A Reading Log

See here for future possible reads.
The pre-2022 lists were compiled from a Goodreads export.

2024

• The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress - Robert A. Heinlein
• Towards a Philosophy of Photography - Vilém Flusser
• Clear Thinking - Shane Parrish

2023

• The Disappeared - Andrew Porter. Lovely collection of short stories. Almost all involving couples around 40.
• The Three-Body Problem - Cixin Liu
• The Traitor Baru Cormorant - Seth Dickinson
• Vernon Subutex - Virginia Despentes
• Jpod: a novel – Douglas Coupland
• Lapvona — Ottessa Moshfegh
• Crossroads — Jonathan Franzen
• How Not to Die — Michael Greger, Gene Stone
• The Peripheral — William Gibson
• Lincoln in the Bardo — George Saunders

2022

• Cultish — Amanda Montell
• Modern Massacres — Timothy Willis Sanders
• The Utopia of Rules — David Graeber
• Machines Like Me — Ian McEwan
• Bullshit Jobs — David Graeber
• How to Do Nothing — Jenny Odell
• Picnic at Hanging Rock — Joan Lindsay
• The Painter — Peter Heller
• The Owl Service — Alan Garner
• Eileen — Ottessa Moshfegh

2018

• Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
• Between the World and Me — Ta-Nehisi Coates

2017

• Pattern Recognition — William Gibson
• The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds — Michael Lewis

2014

• Antifragile: Things That Gain From Disorder — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

2012

• The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World - Michael Pollan
• The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals - Michael Pollan
• The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism — Naomi Klein
• Never Let Me Go — Kazuo Ishiguro

2011

• No Logo — Naomi Klein
• The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test — Tom Wolfe
• The Remains of the Day — Kazuo Ishiguro

2010

• The Crossing — Cormac McCarthy
• Outer Dark — Cormac McCarthy
• Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software — Steven Johnson
• Castaways — Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca
• Eeeee Eee Eeee — Tao Lin

2009

• The Fortress of Solitude — Jonathan Lethem
• The Corrections — Jonathan Franzen

2008

• A Long Way Down — Nick Hornby
• The Conscience of a Liberal — Paul Krugman
• Water for Elephants — Sara Gruen
• The Shadow of the Wind — Carlos Ruiz Zafón

2007

• The Death and Life of Great American Cities — Jane Jacobs
• Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim — David Sedaris
• Breakfast of Champions — Kurt Vonnegut

2006

• The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay — Michael Chabon
• Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture — Douglas Coupland

2004

• The Art Spirit — Robert Henri
• Dr. Sax — Jack Kerouac
• Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media — Noam Chomsky
• A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail — Bill Bryson