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Favorites for a given year are denoted with ✨

2024 Bookshelf

Contact by Carl Sagan ✨
Beloved by Toni Morrison
Number Go Up by Zeke Faux ✨
The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson ✨

A Non-Exhaustive List of All Time Favorites (Nonfiction)

Sex, Economy, Freedom and Community by Wendell Berry
The Long Loneliness by Dorothy Day
Merton’s Palace of Nowhere by James Finley
The Divide by Jason Hickel
All About Love by bell hooks
The Seven Story Mountain by Thomas Merton
Love and Living by Thomas Merton
Living Buddha, Living Christ by Thich Nhat Hanh
The Grace of Enough by Haley Stewart
The Kingdom of God is Within You by Leo Tolstoy

A Non-Exhaustive List of All Time Favorites (Fiction)

Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
White Noise by Don DeLillo
House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
The Space Trilogy by C.S. Lewis
Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang
Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac

2023 Bookshelf

Provocations: The Spiritual Writings of Soren Kierkegaard edited by Charles E. Moore
How To Do Nothing by Jenny Odell (Reread) (Audiobook)
Marvel Comics: The Untold Story by Sean Howe ✨
The Recovering by Leslie Jamison ✨
The Rabbit Hutch by Tess Gunty
Race: Challenge to Religion by Mathew H. Ahmann
Rest is Resistance by Tricia Hersey ✨
Down the River unto the Sea by Walter Mosley
Return of the King by J.R.R. Tolkien
Evicted by Matthew Desmond
Xenogenesis Trilogy by Octavia Butler ✨
Thrawn by Timothy Zahn
The Need to be Whole by Wendell Berry ✨
Thrawn: Alliances by Timothy Zahn
Thrawn: Treason by Timothy Zahn
The Pale King by David Foster Wallace ✨
Terraform by Propaganda
Wild Mercy by Mirabai Starr ✨
Hoosiers: A New History of Indiana by James H. Madison ✨
Under the Dome by Stephen King
The Bill of Obligations by Richard Haas
Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jasmyn Ward
Affluenza by John de Graaf, David Wann, and Thomas H. Naylor (Audiobook)
The Mountain in the Sea by Ray Nayler ✨

2022 Bookshelf

House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski ✨
Cultish by Amanda Montell
Witches and Witch Hunts: A History of Persecution by Milton Meltzer
The Imitation of Christ by Thomas à Kempis
Dawn of the New Everything by Jaron Lanier
The Cloud of Unknowing by Anonymous
Snow Crash by Neil Stephenson
Stolen Focus by Johann Hari ✨
The Likeness by Tana French ✨
All The Shah’s Men by Stephen Kinzer
Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
Tough by Terry Crews ✨
Life and Holiness by Thomas Merton
Maus by Art Spiegelman
Slaughterhouse Five (re-read) by Kurt Vonnegut
White Noise by Don DeLillo ✨
V for Vendetta by Alan Moore
Player Piano by Kurt Vonnegut
The Light of the Jedi by Charles Soule
The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut
The Rising Storm by Cavan Scott
Long Division by Kiese Laymon ✨
A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson
The Day The World Stops Shopping by J.B. MacKinnon
Trust Exercise by Susan Choi ✨
The Meaning of Marriage by Tim Keller
Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Two Towers by J.R.R. Tolkien

2021 Bookshelf

Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson
On Social Justice by St. Basil the Great
The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich
Steve Jobs (Audiobook) by Walter Isaacson ✨
Atomic Habits (Audiobook) James Clear ✨
Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang ✨
All About Love: New Visions (re-read) by bell hooks
Disappearing Earth by Julia Phillips
Exhalation by Ted Chiang
Futureproof by Kevin Roose
The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa
A Desolation Called Peace by Arkady Martine
Strength to Love by Martin Luther King, Jr.
Essentialism by Greg McKeown
No One Is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood ✨
Watchmen by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons ✨
Foundation by Isaac Asimov
Foundation and Empire by Isaac Asimov
Second Foundation by Isaac Asimov
Antkind by Charlie Kaufman
Several People Are Typing by Calvin Kasulke
Beautiful World, Where Are You? by Sally Rooney ✨
The Circadian Code by Satchin Panda, PhD ✨
The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin
The Obelisk Gate by N.K. Jemisin
The Stone Sky by N.K. Jemisin
Crossroads by Jonathan Franzen ✨