2024 Reading List
I love putting these together becuase it reveals to me my obsessions over the past year. As a (rather upsetting) election year, you can see that I spent awhile fixating on America and contemporary culture, trying to figure out “why are we like this??”
This year also included a deeper fixation on health and longetivity — I do believe there was a larger culture shift around this, but I am probably over-weighting it because my circle and I are reaching a Certain Age. I have a backlog of several more books along these lines that friends recommended… we’ll see how much more I want to learn about seed oils ;)
Love a good deep dive
- Dust: The Modern World in a Trillion Particles
- Frostbite: How Refrigeration Changed Our Food, Our Planet, and Ourselves
- Hell-Bent: Obsession, Pain, and the Search for Something Like Transcendence in Competitive Yoga
- Addiction by Design: Machine Gambling in Las Vegas
- Filterworld: How Algorithms Flattened Culture
- Sea Change: A Message of the Oceans
Health & Cognitive Science
- Outlive: The Science and Art of Longevity
- The Comfort Crisis: Embrace Discomfort To Reclaim Your Wild, Happy, Healthy Self
- Good Energy: The Surprising Connection Between Metabolism and Limitless Health
- How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain
- Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection
- Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity
Politics, Baby
- Achieving Our Country : Leftist Thought in Twentieth-Century America Leftist Thought in Twentieth-Century America
- Poverty, by America
- Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
- Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century
Hey look I read a fiction book
Culture Critique
- The Culture Map: Breaking Through the Invisible Boundaries of Global Business
- The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness
- The World Beyond Your Head: On Becoming an Individual in an Age of Distraction
- The Disappearance of Rituals: A Topology of the Present
- The Fourth Turning Is Here: What the Seasons of History Tell Us about How and When This Crisis Will End
- How to Decide: Simple Tools for Making Better Choices