Reading

In progress

• Orbital by Samantha Harvey
• Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas Hofstadter
• Labyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges
• The Power Broker by Robert Caro
• Taste in Music by Alex Bleeker & Luke Pyenson

2025

• The Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac
• The Wall by Marlen Haushofer
• The Word for World is Forest by Ursula K. Le Guin
• Watership Down by Richard Adams
• West with the Night by Beryl Markham

2024

• The God of the Woods by Liz Moore
• James by Percival Everett
• The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
• The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
• The Nobel Lecture by Kazuo Ishiguro
• Never Let Me Go Kazuo Ishiguro
• Martyr! by Keveh Akbar
• Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
• Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurty
• Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain
• Dare to Lead by Brené Brown
• North Woods by Daniel Mason
• The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
• The Other Wind by Ursula K. Le Guin
• The Mountain and the Sea by Ray Nayler
• Tales from Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin
• Tehanu by Ursula K. Le Guin
• How to Do Nothing by Jenny Odell
  2023
• Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir
• The Farthest Shore by Ursula K. Le Guin
• The Tombs of Atuan by Ursula K. Le Guin
• The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
• Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
• Roadside Picnic by Arkady & Boris Strugatsky
• A Desolation Called Peace by Arkady Martine
• The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende
• A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine

2022

• The Birth Partner by Penny Simkin with Katie Rohs
• Neuromancer by William Gibson
• Game Programming Design Patterns by Robery Nystrom
• Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury
• {You're Paid What You're Worth} by Jake Rosenfeld
• This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone
• Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
• Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke
• Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
• {Angle of Repose} by Wallace Stegner (plagiarizing Mary Hallock Foote)
• The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia by Ursula K. Le Guin
• The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
• A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
• The Backyard Adventurer by Beau Miles
• The Vegetable Gardener's Bible by Edward C. Smith
• {Less} by Andrew Sean Greer
• {A Swim in a Pond in the Rain} by Various Authors

2021 and prior

• How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie
• {Dandelion Wine} by Ray Bradbury
• {Name of the Wind} by Patrick Rothfuss
• {East of Eden} by John Steinbeck
• {The Sympathizer} by Viet Thanh Nguyen
• {Treasure Island} by Robert Louis Stevenson
• {A Visit From The Goon Squad} by Jennifer Egan
• {Twelve Tomorrows} by Various Authors
• {The Redemption of Time} by Baoshu
• {Children of Time} by Adrian Tchaikovsky
• {The Making of Prince of Persia} by Jordan Mechner
• {The Lathe of Heaven} by Ursula K. Le Guin
• All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
• {Braiding Sweetgrass} by Robin Wall Kimmerer
• {The Good Life Lab} by Wendy Jehanara Tremayne
• {The Art of Fermentation} by Sandor Katz
• {Born to Run} by Christopher McDougall
• Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
• Exhalation: Stories by Ted Chiang
• {The Overstory} by Richard Powers
• {Born a Crime} by Trevor Noah
• {The Left Hand of Darkness} by Ursula K. Le Guin
• {A Wizard of Earthsea} by Ursula K. Le Guin
• {1984} by George Orwell
• Principles by Roy Dalio (trash book, do not read)
• Working by Robert Caro
• My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante
• {Foundation} by Isaac Asimov
• {Circe} by Madeline Miller
• {Ancillary Justice} by Ann Leckie
• The Knight & The Wizard by Gene Wolfe
• {Rules of Civility} by Amor Towles
• {Ball Lightning} by Liu Cixin
• High Rise by J. G. Ballard (not recommended)
• Mortal Engines by Philip Reeve (not recommended)
• {Exit West} by Mohsin Hamid
• Sleeping Giants by Sylvain Neuvel
• {Sing Unburied Sing} by Jesmyn Ward