Here’s the list of books I’ve read since 2016 roughly in order of how much I liked them
The Gene by Siddhartha Mukherjee
Trick Mirror by Jia Tolentino
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander
The Lion in the Living Room: How House Cats Tamed Us and Took Over the World by Abigail Tucker
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer by Siddhartha Mukherjee
Born to Run by Christopher McDougall
Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
An Uninhabitable Earth by David Wallace Wells
Hit Makers by Derek Thompson
Into Thin Air by Jon Krakour
The Botany of Desire by Michael Pollen
Educated by Tara Westover
Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
Uncanny Valley by Anna Weiner
Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress by Steven Pinker
Bossypants by Tina Fey
The Glass Castle by Jeanette Walls
Becoming by Michelle Obama
Commonwealth by Ann Patchett
Being Mortal by Atul Gawande
When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi
Freakonomics by Stephan Levitt
A Promised Land by Barack Obama
Omnivore’s Dilemma by Michael Pollan
The Overstory by Richard Powers
Disrupted: My Misadventure in the Startup Bubble by Dan Lyons
Gang Leader for a Day by Sudhir Venkatesh
And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? By Mindy Kaling
The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien
No Impact Man by Colin Beavan
Complications by Atul Gawande
Think like a Freak by Steven Levitt and Steven Dubner
David and Goliath by Malcolm Gladwell
Death Sex and Cocoa Puffs by Chuck Closterman
A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson
Why Not Me? By Mindy Kaling
The Last American Man by Elizabeth Gilbert
Caste: The Origins of our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson
Yes Please by Amy Poehler
The Girls by Emma Cline
How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell
Adventures in the Anthropocene by Gaia Vince
Field Notes from a Catastrophe by Elizabeth Kolbert
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Born a Crime by Trevor Noah
How to Change Your Mind by Michael Pollen
I’m A Stranger Here Myself by Bill Bryson
Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris
Hillbilly Elegy by JD Vance
Zeitoun by Dave Eggers
Planet Funny: How Comedy Took Over Our Culture by Ken Jennings
Between the World and Me by Ta-nehisi Coates
Modern Romance by Aziz Ansari
A Man Called Ove by Fredrick Backman
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
Promise Me, Dad: A Year of Hope, Hardship, and Purpose
Not That Kind of Girl by Lena Dunham
Eiger Dreams by Jon Krakour
The Guinea Pig Diaries by AJ
Funny in Farsi by Firoozeh Dumas
Turtles All the Way Down by John Green
You Know You Want This by Kristen Roupenian
The Last Battle by CS Lewis
Giant of the Senate by Al Franken
Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie Kondo
Talking to Strangers by Malcolm Gladwell
Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson
Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
Love Does by Bob Goff
Cold Tangerines by Shauna Niequist
White Fragility by Robin Diangelo
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo by Amy Schumer
Wild by Cheryl Strayed
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother by Amy Chua
The Case for Christ by Lee Strobel
Mere Christianity by CS Lewis
A Child Called It by Dave Pelzer
The Silver Chair by CS Lewis
The Mother Tongue: English and How it Got That Way by Bill Bryson
Dreams of my Father by Barack Obama
Normal People by Sally Roony
The Moment of Lift: How Empowering Women Changes the World
Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck by Mark Manson
The Awakening by Kate Chopin
Out of Office: The Big Problem and Bigger Promise of Working from Home by Charlie Warzel and Anne Helen Petersen
Blink by Malcolm Gladwell
You Are a Badass by Jen Sincero
Sisters First by Jenna Bush Hager and Barbara Bush
How to Read Literature Like a Professor by Tim Foster
The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger
The Pine Barrens by John McPhee
100 Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Language of God by Frances Collins
King Lear by Shakespeare
Teacher Man by Frank McCourt
I Know I Am, But What Are You by Samantha Bee
Why Beautiful People Have More Daughters by Alan S. Miller, Satoshi Kanazawa
The Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin
Girl, Wash Your Face by Rachel Hollis
Screwtape Letters by CS Lewis
Real Sex by Lauren F. Winner
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
The Alchemist by Pablo Cuelho
Me Before You by Jojo Moyes
Perelandra by CS Lewis
Luckiest Girl Alive by Jessica Knoll
to be continued!
The Gene by Siddhartha Mukherjee
Trick Mirror by Jia Tolentino
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander
The Lion in the Living Room: How House Cats Tamed Us and Took Over the World by Abigail Tucker
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer by Siddhartha Mukherjee
Born to Run by Christopher McDougall
Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
An Uninhabitable Earth by David Wallace Wells
Hit Makers by Derek Thompson
Into Thin Air by Jon Krakour
The Botany of Desire by Michael Pollen
Educated by Tara Westover
Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
Uncanny Valley by Anna Weiner
Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress by Steven Pinker
Bossypants by Tina Fey
The Glass Castle by Jeanette Walls
Becoming by Michelle Obama
Commonwealth by Ann Patchett
Being Mortal by Atul Gawande
When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi
Freakonomics by Stephan Levitt
A Promised Land by Barack Obama
Omnivore’s Dilemma by Michael Pollan
The Overstory by Richard Powers
Disrupted: My Misadventure in the Startup Bubble by Dan Lyons
Gang Leader for a Day by Sudhir Venkatesh
And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? By Mindy Kaling
The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien
No Impact Man by Colin Beavan
Complications by Atul Gawande
Think like a Freak by Steven Levitt and Steven Dubner
David and Goliath by Malcolm Gladwell
Death Sex and Cocoa Puffs by Chuck Closterman
A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson
Why Not Me? By Mindy Kaling
The Last American Man by Elizabeth Gilbert
Caste: The Origins of our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson
Yes Please by Amy Poehler
The Girls by Emma Cline
How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell
Adventures in the Anthropocene by Gaia Vince
Field Notes from a Catastrophe by Elizabeth Kolbert
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Born a Crime by Trevor Noah
How to Change Your Mind by Michael Pollen
I’m A Stranger Here Myself by Bill Bryson
Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris
Hillbilly Elegy by JD Vance
Zeitoun by Dave Eggers
Planet Funny: How Comedy Took Over Our Culture by Ken Jennings
Between the World and Me by Ta-nehisi Coates
Modern Romance by Aziz Ansari
A Man Called Ove by Fredrick Backman
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
Promise Me, Dad: A Year of Hope, Hardship, and Purpose
Not That Kind of Girl by Lena Dunham
Eiger Dreams by Jon Krakour
The Guinea Pig Diaries by AJ
Funny in Farsi by Firoozeh Dumas
Turtles All the Way Down by John Green
You Know You Want This by Kristen Roupenian
The Last Battle by CS Lewis
Giant of the Senate by Al Franken
Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie Kondo
Talking to Strangers by Malcolm Gladwell
Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson
Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
Love Does by Bob Goff
Cold Tangerines by Shauna Niequist
White Fragility by Robin Diangelo
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo by Amy Schumer
Wild by Cheryl Strayed
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother by Amy Chua
The Case for Christ by Lee Strobel
Mere Christianity by CS Lewis
A Child Called It by Dave Pelzer
The Silver Chair by CS Lewis
The Mother Tongue: English and How it Got That Way by Bill Bryson
Dreams of my Father by Barack Obama
Normal People by Sally Roony
The Moment of Lift: How Empowering Women Changes the World
Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck by Mark Manson
The Awakening by Kate Chopin
Out of Office: The Big Problem and Bigger Promise of Working from Home by Charlie Warzel and Anne Helen Petersen
Blink by Malcolm Gladwell
You Are a Badass by Jen Sincero
Sisters First by Jenna Bush Hager and Barbara Bush
How to Read Literature Like a Professor by Tim Foster
The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger
The Pine Barrens by John McPhee
100 Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Language of God by Frances Collins
King Lear by Shakespeare
Teacher Man by Frank McCourt
I Know I Am, But What Are You by Samantha Bee
Why Beautiful People Have More Daughters by Alan S. Miller, Satoshi Kanazawa
The Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin
Girl, Wash Your Face by Rachel Hollis
Screwtape Letters by CS Lewis
Real Sex by Lauren F. Winner
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
The Alchemist by Pablo Cuelho
Me Before You by Jojo Moyes
Perelandra by CS Lewis
Luckiest Girl Alive by Jessica Knoll
to be continued!