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I read Books and Poetry.

• Things around the internet - Links to articles I have found interesting lately.

• Poets I am enjoying - Ada Limón / Danez Smith / Mary Oliver / Vera Pavlova / Jack Gilbert / Carl Phillips / Louise Glück / Michael Ondaatje / Frank O'Hara / CK Williams / Eileen Myles / Frank Lima / Adrienne Rich / Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge / Gary Snyder / Ocean Vuong / Galway Kinnell

Books in 2015:

• Shantaram, Gregory David Roberts

• The Magus, John Fowles

• The Secret Lives of People in Love: Stories, Simon Van Booy

• Eleanor & Park, Rainbow Rowell

• Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, Haruki Murakami

• The Ender Quintet, Orson Scott Card (all 5 books!)

• The Rosie Project, Graeme Simsion

• The Rosie Effect: A Novel, Graeme Simsion

• On the Road, Jack Kerouac

• Reinventing Organizations, Frederic Laloux

Books in 2016:

• Seveneves, Neal Stephenson

• The Martian, Andy Weir

• How to Win Friends & Influence People, Dale Carnegie

• The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up, Marie Kondo

• Incidents of Travel in Poetry, Frank Lima

• So Good They Can't Ignore You, Cal Newport

• Ozone Journal, Peter Balakian

• On Writing, Stephen King

• The Art of Stillness, Pico Iyer

• The Year of Magical Thinking, Joan Didion

• The Course of Love, Alain de Botton

• The Argonauts, Maggie Nelson

• Middlesex, Jeffrey Eugenides

• Letters to Emma Bowlcut, Bill Callahan

• The Days of Abandonment, Elena Ferrante

• Service Included, Phoebe Damrosch

Books in 2017:

• Big Magic, Elizabeth Gilbert*

• Bright Dead Things, Ada Limón*

• The Best American Short Stories of 2016, Junot Díaz

• The Rules Do Not Apply: A Memoir, Ariel Levy*

• The Story of a Brief Marriage, Anuk Arudpragasm

• Widow Basquiat, Jennifer Clement*

• Stories of Your Life and Others, Ted Chiang

• Citizen: An American Lyric, Claudia Rankine

• Flâneuse: Women Walk the City, Lauren Elkin

• Option B, Sheryl Sandberg

• The Lifecycle of Software Objects, Ted Chiang

• Girls on Fire, Robin Wasserman

• The Odd Woman and the City, Vivian Gornick

• Goodbye, Vitamin, Rachel Khong*

• The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood*

• Forest Dark, Nicole Krauss
  

Books in 2018:

• The Four Agreements, Don Miguel Ruiz

• The Book of Forgiving, Desmond Tutu

• When Things Fall Apart, Pema Chödrön (reread)*

• Reconciliation: Healing the Inner Child, Thich Nhat Hanh

• On The Shortness Of Life, Seneca

• Blue Nights, Joan Didion*

• The Blue Zones of Happiness, Dan Buettner

• Dusk and Other Stories, James Salter

• Commonwealth, Ann Patchett*

• Run, Ann Patchett

• Selected Crônicas, Clarice Lispector

• This Will Be My Undoing, Morgan Jerkins*

• Chemistry, Weike Wang*

• Sour Heart, Jenny Zhang

• Crazy Rich Asians, Kevin Kwan

• A Gentleman in Moscow, Amor Towles*

• The Fifth Season (Book #1 of Broken Earth), N. K. Jemisin

• See What Can be Done, Lorrie Moore

• Bird by Bird (reread), Anne Lamott

• A Thousand Mornings, Mary Oliver

• Steve Jobs, Walter Isaacson

• Gods Behaving Badly, Marie Phillips

• A Field Guide to Getting Lost, Rebecca Solnit

• Foundation, Isaac Asimov

• The Last Lecture, Randy Pausch (reread)

• Ready Player One, Ernest Cline

• The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable

• The Obstacle Is the Way, Ryan Holiday

• Where’d You Go, Bernadette?, Marie Semple

• Between The World And Me, Ta-Nehisi Coates

• Brave Enough, Cheryl Strayed

• Lean In, Sheryl Sandberg

• When Breath Becomes Air, Paul Kalanithi

• Hemingway In Love, A.E. Hotchner

• Bluets, Maggie Nelson

• Daring Greatly, Brené Brown

• Here Is New York, E.B. White

• Night Sky With Exit Wounds, Ocean Vuong

• Freedom, Jonathan Franzen

• World War Z, Max Brooks

• Dune, Frank Herbert

• Becoming Wise, Krista Tippett

• Man's Search For Meaning, Viktor Frankl

• Night, Etel Adnan

• All The Light We Cannot See, Anthony Doerr

• Hope In The Dark, Rebecca Solnit*

• A Little Life, Hanya Yanagihara*

• Do Not Say We Have Nothing, Madeleine Thien*

• The Three-Body Problem, Liu Cixin

• How to Love, Thich Nhat Hanh

• When Things Fall Apart, Pema Chödrön

• Catching the Big Fish, David Lynch

• Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life, Marshall Rosenberg

• Safekeeping, Abigail Thomas

• Ongoingness, Sarah Manguso

• The Boat, Nam Le

• Torch, Cheryl Strayed

• Grit, Angela Duckworth

• City of Thieves, David Benioff

• The Leavers, Lisa Ko

• You Are Here, Thich Nhat Hanh*

• Autumn, Ali Smith*

• Winter, Ali Smith

• The Book of Joy, Dalai Lama and Desmond Tutu

• Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie*

• The Faraway Nearby, Rebecca Solnit*

• South and West, Joan Didion

• Handwriting, Michael Ondaatje

• Dept of Speculation, Jenny Offill*

• Last Things, Jenny Offill

• Do Not Say We Have Nothing, Madeleine Thien (reread)

• Player Piano, Kurt Vonnegut

• Motherhood, Sheila Heti*

• The Book of Essie, Meghan MacLean Weir

• The Devil in the White City, Erik Larson

• A Gate at the Stairs, Lorrie Moore

• Measure What Matters, John Doerr

• The Long Goodbye, Meghan O’Rourke

• An Unkindness of Ghosts, Rivers Soloman
  
  

Books in 2019:

• The Carrying, Ada Limón

• Dear Friend, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life, Yiyun Li

• Mornings Like This: Found Poems, Annie Dillard

• The Story of My Teeth, Valeria Luiselli

• How to Write an Autobiographical Novel, Alexander Chee*

• Tonight I’m Someone Else: Essays, Chelsea Hodson

• An American Childhood, Annie Dillard

• M Train, Patti Smith*

• The Writing Life, Annie Dillard

• Eve’s Hollywood, Eve Babitz

• Becoming, Michelle Obama*

• An American Marriage, Tayari Jones*

• The Power, Naomi Alderman

• Educated, Tara Westover

• The Uncoupling, Meg Wolitzer

• Pachinko, Min Jin Lee

• The Water Cure, Sophie Mackintosh

• The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories, Ken Liu

• The Buddha in the Attic, Julie Otsuka

• Exit West, Mohsin Hamid

• For Today I Am a Boy, Kim Fu*

• The White Book, Han Kang

• I Feel Bad About My Neck: And Other Thoughts on Being a Woman, Nora Ephron

• Heartburn, Nora Ephron

• Leftover in China, Roseann Lake