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Book Mentions, Reviews, Reading Notes, and Highlights

A working list of books read, reviewed, and marked up. Notes, highlights, and marginalia from slow reading across fiction and nonfiction.

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A Children's Bible: A Novel
A Little Trickerie
A Peoples History of the United States
A System for Writing How an Unconventional Approach to Note-Making Can Help You Capture Ideas Think Wildly and Write Constantly
The Age of Choice: A History of Freedom in Modern Life
Almanac of the Dead
Animal Farm
Anita de Monte Laughs Last
The Antidote
The Apache Wars: The Hunt for Geronimo, the Apache Kid, and the Captive Boy Who Started the Longest War in American History
Aspects of the Novel
The Atavists
Becoming Little Shell: A Landless Indian's Journey Home
The Beginning Comes After the End: Notes on a World of Change
Berlin
The Best Dog in the World: Essays on Love
Best Offer Wins
The Blessing Way
Blood Test
Brawler: Stories
Bullshit Jobs
Cape Fever
The Coin
The Colony
Come What May: Life-Changing Lessons for Coping with Crisis
Convenience Store Woman
Cosmopolis
Country of Lords: Neo-Aristocrats, Social Darwinists, Tech Utopians, and the Long Fight against Equality in America
Country People
Damnificados
Dodge City
The Dog of the South
Down Time
Enshittification Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It
Eurotrash
Exit Party
Eye of the Monkey
The Feeling of Iron
Fever Beach
The Four Winds
The French in New Mexico Four Centuries of Explorations Adventure and Influence
The Friend
Generation Priced Out
Ghost Work
Girl Warrior: On Coming of Age
Go As A River
Good Work
Great Founders Write
Helen of Nowhere
Hetty: The Genius and Madness of America's First Female Tycoon
The Hitch
House of Day House of Night
How to Commit a Postcolonial Murder
The Hypocrite
I'm Always Looking Up and You're Jumping
Indignity: A Life Reimagined
The Intrigue
The Invisible Hand of Maria Edgeworth: How a Nineteenth-Century Novelist Taught the World Economics
John of John
Joyride: A Memoir
Land
Last Night in Brooklyn
Lázár
Lingo: Around Europe in Sixty Languages
Look What You Made Me Do
Loudermilk: Or, The Real Poet; Or, The Origin of the World
Madelaine Before the Dawn
Mammoth
The Man Who Could Move Clouds
Man's Search For Meaning
Marcella Says Italian Cooking Wisdom from the Legendary Teacher's Master Classes
Margo's Got Money Problems
Martyr!
Meditations for Mortals
The Midnight Special: The Secret Prison History of American Music
The Monkey Wrench Gang
Motherland: A Feminist History of Modern Russia
Native Nations: A Millennium in North America
Night Night Fawn
The Nord Stream Conspiracy
Now I Surrender
Page One to Done: Finish Your Novel in 30 Days with the Fast Drafting Method
Pasta Grannies The Official Cookbook The Secrets of Italy's Best Home Cooks
Ply
Python's Kiss: Stories
Rebel City: A Guide to New York's Wild Side
Rebel Girl
The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI: How to Think About Artificial Intelligence Before It's Too Late
The Road to Tender Hearts
The Score: How to Stop Playing Somebody Else's Game
Service
Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World
Shadow Ticket
Sheila Levine Is Dead and Living in New York
Simply More: A Book for Anyone Who Has Been Told They're Too Much
Sisters in Yellow
Small Things Like These
Soothe: Restoring Your Nervous System from Stress, Anxiety, Burnout, and Trauma
Spain My Way: Eat, Drink, and Cook Like a Spaniard
Start Here: Instructions for Becoming a Better Cook
Stay Alive: Berlin, 1939–1945
Stone Yard Devotional
Success and Luck
Sucker Punch
The Talisman of Happiness
Tangerinn
The Test of Courage: A Biography of Michel Thomas
three six five: prompts, acts, divinations (an inexhaustible compendium for writing)
Trip
Vienna: How the City of Ideas Created the Modern World
Vigil
Villa Coco
We Were Forbidden
What We Can Know
When I Sing, Mountains Dance
When You Are Engulfed in Flames
Wild Mind: Living The Writers Life
The Witch
The Year in Tech 2026
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