I was inspired by Susan Fowler’s Rigetti’s reading list and decided to make my own. I don’t read nearly as much as she does (52 books a year!) but I’d like to get there. I’ve read many books before but only started the tracking habit in 2019, which helped me realize that I wasn’t reading nearly as much as I’d like.

Note on the links: Wherever possible I try to link to the author’s website where you can purchase the book. And like Susan, I added an asterisk to the books I particularly enjoyed.

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Reading in progress:

• All We Can Save* anthology of writings by 60 women at the forefront of the climate movement (edited by Ayana Elizabeth Johnson)
• Peace Is Every Step by Thich Nhat Hanh
• Women Who Run with the Wolves by Clarissa Pinkola Estés

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2023

1. White Women: Everything You Already Know About Your Own Racism and How to Do Better by Regina Jackson and Saira Rao
2. The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
3. The Education of an Idealist by Samantha Power
4. Rifqa by Mohammed El-Kurd
5. The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho

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2022

1. Anxious People by Fredrik Backman (Voiced by Marin Ireland)*
2. All The Things I Never Told You by Celeste Ng*
3. Beautiful Country: A Memoir of An Undocumented Childhood by Qian Julie Wang*
4. The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
5. I’m So Effing Tired by Amy Shah MD
6. Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer

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2021

1. A Promised Land by Barack Obama*
2. America Through A Train Window by Liz Bains*
3. The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky*
4. How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need by Bill Gates
5. I Can’t Make This Up: Life Lessons by Kevin Hart
6. Nothing Like I Imagined (except for sometimes) by Mindy Kaling
7. Against a Loveless World by Susan Abulhawa*
8. The Runaways by Fatima Bhutto*
9. The Book of Longings by Sue Monk Kidd
10. What Happened to You? Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing by Dr. Bruce Perry and Oprah Winfrey
11. Sidesplitter by Phil Wang (audiobook)*

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2020 full reading list

1. Talking to Strangers by Malcolm Gladwell*
2. We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler*
3. Delay, Don’t Deny by Gin Stevens
4. Atomic Habits by James Clear
5. Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
6. Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid*
7. Wild by Cheryl Strayed*
8. On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong*
9. Homo Deus by Yuval Noah Hariri
10. I’m Still Here by Austin Channing Brown
11. Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
12. Know My Name by Chanel Miller*
13. An American Marriage by Tayari Jones
14. Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng
15. Pachinko by Min Jin Lee*
16. Girl Decoded by Rana el Kaliouby
17. You Should Talk to Someone by Lori Gottlieb
18. My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante*
19. The Dutch House by Ann Patchett* (narrated by Tom Hanks)
20. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz
21. A Long Petal of the Sea by Isabel Allende*
22. Island Beneath the Sea by Isabel Allende*
23. My Brief History by Stephen Hawking

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2019 full reading list

1. Becoming by Michelle Obama*
2. The Woman in the Window by AJ Finn
3. Educated by Tara Westover*
4. Good and Mad by Rebecca Traister*
5. Tiny Beautiful Things by Cheryl Strayed*
6. Sapiens by Yuval Harari
7. God by Reza Aslan
8. Without a Map by Meredith Hall*
9. Dear Girls by Ali Wong*
10. Naturally Tan by Tan France*
11. Comedy Sex God by Pete Holmes*

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