Phoenix based; available for work in Latin America and the American Southwest.
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Things I've been reading
Reverse chronological order starting in 2022
All books recommended, I don't finish books that I don't like. ★ books are twice recommended. ↺ are books I'm reading again. Last updated October 2, 2023.
2023
- Dhalgren Samuel Delany (1975)★↺
- Becoming Wild Carl Safina (2020)
- The Zoot-Suit Riots Mauricio Mazón (1984)
- The Doubt Factory Paolo Bacigalupi (2014)
- Quaderno proibito Alba de Céspedes (1952)
- The Dangers of Smoking in Bed Mariana Enriquez (2022)
- Good Omens Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett (2006)
- The Water Knife Paolo Bacigalupi (2017)★
- Autobiography of Red Anne Carson (1999)★↺
- The Beauty of a Husband Anne Carson (2002)★↺
- Always Coming Home Ursula K Le Guin (2023)
- A Children's Bible Lydia Millet (2021)
- Magnificence Lydia Millet (2013)
- The Island of the Sea Women Lisa See (2020)
- Changing Planes Ursula K Le Guin (2020)★↺
- Dinosaurs Lydia Millet (2022)★
- Four Thousand Weeks Oliver Burkeman (2021)
- Trust Hernan Diaz (2022)
- The Sun Is a Compass Caroline Van Hemert (2019)
- Portrait as Animal Victoriano Cárdenas (2023)
- Better Living Through Birding Christian Cooper (2023)★
- Arctic Dreams Barry Lopez (2001)
- Let My People Go Surfing Yvon Chouinard (2016)
- Vagrancy in Birds Alex Lees & James Gilroy (2022)
- Lost Children Archive Valeria Luiselli (2020)
- This Is How You Lose the Time War Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone (2019) ★
- Atlas of a Lost World Craig Childs (2019) ★
- The Natural History of the San Francisco Peaks Gwendolyn Waring (2018)
- A Prayer for the Crown-Shy Becky Chambers (2022)
- A Psalm for the Wild-Built Becky Chambers (2021)★
- Finders Keepers Craig Childs (2013)
- Critique of Everyday Life Henri Lefebvre (2014)★
- The Bandit Queens Parini Shroff (2023)★
- The Animal Dialogues Craig Childs (2009)
- The Mimicking of Known Successes Malka Older (2023)★
- 2666 Roberto Bolaño (2008)↺
- The Cheating Cell Athena Aktipis (2020)
- Rich People Problems Kevin Kwan (2018)
- China Rich Girlfriend Kevin Kwan (2017)
- Crazy Rich Asians Kevin Kwan (2014)↺
- Yolk Mary HK Choi (2021)
- Emergency Contact Mary HK Choi (2018)
- The Stranger in the Woods Michael Finkel (2018)
- Birding Without Borders Noah Strycker (2018)
- Birds and Us Tim Birkhead (2022)
- Nona the Ninth Tamsyn Muir (2022)★
- A Most Remarkable Creature Jonathan Meiburg (2021)★
- Homie Danez Smith (2020)
- Alive at the End of the World Saeed Jones (2022)★
- The Hawk's Way Sy Montgomery (2022)
- Owls of Eastern Ice Jonathan Slaght (2020)★
- Entangled Life Merlin Sheldrake (2021)★
- The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs Steve Brusatte (2019)
2022
- Harrow the Ninth Tamsyn Muir (2021)★
- Gideon the Ninth Tamsyn Muir (2020)★
- Klara and The Sun Kazuo Ishiguro (2021)
- No One Is Talking About This Patricia Lockwood (2021)
- The Idiot Elif Batuman (2018)
- Coyote America Dan Flores (2017)
- Pedro Arrupe: Essential Writings Pedro Arrupe (2004)★
- Death's End Liu Cixin (2010)
- The Dark Forest Liu Cixin (2008)
- The Three-Body Problem Liu Cixin (2006)
- The Overstory Richard Powers (2018)
- Guano and the Opening of the Pacific World Gregory Cushman (2013) ★
- On Rope Bruce Smith & Allen Padgett (1997)
- The Big Year Mark Obmasick (2011) ★
- Our Band Could Be Your Life Michael Azzerad (2001)
- Roadside Geology of Oregon Marli B Miller (2014)
- Pigeon Watching Rosemary Mosco (2021)
- Eager Ben Goldfarb (2019) ★
- Peterson Sparrows Rick Wright (2019) ★
- Raptors of Arizona Richard L Gilinski (1998)
- Singing Life Of Birds Donald Kroodsma (2005)
- Peterson Bird Sounds of Western North America Nathan Pieplow (2019)
- Ozu and the Poetics of Cinema David Bordwell (1994) ★
- The Wretched of the Earth Frantz Fanon (1961) ★
- A History of Ornithology Peter Bircham (2007)
- Every Night Is Ladies' Night Michael Jaime-Becerra (2005)
- No One Writes to the Colonel Gabriel García Márquez (1961)↺
- Wolf In the White Van John Darnielle (2014)↺
- Devil House John Darnielle (2022) ★
- Trogons Joseph Forshaw (2009)