see also the 2024 list and 2023 and 2022
Things Become Other Things: A Walking Memoir Craig Mod 1i25
Goodbye to All That Robert Graves 1i25
Virtual Reality: The Revolutionary Technology of Computer-Generated Artificial Worlds - and How It Promises to Transform Society Howard Rheingold 1i25
Spina Americana Richard Sharum 5i25
The Maginot Line: A New History Kevin Passamore 7i25
Balzac's Omelette: A Delicious Tour of French Food and Culture with Honoré de Balzac Anka Muhlstein 7i25
Summer Light, and Then Comes the Night Jón Kalman Stefánsson Audible and Kindle 11i25
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court Mark Twain 12i25
Crumb: A Cartoonist's Life Dan Nadel Kindle 15i25
Historical Atlas Of The Islamic World David Nicolle 18i25
An Almanac of Birds: 100 Divinations for Uncertain Days Maria Popova 20i25
1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created Charles C Mann Kindle 22i25
The World After Gaza: A History Pankaj Mishra Kindle 23i25
The Empusium Olga Tokarczuk Audible 23i25
My Own Country: A Doctor's Story Abraham Verghese 25i25
Wikipedia @ 20: Stories of an Incomplete Revolution Joseph Reagle and Jackie Koerner 26i25
Lexicon Max Barry Kindle 26i25
No One Is Talking About This Patricia Lockwood Audible 27i25
Edward Gorey: His Book Cover Art & Design Steven Heller 28i25
Twelve Tomorrows 2014 Technology Review and Bruce Sterling 30i25
New Keywords: A Revised Vocabulary of Culture and Society Tony Bennett et al. 31i25
Uncertain Archives: Critical Keywords for Big Data Nanna Bonde Thylstrup et al. 31i25
Culture and Society: 1780-1950 Raymond Williams 1ii25
Empire of Words John Willinsky 2ii25
English as She Is Wrote: Showing Curious Ways in Which the English Language May Be Made to Convey Ideas or Obscure Them A Companion to "English as She Is Spoke" anon. 2ii25
Watership Down Richard Adams Audible 2ii25
Heroes: The Greek Myths Reimagined Stephen Fry Audible 2ii25
The People of the Sierra Julian Pitt-Rivers 3ii25
The Lexicon: An Introduction Elisabetta Jezek Kindle 3ii25
Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language Gretchen McCulloch 4ii25
Decoding Gen-Z Slang: Your Guide to Learning, Understanding, and Speaking the Gen-Z Vernacular (Slanguage: The Vocabulary You Never Wanted) Devon Knott Kindle 4ii25
Spreading the Word: Language and Dialect in America John McWhorter 5ii25
Mental Floss: The Curious Compendium of Wonderful Words: A Miscellany of Obscure Terms, Bizarre Phrases & Surprising Etymologies Erin McCarthy 5ii25
The Great Book of American Idiom: A Dictionary of American Idioms, Sayings, Expressions & Phrases Lingo Mastery 5ii25
The Eyes and the Impossible Dave Eggers 5ii25
Stomp Off, Let's Go: The Early Years of Louis Armstrong Ricky Riccardi Kindle 5ii25
Owned: How Tech Billionaires on the Right Bought the Loudest Voices on the Left Eoin Higgins Kindle 7ii25
Farthing: A Story of a World that Could Have Been Jo Walton Kindle 8ii25
Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries Kory Stamper 11ii25
Memes in Digital Culture Limor shifman 11ii25
The Meme Machine Susan Blackmore 11ii25
Moments of Being Virginia Woolf 12ii25
The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store James McBride Audible 12ii25 Kindle 15ii25
Minor White, Memorable Fancies 13ii25
Antonio Garcia Martinez 13ii25
Words in the Mind: An Introduction to the Mental Lexicon Jean Aitchison 14ii25
Sounds Wild and Broken: Sonic Marvels, Evolution's Creativity, and the Crisis of Sensory Extinction David George Haskell 14ii25
The Unrest-Cure and Other Stories Saki 14ii25
Geo. Herriman's KRAZY + IGNATZ the complete Kat Komics Volumes 1-9 (1916-1924) 14ii25
An Introduction to English Lexicology: Words, Meaning and Vocabulary Howard Jackson and Etienne Zé Amvela Kindle 14ii25
Complete Works of Saki Saki Kindle 14ii25
Reginald Saki Kindle 14ii25
Mafalda: A Social and Political History of Latin America's Global Comic Isabella Cosse 15ii25
American Midnight: The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy's Forgotten Crisis Kindle Edition Adam Hochschild Kindle 18ii25
A Dictionary of Victorian Slang, Cant, and Vulgar Words: From the Underworld and Elsewhere John Camden Hotten Kindle 18ii25
1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue Francis Grose Kindle 18ii25
The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language David Crystal 20ii25
Mafalda & Friends Quino 20ii25
Revolusi: Indonesia and the Birth of the Modern World David Van Reybrouck 22ii25
From Ted to Tom: The Illustrated Envelopes of Edward Gorey Edward Gorey 22ii25
Daido Moriyama: Record 2 Mark Holborn 24ii25
Predicting New Words: The Secrets of Their Success Allan Metcalf 25ii25
The Oxford Dictionary of Catchphrases Anna Farkas 25ii25
Colonial American English, a Glossary: Words and Phrases Found in Colonial Writing, Now Archaic, Obscure, Obsolete, or Whose Meanings Have Changed Richard M Lederer 25ii25
Here, There Be Dragons James A Owen 26ii25
Souls of Animals Gary Kowalski 1iii25
Cry When the Baby Cries Becky Barnacoat 1iii25
Dictionary of Received Ideas Gustave Flaubert Kindle 4iii25
The Dictionary of Clichés: A Word Lover's Guide to 4,000 Overused Phrases and Almost-Pleasing Platitudes Christine Ammer 7iii25
Cliches and Platitudes for All Occasions Knock Knock 7iii25
Key Debates in Anthropology Tim Ingold 8iii25
English with an Accent: Language, Ideology and Discrimination in the United States Rosina Lippi-Green 8iii25
Language in Thought and Action: Fifth Edition S I Hayakawa 9iii25
Ultra-Processed People: Why We Can't Stop Eating Food That Isn't Food Chris van Tulleken Kindler 9iii25
The Disbeliever's Dictionary: A Gleefully Disrespectful Lexicon of Canada Today Brian Fawcett [1997] 11iii25
The Glamour Christopher Priest Kindle 12iii25
The Hornblower Companion CS Forester and Samuel H Bryant 13iii25
The Bedeviled Dictionary: A Lexicon of Wicked Wordplay LK Peterson and Martin Kozlowski 15iii25
The Liar's Dictionary Eley Williams Audible 18iii25
Lost in Translation: An Illustrated Compendium of Untranslatable Words from Around the World Ella Frances Saunders 22iii25
The Middle-Class Gentleman Molière Kindle 22iii25
The Price of Dormice Steve Lunn Kindle 24iii25
Underworlds: A Compelling Journey Through Subterranean Realms, Real and Imagined Stephen Ellcock 26iii25
Elements: Chaos, order and the five elemental forces Stephen Ellcock 26iii25
Crash Blossoms, Eggcorns, Mondegreens & Mountweazels: 101 Terms About Language That You Didn't Know You Needed Mike Pope 25iii25
The World of Sugar: How the Sweet Stuff Transformed Our Politics, Health, and Environment over 2,000 Years Ulbe Bosma 26iii25
Homo Ludens: A Study of the Play-Element in Culture Johan Huizinga Kindle 28iii25
The Colony Annika Norlin Kindle 2iv25
World in Depression, 1929-1939 Charles B Kindleberger 7iv25
Mills and Factories of New England Serge Hambourg 13iv25
Mapping Boston Alex Krieger and David Cobb 27iv25
The Atlas of Boston History Nancy S Seasholes 27iv25
Superbloom: How Technologies of Connection Tear Us Apart Nicholas Carr Kindle and Audiobook 28iv25
Our City That Year Geetanjali Shree Kindle 28iv25
World in Depression, 1929–1939 Charles P Kindleberger 7iv25 [1973]
Mills and Factories of New England Serge Hambourg 13iv25 [1988]
Mapping Boston Alex Krieger et al. 27iv25 [1999]
Feeling and Form: A Theory of Art Developed from Philosophy in a New Key Susanne K Langer 10v25 [1953]
All Good Things: A Treasury of Images to Uplift the Spirits and Reawaken Wonder Stephen Ellcock 10v25 [2019] and Kindle ...Book Goblin... replacing hard cover given to Wende
The Odyssey Homer; Daniel Mendelsohn translation 10v25 Kindle
How to Live: Or A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer Sarah Bakewell 14v25 [2011] ...Book Goblin....
Ulysses Annotated: Notes for James Joyce's Ulysses Don Gifford 20v25 [1988]
Designing Freedom (The CBC Massey Lectures) Stafford Beer 21v25 Kindle [1993]
An Odyssey: A Father, a Son, and an Epic Daniel Mendelsohn 23v25 [2017]
Heart Lamp: Winner of the 2025 International Booker Prize Banu Mustaq 23v25 Kindle
Is Peace Possible? Kathleen Lonsdale 24v25 [1957]
Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed James C Scott 25v25 Kindle
The Shape of Things Unseen: A New Science of Imagination Adam Zeman 29v25
A Psalm for the Wild-Built: Monk & Robot, Book 1 Becky Chambers 30v25 Audible
The River of Consciousness Oliver Sacks 2vi25 Kindle [2017]
The P{hantom Toolbooth Norton Juster and Jules Feiffer 3vi25 [1965?]
The Triumph of Seeds: How Grains, Nuts, Kernels, Pulses & Pips Conquered the Plant Kingdom and Shaped Human History Thor Hanson 3vi25 Audible
The Puttermesser Papers Cynthia Ozick 3vi25 Kindle
Beans: A History Ken Albala 7vi25 [2017] ...Book Goblin again... adds Kindle 3vi25
Abscond: A Short Story Abraham Verghese 6vi25 Kindle
Agnotology: The Making and Unmaking of Ignorance Robert N. Proctor (Editor), Londa Schiebinger (Editor) 8vi25 [2008] *Print On Demand
Killosophy Criss Jami 8vi25 [2015] *Print On Demand
Nuts: A Global History Ken Albala 8vi25 [2014]
Antimemetics: Why Some Ideas Resist Spreading Nadia Asparouhova 8vi25 Kindle
Proto: How One Ancient Language Went Global Laura Spinney 8vi25 Kindle and Audible
New Objectivity Olaf Peters 9vi25 [2025]
The Food History Reader: Primary Sources Ken Albala 10vi25 [2014]
Ornamental Lettering: An Archive of Decorative Initials, Calligraphy, and Vintage Alphabets for Lettering Artists and Typographers Kale James 16vi25
Box-Making Basics: Design, Technique, Projects David M Freedman [1997] 19vii25
Tauntons Complete Illustrated Guide to Box Making Doug Stowe 19vi25
Persepolis: The History and Legacy of the Ancient Persian Empire's Capital City Charles River Editors [2016] 19vi25 Kindle
Ancient Writing and the History of the Alphabet John McWhorter [2023] 21vi25 Audible
1974: A Personal History Fran cine Prowse Kindle and Audible 22vi25
The Atlas of a Changing Climate: Our Evolving Planet Visualized with More Than 100 Maps, Charts, and Infographics Brian Buma [2021] 22vi25
The Atlas of Climate Change: Mapping the World's Greatest Challenge Kirstin Dow [2011] 22vi25
A Historical Atlas of Iran Fred Ramen [2003] 22vi25
Tokyo Ueno Station Yu Min [2021] 22vi25 and Audible
Indo-European Cognate Dictionary Fiona McPherson [2018] 22vi25 Kindle
Incendiary Circumstances: A Chronicle of the Turmoil of our Times Amitav Ghosh [2007] 22vi25 Kindle
Who We Are and How We Got Here: Ancient DNA and the New Science of the Human Past David Reich [2018] 23vi25
Mathematics of the Incas: Code of the Quipu Marcia and Robert Ascher [1997] 25vi25
Quipus and Witches' Knots: The Role of the Knot in Primitive and Ancient Culture, with a Translation and Analysis of "Oribasius de Laqueis" Cyrus Lawrence Day [2023] 25vi25 Kindle
Anima: A Wild Pastoral Kapka Kassabova [2024] 27vi25
Technology: A World History Daniel R Headrick [2009] 27vi25
The Dictionary of Lost Words Pip Williams 2vii25 and Audible
Good Things: Recipes and Rituals to Share with People You Love Samin Nosrat 4vii25
Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat: Mastering the Elements of Good Cooking Samin Nosrat 4vii25 Audible
Germaine Krull Michel Frizot 7vii25
The Bean Book Steve Sando 8vii25
The AI Con: How to Fight Big Tech's Hype and Create the Future We Want Emily M Bender and Alex Hanna 12vii25 Kindle
Service (Semiotext(e) John Tottenham 13vii25 Kindle
Maps and Dreams Hugh Brody 13vii25 [1982]
Sea of Poppies Amitav Ghosh 14vii25
River of Smoke Amitav Ghosh 14vii25
Flood of Fire Amitav Ghosh 14vii25
Algospeak: How Social Media Is Transforming the Future of Language Adsam Aleksic 14vii25 Kindle
Backroads Buildings: In Search of the Vernacular Steve Gross and Susan Daley 20vii25
The Critical Thinker's Dictionary: Biases, Fallacies, and Illusions and What You Can Do About Them Robert Carroll 20vii25 Kindle (2013)
Mutual Causality in Buddhism and General Systems Theory: The Dharma of Natural Systems Joanna Macy 22vii25 (1991)
A Garlic Testament: Seasons on a Small New Mexico Farm Stanley Crawford 25vii25 (1998)
The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse Louise Erdrich 25vii25 Kindle (2009)
A Conventional Boy Charles Stross 28vii25 Kindle
The Rabbit Hole Book: 99 adventures into the history of stuff Richard Coles et al. 30vii25
Dark Academia: How Universities Die Peter Fleming 2viii25 Kindle
Figuring Maria Popova 2viii25 Audible (2019)
His Dark Materials Illuminated: Critical Essays on Philip Pullman's Trilogy Carole Scott et al. 6viii25 (2005)
How to Catch a Mole: Wisdom from a Life Lived in Nature Marc Hamer 6viii25 Kindle
Gnomon Nick Harkaway 8viii25 Kindle
Six Memos for the Next Millennium Italo Calvino 9viii25 (2016)
A Prayer for the Crown-Shy: A Monk and Robot Book Becky Chambers 16viii25 Kindle and Audible
Neither Wolf nor Dog 25th Anniversary Edition: On Forgotten Roads with an Indian Elder Kent Nerburn 20viii25 (2019)
A Truce That Is Not Peace Miriam Toews 25viii25 Kindle
The Secret Financial Life of Food: From Commodities Markets to Supermarkets Kara Newman 26viii25 (2012)
Birds Reference Book: An Image Archive for Artists and Designers Kale James 28viii25 (2022)
Art Work: On the Creative Life Sally Mann 28viii25
Underdeveloping the Amazon: Extraction, Unequal Exchange, and the Failure of the Modern State Stephen G Bunker 28viii25 (1990)
Breakneck: China's Quest to Engineer the Future Dan Wang 30viii25 Kindle
Yuge!: 30 Years of Doonesbury on Trump GB Trudeau (2016) 31viii25
40: A Doonesbury Retrospective GB Trudeau (2010) 31viii25
Music: A Subversive History Ted Gioia (2019) Audible 1ix25