Reading List

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