This post will be updated as books are completed and years pass.

Full library here. Recommendations welcome!

2019

1. Fox 8 by George Saunders
2. Mere Christianity by C. S. Lewis
3. Moderan by David R. Bunch
4. Air Guitar: Essays on Art and Democracy by Dave Hickey
5. Let’s Go (So We Can Get Back) by Jeff Tweedy [audiobook]
6. Anthem by Ayn Rand
7. Phantastes By George MacDonald
8. Florida by Lauren Groff
9. Laws of Media: The New Science by Marshall McLuhan and Eric McLuhan
10. Mr. Pye by Mervyn Peake
11. The Stranger from Paradise: A Biography of William Blake by G.E. Bentley
12. The Wanderer by Timothy J. Jarvis
13. The Hero and the Outlaw: Building Extraordinary Brands Through the Power of Archetypes by Margaret Mark and Carol Pearson
14. Between The World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
15. The Door to Saturn by Clark Ashton Smith
16. A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman
17. Member by Michael Cisco
18. An Alien Heat, Volume One of “The Dancers at the End of Time” by Michael Moorcock
19. The Hollow Lands, Volume Two of “The Dancers at the End of Time” by Michael Moorcock
20. The End of All Song, Volume Three of “The Dancers at the End of Time” by Michael Moorcock
21. The Hero with a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell
22. The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
23. Black Leopard, Red Wolf by Marlon James
24. Tremendous Trifles by G. K. Chesterton
25. ABC of Relativity by Bertrand Russell
26. The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
27. The Wide, Carnivorous Sky and Other Monstrous Geographies by John Langan
28. Half Gods by Akil Kumarasamy
29. The Light is the Darkness by Laird Barron
30. Recursion by Blake Crouch
31. Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol

...so far

2018

1. The Rings of Saturn by WG Sebald
2. Postmodernism in Pieces by Matthew Mullins
3. Mythologies by Roland Barthes
4. In The Distance by Hernan Diaz
5. The Changeling by Victor LaValle
6. The Secret Lives of Color by Kassia St Clair
7. The Water Knife by Paolo Bacigalupi
8. The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson
9. The Accusation by Bandi
10. Semiotics: The Basics by Daniel Chandler
11. In Praise of Shadows by Jun'ichirō Tanizaki
12. The History of Bees by Maja Lunde
13. The Moon is Down by John Steinbeck
14. Language, Truth and Logic by Alfred Jules Ayer
15. The Narrator by Michael Cisco
16. When You Are Engulfed in Flames by David Sedaris
17. Elements of Semiology by Roland Barthes
18. In the River by Jeremy Robert Johnson
19. The Weight of Glory by CS Lewis
20. Crystal Eaters by Shane Jones
21. Contradict by Andy Wrasman
22. The Afflictions by Vikram Paralkar
23. White Tears by Hari Kunzru
24. The Solid Form of Language by Robert Bringhurst
25. East of Eden by John Steinbeck
26. Aickman’s Heirs edited by Simon Strantzas
27. Ficciones by Jorge Luis Borges
28. Unlanguage by Michael Cisco
29. Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
30. The Shape of Things: A Philosophy of Design by Vilém Flusser
31. Largesse of the Sea Maiden by Denis Johnson
32. Embassytown by China Miéville
33. When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi
34. The Cloven by Brian Catling
35. Walden by Henry David Thoreau
36. The Sisters Brothers by Patrick DeWitt
37. Blow-up, and other stories by Julio Cortázar
38. In The Darkroom by Susan Faludi
39. CivilWarLand in Bad Decline by George Saunders
40. Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez
41. Deeper Into Pictures by Flint Schier
42. Wave by Sonali Deraniyagala
43. Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
44. A Little Manual for Knowing by Esther Lightcap Meek
45. Boy in Darkness, and Other Stories by Mervyn Peake
46. Jim Henson: The Biography by Brian Jay Jones
47. Crandolin by Anna Tambour
48. Book of Mercy by Leonard Cohen
49. Compass by Mathias Énard
50. Friday Black by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah

2017

1. Time Travel by James Gleick
2. Don’t Read This Book by Donald Roos
3. A Constellation of Vital Phenomena by Anthony Marra
4. Sprint by Jake Knapp
5. Universal Harvester by John Darnielle
6. Culture Making by Andy Crouch
7. Benjamin Franklin by Carl van Doren
8. The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat by Oliver Sacks
9. Symbols: A Handbook for Seeing by Mark Fox and Angie Wang
10. Dark Matter by Blake Crouch
11. Intercom on Starting Up by Intercom
12. Discipline and Punish by Michel Foucault
13. Borne: A Novel by Jeff Vandermeer
14. The Boats of the Glen Carrig by William Hope Hodgson
15. The Worm Ouroboros by E R Eddison
16. The Stranger by Albert Camus
17. This is Not a Pipe by Michel Foucault
18. What’s Best Next by Matt Perman
19. The Strange Bird by Jeff Vandermeer
20. Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders
21. The Vorrh by Brian Catling
22. Asteroid Made of Dragons of G. Derek Adams
23. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz
24. Bernini in Rome: Gian Lorenzo Bernini and the Baroque in Rome by Paul den Arend
25. The Erstwhile by Brian Catling
26. Brand New: The Shape of Brands to Come by Wally Olins
27. The North Water by Ian McGuire
28. The Library at Mount Char by Scott Hawkins
29. The Fisherman by John Langan
30. The Sarah Book by Scott McLanahan
31. Stephen Florida by Gabe Habash
32. The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell

2016

1. Goya by Robert Hughes
2. Reading Like A Writer by Francine Prose
3. The Presidency of George Washington by Forrest McDonald
4. Essentialism by Greg McKeown
5. Dissident Gardens by Jonathan Lethem
6. Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
7. Language and Myth by Ernst Cassirer
8. Wonder by AJ Palacio
9. The Orphan Master’s Son by Adam Johnson
10. Dog Stars by Peter Heller
11. The Everlasting Man by GK Chesterton
12. Area X: The Southern Reach: Annihilation by Jeff Vandermeer
13. Area X: The Southern Reach: Authority by Jeff Vandermeer
14. Area X: The Southern Reach: Acceptance by Jeff Vandermeer
15. The Divine Conspiracy by Dallas Willard
16. The Princess and The Goblin by George MacDonald
17. The Tsar of Love and Techno by Anthony Marra
18. The Great Divorce by CS Lewis
19. Slade House by David Mitchell
20. The Hike by Drew Magary
21. Zero K by Don DeLillo

2015

1. Simulacra and Simulation by Jean Baudrillard
2. Caravaggio: Painter of Miracles by Francine Prose
3. You and Me Forever by Francis and Lisa Chan
4. The Imperfectionists by Tom Rachman
5. Tenth of December by George Saunders
6. The Medium is the Massage by Marshall McLuhan
7. The Interestings by Meg Wolitzer
8. Wabi-Sabi for Artists, Designers, Poets, and Philosphers by Leonard Koren
9. Basics of Semiotics by John Deely
10. Orthodoxy by GK Chesterton
11. The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Expuréry
12. Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein
13. Proof by Daniel Montgomery and Timothy Paul Jones
14. Go Set A Watchman by Harper Lee
15. Seventy-nine Short Essays on Design by Michael Bierut

2014

1. Color Psychology and Color Therapy by Faber Birren
2. Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
3. A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
4. Paul Rand: Conversations with Students by Michael Kroeger
5. Emotional Branding by Marc Gobé
6. Just My Type by Simon Garfield
7. Wild at Heart by John Eldredge
8. The Strategic Designer by David Holston
9. Common Sense by Thomas Paine
10. Confessions by St Augustine
11. Love Wins by Rob Bell
12. Erasing Hell by Francis Chan and Preston Sprinkle
13. Manufacturing Consent by Noam Chomsky and Edward Herman
14. EntreLeadership by Dave Ramsey
15. Wolf in White Van by John Darnielle

2013

1. How To Be A Graphic Designer Without Losing Your Soul by Adrian Shaughnessy
2. The Elements of Typographic Style by Robert Bringhurst
3. God in a Cup: The Obsessive Quest for the Perfect Coffee by Michaele Weissman
4. Designing Brand Identity by Alina Wheeler
5. Brand Identity Essentials
6. The Shape of Design by Frank Chimero
7. Design is a Job by Joe Montero
8. The 17 Essential Qualities of a Team Player by John C. Maxwell
9. ideaSelling by Sam Harrison
10. Ways of Seeing by John Berger
11. A Hologram for the King by Dave Eggers
12. Let The Great World Spin by Colum McCann
13. Design As Art by Bruno Munari
14. On Writing by Stephen King
15. The Creative Gift by HR Rookmaaker
16. The Beginner’s Guide to Colour Psychology by Angela Wright
17. Purity of the Heart is to Will One Thing by Søren Kierkegaard