i starting tracking books when i made a goodreads account in late 2023, but didn’t use it all that much. everything pre-2024 is an estimation.
books i strongly disliked have a ◞‸◟ so i don’t get judged for reading them! textbooks are not listed.
oct 2025, the sportswriter, richard ford
nov 2025, antkind, charlie kaufman
nov 2025, extrastatecraft, keller easterling
david szalay, flesh
thoreau, walden
jeffrey eugenides, middlesex
terry tempest williams, refuge
julian stallabrass, internet culture
boris groys, in the flow
dfw, the girl with curious hair
so far, i’ve read 18 books.
dec 2025, stoner, john williams
dec 2025, mother mary comes to me, arundhati roy
nov 2025, bad feminist, roxane gay
nov 2025, modern instances, stephen shore
nov 2025, one hundred years of solitude, gabriel garcía mârquez
nov 2025, the alignment problem, brian christian
oct 2025, the battle for north carolina’s coast: evolutionary history, present crisis, and vision for the future, stanley riggs
sep 2025, the kite runner, khaled hosseini
aug 2025, infinite jest, david foster wallace
june 2025, the glass castle, jeanette walls
march 2025, tenth of december, george saunders
feb 2025, the third life of grange copeland, alice walker
feb 2025, fermat’s enigma, simon singh
feb 2025, white teeth, zadie smith
jan 2025, a supposedly fun thing i’ll never do again, david foster wallace
jan 2025, my beloved world, sonia sotomayor
jan 2025, outliers: the story of success ◞‸◟, malcolm gladwell
jan 2025, thinking, fast and slow ◞‸◟, daniel kahneman
in 2024, i read 23 books.
dec 2024, the stranger, albert camus
dec 2024, the luzhin defense, vladimir nabokov
nov 2024, the old man and the sea, ernest hemingway
nov 2024, ordinary notes, christinia sharpe
nov 2024, the calculus of friendship, steven strogatz
nov 2024, who cooked adam smith’s dinner? ◞‸◟, katrine marçal
nov 2024, the only woman in the room: why science is still a boys’ club, eileen pollack
oct 2024, normal people ◞‸◟, sally rooney
jul 2024, the optimist: a case for the fly fishing life, david coggins
may 2024, you could make this place beautiful, maggie smith
may 2024, plunder: private equity’s plan to pillage america, brendan ballou
may 2024, between the world and me, ta-nehisi coates
march 2024, my body, emily ratajkowski
jan 2024, the year of magical thinking, joan didion
jan 2024, citizen: an american lyric, claudia rankine
jan 2024, notes on grief, chimamanda ngozi adichie
jan 2024, dear ijeawele, or a feminist manifesto in fifteen suggestions, chimamanda ngozi adichie
jan 2024, we should all be feminists, chimamanda ngozi adichie
jan 2024, the master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house, audre lorde
jan 2024, drown, junot diaz
jan 2024, go tell it on the mountain, james baldwin
jan 2024, lincoln in the bardo, george saunders
jan 2024, trick mirror: reflections on self-delusion, jia tolentino
somewhat unordered and occasionally me remembering a reading assignment from middle school
(date unknown), good for a girl: a woman running in a man’s world, lauren fleshman
(date unknown), mathematics for human flourishing, francis su
(date unknown), strangers to ourselves: unsettled minds and the stories that make us ◞‸◟, rachel aviv
(date unknown), minor feelings: an asian american reckoning, cathy park hong
(< 2023 / 2022), the nix, nathan hill
(date unknown), on earth we’re briefly gorgeous, ocean vuong
(date unknown), night sky with exit wounds, ocean vuong
(date unknown), a farewell to arms, ernest hemingway
(date unknown), the bluest eye, toni morrison
(date unknown), jazz, toni morrison
(date unknown), liberation day, george saunders
(date unknown), pastoralia, george saunders
(date unknown), home fire ◞‸◟, kamila shamsie
(date unknown), the history of jazz, ted gioia
(date unknown), burnt shadows ◞‸◟, kamila shamsie
(date unknown), othello, william shakespeare
(date unknown), water by the spoonful, quiara alegría hudes
(date unknown), the man who mistook his wife for a hat and other clinical tales, oliver sacks
(date unknown), home, toni morrison
(date unknown), paradise, toni morrison
(date unknown), to the lighthouse, virginia woolf
(date unknown), americanah, chimamanda ngozi adichie
(date unknown), the catcher in the rye, jd salinger
(date unknown), born a crime, trevor noah
(date unknown), for whom the bell tolls, ernest hemingway
(date unknown), the adventures of huckleberry finn, mark twain
(date unknown), lean against this late hour, garous abdolmalekian
(date unknown), wild thing, philip norman
(date unknown), jimi hendrix: electric gypsy, harry shapiro
(date unknown), the awakening, kate chopin
(date unknown), acid for the children, flea
(date unknown), gödel, escher, bach: an eternal golden braid, douglas hofstadter
(date unknown), miles: the autobiography, miles davis
(date unknown), a swim in a pond in the rain, george saunders
(date unknown), bluets, maggie nelson
(< 2022 / 2021), frankenstein, mary shelley
(date unknown), their eyes were watching god, zora neale hurston
(date unknown), first person singular ◞‸◟, haruki murakami
(date unknown), delivering happiness, tony hsieh
(date unknown), death of a salesman, arthur miller
(date unknown), the great gatsby, f scott fitzgerald
(date unknown), homegoing, yaa gyasi
(date unknown), just mercy, bryan stevenson
(date unknown), the things they carried, tim o’brien
(date unknown), a clockwork orange, anthony burgess
(date unknown), the picture of dorian gray, oscar wilde
(date unknown), jane eyre, charlotte brontë
(date unknown), war and peace, leo tolstoy
(<<<), things fall apart, chinua achebe
(date unknown), a raisin in the sun, lorraine hansberry
(date unknown), the book thief, markus zusak
(date unknown), the grapes of wrath, john steinbeck
(date unknown), the color purple, alice walker
(date unknown), brave new world, aldous huxley
(date unknown), the curious incident of the dog in the nighttime, mark haddon
(date unknown), warriors don’t cry, melba pattillo beals
(date unknown), animal farm, george orwell
(date unknown), 1984, george orwell