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