reads

These are some books that I've read throughout the years. The books that are bolded are my favorites, on some axes including how fun, life-altering, or generally engaging they were.

2022

  • Seeing Like a State, James C. Scott
  • Convenience Store Woman, Sayaka Murata
  • Beautiful World, Where Are You, Sally Rooney

2021

  • Bullshit Jobs, David Graeber
  • The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera
  • Into the Woods, Bill Bryson
  • Pachinko, Min Jin Lee
  • A Good Provider is One Who Leaves, Jason DeParle
  • Flash Boys, Michael Lewis
  • An Unquiet Mind, Kay Jamison
  • Mental, Jaime Lowe
  • Gorilla and the Bird, Zack McDermott
  • The Collected Schizophrenias, Esme Wang

2020

  • Uncanny Valley, Anna Wiener
  • The Soul of a New Machine, Tracy Kidder
  • The Death and Life of Great American Cities, Jane Jacobs
  • Amusing Ourselves to Death, Neil Postman
  • The Plague, Albert Camus
  • Normal People, Sally Rooney
  • Train Dreams, Denis Johnson
  • Are Prisons Obsolete?, Angela Davis
  • The Mind and the Market, Jerry Muller

2019

  • Kitchen Confidential, Anthony Bourdain
  • Between the World and Me, Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Jesus' Son, Denis Johnson
  • Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov
  • Trick Mirror, Jia Tolentino
  • My Year of Rest and Relaxation, Otessa Moshfegh
  • Conversations With Friends, Sally Rooney
  • Severance, Ling Ma
  • Ultralearning, Scott Young

Short form

These are shorter pieces I've read (blogs, essays, etc.) that I've found valuable.