Books I haven’t read, but like the idea of having read, and plan to read in the future. Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia Gilles Deleuze The Revolt of the Elites and the Betrayal of Democracy Christopher Lasch How to Go to the Movies Quentin Crisp The True and Only Heaven: Progress and Its Critics Christopher Lasch The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in An Age of Diminishing Expectations Christopher Lasch K-punk: The Collected and Unpublished Writings of Mark Fisher Mark Fisher One Child: The Story of China's Most Radical Experiment Mei Fong The Corpse Walker: Real Life Stories, China from the Bottom Up Liao Yiwu Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China Evan Osnos Inherent Vice Thomas Pynchon Vamps & Tramps: New Essays Camille Paglia The Death of Ivan Ilyich Leo Tolstoy Anna Karenina Leo Tolstoy Pale Fire Vladimir Nabokov Lolita Vladimir Nabokov The Brothers Karamazov Fyodor Dostoevsky Beyond Civilization: Humanity's Next Great Adventure Daniel Quinn Industrial Society and Its Future Theodore J. Kaczynski Another End of the World Is Possible: Living the Collapse (and Not Merely Surviving It) Pablo Servigne Simulacra and Simulation Jean Baudrillard Myra Breckenridge/Myron Gore Vidal In Dubious Battle John Steinbeck The Sympathizer Viet Thanh Nguyen The Pale King David Foster Wallace The Sellout Paul Beatty My Struggle: Book 1 Karl Ove Knausgård The Map and the Territory Michel Houellebecq The Elementary Particles Michel Houellebecq An Immense World Ed Yong Trust Hernan Diaz Gilead (Gilead, #1) Marilynne Robinson Stoner John Williams Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons: Revised and Updated Second Edition Siegfried Engelmann Blockchain Chicken Farm: And Other Stories of Tech in China's Countryside Xiaowei Wang The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy David Graeber The Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron Bethany McLean Skin in the Game: The Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life Nassim Nicholas Taleb Slouching Towards Utopia: An Economic History of the Twentieth Century J. Bradford DeLong How the World Was One Arthur C. Clarke The Software Paradox Stephen O’Grady When Genius Failed: The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital Management Roger Lowenstein Subprime Attention Crisis: Advertising and the Time Bomb at the Heart of the Internet Tim Hwang Database Internals: A deep-dive into how distributed data systems work Alex Petrov A Farewell to Arms Ernest Hemingway Nixon Agonistes: The Crisis of the Self-Made Man Garry Wills Public Citizens: The Attack on Big Government and the Remaking of American Liberalism Paul Sabin The Works: Anatomy of a City Kate Ascher Losing the Signal: The Untold Story Behind the Extraordinary Rise and Spectacular Fall of BlackBerry Jacquie McNish Cyberville: Clicks, Culture, and the Creation of an Online Town Stacy Horn Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder Nassim Nicholas Taleb Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America Barbara Ehrenreich The Glass Teat Harlan Ellison The Autobiography of Malcolm X Malcolm X The Datacenter as a Computer: An Introduction to the Design of Warehouse-Scale Machines Luiz André Barroso Mort (Discworld, #4; Death, #1) Terry Pratchett The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity David Graeber Container Security: Fundamental Technology Concepts That Protect Containerized Applications Liz Rice Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community Robert D. Putnam Expert Political Judgment: How Good Is It? How Can We Know? Philip E. Tetlock A Confederacy of Dunces John Kennedy Toole