Kingsley Amis, Lucky Jim

Robert Caro, The Power Broker

Elizabeth Gilbert, Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear

William Giraldi, The Hero’s Body [esp. Book One]

Natalie Goldberg, Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within

David Lynch, Catching the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity

Janet Malcolm, Psychoanalysis: The Impossible Profession

David Mazzucchelli, Asterios Polyp

Terry McDonell, The Accidental Life: An Editor’s Notes on Writing and Writers

Larry McMurtry, Books: A Memoir

Chris Offutt, My Father, The Pornographer

Adam Phillips, Monogamy

Adam Phillips, Houdini’s Box

Adam Phillips and Barbara Taylor, On Kindness

Adam Phillips, On Kissing, Tickling, and Being Bored