Books and Audiobooks

If there is an asterisk or my rating <3 stars, it is possible that I choose not to finish the book.

2023

    • The Stone Sky, N.K. Jemisin  (5/5 stars)
    • The Song of the Cell, Siddhartha Mukerjee (4/5 stars)
    • Mount Misery, Samuel Shem  (2/5 stars)
    • The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage, Sydney Padua (1/5 stars)
    • South to America, Imani Perry,  (4/5 stars)
    • Sum, David Eagleman,  (3/5 stars)
    • War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy  (5/5 stars)
    • The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams  (4/5 stars)
    • The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, Douglas Adams  (4/5 stars)
    • The Hobbit GRR Tolkien  (5/5 stars)
    • Emily Wilde Encyclopaedia Faeries, Heather Fawcett, (4/5 stars)
    • Checkout 19: A Novel, Claire-Louise Bennett, (3/5 stars)
    • The Philosophy of Modern Song, Bob Dylan,  (3/5 stars)
    • Leonardo da Vinci, Walter Isaacson  (4/5 stars)
    • The Good Life, Robert Waldinger, and Mark Schultz (3/5 stars)
    • Ancillary justice, Ann Leckie,  (3/5 stars)
    • The Inner Work of Age, Connie’s Zweig and Harry Moody  (2/5 stars)
    • Infinity Gate. M.R. Carey,  (4/5 stars)
    • The Roald Dahl Audio Collection, Roald Dahl, , (3/5 stars)
    • Who Killed Truth: A History of Evidence, Jill Lepore,  (3/5 stars)
    • Seven Brief Lessons on Physics, Carlo Rovelli, (4/5 stars)
    • How do you know a person: the art, seeing others deeply and being deeply seen, David Brooks, (5/5 stars)
    • Bird by Bird, Anne Lamont, (5/5 stars)
    • The Odyssey, Homer, translated by Emily Wilson, (5/5 stars)
    • Witch King, Martha Wells,  (2/5 stars)

2024 

    • The Artist’s Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity, Julia Cameron, (2/5 stars)
    • Gratitude: Essays, Oliver Sachs, (5/5 stars)
    • Slaughterhouse-5, Kurt Vonnegut, (5/5 stars)
    • On Tyranny, Timothy Snyder (3/5 stars)
    • The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person’s Guidle to Writing in the 21st Century, Steven Pinker, (4/5 stars)
    • Kinds of Minds: Toward an Understanding of Consciousness, Daniel Dennet, (3/5 stars)
    • Medgar and Myrlie, Joy0Ann Reid, (5/5 stars)
    • Why We Remember: Unlocking Memory’s Power to Hold What Matters, Charan Ranganath, (3/5 stars)
    • The Undoing Project, Michael Lewis, (4/5 stars)
    • On the Road: the Original Scroll, Jack Kerouac, (5/5 stars)
    • Timequake, Kurt Vonnegut, (3/5 stars)
    • Childhood’s End, Arthur C Clark, (5/5 stars)
    • Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain, Oliver Sachs, (3/5 stars)
    • Jumpnauts, Hao Jinfang, (2/5 stars)
    • Nettle & Bone, T. Kingfisher, (4/5 stars)
    • The Warp Side of the Universe: an Odyssey Through Black Holes, Wormholes, Time Travel,  and Gravitational Waves, Kip Thorne, (4/5 stars)
    • The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald, (5/5 stars)
    • The Saint of Bright Doors, Varja Chandrasekera, (2/5 stars)
    • The Iliad, Homer, translated by Emily Wilson, (5/5 stars)
    • A Walk in the Park, Kevin’s Fedarko, (2-3/5 stars)
    • The Art of Power, Nancy Pelosi, (4/5 stars)
    • Why Animals Talk, Aria Kershenbaum, (2/5 stars)
    • In Universes, Emet North, (3/5 stars)
    • Against Constitutional Originalism, Jonathan Gienapp, (3/5 stars)
    • House in the Cerulean Sea, TJ Klune, (3/5 stars)

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