Currently Reading

I have the bad habit of reading too many things at once. Here's what I'm currently reading

The Words that Remain by Stênio Gardel

Big Data and Social Science by Ian Foster, Rayid Ghani, Ron S. Jarmin, Frauke Kreuter, and Julia Lane

The Lie Detectives by Sasha Issenberg

2024

All the books I've read so far this year

Neuromancer by William Gibson

This is How you Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone

What it Took to Win: A History of the Democratic Party by Michael Kazin

A Memory called Empire by Arkady Marine

How to Know a Person by David Brooks

At the Edge of the Woods by Kathryn Bromwich

Justice by Means of Democracy by Danielle Allen

To Paradise by Hanya Yanagihara

Trilogy by John Fosse

The Tusks of Extinction by Ray Nayler

All About Love by bell hooks

Conversations with Friends by Sally Rooney

Ten Low by Stark Holborn

Nixonland by Rick Pearlstein

The Loneliness Files by Athena Dixon

A Love Song for Ricki Wilde by Tia Williams

Age of Revolutions by Fareed Zakaria

The Kitchen Curse by Eka Kurniawan

Idlewild by James Frankie Thomas

Super Communicators by Charles Duhigg

Elenda Knows by Claudia Piñeiro

Girlfriends by Emily Zhou

Canto Contigo by Jonny Garza Villa

Hard to be A God by Arkady Strugatsky and Boris Strugatsky

The Victory Lab by Sasha Issenberg

2023

All the books I read in 2023

The Traitor Prince by C. J. Redwine

Conversations on Writing by Ursula K. Le Guin

True and Only Heaven by Christopher Lasch

End of History and the Last Man by Francis Fukuyama

Doors of Eden by Adrian Tchaikovsky

Democracy matters by Cornell West

The Realigners by Timothy Shenk

The Bitter End by Chris Tausanovitch, John M. Sides, and Lynn Vavreck

Children of Memory by Adrian Tchaikovsky

The Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein

The Metaphysical Club by Louis Menand

The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K. Le Guin

The Cage of Souls by Adrian Tchaikovsky

Babel by R. F. Kuang

Slouching Towards Utopia by J. Bradford DeLong

Normal People by Sally Rooney

Confessions of a Conservative by Garry Wills

The Coddling of the American Mind by Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt

There is Nothing For You Here by Fiona Hill

Building a Second Brain by Tiago Forte

Interactive Data Visualization for the Web by Scott Murphy

God Human Animal Machine by Meghan O'Gieblyn

Identity: the Demand for Dignity and the Politics of Resentment by Francis Fukuyama

City of Last Chances by Adrian Tchaikovsky

Man's Search for Meaning by Victor Frankel

Psychoanalysis: the Impossible Profession by Janet Malcolm

The Price of Peace: Money, Democracy, and the Life of John Maynard Keynes

Mobility by Lydia Kiesling

Please, Miss by Grace Lavery

The Age of Surveillance Capitalism by Shoshana Zuboff

The Defining Decade by Meg Jay

The Uninhabitable Earth by David Wallace-Wells

Adalaide by Genevieve Wheeler

Closer baby, Closer by Savannah Brown

Doppelganger by Naomi Klein

Liberalism Against Itself by Samuel Moyn

The Road to Character by David Brooks

The Fraud by Zadie Smith

2022

Everything I read in 2022!

Children of ruin by Adrian Tchaikovsky

Atomic Habits by James Clear

A Little Life Hanya Yanagihara

Banality of Evil by Hannah Arendt

I, Robot by Isaac Asimov

The left hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin

The Extended Mind by Annie Murphy Paul

Stolen Focus by Johann Hari

Why we're polarized by Ezra Klein

Gallant by V. E. Schuab

Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman

Brave New World Aldous Huxley

The Anthropocene Reviewed by John Green

Shards of Earth by Adrian Tchaikovsky

A Wizard of Earth Sea by Ursula K. Le Guin

Weapons of Math Destruction Cathy O'Neil

Lost connections by Johann Hari

Automation and the Future of Work by Aaron Benanav

The Tombs of Atuan by Ursula K. Le Guin

Eyes of the Void by Adrian Tchaikovsky

The Furthest Shore by Ursula K. Le Guin

The Shallows by Nicholas Carr

Bewilderment by Richard Powers

The Golem and the Jinni by Helene Wecker

Twilight of Democracy by Anne Applebaum

The Hidden Palace by Helene Wecker

The Right: the 100-year war for American Conservatism by Mathew Contenetti

A Darker Shade of Magic by V. E. Schuab

A Gathering of Shadows by V. E. Schuab

Liberalism and its discontents by Francis Fukuyama

Politics is for power by Eitan Hirsh

A Conjuring of Light by V. E. Schuab

Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel

First, You Write a Sentence

The Righteous Mind by Jonathan Haidt

Elite Capture by Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò

Talking to Strangers by Malcolm Gladwell

Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel

The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern

The Soul of an Octopus by Sy Montgomery

The Elder Race by Adrian Tchaikovsky

The Midnight Library by Matt Haig

The Book of Form and Emptiness by Ruth Ozeki

How to write a Lot by Paul J. Silvia

The Book of Night by Holly Black

The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson

Deep work by Cal Newport

Axiom's end by Lindsay Ellis

The Truth of the Divine by Lindsay Ellis

The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order Gary Gerstle

Why liberalism Failed by Patrick Deneen

Liberalism and it's discontents by Francis Fukuyama (again)

The Dawn of Everything by David Graeber and David Wengrow

Plain Style by Christopher Lasch

Looking for Alaska by John Green

Dune Messiah by Frank Herbert

Children of Dune by Frank Herbert

The Common Good by Robert Reich

Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin

Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders

The City We Became by N. K. Jemisin

Ordinary Monsters by J. M. Miro

The Journalist and the Murderer by Janet Malcolm

On Tyranny by Timothy Snyder

Exhalation by Ted Chiang