2022 Reading List

This is a list of the books I've read so far in 2022. I aim to read five books each month. My interests are broad and varied.

August

  1. Four Thousand Weeks – Oliver Burkeman

  2. Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention—and How to Think Deeply Again – Johann Hari

July

  1. The Every – Dave Eggers

  2. Happy-Go-Lucky – David Sedaris

  3. Star Trek: Picard: The Dark Veil – James Swallow

  4. Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now – Jaron Lanier (reread)

  5. The Autobiography of Kathryn Janeway – Una McCormack

  6. Building a Second Brain – Tiago Forte

  7. With a Mind to Kill – Anthony Horowitz

  8. God: The Failed Hypothesis – Victor J. Stenger

  9. Dawn of the New Everything – Jaron Lanier

  10. 25,000 Years of Erotic Freedom – Alan Moore

June

  1. Star Trek: Picard: The Last Best Hope – Una McCormack

  2. After Steve: How Apple Became a Trillion-Dollar Company and Lost Its Soul – Tripp Mickle

  3. John Dee and the Empire of Angels – Jason Louv

  4. The Founding Myth: Why Christian Nationalism is Unamerican – Andrew L. Seidel

May

  1. Rainbow Milk – Paul Mendez

  2. Confessions of a Buddhist Atheist – Stephen Batchelor

  3. A World Without Email – Cal Newport

  4. Devil House – John Darnielle

April

  1. Buddhism Without Beliefs – Stephen Batchelor

  2. Lost Christianities – Bart Ehrman

  3. Nine Nasty Words – John McWhorter

March

  1. The Morning Star – Karl Ove Knausgaard

  2. The Queen’s Gambit – Walter Tevis

February

  1. Neonomicon – Alan Moore & Jacen Burrows

  2. Providence – Alan Moore & Jacen Burrows

  3. Hawkeye: The Saga of Barton and Bishop – Matt Fraction & David Aja

January

  1. Termination Shock – Neal Stephenson

  2. The Lost Daughter – Elena Ferrante

  3. Universal Harvester – John Darnielle

  4. Star Trek: Coda: Oblivion’s Gate – David Mack

2021 Reading List

This is a list of the books I've read so far in 2021. My interests are broad and varied. Bold indicates a book I particularly enjoyed or recommend (the two don’t necessarily go hand in hand).

  1. The Secrets of Self-Mastery – Mitch Horowitz

  2. Freedom – Jonathan Franzen (this is like the fourth time I’ve read this)

  3. The Satanic Bible – Anton LaVey

  4. Play It As It Lays – Joan Didion (reread)

  5. Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov (Related Recommendation: Lolita Podcast by Jamie Loftus)

  6. Love People, Use Things – The Minimalists

  7. The Miracle Habits – Mitch Horowitz

  8. A Swim in a Pond in the Rain – George Saunders

  9. The Miracle Club – Mitch Horowitz

  10. Limitless – Jim Kwik

  11. Voice of the Fire – Alan Moore

  12. The Beginning of Infinity – David Deutsch

  13. Several Short Sentences About Writing – Verlyn Klinkenborg

  14. Tomorrow Sex Will Be Good Again – Katherine Angel

  15. High Magick – Damien Echols

  16. Love, Dishonor, Marry, Die, Cherish, Perish – David Packoff

  17. Stories of Your Life and Others – Ted Chiang

  18. The Way of the Superior Man – David Deida

  19. Exhalation – Ted Chiang

  20. 50 Popular Beliefs People Think Are True – Guy P. Harrison

  21. Polysecure – Jessica Fern

  22. The King – Donald Barthelme

  23. A Path with Heart – Jack Kornfield

  24. Rememberings – Sinéad O’Connor

  25. Project Hail Mary – Andy Weir

  26. My Brilliant Friend – Elena Ferrante

  27. Sex Criminals, Vol 6: Six Criminals – Matt Fraction and Chip Zdarsky

  28. The Story of a New Name – Elena Ferrante

  29. The Art of Logic in an Illogical World – Eugenia Cheng

  30. An Ugly Truth: Inside Facebook’s Battle for Domination – Sheera Frenkel and Cecilia Kang

  31. Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay – Elena Ferrante

  32. iOS and iPadOS 15: The MacStories Review – Federico Viticci

  33. The Story of the Lost Child – Elena Ferrante

  34. How to Be an Antiracist – Ibram X. Kendi

  35. Harlem Shuffle – Colson Whitehead

  36. The Codebreaker – Walter Isaacson

  37. Star Trek: Coda: Moments Asunder – Dayton Ward

  38. Crossroads – Jonathan Franzen

  39. Dirty Thirty – Asa Akira

  40. Bewilderment – Richard Powers

  41. Rationality – Steven Pinker

  42. The Chaos Kind – Barry Eisler

  43. Star Trek: Coda: The Ashes of Tomorrow – James Swallow

  44. Woke Racism – John McWhorter

  45. Undisclosed forthcoming book – Undisclosed author

  46. Animorphs: The Invasion: A Graphic Novel – K. A. Applegate (Author), Michael Grant (Author), Chris Grine

  47. Undisclosed forthcoming book – Undisclosed author

  48. The Little Prince – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

  49. Sex Magicians – Michael William West