Books

[2026]

The Lost Religion of Jesus:
Simple Living and Nonviolence in Early Christianity, Keith Akers

The Other Significant Others:
Reimagining Life with Friendship at the Center, Rhaina Cohen

Biography of a Fly, Jaap Robben

How to Speak Whale:
The Power and Wonder of Listening to Animals, Tom Mustill

A Small Place, Jamaica Kincaid

Meditations for Mortals, Oliver Burkeman

Stories of Your Life and Others, Ted Chiang

Steal Like an Artist, Austin Kleon

[2025]

Secrets of the Wild, Dustin M. Hoffman

Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters &
Seymour: An Introduction, J. D. Salinger

Imaginative Writing: The Elements of Craft, Janet Burroway

Nine Stories, J. D. Salinger

Hell Bent, Brian Recker

The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, Carson McCullers

Knock at the Sky:
Seeking God in Genesis after Losing Faith in the Bible,
Liz Charlotte Grant

Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life, Richard Rohr

The End of Everything, Katie Mack

The Day I Became a Bird, Ingrid Chabbert

Uncle Shelby's ABZ Book: A Primer for Adults Only, Shel Silverstein

Just Kids, Patti Smith

*Prince Caspian, C. S. Lewis

*The Horse and His Boy, C. S. Lewis

*Letters to a Young Poet, Rainer Maria Rilke

MEOW, Mark Baumer

Flat-Pack, Anney Bolgiano

Being Here: Prayers for Curiosity, Justice, and Love, Pádraig Ó Tuama

*The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, C. S. Lewis

Let Your Life Speak, Parker J. Palmer

Dark Tourist: Essays, Hasanthika Sirisena

Wabi-Sabi: for Artists, Designers, Poets & Philosophers, Leonard Koren

*Grief Is the Thing with Feathers, Max Porter

Men We Reaped: A Memoir, Jesmyn Ward

This Is Why You Dream:
What Your Sleeping Brain Reveals About Your Waking Life, Rahul Jandial

An Elemental Thing, Eliot Weinberger

What I Talk About When I Talk About Running, Haruki Murakami

Syzygy, Beauty: An Essay, T. Fleischmann

*Bluets, Maggie Nelson

Big Magic, Elizabeth Gilbert

[2024]

A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again, David Foster Wallace

Preparing for Christmas, Richard Rohr

Duplex, Mike Nagel

Essays and Fiction, Brad Phillips

Oranges, John McPhee

Daisy Jones & The Six, Taylor Jenkins Reid

Hum, Jamaal May

Do You Still Talk to Grandma?:
When the Problematic People in Our Lives Are the Ones We Love, Brit Barron

No Country for Old Men, Cormac McCarthy

Ordinary Beast: Poems, Nicole Sealey

Don't Come Back, Lina María Ferr Cabeza-Vanegas

The Tradition, Jericho Brown

Tenth of December, George Saunders

American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin, Terrance Hayes

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Junot Díaz

Incendiary Art: Poems, Patricia Smith

A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance, Hanif Abdurraqib

The Sympathizer, Viet Thanh Nguyen

I Done Clicked My Heels Three Times, Taylor Byas

The Empathy Exams, Leslie Jamison

Gilead, Marilynne Robinson

Devout: A Memoir of Doubt, Anna Gazmarian

New Seeds of Contemplation, Thomas Merton

White sun, Black sun, Jerome Rothenberg

Consider the Lobster and Other Essays, David Foster Wallace

The Selected Poems of Wendell Berry, Wendell Berry

Letters to Marc About Jesus, Henri J. M. Nowen

Yoke and Feather, Jessie Van Eerden

Culdesac, Mike Nagel

Slouching Towards Bethlehem, Joan Didion

Regarding the Pain of Others, Susan Sontag

I'm Never Fine: Scenes and Spasms on Loss, Joseph Lezza

Save the Cat! Writes a Novel, Jessica Brody

Year of the Monkey, Patti Smith

Everything That Rises Must Converge: Others, Flannery O'Conor

Bird by Bird, Anne Lammott

The Violent Bear It Away, Flannery O'Connor

A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories, Flannery O'Connor

Responding to Student Writers, Nancy Sommers

Wise Blood, Flannery O'Connor

[2023]

The Little Prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Gone Girl, Gillian Flynn

Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith, Anne Lammott

The Best American Essays 2022, Edited by Alexander Chee

The Orchid Thief, Susan Orlean

The In-Betweens: A Lyrical Memoir, Davon Loeb

High Fidelity, Nick Hornby

The Best American Short Stories 2022, Edited by Andrew Sean Greer

Girls and Their Horses, Eliza Jane Brazier

Into the Wild, Jon Krakauer

The City in Which I Love You, Li-Young Lee

First Person Singular: Stories, Haruki Murakami

Prayer: Finding the Heart's True Home, Richard J. Foster

The Voice of the Master, Kahlil Gibran

Between Midnight and Dawn, Sarah Arthur

The River Why, David James Duncan

The World According to Narnia, Jonathan Rogers

Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk, David Sedaris

[2022]

Leonard and Hungry Paul, Ronan Hession