Reading list

List of books I’ve read since 2024-ish, ones near the top are more recent. I read a lot of random stuff, it being on this list doesn’t mean I think the book is good. Only that I finished it (unless otherwise noted).

• Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver, Mary Oliver Great poetry book
• This is How You Lose the Time War, Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone
• Player of Games, Iain Banks
• Blame!, Tsutomu Nihei
• Why Poetry, Matthew Zapruder
• What I talk About When I Talk About Running, Haruki Murakami
• The Hocus-Pocus of the Universe, Laura Gilpin
• Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End, Atul Gawande
• Consider Phlebas, Iain Banks
• The Old Man and the Sea, Ernest Hemingway
• Selected Poems, Bertolt Brecht translated by H. R. hays
• Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets, Nassim Nicholas Taleb Weird book, did not finish it, has some really great ideas in nearly every chapter but the prose (and sometimes the ideas) were insufferable at times.
• On the Shortness of Life, Seneca
• Man’s Search for Meaning, Viktor Frankl
• Artificial: A Love Story, Amy Kurzweil
• Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents, Isabel Wilkerson
• Burn Lake, Carrie Fountain
• Auguries of Innocence, Patti Smith
• The Need for Roots, Simone Weil
• Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut
• String Theory: Essays on Tennis, David Foster Wallace
• Poems, Hermann Hesse
• The Prophet, Kahlil Gibran
• How to Win Friends and Influence People, Dale Carnegie
• Foundation, Isaac Asimov
• A Thousand Mornings, Mary Oliver
• The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
• The Stonewall Reader, New York Public Library Historical anthology of stonewall, interesting for anyone wanting to know more about LGBTQ history.
• Cat’s Cradle, Kurt Vonnegut
• Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the 21st Century, Alice Wong
• Just Like Someone Without Mental Illness Only More So, Mark Vonnegut
• The Art of Doing Science and Engineering: Learning to Learn, Richard Hamming Great book
• Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, Gabrielle Zevin
• Against Technoableism: Rethinking Who Needs Improvement, Ashley Shew
• The Catcher in the Rye, J. D. Salinger
• Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoevsky Theres a reason everyone says this book is great.
• The Setting Sun, Osamu Dazai Prefered this one over no longer human.
• No Longer Human, Osamu Dazai
• Poems: 1962-2012, Louise Glück Real good
• Meditations, Marcus Aurelius
• The Last Days of Roger Federer, Geoff Dyer
• On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft, Stephen King Great book about writing
• Into the Wild, Jon Krakauer
• Just Kids, Patti Smith Meandering, but in a good way.
• This Is Water, David Foster Wallace transcription & youtube
• Stoner, John Williams Maybe my favorite book, the prose is perfect, the themes are fantastic. Easy reccomend to anyone who likes literary fiction.
• The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma, Bessel van der Kolk
• The Anthropocene Reviewed, John Green