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Currently working on these, or on hold at the library

• How big things get done - Bent Flyvbjerg
• The psychology of money : timeless lessons on wealth, greed, and happiness - Morgan Housel
• When McKinsey comes to town : the hidden influence of the world’s most powerful consulting firm - Walt Bogdanich
• Vincent and Alice and Alice -Shane Jones
• Greek lessons - Kang Han
• Tomás Nevinson - Javier Marías

Spring / Summer 2023

• The ice cream man & other stories - Sam Pink
• Essays and fictions - Brad Phillips
• Cherry - Nico Walker *
• The Sarah book - Scott McClanahan *
• Fuccboi - Sean Thor Conroe
• Ogilvy on advertising - David Ogilvy
• No one left to come looking for you - Sam Lipsyte (DNF)
• My life as a Russian novel : a memoir - Emmanuel Carrère
• YOGA - Emmanuel Carrère (DNF)
• Teenager - Bud Smith (DNF)
• Berta Isla - Javier Marías
• I fear my pain interests you - Stephanie LaCava
• Palo Alto : a history of California, capitalism, and the world - Malcolm Harris (DNF)
• The future is analog : how to create a more human world - David Sax
• Satan in Goray - Isaac Bashevis Singer *
• Viral loop : from Facebook to Twitter, how today’s smartest businesses grow themselves - Adam Penenberg
• Secrets of professional tournament poker : the essential guide - Jonathan Little
• My phantoms - Gwendoline Riley
• Leaders eat last : why some teams pull together and others don’t - Simon Sinek
• The rules of attraction - Bret Easton Ellis (DNF)
• The Shards - Bret Easton Ellis
• Pretty good house : a guide to creating better homes - Dan Kolbert
• The walker : on finding and losing yourself in the modern city - Matthew Beaumont
• Wretchedness - Andrzej Tichy

Fall / Winter 2022

• Winter journal - Paul Auster
• The Idiot - Fyodor Dostoyevsky *
• Jesus' son - Denis Johnson
• Foams : spheres III - Peter Sloterdijk
• Lessons - Ian McEwan (DNF)
• Status and culture : how our desire for higher social rank creates taste, identity, art, fashion, and constant change - David Marx
• Can’t even : how millennials became the burnout generation - Anne Helen Petersen
• Innumeracy : mathematical illiteracy and its consequences - John Allen Paulos
• Never split the difference : negotiating as if your life depended on It - Christopher Voss (DNF)
• Two nurses, smoking : stories - David Means
• The tyranny of merit : what’s become of the common good? - Michael Sandel
• Confessions of an advertising man - David Ogilvy
• A technique for producing ideas - James Young
• Red pill - Hari Kunzru
• Liar moon - Ben Pastor
• A very old man : stories - Italo Svevo
• People from my neighborhood : stories - Kawakami, Hiromi
• Catholicism : a global history - John McGreevy
• Bring yourself : how to harness the power of connection to negotiate fearlessly - Mori Taheripour
• An honest living - Dwyer Murphy
• The dominant animal : stories - Kathryn Scanlan
• The great man theory - Teddy Wayne *
• Apartment - Teddy Wayne *
• The dead - Christian Kracht *
• Better off : flipping the switch on technology - Eric Brende
• Lumen - Ben Pastor
• The plains - Gerald Murnane (DNF)
• Tell me I’m an artist - Chelsea Martin (DNF)
• The unstoppable startup : mastering Israel’s secret rules of Chutzpah - Uri Adoni

Spring/Summer 2022

• Volt : stories - Alan Heathcock *
• First Love - Gwendoline Riley *
• 40 - Alan Heathcock
• The way home : tales from a life without technology - Mark Boyle *
• Bad eminence - James Greer
• Earthlings - Sayaka Murata (DNF)
• Wonderlands : essays on the life of literature - Charles Baxter
• Pure colour - Sheila Heti *
• Life ceremony : stories - Sayaka Murata
• Total : stories - Rebecca Miller
• Avalon - Nell Zink
• Acts of Service - Lillian Fishman
• The path of aliveness - Christian Dillo
• Devil House - John Darnielle
• The trouble with happiness : and other stories - Tove Ditlevsen
• Rouge street : three novellas - Shuang Xuetao *
• Talent - Tyler Cowen and Daniel Gross *
• The town of Babylon - Alejandro Varela
• A memory called empire - Arkady Martine
• A little life - Hanya Yanagihara
• The anomaly - Hervé Le Tellier (DNF)

Fall / Winter 2021

• It’s getting dark : stories - Peter Stamm
• The outlaw ocean: journeys across the last untamed frontier - Ian Urbina
• The cold start problem : how to start and scale network effects - Andrew Chen
• Serotonin - Michel Houellebecq
• The power law : venture capital and the making of the new future - Sebastian Mallaby
• This is how they tell me the world ends : the cyber-weapons arms race - Nicole Pelroth (DNF)
• Four thousand weeks : time management for mortals - Oliver Burkeman
• In praise of shadows - Jun’ichirō Tanizaki
• Matrix - Lauren Groff
• Silverview - John Le Carré
• A ghost in the throat - Doireann Ní Ghríofa
• Subprime attention crisis : advertising and the time bomb at the heart of the Internet - Tim Hwang
• Free to Learn - Peter Gray
• Florida - Lauren Groff
• Trust - Domenico Starnone *
• Last summer in the city - Gianfranco Calligarich *
• Something new under the sun - Alexandra Kleeman (DNF)
• Hurricane season - Fernanda Melchor (DNF)
• Flow: the psychology of optimal experience - Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
• Live work work die: a journey into the savage heart of Silicon Valley - Corey Pein
• It doesn’t have to be crazy at work - Jason Fried
• Even the dogs - Jon McGregor
• Paris is a party, Paris is a ghost - David Hoon Kim
• The morning star - Karl Ove Knausgård (DNF)
• At the end of the world: a true story of murder in the Arctic - Lawrence Millman
• Cool for America - Andrew Martin *
• The life of the mind - Christine Smallwood *
• Rationalism in politics and other essays - Michael Oakeshott (DNF)
• There’s no such thing as an easy job - Kiukio Tsumura
• No one is talking about this - Patricia Lockwood
• Beautiful world, where are you - Sally Rooney
• Suppose a sentence - Brian Dillon
• The biggest bluff - Maria Konnikova
• The Bachelor - Andrew Palmer

Spring / Summer 2021

• How buildings learn : what happens after they’re built - Stewart Brand
• Klara and the sun - Kazuo Ishiguro
• The woman from Uruguay - Pedro Mairal
• Mona - Pola Oloixarac
• Animales - Hebe Uhart
• Storyworthy : engage, teach, persuade, and change your life through the power of storytelling - Matthew Dicks
• Heaven - Mieko Kawakami*
• Weather - Jenny Offill
• Little platoons : a defense of family in a competitive age - Matt Feeney
• Savage theories - Pola Oloixarac
• Kin - Miljenko Jergović
• Team topologies : organizing business and technology teams for fast flow - Matthew Skelton and Manuel Pais
• How to do nothing : resisting the attention economy - Jenny Odell
• Remote : office not required - Jason Fried
• Kristin Lavransdatter - Sigrid Undset
• Dark constellations - Pola Oloixarac
• Range: why generalists triumph in a specialized world - David Epstein
• The Ratline: the exalted life and mysterious death of a Nazi fugitive - Philippe Sands
• The practice: shipping creative work - Seth Godin
• Life among the savages - Shirley Jackson
• The buried giant - Kazuo Ishiguro*
• Ways of seeing - John Berger
• Savage gods - Paul Kingsnorth
• A philosophy of walking - Frédéric Gros
• Eve’s Hollywood - Eve Babitz
• The Summer book - Tove Jansson*
• Dyer’s hand : and other essays - W.H. Auden
• The powerless church and other selected writings, 1955-1985 - Ivan Illich
• If then: how the Simulmatics Corporation invented the future - Jill Lepore (DNF)
• The child that books built : a life in reading - Francis Spufford
• Golden Hill - Francis Spufford
• A secular age - Charles Taylor (DNF)
• That old country music - Kevin Barry*
• Linchpin: are you indispensable? - Seth Godin
• Drive your plow over the bones of the dead - Olga Tokarczuk
• My private property - Mary Ruefle
• Life is a miracle : an essay against modern superstition - Wendell Berry
• To begin where I am : selected essays - Czesław Miłosz*
• The transit of Venus - Shirley Hazzard*
• The Oregon Experiment - Christopher Alexander (DNF)
• The Dutch house - Anne Patchett (DNF)
• How to be idle - Tom Hodgkinson
• The idle parent - Tom Hodgkinson*
• Smarter than you think - Clive Thompson
• The Political economy of merchant empires - James Tracy (DNF)
• Snow crash - Neal Stephenson (DNF)
• The outlaw sea: a world of freedom, chaos, and crime - William Langewiesche

Fall / Winter 2020

• The man without talent - Tsuge Yoshiharu
• The explosive child - Ross Greene
• The broken road: from the Iron Gates to Mount Athos - Patrick Leigh Fermor
• In the land of good living : a journey to the heart of Florida - Kent Russell
• Breaking bread with the dead : a guide to a tranquil mind - Alan Jacobs
• Japanese interior design - Michelle Galindo
• Be so good they can’t ignore you - Cal Newport
• Inspired: how to create tech products customers love - Marty Cagan*
• Only the paranoid survive! Andrew Grove (DNF)
• How to think: a survival guide for a world at odds - Alan Jacobs
• I am sorry to think I have raised a timid son : essays - Kent Russell
• A pattern language: towns, buildings, construction - Christopher Alexander
• Sleeveless: fashion, image, media, New York 2011-2019 - Natasha Stagg
• The timeless way of building - Christopher Alexander
• No filter: the inside story of Instagram - Sarah Frier
• In the presence of Schopenhauer - Michel Houelllebecq*
• Europe against the Jews: 1880-1945 - Götz Aly

Spring / Summer 2020

• Digital minimalism: choosing a focused life in a noisy world - Cal Newport
• Get your house right: architectural elements to use & avoid - Marianne Cusato
• Open source architecture - Carlo Ratti
• Night boat to Tangier - Kevin Barry*
• A distant mirror : the calamitous 14th century - Barbara Tuchman (DNF)
• Exhalation - Ted Chiang*
• The night watchman - Louise Erdrich
• Anything you want : 40 lessons for a new kind of entrepreneur - Derek Sivers
• Masha Regina - V. Levental (DNF)
• How to talk so kids will listen & listen so kids will talk - Adele Faber
• The hermit - Thomas Rydahl (DNF)
• Bringing up girls - James Dobson
• A perfect crime - A Yi*
• The Topeka school - Ben Lerner
• The Third Reich at war, 1939-1945 - Richard Evans*
• Under a cruel star: a life in Prague 1941-1968 - Heda Kovály*
• Between the woods and the water - Patrick Leigh Fermor
• The aviator - Eugene Vodolazkin
• Nothing to see here - Kevin Wilson (DNF)
• Lurking: how a person became a user - Joanne McNeil
• Super thinking: the big book of mental models - Gabriel Weinberg
• The long goodbye - Raymond Chandler*
• The factory - Hiroko Oyamada*
• Ancient light - John Banville (DNF)
• Atomic Habits: tiny changes, remarkable results - James Clear
• The Orvis guide to beginning fly fishing - Tom Rosenbauer
• The organized mind - Daniel Levitin
• Rivers - Martin Driessen*
• The day the sun died - Lianke Yan

Fall / Winter 2019

• The design of everyday things - Donald Norman
• Antisocial - Andrew Marantz
• Wa : the essence of Japanese design - Rossella Menegazzo
• Mid-life: a comic book - Joe Ollmann
• Growing things : and other stories - Paul Tremblay
• The elements of typographic style - Robert Bringhurst
• Black lamb and grey falcon : a journey through Yugoslavia - Rebecca West (DNF)
• Young once - Patrick Modiano*
• The houses of Belgrade - Borislav Pekić
• The peregrine - John Baker
• Mimesis and theory: essays on literature and criticism, 1953-2005 - Rene Girard
• The death of Napoleon - Simon Leys*
• In the cafe of lost youth - Patrick Modiano*
• Heather, the totality - Matthew Weiner

Spring / Summer 2019

• Winners take all: the elite charade of changing the world - Anand Giridharadas
• Death by water - Kenzaburō Ōe (DNF)
• The blue room - Georges Simenon
• Jillian - Halle Butler*
• The new me - Halle Butler*
• Such fine boys - Patrick Modiano*
• Mislaid - Nell Zink
• Intimations: stories - Alexandra Kleeman
• How to win in a winner-take-all world - Neil Irwin (DNF)
• My year of rest and relaxation - Ottessa Moshfegh
• Early work - Andrew Martin*
• The Third Reich in power, 1933-1939 - Richard Evans*
• The anatomy of fascism - Robert Paxton
• The coming of the Third Reich - Richard Evans*
• The darkroom of Damocles - Willem Hermans*
• The following story - Cees Nooteboom
• If not now, when? - Primo Levi
• Milkman - Anna Burns (DNF)
• Transit - Rachel Cusk
• Tenth of December: stories - George Saunders*
• A bend in the river - V.S. Naipaul
• Conversations with friends - Sally Rooney
• Lost in the cosmos: the last self-help book - Walker Percy (DNF)
• NW - Zadie Smith
• American pastoral - Philip Roth
• The Odyssey - Homer, trans. Emily Wilson
• Is God happy?: selected essays - Leszek Kołakowski
• The bullet journal method - Ryder Carroll
• Dieter Rams: as little design as possible - Sophie Lovell
• The four books - Lianke Yan
• Endgame - Samuel Beckett
• The sellout - Paul Beatty
• Nohow on : three novels - Samuel Beckett
• Sleep of memory - Patrick Modiano
• Sundays in August - Patrick Modiano
• Causality: models, reasoning, and inference - Judea Pearl*
• The house that Pinterest built - Diane Keaton
• The map and the territory - Michel Houellebecq
• Flock of brown birds - Fei Ge
• Scale - Geoffrey West

Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
by David Epstein

A Death in the Vatican
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