Books as friends.

Creativity is developed through exposure to new perspectives, concepts, and stories. So, if everything is a remix, the more you have to mix with, the more you can create.

On the nightstand

Books currently being read.

The New Jim Crow

Michelle alexander

Our Lady of Perpetual Hunger

Lisa donovan

Back to the Library

Finished books read over the years.

Books in bold are highly recommended.

2021
2020
2019
2018
  1. Humankind - Rutger Bregman
  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. Mercies in Disguise - Gina Kolata
  6. Lovecraft Country - Matt Ruff
  7. Vacationland - John Hodgeman
  8. Becoming - Michelle Obama
  9. Stiff - Mary Roach
  10. Smoke Gets In Your Eyes - Caitlin Doughty
  11. Washington Black - Esi Edugyan
  12. Wonder - R. J. Palacio
  13. Furiously Happy - Jenny Lawson
  14. Let’s Pretend This Never Happened - Jenny Lawson
  15. Man’s Search for Meaning - Viktor E. Frankl
  16. Code Girls - Liza Mundy
  17. Outlander - Diana Gabaldon
  18. Born a Crime - Trevor Noah
  19. Conversational Design - Erika Hall
  20. Lincoln in the Bardo - George Saunders
  21. The Goldfinch - Donna Tartt
  22. Behind the Beautiful Forevers - Katherine Boo
  23. What Color is Your Parachute - Richard N. Bolles
  24. Inspired: How to Create Tech Products Customers Love - Marty Cagan
  25. Talking to my Daughter about the Economy or How Capitalism Works - And How It Fails - Yanis Varoufakis
  26. Educated - Tara Westover
  27. User Story Mapping - Jeff Patton & Peter Economy
  28. Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI - David Grann
  29. The Second Mountain - David Brooks
  30. Under the Banner of Heaven - Jon Krakauer
  31. The Captured - Scott Zesch
  32. Feminism for the 99%: A Manifesto - Cinzia Arruzza, Tithi Bhattacharya, and Nancy Fraser
  33. News of The World - Paulette Jiles
  34. The Color of Water - James McBride
  35. The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms - N. K. Jemisin
  36. Akata Witch - Nnedi Okorafor
  37. Akata Warrior - Nnedi Okorafor
  38. Hooked - Nyr Eyal
  39. Broken Places & Outer Spaces - Nnedi Okorafor
  40. Free Cyntoia - Cyntoia Brown-Long
  41. A Wizard of Earthsea - Ursula K. Le Guin
  42. From a Certain Point of View - Renée Ahdieh
  43. The Color of Water - James McBride
  44. The Left Hand of Darkness - Ursula k. Le Guin
  45. The Broken Kingdoms - NK Jemsin
  46. Sharp Objects - Gillian Flynn
  47. Children of Blood and Bone - Tomi Adeyem
  48. You Don’t Have to Say You Love Me - Sherman Alexi
  49. 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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