(since Covid)

Where Good Ideas Come From by Steven Johnson
Not in God’s Name by Jonathan Sacks
Thirteen Days in September Carter, Begin and Sadat at Camp David by Lawrence Wright
All That Is by James Salter
Citizen, an American Lyric by Claudia Rankine
The Stranger by Albert Camus
Meursault Investigation by Kamel Daoud
The Fourth Revolution The Global Race to Reinvent the State by John Micklethwait
Deng Xiaoping by Ezra Vogel
Design to Grow How Coca Cola Learned to Combine Scale and Agility by David Butler
Why Teach? By Mark Edmundson
Cicero by Anthony Everitt
Agincourt by Juliet Barker
On Empire, Liberty and Reform by Edmund Burke
The Eternal Letter by Paul Shaw
Empire of Liberty by Gordon S. Wood
Command of Office by Stephen Graubard
John Marshall by Jean Edward Smith
This Mighty Scourge by James McPherson
The Case for God by Karen Armstrong
The Idea of America by Gordon Wood
The Argumentative Indian by Amartya Sen
Revolutionary Characters by Gordon Wood
Design for People by Scott Stowell
Imagining India by Nandan Nilekani
Mission Failure: America and the World in the Post-Cold War Era by Michael Mandelbaum
Every Song Ever: Twenty Ways to Listen in an Age of Musical Plenty by Ben Ratliff
The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War by David Halberstram
Brilliant Orange, the neurotic genius of Dut\ch football, by David Winner
The Bomb: Presidents, Generals, and the Secret History of Nuclear War by Fred Kaplan
When Breath Becomes Air by Pal Kalanithi
The Lost Art of Scripture, Rescuing Sacred Text by Karen Armstrong
Stony the Road: Reconsruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of Amreica’s Great Migrations by Isabel Wilkerson
Frank Ramsey: A Sheer Excess of Powers by Cheryl Misak
Five Days in London, May 1940 by John Lukacs
Exercise of Power: Amercian Failures, Successes, and a New Path Forward in the Post-Cold War World by Robert M. Gates
These Truths: A History of the United States by Jill Lepore
Healing the Divide, poems of kindness and connection edited by James Crews
The Book of Delights by Ross Gay
A Thousand Small Sanities by Adam Gopnik
The Source of Self Regard by Toni Morrison
Leonardo da Vinci by Walter Isaacson
The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen
On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong
A Promised Land by Barack Obama
Shakespeare, The Invention of the Human by Harold Bloom
How to Listen to Jazz by Ted Gioia
Fascism by Madeleine Albright
The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race by Walter Isaacson
At the End of the Century by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
Winners Take All : the Elite Charade of Changing the World by Anand Giridharadas
21 Lessons for the 21st Century by Yuval Noah Harari
On Grand Strategy by John Lewis Gaddis
American Dialogue: The Founders and Us by Joseph Ellis
Sensemaking : the Power of the Humanities in the Age of the Algorithm by Christian Madsbjerg
The Splintering of the American Mind : Identity Politics, Inequality, and Community on Today’s College Campuses by William Egginton
The Death of Democracy : Hitler’s Rise to Power and the Downfall of the Weimar Republic by Benjamin Carter Hett
Nothing Ever Dies : Vietnam and the Memory of War by Viet Tranh Nguyen
Gorbachev : His Life and Times by William Taubman
Queen Victoria in Her Letters and Journals : a Selection by Christopher Hibbert
The New Jim Crow : Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by  Michelle Alexander
The Accidental President : Harry S. Truman and the Four Months That Changed the World by A. J. Baime
Edison by Edmund Morris
The Conservative Sensibility by George Will
Firefighting: The Financial Crisis and its Lessons by Ben Bernanke, Tim Geitner, Henry Paulson
Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World by David Epstein
The Accidental Garden: Gardens, Wilderness, and the Space In Between by Richard Mabey
The Fate of the Day: The War for America, Fort Ticonderoga to Charleston, 1777-1780 (Revolution Trilogy, 2) by Rick Atkinson
The Lyrics: 1961-2020 by Bob Dylan
The End of Ambition: America’s Past, Present, and Future in the Middle East by Steven Cook
Miracles and Wonder: The Historical Mystery of Jesus by Elaine Pagels
On the Origin of Time: Stephen Hawking’s Final Theory by Thomas Hertog
Beacon to the World: A History of Lincoln Center by Thomas Polisi
American Masterpieces: Singular Expressions of National Genius by John Wilmerding
Reflections on the Art of Living: A Joseph Campbell Companion
Letters by Oliver Sacks
The Long Run: A Creative Inquiry by  Stacey D’Erasmo
The Work of Art: How Something Comes from Nothing by Adam Moss
The American Way: A True Story of Nazi Escape, Superman, and Marilyn Monroe by Bonnie Seigler
Aftermath: Life in the Fallout of the Third Reich, 1945-1955 by Harald Jaehner
On Vanishing: Mortality, Dementia, and What It Means to Disappear b Lynn Casteel Harper
Vertigo: The Rise and Fall of Weimar Germany by Harald Jaehner
What the Qur’an Meant: And Why It Matters by Garry WIlls
Karios by Jenny Erpenbeck
Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis by Jonathan Blitzer
A Great Improvisation: Franklin, France, and the Birth of America bg Stacey Schiff
Mansfield and Dirksen: Bipartisan Giants of the Senate by Marc Johnson
The Island at the Center of the World: The Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan and the Forgotten Colony That Shaped America by Russell Shorto
The Slip: The New York City Street That Changed American Art Forever by Prudence Peiffer
American Prometheus by Kai Bird
Trust by Hernan Diaz
From Strength to Strength: Finding Success, Happiness, and Deep Purpose in the Second Half of Life by Arthur C. Brooks
Of Boys and Men: Why the Modern Male Is Struggling, Why It Matters, and What to Do about It by Richard Reeves
The Shadow of the Winds by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
The Man Who Ran Washington: The Life and Times of James A. Baker III by Peter Baker and Susan Glasser
The Collected Essays of Elizabeth Hardwick
Picasso’s War: How Modern Art Came to America by Hugh Eakin
Chasing Me to My Grave: An Artist’s Memoir of the Jim Crow South by Winfred Rembert
Draft No. 4: On the Writing Process by John McPhee
American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America by Colin Woodard
Vasily Kandinsky: Around the Circle edited by Tracey Bashkoff and Megan Fonantanella
Conversations with Goethe: In the Last Years of His Life by Johann Peter Eckermann
River of the Gods: Genius, Courage, and Betrayal in the Search for the Source of the Nile by Candice Mallard
The Cause: The American Revolution and its Discontents, 1773-1783 by Joseph Ellis
E. McKnight Kauffer: The Artist in Advertising by Caitlin Condell
When we cease to understand the world by Benjamin Labatut
Godine at Fifty: A Retrospective of Five Decades in the Life of an Independent Publisher by David Godin
Graphic Life: Celebrating Places, Telling Stories, Making Symbols by Michael Gericke
Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don’t Know by Adam Grant
Etty Hillesum: An Interrupted Life the Diaries, 1941-1943 and Letters from Westerbork by Etty Hillesum
Anthro-Vision: A New Way to See in Business and Life by Gillian Tett
Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of a Life Interrupted by  Suleika Jaouad
The Rise of the G.I. Army, 1940-1941: The Forgotten Story of How America Forged a Powerful Army Before Pearl Harbor by Paul Dickson
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson
The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz by Erik Larson
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma by   Bessel van der Kolk M.D
On the Brink of Everything: Grace, Gravity, and Getting Old by  Parker J. Palmer
White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin Diangelo
A Clearing In The Distance: Frederick Law Olmsted and America in the 19th Century by Witold Rybczynski
The New Education: How to Revolutionize the University to Prepare Students for a World In Flux by Cathy Davidson
The Second Mountain: The Quest for a Moral Life by David Brooks
A People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn
The Square and the Tower: Networks a d Power from the Freemasons to Facebook by Niall Ferguson
Ninth Street Women: Lee Krasner, Elaine de Kooning, Grace Hartigan, Joan Mitchell, and Helen Frankenthaler by Mary Gabriel
Living Well is the Best Revenge by Calvin Tomkins
Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life  by  William Deresiewicz  
Sing, Unburied, Siong by Jesmyn Ward
The Book of Trees: Visualizing Branches of Knowledge by Manuel Lima
Democracy and Poetry by Robert Penn Warren
The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self by Alice Miller
Anti-Intellectualism in American Life by Richard Hofstadter
SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome by Mary Beard
Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety by Eric Schlosser
Dear Data by Giorgia Lupi
The Dream of Enlightenment: The Rise of Modern Philosophy by Anthony Gottlieb
Postwar by Tony Judt
The German War: A Nation Under Amers 1939-1945 by Nicholas Stargardt
Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age by Sherry Turkle
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Washington: A Life by Ron Chernow