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

2020

1. Exciting Times: A Novel / Naoise Dolan.