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A list of the best fiction and nonfiction I've read (mostly lately)
If any of the books interest you, consider bypassing Amazon and buying them from your local bookstore. Likewise, if you enjoyed some of the articles from any of the below publications, consider subscribing. Independent bookstores and good journalism don't fund themselves! 

On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
Ocean Vuong |  2019  |  literary fiction

Lincoln in the Bardo
George Saunders |  2017  |  experimental fiction

A Sense of Self: Memory, the Brain, and Who We Are
Veronica O'Keane  |  2021  |  non-fiction

To the Lighthouse
Virginia Woolf  |  1927  |  stream of consciousness

The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
Michael Pollan  |  2006  |  non-fiction

Mexican Gothic

Silvia Moreno-Garcia  |  2020  |  horror

Slaughterhouse-Five
Kurt Vonnegut  |  1969  |  metafiction

1984
George Orwell  |  1949  |  dystopian fiction

Until the End of Time: Mind, Matter, and the Search for Meaning in an Evolving Universe
Brian Greene  |  2020  |  nonfiction

Exhalation
Ted Chiang  |  2019  |  science fiction collection

Why Time Flies: A Mostly Scientific Investigation
Alan Burdick  |  2017  |  nonfiction

The Memory Police
Yoko Ogawa  |  1994  |  science fiction

Figuring
Maria Popova  |  2019  |  biographies

Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life
William Finnegan  |  2016  |  memoir

The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
Stuart Turton  |  2018  |  mystery

The Altruists
Andrew Ridker  |  2019  |  literary fiction

Call Them by Their True Names: American Crises (and Essays)
Rebecca Solnit  |  2018  |  essay collection

In Our Mad and Furious City
Guy Gunaratne  |  2018  |  literary fiction

Stuffed and StarvedThe Hidden Battle for the World Food System
Raj Patel  |  2012  |  nonfiction

Yellow Submarine
Maria Popova  |  In Their Lives: Great Writers on Great Beatles Songs  |  2017  |  essay

Behind the Beautiful ForeversLife, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
Katherine Boo  |  2012  |  narrative nonfiction

The Incendiaries
R. O. Kwon  |  2018  |  literary fiction

Can't EvenHow Millennials Became the Burnout Generation
Anne Helen Petersen  |  2020  |  nonfiction

Twelve Minutes and a Life
Mitchell S. Jackson  |  Runner's World  |  2020  |  feature story

Educated
Tara Westover  |  2018  |  memoir

The Sandman
Lars Kepler  |  2018  |  thriller

The DivideGlobal Inequality from Conquest to Free Markets
Jason Hickel  |  2017  |  nonfiction

SelfieHow the West Became Self-Obsessed
Will Storr  |  2018  |  nonfiction

The Goldfinch
Donna Tartt  |  2013  |  literary fiction

There, There
Tommy Orange  |  2018  |  literary fiction

Trick MirrorReflections on Self-Delusion
Jia Tolentino  |  2019  |  essay collection

What If? Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
Randall Munroe  |  2014  |  Q&A collection

Fates and Furies
Lauren Groff  |  2015  |  literary fiction

The Social Life of Forests
Ferris Jabr  |  The New York Times Magazine  |  2020  |  magazine feature

Hiroshima
John Hersey  |  The New Yorker  |  1946  |  narrative nonfiction

Going the Distance (and Beyond) to Catch Marathon Cheaters
Gordy Megroz  |  Wired  |  2020  |  magazine feature

The Truth About AnimalsStoned Sloths, Lovelorn Hippos, and Other Tales from the Wild Side of Wildlife
Lucy Cooke  |   2018  |  nonfiction

Nothing but Gifts
Edwin Dobb  |  Harper's Magazine  |  2018  |  essay

How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence 
Michael Pollan  |  2018  |  nonfiction

The Courage of Jill Costello
Chris Ballard  |  Sports Illustrated  |  2010  |  magazine feature

The White Darkness
David Grann  |  The New Yorker  |  2018  |  magazine feature

When Twenty-Six Thousand Stinkbugs Invade Your Home
Katheryn Schulz  |  The New Yorker  |  2018  |  magazine feature


Power Steer
Michael Pollan  |  The New York Times Magazine  |  2002  |  magazine feature

Between the World and Me
Ta-Nehisi Coates  |   2015  |  nonfiction

Beloved
Toni Morrison  |  1987  |  literary fiction

Sleeping on Jupiter
Anuradha Roy  |  2015  |  literary fiction

 

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