I am a graphic designer from a small dirt town in central Utah. Currently working as senior designer at the Carnegie Museum of Art. Past clients include Burnaway, the Guggenheim, Meta Open Arts and Tina Kim Gallery. Interested in books, animals, iconography, post cards, and gas stations.
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Inspired by Art Garfunkel, below are all the books I have read since I started keeping a list in 2016.
| 2024 | ||
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Alice Sadie Celine: A Novel | Sarah Blakley-Cartwright |
| 2 | Etham Frome | Edith Wharton |
| 3 | Summer | Edith Wharton |
| 4 | Molly | Blake Butler |
| 2023 | ||
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Artforum | César Aira |
| 2 | The Breast | Phillip Roth |
| 3 | Woodcutters | Thomas Bernhard |
| 4 | The Guest | Emma Cline |
| 5 | Sleeveless | Natasha Stagg |
| 2022 | ||
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Custom of the Country | Edith Wharton |
| 2 | The Night Before Christmas | Nikolai Gogol |
| 3 | A Confederacy of Dunces | John Kennedy Toole |
| 4 | The Dog of the South | Charles Portis |
| 5 | American Pastoral | Phillip Roth |
| 6 | Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly | Anthony Bourdain |
| 7 | Heat | Bill Buford |
| 8 | A Swim in a Pond in the Rain | George Saunders |
| 9 | The Trouble with Happiness and Other Stories | Tove Ditlevsen |
| 10 | The English Understand Wool | Helen DeWitt |
| 11 | How to Go to the Movies | Quentin Crisp |
| 12 | Remainder | Tom McCarthy |
| 2021 | ||
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Romance in Marseille | Claude McKay |
| 2 | The Island of Sea Women | Lisa See |
| 3 | Once and Forever: The Tales of Kenji Miyazawa | Kenji Miyazawa |
| 4 | The Scarlet Gang of Asakusa | Yasunari Kawabata |
| 5 | How to Murder Your Life | Cat Marnell |
| 6 | Virtuoso | Yelena Moskovich |
| 7 | Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev | Ivan Turgenev |
| 8 | The Copenhagen Trilogy: Childhood; Youth; Dependency | Tove Ditlevsen |
| 9 | 100 Boyfriends | Brontez Purnell |
| 10 | Cherry | Nico Walker |
| 11 | My Year of Rest and Relaxation | Ottessa Moshfegh |
| 12 | Portnoy’s Complaint | Phillip Roth |
| 13 | The Elementary Particles | Michel Houellebecq |
| 14 | Too Loud A Solitude | Bohumil Hrabal |
| 15 | The Age of Innocence | Edith Wharton |
| 16 | Death in Her Hands | Ottessa Moshfegh |
| 17 | The Master and Margarita | Mikhail Bulgakov |
| 18 | The Stories of Breece D'J Pancake | Breece D'J Pancake |
| 19 | True Grit | Charles Portis |
| 20 | Goodbye Columbus | Phillip Roth |
| 21 | It Never Ends | Tom Scharpling |
| 22 | Based on A True Story | Norm MacDonald |
| 23 | The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil | George Saunders |
| 2020 | ||
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Beauty and Sadness | Yasunari Kawabata |
| 2 | Dr Zhivago | Boris Pasternak |
| 3 | Modern Love | Constance DeJong |
| 4 | The Sound of the Mountain | Yasunari Kawabata |
| 5 | Confessions of a Mask | Yukio Mishima |
| 6 | On Heroes and Tombs | Ernesto Sabato |
| 7 | A Death in the Family | Karl Ove Knausgaard |
| 8 | Dom Casmurro | Machado de Assis |
| 9 | The Master of Go | Yasunari Kawabata |
| 10 | The Black Prince | Iris Murdoch |
| 11 | The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas | Machado de Assis |
| 12 | Chekhov: The Major Plays | Anton Chekhov |
| 13 | Tokyo Ueno Station | Yu Miri |
| 14 | Emma | Jane Austen |
| 15 | True West, Buried Child, and Curse of the Starving Class | Sam Shepard |
| 2019 | ||
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chemistry | Weike Wang |
| 2 | Dandelions | Yasunari Kuwabata |
| 3 | My Favorite Thing is Monsters | Emil Ferris |
| 4 | Strange Weather in Tokyo | Hiromi Kawakami |
| 5 | Snow Country | Yasunari Kawabata |
| 6 | John | Annie Baker |
| 7 | Thousand Cranes | Yasunari Kawabata |
| 8 | Waiting for Godot | Samuel Beckett |
| 9 | My Brilliant Friend | Elena Ferrante |
| 10 | The Story of a New Name | Elena Ferrante |
| 11 | Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay | Elena Ferrante |
| 12 | The Story of the Lost Child | Elena Ferrante |
| 13 | Spring and All | William Carlos Williams |
| 14 | Old Capital | Yasunari Kawabata |
| 15 | Spring Snow | Yukio Mishima |
| 16 | Lightning Rods | Hellen DeWitt |
| 17 | Trick Mirror | Jia Tolentino |
| 18 | The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction | Walter Benjamin |
| 19 | On Writing | Stephen King |
| 20 | Shimmer | Sarah Schulman |
| 21 | Killing Commendatore | Haruki Murakami |
| 22 | Sleeveless | Natasha Stagg |
| 23 | Surveys | Natasha Stagg |
| 24 | Oishinbo: Vegetables | Tetsu Kariya |
| 25 | Oishinbo: Fish, Sushi, Sashimi | Tetsu Kariya |
| 26 | Oishinbo: Gyoza and Ramen | Tetsu Kariya |
| 27 | Oishinbo: Sake | Tetsu Kariya |
| 28 | Females | Andrea Long Chu |
| 2018 | ||
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Priest Daddy | Patricia Lockwood |
| 2 | Rebecca | Daphne du Maurier |
| 3 | Norwegian Wood | Haruki Murakami |
| 4 | Commonwealth | Ann Patchett |
| 5 | The Aliens | Annie Baker |
| 6 | A Streetcar Named Desire | Tennesse Williams |
| 7 | Kitchen | Banana Yoshimoto |
| 8 | Botchan | Natsume Soskei |
| 9 | Oishinbo: Japanese Food | Tetsu Kariya |
| 10 | Tenth of December | George Saunders |
| 11 | Oishinbo: Izakaya | Tetsu Kariya |
| 12 | Oishinbo: Rice | Tetsu Kariya |
| 13 | Oishinbo: Rice | Ruth Ozeki |
| 14 | Bad Feminist | Roxane Gay |
| 15 | What We See When We Read | Peter Mendelsund |
| 16 | Maus | Art Spiegelman |
| 17 | Some Trick | Helen DeWitt |
| 18 | Like Art | Glen O’Brian |
| 19 | The Form of the Book Book | Multiple |
| 20 | Turtles All the Way Down | John Green |
| 21 | The Last Samurai | Helen DeWitt |
| 22 | Salt Fat Acid Heat | Samin Nosrat |
| 23 | Fangirl | Rainbow Rowell |
| 24 | White Teeth | Zadie Smith |
| 2017 | ||
|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Shining | Stephen King |
| 2 | Hondo | Louis L’Amour |
| 3 | War Dances | Sherman Alexie |
| 4 | Three Ten to Yuma and Other Stories | Elmour Leonard |
| 5 | Villette | Charlotte Bronte |
| 6 | Even Cowgirls Get the Blues | Tom Robbins |
| 7 | The Thousandth Floor | Katherine McGee |
| 8 | Ways of Seeing | John Berger |
| 9 | Big Little Lies | Liane Moriarty |
| 10 | Delta Wedding | Eudora Welty |
| 11 | The Witching Hour | Anne Rice |
| 12 | Lasher | Anne Rice |
| 13 | The Empty Space | Peter Brook |
| 14 | No Logo | Naomi Klein |
| 15 | Taltos | Anne Rice |
| 16 | The Wind Up Bird Chronicles | Haruki Murakami |
| 17 | Aura | Carlos Fuentes |
| 18 | A Supposedly Fun thing I’ll Never Do Again | David Foster Wallace |
| 19 | White Noise | Don DeLillo |
| 20 | Americana | Don DeLillo |
| 21 | Design as Art | Bruno Munari |
| 22 | Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk | Legs McNeil and Gillian McCain |
| 23 | The Canterville Ghost | Oscar Wilde |
| 24 | Jonathan Livingston Seagull | Richard Bach |
| 25 | Sex Drugs and Cocoa Puffs | Chuck Klosterman |
| 26 | We are Never Meeting in Real Life | Samantha Irby |
| 27 | Pachinko | Min Jin Lee |
| 28 | Free Food for Millionaires | Min Jin Lee |
| 2016 | ||
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Desert Solitaire | Edward Abbey |
| 2 | Persepolis | Marjane Satrapi |
| 3 | Understanding Comics | Scott McCloud |
| 4 | Jude the Obscure | Thomas Hardy |
| 5 | A Horse of Her Own | Annie Wedekind |
| 6 | The Sellout | Paul Beatty |
| 7 | Turtle Face and Beyond | Arthur Bradford |
| 8 | I Love Dick | Chris Kraus |
| 9 | A Moveable Feast | Ernest Hemingway |
| 10 | A Wild Sheep Chase | Haruki Murakami |
| 11 | The Rainbow | D.H. Lawrence |
| 12 | Women in Love | D.H. Lawrence |
| 13 | The Duel | Anton Chekov |
| 14 | Anne of Green Gables | Lucy Maud Montgomery |
| 15 | Paper Girls Volume 1 | Brian K. Vaughan |
| 16 | Howl | Allen Ginsburg |
| 17 | A Christmas Memory | Truman Capote |
| 18 | Oreo | Fran Ross |
| 19 | Harry Potter and the Cursed Child | J.K. Rowling |