What Did Nathan Read?

2025

55 books

Winter Stories cover

Nov 8

Winter Stories

Ingvild H. Rishøi

Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It cover

Oct 31

Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It

Cory Doctorow

Dominion cover

Oct 30

Dominion

Addie E. Citchens

The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914 cover

Oct 25

The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914

Christopher Clark

North Country cover

Oct 17

North Country

Matt Bondurant

Something Wicked This Way Comes cover

Oct 7

Something Wicked This Way Comes

Ray Bradbury

Mrs. Dalloway cover

Oct 2

Mrs. Dalloway

Virginia Woolf

The History of Sound cover

Sep 23

The History of Sound

Ben Shattuck

Absalom, Absalom! cover

Sep 20

Absalom, Absalom!

William Faulkner

Frostbite: How Refrigeration Changed Our Food, Our Planet, and Ourselves cover

Sep 13

Frostbite: How Refrigeration Changed Our Food, Our Planet, and Ourselves

Nicola Twilley

Summer of Our Discontent: The Age of Certainty and the Demise of Discourse cover

Sep 1

Summer of Our Discontent: The Age of Certainty and the Demise of Discourse

Thomas Chatterton Williams

The Book of I cover

Aug 31

The Book of I

David Greig

Invitation: Stories cover

Aug 27

Invitation: Stories

Mi Jin Kim

Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist cover

Aug 23

Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist

Liz Pelly

The Left Hand of Darkness cover

Aug 23

The Left Hand of Darkness

Ursula K. Le Guin

The Art of a Lie cover

Aug 20

The Art of a Lie

Laura Shepherd-Robinson

So Far Gone cover

Aug 8

So Far Gone

Jess Walter

The Idiot cover

Aug 6

The Idiot

Fyodor Dostoevsky

The Extinction of Experience: Being Human in a Disembodied World cover

Jul 31

The Extinction of Experience: Being Human in a Disembodied World

Christina Rosen

Karla's Choice cover

Jul 27

Karla's Choice

Nick Harkaway

Vulture cover

Jul 20

Vulture

Phoebe Greenwood

That Half-Barbaric Twang: The Banjo in American Popular Culture cover

Jul 18

That Half-Barbaric Twang: The Banjo in American Popular Culture

Karen Linn

Brisbane cover

Jul 15

Brisbane

Eugene Vodolazkin

Dusk cover

Jul 9

Dusk

Robbie Arnott

Helm cover

Jul 4

Helm

Sarah Hall

Flannery O'Connor and the Christ-Haunted South cover

Jun 27

Flannery O'Connor and the Christ-Haunted South

Ralph C. Wood

Animal Farm cover

Jun 26

Animal Farm

George Orwell

The Decameron cover

Jun 23

The Decameron

Giovanni Boccaccio

Little Nothing cover

Jun 18

Little Nothing

Marisa Silver

The Northern: A Novel cover

Jun 13

The Northern: A Novel

Jacob McArthur Mooney

Children of Dune cover

May 26

Children of Dune

Frank Herbert

Feel Free: Essays cover

May 18

Feel Free: Essays

Zadie Smith

Atavists: Stories cover

May 13

Atavists: Stories

Lydia Millet

Masters of Atlantis cover

Apr 19

Masters of Atlantis

Charles Portis

Superbloom: How Technologies of Connection Tear Us Apart cover

Apr 19

Superbloom: How Technologies of Connection Tear Us Apart

Nicholas Carr

The Silver Bone cover

Apr 13

The Silver Bone

Andrey Kurkov

How to Win the Premier League: The Inside Story of Football's Data Revolution cover

Apr 5

How to Win the Premier League: The Inside Story of Football's Data Revolution

Ian Graham

The Castle cover

Apr 4

The Castle

Franz Kafka

Black Woods Blue Sky cover

Mar 29

Black Woods Blue Sky

Eowyn Ivey

The Grapes of Wrath cover

Mar 25

The Grapes of Wrath

John Steinbeck

Homestand: Small Town Baseball and the Fight for the Soul of America cover

Mar 23

Homestand: Small Town Baseball and the Fight for the Soul of America

Will Bardenwerper

Hum cover

Mar 18

Hum

Helen Phillips

Tooth and Claw cover

Mar 12

Tooth and Claw

Craig Johnson

The Last Tsar: The Abdication of Nicholas II and the Fall of the Romanovs cover

Mar 11

The Last Tsar: The Abdication of Nicholas II and the Fall of the Romanovs

Tsuyoshi Hasegawa

The Certificate: A Novel cover

Mar 11

The Certificate: A Novel

Isaac Bashevis Singer

Three Days in June cover

Mar 7

Three Days in June

Anne Tyler

Second Act: What Late Bloomers Can Tell You About Success and Reinventing Your Life cover

Mar 1

Second Act: What Late Bloomers Can Tell You About Success and Reinventing Your Life

Henry Oliver

Cubafruit cover

Feb 28

Cubafruit

Alexander Sorondo

Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space cover

Feb 22

Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space

Adam Higginbotham

The Heart in Winter cover

Feb 15

The Heart in Winter

Kevin Barry

The Blazing World: A New History of Revolutionary England, 1603-1689 cover

Feb 1

The Blazing World: A New History of Revolutionary England, 1603-1689

Jonathan Healey

The Shield of Achilles cover

Jan 25

The Shield of Achilles

W.H. Auden

James cover

Jan 24

James

Percical Everett

Creation Lake cover

Jan 11

Creation Lake

Rachel Kushner

The Stories of Breece D'J Pancake cover

Jan 1

The Stories of Breece D'J Pancake

Breece D'J Pancake