2023 Reading List

What a year, what a year! This was a pretty varied one for me, with some high highs and some lowwww lows.

I’m still on my non-fiction reading kick, but my attention has been seeping outwards in different directions. I’ve been enjoying various deep-dives, a vertiable sample platter of cultural quirks.

Let me know if you decide to read any of these books — I do love to discuss! :)

Systems Upon Systems

• The Secret Life of Groceries: The Dark Miracle of the American Supermarket
• How Infrastructure Works: Inside the Systems That Shape Our World
• Wrong Way — Joanne’s new book!

The Lovely Search for Meaning

• God, Human, Animal, Machine: Technology, Metaphor, and the Search for Meaning
• Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock
• American Cosmic: UFOs, Religion, Technology
• Magic: A History: From Alchemy to Witchcraft, from the Ice Age to the Present

Nature-ish

• Pollution Is Colonialism
• The Sounds of Life: How Digital Technology Is Bringing Us Closer to the Worlds of Animals and Plants
• Why Zebras Don’t Get Ulcers: The Acclaimed Guide to Stress, Stress-Related Diseases, and Coping

Misc Non-Fiction

• Under the Eye of Power: How Fear of Secret Societies Shapes American Democracy
• Computational Formalism: Art History and Machine Learning
• Blood Money: The Story of Life, Death, and Profit Inside America’s Blood Industry

Fiction

• Strange Labor
• The Every
• The Crying of Lot 49

As always — if you have reading suggestions, please send them my way :)