Bookshelf

An archive of reading history encompassing nearly two decades.

History

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2023

– 62 books read

The Lost City of the Monkey God: A True Story by Douglas Preston 🎧
Extremely Online: The Untold Story of Fame, Influence, and Power on the Internet by Taylor Lorenz
The Antisocial Network: The GameStop Short Squeeze and the Ragtag Group of Amateur Traders That Brought Wall Street to Its Knees by Ben Mezrich
Going Infinte: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon by Michael Lewis
Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America by Heather Cox Richardson
Demon Copperhead: A Novel by Barbara Kingsolver
Breaking Through: My Life in Science by Katalin Karikó
Elon Musk by Walter Isaacson
The Vaster Wilds: A Novel by Lauren Groff
The Water Knife: A Novel by Paolo Bacigalupi
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History by Elizabeth Kolbert
Foe: A Novel by Iain Reid
The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece: A Novel by Tom Hanks
Plunder: Private Equity's Plan to Pillage America by Brendan Ballou
SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome by Mary Beard 🎧
The Te of Piglet by Benjamin Hoff
Antimatter Blues: A Mickey7 Novel by Edward Ashton
The Experience Machine: How Our Minds Predict and Shape Reality by Andy Clark
The Mountain in the Sea: A Novel by Ray Nayler
Generations: The Real Differences Between Gen Z, Millennials, Gen X, Boomers, and Silents—and What They Mean for America's Future by Jean M. Twenge, PhD
Recoding America: Why Government Is Failing in the Digital Age and How We Can Do Better by Jennifer Pahlka
The Aftermath: The Last Days of the Baby Boom and the Future of Power in America by Philip Bump
Other Minds: The Octopus, The Sea, and The Deep Origins of Consciousness by Peter Godfrey-Smith
The Room by Jonas Karlsson
Where Are Your Boys Tonight?: The Oral History of Emo's Mainstream Explosion 1999-2008 by Chris Payne
Bitwise: A Life in Code by David Auerbach
Excellent Advice for Living: Wisdom I Wish I'd Known Earlier by Kevin Kelly
The Road to Jonestown: Jim Jones and Peoples Temple by Jeff Guinn
To Pixar and Beyond: My Unlikely Journey with Steve Jobs to Make Entertainment History by Lawrence Levy
Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence by Anna Lembke, MD
The Battle for Your Brain: Defending the Right to Think Freely in the Age of Technology by Nita A. Farahany
Attention Span: A Groundbreaking Way to Restore Balance, Happiness and Productivity by Gloria Mark, PhD
Three Pianos: A Memoir by Andrew McMahon
The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder by David Grann
The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music by Dave Grohl
The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human by Siddhartha Mukherjee, MD
God, Human, Animal, Machine: Technology, Metaphor, and the Search for Meaning by Meghan O'Gieblyn
The World's Worst Assistant by Sona Movsesian
The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit by Michael Finkel
Working Stiff: Two Years, 262 Bodies, and the Making of a Medical Examiner by Judy Melinek, MD, T.J. Mitchell
Outlive: The Science & Art of Longevity by Peter Attia, MD
Hidden Systems: Water, Electricity, the Internet, and the Secrets Behind the Systems We Use Every Day by Dan Nott
All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me by Patrick Bringley
The Tao of Pooh by Benjamin Hoff
Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire: A 500-Year History by Kurt Andersen
Tangled Up in Blue: Policing the American City by Rosa Brooks
Beyond Measure: The Hidden History of Measurement from Cubits to Quantum Constants by James Vincent
Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock by Jenny Odell
The Creative Act: A Way of Being by Rick Rubin
The Spear Cuts Through Water: A Novel by Simon Jimenez
Cinema Speculation by Quentin Tarantino
The Candy House: A novel by Jennifer Egan
Lighter: Let Go of the Past, Connect with the Present, and Expand the Future by Yung Pueblo
A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology by Chris Miller
The Holocaust: A New History by Laurence Rees
The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race by Walter Isaacson
Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us by Rachel Aviv
Mickey7: A Novel by Edward Ashton
Ring by Koji Suzuki
The Invincible by Stanislaw Lem
Heat 2: A Novel by Michael Mann, Meg Gardiner

2022

– 67 books read

Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
The Night Watchman: A Novel by Louis Eldrich
Eyes in the Sky: The Secret Rise of Gorgon Stare and How It Will Watch Us All by Arthur Holland Michel
How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States by Daniel Immerwahr
Leave the World Behind: A Novel by Rumaan Alam
I'm Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy
How to Blow Up a Pipeline by Andreas Malm
Luckiest Girl Alive: A Novel by Jessica Knoll
Like, Comment, Subscribe: Inside YouTube's Chaotic Rise to World Domination by Mark Bergen
She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement by Jodi Kantor, Megan Twohey 🎧
Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie
Hokuloa Road: A Novel by Elizabeth Hand
A Burning: A Novel by Megha Majumdar 🎧
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow: A novel by Gabrielle Zevin
The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion 🎧
The Cabin at the End of the World: A Novel by Paul Tremblay
The Premonition: A Pandemic Story by Michael Lewis
Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Emotions by Brian Christian, Tom Griffiths
Dracula by Bram Stoker 🎧
The Comfort Crisis: Embrace Discomfort To Reclaim Your Wild, Happy, Healthy Self by Michael Easter
White Noise by Don Delillo
Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention—and How to Think Deeply Again by Johann Hari 🎧
The Friend: A Novel by Sigrid Nunez
Upgrade: A Novel by Blake Crouch
Ninety Percent of Everything: Inside Shipping, the Invisible Industry That Puts Clothes on Your Back, Gas in Your Car, and Food on Your Plate by Rose George
Bewilderment: A Novel by Richard Powers
Gone: A Girl, a Violin, a Life Unstrung by Min Kym
The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains by Nicholas Carr
Eileen: A Novel by Ottessa Moshfegh
The Grid: The Fraying Wires Between Americans and Our Energy Future by Gretchen Bakke
Energy: A Human History by Richard Rhodes
Storm in a Teacup: The Physics of Everyday Life by Helen Czerski
Craft in the Real World: Rethinking Fiction Writing and Workshopping by Matthew Salesses
The Factory by Hiroko Oyamada
There Are No Accidents: The Deadly Rise of Injury and Disaster―Who Profits and Who Pays the Price by Jessie Singer
The Idiot: A Novel by Elif Batuman
Blood, Sweat & Chrome: The Wild and True Story of Mad Max: Fury Road by Kyle Buchanan
Bullet Train: A Novel by Kotaro Isaka
Sea of Tranquility: A Novel by Emily St. John Mandel
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity by David Graeber, David Wengrow
Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole by Susan Cain
The Method: How the Twentieth Century Learned to Act by Isaac Butler
The Glass Hotel: A Novel by Emily St. John Mandel
American Kleptocracy: How the U.S. Created the World's Greatest Money Laundering Scheme in History by Casey Michel
Matrix: A Novel by Lauren Groff
Brain Meets World: Print Edition #2 by Behavioral Scientist
Immune: A Journey Into the Mysterious System That Keeps You Alive by Philipp Dettmer
American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer by Kai Bird, Martin J. Sherwin
Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know by Adam Grant
This is the Behavioral Scientist: Print Edition #1 by Behavioral Scientist
When We Cease to Understand the World by Labatut Benjamin
Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgement by Daniel Kahneman, Olivier Sibony, Cass R. Sunstein
Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
Slow Horses by Mick Herron
No One Is Talking About This: A Novel by Patricia Lockwood
All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days: The True Story of the American Woman at the Heart of the German Resistance to Hitler by Rebecca Donner
Four Thousand Weeks: Four Thousand Weeks by Oliver Burkeman
The Nordic Theory of Everything: In Search of a Better Life by Anu Partanen
Eating to Extinction: The World's Rarest Foods and Why We Need to Save Them by Dan Saladino
Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic by Sam Quinones
1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows: A Memoir by Ai Weiwei
The Day the World Stops Shopping: How Ending Consumerism Saves the Environment and Ourselves by J.B. MacKinnon
Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C. Clarke
My Body by Emily Ratajkowski
Laziness Does Not Exist by Devon Price
Out of Office: The Big Problem and Bigger Promise of Working from Home by Charlie Warzel, Anne Helen Peteren
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous: A Novel by Ocean Vuong

2021

– 64 books read

How Do You Live? by Genzaburō Yoshino
A Thousand Ships: A Novel by Natalie Haynes
The History of Photography: From 1839 to the Present by Beaumont Newhall
Crying in H Mart: A Memoir by Michelle Zauner
Can't Even: How Millenials Became the Burnout Generation by Anne Helen Petersen
Peak Performance: Elevate Your Game, Avoid Burnout, and Thrive with the New Science of Success by Brad Stulberg, Steve Magness
Beautiful World, Where Are You by Sally Rooney
Things from the Flood by Simon Stålenhag
Maybe This Will Help: How to Feel Better When Things Stay the Same by Michelle Rial
Tales from the Loop by Simon Stålenhag
This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyberweapons Arms Race by Nicole Perlroth
The Electric State by Simon Stålenhag
Test Gods: Virgin Galactic and the Making of a Modern Astronaut by Nicholas Schmidle
Lao Tzu: Tao Te Ching: A Book About the Way and the Power of the Way by Ursula K. Le Guin
This Is What Democracy Looked Like: A Visual History of the Printed Ballot by Alicia Yin Cheng
Drink?: The New Science of Alcohol and Your Health by David Nutt
Damascus Station: A Novel by David McCloskey
The City We Became: A Novel by N. K. Jemisin
Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex by Mary Roach
A Man Called Ove: A Novel by Fredrik Backman 🎧
Meg: A Novel of Deep Terror by Steve Alten
Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine: A Novel by Gail Honeyman
The Dogs of War by Frederick Forsyth
Am I Overthinking This?: Over-answering life's questions in 101 charts by Michelle Rial
The Tattooist of Auschwitz: A Novel by Heather Morris 🎧
The Odessa File by Frederick Forsyth 🎧
The Day Of The Jackal by Frederick Forsyth
The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse by Charlie Mackesy
The Sound of the Sea: Seashells and the Fate of the Oceans by Cynthia Barnett
Project Hail Mary: A Novel by Andy Weir
The Cult of We: WeWork, Adam Neumann, and the Great Startup Delusion by Eliot Brown, Maureen Farrell
How Life Imitates Chess: Making the Right Moves, from the Board to the Boardroom by Garry Kasparov
I Am Not A Serial Killer by Dan Wells
The Ministry for the Future: A Novel by Kim Stanley Robinson
Work Won't Love You Back: How Devotion to Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited, Exhausted, and Alone by Sarah Jaffe
Loonshots: How to Nurture the Crazy Ideas That Win Wars, Cure Diseases, and Transform Industries by Safi Bahcall
Klara and the Sun: A Novel by Kazuo Ishiguro
The Last Duel: A True Story of Crime, Scandal, and Trial by Combat by Eric Jager
The Wizard and the Prophet: Two Remarkable Scientists and Their Dueling Visions to Shape Tomorrow's World by Charles C. Mann
The Hidden Palace: A Novel of the Golem and the Jinni by Helene Wecker
The Martian by Andy Weir
A World Without Email: Reimagining Work in an Age of Communication Overload by Cal Newport
The Golem and the Jinni: A Novel by Helene Wecker
Bullshit Jobs: A Theory by David Graeber
The Overstory: A Novel by Richard Powers
The Tao of Pooh by Benjamin Hoff
The Glass Castle: A Memoir by Jeannette Walls
Everything in Its Place: First Loves and Last Tales by Oliver Sacks
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus by Richard Preston
Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia by Christina Thompson
1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created by Charles C. Mann
The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming by David Wallace-Wells
The 99% Invisible City: A Field Guide to the Hidden World of Everyday Design by Roman Mars, Kurt Kohlstedt
Mistakes Were Made (but Not by Me): Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions, and Hurtful Acts by Carol Tavris, Elliot Aronson
You're Not Listening: What You're Missing and Why It Matters by Kate Murphy
Architecture: Art by Philip Jodidio
The Art of Walt Disney: From Mickey Mouse to the Magic Kingdoms and Beyond by Christopher Finch
Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy by Cathy O'Neil
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson
Envisioning Information by Edward R. Tufte
The Visual Display of Quantitative Information: 2nd Edition by Edward R. Tufte
The Dutch House: A Novel by Ann Patchett 🎧
How Charts Lie: Getting Smarter about Visual Information by Alberto Cairo

2020

– 82 books read

12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos by Jordan B. Peterson 🎧
Eat A Peach: A Memoir by David Chang, Gabe Ulla
Solutions and Other Problems by Allie Brosh
Recursion: A Novel by Blake Crouch 🎧
Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art by James Nestor 🎧
I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us And A Grander View Of Life by Ed Yong 🎧
Ready Player Two: A Novel by Ernest Cline
Untamed by Glennon Doyle 🎧
The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War by Ben Macintyre 🎧
The Testaments: The Sequel to The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood 🎧
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster by Jon Krakauer
Armada by Ernest Cline
Ready Player One by Ernest Cline 🎧
Endure: Mind, Body, and the Curiously Elastic Limits of Human Performance by Alex Hutchinson
Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language by Gretchen McCulloch
The Year of the Dogs by Vincent J. Musi
Underwater Ghost Towns of North Georgia by Lisa M. Russell
Together: The Healing Power of Human Connection in a Sometimes Lonely World by Vivek H. Murthy, MD
Heroes: The Greek Myths Reimagined by Stephen Fry
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe by Douglas Adams 🎧
Mythos by Stephen Fry
The Plot Against America: A Novel by Philip Roth
Cat Tale: The Wild, Weird Battle to Save the Florida Panther by Craig Pittman
Hello I Want to Die Please Fix Me: Depression in the First Person by Anna Mehler Paperny
How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy by Jenny Oddell 🎧
Fever Dream: A Novel by Samanta Schweblin
The Story of More: How We Got to Climate Change and Where to Go from Here by Hope Jahren
Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief by Lawrence Wright 🎧
Weird: The Power of Being an Outsider in an Insider World by Olga Khazan 🎧
Devolution: A Firsthand Account of the Rainier Sasquatch Massacre by Max Brooks
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
Why Fish Don't Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life by Lulu Miller
Acceptance: A Novel by Jeff VanderMeer 🎧
Authority: A Novel by Jeff VanderMeer 🎧
Annihilation: A Novel by Jeff VanderMeer 🎧
Elevation by Stephen King 🎧
Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang 🎧
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams 🎧
Fates and Furies: A novel by Lauren Groff 🎧
Enemy of All Mankind by Steven Johnson
Yes to Life by Viktor E. Frankl 🎧
Lifespan: Why We Age―and Why We Don't Have To by David A. Sinclair
The End of October: A Novel by Lawrence Wright 🎧
Circe by Madeline Miller 🎧
The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking 🎧
Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman by Jon Krakauer 🎧
High School by Sara Quin, Tegan Quin
The Water Dancer: A Novel by Ta-Nehisi Coates 🎧
The Hero with a Thousand Faces: (The Collected Works of Joseph Campbell) by Joseph Campbell
Small Fry: A Memoir by Lisa Brennan-Jobs 🎧
The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 by Lawrence Wright 🎧
The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming by David Wallace-Wells
Normal People: A Novel by Sally Rooney 🎧
Lonesome Dove: A Novel by Larry McMurtry 🎧
Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World--and Why Things Are Better Than You Think by Hans Rosling, Anna Rosling Rönnlund, Ola Rosling
The Dark Forest by Cixin Liu 🎧
Severance: A Novel by Ling Ma
The Road to Character by David Brooks
In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex by Nathaniel Philbrick
Outer Order, Inner Calm: Declutter and Organize to Make More Room for Happiness by Gretchen Rubin
Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character by Richard P. Feynman
How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe: A Novel by Charles Yu
The Song of Achilles: A Novel by Madeline Miller
The Adventurer's Son: A Memoir by Roman Dial
The Body: A Guide for Occupants by Bill Bryson
The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz by Erik Larson
Whistleblower: My Journey to Silicon Valley and Fight for Justice at Uber by Susan J. Fowler
Uncanny Valley: A Memoir by Anna Wiener
These Truths: A History of the United States by Jill Lepore
The Bear by Andrew Krivak
Tribe of Mentors: Short Life Advice from the Best in the World by Tim Ferriss
The Blue Zones Solution: Eating and Living Like the World's Healthiest People by Dan Buettner
Mengele: Unmasking the 'Angel of Death' by David G. Marwell
Bill Cunningham: On the Street: Five Decades of Iconic Photography by New York Times
An American Marriage: A Novel by Tayari Jones
A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing by Eimear McBride
Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Ownes
This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar, Max Gladstone
Movies (And Other Things) by Shea Serrano
Wanderers: A Novel by Chuck Wendig
This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate by Naomi Klein

2019

– 75 books read

Primitive Technology: A Survivalist's Guide to Building Tools, Shelters, and More in the Wild by John Plant
Dreyer's English: An Utterly Correct Guide to Clarity and Style by Benjamin Dreyer
Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness by Susannah Cahalan
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup by John Carreyrou
Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber by Mike Isaac
Letters from an Astrophysicist by Neil deGrasse Tyson
The Raven Tower by Ann Leckie
Uncommon Type: Some Stories by Tom Hanks
Dark Matter by Blake Crouch
Exhalation: Stories by Ted Chiang
Lab Girl by Hope Jahren
We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin
Being Mortal by Atul Gawande
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology by Ray Kurzweil
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Those Who Wander: America's Street Kids by Vivian Ho
American Sketches: Great Leaders, Creative Thinkers, and Heroes of a Hurricane by Walter Isaacson
The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of 9/11 by Garrett M. Graff
Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know about the People We Don't Know by Malcolm Gladwell
Superfoods: The Healthiest Foods on the Planet by Tonia Reinhard
Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game by Michael Lewis
The Simple Faith of Mister Rogers by Amy Hollingsworth
Option B: Facing Adversity, Building Resilience, and Finding Joy by Sheryl Sandberg, Adam Grant
The Death of Truth: Notes on Falsehood in the Age of Trump by Michiko Kakutani
The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution by Walter Isaacson
Overview: A New Perspective on Earth by Benjamin Grant
Origin by Dan Brown
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann
Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World by David J. Epstein
The Mother Tongue: English and How it Got that Way by Bill Bryson
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus by Charles C. Mann
The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate — Discoveries from A Secret World by Peter Wohlleben
A Well-Read Woman by Kate Stewart
Island Time: An Illustrated History of St. Simons Island, Georgia by Jingle Davis
Dispatches by Michael Herr
Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams by Matthew Walker
St. Simons Island: A Summary of Its History by R. Edwin Green
The Wild Trees: A Story of Passion and Daring by Richard Preston
Shoe Dog by Phil Knight
Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness by Richard H. Thaler, Cass R. Sunstein
The Moment of Lift: How Empowering Women Changes the World by Melinda Gates
Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics by Richard H. Thaler
A General Theory of Love by Thomas Lewis, Fari Amini, Richard Lannon
The Radium Girls by Kate Moore
The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu
The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein
Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry into the Value of Work by Matthew B. Crawford
The Death of Expertise by Thomas M. Nichols
Warlight: A Novel by Michael Ondaatje
The Checklist Manifesto by Atul Gawande
Rocket Boys by Homer Hickham
Invisible Women by Caroline Criado Perez
The Liberty Amendments: Restoring the American Republic by Mark R. Levin
Figuring by Maria Popova
Horizon by Barry Lopez
Zoo Nebraska: The Dismantling of an American Dream by Carson Vaughan
The Sports Gene: Inside the Science of Extraordinary Athletic Performance by David Epstein
Digital Minimalism by Cal Newport
The Te of Piglet by Benjamin Hoff
The Underground Railroad: A Novel by Colson Whitehead
A Mother's Reckoning: Living in the Aftermath of Tragedy by Sue Klebold
How to Be a Friend to a Friend Who's Sick by Letty Cottin Pogrebin
Leonardo da Vinci by Walter Isaacson
Future Perfect: A Skeptic’s Search for an Honest Mystic by Victoria Loustalot
AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order by Kai-Fu Lee
A More Beautiful and Terrible History by Jeanne Theoharis
The Tao of Pooh by Benjamin Hoff
Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It by Chris Voss
Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Becoming by Michelle Obama
Dracula by Bram Stoker
The Mindbody Prescription: Healing the Body, Healing the Pain by John E. Sarno

2018

– 33 books read

Bird Box: A Novel by Josh Malerman
Border: A Journey to the Edge of Europe by Kapka Kassabova
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change by Stephen R. Covey
When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi
The Warner Boys: Our Family’s Story of Autism and Hope by Curt Warner, Ana Warner
Everything Bad is Good for You: How Today's Popular Culture Is Actually Making Us Smarter by Steven Johnson
Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan
Educated: A Memoir by Tara Westover
21 Lessons for the 21st Century by Yuval Noah Harari
Principles: Life and Work by Ray Dalio
Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook by Anthony Bourdain
Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years of Lockheed by Ben R. Rich, Leo Janos
Aussie Grit: My Formula One Journey by Mark Webber
Artemis: A Novel by Andy Weir
Total Competition: Lessons in Strategy from Formula One by Ross Brawn, Adam Parr
The Mechanic's Tale by Steve Matchett
Moon Shot: The Inside Story of America's Apollo Moon Landings by Jay Barbree, Alan Shepard, Deke Slayton
Seveneves by Neal Stephenson
Lies My Teacher Told Me by James W. Loewen
A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
It's Kind of a Funny Story by Ned Vizzini
The Little Book of Hygge: Danish Secrets to Happy Living by Meik Wiking
Hell's Princess: The Mystery of Belle Gunness, Butcher of Men by Harold Schechter
A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
Come as You Are by Emily Nagoski
The Copywriter's Handbook: Edition 3 by Robert W. Bly
Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow by Yuval Noah Harari
How Democracies Die by Stephen Levitsky, Daniel Ziblatt
Citizen Soldiers by Stephen E. Ambrose
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry by Neil deGrasse Tyson
The Asshole Survival Guide: How to Deal with People Who Treat You Like Dirt by Robert I. Sutton
Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House by Michael Wolff
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plaith

2017

– 45 books read

A River in Darkness: One Man's Escape from North Korea by Masaji Ishikawa
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion by Robert B. Cialdini
The Rainmaker by John Grisham
Enemy at the Gates: The Battle for Stalingrad by William Craig
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari
Healing Back Pain: The Mind-Body Connection by John E. Sarno
You're Never Weird on the Internet (Almost) by Felicia Day
You Are a Badass by Jen Sincero
The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown
A Mind at Play: How Claude Shannon Invented the Information Age by Jimmy Soni, Rob Goodman
Hyperbole and a Half by Allie Brosh
The Miracle of Dunkirk: The True Story of Operation Dynamo by Walter Lord
Every Man in This Village Is a Liar: An Education in War by Megan K. Stack
The Return of the King by J. R. R. Tolkien
The Two Towers by J. R. R. Tolkien
The Fellowship of the Ring by J. R. R. Tolkien
Vagabonding by Rolf Potts
The Art of Happiness by Dalai Lama
The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
A Short History of Myth by Karen Armstrong
All Over The Place by Geraldine DeRuiter
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
Barking Up The Wrong Tree by Eric Barker
Guantánamo Diary by Mohamedou Ould Slahi, Larry Siems
The Lost City of Z by David Grann
Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World by Adam Grant
The Great Passage by Shion Miura
Tools of Titans by Tim Ferris
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
Proficient Motorcycling: The Ultimate Guide to Riding Well by David L. Hough
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
40 Chances: Finding Hope in a Hungry World by Howard G. Buffet
Locked Down, Locked Out by Maya Schenwar
The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower by Stephen King
The Dark Tower VI: Song of Susannah by Stephen King
This Changes Everything: Occupy Wall Street and the 99% Movement by Sarah van Gelder
The Dark Tower V: Wolves of the Calla by Stephen King
Deep Work by Cal Newport
The Dark Tower: The Wind Through the Keyhole by Stephen King
The Denial of Death by Ernest Becker
The Dark Tower IV: Wizard and Glass by Stephen King
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck by Mark Manson

2016

– 58 books read

The ONE Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results by Gary Keller, Jay Papasan
The Dark Tower III: The Waste Lands by Stephen King
The Dark Tower II: The Drawing of the Three by Stephen King
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Screwed by Thom Hartmann
Gumption by Nick Offerman
The Heart of Haiku by Jane Hirshfield
D DAY Through German Eyes by Holger Eckhertz
The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger by Stephen King
The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien
The Long Run by Mishka Shubaly
Alan Turing: Unlocking the Enigma by David Boyle
The Gift of Anger by John Solmonese
The New Confessions of an Economic Hit Man by John Perkins
The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
The User Experience Guide Book For Product Managers by Marcin Treder
Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital by Sheri Fink
The 1-Page Marketing Plan by Allan Dib
The Paradox of Choice by Barry Schwartz
Helmet for my Pillow by Robert Leckie
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. Pirsig
After Disasters by Viet Dinh
Hell Island by Matthew Reilly
The Age of Daredevils by Michael Clarkson
A Fork in the Road: Tales of Food, Pleasure and Discovery on the Road by James Oseland, Lonely Planet
Bitcoin for the Befuddled by Conrad Barski, Chris Wilmer
Terms of Use by Scott Allan Morrison
The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
The Smartest Kids in the World: And How They Got That Way by Amanda Ripley
How to stop worrying and start living by Dale Carnegie
Why Nations Fail by Daron Acemoğlu, James A. Robinson
The Temporary Agent by Daniel Judson
Emotional Rescue: Essays on Love, Loss, and Life by Ben Greenman
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking by Susan Cain
Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain by David Eagleman
The Tao of Pooh by Benjamin Hoff
The Animal Manifesto by Marc Bekoff
The Light Between Oceans by M. L. Stedman
We're All Damaged by Matthew Norman
Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
All My Friends Are Still Dead by Avery Monsen
Sprint: How to Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days by Jake Knapp
The Man in the White Suit by Ben Collins
The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick
Okinawa: The Last Battle of World War II by Robert Leckie
The Big Fear by Andrew Case
Mo' Meta Blues: The World According to Questlove by Ben Greenman, Questlove
Lullaby by Chuck Palahniuk
Homeland by Cory Doctorow
Winter Men by Jesper Bugge Kold
Confessions of a Long-Distance Sailor by Paul Lutus
Black Hawk Down by Mark Bowden
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking by Malcom Gladwell
Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest by Stephen E. Ambrose
Captain Riley by Fernando Gamboa
Slipstream Time Hacking: How to Cheat Time, Live More, And Enhance Happiness by Benjamin P. Hardy
Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future by Ashlee Vance
What the Dog Saw and Other Adventures by Malcolm Gladwell

2015

– 27 books read

The Short Drop by Matthew FitzSimmons
Killing Patton: The Strange Death of World War II's Most Audacious General by Bill O'Reilly, Martin Dugard
An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth by Chris Hadfield
Under the Dome by Stephen King
The Stranger by Albert Camus
Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell
Bossypants by Tina Fey
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
Challenger Deep by Neal Shusterman
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
The Chessmen of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
Thuvia, Maid of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
The Warlord of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
The Gods of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail by Bill Bryson
The New Rules of Marketing & PR: How to Use Social Media, Online Video, Mobile Applications, Blogs, News Releases, & Viral Marketing to Reach Buyers Directly by David Meerman Scott
Modern Romance by Aziz Ansari, Eric Klinenberg
Jalopnik's Book Of Car Facts And History Even Gearheads Don't Know by JalopnikMatt Hardigree
Schiit Happened: The Story of the World's Most Improbable Start-Up by Jason Stoddard
HTML and CSS: Design and Build Websites by Jon Duckett
Star Wars: Darth Plagueis by James Luceno
Little Brother by Cory Doctorow
Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
The Barefoot Bandit: The True Tale of Colton Harris-Moore, New American Outlaw by Bob Friel
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl Strayed
Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration by Ed Catmull, Amy Wallace

2014

– 22 books read

Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter by Seth Grahame-Smith
I Am Legend by Richard Matheson
Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
The Pilgrimage by Paulo Coelho
The Science of Interstellar by Kip S. Thorne, Christopher J. Nolan
The Martian by Andy Weir
Catch Me If You Can: The True Story of a Real Fake by Frank W. Abagnale, Stan Redding
Knowledge Is Beautiful: Impossible Ideas, Invisible Patterns, Hidden Connections--Visualized by David McCandless
A Dance with Dragons by George R.R. Martin
A Feast for Crows by George R.R. Martin
A Storm of Swords by George R.R. Martin
A Clash of Kings by George R.R. Martin
A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin
Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson
And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini
The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook: Life by Joshua Piven, David Borgenicht
American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History by Chris Kyle, Scott McEwen, Jim DeFelice
The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand
The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves, and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History by Robert M. Edsel, Bret Witter
The Wolf of Wall Street by Jordan Belfort

2013

– 21 books read

The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
Lone Survivor: The Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing and the Lost Heroes of SEAL Team 10 by Marcus Luttrell
Paddle Your Own Canoe: One Man's Fundamentals for Delicious Living by Nick Offerman
Leviathan Wakes by James S.A. Corey
Inferno by Dan Brown
Layer Cake by J.J. Connolly
Tubes: A Journey to the Center of the Internet by Andrew Blum
A Quest of Heroes by Morgan Rice
Dog Is My Copilot: Rescue Tales of Flying Dogs, Second Chances, and the Hero Who Might Live Next Door by Patrick T. Regan
Running on Faith: The Principles, Passion, and Pursuit of a Winning Life by Jason Lester, Tim Vandehey
Abundance: The Future Is Better Than You Think by Peter H. Diamandis, Steven Kotler
HHhH: A Novel by Laurent Binet
Child 44 by Tom Rob Smith
Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
An Abundance of Katherines by John Green
Turn Right at Machu Picchu: Rediscovering the Lost City One Step at a Time by Mark Adams
11/22/63 by Stephen King
The Last Question by Isaac Asimov
Naked Pictures of Famous People by Jon Stewart
James Bond: Omnibus Volume 001 by Ian Fleming, John McLucsky
Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell

2012

– 33 books read

Zeitoun by Dave Eggers
The Forever War by Joe Haldeman
The Magicians by Lev Grossman
The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine by Michael Lewis
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
Day by Day Armageddon by J.L. Bourne
Fire Season: Field Notes from a Wilderness Lookout by Philip Connors
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Robert A. Heinlein
Decoded by Jay-Z
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
Sh*t My Dad Says by Justin Halpern
Less Than Zero by Bret Easton Ellis
In the Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives by Steven Levy
Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
The Bourne Dominion by Robert Ludlum, Eric Van Lustbader
The Sign of Four by Arthur Conan Doyle
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling
The Heroin Diaries: A Year In The Life Of A Shattered Rock Star by Nikki Sixx
Across the Universe by Beth Revis
The Untouchables by Eliot Ness
Talking to Girls About Duran Duran: One Young Man's Quest for True Love and a Cooler Haircut by Rob Sheffield
Scar Tissue by Anthony Kiedis, Larry Sloman
Love Is a Mix Tape by Rob Sheffield
Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void by Mary Roach
Zone One by Colson Whitehead
In the Hot Zone: One Man, One Year, Twenty Wars by Kevin Sites
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

2011

– 12 books read

Magical Thinking by Augusten Burroughs
Running with Scissors by Augusten Burroughs
The CTS Collection: Training Tips for Cyclists and Triathletes by Chris Carmichael
The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea by Sebastian Junger
Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything by Joshua Foer
Father Knows Less: One Dad's Quest to Answer His Son's Most Baffling Questions by Wendell Jamieson
1984 by George Orwell
The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection from the Living Dead by Max Brooks
World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War by Max Brooks
The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown
War by Sebastian Junger
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Future...: Twists and Turns and Lessons Learned by Michael J. Fox

2010

– 13 books read

Flight by Sherman Alexie
All My Friends Are Dead by Avery Monsen
The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling
A Captain's Duty: Somali Pirates, Navy SEALs, and Dangerous Days at Sea by Richard Phillips
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
The Invisible Man: A Grotesque Romance by H.G. Wells
The Napoleonic Revolution by Robert B Holtman
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
Go Like Hell: Ford, Ferrari, and Their Battle for Speed and Glory at Le Mans by A.J. Baime
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Angels & Demons by Dan Brown

2009

– 8 books read

That Was Then, This Is Now by S.E. Hinton
Looking for Alaska by John Green
The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
The Big Sky by A.B. Guthrie Jr.
Sniper by Theodore Taylor
Rule of the Bone by Russell Banks
The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
Choke by Chuck Palahniuk

2008

– 4 books read

The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
The Original Illustrated Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie
Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi

2007

– 5 books read*

The Driver by Alexander Roy
Toly's Ghost by B.S. Levy
The Fabulous Trashwagon by B.S. Levy
Montezuma's Ferrari by B.S. Levy
The Last Open Road by B.S. Levy

2006

– 2 books read*

Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
The Epic of Gilgamesh by Anonymous

2004

– 3 books read*

Halo: First Strike by Eric Nylund
Halo: The Flood by Eric Nylund
Halo: The Fall of Reach by Eric Nylund

*Some untracked books missing from year.

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