Books
A compact list of all the books I've read since 2020. Click in for more information and my thoughts.
See: expanded list, favourites/strongest recommendations, just Murakami books.
- Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison (1952)
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey (1962)
- Building For Everyone by Annie Jean-Baptiste (2020)
- the phone booth at the edge of the world by Laura Imai Messina (2021)
- Second Foundation by Isaac Asimov (1953)
- Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng (2017)
- The Word for World Is Forest by Ursula K. Le Guin (1976)
- Foundation and Empire by Isaac Asimov (1952)
- Watchmen by Alan Moore, Dave Gibbons, John Higgins (1988)
- Foundation by Isaac Asimov (1951)
- A Personal Matter by Kenzaburō Ōe (1964)
- How Democracies Die by Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt (2018)
- The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen (2016)
- Design Justice by Sasha Costanza-Chock (2020)
- Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut (1969)
- Dune by Frank Herbert (1965)
- Devils in Daylight by Jun'ichirō Tanizaki (1918)
- Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro (2021)
- Death's End by Cixin Liu (2010)
- The Trial by Franz Kafka (1925)
- The Dark Forest by Cixin Liu (2008)
- Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro (2005)
- One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez (1967)
- The Memory Police by Yōko Ogawa (1994)
- Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner (2021)
- First Person Singular by Haruki Murakami (2020)
- The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu (2008)
- Grotesque by Natuso Kirino (2003)
- Because Internet by Gretchen McCulloch (2019)
- Pachinko by Min Jin Lee (2017)
- The Tyranny of Merit by Michael J. Sandel (2020)
- Twilight of Democracy by Anne Applebaum (2018)
- Mismatch: How Inclusion Shapes Design by Kat Holmes (2018)
- Weapons of Math Destruction by Cathy O'Neil (2016)
- Pessimism: Philosophy, Ethic, Spirit by Joshua Foa Dienstag (2006)
- Bullshit Jobs by David Graeber (2018)
- The Strange Library by Haruki Murakami (1983)
- Killing Commendatore by Haruki Murakami (2017)
- Pinball, 1973 by Haruki Murakami (1980)
- Hear the Wind Sing by Haruki Murakami (1979)
- Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates (2015)
- After Dark by Haruki Murakami (2004)
- Dance Dance Dance by Haruki Murakami (1988)
- After the Quake by Haruki Murakami (2000)
- Sputnik Sweetheart by Haruki Murakami (1999)
- South of the Border, West of the Sun by Haruki Murakami (1992)
- Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World by Haruki Murakami (1985)
- Men Without Women by Haruki Murakami (2014)
- A Wild Sheep Chase by Haruki Murakami (1982)
- Death at an Early Age by Jonathan Kozol (1967)
- Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire (1968)
- Poor Economics by Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo (2011)
- The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas by Ursula K. Le Guin (1973)
- Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage by Haruki Murakami (2013)
- 1984 by George Orwell (1949)
- What Money Can't Buy by Michael J. Sandel (2012)
- Why Nations Fail by Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson (2012)
- Narrative Economics by Robert J. Shiller (2019)
- The Elephant Vanishes by Haruki Murakami (2005)
- The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami (1994)
- Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami (1987)
- Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes (1959)
- Good Economics for Hard Times by Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo (2019)
- The Stranger by Albert Camus (1942)
- Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell (2004)
- 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami (2009)
- how to by Randall Munroe (2019)
- Open Borders by Bryan Caplan (2019)
- Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami (2002)