Books I've Read

Reading is one of my favorite things to do. Posting on social media is not, but recording what I accomplish is. Hence this list of books that I've finished reading. Books are added to the list in the order that I reach the final page of main content.

2021

Having and Being Had - Eula Biss
The Underground Railroad - Colson Whitehead
The Nickel Boys - Colson Whitehead
The Collected Works Vol. 1 - Scott McClanahan
Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir

2020

Make Time - Jake Knapp and John Zeratsky
I read this before the pandemic started when I thought I had a whole year to experiment with.
Hollow - Owen Egerton
The right amount of crazy just as the pandemic started.
The Testaments - Margaret Atwood
Yes, I read this during the summer of 2020.

2019

The Empathy Exams - Leslie Jamison
A stunning set of essays on expressing, experiencing and understanding empathy.
Night Moves - Jessica Hopper
A wild bike ride down Damen of a memoir of a Chicago that no longer exists. Hopper writes of a Chicago I can never move back to, before smart phones when biking the city was the only way to make sense of it.
The Largesse of the Sea Maiden - Denis Johnson
I was reading this on the subway one morning and a woman said to me, with a slight smile, "What a wonderful title!" It is a good title, it's also an amazing set of short stories. Some how I hadn't read Denis Johnson before but I will be reading more of his work soon.
The Strange Bird - Jeff VanderMeer
The Raven Tower - Ann Leckie
Another great book from Ann Leckie. This book, like her others, provide great characters and a story that pulls you right in.
How To Do Nothing - Jenny Odell
Milkman - Anna Burns
The Recovering: Intoxication and its Aftermath - Leslie Jamison
Transit - Rachel Cusk
Kudos - Rachel Cusk

2018

Barbarian Days A Surfing Life - William Finnegan
I've never surfed yet I truly enjoyed this surfing autobiography. It's a profile of surfing, of growing up, of being single minded, of getting old and of times changing. I've never surfed and I still don't want to, but I will probably read this book again.
White Tears - Hari Kunzru
Creativity, Inc. - Ed Catmull, Amy Wallace
A Loving, Faithful Animal - Josephine Rowe
Abbott Awaits - Chris Bachelder
Outline - Rachel Cusk
Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay - Elena Ferrante
Exit West - Mohsin Hamid
The Orphan Master's Son - Adam Johnson
The Narrow Road to the Deep North - Richard Flanagan
Ayiti - Roxanne Gay
The Throwback Special - Chris Bachelder
My Year of Rest and Relaxation - Ottessa Moshfegh
Provenance - Ann Leckie
Autumn - Karl Ove Knausgard
The Devil and Sherlock Holmes - David Grann
Winter - Karl Ove Knausgard

2017

Invisibility Cloak - Ge Fei
The Sellout - Paul Beatty
Hope In The Dark - Rebecca Solnit
Lincoln In The Bardo - George Saunders
In Patagonia - Bruce Chatwin
Half An Inch Of Water - Percival Everett
The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
Wait Till You See Me Dance - Deb Olin Unferth
The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
In the Heart of the Heart of the Country - William Gass
The Sarah Book - Scott McClanahan
Notes from No Man's Land - Eula Biss
Found Audio - N.J. Campbell
Every Day is for the Thief - Teju Cole
Ways of Curating - Hans Ulrich Obrist
On Immunity - Eula Biss

2016

Ancillary Mercy - Ann Leckie
A Brief History of Seven Killings - Marlon James
Can't and Won't - Lydia Davis
Karate Chop - Dorthe Nors
The Last Policeman - Ben H. Winters
Archangel - Andrea Barrett
On Such a Full Sea - Chang-Rae Lee
The Sense of an Ending - Julian Barnes
Falling Out of Time - David Grossman
To Rise Again at a Decent Hour - Joshua Ferris
Young Skins - Colin Barrett
How to Do Things with Videogames - Ian Bogost
Invisible Cities - Italo Calvino
In the Cafe of Lost Youth - Patrick Modiano
The Meaning of Human Existence - Edward O. Wilson
Studs Terkel's Working A Graphic Adaptation - Harvey Pekar
The Continuous Katherine Mortenhoe - D.G. Compton
But Beautiful - Geoff Dyer
Moby Dick - Herman Melville
So Much For That Winter - Dorthe Nors
Nonviolent Communication - Marshall Rosenberg
The Story of a New Name - Elena Ferrante
Sag Harbor - Colson Whitehead
We Gon' Be Alright - Jeff Chang
The Sea - John Banville
A Thousand Years of Good Prayers - Yiyun Li

2015

The Braindead Megaphone - George Saunders
Steve Jobs - Walter Isaacson
My Brilliant Friend - Elena Ferrante
Man V. Nature - Diane Cook
Dusk and Other Stories - James Salter
Do Not Sell At Any Price - Amanda Petrusich
In Paradise - Peter Matthiessen
The Strange Case of Rachel K - Rachel Kushner
Ancillary Justice - Ann Leckie
Dept. of Speculation - Jenny Offill
The Blue Fox - Sjón
Half the Kingdom - Lore Segal
Redeployment - Phil Klay
The Big Short - Michael Lewis
The Martian - Andy Weir
Bobcat - Rebecca Lee
Break It Down - Lydia Davis
Wabi Sabi for Artists Designers Poets & Philosophers - Leonard Koren
Ancillary Sword - Ann Leckie
Seven Nights - Jorge Luis Borges
Between the World and Me - Ta-Nehisi Coates
Here - Richard McGuire
The Balloonists - Eula Biss
Butcher's Crossing - John Williams
Crapalachia - Scott McClanahan
The Emerald Light in the Air - Donald Antrim
Killing Floor - Lee Child
Fortune Smiles - Adam Johnson
Paulina & Fran - Rachel B. Glaser

2014

Civilwarland in Bad Decline - George Saunders
Pitch Dark - Renata Adler
Berlin Stories - Robert Walser
The Train - Georges Simenon
Letters to Emma Bowlcut - Bill Callahan
Outer Dark - Cormac McCarthy
Godzilla: Awakening - Max Borenstein & Greg Borenstein
Saga, Vol. 1-3 - Brian K Vaughan
X-Men: Days of Future Passed
X-Men: House of M
Ghosts - César Aira
Out of Sheer Rage - Geoff Dyer
How Best To Avoid Dying - Owen Eggerton
Get Shorty - Elmore Leonard
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy - John le Carré
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay - Michael Chabon
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love - Raymond Carver
Brief And Frightening Reign Of Phil - George Saunders
Echo of the Boom - Maxwell Neely-Cohen
By Blood - Ellen Ullman
Stoner - John Williams
A Most Wanted Man - John le Carré
Annihilation - Jeff VanderMeer
Authority - Jeff VanderMeer
Acceptance - Jeff VanderMeer
Saga, Vol. 4 - Brian K Vaughan

2013

Invisible Man - Ralph Ellison
Dr. No - Sir Ian Fleming
The Signal and the Noise - Nate Silver
Will Oldham on Bonnie "Prince" Billy - Will Oldham
Speedboat - Renata Adler
The Crying of Lot 49 - Thomas Pynchon
Interaction of Color - Josef Albers
Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card
Pastoralia - George Saunders
Various Small Books - Brouws, Burton & Zschiegner
In Persuasion Nation - George Saunders
Interactive Data Visualization for the Web - Scott Murray
Hombre - Elmore Leonard
Tenth of December - George Saunders
Catching the Big Fish - David Lynch
The Information - James Gleick

2012

Cosmicomics - Italo Calvino
Will Eisner's New York: Life in the Big City
The Hunger Games - Suzanne Collins
Catching Fire - Suzanne Collins
Mockingjay - Suzanne Collins
Genius: The Life And Science of Richard Feynman - James Gleick
Dune - Frank Herbert
The Devil in the White City - Eric Larson
The Influencing Machine - Brooke Gladstone
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More - Roald Dahl
Moonwalking with Einstein - Joshua Foer
A Game of Thrones - George R.R. Martin
A Clash of Kings - George R.R. Martin
Once There Was a War - John Steinbeck
Design Is A Job - Mike Monteiro
Mindstorms - Seymour Papert
Cathedral - Raymond Carver
The Contract With God Trilogy - Will Eisner