Books I’ve Read
2024
- Michael Lewis, Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon
- Richard A. Muller, Energy for Future Presidents
- Richard A. Muller, Physics for Future Presidents
- RuPaul, The House of Hidden Meanings
- Logan Ury, How to Not Die Alone: The Surprising Science That Will Help You Find Love
2023
- Francis Fukuyama, Identity: The Demand for Dignity and the Politics of Resentment
- Alex Epstein, The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels
- Irwin M. Stelzer (edited by), The Neocon Reader
- David Graeber, Bullshit Jobs: A Theory
- Jason Hickel, The Divide: A Brief Guide to Global Inequity and its Solutions
- Ha-Joon Chang, 23 Things They Don't Tell You about Capitalism
- J.D. Vance, Hillbilly Elegy
- Jessica Abel, Out On The Wire
- Walter Block, Defending The Undefendable II: Freedom In All Realms
- Elyn Saks, The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness
- Amir Levine & Rachel Heller, Attached: The New Science of Adult Attachment and How It Can Help You Find—And Keep—Love
2022
- Erika Lee, The Making of Asian America
- Alexander Chee, How To Write An Autobiographical Novel
- Albert Camus, The Stranger
- William Styron, Darkness Visible
- Christian Dior, Dior By Dior
- Michael J. Sandel, The Tyranny of Merit
- Noami Klein, No Logo
- Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., The Disuniting of America
- Noam Chomsky, Media Control: The Spectacular Achievements of Propaganda
- David Foster Wallace, The Last Interview
- Heather Rogers, Gone Tomorrow: The Hidden Life of Garbage
- André Aciman (edited by), The Best American Essays 2020
- Michael J. Sandel, Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?
- Steven Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner, Freakonomics
- Wes Moore, The Other Wes Moore
- Michael J. Sandel, What Money Can't Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets
- Michael Schur, How To Be Perfect
- Peter Singer, The Life You Can Save: Acting Now To End World Poverty
- Pierre Bayard, How To Talk About Books You Haven't Read
- Peter Singer, Famine, Affluence, and Morality
- Francis Fukuyama, Liberalism and Its Discontents
- Thomas Frank, What's the Matter with Kansas?
- Don Norman, The Design of Everyday Things
- Tim Marshall, Prisoners of Geography
- William MacAskill, Doing Good Better
2021
- Raymond Carver, Will You Be Quiet, Please?
- Raymond Carver, Cathedral
- Mario Puzo, The Godfather
- Jumpha Lahiri, Interpreter of Maladies
- Jia Tolentino, Trick Mirror
- Cathy Park Hong, Minor Feelings
- Viktor Frankl, Man’s Search For Meaning
- Desmond Morton, A Short History of Canada
2020
- Haruki Murakami, Hear The Wind Sing / Pinball
- Paul Kalanithi, When Breath Becomes Air
- Wesley Yang, The Souls of Yellow Folk
- Franz Kafka, Metamorphosis
- Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground
- Ben Fountain, Brief Encounters with Che Guevara
- David Sedaris, When You Are Engulfed In Flames
- Haruki Murakami, A Wild Sheep Chase
- David Sedaris, Naked
- David Rakoff, Fraud
- Ben Lerner, Leaving The Atocha Station
- Sandra Cisneros, The House On Mango Street
- George Saunders, CivilWarLand In Bad Decline
- Haruki Murakami, Men Without Woman
- George Saunders, Pastoralia
- George Saunders, Tenth of December
- Daniel Jones (edited by), Modern Love (New York Times)
- Billy Collins (edited by), Poetry 180
- Tobias Wolff, Our Story Begins
- David Sedaris, Barrel Fever
- Bradley Hope & Tom Wright, Billion Dollar Whale
- Raymond Carver, What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
2019
- Teri Agins, The End Of Fashion
- Stephen King, On Writing
- John Knowles, A Separate Peace
- Malcolm Gladwell, What The Dog Saw
- Malcolm Gladwell, Outliers
- Tim O'Brien, The Things They Carried
- Kurt Vonnegut, If This Isn't Nice, What Is?
- David Foster Wallace, Consider The Lobster
- Joan Didion, Slouching Toward Bethlehem
- Haruki Murakami, The Elephant Vanishes
- Jay MacLeod, Ain’t No Makin’ It
- E. Lockhart, We Were Liars
- Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood