Welcome to Heart Library

Reading lists,
with reviews.

American slavery told by the man who lived it. James Baldwin in 1963. A novel about a quiet professor. Ten books, picked across decades and registers, with a review of each.

CompiledApril 2026
GenresMemoir, Fiction, History
Reading time≈ 4,800 pages

Up next.

Four books I'm itching to crack — heading to Europe soon, so I'm taking myself there on the page first.

A library of one.

A reading list, updated as I read. Reviews are mine, not press copy. The dashboards page tracks what's currently open and where I am. The live shelf lives on Goodreads — usually a few books ahead of this page catching up.