Society Books

The 2020 Commission Report on the North Korean Nuclear Attacks the United States (2018)
by Don Wonnell

The African Queen (1935)
by C.S. Forester

The Age of Grief (1987)
by Jane Smiley

Anatomy of a Murder (1958)
by Robert Traver

Another Part of the Forest (1946)
by Lillian Hellman

August: Osage County (2008)
by Tracy Letts

Barrel Fever (1994)
by David Sedaris

Burmese Days (1934)
by George Orwell

The Burglar in the Closet (1978)
by Lawrence Block

Bury Me Standing (1995)
by Isabel Fonseca

Cities of the Plain (1998)
by Cormac McCarthy

Damascus Gate (1998)
by Robert Stone

Delta of Venus (1969)
by Anaïs Nin

Disappearing Earth (2019)
by Julia Phillips

Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage (1959)
by Alfred Lansing

Eve Reviv’d, or the Fair One Stark-Naked (1684)
anonymous

Fort Dearborn (2007)
by Jerry Crimmins & Gerald A. Danzer

The Fabulous Clipjoint (1953)
by Frederic Brown

The Flame Alphabet (2012)
by Ben Marcus

Frankenstein (1818)
by Mary Shelley

The Gadfly (1897)

by Ethel Lilian Voynich

The Great Atlantic Air Race (1977)
by Percy Rowe

Guilt (2012)
by Ferdinand von Schirach

Hannibal's Niece: A Tale of Love, Murder and Deceit in Ancient Rome (2017)
by Anthony Licata

A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership (2018)

by James B. Comey

House Made of Dawn (1969)
by N. Scott Momaday

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (2010)
by Rebecca Skloot

Into the Wild (1998)
by Jon Krakauer

James: A Novel (2024)
by Percival Everett

The King of Confidence: A Tale of Utopian Dreamers, Frontier Schemers, True Believers, False Prophets, and the Murder of an American Monarch (2020)
by Harvey Miles

Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly (2000)
Anthony Bourdain

Knowledge and Information Technology (2000)
from Partisan Review

The Known World (2003)
by Edward P. Jones

Joe Hill: A Biographical Novel (1969)
by Wallace Stegner

The Laughing Monsters (2014)
by Denis Johnson

Laura Rider's Masterpiece (2009)
by Jane Hamilton

Legs (1975)
by William Kennedy

The Likeness (2008)
by Tana French

The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 (2006)
by Lawrence Wright

Lost Horizon (1933)
by James Hilton

The Loved One (1948)
by Evelyn Waugh

Mawson’s Will: The Greatest Polar Survival Story Ever Written (2000)
by Lennard Bickel

Milosz’s ABC’s (2001)
by Czeslaw Milosz

Mister Wonderful: A Love Story (2011)
by Daniel Clowes

My Antonia (1918)
by Willa Cather

My Sister, the Serial Killer (2018)
by Oyinkan Braithwaite

Nothing to Fear: FDR's Inner Circle and the Hundred Days That Created Modern America (2009)
by Adam Cohen

Now You See Him (2009)
by Eli Gottlieb

The Odyssey of Kostas Volakis (1999)
by Harry Mark Petrakis

The Ox-Bow Incident (1940)
by Walter Van Tilburg Clark

Peace (2008)
by Richard Bausch

Popol Vuh: The Mayan Book of the Dawn of Life (1986)
translated by Dennis Tedlock

Ring Lardner: Selected Stories (1997)
by Ring Lardner and Jonathan Yardley

Runner in the Sun (1954)
by D’Arcy McNickle

The Secret Agent (1907)
by Joseph Conrad

The Sheltering Sky (1949)
by Paul Bowles

So Long, See You Tomorrow (1980)
by William Maxwell

Stardust: A Novel (2009)
by Joseph Kanon

Strangers on a Train (1950)

by Patricia Highsmith

Suite Française (2007)
by Irène Némirovsky

Supreme Courtship (2008)
by Christopher Buckley

Three Men in a Boat (2018)
by Jerome K. Jerome

Tinkers (2008)
by Paul Harding

Treasure Island (1883)
by Robert Louis Stevenson

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1935)
by B. Traven

The Trial (1925)

by Franz Kafka

We All Fall Down (2011)
by Michael Harvey

What's the Matter with White People? Finding Our Way in the Next America (2012)
by Joan Walsh

The Wide Sargasso Sea (1966)
by Jean Rhys