readings

I spend the majority of my free time reading. Here is a list of books I've read since I started keeping track a few years ago, sorted by most recently read first. Particularly great books are in green.

I have about half of these titles in my personal library of physical books. I'm also a devoted patron of SFPL and frequently loan digital books.

• Behind The Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity

  Katherine Boo

• This Is How You Lose Her

  Junot Diaz

• Range: How Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World

  David Epstein

• The Midnight Library

  Matt Haig

• Siddhartha

  Hermann Hesse

• Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

• The Kite Runner

  Khaled Hosseini

• My Name Is Red

  Orhan Pamuk

• All About Love: New Visions

  bell hooks

• The Age of Surveillance Capitalism

  Shoshana Zuboff

• Moonglow

  Michael Chabon

• How To Win Friends and Influence People

  Dale Carnegie

• Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion

  Robert B. Cialdini

• The Black Swan

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

• Station Eleven

  Emily St. John Mandel

• The Warmth of Other Suns

  Isabel Wilkerson

• The Nickel Boys

  Colson Whitehead

• How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future

  Steven Levitsky & Daniel Ziblatt

• The Leavers

  Lisa Ko

• Dreams From My Father

  Barack Obama

• Everything I Never Told You

  Celeste Ng

• The Goldfinch

  Donna Tartt

• The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York

  Robert Caro

• Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World

  Adam Tooze

• Invisible Cities

  Italo Calvino

• A Field Guide To Getting Lost

  Rebecca Solnit

• The Corrections

  Jonathan Franzen

• On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

  Ocean Vuong

• The Namesake

  Jhumpa Lahiri

• Man's Search For Meaning

  Viktor Frankl

• America For Beginners

  Leah Franqui

• The Three-Body Problem

  Cixin Liu

• Interpreter of Maladies

  Jhumpa Lahiri

• The School of Life: An Emotional Education

  Alain De Botton

• The Courage To Be Disliked

  Ichiro Kishimi, Fumitake Koga

• Overstory

  Richard Powers

• Deep Work

  Cal Newport

• Me, Myself and Us

  Brian Little

• Winner Takes All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World

  Anand Giridharadas

• True Love

  Thich Nhat Hanh

• The Hero With A Thousand Faces

  Joseph Campbell

• Educated

  Tara Westover

• Measure What Matters

  John Doerr

• Where The Crawdads Sing

  Delia Owens

• Born A Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood

  Trevor Noah

• Amsterdam: A History of the World's Most Liberal City

  Russell Shorto

• Sapiens

  Yuval Noah Harari

• Season of the Witch

  David Talbot

• The Immortalists

  Chloe Benjamin

• Inglorious Empire

  Shashi Tharoor

• The Buried Giant

  Kazuo Ishiguro

• How To Read A Book

  Mortimer J. Adler, Charles Van Doren

• The Everything Store

  Brad Stone

• Home Deus

  Yuval Noah Harari

• Bad Blood

  John Carreyrou

• The God of Small Things

  Arundhati Roy

• Gang Leader for a Day

  Sudhir Venkatesh

• I'll Be Gone In The Dark

  Michelle McNamara

• A Little Life

  Hanya Yanagihara

• Grit

  Angela Duckworth

• Pachinko

  Min Jin Lee

• The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck

  Mark Manson

• Essentialism

  Greg McKeown

• Manhattan Beach

  Jennifer Egan

• H is for Hawk

  Helen Macdonald

• Americanah

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

• Being Mortal

  Atul Gawande

• Sing, Unburied, Sing

  Jesmyn Ward

• Brotopia

  Emily Chang

• Hillbilly Elegy

  J.D Vance

• The Orphan Master's Son

  Adam Johnson

• Nonviolent Communication

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

• Shoe Dog

  Phil Knight

• The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay

  Michael Chabon

• The Emperor of All Maladies

  Siddhartha Mukherjee

• The Sellout

  Paul Beatty