Reading
last updated November 16th, 2023
2023
- Friendly Ambitious Nerds
Visakan Veerasamy
3/12/23 - 3/20/23 - Never Split The Difference (audiobook)
Chris Voss
3/29/23 - 3/30/23 - Debt: The First 5,000 Years
David Graeber
4/1/23 - stopped reading - What’s Our Problem?
Tim Urban
4/5/23 - 5/1/23 - Debt: The First 5,000 Years
David Graeber
4/1/23 - stopped reading - Leviathan Wakes
S. A. Corey
6/22/23 - 7/12/23 - 1 Billion Americans (audiobook)
Matthew Yglesias
7/8/23 - 7/9/23 - How the World Really Works
Vaclav Smil
7/8/23 - 7/21/23 - Chip War (audiobook)
Chris Miller
7/28/23 - 9/19/23 - Where’s My Flying Car
J. Storrs Hall
7/30/23 - 8/3/23 - Caliban’s War
S. A. Corey
8/4/23 - 8/10/23 - Where the Water Goes (audiobook)
David Owen
8/11/23 - 8/21/23 - Atomic Awakening
James Mahaffey
8/11/23 - 8/21/23 - Cheap Land Colorado (audiobook)
Ted Conover
8/21/23 - 8/23/23 - Factory Girls: From Village to City in a Changing China (audiobook)
Leslie T. Chang
9/5/23 - 9/19/23 - The Bastard Brigade (audiobook)
Sam Kean
9/6/23 - 9/20/23 - Energy (audiobook)
Richard Rhodes
9/8/23 - 9/28/23 - Elon Musk
Walter Isaacson
10/2/23 - 10/22/23 - A Short History of Nearly Everything (audiobook)
Bill Bryson
10/10/23 - currently reading - 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus (audiobook)
Charles C. Mann
10/12/23 - 10/30/23 - The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
Robert A. Heinlein
10/22/23 - 11/12/23 - The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag (audiobook)
Robert A. Heinlein
10/30/23 - 10/31/23 - The Wizard and the Prophet (audiobook)
Charles C. Mann
11/7/23 - currently reading - The Upcycled Self (audiobook)
Tariq Trotter
11/14/23 - 11/15/23
2022
- Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
Anthony Bourdain
1/2/22 - 3/8/22 - The 4-hour Work Week
Tim Ferriss
1/3/22 - 1/26/22 - The Mom Test: How to talk to customers and learn if your business is a good idea when everyone is lying to you
Rob Fitzpatrick
2/1/22 - 2/7/22 - One Hundred Years of Solitude (audiobook)
Gabriel García Márquez
2/10/22 - stopped reading - Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits (audiobook)
Philip A. Fisher
2/15/22 - 3/11/22 - A Failure of Nerve: Leadership in the Age of the Quick Fix
Edwin H. Friedman
3/8/22 - stopped reading - One Up on Wall Street (audiobook)
Peter Lynch
3/22/22 - 3/22/22 - Becoming Steve Jobs (audiobook)
Brent Schlender, Rick Tetzeli
4/27/22 - 5/2/22 - Creativity, Inc. (audiobook)
Ed Catmull
5/3/22 - 5/8/22 - Maverick: A Biography of Thomas Sowell (audiobook)
Jason L. Riley
5/9/22 - 5/11/22 - Build: An Unorthodox Guide to Making Things Worth Making
Tony Fadell
5/9/22 - 5/19/22 - The Splendid and the Vile (audiobook)
Erik Larson
5/19/22 - 5/23/22 - Guns, Germs, and Steel (audiobook)
Jared Diamond
5/23/22 - stopped reading - The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People (audiobook)
Stephen R. Covey
5/26/22 - 5/31/22 - The Devil in the White City (audiobook)
Erik Larson
5/31/22 - 6/5/22 - The Charisma Myth (audiobook)
Olivia Fox Cabane
6/2/22 - stopped reading - Billion Dollar Whale (audiobook)
Tom Wright, Bradley Hope
6/5/22 - 6/11/22 - Radical Candor
Kim Scott
6/6/22 - stopped reading - The Three-Body Problem
Cixin Liu
6/8/22 - 7/1/22 - The Dark Forest
Cixin Liu
7/10/22 - 8/23/22 - Chronicles: Volume One
Bob Dylan
7/13/22 - 7/18/22 - The Bomber Mafia (audiobook)
Malcolm Gladwell
7/30/22 - 7/30/22 - In the Garden of Beasts (audiobook)
Erik Larson
7/31/22 - 8/4/22 - Death’s End
Cixin Liu
8/23/22 - 9/9/22 - The Manual: A Philosopher’s Guide to Life
Epictetus, Sam Torode
9/10/22 - 9/10/22 - The Meditations: An Emperor’s Guide to Mastery
Marcus Aurelius, Sam Torode
9/10/22 - 9/10/22 - The Overstory
Richard Powers
9/11/22 - 6/10/23 - The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck (audiobook)
Mark Manson
9/13/22 - 9/14/22 - Tao Te Ching (audiobook)
Lao-Tzu, translated by Stephen Mitchell
10/12/22 - 9/15/22 - Man’s Search for Meaning (audiobook)
Viktor E. Frankl
10/16/22 - 10/18/22 - The Guns of August
Barbara W. Tuchman
10/23/22 - 3/7/23 - Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World (audiobook)
David Epstein
11/10/22 - 11/20/2022 - The Storm Before the Storm: The Beginning of the End of the Roman Republic (audiobook)
Mike Duncan
11/21/22 - 12/27/22
2021
- Permanent Record (audiobook)
Edward Snowden
1/18/21 - 2/9/21 - How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need
Bill Gates
3/3/21 - 4/8/21 - A Random Walk Down Wall Street
Burton G. Malkiel
4/9/21 - 5/12/21 - No Country For Old Men
Cormac McCarthy
4/24/21 - 4/26/21 - When Breathe Becomes Air
Paul Kalanithi
4/27/21 - 4/27/21 - Lila: An Inquiry Into Morals
Robert M. Pirsig
4/28/21 - stopped reading - Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West
Cormac McCarthy
5/12/21 - 7/25/21 - The Road (audiobook)
Cormac McCarthy
6/5/21 - 6/7/21 - All The Pretty Horses
Cormac McCarthy
8/1/21 - 8/7/21 - Mistborn: The Final Empire
Brandon Sanderson
8/10/21 - 8/14/21 - The Well of Ascension
Brandon Sanderson
8/17/21 - 9/7/21 - The Hero of ages
Brandon Sanderson
9/8/21 - 9/23/21 - Stubborn Attachments
Tyler Cowen
11/13/21 - 11/14/21
2020
- Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (Incerto)
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
1/01/20 - stopped reading - Dignity: Seeking Respect in Back Row America
Chris Arnade
2/01/20 - 3/28/20 - How to Change Your Mind
Michael Pollan
2/18/20 - 3/26/20 - Where the Crawdads Sing
Delia Owens
5/23/20 - 5/24/20 - Mother American Night
John Perry Barlow
6/22/20 - 7/27/20 - Starfish
Peter Watts
7/31/20 - 8/2/20 - Dune Messiah
Frank Herbert
8/15/20 - 8/17/20 - Children of Dune
Frank Herbert
8/17/20 - 10/4/20 - The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World
David Deutsch
10/10/20 - stopped reading - Beastie Boys Book (audiobook)
Michael Diamond
12/12/20 - 1/18/21
2019
- Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman
Yvon Chouinard
1/25/19 - 2/8/19 - Born to Run (audiobook)
Bruce Springsteen
12/5/18 - 2/10/19 - Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future (audiobook)
Ashlee Vance
2/26/19 - 2/27/19 - Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage (audiobook)
Alfred Lansing
2/28/19 - 3/2/19 - Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software
Charles Petzold
1/10/19 - 4/29/19 - Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead
Sheryl Sandberg
3/5/19 - 4/17/19 - Born to Run: A hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World has Never Seen (audiobook)
Christopher McDougall
3/10/19 - 3/21/19 - The Fifth Season
N. K. Jemisin
5/2/19 - 5/12/19 - Between the World and Me
Ta-Nehisi Coates
5/12/19 - 5/13/19 - Benjamin Franklin: An American Life
Walter Isaacson
5/14/19 - stopped reading - Fellowship of the Ring
J.R.R. Tolkien
5/19/19 - 7/7/19 - The Death and Life of Great American Cities
Jane Jacobs
7/8/19 - stopped reading - Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption (audiobook)
Laura Hillenbrand
8/3/19 - 8/7/19 - Stories of Your Life and Others
Ted Chiang
9/1/19 - 10/6/19 - Desolation Angels
Jack Kerouac
10/7/19 - stopped reading - Atomic Habits
James Clear
11/7/19 - 12/4/19 - Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life
William Finnegan
12/4/19 - 12/27/19 - The Call of the Wild
Jack London
12/28/19 - 12/30/19