• Mathematics for Human Flourishing - Francis Su
• Zadie Smith - White Teeth
• Condemnation of Blackness:Race, Crime and the Making of Modern America
• Making Ends Meet
• Little Man Little Man - James Baldwin kids
• I want to show you more-Quatro
• Modesty Blaise
• Jesmyn Ward - all but start with Men We Reaped
• Fred Moten - Low End Theory
• Valeria Luiselli - Tell Me How It Ends
• The Collected Stories of Diane Williams
• David Daley, the author of Ratf**cked
• nobody's son - slouka
• the mothers - bennett
• the magic strings of frankie presto - albom
• my grandmother asked me to tell you she's sorry - backman

kids books:

• not a box: portis
• the line: bossio
• dragons love tacos - rubin
• bear ate your sandwich - sarcone-roach
• ada twist, scientist - beaty
• what do you do with an idea - yamada
• we found a hat - lassen
• the bear who wasn't there - pham

and adult:

• saviano: gomorrah
• Donald Antrim
• Graeber revolutions in reverse
• Honky dalton Conley
• Woodcutters Thomas Bernhard
• Gottschalk Caught
• Ben Lerner
• Sam lipsyte the ask
• Orhan Pamuk
• The music of chance -Auster
• woolrich: phantom lady (and others)
• wasik and murphy: rabid
• finkel: thank you for your service
• ethan coen: gates of eden
• akerlo: phishing for phools
• mitchell: slade house
• boo: behind the beautiful forevers
• zupan: the ploughmen
• Hilary mantel
• doerr: all the light we cannot see
• Charlie Kelly: Fat Tire Flyer (history of mountain biking)
• Richard Havers: Blue Note: Uncompromising Expression
• Amir Alexander: Infinitesimal
• Richard Henry Dana Jr: Two Years Before the Mast
• Grossman: Intimate Grammar
• Stephen Phelps: The Tizard Mission
• Glenny: DarkMarket
• Reiss: The Black Count
• McGilligan: [book about Oscar Michaeux]
• Halberstam: The Children, The Fifties
• Howe, Irving: World of Our Fathers
• Gabler, Neal: An Empire of their Own
• Cherry-Garrard: The Worst Journey in the World
• Nansen: Farthest North
• Bodnar: Carnie: Carnival Life before the great depression
• Mitchell, Kevin: Jacobs Beach: The Mob, the Fights, the Fifties
• tim page: parallel play: growing up with undiagnosed asperger's
• Sacks: Musicophilia
• gibran: the prophet
• grisham: the appeal
• jared diamond: collapse
• jared diamond: guns, germs & steel
• thomas friedman: the world is flat
• malcolm gladwell: outliers
• wroblewski: edgar sawtelle
• geraldine brooks?
• goodis: the burglar
• price: clockers
• elmore leonard: swag
• george pelecanos
• howard blum: american lightning
• gary andrew poole: galloping ghost
• murder of stanford white
• capote: in cold blood
• norman mailer
• joyce carol oates - boxing books
• george plimpton - boxing books
• berry - britten & brulightly
• jenkins: a walk across america
• longitude - sobel
• jess walters
• the kennedy tapes
• 1927, bill bryson
• djibouti - elmore leondard
• galapagos - vonnegut
• savage detectives - bolano
• doubt and certainty in science - jz young
• layer cake (and others) - jj connolly
• books about dean acheson and john mccloy
• rushdie
• the blood telegram: nixon, kissinger, and a foreign genocide - bass
• 1971 (bangladesh creation) - raghavan
• bigger than the game - weinreb