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August 2026

Barbarians at the Gate
by Bryan Burrough and John Helyar
Business & Management Economics History

My Silent War
by Kim Philby
Biography & Memoir History Politics & Government
To Hate Like This Is to Be Happy Forever
by Will Blythe
Society & Culture Biography & Memoir
Gender Trouble
by Judith Butler
Philosophy Gender & Feminism Society & Culture

The Party
by Richard McGregor
Politics & Government Foreign Policy History
The Volatility Machine
by Michael Pettis
Economics Foreign Policy History
How to Win a Trade War
by Soumaya Keynes and Chad Bown
Economics Foreign Policy Politics & Government

The Divided City
by Nicole Loraux
History Philosophy Politics & Government
Crossing the Red Line
by Akbar Shahid Ahmed
Foreign Policy Politics & Government Media & Journalism
Under Water
by Tara Menon
Fiction Climate & Environment

Speak, Memory
by Vladimir Nabokov
Biography & Memoir History Society & Culture
De Gaulle
by Julian Jackson
Biography & Memoir History Politics & Government
Treasure Island
by Robert Louis Stevenson
Fiction

The Maniac
by Benjamin Labatut
Fiction Science & Technology History
The Technology Trap
by Carl Benedikt Frey
Economics Science & Technology History
The Art of Gathering
by Priya Parker
Society & Culture Business & Management Psychology & Mind

July 2026

Takeover
by Charlie Savage
Politics & Government Law & Justice History
Strangers
by Belle Burden
Biography & Memoir Society & Culture
I Regret Almost Everything
by Keith McNally
Biography & Memoir Business & Management Society & Culture

Master of the Senate
by Robert A. Caro
Biography & Memoir Politics & Government History
Seeing Like a State
by James C. Scott
Politics & Government Society & Culture Urban Planning & Architecture
Sal & Gabi Break the Universe
by Carlos Hernandez
Fiction Science & Technology

Life and Fate
by Vasily Grossman
Fiction History Politics & Government
The Shame
by Makenna Goodman
Fiction Gender & Feminism Society & Culture
The Fourth Branch
by Daniel Squadron
Politics & Government Law & Justice

The Glorians
by Terry Tempest Williams
Climate & Environment Religion & Spirituality
The Beginning Comes After the End
by Rebecca Solnit
Society & Culture Politics & Government
The Carbon Wave
by Leah C. Stokes
Climate & Environment Politics & Government
Brought to You By
by Amy Westervelt
Climate & Environment Media & Journalism
End Times Fascism
by Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor
Politics & Government Climate & Environment

States of Denial
by Stanley Cohen
Psychology & Mind Law & Justice
Israel: What Went Wrong?
by Omer Bartov
Foreign Policy History
Tomorrow Is Yesterday
by Hussein Agha and Robert Malley
Foreign Policy History
A Psalm for the Wild-Built
by Becky Chambers
Fiction Philosophy
The Moomin series
by Tove Jansson
Fiction Society & Culture

Their Eyes Were Watching God
by Zora Neale Hurston
Fiction Race & Identity
Les Misérables
by Victor Hugo
Fiction History
The Brothers Karamazov
by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Fiction Philosophy

June 2026

Men Like Ours
by Bindu Bansinath
Fiction Race & Identity
A Tender Age
by Chang-rae Lee
Fiction Race & Identity
Motherland
by Julia Ioffe
History Gender & Feminism

Transcription
by Ben Lerner
Fiction
The Godfather
by Mario Puzo
Fiction
Alan Opts Out
by Courtney Maum
Fiction Society & Culture

Crisis of the Common Good
by Chris Murphy
Politics & Government Philosophy
From Life Itself
by Suzy Hansen
Foreign Policy Society & Culture
Book of Mercy
by Leonard Cohen
Religion & Spirituality Fiction

Christie Malry’s Own Double-Entry
by B.S. Johnson
Fiction
Madame de Pompadour
by Nancy Mitford
Biography & Memoir History
The Genius Factory
by David Plotz
Science & Technology Society & Culture

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
by Douglas Adams
Fiction Science & Technology
A World Appears
by Michael Pollan
Science & Technology Philosophy
The Chronoliths
by Robert Charles Wilson
Fiction Science & Technology

May 2026

The Right
by Matthew Continetti
Politics & Government History
Apple in China
by Patrick McGee
Business & Management Foreign Policy
The Frackers
by Gregory Zuckerman
Business & Management Climate & Environment

The MANIAC
by Benjamin Labatut
Fiction Science & Technology History
Chimpanzee Politics
by Frans de Waal
Science & Technology Psychology & Mind
Brave New World
by Aldous Huxley
Fiction Science & Technology

Tyranny of the Majority
by Lani Guinier
Politics & Government Law & Justice Race & Identity

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