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. At the bottom is my list of books that I plan to read... someday. If you have other recommendations, shoot me an email!
Books I've read — 2016-2021
- A Bright Future, Goldstein & Qvist
- A Visit From the Goon Squad, Egan
- 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
- Black Wave, Tea
- Born a Crime, Noah
- Breakfast at Tiffany's, Capote
- Cherry, Walker
- Christadora, Murphy
- Circe, Miller
- Cleanness, Greenwell
- Close to the Knives, Greer
- Confessions of the Fox, Wojnarowicz
- Conversations with Friends, Rooney
- Dark Forest, Liu
- Death’s End, Liu
- Deeper the Water the Uglier the Fish, Apekina
- Dept. of Speculation, Offill
- Down and Out in Paris and London, Orwell
- Dune 2, Herbert
- Dune, Herbert
- Educated, Westover
- Eileen, Moshfegh
- Everything is Illuminated, Foer
- Eve's Hollywood, Babitz
- Exhalation, Chiang
- Fahrenheit 451, Bradbury
- Fashion Climbing , Cunningham
- Feel Free, Smith
- Fifth Season, Liu
- 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
- 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
- Middlesex, Eugenedies
- Mind-Body Problem, Goldstein
- Modern Love
- Mr. Norriss Changes Trains, Isherwood
- Name of the Wind, Rothfuss
- Narcissus and Goldmund, Hesse
- Never Let Me Go, Ishiguro
- 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
- Parable of the Sower, Butler
- Persepolis, Satrapi
- 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
- Seeing Like a State, Scott
- 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 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 Soil Will Save Us, Ohlson
- The Sympathizer, Nguyen
- The Uninhabitable Earth, Wallace-Wells
- The Wind up Bird Chronicle, Murakami
- Their Eyes Were Watching God, Hurston
- Things Fall Apart, Achebe
- Three Body Problem, Liu
- Tiny Beautiful Things, Strayed
- Trick Mirror, Tolentino
- 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
Books I'd like to Read 🧐
Keeping these in non-alphabetical order to remember, roughly, where they came from.
Non-Fiction
- Start with Why, Sinek
- An Everlasting Meal, Adler
- Modernizing America’s Electricity Infrastructure , Willrich
- The Grid, Bakke
- Political Savvy , DeLuca
- To Shake the Sleeping Self, Jenkins
- The Fate of Food, Little
- Atomic Habits, Clear
- Shoe Dog, Knight
- Master of us All: Balenciaga, his Workrooms, his World, Blume
- This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate, Klein
- The Body (a Guide for Occupants), Bryson
- High Output Management, Grove
- Human Compatible: Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Control, Russell
- Season of the Witch, Talbot
- The Power of Moments, Heath & Heath
- Resisting Reduction, Ito
- Managing Oneself, Drucker
- The Curse of Bigness, Wu
- An Elegant Puzzle, Larson
- Profiles of the Future , Clarke
- The Book of Why, Mackenzie & Pearl
- The Prize, Yergen
- The AI Delusion, Smith
- Genet: A Biography of Jannet Flanner, Wineapple
- Dear Harvey, Loughrey & Hodges
- Quirky, Schilling
- Starfish and the Spider, Brafman & Beckstrom
- Spiral Dynamics, Cowan & Beck
- War of Art, Pressfield
- Art of Possibility, Zander
- I Seem to be a Verb, Fuller
- The Art of Travel, de Botton
- Doors of Perception , Huxley
- The Innovators, Isaacson
- Now I Know who my Comrades Are, Parker
- 7 Habits, Covey
- The Death and Life of Great American Cities, Jacobs
- Where Wizards Stay up Late, Hafner
- Gut, Enders
- Hooked, Eyal
- Waking Up, Harris
- Built to Last, Collins
- Technocracy in America: Rise of the Info-State, Khanna
- The Revolution Will Not be Funded, Incite
- Democracy in America, de Tocqueville
- Whiplash, Ito
- Hold Still, Mann
- The Happiness Advantage, Achor
- Inventing the Future: Postcapitalism and a World Without Work, Williams & Snricek
- Boys in the Boat, Brown
- Ways of Seeing, Berger
- The Way we Live Now, Sontag
- Yoga Sutra of Patanjali, Satchidananda
- Unbroken, Hillenbrand
- Superintelligence, Bostram
Fiction
- Gemini, Tournier
- Cats Cradle, Vonnegut
- One Hundred Years of Solitude, Marquez
- Children of the Mind, Scott Card
- White Teeth, Z. Smith
- The Corrections , Franzen
- Point Counter Point , Huxley
- Beloved, Morrisoon
- The World According to Garp, Irving
- East of Eden, Steinbeck
- Naked Lunch, Burroughs
- Yellow Birds, Powers
- The Lords of Discipline , Conroy
- The Idiot, Batuman
- Animal Farm, Orwell
- Wind Sand and Stars, Saint-Exupery
- Fight Club, Palanik
- Ishmael, Quinn
- Starship and the Canoe, Brower
- We, Zamyatin
- Black Skin White Masks, Fanon
- Go Tell it on The Mountain, Baldwin
- Games People Play , Berne
- Last Exit to Brooklyn, Selby
- The Sympathizer, Nguyen
- Parable of the Talents , Butler
- My Life on the Road, Steinem
- All the Birds in the Sky, Anders
- The Sellout, Beatty
- Fates and Furies, Groff
- If on Winters Night a Traveler, Calvino
- The Waves, Woolf
- Look at Me, Egan
- Stay with Me, Adebayo
- I Celebrate Myself, Morgan
- The Baroque Cycle, Stephenson
- After On, Reid
- Anathem, Reid
- The Diamond Age, Stephenson
- Five Carat Soul, McBride
- Childen of Blood and Bone, Adeyemi
- Black Swan Green , Mitchell
- My Soul Looks Back, Harris
- The Great Alone, Hannah
- Shantaram, Roberts
- Artemis, Bashara
- Franchise, Asimov
- Star Maker, Stapledon
- The Flamethrowers, Kushner
- Golden Gate, Seth
- The Rest of It, Duberman
- Life of David Hockney, Hockney
- Infinite Detail, Maughan
- The Glass Bead Game, Hesse
- The Peripheral, Gibson
- Pachinko, Jin Lee
- The Secret Commonwealth, Pullman
- A Heart’s Invisible Furies, Boyne
- A Year of Magical Thinking, Didion
- The Tsar of Love and Techno, Marra
- The Friend, Nunez
- Stories of Your Life and Others, Chiang
- Slow Days, Fast Company, Babbitz
- Hard Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, Murakami
- Your Name Here, Dewitt
- Calypso, Sedaris
- In the dream house, Machado
- 10:04, Lerner
- What Belongs to You, Greenwell
- Dutch House, Patchett
- Prisoners of Geography, Marshall
- The Collected Schizophrenias, Wang
- Heavy, Laymon
- The Night Tiger, Choo
- Confederacy of Dunces , Toole