books to read, as recommended by justin h. min (in no particular order):

• A Hologram for the King by Dave Eggers
• A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
• A Position at the University by Lydia Davis
• Aimless Love by Billy Collins
• All You Can Ever Know: A Memoir by Nicole Chung
• Black Wave by Michelle Tea
• Break It Down by Lydia Davis
• Children of the New World by Alexander Weinstein
• Divergent by Veronica Roth
• Eleanor and Park by Rainbow Rowell
• Every Good Endeavor: Connecting Your Work to God's Plan for the World by Timothy Keller
• Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng
• Exhalation by Ted Chiang
• Getting Back Out there: Secrets to Successful Dating and Finding Real Love after the Big Breakup by Susan J. Elliott
• If I Had Your Face by Frances Cha
• In the Distance by Hernán Dìaz
• Just Kids by Patti Smith
• Kindred by Octavia E. Butler
• Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly by Anthony Bourdain
• Life After Life by Kate Atkinson
• Magic for Liars by Sarah Gailey
• Miracles by C.S. Lewis
• Modern Romance: An Investigation by Aziz Ansari and Eric Klinenberg
• Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything by Joshua Foer
• Mortality by Christopher Hitchens
• Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan
• My Ex-Life by Stephen McCauley
• Number One Chinese Restaurant by Lillian Li
• On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong
• On Such a Full Sea by Chang-rae Lee
• One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories by B.J. Novak
• Permanent Record by Mary H.K. Choi
• Re Jane: A Novel by Patricia Park
• Room for Doubt by Wendy Lesser
• Severance by Ling Ma
• Shelter by Jung Yun
• Signature Classics by C.S. Lewis
• Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory by Caitlin Doughty
• Stories of Anton Chekhov by Anton Chekhov
• Sweetbitter by Stephanie Danler
• Tell the Wolves I'm Home by Carol Rifka Brunt
• The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
• The Borrower by Rebecca Makkai
• The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
• The Circle by Dave Eggers
• The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis by Lydia Davis
• The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
• The Dinner by Herman Koch
• The Elements of Style by William Strunk Jr. & E.B. White
• The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
• The Great Divorce by C.S. Lewis
• The Martian by Andy Weir
• The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
• The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck by Mark Manson
• The Weather Calendar by Henry Head
• The Wind-up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
• Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion by Jia Tolentino
• Trust Exercise by Susan Choi
• Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom