some of the books (+) i've read and enjoyed recently (2021-2022)

  • Unsong - Scott Alexander (web series)
  • The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood (novel)
  • The Secret to Superhuman Strength - Alison Bechdel (graphic memoir)
  • Jane Eyre - Charlotte Brontë (novel)
  • Wuthering Heights - Emily Brontë (novel)
  • The Master and Margarita - Mikhail Bulgakov (novel)
  • The Plague - Albert Camus (novel)
  • Foucault's Pendulum - Umberto Eco (novel)
  • Stone Butch Blues - Leslie Feinberg (novel)
  • Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky (novel)
  • Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid - Douglas Hofstadter (non?fiction)
  • I Am a Strange Loop - Douglas Hofstadter (non?fiction)
  • The Mind's I - Douglas Hofstadter and Daniel Dennett (essay collection)
  • Le Ton beau de Marot - Douglas Hofstadter (non?fiction)
  • Their Eyes Were Watching God - Zora Neale Hurston (novel)
  • Brave New World - Aldous Huxley (novel)
  • Braiding Sweetgrass - Robin Wall Kimmerer (nonfiction)
  • Swordspoint - Ellen Kushner (novel)
  • The Fall of the Kings - Ellen Kushner (novel)
  • The Birthday of the World - Ursula K. Le Guin (short story collection)
  • The Dispossessed - Ursula K. Le Guin (novel)
  • A Fisherman of the Inland Sea - Ursula K. Le Guin (short story collection)
  • The Lathe of Heaven - Ursula K. Le Guin (novel)
  • The Left Hand of Darkness - Ursula K. Le Guin (novel)
  • Winter's King - Ursula K. Le Guin (short story)
  • The Screwtape Letters - C. S. Lewis (novel)
  • The Bluest Eye - Toni Morrison (novel)
  • Sula - Toni Morrison (novel)
  • The Locked Tomb - Tamsyn Muir (series, ongoing)
    • Gideon the Ninth - Tamsyn Muir (novel)
    • Harrow the Ninth - Tamsyn Muir (novel)
    • Nona the Ninth - Tamsyn Muir (novel)
  • Odes to Common Things - Pablo Neruda (poetry collection)
  • Terra Ignota - Ada Palmer (series)
    • Too Like the Lightning - Ada Palmer (novel)
    • Seven Surrenders - Ada Palmer (novel)
    • The Will to Battle - Ada Palmer (novel)
    • Perhaps the Stars - Ada Palmer (novel)
  • Thing Explainer - Randall Munroe (nonfiction)
  • The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath (novel)
  • Hallucinations - Oliver Sacks (nonfiction)
  • Le Petit Prince - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (novella)
  • All's Well That Ends Well - William Shakespeare (play)
  • King Lear - William Shakespeare (play)
  • Entangled Life - Merlin Sheldrake (nonfiction)
  • The Lord of the Rings - J.R.R. Tolkien (novel)
  • The Death of Ivan Ilyich - Leo Tolstoy (novella)
  • Are You Listening? - Tillie Walden (graphic novel)
  • The Color Purple - Alice Walker (novel)
  • Orlando - Virginia Woolf (novel)
  • The Waves - Virginia Woolf (novel)

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