Reading List (Since 2018)

Currently Reading

Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis by Jonathan Blitzer
Defectors: The Rise of the Latino Far Right and What It Means for America by Paola Ramos

2025 (so far)

How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen by David Brooks
Our Migrant Souls: A Meditation on Race and the Meanings and Myths of “Latino” by Héctor Tobar
Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection by John Green
The Burning Earth: An Environmental History of the Last 500 Years by Sunil Amrith
How to ADHD: An Insider's Guide to Working with Your Brain by Jessica McCabe
How to Thrive with Adult ADHD: The 7-Pillar Plan for Focus, Productivity and Joy by James Kustow
Black Ghost of Empire: The Long Death of Slavery and the Failure of Emancipation by Kris Manjapra
Homelands: A Personal History of Europe by Timothy Garton Ash

2024

The Infernal Machine: A True Story of Dynamite, Terror, and the Rise of the Modern Detective by Steven Johnson
When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s by John Ganz
Build the Life You Want: The Art and Science of Getting Happier by Arthur C. Brooks
Twilight Prisoners: The Rise of the Hindu Right and the Fall of India by Siddhartha Deb
Regenesis: Feeding the World Without Devouring the Planet by George Monbiot
Big Mall: Shopping for Meaning by Kate Black
Wildland: The Making of America's Fury by Evan Osnos
Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning by Timothy Snyder
Rooted: Life at the Crossroads of Science, Nature, and Spirit by Lyanda Lynn Haupt
Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World by Naomi Klein
Spain: The Trials and Triumphs of a Modern European Country by Michael Reid
Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
Worn: A People's History of Clothing by Sofi Thanhauser
The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World by David Abram
Embrace Fearlessly the Burning World by Barry Lopez
The Fabric of Civilization: How Textiles Made the World by Virginia Postrel
Park Cruising: What Happens When We Wander Off the Path by Marcus McCann
Ten Tomatoes that Changed the World: A History by William Alexander
Border and Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism by Harsha Walia
Left Is Not Woke by Susan Neiman
The Beauty of Games by Frank Lantz

2023

24/7: Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep by Jonathan Crary
Fire and Flood by Eugene Linden
The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine by Serhii Plokhy
Owls of the Eastern Ice: A Quest to Find and Save the World's Largest Owl by Jonathan C. Slaght
The Darkness Manifesto: On Light Pollution, Night Ecology, and the Ancient Rhythms that Sustain Life by Johan Eklöf
The Nineties by Chuck Klosterman
Lurking: How a Person Became a User by Joanne McNeil
Children of Memory by Adrian Tchaikovsky
Medieval Europe by Chris Wickham
A Thousand Mornings: Poems by Mary Oliver
Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock by Jenny Odell
No Meat Required: The Cultural History and Culinary Future of Plant-Based Eating by Alicia Kennedy
Brazil: A Biography by Lilia Moritz Schwarcz and Heloisa Murgel Starling
A Knock on the Door: The Essential History of Residential Schools from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada
How to Listen to Jazz by Ted Gioia
Africa Is Not a Country: Notes on a Bright Continent by Dipo Faloyin
The Age of Wood: Our Most Useful Material and the Construction of Civilization by Roland Ennos
The Practice of the Wild by Gary Snyder
An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us by Ed Yong
Eight Bears: Mythic Past and Imperiled Future by Gloria Dickie
American Midnight: The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy's Forgotten Crisis by Adam Hochschild

2022

Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019 by Ibram X. Kendi (Editor) and Keisha N. Blain (Editor)
A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine
A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers
Silent Earth: Averting the Insect Apocalypse by Dave Goulson
Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention— and How to Think Deeply Again by Johann Hari
Aftermath: Life in the Fallout of the Third Reich, 1945–1955 by Harald Jähner
Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet: Ghosts and Monsters of the Anthropocene by Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing et al
The Gone World by Tom Sweterlitsch
The Word for World Is Forest by Ursula K. Le Guin
The Nutmeg's Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis by Amitav Ghosh
Vesper Flights by Helen Macdonald
Generation Dread: Finding Purpose in an Age of Climate Crisis by Britt Wray
A Desolation Called Peace by Arkady Martine
Elysium Fire by Alastair Reynolds
Brave New Home: Our Future in Smarter, Simpler, Happier Housing by Diana Lind
Compact Guide to Saskatchewan and Manitoba Birds by Alan Smith et al
Life's Edge: The Search for What It Means to Be Alive by Carl Zimmer
Scorched Earth: Beyond the Digital Age to a Post-Capitalist World by Jonathan Crary
New Dark Age: Technology and the End of the Future by James Bridle
Laziness Does Not Exist by Devon Price
The Palliative Society: Pain Today by Byung-Chul Han
Alien Oceans: The Search for Life in the Depths of Space by Kevin Peter Hand
The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II by Iris Chang
The Future is Degrowth: A Guide to a World Beyond Capitalism by Matthias Schmelzer, Aaron Vansintjan, and Andrea Vetter
Ways of Being: Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence by James Bridle
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson
The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable by Amitav Ghosh
New York, New York, New York: Four Decades of Success, Excess, and Transformation by Thomas Dyja
America On Fire: The Untold History of Police Violence and Black Rebellion Since the 1960s by Elizabeth Hinton
Flyway by Sarah Ens
The Storm Before the Storm: The Beginning of the End of the Roman Republic by Mike Duncan
Saving Us: A Climate Scientist's Case for Hope and Healing in a Divided World by Katharine Hayhoe
Space Forces: A Critical History of Life in Outer Space by Fred Scharmen

2021

The Genius of Birds by Jennifer Ackerman
The Deep: The Secret Life of Our Oceans by Alex Rogers
Where the Water Goes: Life and Death Along the Colorado River by David Owen
Two Trees Make a Forest: Travels Among Taiwan's Mountains & Coasts in Search of My Family's Past by Jessica J. Lee
Winter World: The Ingenuity of Animal Survival by Bernd Heinrich
Corona, Climate, Chronic Emergency: War Communism in the Twenty-First Century by Andreas Malm
All We Can Save: Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis by Ayana Elizabeth Johnson (Editor) and Katharine K. Wilkinson (Editor)
Earth's Wild Music: Celebrating and Defending the Songs of the Natural World by Kathleen Dean Moore
Hummingbird Salamander by Jeff VanderMeer
Borne by Jeff VanderMeer
Other Minds by Peter Godfrey-Smith
The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World by Peter Wohlleben
Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future by Elizabeth Kolbert
The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin
The Dark Forest by Liu Cixin
Death's End by Liu Cixin
Migrations by Charlotte McConaghy
Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape by Cal Flyn
The Martian by Andy Weir
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers
We Are Legion (We Are Bob) by Dennis E. Taylor
Post-Growth Living: For an Alternative Hedonism by Kate Soper
Down to Earth: Politics in the New Climatic Regime by Bruno Latour
How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy by Jenny Odell
The Plague Cycle: The Unending War Between Humanity and Infectious Disease by Charles Kenny
Aurora by Kim Stanley Robinson
Roadside Picnic by Arkady Strugatsky and Boris Strugatsky
Solaris by Stanisław Lem
Pushing Ice by Alastair Reynolds
Wild Souls: Freedom and Flourishing in the Non-Human World by Emma Marris
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
Fathoms: The World in the Whale by Rebecca Giggs
Exhalation by Ted Chiang
The Prefect by Alastair Reynolds
Kindred: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art by Rebecca Wragg Sykes
The Lost Words by Robert Macfarlane
Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings by Neil Price
The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet by John Green
The Invention of Sicily: A Mediterranean History by Jamie Mackay
The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson
Post Growth: Life After Capitalism by Tim Jackson
All Art is Ecological by Timothy Morton

2020

Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America's Vietnam by Fredrik Logevall
Losing Earth: A Recent History by Nathaniel Rich
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History by Elizabeth Kolbert
The Future We Choose: Surviving the Climate Crisis by Christiana Figueres and Tom Rivett-Carnac
Making China Modern: From the Great Qing to Xi Jinping by Klaus Mühlhahn
The North-West Is Our Mother: The Story of Louis Riel's People, the Métis Nation by Jean Teillet
Seven Fallen Feathers: Racism, Death, and Hard Truths in a Northern City by Tanya Talaga
The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming by David Wallace-Wells
This Is Not A Drill: An Extinction Rebellion Handbook by Extinction Rebellion
On Fire: The Case for the Green New Deal by Naomi Klein
Proud Boys and the White Ethnostate: How the Alt-Right Is Warping the American Imagination by Alexandra Minna Stern
The Republic for Which It Stands: The United States during Reconstruction and the Gilded Age, 1865-1896 by Richard White
SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome by Mary Beard
The Birth of Classical Europe: A History from Troy to Augustine by Simon Price and Peter Thonemann
How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow by Henry Louis Gates Jr.
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein
Split Tooth by Tanya Tagaq
I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life by Ed Yong
Underland: A Deep Time Journey by Robert Macfarlane
Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer
Authority by Jeff VanderMeer
Acceptance by Jeff VanderMeer
The End of Everything by Katie Mack
Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures by Merlin Sheldrake
The Ends of the World: Supervolcanoes, Lethal Oceans, and the Search for Past Apocalypses by Peter Brannen
The Death and Life of the Great Lakes by Dan Egan
The Book of Eels: Our Enduring Fascination with the Most Mysterious Creature in the Natural World by Patrik Svensson
Never Home Alone: From Microbes to Millipedes, Camel Crickets, and Honeybees, the Natural History of Where We Live by Rob Dunn
Prairie: A Natural History of the Heart of North America: Revised Edition by Candace Savage
Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky
Children of Ruin by Adrian Tchaikovsky
Monarchs of the Sea: The Extraordinary 500-Million-Year History of Cephalopods by Danna Staaf
Nature Obscura: A City's Hidden Natural World by Kelly Brenner
Pawn of Prophecy by David Eddings
Kingdom of Frost: How the Cryosphere Shapes Life on Earth by Bjørn Vassnes
Buzz, Sting, Bite: Why We Need Insects by Anne Sverdrup-Thygeson
Legacy: Trauma, Story, and Indigenous Healing by Suzanne Methot
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander
Open Borders: The Science and Ethics of Immigration by Bryan Caplan

2019

Educated by Tara Westover
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne
Rise of the Warrior Cop: The Militarization of America's Police Forces by Radley Balko
Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory by David W. Blight
Ku-Klux: The Birth of the Klan during Reconstruction by Elaine Frantz Parsons
The Second Coming of the KKK: The Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s and the American Political Tradition by Linda Gordon
Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America by Kathleen Belew
This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War by Drew Gilpin Faust
Vietnam: A New History by Christopher E. Goscha
Kill All Normies: Online Culture Wars from 4chan and Tumblr to Trump and the Alt-Right by Angela Nagle

2018

The Iran-Iraq War by Pierre Razoux
The Fall of the Ottomans: The Great War in the Middle East by Eugene Rogan
A New Introduction to Islam by Daniel W. Brown
Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815 by Gordon S. Wood
What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815 - 1848 by Daniel Walker Howe
The Impending Crisis: America Before the Civil War, 1848-1861 by David Morris Potter
This Vast Southern Empire: Slaveholders at the Helm of American Foreign Policy by Matthew Karp
Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era by James M. McPherson
Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution 1863-1877 by Eric Foner
Pakistan: A Hard Country by Anatol Lieven
Afghanistan: A Cultural and Political History by Thomas Barfield
"They Can Live in the Desert But Nowhere Else": A History of the Armenian Genocide by Ronald Grigor Suny
No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy
Starship Troopers by Robert A. Heinlein