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Bookshelf

A running ledger of books, films, and records I've spent time with.

BOOKS
SORT · MOST RECENT
FILMS
SORT · MOST RECENT
MUSIC
SORT · TOP THIS MONTH
READING ARCHIVE(142)
SORT · MOST RECENT
DATE
TITLE · AUTHOR
YEAR
RATING
2025.01
Creation LakeRachel Kushner
2024
★★★☆☆
2024.11
Victory CitySalman Rushdie
2023
★★★★☆
2024.09
We Don't Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Modern IrelandFintan O'Toole
2022
★★★★☆
2024.09
The GuestEmma Cline
2023
★★★☆☆
2022.04
Crying In H-MartMichelle Zauner
2021
★★★★☆
2021.10
Reign of TerrorSpencer Ackerman
2021
★★★★☆
2021.09
Russia: A Short HistoryAbraham Ascher
2002
★★★☆☆
2021.09
CraeftAlexander Langlands
2017
★★★★☆
2021.06
MissionariesPhil Klay
2020
★★★★☆
2021.04
The Moor's AccountLaila Lalami
2015
★★★★☆
2021.03
Close to the MachineEllen Ullman
1997
★★★★☆
2021.03
The Basics of Bitcoins and BlockchainsAntony Lewis
2018
★★★☆☆
2021.02
A Swim in a Pond in the RainGeorge Saunders
2021
★★★★★
2020.12
InlandTéa Obreht
2019
★★★★☆
2020.12
Homeland ElegiesAyad Akhtar
2020
★★★★☆
2020.10
WeatherJenny Offill
2020
★★★★☆
2020.06
The Design of Everyday ThingsDon Norman
2013
★★★☆☆
2020.05
The Story of the Lost ChildElena Ferrante
2015
★★★★★
2020.04
The Story of a New NameElena Ferrante
2013
★★★★☆
2020.04
Those Who Leave and Those Who StayElena Ferrante
2014
★★★★☆
2020.04
CODE: The Hidden Language of Computer SoftwareCharles Petzold
2000
★★★★☆
2020.03
My Brilliant FriendElena Ferrante
2012
★★★★★
2020.02
Dark MoneyJane Mayer
2016
★★★★★
2020.01
The Wind-Up Bird ChronicleHaruki Murakami
1997
★★☆☆☆
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Terrace StoryHilary Leichter
2023
★★★☆☆
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This Strange Eventful HistoryClaire Messud
2024
★★★★☆
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Small Things Like TheseClaire Keegan
2021
★★★★☆
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Elena KnowsClaudia Piñeiro
2021
★★★☆☆
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Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and TomorrowGabrielle Zevin
2022
★★★★★
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A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and ThereAldo Leopold
1968
★★★★★
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Love Medicine (Love Medicine, #1)Louise Erdrich
2005
★★★★★
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The Round HouseLouise Erdrich
2012
★★★☆☆
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Einstein’s DreamsAlan Lightman
2004
★★★★☆
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KindredOctavia E. Butler
2004
★★★☆☆
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The White TigerAravind Adiga
2008
★★★★☆
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The God of Small ThingsArundhati Roy
1997
★★★★★
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The GoldfinchDonna Tartt
2013
★★★★★
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AmericanahChimamanda Ngozi Adichie
2013
★★★★★
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Black WaterJoyce Carol Oates
1992
★★★★☆
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Inherent ViceThomas Pynchon
2009
★★★★☆
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Gravity’s RainbowThomas Pynchon
2006
★★★☆☆
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The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth, #1)N.K. Jemisin
2015
★★★★☆
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Death and the King's HorsemanWole Soyinka
2002
★★★★★
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Mislaid & The Wallcreeper: The Nell Zink CollectionNell Zink
2015
★★★★☆
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Near to the Wild HeartClarice Lispector
1990
★★★☆☆
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NightwoodDjuna Barnes
2006
★★★☆☆
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FiccionesJorge Luis Borges
1994
★★★★★
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2666Roberto Bolaño
2004
★★★★☆
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Somebody with a Little Hammer: EssaysMary Gaitskill
2017
★★★★☆
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Eating Stone: Imagination and the Loss of the WildEllen Meloy
2006
★★★★★
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Swann's Way (In Search of Lost Time, #1)Marcel Proust
2004
★★★★★
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The UnconsoledKazuo Ishiguro
1995
★★★★★
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An Artist of the Floating WorldKazuo Ishiguro
2005
★★★☆☆
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The Buried GiantKazuo Ishiguro
2015
★★★★☆
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The Sound of Things FallingJuan Gabriel Vásquez
2014
★★★★☆
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Death Comes for the ArchbishopWilla Cather
1990
★★★★☆
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What Are People For?Wendell Berry
1990
★★★★☆
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The Sorrows of Young WertherJohann Wolfgang von Goethe
2005
★★★★☆
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EileenOttessa Moshfegh
2015
★★☆☆☆
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PachinkoMin Jin Lee
2017
★★★★☆
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A Passion for Nature: The Life of John MuirDonald Worster
★★★★☆
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Napoleon: A LifeAndrew Roberts
2014
★★★★☆
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Normal PeopleSally Rooney
2019
★★★★☆
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HamnetMaggie O'Farrell
2020
★★★★☆
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The Power and the GloryGraham Greene
2003
★★★★★
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The Satanic VersesSalman Rushdie
2008
★★★★☆
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OutlineRachel Cusk
2015
★★★★★
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The SelloutPaul Beatty
2016
★★★★☆
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A Field Guide to Getting LostRebecca Solnit
2006
★★★★☆
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The Looming Tower: Al Qaeda and the Road to 9/11Lawrence Wright
2007
★★★★☆
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Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of BeliefLawrence Wright
2013
★★★★★
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Love in the Time of CholeraGabriel García Márquez
1989
★★★★★
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The Elements of Style [Illustrated]William Strunk Jr.
2005
★★★★★
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The Heart of the MatterGraham Greene
1978
★★★★☆
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Secondhand Time: The Last of the SovietsSvetlana Alexievich
2016
★★★★★
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Nothing is True but Everything is PossiblePeter Pomerantsev
2015
★★★★★
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Cræft: An Inquiry Into the Origins and True Meaning of Traditional CraftsAlex Langlands
2019
★★★★☆
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The Good Lord BirdJames McBride
2014
★★★★☆
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The IdiotElif Batuman
2018
★★★☆☆
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Station ElevenEmily St. John Mandel
2015
★★★☆☆
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A Children's BibleLydia Millet
2020
★★★★☆
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The Anthropology of Turquoise: Reflections on Desert, Sea, Stone, and Sky (Pulitzer Prize Finalist)Ellen Meloy
2003
★★★★☆
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The OverstoryRichard Powers
2019
★★★★☆
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These Truths: A History of the United StatesJill Lepore
2019
★★★★☆
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Beauty Is a WoundEka Kurniawan
2015
★★★★☆
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Desert SolitaireEdward Abbey
1971
★★★★☆
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The Sympathizer (The Sympathizer, #1)Viet Thanh Nguyen
2015
★★★☆☆
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Telex from CubaRachel Kushner
2008
★★★☆☆
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The FlamethrowersRachel Kushner
2013
★★★★☆
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The Mars RoomRachel Kushner
2018
★★★☆☆
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The Big Green TentLyudmila Ulitskaya
2015
★★★★★
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Angle of ReposeWallace Stegner
1992
★★★★☆
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TampaAlissa Nutting
2013
★★★☆☆
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UnderworldDon DeLillo
1999
★☆☆☆☆
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Infinite JestDavid Foster Wallace
2005
★☆☆☆☆
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The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1)Douglas Adams
2007
★★★★☆
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Encounters with the ArchdruidJohn McPhee
1980
★★★★★
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Annals of the Former WorldJohn McPhee
1999
★★★★★
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The Story of a New Name (Neapolitan Novels, #2)Elena Ferrante
2013
★★★★☆
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The Story of the Lost Child (Neapolitan Novels, #4)Elena Ferrante
2015
★★★★☆
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Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay (Neapolitan Novels, #3)Elena Ferrante
2014
★★★★★
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My Brilliant Friend (Neapolitan Novels, #1)Elena Ferrante
2012
★★★★☆
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Hunts in DreamsTom Drury
2013
★★★★☆
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The End of VandalismTom Drury
2006
★★★★★
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Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical RightJane Mayer
2016
★★★★★
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Doctor ZhivagoBoris Pasternak
1997
★★★★☆
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For the Time Being: Essays (PEN Literary Award Winner)Annie Dillard
2000
★★★★★
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Pilgrim at Tinker CreekAnnie Dillard
2000
★★★☆☆
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The Solace of Open SpacesGretel Ehrlich
1986
★★★★☆
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The Nickel BoysColson Whitehead
2019
★★★☆☆
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A Tale for the Time BeingRuth Ozeki
2013
★★★★☆
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The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar WaoJunot Díaz
2007
★☆☆☆☆
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Death of a SalesmanArthur Miller
1994
★★★★☆
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As I Lay DyingWilliam Faulkner
1991
★★★★☆
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Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the WestCormac McCarthy
2010
★★★★☆
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Dear LifeAlice Munro
2012
★★★★☆
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White NoiseDon DeLillo
2016
★★★★☆
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A Visit from the Goon SquadJennifer Egan
2010
★★★★★
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Tenth of DecemberGeorge Saunders
2013
★★★★☆
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A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and LifeGeorge Saunders
2021
★★★★★
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SiddharthaHermann Hesse
1981
★★★☆☆
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One Hundred Years of SolitudeGabriel García Márquez
2003
★★★★★
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Anna KareninaLeo Tolstoy
2012
★★★★★
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Crime and PunishmentFyodor Dostoevsky
2002
★★★★☆
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LolitaVladimir Nabokov
1995
★★★★☆
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The Grapes of WrathJohn Steinbeck
2014
★★★☆☆
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Catch-22Joseph Heller
2004
★★★★☆
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Slaughterhouse-FiveKurt Vonnegut Jr.
1999
★★★☆☆
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The Handmaid’s Tale (The Handmaid's Tale, #1)Margaret Atwood
1998
★★★☆☆
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The Catcher in the RyeJ.D. Salinger
2001
★☆☆☆☆
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Crying in H MartMichelle Zauner
2021
★★★★★
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The Candy HouseJennifer Egan
2022
★★★★★
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Klara and the SunKazuo Ishiguro
2021
★★★★☆
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The Ministry for the FutureKim Stanley Robinson
2020
★★★☆☆
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The Dawn of Everything: A New History of HumanityDavid Graeber
2021
★★★★★
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s NestKen Kesey
1963
★★★☆☆
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SteppenwolfHermann Hesse
1999
★★☆☆☆
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The Brothers KaramazovFyodor Dostoevsky
2002
★★★★☆
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Never Let Me GoKazuo Ishiguro
2010
★★★★☆
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The RoadCormac McCarthy
2006
★★★☆☆
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On the RoadJack Kerouac
1976
★★☆☆☆
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East of EdenJohn Steinbeck
2002
★★★★☆