
Book #1: January 2015
Vivian Gornick's memoir, Fierce Attachments (1987)

Book #2: February 2015
Walter Tevis's novel The Queen's Gambit (1983)

Book #3: March 2015
Lawrence Weschler's profile of an artist (or con artist), Boggs: A Comedy of Values (1999)

Book #4: April 2015
J.M. Ledgard's novel Submergence (2011)

Book #5: May 2015
Dear Genius: The Letters of Ursula Nordstrom, edited by Leonard Marcus (1998)
Book #6: June 2015
Penelope Fitzgerald's novel Offshore (1979)

Book #7: July 2015
John M. Hull's memoir Touching the Rock: An Experience of Blindness (1990)

Book #8: August 2015
Edward P. Jones's collection of stories, Lost in the City (1992)

Book #9: September 2015
Douglas Wolk's appreciation of James's Brown's album, Live at the Apollo, part of the 33 1/3 series (2004)

Book #10: October 2015
Heinrich von Kleist's novella Michael Kohlhaas (in the collection The Marquise of O— and Other Stories) (1810)

Book #11: November 2015
Jo Ann Beard's collection of autobiographical essays, The Boys of My Youth (1999)

Book #12: December 2015
Simone Schwarz-Bart's novel, The Bridge of Beyond (1972)

Book #13: January 2016
Mary McCarthy's memoir, Memories of a Catholic Girlhood (1957)

Book #14: February 2016
Geoffrey Household's thriller, Rogue Male

Book #15: March 2016
Frederick and Steven Barthelme's memoir of gambling, writing, and family, Double Down

Book #16: April 2016
Janet Lewis's historical novel, The Wife of Martin Guerre

Book #17: May 2016
Marshall Frady's political profile, Wallace (1968)

Book #18: June 2016
Helen DeWitt's novel, The Last Samurai (2000)

Book #19: July 2016
John McPhee's account of a 1968 U.S. Open tennis semifinal, Levels of the Game (1969)

Book #20: August 2016
James Weldon Johnson's novel, The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man (1912)

Book #21: September 2016
Charlotte Gill's memoir of tree-planting in British Columbia, Eating Dirt (2011)

Book #22: October 2016
Ben Katchor's collection of Julius Knipl, Real Estate Photographer comic strips, Cheap Novelties (1991)

Book #23: November 2016
W. Stanley Moss's memoir of the kidnapping of a Nazi general in World War II, Ill Met by Moonlight (1950)

Book #24: December 2016
Elizabeth Harrower's novel, The Watch Tower (1966)

Book #25: January 2017
Rinker Buck's memoir of his teenage flight across the United States, Flight of Passage (1997)

Book #26: February 2017
Kathleen Collins's book of stories, Whatever Happened to Interracial Love? (2016)

Book #27: March 2017
Teffi's memoir of the traveling through Russia during the Revolution, Memories: From Moscow to the Black Sea (1931)

Book #28: April 2017
Josephine Tey's mid-century mystery, Brat Farrar (1949)

Book #29: May 2017
John Berger and Jean Mohr's illustrated profile of an English country doctor, A Fortunate Man (1967)

Book #30: June 2017
Yasushi Inoue's short novel, Bullfight (1949)

Book #31: July 2017
Kao Kalia Yang's memoir of her family in Laos, Thailand, and the United States, The Latehomecomer: A Hmong Family Memoir (2008)

Book #32: August 2017
Tom Drury's novel, The End of Vandalism (1994)

Book #33: September 2017
Sidney Lumet's filmmaking memoir, Making Movies (1995)

Book #34: October 2017
Angela Carter's show-business novel, Wise Children (1991)

Book #35: November 2017
Mary Austin's nature vignettes from the California desert, The Land of Little Rain (1903)

Book #36: December 2017
Georges Simenon's crime novel, The Man Who Watched the Trains Go By (1938)

Book #37: January 2018
Thomas Geoghegan’s memoir of his life as a labor lawyer, Which Side Are You On?: Trying to Be for Labor When It’s Flat on Its Back (1991)

Book #38: February 2018
Joan London’s novel Gilgamesh (2001)

Book #39: March 2018
David W. Maurer’s guide to the lore and lingo of the underworld, The Big Con: The Story of the Confidence Man (1940)

Book #40: April 2018
Arkady and Boris Strugatsky’s science-fiction novel, Roadside Picnic (1972)

Book #41: May 2018
Natalia Ginzburg’s book of essays, The Little Virtues (1962)

Book #42: June 2018
Seth Kantner’s novel Ordinary Wolves (2004)

Book #43: July 2018
Hector Abad’s memoir of his father, Oblivion (2006)

Book #44: August 2018
Madeleine St. John’s novel The Women in Black (1993)

Book #45: September 2018
Iris Origo’s War in the Val d’Orcia: An Italian War Diary, 1943-1944 (1947)

Book #46: October 2018
Toni Cade Bambara’s book of short stories Gorilla, My Love (1972)

Book #47: November 2018
Marion Winik’s collection of elegies, The Glen Rock Book of the Dead (2008)

Book #48: December 2018
Charles Portis’s novel The Dog of the South (1979)

Book #49: January 2019
Sooyong Park’s nature memoir, The Great Soul of Siberia: In Search of the Elusive Siberian Tiger

Book #50: February 2019
Norah Lofts’s historical novel The Town House
















































