Books I've Read

In January of 2014, I started compiling a list of all the books I've read. 2014 marked the end of my junior year in high school, so the beginning of this list represents a lot of literature courses I took in hich school and college. 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 list contains 175 books, and is automatically generated from an Airtable database.

2024

• I’m Glad My Mom Died - Jennette McCurdy
• What If? - Randall Munroe
• Feel-Good Productivity - Ali Abdaal

2023

• Between the World and Me - Ta-Nehisi Coates
• The Corrections - Jonathan Franzen
• Killers of the Flower Moon - David Grann
• Remarkably Bright Creatures - Shelby Van Pelt
• The Goldfinch - Donna Tartt
• The Essence of Software - Daniel Jackson
• The Last Traverse - Ty Gagne
• Why Fish Don’t Exist - Lulu Miller
• The Push - Tommy Caldwell
• On Writing - Stephen King
• The Body - Bill Bryson
• Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow - Gabrielle Zevin
• The Midnight Library - Matt Haig
• The Creative Act - Rick Rubin
• 1Q84 - Haruki Murakami
• Becoming - Michelle Obama
• Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir

2022

• A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again (Essays) - David Foster Wallace
• Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
• The Rose Code - Kate Quinn
• Klara and the Sun - Kazuo Ishiguro
• Build - Tony Fadell
• Writers & Lovers - Lily King
• Crying in H Mart - Michelle Zauner
• The Cathedral & The Bazaar - Eric S. Raymond
• The Cellist - Daniel Silva
• The Stand - Stephen King
• The Secret History - Donna Tartt
• The Big Score - Michael S. Malone
• Red, White, and Royal Blue - Casey McQuinston

2021

• The Girl who Played with Fire - Steig Larsson
• Where the Crawdads Sing - Delia Owens
• What We Talk About When We Talk About Books - Leah Price
• Born a Crime - Trevor Noah
• Shorefall - Robert Jackson Bennett
• Transcendent Kingdom - Yaa Gyasi
• My Own Words - Ruth Bader Ginsburg
• The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race - Walter Isaacson
• The Four Winds - Kristin Hannah
• Foundryside - Robert Jackson Bennett
• Exhalation: Stories - Ted Chiang
• Every Tool's a Hammer - Adam Savage
• Project Management for the Unofficial Project Manager - James Wood
• Whistleblower - Susan Fowler
• Night - Elie Wiesel
• The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
• Arrowsmith - Sinclair Lewis

2020

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

2019

• The Year of Magical Thinking - Joan Didion
• Cherry - Nico Walker
• White Teeth - Zadie Smith
• The Weight of Ink - Rachel Kadish
• Sapiens - Yuval Noah Harari
• On Intelligence - Jeff Hawkins
• Managing Humans - Michael Lopp
• Bad Blood - John Carreyrou
• Theft by Finding: Diaries 1977-2002 - David Sedaris
• Circe - Madeline Miller
• Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance - Robert M. Pirsig
• The Plot Against America - Philip Roth
• Call Me By Your Name - André Aciman
• A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership - James Comey

2018

• Juhaani Pallasmaa - The Eyes of the Skin
• The Waste Land - T.S. Eliot
• Dubliners - James Joyce
• Mrs. Dalloway - Virginia Woolf
• Towards a New Architecture - Le Corbusier
• Disgrace - J.M. Coetzee
• Distant Star - Roberto Bolaño
• Regeneration - Pat Barker
• The Shallows: What The Internet is Doing To Our Brains - Nicholas Carr
• The Dream Machine: J.C.R. Licklider and the Revolution That Made Computing Personal - M. Mitchell Waldrop
• Beneath a Scarlet Sky - Mark Sullivan
• The Door - Madga Szabo
• Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Isiguro
• Little Fires Everywhere - Celeste Ng
• The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains - Nicholas Carr
• Artemis - Andy Weir
• The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood

2017

• My Grandmother Asked Me To Tell You She’s Sorry - Fredrik Backman
• All Stories Are Love Stories - Elizabeth Percer
• Modern Romance - Aziz Ansari
• The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle - Haruki Murakami
• What I Talk About When I Talk About Running - Haruki Murakami
• The Defining Decade - Meg Jay, Ph.D
• The Talisman Cock - Henry Joseph Russell
• John Dies at the End - David Wong

2016

• Call it Sleep - Henry Roth
• Stoner - John Williams
• A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving
• All the Light we Cannot See - Anthony Doerr
• Pale Fire - Vladimir Nabokov
• The Girls - Emma Cline
• The Things They Carried - Tim O’Brien
• Sofia Petrovna - Lydia Chukovskaya
• Kings of the Road - Cameron Stracher
• 11/22/63 - Stephen King
• Tripmaster Monkey. His Fake Book - Maxine Hong Kingston
• Jews and Words - Amos Oz & Fania Oz-Salzberger
• Gravity’s Rainbow - Thomas Pynchon
• The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
• The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up - Marie Kondo
• One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest - Ken Kesey
• Beloved - Toni Morrison
• A day in the life of Ivan Denisovich - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

2015

• Animal’s People - Indra Sinha
• Kafka on the Shore - Haruki Murakami
• Under the Skin - Michel Faber
• A Man Called Ove - Fredrik Backman
• Chinese Letter - Svetislav Basara
• Vertical Motion - Can Xue
• The Martian - Andy Weir
• 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
• Invisible Cities - Italo Calvino
• Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and his Years of Pilgrimage - Haruki Murakami
• The Cherry Orchard - Anton Chekhov
• The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
• The Homecoming - Harold Pinter
• Beloved - Toni Morrison
• Ready Player One - Ernest Cline
• Mother Courage and Her Children - Bertolt Brecht
• Happy Days - Samuel Beckett
• Ghosts - Henrik Ibsen
• Angels in America - Tony Kushner
• American Buffalo - David Mamet
• On Chesil Beach - Ian McEwan
• Fucking A - Suzan-Lori Parks

2014

• The Selfish Gene - Richard Dawkins
• Bobos in Paradise - David Brooks
• Waiting for the Barbarians - J.M. Coetzee
• The Sun Also Rises - Ernest Hemingway
• Bright Lights, Big City - Jay McInerney
• Middlesex - Jeffrey Euginides
• One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel García Márquez
• A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - James Joyce
• Sula - Tony Morrison
• The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat - Oliver Sacks
• Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
• Fur, Fortune and Empire - Eric Jay Dolin
• What Maisie Knew - Henry James
• Brain Rules - John Medina
• To The Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf
• The Judgment, In the Penal Colony, Metamorphosis - Franz Kafka
• Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
• Long Day’s Journey Into Night - Eugene O’Neill
• This Is How You Lose Her - Junot Diaz
• For All of Us, One Today - Richard Blanco
• Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
• Slaughterhouse Five - Kurt Vonnegut
• Quiet - Susan Cain
• Hyperbole and a Half - Allie Brosh
• Damned - Chuck Palahniuk