Reading Log#

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.

This explicitly doesn’t track things I read online—you might be interested in my pinboard.in profile for that.

2020#

• You Look Like a Thing and I Love You - Janelle Shane
• Dark Matter - Blake Crouch
• UNIX: A History and a Memoir - Brian Kernighan
• Challenger Deep - Neal Shusterman
• Watchmen - Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons
• Creative Selection - Ken Kocienda
• White Tears - Hari Kunzru
• A Philosophy of Software Design - John Ousterhout
• Strangers in Budapest - Jessica Keener
• The Timeless Way of Building - Christopher Alexander
• Severance - Ling Ma
• Something Incredibly Wonderful Happens: Frank Oppenheimer and his Astonishing Exploratorium - K.C. Cole
• An Elegant Puzzle: Systems of Engineering Management - Will Larson
• The Making of Prince of Persia: Journals 1985 – 1993 - Jordan Mechner
• Antiracism: An Introduction - Alex Zamalin
• Homegoing - Yaa Gyasi
• Thoughts Without a Thinker - Mark Epstein
• How to Win Friends & Influence People - Dale Carnegie
• How to be an Antiracist - Ibram X. Kendi
• The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo - Stieg Larsson

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
• Theft by Finding: Diaries 1977-2002 - David Sedaris
• Circe - Madeline Miller
• Bad Blood - John Carreyrou
• Managing Humans - Michael Lopp
• On Intelligence - Jeff Hawkins
• The Weight of Ink - Rachel Kadish
• Sapiens - Yuval Noah Harari
• The Year of Magical Thinking - Joan Didion
• White Teeth - Zadie Smith
• Cherry - Nico Walker

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

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

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

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

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