• a book I found myself thinking about or discussing long after finishing

2022

• The Book of Disquiet (Fernando Pessoa)
• The Idiot (Elif Batuman)
• Aspiration: the agency of becoming (Agnes Callard)
• How the World Really Works (Vaclav Smil)
• Seeing Like a State (James C. Scott)
• The Collapse of Complex Societies (Joseph A. Tainter)
• The Sabbath World (Judith Shulevitz)
• A swim in a pond in the rain (George Saunders)
• When we cease to understand the world (Benjamin Labatut)
• Empathy exams (Leslie Jamison)
• Something incredibly wonderful happens (K.C. Cole)
• Charlotte’s Webb (E.B. White)
• Emerald Planet (David Beerling)
• Breakshot (James Taylor)
• Noone is talking about this (Patricia Lockwood)
• Ledger (Jane Hirschfield)
• The beautiful ones (Prince)