2008

june

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz
The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster

may

Drops of this Story by Suheir Hammad
Sixty Odd by Ursula K. Le Guin
Kissing God Goodbye by June Jordan
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
Last Night at the Lobster by Stewart O’Nan
Miracle Fruit by Aimee Nezhukumatathil

april

Print is Dead : Books in our digital age by Jeff Gomez
Two Serious Ladies by Jane Bowles
A Spot of Bother by Mark Haddon
The Learners by Chip Kidd
Bonjour Tristesse by Françoise Sagan
Wanderlust by Rebecca Solnit

march

The Russian Avant-Garde book 1910–1934 by Margit Rowell & Deborah Wye
The Mother Garden by Robin Romm
Difficult Loves by Italo Calvino
The History of Love by Nicole Krauss

february

Patrol : an American soldier in Vietnam by Walter Dean Myers

january

The Children of Green Knowe by Lucy M. Boston
The Seas by Samantha Hunt
The World Without Us by Alan Weisman

2007

december

Tony Takitani by Haruki Murakami
Print is Dead : Books in our digital age by Jeff Gomez
Get Down by Asali Solomon
Tolstoy Lied by Rachel Kadish

november

One Hundred Demons by Lynda Barry
Among other things, I’ve taken up smoking by Aoibheann Sweeney
Scrapbook by Henri Cartier-Bresson
Cruddy by Lynda Barry
In the Sweet Bye & Bye by Margaret Kilgallen

october

The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Kesai
Hatch Show Print by Jim Sherraden, Elek Horvath, and Paul Kingsbury
How to be a graphic designer without losing your soul by Adrian Shaughnessy
Lyra’s Oxford by Philip Pullman

september

The Amber Spyglass by Philip Pullman
The Subtle Knife by Philip Pullman
The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
The Fountain by Darren Aronofsky & Kent Williams

august

This Life She’s Chosen by Kirsten Sundberg Lunstrum
Optic Nerve 10 & 11 by Adrian Tomine
Hardboiled and Hard Luck by Banana Yoshimoto
The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm by Nancy Farmer
The Secret Language of Sleep by Evany Thomas
A Field Guide to Getting Lost by Rebecca Solnit

july

Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling
Here They Come by Yannick Murphy
Ex Libris: confessions of a common reader by Anne Fadiman
The Push Man and other stories by Yoshihiro Tatsumi
The Book on the Bookshelf by Henry Petroski
Scrapbook by Adrian Tomine
Abandon the Old in Tokyo by Yoshihiro Tatsumi

june

The Heart of Yoga by T.K.V. Desikachar
After Dark by Haruki Murakami
The Passion by Jeanette Winterson
Forever Young Forever Healthy by Indra Devi

may

We need to talk about Kevin by Lionel Shriver
No one belongs here more than you by Miranda July
My Life in France by Julia Child
Poems for Architects by Jill Stoner
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Inside the Yellow Dress by Mary Ann Samyn

april

Prep by Curtis Sittenfeld
Perfect Disappearance by Martha Rhodes
Fun Home by Alison Bechdel
Geography of Home : writings on where we live by Akiko Busch
Fatal Distraction by Sonja Ahlers
The Three Incestuous Sisters by Audrey Niffenegger
Mariette in Ecstasy by Ron Hansen
The Future of Nostalgia by Svetlana Boym

march

Before the War: poems as they happened by Fusao Inada
Lighthousekeeping by Jeanette Winterson

february

Book One by Chip Kidd
Stranger Things Happen by Kelly Link

january

The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers

2006

december

The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman by Haruki Murakami
Coraline by Neil Gaiman

november

The End by Lemony Snicket

october

The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

september

The Crooked Mirror and other stories by Anton Chekhov

august

By Its Cover by Ned Drew & Paul Sternberger
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
The Madame Paul Affair by Julie Doucet
My Most Secret Desire by Julie Doucet
Rules of the Red Rubber Ball by Kevin Carroll

july

My New York Diary by Julie Doucet
American Pie by Pascale Le Draoulec
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer

june

La Perdida by Jessica Abel
Penguin by Design by Phil Baines
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

may

Copia by Casey Kwang

april

The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
Savage Inqualities by Jonathan Kozol
The Godfather by Mario Puzo

march

The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
Julie and Julia by Julie Powell
Time’s Magpie by Myla Goldberg
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

february

Bauhaus, Modernism & the Illustrated Book by Alan Bartram

january

Graphic Style from Victorian to Digital by Steven Heller & Seymour Chwast
Wickett’s Remedy by Myla Goldberg
Getting it Right in Print by Mark Gatter
Breath, Eyes, Memory by Edwidge Danticat
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon

2005

december

The Sea, The Sea by Iris Murdoch

november

A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket

october

The Case of the Not-So-Nice Nurse by Mable Maney
The Elements of Typographic Style by Robert Bringhurst
A Short History of the Printed Word by Warren Chappell
The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger

september

Hotel of the Saints by Ursula Hegi
When Things Fall Apart by Pema Chödrön
The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd

august

Embroideries by Marjane Satrapi
Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
The Mother Tongue by Bill Bryson
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling
The Botany of Desire by Michael Pollan

july

The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers

june

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K. Rowling
Pinball, 1973 by Haruki Murakami
Eats, Shoots & Leaves by Lynne Truss
Haruki Murakami and the Music of Words by Jay Rubin
You Grow Girl by Gayla Trail

may

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling
South of the Border, West of the Sun by Haruki Murakami
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone by J.K. Rowling
Drinking: A Love Story by Caroline Knapp
Dance Dance Dance by Haruki Murakami

april

The Art Lover by Carole Maso
Beloved by Toni Morrison

march

Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
Ghost Dance by Carole Maso
Sula by Toni Morrison
Quicksand by Junichiro Tanizaki
Shattered Sonnets, Love Cards, and Other Off and Back Handed Importunities by Olena Kalytiak Davis
Hardboiled Wonderland and the End of the World by Haruki Murakami

february

The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
The Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane Jacobs
The Dove’s Nest and other stories by Katherine Mansfield
Runaway by Alice Munro

january

Another Bullshit Night in Suck City by Nick Flynn
Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
Everyday Matters by Danny Gregory
Journal of a Solitude by May Sarton
In the Shadow of No Towers by Art Spiegelman
Hear the Wind Sing by Haruki Murakami

2004

december

On Death and Dying by Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
Tête à Tête by Henri Cartier-Bresson
City and Landscapes by Henri Cartier-Bresson
The Complete Untitled Film Stills by Cindy Sherman
Bill Peet: an Autobiography by Bill Peet
The Mind’s Eye: Writings on Photography and Photographers by Henri Cartier-Bresson
In the Next Galaxy by Ruth Stone
The Stones of Summer by Dow Mossman
Hôtel Splendid by Marie Redonnet
Timoleon Vieta Come Home by Dan Rhodes

november

A Wild Sheep Chase by Haruki Murakami
Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin
The Book of Illusions by Paul Auster
One Writer’s Beginnings by Eudora Welty

october

Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
95 Poems by e.e. cummings
The Fortress of Solitude by Jonathan Lethem
Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke
The Zone System for 35mm Photographers by Carson Graves

september

The Secret History by Donna Tartt
Persepolis 2 by Marjane Satrapi
Hopscotch by Julio Cortázar
Dreaming in Cuban by Cristina Garcia
Japanese Women Writers by editors Noriko Mizuta Lippit & Kyoko Iriye Selden

august

Stitch ’N Bitch by Debbie Stoller
The Fall by Albert Camus
Figment by Rebecca Wolff

july

The Gangster We Are All Looking For by lê thi diem thúy
The Orphan Game by Ann Darby
Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver
Dogwalker by Arthur Bradford

june

We wish to inform you that tomorrow we will be killed with our families by Philip Gourevitch
About This Life by Barry Lopez
The Poetics of Space by Gaston Bachelard

may

The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner by Alan Sillitoe
The Wind-up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami

april

Anil’s Ghost by Michael Ondaatje
Poems of Akhmatova by Anna Akhmatova
Geography III by Elizabeth Bishop
Love Poems by Anne Sexton

march

The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides
Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen
The Book of Tea by Okakura Kakuzo
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

february

Poems, first series by Emily Dickinson
Ariel by Sylvia Plath
Wintering by Kate Moses
Optic Nerve 9 by Adrian Tomine

january

Sun Under Wood by Robert Hass
The Laying on of Hands by Alan Bennett
Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer
The Low East by David Henderson
My Year of Meats by Ruth L. Ozeki
Blankets by Craig Thompson
A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway

2003

december

The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
Cinnamon Gardens by Shyam Selvadurai

november

Palestine by Joe Sacco
The Waste Land and other poems by T.S. Eliot
Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
Valencia by Michelle Tea
The Intuitionist by Colson Whitehead

october

Evidence by Candy Jernigan
Illuminations by Arthur Rimbaud
Wicked by Gregory Maguire
Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser
Sell Yourself Without Selling Your Soul by Susan Harrow
The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
Ghost World by Daniel Clowes
The Autobiography of Red by Anne Carson

september

The Elephant Vanishes by Haruki Murakami
Marginalia: Readers Writing in Books by H.J. Jackson
Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned by Walter Mosley
The Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane Jacobs
Kiss of the Spider Woman by Manuel Puig
Kafka was the Rage by Anatole Broyard
Forbidden Colors by Yukio Mishima

august

Fear of Dreaming by Jim Carroll
Who Will Run the Frog Hospital? by Lorrie Moore
A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky

july

The Toughest Indian in the World by Sherman Alexie
Rapture by Susan Minot
Beloved Chicago Man: Letters to Nelson Algren 1947–64 by Simone de Beauvoir

june

The Kiss and Other Stories by Anton Chekhov
The Beauty of the Husband by Anne Carson
The River of Lost Voices by Mark Brazaitis
Power Politics by Arundhati Roy
Ship Fever by Andrea Barrett

may

New Addresses by Kenneth Koch
The Stories of John Cheever by John Cheever
Camera Lucida by Roland Barthes
Disobedience by Alice Notley
Close Range by Annie Proulx
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
Circling the Drain by Amanda Davis

april

Across the Bridge by Mavis Gallant
Atomic Field by Nicholas Christopher
And Her Soul Out of Nothing by Olena Kalytiak Davis
Sister of My Heart by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
The Sweet Hereafter by Russell Banks
Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino
The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
South of France by Sara Midda
The Book of Questions by Pablo Neruda

march

Poems 4 a.m. by Susan Minot
The Middleman and Other Stories by Bharati Mukherjee
The Panther and the Lash by Langston Hughes
Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage by Alice Munro
Those Who Ride the Night Winds by Nikki Giovanni
After the Quake by Haruki Murakami
Jasmine by Bharati Mukherjee
Presentation Piece by Marilyn Hacker

february

Just as I Thought by Grace Paley
Everything That Rises Must Converge by Flannery O’Connor
Deepstep Come Shining by C.D. Wright
The Seven Ages by Louise Glück
Men in the Off Hours by Anne Carson
The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy

january

The Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston
Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn
Manhattan Transfer by John Dos Passos


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