Books Read in 2019

53 titles

The Dark Forest
Cixin Liu (trans. Joel Martinsen)
★★★★★
The Three-Body Problem
Cixin Liu (trans. Ken Liu)
★★★★★
Extinctions
Josephine Wilson
★★☆☆☆
lucky wreck
Ada Limón
★★★☆☆
Obata’s Yosemite: Art and Letters of Obata from His Trip to the High Sierra in 1927
Chiura Obata
★★★★★
Normal People
Sally Rooney
★★★★☆
Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion
Jia Tolentino
★★★★☆
Middlemarch, a Study of Provincial Life
George Eliot
★★★★★
Seattle Walk Report: An Illustrated Walking Tour through 23 Seattle Neighborhoods
Susanna Ryan
★★★★★
My Private Property
Mary Ruefle
★★★☆☆
Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley
Antonio Garcia Martinez
★☆☆☆☆
Creative Selection: Inside Apple’s Design Process During the Golden Age of Steve Jobs
Ken Kocienda
★★★★☆
The Raven Tower
Ann Leckie
★★★★☆
A Model World and Other Stories
Michael Chabon
★★☆☆☆
Six Encounters with Lincoln: A President Confronts Democracy and its Demons
Elizabeth Brown Pryor
★★★☆☆
Akira, Vol. 1
Katsuhiro Otomo
★★★☆☆
Laying the Foundations: A Book about Design Systems
Andrew Couldwell
★★★☆☆
Seattle, Now and Then, Vol. 1
Paul Dorpat
★★★★☆
Seattleness: A Cultural Atlas
Tera Hatfield, Jenny Kempson, & Natalie Ross
★★☆☆☆
Inclusive Components: Accessible Web Interfaces, Piece by Piece
Heydon Pickering
★★★☆☆
Makeshift Metropolis: Ideas About Cities
Witold Rybczynski
★★★☆☆
Hild
Nicola Griffith
★★★☆☆
Sea Stories: My Life in Special Operations
William McRaven
★★★☆☆
The Pigeon Tunnel: Stories from My Life
John Le Carré
★★★☆☆
At the Existentialist Café: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails
Sarah Bakewell
★★★★☆
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
Robert Caro
★★★★★
Testimony
Robbie Robertson
★★★☆☆
The Lonesome Bodybuilder: Stories
Yukiko Motoya [trans. Asa Yoneda]
★★★★☆
Small Fry: A Memoir
Lisa Brennan-Jobs
★★★★★
How to Make a Cup of Coffee
Katsuji Daibo (trans. Michael Emmerich)
★★★★★
The Emperor’s Children
Claire Messud
★★☆☆☆
American Ulysses: A Life of Ulysses S. Grant
Ronald C. White Jr.
★★★★☆
Convenience Store Woman
Sayaka Murata (trans. Ginny Tapley Takemori)
★★★★☆
South and West: From a Notebook
Joan Didion
★★★☆☆
Some Trick: Thirteen Stories
Helen DeWitt
★★★☆☆
To the Back of Beyond
Peter Stamm (trans. Michael Hofmann)
★★★☆☆
How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy
Jenny Odell
★★★★★
Balloon Pop Outlaw Black
Patricia Lockwood
★★☆☆☆
A Wild Sheep Chase
Haruki Murakami
★★★☆☆
Number9Dream
David Mitchell
★★★☆☆
Billie Holiday
José Muñoz and Carlos Sampayo
★☆☆☆☆
Working: Researching, Interviewing, Writing
Robert Caro
★★★★★
Where’d You Go, Bernadette?
Maria Semple
★★☆☆☆
Shadow Country
Peter Matthiessen
★★★★☆
Pastoralia
George Saunders
★★★★★
Kudos
Rachel Cusk
★★★☆☆
Inventing Japan: 1853–1964
Ian Buruma
★★★☆☆
Postwar: A History of Europe since 1945
Tony Judt
★★★☆☆
Home Buying for Dummies
Eric Tyson and Ray Brown
★★★☆☆
The Age of Innocence
Edith Wharton
★★★★☆
Long Life: Essays and Other Writings
Mary Oliver
★★★☆☆
The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O.
Neal Stephenson and Nicole Galland
★★★☆☆
Persons and Places: The Background of My Life
George Santayana
★★☆☆☆