2025

• Melting Point by Rachel Cockerell

• All Fours by Miranda July

• The Last White Man by Mohsin Hamid

• The Free World by Louis Menand

• The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch by Philip K. Dick

• The Center of the Cyclone by John C. Lilly

• Elric of Melnibone by Michael Moorcock

• Empire of AI by Karen Hao

• Sucker Punch by Scaachi Koul

• Perfection by Vincenzo Latronico

• Hunchback by Saou Ichikawa

• Underneath by Lily Hoang

• Rental House by Weike Wang

• Optional Practical Training by Shubha Sunder

• Housemates by Emma Copley Eisenberg

• No One Gets to Fall Apart by Sarah LaBrie

• That Good Night: Life and Medicine in the Eleventh Hour by Sunitha Puri

• Lao Tzi's Dao De Jing: A New Interpretation translated by Ken Liu

• When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi

• Being Mortal by Atul Gawande

• How We Die by Sherwin Nuland

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2024

• Bright-Sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking has Undermined America by Barbara Ehrenreich

• The Serviceberry by Robin Wall Kimmerer

• Either/Or by Elif Batman

• Colored Television by Danzy Senna

• Hard Rain Falling by Don Carpenter

• Midnight Self by Adrian Van Young

• All This Could be Different by Sarah Thankam Mathews

• The Expendable Man by Dorothy Hughes

• Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma by Claire Dederer

• The Idiot by Elif Batuman

• Severance by Ling Ma

• Exit West by Mohsen Hamid

• Salvage The Bones by Jesmyn Ward

• Fat City by Leonard Gardner

• King: A Life by Jonathan Eig

• The Worst Hard Time by Timothy Egan

• Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro

• Strangers to Ourselves by Rachel Aviv

• The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness by Meghan O'Rourke

• Malas by Marcela Fuentes

• Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders

• The First Cell by Azra Raza

• And Finally by Henry Marsh

• History of Present Illness by Anna DeForest

• Edinburgh by Alexander Chee

• The Mahabharata translated by John D. Smith

• The Glass Bead Game by Herman Hesse

• The Life You Can Save by Peter Singer

• The Collected Schizophrenias by Esme Weijun Wang

• The Maniac by Benjamin Labatut

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2023

• The Essence of the Upanishads: The Key to Indian Spirituality by Eknath Easwaran

• The Flamethrowers - Rachel Kushner

• How to do Nothing - Jenny Odell

• Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention - Johann Hari

• English, August: An Indian Story - Upamanyu Chatterjee

• Leg - Greg Marshall

• Liberation Day - George Saunders

• The Half-Known Life: In Search of Paradise - Pico Iyer

• The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny, and Murder - David Grann

• When We Cease To Understand The World - Benjamin Labatut (re-read)

• The Upanishads - translated by Eknath Easwaran (re-read)

• The Biography of X - Catherine Lacey

• Wolfish - Erica Berry

• The Snow Leopard - Peter Matthiessen (re-read)

• The Book of My Lives - Aleksandar Hemon

• Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in Forty Questions - Valeria Luiselli

• The Dhammapada - translated by Eknath Easwaran

• American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer - Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin