Thomas Ptashnik

Reading

What I spend my time reading when I'm not conducting research and teaching. An eclectic mix of fiction and non-fiction. Tracked on Storygraph.

Currently Reading

Positivity Bias

Mendel Kalmenson

Cover of E=mc²: A Biography of the World's Most Famous Equation

E=mc²: A Biography of the World's Most Famous Equation

David Bodanis

Cover of The Baby Owner's Manual: Operating Instructions, Trouble-Shooting Tips & Advice on First-Year Maintenance

The Baby Owner's Manual: Operating Instructions, Trouble-Shooting Tips & Advice on First-Year Maintenance

Louis Borgenicht

Cover of Kosher Nation: Why More and More of America's Food Answers to a Higher Authority

Kosher Nation: Why More and More of America's Food Answers to a Higher Authority

Sue Fishkoff

Cover of Cribsheet: A Data-Driven Guide to Better, More Relaxed Parenting, from Birth to Preschool

Cribsheet: A Data-Driven Guide to Better, More Relaxed Parenting, from Birth to Preschool

Emily Oster

All Reads (342)

2026
  • The Lady in the Lake Raymond Chandler Jul 2026
  • This Is Your Mind on Plants Michael Pollan Jul 2026
  • A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them Timothy Egan Jun 2026
  • Believe: Why Everyone Should Be Religious Ross Douthat Jun 2026
  • Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea Charles Seife Jun 2026
  • The Prime Ministers: An Intimate Narrative of Israeli Leadership Yehuda Avner Jun 2026
  • Black and White: The Way I See It Richard Williams Jun 2026
  • Farewell, My Lovely Raymond Chandler Jun 2026
  • The Tree of Life, Book One: On the Brink of the Precipice, 1939 Chava Rosenfarb May 2026
  • Submission by Michel Houellebecq Michel Houellebecq, Michel Houellebecq Mar 2026
  • My Father's Paradise: A Son's Search for His Jewish Past in Kurdish Iraq Ariel Sabar Mar 2026
  • Languishing: How to Feel Alive Again in a World That Wears Us Down Corey Keyes Mar 2026
  • The New One: Painfully True Stories from a Reluctant Dad Mike Birbiglia Feb 2026
  • Shutter Island Dennis Lehane Jan 2026
  • Abbott Awaits Chris Bachelder Jan 2026
  • It Stephen King Jan 2026
2025
  • The Green Mile Stephen King Nov 2025
  • Islam and the Future of Tolerance: A Dialogue Maajid Nawaz, Sam Harris Nov 2025
  • Jews of Silence Neal Kozodoy, Elie Wiesel Nov 2025
  • Hostage Eli Sharabi Oct 2025
  • People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present Dara Horn Oct 2025
  • Judaism's Life-Changing Ideas: A Weekly Reading of the Jewish Bible Jonathan Sacks Oct 2025
  • The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War Ben Macintyre Oct 2025
  • The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny, and Murder David Grann Sep 2025
  • The Accidental President: Harry S. Truman and the Four Months That Changed the World A.J. Baime Sep 2025
  • The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure Greg Lukianoff, Jonathan Haidt Sep 2025
  • White Fang Jack London Sep 2025
  • The Call of the Wild Jack London Aug 2025
  • Prescription for Pain: How a Once-Promising Doctor Became the "Pill Mill Killer" Philip Eil Aug 2025
  • Apple in China: The Capture of the World's Greatest Company Patrick McGee Aug 2025
  • Toward a Meaningful Life: The Wisdom of the Rebbe Menachem Mendel Schneerson Simon Jacobson Aug 2025
  • Expecting Better: Why the Conventional Pregnancy Wisdom is Wrong - and What You Really Need to Know Emily Oster Aug 2025
  • On Democracies and Death Cults: Israel and the Future of Civilization Douglas Murray Aug 2025
  • Catch-22 Joseph Heller Aug 2025
  • The Gulag Archipelago, Abridged Edition Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Jul 2025
  • Killing Moon: A Harry Hole Novel (13) Jo Nesbø Jun 2025
  • Red Dragon Thomas Harris May 2025
  • Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism Sarah Wynn-Williams May 2025
  • The Time of the Hero Mario Vargas Llosa May 2025
  • At War with Ourselves: My Tour of Duty in the Trump White House H R McMaster Apr 2025
  • Knife Jo Nesbø Apr 2025
  • The Thirst Jo Nesbø Mar 2025
  • Tortilla Flat John Steinbeck Mar 2025
  • The Case Against the Sexual Revolution: A New Guide to Sex in the 21st Century Louise Perry Mar 2025
  • Hardly Working: A Semi-Auto Fiction Caleb Caudell Feb 2025
  • The Master: The Long Run and Beautiful Game of Roger Federer Christopher Clarey Feb 2025
  • The Red Pony John Steinbeck Feb 2025
  • The Moon Is Down John Steinbeck Feb 2025
  • Cannery Row John Steinbeck Feb 2025
  • Morning After the Revolution: Dispatches from the Wrong Side of History Nellie Bowles Jan 2025
  • The End of Race Politics: Arguments for a Colorblind America Coleman Hughes Jan 2025
  • Take Back Your Family: From the Tyrants of Burnout, Busyness, Individualism, and the Nuclear Ideal Jefferson Bethke Jan 2025
2024
  • Tell No One Harlan Coben Dec 2024
  • Hannah's Children: The Women Quietly Defying the Birth Dearth Catherine Pakaluk Dec 2024
  • Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America Rick Perlstein Dec 2024
  • Infidel Ayaan Hirsi Ali Nov 2024
  • Project Management for the Unofficial Project Manager Suzette Blakemore, James Wood, Kory Kogon Nov 2024
  • The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable Patrick Lencioni Nov 2024
  • Police Jo Nesbø Oct 2024
  • Watergate: A New History Garrett M. Graff Oct 2024
  • The Bad Girl Mario Vargas Llosa Aug 2024
  • The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom Jonathan Haidt Aug 2024
  • The Anxious Generation: How The Great Rewiring of Childhood is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness Jonathan Haidt Aug 2024
  • Why We Work Barry Schwartz Aug 2024
  • Phantom Jo Nesbø Jul 2024
  • The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains Nicholas Carr Jun 2024
  • Means of Ascent: The Years of Lyndon Johnson II Robert A. Caro Jun 2024
  • Wellness Nathan Hill Apr 2024
  • Beyond Band of Brothers: The War Memoirs of Major Dick Winters Cole C. Kingseed, Dick Winters Apr 2024
  • In Cold Blood Truman Capote Apr 2024
  • Troubled: A Memoir of Foster Care, Family, and Social Class Rob Henderson Mar 2024
  • The Genius of Israel: What One Small Nation Can Teach the World Dan Senor, Saul Singer Feb 2024
  • Of Boys and Men Richard V. Reeves Feb 2024
  • The Razor's Edge W. Somerset Maugham Feb 2024
  • The Count of Monte Cristo Alexandre Dumas Feb 2024
  • Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals Oliver Burkeman Feb 2024
2023
  • The Comfort Crisis: Embrace Discomfort to Reclaim Your Wild, Happy, Healthy Self Michael Easter Dec 2023
  • Doing Good Better: How Effective Altruism Can Help You Make a Difference William MacAskill Dec 2023
  • Rafa Rafael Nadal Dec 2023
  • Outlive: The Science and Art of Longevity Peter Attia Oct 2023
  • The Path to Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson I Robert A. Caro Sep 2023
  • The Leopard Jo Nesbø Sep 2023
  • Nemesis Jo Nesbø Jul 2023
  • The Pearl John Steinbeck Jun 2023
  • Israel: A Simple Guide to the Most Misunderstood Country on Earth Noa Tishby Jun 2023
  • The Snowman Jo Nesbø Jun 2023
  • The War of the End of the World Mario Vargas Llosa May 2023
  • Oryx and Crake Margaret Atwood Mar 2023
  • New York 2140 Kim Stanley Robinson Feb 2023
  • The Shock Doctrine Naomi Klein Feb 2023
  • My Struggle, Book 5: Some Rain Must Fall Karl Ove Knausgård Jan 2023
2022
  • Talent: How to Identify Energizers, Creatives, and Winners Around the World Daniel Gross, Daniel Gross, Tyler Cowen, Tyler Cowen Dec 2022
  • The Devil's Star Jo Nesbø Dec 2022
  • Cockroaches Jo Nesbø Dec 2022
  • Look Homeward, Angel Thomas Wolfe Dec 2022
  • The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming David Wallace-Wells Nov 2022
  • What We Owe the Future William MacAskill Oct 2022
  • The Big Sleep Raymond Chandler Oct 2022
  • God Knows Joseph Heller Oct 2022
  • Ethics in the Real World: 86 Brief Essays on Things that Matter Peter Singer Oct 2022
  • In the Distance Hernan Diaz Aug 2022
  • The Thin Red Line James Jones Aug 2022
  • Open Andre Agassi Aug 2022
  • The Redbreast Jo Nesbø Aug 2022
  • The Savage Detectives Roberto Bolaño Jul 2022
  • Run to Overcome: The Inspiring Story of an American Champion's Long-Distance Quest to Achieve a Big Dream Meb Keflezighi Jun 2022
  • Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly (Updated Edition) Anthony Bourdain Jun 2022
  • Yearbook Seth Rogen Jun 2022
  • The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz Erik Larson Jun 2022
  • The Simple Path to Wealth: Your road map to financial independence and a rich, free life Mr. Money Mustache, J.L. Collins, J.L. Collins Jun 2022
  • The Backyard Adventurer Beau Miles Jun 2022
  • What I Talk About When I Talk About Running Haruki Murakami Jun 2022
  • The Rise of the Ultra Runners: A Journey to the Edge of Human Endurance Adharanand Finn Jun 2022
  • Endure: Mind, Body, and the Curiously Elastic Limits of Human Performance Alex Hutchinson May 2022
  • Clean James Hamblin May 2022
  • How to Change Your Mind Michael Pollan May 2022
  • The Overstory Richard Powers Mar 2022
  • The Master and Margarita Mikhail Bulgakov Mar 2022
  • My Struggle, Book Four Karl Ove Knausgård Jan 2022
  • Calypso David Sedaris Jan 2022
2021
  • Unsong Scott Alexander Nov 2021
  • Meditation for Fidgety Skeptics: A 10% Happier How-To Book Dan Harris Oct 2021
  • Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones James Clear Oct 2021
  • The Precipice Toby Ord Sep 2021
  • Can't Hurt Me: Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds David Goggins Aug 2021
  • The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest Stieg Larsson Aug 2021
  • The Girl Who Played with Fire Stieg Larsson Jul 2021
  • A Gentleman in Moscow Amor Towles Jul 2021
  • My Struggle, Book Three Karl Ove Knausgård Jun 2021
  • Why We're Polarized Ezra Klein May 2021
  • Effective Altruism Handbook Ryan Carey Apr 2021
  • Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty Esther Duflo, Abhijit V. Banerjee Mar 2021
  • The Life You Can Save: Acting Now to End World Poverty Peter Singer Feb 2021
  • The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals Michael Pollan Jan 2021
  • The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History Elizabeth Kolbert Jan 2021
  • The Ministry for the Future Kim Stanley Robinson Jan 2021
  • A Visit from the Goon Squad Jennifer Egan Jan 2021
2020
  • East of Eden John Steinbeck Dec 2020
  • The Historian Elizabeth Kostova Oct 2020
  • Designing Your Life: Build a Life that Works for You Bill Burnett, Dave Evans Sep 2020
  • Pet Sematary Stephen King Apr 2020
  • The Bonfire of the Vanities Tom Wolfe Apr 2020
  • Lolita Vladimir Nabokov Mar 2020
  • Ayoade on Ayoade: A Cinematic Odyssey Richard Ayoade Jan 2020
  • The Once and Future Worker: A Vision for the Renewal of Work in America Oren Cass Jan 2020
2019
  • The War of the Worlds H.G. Wells Dec 2019
  • Permanent Record Edward Snowden Nov 2019
  • Everything Is Illuminated Jonathan Safran Foer Nov 2019
  • Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis J.D. Vance Oct 2019
  • The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Douglas Adams Oct 2019
  • The Book of Lights Chaim Potok Oct 2019
  • Min kamp 2 Karl Ove Knausgård Sep 2019
  • Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do? Michael J. Sandel Sep 2019
  • Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era James M. McPherson Aug 2019
  • The Loser Thomas Bernhard Jul 2019
  • Gigged: The End of the Job and the Future of Work Sarah Kessler Jul 2019
  • The Personality Brokers: The Strange History of Myers-Briggs and the Birth of Personality Testing Merve Emre Jun 2019
  • My Struggle: Book 1 Don Bartlett, Edoardo Ballerini, Karl Ove Knausgård Jun 2019
  • A Brief History of Seven Killings Marlon James Jun 2019
  • Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams Matthew Walker May 2019
  • Filth Irvine Welsh Apr 2019
  • How I Became a Famous Novelist Steve Hely Mar 2019
  • Neuromancer William Gibson Mar 2019
  • The 42nd Parallel John Dos Passos Mar 2019
  • Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business Neil Postman Feb 2019
  • Human + Machine: Reimagining Work in the Age of AI Paul R. Daugherty Jan 2019
  • Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World Cal Newport Jan 2019
  • The Broom of the System David Foster Wallace Jan 2019
  • May We Be Forgiven A.M. Homes Jan 2019
  • The Art of Social Theory Richard Swedberg Jan 2019
2018
  • When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing Daniel H. Pink Dec 2018
  • I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer Michelle McNamara Dec 2018
  • Dune Frank Herbert Nov 2018
  • The Plague Albert Camus Nov 2018
  • Cubed: A Secret History of the Workplace Nikil Saval Aug 2018
  • The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Stieg Larsson Aug 2018
  • How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia Mohsin Hamid Aug 2018
  • Tropic of Cancer Henry Miller Jul 2018
  • Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst Robert M. Sapolsky Jul 2018
  • The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution Walter Isaacson Jul 2018
  • Arafat Mountain Mike Kleine Jul 2018
  • The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century Ian Mortimer Jun 2018
  • Lord of the Flies William Golding Jun 2018
  • The Right Stuff Tom Wolfe Jun 2018
  • R for Data Science: Import, Tidy, Transform, Visualize, and Model Data Garrett Grolemund, Hadley Wickham May 2018
  • Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen Christopher McDougall May 2018
  • The Pale King David Foster Wallace May 2018
  • How to Lie with Statistics Darrell Huff May 2018
  • The Peregrine J.A. Baker May 2018
  • The Structure of Scientific Revolutions Thomas S. Kuhn May 2018
  • The Sympathizer Viet Thanh Nguyen May 2018
  • Invisible Influence: The Hidden Forces that Shape Behavior Jonah Berger Apr 2018
  • Consider the Lobster And Other Essays David Foster Wallace Apr 2018
  • The Lessons of History Ariel Durant, Will Durant Apr 2018
  • On the Genealogy of Morals Friedrich Nietzsche Mar 2018
  • T Zero Italo Calvino Mar 2018
  • Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Mar 2018
  • How China Became Capitalist N. Wang, R. Coase Mar 2018
  • Thinking Statistically Uri Bram Jan 2018
  • Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us about Who We Really Are Seth Stephens-Davidowitz Jan 2018
  • Ordinary Men Christopher R. Browning Jan 2018
  • The Power of Meaning: Crafting a Life That Matters Emily Esfahani Smith Jan 2018
  • Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow Yuval Noah Harari Jan 2018
  • Between the World and Me Ta-Nehisi Coates Jan 2018
  • In Our Time Ernest Hemingway Jan 2018
2017
  • 100 Selected Poems E.E. Cummings Dec 2017
  • Sixty Stories Donald Barthelme Nov 2017
  • Break It Down Lydia Davis Nov 2017
  • Infinite Jest David Foster Wallace Oct 2017
  • The Mayor of MacDougal Street Dave Van Ronk Aug 2017
  • The Complete Stories Franz Kafka Aug 2017
  • Disquiet, Please!: More Humor Writing from The New Yorker David Remnick, Henry Finder Jul 2017
  • Nietzsche: Philosopher, Psychologist, Antichrist Walter Arnold Kaufmann May 2017
  • Oblivion: Stories David Foster Wallace Feb 2017
2016
  • Notes from Underground Fyodor Dostoevsky Aug 2016
  • The Turning Point: Science, Society, and the Rising Culture Fritjof Capra Aug 2016
  • A People's History of the United States Howard Zinn Aug 2016
  • Dos horas: En busca de la maratón imposible Ed Caesar Jul 2016
  • A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments David Foster Wallace Jul 2016
Earlier
  • Exercises in Style Raymond Queneau
  • The Hunger Games Suzanne Collins
  • Mockingjay Suzanne Collins
  • The Tipping Point Malcolm Gladwell
  • Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire J.K. Rowling
  • The Shining Stephen King
  • Life Keith Richards
  • The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion Jonathan Haidt
  • Tenth of December: Stories George Saunders
  • The Wolf of Wall Street Jordan Belfort
  • One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Ken Kesey
  • Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone J.K. Rowling
  • Crossroads Jonathan Franzen
  • The Art of Travel Alain de Botton
  • The Doors of Perception & Heaven and Hell Aldous Huxley
  • The Stranger Albert Camus
  • Nothingness Alan Watts
  • Why We're Polarized Ezra Klein
  • A Fraction of the Whole Steve Toltz
  • If on a Winter's Night a Traveler Italo Calvino
  • Debt: The First 5,000 Years David Graeber
  • The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks about Race Jesmyn Ward
  • 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos Jordan B. Peterson
  • Watt Samuel Beckett
  • The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays Albert Camus
  • The Complete Maus Art Spiegelman
  • The Autobiography of Malcolm X Malcolm X, Alex Haley
  • The Real Life of Sebastian Knight Vladimir Nabokov
  • The Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck
  • Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets J.K. Rowling
  • Plato: Crito Plato, C. Emlyn Jones
  • Slaughterhouse-Five Kurt Vonnegut
  • Steve Jobs Walter Isaacson
  • Sacred Economics Charles Eisenstein
  • A Brief History of Time Stephen Hawking
  • Fight Club Chuck Palahniuk
  • Swann's Way Marcel Proust
  • Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets David Simon
  • The Floating Opera and the End of the Road John Barth
  • Querelle de Brest Jean Genet
  • The Redeemer Jo Nesbø
  • A Confederacy of Dunces John Kennedy Toole
  • The Stand Stephen King
  • Middlesex Jeffrey Eugenides
  • Phaedo Plato
  • Moby-Dick: Or, the Whale Herman Melville
  • On the Road Jack Kerouac
  • All the Light We Cannot See Anthony Doerr
  • Incest Marquis de Sade
  • Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption Laura Hillenbrand
  • Candide Voltaire
  • 1984 George Orwell
  • The Faculty of Dreams Sara Stridsberg
  • Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows J.K. Rowling
  • Take Five D. Keith Mano
  • Bewilderment Richard Powers
  • Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World Haruki Murakami
  • Life of Pi Yann Martel
  • Catching Fire Suzanne Collins
  • Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix J.K. Rowling
  • In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto Michael Pollan
  • The Pillars of the Earth Ken Follett
  • Invisible Man Ralph Ellison
  • Brave New World Aldous Huxley
  • Man's Search for Meaning Viktor E. Frankl
  • Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus Ludwig Wittgenstein
  • Travels with Charley in Search of America John Steinbeck
  • Rabbit, Run John Updike
  • As I Lay Dying William Faulkner
  • Great Expectations Charles Dickens
  • Gravity's Rainbow Thomas Pynchon
  • Scar Tissue Anthony Kiedis
  • Norwegian Wood Haruki Murakami
  • One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel García Márquez
  • Existentialism Is a Humanism Jean-Paul Sartre
  • 2666 Roberto Bolaño
  • Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince J.K. Rowling
  • The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin Benjamin Franklin
  • The Sirens of Titan Kurt Vonnegut
  • The Mezzanine Nicholson Baker
  • Shyness and Dignity Dag Solstad
  • The Road Cormac McCarthy
  • Into the Wild Jon Krakauer
  • Sabbath's Theater Philip Roth
  • Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America Gilbert King
  • The Last Lecture Randy Pausch
  • Sacrifice Zones: The Front Lines of Toxic Chemical Exposure in the United States Steve Lerner
  • Twelve Years a Slave Solomon Northup
  • Silent Spring Rachel Carson
  • Journey to the End of the Night Louis-Ferdinand Céline
  • Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire David Remnick
  • Thinking, Fast and Slow Daniel Kahneman
  • Libra Don DeLillo
  • Wittgenstein's Mistress David Markson
  • The 4-Hour Workweek Timothy Ferriss
  • The Gift: Creativity and the Artist in the Modern World Lewis Hyde
  • Death on the Installment Plan Louis-Ferdinand Céline
  • The Consolations of Philosophy Alain de Botton
  • Catch Me If You Can: The True Story of a Real Fake Frank W. Abagnale
  • Apology Plato
  • The Giver Lois Lowry
  • Beneath the Wheel Hermann Hesse
  • Of Mice and Men John Steinbeck
  • Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban J.K. Rowling
  • Something Happened Joseph Heller
  • Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind Yuval Noah Harari
  • The Brothers Karamazov Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • To Build a Fire Jack London
  • Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner
  • Sartre Arthur C. Danto
  • King, Queen, Knave Vladimir Nabokov
  • Gone Girl Gillian Flynn
  • Becket Jean Anouilh
  • Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury
  • The Devil in the White City Erik Larson
  • Choke Chuck Palahniuk
  • Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values Robert M. Pirsig
  • Failing Forward: Turning Mistakes Into Stepping Stones for Success John C. Maxwell
  • Animal Farm George Orwell
  • The Dharma Bums Jack Kerouac
  • Omensetter's Luck William H. Gass
  • Tesla, Master of Lightning Margaret Cheney
  • The Soul is Not a Smithy David Foster Wallace, Sven Birkerts