Books, movies, and the occasional TV show or exhibit.

2026
July fiction Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick: Stories from the Harlem Renaissance — Zora Neale Hurston
July fiction Monica — Daniel Clowes
July nonfiction AI Engineering: Building Applications with Foundation Models — Chip Huyen
July movie 'Round Midnight
July movie The Godfather
July movie Dog Day Afternoon
July movie Serpico
June nonfiction The Buy Side: A Wall Street Trader's Tale of Spectacular Excess — Turney Duff
June cookbook Preserving the Japanese Way — Nancy Singleton Hachisu
June cookbook The New Cooking School Cookbook: Fundamentals
May movie National Lampoon's Animal House
May nonfiction Machine Learning for Dummies — Luca Massaron
May nonfiction Building AI-Powered Products — Marily Nika
May cookbook The DIY BBQ Cookbook — James Whetlor
May movie Children of Men
May movie Nobody
May cookbook Dinner Illustrated: 175 Meals Ready in 1 Hour or Less
May cookbook The Fermentation Kitchen — Sam Cooper
May cookbook The Big Texas Cookbook
May cookbook Perini Ranch Steakhouse Cookbook — Lisa and Tom Perini
April movie Club Paradise
March movie Raising Arizona
March movie Hell or High Water
March nonfiction Business Statistics for Dummies — Alan Anderson
March fiction Between Two Moons — Aisha Abdel Gawad
March nonfiction Principles of Web Design — Brian D. Miller
March nonfiction Predictive Analytics for the Modern Enterprise — Nooruddin Abbas Ali
March cookbook The Complete Salad Cookbook — America's Test Kitchen
March movie Tombstone
March nonfiction The Staff Engineer's Path — Tanya Reilly
March fiction The God of the Woods — Liz Moore
March movie Citizen Kane
March cookbook The Complete Cooking for Two Cookbook — America's Test Kitchen
February movie Casablanca
February movie Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai
February nonfiction Apple in China: The Capture of the World's Greatest Company — Patrick McGee
February nonfiction Escaping the Build Trap — Melissa Perri
February movie Detour
February movie The Seven Samurai
February movie The Big Chill
2025
December movie The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes
December cookbook Umma: A Korean Mom's Kitchen Wisdom & 100 Family Recipes — Sarah Ahn
December movie The Banshees of Inisherin
December movie Dune: Part Two
December movie Wonka
December cookbook Jacques Pépin Cooking My Way — Jacques Pépin
December cookbook The New Cooking School Cookbook: Advanced Fundamentals
December movie The Graduate
December nonfiction Starting a Business 101 — Michele Cagan
December nonfiction Social Media for Small Business — Franziska Iseli
December nonfiction Bright Marketing for Small Business — Robert Craven
December movie X-Men
December nonfiction The Digital Marketer's Playbook — Diego Adolfo Carrasco Gubernatis
December cookbook Boards: Stylish Spreads for Casual Gatherings — America's Test Kitchen
December nonfiction Digital Marketing All-in-One — Stephanie Diamond
December nonfiction Digital Marketing Quickstart Guide — Benjamin Sweeney
December nonfiction The Small Business Start-Up Kit — Peri Pakroo
December movie Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
November cookbook You Gotta Eat — Margaret Eby
November nonfiction Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game — Michael Lewis
October cookbook More Mediterranean
October cookbook The Complete Mediterranean Cookbook
October nonfiction Learning Spark — Jules Damji, Brooke Wenig, Tathagata Das, and Denny Lee
September cookbook The Food of Sichuan — Fuchsia Dunlop
September nonfiction Invitation to a Banquet: The Story of Chinese Food — Fuchsia Dunlop
September nonfiction Decoding Your Cat
August cookbook Healthy Air Fryer
August nonfiction UX for Business — Joel Marsh
July nonfiction Upstate New York: Off the Beaten Path — Susan Finch
July nonfiction What an Owl Knows — Jennifer Ackerman
June nonfiction BDD in Action — John Ferguson Smart
June nonfiction FastAPI: Modern Python Web Development — Bill Lubanovic
June nonfiction Designing Data-Intensive Applications — Martin Kleppmann
June nonfiction Fundamentals of Data Engineering — Joe Reis and Matt Housley