| Author | Title | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Chinua Achebe | Things Fall Apart | rec. by Jonathan |
| Eric Ambler | Journey into Fear | spy fiction |
| Kinsgley Amis | Money | mentioned in Art of Fiction |
| anonymous | The Perks of Being a Wallflower | rec. by Kate, Cassie's friend |
| Auster | City of Glass | mentioned in Art of Fiction |
| Henri Barbusse | Le Feu | |
| Barrett | Voyage of the Narwhal | rec. by Tom |
| Beckett | Malloy | rec. by Harish |
| Bedford | Legacy | Background is german history to ww1 between rich jewish family and landed gentry. all kinds of scandals and original anecdotes. followed by |
| Bedford | Jigsaw | The story of the narrator just born in previous book. South of France, artistic character, etc |
| John Buchan | The Thirty-Nine Steps | spy fiction |
| Samuel Butler | The Way of the Flesh | Dickens contemporary |
| Italo Calvino | Invisible Cities | rec. by Jim (Cassie) |
| Italo Calvino | Cosmicomics | rec. by Jim (Cassie), short stories |
| Italo Calvino | Italian Folk Tales | rec. by Jim (Cassie) |
| Italo Calvino | Winter's Night | Jim gave up |
| JM Coetzee | Waiting for the Barbarians | rec. by David Brown |
| Joseph Conrad | The Secret Agent | spy fiction |
| Coppola | The Conversation | spy thriller |
| Kamel Daoud | Meursault Investigation | rec. by economist and NYT 2015 top books |
| Len Deighton | Berlin Game | spy fiction |
| Enright | The Gathering | Irish wake |
| Faulkner | As I Lay Dying | rec. by Jonathan |
| Joshua Ferris | Then We Came to the End | Time top books |
| Ben Fountain | Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk | rec. by Aku |
| Fowles | The French Lieutenant's Woman | mentioned in Art of Fiction |
| Frayn | The Trick of It | mentioned in Art of Fiction |
| Gardner | Grendel | Beowulf told by other side |
| Elizabeth Gilbert | The Signature of All Things | rec. by Kate |
| Gogol | The Nose | |
| John Hall | Correspondence | rec. by Aku |
| Thomas Hardy | A Pair of Blue Eyes | mentioned in Art of Fiction |
| LP Hartley | The Go-Between | rec. by mom |
| Hasek | The Good Soldier Svejk | |
| Victor Hugo | Les miserables | |
| Kazuo Ishiguro | Never Let Me Go | Time top books |
| Han Kang | The Vegetarian | rec. by Economist |
| Milan Kundera | The Unbearable Lightness of Being | Alicia |
| Helen MacInnes | Assignment in Brittany | spy fiction |
| Thomas Malory | La Morte d'Arthur | |
| Javier Marias | A Heart So White | rec. by mom and Aku |
| David Maurer | The Dying Place | very hard to find... |
| Simon Mawer | The Glass Room | shortlisted for Booker |
| Jean-Patrick Manchette | Nada or The Prone Gunman or Three to Kill | rec. [the Economist](https://www.economist.com/books-and-arts/2020/09/03/discover-the-taut-political-thrillers-of-jean-patrick-manchette?frsc=dg |
| Helen McDonald | H is for Hawk | rec. by NYT 2015 Top books |
| Larry McMurtry | Dead Man's Walk, Comanche Moon, Streets of Laredo | |
| James Meek | The Heart Broke In | rec. by economist Dec. 1 2012 |
| A.D. Miller | Snowdrops | rec. by Econ 10/12/11 |
| Jan Morris | Conundrum | rec. by mom |
| Viet Thanh Nguyen | The Sympathizer | rec by mom |
| Joyce Carol Oates | We were the Mulvaney's | Alicia |
| Lauren Owen | The Quick | rec. by the Economist |
| Boris Pasternak | Docteur Zhivago | |
| George Perec | La vie, mode d'emploi | |
| George Perec | La disparition | lipogramme, sans e |
| Richard Price | Lush Life | Time top books |
| Yulian Semyonov | Seventeen Moments of Spring | spy fiction |
| Jane Smiley | Some Luck | rec by Aku |
| Kate Summerscale | The Wicked Boy | crime fiction, rec. by Economist |
| John Steinbeck | Log of the Sea of Cortez | rec. by Erik |
| Emily St John Mandel | Station Eleven | |
| Amor Towles | A Gentleman in Moscow | rec. by Kenton |
| Trollope | The way we live now | |
| Brian Van Reet | Spoils | rec by The Economist |
| David Foster Wallace | The Pale King | Erik |
| David Foster Wallace | A Supposidely Funny Thing... | rec. by Jess (2) |
| David Foster Wallace | Brief Interviews... | rec. by Jess (3) |
| Virginia Woolf | Orlando | |
| Stephan Zweig | Beware of Pity | rec. by mom |
| Author | Title | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Isacc Asimov | The Last Question | rec. by TJ |
| Isaac Asimov | Foundation and Earth, Prelude to Foundation, Forward to Foundation, The Galactic Empire Novels (have vol. 1 The Stars, Like Dust) | the ones I am missing |
| Leigh Bardugo | Six of Crows | rec. by Tim Buckley of CAD |
| Stephane Beauverger | Le Dechonologue | rec. by Julien INSA |
| Alex Berenson | The Counterfeit Agent | rec. by the Economist |
| Pierce Brown | Red Rising | Colt |
| Bernard Clavel | Le Royaume du Nord | rec. by Julien INSA |
| Ted Chiang | Exhalation | Colt |
| Agatha Christie | ABC Murders, And then there were none, Curtain, Endless Night, Affair Styles, Peril at End House, Murder Vicarage, Crooked house | |
| Yoshikawa Eiji | La Pierre et le Sabre | rec. by Julien INSA |
| Harlan Ellison | I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream | rec. by TJ |
| Ian Fleming | From Russia, with Love | economist spy article |
| William Gibson | Neuromancer | |
| Grimwood | Replay | rec. by Tom |
| Lev Grossman | The Magicians | Colt |
| Robert Jackson Bennett | The Tainted Cup | Colt |
| Jean-Philippe Jaworski | Janua Vera + | rec. by Julien INSA |
| Steven King | Dark Tower | Brandon |
| R.F. Kuang | Babel | Colt |
| Ann Leckie | Ancillary Justice | |
| Ursula K LeGuin | Earthsea series | have A Wizard of Earthsea |
| Robert Ludlum | Bourne Ultimatum | vol 3 of trilogy |
| G.R.R Martin | last read = A dance with dragons | |
| China Mieville | The Scar, Iron Council, King Rat | |
| Naomi Novik | His Majesty's Dragon | |
| Naomi Novik | Uprooted | |
| Matthew Quirk | The 500 | rec. by the Economist |
| Kim Stanley Robinson | Green Mars, Blue Mars | Babbage says ``exquisite'' |
| Brandon Sanderson | The Way of Kings | good series, rec. by Tattered Cover and Philip |
| Neal Stephenson | Anathem | rec. by Tattered Cover |
| Martha Wells | The Murderbot Diaries | rec by Colt and Brandon |
| Seishi Yokomizo | The Honjin Murders | rec. by Economist |
| Author | Title | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Child 44 | rec by Tom | |
| Beckert | Empire of Cotton | rec. by NYT 2015 Top books |
| David Bellos | Is That a Fish in Your Ear | rec. by Econ 10/12/11 |
| Edward Conard | Unintended Consequences | rec. by Mankiw |
| Brian Cox | Quantum Universe | rec. by Econ 10/12/11 |
| Christopher Evans | third reich trilogy | rec. by Jonathan |
| Ernest K. Gann | Fate is the Hunter | rec. by Tom |
| Peter Godfrey-Smith | Other minds : the octopus, the sea, and the deep origins of consciousness | rec. by Alex |
| Greaber | Debt | Kate Green |
| RLG | You Are What you Speak | rec. by Econ 10/12/11 |
| Richard Greene | Russian Roulette: the Life and Times of Graham Greene | |
| David Halberstam | The Coldest Winter | rec. by Tom |
| Chip Heath | Made to stick | rec. by Brandon |
| Laura Hillenbrand | Unbroken | highly rec. by Tom |
| Hitchens | God is not great | rec. by Harish |
| Phil Kay | Redeployement | rec. by Jonathan |
| Kinder | A Ship of Gold in the Deeep Blue Sea | rec. by Tom |
| Dean King | A Sea of Words | Patrick O'Brian Lexicon |
| Robert Kurson | Rocket Men | rec. by Econ and Shashank |
| D. Lieven | Russia Against Napoleon | War and Peace by a historian |
| Fredrik Logevall | Embers of War | spy WWII, rec. by the Economist |
| Macintyre | The Spy and the Traitor | spy non fiction, MI6, rec by Econ. |
| Mader | Human Biology | biology book in Pati's class |
| Steve McConnell | Code Complete | |
| Alexander McKee | Wreck of the Medusa | rec. by Tom |
| John Mullan | What Matters in Jane Austen? Twenty Crucial Puzzles Solved | rec. by the Economist |
| Clare Mulley | The Spy Who Loved | spy WWII, rec. by the Economist |
| Alec Nevala-Lee | Astounding | history of science fiction |
| Nietzsche | Gay Science | |
| Shedroff Noessel | Make it so | rec. by ep. 96 99pi, design in scifi |
| George Orwell | Homage to Catalonia | |
| Nathaniel Philbrick | Endurance | rec. by Tom |
| Jonathan Rasmusson | The Agile Samurai | |
| Roach | Grunt | |
| Sotomayor | My Beloved World | rec. by Aku |
| Jeffrey Toobin | The Nine | rec. by Jonathan |
| Jay Winik | April 1865 | rec. by Tom |
| Irvin Yalom | When Nietzsche Wept | rec. by Claire |
| Irvin Yalom | Love´s Executioner | non-fiction rec. by Claire |