Books in bold are superior favorites.
January
(1) Curbing Traffic: The Human Case for Fewer Cars in our Lives, Chris and Melissa Bruntlett
(2) My Selma, Willie Mae Brown
(3) In Search of Zarathrustra, Paul Kriwaczek
(4) The Exchange, John Grisham
(5) Distracted by Alabama, John Seay Brown Jr
(6) Days at the Morisaki Bookshop, Satoshi Yagisawa
(7) What You are Looking For is in the Library, Michio Aoyoma
(8) Before the Coffee Gets Cold, Toshikazu Kawaguchi
(9) The Door to Door Bookstore, Carsten Henn
(10) The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry, Gabrielle Zevin
(11) Human Scale Revisited: A New Look at the Classic Case for a Decentralist Future, Kirkpatrick Sale
(12) Bad Religion: How We Became a Nation of Heretics, Ross Douhat
(13) Texas at the Coronation, D.A. Brock
(14) Shtetl Days, Harry Turtledove
(15) The Lone Star, the Tricolor, and the Swastika, D.A. Brock
(16) Texas in the Med, D.A. Brock
(17) Weird Things Customers Say in Bookshops, Jennifer Campbell
February
(18) Dark Age Ahead, Jane Jacobs
(19) The Luna Missile Crisis, Rhett C. Bruno & Jaime Castle
(20) With Love from London, Sarah Jio
(21) Self Help, Ben H. Winters
(22) Twain’s Feast, Nick Offerman
(23) The Seven Kinds of People You Find in Bookshops, Shaun Bythell
(24) Remainders of the Day, Shaun Bythell
(25) Convenience Store Woman, Sayaka Murata
(26) Audiobook for Convenience Store Woman, Sayaka Murata. Read by Nancy Wu.
(27) The Eighth Continent, Rhett C. Bruno and Felix Savage
(28) A Good Man is Hard to Find and Other Stories, Flannery O’Connor
(29) The Lonely Hearts Book Club, Lucy Gilmore
(30) The Lies of Our Time, Anthony Esolen
(31) The Hidden Life of Deer, Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
(32) The Downloaded, Robert Sawyer
(33) The Royal Society and the Invention of Modern Science, Adrian Tinniswood
(34) The Littlest Library, Poppy Alexander
(35) In the Company of Trees, Andrea Fereshsteh
(36) The Wold’s Largest Man: A Memoir, Harrison Scott Key
(37) Ballpark: Baseball in the American City, Paul Goldberger
(38) How to Stay Married, Harrison Scott Key
March
(39) Bad Therapy: Why the Kids Aren’t Growing Up, Abigail Schrier
(40) Troubled: A Memoir of Foster Care, Family, and Social Class, Rob Kim Henderson
(41) The Greatest Baseball Stories Ever Told, ed. Jeff Silverman
(42) Hunting a Detroit Tiger, Troy Soos
(43) The Way to Go: Moving by Sea, Land, and Air, Kate Ascher
(44) Lost City: The Forgotten Virtues of Community in America, Alan Ehrenhalt
(45) Video Game of the Year, Jordan Minor
(46) The Teammates: Portrait of a Friendship, David Halberstam
(47) Strange Gods: Unmasking the Idols in Everyday Life, Elizabeth Scalia
(48) Anxious People, Fredrik Backman
(49) P.G. Wodehouse in his Own Words, ed. Barry Day.
(50) Life Below Stairs: True Lives of Edwardian Servants, Alison Maloney
(51) A Right to Read: Segregation and Civil Rights in Alabama’s Public Libraries, Patterson Toby Graham
(52) Literature: What Every Catholic Needs to Know, Joseph Pearce
(53) Summer of ’49, David Halberstam
April
(54) Elizabeth’s London: Everyday Life in Elizabethan London, Liza Picard
(55) The Club: Johnson, Boswell, and the Friends Who Shaped an Age, Leo Damrosch
(56) Sons of the Waves, Stephen Taylor
(57) No King, No Country, Wayne Grant
(58) A Morbid Taste for Bones, Ellis Peters
(59) Longbow, Wayne Grant
(60) Warbow, Wayne Grant
(61) Broken Realm, Wayne Grant
(62) Ransomed Crown, Wayne Grant
(63) I Judge You By Your Bookshelf, Grant Snider
(64) A Prince of Wales, Wayne Grant
(65) Diary of a Tokyo Teen, Christine Mari Inzer
(66) The Science of Baseball, Will Carroll
May
(67) The Music Shop, Rachel Joyce
(68) The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, Rachel Joyce
(69) Taxi, Khaled al Khamissi
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