Note: this page is sadly outdated 😿  Someday I will fill in this document with the books that carried me through 2023 and 2024! 

December 2022

• Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro

November 2022

• Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
• The Beautiful Ones by Silvia Moreno-García

October 2022

• The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson (my favorite re-read)
• Inside the Critics’ Circle: Book Reviewing in Uncertain Times by Phillipa K. Chong

September 2022

• The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu
  

August 2022

• Harrow by Joy Williams

July 2022

• Toxicology by Jessica Hagedorn

June 2022

• The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich

May 2022

• The City We Became by N. K. Jemisin

April 2022

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March 2022

• The Galaxy and the Ground Within by Becky Chambers
• The Sentence by Louise Erdrich

January/February 2022

• Homesick for Another World by Ottessa Moshfegh

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December 2021

• A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin

November 2021

• Dune by Frank Herbert 
• No Time to Spare by Ursula K. Le Guin

October 2021

• Kindred by Octavia Butler
• Sisters by Daisy Johnson

September 2021

• The Hidden Life of Trees by Peter Wohlleben

August 2021

• In the Dream House by Carman Maria Machado

July 2021

• Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer

June 2021

• Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich

May 2021

• Hummingbird Salamander by Jeff VanderMeer

April 2021 

• Exhalation by Ted Chiang
• Silent Spring by Rachel Carson

March 2021 

• Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng 
• Capitalist Realism by Mark Fisher 
• Parable of the Talents by Octavia Butler

February 2021 

• Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
• Abolish Silicon Valley: How to Liberate Technology from Capitalism by Wendy Liu

January 2021

• Eileen by Ottessa Moshfegh
• Conversations with Friends by Sally Rooney

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December 2020

• The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography by Simon Singh
• The Visual Display of Quantitative Information by Edward R. Tufte
• My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh

November 2020

• Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

October 2020

• Frankissstein by Jeanette Winterson

September 2020 

• Through the Arc of the Rainforest by Karen Tei Yamashita

August 2020

• The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander
• Permanent Record by Edward Snowden

July 2020

• Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler

June 2020

• Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code by Ruha Benjamin

May 2020

• Dragnet Nation: A Quest for Privacy, Security, and Freedom in a World of Relentless Surveillance by Julia Angwin
• I Like to Watch: Arguing My Way Through the TV Revolution by Emily Nussbaum

April 2020 

• Data Feminism by Catherine D’Ignazio and Lauren Klein
• Network Sovereignty: Building the Internet through Internet Country by Maria Elena Duarte
• Sons and Other Flammable Objects by Porochista Khakpour
• You Look Like a Thing and I Love You: How Artificial Intelligence Works and Why It’s Making the World a Weirder Place by Janelle Shane

March 2020

• Finished The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern

January 2020

• Free Culture: The Language and Future of Creativity by Lawrence Lessig
• The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern
• Dark Matter: On the Surveillance of Blackness by Simone Browne

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December 2019

• Ada’s Algorithm: How Lord Byron’s Daughter Ada Lovelace Launched the Digital Age by James Essinger
• The Spell of the Sensuous by David Abram
• Paper Knowledge: Toward a Media History of Documents by Lisa Gitelman
• Reading Machines: Toward an Algorithmic Criticism by Stephen Ramsay

November 2019

• Educated by Tara Westover

October 2019

• Annihilation by Jeff VenderMeer

September 2019

• Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion by Jia Tolentino

August 2019

• Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado
• Three Women by Lisa Taddeo
• The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight For a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power by Shoshanna Zuboff

July 2019

• The Beet Queen by Louise Erdrich
• Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism by Safiya Umoja Noble
• We Are Data: Algorithms and The Making of Our Digital Selves by John Cheney-Lippold
• The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood

This page is for the convergence of personal and professional (and my poor memory).