Bookshelf
Some literary recommendations, in no particular order—click for reviews
June '25
When We Cease to Understand the World
Benjamín Labatut
Exhalation
Ted Chiang
When Breath Becomes Air
Paul Kalanithi
The Overstory
Richard Powers
The Pillars of the Earth
Ken Follett
East of Eden
John Steinbeck
Lincoln
David Herbert Donald
Tomorrow, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
Gabrielle Zevin
The Anthropocene Reviewed
John Green
The Count of Monte Cristo
Alexandre Dumas
Steve Jobs
Walter Isaacson
Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
David Epstein
Tress of the Emerald Sea
Brandon Sanderson
Project Hail Mary
Andy Weir
Anything You Want
Derek Sivers
The Illustrated Man
Ray Bradbury
The Poppy War
R.F. Kuang
Dune
Frank Herbert
The Fifth Season
N.K. Jemisin
All the Light We Cannot See
Anthony Doerr
11/22/63
Stephen King
The Nix
Nathan Hill
The Story of Your Life
Ted Chiang
Leonardo da Vinci
Walter Isaacson
The Way of Kings
Brandon Sanderson
The Paper Menagerie
Ken Liu
Norse Mythology
Neil Gaiman
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
Douglas R. Hofstadter
This Side of Paradise
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Name of the Wind
Patrick Rothfuss
The Last Lecture
Randy Pausch
Life on Mars
Tracy K. Smith