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2017 Reads
- If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin ★★
- The Metamorphosis and Other Stories by Franz Kafka
- Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
- Under the Jaguar Sun by Italo Calvino
- The Shape of Time: Remarks on the History of Things by George Kubler
- Sum: Forty Tales form the Afterlives by David Eagleman
- Tiny Beautiful Things by Cheryl Strayed
- Vertigo by W.G. Sebald
- The Emigrants by W.G. Sebald ★★
- The Baron in the Trees by Italo Calvino ★★
- A Wanderer in the Perfect City: Selected Passion Pieces by Lawrence Weschler
- Grand Hotel by Vicki Baum
- Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography by Roland Barthes
- Boggs: A Comedy of Values by Lawrence Weschler
- The Complete Cosmicomics by Italo Calvino
- Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
- Last Chance to See by Douglas Adams ★★
- How Not to Die by Michael Greger
- Draft No. 4: On the Writing Process by John McPhee
- Two-Dimensional Man by Paul Sahre
- The Rings of Saturn by W.G. Sebald ★★
- The Trial by Franz Kafka ★
- Why Read the Classics? by Italo Calvino
- Numbers in the Dark and Other Stories by Italo Calvino
- The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky ★★
- The Railway Journey: The Industrialization and Perception of Time and Space by Wolfgang Schivelbusch
- Everything That Rises Must Converge: Stories by Flannery O’Connor
- Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth by Buckminster Fuller
- A Short History of Cahiers du Cinema by Emilie Bickerton
- The Door by Magda Szabó ★★
- Great Thinkers: Simple Tools from 60 Great Thinkers to Improve Your Life Today by The School of Life
- Painting As A Pastime by Winston Churchill ★
- Become What You Are by Alan Watts
- The Book on the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are by Alan Watts
- The Wisdom of Insecurity: A Message for an Age of Anxiety by Alan Watts
- Collected Stories by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- To the Lighthouse by Virgina Woolf ★★
- Seven Brief Lessons on Physics by Carlo Rovelli
- Travels with Charley: In Search of America by John Steinbeck
- Notes on the Cinematographer by Robert Bresson ★
- The Craftsman by Richard Sennett ★
- What We See When We Read by Peter Mendelsund
- Ways of Seeing by John Berger ★
- The Medium is the Massage by Marshall McLuhan
- Design as Art by Bruno Munari
- Understanding a Photograph by John Berger
- Animal Farm by George Orwell
- Becoming Wise: An Inquiry into the Mystery and Art of Living by Krista Tippett
- Clandestine in Chile: The Adventures of Miguel Littin by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- Strangers on a Train by Patricia Highsmith ★
- Parallel Thinking by Edward de Bono
- Lost in the Cosmos: The Last Self-Help Book by Walker Percy
- Catching the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity by David Lynch
- This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- The Willpower Instinct by Kelly McGonigal
- The Way to Wealth by Benjamin Franklin
- Waves Passing in the Night: Walter Murch in the Land of the Astrophysicists by Lawrence Weschler
- Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders ★
- The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin ★
- Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman! by Richard Feynman
- Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem
- The Awakening Body: Somatic Meditation for Discovering Our Deepest Life by Reginald Ray
- Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami ★
- Black Hole by Charles Burns
- The Complete Peanuts, Vol. 1: 1950-1952 by Charles Schulz
- The Now Habit by Neil A. Fiore
- What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami