reading

There are few buildings better than a library.

I started keeping track of what books I've read over the year in 2018 in order to hold myself accountable to reading (or listening to) at least 40 books per year. It's also helpful to reference when folks ask for recommendations, or when I cant remember if I read something already or not.

Books in bold are highly recommended.

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  1. Ancillary Sword - Ann Leckie
  2. Ancillary Mercy - Ann Leckie
  3. Why We Sleep - Matthew Walker
  4. Provenance - Ann Leckie
  5. How High We Go in the Dark - Sequoia Nagamatsu
  6. Breath - James Nestor
  7. Notes on Grief - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
  8. The Year of Magical Thinking - Joan Didion
  9. The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat - Oliver Sacks
  10. This is Going to Hurt - Adam Kay
  11. All My Knotted-Up Life - Beth Moore
  12. What I Talk About When I Talk About Running - Haruki Murakami
  13. Counting the Cost - Jill Duggar, Derick Dillard, Craig Borlase
  14. A Court of Thorns and Roses - Sara J. Maas
  15. For Blood and Money - Nathan Vardi
  16. Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents - Lindsay C. Gibson
  17. The Stepford Wives - Ira Levin
  18. Awakenings - Oliver Sacks
  19. Tender is the Flesh - Agustina Bazterrica
  20. The Woman in Me - Britney Spears
  21. Sex Cult Nun - Faith Jones
  22. Diamond Doris - Doris Payne
  23. Translation State - Ann Leckie
  24. Chamber Divers - Rachel Lance
  25. The Sound of Gravel - Ruth Wariner
  26. Uncanny Valley - Anna Wiener
  27. The Mountain in the Sea - Ray Nayler
  28. The Light We Carry - Michelle Obama
  29. The Dutch House - Ann Pachett
  30. Five Days at Memorial - Sheri Fink
  31. We Spread - Iain Reid
  32. Platonic - Marisa G. Franco
  33. Gathering Moss - Robin Wall Kimmerer
  34. The Eyes and the Impossible - Dave Eggers
  35. The Maidens - Alex Michaelides
  36. Still Alice - Lisa Genova
  37. Little Fires Everywhere - Celeste Ng
  38. Island of the Lost - Joan Druett
  39. Ghost in the Wires - Kevin Mitnick
  40. Beautyland - Marie-Helene Bertino
  41. The Women - Kristin Hannah
  42. The Mercy of Gods - James S. A. Corey
  43. Livesuit - James S. A. Corey
  44. My Lovely Wife in the Psych Ward - Mark Lukach
  45. A Very Punchable Face - Colin Jost
  46. Leslie F*cking Jones - Leslie Jones
  47. Sure, I'll Join Your Cult - Maria Bamford
  48. Born on the 4th of July - Ron Kovic
  49. The Stench of Honolulu - Jack Handey
  50. An Immense World - Ed Yong
  51. Women Who Run With the Wolves - Clarissa Pinkola Estés, PhD
  1. Entangled Life - Merlin Sheldrake
  2. A Psalm for the Wild-Built - Becky Chambers
  3. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
  4. The Autobiography of Malcolm X - Malcolm X
  5. River Woman, River Demon - Jennifer Givhan
  6. The Blade Itself - Joe Abercrombie
  7. You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty - Akwaeke Emezi
  8. Before They Are Hanged - Joe Abercrombie
  9. Siddhartha - Hermann Hesse
  10. The Clan of the Cave Bear - Jean M. Auel
  11. Last Argument of Kings - Joe Abercrombie
  12. I, Robot - Isaac Asimov
  13. Mad at the World - William Souder
  14. The Four Winds: a Novel - Kristin Hannah
  15. The Library Book - Susan Orlean
  16. Power to the Public - Tara Dawson McGuinness and Hana Schank
  17. Hyperion - Dan Simmons
  18. Whose Names Are Unknown - Sanora Babb
  1. Cibola Burn - James S.A. Corey
  2. Home - Martha Wells
  3. A Woman of No Importance - Sonia Purnell
  4. Girly Drinks - Mallory O'Meara
  5. Nemesis Games - James S.A. Corey
  6. The Five Wounds - Kirstin Valdez Quade
  7. Noor - Nnedi Okorafor
  8. The Churn - James S.A. Corey
  9. Lifelines - Dr. Leana Wen
  10. Clay's Ark - Octavia E. Butler
  11. Drive - James S.A. Corey
  12. Oona Out of Order - Margarita Montimore
  13. Patternmaster - Octavia E. Butler
  14. The Butcher of Anderson Station - James S. A. Corey
  15. Babylon's Ashes - James S.A. Corey
  16. Persepolis Rising - James S.A. Corey
  17. Tiamat's Wrath - James S. A. Corey
  18. Where'd You Go, Bernadette - Maria Semple
  19. Guards! Guards! - Terry Pratchett
  20. Nothing to See Here - Kevin Wilson
  21. Strange Dogs - James S.A. Corey
  22. Gods of Risk - James S. A. Corey
  23. Big Friendship - Aminatou Sow, Ann Friedman
  24. Auberon - James S. A. Corey
  25. Garden of Beasts - Jeffery Deaver
  26. My Life on the Road - Gloria Steinem
  27. Mythos - Stephen Fry
  28. To Speak for the Trees - Diana Beresford-Kroeger
  29. The Santanic Verses - Salman Rushdie
  30. The Global Forest - Diana Beresford-Kroeger
  31. I'm Glad My Mom Died - Jennette McCurdy
  32. Like Water for Chocolate - Laura Esquivel
  33. Firekeeper's Daughter - Angeline Boulley
  34. The Humans - Matt Haig
  35. The Daughter of Doctor Moreau - Silvia Moreno-Garcia
  36. Run Towards the Danger - Sarah Polley
  37. Hello, Molly! - Molly Shannon
  38. The Glass Castle - Jeannette Walls
  39. Red Rising - Pierce Brown
  40. How to Cook a Wolf - M.K. Fisher
  41. The Water Cure - Sophie Mackintosh
  42. Storm Front - Jim Butcher
  1. Humankind - Rutger Bregman
  2. Our Lady of Perpetual Hunger - Lisa Donovan
  3. The New Jim Crow - Michelle Alexander
  4. 11/22/63 - Stephen King
  5. A Woman is No Man - Etaf Rum
  6. Over the Top - Jonathan Van Ness
  7. Why Not Me? - Mindy Kaling
  8. She Come by It Natural - Sarah Smarsh
  9. Binti: Home - Nnedi Okorafor
  10. Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro
  11. Notes of A Native Son - James Baldwin
  12. Piranesi - Susanna Clarke
  13. Passing - Nella Larsen
  14. The Prisoner of Heaven - Carlos Ruiz Zafón
  15. Disability Visibility - Alice Wong
  16. Marina - Carlos Ruiz Zafón
  17. The Fellowship of The Ring - J.R.R. Tolkien
  18. The Two Towers- J.R.R. Tolkien
  19. The Return of the King - J.R.R. Tolkien
  20. Maybe You Should Talk To Someone - Lori Gottlieb
  21. This is How You Lose The Time War - Amal El-Mohtar, Max Gladstone
  22. Crocodile on the Sandbank - Elizabeth Peters
  23. Sarah, Plain and Tall - Patricia MacLachlan
  24. True Grit - Charles Portis
  25. Nomadland - Jessica Bruder
  26. I am the Messenger - Markus Zusak
  27. Zoo Station - Christiane F.
  28. The Giver - Lois Lowry
  29. Mind of My Mind - Octavia E Butler
  30. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd - Agatha Christie
  31. Angle of Repose - Wallace Stegner
  32. No One is Talking About This - Patricia Lockwood
  33. Sapiens - Yuval Noah Harari
  34. The Removed - Brandon Hobson
  35. The Silent Patient - Alex Michaelides
  36. The Death of Vivek Oji - Akwaeke Emezi
  37. The Furthest Shore - Ursula K. LeGuin
  38. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
  39. A Promised Land - Barack Obama
  40. The Coincidence of the Coconut Cake - Amy E. Reichert
  41. Homegoing - Yaa Gyasi
  42. The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue - V.E. Schwab
  43. Leviathan Wakes - James S. A. Corey
  44. The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet - Becky Chambers
  45. A Closed and Common Orbit - Becky Chambers
  46. The Culture Map - Erin Meyer
  47. Happy Fat - Sofie Hagen
  48. Klara and the Sun - Kazuo Ishiguro
  49. The House in the Cerulean Sea - TJ Klune
  50. Notorious RBG - Irin Cameron, Shana Knizhnik
  51. Dolly Parton, Songteller - Dolly Parton
  52. All Creatures Great and Small - James Herriot
  53. Calaban's War - James S.A. Corey
  54. Record of a Spaceborn Few - Becky Chambers
  55. Do Nothing - Celeste Headleee
  56. Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
  57. Medicare for All - Abdul El-Sayed, Micah Johnson
  58. Broken - Jenny Lawson
  59. The Galaxy, and the Ground Within - Becky Chambers
  60. Quiet - Susan Cain
  61. Network Effect - Martha Wells
  62. Abaddon's Gate - James S.A. Corey
  63. Fugitive Telemetry - Martha Wells
  64. A Passage North - Anuk Arudpragasam
  65. From Scratch - Tembi Locke
  66. The Family That Couldn't Sleep - D.T. Max
  67. Music - Ted Gioia
  68. The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle - Stuart Turton
  69. Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir
  1. The Great Believers - Rebecca Makkai
  2. All Systems Red - Martha Wells
  3. Artificial Condition - Martha Wells
  4. Rogue Protocol - Martha Wells
  5. Exit Strategy - Martha Wells
  6. The Stranger in the Woods - Michael Finkel
  7. Annihilation - Jeff VanderMeer
  8. The Hot Zone - Richard Preston
  9. How To Be An Antiracist - Ibram X. Kendi
  10. A Memory Called Empire - Arkady Martine
  11. Children of Virtue and Vengeance - Tomi Adeyemi
  12. The Remains of The Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
  13. American Kingpin - Nick Bilton
  14. The Tombs of Atuan - Ursula K. LeGuin
  15. The Summer Book - Tove Jansson
  16. Dark Matter - Blake Crouch
  17. So You Want To Talk About Race - Ijeoma Oluo
  18. Binti - Nnedi Okorafor
  19. The Overstory - Richard Powers
  20. American Gods - Neil Gaiman
  21. Unorthodox - Deborah Feldman
  22. Little Women - Louisa May Alcott
  23. Switch - Chip and Dan Heath
  24. Freshwater - Akwaeke Emezi
  25. The Girl with All the Gifts - M. R. Carey
  26. The City We Became - NK Jemisin
  27. The Angel’s Game - Carlos Ruiz Zafón
  28. Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine - Gail Honeyman
  29. Parable of the Sower - Octavia E. Butler
  30. A Curse So Dark And Lonely - Brigid Kemmerer
  31. I Want My Hat Back - Jon Klassen
  32. The Hidden Life of Trees - Peter Wohlleben
  33. The Making of a Manager - Julie Zhuo
  34. The Vanishing Half - Brit Bennett
  35. The Water Dancer - Ta-Nehisi Coates
  36. Maid - Stephanie Land
  37. Parable of the Talents - Octavia E Butler
  38. The Nickel Boys - Colson Whitehead
  39. The Vagina Bible - Jen Gunter
  40. Mexican Gothic - Silvia Moreno-Garcia
  41. Brain on Fire - Susannah Cahalan
  42. Braiding Sweetgrass - Robin Wall Kimmerer
  43. Wild Seed - Octavia E. Butler
  44. Playing Big - Tara Mohr
  45. Stay Sexy & Don't Get Murdered - Georgia Hardstark & Karen Kilgariff
  46. Born Standing Up - Steve Martin
  47. The Good Lord Bird - James McBride
  48. The Education of an Idealist - Samantha Power
  49. Endurance - Alfred Lansing
  50. My Sister, the Serial Killer - Oyinkan Braithwaite
  51. Circe - Madeline Miller
  52. Where the Crawdads Sing - Delia Owens
  1. A Game of Thrones - George R. R. Martin
  2. A Clash of Kings - George R. R. Martin
  3. A Storm of Swords - George R. R. Martin
  4. I’ll Be Gone In The Dark - Michelle McNamara
  5. Lovecraft Country - Matt Ruff
  6. Becoming - Michelle Obama
  7. Stiff - Mary Roach
  8. Smoke Gets In Your Eyes - Caitlin Doughty
  9. Washington Black - Esi Edugyan
  10. Wonder - R. J. Palacio
  11. Furiously Happy - Jenny Lawson
  12. Let’s Pretend This Never Happened - Jenny Lawson
  13. Man’s Search for Meaning - Viktor E. Frankl
  14. Code Girls - Liza Mundy
  15. Outlander - Diana Gabaldon
  16. Born a Crime - Trevor Noah
  17. Conversational Design - Erika Hall
  18. Lincoln in the Bardo - George Saunders
  19. The Goldfinch - Donna Tartt
  20. Behind the Beautiful Forevers - Katherine Boo
  21. What Color is Your Parachute - Richard N. Bolles
  22. Inspired: How to Create Tech Products Customers Love - Marty Cagan
  23. Talking to my Daughter about the Economy or How Capitalism Works - And How It Fails - Yanis Varoufakis
  24. Educated - Tara Westover
  25. User Story Mapping - Jeff Patton & Peter Economy
  26. Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI - David Grann
  27. The Second Mountain - David Brooks
  28. Under the Banner of Heaven - Jon Krakauer
  29. The Captured - Scott Zesch
  30. Feminism for the 99%: A Manifesto - Cinzia Arruzza, Tithi Bhattacharya, and Nancy Fraser
  31. News of The World - Paulette Jiles
  32. The Color of Water - James McBride
  33. The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms - N. K. Jemisin
  34. Akata Witch - Nnedi Okorafor
  35. Akata Warrior - Nnedi Okorafor
  36. Hooked - Nyr Eyal
  37. Broken Places & Outer Spaces - Nnedi Okorafor
  38. Free Cyntoia - Cyntoia Brown-Long
  39. A Wizard of Earthsea - Ursula K. Le Guin
  40. From a Certain Point of View - Renée Ahdieh
  41. The Color of Water - James McBride
  42. The Left Hand of Darkness - Ursula k. Le Guin
  43. The Broken Kingdoms - NK Jemsin
  44. Sharp Objects - Gillian Flynn
  45. Children of Blood and Bone - Tomi Adeyem
  46. You Don’t Have to Say You Love Me - Sherman Alexi
  47. The Kingdom of Gods - NK Jemsin
  1. Men Explain Things To Me - Rebecca Solnit
  2. Dune - Frank Herbert
  3. The Fifth Season - N. K. Jemisin
  4. The Stone Sky - N. K. Jemisin
  5. The Obelisk Gate - N. K. Jemisin
  6. The Power - Naomi Alderman
  7. A Gentleman in Moscow - Amor Towles
  8. Sing, Unburied, Sing - Jesmyn Ward
  9. Black Panther: A Nation Under our Feet, Book One - Ta-Nehisi Coates
  10. Alice Adams - Booth Tarkington
  11. Broadband - Claire L. Evans
  12. Pachinko - Min Jin Lee
  13. The Age of Innocence - Edith Wharton
  14. The Healing of America: A Global Quest for Better, Cheaper, and Fairer Health Care - T.R. Reid
  15. Harry Potter and the Sorcerers Stone - J. K. Rowling
  16. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets - J. K. Rowling
  17. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban - J. K. Rowling
  18. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire - J. K. Rowling
  19. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix - J. K. Rowling
  20. Doing Harm: The Truth About How Bad Medicine and Lazy Science Leave Women Dismissed, Misdiagnosed, and Sick - Maya Dusenbery
  21. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince - J. K. Rowling
  22. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - J. K. Rowling
  23. The Magnificent Ambersons - Booth Tarkington
  24. His Family - Ernest Poole
  25. A Wrinkle In Time - Madeleine L'Engle
  26. The Girl Who Smiled Beads - Clemantine Wamariya
  27. Who Fears Death - Nnedi Okorafor
  28. Natural Causes - Barbara Ehrenreich
  29. Bad Feminist - Roxane Gay
  30. Four and Twenty Blackbirds - Cherie Priest
  31. Bored and Brilliant - Manoush Zomorodi
  32. First, Break all the Rules - Gallup
  33. The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck - Mark Manson
  34. Watership Down - Richard Adams
  35. Creativity Inc. - Ed Catmull
  36. Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup - John Carreyrou
  37. Black Klansman - Ron Stallworth
  38. Factfulness - Hans Rosling
  39. How to Change your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence - Michael Pollan
  40. HBR’s 10 Must Reads on Leadership for Healthcare - HBR
  41. The First 90 Days - Michael Watkins
  42. Sketching User Experiences - Bill Buxton
  43. Rage Becomes Her: The Power of Women’s Anger - Soraya L. Chemaly
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