Antilibrary
Antilibraries are about “books unread, imagined futures, literary longing.” These are books I want to read (along with a few books I’ve started and haven’t finished).
- Afterlife by Julia Alvarez
- The Age of Surveillance Capitalism by Shoshone Zuboff
- All the Devils Are Here by Bethany McLean and Joseph Nocera
- America’s Constitution: A Biography by Akhil Reed Amar
- American Lucifers: The Dark History of Artificial Light, 1750–1865 by Jeremy Zallen
- Are your lights on? by Gerald Weinberg and Donald Gause
- Bayesian Statistics for Beginners by Therese Donovan and Ruth M. Mickey
- Bayesian Statistics the Fun Way by Will Kurt
- Beartown by Fredrik Backman
- Beyond Bigger Leaner Stronger by Michael Matthews
- The Book of Eels by Patrik Svensson
- The Broken Earth Trilogy by N.K. Jemisin
- The Cass Neary crime novels by Elizabeth Hand
- The Comedians by Kliph Nesteroff
- Competing on the Edge: Strategy as Structured Chaos by Shona L. Brown and Kathleen M. Eisenhardt
- Crooked by Cathryn Jakobson Ramin
- Cult of the Constitution by Mary Anne Franks
- Dare to Lead by Brene Brown
- The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity by David Graeber and David Wengrow
- The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X by Les Payne and Tamara Payne
- The Deviant’s War: The Homosexual vs. the United States of America by Eric Cervini
- Difficult Conversations by Douglas Stone
- Don’t Label Me by Irshad Manji
- The Dream Machine by Michael Waldrop
- Dreaming the Biosphere by Rebecca Reider
- E.J. Josey by Renate Chancellor
- The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barber
- Emergent Strategy by adrienne maree brown
- The End of Policing by Alex S. Vitale
- Essays of Michel de Montaigne
- Exit West by Mohsin Hamid
- Finding the Mother Tree by Suzanne Simard
- From Here to Equality by William Darity Jr. and A. Kirsten Mullen
- The Glass Hotel by Emily St. John Mandel
- Golden Gulag by Ruth Wilson Gilmore
- The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
- Halfway Home by Reuben Jonathan Miller
- How To Take Smart Notes by Sönke Ahrens
- Humble Inquiry by Edgar H. Schein
- Humor Seriously by Jennifer Aaker
- Hungry Brain by Stephan Guyenet
- I Am Not Sidney Poitier by Percival Everett
- In the Shadow of Justice by Katrina Forrester
- Inside Story by Martin Amis
- Intuitive Biostatistics by Harvey Motulsky
- It’s Always Personal by Anne Kreamer
- The Life You Can Save by Peter Singer
- Lilith’s Brood by Octavia Butler
- Luster by Raben Leilani
- The Machine that Changed the World by James P. Womack, Daniel T. Jones, and Daniel Roos
- The Man from the Train by Bill James
- Mezzanine by Nicholson Baker
- The Mushroom at the End of the World by Anna Tsing
- No Hard Feelings by Liz Fosslien and Mollie West Duffy
- Normal People by Sally Rooney
- Odyssey by Emily Wilson
- The Power of Reading by Stephen Krashen
- Power, Sex, Suicide: Mitochondria and the Meaning of Life by Nick Lane
- Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
- A Promised Land by Barack Obama
- Punished by Rewards: Twenty-fifth Anniversary Edition by Alfie Kohn
- The Purpose of Power: How We Come Together When We Fall Apart by Alicia Garza
- Reading: A Very Short Introduction by Jack Belinda
- Safe Haven by Mark Spitznagel
- Seeing Systems by Barry Astri
- So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
- Souls of Black Folks by W.E.B. DuBois
- Statistical Rethinking by Richard McElreath
- Staying with the Trouble by Donna Haraway
- Stubborn Attachments by Tyler Cowen
- Subtract by Leiden Klotz
- A Swim in the Pond in the Rain by George Saunders
- Thanks for the Feedback by Douglas Stone and Sheila Heen
- Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus by Ludwig Wittgenstein
- Wanting by Luke Burgos
- Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments by Saidiya Hartman
- We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler
- We Are Never Meeting in Real Life by Samantha Irby
- What Can a Body Do by Sara Hendren
- Working with Emotional Intelligence by Daniel Goleman