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Bookshelf

This was inspired by Patrick Collison's bookshelf. Unlike his, this is not a list of all the books I own, but a list of the books that I've read and find notable in some way. It's a subset of the books I've rated 4 or 5 stars on Goodreads, where I've maintained a reading list for the last couple of years.

A few of my favorites are highlighted in green.

• Monsignor Quixote — Graham Greene
• Beneath a Black and White Sky: A Year Among Condors at Pinnacles National Park — Joseph Belli
• California Amphibians and How to Find Them — Emily Taylor
• A Month in the Country — J.L. Carr
• Kingbird Highway: The Biggest Year in the Life of an Extreme Birder — Kenn Kaufman
• The Heart in Winter — Kevin Barry
• In the Distance — Hernan Diaz
• All the Pretty Horses — Cormac McCarthy
• A Canticle for Leibowitz — Walter M. Miller Jr.
• Dungeon Crawler Carl — Matt Dinniman
• Audubon's Birds of America: The Tiny Folio — Editors of Abbeville Press
• Roly-Poly Round Seals! — Chiho Kuwada
• Madarak — András Keve
• Chess Story — Stefan Zweig
• The Peregrine — J.A. Baker
• The Long Walk — Stephen King
• If Cats Disappeared from the World — Genki Kawamura
• A Mini Guide to the Identification of New Zealand's Land Birds — Andrew Crowe
• No One Writes Back — Jang Eun-Jin
• Black Sabbath's Master of Reality — John Darnielle
• We Do Not Part — Han Kang
• Fat City — Leonard Gardner
• The Picture of Dorian Gray — Oscar Wilde
• Death Comes for the Archbishop — Willa Cather
• Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead — Olga Tokarczuk
• Jonathan Livingston Seagull — Richard Bach
• The Ox-Bow Incident — Walter Van Tilburg Clark
• Dinosnores — Sandra Boynton
• San Francisco 1878: Portrait of the City — Eadweard Muybridge
• Shane — Jack Schaefer
• Building California: Technology and the Landscape — Michael R. Corbett
• The Heart of the Matter — Graham Greene
• The Birds in the Oaks: Secret Voices of the Western Woods — Jack Gedney
• The Sisters Brothers — Patrick deWitt
• Blood Meridian — Cormac McCarthy
• Butcher's Crossing — John Williams
• The Hobbit, or There and Back Again — J.R.R. Tolkien
• The Fellowship of the Ring — J.R.R. Tolkien
• The Two Towers — J.R.R. Tolkien
• The Return of the King — J.R.R. Tolkien
• Stoner — John Williams
• Beware of Pity — Stefan Zweig
• Slaughterhouse-Five — Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
• Catch-22 — Joseph Heller
• Watership Down — Richard Adams
• The Stranger — Albert Camus
• A Summer Life — Gary Soto
• The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine — Michael Lewis
• Moneyball — Michael Lewis
• The Lincoln Highway — Amor Towles
• Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster — Jon Krakauer
• East of Eden — John Steinbeck
• The Goldfinch — Donna Tartt
• How Soccer Explains the World — Franklin Foer
• All Quiet on the Western Front — Erich Maria Remarque
• The Old Man and the Sea — Ernest Hemingway
• The Catcher in the Rye — J.D. Salinger
• The Martian — Andy Weir
• Dune — Frank Herbert
• A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms — George R.R. Martin
• Red Harvest — Dashiell Hammett
• The Maltese Falcon — Dashiell Hammett
• Foster — Claire Keegan
• Milkman — Anna Burns
• Small Things Like These — Claire Keegan
• Master and Man — Leo Tolstoy
• Dubliners — James Joyce
• The Idiot — Elif Batuman
• Silence — Shūsaku Endō
• Hadji Murád — Leo Tolstoy
• A Farewell to Arms — Ernest Hemingway
• Solo Faces — James Salter
• The Correspondent — Virginia Evans
• There and Back: Photographs from the Edge — Jimmy Chin
• The Sibley Field Guide to Birds of Western North America — David Allen Sibley