contemplative"Life At The Bottom: The Worldview That Makes The Underclass" by Dr. Theodore Dalrymple
"American Philosophy: A Love Story" a memoir by John Kaag
"Jonathan Swift: The Reluctant Rebel" biography by John Stubbs
"The Fellowship; Gilbert, Bacon, Harvey Wren, Newton and the Story of a Scientific Revolution" by John Gribbin
"The Philosophical Breakfast Club: Four Remarkable Friends And Transformed Science And Changed The World" by Laura J. Snyder
"Dalva" a novel by Jim Harrison
"Green Mansions" a novel by W. H. Hudson
"Lunar Park" a novel by Bret Easton Ellis
"A Fringe Of Leaves" a novel by Patrick White
"Miss Alcott Of Concord: The Story of Louisa May Alcott and the world she shared with Emerson, Thoreau, and Hawthorne" biography by Marjorie Worthington
"The Life And Work Of A Great Sculptor Henry Moore" By Donald Hall
"Behind The Scenes At The Museum" a novel by Kate Atkinson
"Jewels: A Secret History" by Victoria Finlay
"Just An Ordinary Day" Short Stories by Shirley Jackson
"The Puttermesser Papers" a novel by Cynthia Ozick
"A World Away" a novel by Stewart O'Nan
"The Country Girls Trilogy" three novels by Edna O'Brien
