C. Sean Burns

Bookshelf

This page exists for recollection and motivation. I purchased an e-reader in the fall of 2020, and I'm using this page to track/remember what I've read on the device and to motivate me to keep reading (I'm drawn to list-making). The motivation part is important. I went a long time without reading non-specific-work stuff, and I don't want to revert to being like that. It's been truly rejuvenating, personally and professionally, to read broadly again.

I'll also probably add works here that I read in print, since most of what I'll read in print I'll check out from the library, and this list will help me remember that I read those books, too.

2021

1. The Year of Magical Thinking / Joan Didion.
2. We Should All Be Feminists / Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.
3. The Hard Crowd / Kushner, Rachel.
4. Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art / Nestor, James.
5. Uncanny Valley: A Memoir / Anna Wiener.
6. The Vanishing Half / Brit Bennett.
7. Battle Ground / Jim Butcher.
8. Peace Talks / Jim Butcher.
9. Jump-Starting America: How Breakthrough Science Can Revive Economic Growth and the American Dream / Jonathan Gruber and Simon Johnson.
10. Lab Girl / Hope Jahren.
11. Deacon King Kong / James McBride.
12. Mexican Gothic / Silvia Moreno-Garcia.
13. Dept. of Speculation / Jenny Offill.
14. Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone / James Baldwin.

2020

1. Exciting Times: A Novel / Naoise Dolan.