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.

• I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman (1995)
• Rejection by Tony Tulathimutte (2024)
• It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over by Anne de Marcken (2024)
• Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar (2024)
• Whereabouts by Jhumpa Lahiri (2018)
• No One Writes to the Colonel and Other Stories by Gabriel García Márquez (1963)
• The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath (1963)
• Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri (1999)
• The End of Everything by Katie Mack (2020)
• The Aleph and Other Stories by Jorge Luis Borges (1952)
• Mina's Matchbox by Yoko Ogawa (2006)
• Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf (1925)
• The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro (1989)
• Our Missing Hearts by Celeste Ng (2022)
• Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence by R. F. Kuang (2022)
• Revenge: Eleven Dark Tales by Yōko Ogawa (1998)
• Marcovaldo by Italino Calvino (1963)
• If on a winter's night a traveler by Italino Calvino (1979)
• The Wandering Earth by Cixin Liu (2013)
• Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi (2020)
• The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yōko Ogawa (2003)
• Exhalation: Stories by Ted Chiang (2019)
• Someone Who Will Love You In All Your Damaged Glory by Raphael Bob-Waksberg (2019)
• Dearborn by Ghassan Zeineddine (2023)
• Algorithms of Oppression by Safiya Umoja Noble (2018)
• Race After Technology by Ruha Benjamin (2019)
• Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin (2022)
• Slaying Goliath by Diane Ravitch (2020)
• Upgrade by Blake Crouch (2022)
• A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking (1988)
• Music Is History by Questlove and Ben Greenman (2021)
• The Signal and the Noise by Nate Silver (2012)
• Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang (2002)
• Jim Crow's Children by Peter Irons (2002)
• The Curator by Owen King (2018)
• Floating City by Sudhir Venkatesh (2013)
• Illiterate America by Jonathan Kozol (1985)
• Hip-Hop Revolution: The Culture and Politics of Rap by Jeffrey O. G. Ogbar (2007)
• Words on the Move by John McWhorter (2016)
• This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone (2019)
• The Shame of the Nation by Jonathan Kozol (2005)
• God Help the Child by Toni Morrison (2015)
• Beyond Measure by James Vincent (2023)
• Firefighting: The Financial Crisis and Its Lessons by Ben Bernake, Timothy Geithner, and Henry Paulson (2018)
• Home by Toni Morrison (2012)
• Brotopia by Emily Chang (2018)
• Circe by Madeline Miller (2018)
• Letters to a Young Teacher by Jonathan Kozol (2007)
• A Brief History of Equality by Thomas Piketty (2021)
• Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino (1972)
• What If? 2 by Randall Munroe (2022)
• The Line Becomes a River by Francisco Cantú (2018)
• When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi (2016)
• Bad Samaritans by Ha-Joon Chang (2007)
• Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck (1937)
• The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon (2003)
• Failure to Disrupt by Justin Reich (2020)
• The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho (1988)
• A Happy Death by Albert Camus (1971)
• The Diving Pool by Yōko Ogawa (1990)
• Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng (2014)
• God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian by Kurt Vonnegut (1999)
• Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr (2022)
• Tokyo Ueno Station by Yu Miri (2014)
• Beautiful World, Where Are You by Sally Rooney (2021)
• Conversations With Friends by Sally Rooney (2017)
• Flights by Olga Tokarczuk (2007)
• Normal People by Sally Rooney (2018)
• Severance by Ling Ma (2018)
• The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro (2015)
• Recursion by Blake Crouch (2019)
• A Pale View of the Hills by Kazuo Ishiguro (1982)
• The Martian by Andy Weir (2011)
• The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates (2019)
• Piranesi by Susanna Clarke (2020)
• The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood (1985)
• Ready Player One by Ernest Cline (2011)
• Debt: The First 5000 Years by David Graeber (2011)
• 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 Natsuo 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)