A list of books I’ve read, from 2018 onwards.

Currently reading:

Whale - Cheon Myeong-kwan

Prior reads: (commentary coming soon!)

Italicized items are recommended

  • Demons - Fyodor Dostoevsky

  • The Sirens of Titan - Kurt Vonnegut

  • Thunderclap - Laura Cumming

  • The Line of Beauty - Alan Hollinghurst

  • Piranesi - Susanna Clarke

  • Billy Summers - Stephen King

  • Fronteras de lo Real - Andrea Kottow

  • Limitarianism - Ingrid Robeyns

  • Demian - Herman Hesse

  • Chess Story - Stefan Zweig

  • The Road - Cormac McCarthy

  • Plainwater - Anne Carson

  • Notes from Underground - Fyodor Dostoevsky

  • The Master and Margarita - Mikhail Bulgakov

  • The Stranger - Albert Camus

  • Me Talk Pretty One Day - David Sedaris

  • Stoner - John Williams

  • The Fantasy Bond - Robert Firestone

  • Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow - Gabrielle Zevin

  • Absolutely on Music - Haruki Murakami

  • The Defining Decade - Meg Jay

  • All the Lovers in the Night - Meiko Kawakami

  • The World According to Garp - John Irving

  • Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand

  • Roadside Picnic - Arkady and Boris Strugatsky

  • Evening Proposal - Pyun Hye Young

  • Quotation Marks - Marjorie Garber

  • The Houseguest - Amparo Davila

  • Literally Show Me a Healthy Person - Darcie Wilder

  • Man’s Search for Meaning - Viktor Frankl

  • Klara and the Sun - Kazuo Ishiguro

  • Terminal Boredom - Izumi Suzuki

  • Neuromancer - William Gibson

  • Inadequate Equilibria - Eliezer Yudkowsky

  • The Man Without Talent - Yoshiharu Tsuge

  • Give Work - Leila Janah

  • Reality Is Not What It Seems - Carlo Rovelli

  • Women Don’t Ask - Linda Babcock

  • On Intelligence - Jeff Hawkins and Sandra Blakeslee

  • Infinite Jest - David Foster Wallace

  • The Annotated Turing - Charles Petzold

  • The Book of Why - Judea Pearl

  • A Mathematician’s Lament - Paul Lockhart

  • The Art of Doing Science and Engineering - Richard Hamming

  • Birth of a Theorem - Cedric Villani

  • Chaos - James Gleick

  • Human Compatible - Stuart J. Russel

  • Dr. Sax - Jack Kerouac

  • The Fabric of the Cosmos - Brian Greene

  • A Brief History of Time - Stephen Hawking

  • Flash Boys - Michael Lewis

  • Barbarians at the Gate - Bryan Burrough

  • Educated - Tara Westover

  • Godel Escher Bach - Douglas Hofstadter

  • The Signal and the Noise - Nate Silver