Book Club
I love books and am a passionate reader, always reading, and have been throughout my life since youth. My habit has picked up in the last couple of years as I’ve started engaging with audiobooks through a pristine, overused library card. This is an ongoing list of books I’ve read or listened to, largely in order from the most recently finished. Books that have particularly rocked my world, for a wide variety of reasons, are noted with an asterisk (*) and some have links to author pages. Those that I’ve recently reread are marked with a !!
Want to join my book club? Contact ivarzeile@gmail.com
Moscow to the end of the line by Venedikt Erofeev
In Praise of Good Bookstores by Jeff Deutsch
Burdened: Student Debt and the Making of an American Crisis by Ryann Liebenthal
Bootstrapped by Alissa Quart
Annihilation by Michel Houellebecq (*)
Health and Safety by Emily Witt
American Estrangement by Said Sayrafiezadeh
An Honest Woman - A memoir of love and sex work by Charlotte Shane
Down with the System by Serj Tankian
Patriot by Alexei Navalny (*)
Blue Lard by Vladimir Sorokin
Love & Trouble by Claire Dederer (*)
Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari
Hum by Helen Phillips
Nexus by Yuval Noah Harari
The Art of Power: My Story as America’s First Woman Speaker of the House by Nanci Pelosi
Code Dependent: Living in the Shadow of AI by Madhumita Murgia
The Message by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Jakob von Gunten by Robert Walser !!!
Monsters: A Fan’s Dilemma by Claire Dederer (*)
Hospicing Modernity: Facing Humanity’s Wrongs and the Implications for Social Activism by Vanessa Machado De Oliveira (*)
The Singularity is Nearer: When we merge with AI by Ray Kurzweil
Sleepless - A Memoir of Insomnia by Marie Darrieussecq
21 Lessons for the 21st Century by Yuval Noah Harari (*) !!
Having and Being Had by Eula Biss
A Toast to St. Martiria by Albert Serra (*)
McGlue by Ottessa Moshfegh !!
The Secret Lives of Booksellers and Librarians by James Patterson & Matt Eversmann
The Last Days of Roger Federer by Geoff Dyer !!
Fassbinder Thousands of Mirrors by Ian Penman
Tell Me Everything by Erika Krouse
Rebel Girl by Kathleen Hanna
The Showman: Inside the invasion that shook the world and made a leader out of Volodymyr Zelensky by Simon Shuster
Fake Accounts by Lauren Oyler
Unspeakable by Meghan Daum
Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism by Anne Applebaum
All Fours by Miranda July (*)
A Body Made of Glass by Caroline Crampton
Rebel Ideas: The Power of Thinking Differently by Matthew Syed
Video Green by Chris Kraus !!
Change by Edouard Louis
All things are too small by Becca Rothfield
The Incal I-III by Alexandro Jodorowsky and Jean "Moebius" Giraud !!
Seratonin by Michel Houellebecq !!
Little Failure by Gary Shteyngart
Determined by Robert Sapolsky
The Map and the Territory by Michel Houellebecq !!
Feel Free by Zadie Smith (*)
Night Boat to Tangier by Kevin Barry
The Street of Crocodiles by Bruno Schulz !!
Submission by Michel Houellebecq !!
Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar
Techno Feudalism: What Killed Capitalism by Yanis Varoufakis (*)
Pachyderme by Frederick Peeters
Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow by Yuval Noah Harari (*)
Before the Incal by Alexandro Jodoworsky and Zoran Janjetov (*)
Everyone you hate is going to die by Daniel Sloss
No Judgment by Lauren Oyler (*)
One Day I’ll work for Myself by Benjamin C. Waterhouse
The Anxious Generation by Jonathan Haidt
Semiotics of the End / On Capitalism and the Apocalypse by Alessandro Sbordoni
How to pronounce Knife by Souvankham Thammavongsa
Single Mothering by Anna Harmala
Earlier by Sasha Frere Jones (*)
Caste by Isabel Wilkerson (*)
Radiant by Brad Gooch
Languishing by Corey Keyes
12 Bytes by Jeanette Winterson (*)
Frankissstein by Jeanette Winterson
Splinters by Leslie Jamison
Elon Musk by Walter Isaacson
Get the Picture by Bianca Bosker (*)
Everyone who is gone is here by Jonathan Blitzer
Slow Down by Kohei Saito
How to see by Thich Nhat Hanh
Predictably Irrational by Dan Ariely
The Handover by David Runciman
Filterworld by Kyle Chayka (*)
Going into town by Roz Chast
Romney by McKay Coppins
The Mountain Is You by Briana Weist
Faith, Hope and Carnage by Nick Cave and Sean O’Hagan (*)
Profiles in Ignorance by Andy Borowitz
Mapping the Darkness by Kenneth Miller
Novelist as a Vocation by Haruki Murakami
Can’t we talk about something more pleasant? By Roz Chast
Orbital by Samantha Harvey
An Enlarged Heart: A Personal History by Cynthia Zarin
Sing Backwards and Weep by Mark Lanegan (*)
The Power Broker by Robert Caro
Tupac Shakur by Staci Robinson
Misbelief by Dan Ariely
Some People Need Killing by Patricia Evangelista
Biography of X by Catherine Lacey (*)
God, Human, Animal, Machine by Meghan O'Gieblyn
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck by Mark Manson
Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World by Naomi Klein
Every Man for Himself and God Against All by Werner Herzog (*)
Yoga by Emmanuel Carrère (*)
The Will to Change Men, Masculinity, and Love by Bell Hooks (*)
Pryor Convictions and Other Life Sentences by Richard Pryor
Poverty by America by Matthew Desmond
Sunday 1-7 by Olivier Schrauwen (*)
Carmageddon by Daniel Knowles
The Art Thief by Michael Finkel
All About Love by Bell Hooks
The Day of the Oprichnik by Vladimir Sorokin
A short history of nearly everything by Bill Bryson
Blood of the Virgin by Sammy Harkham
Telluria by Vladimir Sorokin
War & War by Laszlo Krasznahorkai (*)
Stuck on the Platform by Geert Lovink
Laszlo Parker by Moebius (*)
Bela Tarr: The Time After by Jacques Rancier
Interventions by Michel Houellebecq
A Spectre Haunting by China Mieville
The Art of Film Projection by George Eastman Museum (*)
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow: A Novel by Gabrielle Zevin
This list dates to approximately early 2023. More books pre-dating this period to be added at a later time.
