Book Stacks
A fun archive of novels read over time.
2026
Toni Morrison - Jazz
Mizuki Tsuijimura - Lost Souls Meet Under a Full Moon
2025
Ayn Rand - Atlas Shrugged
Gabrielle Zevin - The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry
Ocean Vuong - On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous
Banana Yoshimoto - Kitchen
Michael Cunningham - The Hours
Rick Rubin - The Creative Act
Will Packer - Who Better Than You
N. Scott Momaday - House Made of Dawn
Colm Tóibín - Brooklyn
Colm Tóibín - Long Island
Kazushige Abe - Nipponia Nippon
Alice Munro - Runaway
Kaveh Akbar - Martyr!
Nguyen Phan Que Mai - Dust Child
2024
Haruki Murakami - A Wild Sheep’s Chase
Jack London - White Fang
Mark Twain - The Prince and The Pauper
S.E. Hinton - The Outsiders
Sara Gruen - Water for Elephants
Kazuo Ishiguro - Klara and the Sun
Charles Yu - Interior Chinatown
Sayaka Murata - Convenience Store Woman
Matsuo Basho - The Narrow Road to the Deep North and other stories
2023
Guy Kawasaki - Enchantment
James Clear - Atomic Habits
Natsume Sosek - Kokoro
Linda Kaplan Thaler & Robin Kobal - The Power of Nice
Haruki Murakami - The Strange Library
Alice Walker - The Color Purple
Gabrielle Zevin - Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
Marguerite Duras - The Lover
Mark Haddon - The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Kim Thúy - Mãn
Mark Twain - The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
John Steinbeck - The Pearl
Paul Harding - Tinkers
Julian Green - Paris
2022
Eric Nguyen - Things We Lost to the Water
Yu Miri - Tokyo Ueno Station
Joan Didion - Let Me Tell You What I Mean
Mark Twain - Pudd’nhead Wilson
Min Jin Lee - Pachinko
Emily Brontë - Wuthering Heights
Amy Tan - Joy Luck Club
Natsume Soseki - Botchan
2021
Naohiro Matsumura - Shikake
Mark Twain - Huckleberry Finn
Michael Hyatt - The Vision Driven Leader
Richard Rodriguez - Hunger of Memory
Yasunari Kawabata - Snow Country
Jhumpa Lahiri - The Namesake
Box Brown - Andre the Giant Life and Legend
Don Miguel Ruiz - The Four Agreements
Brandi Carlile - Broken Horses
Jack London - The Call of the Wild
Amanda Montell - Cultish
Frank Rose - The Sea We Swim In
Paulo Coelho - The Alchemist
2020
Le Thi Diem Thuy - The Gangster We Are All Looking For
Thi Bui - The Best We Can Do
Viet Thanh Nguyen - The Sympathizer
Maxine Hong Kingston - The Woman Warrior
Eric Riess - The Lean Startup
Ali Wong - Dear Girls
Niccolo Machiavelli - The Prince
Joseph Heller - Catch 22
George Orwell - Animal Farm
Mark Twain - The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County and other stories
Toni Morrison - Beloved
Jhumpa Lahiri - Interpreter of Maladies
Previously
John Steinbeck - Cannery Row
Hermann Hesse - Siddhartha
Stephen Chbosky - The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Elizabeth Gilbert - Eat Pray Love
Kurt Vonnegut - Galapagos
Ernest Hemingway - The Old Man and the Sea
Indira Ganesan - As Sweet as Honey
Rebecca Skloot - The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Graham Greene - The Quiet American
John Steinbeck - Of Mice and Men
…. and others