2009
june
The Elegance of the Hedgehog
by Muriel Barbery
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
by Milan Kundera
may
Averno
by Louise Glück
Modern Life
by Matthea Harvey
Brideshead Revisited
by Evelyn Waugh
Art and Fear
by Paul Virilio
april
The Omnivore's Dilemma
by Michael Pollan
The Fatal Eggs
by Mikhail Bulgakov
march
Reading Lolita in Tehran
by Azar Nafisi
The Grapes of Wrath
by John Steinbeck
february
Wide Sargasso Sea
by Jean Rhys
Sleepwalking Land
by Mia Couto
Unaccustomed Earth
by Jhumpa Lahiri
january
Valley of the Dolls
by Jacqueline Susann
2008
december
Ficciones
by Jorge Luis Borges
The Boat
by Nam Le
november
Logotypes and Letterforms
by Doyald Young
Here is New York
by E.B. White
Play it as it Lays
by Joan Didion
Bottomfeeder
by Taras Grescoe
october
Make it Bigger
by Paula Scher
Collected Poems
by Paul Auster
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
by Raymond Carver
Where I Was From
by Joan Didion
september
Forever
by Pete Hamill
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
by Haruki Murakami
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
by Susanna Clarke
august
How to Breathe Underwater
by Julie Orringer
The Namesake
by Jhumpa Lahiri
Waiting for the Barbarians
by J.M. Coetzee
july
Disgrace
by J.M. Coetzee
You Shall Know Our Velocity
by Dave Eggers
Pale Fire
by Vladimir Nabokov
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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