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 Penguin Complete Sherlock Holmes, by Arthur Conan Doyle
• The Source of Self-Regard, by Toni Morrison

2020

1. *Cocktail Codex, by Alex Day, Nick Fauchald, and David Kaplan
2. *Know My Name, by Chanel Miller (notecard)
3. *The Lean Startup, by Eric Ries (notecard)
4. On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous, by Ocean Vuong (notecard)
5. The Customer-Driven Playbook, by Travis Lowdermilk and Jessica Rich (notecard)

2019

1. Fear, by Bob Woodward
2. Citizen, by Claudia Rankine
3. *Just Mercy, by Bryan Stevenson
4. The Opposite of Loneliness, by Marina Keegan
5. *Notes of a Native Son, by James Baldwin
6. Blue Nights, by Joan Didion
7. Hunger, by Roxane Gay
8. Becoming, by Michelle Obama
9. *Salt Fat Acid Heat, by Samin Nosrat
10. When, by Daniel Pink
11. The Scalpel and the Silver Bear, by Lori Arviso Alvord
12. *Bad Blood, by John Carreyrou
13. Night Sky with Exit Wounds, by Ocean Vuong
14. *Ego is the Enemy, Ryan Holiday
15. *Unaccustomed Earth, by Jhumpa Lahiri
16. Electric Arches, by Eve L. Ewing
17. Interpreter of Maladies, by Jhumpa Lahiri
18. All the Single Ladies, by Rebecca Traister
19. So You Want to Talk About Race, by Ijeoma Oluo
20. *Educated, by Tara Westover
21. Exhalation, by Ted Chiang
22. *Severance, by Ling Ma
23. *Covering, by Kenji Yoshino

2018

1. Killers of the Flower Moon, by David Grann
2. The Sellout, by Paul Beatty
3. Men Explain Things to Me, by Rebecca Solnit
4. *Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?, by Beverly Daniel Tatum
5. *The Namesake, by Jhumpa Lahiri
6. *The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories, by Ken Liu
7. A Farewell to Arms, by Ernest Hemingway
8. Of Mice and Men, by John Steinbeck
9. Travels with Charley, by John Steinbeck
10. Cannery Row, by John Steinbeck
11. The Pearl, by John Steinbeck
12. The Grapes of Wrath, by John Steinbeck
13. The Sixth Extinction, by Elizabeth Kolbert
14. *Homegoing, by Yaa Gyasi
15. Shoe Dog, by Phil Knight
16. We Were Eight Years in Power, by Ta-Nehisi Coates
17. *Evicted, by Matthew Desmond
18. One Hundred Years of Solitude, by Gabriel García Márquez

Art books

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

2017 (incomplete)

1. The Emperor of All Maladies, by Siddartha Mukherjee
2. *Trespassers?, by Willow Lung-Amam
3. The Checklist Manifesto, by Atul Gawande
4. *Americana, by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
5. *The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down, by Anne Fadiman