Books I've read in no particular order.


  • Everything I Never Told You, Celeste Ng
  • Belzhar, Meg Wolitzer
  • Animal Farm, George Orwell
  • 1984, George Orwell
  • Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
  • Bluets, Maggie Nelson
  • Sapiens, Yuval Noah Harari
  • Homo Deus, Yuval Noah Harari
  • Skin in the Game, Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Dopamine Nation, Anna Lembke
  • All the Light We Cannot See, Anthony Doerr
  • The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho
  • South of the Border, West of the Sun, Haruki Murakami
  • Klara and the Sun, Kazuo Ishiguro
  • Wit, Margaret Edson
  • The Subject Was Roses, Frank D. Gilroy
  • Outliers, Malcolm Gladwell
  • Homegoing, Yaa Gyasi
  • Speedboat, Renata Adler
  • The Folded Clock, Heidi Julavits
  • We the Animals, Justin Torres
  • So Sad Today, Melissa Broder
  • Milkman, Anna Burns
  • Weather, Jenny Offill
  • The Sad Part Was, Prabda Yoon
  • Call Me Zebra, Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi
  • Native Speaker, Chang-rae Lee
  • Your Utopia, Bora Chung
  • Temporary, Hilary Leichter
  • The Employees, Olga Ravn
  • Drinking Coffee Elsewhere, ZZ Packer
  • No One Is Talking About This, Patricia Lockwood
  • The Year of Magical Thinking, Joan Didion
  • If You Leave Me, Crystal Hana Kim
  • How Much of These Hills Is Gold, C Pam Zhang
  • The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner, Alan Sillitoe
  • Can't and Won't, Lydia Davis
  • A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, Dave Eggers
  • Celestial Bodies, Jokha Alharthi
  • Go Home!, Edited by Rowan Hisayo Buchanan
  • Interpreter of Maladies, Jhumpa Lahiri
  • The Emperor of All Maladies, Siddhartha Mukherjee
  • The Boat, Nam Le
  • The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas, Ursula K. Le Guin
  • The Dispossessed, Ursula K. Le Guin
  • The Left Hand of Darkness, Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Frankenstein, Mary Shelley
  • In Search of Lost Time, Marcel Proust
  • The Trial, Franz Kafka
  • To the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf
  • The Crucible, Arthur Miller
  • The Double Helix, James D. Watson
  • Dune, Frank Herbert
  • The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, Tom Wolfe
  • Danube, Claudio Magris
  • The Road to Oxiana, Robert Byron
  • And the Band Played On, Randy Shilts
  • Postwar, Tony Judt
  • The Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger
  • Middlemarch, George Eliot
  • The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway
  • Midnight's Children, Salman Rushdie
  • The Plague, Albert Camus
  • The Man Without Qualities, Robert Musil
  • The Tale of Genji, Murasaki Shikibu
  • In Cold Blood, Truman Capote
  • Man's Search for Meaning, Viktor E. Frankl
  • Homage to Catalonia, George Orwell
  • I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Maya Angelou
  • All the President's Men, Bob Woodward & Carl Bernstein
  • The Warmth of Other Suns, Isabel Wilkerson