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 168 books, and is automatically generated from an Airtable database.
2023
- The Goldfinch - Donna Tartt
- The Body - Bill Bryson
- The Midnight Library - Matt Haig
- The Creative Act - Rick Rubin
- Becoming - Michelle Obama
- Why Fish Don’t Exist - Lulu Miller
- The Push - Tommy Caldwell
- 1Q84 - Haruki Murakami
- The Essence of Software - Daniel Jackson
- Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir
- On Writing - Stephen King
- Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow - Gabrielle Zevin
- The Last Traverse - Ty Gagne
2022
- The Stand - Stephen King
- Crying in H Mart - Michelle Zauner
- Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
- The Big Score - Michael S. Malone
- The Secret History - Donna Tartt
- The Cellist - Daniel Silva
- Red, White, and Royal Blue - Casey McQuinston
- Klara and the Sun - Kazuo Ishiguro
- The Rose Code - Kate Quinn
- A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again (Essays) - David Foster Wallace
- The Cathedral & The Bazaar - Eric S. Raymond
- Build - Tony Fadell
- Writers & Lovers - Lily King
2021
- Born a Crime - Trevor Noah
- Transcendent Kingdom - Yaa Gyasi
- Foundryside - Robert Jackson Bennett
- The Four Winds - Kristin Hannah
- The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
- Project Management for the Unofficial Project Manager - James Wood
- The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race - Walter Isaacson
- Arrowsmith - Sinclair Lewis
- Every Tool's a Hammer - Adam Savage
- The Girl who Played with Fire - Steig Larsson
- What We Talk About When We Talk About Books - Leah Price
- Exhalation: Stories - Ted Chiang
- Whistleblower - Susan Fowler
- My Own Words - Ruth Bader Ginsburg
- Shorefall - Robert Jackson Bennett
- Night - Elie Wiesel
- Where the Crawdads Sing - Delia Owens
2020
- Watchmen - Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons
- Strangers in Budapest - Jessica Keener
- Homegoing - Yaa Gyasi
- The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo - Stieg Larsson
- Something Incredibly Wonderful Happens: Frank Oppenheimer and his Astonishing Exploratorium - K.C. Cole
- White Tears - Hari Kunzru
- You Look Like a Thing and I Love You - Janelle Shane
- Creative Selection - Ken Kocienda
- Severance - Ling Ma
- Thoughts Without a Thinker - Mark Epstein
- How to Win Friends & Influence People - Dale Carnegie
- An Elegant Puzzle: Systems of Engineering Management - Will Larson
- The Making of Prince of Persia: Journals 1985 – 1993 - Jordan Mechner
- How to be an Antiracist - Ibram X. Kendi
- Challenger Deep - Neal Shusterman
- UNIX: A History and a Memoir - Brian Kernighan
- Dark Matter - Blake Crouch
- The Timeless Way of Building - Christopher Alexander
- Antiracism: An Introduction - Alex Zamalin
- A Philosophy of Software Design - John Ousterhout
2019
- The Year of Magical Thinking - Joan Didion
- Bad Blood - John Carreyrou
- A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership - James Comey
- The Weight of Ink - Rachel Kadish
- Managing Humans - Michael Lopp
- Theft by Finding: Diaries 1977-2002 - David Sedaris
- The Plot Against America - Philip Roth
- Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance - Robert M. Pirsig
- Cherry - Nico Walker
- Circe - Madeline Miller
- White Teeth - Zadie Smith
- On Intelligence - Jeff Hawkins
- Call Me By Your Name - André Aciman
- Sapiens - Yuval Noah Harari
2018
- Beneath a Scarlet Sky - Mark Sullivan
- Juhaani Pallasmaa - The Eyes of the Skin
- The Waste Land - T.S. Eliot
- Dubliners - James Joyce
- Little Fires Everywhere - Celeste Ng
- The Dream Machine: J.C.R. Licklider and the Revolution That Made Computing Personal - M. Mitchell Waldrop
- Mrs. Dalloway - Virginia Woolf
- The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains - Nicholas Carr
- The Door - Madga Szabo
- Towards a New Architecture - Le Corbusier
- Artemis - Andy Weir
- Disgrace - J.M. Coetzee
- Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Isiguro
- Distant Star - Roberto Bolaño
- Regeneration - Pat Barker
- The Shallows: What The Internet is Doing To Our Brains - Nicholas Carr
- The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood
2017
- The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle - Haruki Murakami
- My Grandmother Asked Me To Tell You She’s Sorry - Fredrik Backman
- All Stories Are Love Stories - Elizabeth Percer
- Modern Romance - Aziz Ansari
- 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
- The Cherry Orchard - Anton Chekhov
- The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
- The Homecoming - Harold Pinter
- Animal’s People - Indra Sinha
- Chinese Letter - Svetislav Basara
- Vertical Motion - Can Xue
- Kafka on the Shore - Haruki Murakami
- Beloved - Toni Morrison
- Ready Player One - Ernest Cline
- The Martian - Andy Weir
- Mother Courage and Her Children - Bertolt Brecht
- Happy Days - Samuel Beckett
- 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
- Ghosts - Henrik Ibsen
- Angels in America - Tony Kushner
- Under the Skin - Michel Faber
- 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
- American Buffalo - David Mamet
- A Man Called Ove - Fredrik Backman
- On Chesil Beach - Ian McEwan
- Fucking A - Suzan-Lori Parks
- Invisible Cities - Italo Calvino
- Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and his Years of Pilgrimage - Haruki Murakami
2014
- The Sun Also Rises - Ernest Hemingway
- This Is How You Lose Her - Junot Diaz
- The Selfish Gene - Richard Dawkins
- 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
- For All of Us, One Today - Richard Blanco
- The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat - Oliver Sacks
- Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
- Fur, Fortune and Empire - Eric Jay Dolin
- Bobos in Paradise - David Brooks
- Slaughterhouse Five - Kurt Vonnegut
- What Maisie Knew - Henry James
- Brain Rules - John Medina
- To The Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf
- Quiet - Susan Cain
- Hyperbole and a Half - Allie Brosh
- The Judgment, In the Penal Colony, Metamorphosis - Franz Kafka
- Damned - Chuck Palahniuk
- Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
- Waiting for the Barbarians - J.M. Coetzee
- Long Day’s Journey Into Night - Eugene O’Neill