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Reading
Below you’ll find a list of books I’ve read since 2010. Those that particularly impressed me are marked with ✱. Revisited books are marked with ➿. Abandoned books have been omitted. My scores are both subjective and untrustworthy.
2025
Fiction | 36
- Long Island Compromise by Taffy Brodesser-Akner 7/10
- How High We Go in the Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu 6/10
- The Bee Sting by Paul Murray 7/10
- Pretend I’m Dead by Jen Beagin 8/10
- Gliff by Ali Smith 7/10
- What a Way to Go by Bella Mackie 6/10
- The Fraud by Zadie Smith 6/10
- ✱ Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides 9/10
- You Are Here by David Nicholls 8/10
- Life After Life by Kate Atkinson 8/10
- Brooklyn by Colm Tóibín 7/10
- The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver 7/10
- Fresh Complaint by Jeffrey Eugenides7/10
- Sister Europe by Nell Zink 7/10
- Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson 6/10
- Orbital by Samantha Harvey 8/10
- What Are You Going Through by Sigrid Nunez 8/10
- Run For the Hills by Kevin Wilson 7/10
- On the Calculation of Volume (Book I) by Solvej Balle 6/10
- Vera, or Faith by Gary Shteyngart 7/10
- The Human Stain by Philip Roth 9/10
- Normal Rules Don’t Apply by Kate Atkinson 7/10
- Grey Bees by Andrey Kurkov 8/10
- Emperor of the Air by Ethan Canin 9/10
- Tom Lake by Ann Patchett 8/10
- The Porcupine by Julian Barnes 5/10
- Elizabeth Costello by J.M. Coetzee 7/10
- The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides 8/10
- Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart 8/10
- When We Cease to Understand the World by Benjamin Labatut 9/10
- Amsterdam by Ian McEwan 7/10
- Hotel Du Lac by Anita Brookner 9/10
- The Essential Tales of Checkhov by Anton Chekov 8/10
- ✱ The Dream Life of Astronauts by Patrick Ryan 10/10
- A Good Scent From A Strange Mountain by Robert Olen Butler 8/10
- Winter Stories by Ingvild Rishøi8/10
Non-fiction | 14
- Pulphead by John Jeremiah Sullivan 8/10
- More Than Words by John Warner 6/10
- How to think More Effectively by The School of Life 7/10
- Destiny of the Republic by Candice Millard 8/10
- Aflame: Learning from Silence by Pico Iyer 8/10
- Everything Is Tuberculosis by John Green 8/10
- Where Wizards Stay Up Late by Matthew Lyon 7/10
- A Job To Love by The School of Life 8/10
- Astrophysics for People in a Hurry by Neil deGrasse Tyson 8/10
- On Tyranny by Timothy Snyder 9/10
- Steal Like an Artist by Austin Kleon 7/10
- ➿ Stop Reading the News by Rolf Dobelli 9/10
- How to Live by Derek Sivers 8/10
- Enshittification by Cory Doctorow 8/10
2024
Fiction | 31
- 100 Years of the Best American Short Stories 8/10
- The Other Name by Jon Fosse 3/10
- Crook Manifesto by Colson Whitehead 8/10
- Walk the Blue Fields by Claire Keegan 7/10
- My Search for Warren Harding by Robert Plunket 8/10
- Big Swiss by Jen Beagin 8/10
- Touch by Olaf Olaffson 7/10
- Birnam Wood by Eleanor Catton 5/10
- The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern 4/10
- The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt 7/10
- Wittgenstein Jr by Lars Iyer 4/10
- The Day of the Locust by Nathanael West 4/10
- The Dog of the South by Charles Portis 4/10
- Open City by Teju Cole 7/10
- Veronica by Mary Gaitskill 8/10
- So Late in the Day by Claire Keegan 8/10
- Play it As It Lays by Joan Didion 6/10
- The Zebra-Striped Hearse by Ross Macdonald 8/10
- North Woods by Daniel Mason 9/10
- Small Pleasures by Alain de Botton 8/10
- Prophet Song by Paul Lynch 7/10
- All Fours by Miranda July 8/10
- We the Animals by Justin Torres 8/10
- The Nursery by Szilvia Molnar 7/10
- The Hidden Reality by Brian Greene 7/10
- The Best American Short Stories 2023 by Min Jin Lee 7/10
- After Oz by Gordon McAlpine 7/10
- The Vaster Wilds by Lauren Groff 7/10
- The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley 7/10
- ✱ The Last Samurai by Helen DeWitt 8/10
- 10:04 by Ben Lerner 7/10
Non-fiction | 4
- ✱ ➿ The Art of the Good Life by Rolf Dobelli 9/10
- ➿ Stop Reading the News by Rolf Dobelli 8/10
- ➿ The Victorian Internet by Tom Standage 8/10
- Meditations for Mortals by Oliver Burkeman 7/10
2023
Fiction | 29
- ✱ Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us by Ed Yong 8/10
- A Frozen Woman by Annie Ernaux 8/10
- Brother of the More Famous Jack by Barbara Trapido 8/10
- The Furrows by Namwali Serpell 6/10
- In Persuasian Nation by George Saunders 7/10
- Life Without Children by Roddy Doyle 7/10
- Best American Short Stories Andrew Sean Greer, editor 6/10
- The Singularities by John Banville 6/10
- ✱ Blank Pages by Bernard MacLaverty 8/10
- Nora Webster by Colm Tóibín 8/10
- Dinosaurs on Other Planets by Danielle McLaughlin 8/10
- The Brief History of the Dead by Kevin Brockmeier 7/10
- Midwinter Break by Bernard MacLaverty 9/10
- Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem 9/10
- The Arrest by Jonathan Lethem 6/10
- The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James 7/10
- Mrs Osmond by John Banville 7/10
- The Librarianist by Patrick deWitt 8/10
- Haussmann, or the Distinction by Paul La Farge 8/10
- Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan 9/10
- Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf 6/10
- Wellness by Nathan Hill 7/10
- The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Shehan Karunatilaka 8/10
- Drømmenes sykkelregister by Erlend Loe 5/10
- ✱ The Son by Gina Berriault 9/10
- ✱ The Lights of Earth by Gina Berriault 9/10
- Conference of Victims by Gina Berriault 8/10
- Seven Stories by Gina Berriault 7/10
- The Anomaly by Hervé Le Tellier 7/10
Non-fiction | 5
- How to Survive the Modern World by Alain de Botton 8/10
- How Modern Media Destroys Our Minds by Alain de Botton 8/10
- Art & Fear by David Bayles and Ted Orland 8/10
- On Writing by Stephen King 7/10
- On Writing and Failure by Stephen Marche 7/10
2022
Fiction | 40
- Attrib. and Other Stories by Eley William 7/10
- Skinny Dip by Carl Hiaasen 7/10
- Harlem Shuffle by Colson Whitehead 8/10
- Min Fars Fem Bad by Per Schreiner 7/10
- Winter by Ali Smith 8/10
- Spring by Ali Smith 7/10
- Summer by Ali Smith 6/10
- Afterparties by Anthony Veasna So 6/10
- The Thief and the Dogs by Naguib Mahfouz 8/10
- Visitation by Jenny Erpenbeck 8/10
- American Purgatorio by John Haskell 8/10
- Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel 6/10
- Matrix by Lauren Groff 6/10
- ✱ The Twin by Gerbrand Bakker 10/10
- ✱ Old Filth by Jane Gardam 8/10
- Ten White Geese by Gerbrand Bakker 7/10
- ✱ The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen 9/10
- ➿ Outline by Rachel Cusk 7/10
- Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout 9/10
- Rock Springs by Richard Ford 8/10
- ✱ Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri 9/10
- A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan 8/10
- The Candy House by Jennifer Egan 5/10
- Holmes Entangled by Gordon McAlpine 7/10
- Elizabeth Finch by Julian Barnes 4/10
- The Secret History by Donna Tartt 6/10
- ✱ The Shipping News by Annie Proulx 8/10
- The Twilight World by Werner Herzog 5/10
- Autoportrait by Jess Ball 7/10
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey 8/10
- Sleepwalk by Dan Chaon 6/10
- Two Nurses, Smoking (stories) by David Means. 7/10
- Swamplandia by Karen Russell 6/10
- The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolaño 4/10
- Liberation Day by George Saunders 7/10
- ✱ Foster by Claire Keegan 10/10
- Dinosaurs by Lydia Millet 8/10
- Bolla by Pashtun Dtatovci 7/10
- How to Think About Exercise by Damon Young 8/10
- 2022 Pushcart Prize Winners 8/10
Non-fiction | 4
- The School of Life by Alain de Botton 7/10
- Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain by Lisa Feldman Barrett 6/10
- Bonk by Mary Roach 8/10
- Man’s Search for Meaning by Victor E. Frankl 6/10
2021
Fiction | 19
- Women Talking by Miriam Toews 7/10
- Pnin by Vladimir Nabokov 8/10
- A Lover’s Discourse by Xiaolu Guo 6/10
- ✱ Autumn by Ali Smith 9/10
- The Dept. of Speculation by Jenny Offill 6/10
- The Silence by Don Delillo 6/10
- The Buddha in the Attic by Julie Otsuka 8/10
- The Infinities by John Banville 7/10
- A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles 6/10
- ✱ The Course of Love by Alain de Botton 8/10
- ✱ The Liar’s Dictionary by Eley Williams 8/10
- The Little Virtues by Natalia Ginzburg 6/10
- ✱ What We See When We Read by Peter Mendelsund 8/10
- Mislaid by Nell Zink 5/10
- The Morning by Karl Ove Knausgaard 6/10
- The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich 7/10
- Our Country Friends by Gary Shteyngart 6/10
- Feeling and Knowing: Making Minds Conscious by Antonio Damasio 4/10
- A Calling for Charlie Barnes by Joshua Ferris 7/10
Non-fiction | 8
- The Shallows: What The Internet Is Doing to Our Brains by Nicholas Carr 7/10
- A Swim in the Pond in the Rain by George Saunders 8/10
- Breath by James Nestor 8/10
- Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams by Mathew Walker 6/10
- The Consolations of Philosophy by Alain de Botton 8/10
- The Art of Travel by Alain de Botton 8/10
- Digital Minimalism by Cal Newport 7/10
- ✱ Four Thousand Weeks by Oliver Burkeman 8/10
2020
Fiction | 21
- Exhalation by Ted Chiang 6/10
- ✱ Doxology by Nell Zink 8/10
- ✱ Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead 9/10
- ✱ Nothing to See Here by Kevin Wilson 8/10
- The Body in Question by Jill Clement 8/10
- ✱ Interior Chinatown by Charles Yu 9/10
- Autumn Light by Pico Iyer 8/10
- The Parade by Dave Eggers 7/10
- The Dutch House by Ann Patchett 8/10
- Mr. Penumbra’s 24-hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan 5/10
- Sorry For Your Trouble by Richard Ford 7/10
- Lost Children Archive by Valeria Luiselli 4/10
- Utopia Avenue by David Mitchell 8/10
- Eileen by Ottessa Moshfegh 7/10
- ✱ The Sea by John Banville 9/10
- Posthumous Memoires of Brás de Cubas by Machano de Assis 6/10
- Lost in the City by Edward P. Jones 8/10
- Christine Falls by John Banville 8/10
- Your Duck is My Duck by Deborah Eisenberg 7/10
- Baby, You’re Gonna Be Mine by Kevin Wilson 7/10
- My Friend by Sigrid Nunez 8/10
Non-fiction | 8
- ✱ A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson 10/10
- Factfulness by Hans Rosling 7/10
- The Road to Little Dribbling by Bill Bryson 4/10
- What I Talk About When I Talk about Running by H. Murakami 3/10
- The Body by Bill Bryson 7/10
- ✱ The Victorian Internet by Tom Standage 8/10
- Stop Reading the News by Rolf Dobelli 7/10
- ✱ The News by Alain de Botton 8/10
2019
Fiction | 25
- Lake Success by Gary Shyteynart 6/10
- Asymmetry by Lisa Halliday 8/10
- Love by Hanne Orstavik 7/10
- The Perfect Nanny by Leila Slimani 8/10
- There There by Tommy Orange 7/10
- How to Break Up With Your Phone by Catherine Price 6/10
- Wish Her Safe At Home by Stephen Benatar 8/10
- Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jasmyn Ward 7/10
- The Door by Magda Szabo 6/10
- The Patch by John McPhee 9/10
- Goodbye Columbus by Philip Roth 8/10
- In the Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon 7/10
- The Heat of the Day by Elizabeth Bowen 4/10
- Inadvertent by Karl Ove Knausgaard 4/10
- The Voyeur’s Motel by Gay Talese 5/10
- ✱ Naive Super by Erlend Loe 9/10
- England, England by Julian Barnes 6/10
- Marjorie Morning by Herman Wouk 6/10
- The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger 8/10
- My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite 8/10
- Helvete by Erlend Loe 6/10
- Imagine Me Gone by Adam Haslett 7/10
- ✱ Crossing to Safety by Wallace Stegner 9/10
- ✱ ➿ The Art of the Good Life by Rolf Dobelli 9/10
- Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk 8/10
Non-fiction | 2
- The Issue At Hand by Gil Fronsdal 10/10
- ✱ Dreyer’s English by Benjamin Dreyer 10/10
2018
Fiction | 30
- The North Water by Ian McGuire 8/10
- History of Wolves by Emily Fridlund 7/10
- Your Heart Is A Muscle The Size of a Fist by Sunil Yapa 7/10
- The Refugees by Vietnam Thanh Nguyen 9/10
- The Essex Serpent by Sarah Perry 4/10
- The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenedes 8/10
- The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood 5/10
- The Association Of Small Bombs by Karan Mahajan 7/10
- The Sympathizer by Thanh Nguyen 8/10
- The Good Soldier by Ford Maddox Ford 3/10
- Winter by Karl Ove Knausgaard 7/10
- The Little Red Chairs by Edna O’Brien 5/10
- ✱ Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert 9/10
- The Headspace Guide by Andy Puddicombe 7/10
- ✱ Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison 8/10
- ✱ The Overstory by Richard Powers 9/10
- The Only Story by Julian Barnes 8/10
- The Interestings by Meg Wolitzer 7/10
- Go, Went, Gone by Jenny Erpenbeck 7/10
- Humboldt’s Gift by Saul 7/10
- Bonfire of the Vanities by Thom Wolff 8/10
- Pachinko by Min Jin Lee 7/10
- Spring by Karl Ove Knausgaard 6/10
- Portnoy’s Complaint by Philip Roth 9/10
- The Emissary by Yoko Tawada 5/10
- The Last Picture Show by Larry McMurtry 8/10
- ✱ French Exit by Patrick deWitt 9/10
- Still Life by Louise Penny 6/10
- Less by Andrew Sean Greer 8/10
- Educated by Tara Westover 8/10
Non-fiction | 16
- The Once and Future Liberal by Mark Lilla 5/10
- ✱ Calypso by David Sedaris 10/10
- ✱ The Control of Nature by John McPhee 9/10
- Around The World In 80 Days by Michael Palin 8/10
- Why Buddhism Is True: The Science and Philosophy of Meditation and Enlightenment by Robert Wright 7/10
- How to Change Your Mind by Michael Pollan 7/10
- Draft No.4: On the Writing Process by John McPhee 7/10
- Travels with Charlie by John Steinbeck 6/10
- The Inner Life of Animals by Peter Wohlleben 6/10
- The River Of Consciousness by Oliver Sachs 6/10
- Springfield Confidential by Mike Reiss 7/10
- The Pomodoro Technique by Francesco Cirillo
- Fear: Trump In the Whitehouse by Bob Woodward 5/10
- Always Look On The Bright Side of All: a Sortabiography by Eric Idle 7/10
- The Wizard and the Prophet by Charles C. Mann 6/10
- Pops: Fatherhood in Pieces by Michael Chabon 7/10
2017
Fiction | 10
- Sophie’s World by Jostein Gaarder
- News of the World by Paulette Jiles
- All Our Names by Diane Mengestu
- H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald
- How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain by Lisa Feldman Barrett
- Al Franken, Giant of the Senate by Al Franken
- Swing Time by Zadie Smith
- Moon Glow by Michael Chabon
- The Devil In The White City by Erik Larson
- Autumn by Karl Ove Knausgaard
Non-fiction | 4
- On Bullshit by Harry G. Frankfurt
- The Secret Life of Trees by Colin Tudge
- Hillbilly Elegy by J.D. Vance
- Seven Brief Lessons in Physics by Carlo Rovelli
2016
Fiction | 15
- Purity by Jonathan Franzen
- ✱ The Baron In The Trees by Italo Calvino
- ✱ The Verificationist by Donald Antrim
- Under Major Domo Minor by Patrcik DeWitt
- City of Angels by Christa Wolf
- The Noise of Time by Julian Barnes
- Zero K by Don DeLillo
- Woman with the Blue Pencil by Gordon McAlpine
- Lila by Marylenne Robinson
- The Water Works by E.L. Doctorow
- A House for Mr. Biswas by V.S. Naipaul
- ✱ The Tsar of Techno by Anthony Marra
- The Underground Railroad by Colton Whitehead
- The Sellout by Paul Beatty
- ✱ The Nix by Nathan Hill
Non-fiction | 8
- Daily Rituals by Mason Currey
- ✱ Track Changes: a Literary History of Word Processing
- ✱ The Art Of Thinking Clearly by Rolf Dobelli
- The Genius of Birds by Jennifer Ackerman
- ✱ What If We’re Wrong? by Chuck Klosterman
- Between You & Me by Mary Norris
- The Invention of Nature: Humboldt’s New World by Andrea Wulf
- Disrupted by Dan Lyons
2015
Fiction | 22
- All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
- How To Think More About Sex by Alain de Botton
- The Book of Strange New Things by Michel Faber
- Satin Island by Tom McCarthy
- ✱ The Emerald Light In The Air by Donald Antrim
- My Struggle, book 1 by Karl Ove Knausgård
- Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
- ✱ A Man in Love, book 2 by Karl Ove Knausgård
- ✱ Boyhood Island, book 3 by Karl Ove Knausgård
- ✱ Honeydew by Edith Pearlman
- The Laughing Monsters by Denis Johnson
- ✱ Dancing in the Dark, book 4 by Karl Ove Knausgård
- ✱ Some Rain Must Fall, book 5 by Karl Ove Knausgård
- Outline by Rachel Cusk
- ✱ Pulse by Julian Barnes
- Leaving the Sea by Ben Marcus
- Armadillo by William Boyd
- Boy, Snow, Bird by Helen Oyeyemi
- ✱ The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
- Slade House by David Mitchell
- Loon Lake by Doctorow
- The Moor’s Account by Laila Lalami
Non-fiction | 7
- Updike by Adam Begley
- Superfreakonomics by Steven Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
- The Year of Reading Dangerously by Andy Miller
- Long Beach Chronicles by Tim Grobaty
- ✱ [NF] What We See When We Read by Peter Mendelsund
- The Defiant Child by Douglas Riley
- The Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can’t Stand Positive Thinking by Oliver Burkeman
2014
Fiction | 15
- A Winter’s Tale by Mark Helprin
- Levels of Life by Julian Barnes
- The Good Lord Bird by James McBride
- Bark by Lorrie Moore
- History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters by Julian Barnes
- Sweet Tooth by Ian McEwan
- To Rise Again At A Decent Hour by Joshua Ferris
- Vareopptelling by Erlend Loe
- Bleeding Edge by Thomas Pynchon
- The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell
- The Guts by Roddy Doyle
- ✱ Stoner by John Williams
- Middle C by William Gass
- Be Frank with Me by Richard Ford
- The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher by Hillary Mantel
Non-fiction | 4
- Little Failure by Gary Shytengart
- How Music Words by David Byrne
- Think Like A Freak by Steven Levitt
- Exploring Diabetes with Owls by David Sedaris
2013
Fiction | 10
- ✱ The Orphan Master’s Sun by Adam Johnson
- Willful Creatures by Aimee Bender
- Distortions by Ann Beattie
- ✱ The Lemon Table by Julian Barnes
- ✱ Tenth of December by George Saunders
- The Dog Stars by Peer Heller
- ✱ The Sense of An Ending by Julian Barnes
- Gone Girl by Lillian Flynn
- Canada by Richard Ford
- Dear Life: Stories by Alice Munro
Non-fiction | 3
- The Paleo Diet by Loren Cordain
- Vagina: A Cultural History by Naomi Wolf
- ✱ 1491 by Charles Mann
2012
Fiction | 8
- A Multitude Of Sins by Richard Ford
- Eclipse by John Banville
- ✱ Great Expectations by Charles Dickins
- Couples by John Updike
- A Hologram For The King by Dave Eggers
- Train Dreams by Denis Johnson
- ✱ Await Your Reply by Dan Chaon
- The Emigrant by W.G. Sebald
Non-fiction | 11
- The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg
- Hallucinations by Oliver Sachs
- Every Love Story Is A Ghost Story by D.T. Max
- The Ice Balloon: S. A. Andree and the Heroic Age of Arctic Exploration by Alec Wilkinson
- Man Made by Joel Stein
- The Invisible Gorilla by Christopher Chabris
- Fooling Houdini by Alex Stone
- Drop Dead Healthy by A.J. Jacobs
- A Supremely Bad Idea by Luke Dempsey
- Moonwalking With Einstein by Jonathan Safran Foer
- The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins
2011
Fiction | 10
- Aunt Julia And The Scriptwriter by Mario Vargas Llosa
- Kafka On The Shore by Haruki Murakami
- ✱ Remainder by Tom McCarthy
- The Keep by Jennifer Egan
- ✱ Sisters Brothers by Patrick DeWitt
- The Pale King by David Foster Wallace
- Super Sad True Love Story by Gary Schtenyart
- Wittgenstein’s Mistress by David Markson
- Portrait of the Mother as a Young Woman by Friedrich Christian Delius
- ✱ The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David Mitchell
Non-fiction | 4
- Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson
- Willpower by Roy Baumeister
- ✱ Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History by S. C. Gwynne
- Nothing to Envy by Barbara Demick
2010
Fiction | 11
- The Finkler Question by Howard Jacobson
- White Tiger by Aravind Adigawas
- Rabbit At Rest by John Updike
- Ut og stjæle hester by Per Petterson
- The Broom Of the System by David Foster Wallace
- ✱ Doppler by Erlend Loe
- Reasons for and Advantages of Breathing by Lydia Peelle
- Geek Love by Katherine Dunn
- The Financial Lives of The Poets by Jess Walter
- ✱ Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
- A Gate At The Stairs by Lorrie Moore
Non-fiction | 6
- Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
- The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy by William Irvine
- Eight Mindful Steps To Happiness by Bhante Henepola Gunaratana
- Freakanomics by Levitt & Dubner
- Although Of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself: A Road Trip With David Foster Wallace by David Lipsky
- Mindfulness in Plain English by Bhante Henepola Gunaratana