reading

loosely chronological

• The Burnout Society by Byung Chul Han
• Burn Book by Kara Swisher
• The Heart’s Invisible Furies by John Boyne
• The Nix by Nathan Hill
• Wellness by Nathan Hill
• The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
• A Psalmo for the Wild Built by Becky Chambers
• Birnam Wood by Eleanor Catton
• Loving-kindness by Sharon Salzberg
• Polysecure by Jessica Fern
• Mating in Captivity by Esther Perel
• Attached by Amir Levine and Rachel S. F. Heller
• The Subversive Simone Weil by Robert Zaretsky
• If We Burn by Vincent Bevins
• The Jakarta Method by Vincent Bevins
• Doppelganger by Naomi Klein
• Mutual Aid by Dean Spade
• A People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn
• Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire
• Why Nations Fail by Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson
• The Other Path by Hernan De Soto
• Creating Capabilities by Martha Nussbaum
• Los Pasos Perdidos by Alejo Carpentier
• Superpower by Russell Gold
• Scrum by Jeff Sutherland
• How Big Things Get Done by Bent Flyvbjerg
• What My Bones Know by Stephanie Foo
• Rayuela by Julio Cortazar
• At the Existentialist Cafe by Sarah Bakewell
• The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin
• Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
• How to do Nothing by Jenny Odell
• Memorias del fuego: El siglo de viento by Eduard Galeano
• Memorias del fuego: Las caras y las mascaras by Eduard Galeano
• Memorias del fuego: Los nacimientos by Eduard Galeano
• Stoner by John Williams
• Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John
• Power Shift by Peter Newell
• The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson
• A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
• Freedom by Jonathan Franzen
• The Mushroom at the End of the World by Anna Tsing
• The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus
• The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
• Dune by Frank Herbert
• How to Blowup a Pipeline by Andreas Malm
• The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula Le Guin
• La Muerte de Artemio Cruz by Carlos Fuentes
• The Stone Sky by N.K. Jemisin
• The Obelisk Gate by N.K. Jemisin
• The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin
• Parable of the Talents by Octavia Butler
• Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler
• Emergent Strategy by Adrienne Maree Brown
• On Writing by Stephen King
• Recollections of My Nonexistence by Rebecca Solnit
• Overstory by Richard Powers
• Conversaciones en la catedral by Mario Vargas Llosa
• La casa de los espiritús by Isabel Allende
• The Ethics of Ambiguity by Simone de Beauvior
• A Gentle Madness: Bibliophiles, bibliomaniacs, and the Eternal Passion for Books by Nicolas A. Basbanes
• Los detectives salvajes by Roberto Bolaño
• 2666 by Roberto Bolaño
• The Practice of the Wild by Gary Snyder
• Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov
• The Poetics and Politics of Ethnography by James Clifford
• Sapiens by Yuval Harari
• The Loser by Thomas Bernhard
• Wittgenstein´s Mistress by David Markson
• Patagonia Express by Luis Sepúlveda
• Un viejo que leía novelas de amor by Luis Sepúlveda
• Wherever You Go, There You Are by Jon Kabat-Zinn
• Nobody home by Gary Snyder
• Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration by David Wojnarowicz
• Wanderlust: A History of Walking by Rebecca Solnit
• A Field Guide to Getting Lost by Rebecca Solnit
• Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
• Bugombo Snuffbox by Kurt Vonnegut
• Las visiones y los mundos by Pedro Favaron
• Cuentos Completos by Jorge Luis Borges
• Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
• Journey to Ixtlan by Carlos Castaneda
• The Uninhabitable Earth by David Wallace-Wells
• El Amor en los tiempos de colera by Gabriel García Márquez
• Cien años de soledad by Gabriel García Márquez
• Ríos Profundos by José María Arguedas
• Ensayo sobre la ceguera by José Saramago
• Barbarian Days by William Finnegan
• Hard to be a Saint in the City by Robert Inchausti
• El Libro de los Abrazos by Eduardo Galeano
• Patas Arriba by Eduardo Galeano
• Espejos by Eduardo Galeano
• Pedro Paramo by Juan Rulfo
• El Aleph by Jorge Luis Borges
• One River by Wade Davis
• Temporary Autonomous Zones by Hakim Bey
• Donut Economics by Kate Raworth
• Spain, Take This Chalice from Me and Other Poems by Cesar Vallejo
• Tropiques Tristes by Claude Levi-Strauss
• Hope in the Dark by Rebecca Solnit
• Shadows in the Sun by Wade Davis
• Light at the Edge of the World by Wade Davis
• The Selected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers edited by Tim Hunt
• The Lost City of Z by David Grann
• Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
• Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
• On Tyranny by Timothy Snyder
• Learning to Die in the Anthropocene by Roy Scranton
• I Contain Multitudes by Ed Yong
• The Wayfinders by Wade Davis
• Wandering God by Morris Berman
• The Invention of Nature by Andrea Wulf
• The Songlines by Bruce Chatwin
• Saving Capitalism by Robert B. Reich
• The Desert Smells Like Rain by Gary Paul Nabham
• Crossing to Safety by Wallace Stegner
• Natural Acts by David Quammen
• Before the Dawn by Nicolas Wade
• The Glass Cage: How Computers are Changing Us by Nicholas Carr
• The Revenge of the Analog by David Sax
• Player Piano by Kurt Vonnegut
• The Twilight of American Culture by Morris Berman
• Crossing to Safety by Wallace Stegner
• A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
• Everything and More by David Foster Wallace
• Tibetan Peach Pie by Tom Robbins
• Wild Ducks Flying Backwards by Tom Robbins
• Portnoy’s Complaint by Philip Roth
• Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas by Tom Robbins
• Don Quixote by Cervantes
• Even Cowgirls Get the Blues by Tom Robbins
• Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates by Tom Robbins
• Quantum Electrodynamics by Richard P. Feynman
• Einstein’s Dreams by Alan Lightman
• Tesla: Inventor of the Electrical Age by W. Bernard Carlson
• The Meaning of it All by Richard P. Feynman
• Creating Climate Wealth by Jigar Shah
• Empires of Light by Jill Jonnes
• Smart Power by Peter Fox-Penner
• Reinventing Fire by Amory B. Lovins and RMI
• Skinny Legs and All by Tom Robbins
• Wild Thoughts from Wild Places by David Quammen
• Ishmael by Daniel Quinn
• Coming into the Country by John McPhee
• Boilerplate Rhino by David Quammen
• Annals of the Former World by John McPhee
• Natural Acts by David Quammen
• The Diversity of Life by EO Wilson
• Flight of the Iguana: A Sidelong View of Science and Nature by David Quammen
• Wilderness and the American Mind by Roderick Nash
• Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas R. Hofstadter
• Thinking in Systems: A Primer by Donella H. Meadows
• Complexity: A Guided Tour by Melanie Mitchell
• The Accidental Universe by Alan Lightman
• What is the What by Dave Eggers
• The Social Conquest of the Earth by EO Wilson
• The Essential Chomsky by Noam Chomsky edited by Anthony Arnove
• Bagombo Snuffbox by Kurt Vonnegut
• The Sense of Style: A Thanking Man’s Guide to Writing in the 21st Century by Stephen Pinker
• Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift
• The Lord of the Flies by William Golding
• Island by Aldous Huxley
• Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinctions by David Quammen
• Still Life With Woodpecker by Tom Robbins
• The Odyssey by Homer
• The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History by Elizabeth Kolbert
• This Changes Everything by Naomi Klein
• Reservation Blues by Sherman Alexie
• The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture by Wendell Berry
• Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind by Shunryu Suzuki
• Another Roadside Attraction by Tom Robbins
• Jitterbug Perfume by Tom Robbins
• A View of the River by Luna Leopold
• The War of Art by Stephen Pressfield
• Lost Land of the Dodo by Anthony Cheke & Julian P. Hume
• Empire of the Summer Moon by S.C. Gwynne
• The Emerald Mile by Kevin Fedarko
• The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven by Sherman Alexie
• Cataract Canyon by Robert H. Webb, Jayne Belnap, John S. Weisheit
• House of Rain: Tracking a Vanished Civilization by Craig Childs
• Utopia Deferred by Jean Baudrillard
• Beyond the Hundredth Meridian by Wallace Stegner
• A Sand County Almanac by Aldo Leopold
• Tortilla Flat by John Steinbeck
• Nirvana Blues by John Nichols
• The Magic Journey by John Nichols
• Central Park by Henry Hope Reed
• Brown Dog by Jim Harrison
• Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami
• Chaos by James Gleick
• Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut
• The Best American Nonrequired Reading edited by Dave Eggers
• Gertrude by Hermann Hesse
• Demian by Hermann Hesse
• Apocalyptic Planet by Craig Childs
• Galapagos by Kurt Vonnegut
• Welcome to the Monkey House by Kurt Vonnegut
• The Invention of Brownstone Brooklyn by Suleiman Osman
• Small is Beautiful by EF Schumacher
• The Omnivores Dilemma by Michael Pollan
• The One Straw Revolution by Masanobu Fukuoka
• The User Illsion by Tor Nørretranders
• The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
• Deep Economy by Bill McKibben
• Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese
• The Glass Bead Game by Herman Hesse
• Buddha’s Brain: The Practical Neuroscience of Happiness, Love, and Wisdom by Rick Hanson
• A Brief History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
• Sometimes a Great Notion by Ken Kesey
• Full Catastrophe Living by John Kabat-Zinn
• The Art of Living: Vipassana Meditation by William Hart
• War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
• The Alchemist by Paulo Coleho
• The Life and Times of Mexico by Earl Shorris
• The Book of Sand and Shakespeare’s Memory by Jorge Luis Borges
• The Queen of the South by Arturo Perez-Reverte
• Touching the Void by Joe Simpson
• One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
• The Pale King by David Foster Wallace
• A Supposedly Fun Thing I Will Never Do Again by David Foster Wallace
• Broom of the System by David Foster Wallace
• The Animal Dialogues by Craig Childs
• Finders Keepers by Craig Childs
• Big Money by John Dos Passos
• The 42nd Parallel by John Dos Passos
• Desert Solitaire by Edward Abbey
• 1919 by John Dos Passos
• The Old Patagonia Express by Paul Theroux
• A Hearbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers
• Wind Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
• The Teachings of Don Juan by Carlos Castaneda
• The History of Western Philosophy by Bertrand Russell
• American Pastoral by Philip Roth
• The Language Instinct by Stephen Pinker
• Campesino a Campesino by Eric Holt-Gimenez
• Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
• Two Ears of Corn by Roland Bunch
• Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut
• Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
• Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell
• Steppenwolf by Herman Hesse
• The Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
• The Man Who Mistook his Wife for a Hat by Oliver Sacks
• Mysticism and Logic by Bertrand Russell
• Siddartha by Herman Hesse
• Vipassana Meditation by William Hart
• No Exit by Jean Paul Sartre
• The Human Stain by Philip Roth
• Candide by Voltaire
• The Snow Leopard by Peter Mattheissen
• Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
• Against the Day by Thomas Pynchon
• V. by Thomas Pynchon
• Vineland by Thomas Pynchon
• The Green Collar Economy by Van Jones
• Collapse by Jared Diamond
• The Great Crash 1929 by John Kenneth Galbraith
• Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
• Herzog by Saul Bellow
• Absurdistan by Gary Shteyngart
• Howl by Allen Ginsberg
• The Quiet American by Graham Greene
• The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene
• Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
• Nostromo by Joseph Conrad
• Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson
• Hell’s Angels by Hunter S. Thomspon
• The Rum Diary by Hunter S. Thomspon
• Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail ’72 by Hunter S. Thomspon
• Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thomspon
• The Great Shark Hunt by Hunter S. Thomspon
• Theory of the Leisure Class by Thorstein Veblen
• A Primate’s Memoirs by Robert M. Sapolsky
• The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon
• King Rat by James Clavell
• Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
• The Road by Cormac McCarthy
• The Secret Knowledge of Water by Craig Childs
• Catch 22 by Joseph Heller
• Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
• Island by Aldous Huxley
• The Doors of Preception by Aldous Huxley
• Naked Lunch by William S. Borroughs
• Junky by William S. Borroughs
• The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemmingway
• The Dangerous Summer by Ernest Hemmingway
• Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemmingway
• A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemmingway
• For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemmingway
• The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
• Into Thin Air by John Krakauer
• Who Shall Live? By Victor Robert Fuchs
• The Social Transformation of American Medicine by Paul Starr
• Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco by Bryan Burrough and John Helyar
• Den of Thieves by James B. Stewart
• Liars Poker by Michael Lewis
• Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
• In the Heart of the Sea by Nathaniel Philbrick
• The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer
• The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe
• Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates
• Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond
• The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
• Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
• Money by Martin Amis
• A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking
• Fabric of the Cosmos by Brian Greene
• One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest by Ken Kesey
• Seven Years in Tibet by Heinrich Harrer
• Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pirsig
• Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
• Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
• Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts
• The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
• Riding Freight Trains in America by Duffy Littlejohn
• Down and Out in London and Paris by George Orwell
• Animal Farm by George Orwell
• 1984 by George Orwell
• Walden by Henry David Thoreau
• Ham on Rye by Charles Bukowski
• Post Office by Charles Bukowski
• Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
• Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
• Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut
• Jupiter’s Travels by Ted Simon
• Riding High by Ted Simon
• The Art of War by Sun Tzu
• Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk
• Tibetan Book of the Dead
• The Monkey Wrench Gang by Edward Abbey
• Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
• No Shortcuts to the Top by Ed Viesturs
• Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
• Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
• The Analects by Confuscius
• War and Peace by Tolstoy
• The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
• Dog Soldiers by Robert Stone
• The Informant by Kurt Eichenwald
• Everest to Arabia by Jaime Clark
• Staring at the Sun by Irvin Yalom
• The Professor and the Madman by Simon Winchester
• On the Road by Jack Kerouac
• Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac
• Desolation Angels by Jack Kerouac
• Big Sur by Jack Kerouac
• Darkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler
• Gandhi: An Autobiography by Mohandas Gandhi
• The Diamond Sutra and the Sutra of Hui Neng translated by Shambhala
• Valuing the Earth edited by Herman E. Daly and Kenneth N. Townsend
• Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo by Oscar Zeta Acosta

Essays/Articles:

El viejo que leía novelas de amor por Luis Sepúlveda
Al pie del alcantilado por Julio Ramón Ribeyra
99 Bottles of Pee on the Wall - Davy Rothbart
Existentialism is a Humanism - Jean Paul Satre
Pearls Before Breakfast - Gene Weingarten
The Death of Environmentalism - Ted Nordhaus and Michael Shellenberger
Quitting the Paint Factory - Mark Slouka
In Praise of Idleness - Bertrand Russell
Saving the Indigenous Soul: An Interview with Martin Prechtel  - Derrick Jensen