Chris Shoemaker

Reading

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Books I’ve read, am reading, or would like to read someday. Kept for accountability purposes only, and tracked on Goodreads.

books read
152
finished in 2026
15
pages, give or take
40k
average of 135 ratings
3.61

Set aside for now Gödel, Escher, Bach · Confessions · Lesser Evils · The Meaning of Anxiety · The Push · The Myth of Normal

202615 books

202518 books

202414 books

202311 books

Earlier94 books

  1. How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life by Scott Adams★★★★★
  2. Foundation by Isaac Asimov★★★★★
  3. Beethoven: The Composer as Hero by Philippe A. Autexier
  4. The Art of Solitude by Stephen Batchelor★★★★★
  5. The Marriage of Heaven and Hell by William Blake★★★★★
  6. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury★★★★★
  7. The Myth of Sisyphus, and Other Essays by Albert Camus★★★★★
  8. The Plague by Albert Camus★★★★★
  9. The Stranger by Albert Camus★★★★★
  10. Moonglow by Michael Chabon★★★★★
  11. Telegraph Avenue by Michael Chabon★★★★★
  12. 2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke★★★★★
  13. The Know-it-alls: The Rise of Silicon Valley as a Political Powerhouse and Social Wrecking Ball by Noam Cohen
  14. The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane★★★★★
  15. Nickel Plated by Aric Davis★★★★★
  16. Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison★★★★★
  17. Going to Pieces without Falling Apart: A Buddhist Perspective on Wholeness by Mark Epstein
  18. Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? by Mark Fisher★★★★★
  19. Ghosts of My Life: Writings on Depression, Hauntology and Lost Futures by Mark Fisher★★★★★
  20. K-punk: The Collected and Unpublished Writings of Mark Fisher by Mark Fisher★★★★★
  21. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald★★★★★
  22. Alas, Babylon by Pat Frank★★★★★
  23. Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl★★★★★
  24. The Art of Loving by Erich Fromm
  25. Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman
  26. The Cellist of Sarajevo by Steven Galloway
  27. The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran★★★★★
  28. The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell★★★★★
  29. Faust, First Part by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe★★★★★
  30. Can't Hurt Me: Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds by David Goggins★★★★★
  31. Lord of the Flies by William Golding★★★★★
  32. Paper Towns by John Green★★★★★
  33. The Fault in Our Stars by John Green★★★★★
  34. The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah★★★★★
  35. Tinkers by Paul Harding★★★★★
  36. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne★★★★★
  37. Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle by Chris Hedges★★★★★
  38. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway★★★★★
  39. Dune by Frank Herbert★★★★★
  40. Dune Messiah by Frank Herbert★★★★★
  41. The World Atlas of Coffee: From Beans to Brewing by James Hoffmann
  42. Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging by Sebastian Junger
  43. Freedom from the Known by J. Krishnamurti★★★★★
  44. Think on These Things by J. Krishnamurti★★★★★
  45. The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in An Age of Diminishing Expectations by Christopher Lasch
  46. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee★★★★★
  47. Therapy by David Lodge★★★★★
  48. The Call of the Wild by Jack London★★★★★
  49. The Giver by Lois Lowry★★★★★
  50. The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli★★★★★
  51. All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy★★★★★
  52. No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy★★★★★
  53. The Road by Cormac McCarthy★★★★★
  54. Atonement by Ian McEwan★★★★★
  55. Francis of the Filth by George Miller
  56. Utopia by Thomas More★★★★★
  57. After Dark by Haruki Murakami★★★★★
  58. Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage by Haruki Murakami★★★★★
  59. Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami★★★★★
  60. The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching: Transforming Suffering into Peace, Joy, and Liberation by Thich Nhat Hanh★★★★★
  61. Animal Farm by George Orwell★★★★★
  62. Akira, Vol. 1 by Katsuhiro Otomo★★★★★
  63. Akira, Vol. 2 by Katsuhiro Otomo★★★★★
  64. Akira, Vol. 3 by Katsuhiro Otomo★★★★★
  65. Akira, Vol. 4 by Katsuhiro Otomo★★★★★
  66. Akira, Vol. 5 by Katsuhiro Otomo★★★★★
  67. Akira, Vol. 6 by Katsuhiro Otomo★★★★★
  68. My Year of Meats by Ruth Ozeki★★★★★
  69. Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk★★★★★
  70. Commonwealth by Ann Patchett★★★★★
  71. State of Wonder by Ann Patchett★★★★★
  72. 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos by Jordan B. Peterson★★★★★
  73. Anthem by Ayn Rand★★★★★
  74. All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque★★★★★
  75. Bonfire by Krysten Ritter★★★★★
  76. The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger★★★★★
  77. Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare★★★★★
  78. The Jungle by Upton Sinclair★★★★★
  79. Black Klansman: A Memoir by Ron Stallworth
  80. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck★★★★★
  81. The Master of Ballantrae by Robert Louis Stevenson★★★★★
  82. MW by Osamu Tezuka
  83. The Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. Tolkien★★★★★
  84. The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment by Eckhart Tolle★★★★★
  85. Why Do Men Stupefy Themselves by Leo Tolstoy
  86. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain★★★★★
  87. Judge Dee at Work: Eight Chinese Detective Stories by Robert van Gulik
  88. Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis by J.D. Vance
  89. Candide by Voltaire★★★★★
  90. The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are by Alan W. Watts
  91. The Way of Zen by Alan W. Watts
  92. The Wisdom of Insecurity: A Message for an Age of Anxiety by Alan W. Watts★★★★★
  93. Night by Elie Wiesel★★★★★
  94. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde★★★★★
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  1. The Letters of Abélard and Héloïse by Pierre Abélard
  2. Against the Loveless World by Susan Abulhawa
  3. The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story by Diane Ackerman
  4. Khatyn by Alieś Adamovič
  5. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
  6. Chain-Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
  7. Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson by Mitch Albom
  8. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
  9. Inferno by Dante Alighieri
  10. Money by Martin Amis
  11. The Zone of Interest by Martin Amis
  12. Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson
  13. Me and Earl and the Dying Girl by Jesse Andrews
  14. Nothing Belongs to You by Nathacha Appanah
  15. The Last Brother by Nathacha Appanah
  16. One Day of Life by Manlio Argueta
  17. Lysistrata by Aristophanes
  18. Antimatter Blues by Edward Ashton
  19. Mr. President by Miguel Ángel Asturias
  20. The Best American Essays 2015: Daring Contemporary Writing on Life and Identity―Featuring David Sedaris, Zadie Smith, and Rebecca Solnit by Robert Atwan
  21. Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A. by Eve Babitz
  22. Family of Secrets: The Bush Dynasty, the Powerful Forces That Put it in the White House & What Their Influence Means for America by Russ Baker
  23. Another Country by James Baldwin
  24. A Lover's Discourse: Fragments by Roland Barthes
  25. The Flowers of Evil by Charles Baudelaire
  26. Simulacra and Simulation by Jean Baudrillard
  27. The Consumer Society: Myths and Structures by Jean Baudrillard
  28. Stronger by Jeff Bauman
  29. Actual Air by David Berman
  30. All That Is Solid Melts Into Air: The Experience of Modernity by Marshall Berman
  31. In the Buddha's Words: An Anthology of Discourses from the Pali Canon by Venerable Bhikkhu Bodhi
  32. The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America by Daniel J. Boorstin
  33. Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life With the Heart of a Buddha by Tara Brach
  34. Coffee Roaster's Handbook: A How-To Guide for Home and Professional Roasters by Len Brault
  35. Imperial San Francisco: Urban Power, Earthly Ruin by Gray Brechin
  36. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
  37. Villette by Charlotte Brontë
  38. Are We Still Rolling?: Studios, Drugs and Rock 'n' Roll: One Man's Journey Recording Classic Albums by Phill Brown
  39. Mean Streak by Sandra Brown
  40. The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
  41. The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
  42. Fail-Safe by Eugene Burdick
  43. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
  44. Designing Your Life: How to Build a Well-Lived, Joyful Life by Bill Burnett
  45. Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler
  46. The Postman Always Rings Twice by James M. Cain
  47. The Fall by Albert Camus
  48. The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt by Albert Camus
  49. In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
  50. How to Win Friends & Influence People by Dale Carnegie
  51. The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York by Robert A. Caro
  52. Superbloom: How Technologies of Connection Tear Us Apart by Nicholas Carr
  53. The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains by Nicholas Carr
  54. Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup by John Carreyrou
  55. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon
  56. The Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon
  57. Korean Messiah: Kim Il Sung and the Christian Roots of North Korea's Personality Cult by Jonathan Cheng
  58. Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang
  59. Over the Edge: The True Story of Four American Climbers' Kidnap and Escape in the Mountains of Central Asia by Greg Child
  60. Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
  61. Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones by James Clear
  62. Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee
  63. Beautiful Losers by Leonard Cohen
  64. Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001 by Steve Coll
  65. Egress: On Mourning, Melancholy and Mark Fisher by Matt Colquhoun
  66. Hopscotch by Julio Cortázar
  67. The World Beyond Your Head: On Becoming an Individual in an Age of Distraction by Matthew B. Crawford
  68. Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience by Mihály Csíkszentmihályi
  69. The History of Alexander by Quintus Curtius Rufus
  70. Hit Men: Power Brokers and Fast Money Inside the Music Business by Fredric Dannen
  71. Be Here Now by Ram Dass
  72. No Longer Human by Osamu Dazai
  73. The Society of the Spectacle by Guy Debord
  74. Falling Man by Don DeLillo
  75. The Names by Don DeLillo
  76. White Noise by Don DeLillo
  77. The Last Samurai by Helen DeWitt
  78. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz
  79. A Scanner Darkly by Philip K. Dick
  80. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick
  81. The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick
  82. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
  83. The White Album by Joan Didion
  84. The Human Superorganism: How the Microbiome Is Revolutionizing the Pursuit of a Healthy Life by Rodney Dietert
  85. Berlin Alexanderplatz by Alfred Döblin
  86. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
  87. The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
  88. The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky
  89. There Is Power in a Union: The Epic Story of Labor in America by Philip Dray
  90. The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business by Charles Duhigg
  91. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
  92. Hero of Two Worlds: The Marquis de Lafayette in the Age of Revolution by Mike Duncan
  93. Foucault’s Pendulum by Umberto Eco
  94. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers
  95. The Monk of Mokha by Dave Eggers
  96. What Is the What by Dave Eggers
  97. American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
  98. A Year With Swollen Appendices by Brian Eno
  99. The Trauma of Everyday Life by Mark Epstein
  100. Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
  101. James by Percival Everett
  102. Serious Music by Percival Everett
  103. As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
  104. The Feynman Lectures on Physics by Richard P. Feynman
  105. The Weird and the Eerie by Mark Fisher
  106. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
  107. Brutal Aesthetics: Dubuffet, Bataille, Jorn, Paolozzi, Oldenburg by Hal Foster
  108. The Magus by John Fowles
  109. The People, No: A Brief History of Anti-Populism by Thomas Frank
  110. Crossroads by Jonathan Franzen
  111. Freedom by Jonathan Franzen
  112. The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
  113. Escape from Freedom by Erich Fromm
  114. Terra Nostra by Carlos Fuentes
  115. The Recognitions by William Gaddis
  116. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
  117. The Beach by Alex Garland
  118. Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande
  119. Count Zero by William Gibson
  120. Mona Lisa Overdrive by William Gibson
  121. Neuromancer by William Gibson
  122. Pattern Recognition by William Gibson
  123. Strait is the Gate by André Gide
  124. Wild at Heart by Barry Gifford
  125. Girl on Girl: How Pop Culture Turned a Generation of Women Against Themselves by Sophie Gilbert
  126. The American Way of Killing: The Invention of an Epidemic by Malcolm Gladwell
  127. Chaos: Making a New Science by James Gleick
  128. Everybody, Always: Becoming Love in a World Full of Setbacks and Difficult People by Bob Goff
  129. Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol
  130. Meet Me in the Bathroom: Rebirth and Rock and Roll in New York City 2001-2011 by Lizzy Goodman
  131. Bullshit Jobs: A Theory by David Graeber
  132. Debt: The First 5,000 Years by David Graeber
  133. The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity by David Graeber
  134. The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy by David Graeber
  135. The Tin Drum by Günter Grass
  136. Lanark: A Life in Four Books by Alasdair Gray
  137. Poor Things by Alasdair Gray
  138. Never Enough: The Neuroscience and Experience of Addiction by Judith Grisel
  139. The Rainmaker by John Grisham
  140. Fates and Furies by Lauren Groff
  141. The Polish Boxer by Eduardo Halfon
  142. The Art of Doing Science and Engineering: Learning to Learn by Richard Hamming
  143. Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power by Byung-Chul Han
  144. The Agony of Eros by Byung-Chul Han
  145. The Burnout Society by Byung-Chul Han
  146. The Scent of Time: A Philosophical Essay on the Art of Lingering by Byung-Chul Han
  147. I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman
  148. Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World by Malcolm Harris
  149. The Short-Timers by Gustav Hasford
  150. America: The Farewell Tour by Chris Hedges
  151. Starship Troopers by Robert A. Heinlein
  152. Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein
  153. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
  154. The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
  155. Chapterhouse: Dune by Frank Herbert
  156. Children of Dune by Frank Herbert
  157. God Emperor of Dune by Frank Herbert
  158. Heretics of Dune by Frank Herbert
  159. The Road to Dune by Frank Herbert
  160. Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
  161. The Price of Salt by Patricia Highsmith
  162. The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith
  163. Lost Horizon by James Hilton
  164. Mortality by Christopher Hitchens
  165. How To Make The Best Coffee At Home by James Hoffmann
  166. Dominion: How the Christian Revolution Remade the World by Tom Holland
  167. The Odyssey by Homer
  168. The Birth of Korean Cool: How One Nation is Conquering the World Through Pop Culture by Euny Hong
  169. High Fidelity by Nick Hornby
  170. The Elementary Particles by Michel Houellebecq
  171. The Psychology of Money: Timeless Lessons on Wealth, Greed, and Happiness by Morgan Housel
  172. I Deliver Parcels in Beijing by Hu Anyan
  173. Super Imperialism: The Origin and Fundamentals of U.S. World Dominance by Michael Hudson
  174. The Doors of Perception by Aldous Huxley
  175. Against Nature by Joris-Karl Huysmans
  176. How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States by Daniel Immerwahr
  177. Eyeshield 21, Vol. 1: The Boy With the Golden Legs by Riichiro Inagaki
  178. Slam Dunk, Vol. 1 by Takehiko Inoue
  179. Vagabond, vol. 1 by Takehiko Inoue
  180. Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson
  181. The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution by Walter Isaacson
  182. White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America by Nancy Isenberg
  183. An Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro
  184. Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
  185. The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
  186. The Unconsoled by Kazuo Ishiguro
  187. A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James
  188. The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
  189. I Burn Paris by Bruno Jasieński
  190. Ulysses by James Joyce
  191. Letters to Milena by Franz Kafka
  192. The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
  193. Isonomia and the Origins of Philosophy by Kōjin Karatani
  194. Existentialism from Dostoevsky to Sartre by Walter Kaufmann
  195. Strange Weather in Tokyo by Hiromi Kawakami
  196. The Forester's Daughter by Claire Keegan
  197. England's Hidden Reverse: A Secret History of the Esoteric Underground by David Keenan
  198. On the Road by Jack Kerouac
  199. Fatelessness by Imre Kertész
  200. Works of Love by Søren Kierkegaard
  201. 11/22/63 by Stephen King
  202. Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
  203. The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism by Naomi Klein
  204. The Nineties by Chuck Klosterman
  205. Atta by Jarett Kobek
  206. The House at the End of the World by Dean Koontz
  207. Seiobo There Below by László Krasznahorkai
  208. The First and Last Freedom by Jiddu Krishnamurti
  209. Immortality by Milan Kundera
  210. The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
  211. Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan
  212. The Princess of Clèves by Madame de La Fayette
  213. Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu
  214. The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest by Stieg Larsson
  215. The Girl Who Played with Fire by Stieg Larsson
  216. The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
  217. Independent People by Halldór Laxness
  218. A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin
  219. Solaris by Stanisław Lem
  220. Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism by Vladimir Lenin
  221. 10:04 by Ben Lerner
  222. Elmer Gantry: Le charlatan by Sinclair Lewis
  223. Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt by Michael Lewis
  224. The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine by Michael Lewis
  225. Three Summers by Margarita Liberaki
  226. The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin
  227. No One Is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood
  228. Changing Places by David Lodge
  229. Nice Work by David Lodge
  230. Small World by David Lodge
  231. Liberalism: A Counter-History by Domenico Losurdo
  232. After Virtue by Alasdair MacIntyre
  233. Hiddensee: A Tale of the Once and Future Nutcracker by Gregory Maguire
  234. Exit Party by Emily St. John Mandel
  235. Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel
  236. The Glass Hotel by Emily St. John Mandel
  237. The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann
  238. Mystery Train: Images of America in Rock 'n' Roll by Greil Marcus
  239. Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
  240. How to Murder Your Life by Cat Marnell
  241. Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthy
  242. Stella Maris by Cormac McCarthy
  243. Suttree by Cormac McCarthy
  244. London Station: A Novel by David McCloskey
  245. The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
  246. I'm Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy
  247. Saturday by Ian McEwan
  248. The Wisdom of the Bullfrog: Leadership Made Simple by William H. McRaven
  249. Moby-Dick by Herman Melville
  250. Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality by Donald Miller
  251. Confessions of a Mask by Yukio Mishima
  252. Sun & Steel by Yukio Mishima
  253. The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With The Sea by Yukio Mishima
  254. How to Be Alone: If You Want To, and Even If You Don't by Lane Moore
  255. After the Quake by Haruki Murakami
  256. Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman by Haruki Murakami
  257. Dance Dance Dance by Haruki Murakami
  258. Killing Commendatore by Haruki Murakami
  259. Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami
  260. Sputnik Sweetheart by Haruki Murakami
  261. The City and Its Uncertain Walls by Haruki Murakami
  262. The Elephant Vanishes by Haruki Murakami
  263. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
  264. The Sea, the Sea by Iris Murdoch
  265. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
  266. Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov
  267. The Real Life of Sebastian Knight by Vladimir Nabokov
  268. A House for Mr Biswas by V.S. Naipaul
  269. Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World by Cal Newport
  270. Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World by Cal Newport
  271. The Score: How to Stop Playing Somebody Else's Game by C. Thi Nguyen
  272. The Art of Living: Peace and Freedom in the Here and Now by Thich Nhat Hanh
  273. Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche
  274. Golden Kamuy, Vol. 1 by Satoru Noda
  275. The Design of Everyday Things by Donald A. Norman
  276. Clarity by Tim O'Brien
  277. High Lonesome: Selected Stories, 1966-2006 by Joyce Carol Oates
  278. The Memory Police by Yōko Ogawa
  279. 1984 by George Orwell
  280. Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
  281. A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki
  282. The Book of Form and Emptiness by Ruth Ozeki
  283. Sellout: The Major-Label Feeding Frenzy That Swept Punk, Emo, and Hardcore by Dan Ozzi
  284. Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson by Camille Paglia
  285. The Sword and the Dollar: Imperialism Revolution and the Arms Race by Michael Parenti
  286. Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
  287. The Dutch House by Ann Patchett
  288. Why Everything That Doesn't Matter, Matters So Much: The Way of Love in a World of Hurt by Charlie Peacock
  289. The Code of Capital: How the Law Creates Wealth and Inequality by Katharina Pistor
  290. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
  291. The Symposium by Plato
  292. The Devil All the Time by Donald Ray Pollock
  293. Gates of Fire by Steven Pressfield
  294. Eugene Onegin by Alexander Pushkin
  295. Against the Day by Thomas Pynchon
  296. Bleeding Edge by Thomas Pynchon
  297. Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
  298. Mason & Dixon by Thomas Pynchon
  299. Shadow Ticket by Thomas Pynchon
  300. V. by Thomas Pynchon
  301. Generation Ecstasy: Into the World of Techno and Rave Culture by Simon Reynolds
  302. Retromania: Pop Culture's Addiction to Its Own Past by Simon Reynolds
  303. Rip it Up and Start Again. Post-punk 1978-1984 by Simon Reynolds
  304. The Feast of All Saints by Anne Rice
  305. The Let Them Theory by Mel Robbins
  306. Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
  307. Home by Marilynne Robinson
  308. Jack by Marilynne Robinson
  309. Lila by Marilynne Robinson
  310. The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson
  311. The Rest is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century by Alex Ross
  312. War on the Run: The Epic Story of Robert Rogers and the Conquest of America's First Frontier by John F. Ross
  313. Everyman by Philip Roth
  314. Portnoy’s Complaint by Philip Roth
  315. The Dying Animal by Philip Roth
  316. The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom by Miguel Ruiz
  317. Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie
  318. The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie
  319. Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain by Oliver Sacks
  320. The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales by Oliver Sacks
  321. Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst by Robert M. Sapolsky
  322. Tenth of December by George Saunders
  323. The Braindead Megaphone by George Saunders
  324. The Witches of Karres by James H. Schmitz
  325. The World as Will and Representation, Volume I by Arthur Schopenhauer
  326. Austerlitz by W.G. Sebald
  327. The Rings of Saturn by W.G. Sebald
  328. The Land and Its People by David Sedaris
  329. Last Exit to Brooklyn by Hubert Selby Jr.
  330. Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly
  331. Fermat's Enigma by Simon Singh
  332. NW by Zadie Smith
  333. Swing Time by Zadie Smith
  334. White Teeth by Zadie Smith
  335. Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities by Rebecca Solnit
  336. No Straight Road Takes You There: Essays for Uneven Terrain by Rebecca Solnit
  337. The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956 by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
  338. The Red and the Black by Stendhal
  339. Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson
  340. Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
  341. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
  342. Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson
  343. Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
  344. Future Days: Krautrock and the Building of Modern Germany by David Stubbs
  345. The Art of War by Sun Tzu
  346. Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Süskind
  347. Zeno's Conscience by Italo Svevo
  348. Griftopia: Bubble Machines, Vampire Squids, and the Long Con That Is Breaking America by Matt Taibbi
  349. The Divide: American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap by Matt Taibbi
  350. Season of the Witch: Enchantment, Terror and Deliverance in the City of Love by David Talbot
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