Reading

2022

August 2022

• The Case Against the Sexual Revolution — Louise Perry
• The Plantagenets — Dan Jones
• On Reading — Nick Parker
• The Sixth Extinction — Elizabeth Kolbert
•  Ninth House — Leigh Bardugo
• Attention Factory — Matthew Brennan

July 2022

•  The Left-Handed Booksellers of London — Garth Nix
• The Wizard of Lies — Diana B. Henriques
• A New Foreign Policy — Jeffrey D. Sachs
•  Prosper’s Demon — K. J. Parker
•  Upgrade — Blake Crouch
• Disability Visibility — Alice Wong
•  Devolution — Max Brooks
•  The Sudden Appearance of Hope — Claire North
• Forgotten Peoples of the Ancient World — Philip Matyszak

June 2022

• The Invention of Nature — Andrea Wulf
•  Sourdough — Robin Sloan
•  The Last Witness — K. J. Parker
•  Wakers — Orson Scott Card
•  Diamond Dogs — Alastair Reynolds
•  Black Sun — Rebecca Roanhorse

May 2022

•  Fugitive Telemetry — Martha Wells
•  The Imaginary Corpse — Tyler Hayes
• The Last Nomad — Shugri Said Salh
• Building Ligatures — TypeTogether
•  All Our Wrong Todays — Elan Mastai
• This Changes Everything — Naomi Klein
•  A Spindle Splintered — Alix E. Harrow
•  A Warning to the Curious — M. R. James
•  A Psalm for the Wild-Built — Becky Chambers
•  Binti — Nnedi Okorafor
•  Every Heart a Doorway — Seanan McGuire
•  The Curse of Chalion — Lois McMaster Bujold
• The Puzzler — A. J. Jacobs
• Scotland’s Merlin — Tim Clarkson
• The End Is Always Near — Dan Carlin
•  Zodiac — Neal Stephenson

April 2022

•  Vita Nostra — Marina and Sergey Dyachenko
• Saints, volume 2 — The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
• The Last American Aristocrat — David S. Brown
•  Network Effect — Martha Wells
•  The Library at Mount Char — Scott Hawkins
• China in Ten Words — Yu Hua

March 2022

• On All Fronts — Clarissa Ward
•  Elder Race — Adrian Tchaikovsky
• Stretching the Heavens — Terryl L. Givens
•  The Empress of Salt and Fortune — Nghi Vo
•  Last Argument of Kings — Joe Abercrombie
• My Broken Language — Quiara Alegría Hudes
•  Parable of the Sower — Octavia E. Butler

February 2022

•  Riot Baby — Tochi Onyebuchi
•  The Haunting of Tram Car 015 — P. Djèlí Clark
• In the Camps — Darren Byler
• The Dawn of Everything — David Graeber & David Wengrow
• A Collection of Sacred Hymns — Emma Smith
•  The Echo Wife — Sarah Gailey
•  Klara and the Sun — Kazuo Ishiguro

January 2022

• Dealers of Lightning — Michael Hiltzig
•  Ring Shout — P. Djèlí Clark
• Typographic Firsts — John Boardley
•  Exit Strategy — Martha Wells
• An Essay on Typography — Eric Gill
• The Cubans — Anthony DePalma
• The Making of Prince of Persia — Jordan Mechner
• Ecclesiastical History of the English People — Bede
•  Rogue Protocol — Martha Wells
•  A Desolation Called Peace — Arkady Martine
• The Golden Thread — Kassia St. Clair

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