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I love browsing others' bookshelves, so I thought I'd share this list of what I've been reading. I started keeping the list in 2016, mostly for the sake of my own memory. I've highlighted books I thought were particularly good. The cringe of this page is outweighed by the lovely conversations and connections it has created :)

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Books I've read — 2016-2021

  • 100 Boyfriends, Purnell
  • A Bright Future, Goldstein & Qvist
  • A Visit From the Goon Squad, Egan
  • All the Birds in the Sky, Anders
  • All the Broken Places, Boyne
  • All the Light We Cannot See, Doerr
  • Americanah, Adichie
  • An Innocent Fashion, Hernandez
  • And the Band Played On, Shilts
  • Aristotle and Dante Discover Secrets of the Universe , Saenz
  • Barbarian Days, Finnegan
  • Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymous Bosch, Miller
  • Biography of X, Lacey
  • Black Cake, Wilkerson
  • Black Wave, Tea
  • Born a Crime, Noah
  • Breakfast at Tiffany's, Capote
  • Candy House, Egan
  • Cherry, Walker
  • Christadora, Murphy
  • Circe, Miller
  • Cleanness, Greenwell
  • Cloud Cuckoo Land, Doerr
  • Close to the Knives, Greer
  • Confessions of the Fox, Wojnarowicz
  • Conversations with Friends, Rooney
  • Dancer from the Dance, Holleran
  • Dark Forest, Liu
  • Death’s End, Liu
  • Deeper the Water the Uglier the Fish, Apekina
  • Desperate Characters, Fox
  • Dept. of Speculation, Offill
  • Detransition, Baby, Peters
  • Down and Out in Paris and London, Orwell
  • Dune 2, Herbert
  • Dune, Herbert
  • Dune, God Emperor, Herbert
  • Educated, Westover
  • Eileen, Moshfegh
  • Everything is Illuminated, Foer
  • Eve's Hollywood, Babitz
  • Exhalation, Chiang
  • Fahrenheit 451, Bradbury
  • Fashion Climbing , Cunningham
  • The Faggots & Their Friends Between Revolutions, Mitchell
  • Feel Free, Smith
  • Fifth Season, Liu
  • Flamethrowers, Kushner
  • Gay Bar, Lin
  • Gentleman in Moscow, Towles
  • Gentrification of the Mind, Schulman
  • Giovanni's Room, Baldwin
  • How Buildings Learn, Brand
  • How Google Works, Schmidt
  • How the Garcia Girls Lost their Accents, Alvarez
  • How to Change Your Mind, Pollan
  • Inherent Vice, Pynchon
  • In Memoriam, Winn
  • In the Distance, Diaz
  • Invisible Cities, Calvino
  • Island, Huxley
  • Just Kids, P. Smith
  • Kafka on the Shore, Murakami
  • La Belle Sauvage, Pullman
  • Ladder to the Sky, Boyne
  • Less, Greer
  • Less Than Zero, Ellis
  • Letters to Yves, Bergé
  • Light of the Stars, Frank
  • Lot, Washington
  • Love Saves the Day: History of American Dance Music Culture, Lawrence
  • M Train, P. Smith
  • Manhattan Beach, Egan
  • Me Talk Pretty One Day, Sedaris
  • Mexican Gothic, Moreno-Garcia
  • Middlesex, Eugenedies
  • Mind-Body Problem, Goldstein
  • Ministry for the Future, Robinson
  • Modern Love
  • Mr. Norriss Changes Trains, Isherwood
  • Name of the Wind, Rothfuss
  • Narcissus and Goldmund, Hesse
  • Never Let Me Go, Ishiguro
  • Night Boat to Tangier, Barry
  • No Name in the Street, Baldwin
  • No Rules Rules, Hastings
  • Normal People, Rooney
  • Obelisk GateJemisin
  • On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous, Vuong
  • Out East , Glynn
  • Outside Looking In, Boyle
  • Overstory, Powers
  • Pachinko, Lee
  • Parable of the Sower, Butler
  • Persepolis, Satrapi
  • Play it as it Lays, Didion
  • Queer, Burroughs
  • Recursion, Crouch
  • Red Rising, Brown
  • Red, White, and Royal Blue, McQuiston
  • Reinventing Organizations, Laloux
  • Resilient Management, Hogan
  • Rise and Fall of DODO, Stephenson & Galland
  • Rules of Civility, Towles
  • Seeing Like a State, Scott
  • Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, Reid
  • Seveneaves, Stephenson
  • Severance, Ma
  • Silver in the Woods, Tesh
  • Slouching Towards Bethlehem, Didion
  • Snow Crash, Stevenson
  • Song of Achilles, M. Miller
  • South of the Border West of the Sun, Murakami
  • Sputnik Sweetheart, Murakami
  • Station Eleven, St. Mandel
  • Stone Sky, Jemisin
  • Superpower, Gold
  • Swing Time, Z. Smith
  • Taming the Sun, Sivaram
  • Tenth of December, Saunders
  • The Alchemist, Coelho
  • The Baron in the Trees, Calvino
  • The Berlin Stories, Isherwood
  • The Bone Clocks, Mitchell
  • The City We Became, Jemisin
  • The Dutch House, Patchett
  • The Freezer Door, Sycamore
  • The Friend, Nunes
  • The Goldfinch, Tartt
  • The Great Bay, Pendell
  • The Great Believers, Makkai
  • The Heart's Invisible Furies, Boyne
  • The Intuitionist, Whitehead
  • The Likeness, French
  • The Name of the Wind, Rothfuss
  • The Nix, Hill
  • The Picture of Dorian Gray, Wilde
  • The Porpoise, Haddon
  • The Secret History, Tartt
  • The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida, Karunatilaka
  • The Soil Will Save Us, Ohlson
  • The Sparrow, Russell
  • The Sympathizer, Nguyen
  • The Uninhabitable Earth, Wallace-Wells
  • The Wind up Bird Chronicle, Murakami
  • The Year of Magical Thinking, Didion
  • Their Eyes Were Watching God, Hurston
  • Things Fall Apart, Achebe
  • Three Body Problem, Liu
  • Timeless Way of Building, Alexander
  • Tiny Beautiful Things, Strayed
  • Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow, Zevin
  • Trick Mirror, Tolentino
  • Trick Mirror, Diaz
  • Utopia Avenue, Mitchell
  • Uproot, Clayton
  • Walkaway, Doctorow
  • Want Not, Miles
  • Weapons of Math Destruction, O'Neil
  • Weather, Offill
  • What Belongs to You, Greenwell
  • Where the Crawdads Sing, Owens
  • Where’d You Go, Bernadette, Semple
  • White Album, Didion
  • Widow Basquiat, Clement
  • Wise Blood, O'Connor