I have kept a reading list since 2014ish and began noting when I read what in 2017. I have starred books that I enjoyed that aren't widely recommended afaik. Inclusion is not an endorsement, some are duds.
3 books read, including 0 audiobooks.
| My New York Diary | Julie Doucet | |
| User Friendly: How the Hidden Rules of Design Are Changing the Way We Live, Work, and Play | Cliff Kuang and Robert Fabricant | |
| Animal Farm | George Orwell |
16 books read, including 0 audiobooks.
| Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands | Kate Beaton | |
| In the Camps: China's High-Tech Penal Colony | Darren Byler | |
| Factory Summer | Guy Deslisle | |
| We Are Bellingcat: Global Crime, Online Sleuths, and the Bold Future of News | Eliot Higgins | |
| The Half Known Life : In Search of Paradise | Pico Iyer | |
| The Essential Wooden: A Lifetime of Lessons on Leaders and Leadership | John Wooden and Steve Jamison | |
| alfabet / alphabet | Sadiqa de Meijer | |
| How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy | Jenny Odell | |
| Safe Area Gorazde | Joe Sacco | |
| The Fixer and Other Stories | Joe Sacco | |
| The Red Pony | John Steinback | |
| East of Eden | John Steinbeck | |
| The Grapes of Wrath | John Steinbeck | |
| The Invisible Man | H.G. Wells | |
| The Hidden Life of Trees: The Illustrated Edition | Peter Wohlleben | |
| Tiananmen 1989: Our Shattered Hopes | Adrien Gombeaud and Lun Zhang |
17 books read, including 0 audiobooks.
| In Cold Blood | Truman Capote | |
| Dedicated: The Case for Commitment in an Age of Infinite Browsing | Pete Davis | |
| The Haida Gwaii Lesson: A Strategic Playbook for Indigenous Sovereignty | Mark Dowie | |
| Rolling Blackouts: Dispatches from Turkey, Syria, and Iraq | Sarah Glidden | |
| Confessions of a Recovering Engineer: Transportation for a Strong Town | Charles L. Marohn Jr. | |
| Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging | Sebastian Junger | |
| Tommy Douglas | Vincent Lam | |
| 1919: A Graphic History of the Winnipeg General Strike | Graphic History Collective, David Lester | |
| This Place: 150 Years Retold | Many | |
| The Radio and Other Stories | Gil Ndi-Shang | |
| Palestine | Joe Sacco | |
| Paying the Land | Joe Sacco | |
| What Money Can't Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets | Michael J. Sandel | |
| Wild Roses Are Worth It: Reimagining The Alberta Advantage | Kevin Van Tighem | |
| The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Cartoonist | Adrian Tomine | |
| Killing and Dying | Adrian Tomine | |
| 12 Bytes: How We Got Here. Where We Might Go Next | Jeanette Winterson |
48 books read, including 0 audiobooks.
| Things Fall Apart | Chinua Achebe | |
| Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic | Alison Bechdel | |
| The Secret to Superhuman Strength | Alison Bechdel | |
| Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World | Rutger Bregman | |
| Tetris: The Games People Play | Brian "Box" Brown | |
| Louis Riel: A Comic-Strip Biography | Chester Brown | |
| The Art of Forgery | Noah Charney | |
| The Aquariums of Pyongyang: Ten Years in the North Korean Gulag | Kang Chol-hwan | |
| Media Control: The Spectacular Achievements of Propaganda | Noam Chomsky | |
| Heart of Darkness | Joseph Conrad | |
| Reset: Reclaiming the Internet for Civil Society | Ronald J. Deibert | |
| Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea | Guy Delisle | |
| Burma Chronicles | Guy Delisle | |
| Shenzhen: A Travelogue from China | Guy Delisle | |
| Hostage | Guy Delisle | |
| Jerusalem: Chronicles from the Holy City | Guy Delisle | |
| Right/Wrong: How Technology Transforms Our Ethics | Juan Enriquez | |
| Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End | Atul Gawande | |
| Sandworm: A New Era of Cyberwar and the Hunt for the Kremlin's Most Dangerous Hackers | Andy Greenberg | |
| An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth | Chris Hadfield | |
| A River in Darkness: One Man's Escape from North Korea | Masaji Ishikawa | |
| The Deficit Myth: Modern Monetary Theory and the Birth of the People's Economy | Stephanie Kelton | |
| On the Road | Jack Kerouac | |
| The Photographer: Into War-torn Afghanistan with Doctors Without Borders | Emmanuel Guibert, Didier Lefèvre, Frédéric Lemercier | |
| Novacene: The Coming Age of Hyperintelligence | James Lovelock | |
| The Address Book: What Street Addresses Reveal About Identity, Race, Wealth, and Power | Deirdre Mask | |
| Here | Richard McGuire | |
| Who's #1: The Science of Rating and Ranking | Amy N. Langville & Carl D. Meyer | |
| Why Fish Don't Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life | Lulu Miller | |
| The Computer and the Brain | John von Neumann | |
| Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action | Elinor Ostrom | |
| Logicomix: An Epic Search for Truth | Apostolos Doxiadis, Christos Papadimitriou | |
| The Descent of Man | Grayson Perry | |
| This Is Not Propaganda: Adventures in the War Against Reality | Peter Pomerantsev | |
| March | John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, Nate Powell | |
| Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community | Robert D. Putnam | |
| Why the Innocent Plead Guilty and the Guilty Go Free: And Other Paradoxes of Our Broken Legal System | Jed S. Rakoff | |
| All Quiet on the Western Front | Erich Maria Remarque | |
| Franny and Zooey | J.D. Salinger | |
| Persepolis | Marjane Satrapi | |
| Maus | Art Spiegelman | |
| The Ancient Olympics: A History | Nigel Spivey | |
| A Russian Journal | John Steinbeck | |
| Tortilla Flat | John Steinbeck | |
| Weep Not, Child | Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o | |
| The $12 Million Stuffed Shark: The Curious Economics of Contemporary Art | Don Thompson | |
| How to Tame a Fox (and Build a Dog): Visionary Scientists and a Siberian Tale of Jump-Started Evolution | Lee Alan Dugatkin & Lyudmila Trut | |
| Blockchain Chicken Farm: And Other Stories of Tech in China's Countryside | Xiaowei Wang |
15 books read, including 1 audiobooks.
| Rashomon and Other Stories | Ryunosuke Akutagawa | |
| Extremism | J. M. Berger | |
| Tubes: A Journey to the Center of the Internet | Andrew Blum | |
| Between the World and Me | Ta-Nehisi Coates | |
| Notes From Underground | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | |
| Brief Answers to the Big Questions | Stephen Hawking | |
| Legends of Vancouver | Pauline E Johnson | |
| The Soul of a New Machine | Tracy Kidder | |
| 🎧 | A Promised Land | Barack Obama |
| ⭐️ | The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography | Simon Singh |
| Our Malady: Lessons in Liberty From a Hospital Diary | Timothy Snyder | |
| Cannery Row | John Steinbeck | |
| Of Mice and Men | John Steinbeck | |
| Travels with Charley: In Search of America | John Steinbeck | |
| 2 B R 0 2 B | Kurt Vonnegut |
8 books read, including 1 audiobooks.
| Working | Robert Caro | |
| 🎧 | Conscious: A Brief Guide to the Fundamental Mystery of the Mind | Annaka Harris |
| Hiking with Nietzsche: On Becoming Who You Are | John Kaag | |
| This America: The Case for the Nation | Jill Lepore | |
| Coders: The Making of a New Tribe and the Remaking of the World | Clive Thompson | |
| Beautiful Evidence | Edward Tufte | |
| Envisioning Information | Edward Tufte | |
| Let It Bang: A Young Black Man’s Reluctant Odyssey into Guns | R. J. Young |
18 books read, including 4 audiobooks.
| Promise Me, Dad: A Year of Hope, Hardship, and Purpose | Joe Biden | |
| Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly | Anthony Bourdain | |
| Conscience of a Conservative: A Rejection of Destructive Politics and a Return to Principle | Jeff Flake | |
| Let’s Move On: Beyond Fear & False Prophets | Vincente Fox | |
| 🎧 | Lying | Sam Harris |
| Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo" | Zora Neale Hurston | |
| When Breath Becomes Air | Paul Kalanithi | |
| The Retreat of Western Liberalism | Edward Luce | |
| ⭐️ | Who Thought This Was a Good Idea? And Other Questions You Should Have Answers to When You Work in the White House | Alyssa Mastromonaco |
| What If? Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions | Randall Munroe | |
| venture of the infinite man | Pablo Neruda | |
| The Secret Life: Three True Stories of the Digital Age | Andrew O’Hagan | |
| Dear Madam President: An Open Letter to the Women Who Will Run the World | Jennifer Palmieri | |
| 🎧 | What Happened | Hilary Rodham-Clinton |
| On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century | Timothy Snyder | |
| 🎧 | Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis | J. D. Vance |
| ⭐️ | String Theory: David Foster Wallace on Tennis | David Foster Wallace |
| 🎧 | Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House | Michael Wolff |
14 books read, including 2 audiobooks.
| Time’s Arrow | Martin Amis | |
| American Political History: A Very Short Introduction | Donald T. Critchlow | |
| 🎧 | Giant of the Senate | Al Franken |
| Man’s Search for Meaning | Viktor E. Frankl | |
| Capitalism: A Very Short Introduction | James Fulcher | |
| The Greek Philosophers: from Thales to Aristotle | W. K. C. Guthrie | |
| Free Will | Sam Harris | |
| Demian | Hermann Hesse | |
| The Doors of Perception | Aldous Huxley | |
| Why I Write | George Orwell | |
| The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn | Mark Twain | |
| ️Lovers On All Saints’ Day | Juan Gabriel Vasquez | |
| A Man Without a Country | Kurt Vonnegut | |
| 🎧 | Consider the Lobster | David Foster Wallace |
54 books read, including 6 audiobooks.
| 🎧 | I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings | Maya Angelou |
| Modern Romance: An Investigation | Aziz Ansari | |
| The Diving Bell and the Butterfly | Jean-Dominique Bauby | |
| Fahrenheit 451 | Ray Bradbury | |
| Breakfast at Tiffany’s | Truman Capote | |
| 🎧 | Creativity, Inc. | Ed Catmull |
| Portrait of an Addict as a Young Man | Bill Clegg | |
| The Alchemist | Paulo Coelho | |
| The Gambler | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | |
| The World as I See It | Albert Einstein | |
| The Virgin Suicides | Jeffrey Eugenides | |
| 🎧 | Bossypants | Tina Fey |
| Six Easy Pieces | Richard Feynman | |
| The Great Gatsby | F. Scott Fitzgerald | |
| Risk: Why We Fear the Things We Shouldn't and Put Ourselves in Greater Danger | Dan Gardner | |
| The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference | Malcolm Gladwell | |
| What the Dog Saw: And Other Adventures | Malcolm Gladwell | |
| Outliers: The Story of Success | Malcolm Gladwell | |
| Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking | Malcolm Gladwell | |
| Lord of the Flies | William Golding | |
| The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values | Sam Harris | |
| A Brief History of Time | Stephen Hawking | |
| The Grand Design | Stephen Hawking | |
| The Sun Also Rises | Ernest Hemingway | |
| A Farewell to Arms | Ernest Hemingway | |
| The Old Man and the Sea | Ernest Hemingway | |
| Siddhartha | Hermann Hesse | |
| The Outsiders | S.E. Hinton | |
| God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything | Christopher Hitchens | |
| Brave New World | Aldous Huxley | |
| The Metamorphosis | Franz Kafka | |
| Physics of the Future: How Science Will Shape Human Destiny and our Daily Lives bt the Year 2100 | Michio Kaku | |
| Physics of the Impossible: A Scientific Exploration into the World of Phasers, Force Fields, Teleportation, and Time Travel | Michio Kaku | |
| The Dharma Bums | Jack Kerouac | |
| To Kill a Mockingbird | Harper Lee | |
| The Call of the Wild | Jack London | |
| Death of a Salesman | Arthur Miller | |
| 1Q84 | Haruki Murakami | |
| Sputnik Sweetheart | Haruki Murakami | |
| South of the Border, West of the Sun | Haruki Murakami | |
| 🎧 | The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream | Barack Obama |
| 1984 | George Orwell | |
| 🎧 | Yes Please | Amy Poehler |
| Dataclysm: Love, Sex, Race, and Identity - What Our Online Lives Tell Us About Our Offline Selves | Christian Rudder | |
| The Catcher in the Rye | J.D. Salinger | |
| Nine Stories | J.D. Salinger | |
| Sun in a Bottle | Charles Seife | |
| 🎧 | The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail-but Some Don't | Nate Silver |
| The Postman | Antonio Skarmeta | |
| The Pearl | John Steinbeck | |
| The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde | Robert Louis Stevenson | |
| The Hobbit | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| The Art of War | Sun Tzu | |
| Slaughterhouse-Five | Kurt Vonnegut |