Reading now

  • The Myth of Sisyphus (Albert Camus)
  • Essentialism (Greg McKeown)
  • How to Write One Song (Jeff Tweedy)

To read

Nonfiction

  • The Conquest of Cool
  • The Extinction of Experience
  • H is for Hawk
  • The Other Significant Others
  • The Solutions are Already Here
  • The Real Estate State
  • The Work of Art
  • The Trees
  • Man’s Search for Meaning
  • Intelligence and Spirit
  • The Idea of Justice (Amartya Sen)

Fiction

  • Stoner (John Williams)
  • Another Country (James Baldwin)
  • Remains of the Day (Ishiguro)
  • Of Mice and Men
  • A Little Life
  • White Teeth (Zadie Smith)
  • A Course of Love
  • Don Quixote
  • Exit West (Mohsin Hamid)
  • A Picture of Dorian Grey
  • City of Thieves
  • A Visit from the Goon Squad
  • Free Food for Millionaires (Min Jin Lee)
  • Abundance (Ezra Klein)

Science fiction & fantasy

  • Fahrenheit 451 (Bradbury)
  • A Memory Called Empire
  • Everything for Everyone
  • Chain Gang All Stars
  • Scholomance (Naomi Novik)
  • Hand of the Emperor (Wahi recommends)

Philosophy

  • Capitalist Realism (Mark Fisher)
  • Keiji Nishitani (The Self-Overcoming of Nihilism + Religion & Nothingness)
  • Simone Weil (Waiting for God)
  • The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (Khun)
  • Nietzsche (Thus Spoke Zarathustra)
  • Kierkegaard (Either / Or)

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