Bookshelf/Reading List

Books that changed my internal model of the world.

• Herman Hesse (Glass Bead Game, Narcissus and Goldmund)

• John Williams (Stoner, Butcher’s Crossing, Augustus)

• Jorge Luis Borges (Labyrinths, Ficciones)

• Christopher Alexander, architecture (The Timeless Way of Being, A Pattern Language)

• Stephen Zweig (Beware of Pity, World of Yesterday)

• Michael Ondaatje (The English Patient)

• Shirley Hazzard (The Transit of Venus)

• Rachel Cusk (Outline Trilogy)

• Greg Egan (Axiomatic)

• Simone Weil (Gravity and Grace)

• Ted Chiang (Stories of Your Life and Others)

• Virginia Woolf (To The Lighthouse, Mrs Dalloway)

• Robert Caro (Working: Researching, Interviewing, Writing)

• Jeanette Winterson (The Passion)

• Benjamin Labatut (When We Cease to Understand the World)

• Robert Hass (Apple Trees at Olema - Poems)

• Cixin Liu (Three Body Problem, Dark Forest)

• Meghan O’Gieblyn (God, Human, Animal, Machine)

• Lawrence Weschler (Seeing Is Forgetting The Name Of The Thing One Sees)

• Brian Eno (A Year with Swollen Appendices)

• Hayao Miyazaki (Starting Point, Turning Point)

• Magda Szabo (Abigail, Hungarian)

Essays

• Some Notes on Attunement by Zadie Smith

• Moving On, a Love Story by Nora Ephron

• Reality has a Surprising Amount of Detail by Ryan Salvatier

• My Buddy: On Sam Shepard by Patti Smith, but also: Just Kids in its entirety

• The Concept of Experience by Mark Greif

• Closer by Greg Egan

• As Sweet as Razor Blade Honey by Sasha Chapin

• Letters by Becca Rothfeld

• Why Lydia Davis Loves Misunderstandings by Merve Emre

• An Expedition to the Pole by Annie Dillard