books I have read since 2014 in reverse chronological order

2026

  • Screwtape Letters - C. S. Lewis
  • Trout Fishing in America - Richard Brautigan
  • The Road - Cormac McCarthy
  • Neuromancer - William Gibson
  • Three Body Problem - Cixin Liu

2025

  • Fentanyl, Inc - David Westhoff
  • The Wager - David Grann
  • Airframe - Michael Crichton
  • Animal Crossing - Kelsey Lewin
  • The Age of Intoxication - Benjamin Breen

2024

  • Emergent Tokyo - Jorge Almazan
  • Why Are the Prices So Damn High? - Alex Tabarrok
  • Factory Girls - Leslie Chang
  • Going Infinite - Michael Lewis
  • Historic Preservation and the Imagined West - Judy Mattivi Morley
  • Strawberry Days - David A. Neiwert
  • Backfire - Agathe Demarais
  • The Color of Law - Richard Rothstein
  • Flash Boys - Michael Lewis
  • Building SimCity: How to Put the World in a Machine - Chaim Gingold
  • Raising Milk Goats Successfully - Gail Luttmann

2023

  • The Gibraltar - Jerry W. Calvert
  • The Culture Map - Erin Meyer
  • The Power Broker - Robert A. Caro
  • The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation - Jon Gertner
  • Trespassers on the Roof of the World - Peter Hopkirk
  • Underground Asia - Tim Harper
  • Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom - Stephen R. Platt
  • Foreign Devils on the Silk Road - Peter Hopkirk
  • Imperial Twilight - Stephen R. Platt

2022

  • Skid Road - Josephine Ensign
  • Homelessness is a Housing Problem - Clayton Aldern, Greg Colburn
  • Swiss Cat Ladders - Brigitte Schuster
  • The Good Rain - Timothy Egan
  • Meet Me by the Fountain - Alexandra Lange
  • Utopia of Rules - David Graeber
  • Freakonomics - Steven D. Levitt
  • Masters of Doom - David Kushner
  • Debt: The First 5000 Years - David Graeber
  • Why We’re Polarized - Ezra Klein
  • Walkable City - Jeff Speck
  • Collected Fictions - Jorge Luis Borges
  • The Story of Sushi - Trevor Corson
  • A Woman in the Polar Night - Christiane Ritter
  • Severance - Ling Ma
  • Green Metropolis - David Owen

2021

  • The Great Game - Peter Hopkirk
  • And the Sea Will Tell - Vincent Bugliosi

2020

  • Guns, Germs and Steel - Jared Diamond

2019

  • Where Do We Go from Here? - Martin Luther King Jr.
  • Close to the Machine - Ellen Ullman
  • Becoming - Michelle Obama

2018

  • Silk Roads - Peter Frankopan
  • The Bug - Ellen Ullman
  • The Wisdom of Crowds - James Surowiecki
  • Ishmael - Daniel Quinn

2017

  • Ill Met in Lankhmar - Fritz Lieber
  • No Good Men Among the Living - Anand Gopal

2016

  • Drugs 2.0 - Mike Power
  • The Orchid Thief - Susan Orlean
  • One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest - Ken Kesey
  • Wind / Pinball - Haruku Murakami

2015

  • Countdown to Zero Day - Kim Zetter
  • Woman in the Dunes - Kobo Abe
  • The Stars My Destination - Alfred Bester
  • The Girl Who Played with Fire - Stieg Larsson
  • The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest - Stieg Larsson
  • The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway
  • The Shipping News - Annie Proulx
  • The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo - Stieg Larsson
  • The Martian - Andy Weir
  • Fifty-One Tales - Lord Dunsany
  • On The Road - Jack Kerouac
  • Fail-Safe - Eugene Burdick
  • The Metamorphosis - Franz Kafka
  • Jonathan Livingston Seagull - Richard Bach
  • Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
  • Sidhhartha - Herman Hesse

2014

  • The Plague - Albert Camus
  • Interpreter of Maladies - Jumpa Lahiri
  • Slaughterhouse Five - Vonnegut
  • Eee Eeee Eeeeee - Tao Lin
  • Taipei - Tao Lin
  • Furies of Calderon - Jim Butcher
  • Richard Yates - Tao Lin
  • Bed - Tao Lin
  • Stranger in a Strange Land - Robert A. Heinlein
  • Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA - Tim Weiner
  • A Song of Ice and Fire series - George R. R. Martin
  • The Culture Struggle - Michael Parenti
  • Blackshirts and Reds - Michael Parenti
  • Delusions of Gender - Cordelia Fine
  • A People’s History of the United States - Howard Zinn