Reading List
Inspired by Susan Rigetti’s reading list, I’ve made my own. Using her style, I’ve also marked ones that really stood out to me with asterisks.
Currently reading
- Ballad of the Bullet, by Forrest Stuart
- The Great Pretender, by Susannah Cahalan
2022
- I’m Glad My Mom Died, by Jennette McCurdy
- The Unity of Mistakes, by Marianne A. Paget
- The Trauma of Everyday Life, by Mark Epstein
2021
- *The Fifth Season, by N. K. Jemisin
- *The Obelisk Gate, by N. K. Jemisin
- *The Stone Sky, by N. K. Jemisin
- We Need New Names, by NoViolet Bulawayo
- All You Can Ever Know, by Nicole Chung
2020
- *Cocktail Codex, by Alex Day, Nick Fauchald, and David Kaplan
- *Know My Name, by Chanel Miller
- *The Lean Startup, by Eric Ries
- On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous, by Ocean Vuong
- The Customer-Driven Playbook, by Travis Lowdermilk and Jessica Rich
- The Penguin Complete Sherlock Holmes, by Arthur Conan Doyle
- Dear Girls, by Ali Wong
- *Children of Blood and Bone, by Tomi Adeyemi
- *There There, by Tommy Orange
- *The Culture Code, by Daniel Coyle
- Born a Crime, by Trevor Noah
- *Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott
- Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, by J.K. Rowling
- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, by J.K. Rowling (notecard)
- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, by J.K. Rowling
- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, by J.K. Rowling
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, by J.K. Rowling
- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, by J.K. Rowling
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, by J.K. Rowling
- *Minor Feelings, by Cathy Park Hong
- *Happy City, by Charles Montgomery
- Catch and Kill, by Ronan Farrow
- Whistleblower, by Susan Fowler
- Give and Take, by Adam Grant
- Who Says You’re Dead?, by Jacob Appel
- *Fatal Invention, by Dorothy Roberts
2019
- Fear, by Bob Woodward
- Citizen, by Claudia Rankine
- *Just Mercy, by Bryan Stevenson
- The Opposite of Loneliness, by Marina Keegan
- *Notes of a Native Son, by James Baldwin
- Blue Nights, by Joan Didion
- Hunger, by Roxane Gay
- Becoming, by Michelle Obama
- *Salt Fat Acid Heat, by Samin Nosrat
- When, by Daniel Pink
- The Scalpel and the Silver Bear, by Lori Arviso Alvord
- *Bad Blood, by John Carreyrou
- Night Sky with Exit Wounds, by Ocean Vuong
- *Ego is the Enemy, Ryan Holiday
- *Unaccustomed Earth, by Jhumpa Lahiri
- Electric Arches, by Eve L. Ewing
- Interpreter of Maladies, by Jhumpa Lahiri
- All the Single Ladies, by Rebecca Traister
- So You Want to Talk About Race, by Ijeoma Oluo
- *Educated, by Tara Westover
- Exhalation, by Ted Chiang
- *Severance, by Ling Ma
- *Covering, by Kenji Yoshino
2018
- Killers of the Flower Moon, by David Grann
- The Sellout, by Paul Beatty
- Men Explain Things to Me, by Rebecca Solnit
- *Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?, by Beverly Daniel Tatum
- *The Namesake, by Jhumpa Lahiri
- *The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories, by Ken Liu
- A Farewell to Arms, by Ernest Hemingway
- Of Mice and Men, by John Steinbeck
- Travels with Charley, by John Steinbeck
- Cannery Row, by John Steinbeck
- The Pearl, by John Steinbeck
- The Grapes of Wrath, by John Steinbeck
- The Sixth Extinction, by Elizabeth Kolbert
- *Homegoing, by Yaa Gyasi
- Shoe Dog, by Phil Knight
- We Were Eight Years in Power, by Ta-Nehisi Coates
- *Evicted, by Matthew Desmond
- One Hundred Years of Solitude, by Gabriel García Márquez
- *Conversations with the Dead, by Danny Lyon
- The Americans, by Robert Frank
- Immediate Family, by Sally Mann
2017
- The Emperor of All Maladies, by Siddartha Mukherjee
- *Trespassers?, by Willow Lung-Amam
- The Checklist Manifesto, by Atul Gawande
- *Americana, by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- *The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down, by Anne Fadiman