Peter Rentz

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‘Absurdistan’ by Gary Shteyngart

‘The Years of Lyndon Johnson: Means of Ascent’ by Robert A. Caro

‘The Years of Lyndon Johnson: The Path to Power’ by Robert A. Caro

‘Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty’ by Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson

‘The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York’ by Robert A. Caro

‘The Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium’ by Martin Gurri

‘The Committed’ by Viet Thanh Nguyen

‘The Underground Railroad’ by Colson Whitehead

‘The Sympathizer’ by Viet Thanh Nguyen

‘Pedro Páramo’ by Juan Rulfo

‘The Pope Who Would Be King: The Exile of Pius IX and the Emergence of Modern Europe’ by David I. Kertzer

‘Pizza! A Slice of History’ written and illustrated by Greg Pizzoli

‘The Pope at War: The Secret History of Pius XII, Mussolini, and Hitler’ by David I. Kertzer

‘Crook Manifesto’ by Colson Whitehead

‘The Lying Life of Adults’ by Elena Ferrante

‘Low Life: Lures and Snares of Old New York’ by Lucy Sante

‘A Place for Everything: The Curious History of Alphabetical Order’ by Judith Flanders

‘Rap Capital: An Atlanta Story’ by Joe Coscarelli

‘Dilla Time: The Life and Afterlife of J Dilla, the Hip-Hop Producer Who Reinvented Rhythm’ by Dan Charnas

‘The Chaos Machine: The Inside Story of How Social Media Rewired Our Minds and Our World’ by Max Fisher

‘No Longer Human’ by Osamu Dazai

‘The Islander: My Life in Music and Beyond’ by Chris Blackwell

‘War: How Conflict Shaped Us’ by Margaret MacMillan

‘War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning’ by Chris Hedges

‘Free Speech: A History from Socrates to Social Media’ by Jacob Mchangama

‘Zone One’ by Colson Whitehead

‘The Intuitionist’ by Colson Whitehead

‘Sag Harbor’ by Colson Whitehead

‘The Noble Hustle: Poker, Beef Jerky, and Death’ by Colson Whitehead

‘Harlem Shuffle’ by Colson Whitehead

‘Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents’ by Isabel Wilkerson

‘One Mighty and Irresistible Tide: The Epic Struggle Over American Immigration, 1924–1965’ by Jia Lynn Yang

‘The Setting Sun’ by Osamu Dazai

‘A Promised Land’ by Barack Obama

‘Ghosting the News: Local Journalism and the Crisis of American Democracy’ by Margaret Sullivan

‘My Name is Asher Lev’ by Chaim Potok

‘Deacon King Kong’ by James McBride

‘Dominicana’ by Angie Cruz

“User Friendly: How the Hidden Rules of Design Are Changing the Way We Live, Work, and Play” by Cliff Kuang and Robert Fabricant

‘The Memory Police’ by Yoko Ogawa

‘The Penguin Book of Japanese Short Stories’ Edited by Jay Rubin

‘Our Man: Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American Century’ by George Packer

‘Kudos’ by Rachel Cusk

‘Transit’ by Rachel Cusk

‘Outline’ by Rachel Cusk

‘Future Ethics’ by Cennydd Bowles

‘Dreyer’s English: An Utterly Correct Guide to Clarity and Style’ by Benjamin Dreyer

‘Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom’ by David W. Blight

‘The Street Kids’ by Pier Paolo Pasolini

‘A Tokyo Romance: A Memoir’ by Ian Buruma

‘A Cat, A Man, and Two Women’ by Junichiro Tanizaki

‘Articulating Design Decisions’ by Tom Greever

‘Devils in Daylight’ by Junichiro Tanizaki

‘In Praise of Shadows’ by Junichiro Tanizaki

‘The Story of a New Name’ by Elena Ferrante

‘On Such a Full Sea’ by Chang-rae Lee

‘Submission’ by Michel Houellebecq

‘My Brilliant Friend’ by Elena Ferrante

‘Between the World and Me’ by Ta-Nehisi Coates

‘The High Window’ by Raymond Chandler

‘The Pope and Mussolini: The Secret History of Pius XI and the Rise of Fascism in Europe’ by David I. Kertzer

‘A Brief History of Seven Killings’ by Marlon James

‘Every Day Is for the Thief’ by Teju Cole

‘The Goldfinch’ by Donna Tartt

‘The Flamethrowers’ by Rachel Kushner

‘White Girls’ by Hilton Als

‘The Circle’ by Dave Eggers

‘Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art’ by Scott McCloud

‘The Painted Word’ by Tom Wolfe

‘The Hare’ by César Aira

‘The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood’ by James Gleick

‘Super Sad True Love Story’ by Gary Shteyngart

‘All the Shah’s Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror’ by Stephen Kinzer

‘Pulphead’ by John Jeremiah Sullivan

‘Middlesex’ by Jeffrey Eugenides

‘On Photography’ by Susan Sontag

‘Inherent Vice’ by Thomas Pynchon

‘The New York Trilogy’ by Paul Auster

‘1Q84’ by Haruki Murakami

‘Cloud Atlas’ by David Mitchell

‘While You’re Reading’ by Gerard Unger

‘Just Kids’ by Patti Smith

‘The Breaks’ by Richard Price

‘The Uses of Images’ by E.H. Gombrich

‘Lush Life’ by Richard Price

‘The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao’ by Junot Diaz

‘Uncorporate Identity’ by Metahaven

‘Hans Ulrich Obrist & Rem Koolhaas—The Conversation Series, Volume 4’ by Hans Ulrich Obrist

‘The Reckoning’ by David Halberstam

‘Inside the Mind of Gideon Rayburn’ by Sarah Miller

‘My life in CIA’ by Harry Mathews

‘The History of Money’ by Jack Weatherford

‘Soccer in Sun and Shadow’ by Eduardo Galeano

‘Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World’ by Jack Weatherford

‘The Devil in the White City’ by Erik Larson

‘Among the Thugs’ by Bill Buford

‘Case Histories’ by Kate Atkinson

“The Plot Against America” by Philip Roth

‘The Leopard’ by Guiseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa

‘The Kite Runner’ by Khaled Hosseini

‘Perfume: The Story of a Murderer’ by Patrick Suskind

‘The Agony and the Ecstasy’ by Irving Stone

‘A Game for the Living’ by Patricia Highsmith

‘Norwegian Wood’ by Haruki Murakami

“Designing Visual Interfaces: Communication Oriented Techniques” by Kevin Mullet and Darrell Sano

‘Strangers on a Train’ by Patricia Highsmith

‘No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies’ by Naomi Klein

‘The House of Medici: Its Rise and Fall’ by Christopher Hibbert

‘The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle’ by Haruki Murakami

‘A Man in Full’ by Tom Wolfe

‘Winter’s Tale’ Mark Helprin

‘Drown’ by Junot Diaz

‘Interface Culture’ by Steven A. Johnson

‘The Sheltering Sky’ by Paul Bowles

‘Neuromancer’ by William Gibson

‘Coltrane Chasin’ The Trane’ by J. C. Thomas

‘Clockers’ by Richard Price

“Bomb the Suburbs: Graffiti, Race, Freight-Hopping and the Search for Hip-Hop’s Moral Center” by William Upski Wimsatt

‘Foucault’s Pendulum’ By Umberto Eco

‘One Hundred Years of Solitude’ by Gabriel García Márquez

‘Love in the Time of Cholera’ by Gabriel García Márquez

‘Miles: The Autobiography’ by Miles Davis

‘Another Country’ by James Baldwin

‘It’ by Stephen King

‘The Structure of Scientific Revolutions’ by Thomas S. Kuhn

—Slowly trying to remember what I read as a kid.