contemplativeTo Be Read Pile 2017
"How Should a Person Be?" a novel by Sheila Heti
"History Of Wolves" a novel by Emily Fridlund
"Partisans: Marriage, Politics, And Betrayal Among The New York Intellectuals" by David Laskin
"On Highway 61: Music, Race, and the Evolution of Cultural Freedom" by Dennis McNally
"The Village: A History Of Greenwich Village" by John Strausbaugh
"Casanova: The World of a Seductive Genius" biography by Laurence Bergreen
"The Feud: Vladimir Nabokov, Edmund Wilson, and the End of a Beautiful Friendship" by Alex Beam
"Browsings: A Year Of Reading, Collecting, And Living With Books" essays by Michael Dirda
"The Pursuit Of Power: Europe 1815-1914" by Richard J. Evans
"The Glory Of The Empire A Novel, A History" by Jean D'Ormesson
"The Bohemians: Mark Twain and the San Francisco Writers Who Reinvented American Literature" by Ben Tarnoff
"The Lunar Men: Friends Who Made The Future" biography by Jenny Uglow
"Bear: The Life and Times of Augustus Owsley Stanley III" biography by Robert Greenfield
"Brothers Of The Quill: Oliver Goldsmith in Grub Street" biography by Norma Clarke
"Mislaid" a novel by Nell Zink
"Pinkerton's Sister" a novel by Peter Rushforth
"A Dead Language" a novel by Peter Rushforth
"Private Novelist Fiction" by Nell Zink
""Literchoor Is My Beat" A Life Of James Laughlin Publisher Of New Directions" biography by Ian S. MacNiven
"John Aubrey, My Own Life" biography by Ruth Scurr
"The Whole Harmonium: The Life of Wallace Stevens" biography by Paul Mariani
"Grand Hotel Abyss: The Lives of the Frankfurt School" biography by Stuart Jeffries
"Melville in Live: The Secret Life Of Herman Melville And The Muse of Moby-Dick" biography by Michael Shelden
"The Civil Wars of Julia Ward Howe: A Biography" by Elaine Showalter
"Mad Enchantment: Claude Monet And The Painting Of The Water Lilies" biography by Ross King
