M Train: A Memoir

The Secret Lives of Booksellers & Librarians: True stories of the magic of reading

Essays: Penguin Modern Classics

A House of My Own: Stories from My Life

J. R. R. Tolkien: The Mind Behind the Rings

I'd Rather Be Reading: The Delights and Dilemmas of the Reading Life

The Most Dangerous Book: The Battle for James Joyce’s Ulysses

The Amen Corner: A Play

Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader

The Common Reader: "Volume 1: 26 Essays on Jane Austen, George Eliot, Conrad, Montaigne and Others "

Lolita in the Afterlife: On Beauty, Risk, and Reckoning with the Most Indelible and Shocking Novel of theTwentieth Century

Once Upon a Prime: The Wondrous Connections Between Mathematics and Literature

The Man Who Changed the Way We Read: The Story of Allen Lane and Penguin Books

Why We Read: On Bookworms, Libraries, and Just One More Page Before Lights Out

In Praise of Good Bookstores

Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays

The Clothing of Books: An Essay

Imaginary Homelands: Essays and Criticism 1981-1991

Aspects of the Novel (Unabridged): optional

Year of the Monkey