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2025

A Non-Exhaustive List of All Time Favorites (Nonfiction)

Sex, Economy, Freedom and Community by Wendell Berry
The Long Loneliness by Dorothy Day
Merton’s Palace of Nowhere by James Finley
The Divide by Jason Hickel
All About Love by bell hooks
The Seven Story Mountain by Thomas Merton
Love and Living by Thomas Merton
Living Buddha, Living Christ by Thich Nhat Hanh
The Grace of Enough by Haley Stewart
The Kingdom of God is Within You by Leo Tolstoy

A Non-Exhaustive List of All Time Favorites (Fiction)

Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
White Noise by Don DeLillo
House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
The Space Trilogy by C.S. Lewis
Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang
Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac

2024

Filterworld by Kyle Chayka
Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver ✨
Underworld by Don Delillo
Lapvona by Ottessa Moshfegh ✨
Dilla Time by Dan Charnas
The Fallen Star by Claudia Gray
Dynasty of Evil by Drew Karpyshyn
The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry by John Mark Comer ✨
Rule of Two by Drew Karpyshyn
Sleep to Heal by Abhinav Singh
The Source by Woodson Merrell
Path of Destruction by Drew Karpyshyn
The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories by Ken Liu ✨
The Puzzler by A.J. Jacobs
Red Team Blues by Cory Doctorow
A History of Fake Things on the Internet by Walter Scheirer
The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson ✨
Number Go Up by Zeke Faux
Beloved by Toni Morrison
Contact by Carl Sagan ✨

2023

The Mountain in the Sea by Ray Nayler ✨
Affluenza by John de Graaf, David Wann, and Thomas H. Naylor (Audiobook)
Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jasmyn Ward
The Bill of Obligations by Richard Haas
Under the Dome by Stephen King
Hoosiers: A New History of Indiana by James H. Madison ✨
Wild Mercy by Mirabai Starr ✨
Terraform by Propaganda
The Pale King by David Foster Wallace ✨
Thrawn: Treason by Timothy Zahn
Thrawn: Alliances by Timothy Zahn
The Need to be Whole by Wendell Berry ✨
Thrawn by Timothy Zahn
Xenogenesis Trilogy by Octavia Butler ✨
Evicted by Matthew Desmond
Return of the King by J.R.R. Tolkien
Down the River unto the Sea by Walter Mosley
Rest is Resistance by Tricia Hersey ✨
Race: Challenge to Religion by Mathew H. Ahmann
The Rabbit Hutch by Tess Gunty
The Recovering by Leslie Jamison ✨
Marvel Comics: The Untold Story by Sean Howe ✨
How To Do Nothing by Jenny Odell (Reread) (Audiobook)
Provocations: The Spiritual Writings of Soren Kierkegaard edited by Charles E. Moore

2022

The Two Towers by J.R.R. Tolkien
Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Meaning of Marriage by Tim Keller
Trust Exercise by Susan Choi ✨
The Day The World Stops Shopping by J.B. MacKinnon
A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson
Long Division by Kiese Laymon ✨
The Rising Storm by Cavan Scott
The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut
V for Vendetta by Alan Moore
Player Piano by Kurt Vonnegut
The Light of the Jedi by Charles Soule
White Noise by Don DeLillo ✨
Slaughterhouse Five (re-read) by Kurt Vonnegut
Maus by Art Spiegelman
Life and Holiness by Thomas Merton
Tough by Terry Crews ✨
Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
All The Shah’s Men by Stephen Kinzer
The Likeness by Tana French ✨
Stolen Focus by Johann Hari ✨
Snow Crash by Neil Stephenson
The Cloud of Unknowing by Anonymous
Dawn of the New Everything by Jaron Lanier
The Imitation of Christ by Thomas à Kempis
Witches and Witch Hunts: A History of Persecution by Milton Meltzer
Cultish by Amanda Montell
House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski ✨

2021

Crossroads by Jonathan Franzen ✨
The Stone Sky by N.K. Jemisin
The Obelisk Gate by N.K. Jemisin
The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin
The Circadian Code by Satchin Panda, PhD ✨
Beautiful World, Where Are You? by Sally Rooney ✨
Several People Are Typing by Calvin Kasulke
Antkind by Charlie Kaufman
Second Foundation by Isaac Asimov
Foundation and Empire by Isaac Asimov
Foundation by Isaac Asimov
Watchmen by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons ✨
No One Is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood ✨
Essentialism by Greg McKeown
Strength to Love by Martin Luther King, Jr.
A Desolation Called Peace by Arkady Martine
The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa
Futureproof by Kevin Roose
Exhalation by Ted Chiang
Disappearing Earth by Julia Phillips
All About Love: New Visions (re-read) by bell hooks
Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang ✨
Atomic Habits (Audiobook) James Clear ✨
Steve Jobs (Audiobook) by Walter Isaacson ✨
The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich
On Social Justice by St. Basil the Great
Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson