Imported from an older list and I no longer remember why:

• Alain on Happiness
• A Working Stiff's Manifesto, by Iain Levison
• A Free Life, by Ha Jin
• The Chronoliths, by Robert Charles Wilson

Remedial reading:

• Kafka (The Trial)
• Woolf (Jacob's Room) (also Three Guineas)
• James Baldwin (Go Tell It on the Mountain)
• Charlotte Brontë (Jane Eyre)
• Emily Brontë (Wuthering Heights but also the Gondal poems)
• Anne Brontë (The Tenant of Wildfell Hall)
• Bruno Schulz (The Street of Crocodiles)
• Mary Shelley (The Last Man, Lodore)
• Melville (Typee)
• Walter Scott (The Heart of Midlothian, The Talisman)
• Information Theory (MacKay)
• The Elements of Computing Systems (Nisan and Schocken)
• Programming Pearls, by Jon Bentley
• The Practice of Programming (Kernighan and Pike)
• Compilers (the dragon book) (Aho et al.)
• Essentials of Compilation (Siek) [nanopass approach! CC-licensed]
• Software Design for Flexibility (Hanson and Sussman)
• The Mathematician's Apology, by G. H. Hardy
• Mathematics: A Very Short Introduction, by Timothy Gowers
• Concrete Mathematics (Graham, Knuth, and Patashnik)
• Everything and More (Wallace)
• Probability and Computing, 2E (Mitzenmacher, Upfal)
• Statistics Is Easy!, by Dennis Shasha and Manda Wilson
• Probability Theory: The Logic of Science, by E. T. Jaynes
• Introduction to Probability, 2E (Bertsekas, Tsitsiklis)
• Quantum Profiles, by Jeremy Bernstein
• Quantum Non-Locality and Relativity, by Tim Maudlin
• Anne Sexton (The Awful Rowing Toward God)
• H. D. (Sea Garden, Helen in Egypt)
• As You Like It (Night and Day, The Noonday Demon)
• The Tempest (The Magus)
• A Midsummer Night's Dream (Montford Park)
• The Aeneid (Sarah Ruden, Robert Fitzgerald, David West, D. Ferry)

Recommended by F:

• Timbuktu, by Paul Auster

From an ad at the end of Remainder:

• The Loser, by Thomas Bernhard (cf. Wittgenstein's Nephew, Frost)

Back catalogue:

• The Demolished Man, by Alfred Bester
• How Can You Defend Those People?, by James Simon Kunen
• The Foreign Student, by Susan Choi
• How to Be Alone, by Jonathan Franzen
• The Unconsoled, by Kazuo Ishiguro
• Naked, by David Sedaris
• Remnant Population, by Elizabeth Moon
• Man Walks into a Room, by Nicole Krauss
• The Makioka Sisters, by Junichiro Tanizaki
• Engine Summer, by John Crowley (or Otherwise, which includes it)
• Out of the Silent Planet, by C. S. Lewis
• The French Lieutenant's Woman, by John Fowles
• Ratner's Star, by Don DeLillo
• Uncle Tungsten, by Oliver Sacks
• I Lost It at the Movies, by Pauline Kael (1954-1965)
• Empty Streets, by Michal Ajvaz
• Oracle Bones, by Peter Hessler (since then Strange Stones, The Buried)
• Sabbatical, by John Barth
• 2666, by Roberto Bolaño
• Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay, by Elena Ferrante (cf. Lorrie Moore)
• Camera, by Jean-Philippe Toussaint
• Swann's Way, translated by C. K. Scott Moncrieff
• The Ethical Dimensions of Marxist Thought, by Cornel West
• Silas Marner (Eliot)
• Fade, by Robert Cormier
• China Men, by Maxine Hong Kingston
• The Fall of Language (Mizumura) (co-translated by Mari Yoshihara!)
• Perhaps the Stars, by Ada Palmer
• Millions, Billions, Zillions, by Brian Kernighan
• Conflict Is Not Abuse, by Sarah Schulman
• The Corner That Held Them, by Sylvia Townsend Warner
• City of Darkness, City of Light, by Marge Piercy
• The Genetic Basis of Evolutionary Change, by Richard Lewontin
• Uprooted, by Naomi Novik
• Netherland, by Joseph O'Neill (also Good Trouble)
• The Marketplace of Ideas, by Louis Menand

Stephen Bond: "the funniest book ever written":

• Notes from [the] Underground (Dostoyevsky) (Garnett)

The inspiration for Kurosawa's Yojimbo?

• Red Harvest, by Dashiell Hammett

Recommended by T:

• Dogsbody, by Diana Wynne Jones

Re: plagiarism and lived experience:

• Steps, by Jerzy Kosinski

Well-received at the A.V. Club, 2008-2009:

• Dear American Airlines, by Jonathan Miles
• We Never Talk About My Brother, by Peter S. Beagle
• Lush Life, by Richard Price
• Final Salute, by Jim Sheeler
• Jernigan, by David Gates

"The potential pitfalls ... are many":

• Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels, by David Pringle

As seen on TV:

• How to Bake Pi, by Eugenia Cheng (and V liked Beyond Infinity)
• Learning to Hear, by Sarah Maslen
• People's Choice Literature, by Tom Comitta
• The Summer House, by Masashi Matsuie ("At the Foot of the Volcano")
• Hate the Game, by Daryl Fairweather

TV on the radio:

• The Organized Mind, by Daniel Levitin [Diane Rehm] (per M)

Recommended by H:

• East of Eden (Steinbeck)
• The Old Man and the Sea (Hemingway)
• How to Win Friends and Influence People (Carnegie)

Recommended by P:

• The Year of Our War, by Steph Swainston

"Am I really all the things that are outside of me?"

• Let's Talk about Love, by Carl Wilson

Donna Bowman: "the best book ever written about computing":

• Soul of a New Machine, by Tracy Kidder

Applied psychology:

• Hacking the Xbox, by Andrew Huang
• Living by Numbers, by Steven Connor (akin to Hennessy and Patterson?)
• I Am Error, by Nathan Altice
• Why Machines Learn, by Anil Ananthaswamy

Repeatedly recommended:

• A Pattern Language (Alexander, Ishikawa, Silverstein)
• So Long, See You Tomorrow, by William Maxwell
• The Sparrow, by Mary Doria Russell
• Riddley Walker (Hoban)
• The Winged Histories, by Sofia Samatar
• Fire Logic, by Laurie J. Marks (first of four)

Quoted, cited, or shaken out by Steering the Craft; Wave in the Mind:

• Mundane's World, by Judy Grahn
• The King of Elfland's Daughter, by Lord Dunsany
• Master and Commander, by Patrick O'Brian
• War and Peace (Tolstoy) (Garnett)
• The Virginian, by Owen Wister
• The Jump-Off Creek, by Molly Gloss
• Letters of a Woman Homesteader, by Elinore Pruitt Stewart
• Alias Grace, by Margaret Atwood
• Making History, by Carolyn See
• Solar Storms, by Linda Hogan
• When I Was Puerto Rican, by Esmeralda Santiago
• Land of Little Rain, by Mary Austin
• In Vain I Tried to Tell You, by Dell Hymes

Supposedly some of the best criticism of the 20th c:

• Edmund Wilson (collected in two volumes from Library of America)

Recommended by J:

• When You Are Engulfed in Flames, by David Sedaris

New York:

• The Changeling, by Kenzaburo Oe (cf. A Personal Matter)
• Walk the Blue Fields, by Claire Keegan
• The Quickening Maze, by Adam Foulds
• The Ballad of Dorothy Wordsworth, by Frances Wilson
• Hauntings, by Vernon Lee
• Book of Numbers, by Joshua Cohen
• The Life of the Mind, by Christine Smallwood
• Native Nations, by Kathleen DuVal
• The Good Soldier, by Ford Madox Ford ("formally perfect")
• Children of Radium, by Joe Dunthorne ("unpredictably amusing")
• Fascist Yoga, by Stewart Home
• The Asking, by Jane Hirshfield (poems)
• There Is No Place for Us, by Brian Goldstone

Serendipity:

• The Lifelong Activist, by Hillary Rettig
• Houdini's Box, by Adam Phillips
• I Am Providence, by S. T. Joshi (expanded from H. P. Lovecraft: A Life)
• Prodigies, by Angélica Gorodischer (translated by Sue Burke!)
• Ongoingness, by Sarah Manguso

"Being in the midst of the struggle allows for the best reading of...":

• Sentimental Education (Flaubert)
• A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Joyce)

Bus-stop reflection that sounds fascinating:

• 03, by Jean-Christophe Valtat

Because I can't get the titles out of my head:

• Almost Transparent Blue, by Ryu Murakami
• Adios, Ozymandias, by Wilfrido Nolledo
• Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand, by Samuel R. Delany
• Summer Will Show, by Sylvia Townsend Warner
• The Twelve-Spoked Wheel Flashing, by Marge Piercy
• Seven against Thebes (Aeschylus)
• Nazi Literature in the Americas, by Roberto Bolaño

To help answer the question, "what is fantasy good for?":

• Language of the Night, by Ursula K. Le Guin
• Lud-in-the-Mist, by Hope Mirrlees
• The Folk of the Air, by Peter S. Beagle

Cited as a reference in Wikipedia's article about Kinuyo Yamashita:

• Game Sound, by Karen Collins

Recommended by Nicole Krauss:

• Budapest, by Chico Buarque
• A Book of Memories, by Peter Nadas
• A Sorrow beyond Dreams, by Peter Handke
• Bartleby and Co., by Enrique Vila-Matas
• The Beginning of Wisdom, by Leon R. Kass
• Jakob von Gunten, by Robert Walser
• Molloy, by Samuel Beckett
• The Pillow Book of Sei Shonagon, adapted by Arthur Waley

What's that bug? Find out:

• The Curious World of Bugs, by Daniel Marlos

Chat Noir mythology:

• Monkey: A Folk-Tale of China, adapted by Arthur Waley
• The Monkey and the Monk, adapted by Anthony C. Yu

If I want to be able to talk about this stuff, I'd better start reading:

• The Wealth of Nations (Smith)
• The Great Transformation, by Karl Polanyi
• The Transformation of American Law, 1780-1860, by Morton Horwitz
• The Market Revolution, by Charles Sellers
• Golden Rule, by Thomas Ferguson
• The Visible Hand of the Market, by Pasqualina Curcio
• An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution (Beard 1913)

Narrative explosion:

• Meanwhile, by Jason Shiga
• Sunday, by Olivier Schrauwen
• Worldtree (w0rldtr33), by James Tynion IV and Fernando Blanco (rec. JWZ)

Distant islands:

• The Glass Slipper and Other Stories, by Shotaro Yasuoka
• The Opposing Shore, by Julien Gracq
• The Glass Bees, by Ernst Jünger
• Fredy Neptune, by Les Murray

Recommended by Wesley Osam:

• The True Deceiver, by Tove Jansson
• The Last Unicorn, by Peter S. Beagle
• The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms, by N. K. Jemisin (J rec. 5th Season)
• Dreamsnake, by Vonda N. McIntyre
• The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet, by Becky Chambers
• Skyward Inn, by Aliya Whiteley (Roberts liked this one too)

"An experience beyond the literary":

• Le Grand Meaulnes (Alain-Fournier)

Wellspring:

• The Angela Y. Davis Reader, edited by Joy James
• Rank and File, edited by Alice Lynd and Staughton Lynd
• Ain't I a Woman?, by bell hooks (also: Will to Change)
• Crossing the River, by Victor Grossman
• Black against Empire, by Joshua Bloom and Waldo E. Martin
• Without Justice for All, by Adolph L. Reed
• Struggle or Starve, by Seán Mitchell
• Song of the Stubborn One Thousand, by Peter Shapiro

"Was it self-centered to assume they were talking about me?"

• Invite, by Glen Pourciau

"I ended up coping by reading every piece ... he'd ever published":

• Inequality and Industrial Change, edited by Galbraith and Berner
• The Hearts of Men (Ehrenreich)
• The Power Broker, by Robert A. Caro
• Poor Economics, by Abhijit Y. Banerjee and Esther Duflo
• Code, by Charles Petzold
• Priceless, by William Poundstone
• American Apartheid, by Douglas S. Massey and Nancy A. Denton
• The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money (Keynes)

Cited by Dean Baker:

• Licensing Occupations, by Morris M. Kleiner

Inequality, ethnography:

• Feeding the Family, by Marjorie DeVault
• Through My Own Eyes, by Susan D. Holloway et al.
• Knocking the Hustle, by Lester K. Spence
• The Western Disease, by Claire Laurier Decoteau

Weren't books "something idle and luxurious and really pretty trivial"?

• Gaudy Night, by Dorothy Sayers
• Meridian, by Alice Walker
• Kairos, by Gwyneth Jones

Valentine: "you can read for yourself what's actually happening":

• The Wretched of the Earth, by Frantz Fanon
• Weapons of Mass Migration, by Kelly M. Greenhill
• Secret Agenda, by Linda Hunt
• The Cultural Cold War, by Frances Stonor Saunders
• The Violence of the Green Revolution, by V. Shiva (cf. Who Really Feeds)
• Debt, the IMF, and the World Bank, by Éric Toussaint
• The Coffee Book, by Nina Luttinger and Gregory Dicum

Principles of typography:

• Shaping Text, by Jan Middendorp

Better than scraps:

• A Safe Girl to Love, by Casey Plett

Recommended by S:

• A Kestrel for a Knave, by Barry Hines
• The Water Is Wide, by Pat Conroy

Learn the unteachable:

• Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain, by Betty Edwards
• The New Plant Parent, by Darryl Cheng

There is no free software:

• The Digital Humanist (Fiormonte, Numerico, Tomasi)

Recommended by Caleb Wilson:

• The Narrator, by Michael Cisco

Stephen King (cf. https://www.metafilter.com/115258/):

• The Eyes of the Dragon (recommended by H)
• Everything's Eventual
• Skeleton Crew
• Danse Macabre
• Hearts in Atlantis

Miracle visitors:

• Pan's Garden, by Algernon Blackwood (cf. Incredible Adventures)

Libra:

• [Trouble on] Triton, by Samuel R. Delany
• JFK and the Unspeakable, by James W. Douglass
• Monarch, by Candice Wuehle

Volcano memory:

• [The] Rescuers, by Margery Sharp

Recommended by M:

• Sapiens, by Yuval Noah Harari
• The Alchemist, by Paulo Coelho
• Infinite Powers, by Steven Strogatz
• Exactly What to Say, by Phil Jones
• The Inner Game of Tennis
• The Road to Sparta, by Dean Karnazes

Recommended by M:

• Piranesi, by Susanna Clarke
• The Other Side of Night, by Adam Hamdy

Cited as inspiration for Grimnoir:

• In a Lonely Place, by Dorothy B. Hughes

Recommended by T:

• All the Light We Cannot See, by Anthony Doerr

Recommended by A:

• Antifragile, by Nassim Taleb

Imprint:

• Summer Fun, by Jeanne Thornton
• The Adventurists, by Richard Butner
• Black Mass Rising, by Theo Prasidis, illustrated by Jodie Muir (TKO '22)
• The Garden, by Matthew Ingram
• Catfishing on CatNet, by Naomi Kritzer
• Unexhausted Time, by Emily Berry
• In Praise of Addiction, by Elizabeth F. S. Roberts

Recommended by Cathy Lucas:

• Making Noise, by Hillel Schwartz
• The Psychophysical Ear, by Alexandra Hui

Near and dear to M:

• A Country Year, by Sue Hubbell

Recommended by W:

• The Three-Body Problem, by Cixin Liu

Recommended by Joshua Cohen:

• The Union Jack, by Imre Kertész

"'Crime,' declared the police captain, 'is everywhere, crime, crime!'"

• The Long and Faraway Gone, by Lou Berney
• The Lost Man, by Jane Harper
• The Life We Bury, by Allen Eskens (recommended by M)

Recommended by Alicia Kennedy:

• [The] Veganomicon, by Isa Chandra Moskowitz and Terry Hope Romero

Classic and contemporary sci-fi as recommended by Adam Roberts:

• Childhood's End, by Arthur C. Clarke (his "best book by a long way")
• Beyond the Burn Line, by Paul McAuley
• The Last Blade Priest, by Will Wiles
• The Coral Bones, by E. J. Swift
• Celestial, by M. D. Lachlan
• Conquest, by Nina Allan (as of 2023 out only in the U.K.)
• Him, by Geoff Ryman
• Some Desperate Glory, by Emily Tesh (also recommended by Russ Allbery)
• In Ascension, by Martin MacInnes
• Counter-Clock World (Dick) (Time's Arrow "loses by the comparison")
• Super-Infinite, by Katherine Rundell (not sci-fi despite the title)

Recommended by J:

• Recursion, by Blake Crouch
• World without End, by Ken Follett

Recommended by Nathan Ballingrud:

• The Migration, by Helen Marshall

Recommended by S:

• Prodigal Summer, by Barbara Kingsolver
• The Plot, by Jean Hanff Korelitz
• The Time of Our Singing, by Richard Powers

Recommended by Sarah Langan:

• Sharp Objects, by Gillian Flynn
• The Ballad of Black Tom, by Victor LaValle

On my mind and worth rereading:

• The Children's Book, by A. S. Byatt
• Underworld, by Don DeLillo ("to transcend reality")

Recommended by J (and the inspiration for his next tattoo):

• The Name of the Wind, by Patrick Rothfuss

Recommended by Ingram:

• The Vertical Veg guide to container gardening, by Mark Ridsdill Smith
• Ecopsychology, by Theodore Roszak
• Understanding Human Nature, by Alfred Adler
• Storming Heaven, by Jay Stevens ("one of the very best books EVER")

Recommended by E:

• Little Fires Everywhere, by Celeste Ng