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/