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)