Reading is an integral part of my creative practice. I am usually listening to an audiobook while I work in the studio, and I am an avid reader at night as well. I have often felt that my best friends lived in the pages of books. So it seems natural that I should share those books that mean the most to me here.
Fiction
- Stay with Me, Ayobami Adebayo
- The Bear and the Nightingale, Katherine Arden
- The Girl in the Tower, Katherine Arden
- The Master and Margarita, Mikhail Bulgakov
- The Ghost Bride, Yangsze Choo
- Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell, Susanna Clarke
- The Brothers Karamazov, Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- The Graveyard Book, Neil Gaiman
- Neverwhere, Neil Gaiman
- Stardust, Neil Gaiman
- Fragile Things, Neil Gaiman
- Good Omens, Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett
- Against Nature, Joris-Karl Huysmans
- Pachinko, Min Jin Lee
- The Instructions, Adam Levin
- Mere Christianity, C.S. Lewis
- The Screwtape Letters, C.S. Lewis
- The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, C.S. Lewis
- Mirror Mirror, Gregory Maguire
- Love in the Time of Cholera, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- Song of Ice and Fire books, George R. R. Martin
- The Witches of New York, Ami McKay
- 1Q84, Haruki Murakami
- Lirael, Garth Nix
- East, Edith Pattou
- All of the Discworld books, Terry Pratchett
- His Dark Materials, Philip Pullman
- The Harry Potter series, J. K. Rowling
- East of Eden, John Steinbeck
- The Bartemaeus Trilogy, Jonathan Stroud
- Anna Karenina, Lev Tolstoy
- War and Peace, Lev Tolstoy
- Infinite Jest, David Foster Wallace
- The Broom of the System, David Foster Wallace
- The Pale King, David Foster Wallace
- The Golem and the Jinni, Helene Wecker
- Decline and Fall, Evelyn Waugh
Poetry
what matters most is how well you walk through the flames, Charles Bukowski
Essays
- Art Under Plutocracy, William Morris
- Industrial Society and Its Future, Theodore Kaczinski
- Consider the Lobster, David Foster Wallace
- A Blink of the Screen, Terry Pratchett
- A Slip of the Keyboard, Terry Pratchett
- Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking, Anya Von Bremzen
- The Hare with Amber Eyes, Edmund de Waal
Nonfiction
- The Arcanum, Janet Gleeson
- Russian Folk Belief, Linda Ivanits.
- Redeployment, Phil Klay
- The Wars of the Roses, Dan Jones
- Permanent Record, Edward Snowden
- Black Flags, Joby Warrick
- The Romanovs, Simon Sebag Montefiore
- The Almost Nearly Perfect People, Michael Booth
- Cod, Mark Kurlansky
- Salt, Mark Kurlansky
- A Lapsed Anarchist’s Approach to Building a Great Business, Ari Weinzweig