recent favorites (as of 2026.5)

1. Vineland by Thomas Pynchon
2. The Optimist’s Daughter by Eudora Welty
3. Labyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges
4. Naked by David Sedaris

archived lists

as of 2025.11

1. Flatland by Edwin A. Abbott
2. The Glass Bead Game by Hermann Hesse
3. *Gitanjali** by Rabindranath Tagore
4. Galatea 2.2 by Richard Powers
5. In a Grove by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa (onboarding for rashomon)

as of 2025.08

1. All My Sons by Arthur Miller
2. The Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce (affecting - and readable(!))
3. JR by William Gaddis (gah)
4. Puzzle Craft by Stewart T. Coffin
5. Exhalation by Ted Chiang (I think about ‘The Lifecycle of Software Objects’ a lot)
6. Tristan et Iseult by René Louis
7. The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Robert A. Heinlein (paying my dues to Silicon Valley)
8. My Fourth Time, We Drowned: Seeking Refuge on the World’s Deadliest Migration Route by Sally Hayden
9. Madness and Civilization by Michel Foucault

as of 2025.03

1. Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts
2. Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett (uneventful)
3. Narcissus and Goldmund by Hermann Hesse
4. The Complete Cosmicomics by Italo Calvino (especially A Sign in Space, only 10 pgs)
5. The Days Are Just Packed: Calvin and Hobbes #8 by Bill Watterson (best book of all time)
6. Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner (my favorite pulitzer alongside confederacy of dunces and the shipping news)
7. Underworld by Don Delillo