WHAT I'M READING NOW

• Empire of the Fund - William A. Birdthistle

• The Outermost House - Henry Beston

2019

• The Checklist Manifesto - Atul Gawande

• In Praise of Shadows - Jun'ichirō Tanizaki

• But Beautiful: A Book About Jazz - Geoff Dyer

• The Lonesome Bodybuilder - Yukiko Motoya

• Persuasion - Jane Austen

• Thanks for the Feedback: The Art and Science of Receiving Feedback Well - Douglas Stone

• Crudo - Olivia Laing

• Contagious - Jonah Berger

• The Library Book - Susan Orlean

• All You Can Ever Know - Nicole Chung

• Mansfield Park - Jane Austen

• White Dancing Elephants - Chaya Bhuvaneswar

2018

• Designing Brand Identity - Alina Wheeler

• Homage to Catalonia - George Orwell

• Two Towns in Provence - M.F.K. Fisher

• Beautiful Exile: The Life of Martha Gellhorn - Carl Rollyson

• Sunny's Nights - Tim Sultan

• How To Change Your Mind - Michael Pollan

• The Tenth Island - Diana Marcum

• Standard Deviation - Katherine Heiny

• Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge - E.O. Wilson

• The Lady In Gold: The Extraordinary Tale of Gustav Klimt's Masterpiece, Bloch-Bauer - Anne Marie O'Connor

• The Female Persuasion - Meg Wolitzer

• A Place of My Own: The Architecture of Daydreams - Michael Pollan

• The Hare with Amber Eyes: A Hidden Inheritance - Edmund de Waal

• The End of Vandalism - Tom Drury

• Macbeth - Jo Nesbø

• Who Cooked Adam Smith's Dinner - Katrine Marçal

• Underground Railroad - Colson Whitehead

• The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana - Umberto Eco

• Wilderness Essays - John Muir

• The Challenger Sale - Matthew Dixon

• Hooked: Pirates, Poaching and the Perfect Fish - G. Bruce Knecht

• Dear Committee Members - Julie Schumacher

• Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder - Caroline Fraser

• Flâneuse : women walk the city in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice and London - Lauren Elkin

• Black Edge: Inside Information, Dirty Money and the Quest to Bring Down the Most Wanted Man on Wall Street - Sheelah Kolhatkar

• Crooked Little Heart- Anne Lamott

• Warmth of Other Suns - Isabel Wilkerson

• An American Sickness: How Healthcare Became Big Business - Elizabeth Rosenthal

• 168 Hours - Laura Vanderkam

2017

• The Gene - Siddhartha Mukherjee

• Norwegian Wood: Chopping, Stacking and Drying Wood the Scandinavian Way - Lars Mytting

• At The Existentialist Café: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails with Sartre, de Beauvoir, Camus... - Sarah Bakewell

• The Story of a Brief Marriage - Anuk Arudpragasam

• Mrs. Fletcher - Tom Perotta

• Boy, Snow, Bird - Helen Oyeyemi

• Conversations with Friends - Sally Rooney

• When Breath Becomes Air - Paul Kalanithi

• The Inner Experience - Thomas Merton

• The Middle Stories - Sheila Heti

• Anything is Possible - Elizabeth Strout

• Pilgrim at Tinker Creek - Annie Dillard

• Doing Data Science - Cathy O'Neil and Rachel Schutt

• Moneyball - Michael Lewis

• Love and Other Ways of Dying - Michael Paterniti

• The Intelligent Investor - Benjamin Graham

• Grocery: The Buying and Selling of Food in America - Michael Ruhlman

• Love and Other Ways of Dying - Michael Paterniti

• The Signal and the Noise - Nate Silver

• When Genius Failed - Roger Lowenstein

• Milk and Honey - Rupi Kaur

• Swing Time - Zadie Smith

• The Botanist and the Vintner - Christy Campbell

• Lab Girl - Hope Jahren

• The Case Against Sugar - Gary Taubes

• The Devil in the White City - Erik Larson

• The Summer Before the War - Helen Simonson

• Stone's Fall - Iain Pears

• Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania - Erik Larson

• Bright Lines - Tanwi Nandini Islam

• Commonwealth - Ann Patchett

• Spin - Robert Charles Wilson

• Celine - Peter Heller

• Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic - Sam Quinones

• Understanding Wood - R. Bruce Hoadley

• How to Build Modern Furniture - Mario Dal Fabbro

2016

• Hillbilly Elegy - J.D. Vance

• Democracy in America - Alexis de Tocqueville

• Content Inc. - Joe Pulizzi

• Driving Demand - Carlos Hidalgo

• The Billion Dollar Spy - David E. Hoffman

• Everyone Brave is Forgiven - Chris Cleave

• All the Light We Cannot See - Anthony Doerr

• H Is For Hawk - Helen MacDonald

• The Chemistry of Tears - Peter Carey

• 1493 - Charles C. Mann

• The Stories of John Cheever - John Cheever

• Americanah - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

• The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up - Marie Kondō

• Friendfluence - Carlin Flora

• Eligible: A Novel - Curtis Sittenfield

• Sweetbitter - Stephanie Danler

• The Art of Eating - M.F.K. Fisher

• An Omelette and a Glass of Wine - Elizabeth David

• Give and Take - Adam Grant

• Thinking, Fast and Slow - Daniel Kahneman

• The Antidote: Inside the World of New Pharma - Barry Werth

• The Paper Menagerie - Ken Liu

• Meditations - Marcus Aurelius

• L' Amica Geniale - Elena Ferrante

• Storia del Nuovo Cognome - Elena Ferrante

• SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome - Mary Beard

• The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams

• Crossing the Chasm: Marketing and Selling High-Tech Products - Geoffrey A. Moore

• Burr: A Novel - Gore Vidal

• Remember Me Like This - Bret Anthony Johnston

• Privacy in Context - Helen Nissenbaum

• Privacy in the Age of Big Data - Ted Claypoole and Theresa Payton

• Station Eleven - Emily St. John Mandel

• Bossypants - Tina Fey

• Never Eat Alone - Keith Ferrazzi

• The Big Sleep - Raymond Chandler

• Ready Player One - Ernest Cline

• If On A Winter's Night a Traveler - Italo Calvino

• Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant - Ulysses S. Grant

• Become a Technical Marketer - Justin Mares

• The Elephant Vanishes: Stories - Haruki Murakami

• The Diamond Age - Neal Stephenson

• South of the Border, West of the Sun - Haruki Murakami

• What I Talk About When I Talk About Running - Haruki Murakami

• Duplex: A Novel - Kathryn Davis

• A Novel Bookstore - Laurence Cossé