Bookshelf

Reading books is important, and thus, welcome to my bookshelf, where I keep track of my leisurely or personal reading. Otherwise, I'd likely not remember I read them.

2026

  1. Twelve Months / Jim Butcher
  2. Losing Our Cool / Stan Cox
  3. Sophie's Choice / Wiliam Styron
  4. UNIX: A History and a Memoir / Brian Kernighan

2025

  1. The Magic of Code: How Digital Language Created and Connected Our World—and Shapes Our Future / Samuel Arbesman.
  2. Hiking with Nietzsche: On Becoming Who You Are / John Kaag
  3. Why Teach? / Mark Edmundson
  4. Why Write? / Mark Edmundson
  5. Why Read? / Mark Edmundson
  6. Nihilistic Times: Thinking with Max Weber / Wendy Brown
  7. No Less Strange or Wonderful: Essays in Curiosity / A. Kendra Greene

2024

  1. The Secret History / Donna Tartt
  2. American Philosophy: A Love Story / John Kaag
  3. City of Glass / Paul Auster

2023

  1. Straw Dogs of the Universe / Ye Chun
  2. Never Let Me Go / Kazuo Ishiguro
  3. Days at the Morisaki Bookshop / Satoshi Yagisawa
  4. The Book of Delights / Ross Gay
  5. Attachments / Rainbow Rowell
  6. Network Effect / Martha Wells
  7. Lessons in Chemistry: A Novel / Bonnie Garmus
  8. The Door-to-Door Bookstore / Carsten Henn
  9. Exit Strategy / Martha Wells
  10. Rogue Protocol / Martha Wells
  11. Artificial Conditions / Martha Wells
  12. All Systems Red / Martha Wells
  13. Track Changes: A Literary History of Word Processing / Matthew G. Kirschenbaum

2022

  1. The Wim Hof Method / Wim Hof
  2. The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck / Mark Manson
  3. The Last Cuentista / Donna Barba Higuera
  4. The Wedge / Scott Carney

2021

  1. The Fifth Season / N. K. Jemisin
  2. A Walk in the Woods / Bill Bryson
  3. The Life and Adventures of Nat Love Better Known in the Cattle Country as "Deadwood Dick" by Himself / Nat Love
  4. How Democracies Die / Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt
  5. What Doesn't Kill Us / Scott Carney
  6. Ring Shout / P. Djèlí Clark
  7. Hao: Stories / Ye Chun
  8. Call for the Dead / John le Carré
  9. The Brave Learner / Julie Bogart
  10. Norwegian Wood / Haruki Murakami
  11. Sustainable. Resilient. Free. The Future of Public Higher Education / John Warner
  12. The Year of Magical Thinking / Joan Didion
  13. We Should All Be Feminists / Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
  14. The Hard Crowd / Rachel Kushner
  15. Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art / James Nestor
  16. Uncanny Valley: A Memoir / Anna Wiener
  17. The Vanishing Half / Brit Bennett
  18. Battle Ground / Jim Butcher
  19. Peace Talks / Jim Butcher
  20. Jump-Starting America: How Breakthrough Science Can Revive Economic Growth and the American Dream / Jonathan Gruber and Simon Johnson
  21. Lab Girl / Hope Jahren
  22. Deacon King Kong / James McBride
  23. Mexican Gothic / Silvia Moreno-Garcia
  24. Dept. of Speculation / Jenny Offill
  25. Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone / James Baldwin

2020

  1. Exciting Times: A Novel / Naoise Dolan