All 160 books I've read since January 2014.
2023
- The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
- The Creative Act by Rick Rubin
- 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami
- Becoming by Michelle Obama
- Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
2022
- A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again (Essays) by David Foster Wallace
- Catch 22 by Joseph Heller
- The Rose Code by Kate Quinn
- Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro
- Build by Tony Fadell
- Writers & Lovers by Lily King
- Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner
- The Cathedral & The Bazaar by Eric S. Raymond
- The Cellist by Daniel Silva
- The Stand by Stephen King
- The Secret History by Donna Tartt
- The Big Score by Michael S. Malone
- Red, White, and Royal Blue by Casey McQuinston
2021
- The Girl who Played with Fire by Steig Larsson
- Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
- What We Talk About When We Talk About Books by Leah Price
- Born a Crime by Trevor Noah
- Shorefall by Robert Jackson Bennett
- Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi
- My Own Words by Ruth Bader Ginsburg
- The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race by Walter Isaacson
- The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah
- Foundryside by Robert Jackson Bennett
- Exhalation: Stories by Ted Chiang
- Every Tool's a Hammer by Adam Savage
- Project Management for the Unofficial Project Manager by James Wood
- Whistleblower by Susan Fowler
- Night by Elie Wiesel
- The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
- Arrowsmith by Sinclair Lewis
2020
- The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
- How to be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
- Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
- How to Win Friends & Influence People by Dale Carnegie
- Thoughts Without a Thinker by Mark Epstein
- Antiracism: An Introduction by Alex Zamalin
- The Making of Prince of Persia: Journals 1985 – 1993 by Jordan Mechner
- An Elegant Puzzle: Systems of Engineering Management by Will Larson
- Something Incredibly Wonderful Happens: Frank Oppenheimer and his Astonishing Exploratorium by K.C. Cole
- Severance by Ling Ma
- The Timeless Way of Building by Christopher Alexander
- Strangers in Budapest by Jessica Keener
- A Philosophy of Software Design by John Ousterhout
- White Tears by Hari Kunzru
- Creative Selection by Ken Kocienda
- Watchmen by Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons
- Challenger Deep by Neal Shusterman
- UNIX: A History and a Memoir by Brian Kernighan
- Dark Matter by Blake Crouch
- You Look Like a Thing and I Love You by Janelle Shane
2019
- White Teeth by Zadie Smith
- Cherry by Nico Walker
- The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
- Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari
- The Weight of Ink by Rachel Kadish
- On Intelligence by Jeff Hawkins
- Managing Humans by Michael Lopp
- Bad Blood by John Carreyrou
- Circe by Madeline Miller
- Theft by Finding: Diaries 1977-2002 by David Sedaris
- Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. Pirsig
- The Plot Against America by Philip Roth
- Call Me By Your Name by André Aciman
- A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership by James Comey
2018
- Distant Star by Roberto Bolaño
- Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee
- Towards a New Architecture by Le Corbusier
- Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
- Dubliners by James Joyce
- The Waste Land by T.S. Eliot
- Juhaani Pallasmaa by The Eyes of the Skin
- The Shallows: What The Internet is Doing To Our Brains by Nicholas Carr
- Regeneration by Pat Barker
- The Dream Machine: J.C.R. Licklider and the Revolution That Made Computing Personal by M. Mitchell Waldrop
- Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Isiguro
- The Door by Madga Szabo
- Beneath a Scarlet Sky by Mark Sullivan
- The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
- Artemis by Andy Weir
- The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains by Nicholas Carr
- Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng
2017
- Modern Romance by Aziz Ansari
- All Stories Are Love Stories by Elizabeth Percer
- My Grandmother Asked Me To Tell You She’s Sorry by Fredrik Backman
- John Dies at the End by David Wong
- The Talisman Cock by Henry Joseph Russell
- The Defining Decade by Meg Jay, Ph.D
- What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami
- The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
2016
- A day in the life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
- Beloved by Toni Morrison
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
- The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie Kondo
- The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
- Jews and Words by Amos Oz & Fania Oz-Salzberger
- Tripmaster Monkey. His Fake Book by Maxine Hong Kingston
- 11/22/63 by Stephen King
- Kings of the Road by Cameron Stracher
- Sofia Petrovna by Lydia Chukovskaya
- The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien
- The Girls by Emma Cline
- Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov
- All the Light we Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
- A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
- Stoner by John Williams
- Call it Sleep by Henry Roth
2015
- A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman
- Under the Skin by Michel Faber
- Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
- Animal’s People by Indra Sinha
- Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and his Years of Pilgrimage by Haruki Murakami
- Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino
- Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius, The Garden of Forking Paths, The Lottery in Babylon, The Circular Ruins, The Library of Babel, Funes the Memorious by Jorge Luis Borges
- 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 by Franz Kafka
- The Martian by Andy Weir
- Vertical Motion by Can Xue
- Chinese Letter by Svetislav Basara
- Fucking A by Suzan-Lori Parks
- On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan
- American Buffalo by David Mamet
- Angels in America by Tony Kushner
- Ghosts by Henrik Ibsen
- Happy Days by Samuel Beckett
- Mother Courage and Her Children by Bertolt Brecht
- Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
- Beloved by Toni Morrison
- The Homecoming by Harold Pinter
- The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
- The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov
2014
- Waiting for the Barbarians by J.M. Coetzee
- Bobos in Paradise by David Brooks
- The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins
- Long Day’s Journey Into Night by Eugene O’Neill
- Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
- The Judgment, In the Penal Colony, Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
- To The Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
- Brain Rules by John Medina
- What Maisie Knew by Henry James
- Fur, Fortune and Empire by Eric Jay Dolin
- Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat by Oliver Sacks
- Sula by Tony Morrison
- A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
- One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
- Middlesex by Jeffrey Euginides
- Bright Lights, Big City by Jay McInerney
- The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
- Damned by Chuck Palahniuk
- Hyperbole and a Half by Allie Brosh
- Quiet by Susan Cain
- Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
- Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
- For All of Us, One Today by Richard Blanco
- This Is How You Lose Her by Junot Diaz