A list of the best fiction and nonfiction I've read lately
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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 Starved: The 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 Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
Katherine Boo | 2012 | narrative nonfiction
The Incendiaries
R. O. Kwon | 2018 | literary fiction
Can't Even: How 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 Divide: Global Inequality from Conquest to Free Markets
Jason Hickel | 2017 | nonfiction
Selfie: How the West Became Self-Obsessed
Will Storr | 2018 | nonfiction
The Goldfinch
Donna Tartt | 2013 | literary fiction
There, There
Tommy Orange | 2018 | literary fiction
Trick Mirror: Reflections 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 Animals: Stoned Sloths, Lovelorn Hippos, and Other Tales from the Wild Side of Wildlife
Lucy Cooke | 2018 | nonfiction
