The Power of the Dog by Thomas Savage
The Night Country by Loren Eiseley
The Log From the Sea of Cortez by John Steinbeck
The Collected Poems of Conrad Aiken by Conrad Aiken
All the Little Live Things by Wallace Stegner
Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman by Haruki Murakami
Ghost Town: Tales of Manahattan, Then and Now by Patrick McGrath
Chip Kidd, Book One, Work: 1986 – 2000 by Chip Kidd, introduced by John Updike
The Maytrees by Annie Dillard
Heyday by Kurt Andersen
Wall Street Noir edited by Peter Spiegelman
“Yeah, But It’s Beautifully Written.” (On The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje)
“The Greatest Goddamn Thing That Ever Was” And, at This Rate, Will Never Be Again.
(On contemporary poetry.)
What Is a Publisher? For That Matter, What is a Book?
(On the future of publishing, under the pseudonym Gregory Alexander.)
The Almost Moon by Alice Sebold
Mission Accomplished by Khalil Bendib
Exit Ghost by Philip Roth
Poison Woman: Figuring Female Transgression in Modern Japanese Culture
by Christine L. Marran
The Godfather’s Revenge by Mark Winegardner
The Elephanta Suite by Paul Theroux
The Head Trip: Adventures on the Wheel of Consciousness by Jeff Warren
What a President Should Know by Lawrence B. Lindsey
Contraptions by Heath Robinson
Cool It by Bjorn Lomborg
The Annotated Hans Christian Andersen edited by Maria Tatar
Kluge: The Haphazard Construction of the Human Mind by Gary Marcus
Manhattan Nocturne by Colin Harrison
America America by Ethan Canin
Man in the Dark by Paul Auster
The Modern Wit by Shelley Klein
ART: Over 2,500 Works from Cave to Contemporary
I Never Metaphor I Didn’t Like by Mardy Grothe
The Invention of Everything Else by Samantha Hunt
Amberville by Tim Davys
The Future Is An Empty Room (On digital technology’s impact on the future of the printed book.)
A Wolf at the Table by Augusten Burroughs
My Father’s Tears by John Updike
Brooklyn by Colm Toibin
Who Do You Think You Are? by Alyse Myers
She and I: A Fugue by Michael R. Brown
Librarians: Hip, Delusional, and Doomed (on the future of the library)
Invisible by Paul Auster
Automats, Taxi Dances, and Vaudeville by David Freeland
Looking for the Lost: Memoirs of a Vanishing Japan
I’ll Give You a Free Kindle (on the longevity and environmental friendliness of eReaders)
The Original of Laura by Vladimir Nabokov
Homer’s Odyssey by Gwen Cooper
Nothing to be Frightened Of by Julian Barnes
A Gate at the Stairs by Lorrie Moore
Memoir: A History by Ben Yagoda
A Common Pornography by Kevin Sampsell
Solar by Ian McEwan
My Times in Black and White by Gerald Boyd
The Star Thrower by Loren Eiseley
A Tale of Love and Darkness by Amos Oz
I Can’t Wait to Buy an iPad so I Can Replace it with Something Better
(on the incompatibility of digitization and environmentalism)
The Spears of Twilight: Life and Death in the Amazon Jungle by Phillipe Descola
Dimanche and Other Stories by Irene Nemirovsky
A Cambodian Odyssey by Haing Ngor
The Mind’s Eye by Oliver Sacks
Spoken From The Heart by Laura Bush
Apocalypse Later, Degradation Now (On the next decade in book culture.)
88 Highly Debatable Statements About Reality in ‘Reality Hunger’
1001 Places to See Before You Die by Patricia Schultz
The Last Kind Words by Tom Piccirilli
HHhH by Laurent Binet
The Red House by Mark Haddon
Love Is a Canoe by Ben Schrank
Back to Blood by Tom Wolfe
Black-Eyed Blonde by Benjamin Black (John Banville)
Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage by Haruki Murakami
Lovely, Dark, Deep by Joyce Carol Oates
Collection of Sand by Italo Calvino
A True Novel by Minae Mizumura
The Complete Patrick Melrose Novels by Edward St. Aubyn