Ezra's Bookshelf
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November 2024
- Where Have All the Democrats Gone? by John B. Judis and Ruy Teixeira
- Tyranny, Inc. by Sohrab Ahmari
- Mother Jones by Elliot J. Gorn
- Steadfast Democrats by Ismail K. White and Chryl N. Laird
- The Real Majority by Richard Scammon and Ben Wattenberg
- The New Americans by Michael Barone
October 2024
- Thinking About Crime by James Q. Wilson
- Against Excess by Mark Kleiman
- The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe
- Justice for Some by Noura Erakat
- Our American Israel by Amy Kaplan
- The Unspoken Alliance by Sasha Polakow-Suransky
September 2024
- Primal Screams by Mary Eberstadt
- The Devil’s Chessboard by David Talbot
- The Screwtape Letters by C. S. Lewis
- Morning and Evening by Jon Fosse
- The Future Is History by Masha Gessen
- Mr. Churchill in the White House by Robert Schmuhl
- Hope Against Hope by Nadezhda Mandelstam
- These Truths by Jill Lepore
- Cosmopolitanism by Kwame Anthony Appiah
- The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
- String Theory by David Foster Wallace
August 2024
- Black Pill by Elle Reeve
- What Are Children For? by Anastasia Berg and Rachel Wiseman
- The Lord of the Rings trilogy by J.R.R. Tolkien
- Justice, Gender, and the Family by Susan Moller Okin
- Cultural Backlash by Pippa Norris, Ronald Inglehart
- Conservative Parties and the Birth of Democracy by Daniel Ziblatt
- The Hour Between Dog and Wolf by John Coates
- The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes
- Addiction by Design by Natasha Dow Schüll
- The Island of the Day Before by Umberto Eco
- Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez
- The Age of Wonder by Richard Holmes
July 2024
- Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
- Burn Book by Kara Swisher
- To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
- The Reasoning Voter by Samuel L. Popkin
- Finding Freedom by Ruby West Jackson and Walter T. McDonald
- The Princess Bride by William Goldman
- The Path to Power by Robert Caro
- Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
- The Green Ember by S.D. Smith
- Into the Bright Sunshine by Samuel G. Freedman
- Wide Awake by Jon Grinspan
- Illiberal America by Steven Hahn
- Southerners by Marshall Frady
- The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles
- The Company She Keeps by Mary McCarthy
June 2024
- Take Back the Game by Linda Flanagan
- 1177 B.C. by Eric H. Cline
- The Rise of the G.I. Army, 1940-1941 by Paul Dickson
- What Goes Without Saying by Taylor N. Carlson and Jaime E. Settle
- Through the Grapevine by Taylor N. Carlson
- Sorry I’m Late, I Didn’t Want to Come by Jessica Pan
- The Years of Lyndon Johnson Series by Robert A. Caro
- The World of Yesterday by Stefan Zweig
- The Object of Zionism by Zvi Efrat
- The News from Waterloo by Brian Cathcart
- Franchise by Marcia Chatelain
- A Place of Greater Safety by Hilary Mantel
- Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich
- The Two Faces of American Freedom by Aziz Rana
- Rainbow’s End by Steven P. Erie
- An American Melodrama by Lewis Chester, Godfrey Hodgson, Bruce Page
May 2024
- Addiction by Design by Natasha Dow Schüll
- Objectivity by Lorraine Daston and Peter L. Galison
- The Confidence-Man by Herman Melville
- Intelligence and Spirit by Reza Negarestani
- Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky
- Plurality by E. Glen Weyl, Audrey Tang and ⿻ Community
- Why Information Grows by Cesar Hidalgo
- The Expanse series by James S.A. Corey
- The American Dream Is Not Dead by Michael R. Strain
- Imperialism, Sovereignty and the Making of International Law by Antony Anghie
- Justice for Some by Noura Erakat
- Worldmaking After Empire by Adom Getachew
- The Constitutional Bind by Aziz Rana
- The United Nations and the Question of Palestine by Ardi Imseis
April 2024
- Factfulness by Hans Rosling
- Possible by Chris Goodall
- Range by David Epstein
- Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes, translated by Edith Grossman
- One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
- The Trial by Franz Kafka
- The Castle by Franz Kafka
- Interviews with Francis Bacon by David Sylvester
- Faux Pas by Amy Sillman
- The Sketchbooks Revealed by Richard Diebenkorn
- Don’t Blame Us by Lily Geismer
- The Bulldozer in the Countryside by Adam Rome
- A Swim in a Pond in the Rain by George Saunders
March 2024
- What Hath God Wrought? by Daniel Walker Howe
- After Nationalism by Samuel Goldman
- The Politics of Cultural Despair by Fritz R. Stern
- Competing Devotions by Mary Blair-Loy
- Mothering While Black by Dawn Marie Dow
- Hope in the Dark by Rebecca Solnit
- Tip O'Neill and the Democratic Century by John A. Farrell
- A Nation Without Borders by Steven Hahn
- The Field of Blood by Joanne B. Freeman
February 2024
- All the King’s Men by Robert Penn Warren
- The Making of the President 1960 by Theodore H. White
- Quiet Revolution by Byron E. Shafer
- Why Nations Fail by Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson
- The Arabs by Eugene Rogan
- On The Trails of Mariam by Nadia Harhash
January 2024
- A New Deal for the World by Elizabeth Borgwardt
- On Tyranny by Timothy Snyder
- The Collector by Daniel Silva
- The Little Drummer Girl by John Le Carré
- The Splendid and the Vile by Erik Larson
- I’m Your Man by Sylvie Simmons
- Subtract by Leidy Klotz
- Party of the People by Patrick Ruffini
- Welcome to the O.C. by Josh Schwartz, Stephanie Savage and Alan Sepinwall
December 2023
- The India Trilogy by V.S. Naipaul
- India in Asian Geopolitics by Shivshankar Menon
- Dreamers by Snigdha Poonam
- The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine by Rashid Khalidi
- Returning to Haifa by Ghassan Kanafani
- Electrifying America by David E. Nye
- Your Face Belongs to Us by Kashmir Hill
- Import AI by Jack Clark.
- AI Snake Oil by Arvind Narayanan and Sayash Kapoor
- Pragmatic Engineer by Gergely Orosz
November 2023
- The Peace Puzzle by Daniel C. Kurtzer, Scott B. Lasensky, William B. Quandt, Steven L. Spiegel and Shibley Telhami
- Arabs and Israelis by Abdel Monem Said Aly, Shai Feldman and Khalil Shikaki
- The Missing Peace by Dennis Ross
- The Prophets by Abraham J. Heschel
- To Bless the Space Between Us by John O’Donohue
- Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
- A Tale of Love and Darkness by Amos Oz
- Who By Fire by Matti Friedman
- The War of Return by Adi Schwartz and Einat Wilf
- Hamas Contained by Tareq Baconi
- The Only Language They Understand by Nathan Thrall
- East West Street by Philippe Sands
- Orientalism by Edward Said
- The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
October 2023
- A High Price by Daniel Byman
- The Selected Works of Edward Said, 1966 – 2006 by Edward W. Said
- The Accidental Empire by Gershom Gorenberg
- The Last Politician by Franklin Foer
- Number the Stars by Lois Lowry
- The Plot by Jean Hanff Korelitz
- Hell of a Book by Jason Mott
- Less by Andrew Sean Greer
- The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine by Rashid Khalidi
- Israel’s Secret Wars by Ian Black
- The Question of Palestine by Edward W. Said
- Strangers in the House by Raja Shehadeh
- Hamas Contained by Tareq Baconi
September 2023
August 2023
- Lessons from the Covid War by Covid Crisis Group
- Open by Andre Agassi
- Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
- The Prize by Daniel Yergin
- Silent Spring Revolution by Douglas Brinkley
- The Avoidable War by Kevin Rudd
- How to Avoid a Climate Disaster by Bill Gates
July 2023
June 2023
- Chagall by Jackie Wullschlager
- Invisible China by Scott Rozelle and Natalie Hell
- Classified by David Bernstein
- When Affirmative Action Was White by Ira Katznelson
- Racial Conflict and Economic Development by W. Arthur Lewis
- Postcolonial Love Poem by Natalie Diaz
- The UFO Experience by J. Allen Hynek
- The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
- American Cosmic by D.W. Pasulka
- How to Break Up with Your Phone by Catherine Price
- A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
- No One Is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood
- Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant by Ulysses Grant
- An Hour Before Daylight by Jimmy Carter
- All the Best, George Bush by George H.W. Bush
- Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia by David Graeber
- The Dispossessed by Ursula K. LeGuin
- Gender and the Politics of History by Joan Wallach Scott
- Imagined Communities by Benedict Anderson
- Wealth and Power by Orville Schell and John Delury
- The Idea of India by Sunil Khilnani
May 2023
- Why Europe? by Michael Mitterauer
- Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond
- The Chosen Few by Maristella Botticini and Zvi Eckstein
- The Problem With Everything by Meghan Daum
- What’s Our Problem? by Tim Urban
- Nine Ladies by Heather Moll
April 2023
- And the Band Played On by Randy Shilts
- The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
- Last Call by Daniel Okrent
- What Then Must We Do? by Leo Tolstoy
- Race for Profit by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
- Random Family by Adrian Nicole LeBlanc
- Black Paper by Teju Cole
- On the Inconvenience of Other People by Lauren Berlant
- The Hare by Melanie Finn
March 2023
- We the Fallen People by Robert Tracy McKenzie
- The Napoleonic Wars by Alexander Mikaberidze
- Ring of Steel by Alexander Watson
- The Jesuits by Markus Friedrich
- Last and First Men by Olaf Stapledon
- Disturbing the Universe by Freeman Dyson
- Career and Family by Claudia Goldin
- The Life of Dad by Anna Machin
- Homintern by Gregory Woods
- Caliban and the Witch by Silvia Federici
- Can the Monster Speak? by Paul B. Preciado
- Metaphors We Live By by George Lakoff and Mark Johnson
- Less Than One by Joseph Brodsky
- The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
February 2023
January 2023
- Seeking Truth and Hiding Facts by Jeremy L. Wallace
- Our Missing Hearts by Celeste Ng
- See No Stranger by Valarie Kaur
- From The Soil by Fei Xiaotong
- Fei Xiaotong and Sociology in Revolutionary China by R. David Arkush
- The Fractalist by Benoit Mandelbrot
- Fit Nation by Natalia Mehlman Petrzela
- Dreamland by Carly Goodman
- Freedom’s Dominion by Jefferson Cowie
- Where Do We Go From Here by Martin Luther King Jr.
- The Trumpet of Conscience by Martin Luther King Jr.
- The Sword and the Shield by Peniel E. Joseph
- A More Beautiful and Terrible History by Jeanne Theoharis
- Dark Ghettos by Tommie Shelby
- Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Piketty
- Crashed by Adam Tooze
- Ages of American Capitalism by Jonathan Levy
- The Ethical Slut by Janet W. Hardy and Dossie Easton
- Berlin Diary by William L. Shirer
- A Royal Affair by Stella Tillyard
- The Language Instinct by Steven Pinker
- How the World Really Works by Vaclav Smil
- The Martian by Andy Weir
December 2022
- Happy Birthday to You! by Dr. Seuss
- The Rabbit Listened by Cori Doerrfeld
- Here We Are by Oliver Jeffers
- The Pout-Pout Fish by Deborah Diesen
- Noise by Daniel Kahneman, Olivier Sibony and Cass R. Sunstein
- When We Cease to Understand the World by Benjamin Labatut
- The Age of A.I. by Henry A. Kissinger, Eric Schmidt and Daniel Huttenlocher
- Invisible Women by Caroline Criado Perez
- Bad Blood by John Carreyrou
- The World For Sale by Javier Blas and Jack Farchy
November 2022
- Wastelands by Corban Addison
- Meatonomics by David Robinson Simon
- Animal Machines by Ruth Harrison
- The Gilead Novels by Marilynne Robinson
- World and Town by Gish Jen
- Standing by Words by Wendell Berry
- Love’s Mind by John S. Dunne
- Middlemarch by George Eliot
October 2022
- The Increasingly United States by Daniel J. Hopkins
- Groundbreakers by Elizabeth McKenna and Hahrie Han
- The Loud Minority by Daniel Q. Gillion
- Rock Me on the Water by Ronald Brownstein
- State of Terror by Hillary Rodham Clinton and Louise Penny
- Famine: A Short History by Cormac Ó Gráda
- Slouching Towards Utopia by J. Bradford DeLong
- Strangers to Ourselves by Rachel Aviv
- Fullmetal Alchemist by Hiromu Arakawa
- Mechanique by Genevieve Valentine
- Witch King by Martha Wells
- The Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane Jacobs
- Hitler in Los Angeles by Steven J. Ross
- Nazis of Copley Square by Charles R. Gallagher
- Hitler’s American Friends by Bradley W. Hart
- The Oppermanns by Lion Feuchtwanger
- 1940 by Susan Dunn
- The Neapolitan Novels by Elena Ferrante
- Youthquake by Edward Paice
- Slouching Towards Utopia by J. Bradford DeLong
September 2022
- The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William L. Shirer
- Harry Potter and The Methods of Rationality by Eliezer Yudkowsky
- Algorithmic Game Theory by Noam Nisan, Tim Roughgarden, Eva Tardos and Vijay V. Vazirani
- Empire and Revolution by Richard Bourke
- Scene of Change by Warren Weaver
- A Widening Sphere by Philip N. Alexander
- Making Climate Policy Work by Danny Cullenward and David G. Victor
- How Solar Energy Became Cheap by Gregory F. Nemet
- Envy Up, Scorn Down by Susan T. Fiske
- The Psychology of Social Status by Joey T. Cheng, Jessica L. Tracy, Cameron Anderson
- The Theory of the Leisure Class by Thorstein Veblen
- Staring by Rosemarie Garland-Thomson
- H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald
- Romance in Marseille by Claude McKay
August 2022
- The Bone People by Keri Hulme
- A Fortune for Your Disaster by Hanif Abdurraqib
- Breaking the Thermometer by Leyla McCalla
- Carry Me Home by Mavis Staples and Levon Helm
- The Weight of Glory by C.S. Lewis
- Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis
- The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis
- The Resurrection of the Son of God by N.T. Wright
- The Gilead Novels by Marilynne Robinson
July 2022
- Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman
- Public Opinion by Walter Lippmann
- Mediated by Thomas de Zengotita
- Nobody’s Normal by Roy Richard Grinker
- American Psychosis by E. Fuller Torrey
- Crazy by Pete Earley
- Crabgrass Frontier by Kenneth T. Jackson
- Neighborhood Defenders by Katherine Levine Einstein, David M. Glick and Maxwell Palmer
- A Brief History of Equality by Thomas Piketty
- The Dawn of Everything by David Graeber and David Wengrow
- The Echo Maker by Richard Powers
June 2022
- Rights Talk by Mary Ann Glendon
- Law and Disagreement by Jeremy Waldron
- Cult of the Constitution by Mary Anne Franks
- Hope in the Dark by Rebecca Solnit
- Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl
- You Can’t Be Neutral on a Moving Train by Howard Zinn
- Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men by Eric Foner
- Salmon P. Chase by Walter Stahr
- What It Took to Win by Michael Kazin
- In Shock by Dr. Rana Awdish
- Every Deep-Drawn Breath by Wes Ely
- Mountains Beyond Mountains by Tracy Kidder
- All That She Carried by Tiya Miles
- Beautiful Country by Qian Julie Wang
- The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order by Gary Gerstle
- Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman
- The Invention of Nature by Andrea Wulf
- Beautiful World, Where Are You by Sally Rooney
- Socialism: Past and Future by Michael Harrington
- The Age of Extremes by Eric Hobsbawm
- The South by Adolph L. Reed, Jr.
May 2022
April 2022
- The Bond King by Mary Childs
- Typeset in the Future by Dave Addey
- The Surprise of Cremona by Edith Templeton
- A Theory of System Justification by John T. Jost
- Memorial by Bryan Washington
- These Precious Days by Ann Patchett
- The Course by Ed Miller
- The Precipice by Toby Ord
- The Climate War by Eric Pooley
March 2022
- The Best and The Brightest by David Halberstam
- The Price of Peace by Zachary D. Carter
- Slouching Towards Utopia by J. Bradford DeLong
- War by Margaret MacMillan
- Biased by Jennifer L. Eberhardt
- Secrets of the Sprakkar by Eliza Reid
- Charlotte’s Web by E. B. White
- Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien
- Putin’s World by Angela Stent
- The Power of Law by Sebastian Mallaby
- The Cloud Revolution by Mark P. Mills
- The Economic Weapon by Nicholas Mulder
- Not One Inch by M.E. Sarotte
- The Sleepwalkers by Christopher Clark
- Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible by Peter Pomerantsev
- The Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt
- The Gates of Europe by Serhii Plokhy
- Bloodlands by Timothy Snyder
- Not One Inch by M.E. Sarotte
- The Limits of Partnership by Angela Stent
- Putin’s World by Angela Stent
- Russia Under the Old Regime by Richard Pipes
- The Formation of the Soviet Union by Richard Pipes
- Man, the State, and War: A Theoretical Analysis by Kenneth N. Waltz
- A World Safe for Democracy by G. John Ikenberry
- Memoirs 1925-1950 by George F. Kennan
- The Economic Weapon by Nicholas Mulder
- The End of the End of History by Alex Hochuli, George Hoare and Philip Cunliffe
- The Future of Money by Eswar S. Prasad
February 2022
- The Anarchy by William Dalrymple
- India: A Story Through 100 Objects by Vidya Dehejia
- The Splendid and the Vile by Erik Larson
- Dear Parent: Caring for Infants with Respect by Magda Gerber
- Siblings Without Rivalry by Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish
- The Hurried Child by David Elkind
- Biased by Jennifer L. Eberhardt
- The Anatomy of a Moment by Javier Cercas
- Visitors by Anita Brookner
- The Apology by V (formerly Eve Ensler)
- The Myth of the Rational Voter by Bryan Caplan
- The Weirdest People in the World by Joseph Henrich
- Who We Are and How We Got Here by David Reich
January 2022
December 2021
November 2021
- The Stickup Kids by Randol Contreras
- The Truly Disadvantaged by William Julius Wilson
- Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
- Lost in Work by Amelia Horgan
- Farewell to the Factory by Ruth Milkman
- Confessions of the Fox by Jordy Rosenberg
- Fortress America by Elaine Tyler May
- Future Home of the Living God by Louise Erdrich
- Tiny You by Jennifer Holland
- The Boys on the Bus by Timothy Crouse
- Making News by Gaye Tuchman
- Deciding What’s News by Herbert Gans
October 2021
- The Adventures of Tintin by Hergé
- The Charterhouse of Parma by Stendhal
- The Gnostic Religion by Hans Jonas
- The Journal of a Disappointed Man by W.N.P. Barbellion
- On Immunity by Eula Biss
- The Cancer Journals by Audre Lorde
- All That She Carried by Tiya Miles
- The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
- Thick by Tressie McMillan Cottom
- The Framers’ Coup by Michael J. Klarman
- Unruly Americans and the Origins of the Constitution by Woody Holton
- A Midwife’s Tale by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
- The Negro in the American Revolution by Benjamin Quarles
- Rebecca’s Revival by Jon F. Sensbach
- The Company by John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge
- My Life in Full by Indra Nooyi
- Palace Walk by Naguib Mahfouz
- Fidelity by Wendell Berry
- Wanderlust by Rebecca Solnit
- Girls and Sex by Peggy Orenstein
- Boys and Sex by Peggy Orenstein
- Possibilities by David Graeber
- Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments by Saidiya Hartman
- The Force of Nonviolence by Judith Butler
September 2021
- How to Be Animal by Melanie Challenger
- Rooted by Lyanda Lynn Haupt
- Ever Green by John W. Reid and Thomas E. Lovejoy
- The Fall of Berlin 1945 by Anthony Beevor
- Fuzz by Mary Roach
- This is Your Mind On Plants by Michael Pollan
- The Grace of Kings by Ken Liu
- The Deficit Myth by Stephanie Kelton
- Stalingrad by Vasily Grossman
- Essays in Persuasion by John Maynard Keynes
- Love Goes to Buildings on Fire by Will Hermes
- The Buddha in the Attic by Julie Otsuka
- When the Emperor Was Divine by Julie Otsuka
- Mad As Hell by Dave Itzkoff
- The Great Stagnation by Tyler Cowen
- Stubborn Attachments by Tyler Cowen
- Beyond GDP? Welfare across Countries and Time by Charles I. Jones and Peter J. Klenow
August 2021
- Here We Are by Oliver Jeffers
- Cars and Trucks and Things That Go by Richard Scarry
- Happy Birthday to You! by Dr. Seuss
- The Best and the Brightest by David Halberstam
- The Hell of Good Intentions by Stephen Walt
- Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
- The Apology by V
- Love in Goon Park by Deborah Blum
- The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard Flanagan
- Reconstruction by Eric Foner
- Black Reconstruction in America 1860-1880 by W. E. B. Du Bois
- Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi
- The City We Became by N. K. Jemisin
- American War by Omar El Akkad
- The Jakarta Method by Vincent Bevins
- Overheated by Kate Aronoff
- The New Gods by Jack Kirby
- Lazarus by Greg Rucka and Michael Lark
- Rise of the Black Panther by Evan Narcisse and Ta-Nehisi Coates
July 2021
- Black Reconstruction in America, 1860-1880 by W.E.B Du Bois
- The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson
- Postwar by Tony Judt
- Avengers of the New World by Laurent Dubois
- Crucible of War: The Seven Years' War and the Fate of Empire in British North America, 1754-1766 by Fred Anderson
- Champlain's Dream by David Hackett Fischer
- Mom Genes: Inside the New Science of Our Ancient Maternal Instinct by Abigail Tucker
- Golden Gates by Conor Dougherty
- The Dispossessed by Ursula Le Guin
- Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang
- Supersizing the Mind by Andy Clark
- Mind in Motion by Barbara Tversky
- Thoughts Without a Thinker by Mark Epstein
- Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland by Jonathan M. Metzl
- The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together by Heather McGhee
- Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
- The Outermost House by Henry Beston
- The Old Way by Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
- King Solomon's Ring by Konrad Lorenz
June 2021
- King Leopold's Ghost by Adam Hochschild
- Entangled Life by Merlin Sheldrake
- Other Minds by Peter Godfrey-Smith
- Poor Queer Studies: Confronting Elitism in the University by Matt Brim
- Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All by Martha S. Jones
- Memorial Drive: A Daughter’s Memoir by Natasha Trethewey
- Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro
- The Undercover Economist Strikes Back by Tim Hartford
- Career and Family by Claudia Goldin
- Crystal Nights by Greg Egan
- The Last Question by Isaac Asimov
- The Gentle Seduction by Marc Stiegler
- Meditations on Moloch by Scott Alexander
- Halfway Home by Reuben Miller
- Root Shock by Mindy Fullilove
- Poorly Understood by Mark Rank, Lawrence Eppard, and Heather Bullock
May 2021
- Ghettoside by Jill Leovy
- Becoming Ms. Burton by Susan Burton and Cari Lynn
- The Condemnation of Blackness by Khalil Gibran Muhammad
- Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America by Kathleen Belew
- Gods of the Upper Air: How a Circle of Renegade Anthropologists Reinvented Race, Sex and Gender in the Twentieth Century by Charles King
- The Fire Is Upon Us: James Baldwin, William F. Buckley Jr. and the Debate Over Race in America by Nicholas Buccola
- Tolstoy: A Russian Life by Rosamund Bartlett
- Pessoa: A Biography by Richard Zenith
- Augustine of Hippo by Peter Brown
- Heart of Fire by Mazie Hirono
- Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi
- John Rain Book Series by Barry Eisler
- Death in Mud Lick by Eric Eyre
- Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner
- The Secret to Superhuman Strength by Alison Bechdel
April 2021
- Grant by Ron Chernow
- Freedom by William Safire
- The Power Broker by Robert Caro
- The Last of the Just by Andre Schwarz-Bart
- All God's Dangers: The Life of Nate Shaw by Theodore Rosengarten
- The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein
- Barbarian Days by William Finnegan
- The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
- Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak
- Mary Poppins in the Park by P.L. Travers
- The Children of Green Knowe by L. M. Boston
- Minor Feelings by Cathy Park Hong
- Fearing the Black Body by Sabrina Strings
- The Chosen by Jerome Karabel
- Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred Taylor
March 2021
- Creation by Steve Grand
- On the Measure of Intelligence by Francois Chollet
- CivilWarLand in Bad Decline by George Saunders
- A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
- On Fragile Waves by Lily Yu
- Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard
- Grand New Party by Ross Douthat and Reihan Salam
- Resonate by Nancy Duarte
- Generations Status and Party Identification, A Theory of Operant Conditioning by Keith Billingsley and Clyde Tucker
- Dragons Love Tacos by Adam Rubin
- The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
- A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
- Another Brooklyn by Jacqueline Woodson
- My Ántonia by Willa Cather
- Then We Came to the End by Joshua Ferris
- All the King’s Men by Robert Penn Warren
- Unbought and Unbossed by Shirley Chisholm
- The Elephant and the Bad Baby by Elfrida Vipont
- The Church Mouse by Graham Oakley
- Tar Beach by Faith Ringgold
- The Highway Rat by Julia Donaldson
- The Complete 8-Book Ramona Collection by Beverly Cleary
- When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead
- The Watsons Go to Birmingham--1963 by Christopher Paul Curtis
- Classic Indian Cooking by Julie Sahni
- How to Cook Everything Vegetarian by Mark Bittman
- Lord Emsworth by P.G. Wodehouse
- The New Book of Middle Eastern Food by Claudia Roden
- The Old World Kitchen: The Rich Tradition of European Peasant Cooking by Elisabeth Luard
- The Optimist's Telescope by Bina Venkataraman
- The Wuggie Norple Story by Daniel Manus Pinkwater and Tomie dePaola
- LikeWar by P. W. Singer and Emerson T. Brooking
- The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X and Alex Haley
- The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle
- Why Zebras Don’t Get Ulcers by Robert Sapolsky
- The Emotional Life of the Toddler by Alicia Lieberman
- The Woman Behind the New Deal by Kirstin Downey
- The Runaway Bunny by Margaret Wise Brown
- Technics and Civilization by Lewis Mumford
- Five Things We Need to Know About Technological Change by Neil Postman
- Andrew Henry's Meadow by Doris Burn
- The Great Debate by Yuval Levin
- The Upside-Down Constitution by Michael S. Greve
- Popular Crime by Bill James
- The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis
February 2021
- Short Circuiting Policy by Leah Stokes
- The Lorax by Dr. Seuss
- Under a White Sky by Elizabeth Kolbert
- The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson
- Liquid Reign by Tim Reutemann
- The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
- The Principles of Representative Government by Bernard Manin
- Red Cavalry by Isaac Babel
- Stamped from the Beginning by Ibram X. Kendi
- Dispatches by Michael Herr
- Patriotic Gore by Edmund Wilson
- In Love with the World by Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche
- Loving; Living; Party Going by Henry Green
- Scrambled Eggs & Whiskey by Hayden Carruth
- Tropic of Squalor by Mary Carr
- They Lift Their Wings to Cry by Brooks Haxton
- The Hundred Dresses by Eleanor Estes and Louis Slobodkin
- Caps for Sale by Esphyr Slobodkina
- Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler
- The Color of Law by Richard Rothstein
- The Word Collector by Peter H. Reynolds
- Double Indemnity by James Cain
- Master of the Senate by Robert Caro
- The Sum of Us by Heather McGhee
- Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak
- The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- The Song of the Dodo by David Quammen
- Global Warming (The Complete Briefing) by John Houghton
- Cosmicomics by Italo Calvino
- The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster
- Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White
- On Empire, Liberty, and Reform: Speeches and Letters by Edmund Burke
- Reflections On The Revolution In France by Edmund Burke
- The American Crisis by Thomas Paine
- The Rights of Man by Thomas Paine
- Conservatism: An Invitation to the Great Tradition by Roger Scruton
- Freedom From the Market: America’s Fight to Liberate Itself from the Grip of the Invisible Hand by Mike Konczal
- Social Democratic Capitalism by Lane Kenworthy
- The Upswing by Robert Putnam with Shaylyn Romney Garrett