Books read in 2009 (…so far).
- Stephen Lewis (2006) – Race Against Time: Searching for Hope in AIDS-Ravaged Africa
- David Wroblewski (2008) – The Story Of Edgar Sawtelle
- Stephen Galloway (2008) – The Cellist of Sarajevo
- Miriam Toews (2008) – The Flying Troutmans
- Plato (c. 380 BC) – The Republic
- Gil Adamson (2007) – The Outlander
- Euripides (c. 415 BC) – Iphigenia in Tauris
- Charles G. Nauert (2006) – Humanism and the Culture of Renaissance Europe
- Plato (c. 370 BC) – Phaedrus
- Jacob Burckhardt (1860) – The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy
- Phyllis Webb, ed. (2004) – The Griffin Poetry Prize Anthology: A Selection of the 2004 Shortlist
- Leonardo Bruni (1404); Alferd Scheepers (translator) – In Praise of Florence. The Panegyric of the City of Florence and an Introduction to Bruni’s Civic Humanism
- August Kleinzahler (1999) – Green Sees Things in Waves
- Lawrence Hill (2008) – The Book of Negroes
- Ernst Cassirer, Paul Oskar Kristeller, and John Herman Randall Jr., eds. – The Renaissance Philosophy of Man
- David Adams Richards (2008) – Playing the Inside Out (The Antonine Maillet-Northrop Frye Lecture)
- Kenneth Bartlett, ed. (1992) – The Civilization of the Italian Renaissance
- Plato (c. 399 BC) – Euthyphro
- Craig Kallendorf, ed. (2002) – Humanist Educational Treatises
- George Bowering, ed. (2008) – The 2008 Griffin Poetry Prize Anthology: A Selection of the Shortlist
- Randy Pausch (2008) – The Last Lecture
- Clive James (2008) – Cultural Amnesia: Necessary Memories from History and the Arts
- Baldassare Castiglione (1528) – The Book of the Courtier
- Umberto Eco, ed. (2004) – History of Beauty
- David Foster Wallace (1996) – Infinite Jest
- Alessandro Arcangeli (2003) – Recreation in the Renaissance: Attitudes towards Leisure and Pastimes in European Culture, c. 1425-1675
- Donald J. Wilcox (1969) – The Development of Florentine Humanist Historiography in the Fifteenth Century
- Chris Hedges (2009) – Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle
- Richard Turner (1997) – Renaissance Florence: The Invention of A New Art
- Riccardo Fubini (2003) – Humanism and Secularization: From Petrarch to Valla
- John Najemy (2006) – A History of Florence, 1200-1575
- Giovanni Della Casa (1558) – Galateo
- Roger Crum and John Paoletti, eds. (2006) – Renaissance Florence: A Social History
- Plato (c. 385 BC) – Meno
- Harold Bloom (2005) – The Art of Reading Poetry
