Science and understanding
- Damrosch, Leo, Eternity’s Sunrise: The Imaginative World of William Blake
- Gamwell, Lynn, Mathematics + Art: A Cultural History
- Glynn, Ian, An Anatomy of Thought: The Origin and Machinery of Mind
- Greene, Brian, The Fabric of the Cosmos
- Goodsell, David, The Machinery of Life
- Hoffman, Donald, Visual Intelligence: How We Create What We See
- Huggett, Nick, Everywhere and Everywhere: Adventures in Physics and Philosophy
- Kaler, James, The Ever-Changing Sky: A Guide to the Celestial Sphere
- Krishnamurti, Jiddu, Freedom from the Known
- Loori, John Daido, The Art of Just Sitting
- Lycan, William, Philosophy of Language: A Contemporary Introduction
- March, Robert, Physics for Poets
- Noë, Alva, Action in Perception
- Rosenberg, Larry, Breath by Breath: The Liberating Practice of Insight Meditation
- Smith, John Maynard, and Eors Szathmary, The Origins of Life: From the birth of life to the origins of language
- Schutz, Bernard, Gravity from the Ground Up
- Suzuki, Shunryu, Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind
- Wittgenstein, Ludwig, Philosophical Investigations
Poems and poetry
- Elizabeth Bishop, Poems
- Sam Hamill and J.P. Seaton, The Poetry of Zen
- Wallace Stevens, The Collected Poems
- Tomas Tranströmer, The Great Enigma
- Helen Vendler, Poems, Poets, Poetry: An Introduction and Anthology
- Helen Vendler, Dickinson: Selected Poems and Commentaries
- Helen Vendler, Our Secret Discipline: Yeats and Lyric Form
Fiction
- Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin
- Paul Auster, Moon Palace
- Jorge Luis Borges, Labyrinths
- Raymond Carver, Cathedral
- Ted Chiang, Exhalation (short story)
- E.L. Doctorow, Andrew’s Brain
- Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See
- Anthony Doerr, Cloud Cuckoo Land
- George Eliot, Middlemarch
— follow this with My Life in Middlemarch by Rebecca Mead - Elena Ferrante, My Brilliant Friend (tetralogy and HBO series)
- John Gardner, Mickelsson’s Ghosts
- Mark Helprin, Winter’s Tale
- John Irving, The Ciderhouse Rules
- Kazuo Ishiguro,Never Let Me Go
- Kazuo Ishiguro,Klara and the Sun
- Henry James, Portrait of a Lady
- Stephen King, Fairy Tale
- Karl Ove Knausgaard, The Wolves of Eternity
- Ian McEwan, Atonement
- Pascal Mercier, Night Train to Lisbon
- Andrew Miller, Now We Shall Be Entirely Free
- Katherine Anne Porter, Pale Horse, Pale Rider
- Alistair Reynolds, Eversion
- Jose Saramago, All the Names
- George Saunders, Lincoln in the Bardo
- William Styron, Sophie’s Choice
- J.R.R. Tolkein, Lord of the Rings
- Sigrid Undset, Olav Audunsson (tetralogy, translated by Tiina Nunnally)
Mathematics and computer science
- Abbott, Stephen, Understanding Analysis
- Abelson, Hal, and Gerald Sussman, Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (second edition)
- Axler, Sheldon, Linear Algebra Done Right
- Bird, Richard, and Jeremy Gibbons, Algorithm Design with Haskell
- Feldman, David, Chaos and Dynamical Systems
- Hernstein, Israel, Topics in Algebra
- Hutton, Graham, Programming in Haskell (second edition)
- Kaplansky, Irving, Set Theory and Metric Spaces
- Moore, Cristopher, and Stephan Mertens, The Nature of Computation
- Mumford, David, Caroline Series, and David Wright, Indra’s Pearls: The Vision of Felix Klein
- Munkres, James, Topology (second edition)
- Needham, Tristan, Visual Complex Analysis
- Sipser, Michael, Introduction to the Theory of Computation (third edition)
still more to come…