Reading

2022

December 2022

• The Ballad of Black Tom ✪ — Victor LaValle
  Good, liked it (though the ending was a bit graphic).
• Human Errors — Nathan H. Lents
  Fascinating, really liked it.
• The Expert System’s Brother ✪ — Adrian Tchaikovsky
  Enjoyed it.

November 2022

• Chokepoint Capitalism — Rebecca Giblin & Cory Doctorow
• Terry Pratchett — Rob Wilkins
  Liked it a lot. The end was sad, of course.
• The Golden Enclaves ✪ — Naomi Novik
  Didn’t like it as much as the first two, but some parts were interesting.
• Out of the Software Crisis — Baldur Bjarnason
  A few interesting ideas.
• The Anna Karenina Fix — Viv Groskop
  Liked it. Made me want to read more Russian lit.
• Snow Crash ✪ — Neal Stephenson
  Generally liked it, though some parts were cringey.

October 2022

• How the Word Is Passed — Clint Smith
  Really good, strongly recommended.
• Nona the Ninth ✪ — Tamsyn Muir
  Bonkers (I didn’t know what was happening most of the time) but the voice is great.
• Karachi Vice — Samira Shackle
  Really good, learned a lot about Pakistan.
• The Paper Menagerie ✪ — Ken Liu
  Liked it. Learned about lots of tragic Asian history.

September 2022

• Babel ✪ — R. F. Kuang
  Liked it a lot, especially the argument against colonialism.
• Northanger Abbey ✪ — Jane Austen
  Funny at first but then not so much.
• The Infiltrator — Robert Mazur
  Intense.

August 2022

• Foundryside ✪ — Robert Jackson Bennett
  Liked most of it, especially the programming-style magic.
• The Castle of Otranto ✪ — Horace Walpole
  Kind of boring and silly.
• In the Land of Invented Languages — Arika Okrent
  Really liked it.
• Here Is Real Magic — Nate Staniforth
  Enjoyed it.
• Clementine — Sonia Purnell
  Good but a bit exhausting (wars, bad parenting).
• A Practical Guide to Conquering the World ✪ — K. J. Parker
  Okay but not as good as the first two.
• The Hands of the Emperor ✪ — Victoria Goddard
  Loved it, bought all her books.
• The Case Against the Sexual Revolution — Louise Perry
  Good. Graphic, though.
• The Plantagenets — Dan Jones
  Really good, glad I read it.
• On Reading — Nick Parker
  Short. Enjoyed it.
• The Sixth Extinction — Elizabeth Kolbert
  So good, highly recommended.
• Ninth House ✪ — Leigh Bardugo
  Good, though dark and rough.
• Attention Factory — Matthew Brennan
  Didn’t really like it, not sure why I finished it.

July 2022

• The Left-Handed Booksellers of London ✪ — Garth Nix
  Enjoyed it.
• The Wizard of Lies — Diana B. Henriques
  Good, learned a lot about finance.
• A New Foreign Policy — Jeffrey D. Sachs
  Good, though a bit dry at times.
• Prosper’s Demon ✪ — K. J. Parker
  Liked it.
• Upgrade ✪ — Blake Crouch
  So-so, but I did like the end more.
• Disability Visibility — Alice Wong
  Some of the essays really resonated with my experience with my back.
• Devolution ✪ — Max Brooks
  Liked it, though it’s quite violent.
• The Sudden Appearance of Hope ✪ — Claire North
  Liked it more than Touch, not as much as Harry August.
• Forgotten Peoples of the Ancient World — Philip Matyszak
  Good, learned a lot.

June 2022

• The Invention of Nature — Andrea Wulf
  Loved it.
• Sourdough ✪ — Robin Sloan
  Really liked it.
• The Last Witness ✪ — K. J. Parker
  Quite good.
• Wakers ✪ — Orson Scott Card
  Liked it, though the scatological humor wasn’t great.
• Diamond Dogs ✪ — Alastair Reynolds
  A bit too bleak for me.
• Black Sun ✪ — Rebecca Roanhorse
  Liked it, looking forward to the next.

May 2022

• Fugitive Telemetry ✪ — Martha Wells
  Enjoyed it as usual.
• The Imaginary Corpse ✪ — Tyler Hayes
  Weird but good. Liked it.
• The Last Nomad — Shugri Said Salh
  Good! More intense than I expected.
• Building Ligatures — TypeTogether
  Good, but not as much about type as I’d hoped.
• All Our Wrong Todays ✪ — Elan Mastai
  Really good time travel story.
• This Changes Everything — Naomi Klein
  So good. This book changed me.
• A Spindle Splintered ✪ — Alix E. Harrow
  Loved it.
• A Warning to the Curious ✪ — M. R. James
  So-so.
• A Psalm for the Wild-Built ✪ — Becky Chambers
  Better than I thought it would be. Down with philosophical books.
• Binti ✪ — Nnedi Okorafor
  Really liked it! More Afrofuturism, please.
• Every Heart a Doorway ✪ — Seanan McGuire
  More interesting than I thought it would be.
• The Curse of Chalion ✪ — Lois McMaster Bujold
  Loved it! Really good.
• The Puzzler — A. J. Jacobs
  Enjoyed it. Lightweight.
• Scotland’s Merlin — Tim Clarkson
  Good, though occasionally repetitive/dull.
• The End Is Always Near — Dan Carlin
  Good, learned a lot.
• Zodiac ✪ — Neal Stephenson
  Liked it a lot.

April 2022

• Vita Nostra ✪ — Marina & Sergey Dyachenko
  Weird book. Don’t know if I liked it.
• Saints, volume 2 — The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
  Loved it.
• The Last American Aristocrat — David S. Brown
  Good. Slow going, but glad I read it.
• Network Effect ✪ — Martha Wells
  Really liked it.
• The Library at Mount Char ✪ — Scott Hawkins
  Such a bizarre book. Liked it.
• China in Ten Words — Yu Hua
  Good, though a bit weird and not what I expected.

March 2022

• On All Fronts — Clarissa Ward
  Good, liked it.
• Elder Race ✪ — Adrian Tchaikovsky
  Good, enjoyed it.
• Stretching the Heavens — Terryl L. Givens
  Really good! Sad, too.
• The Empress of Salt and Fortune ✪ — Nghi Vo
  Good, liked it.
• Last Argument of Kings ✪ — Joe Abercrombie
  Great writing. Lots of content warnings, though.
• My Broken Language — Quiara Alegría Hudes
  Good, glad I read it.
• Parable of the Sower ✪ — Octavia E. Butler
  Whew, stressful. But good.

February 2022

• Riot Baby ✪ — Tochi Onyebuchi
  Good, though earthy and angry.
• The Haunting of Tram Car 015 ✪ — P. Djèlí Clark
  Good, I liked it.
• In the Camps — Darren Byler
  Ugh, concentration camps are awful. The stories were worth reading.
• The Dawn of Everything — David Graeber & David Wengrow
  So good! Important book, highly recommended.
• A Collection of Sacred Hymns — Emma Smith
• The Echo Wife ✪ — Sarah Gailey
  Whew, this one wasn’t my thing (abusive relationships are hard reading).
• Klara and the Sun ✪ — Kazuo Ishiguro
  Good, I think? Liked his other books more.

January 2022

• Dealers of Lightning — Michael Hiltzig
  Quite good, right up my alley.
• Ring Shout ✪ — P. Djèlí Clark
  Really good! Fresh and original.
• Typographic Firsts — John Boardley
  Good, lots of cool innovations.
• Exit Strategy ✪ — Martha Wells
  Fun.
• An Essay on Typography — Eric Gill
  Liked it. More political than expected.
• The Cubans — Anthony DePalma
  Really good! Riveting and sad.
• The Making of Prince of Persia — Jordan Mechner
  Good, liked it.
• Ecclesiastical History of the English People — Bede
  Glad I read it. Lots about Easter being celebrated on the wrong date.
• Rogue Protocol ✪ — Martha Wells
  Good, liked it.
• A Desolation Called Peace ✪ — Arkady Martine
  Good, generally liked it.
• The Golden Thread — Kassia St. Clair
  Fascinating, really liked it.

2021

December 2021

• Artificial Condition ✪ — Martha Wells
• How to Rule an Empire and Get Away With It ✪ — K. J. Parker
• There Is No Antimemetics Division ✪ — Sam Hughes
• All Systems Red ✪ — Martha Wells
• Duplex ✪ — Orson Scott Card
• Working — Robert A. Caro
• The Last Graduate ✪ — Naomi Novik
• Spy Handler — Victor Cherkashin
• Killers of the Flower Moon — David Grann
• Press Reset — Jason Schreier

November 2021

• Flying on the Inside — Rachel Gotto
• The Last Shadow ✪ — Orson Scott Card
• The Dragon Republic ✪ — R. F. Kuang
• Responsible JavaScript — Jeremy Wagner
• Flexible Typesetting — Tim Brown
• Several Short Sentences About Writing — Verlyn Klinkenborg
• Merchants of Doubt — Naomi Oreskes & Erik Conway

October 2021

• Historia Calamitatum — Peter Abélard
• How to Live — Derek Sivers
• Italic — Hendrik Weber
• The Riddle of the Labyrinth — Margalit Fox
• Type Tricks — Sofie Beier
• Blood River — Tim Butcher
• Radical Candor — Kim Scott
• The Golden Secrets of Lettering — Martina Flor
• In Progress — Jessica Hische
• Foundation ✪ — Isaac Asimov
• Cursed ✪ — Benedict Jacka
• Giambattista Bodoni — Valerie Lester
• Under the Pendulum Sun ✪ — Jeannette Ng

September 2021

• Seahenge — Francis Pryor
• An Astronaut’s Guide to Life on Earth — Chris Hadfield
• The Midnight Library ✪ — Matt Haig
• Sidewinders ✪ — Robert V. S. Redick
• Twenty Bits I Learned About Making Fonts — Dan Cederholm
• Sitting Pretty — Rebekah Taussig
• This Is What America Looks Like — Ilhan Omar
• The Pragmatic Programmer — Andy Hunt and Dave Thomas
• Tower Dog — Doug Delaney
• The Once and Future Witches ✪ — Alix E. Harrow

August 2021

• The Lies of Locke Lamora ✪ — Scott Lynch
• Daily Rituals: Women at Work — Mason Currey
• Permanent Record — Edward Snowden
• Cicero — Anthony Everitt
• A Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking ✪ — T. Kingfisher
• Fated ✪ — Benedict Jacka
• The Day of the Triffids ✪ — John Wyndham
• Creativity, Inc. — Ed Catmull

July 2021

• Knight’s Shadow ✪ — Sebastien de Castell
• Broad Band — Claire L. Evans
• Yours in Truth — Jeff Himmelman
• Or What You Will ✪ — Jo Walton
• Jade City ✪ — Fonda Lee
• Billion Dollar Loser — Reeves Wiedeman
• The Aleppo Codex — Matti Friedman

June 2021

• Project Hail Mary ✪ — Andy Weir
• How to Do Nothing — Jenny Odell
• Madam Secretary — Madeleine Albright
• Before They Are Hanged ✪ — Joe Abercrombie

May 2021

• A Disciple’s Life — Bruce C. Hafen
• Cryptonomicon ✪ — Neal Stephenson
• The Song Machine — John Seabrook
• The Buried Giant ✪ — Kazuo Ishiguro
• Shimmerdark ✪ — Sarah Mensinga
• Genius — James Gleick
• Skysworn ✪ — Will Wight

April 2021

• Borne ✪ — Jeff VanderMeer
• Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore ✪ — Robin Sloan
• The City of Brass ✪ — S. A. Chakraborty
• Eyes in the Sky — Arthur Holland Michel
• Underground — Will Hunt
• Exhalation ✪ — Ted Chiang
• Creative Selection — Ken Kocienda

March 2021

• Benjamin Franklin — Walter Isaacson
• Ceremony ✪ — Robert B. Parker
• The Bone Shard Daughter ✪ — Andrea Stewart
• Sixteen Ways to Defend a Walled City ✪ — K. J. Parker
• How Asia Works — Joe Studwell
• Harrow the Ninth ✪ — Tamsyn Muir
• The Ten Books of Architecture — Vitruvius, tr. Morris Hicky Morgan

February 2021

• Mirror Dance ✪ — Lois McMaster Bujold
• Coretta — Coretta Scott King
• Babylon’s Ashes ✪ — James S. A. Corey
• Borders of Infinity ✪ — Lois McMaster Bujold
• On the Shoulders of Titans ✪ — Andrew Rowe
• How to Live on Twenty-Four Hours a Day — Arnold Bennett

January 2021

• The Firsts — Jennifer Steinhauer
• Seven at Sea — Erik & Emily Orton
• The Gameshouse ✪ — Claire North
• The Ghost Map — Steven Johnson
• The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind — William Kamkwamba
• Killer Dungeon ✪ — Phil Tucker

2020

December 2020

• The Road ✪ — Cormac McCarthy
• Stalling for Time — Gary Noesner
• Midnight Riot ✪ — Ben Aaronovitch
• The Humans ✪ — Matt Haig
• She Said — Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey
• Grinding It Out — Ray Kroc
• Longitude — Dava Sobel
• Radicalized ✪ — Cory Doctorow
• A Deadly Education ✪ — Naomi Novik
• Limited Wish ✪ — Mark Lawrence
• How to Think — Alan Jacobs

November 2020

• The Ride of a Lifetime — Robert Iger
• Behind the Beautiful Forevers — Katherine Boo
• Battle Ground ✪ — Jim Butcher
• Obama: An Oral History — Brian Abrams
• Piranesi ✪ — Susannah Clarke
• World War Z ✪ — Max Brooks

October 2020

• Half a Soul ✪ — Olivia Atwater
• Blood, Sweat, and Pixels — Jason Schreier
• We Are Legion (We Are Bob) ✪ — Dennis E. Taylor
• The Black Company ✪ — Glen Cook
• The Physics of the Dead ✪ — Luke Smitherd
• How to Stop Time ✪ — Matt Haig
• Peace Talks ✪ — Jim Butcher
• The Dream Machine — M. Mitchell Waldrop

September 2020

• The Last Days of Socrates — Plato
• The Crossing Places ✪ — Elly Griffiths
• The Poppy War ✪ — R. F. Kuang
• Currently ✪ — Sarah Mensinga
• Fear — Bob Woodward
• Diaspora ✪ — Greg Egan

August 2020

• Silas Marner ✪ — George Eliot
• Eminent Victorians — Lytton Strachey
• This Is How You Lose the Time War ✪ — Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone
• Middlegame ✪ — Seanan McGuire
• The Substance of Civilization — Stephen L. Sass
• Saints, volume 1 — The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
• Letters from a Shipwreck in the Sea of Suns & Moons ✪ — Raymond St. Elmo
• Servant of the Underworld ✪ — Aliette de Bodard

July 2020

• Stories of Your Life and Others ✪ — Ted Chiang
• Nightmare Keep ✪ — Phil Tucker
• The Great Successor — Anna Fifield
• A Wizard of Earthsea ✪ — Ursula K. Le Guin
• Extraordinary Lives — William Zinsser
• Semiosis ✪ — Sue Burke
• The Everything Store — Brad Stone
• The Butchering Art — Lindsey Fitzharris
• Gideon the Ninth ✪ — Tamsyn Muir

June 2020

• Perennial Seller — Ryan Holiday
• Divine Signatures — Gerald N. Lund
• Nevermoor: The Trials of Morrigan Crow ✪ — Jessica Townsend
• What You Should Know About Politics…But Don’t — Jessamyn Conrad
• The Thread That Binds the Bones ✪ — Nina Kiriki Hoffman
• Blackflame ✪ — Will Wight
• The Borgias — G. J. Meyer
• And Then There Were None ✪ — Agatha Christie
• The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle ✪ — Stuart Turton
• Finish — Jon Acuff
• Master Assassins ✪ — Robert V. S. Redick
• How Will You Measure Your Life? — Clayton M. Christensen

May 2020

• Angler — Barton Gellman
• Struck by Genius — Jason Padgett
• A Memory Called Empire ✪ — Arkady Martine
• The Murder of Roger Ackroyd ✪ — Agatha Christie
• Attachments ✪ — Rainbow Rowell
• The Art of Possibility — Rosamund Stone Zander
• Red Sister ✪ — Mark Lawrence
• Catch and Kill — Ronan Farrow
• I Contain Multitudes — Ed Yong

April 2020

• Blade’s Edge ✪ — Virginia McClain
• Blood of Heirs ✪ — Alicia Wanstall-Burke
• Bad Blood — John Carreyrou
• Cortés & Montezuma — Maurice Collis
• Along the Razor’s Edge ✪ — Rob J. Hayes
• The Road to Unfreedom — Timothy Snyder
• The Lore of Prometheus ✪ — Graham Austin-King
• The Lost 116 Pages — Don Bradley
• Fantasyland — Kurt Andersen

March 2020

• Reaper Man ✪ — Terry Pratchett
• Fortune’s Fool ✪ — Angela Boord
• Senlin Ascends ✪ — Josiah Bancroft
• The Northern Caves ✪ — Nostalgebraist
• Being Mortal — Atul Gawande
• The Fifth Season ✪ — N. K. Jemisin
• When Books Went to War — Molly Guptill Manning
• Turning Pro — Steven Pressfield
• The Ten Thousand Doors of January ✪ — Alix E. Harrow

February 2020

• True Grit ✪ — Charles Portis
• Minimum Wage Magic ✪ — Rachel Aaron
• Drift — Rachel Maddow
• The Blade Itself ✪ — Joe Abercrombie
• Just Mercy — Bryan Stevenson
• Poke the Box — Seth Godin
• American Kingpin — Nick Bilton
• The Sword of Kaigen ✪ — M. L. Wang

January 2020

• False Step ✪ — Victoria Helen Stone
• Cat’s Cradle ✪ — Kurt Vonnegut
• Pinpoint — Greg Milner
• Ultralearning — Scott Young
• The Bright Hour — Nina Riggs
• Traitor’s Blade ✪ — Sebastien de Castell
• Educated — Tara Westover
• The Remains of the Day ✪ — Kazuo Ishiguro
• Rosemary and Rue ✪ — Seanan McGuire
• A Craftsman’s Legacy — Eric Gorges

2019

December 2019

• Brothers in Arms ✪ — Lois McMaster Bujold
• How to Write a Novel Using the Snowflake Method — Randy Ingermanson
• Lost and Found ✪ — Orson Scott Card
• The Bear and the Nightingale ✪ — Katherine Arden
• Recursion ✪ — Blake Crouch
• Persuadable — Al Pittampalli
• Becoming Superman — J. Michael Straczynski
• The Worlds of Medieval Europe — Clifford R. Backman
• Molly’s Game — Molly Bloom

November 2019

• Indistractable — Nir Eyal
• Smoke Gets in Your Eyes — Caitlin Doughty
• AI Superpowers — Kai-Fu Lee
• Lab Girl — Hope Jahren
• The Raven Boys ✪ — Maggie Stiefvater
• Children of Blood and Bone ✪ — Tomi Adeyemi
• Good to Great — Jim Collins

October 2019

• Atomic Habits — James Clear
• Quiet — Susan Cain
• Solomon’s Seal ✪ — Skyla Dawn Cameron
• The Light Between Worlds ✪ — Laura E. Weymouth
• Dark Money — Jane Mayer
• Dear Writer, You Need to Quit — Becca Syme
• Of Mice and Men ✪ — John Steinbeck
• A Savage Place ✪ — Robert B. Parker
• After Dark ✪ — Haruki Murakami
• Range — David Epstein

September 2019

• The Rook ✪ — Daniel O’Malley
• The Revenge of Analog — David Sax
• The Tiger — John Vaillant

August 2019

• Soulsmith ✪ — Will Wight
• Six of Crows ✪ — Leigh Bardugo
• The Hive ✪ — Orson Scott Card
• Digital Minimalism — Cal Newport
• 12 Strong — Doug Stanton

July 2019

• Aching God ✪ — Mike Shel
• Isaac’s Storm — Erik Larson
• Ego Is the Enemy — Ryan Holiday
• The World as It Is — Ben Rhodes

June 2019

• Crimes Against Magic ✪ — Steve McHugh
• Wyrd Sisters ✪ — Terry Pratchett
• Prisoners of Geography — Tim Marshall
• The Palace Job ✪ — Patrick Weekes

May 2019

• Story Trumps Structure — Steven James
• Death March ✪ — Phil Tucker
• When Breath Becomes Air — Paul Kalanithi
• Tubes — Andrew Blum
• Children of Time ✪ — Adrian Tchaikovsky

April 2019

• The Crimson Queen ✪ — Alec Hutson
• The Unicode Cookbook for Linguists — Steven Moran
• Coders — Clive Thompson
• Moon Shot — Jay Barbree
• One Word Kill ✪ — Mark Lawrence
• Into the Labyrinth ✪ — John Bierce
• The Traitor Baru Cormorant ✪ — Seth Dickinson

March 2019

• Touch ✪ — Claire North
• Word by Word — Kory Stamper
• Vicious ✪ — V. E. Schwab

February 2019

• The Big Roads — Earl Swift
• In Distant Lands — Lars Brownworth
• The Last Wish ✪ — Andrzej Sapkowski
• Dawn ✪ — Octavia Butler
• Harmony Black ✪ — Craig Schaefer
• 11/22/63 ✪ — Stephen King

January 2019

• Bébé Day by Day — Pamela Druckerman
• Hooked — Nir Eyal
• Unsouled ✪ — Will Wight
• The Steerswoman ✪ — Rosemary Kirstein

2018

December 2018

• Nemesis Games ✪ — James S. A. Corey
• Cetaganda ✪ — Lois McMaster Bujold
• The Shining ✪ — Stephen King

November 2018

• Edible — Daniella Martin
• Red Notice — Bill Browder
• Flash Boys — Michael Lewis
• The Light Fantastic ✪ — Terry Pratchett

October 2018

• Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman — Richard Feynman
• Children of the Fleet ✪ — Orson Scott Card

September 2018

• The Gatekeepers — Chris Whipple
• Cyberstorm ✪ — Matthew Mather
• The Lost City of the Monkey God — Douglas Preston
• The Forgotten Beasts of Eld ✪ — Patricia McKillip

August 2018

• Dark Matter ✪ — Blake Crouch
• Unsong ✪ — Scott Alexander
• Russian Roulette — Michael Isikoff
• Narconomics — Tom Wainwright

July 2018

• Argo — Antonio Mendez
• The Billion Dollar Spy — David E. Hoffman
• Black Flags — Joby Warrick
• The Midwich Cuckoos ✪ — John Wyndham

June 2018

• Sufficiently Advanced Magic ✪ — Andrew Rowe
• The Body Builders — Adam Piore
• Skin Game ✪ — Jim Butcher
• Cold Days ✪ — Jim Butcher

May 2018

• Annihilation ✪ — Jeff VanderMeer
• Grokking Algorithms — Aditya Y. Bhargava
• Ghost Story ✪ — Jim Butcher
• Changes ✪ — Jim Butcher
• They Mostly Come Out at Night ✪ — Benedict Patrick
• Turn Coat ✪ — Jim Butcher
• Leadership and Self-Deception — Arbinger Institute
• Small Favor ✪ — Jim Butcher

April 2018

• Pirate Hunters — Robert Kurson
• Deep Undercover — Jack Barsky
• Sphere ✪ — Michael Crichton
• Cibola Burn ✪ — James S. A. Corey
• The Bible Tells Me So — Peter Enns

March 2018

• White Night ✪ — Jim Butcher
• Proven Guilty ✪ — Jim Butcher
• Abaddon’s Gate ✪ — James S. A. Corey
• The Obstacle Is the Way — Ryan Holiday
• Dead Beat ✪ — Jim Butcher
• An Economist Gets Lunch — Tyler Cowen

February 2018

• Blood Rites ✪ — Jim Butcher
• Early Autumn ✪ — Robert B. Parker
• Caliban’s War ✪ — James S. A. Corey

January 2018

• Language of the Spirit — Jan Swafford
• A Fever in Salem — Laurie Winn Carlson
• Death Masks ✪ — Jim Butcher
• Soonish — Kelly Weinersmith
• The Time Traveler’s Wife ✪ — Audrey Niffenegger
• Carol Twombly — Nancy Stock-Allen
• That We May Be One — Tom Christofferson
• Super Structure — James Scott Bell

2017

December 2017

• Looking for Rachel Wallace ✪ — Robert B. Parker
• Pyramids ✪ — Terry Pratchett
• Summer Knight ✪ — Jim Butcher
• The League of Frightened Men ✪ — Rex Stout
• The Judas Goat ✪ — Robert B. Parker
• Edgedancer ✪ — Brandon Sanderson
• The Vor Game ✪ — Lois McMaster Bujold
• The Mountains of Mourning ✪ — Lois McMaster Bujold
• Promised Land ✪ — Robert B. Parker

November 2017

• Jurassic Park ✪ — Michael Crichton
• 1776 — David McCullough
• Shop Class as Soulcraft — Matthew B. Crawford
• Time Travelers Never Die ✪ — Jack McDevitt
• The Devil and Sherlock Holmes — David Grann
• Changes in Languages — Brian D. Stubbs
• Casino — Nicholas Pileggi

October 2017

• An Introduction to the Book of Abraham — John Gee
• Picture This — Molly Bang
• Fer-de-Lance ✪ — Rex Stout
• Mortal Stakes ✪ — Robert B. Parker
• Grave Peril ✪ — Jim Butcher
• The Bone House ✪ — Brian Freeman
• So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed — Jon Ronson
• Criminal ✪ — Karin Slaughter

September 2017

• The Psychopath Test — Jon Ronson
• Shoe Dog — Phil Knight
• Worm ✪ — Wildbow
• Equal Rites ✪ — Terry Pratchett
• Working Stiff — Judy Melinek

August 2017

• Shaken Faith Syndrome — Michael R. Ash
• Taco USA — Gustavo Arellano

July 2017

• The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August ✪ — Claire North
• Shadow ✪ — K. J. Parker
• Use of Weapons ✪ — Iain M. Banks
• How to Create Typefaces — Cristóbal Henestrosa
• The Exorcist ✪ — William Blatty
• Shakespeare: The World as Stage — Bill Bryson
• Over Your Dead Body ✪ — Dan Wells

June 2017

• Legion: Skin Deep ✪ — Brandon Sanderson
• Ones and Zeroes ✪ — Dan Wells
• The Color of Magic ✪ — Terry Pratchett
• The Emperor of Scent — Chandler Burr

May 2017

• Fight Club ✪ — Chuck Palahniuk

April 2017

• The Wee Free Men ✪ — Terry Pratchett
• Chanson de Geste ✪ — LVDB
• The Chronoliths ✪ — Robert Charles Wilson
• Bonk — Mary Roach
• The Dark Net — Jamie Bartlett
• Starship: Pirate ✪ — Mike Resnick
• Alone ✪ — Lisa Gardner
• Ra ✪ — Sam Hughes

March 2017

• Where Are the Children? ✪ — Mary Higgins Clark
• One for the Money ✪ — Janet Evanovich
• Mort ✪ — Terry Pratchett
• Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality ✪ — Eliezer Yudkowsky

February 2017

• Killing Floor ✪ — Lee Child
• A is for Alibi ✪ — Sue Grafton

January 2017

• Deadlock ✪ — Sara Paretsky
• Think — Simon Blackburn
• God Save the Child ✪ — Robert B. Parker
• Bowl of Heaven ✪ — Gregory Benford
• 1491 — Charles C. Mann

2016

December 2016

• Indemnity Only ✪ — Sara Paretsky
• Hamilton’s Curse — Thomas DiLorenzo
• Consider the Lobster — David Foster Wallace
• The Godwulf Manuscript ✪ — Robert B. Parker
• Starship Troopers ✪ — Robert A. Heinlein
• Infected ✪ — Scott Sigler
• The Braindead Megaphone — George Saunders
• Crosstalk ✪ — Connie Willis

November 2016

• Lincoln’s Dreams ✪ — Connie Willis
• Destiny Disrupted — Tamim Ansary
• Secret Gardens — Humphrey Carpenter
• The Dark Forest ✪ — Cixin Liu
• Night Watch ✪ — Terry Pratchett

October 2016

• The Cassandra Project ✪ — Jack McDevitt
• The Girl on the Train ✪ — Paula Hawkins
• The Pattern on the Stone — W. Daniel Hillis
• The Warrior’s Apprentice ✪ — Lois McMaster Bujold
• Hallucinations — Oliver Sacks
• Black Unicorn ✪ — Tanith Lee

September 2016

• The Swarm ✪ — Orson Scott Card
• What’s So Great About Christianity — Dinesh D’Souza
• The Engines of God ✪ — Jack McDevitt

August 2016

• Voices of Vision — Jayme Lynn Blaschke
• Inventology — Pagan Kennedy
• The Rights of the Reader — Daniel Pennac
• The Knights of the Cornerstone ✪ — James P. Blaylock
• The Checklist Manifesto — Atul Gawande
• The Toaster Project — Thomas Thwaites
• Triggers ✪ — Robert J. Sawyer
• The Anubis Gates ✪ — Tim Powers

July 2016

• Bluescreen ✪ — Dan Wells
• Roadside Picnic ✪ — Arkady Strugatsky
• Cold as Ice ✪ — Charles Sheffield

June 2016

• Free as in Freedom — Sam Williams
• Unruly Places — Alastair Bonnett
• Schooling the Prophet — Gerald E. Smith
• Shady Characters — Keith Houston
• Extreme Medicine — Kevin Fong
• Lost Fleet: Fearless ✪ — Jack Campbell

May 2016

• The Left Hand of Darkness ✪ — Ursula K. LeGuin
• Ready Player One ✪ — Ernest Cline
• Blindsight ✪ — Peter Watts
• Willful Child ✪ — Steven Erikson
• Mythago Wood ✪ — Robert Holdstock

April 2016

• Counterpunch — Fred Smeijers
• Fool Moon ✪ — Jim Butcher
• Unforgettable ✪ — Eric James Stone

March 2016

• The Quantum Thief ✪ — Hannu Rajaniemi
• The Girl with All the Gifts ✪ — M. R. Carey
• The Dorito Effect — Mark Schatzker
• Revelation Space ✪ — Alastair Reynolds
• Storm Front ✪ — Jim Butcher
• Calamity ✪ — Brandon Sanderson

February 2016

• The Magician’s Land ✪ — Lev Grossman
• Planted — Patrick Q. Mason
• The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction — Alan Jacobs
• The Bands of Mourning ✪ — Brandon Sanderson

January 2016

• Invisible Ink — Brian McDonald
• The Fall of Hyperion ✪ — Dan Simmons
• What If? — Randall Munroe
• A Talent for War ✪ — Jack McDevitt

2015

December 2015

• Childhood’s End ✪ — Arthur C. Clarke
• Gatefather ✪ — Orson Scott Card
• How Fiction Works — James Wood

November 2015

• Evolving Faith — Steven L. Peck
• The Magician King ✪ — Lev Grossman
• Among Others ✪ — Jo Walton
• Old Testament and Related Studies — Hugh Nibley
• Hyperion ✪ — Dan Simmons
• Mission of Gravity ✪ — Hal Clement

October 2015

• The Devil’s Only Friend ✪ — Dan Wells
• Darwinia ✪ — Robert Charles Wilson
• Late Antiquity: A Very Short Introduction — Gillian Clark
• Shadows of Self ✪ — Brandon Sanderson
• Rough Stone Rolling — Richard L. Bushman
• The Silence of the Lambs ✪ — Thomas Harris
• The Magicians ✪ — Lev Grossman

September 2015

• The Viper on the Hearth — Terryl Givens
• A Head Full of Ghosts ✪ — Paul Tremblay
• His Majesty’s Dragon ✪ — Naomi Novik
• Red Dragon ✪ — Thomas Harris
• Wyrms ✪ — Orson Scott Card
• While Europe Slept — Bruce Bawer

August 2015

• Marrow ✪ — Robert Reed
• Nanotech ✪ — Jack Dann
• Tau Zero ✪ — Poul Anderson

July 2015

• Salvador ✪ — Margaret Blair Young
• Barrayar ✪ — Lois McMaster Bujold
• The Forever War ✪ — Joe Haldeman
• Every Day ✪ — David Levithan
• Immortals ✪ — Jack Dann
• Illegal Alien ✪ — Robert J. Sawyer

June 2015

• Life in a Medieval City — Joseph Gies
• Shocked — David Casarett
• Biography: A Very Short Introduction — Hermione Lee
• Escape from Earth ✪ — Jack Dann
• City of Brick and Shadow ✪ — Tim Wirkus
• 13 Steps Down ✪ — Ruth Rendell
• The Bridge at Andau — James Michener
• Shards of Honor ✪ — Lois McMaster Bujold
• Millstone City ✪ — S.P. Bailey

May 2015

• The Spy Who Stayed Out in the Cold — Adrian Havill
• Eternal Man — Truman Madsen
• The Town ✪ — Bentley Little
• The Book of Oz Cooper — Society of Typographic Arts
• The Abolition of Man — C. S. Lewis
• The Three-Body Problem ✪ — Cixin Liu
• Archaeology: A Very Short Introduction — Paul Bahn
• Gateway ✪ — Frederik Pohl
• The Best Interface Is No Interface — Golden Krishna
• America Alone — Mark Steyn

April 2015

• Sun of Suns ✪ — Karl Schroeder
• The Crucible of Doubt — Terryl Givens
• Pushing Ice ✪ — Alastair Reynolds
• Carrie ✪ — Stephen King
• Lamentation ✪ — Ken Scholes
• Brain ✪ — Robin Cook
• Do No Harm — Henry Marsh

March 2015

• Making Money ✪ — Terry Pratchett
• The Golem and the Jinni ✪ — Helene Wecker
• Under the Dome ✪ — Stephen King
• Do the Work — Steven Pressfield
• This Is Not a Game ✪ — Walter Jon Williams
• The Onion Girl ✪ — Charles de Lint

February 2015

• Visitors ✪ — Orson Scott Card
• Firefight ✪ — Brandon Sanderson

January 2015

• Lost Fleet: Dauntless ✪ — Jack Campbell
• Ship of Magic ✪ — Robin Hobb
• Letters to a Young Mormon — Adam Miller
• The Goliath Stone ✪ — Larry Niven
• WWW: Wake ✪ — Robert J. Sawyer

2014

December 2014

• Cleopatra 7.2 ✪ — Elizabeth Ann Scarborough
• Steal Across the Sky ✪ — Nancy Kress
• Starship: Mutiny ✪ — Mike Resnick

November 2014

• Gone Girl ✪ — Gillian Flynn
• Eater ✪ — Gregory Benford

October 2014

• Darwin’s Radio ✪ — Greg Bear
• Hull Zero Three ✪ — Greg Bear
• The One-Eyed Man ✪ — L. E. Modesitt, Jr.

September 2014

• Stuff Matters — Mark Miodownik
• The Martian ✪ — Andy Weir
• Deadhouse Gates ✪ — Steven Erikson

August 2014

• Literary Swordsmen and Sorcerers — L. Sprague de Camp
• Batman: Earth One ✪ — Geoff Johns
• Batman: The Killing Joke ✪ — Alan Moore
• Tyrannosaur Canyon ✪ — Douglas Preston

July 2014

• Incandescence ✪ — Greg Egan
• Mindhunter — John E. Douglas

June 2014

• How to Write Science Fiction and Fantasy — Orson Scott Card
• Earth Awakens ✪ — Orson Scott Card
• Trespassing on Einstein’s Lawn — Amanda Gefter
• Batman: Hush ✪ — Jeph Loeb
• Songmaster ✪ — Orson Scott Card
• Batman: The Dark Knight Returns ✪ — Frank Miller

May 2014

• The Time Machine ✪ — H. M. Wells
• Doomsday Book ✪ — Connie Willis

April 2014

• The Stars My Destination ✪ — Alfred Bester
• Count to a Trillion ✪ — John C. Wright
• The 4% Universe — Richard Panek
• The Mote in God’s Eye ✪ — Larry Niven

March 2014

• Words of Radiance ✪ — Brandon Sanderson

February 2014

• Lovelock ✪ — Orson Scott Card
• Curious Minds — John Brockman
• Lies My Teacher Told Me — James W. Loewen

January 2014

• Rubicon — Tom Holland
• Food Rules — Michael Pollan
• Dispirited ✪ — Luisa M. Perkins
• Leviathan Wakes ✪ — James S. A. Corey
• The Dragon Reborn ✪ — Robert Jordan

2013

December 2013

• The Master and Margarita ✪ — Mikhail Bulgakov

October 2013

• The Shadow of the Torturer ✪ — Gene Wolfe
• Steelheart ✪ — Brandon Sanderson
• Gardens of the Moon ✪ — Steven Erikson

September 2013

• A Fire Upon the Deep ✪ — Vernor Vinge

August 2013

• The Way of Kings ✪ — Brandon Sanderson

July 2013

• The Ocean at the End of the Lane ✪ — Neil Gaiman
• Kiln People ✪ — David Brin

June 2013

• Wild Seed ✪ — Octavia Butler
• Masters of Doom — David Kushner
• Earth Afire ✪ — Orson Scott Card
• The Rithmatist ✪ — Brandon Sanderson
• The God Who Weeps — Terryl Givens

May 2013

• Going Postal ✪ — Terry Pratchett
• Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell ✪ — Susanna Clarke
• Ender’s Game ✪ — Orson Scott Card
• Assassin’s Quest ✪ — Robin Hobb

April 2013

• The Gate Thief ✪ — Orson Scott Card
• Royal Assassin ✪ — Robin Hobb

March 2013

• An Introduction to the History of Printing Types — Geoffrey Dowding
• Axis ✪ — Robert Charles Wilson
• The Stroke Theory of Writing — Gerrit Noordzij
• Assassin’s Apprentice ✪ — Robin Hobb
• Three Days to Never ✪ — Tim Powers

February 2013

• A Short Stay in Hell ✪ — Steven Peck
• Spin ✪ — Robert Charles Wilson
• The Goblin Mirror ✪ — C. J. Cherryh

January 2013

• The Worthing Saga ✪ — Orson Scott Card
• Second Foundation ✪ — Isaac Asimov
• Foundation and Empire ✪ — Isaac Asimov

2012

December 2012

• The Great Hunt ✪ — Robert Jordan
• The Joy of X — Steven H. Strogatz

November 2012

• Mindstorms — Seymour Papert
• Foundation ✪ — Isaac Asimov
• The Emperor’s Soul ✪ — Brandon Sanderson
• Legion ✪ — Brandon Sanderson
• Ruins ✪ — Dan Wells
• The Dragonbone Chair ✪ — Tad Williams

October 2012

• Arts and Inspiration — Steven P. Sondrup
• Feedback ✪ — Robison Wells

September 2012

• The Hollow City ✪ — Dan Wells
• The Eye of the World ✪ — Robert Jordan
• Earth Unaware ✪ — Orson Scott Card
• Elantris ✪ — Brandon Sanderson

August 2012

• Foreigner ✪ — C. J. Cherryh
• How to Read Bridges — Edward Denison
• Warbreaker ✪ — Brandon Sanderson

July 2012

• A Night of Blacker Darkness ✪ — Dan Wells
• Treason ✪ — Orson Scott Card
• Artists’ Techniques and Materials — Antonella Fuga
• Dreams and Wishes — Susan Cooper
• The Emperor of All Maladies — Siddhartha Mukherjee
• Jhereg ✪ — Steven Brust
• Beowulf ✪ — Anonymous
• Sarah, Plain and Tall ✪ — Patricia MacLachlan
• The Crystal City ✪ — Orson Scott Card

June 2012

• Maphead — Ken Jennings
• Tuesdays at the Castle ✪ — Jessica Day George
• Curveball ✪ — Jordan Sonnenblick
• Heartfire ✪ — Orson Scott Card
• The Year 1000 — Robert Lacey
• An Anthropologist on Mars — Oliver Sacks

May 2012

• The Spying Heart — Katherine Paterson
• The Great Gilly Hopkins ✪ — Katherine Paterson
• The White Horse King — Benjamin R. Merkle
• Alvin Journeyman ✪ — Orson Scott Card

April 2012

• Worlds of Childhood — William Zinsser
• Partials ✪ — Dan Wells
• The Idea Factory — Jon Gertner

March 2012

• Prentice Alvin ✪ — Orson Scott Card
• Red Prophet ✪ — Orson Scott Card
• Shadows in Flight ✪ — Orson Scott Card
• Seventh Son ✪ — Orson Scott Card
• Shadow of the Giant ✪ — Orson Scott Card

February 2012

• Shadow Puppets ✪ — Orson Scott Card
• Generative Art — Matt Pearson
• Stonefather ✪ — Orson Scott Card

January 2012

• Shadow of the Hegemon ✪ — Orson Scott Card
• Divergent ✪ — Veronica Roth
• Soap making: Self-sufficiency — Sarah Ade
• The Alloy of Law ✪ — Brandon Sanderson
• Great Tales from English History 2 — Robert Lacey

2011

December 2011

• Prospero’s Children ✪ — Jan Siegel
• Wild Robert ✪ — Diana Wynne Jones
• When You Reach Me ✪ — Rebecca Stead
• A Stir of Bones ✪ — Nina Kiriki Hoffman
• Wonderstruck ✪ — Brian Selznick

November 2011

• Rot & Ruin ✪ — Jonathan Maberry
• Variant ✪ — Robison Wells

October 2011

• The Christian Imagination — Leland Ryken
• Eifelheim ✪ — Michael Flynn
• The Wise Man’s Fear ✪ — Patrick Rothfuss

September 2011

• Well of Ascension ✪ — Brandon Sanderson
• The Hero of Ages ✪ — Brandon Sanderson

August 2011

• Mistborn ✪ — Brandon Sanderson
• Expressive Anatomy for Comics and Narrative — Wil Eisner
• The Name of the Wind ✪ — Patrick Rothfuss

July 2011

• Half Magic ✪ — Edward Eager
• Zen in the Art of Writing — Ray Bradbury
• Color and Light — James Gurney

June 2011

• The Monstrumologist ✪ — Rick Yancey
• An Abundance of the Heart — Arthur Henry King
• Sean Griswold’s Head ✪ — Lindsey Leavitt
• A Lion and a Lamb — Rand Packer
• Pastwatch ✪ — Orson Scott Card

May 2011

• Smiles to Go ✪ — Jerry Spinelli
• Temple and Cosmos — Hugh Nibley
• Lettering & Type — Bruce Willen
• Notes from the Midnight Driver ✪ — Jordan Sonnenblick
• White Cat ✪ — Holly Black
• After Ever After ✪ — Jordan Sonnenblick
• Drums, Girls & Dangerous Pie ✪ — Jordan Sonnenblick
• War of Gifts ✪ — Orson Scott Card
• Okay for Now ✪ — Gary Schmidt

April 2011

• The Dark and Hollow Places ✪ — Carrie Ryan
• Invasive Procedures ✪ — Aaron Johnston
• I Don’t Want to Kill You ✪ — Dan Wells
• The Lost Gate ✪ — Orson Scott Card

March 2011

• Letters to Malcolm — C. S. Lewis
• The Candymakers ✪ — Wendy Mass
• The Phantom Tollbooth ✪ — Norton Juster
• Show & Tell — Dilys Evans

February 2011

• The Poisoner’s Handbook — Deborah Blum
• Arthur Rackham — David Larkin
• Stradivari’s Genius — Tony Faber
• Packing for Mars — Mary Roach

January 2011

• Learning All the Time — John Holt
• The Man Who Deciphered Linear B — Andrew Robinson
• Holes ✪ — Louis Sachar
• The Gardener ✪ — S. A. Bodeen
• Spook — Mary Roach
• The Ring of Solomon ✪ — Jonathan Stroud
• Pathfinder ✪ — Orson Scott Card

2010

December 2010

• Matched ✪ — Ally Condie
• Stiff — Mary Roach
• The Dark Side of Nowhere ✪ — Neal Shusterman
• Mr. Monster ✪ — Dan Wells
• Antsy Does Time ✪ — Neal Shusterman
• The Magic Circle ✪ — Donna Jo Napoli
• Homebody ✪ — Orson Scott Card

November 2010

• Darth Bane: Path of Destruction ✪ — Drew Karpyshyn
• The Schwa Was Here ✪ — Neal Shusterman
• Bruiser ✪ — Neal Shusterman

October 2010

• Beauty ✪ — Robin McKinley
• My Double Life ✪ — Janette Rallison
• Catalyst ✪ — Laurie Halse Anderson
• The Young Merlin Trilogy ✪ — Jane Yolen
• The Chosen One ✪ — Carol Lynch Williams

September 2010

• Mockingjay ✪ — Suzanne Collins

August 2010

• Incarceron ✪ — Catherine Fisher
• My Fair Godmother ✪ — Janette Rallison

July 2010

• The Dead-Tossed Waves ✪ — Carrie Ryan
• William Caxton & His Work — George Parker Winship
• For the Win ✪ — Cory Doctorow
• Hidden Empire ✪ — Orson Scott Card
• Detail in Typography — Jost Hochuli

June 2010

• Web Form Design — Luke Wroblewski

May 2010

• It’s a Mall World After All ✪ — Janette Rallison
• Fame, Glory, and Other Things On My To-Do List ✪ — Janette Rallison
• Just One Wish ✪ — Janette Rallison
• The Angel of Death ✪ — Alane Ferguson
• All’s Fair in Love, War, and High School ✪ — Janette Rallison
• Specials ✪ — Scott Westerfeld
• The Christopher Killer ✪ — Alane Ferguson
• Playing the Field ✪ — Janette Rallison

April 2010

• Treasure Box ✪ — Orson Scott Card
• The Killer’s Cousin ✪ — Nancy Werlin
• If You Want to Write — Brenda Ueland
• Full Tilt ✪ — Neal Shusterman
• Leviathan ✪ — Scott Westerfeld

March 2010

• Secrets to Drawing Realistic Faces — Carrie Stuart Parks

February 2010

• Outliers — Malcolm Gladwell
• Tribes — Seth Godin
• The Tale of Despereaux ✪ — Kate DiCamillo
• The Sea of Monsters ✪ — Rick Riordan
• The Bourne Identity ✪ — Robert Ludlum
• I Am Not a Serial Killer ✪ — Dan Wells

January 2010

• The Forest of Hands and Teeth ✪ — Carrie Ryan
• The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Prisoner’s Dilemma ✪ — Trenton Lee Stewart
• The View from Saturday ✪ — E. L. Konigsburg
• The Lightning Thief ✪ — Rick Riordan

2009

December 2009

• The Book Thief ✪ — Marcus Zusak
• Enchantment ✪ — Orson Scott Card
• Pretties ✪ — Scott Westerfeld
• The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Perilous Journey ✪ — Trenton Lee Stewart
• Sun and Moon, Ice and Snow ✪ — Jessica Day George

November 2009

• Complications — Atul Gawande

July 2009

• The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society ✪ — Mary Ann Shaffer
• Catching Fire ✪ — Suzanne Collins
• Ender in Exile ✪ — Orson Scott Card
• Things As They Really Are — Neal A. Maxwell

June 2009

• Everlost ✪ — Neal Shusterman
• The Mysterious Benedict Society ✪ — Trenton Lee Stewart
• The Wednesday Wars ✪ — Gary Schmidt
• City of Ashes ✪ — Cassandra Clare
• Wings ✪ — Aprilynne Pike

May 2009

• Unwind ✪ — Neal Shusterman
• The War of Art — Steven Pressfield
• City of Bones ✪ — Cassandra Clare
• The Thief ✪ — Megan Whalen Turner

April 2009

• Uglies ✪ — Scott Westerfeld
• Jellicoe Road ✪ — Melina Marchetta
• Bright Blue Miracle ✪ — Becca Wilhite
• J. R. R. Tolkien: Author of the Century — T. A. Shippey
• Beginnings, Middles & Ends — Nancy Kress
• The Revolution: A Manifesto — Ron Paul

March 2009

• Inside Job ✪ — Connie Willis
• The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks ✪ — E. Lockhart
• On Directing Film — David Mamet
• Clever Maids — Valerie Paradiz
• Little Brother ✪ — Cory Doctorow
• Death by Meeting — Patrick Lencioni

February 2009

• CONTENT — Cory Doctorow
• Crossworld — Marc Romano
• Reading the OED — Ammon Shea

January 2009

• The Game ✪ — Diana Wynne Jones
• Amusing Ourselves to Death — Neil Postman
• Magic Street ✪ — Orson Scott Card

2008

December 2008

• Conversations with Screenwriters — Susan Katz
• The Hunger Games ✪ — Suzanne Collins
• And There Was Light — Jacques Lusseyran
• Love, Stargirl ✪ — Jerry Spinelli
• The Graveyard Book ✪ — Neil Gaiman
• Passage ✪ — Connie Willis

November 2008

• The Creative Habit — Twyla Tharp
• Prey ✪ — Michael Crichton
• Don’t Make Me Think — Steve Krug
• The Ten Commandments of Typography — Paul Felton

October 2008

• Stargirl ✪ — Jerry Spinelli
• To Infinity and Beyond — Karen Paik
• The Pixar Touch — David A. Price

September 2008

• The Invention of Hugo Cabret ✪ — Brian Selznick
• Art and Fear — David Bayles
• As Long As I Have You ✪ — Dean Hughes
• Conversations with Mormon Authors — Chris Bigelow
• Bird by Bird — Anne Lamott

August 2008

• Ptolemy’s Gate ✪ — Jonathan Stroud

July 2008

• A Voyage to Arcturus ✪ — David Lindsay
• Mummy’s the Word ✪ — Kerry Blair

June 2008

• The Golem’s Eye ✪ — Jonathan Stroud
• Every Book Its Reader — Nicholas Basbanes

May 2008

• American Born Chinese ✪ — Gene Luen Yang
• The Amulet of Samarkand ✪ — Jonathan Stroud
• Wit ✪ — Margaret Edson
• The Arm of the Starfish ✪ — Madeleine L’Engle
• The Kite Runner ✪ — Khaled Hosseini
• The Lord’s Question — Dennis Rasmussen

March 2008

• Book of a Thousand Days ✪ — Shannon Hale
• Madeleine L’Engle: Herself — Madeleine L’Engle
• The Perilous Gard ✪ — Elizabeth Marie Pope

February 2008

• Light in the Wilderness — M. Catherine Thomas
• Princess Academy ✪ — Shannon Hale
• Enna Burning ✪ — Shannon Hale

January 2008

• The Goose Girl ✪ — Shannon Hale
• To Say Nothing of the Dog ✪ — Connie Willis
• The Sacrament — Truman G. Madsen

2007

December 2007

• Empire ✪ — Orson Scott Card
• 84, Charing Cross Road — Helene Hanff
• Dogsbody ✪ — Diana Wynne Jones
• The Princess Bride ✪ — William Goldman
• A Grief Observed — C. S. Lewis

November 2007

• Red Prophet ✪ — Orson Scott Card
• The Sherwood Ring ✪ — Elizabeth Marie Pope
• Bellwether ✪ — Connie Willis
• Rules of Engagement ✪ — Stephanie Fowers
• The Thirteenth Tale ✪ — Diane Setterfield

October 2007

• Doomsday Book ✪ — Connie Willis

September 2007

• Archer’s Goon ✪ — Diana Wynne Jones

August 2007

• When We Meet Again ✪ — Dean Hughes
• Seventh Son ✪ — Orson Scott Card
• The Prisoner of Zenda ✪ — Anthony Hope
• The Hero and the Crown ✪ — Robin McKinley

July 2007

• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows ✪ — J. K. Rowling
• Castle in the Air ✪ — Diana Wynne Jones
• Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban ✪ — J. K. Rowling

June 2007

• Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets ✪ — J. K. Rowling
• Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone ✪ — J. K. Rowling
• Peter and the Starcatchers ✪ — Dave Barry
• Children of the Mind ✪ — Orson Scott Card
• Jonathan Livingston Seagull ✪ — Richard Bach

May 2007

• Principles of Three-Dimensional Computer Graphics — Michael O’Rourke
• Persuasion ✪ — Jane Austen
• Xenocide ✪ — Orson Scott Card
• First Meetings ✪ — Orson Scott Card
• Speaker for the Dead ✪ — Orson Scott Card
• A Sense of Wonder — Katherine Paterson
• Shadow of the Giant ✪ — Orson Scott Card
• Mixed Magics ✪ — Diana Wynne Jones

April 2007

• Passage to Zarahemla ✪ — Chris Heimerdinger
• Shadow Puppets ✪ — Orson Scott Card
• Shadow of the Hegemon ✪ — Orson Scott Card
• The Ratvolution Will Not Be Televised ✪ — Stephan Pastis
• Ender’s Shadow ✪ — Orson Scott Card

March 2007

• Nighthogs ✪ — Stephan Pastis
• The Wand in the Word — Leonard Marcus
• To Catch a Falling Star ✪ — Julie Wright
• Sgt Piggy’s Lonely Hearts Club Comic ✪ — Stephan Pastis
• Matte Painting — d’Artiste
• BLTs Taste So Darn Good ✪ — Stephan Pastis
• Fire and Hemlock ✪ — Diana Wynne Jones
• Bridge to Terabithia ✪ — Katherine Paterson
• All the Pretty Horses ✪ — Cormac McCarthy
• Eight Days of Luke ✪ — Diana Wynne Jones
• The Complete Animation Course — Chris Patmore

February 2007

• Hexwood ✪ — Diana Wynne Jones

January 2007

• And the Earth Did Not Devour Him ✪ — Tomas Rivera
• Far from Home ✪ — Dean Hughes
• The Great Gatsby ✪ — F. Scott Fitzgerald
• Conrad’s Fate ✪ — Diana Wynne Jones
• One More River to Cross ✪ — Margaret Blair Young
• Yekl ✪ — Abraham Cahan
• Witch Week ✪ — Diana Wynne Jones
• The Magicians of Caprona ✪ — Diana Wynne Jones
• Laws of Simplicity — John Maeda

2006

December 2006

• Prince Caspian ✪ — C. S. Lewis
• Howl’s Moving Castle ✪ — Diana Wynne Jones
• Understanding Comics — Scott McCloud
• The Lives of Christopher Chant ✪ — Diana Wynne Jones
• Charmed Life ✪ — Diana Wynne Jones
• The Importance of Being Earnest ✪ — Oscar Wilde
• Blink — Malcolm Gladwell
• The Magician’s Nephew ✪ — C. S. Lewis
• Here, There Be Dragons ✪ — James A. Owen
• Since You Were Away ✪ — Dean Hughes
• Till We Have Faces ✪ — C. S. Lewis
• Shadowlands ✪ — William Nicholson
• Brittany ✪ — Jack Weyland

November 2006

• Phantastes ✪ — George MacDonald
• A Grief Observed — C. S. Lewis
• Rumors of War ✪ — Dean Hughes
• A Whole New Mind — Daniel Pink
• War in Heaven ✪ — Charles Williams
• An Experiment in Criticism — C. S. Lewis
• Fablehaven ✪ — Brandon Mull
• The Four Loves — C. S. Lewis
• The Last Battle ✪ — C. S. Lewis
• The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe ✪ — C. S. Lewis

October 2006

• The Photoshop and Painter Artist Tablet Book — Cher Threinen-Pendarvis
• Perelandra ✪ — C. S. Lewis
• Sam ✪ — Jack Weyland
• Alone, Together ✪ — Jack Weyland
• Charly ✪ — Jack Weyland
• The Silver Chair ✪ — C. S. Lewis
• Miracles — C. S. Lewis
• The Understudy ✪ — Jack Weyland

September 2006

• Visual Explanations — Edward Tufte
• Mere Christianity — C. S. Lewis
• Envisioning Information — Edward Tufte
• The Gammage Cup ✪ — Carol Kendall
• Michael Graves — Julie Iovine
• The Abolition of Man — C. S. Lewis
• The Great Divorce ✪ — C. S. Lewis
• Thinking with Type — Ellen Lupton
• Coraline ✪ — Neil Gaiman

August 2006

• Wanting More — Mark Chamberlain
• Rachel and Leah ✪ — Orson Scott Card
• Jane Eyre ✪ — Charlotte Brontë
• Heir to the Empire ✪ — Timothy Zahn

July 2006

• A Return to Modesty — Wendy Shalit
• Rebekah ✪ — Orson Scott Card
• Silver on the Tree ✪ — Susan Cooper
• The Spirit of Writing — Mark Robert Waldman
• A Storyteller in Zion — Orson Scott Card
• Death Comes for the Archbishop ✪ — Willa Cather
• Sarah ✪ — Orson Scott Card
• The Grey King ✪ — Susan Cooper
• The Writer’s Mentor — Ian Jackman

June 2006

• The Restaurant at the End of the Universe ✪ — Douglas Adams
• The Screwtape Letters ✪ — C. S. Lewis
• Angels Don’t Knock ✪ — Dan Yates
• A Heart Like His ✪ — Virginia Pearce
• All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten — Robert Fulghum
• Through the Looking-Glass ✪ — Lewis Carroll
• I Kissed Dating Goodbye — Joshua Harris
• Uncommon Genius — Denise Shekerjian

May 2006

• This Is My God — Hermann Wouk

March 2006

• Alice in Wonderland ✪ — Lewis Carroll
• Arm the Children — Arthur Henry King
• To Draw Closer to God — Henry B. Eyring

February 2006

• The Little Guide to Your Well-Read Life — Steve Leveen

January 2006

• The Great Divorce ✪ — C. S. Lewis
• Lenten Lands — Douglas Gresham

2005

December 2005

• Till We Have Faces ✪ — C. S. Lewis
• Designing from Both Sides of the Screen — Ellen Isaacs
• The Christmas Box Miracle ✪ — Richard Paul Evans
• That Hideous Strength ✪ — C. S. Lewis
• User Interface Design for Programmers — Joel Spolsky
• The Crafty Art of Playmaking — Alan Ayckbourn

October 2005

• The Boggart ✪ — Susan Cooper
• The Island of Lost Maps — Miles Harvey
• Greenwitch ✪ — Susan Cooper
• Dreams and Wishes — Susan Cooper

September 2005

• Lemony Snicket: The Bad Beginning ✪ — Lemony Snicket
• Reading the Map of Knowledge — Peter Michael Briscoe
• Book Business — Jason Epstein

August 2005

• Illustrator CS Most Wanted — Matt Kloskowski
• Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince ✪ — J. K. Rowling
• Mathematicians Are People, Too, vol. 1 — Luetta Reimer
• Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix ✪ — J. K. Rowling
• Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire ✪ — J. K. Rowling
• The Giver ✪ — Lois Lowry

July 2005

• Great Literature and the Good Life — Sterling W. Sill
• Writing Down the Bones — Natalie Goldberg
• Worlds of Childhood — William Zinsser
• The Art of 3-D Computer Animation — Isaac Kerlow
• The Alchemist ✪ — Paulo Coelho
• The Scarlet Letter ✪ — Nathaniel Hawthorne
• Illustrating Children’s Books — Martin Salisbury

May 2005

• The Richest Man in Babylon — George Clason
• Used and Rare — Nancy Goldstone

April 2005

• To the Treasures of Babylon — George Clason

2004

December 2004

• Bonds That Make Us Free — C. Terry Warner
• Of the Making of Books — William Jovanovich
• The Case for Legibility — John Ryder
• The Dark Is Rising ✪ — Susan Cooper
• Over Sea, Under Stone ✪ — Susan Cooper

September 2004

• Out of the Silent Planet ✪ — C. S. Lewis

2002

August 2002

• Jesus the Christ — James Talmage

July 2002

• Two Years in God’s Mormon Army — Ross Palfreyman
• Simple Etiquette in Thailand — Derek Tonkin

June 2002

• Kilmeny of the Orchard ✪ — L. M. Montgomery
• The Ball and the Cross ✪ — G. K. Chesterton
• Anne of Avonlea ✪ — L. M. Montgomery
• Anne of Green Gables ✪ — L. M. Montgomery

May 2002

• Across China — Peter Jenkins
• Sunshine for the LDS Missionary Soul — Eagle Gate
• Strong Poison ✪ — Dorothy Sayers
• Attack of the Deranged Mutant Killer Monster Snow Goons ✪ — Bill Watterson
• A Brief History of Time — Stephen Hawking
• The Story of the Treasure Seekers ✪ — E. Nesbit
• Culture Shock: Thailand — Nanthapa Cooper
• Culture for Missionaries: Thailand — LDS LTM
• Prepare with Honor — Randy Bott

April 2002

• Wuthering Heights ✪ — Emily Brontë
• Love — Leo Buscaglia
• A Grief Observed — C. S. Lewis
• The Magic Mountain ✪ — Thomas Mann
• Caesar’s Gallic War, Book One (Latin) — Caesar
• Missionaries to Match Our Message — Ezra Taft Benson
• What I Wish I’d Known Before… — John Bytheway
• Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man ✪ — James Joyce

March 2002

• Anna Karenina ✪ — Leo Tolstoy
• The Wild Duck ✪ — Henrik Ibsen
• Goethe’s Key to Faust — William Page Andrews
• Goethe’s Faust: A Critical Reading — Liselotte Dieckmann

February 2002

• Faust ✪ — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
• How to Learn a Foreign Language — Graham Fuller
• Caesar as a Man of Letters — F. E. Adcock
• The Sorrows of Young Werther ✪ — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

January 2002

• Candide ✪ — Voltaire
• An Experiment in Criticism — C. S. Lewis
• Forgotten Scripts — Cyrus H. Gordon
• A Winter’s Tale ✪ — William Shakespeare
• A Marvelous Work and a Wonder — LeGrand Richards
• King Lear ✪ — William Shakespeare
• Don Quixote ✪ — Miguel Cervantes

2001

December 2001

• Silver on the Tree ✪ — Susan Cooper
• Discourses of Brigham Young — Brigham Young
• Letters to an American Lady — C. S. Lewis
• Serve With Honor — Randy Bott
• The Grey King ✪ — Susan Cooper
• Latin Syntax — W. Michael Wilson
• Language Myths — Laurie Bauer
• The Scholar-Adventurers — Richard Altick
• The Irish Language — David Greene
• Greenwitch ✪ — Susan Cooper

November 2001

• The Ruby in the Smoke ✪ — Philip Pullman
• Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone ✪ — J. K. Rowling
• Six Weeks Preparation for Reading Caesar — James Whiton
• Looking for Angels — Steven P. Osborne
• The Book of Enoch — R. H. Charles
• Standing for Something — Gordon B. Hinckley
• Enoch the Prophet — Hugh Nibley
• The Dark Is Rising ✪ — Susan Cooper
• A Guide to the Joseph Smith Papyri — John Gee

October 2001

• Language in Thought and Action — S. I. Hayakawa
• The Holy Grail — Justin Griffin
• The Figure of Arthur — Charles Williams
• Over Sea, Under Stone ✪ — Susan Cooper
• King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table — Anne Berthelot
• In Search of Our Ancestors — Megan Smolenyak

September 2001

• A Swiftly Tilting Planet ✪ — Madeleine L’Engle
• The Man Who Was Thursday ✪ — G. K. Chesterton

August 2001

• Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith — Joseph Smith
• Mere Christianity — C. S. Lewis

July 2001

• Antigone ✪ — Sophocles
• Oedipus at Colonus ✪ — Sophocles
• The Life and Works of Escher — Miranda Fellows
• The Story of the Amulet ✪ — E. Nesbit
• Read and Grow Rich — Burke Hedges
• As You Like It ✪ — William Shakespeare
• Heretics — G. K. Chesterton
• Mathematicians Are People, Too, vol. 2 — Luetta Reimer
• Mathematicians Are People, Too, vol. 1 — Luetta Reimer
• The Naked Sun ✪ — Isaac Asimov
• Essays in the Art of Writing — Robert Louis Stevenson
• The Phoenix and the Carpet ✪ — E. Nesbit

June 2001

• Ozma of Oz ✪ — L. Frank Baum
• The Caves of Steel ✪ — Isaac Asimov
• The Canterbury Tales ✪ — Geoffrey Chaucer
• Language: The Basics — Larry Trask
• Rules of Civility & Decent Behavior — George Washington
• Pride and Prejudice ✪ — Jane Austen
• Beowulf ✪ — Francis Barton Gummere
• The Wood Beyond the World ✪ — William Morris
• The Hobbit ✪ — J. R. R. Tolkien
• Meno — Plato

May 2001

• Ion — Plato
• The Apology — Plato
• The Story of the Dictionary — Robert Kraske
• On Writing Well — William Zinsser
• The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy ✪ — Douglas Adams
• Within Reach — Robert Millet
• Essays in Little — Andrew Lang
• The Innocence of Father Brown ✪ — G. K. Chesterton
• King Solomon’s Mines ✪ — H. Rider Haggard

April 2001

• The Holy Temple — Boyd K. Packer
• Five Children and It ✪ — E. Nesbit
• My Lost Mexico — James Michener
• Lords of the Elves and Eldils — Richard Purtill
• From Homer to Joyce — J. Sherwood Weber
• Foundation ✪ — Isaac Asimov
• Teach Yourself Beginner’s Latin — G. D. A. Sharpley
• The Journey Beyond Life, vol. 1 — David R. Willmore
• The Comedy of Errors ✪ — William Shakespeare
• The Merchant of Venice ✪ — William Shakespeare

March 2001

• The Marvelous Land of Oz ✪ — L. Frank Baum
• Candide ✪ — Voltaire
• Letters on Literature — Andrew Lang
• The Princess and Curdie ✪ — George MacDonald
• The Book of Literary Lists — Nicholas Parsons
• The Children on the Hill — Michael Deakin
• The Day Boy and the Night Girl ✪ — George MacDonald
• The Shadows ✪ — George MacDonald
• A Wind in the Door ✪ — Madeleine L’Engle

February 2001

• Twenty and Ten ✪ — Claire Huchet Bishop
• The Giant’s Heart ✪ — George MacDonald
• The Light Princess ✪ — George MacDonald
• The Portent ✪ — George MacDonald
• The Golden Key ✪ — George MacDonald
• Phantastes ✪ — George MacDonald
• The Story of the Trapp Family Singers — Maria von Trapp
• The Jungle ✪ — Upton Sinclair
• At Home With Books — Estelle Ellis
• The Inklings — Humphrey Carpenter
• The Princess and the Goblin ✪ — George MacDonald
• On Fairy-Stories — J. R. R. Tolkien

January 2001

• Used and Rare — Nancy Goldstone
• A Light in the Storm ✪ — Chris Heimerdinger
• Zadig ✪ — Voltaire
• For the Love of Books — Ronald B. Shwartz
• The Federalist Papers — Alexander Hamilton
• The Screwtape Letters ✪ — C. S. Lewis
• Letters to Children — C. S. Lewis
• Novus Ordo Seclorum — Forrest McDonald

2000

December 2000

• The Delights of Reading — Otto L. Bettmann
• The C. S. Lewis Hoax — Kathryn Lindskoog
• A Wrinkle in Time ✪ — Madeleine L’Engle
• That Hideous Strength ✪ — C. S. Lewis
• Learning All the Time — John Holt
• Perelandra ✪ — C. S. Lewis

November 2000

• Superlearning — Nancy Ostrander
• Dune ✪ — Frank Herbert
• Many Are Called But Few Are Chosen — H. Verlan Andersen
• Out of the Silent Planet ✪ — C. S. Lewis
• One Tattered Angel ✪ — Brent Yorgason

October 2000

• The Great Divorce ✪ — C. S. Lewis