Brent's Books 2022

1. Joy in the Morning
P. G. Wodehouse

2. Lolly Willowes
Sylvia Townsend Warner

3. The God Who Sees
Karen Gonzales

4. Too Loud a Solitude
Borumil Hrabal

5. The House on Mango Street
Sandra Cisneros

6. Being Consumed: Economics and Christian Desire
William T. Cavanaugh

7. The Tao Te Ching
Lao Tzu (trans. Brian Browne Walker)

8. Abandon
Sangeeta Bandyopadhyay (tran. by Arunava Sinha)

9. The Fugitive (tran. Willem Samuels)
Pramoedya Ananta Toer

10. This Book Is For You: I Hope You Find It Mildly Uplifting
Worry Lines

11. Bible of the Oppressed
Elsa Tamez

12. Exactly As You Are: The Life and Faith of Mister Rogers
Shea Tuttle

13. Madman at Kilifi
Clifton Gachagua

14. The Weary Blues
Langston Hughes

15. Harrow
Joy Williams

16. Season of Migration to the North
Tayeb Salih

17. Returning
Henry Green

18. Jesus Christ and Mythology
Rudolf Bultmann

19. The Art of Asking Your Boss For a Raise
Georges Perec

20. Imaginary Museums
Nicolette Polek

21. Thirst
Amélie Nothomb

22. The Cabinet
Kim Un-su

23. Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont
Elizabeth Taylor

24. Sonnets from the Portuguese
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

25. Multiple Choice
Alejandro Zambra

26. On Juneteenth
Annette Gordon-Reed

27. Father Abraham's Children: The Bible In a World of Religious Difference
Tyler D. Mayer

28. Rabbit 8
George Saunders

29. The Mandlebaum Gate
Muriel Spark

30. The Age of Cage
Keith Phipps

31. St. Sebastian's Abyss
Mark Haber

32. McGlue
Otessa Mosfegh

33. Crucifixion
Martin Hengel

34. The Silence
Don DeLillo

35. An Introduction to Womanist Biblical Interpretation
Nyasha Junior

36. Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay
Elena Ferrante

37. A Psalm for the Wild-Built
Becky Chambers

38. Devil House
John Darnielle

39. The Doloriad
Missouri Williams

40. The Aenid
Virgil, trans. Sarah Ruden

41. A Ghost in the Throat
Doireann Ni Ghriofa

42. Catch a Wave: The Rise, Fall, and Redemption of the Beach Boys’ Brian Wilson
Peter Ames Carlin

43. The Fifties
David Halberstam

44. When Women Kill
Alia Trabucco Zeran, trans. Sophie Hughes

45. McMindfulness: How Mindfulness Became the New Capitalist Spirituality
Ronald E. Purser

46. Open Secrets
Alice Munro

47. A Farewell to Arms
Ernest Hemingway

48. Forty Stories
Donald Barthelme

49. Your Brain’s Not Broken
Tamara Rosier, Ph. D.

50. A Prayer for the Crown Shy

Becky Chambers

51. The Republic

Plato

52. Evangelical Anxiety

Charles Marsh

53. A Wizard of Earthsea

Ursula K. LeGuin

54. Before Freedom: When I Just Can Remember

Various, Edited by Belinda Hurmence

55. Short Stories by Jesus: The Enigmatic Parables of a Controversial Rabbi

Amy Jill-Levine

 

56. Siddhartha

Herman Hesse 

57. The Magician's Elephant

Kate DiCamillo

58. Exercises in Style

Raymond Queneau

 

59. God's Country

Percival Everett

 

60. Distant Star

Roberto Bolaño

 

61. No One Is Talking About This

Patricia Lockwood

 

62. Spadework for a Palace

László Krasznahorkai 

 

63. The Cave and the Light: Plato Versus Aristotle, and the Struggle for the Soul of Western Civilization

Arthur Herman

 

64. Free Day

Inez Cagnati

Billy's Books 2022

1. Packing for Mars
by Mary Roach

2. Polar Vortex

by Shani Mootoo

3. Fuzz 

by Mary Roach

4. The House in the Cerulean Sea

by T.J. Klune

5. Homie

by Danez Smith

6. A Dream of a Woman

by Casey Plett

7. She Kills Me

by Jennifer Wright

8. 100 Boyfriends

by Brontez Purnell

9. Tunnel 29

by Helena Merriman

10. Messy Roots

by Laura Gao

11. Dead Wake

by Erik Larson

12. Sarahland

by Sam Cohen

13. They Said They Wanted Revolution

by Neda Toloui-Semnani

14. Filthy Animals

by Brandon Taylor

15. I Kissed Shara Wheeler

by Casey McQuiston

16. Witch Please

by Ann Aguirre

17. The Left Hand of Darkness

by Ursula K. Le Guin

18. Swimming in the Dark

by Tomasz Jedrowski

19. Read Between the Lines

by Rachel Lacey

20. The Chosen and the Beautiful

by Nghi Vo

21. Gender Euphoria

by Laura Kate Dale

22. Nevada

by Imogen Binnie

23. How the Word is Passed

by Clint Smith III

24. Bolla

by Pajtim Statovci

25. Hot Stew

by Fiona Mozley

26. Lie With Me

by Philippe Besson

27. Intimacies

by Katie Kitamura

28. Husband Material

by Alexis Hall

29. By Way of Sorrow

by Robyn Gigl

30. Love Lives Here

by Amanda Jette Knox

31. Northern Spy

by Flynn Berry

32. Memorial

by Bryan Washington

33. Native Country of the Heart

by Cherrie Moraga

34. Satisfaction Guaranteed

by Karlia Stetz-Waters

35. Unfortunate Elements of My Anatomy

by Hailey Piper

36. Happy Go Lucky

by David Sedaris

37. Payback's a Witch

by Lana Harper

38. Guncle

by Steven Rowley

39. M is for Monster

by Talia Dutton

40. Amora

by Natalia Borges Polesso

41. Manhunt

by Gretchen Felker-Martin

42. Fairy Tale

by Stephen King

Brittany's Books 2022

Christopher's Books 2022

110. The Passenger
by Cormac McCarthy
109. The Cross
by Sigrid Undset
108. A Maze of Death
by Philip K. Dick
107. A Curtain of Green
by Eudora Welty
106. Deep South
by Paul Theroux
105. The Scapegoat
by Daphne du Maurier
104. The Lathe of Heaven
by Ursula K. Le Guin
103. Divine Invasions
by Lawrence Sutin
102. What's Bred in the Bone
by Robertson Davies
101. Two Girls, Fat and Thin
by Mary Gaitskill
100. Six Walks
by Ben Shattuck
99. The Wedding
by Dorothy West
98. The Ministry of Fear
by Graham Greene
97. Beka Lamb
by Zee Edgell
96. Invitation to a Beheading
by Vladimir Nabokov
95. My Phantoms
by Gwendoline Riley
94. Guerrillas
by V. S. Naipaul
93. Infinity in the Palm of Her Hand
by Gioconda Belli
92. This Earth of Mankind
by Pramoedya Ananta Toer
91. A View of the Harbour
by Elizabeth Taylor
90. The Park and the People
by Roy Rosenzwieg and Elizabeth Blackmar
89. Mr. Beethoven
by Paul Griffiths
88. Our Lady of the Nile
by Scholastique Mukasonga
87. A Kindness Cup
by Thea Astley
86. The Topeka School
by Ben Lerner
85. The Wichita Lineman
by Dylan Jones
84. Gorilla, My Love
by Toni Cade Bambara
83. Awake
by Harald Voetmann
82. Birds of America
by Mary McCarthy
81. This Blinding Absence of Light
by Tahar Ben Jelloun
80. Yonnondio
by Tillie Olsen
79. The Organs of Sense
by Adam Ehrlich Sachs
78. Little Eyes
by Samantha Schweblin
77. Devil House
by John Darnielle
76. Even As We Breathe
by Annette Saunooke Clapsaddle
75. Jesus and John Wayne
by Kristin Kobes Du Mez
74. When Rain Clouds Gather
by Bessie Head
73. Europe Central
by William T. Vollmann
72. As I Lay Dying
by William Faulkner
71. High Tide
by Inga Abele
70. Fiskadoro
by Denis Johnson
69. Painting Time
by Maylis de Kerangal
68. Blindness
by Henry Green
67. Run River
by Joan Didion
66. The Little Town Where Time Stood Still
by Bohumil Hrabal
65. The Cost of Living
by Mavis Gallant
64. Northland
by Porter Fox
63. Too Much Happiness
by Alice Munro
62. Explosion in a Cathedral
by Alejandro Carpentier
61. Wild Souls
by Emma Marris
60. Lonesome Dove
by Larry McMurtry
59. Nobody Gets Out Alive
by Leigh Newman
58. Adventures in the Alaskan Skin Trade
by John Hawkes
57. The Unpassing
by Chia-Chia Lin
56. The Citadel of the Autarch
by Gene Wolfe
55. The Pickup
by Nadine Gordimer
54. God's Bits of Wood
by Sembene Ousmane
53. The Lover
by Marguerite Duras
52. Brotherhood
by Mohamed Mbougar Sarr
51. Consider This, Senora
by Harriet Doerr
50. Earthworks Rising
by Chadwick Allen
49. Shell Shaker
by LeAnne Howe
48. Memoirs of Many in One
by Patrick White
47. Desperate Characters
by Paula Fox
46. Driftless
by David Rhodes
45. Breaking and Entering
by Joy Williams
44. The Red Badge of Courage
by Stephen Crane
43. March
by Geraldine Brooks
42. The Diary of a Country Priest
by George Bernanos
41. The Lying Life of Adults
by Elena Ferrante
40. Anagrams
by Lorrie Moore
39. Afterparties
by Anthony Veasna So
38. One of Ours
by Willa Cather
37. Gods Without Men
by Hari Kunzru
36. Storm
by George R. Stewart
35. Lost Children Archive
by Valeria Luiselli
34. Saint Sebastian's Abyss
by Mark Haber
33. Versailles
by Kathryn Davis
32. House Made of Dawn
by N. Scott Momaday
31. Voices from Chernobyl
by Svetlana Alexievich
30. The Use of Man
by Aleksandar Tisma
29. La Bastarda
by Trifonia Melibea Obono
28. Paradise
by Abdulrazak Gurnah
27. Celestial Bodies
by Jokha Alharthi
26. The Villagers
by Jorge Icaza
25. The Tragic and Wondrous Life of Ivan and Ivana
by Maryse Conde
24. The Day Lasts More Than a Hundred Years
by Chingiz Aitmatov
23. The Bridegroom Was a Dog
by Yoko Tawada
22. Search History
by Eugene Lim
21. Under the Sea Wind
by Rachel Carson
20. On Lighthouses
by Jazmina Barrera
19. Pedro Paramo
by Juan Rulfo
18. Winter in Sokcho
by Elisa Shua Dusapin
17. The Old Gringo
by Carlos Fuentes
16. Annie John
by Jamaica Kincaid
15. The Pilgrim Hawk
by Glenway Wescott
14. Hoarders
by Kate Durbin
13. When We Cease to Understand the World
by Benjamin Labatut
12. Heaven
by Mieko Kawakami
11. Not to Disturb
by Muriel Spark
10. White Noise
by Don DeLillo
9. The Death of Jim Loney
by James Welch
8. An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States
by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
7. My Heart is a Chainsaw
by Stephen Graham Jones
6. Solar Storms
by Linda Hogan
5. Sacred Smokes
by Theo C. Van Alst Jr.
4. The Antelope Wife
by Louise Erdrich
3. Prudence
by David Treuer
2. Ceremony
by Leslie Marmon Silko
1. J R
by William Gaddis

Jeremiah's Books 2017

1. Confronting the Classics, Mary Beard
2. Peril at End House, Agatha Christie
3. An Ember in the Ashes, Sabaa Tahir

Randy's Books 2017

(1) The Familiar, Volume 3: Honeysuckle & Pain
by Mark Z. Danielewski

(2) Executing Freedom: The Cultural Life of Capital Punishment in the United States
by Daniel LaChance

(3) The Paris Review, No. 219, Winter 2016

(4) One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
by Ken Kesey

(5) The Paris Review, No. 220, Spring 2017

(6) The Satanic Verses
by Salman Rushdie

(7) Don Quixuote
by Miguel de Cervantes

(8) The Gunslinger
by Stephen King

(9) Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us
by Daniel H. Pink

(10) Lectures on Don Quixote
by Vladimir Nabokov

(11) Friend & Foe: When to Cooperate, When to Compete, and How to Succeed at Both
by Adam Galinsky & Maurice Schweitzer

(12) The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
by Junot Diaz

(13) Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration
by Ed Catmull with Amy Wallace

(14) The Winning Oral Argument: Enduring Principles with Supporting Comments from the Literature
by Bryan Garner

(15) Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise
by Anders Ericsson & Robert Pool

(16) The Paris Review, No. 221, Fall 2017

(17) The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century
by Steven Pinker

Best of, 2017.

Billy's Books 2017

1. The Sellout
by Paul Beatty

2. Gulp
by Mary Roach

3. The Last Days of the Incas
by Kim MacQuarrie

4. Who Thought This Was a Good Idea?
by Alyssa Mastromonaco

5. Cork Dork
by Bianca Bosker

6. The Secret Life of Bees
by Sue Monk Kidd

7. The Name of the Wind
by Patrick Rothfuss

Brittany's Books 2017

Brittany's Books 2017

a potentially inaccurate list due to #thatgradschoollife

Brittany's Top 3 Books of 2017

20. An Unnecessary Woman by Rabih Alameddine
19. The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen
18. Year of Yes: How to Dance It Out, Stand in the Sun, and Be Your Own Person by Shonda Rhimes (audio)
17. Before the Devil Breaks You by Libba Bray (audio)
16. My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness by Kabi Nagata 
15. Hamilton: The Revolution by Jeremy McCarter, Lin-Manuel Miranda (audio)

14. Juliet Takes a Breath by Gabby Rivera (audio)

13. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

12. Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince

11. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

10. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

9. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

8. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

7. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
6. Working Stiff: 2 Years, 262 Bodies, and the Making of a Medical Examiner by Judy Melinek (audio)

5. The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas (audio)

4. The Chemist by Stephanie Meyer (audio)

3. One More Thing by BJ Novak (audio)

2. Binti by Nnedi Okorafor (audio)

1. Stiff: The Curious Life of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach (audio)

Unfinished Books: 
Here I Am by Jonathan Safran Foer
What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky by Lesley Nneka Arimah

Chloe's Books 2017

1. Robinson by Muriel Spark
2. The Brothers Vonnegut by Ginger Strand
3. Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
4. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
5. The Dud Avocado by Elaine Dundy
6. Behind the Beautiful Forevers by Katherine Boo
7. My Name is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout
8. Commonwealth by Ann Patchett
9. The Perfect Storm by Sebastian Junger
10. Every Day by David Levithan
11. A Constellation of Vital Phenomena by Anthony Marra
12. A Field Guide to Getting Lost by Rebecca Solnit
13. The Mandelbaum Gate by Muriel Spark
14. The Road by Cormac McCarthy
15. A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
16. Eligible by Curtis Sittenfeld
17. The Rules Do Not Apply by Ariel Levy
18. A Kind of Freedom by Margaret Wilkerson Sexton
19. Hillbilly Elegy by J.D. Vance
20. Nobody is Ever Missing by Catherine Lacey
21. The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
22. Gods of Gotham by Lyndsay Faye
23. The Ministry of Utmost Happiness by Arundhati Roy
24. Shrill by Lindy West
25. Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman
26. Bringing Up Bébé by Pamela Druckerman
27. The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
28. The Fly Trap by Frederik Sjöberg
29. Expecting Better by Emily Oster
30. How to Build a Girl by Caitlin Moran
31. Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret. by Judy Blume
32. A Wind in the Door by Madeleine L'Engle
33. A Swiftly Tilting Planet by Madeleine L'Engle
34. Only the Little Bone by David Huddle
35. Under the Udala Trees by Chinelo Okparanta
36. Sweetbitter by Stephanie Danler
37. Moonglow by Michael Chabon
38. Gift from the Sea by Anne Morrow Lindbergh
39. The House Girl by Tara Conklin
40. Men We Reaped Jesmyn Ward
41. Coming to my Senses by Alice Waters
42. La Belle Sauvage by Philip Pullman
43. When I was Puerto Rican by Esmerelda Santiago
44. At the Edge of the Orchard by Tracy Chevalier
45. Men Explain Things to Me by Rebecca Solnit
46. Cat's Eye by Margaret Atwood
47. Fates and Furies by Lauren Groff
48. The Leavers by Lisa Ko
49. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
50. The One Hundred Nights of Hero by Isabel Greenberg

Top 10 of 2017!

Christopher's Books 2017

67. Love in the Ruins
by Walker Percy
66. Molloy
by Samuel Beckett
65. Martian Time-Slip
by Philip K. Dick
64. Kristin Lavransdatter I: The Wreath
by Sigrid Undset
63. Foundation
by Isaac Asimov
62. Exercises in Style
by Raymond Queneau
61. The Country of the Pointed Firs
by Sarah Orne Jewett
60. The Art of Fiction
by John Gardner
59. Mr. Fortune
by Sylvia Townsend Warner
58. Count Magnus and Other Stories
by M. R. James
57. Demian
by Herman Hesse
56. The Bluest Eye
by Toni Morrison
55. Sanctuary
by William Faulkner
54. Purple Hibiscus
by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
53. The Republic of Wine
by Mo Yan
52. The Honorary Consul
by Graham Greene
51. Mystery and Manners
by Flannery O'Cononor
50. The Crossing
by Cormac McCarthy
49. Bird by Bird
by Anne Lamott
48. The Bingo Palace
by Louise Erdrich
47. Passing
by Nella Larsen
46. I Served the King of England
by Bohumil Hrabal
45. The Radiance of the King
by Camara Laye
44. Children of the Mind
by Orson Scott Card
43. The Glass Castle
by Jeanette Walls
42. Letty Fox: Her Luck
by Christina Stead
41. The Sinking of the Odradek Stadium
by Harry Mathews
40. Girl with the Curious Hair
by David Foster Wallace
39. The Bean Trees
by Barbara Kingsolver
38. Fifth Business
by Robertson Davies
37. The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz
by Mordecai Richler
36. A Death in the Family
by James Agee
35. Breakfast at Tiffany's
by Truman Capote
34. The Death of Napoleon
by Simon Leys
33. The Bachelors
by Muriel Spark
32. Dance of the Happy Shades
by Alice Munro
31. Sartor Resartus
by Thomas Carlyle
30. The Chess Garden
by Brooks Hansen
29. Nightwood
by Djuna Barnes
28. The House of Seven Gables
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
27. Universal Harvester
by John Darnielle
26. Don't Look Now
by Daphne du Maurier
25. Pitch Dark
by Renata Adler
24. Stoner
by John Williams
23. The Republic of Pirates
by Colin Woodard
22. The Twyborn Affair
by Patrick White
21. Independent People
by Halldor Laxness
20. The Medusa Frequency
by Russell Hoban
19. Runaway
by Alice Munro
18. We Have Always Lived in the Castle
by Shirley Jackson
17. The Confidence-Man
by Herman Melville
16. Solaris
by Stanislaw Lem
15. American Jesus
by Stephen Prothero
14. On Being Blue: A Philosophical Inquiry
by William Gass
13. Augustus
by John Williams
12. Girl Code
by Andrea Gonzales and Sophie Houser
11. The Spider's House
by Paul Bowles
10. The True Deceiver
by Tove Jansson
9. Loving
by Henry Green
8. Othello
by William Shakespeare
7. The Mosquito Coast
by Paul Theroux
6. A Perfect Vacuum
by Stanislaw Lem
5. The Underground Railroad
by Colson Whitehead
4. Dear Life
by Alice Munro
3. Herzog
by Saul Bellow
2. Hillbilly Elegy
by J. D. Vance
1. The Robber Bridegroom
by Eudora Welty