Books of the Year
NF = Nonfiction / F = Fiction / P = Poetry / *** = Core Read
2024
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1Also a Poet by Ada Calhoun (NF)
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2Animal Farm by George Orwell (F)
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3Art as Therapy by Alain de Botton and John Armstrong (NF)
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4Blueberries by Ellena Savage (NF)
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5Cat's Tongue by Kathleen Winter (P)
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- 6Couplets by Maggie Millner (P) —
- 7Everything You Ever Wanted by Luiza Sauma (F) —
- 8Fire is Not a Country by Cynthia Dewi Oka (P) —
- 9If I Could Give You a Line by Carrie Oeding (P)*** —
- 10Ripe by Sarah Rose Etter (F) —
- 11On Photography by Susan Sontag (NF) —
- 12Small is Beautiful by E. F. Schumacher (NF) —
- 13The Anthropology of Turquoise by Ellen Meloy (NF) —
- 14The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison (F)*** —
- 15The Details by Ia Genberg (F) —
- 16The Pearly Gates of Cyberspace by Margaret Wertheim (NF) —
- 17The Solace of Open Spaces by Gretel Ehrlich (NF) —
- 18The Death of the Artist by William Deresiewicz (NF)***
2023
- 1The Beauty of the Husband by Anne Carson (P/F)*** —
- 2Closer Baby Closer by Savannah Brown (P) —
- 3The Employees: A Workplace Novel of the 22nd Century by Olga Ravn (F) —
- 4Grocery List Poems by Rhiannon McGavin (P) —
- 5The Honey Month by Amal El-Mohtar (P/F) —
- 6Mary Ventura and the Ninth Kingdom by Sylvia Plath (F)*** —
- 7Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma by Claire Dederer (NF) —
- 8Orwell's Roses by Rebecca Solnit (NF) —
- 9Piranesi by Susanna Clarke (F) —
- 10This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone (F) —
- 11When My Brother Was an Aztec by Natalie Diaz (P) —
- 12Wonderworks: Literary Invention and the Science of Stories by Angus Fletcher (NF)
2022
- 1Among Flowers: A Walk in the Himalaya by Jamaica Kincaid (NF) —
- 2The Circle Game by Margaret Atwood (P) —
- 3Exhalation by Ted Chiang (F) —
- 4Figuring by Maria Popova (NF) —
- 5The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood by James Gleick (NF) —
- 6Owls and Other Fantasies by Mary Oliver (P/NF) —
- 7Pale Blue Dot by Carl Sagan (NF)*** —
- 8Pure Colour by Sheila Heti (F) —
- 9The Reality Bubble by Ziya Tong (NF) —
- 10Stuff Matters: Exploring the Marvelous Materials That Shape Our Man-Made World by Mark Miodownik (NF) —
- 11The Wild Iris by Louise Gluck (P) —
- 12Zen and the Art of Writing by Ray Bradbury (NF)
2021
- 1A Field Guide to Getting Lost by Rebecca Solnit (NF) —
- 2Beloved by Toni Morrison (F) —
- 3Blue Nights by Joan Didion (NF)*** —
- 4The Day the World Stops Shopping by J. B. Mackinnon (NF) —
- 5Educated by Tara Westover (NF) —
- 6Gutenberg's Fingerprint: Paper, Pixels and the Lasting Impression of Books by Merilyn Simonds (NF) —
- 7The Secret Life of Groceries: The Dark Miracle of the American Supermarket by Benjamin Lorr (NF) —
- 8The Source of Self Regard by Toni Morrison (NF) —
- 9Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self Delusion by Jia Tolentino (NF) —
- 10User Friendly: How the Hidden Rules of Design Are Changing the Way We Live, Work, and Play by Cliff Kuang and Robert Fabricant (NF) —
- 11Work: A Deep History, from the Stone Age to the Age of Robots by James Suzman (NF)***