The shelves

Books we
believe in.

Browse our curated collections — each shelf is built around a sensibility, not a genre. Expect crossings.

Shelves

Our Books

Pick a shelf and browse. Up to 24 staff-chosen titles per collection.

24 titles

The Examined Life

Robert Nozick

1989

Ways of Seeing

John Berger

1972

Meditations

Marcus Aurelius

180 CE

The Human Condition

Hannah Arendt

1958

Fear and Trembling

Søren Kierkegaard

1843

The Story of Art

E.H. Gombrich

1950

Pictures and Tears

James Elkins

2001

Art & Fear

David Bayles

1993

On Photography

Susan Sontag

1977

Seeing Like an Artist

Tom Gerrard

2011

The Fire Next Time

James Baldwin

1963

This Bridge Called My Back

Cherríe Moraga

1981

Braiding Sweetgrass

Robin Wall Kimmerer

2013

Pedagogy of the Oppressed

Paulo Freire

1968

Sister Outsider

Audre Lorde

1984

Housekeeping

Marilynne Robinson

1980

Remainder

Tom McCarthy

2005

The Buried Giant

Kazuo Ishiguro

2015

Flights

Olga Tokarczuk

2007

Giovanni's Room

James Baldwin

1956

Ariel

Sylvia Plath

1965

Native Guard

Natasha Trethewey

2006

Citizen

Claudia Rankine

2014

The Collected Poems

Frank O'Hara

1971