Here's some books I've enjoyed recently:
2024
Grendel by John Gardner
When McKinsey Comes to Town by W. Bogdanich, M. Forsythe
(+) Investing in U.S. Financial History by Mark J. Higgins
(+) Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
Judaea Weeping by George Brauer
Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward
(+) The Wager by David Grann
(+) We the Animals by Justin Torres
Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
(+) Ways of Seeing by John Berger
Oranges by John McPhee
Wellness by Nathan Hill
Lessons by Ian McEwan
Material World by Ed Conway
(+) Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts
Breaking the Mould: Reimagining India's Economic Future by Raghuram Rajan and Rohit Lamba
For God, Country, and Coca-Cola by Mark Pendergrast
A Random Walk Down Wall Street by Burton G. Malkiel
(+) Poor Charlie's Almanack by Charlie Munger
(+) Our Migrant Souls by Hector Tobar
My Husband by Maud Ventura
(+) The Righteous Mind by Jonathan Haidt
2023
(+) Lame Deer, Seeker of Visions by Lame Deer and Richard Erdoes
Less Is Lost by Andrew Sean Greer
Again and Again by Jonathan Evison
Date-onomics by Jon Birger
Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward
Failed States by Noam Chomsky
The MANIAC by Benjamin Labatut
How Lucky by Will Leitch
Fortress Besieged by Qian Zhongshu
(+) Hello Beautiful by Ann Napolitano
The Wishing Game by Meg Shaffer
Amongst the Ruins by John Darlington
(+) Sink: A Memoir by Joseph Earl Thomas
The Passenger & Stella Maris by Cormac McCarthy
Loving Frank by Nancy Horan
(+) Exhalation: Stories by Ted Chiang
(+) Yellowface by R. F. Kuang
Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption by Stephen King
Iron John by Robert Bly
(+) Memories of My Melancholy Whores by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Under a White Sky by Elizabeth Kolbert
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke
(+) Life and Death are Wearing Me Out by Mo Yan
Love is a Dog From Hell by Charles Bukowski
Death and the Penguin by Andrey Kurkov
Redaction by Reginald Dwayne Betts and Titus Kaphar
Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law by Mary Roach
The Illustrated Man by Ray Bradbury
Burial for a King by Rebecca Burns
Dubliners by James Joyce
2022
The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
(+) Less by Andrew Sean Greer
(+) No Longer Human by Osamu Dazai
The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
Animal Factory by Edward Bunker
Nine Stories by J.D. Salinger
Deep Nutrition by Catherine Shanahan
Child of God by Cormac McCarthy
Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger
The Star Rover by Jack London
(+) Travels with Charley by John Steinbeck
Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata
(+) Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
(+) A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
First Person Singular by Haruki Murakami
Speak, Memory by Vladimir Nabokov
Pew by Catherine Lacey
1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed by Eric Cline
This Horrid Practice by Paul Moon
Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng
(+) Independent People by Halldor Laxness
Dispatches From Pluto by Richard Grant
(+) Men in the Sun by Ghassan Kanafani
2021
Harlem Shuffle by Colson Whitehead
(+) Selected Stories by Alice Munro
San Fransicko by Michael Shellenberger
Mao's War Against Nature by Judith Shapiro
The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
People We Meet on Vacation by Emily Henry
New Seeds of Contemplation by Thomas Merton
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
There There by Tommy Orange
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
(+) Shakespeare in a Divided America by James Shapiro
(?) The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
(+) Anxious People by Fredrik Backman
Normal People by Sally Rooney
Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
Grief is the Thing with Feathers by Max Porter
The Invisible Life of Addie Rue by V.E. Schwab
(+) On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson
(+) Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah
(+) The Death of Vivek Oji by Akwaeke Emezi
Dark Matter by Blake Crouch
Mason's Retreat by Christopher Tilghman
Can't Hurt Me by David Goggins
Autobiography of Red by Anne Carson
The Next 100 Years by George Friedman
2020
11/22/63 by Stephen King
The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
(+) The Peregrine by J. A. Baker
All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy
(+) Leave the World Behind by Rumaan Alam
Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi
The Overstory by Richard Powers
The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
Beloved by Toni Morrison
Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
Beach Read by Emily Henry
On The Come Up by Angie Thomas
(+) Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
The Scar: A Personal History of Depression and Recovery by Mary Cregan
(+) The Color Purple by Alice Walker
(+) The Guest List by Lucy Foley
Song for the Unraveling of the World by Brian Evenson
Nobody Wants to Read Your Sh*t by Steven Pressfield
(+) The Story Grid: What Good Editors Know by Shawn Coyne
All The Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
For One More Day by Mitch Albom
(+) Dear Edward by Ann Napolitano
2019
Nothing to See Here by Kevin Wilson
Taduno's Song by Odafe Atogun
(+) Circe by Madeline Miller
Stardust by Neil Gaiman
The Fountains of Silence by Ruta Sepetys
A Wild Sheep Chase by Haruki Murakami
The Firm by John Grisham
Eye of The Needle by Ken Follett
Turtle Moon by Alice Hoffman
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