What I’m Reading

One of my personal goals is to read more. Some kinds of books I like to read are scifi and fantasy novels; U.S. and modern world history; feminism and antiracism; and, yes, the occasional book on math, network science, or computing.

Here’s what I’ve been reading recently.

Current

• A People’s History of Computing in the United States by Joy Lisi Rankin
• The Annotated Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster and Jules Feiffer
• Parable of the Talents by Octavia Butler

2023

  Nonfiction

• The Privileged Poor: How Elite Colleges Are Failing Disadvantaged Students by Anthony Abraham Jack
• Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? by Beverly Daniel Tatum
• Lost Kingdom: Hawaii’s Last Queen, the Sugar Kings, and Americaa’s First Imperial Venture by Julia Flynn Siler
• The Guarded Gate by Daniel Okrent
• Race After Technology by Ruha Benjamin
• Ungrading: Why Rating Students Undermines Learning (and What to Do Instead), edited by Susan D. Blum

  Fiction

• Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler
• Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
• Under the Whispering Door by T. J. Klune
• Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng
• Kindred by Octavia Butler
• The World We Make by N. K. Jemisin
• A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles

2022

  Nonfiction

• Stamped From the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America by Ibram X. Kendi
• The Silk Roads: A New History of the World by Peter Frankopan
• Fairness and Machine Learning: Limitations and Opportunities by Solon Barocas, Moritz Hardt, and Arvind Narayanan
• Hero of Two Worlds: The Marquis de Lafayette in the Age of Revolution by Mike Duncan
• The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story edited by Nikole Hannah-Jones

  Fiction

• The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V. E. Schwab
• Siren Queen by Nghi Vo
• Lilith’s Brood by Octavia Butler
• Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr
• The Sentence by Louise Erdrich
• Fevered Star by Rebecca Roanhorse
• The House in the Cerulean Sea by T.J. Klune
• Far Sector by N. K. Jemisin and Jamal Campbell
• The Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells
• The Witness for the Dead by Katherine Addison
• The Goblin Emperor by Katherine Addison
• How Long ’til Black Future Month? by N. K. Jemisin

2021

  Nonfiction

• Calling Bullshit by Carl Bergstrom and Jevin West
• Invisible Women by Caroline Criado Perez
• Entitled: How Male Privilege Hurts Women by Kate Manne
• How to be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
• An Indigenous People’s History of the United States by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
• Specifications Grading by Linda B. Nilson
• Linear Algebra and Optimization for Machine Learning by Charu C. Aggarwal
• These Truths by Jill Lepore

  Fiction

• Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng
• The Book of Form and Emptiness by Ruth Ozeki
• Wild Seed by Octavia Butler
• A Desolation Called Peace by Arkady Martine
• A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine
• Future Home of the Living God by Louise Erdrich
• Paradise by Toni Morrison
• The Dreamblood Duology by N. K. Jemisin (reread)
• The Broken Earth Trilogy by N. K. Jemisin (reread)
• The Inheritance Trilogy by N. K. Jemisin (reread)
• Rhythm of War by Brandon Sanderson
• Black Sun by Rebecca Roanhorse
• Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi
• The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern

2020

  Nonfiction

• Algorithms of Oppression by Safiya Umoja Noble
• Automating Inequality by Virginia Eubanks
• Weapons of Math Destruction by Cathy O’Neil
• Washington: A Life by Ron Chernow
• So You Want To Talk About Race by Ijoema Oluo
• The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes (reread)
• Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman

  Fiction

• The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen
• The City We Became by N. K. Jemisin
• Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett (reread)
• The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver