The Quincunx
by Charles Palliser

(08.26.08)


The Executioner’s Song
by Norman Mailer
*
(08.02.08)


The Universal Baseball
Association, Inc., J. Henry
Waugh, Prop.

by Robert Coover
*
(07.11.08)


The Motley Fool’s
Investment Guide

by David & Tom Gardner

(06.23.08)


A Clash of Kings
by George R.R. Martin
*
(05.23.08)


A Game of Thrones
by George R.R. Martin

(05.05.08)


Life with Jeeves
by P.G. Wodehouse
*
(03.27.08)


The Golden Ratio
by Mario Livio

(03.12.08)


The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
by Haruki Murakami
*
(03.02.08)


The Body
(from Different Seasons)
by Stephen King
(02.22.08)


Thousand Cranes
by Yasunari Kawabata
*
(02.02.08)


No One Belongs Here
More Than You

by Miranda July
*
(01.08.08)


Tree of Smoke
by Denis Johnson
*
(01.07.08)


Last Night at the Lobster
by Stewart O’Nan

(01.05.08)


Cloud Atlas
by David Mitchell

(12.27.07)


Winner of the
National Book Award

by Jincy Willett

(12.17.07)


The Invention of Hugo Cabret
by Brian Selznick

(12.16.07)


Bridge of Sighs
by Richard Russo
*
(12.12.07)


About Alice
by Calvin Trillin

(12.11.07)


Persepolis
by Marjane Satrapi

(12.11.07)


The Spellman Files
by Lisa Lutz

(12.10.07)


Schulz and Peanuts:
A Biography

by David Michaelis

(12.05.07)


Divided Kingdom
by Rupert Thomson

(11.30.07)


The Abstinence Teacher
by Tom Perrotta

(11.28.07)


The Road
by Cormac McCarthy

(11.26.07)


The Life and Times
of the Thunderbolt Kid

by Bill Bryson

(11.22.07)


Gone, Baby, Gone
by Dennis Lehane

(11.19.07)


The Dead Beat
by Marilyn Johnson

(11.17.07)


Microtrends
by Mark Penn
*
(11.16.07)


The Dogs of Babel
by Carolyn Parkhurst

(11.13.07)


The Braindead Megaphone
by George Saunders

(11.12.07)


Tin House Issue #33
by Various Authors
*
(11.07.07)


Sync
by Steven Strogatz

(11.04.07)


Linked: How Everything Is
Connected to Everything Else

by Albert-Laszlo Barabasi

(11.01.07)


Spud
by John van de Ruit

(10.29.07)


The Brief Wondrous Life
of Oscar Wao

by Junot Diaz

(10.23.07)


My Tiny Life:
Crime and Passion
in a Virtual World

by Julian Dibbell

(10.20.07)


Don’t I Know You?
by Karen Shepard

(10.18.07)


The Alchemist
by Paulo Coelho

(10.18.07)


Animal Farm
by George Orwell

(10.16.07)


Everything is Illuminated
by Jonathan Safran Foer

(10.06.07)


Boggs: A Comedy of Values
by Lawrence Weschler

(10.02.07)


Learned Pigs and
Fireproof Women

by Ricky Jay

(09.27.07)


Raise High the Roof
Beam, Carpenters
and
Seymour, an Introduction

by J.D. Salinger

(09.25.07)


Fantasyland: A Season on
Baseball’s Lunatic Fringe

by Sam Walker

(09.24.07)


A Wrinkle in Time
by Madeleine L’Engle

(09.19.07)


The Phantom Tollbooth
by Norton Juster

(09.17.07)


The World Without Us
by Alan Weisman
*
(09.11.07)


Franny and Zooey
by J.D. Salinger

(09.10.07)


Little, Big
by John Crowley
*
(09.04.07)


Magic for Beginners
by Kelly Link

(08.27.07)


Monkey Girl: Education,
Religion, and the Battle
for America’s Soul

by Edward Humes

(08.14.07)


The Yiddish Policeman’s Union
by Michael Chabon

(08.08.07)


Satan’s Circus
by Mike Dash

(07.29.07)


Sixty Stories
by Donald Barthelme

(07.24.07)


The Adventures of Augie March
by Saul Bellow
*
(07.21.07)


Alternadad
by Neal Pollack

(07.17.07)


Kings of Infinite Space
by James Hyman

(07.14.07)


King Dork
by Frank Portman

(07.13.07)


The Black Swan
by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
*
(07.10.07)


Heir to the Glimmering World
by Cynthia Ozick

(07.05.07)


A Disorder Peculiar
to the Country

by Ken Kalfus

(06.28.07)


The Last Night of
the Yankee Dynasty

by Buster Olney

(06.26.07)


You Don’t Love Me Yet
by Jonathan Lethem

(06.22.07)


Is This a Great Game, or What?
by Tim Kurkjian

(06.21.07)


The Omnivore’s Dilemma:
A Natural History of Four Meals

by Michael Pollan

(06.14.07)


The Big Sleep
by Raymond Chandler

(06.13.07)


Chuck Klosterman IV:
A Decade of Curious People
and Dangerous Ideas

by Chuck Klosterman

(06.09.07)


Then We Came to the End
by Joshua Ferris

(06.06.07)


Better: A Surgeon’s
Notes on Performance

by Atul Gawande

(06.02.07)


After Dark
by Haruki Murakami

(05.31.07)


The Metamorphoses
by Ovid,
trans. by Allen Mandelbaum
*
(05.27.07)


What Is the What
by Dave Eggers

(05.15.07)


A Long Way Gone:
Memoirs of a Boy Soldier

by Ishmael Beah

(05.06.07)


Read ‘Em and Weep:
A Bedside Poker Companion

by John Stravinsky

(05.03.07)


The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle:
A Reader’s Guide

by Matthew Strecher

(05.02.07)


The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
by Haruki Murakami

(04.20.07)


Prague
by Arthur Phillips
*
(04.18.07)


Pieces for the Left Hand:
100 Anecdotes

by J. Robert Lennon

(04.06.07)


Uncivil Seasons
by Michael Malone

(04.01.07)


Shoeless Joe
by W.P. Kinsella

(03.29.07)


City of Quartz:
Excavating the Future in L.A.

by Mike Davis
*
(03.28.07)


The Zero
by Jess Walter

(03.18.07)


Death by Black Hole
by Neil DeGrasse Tyson
*
(03.06.07)


Born on a Blue Day
by Daniel Tammet

(03.05.07)


The Cold Six Thousand
by James Ellroy

(02.21.07)


Stumbling on Happiness
by Daniel Gilbert

(02.14.07)


Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
by Haruki Murakami

(02.06.07)


The Meaning of Night:
A Confession

by Michael Cox

(02.01.07)


The Messiah of Stockholm
by Cynthia Ozick

(01.30.07)


The Accidental
by Ali Smith
*
(01.25.07)


How to Be Alone
by Jonathan Franzen

(01.22.07)


Chronicle of a Death Foretold
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

(01.20.07)


Mr. Palomar
by Italo Calvino

(01.20.07)


At Freddie’s
by Penelope Fitzgerald

(01.12.07)


How We Are Hungry
by Dave Eggers

(01.07.07)


The Emperor’s Children
by Claire Messud
*
(01.03.07)


Thunderstruck
by Erik Larson

(12.31.06)


Chronicles
(Volume One)

by Bob Dylan

(12.27.06)


Dingley Falls
by Michael Malone

(12.25.06)


Awakenings
by Oliver Sacks

(12.18.06)


The Last Noel
by Michael Malone

(12.17.06)


Against the Day
by Thomas Pynchon
*
(12.13.06)


I Am Charlotte Simmons
by Tom Wolfe

(12.08.06)


The Ghost Map
by Steven Johnson

(12.05.06)


Veronica
by Nicholas Christopher

(11.30.06)


The Nonexistent Knight
and the Cloven Viscount

by Italo Calvino

(11.27.06)


The Book of Illusions
by Paul Auster

(11.25.06)


All Around Atlantis
by Deborah Eisenberg
*
(11.20.06)


The Discomfort Zone
by Jonathan Franzen

(11.16.06)


The Thin Place
by Kathryn Davis

(11.11.06)


The Long Tail
by Chris Anderson

(11.09.06)


The Math Gene
by Keith Devlin

(11.05.06)


Fermat’s Enigma
by Simon Singh

(11.05.06)


Under the Jaguar Sun
by Italo Calvino

(11.03.06)


The Blind Side
by Michael Lewis

(11.02.06)


Lonely Hearts
by John Harvey

(10.31.06)


Brainiac
by Ken Jennings

(10.28.06)


Only Revolutions
by Mark Danielewski

(10.22.06)


Heat
by Bill Buford

(10.18.06)


Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell
by Susanna Clarke

(10.11.06)


Happyland
by J. Robert Lennon
(10.11.06)


Everything Bad is Good For You
by Steven Johnson

(10.06.06)


Hotel World
by Ali Smith

(10.04.06)


Noisy Outlaws, …
by Various Authors

(10.01.06)


The Love of a Good Woman
by Alice Munro

(09.26.06)


The Book on the Book
by Bill Felber

(09.19.06)


The New York Trilogy
by Paul Auster

(09.15.06)


Marathon Man
by William Goldman

(09.12.06)


Superbad
by Ben Greenman

(09.09.06)


Pastoralia
by George Saunders

(08.31.06)


Mr. Wilson’s Cabinet
of Wonder

by Lawrence Weschler

(08.31.06)


Ghostwritten
by David Mitchell

(08.23.06)


The Years of Rice and Salt
by Kim Stanley Robinson
*
(08.12.06)


The Safety of Objects
by A. M. Homes

(08.02.06)


Everything That Rises:
A Book of Convergences

by Lawrence Weschler

(08.01.06)


All the King’s Men
by Robert Penn Warren
*
(07.11.06)


The Pharmacist’s Mate
by Amy Fusselman

(07.07.06)


Insect Dreams:
The Half Life of Gregor Samsa

by Marc Estrin

(07.02.06)


We Need to Talk About Kevin
by Lionel Shriver

(06.29.06)


Stepmother
by Robert Coover

(06.26.06)


Vermeer in Bosnia
by Lawrence Weschler

(06.19.06)


Independence Day
by Richard Ford
*
(06.13.06)


Catch
by Will Leitch

(06.13.06)


Howards End
by E.M. Forster
*
(06.08.06)


Samuel Johnson is Indignant
by Lydia Davis

(05.29.06)


The Winshaw Legacy
by Jonathan Coe

(05.23.06)


The King in the Tree
by Steven Millhauser
*
(05.19.06)


Ball Four
by Jim Bouton

(05.04.06)


Black Swan Green
by David Mitchell

(04.24.06)


3 Nights in August
by Buzz Bissinger

(03.31.06)


A Wild Sheep Chase
by Haruki Murakami

(03.28.06)


Small Island
by Andrea Levy

(02.27.06)


Invisible Cities
by Italo Calvino

(02.26.06)


A Changed Man
by Francine Prose

(02.22.06)


Cracked: Putting Broken
Lives Together Again

by Dr. Drew Pinsky

(02.19.06)


Underground: The Tokyo
Gas Attack and the
Japanese Psyche

by Haruki Murakami

(02.12.06)


Et Tu, Babe
by Mark Leyner

(02.11.06)


Body & Soul
by Frank Conroy

(02.09.06)


Number9Dream
by David Mitchell

(02.09.06)


A Confederacy of Dunces
by John Kennedy Toole

(02.04.06)


Heaven Lake
by John Dalton

(01.11.06)


Little, Big
by John Crowley
*
(12.28.05)


Consider the Lobster
by David Foster Wallace

(12.27.05)


Bright Lights, Big City
by Jay Mcinerney

(12.27.05)


A Walk in the Woods
by Bill Bryson

(12.13.05)


On Beauty
by Zadie Smith

(12.04.05)


Never Let Me Go
by Kazuo Ishiguro

(11.29.05)


The Icarus Girl
by Helen Oyeyemi

(11.26.05)


Oracle Night
by Paul Auster

(11.25.05)


Willful Creatures
by Aimee Bender

(11.21.05)


Theophrenia
by Joshua Allen

(11.20.05)


Fever Dream Ghost Book
by Kevin Fanning

(11.20.05)


The People of Paper
by Salvador Plascencia

(11.15.05)


The Brief and Frightening
Reign of Phil

by George Saunders

(11.15.05)


The Girl in the
Flammable Skirt

by Aimee Bender

(11.13.05)


Mysterious Skin
by Scott Heim

(11.10.05)


What’s the Matter
with Kansas?

by Thomas Frank

(11.07.05)


Catch-22
by Joseph Heller
*
(10.28.05)


The Sportswriter
by Richard Ford

(10.10.05)


Stranger Things Happen
by Kelly Link

(09.29.05)


My Name is Red
by Orhan Pamuk
*
(09.15.05)


The Men Who Stare at Goats
by Jon Ronson

(09.12.05)


The Unbearable Lightness
of Being

by Milan Kundera

(09.03.05)


You Remind Me of Me
by Dan Chaon

(08.28.05)


Freakonomics
by Steven D. Levitt
& Stephen J. Dubner

(08.26.05)


The Confessions of
Max Tivoli

by Andrew Sean Greer

(08.23.05)


Handling Sin
by Michael Malone

(08.15.05)


Men At Work:
The Craft of Baseball

by George F. Will

(08.01.05)


A Shortcut Through Time:
The Path to the
Quantum Computer

by George Johnson

(07.29.05)


Watership Down
by Richard Adams

(07.21.05)


Home Land
by Sam Lipsyte

(07.11.05)


Atonement
by Ian McEwan

(07.05.05)


Teachers Have It Easy:
The Big Sacrifices and
Small Salaries of
America’s Teachers

by Daniel Moulthrop,
Ninive Calegari, and
Dave Eggers

(07.05.05)


Paradise
by A.L. Kennedy

(06.06.05)


Early Bird
by Rodney Rothman

(06.05.05)


The Curious Incident of
the Dog in the Night-Time

by Mark Haddon

(06.02.05)


The Time Traveler’s Wife
by Audrey Niffenegger

(05.26.05)


Cloud Atlas
by David Mitchell

(05.04.05)


Assassination Vacation
by Sarah Vowell

(05.04.05)


Your Secrets Sleep With Me
by Darren O’Donnell

(04.25.05)


Cat’s Cradle
by Kurt Vonnegut

(04.24.05)


A Short History
of Nearly Everything

by Bill Bryson

(04.13.05)


Middlesex
by Jeffrey Eugenides
*
(04.06.05)


The Disappointment Artist
by Jonathan Lethem

(04.01.05)


Cast of Shadows
by Kevin Guilfoile

(03.24.05)


The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
by Haruki Murakami

(03.11.05)


The Dante Club
by Matthew Pearl
*
(02.14.05)


The Secret Life of Bees
by Sue Monk Kidd

(02.13.05)


Jimmy Corrigan: The
Smartest Kid on Earth

by Chris Ware

(02.08.05)


Happy Baby
by Stephen Elliott

(02.02.05)


Kafka on the Shore
by Haruki Murakami

(01.30.05)


The Devil in the White City
by Erik Larson

(01.04.05)


The Girl Who Played Go
by Shan Sa

(01.02.05)


America
by the Daily Show
(w/ Jon Stewart)

(12.29.04)


American Pastoral
by Philip Roth
*
(12.10.04)


Moby-Dick
by Herman Melville
*
(11.17.04)


The Cold Six Thousand
by James Ellroy
*
(11.01.04)


American Tabloid
by James Ellroy

(10.16.04)


This Side of Paradise
by F. Scott Fitzgerald

(09.24.04)


The Great Gatsby
by F. Scott Fitzgerald

(09.19.04)


Emergence
by Steven Johnson

(09.14.04)


A Supposedly Fun Thing
I’ll Never Do Again

by David Foster Wallace

(09.12.04)


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