Books I Read in 2023 and Earlier
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- The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
- Seven Days in the Art World by Sarah Thornton
- Gratitude by Oliver Sacks
- Exhalation by Ted Chiang
- The Old Woman With The Knife by Gu Byeong-mo
- A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again by David Foster Wallace
- The Ohlone Way: Indian Life in the San Francisco-Monterey Bay Area by Malcom Margolin
- Strangers in Their Own Land by Arlie Russell Hochschild
- Free Justice: A History of the Public Defender in Twentieth-Century America by Sara Mayeux
- The Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America’s Man-Made Landscape by James Howard Kunstler
- Generations: A Memoir by Lucille Clifton
- Praisesong for the Widow by Paule Marshall
- The Gift: How the Creative Spirit Transforms the World by Lewis Hyde
- A Primer for Forgetting: Getting Past the Past by Lewis Hyde
- Back from the Land by Eleanor Agnew
- Down the Rabbit Hole: A Novel by Juan Pablo Villalobos
- Foundry by Eliot Peper
- Red Team Blues by Cory Doctorow
- The Lost Cause by Cory Doctorow
- The Night Manager by John le Carré
- Two Serious Ladies by Jane Bowles
- Death of the Great Man by Peter D. Kramer
- Winter Love by Suyin Han
- Death Comes For the Archbishop by Willa Cather +
- The Professor’s House by Willa Cather +
- My Antonia by Willa Cather +
- Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin
- Stoner by John Williams +
- Butcher’s Crossing by John Williams +
- Big Swiss by Jen Beagin
- The Passenger by Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz
- Harrow by Joy Williams
- The Pigeon by Patrick Suskind
- Objects of Desire by Clare Sestanovich
- Uncanny Valley by Anna Wiener
- Normal People by Sally Rooney
- Conversations with Friends by Sally Rooney
- Ernesto by Umberto Saba
- In the Heart of the Country by William H. Glass
- Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshimazu Kawaguchi
- How It All Began by Penelope Lively
- City of the Mind by Penelope Lively
- Mrs Palfrey At the Claremont by Elizabeth Taylor +
- Sylvia by Leonard Michaels
- Achieving Our Country by Richard Rorty
- The Years of Lyndon Johnson: The Path to Power by Robert A. Caro
- The Years of Lyndon Johnson: Means of Ascent by Robert A. Caro
- Working by Robert A. Caro
- The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson +
- The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. Du Bois +
- Narrative of The Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass
- Up From Slavery by Booker T. Washington
- A Manual For Cleaning Women by Lucia Berlin
- Captial in The Twenty-First Century by Thomas Piketty
- Thinking in Systems by Donella Meadows
- Palaces For The People by Eric Klinenberg
- Debt: The First 5,000 Years by David Graeber +
- The Affordable City by Shane Phillips +
- House Divided by Alex Bozikovic, Cheryll Case, John Lorinc, and Annabel Vaughan
- Neighborhood Defenders by Katherine Levine Einstein, David M. Glick, and Maxwell Palmer
- Inequality: What Can Be Done? by Anthony B. Atkinson
- Boston: a Novel (Vol. 1) by Upton Sinclair +
- Boston: a Novel (Vol. 2) by Upton Sinclair +
- Finite and Infinite Games by James P. Carse
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