The Man Who Killed the Deer, Frank Waters
The Secret of Scent: adventures in perfume and the science of smell, Luca Turin
Igor Stravinsky, an Autobiography
Always Say Goodbye, Stuart Kaminsky
Australian Contemporary Indigenous Art (three catalogs)
Bright Futures, Stuart Kaminsky
Preliminaries, S. Yizhar (Hebrew), early days of Jewish settlement 1917-1930
Murder on the Trans-Siberian Express, Stuart Kaminsky
Temporary Agency, Rachel Pollack
Irawaddy Tango, Wendy Law-Ione
Zayni Barakat, Gamal al-Ghitani
A Tale of Pierrot & Other Stories, George Dennison
The Glory of the Pythres, Richard Millet
Blackwater, Kerstin Ekman
The Mind Parasites, Colin Wilson
The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life, Erving Goffman
The Hollow-Eyed Angel Janwillem van de Wetering
* The Stone Raft, Jose Saramago
Oxford & Cambridge: An Uncommon History, Peter Sager
Relationscapes: Movement, Art, Philosophy, Erin Manning
Beware of Pity, Stefan Zweig
The Subtle Knife, Phillip Pullman (2nd in trilogy)
Oxford Travellers Companion, Richard Tames
Be My Knife, David Grossman
The Lady and the Unicorn, Tracy Chevalier
Stories of God, Rainer Maria Rilke
The Great Fire Shirley Hazzard
American Gods, Neil Gaiman
Stalin in the Bronx, Suzanne Ruta (enchanting stories/ Jewish emigres/US, Mexico/etc.)
Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant: a memoir, Roz Chast
The Three Pound Enigma, Lauren Moffett
Breaking the Spell Daniel Dennett
The Golden Compass (1st in trilogy)
The Pre-Raphaelite Dream, William Gaunt
Italian Short Stories ed. Massimo Riva
Nada, Carmen LaForet
The Distance Between Us, Masha Hamilton
The Amber Spyglass, Phillip Pullman (third in trilogy)
Pavilion of Women, Pearl S. Buck
How War Began, Keith Otterbein
The Lady & the Monk, Pico Ayer
Bobos in Paradise
Commodify Your Dissent
Conquered City, Victor Serge ***
Maria Callas, Arianna Stassinopolous
Childhood, Nathalie Sarraute
Andalucia, John Gill
The Invisible History of the Human Race/How DNA & History Shape Our Identities and Our Futures, Christine Kenneally
NeuroTribes Steve Silberman
The Library at Night, Alberto Manguel
White Mughals, William Dalrymple
The Hemingway Book Club of Kosovo, Paula Huntley
Felicia’s Journey, William Trevor
The Careful Use of Compliments, Alexander McCall Smith
* Eyes at the Window, Evie Yoder Miller (Amish settlers, 1810s-1860s)
Zombie Politics & Culture in the Age of Casino Capitalism, Henry Giroux
Speaking & Language Defense of Poetry, Paul Goodman
Today I Wrote Nothing, Daniil Kharms
B as in Beirut, Iman Humaydan Younes (trans. Max Weiss)
The Man from Beijing, Henning Mankell
X, Sue Grafton