See also
ALL THE BOOKS I'VE EVER READ
editIN THEIR ENTIRETY
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PRE-1990
A New True Book Series -by- Various Authors
A Wrinkle in Time -by- Madeleine L'Engle
"Dang! I Know Ya'll Didn't Touch My Friggin' Beef Again, Dang!": 1001 Pre-Polished 80's Slogans -by- Yar & Qotile
The Call of the Wild -by- Jack London
The Way Things Work -by- David Macaulay
Orzowei (White Boy) -by- Alberto Manzi
1990
Get that Stank Booty Out My Face: My Career and Other Things I Regret -by- Sir Mix-A-Lot
1991
Catcher in the Rye -by- J. D. Salinger
To Kill a Mockingbird -by- Harper Lee
A Separate Peace -by- John Knowles
Fahrenheit 451 -by- Ray Bradbury
Book of the Cat -by- Michael Wright
The Scarlet Letter -by- Nathaniel Hawthorne
1992
The Outsiders (novel) -by- S. E. Hinton
The Red Badge of Courage -by- Stephen Crane
Various Short Stories -by- Edgar Allan Poe
Gateway (novel) -by- Frederik Pohl
1993
Tess of the d'Urbervilles -by- Thomas Hardy ...uuuggghhhh...
The Canterbury Tales -by- Geoffrey Chaucer ...aaawwwghgh...
Adrift: 76 Days Lost At Sea -by- Steven Callahan
Yeager: an Autobiography -by- Chuck Yeager, Leo Janos
How the Other Half Lives -by- Jacob Riis
1994
Nightfighter -by- Rawnsley
that aircraft ground school book in ROTC
Catch-22 -by- Joseph Heller
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest -by- Ken Kesey
Jg 26: Top Guns of the Luftwaffe -by- Donald L. Caldwell
The Art of War -by- Sun Tzu -translated by- Thomas Cleary
Bat Bomb: World War II's Other Secret Weapon -by- Jack Couffer
Beyond Numeracy -by- John Allen Paulos
Cosmos: A Personal Voyage -by- Carl Sagan
1995
For the Love of Children's Tales -by- M. Jackson
1996
Just So Stories -by- Rudyard Kipling
1997
Johnny Got His Gun -by- Dalton Trumbo
1998
SNAFU: Great American Military Disasters -by- Geoffrey Regan
Air Combat Aces -by- ?
The Deltiod Pumpkin Seed -by- John McPhee
1999
Dynamics of Flight: Stability and Control, 3rd ed. -by- Bernard Etkin, Lloyd Duff Reid
Seven Experiments that Could Change the World -by- Rupert Sheldrake
2000
Hiroshima -by- John Hersey
River Out of Eden -by- Richard Dawkins
A History of Mathematics -by- Carl Boyer, Isaac Asimov
e: the Story of a Number -by- Eli Maor
2001
How to Fly and Fight in the F/A-18 Hornet -by- David Isby
Pilots Manual for Lockheed P-38 Lightning -by- U.S. Army, Lockheed
Sex and Rockets -by- John Carter
War at the Top of the World -by- Eric Margolis
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone -by- J. K. Rowling
2002
Get a Grip on Evolution -by- David Burnie
Get a Grip on Genetics -by- Martin Brookes
The Right Stuff -by- Tom Wolfe
Bird Flight -by- Robert Burton (naturalist)
A Bond with the Wild: a Celebration of American Falconry -by- Kenn Filkins
Bird Flight -by- Gordon C. Aymar (1935)
Isaac Asimov Himself Reads 5 Complete Stories -by- Isaac Asimov (audio)
The Lost World -by- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (audio)
The Little Prince -by- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Digital Biology -by- Peter J. Bentley
An Introduction to Genetic Algorithms -by- Melanie Mitchell
Jonathan Livingston Seagull -by- Richard Bach
2003
Timeline (novel) -by- Michael Crichton
Maverick: the Personal War of a Vietnam Cobra Pilot -by- Dennis Marvicsin, Jerold A. Greenfield
Animal Observation and Tracking -by- Tom Brown, Jr.
Wilderness Survival -by- Tom Brown, Jr.
The Tracker -by- Tom Brown, Jr.
The Search -by- Tom Brown, Jr.
Texas ACO Training Manual -edited by- Pamela J. Wilson
2004
Case Files of the Tracker -by- Tom Brown, Jr.
The Continuum Concept -by- Jean Liedloff
Grandfather -by- Tom Brown, Jr.
Awakening Spirits -by- Tom Brown, Jr.
Angels and Demons -by- Dan Brown (audio)
The Way of the Scout -by- Tom Brown, Jr.
Wild Edible and Medicinal Plants -by- Tom Brown, Jr.
City and Suburban Survival -by- Tom Brown, Jr.
Walden -by- Henry David Thoreau
Custer's Fall: the Native American Side of the Story -by- David Miller
Black Elk Speaks -by- Black Elk, John Neihardt
Living With the Earth -by- Tom Brown, Jr.
The Forgotten Wilderness -by- Tom Brown, Jr.
Meditations -by- Marcus Aurelius
The Meaning of It All -by- Richard Feynman
2005
The Vision -by- Tom Brown, Jr.
Journey to Ixtlan -by- Carlos Castaneda
The Old West: the Great Chiefs -by- Benjamin Capps
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time -by- Mark Haddon
The Pine Barrens -by- John McPhee
The Gentle Tasaday -by- John Nance
Our Dumb Century: The Onion Presents 100 Years of Headlines from America's Finest News Source -by- The Onion
Shooter: the Autobiography of the Top-Ranked Marine Sniper -by- Jack Coughlin, Casey Kuhlman, Donald Davis
Marine Sniper -by- Charles Henderson
Hunting Badger -by- Tony Hillerman
Get a Grip on Philosophy -by- Neil Turnbull
Chocolate: a Bittersweet Saga of Dark and Light -by- Mort Rosenblum
Animals in Translation -by- Temple Grandin
A Guide to Night Sounds -by- Lang Elliott (with audio)
American Indian Myths and Legends -by- Richard Erdoes, Alfonso Ortiz
Spy Dust -by- Antonio Mendez & Jonna Mendez, Bruce Henderson
Art of Disguise -by- MacInaugh
Master of Disguise -by- Antonio Mendez,
How to Open Locks with Improvised Tools -by- Hans Conkel
Rogue Warrior -by- Richard Marcinko, John Weisman
The C Programming Language (book), 2nd Ed. -by- Brian Kernighan & Dennis Ritchie
God Told Me to Ruin All His Shizzle -by- George W. Bush
2006
Collapse -by- Jared Diamond
Encounters with the Archdruid -by- John McPhee
Ishi in Two Worlds -by- Theodora Kroeber
Plants of the Gods -by- Richard Evans Schultes, Albert Hofmann & Christian Ratsch
The Soul of the Indian -by- Ohiyesa (Charles A. Eastman)
Indian Scout Talks -by- Ohiyesa (Charles A. Eastman)
The Quest -by- Tom Brown, Jr.
From Jesus to Christianity -by- L. Michael White
2007
Wild Plants of the Pueblo Province -by- William W. Dunmire & Gail D. Tierney
The Journey -by- Tom Brown, Jr.
Wild Plants and Native Peoples of the Four Corners -by- William W. Dunmire & Gail D. Tierney
Some People Are Indians -by- George A. Boyce
Tracker -by- Joel Hardin
Images of America: Towns of the Sandia Mountains -by- Mike Smith
Robbing the Bees -by- Holley Bishop
Letters from the Hive -by- Stephen Buchmann
The Power of Silence -by- Carlos Castaneda
The Teachings of Don Juan -by- Carlos Castaneda
Facing the Frozen Ocean -by- Bear Grylls
2008
Letters to a Young Teacher -by- Jonathan Kozol
Museum -by- Danny Danziger
American Bloomsbury: Louisa May Alcott, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Henry David Thoreau -by- Susan Cheever
Walden: an annotated edition -by- Henry David Thoreau; foreword and notes by Walter Harding
Civil Disobedience -by- Henry David Thoreau
The Serpent and The Rainbow -by- Wade Davis
A 16th Century Galleon -by- Richard Humble & Mark Bergin
Spice -by- Jack Turner
The Wild Within -by- Paul Rezendes
The Hummingbird's Daughter -by- Luis Alberto Urrea
The Motorcycle Diaries -by- Che Guevara
Child of the Jungle -by- Sabine Kuegler
Meeting the Medicine Men -by- Charles Langley
The Assassins: a radical sect in Islam -by- Bernard Lewis
Alamut -by- Vladimir Bartol
Arab/American: Landscape, Culture, and Cuisine in Two Great Deserts -by- Gary Paul Nabhan
Desert Solitaire -by- Edward Abbey
Not Much Fun: the lost poems of Dorothy Parker -by- Stuart Y. Silverstein
2009
Santeria -by- Miguel A. De La Torre
A Thousand Splendid Suns -by- Khaled Hosseini (audio)
(numerous short stories) -by- Clarice Lispector
One Hundred Years of Solitude -by- Gabriel García Márquez
Como Agua para Chocolate -by- Laura Esquivel
True Believer -by- Nicholas Sparks
At First Sight -by- Nicholas Sparks
2010
Cities of Gold: a Journey Across the American Southwest -by- Douglas Preston
Dear John -by- Nicholas Sparks
The Last Song -by- Nicholas Sparks
The Lucky One -by- Nicholas Sparks
Wicked Plants -by- Amy Stewart
1491 -by- Charles C. Mann
Martin & Meditations on the South Valley -by- Jimmy Santiago Baca
A Place to Stand -by- Jimmy Santiago Baca
Alburquerque -by- Rudolfo Anaya
2011
The Wheel of Time -by- Carlos Castaneda
An Object of Beauty -by- Steve Martin (Kindle for Android)
The Last Lecture -by- Randy Pausch
Safe Haven -by- Nicholas Sparks (read by Dick Estell)
Fast Food Nation -by- Eric Schlosser
Mockingbird -by- Kathryn Erskine
Finding Jefferson -by- Alan Dershowitz
North & South -by- John Jakes
The Illustrated Man -by- Ray Bradbury
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo -by- Stieg Larsson
The Girl Who Played with Fire -by- Stieg Larsson
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest -by- Stieg Larsson
Danny, the Champion of the World -by- Roald Dahl
Scarpetta's Winter Table -by- Patricia Cornwell
Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West -by- Gregory Maguire
2012
Pygmalion -by- George Bernard Shaw
The Brothers Karamazov -by- Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Lorax -by- Dr. Seuss (yup, all by myself ;p)
A Painted House -by- John Grisham
The Best of Me -by- Nicholas Sparks
The Litigators -by- John Grisham
Made in America: an informal history of the English language in the U.S. -by- Bill Bryson
The King of Torts -by- John Grisham
Savage Beauty: the life of Edna St. Vincent Millay -by- Nancy Milford
War Dances -by- Sherman Alexie
The Prophet -by- Kahlil Gibran
Different Seasons -by- Stephen King
Fifty Shades of Grey -by- E. L. James
The Racketeer -by- John Grisham
2013
Nation -by- Terry Pratchett
The Four Agreements -by- Miguel Angel Ruiz
Water for Elephants -by- Sara Gruen
Memoirs of a Geisha -by- Arthur Golden
The Red Tent -by- Anita Diamant
Eat, Pray, Love -by- Elizabeth Gilbert
2014
Mutant Message Down Under -by- Marlo Morgan
The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari -by- Robin Sharma
Dry -by- Augusten Burroughs
Middlesex -by- Jeffrey Eugenides
The Devil in the White City -by- Erik Larson
If on a winter's night a traveler -by- Italo Calvino
Into Thin Air -by- Jon Krakauer
Spy -by- David Wise
Rant -by- Chuck Palahniuk
Haunted -by- Chuck Palahniuk
Choke -by- Chuck Palahniuk
South of No North -by- Charles Bukowski
Stories of Your Life and Others -by- Ted Chiang
No Country for Old Men -by- Cormac McCarthy
Post Office -by- Charles Bukowski
The Most Human Human -by- Brian Christian
2015
The Botany of Desire -by- Michael Pollan
The Great Courses: The Story of Human Language -by- John McWhorter
Ender's Game -by- Orson Scott Card
The Art of Tracking, The Origin of Science -by- Louis Liebenberg
The World Until Yesterday -by- Jared Diamond
The Crash of TWA Flight 260 -by- Charles M. Williams
Into that Forest -by- Louis Nowra
Desert Puma: Evolutionary Ecology and Conservation of an Enduring Carnivore -by- Kenneth A. Logan and Linda L. Sweanor
White Boy -by- Alberto Manzi
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind -by- Yuval Harari
Mutants: On Genetic Variety and the Human Body -by- Armand Marie Leroi
The Great Courses: History's Greatest Voyages of Exploration -by- Vejas Gabriel Liulevicius
My First Summer in the Sierras -by- John Muir
The Wright Brothers -by- David McCullough
Indigo: In Search of the Color That Seduced the World -by- Catherine McKinley
Cleopatra: A Life -by- Stacy Schiff
The Other Side of History: Daily Life in the Ancient World -by- Dr Robert Garland
Foundations of Eastern Civilization -by- Craig Benjamin
The Decisive Battles of World History -by- Gregory Aldrete
1776 -by- David McCullough
The Barbarian Empires of the Steppes -by- Kenneth W. Harl
Origins and Ideologies of the American Revolution -by- Peter C. Mancall
Origins of Great Ancient Civilizations -by- Kenneth W. Harl
The Rise and Fall of the British Empire -by- Patrick Allitt
Saturn Run -by- John Sandford and Ctein
Living History: Great Events of the Ancient and Medieval Worlds -by- Dr Robert Garland
2016
Master's of War: History's Greatest Strategic Thinkers -by- Andrew R. Wilson
Maya to Aztec: Ancient Mesoamerica Revealed -by- Edwin Barnhart
Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World -by- Jack Weatherford
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland -by- Lewis Carroll
Redefining Reality: The Intellectual Implications of Modern Science -by- Steven Gimbel
Mysteries of Modern Physics: Time -by- Sean M. Carroll
The Fever of 1721 -by- Stephen Coss
Famous Romans -by- J. Rufus Fears
Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us -by- Daniel Pink
The Iliad -by- Homer -translated by- Robert Fitzgerald
Life Lessons from the Great Myths -by- J. Rufus Fears
History's Great Military Blunders and the Lessons They Teach -by- Gregory Aldrete
Lost Worlds of South America -by- Edwin Barnhart
On Intelligence -by- Jeff Hawkins
History of the Ancient World: A Global Perspective -by- Gregory Aldrete
Rome and the Barbarians -by- Kenneth W. Harl
A History of Eastern Europe -by- Vejas Gabriel Liulevicius
Before 1776: Life in the American Colonies -by- Robert Allison
The African Experience From Lucy to Mandela -by- Kenneth Vickery
A Brief History of Fighting Ships -by- David Davies
Turning Points in Middle Eastern History -by- Eamonn Gearon
The United States and the Middle East: 1914 to 9/11 -by- Salim Yaqub
A People's History of the United States -by- Howard Zinn
Alexander Hamilton -by- Ron Chernow
Naked Money -by- Charles Wheelan
An Economic History of the World since 1400 -by- Donald J. Harreld
Genghis Khan and the Quest for God -by- Jack Weatherford
The Meaning of Life: Perspectives from the World's Great Intellectual Traditions -by- Jay L. Garfield
Fighter Pilot -by- Robin Olds
Gates of Europe: a History of Ukraine -by- Serhii Plokhii
2017
History of Science: 1700 to 1900 -by- Frederick Gregory
Mind-Body Philosophy -by- Patrick Grim
Privacy, Property, and Free Speech: Law and the Constitution in the 21st Century -by- Jeffrey Rosen
Food: A Cultural Culinary History -by- Ken Albala
Thinking about Cybersecurity -by- Paul Rosenzweig
Espionage and Covert Operations: A Global History -by- Vejas Gabriel Liulevicius
Hacker, Hoaxer, Whistleblower, Spy: The Many Faces of Anonymous -by- Gabriella Coleman
The Great Unknown: Seven Journeys to the Frontiers of Science -by- Marcus du Sautoy
The Music of the Primes -by- Marcus du Sautoy
Reality Is Not What It Seems: The Journey to Quantum Gravity -by- Carlo Rovelli
The Snow Leopard -by- Peter Matthiessen
Seven Brief Lessons on Physics -by- Carlo Rovelli
The Quark and the Jaguar -by- Murray Gell-Mann
A History of India -by- Michael H. Fisher
At the Existentialist Cafe: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails -by- Sarah Bakewell
No Excuses: Existentialism and the Meaning of Life -by- Robert C. Solomon
Biology and Human Behavior -by- Robert Sapolsky
Maurice Merleau-Ponty's Phenomenology of Perception: a Guide and Commentary -by- Monika M. Langer
The Americas in the Revolutionary Era -by- Marshall Eakin
The Fire Next Time -by- James Baldwin
The Great Ideas of Philosophy, 2nd Ed. -by- Daniel N. Robinson
Phenomenology of Perception -by- Maurice Merleau-Ponty
Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers -by- Deborah Heiligman
The American Civil War -by- Gary W. Gallagher
Hypatia: mathematician, inventor, and philosopher -by- Sandra Donovan
Philosophy: Who Needs It -by- Ayn Rand
Emerson, Thoreau, and the Transcendentalist Movement -by- Ashton Nichols
The Vikings -by- Kenneth W. Harl
Exploring Metaphysics -by- David Kyle Johnson
The Description of a New World, Called The Blazing-World -by- Margaret Cavendish
Idea Makers -by- Stephen Wolfram
2018
How Emotions are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain -by- Lisa Feldman Barrett
Birth of the Modern Mind: The Intellectual History of the 17th and 18th Centuries -by- Alan Charles Kors
The Physicist and the Philosopher -by- Jimena Canales
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (Books I & II) -by- John Locke
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat -by- Oliver Sacks
Our Senses: An Immersive Experience -by- Rob DeSalle
Why Buddhism is True -by- Robert Wright
Buddhism -by- Malcolm David Eckel
Zen in the Art of Archery -by- Eugen Herrigel
The Big Picture: On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself -by- Sean M. Carroll
The Order of Time -by- Carlo Rovelli
How to Change Your Mind -by- Michael Pollan
Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness -by- Peter Godfrey-Smith
The Metaphysical Club -by- Louis Menand
Understanding Japan: A Cultural History -by- Mark Ravina
On the Origin of Species -by- Charles Darwin
Ancient Civilizations of North America -by- Edwin Barnhart
The History of Spain: Land on a Crossroad -by- Joyce Salisbury
Great Minds of the Eastern Intellectual Tradition -by- Grant Hardy
The Geography of Morals -by- Owen Flanagan
The Monk and the Philosopher -by- Matthieu Ricard
The Fruitful Darkness -by- Joan Halifax
Athenian Democracy -by- Dr Robert Garland
Zen Action / Zen Person -by- Thomas P. Kasulis
Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind -by- Shunryu Suzuki
The Celtic World - by- Jennifer Paxton
Great World Religions: Islam -by- John Louis Esposito
The Years of Rice and Salt -by- Kim Stanley Robinson
The Spell of the Sensuous -by- David Abram
The Philosophy of Humor -by- Steven Gimbel
Web of Debt -by- Ellen Hodgson Brown
Plant Science: An Introduction to Botany -by- Catherine Kleier
2019
The Science of Information -by- Benjamin Schumacher
Merleau-Ponty and Buddhism -by- Jin Y. Park and Gereon Kopf
Sky Above, Great Wind: The Life and Poetry of Zen Master Ryōkan -by- Kazuaki Tanahashi
The Remarkable Science of Ancient Astronomy -by- Bradley Schaefer
How Colors Affect You -by- William Lidwell
Philosophy of Mind: Brains, Consciousness, and Thinking Machines -by- Patrick Grim
Code Name: Lise -by- Larry Loftis
Shinto: the Way Home -by- Thomas P. Kasulis
Understanding the Inventions that Changed the World -by- W. Bernard Carlson
Zen Training -by- Katsuki Sekida
Language Families of the World -by- John McWhorter
The Alchemy of Air -by- Thomas Hager
Understanding Complexity -by- Scott E. Page
Biography of John Locke -by- Roger Woolhouse
Innate: How the Wiring of Our Brains Shapes Who We Are -by- Kevin J. Mitchell
Star Maker -by- Olaf Stapledon
The Quantum and the Lotus -by- Matthieu Ricard and Trinh Xuan Thuan
The Strange Order of Things -by- Antonio Damasio
Nothing, Very Short Introductions -by- Frank Close
Buddha, Very Short Introductions -by- Michael Carrithers
Atheism, Very Short Introductions -by- Julian Baggini
The Development of European Civilization -by- Kenneth R. Bartlett
Cosmological Koans -by- Anthony Aguirre
What Darwin Didn't Know: the Modern Science of Evolution -by- Scott E. Solomon
Persepolis -by- Marjane Satrapi
An Introduction to Number Theory -by- Edward B. Burger
Warriors, Queens, and Intellectuals -by- Joyce Salisbury
The 5 Elements of Effective Thinking -by- Edward B. Burger and Michael Starbird
The Equation That Couldn't Be Solved: How Mathematical Genius Discovered the Language of Symmetry -by- Mario Livio
The Drop -by- Dennis Lehane
Years that Changed History: 1215 -by- Dorsey Armstrong
African Samurai -by- Thomas Lockley and Geoffrey Girard
Samurai in 100 Objects -by- Stephen Turnbull
The Great Wave: Gilded Age Misfits, Japanese Eccentrics -by- Christopher Benfey
Nature’s God: The Heretical Origins of the American Republic -by- Matthew Stewart
Consciousness and the Brain -by- Stanislas Dehaene
Something Deeply Hidden -by- Sean M. Carroll
Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan -by- Herbert P. Bix
The Teeth and Claws of the Buddha -by- Mikael Adolphson
Upheaval: How Nations Cope with Crisis and Change -by- Jared Diamond
Seven Years in Tibet -by- Heinrich Harrer
Destiny Disrupted -by- Tamim Ansary
The Moon: A History for the Future -by- Oliver Morton
Religions of the East -by- Stephen Prothero
Astronomy: Earth, Sky, and Planets -by- James B. Kaler
Seven Wonders of the Ancient World -by- Jennifer Tobin
The Case Against Reality -by- Donald D. Hoffman
Blood and Thunder -by- Hampton Sides
Artificial Intelligence -by- Melanie Mitchell
The Modern Intellectual Tradition: from Descartes to Derrida -by- Lawrence Cahoone
The Fifth Season -by- N. K. Jemisin
Seeing Eye to I: Understanding Visual Perception -by- Rolf Nelson
2020
Underland: a deep time journey -by- Robert Macfarlane
Impossible: Physics Beyond the Edge -by- Benjamin Schumacher
The Philosopher's Toolkit -by- Patrick Grim
Hearing, Tasting, Touching: Understanding the World Through Our Senses -by- Rolf Nelson
The Invention of Nature -by- Andrea Wulf
Origins of Life -by- Robert Hazen
Sea People -by- Christina Thompson
Understanding the Secrets of Human Perception -by- Peter M. Vishton
Caffeine -by- Michael Pollan
The Girl with Seven Names -by- Hyeonseo Lee
The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood -by- James Gleick
In Pursuit of the Unknown: 17 Equations that Changed the World -by- Ian Stewart
Darwin's Dangerous Idea -by- Daniel Dennett
The Falcon Thief -by- Joshua Hammer
The Biology of Birds -by- John Kricher
Mutiny on the Bounty -by- Peter FitzSimons
The Lost Art of Finding Our Way -by- John Edward Huth
The Map of Knowledge (The Almagest, Euclid's Elements, and Galen) -by- Violet Moller
Faith and the Founding Fathers -by- Adam Jortner
Exhalation: Stories -by- Ted Chiang
Language and the Mind -by- Spencer Kelly
The Book of Tea -by- Okakura Kakuzō
Batavia -by- Peter FitzSimons
Brief History of Indonesia -by- Tim Hannigan
The Idea of the Brain: the Past and Future of Neuroscience -by- Matthew Cobb
The Great Questions of Philosophy and Physics -by- Steven Gimbel
Diderot and the Art of Thinking Freely -by- Andrew S. Curran
How Music and Mathematics Relate -by- David Kung
No Easy Day -by- Mark Owen
War and World History -by- Jonathan P. Roth
The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet -by- David Mitchell
History of Bourbon -by- Ken Albala
Music and the Brain -by- Aniruddh Patel
Einstein's Unfinished Revolution -by- Lee Smolin
The Story of Music -by- Howard Goodall
The Mongol Empire -by- Craig Benjamin
A History of the Samurai -by- Jonathan Lopez-Vera
The Last Samurai: the Life and Battles of Saigō Takamori -by- Mark Ravina
Stranger in the Shogun's City -by- Amy Stanley
The First Samurai -by- Karl Friday
The Real History of Secret Societies -by- Richard B. Spence
Infinitesimal: How a Dangerous Mathematical Theory Shaped the Modern World -by- Amir Alexander
Shōgun -by- James Clavell
Black Dragon River -by- Dominic Ziegler
Survival Mentality: The Psychology of Staying Alive -by- Nancy Zarse
The War Below: The Story of Three Submarines That Battled Japan -by- James Scott
Deep -by- James Nestor
Shinto and Japanese New Religions -by- H. Byron Earhart
European Thought and Culture in the 20th Century -by- Lloyd S. Kramer
Guns, Germs, and Steel -by- Jared Diamond
The WEIRDest People in the World -by- Joseph Henrich
The War of the Three Gods: Romans, Persians, and the Rise of Islam -by- Peter Crawford
The Book of Five Rings -by- Miyamoto Musashi -translated by- Kenji Tokitsu
Born a Crime -by- Trevor Noah
Unsung Heroes of World War II: Europe -by- Lynne Olson
Consciousness, Very Short Introductions -by- Susan Blackmore
Livewired: The Inside Story of the Ever-Changing Brain -by- David Eagleman
The Brain from Inside Out -by- György Buzsáki
Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain -by- Lisa Feldman Barrett
The Plague -by- Albert Camus
Brave Genius: A Scientist, a Philosopher, and ... -by- Sean B. Carroll
A Tale for the Time Being -by- Ruth Ozeki
2021
Old Path White Clouds -by- Thich Nhat Hanh
The Essential Dogen: Writings of the Great Zen Master -by- Peter Levitt, Kazuaki Tanahashi
Real Zen for Real Life -by- Bret W. Davis
The Monkey and the Monk -by- Anthony C. Yu
Daoism Explained -by- Hans-Georg Moeller
The Black Hole War -by- Leonard Susskind
There are Places in the World Where Rules are Less Important than Kindness -by- Carlo Rovelli
Target Tokyo -by- James M. Scott
The War that Killed Achilles -by- Caroline Alexander
Sicily: Three Thousand Years of Human History -by- Sandra Benjamin
Flight 232 -by- Laurence Gonzales
The Spontaneous Brain -by- Georg Northoff
The Pagan World: Ancient Religions Before Christianity -by- Hans-Friedrich Mueller
A Thousand Ships: A Novel -by- Natalie Haynes
Galileo's Error: Foundations for a New Science of Consciousness -by- Philip Goff
Number Theory, Very Short Introductions -by- Robin Wilson
What is Life? -by- Paul Nurse
A Thousand Brains: A New Theory of Intelligence -by- Jeff Hawkins
The Hidden Spring -by- Mark Solms
History of Science: Antiquity to 1700 -by- Lawrence M. Principe
2034: A Novel of the Next World War -by- James G. Stavridis, Elliot Ackerman
Conquerors: How Portugal Forged the First Global Empire -by- Roger Crowley
Powerful Women Who Ruled the Ancient World -by- Kara Cooney
The Philosopher Queens: The Lives and Legacies of Philosophy's Unsung Women -by- Rebecca Buxton
Sophie's World -by- Jostein Gaarder
In Search of an Empire -by- Laurence Bergreen
Longitude -by- Dava Sobel
Metazoa: Animal Life and the Birth of the Mind -by- Peter Godfrey-Smith
The Great Revolutions of Modern History -by- Lynne Ann Hartnett
The Human Cosmos -by- Jo Marchant
What Einstein Got Wrong -by- Dan Hooper
Helgoland -by- Carlo Rovelli
Philosophy of Physics, Very Short Introductions -by- David Wallace
Kokoro -by- Natsume Sōseki
Books that Matter: The Analects of Confucius -by- Robert Andre LaFleur
The Real History of Pirates -by- Manushag Powell
Metropolis: A History of the City, Humankind's Greatest Invention -by- Ben Wilson
Unlocking the Hidden History of DNA -by- Sam Kean
The Japanese: A History in Twenty Lives -by- Christopher Harding
Pure Invention: How Japan Made the Modern World -by- Matt Alt
This Is Your Mind on Plants -by- Michael Pollan
A Most Remarkable Creature -by- Jonathan Meiburg
Think Like a Stoic -by- Massimo Pigliucci
Brainscapes -by- Rebecca Schwarzlose
Blindsight -by- Peter Watts
A Wild Sheep Chase -by- Haruki Murakami
On Desperate Ground -by- Hampton Sides
Korea's Place in the Sun: A Modern History -by- Bruce Cumings
The Disappearing Spoon -by- Sam Kean
Ghosts of the Tsunami -by- Richard Lloyd Parry
The Higgs Boson -by- Sean M. Carroll
Generals and Geniuses: A History of the Manhattan Project -by- Edward G. Lengel
Liquid Rules -by- Mark Miodownik
A Land so Strange: The Epic Journey of Cabeza de Vaca -by- Andrés Reséndez
The Book of Yōkai -by- Michael Dylan Foster
Ignition! An Informal History of Liquid Rocket Propellants -by- John Drury Clark
Stuff Matters -by- Mark Miodownik
Genius in the Shadows: A Biography of Leo Szilard -by- William Lanouette
The Periodic Table, Very Short Introductions -by- Eric Scerri
The Iliad of Homer -by- Elizabeth Vandiver
The Story of Earth -by- Robert Hazen
The Book of Form and Emptiness -by- Ruth Ozeki
Shape -by- Jordan Ellenberg
The Rise of Modern Japan -by- Mark Ravina
The Middle East in the 20th Century -by- Eamonn Gearon
Chemistry and Our Universe -by- Ron B. Davis
Great Battles of the Ancient World -by- Garrett G. Fagan
2022
Introduction to Greek Philosophy -by- David Roochnik
The Age of Pericles -by- Jeremy McInerney
Theories of Knowledge -by- Joseph Shieber
Bernoulli's Fallacy: Statistical Illogic and the Crisis of Modern Science -by- Aubrey Clayton
Locke, Very Short Introductions -by- John Dunn
Philosophy of Science -by- Jeffrey Kasser
Being You: A New Science of Consciousness -by- Anil Seth
Lost in Math -by- Sabine Hossenfelder
The Philosophical Baby -by- Alison Gopnik
The Infidel and the Professor -by- Dennis Rasmussen
Journey to the Edge of Reason -by- Stephen Budiansky
The KLF -by- John Higgs
Conquest of the Americas -by- Marshall Eakin
Pandora's Jar -by- Natalie Haynes
Quantum Steampunk -by- Nicole Yunger Halpern
The Boundless Sea -by- David Abulafia
Memoirs of a Kamikaze -by- Kazuo Odachi
The Long 19th Century -by- Robert I. Weiner
River of the Gods -by- Candice Millard
War in the Modern World -by- David R. Stone
The Temple of the Golden Pavilion -by- Yukio Mishima
Continental Philosophy, Very Short Introductions -by- Simon Critchley
The Fall and Rise of China -by- Richard Baum
Existential Physics -by- Sabine Hossenfelder
Democracy and its Alternatives -by- Ethan Hollander
The Battle of Midway -by- Craig Symonds
The Mind of a Bee -by- Lars Chittka
The Medieval Legacy -by- Carol Symes
A Girl's Guide to Missiles -by- Karen Piper
The Biggest Ideas in the Universe: Space, Time, and Motion -by- Sean M. Carroll
The Vietnam War -by- John C. McManus
The Continental Philosophy Reader -edited by- Richard Kearney and Mara Rainwater
Klara and the Sun -by- Kazuo Ishiguro
Faraday, Maxwell, and the Electromagnetic Field -by- Nancy Forbes and Basil Mahon
Combat Crew -by- John Comer
How to Stand Up to a Dictator -by- Maria Ressa
Rocket Men -by- Robert Kurson
Perception: How Our Bodies Shape Our Minds -by- Dennis Proffitt, Drake Baer
2023
Beyond Concepts -by- Ruth Millikan
How to Listen to and Understand Great Music -by- Robert Greenberg
Mustang Ace -by- Robert Goebel
Wings of War: The World War II Fighter Plane that Saved the Allies and the Believers Who Made It Fly -by- David Fairbank White, Margaret Stanback White
18 Miles -by- Christopher Dewdney
Assassin's Creed: Renaissance -by- Oliver Bowden
The Artist, The Philosopher, and The Warrior -by- Paul Strathern
The End of Everything (Astrophysically Speaking) -by- Katie Mack
Anaximander: And the Birth of Science -by- Carlo Rovelli
Epigenetics: How Environment Changes Your Biology -by- Charlotte Mykura
The Night Portrait: A Novel of WWII & Da Vinci's Italy -by- Laura Morelli
The Alps: a Human History from Hannibal to Heidi and Beyond -by- Stephen O'Shea
No Parachute -by- Arthur Gould Lee
Fight Among the Clouds -by- James P. Busha
Race of Aces -by- John R. Bruning
The Aviators: Eddie Rickenbacker, Jimmy Doolittle, Charles Lindbergh, and the Epic Age of Flight -by- Winston Groom
An Immense World -by- Ed Yong
Scotland Forever! The Scots Greys at The Battle of Waterloo -by- Iain Gale
A History of Japan -by- R. H. P. Mason and J. G. Caiger
Beyond Infinity -by- Eugenia Cheng
Flying Camelot -by- Michael W. Hankins
The West: A New History in Fourteen Lives -by- Naoíse Mac Sweeney
A Memory Called Empire -by- Arkady Martine
Hideyoshi -by- Mary Elizabeth Berry
Japanese Death Poems -by- Yoel Hoffmann
Tales of Old Japan -by- A.B. Mitford
Walking the Kiso Road -by- William Scott Wilson
End Times: Elites, Counter-Elites, and the Path of Political Disintegration -by- Peter Turchin
The Blazing World: A New History of Revolutionary England, 1603-1689 -by- Jonathan Healey
Rashōmon and In a Grove -by- Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
Unbroken -by- Laura Hillenbrand
Something Like an Autobiography -by- Akira Kurosawa
Einstein and the Quantum -by- A. Douglas Stone
The Enemy Harassed -by- Jim Stempel
How the Spanish Civil War became Europe's Battlefield -by- Pamela Radcliff
The Lady and the Monk -by- Pico Iyer
Autumn Light -by- Pico Iyer
The Wager -by- David Grann
Elixir -by- Theresa Levitt
We Are Electric -by- Sally Adee
Music as a Mirror of History -by- Robert Greenberg
Musui's Story: The Autobiography of a Tokugawa Samurai -by- Katsu Kokichi -translated by- Teruko Craig
History of the United States Navy -by- Craig Symonds
American Gun -by- Cameron McWhirter, Zusha Elinson
White Holes -by- Carlo Rovelli
Samurai Rising -by- Pamela S. Turner
Operation Vengeance -by- Dan "Two Dogs" Hampton
Lady Snowblood (vol 1) -by- Kazuo Koike and Kazuo Kamimura
The Japanese Enthronement Ceremonies -by- D. C. Holtom
I've Been Thinking -by- Daniel Dennett
The Other Great Game -by- Sheila Miyoshi Jager
Dragon Palace -by- Hiromi Kawakami
2024
The Last Yakuza -by- Jake Adelstein
Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution -by- Cat Bohannon
Midnight in Broad Daylight -by- Pamela Rotner Sakamoto
The River of Doubt -by- Candice Millard
Perception, Very Short Introductions -by- Brian Rogers
Complexity, Very Short Introductions -by- John Henry Holland
1Q84 -by- Haruki Murakami
Why? The Purpose of the Universe -by- Philip Goff
Divine Might -by- Natalie Haynes
Modern Greece: A Captivating Guide -by- Captivating History
Extremely Hardcore -by- Zoe Schiffer
Baa Baa Black Sheep -by- Pappy Boyington
The Brain, Very Short Introductions -by- Michael O'Shea
The Roman Republic, Very Short Introductions -by- David M. Gwynn
1066: The Year that Changed Eveything -by- Jennifer Paxton
Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War -by- Nathaniel Philbrick
F-35, The Inside Story of the Lightning II -by- Tom Burbage, Betsy Clark, Adrian Pitman
Intelligence, Very Short Introductions -by- Ian Deary
The Art of War -by- Andrew R. Wilson
The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America -by- Louis Menand
Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder -by- Salman Rushdie
The Body has a Mind of Its Own -by- Sandra Blakeslee
When Animals Dream -by- David Peña-Guzmán
The Killing Ground: a Biography of Thermopylae -by- Myke Cole, Michael Livingston
Wine from These Grapes -by- Edna St. Vincent Millay
A Gentleman from Japan -by- Thomas Lockley
History of Japan: A Captivating Guide -by- Captivating History
Beowulf -by- Unknown -translated by- Seamus Heaney
The Biggest Ideas in the Universe: Quanta and Fields -by- Sean M. Carroll
Skunk Works -by- Ben Rich
Taiko -by- Eiji Yoshikawa
Galileo and the Science Deniers -by- Mario Livio
Black Snow -by- James M. Scott
Educated -by- Tara Westover
Pachinko -by- Min Jin Lee
The Shogun's Last Samurai Corps -by- Romulus Hillsborough
In Service of the Shogun -by- Frederik Cryns
Reading the Glass -by- Elliot Rappaport
The Wide Wide Sea -by- Hampton Sides
H is for Hawk -by- Helen Macdonald
Spring Snow -by- Yukio Mishima
Runaway Horses -by- Yukio Mishima
Musashi -by- Eiji Yoshikawa
Requiem for Battleship Yamato -by- Yoshida Mitsuru
The Lost Airman -by- Peter F Stevens, Seth Meyerowitz
Neuromancer -by- William Gibson
Slaying the Dragon: a Secret History of Dungeons & Dragons -by- Ben Riggs
Alexander at the End of the World -by- Rachel Meredith Kousser
From an Ontological Point of View -by- John Heil
Warping Reality: Inside the Psychology of Cults -by- Wind Goodfriend
I, Strahd: The Memoirs of a Vampire -by- P. N. Elrod
Communism in Decline -by- Vejas Gabriel Liulevicius
Emperor of the Seas -by- Jack Weatherford
Unsung Heroes of the Ancient World -by- Gregory S. Aldrete
The Evolution of American Federalism -by- Joseph L. Hoffmann
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