Worship the Pig, Gaylord Brewer (NYP)

her cold martini, Marsh Muirhead

Delights & Shadows, Ted Kooser

Homo Deus, Yuval Noah Harari

American Hookup, Lisa Wade

The Soul of an Octopus, Sy Montgomery

Möbius Strips and Other Stories, Tom DeMarchi

Speaking American, Josh Katz

We Can Do It! Summersdale

The Uninhabitable Earth, David Wallace-Wells

Loser Takes All, Graham Greene

Dreyer’s English, Benjamin Dreter

Irons in the Fire, John McPhee

What Could Possibly Go Wrong? Richard Peabody, ed

Keep Going, Austin Kleon

Hurry Up and Relax, Nathan Leslie (NYP)

Keep Your Brain Alive, Lawrence C. Katz and Manning Rubin

Aspects of the Novel, E. M. Forster

Writing the Other, Nisi Shawl and Cynthia Ward

can’t and won’t, Lydia Davis

In the Dutch Mountains, Cees Nooteboom

Wabi-Sabi, Leonard Koren

The Secret Wisdom of Nature, Peter Wohlleben

Draw Your Day, Samantha Dion Baker

The Art of Noticing, Rob Walker

Let Us Now Speak of Extinction, Michael C. Keith

Taking Things Seriously, Joshua Glenn and Carol Hayes

An Attempt at Exhausting a Place in Paris, George Perec

The Writer’s Book of Matches, The Editors of Fresh Boiled Peanuts

Failed It!, Erik Kessels

Billy Dyer and Other Stories, William Maxwell

Death, Woody Allen

Little Blues Book, Brian Robertson

Dancing with That Woman at Whiskey Woes, Lawrence Desautels

Peak, Andeers Erricsson and Robert Pool

Hopeful Monsters, Roger McKnight (NYP)

Your Idea Starts Here, Carolyn Eckert

Good for Otto, Davis Rabe