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
• Craft in the Real World by Matthew Salesses
• Crooked by Cathryn Jakobson Ramin
• Cult of the Constitution by Mary Anne Franks
• 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
• Think Julia by Ben Lauwens and Allen Downey
• 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