In January of 2014, inspired by Jamie Todd Rubin, I started compiling a list of all the books I’ve read. 2014 marked the end of my junior year in high school, so a lot of these are books I read for school. I count listening to an audiobook as having read it, but my reading setup consists of Audible, my Kindle, and actual dead-tree books.
2014
- Slaughterhouse Five - Kurt Vonnegut
- Damned - Chuck Palahniuk
- Hyperbole and a Half - Allie Brosh
- This Is How You Lose Her - Junot Diaz
- For All of Us, One Today - Richard Blanco
- Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
- Quiet - Susan Cain
- The Sun Also Rises - Ernest Hemingway
- Bright Lights, Big City - Jay McInerney
- Long Day’s Journey Into Night - Eugene O’Neill
- What Maisie Knew - Henry James
- Sula - Tony Morrison
- Brain Rules - John Medina
- Middlesex - Jeffrey Euginides
- Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
- Fur, Fortune and Empire - Eric Jay Dolin
- Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- The Judgment, In the Penal Colony, Metamorphosis - Franz Kafka
- The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat - Oliver Sacks
- A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - James Joyce
- To The Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf
- One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel García Márquez
- Waiting for the Barbarians - J.M. Coetzee
- The Selfish Gene - Richard Dawkins
- Bobos in Paradise - David Brooks
2015
- Beloved - Toni Morrison
- Ghosts - Henrik Ibsen
- The Cherry Orchard - Anton Chekhov
- Happy Days - Samuel Beckett
- Mother Courage and Her Children - Bertolt Brecht
- The Homecoming - Harold Pinter
- Fucking A - Suzan-Lori Parks
- American Buffalo - David Mamet
- Angels in America - Tony Kushner
- Ready Player One - Ernest Cline
- The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
- On Chesil Beach - Ian McEwan
- Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and his Years of Pilgrimage - Haruki Murakami
- The Judgment, In the Penal Colony, Metamorphosis, Before the Law, The Great Wall of China, A Common Confusion, The Next Village, The Burrow, An Imperial Message - Franz Kafka
- Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius, The Garden of Forking Paths, The Lottery in Babylon, The Circular Ruins, The Library of Babel, Funes the Memorious - Jorge Luis Borges
- The Martian - Andy Weir
- Invisible Cities - Italo Calvino
- Chinese Letter - Svetislav Basara
- Vertical Motion - Can Xue
- Animal’s People - Indra Sinha
- Under the Skin - Michel Faber
- Kafka on the Shore - Haruki Murakami
- A Man Called Ove - Fredrik Backman
2016
- Kings of the Road - Cameron Stracher
- Jews and Words - Amos Oz & Fania Oz-Salzberger
- The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up - Marie Kondo
- The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Call it Sleep - Henry Roth
- Pale Fire - Vladimir Nabokov
- Gravity’s Rainbow - Thomas Pynchon
- All the Light we Cannot See - Anthony Doerr
- Beloved - Toni Morrison
- Tripmaster Monkey. His Fake Book - Maxine Hong Kingston
- The Things They Carried - Tim O’Brien
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest - Ken Kesey
- 11/22/63 - Stephen King
- The Girls - Emma Cline
- Sofia Petrovna - Lydia Chukovskaya
- A day in the life of Ivan Denisovich - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
- A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving
- Stoner - John Williams
2017
- What I Talk About When I Talk About Running - Haruki Murakami
- The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle - Haruki Murakami
- The Talisman Cock - Henry Joseph Russell
- John Dies at the End - David Wong
- The Defining Decade - Meg Jay, Ph.D
- Modern Romance - Aziz Ansari
- My Grandmother Asked Me To Tell You She’s Sorry - Fredrik Backman
- All Stories Are Love Stories - Elizabeth Percer
2018
- Artemis - Andy Weir
- The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood
- Little Fires Everywhere - Celeste Ng
- The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains - Nicholas Carr
- Beneath a Scarlet Sky - Mark Sullivan
- Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Isiguro
- The Door - Madga Szabo
- The Dream Machine: J.C.R. Licklider and the Revolution That Made Computing Personal - M. Mitchell Waldrop
- The Shallows: What The Internet is Doing To Our Brains - Nicholas Carr
- Regeneration - Pat Barker
- The Waste Land - T.S. Eliot
- Towards a New Architecture - Le Corbusier
- Dubliners - James Joyce
- Mrs. Dalloway - Virginia Woolf
- Distant Star - Roberto Bolaño
- Disgrace - J.M. Coetzee
- Juhaani Pallasmaa - The Eyes of the Skin
2019
- A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership - James Comey
- Call Me By Your Name - André Aciman
- The Plot Against America - Philip Roth
- Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance - Robert M. Pirsig