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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.
A
- A Children's Bible: A Novel by Lydia Millet
- A Little Trickerie by Rosanna Pike
- A Peoples History of the United States by Howard Zinn
- A System for Writing How an Unconventional Approach to Note-Making Can Help You Capture Ideas Think Wildly and Write Constantly by Bob Doto
- Almanac of the Dead by Leslie Marmon Silko
- Animal Farm by George Orwell
- Anita de Monte Laughs Last by Xochitl Gonzalez
- Aspects of the Novel by E. M. Forster
- The Age of Choice: A History of Freedom in Modern Life by Sophia Rosenfeld
- The Antidote by Karen Russell
- The Apache Wars: The Hunt for Geronimo, the Apache Kid, and the Captive Boy Who Started the Longest War in American History by Paul Andrew Hutton
- The Atavists by Lydia Millet
B
- Becoming Little Shell: A Landless Indian's Journey Home by Chris La Tray
- Berlin by Bea Setton
- Best Offer Wins by Marisa Kashino
- Blood Test by Charles Baxter
- Brawler: Stories by Lauren Groff
- Bullshit Jobs by David Graeber
- The Beginning Comes After the End: Notes on a World of Change by Rebecca Solnit
- The Best Dog in the World: Essays on Love by Alice Hoffman (Editor)
- The Blessing Way by Tony Hillerman
C
- Cape Fever by Nadia Davids
- Come What May: Life-Changing Lessons for Coping with Crisis by Lucy Easthope
- Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata
- Cosmopolis by Don Delillo
- Country of Lords: Neo-Aristocrats, Social Darwinists, Tech Utopians, and the Long Fight against Equality in America by Kim Phillips-Fein
- Country People by Daniel Mason
- The Coin by Yasmin Zaher
- The Colony by Annika Norlin
D
- Damnificados by J.J. Amaworo Wilson
- Dodge City by Patrick deWitt
- Down Time by Andrew Martin
- The Dog of the South by Charles Portis
E
- Enshittification Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It by Cory Doctorow
- Eurotrash by Christian Kracht
- Exit Party by Emily St. John Mandel
- Eye of the Monkey by Krisztina Tóth
F
- Fever Beach by Carl Hiaasen
- The Feeling of Iron by Giaime Alonge
- The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah
- The French in New Mexico Four Centuries of Explorations Adventure and Influence by François-Marie Patorni
- The Friend by Sigrid Nunez
G
- Generation Priced Out by Randy Shaw
- Ghost Work by Mary L. Gray and Siddharth Suri
- Girl Warrior: On Coming of Age by Joy Harjo
- Go As A River by Shelley Read
- Good Work by Paul Millerd
- Great Founders Write by Ben Putano
H
- Helen of Nowhere by Makenna Goodman
- Hetty: The Genius and Madness of America's First Female Tycoon by Charles Slack
- House of Day House of Night by Olga Tokarczuk
- How to Commit a Postcolonial Murder by Nina McConigley
- The Hitch by Sara Levine
- The Hypocrite by Jo Hamya
I
- I'm Always Looking Up and You're Jumping by Hanif Abdurraqib
- Indignity: A Life Reimagined by Lea Ypi
- The Intrigue by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
- The Invisible Hand of Maria Edgeworth: How a Nineteenth-Century Novelist Taught the World Economics by Jeanna Smialek
J
- John of John by Douglas Stuart
- Joyride: A Memoir by Susan Orlean
L
- Lázár by Nelio Biedermann
- Land by Maggie O'Farrell
- Last Night in Brooklyn by Xochitl Gonzalez
- Lingo: Around Europe in Sixty Languages by Gaston Dorren
- Look What You Made Me Do by John Lanchester
- Loudermilk: Or, The Real Poet; Or, The Origin of the World by Lucy Ives
M
- Madelaine Before the Dawn by Sandrine Collette
- Mammoth by Eva Baltasar
- Man's Search For Meaning by Viktor Frankl
- Marcella Says Italian Cooking Wisdom from the Legendary Teacher's Master Classes by Marcella Hazan
- Margo's Got Money Problems by Rufi Thorpe
- Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar
- Meditations for Mortals by Oliver Burkeman
- Motherland: A Feminist History of Modern Russia by Julia Ioffe
- The Man Who Could Move Clouds by Ingrid Rojas Contreras
- The Midnight Special: The Secret Prison History of American Music by Colin Asher
- The Monkey Wrench Gang by Edward Abbey
N
- Native Nations: A Millennium in North America by Kathleen DuVal
- Navajo Tribal Police Series
- Night Night Fawn by Jordy Rosenberg
- Now I Surrender by Alvaro Enrigue
- The Nord Stream Conspiracy by Bojan Pancevski
P
- Page One to Done: Finish Your Novel in 30 Days with the Fast Drafting Method by Jessica Brody
- Pasta Grannies The Official Cookbook The Secrets of Italy's Best Home Cooks by Vicky Bennison
- Ply by Hernan Diaz
- Python's Kiss: Stories by Louise Erdrich
R
- Rebel City: A Guide to New York's Wild Side by Tiziana Rinaldi Castro
- Rebel Girl by Kathleen Hanna
- The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI: How to Think About Artificial Intelligence Before It's Too Late by Cory Doctorow
- The Road to Tender Hearts by Annie Hartnett
S
- Service by John Tottenham
- Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World by Robin Wall Kimmerer
- Shadow Ticket by Thomas Pynchon
- Sheila Levine Is Dead and Living in New York by Gail Parent
- Simply More: A Book for Anyone Who Has Been Told They're Too Much by Cynthia Erivo
- Sisters in Yellow by Mieko Kawakami
- Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan
- Soothe: Restoring Your Nervous System from Stress, Anxiety, Burnout, and Trauma by Nahid de Belgeonne
- Spain My Way: Eat, Drink, and Cook Like a Spaniard by José Andrés
- Start Here: Instructions for Becoming a Better Cook by Sohla El-Waylly
- Stay Alive: Berlin, 1939–1945 by Ian Buruma
- Stone Yard Devotional by Charlotte Wood
- Success and Luck by Robert Frank
- Sucker Punch by Scaachi Koul
- The Score: How to Stop Playing Somebody Else's Game by C. Thi Nguyen
T
- Tangerinn by Emanuela Anechoum
- The Talisman of Happiness by Ada Boni
- The Test of Courage: A Biography of Michel Thomas by Christopher Robbins
- three six five: prompts, acts, divinations (an inexhaustible compendium for writing) by Lucy Ives
- Trip by Amie Barrodale
V
- Vienna: How the City of Ideas Created the Modern World by Richard Cockett
- Vigil by George Saunders
- Villa Coco by Andrew Sean Greer
W
- The Witch by Marie NDiaye
- We Were Forbidden by Jacqueline Harpman
- What We Can Know by Ian McEwan
- When I Sing, Mountains Dance by Irene Solà
- When You Are Engulfed in Flames by David Sedaris
- Wild Mind: Living The Writers Life by Natalie Goldberg
Y
- The Year in Tech 2026 by Harvard Business Review
- You Are Here by David Nicholls