Reading List

Inspired by Susan Fowler’s reading list, I’ve made my own. Using her style, I’ve also marked ones that really stood out to me with asterisks. I’ve also started summarizing some with notecards to record my thoughts on that book!

Currently reading

The Sympathizer, by Viet Thanh Nguyen

2020

*Cocktail Codex, by Alex Day, Nick Fauchald, and David Kaplan
*Know My Name, by Chanel Miller (notecard)
*The Lean Startup, by Eric Ries (notecard)
On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous, by Ocean Vuong (notecard)
The Customer-Driven Playbook, by Travis Lowdermilk and Jessica Rich (notecard)
The Penguin Complete Sherlock Holmes, by Arthur Conan Doyle (notecard)
Dear Girls, by Ali Wong (notecard)
*Children of Blood and Bone, by Tomi Adeyemi (notecard)
*There There, by Tommy Orange (notecard)
*The Culture Code, by Daniel Coyle (notecard)
Born a Crime, by Trevor Noah (notecard)
*Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott (notecard)
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 (notecard)
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, by J.K. Rowling (notecard)
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, by J.K. Rowling
*Minor Feelings, by Cathy Park Hong (notecard)

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

Art books

*Conversations with the Dead, by Danny Lyon
The Americans, by Robert Frank
Immediate Family, by Sally Mann

2017 (incomplete)