This year, Brady Gerber is reading…
Julian Barnes – The Sense of an Ending
Thomas E. Ricks – Churchill & Orwell
Ali Smith – Autumn
Herman Melville – Moby-Dick
George Orwell – A Collection of Essays
Simon Reynolds – Energy Flash
Kate Bernheimer – How a Mother Weaned Her Girl from Fairy Tales
Sam Shepard – Spy of the First Person
Ling Ma – Severance
Kate Bernheimer and Laird Hunt – Office at Night
Matt Johnson – Loving Day
Jason Brown – Why the Devil Chose New England for His Work
Jesse Ball – The Divers’ Game
Patrick DeWitt – French Exit
Henrik Ibsen – A Doll’s House and Other Plays
Edna O’Brien – James Joyce
Toni Morrison – Beloved
David A. Carson – Grit, Noise, and Revolution: The Birth of Detroit Rock ‘n’ Roll
Gary Graff & Tom Weschler – Travelin’ Man: On the Road and Behind the Scenes with Bob Seger
Steve Miller – Detroit Rock City
Edward Sarkis Balian – Turn the Page: The Bob Seger Story
Sally Rooney – Normal People
Téa Obreht – The Tiger’s Wife
Colum McCann – Thirteen Ways of Looking
Peter Carey – A Long Way from Home
Rob Sheffield – On Bowie
Tayari Jones – An American Marriage
William Finnegan – Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life
Haruki Murakami – The Elephant Vanishes
Kim Gordon – Girl in a Band
Donna Tartt – The Goldfinch
Helen MacDonald – H is for Hawk
Ta-Nehisi Coates – The Beautiful Struggle
Haruki Murakami & Seiji Ozawa – Absolutely On Music: Conversations
Stephen Hawking – Brief Answers to the Big Questions
Anthony Doerr – Memory Wall
Maggie Shipstead – Seating Arrangements
Karan Mahajan – The Association of Small Bombs
Mark Manson – The Subtle Art of Not Giving a #@%!
Caroline Criado Perez – Invisible Women
George R.R. Martin – A Game of Thrones
David Finkel – The Good Soldiers
Sally Rooney – Conversations with Friends
Dexter Filkins – The Forever War
Jaroslav Kalfař – Spaceman of Bohemia
Thomas Pierce – The Afterlives
Jared Diamond – Guns, Germs & Steel
Maurice Carlos Ruffin – We Cast a Shadow
Lauren Wilkinson – American Spy
Terry Southern – The Magic Christian
Benjamin Dreyer – Dreyer’s English
Steven Hyden – Twilight of the Gods
Dorian Lynskey – 33 Revolutions per Minute
Austin Kleon – Keep Going
James Baldwin – Another Country
Ben Myers – Green Day: American Idiots & the New Punk Explosion
Marc Spitz – Nobody Likes You
Elvis Costello – Unfaithful Music & Disappearing Ink
Orhan Pamuk – Istanbul: Memories and the City
Elizabeth McCracken – Bowlaway
Sam Lipsyte – Hark
Hanif Abdurraqib – Go Ahead in the Rain: Notes to a Tribe Called Quest
Lisa Halliday – Asymmetry
Heidi Julavits – The Vanishers
Binnie Kirshenbaum – History on a Personal Note
Joshua Furst – Short People
Rivka Galchen – Little Labors
Anne Carson – The Beauty of the Husband
Ben Marcus – The Flame Alphabet
Nathan Englander – Dinner at the Center of the Earth
Paul Beatty – The White Boy Shuffle
Ian Hunter – The Diary of a Rock ‘n’ Roll Star
Wayne D. Dosick – Living Judaism
Anita Diamant – Choosing a Jewish Life
Tom Wolfe – The Bonfire of the Vanities
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