This is a running list of the books I’ve read this year. The stars indicate something I’d near-universally recommend. I hope to get better about posting reading notes, in which case I’ll link to those.
If you’re really curious you can find past reading lists from 2018 and 2019. I also keep an index of all the reading notes I’ve posted.
- Naïve Super by Erlend Loe.
- Dept. of Speculation by Jenny Offill.
- Peak: The New Science of Expertise by Anders Ericsson and Robert Pool. ★
- On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong.
- The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro.
- High Growth Handbook by Elad Gil.
- Weather by Jenny Offill.
- Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling.
- How to Be Bored by Eva Hoffman.
- Harry Potter and The Half-Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling.
- How to Not Always Be Working by Marlee Grace.
- Buyology by Martin Lindstrom.
- The Dawn Watch by Maya Jasanoff.
- Barcelona by Robert Hughes.
- The Tortilla Curtain by T.C. Boyle.
- The Great Mental Models by Farnam Street.
- Draft No. 4 by John McPhee.
- The Writing Life by Annie Dillard.
- How to Write an Autobiographical Novel by Alexander Chee.
- Indistractable by Nir Eyal.
- The Bells of Old Tokyo by Anna Sherman.
- Harry Potter and The Order of the Phoenix by J.K. Rowling.