Reading

1,120
Books read
18
Years tracked
62.2
Books per year
3.38 ★
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John Le Carré 12 Joan Didion 11 James S. A. Corey 11 Mick Herron 11 Ursula K. Le Guin 10 Robert Jordan 10 Stella Rimington 10 Brandon Sanderson 10 Neal Stephenson 9 Len Deighton 9 Haruki Murakami 8 Cormac McCarthy 8 Jonathan Lethem 8 Rebecca Solnit 8 Raymond Chandler 7

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Books I'd recommend to most people, or that made an impact on how I think about the world:

The Mirror & the LightHilary Mantel
How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention EconomyJenny Odell
Arbitrary Stupid GoalTamara Shopsin
How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They’re BuiltStewart Brand
The Last SamuraiHelen DeWitt
Wolf HallHilary Mantel
The Fire Next TimeJames Baldwin
The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New AmericaGeorge Packer
How to Live: Or a Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an AnswerSarah Bakewell
The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Vol. 3: Master of the SenateRobert Caro
Speak, Memory: An Autobiography RevisitedVladimir Nabokov
The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de ZoetDavid Mitchell
Cadence & SlangNick Disabato
The Clock of the Long Now: Time and Responsibility, the Ideas Behind the World’s Slowest ComputerStewart Brand
HamletWilliam Shakespeare
The Sense of an EndingJulian Barnes
The Shape of DesignFrank Chimero
Design is a JobMike Monteiro
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of ColorblindnessMichelle Alexander
Pale FireVladimir Nabokov
MeditationsMarcus Aurelius
The Social Life of InformationPaul Duguid and John Seely Brown
Common as Air: Revolution, Art, and OwnershipLewis Hyde
Chronicles, Vol. 1Bob Dylan
For Whom the Bell TollsErnest Hemingway
Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American FamiliesJ. Anthony Lukas
The White AlbumJoan Didion
Slouching Towards BethlehemJoan Didion
A Stroll With William JamesJacques Barzun
American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert OppenheimerKai Bird & Martin Sherwin