Books I like

A shelf of books I have read, revisited, or kept thinking about.

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One Piece

Eiichiro Oda

“Children who’ve never known peace have different values than children who’ve never known war.”

I think that, before One Piece, I just didn’t appreciate manga as the rich literary form it is. Enies Lobby, Marineford, and the first visit to Sabaody moved me in ways I did not expect at all.

I love that Luffy doesn’t demand certainty before moving. He can be angry, scared, embarrassed, grieving, or confused and still continue in the direction that matters to him.

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  1. One Piece by Eiichiro Oda

    “Children who’ve never known peace have different values than children who’ve never known war.”

    I think that, before One Piece, I just didn’t appreciate manga as the rich literary form it is. Enies Lobby, Marineford, and the first visit to Sabaody moved me in ways I did not expect at all.

    I love that Luffy doesn’t demand certainty before moving. He can be angry, scared, embarrassed, grieving, or confused and still continue in the direction that matters to him.

  2. An Absolutely Remarkable Thing by Hank Green

    Behold the field in which I grow my fucks. Lay thine eyes upon it and see that it is barren.

  3. Small Fry by Lisa Brennan-Jobs
  4. My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh

    I even made myself a cup of chamomile tea, the nauseating sweet smell wafting up from my chipped coffee cup like a hot diaper. This was supposed to be relaxing?

  5. White Teeth by Zadie Smith

    Greeting cards routinely tell us everybody deserves love. No. Everybody deserves clean water. Not everybody deserves love all the time.

  6. The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen

    Fiction is a solution, the best solution, to the problem of existential solitude.

  7. White Noise by Don DeLillo

    It is possible to be homesick for a place even when you are there.

  8. The Trial by Franz Kafka

    you don't need to accept everything as true, you only have to accept it as necessary.

  9. Feel Free by Zadie Smith
  10. The Broom of the System by David Foster Wallace
  11. A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking
  12. You Are Not a Gadget by Jaron Lanier
  13. What We Talk About When We Talk About Love: Stories by Raymond Carver

    To put a finer point on it, I’m the type of person who doesn’t find it painful to be alone

  14. Introduction to Quantitative Genetics by Falconer and Mackay
  15. Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
  16. Thinking About Evolution
  17. J.B.S: The life and Work of J.B.S Haldane by Ronald Clark