Reading List
Here is a list of what I've been reading, organized by year. Some of them contain links to brief reviews.
I've split the titles up by genre to make things easier to navigate. Hopefully you find it
helpful.
2024
Fiction
Dissipatio H.G. by Guido Morselli
Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino
Sylvia by Leonard Michaels
The Red Arrow by William Brewer
The Collected Stories of Leonard Michaels
The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge by Rainer Maria Rilke
Nonfiction
Showstopper! by G. Zachary Pascal
Time Out of Mind: The Diaries of Leonard Michaels
the essays of Leonard Michaels
Gomaşinen, Hatırlıyorum by Ruşen Çakır (in progress)
Where Wizards Stay Up Late by Katie Hafner and Matthew Lyon
On Nature by Edward Hoagland
Art and Criticism
Concerning the Spiritual in Art by Wassily Kandinsky (in progress)
Out of Eden: Essays on Modern Art by W.S. Di Piero
Drawn to Paint: The Art of Jerome Witkin
The Art Spirit by Robert Henri
Cazando Impresiones: Sorolla en pequeño formato (in progress)
Alla Prima by Richard Schmid
Figure Drawing for Artists by Steve Huston
Anders Zorn: A European Artist Seduces America
Bridgeman's Life Drawing
The Practice of Oil Painting and Drawing by Solomon J Solomon
Oil Painting Techniques and Materials by Harold Speed
The Pracice and Science of Drawing by Harold Speed
Men and Memories by William Rothenstein
Sargent & Spain by Cash, Kilmurray, and Ormond
Peter Paul Rubens, Paintings, Oilsketches, Drawings
Sorolla: The Masterworks by Blanca Pans-Sorolla
Chess
Winning Chess Tactics by Yasser Seirawan (in progress)
The Life and Games of Mikhail Tal (in progress)
Technical
The Go Programming Language by Alan Donovan and Brian Kernighan (in progress)
Computer Systems: A Programmer's Perspective by Randal Bryant and David O'Hallaron (in progress)
The C Programming Language by Brian Kernighan and Dennis Ritchie
2023
Art and Criticism
Farber on Film by Manny Farber
Modern Art by Meyer Schapiro
Into Words by Carroll Dunham
Faux Pas. by Amy Sillman
Quarrel & Quandary by Cynthia Ozick
Impressionism by Meyer Schapiro (in progress)
Robert Smithson: The Collected Writings (in progress)
Velazquez: The Complete Works (in progress)
Fiction
Chess Story by Stefan Zweig
Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller
Ficciones by Jorge Luis Borges (in progress)
Nonfiction
Play Winning Chess by Yasser Seirawan
Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess by Fischer, Margulies, and Mosenfelder
The Reckoning by David Halberstam
The Soul of a New Machine by Tracy Kidder
Dear Theo by Vincent Van Gogh
Le piccoli virtu by Natalia Ginsburg
Out of Sheer Rage by Geoff Dyer
Sex and the River Styx by Edward Hoagland
Language
Elementary Turkish by Lewis Thomas
Technical
Differential Equations, Dynamical Systems, and Linear Algebra by Hirsch and Smale (in progress)
Business
Build: An Unorthodox Guide to Making Things Worth Making by Tony Fadell
The Qualified Sales Leader by John McMahon
Sweating Bullets: Notes about Inventing Powerpoint by Robert Gaskins
The Challenger Sale by Matthew Dixon and Brent Adamson
Demonstrating to Win by Robert Riefstahl
Just F*ing Demo! by Rob Falcone
Playing to Win by A.G. Lafley and Roger Martin
2022
Art and Criticism
The Salon of 1846 by Baudelaire
After Caravaggio by Michael Fried
Chardin and Rembrandt by Marcel Proust
Ramblings of a Wannabe Painter by Paul Gauguin
The Journal of Eugene Delacroix
Caravaggio: His Incongruity and his Fame by Bernard Berenson
Essays One by Lydia Davis
On Photography by Susan Sontag
Ways of Seeing by John Berger
Travel Writing
The Last Supper by Rachel Cusk
When the Going Was Good by Evelyn Waugh
The Amur River by Colin Thubron
Fiction
The Torrents of Spring by Ernest Hemingway
Girl with Curious Hair by David Foster Wallace
Literary Nonfiction
The Spirit of Controversy and Other Essays by William Hazlitt
Books v. Cigarettes by George Orwell
History
The Radical Potter by Tristram Hunt
A Short History of Islamic Thought by Fitzroy Morrissey
Business
Oglivy on Advertising by David Ogilvy
Play Bigger by Al Ramadan, Dave Peterson, Christopher Lochhead, and Kevin Maney
Good Strategy / Bad Strategy by Richard Rumelt
Competing Against Luck by Clayton Christensen
Crossing the Chasm by Geoffrey Moore
Miscellaneous
Writing That Works by Kenneth Roman and Joel Raphaelson
To Show and To Tell by Phillip Lopate
Artful Sentences by Virginia Tufte
2021
Nonfiction
On Board by John Tusa
How We Work and Why by E. Hunter Harrison
Turkish Reflections by Mary Lee Settle
Travels with Epicurus by Daniel Klein
The Sweet Science by A.J. Leibling
Martin Luther by Peter Stanford
Criticism
See/Saw by Geoff Dyer
Technical
The Design of Everyday Things by Don Norman (in progress)
Domain Driven Design by Eric Evans (in progress)
Art Books / Graphic Novels
Out-of-body Free-hand Circles by Tom Marioni
unfinished... by Tom Neely
The Delicacy by James Albon
2020
Plays
Three Sisters by Anton Chekhov
Love's Labour's Lost (in progress)
The Taming of the Shrew
The Comedy of Errors
Titus Andronicus
Measure for Measure
All's Well That Ends Well
Othello
Cymbeline
The Merchant of Venice
Julius Caesar
Poetry
A Treatise on Stars by Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge (in progress)
The Multiverse by Andrew Wynn Owen (in progress)
Fiction
Pew by Catherine Lacey
The Index of Self-Destructive Acts by Christopher Beha
Leaving the Atocha Station by Ben Lerner
Non-fiction
The National Road by Tom Zoellner
The New Wine Rules by Jon Bonné
Words Like Loaded Pistols by Sam Leith
The Shortest History of England by James Hawes
Initmations by Zadie Smith
Criticism
Characters of Shakespeare's Plays by William Hazlitt (in progress)
The Essays of Leonard Michaels
Technical
Designing Data-Intensive Applications by Martin Kleppmann (in progress)
Data Analysis for Politics and Policy by Edward Tufte
Statistical Models and Causal Inference by David Freedman (in progress)
2019
Poetry
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell by William Blake
The Complete Poems of George Herbert
Fiction
The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara
Memento Mori by Muriel Spark
The Comforters by Murial Spark
Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
Chemistry by Weike Wang
Asymmetry by Lisa Halliday
Nonfiction
Mistreated by Robert Pearl
Between Meals by A.J. Leibling
Paris to the Moon by Adam Gopnik
The Undoing Project by Michael Lewis