Bookshelf
I love perusing other people’s bookshelves. It’s a great way to get to know a person. Here’s my digital bookshelf for you to peruse, if you’d like.
This is not a list of recommendations. There are hardly any books that I’d recommend unconditionally. It’s just a list of the books I own. I haven’t read all of them, and I haven’t finished many of the ones I’ve started. However, I don’t keep books that I don’t think I’ll either finish or read again, though, so I’ve either read the book and enjoyed it, or I have high hopes for it. The list is undoubtedly both incomplete and out of date.
There is no getting around the fact that there is some signaling going on here. Did I buy Democracy in America because I wanted an outsider’s perspective of what it is to be American? Or because I wanted to be a person that had read Democracy in America? Probably both, if I’m honest. I think everyone’s reading choices are at least partially motivated by signaling.
I add books to my reading list at a much greater rate than I actually read, but please email me with recommendations anyway!