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Reading List

Reading List

*Recommended

2024

  • Trashlands by Alison Stine

  • The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin *

  • Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin

  • The Fraud by Zadie Smith (currently reading)

  • The Dark Forest by Liu Cixin (currently reading)

2023

  • The Woman in the Window by A.J. Finn

  • Killers of a Certain Age by Deanna Raybourn

  • The Power Broker by Robert A. Caro *

  • Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin *

  • The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller *

  • The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank

  • Walkable City by Jeff Speck *

  • The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store by James McBride

  • Molly Molloy and the Angel of Death by Maria Vale *

  • Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim by David Sedaris *

2022

  • A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers *

  • A Prayer for the Crown-Shy by Becky Chambers *

  • The Art of Invisibility by Kevin Mitnick

  • How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie

  • The Art of Non-Conformity by Chris Guillebeau

  • Tribes by Seth Godin *

  • The 4-Hour Work Week by Tim Ferriss

  • Anything You Want by Derek Sivers

  • The Lazarus Heist by Geoff White *

2021

  • The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton *

  • The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt *

  • Ten Days in a Mad-House by Nellie Bly

  • Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse

  • The Road by Cormac McCarthy

  • A Dance with Dragons by George R. R. Martin

  • Normal People by Sally Rooney

  • Circe by Madeline Miller

  • The Midnight Library by Matt Haig

  • The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman *

  • Born a Crime by Trevor Noah *

2020

  • The Speechwriter: A Brief Education in Politics by Barton Swaim 

  • Talking to Strangers by Malcolm Gladwell *

  • The Making of a Manager by Julie Zhou

  • The Aviator by Eugene Vodolazkin

  • Figure Drawing: Design and Invention by Michael Hampton

  • A Feast for Crows by George R.R. Martin

  • Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents by Lindsay C. Gibson, PsyD

2019

  • Leaders Eat Last by Simon Sinek 

  • True Wealth by Juliet Schor*

  • Keep Going by Austin Leon*

  • A Clash of Kings by George R.R. Martin

  • The Philosophy of Andy Worhol by Andy Worhol

  • A Storm of Swords by George R.R. Martin

  • The Richest Man in Babylon by George S. Clason*

  • The Millionaire Next Door by Thomas J. Stanley

  • The Automatic Millionaire by David Bach

  • The Mueller Report (Executive Summary) by Robert Mueller

  • Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett

  • Ghost in the Wires by Kevin Mitnick

  • The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick

2018

  • Breakfast at Tiffany’s by Truman Capote

  • Heat: An Amateur Cook in a Professional Kitchen by Bill Buford*

  • Monsoon Mansion: A Memoir by Cinelle Barnes*

  • Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut

  • Calypso by David Sedaris*

  • Goodbye, Things: The New Japanese Minimalism by Fumio Sasaki

  • The Tenth Island by Diana Marcum 

  • A Confederate General from Big Sur by Richard Brautigan 

  • Ready Player One by Ernest Cline 

  • A Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood 

  • A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin

2017

  • Armageddon 2419 A.D. by Philip Francis Nowlan

  • My Exile Lifestyle by Colin Wright

  • Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us by Seth Godin

  • American Gods by Neil Gaiman*

  • Getting More by Stuart Diamond

  • The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi

  • Insomniac City: New York, Oliver, and Me by Bill Hayes*

2016

  • Gone Girl by Flynn, Gillian *

  • All the Light We Cannot See: A Novel by Anthony Doerr*

  • The Art of Fielding: A Novel by Chad Harbach

  • Just My Type: A Book About Fonts by Simon Garfield 

  • The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August by Claire North*

  • Good Morning, Midnight: A Novel by Lily Brooks-Dalton

  • The Nightingale by Kritin Hannah*

  • An Astronaut’s Guide to Life on Earth by Chris Hadfield

  • Sunday Sketching by Christoph Niemann*

2015

  • One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez*

  • Bel Canto by Ann Patchett

  • The Last Passenger by Manel Loureiro

  • The Book Thief by Markus Zusak*

  • Fever by Mary Beth Keane

  • Tender at the Bone by Ruth Reichl

  • Delicious!: A Novel by Ruth Reichl

  • The Green Design and Print Handbook by Adrian Bullock and Meredith Walsh

  • The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie Kondo

  • The Other Rembrandt by Alex Connor

  • The Martian by Andy Weir*

  • The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins

  • Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick

  • Code of Conduct by Brad Thor

  • Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel

  • Galapagos by Kurt Vonnegut

  • All is Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel by Erich Maria Remarque*

2014

  • Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen*

  • Everything That Remains by Joshua Fields Millburn and Ryan Nicodemus

  • Destiny of the Republic by Candice Millard

  • Face of a Naked Lady by Michael Rips

  • Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer*

  • I Am Livia by Phyllis T. Smith

  • The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut*

  • Brandraising by Sarah Durham

  • Wild by Cheryl Strayed

  • Mickey Outside by David Lender

  • S. by Doug Dorst and J.J. Abrams

  • The Strategic Designer by David Holston

  • Let’s Explore Diabetes with Owls by David Sedaris*

  • Ignore Everybody by Hugh MacLeod

  • The Telling Room by Michael Paterniti