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.
Currently reading
- The Penguin Complete Sherlock Holmes, by Arthur Conan Doyle
- Emma, by Jane Austen
- Behave, by Robert Sapolsky
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)
- 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