglio

Jun 23 The Wonder of Whiffling: And other extraordinary words in the English language by Adam Jacot de Boinod

Jun 19 Sway: The Irresistible Pull of Irrational Behaviour by Ori Brafman and Rom Brafman

Jun 17 What the Dog Saw, and Other Adventures by Malcolm Gladwell

Jun 11 Lustrum by Robert Harris

Jun 3 After the Quake by Haruki Murakami

May 31 Pnin by Vladimir Nabokov

May 25 Dumb Money: How Our Greatest Financial Minds Bankrupted the Nation by Daniel Gross

May 21 Una questione privata (A Private Affair) by Beppe Fenoglio

May 18 Kevin McCloud’s Grand Tour of Europe by Kevin McCloud

May 14 Toujours Tingo: More extraordinary words to change the way we see the world by Adam Jacot de Boinod

May 10 Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez

Apr 30 Inside Steve’s Brain, Expanded Ed. by Leander Kahney

Apr 23 Twitterature: The World’s Greatest Books Retold Through Twitter by Alexander Aciman and Emmett Rensin

Apr 22 SuperFreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes, and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner

Apr 16 The Body Artist by Don DeLillo

Apr 14 By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept: A Novel of Forgiveness by Paulo Coelho

Apr 11 The Double by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Apr 7 Castelli di rabbia (Lands of Glass) by Alessandro Baricco

Apr 4 The Invisible Computer: Why Good Products Can Fail, the Personal Computer Is So Complex, and Information Appliances Are the Solution by Donald A. Norman

Mar 31 A Man Asleep by Georges Perec

Mar 27 Things: A Story of the Sixties by Georges Perec

Mar 24 Conversazione in Sicilia (Conversation in Sicily) by Elio Vittorini

Mar 17 Otherwise Pandemonium by Nick Hornby

Mar 16 Socrates in a Nutshell edited by Robert Van De Weyer

Mar 14 Shades of Grey 1: The Road to High Saffron by Jasper Fforde

Mar 7 The Story of Mr Sommer by Patrick Süskind

Mar 5 The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami

Feb 26 Letters from a Stoic by Seneca

Feb 25 Beginning iPhone 3 Development: Exploring the iPhone SDK by Dave Mark and Jeff LaMarche

Feb 20 Brain Rules: 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home, and School by John Medina

Feb 19 One, No One and One Hundred Thousand (Uno, nessuno e centomila) by Luigi Pirandello

Feb 12 In the Beginning… was the Command Line by Neal Stephenson

Feb 10 Summer in Algiers by Albert Camus

Feb 4 The Pigeon by Patrick Süskind

Feb 3 Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Süskind

Jan 27 Le piccole virtù (The Little Virtues) by Natalia Ginzburg

Jan 22 Metamorphosis and Other Stories by Franz Kafka

Jan 19 Tales of the Unexpected by Roald Dahl

Jan 14 The Dip: A Little Book That Teaches You When to Quit (and When to Stick) by Seth Godin

Jan 13 Three Stories and a Reflection by Patrick Süskind

Jan 11 One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez

Jan 6 Memoirs of a Madman by Gustave Flaubert

Jan 2 World Memory and Other Cosmicomic Stories (from The Complete Cosmicomics) by Italo Calvino

Dec 30 Emilio’s Carnival/As a Man Grows Older (Senilità) by Italo Svevo

Dec 24 The Cave of the Cyclops by Homer

Dec 23 Ask the Dust by John Fante

Dec 22 One Hundred Essential Things You Didn’t Know You Didn’t Know: Math Explains Your World by John D. Barrow

Dec 16 Rashomon and Other Stories by Ryunosuke Akutagawa

Dec 14 1914: Why the World Went to War by Niall Ferguson

Dec 14 The Death of Bunny Munro by Nick Cave

Dec 11 Animal Spirits: How Human Psychology Drives the Economy, and Why It Matters for Global Capitalism by George A. Akerlof and Robert J. Shiller

Dec 7 The Country of the Blind by H. G. Wells

Dec 5 What Is Your Dangerous Idea?: Today’s Leading Thinkers on the Unthinkable edited by John Brockman

Dec 3 Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction by J. D. Salinger

Nov 30 Seventeen Poisoned Englishmen by Gabriel García Márquez

Nov 27 Il castello bianco (The White Castle) by Orhan Pamuk

Nov 23 The Great Wall of China (Penguin 70) by Franz Kafka

Nov 21 The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World by Niall Ferguson

Nov 19 Cloud, Castle, Lake by Vladimir Nabokov

Nov 18 Eleven Stories by Anton Chekhov

Nov 11 Nine Stories by J. D. Salinger

Nov 7 Jeeves and the Impending Doom by P. G. Wodehouse

Nov 6 Numbers in the Dark: And Other Stories by Italo Calvino

Oct 31 The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Oct 25 Designing Interactions by Bill Moggridge

Oct 15 Why I Write by George Orwell

Oct 13 Dr. Strangelove, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb by Peter George

Oct 9 The Diamond as Big as the Ritz by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Oct 8 Franny and Zooey by J. D. Salinger

Oct 2 The Stuff of Thought by Steven Pinker

Sep 22 La serenità by Seneca

Sep 18 Einstein’s Dreams by Alan Lightman

Sep 16 Seven Stories by Anton Chekhov

Sep 10 Liar’s Poker by Michael Lewis

Sep 3 The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger

Aug 27 Il sentiero dei nidi di ragno (The Path to the Spiders’ Nests) by Italo Calvino

Aug 20 Amerika by Franz Kafka

Aug 13 A Scanner Darkly by Philip K. Dick

Aug 9 Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said by Philip K. Dick

Aug 5 Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell

Jul 24 Dr. Bloodmoney, or How We Got Along After the Bomb by Philip K. Dick

Jul 20 The Science of the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Michael Hanlon

Jul 14 A Taste of the Unexpected by Roald Dahl

Jul 11 The Mirror of Ink by Jorge Luis Borges

Jul 10 Anathem by Neal Stephenson

Jun 18 Music and the Mind by Anthony Storr

Jun 13 The Dilbert Principle: A cubicle’s-eye view of bosses, meetings, management fads and other workplace afflictions by Scott Adams

Jun 4 The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work by Alain de Botton

May 28 A Madman Dreams of Turing Machines by Janna Levin

May 21 Cristo si è fermato a Eboli (Christ Stopped at Eboli) by Carlo Levi

May 14 Get a Grip on New Physics by John Gribbin

May 11 Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates

May 8 The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Apr 18 High Fidelity by Nick Hornby

Apr 17 Irrational Exuberance, 2nd Ed. by Robert J. Shiller

Apr 12 A Perfect Mess: The Hidden Benefits of Disorder by Eric Abrahamson and David H. Freedman

Apr 7 The Drunkard’s Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives by Leonard Mlodinow

Apr 6 A Tranquil Star: Unpublished Stories by Primo Levi

Mar 30 The Aleph by Jorge Luis Borges

Mar 21 Professor Stewart’s Cabinet of Mathematical Curiosities by Ian Stewart

Mar 21 Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation by Lynne Truss

Mar 16 Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture by Douglas Coupland

Mar 6 Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions by Dan Ariely

Feb 27 Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness by Richard H. Thaler and Cass R. Sunstein

Feb 20 Reinventing the Bazaar: A Natural History of Markets by John McMillan

Feb 19 A Humument: A treated Victorian novel by Tom Phillips

Feb 10 Founders at Work: Stories of Startups’ Early Days by Jessica Livingston

Feb 2 How to Get Rich: One of the World’s Greatest Entrepreneurs Shares His Secrets by Felix Dennis

Jan 28 Introducing Philosophy by Dave Robinson and Judy Groves

Jan 28 Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Jan 23 The Razor’s Edge by William Somerset Maugham

Jan 20 Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity by David Allen

Jan 9 Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell

Jan 9 The Long Tail: How endless choice is creating unlimited demand by Chris Anderson

Dec 30 Vita nuova (New Life) by Dante Alighieri

Dec 28 Further Confessions of Zeno by Italo Svevo

Dec 10 La tregua (The Truce) by Primo Levi

Dec 1 Introducing Kafka by David Zane Mairowitz and Robert Crumb

Nov 29 Flatland: A romance of many dimensions by Edwin A. Abbott

Nov 26 Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain by Oliver Sacks

Nov 25 Se questo è un uomo (If This is a Man) by Primo Levi

Nov 11 Notes From Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Oct 30 Out of My Mind by Richard Bach

Oct 29 Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Oct 16 Il giardino dei Finzi-Contini (The Garden of the Finzi-Continis) by Giorgio Bassani

Oct 15 Aesop’s Fables by Aesopus (a new translation by S.A. Handford)

Sep 29 The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Sep 17 I Malavoglia (The House by the Medlar Tree) by Giovanni Verga

Sep 7 Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There by Lewis Carroll

Aug 31 Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

Aug 31 The Literature Machine by Italo Calvino

Aug 25 The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera

Aug 20 Fontamara by Ignazio Silone

Aug 15 Gli indifferenti (The Time of Indifference) by Alberto Moravia

Aug 6 Requiem: A Hallucination by Antonio Tabucchi

Aug 4 The Last Tycoon by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Jul 31 Why Read the Classics? by Italo Calvino

Jul 31 Candide: Or, Optimism by Voltaire

Jul 25 No One Writes to the Colonel by Gabriel García Márquez

Jul 10 The Stranger/The Outsider by Albert Camus

Jul 6 I promessi sposi (The Betrothed) by Alessandro Manzoni

Jun 27 An Iliad: A story of war by Alessandro Baricco

Jun 16 La speculazione edilizia (A Plunge Into Real Estate) by Italo Calvino

Jun 12 Keep the Aspidistra Flying by George Orwell

Jun 9 La giornata d’uno scrutatore (The Watcher) by Italo Calvino

Jun 9 The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz

May 31 Novecento: Un monologo (Novecento: A monologue) by Alessandro Baricco

May 29 branchie! (gills!) by Niccolò Ammaniti

May 29 Il libraio di Selinunte (The Bookseller of Selinunte) by Roberto Vecchioni

May 22 City by Alessandro Baricco

May 17 Wind, Sand and Stars by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

May 9 Racconti romani (Roman Tales) by Alberto Moravia

May 8 Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov

Apr 25 Il castello dei destini incrociati (The Castle of Crossed Destinies) by Italo Calvino

Apr 17 La testa perduta di Damasceno Monteiro (The Missing Head of Damasceno Monteiro) by Antonio Tabucchi

Apr 10 The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

Apr 6 Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Mar 23 Difficult Loves by Italo Calvino

Mar 23 Labyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges

Mar 13 Il deserto dei Tartari (The Tartar Steppe) by Dino Buzzati

Mar 9 La luna e i falò (The Moon and the Bonfires) by Cesare Pavese

Mar 1 t zero by Italo Calvino

Feb 29 Senza sangue (Without Blood) by Alessandro Baricco

Feb 28 Cosmicomics by Italo Calvino

Feb 8 The Castle by Franz Kafka

Feb 3 The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Jan 31 La noia (Boredom) by Alberto Moravia

Jan 25 Ficciones by Jorge Luis Borges

Jan 25 Il fu Mattia Pascal (The Late Mattia Pascal) by Luigi Pirandello

Jan 25 Il gattopardo (The Leopard) by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa

Jan 25 Marcovaldo by Italo Calvino

Dec 20 Ocean Sea by Alessandro Baricco

Dec 14 Se una notte d’inverno un viaggiatore (If on a Winter’s Night a Traveller) by Italo Calvino

Dec 4 Zeno’s Conscience/Confessions of Zeno by Italo Svevo

Nov 16 The Trial by Franz Kafka

Nov 7 Sostiene Pereira: una testimonianza (Pereira Declares: A Testimony) by Antonio Tabucchi

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