Reading list
The books on my desk.
What I’m reading now, the ones I go back to every year, and the pile I’m meaning to get to. Updated when the pile changes.
Notes
Every book, with a line on why.
The Living Mountain
Nan Shepherd
I read this every October. It gets better every year.
Rereading
Wanderlust
Rebecca Solnit
The book that made me take walking seriously.
Finished
Bird by Bird
Anne Lamott
Shitty first drafts, still the best advice there is.
Finished
The Peregrine
J. A. Baker
Twenty pages a night. Any more is too much.
Reading
Letters to a Young Poet
Rainer Maria Rilke
Small enough for a coat pocket.
Rereading
Gathering Moss
Robin Wall Kimmerer
Changed how I look at walls.
Reading
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
Annie Dillard
Read it with a pencil.
Finished
A Field Guide to Getting Lost
Rebecca Solnit
On the pile since August.
To read
Rings of Saturn
W. G. Sebald
A walk that becomes everything.
Finished
The Old Ways
Robert Macfarlane
Paths, and the people who made them.
Rereading
Diary of a Nobody
George & Weedon Grossmith
For the train.
To read
Late Fragments
Kate Gross
Short, and I think about it often.
Finished
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