2022
2021
- Crossroads by Jonathan Franzen
- Russian Roulette by Michael Isikoff and David Corn
- Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev
- Illuminations by Walter Benjamin
- Illness as Metaphor by Susan Sontag
- An Unsentimental Education: Writers and Chicago by Molly McQuade
- The Complete Tales of Nikolai Gogol, Volume 1 by Nikolai Gogol
- Orientalism by Edward Said
- Chatter by Ethan Kross
- International Adoption: Global Inequalities and the Circulation of Children by Laura Briggs
- Crazy Like Us: The Globalization of the American Psyche by Ethan Watters
- Adventures in Immediate Irreality by Max Blecher
- Representations of the Intellectual by Edward Said
- On Photography by Susan Sontag
- Der Nazi und der Friseur by Edgar Hilsenrath
- What Kinship Is And Is Not by Marshall Sahlins
- Letters of Transit: Reflections on Exile, Identity, Language, and Loss by André Aciman
- Children and the Politics of Cultural Belonging by Alice Hearst
- Letters to a Young Poet by Rainier Marie Rilke
- The Adolescent by Fyodor Dostoesvky
- The Tao of Fully Feeling: Harvesting Forgiveness out of Blame by Pete Walker
- Dying for an iPhone by Jenny Chan, Mark Selden, and Pun Ngai
- The Red Web by Andrei Soldatov and Irina Borogan
- The Biggest Bluff by Maria Konnikova
- The Village of Stepanchikovo by Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
- 40 Years With a Whistle by Dan John
- On Revolution by Hannah Arendt
- The Soviet Mind by Isaiah Berlin
- No Exit & The Flies by Jean-Paul Sartre
- Timbuktu by Paul Auster
- Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
- The Coast of Chicago by Stuart Dybek
- Endpapers: A Family Story of Books, War, Escape, and Home by Alexander Wolff
- Between Past and Future by Hannah Arendt
- Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents by Lindsay Gibson
- The Volga Tatars: A Profile in National Resilience by Azade-Ayse Rorlich
- One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
- The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow
- The Art of Showing Up: How to Be There for Yourself and Your People by Rachel Wilkerson Miller
- Consider the Lobster and Other Essays by David Foster Wallace
- White Noise by Don DeLilo
- The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
- Imperium by Ryszard Kapuściński
- Hannah Arendt: A Life in Dark Times by Anne Heller
- Eichmann in Jerusalem by Hannah Arendt
- Nomadland by Jessica Bruder
- Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
- Herkunft by Saša Stanišić
- The Privileged Poor: How Elite Colleges Are Failing Disadvantaged Students by Anthony Abraham Jack
- In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
- Attempts by Dan John
- Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang
- A World Without Email by Cal Newport
- Conditional Citizens by Laila Lalami
- The Question of German Guilt by Karl Jaspers
- The Sword in the Stone by T.H. White
- All the Rage: Mothers, Fathers, and the Myth of Equal Partnership by Darcy Lockman
- The Remedy: Robert Koch, Arthur Conan Doyle, and the Quest to Cure Tuberculosis by Thomas Goetz
- The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays by Albert Camus
- Between Two Fires: Truth, Ambition, and Compromise in Putin’s Russia by Joshua Yaffa
- First You Write a Sentence.: The Elements of Reading, Writing . . . and Life by Joe Moran
- My Name is Why by Lemn Sissay
- Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche
- Why Trust Science? by Naomi Oreskes
- Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
- Dirt to Soil: One Family’s Journey Into Regenerative Agriculture by Gabe Brown
- Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media by Noam Chomsky and Edward S. Herman
- A Small Corner of Hell: Dispatches from Chechnya by Anna Politkovskaya
- Missing Microbes: How the Overuse of Antibiotics Is Fueling Our Modern Plagues by Martin J. Blaser
- Culture Keeping: White Mothers, International Adoption, and the Negotiation of Family Difference by Heather Jacobson
- Gorbachev: His Life and Times by William Taubman
- The Stranger by Albert Camus
- A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
- Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World by Cal Newport (reread)
- Das Tagebuch der Anne Frank by Anne Frank
- Lost & Found: The Adoption Experience by Betty Jean Lifton
- Black-And-White Thinking: The Burden of a Binary Brain in a Complex World by Kevin Dutton
- The Emigrants by W.G. Sebald
- Ghosts in the Schoolyard: Racism and School Closings on Chicago’s South Side by Eve L. Ewing
- Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
- Innate: How the Wiring of Our Brains Shapes Who We Are by Kevin J. Mitchell
- Red Plenty: Inside the Fifties’ Soviet Dream by Francis Spufford
- The Human Condition by Hannah Arendt
- Adoption Healing . . . a path to recovery by Joe Soll
2020