I’m fairly opinionated about books, and I love to talk about what I read. Here are some of the books I’ve read in the past decade, grouped by how much I enjoyed them.

I’d recommend this, no questions asked

  • The Book of Form and Emptiness Ruth Ozeki
  • Exhalation Ted Chiang
  • Detransition, Baby Torrey Peters
  • A Song for a New Day Sarah Pinsker
  • Children of Time Adrian Tchaikovsky
  • The Metamorphosis Franz Kafka
  • Never Let Me Go Kazuo Ishiguro
  • Annihilation Jeff VanderMeer
  • Stories of Your Life and Others Ted Chiang
  • The Ocean at the End of the Lane Neil Gaiman
  • The Casual Vacancy J.K. Rowling
  • Island Aldous Huxley
  • World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War by Max Brooks
  • Piranesi Susanna Clarke
  • Mortality Christopher Hitchens
  • When We Cease to Understand the World Benjamín Labatut

I’m glad I read this, but I don’t feel passionately about it

Fiction

  • The Aleph Jorge Luis Borges
  • Klara and the Sun Kazuo Ishiguro
  • A Tale for the Time Being Ruth Ozeki
  • The City in the Middle of the Night Charlie Jane Anders
  • The Remains of the Day Kazuo Ishiguro
  • The Shobies’ Story Ursula K. Le Guin
  • My Brilliant Friend Elena Ferrante
  • The Pugilist at Rest Thom Jones
  • Tenth of December George Saunders
  • The Merchant and the Alchemist’s Gate Ted Chiang
  • Pachinko Min-jin Lee
  • Freshwater Akwaeke Emezi
  • The Underground Railroad Colson Whitehead
  • The Signature of All Things Elizabeth Gilbert
  • All Systems Red Martha Wells
  • Middlesex Jeffrey Eugenides
  • House of Leaves Mark Z. Danielewski
  • Lilith’s Brood Octavia E. Butler
  • The Little Prince Saint-Antoine de Exupéry
  • Ender’s Game Orson Scott Card
  • The Sun Also Rises Ernest Hemingway
  • For Whom the Bell Tolls Ernest Hemingway
  • The Stranger Albert Camus
  • Brave New World Aldous Huxley
  • One Hundred Years of Solitude Garcí­a Gabriel Márquez
  • If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler Italo Calvino
  • Norse Mythology Neil Gaiman
  • The Left Hand of Darkness Le Ursula K. Guin
  • The Fifth Season N.K. Jemisin
  • The Sympathizer Viet Thanh Nguyen
  • The Man in the High Castle Philip K. Dick
  • Bluebeard Vonnegut Kurt Jr.
  • Sputnik Sweetheart Haruki Murakami
  • Goodbye Tsugumi Banana Yoshimoto
  • The Kite Runner Khaled Hosseini
  • The Fault in Our Stars John Green
  • The Alchemist Paulo Coelho
  • The Grownup Gillian Flynn
  • Dark Places Gillian Flynn
  • Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage Haruki Murakami
  • The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle Haruki Murakami
  • 1Q84 Haruki Murakami
  • Ghostwritten David Mitchell
  • Slaughterhouse-Five Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
  • The Watchmaker of Filigree Street Natasha Pulley
  • Oryx and Crake Margaret Atwood
  • The Girl with All the Gifts M.R. Carey
  • Hyperion Dan Simmons
  • American Gods Neil Gaiman
  • A Memory Called Empire Arkady Martine

Nonfiction

  • Mastering Ethereum: Building Smart Contracts and DApps Andreas M. Antonopoulos
  • Galileo’s Error: Foundations for a New Science of Consciousness Philip Goff
  • Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures Merlin Sheldrake
  • Ethics in the Real World: 86 Brief Essays on Things that Matter Peter Singer
  • The Spanish Civil War: A Very Short Introduction Helen Graham
  • Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion Sam Harris
  • Feminism Is for Everybody: Passionate Politics bell hooks
  • AI Ethics Mark Coeckelbergh
  • The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America Richar Rothstein
  • Playing Monogamy Simon(e) van Saarloos
  • How We Got to Now: Six Innovations That Made the Modern World Steven Johnson
  • Blitzed: Drugs in the Third Reich Norman Ohler
  • The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor Garcí­a Gabriel Márquez
  • Islam and the Future of Tolerance: A Dialogue Sam Harris, Maajid Nawaz
  • Trust Me, I’m Lying: Confessions of a Media Manipulator Ryan Holiday
  • Disunited Nations: Succeeding in a World Where No One Gets Along Peter Zeihan
  • Radical Markets: Uprooting Capitalism and Democracy for a Just Society Eric A. Posner, E. Glen Weyl
  • Caffeine: How Caffeine Created the Modern World Michael Pollan
  • Chip War: The Fight for the World’s Most Critical Technology Chris Miller
  • CHAOS: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties Tom O’Neill

This book was a waste of time. Fight me.

Fiction

  • The Devotion of Suspect X Keigo Higashino
  • The Shadow of the Torturer Gene Wolfe
  • Dune Frank Herbert
  • Seveneves Neal Stephenson
  • The Three-Body Problem Cixin Liu
  • The Martian Andy Weir
  • The Final Empire Brandon Sanderson
  • The Doors of Eden Adrian Tchaikovsky

Nonfiction

  • Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow Yuval Noah Harari
  • 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos Jordan B. Peterson