Books
Obviously, inspired by Art Garfunkel. Asterisks denote book club books. Bold means I reccomend this book strongly to all interested readers.
pre-history
- /The Resilient Gardener/ by Carol Deppe
- /Inner Skiing/ by Timothy Gallwey
- /Hold Everything Dear/ by John Berger
- /Earthship: Volume II/ by Michael Reynolds
- /Debt/ by David Graeber
- /Amusing Ourselves to Death/ by Neil Postman
- /The Disappearance of Childhood/ by Neil Postman
- /Bike Battles/ by James Lewis Longhurst
- /The Story of Modern Skiing/ by John Fry
- /California/ by Kevin Starr
- /The Way We Never Were/ by Stephanie Coontz
- /Words and Rules/ by Steven Pinker
- /Underworld/ by Don DeLillo
- /Handmaiden’s Tale/ by Margaret Atwood
- /The Sellout/ by Paul Beatty
- /4 3 2 1/ by Paul Auster
- /Ancillary Justice/ by Ann Leckie
- /About Looking/ by John Berger
- /Less/ by Andrew Sean Greer
- /Sidewalk culture/
- /A Basque History of the World/ by Mark Kurlansky
- /Americanah/ by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- /Remains of the Day/ by Kazuo Ishiguro
- /A Terrible Country/ by Keith Gessen
- /The Betrayal of the Self/ by Arno Gruen
- /The Last Stand/ by David Harris
- /Le Petit Prince/
2019ish
- /Sexographies/ by Gabriela Wiener
- /Winners Take All/ by Anand Giridharadas
- /The Patch/ by John McPhee
- /Assembling California/ by John McPhee
- /Milkman/ by Anna Burns
- /Land of Lost Borders: A Journey on the Silk Road/ by Kate Harris
- /How to Do Nothing/ by Jenny O’Dell
- /Lost Time: Lectures on Proust in a Soviet Prison Camp/ by Jozef Czapski
- /The Three Body Problem/ by Cixin Liu *
- /The Dark Forest/ by Cixin Liu
- /Death’s End/ by Cixin Liu
- /How to be Both/ by Ali Smith *
- /The Overstory/ by Richard Powers *
- /Dignity/ by Chris Arnade
- /Fleishman is in Trouble/ by Taffy Brodesser-Akner
- /There There/ by Tommy Orange
- /Neoreaction A Basilisk/ by Elizabeth Sandifer and Jack Graham
- /The Alphabet vs The Goddess/ by Leonard Shlain
- /Empire of the Summer Moon/ by SC Gwyne
- /Another Way of Telling/ by John Berger and Jean Mohr
- /A Californian’s Guide to the Birds Among Us/ by Charles Hood
- /Educated: A Memoir/ by Tara Westover *
- /Nothing Special/ by Charlotte J. Beck
- /Everyday Zen/ by Charlotte J. Beck
- /Here Is Where We Meet/ by John Berger
2020ish
- /Against the Grain/ by James C. Scott
- /The Topeka school/ by Ben Lerner *
- /Season of the Witch/ by David Talbot *
- /Geology Underfoot in Yosemite NP/ by Allen F. Glazner and Greg M. Stock
- /Sontag/ by Benjamin Moser
- /The Buried Giant/ by Kazuo Ishiguro *
- /The Witches Are Coming/ by Lindy West
- /A Fortunate Man/ by John Berger
- /Zen Mind Beginners Mind/ by Shunryu Suzuki
- /Autumn/ by Ali Smith (“seasonal quartet”)
- /Winter/ by Ali Smith (“seasonal quartet”)
- /The Song of Achilles/ by Madeline Miller *
- /Circe/ by Madeline Miller
- /Trick Mirror/ by Jia Tolentino
- /Such a Fun Age/ by Kiley Reid
2021ish
- /Piranesi/ by Susanna Clarke *
- /Sodom and Gomorrah/ — Proust
- /Find a Way/ — Diana Nyad
- /Jews Don’t Count/ — David Baddiel
- /Detransition Baby/ — Torrey Peters *
- /A Sense of the Whole/ — Siamak Vossoughi *
- /Interior Chinatown/ by Charles Yu *
- /East West Street/ by Philippe Sands
- /The Prisoner/ by Marcel Proust
- /The Drama of the Gifted Child/ by Alice Miller
- /Spring/ by Ali Smith (“seasonal quartet”)
- /Summer/ by Ali Smith (“seasonal quartet”)
- /Ministry for the Future/ by Kim Stanley Robinson
- /Drug Use for Grown Ups/ by Carl Hart *
- /The Warmth of Other Suns/ by Isabel Wilkerson
- /Between Two Kingdoms/ by Suleika Jaouad
- /The Flintstones. Vol. 1/ by Mark Russell
- /Night Thoughts/ by Wallace Shawn
- /Cadillac Desert/ by Marc Reisner
- /Training for Uphill Athletes/ by House, Johnston, Jornet
- /The Structure of Scientific Revolutions/ by Thomas Kuhn
- /Breath/ by James Nestor
- /Blue In Green/ by Ram V
- /Hamnet/ by Maggie O’Farrell *
- /The Flintstones, Vol. 2/ by Mark Russell
- … other stuff that I accidetnally deleted, to be filled in as I remember
- /Lessons from the Dying/ by Rodney Smith
- /Powder Days/ by Heather Hansman
- /Cloud Cukoo Land/ by Anthony Doer *
2022ish
- /The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity/ by David Graeber and David Wengrow
- /The Fugutive/ by Marcel Proust
- /The Copernican Revolution/ by Thomas Kuhn
- /Harlem Shuffle/ by Colson Whitehead *
- /The Book of Blam/ by Aleksandar Tišma
- /Deep/ by James Nestor
- /Lakota America/