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last updated September 11th, 2024

2024

  1. Intro to Nuclear Reactor Theory
    John R. Lamarsh
    1/2/24 - currently reading

  2. The British are Coming (audiobook)
    Rick Atkinson
    1/6/24 - 1/12/24

  3. Have Spacesuit, Will Travel (audiobook)
    Robert A. Heinlein
    1/13/24 - 1/29/24

  4. The Wager (audiobook)
    David Grann
    1/26/24 - 1/29/24

  5. Kindred (audiobook)
    Octavia E. Butler
    1/31/24 - 2/2/24

  6. A Wild Sheep Chase (audiobook)
    Haruki Murakami
    2/3/24 - 2/5/24

  7. Foundation (audiobook)
    Isaac Asimov
    2/6/24 - 2/17/24

  8. The Power Broker (audiobook)
    Robert Caro
    2/16/24 - currently reading

  9. Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom (audiobook)
    Stephen R. Platt
    3/9/24 3/15/24

  10. The Art Thief (audiobook)
    Michael Finkel
    3/16/24 - 5/27/24

  11. The Making of the Atomic Bomb (audiobook)
    Richard Rhodes
    3/19/24 - 6/9/24

  12. Flux
    Jinwoo Chong
    4/4/24 - stopped reading

  13. The Big Burn (audiobook)
    Timothy Egan
    4/16/24 - 5/3/24

  14. The Anxious Generation (audiobook)
    Jonathan Haidt
    4/23/24 - 5/12/24

  15. The Lathe of Heaven (audiobook)
    Ursula Le Guin
    5/4/24 - 5/6/24

  16. Annihilation (audiobook)
    Jeff VanderMeer
    5/7/24 - 5/15/24

  17. Make Your Bed (audiobook)
    William H. McRaven
    5/19/24 - 5/19/24

  18. Principles (audiobook)
    Ray Dalio
    5/20/24 - 5/31/24

  19. The Lessons of History (audiobook)
    Will and Ariel Durant
    5/31/24 - 5/31/24

  20. The Lonesome Dove (audiobook)
    Larry McMurtry
    6/9/24 - 7/10/24

  21. Freedom’s Forge
    Arthur Herman
    7/9/24 - 7/21/24

  22. Master and Commander
    Patrick O’brian
    8/7/24 - 8/16/24

  23. Termination Shock
    Neal Stephenson
    9/1/24 - currently reading

2023

  1. Friendly Ambitious Nerds
    Visakan Veerasamy
    3/12/23 - 3/20/23

  2. Never Split The Difference (audiobook)
    Chris Voss
    3/29/23 - 3/30/23

  3. Debt: The First 5,000 Years
    David Graeber
    4/1/23 - stopped reading

  4. What’s Our Problem?
    Tim Urban
    4/5/23 - 5/1/23

  5. Leviathan Wakes
    S. A. Corey
    6/22/23 - 7/12/23

  6. 1 Billion Americans (audiobook)
    Matthew Yglesias
    7/8/23 - 7/9/23

  7. How the World Really Works
    Vaclav Smil
    7/8/23 - 7/21/23

  8. Chip War (audiobook)
    Chris Miller
    7/28/23 - 9/19/23

  9. Where’s My Flying Car
    J. Storrs Hall
    7/30/23 - 8/3/23

  10. Caliban’s War
    S. A. Corey
    8/4/23 - 8/10/23

  11. Where the Water Goes (audiobook)
    David Owen
    8/11/23 - 8/21/23

  12. Atomic Awakening
    James Mahaffey
    8/11/23 - 8/21/23

  13. Cheap Land Colorado (audiobook)
    Ted Conover
    8/21/23 - 8/23/23

  14. Factory Girls: From Village to City in a Changing China (audiobook)
    Leslie T. Chang
    9/5/23 - 9/19/23

  15. The Bastard Brigade (audiobook)
    Sam Kean
    9/6/23 - 9/20/23

  16. Energy (audiobook)
    Richard Rhodes
    9/8/23 - 9/28/23

  17. Elon Musk
    Walter Isaacson
    10/2/23 - 10/22/23

  18. A Short History of Nearly Everything (audiobook)
    Bill Bryson
    10/10/23 - 12/30/23

  19. 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus (audiobook)
    Charles C. Mann
    10/12/23 - 10/30/23

  20. The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
    Robert A. Heinlein
    10/22/23 - 11/12/23

  21. The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag (audiobook)
    Robert A. Heinlein
    10/30/23 - 10/31/23

  22. The Wizard and the Prophet (audiobook)
    Charles C. Mann
    11/7/23 - 11/21/23

  23. The Upcycled Self (audiobook)
    Tariq Trotter
    11/14/23 - 11/15/23

  24. THe Hundred Year Marathon (audiobook)
    Michael Pillsbury
    11/21/23 - 11/24/23

  25. The Stranger in the Woods (audiobook)
    Michael Finkel
    11/24/23 - 11/29/23

  26. The Fellowship of the Ring (audiobook)
    J.R.R. Tolkien - BBC Radio Production
    12/2/23 - 12/16/23

  27. The Audacity of Hope (audiobook)
    Barack Obama
    12/12/23 - 12/16/23

  28. The Perfectionists (audiobook)
    Simon Winchester
    12/17/23 - 12/19/23

  29. The Big Year (audiobook)
    Mark Obmascik
    12/17/23 - 3/5/24

  30. Seven Brief Lessons on Physics (audiobook)
    Carlo Rovelli
    12/19/23 - 12/20/23

  31. The Wright Brothers (audiobook)
    David McCollough
    12/21/23 - 12/26/23

  32. Becoming Trader Joe (audiobook)
    Joe Coulombe
    12/27/23 - 12/29/23

  33. The Big Short (audiobook)
    Michael Lewis
    12/31/23 - 1/3/24

2022

  1. Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
    Anthony Bourdain
    1/2/22 - 3/8/22

  2. The 4-hour Work Week
    Tim Ferriss
    1/3/22 - 1/26/22

  3. 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

  4. One Hundred Years of Solitude (audiobook)
    Gabriel García Márquez
    2/10/22 - stopped reading

  5. Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits (audiobook)
    Philip A. Fisher
    2/15/22 - 3/11/22

  6. A Failure of Nerve: Leadership in the Age of the Quick Fix
    Edwin H. Friedman
    3/8/22 - stopped reading

  7. One Up on Wall Street (audiobook)
    Peter Lynch
    3/22/22 - 3/22/22

  8. Becoming Steve Jobs (audiobook)
    Brent Schlender, Rick Tetzeli
    4/27/22 - 5/2/22

  9. Creativity, Inc. (audiobook)
    Ed Catmull
    5/3/22 - 5/8/22

  10. Maverick: A Biography of Thomas Sowell (audiobook)
    Jason L. Riley
    5/9/22 - 5/11/22

  11. Build: An Unorthodox Guide to Making Things Worth Making
    Tony Fadell
    5/9/22 - 5/19/22

  12. The Splendid and the Vile (audiobook)
    Erik Larson
    5/19/22 - 5/23/22

  13. Guns, Germs, and Steel (audiobook)
    Jared Diamond
    5/23/22 - stopped reading

  14. The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People (audiobook)
    Stephen R. Covey
    5/26/22 - 5/31/22

  15. The Devil in the White City (audiobook)
    Erik Larson
    5/31/22 - 6/5/22

  16. The Charisma Myth (audiobook)
    Olivia Fox Cabane
    6/2/22 - stopped reading

  17. Billion Dollar Whale (audiobook)
    Tom Wright, Bradley Hope
    6/5/22 - 6/11/22

  18. Radical Candor
    Kim Scott
    6/6/22 - stopped reading

  19. The Three-Body Problem
    Cixin Liu
    6/8/22 - 7/1/22

  20. The Dark Forest
    Cixin Liu
    7/10/22 - 8/23/22

  21. Chronicles: Volume One
    Bob Dylan
    7/13/22 - 7/18/22

  22. The Bomber Mafia (audiobook)
    Malcolm Gladwell
    7/30/22 - 7/30/22

  23. In the Garden of Beasts (audiobook)
    Erik Larson
    7/31/22 - 8/4/22

  24. Death’s End
    Cixin Liu
    8/23/22 - 9/9/22

  25. The Manual: A Philosopher’s Guide to Life
    Epictetus, Sam Torode
    9/10/22 - 9/10/22

  26. The Meditations: An Emperor’s Guide to Mastery
    Marcus Aurelius, Sam Torode
    9/10/22 - 9/10/22

  27. The Overstory
    Richard Powers
    9/11/22 - 6/10/23

  28. The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck (audiobook)
    Mark Manson
    9/13/22 - 9/14/22

  29. Tao Te Ching (audiobook)
    Lao-Tzu, translated by Stephen Mitchell
    10/12/22 - 9/15/22

  30. Man’s Search for Meaning (audiobook)
    Viktor E. Frankl
    10/16/22 - 10/18/22

  31. The Guns of August
    Barbara W. Tuchman
    10/23/22 - 3/7/23

  32. Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World (audiobook)
    David Epstein
    11/10/22 - 11/20/2022

  33. The Storm Before the Storm: The Beginning of the End of the Roman Republic (audiobook)
    Mike Duncan
    11/21/22 - 12/27/22

2021

  1. Permanent Record (audiobook)
    Edward Snowden
    1/18/21 - 2/9/21

  2. How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need
    Bill Gates
    3/3/21 - 4/8/21

  3. A Random Walk Down Wall Street
    Burton G. Malkiel
    4/9/21 - 5/12/21

  4. No Country For Old Men
    Cormac McCarthy
    4/24/21 - 4/26/21

  5. When Breathe Becomes Air
    Paul Kalanithi
    4/27/21 - 4/27/21

  6. Lila: An Inquiry Into Morals
    Robert M. Pirsig
    4/28/21 - stopped reading

  7. Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West
    Cormac McCarthy
    5/12/21 - 7/25/21

  8. The Road (audiobook)
    Cormac McCarthy
    6/5/21 - 6/7/21

  9. All The Pretty Horses
    Cormac McCarthy
    8/1/21 - 8/7/21

  10. Mistborn: The Final Empire
    Brandon Sanderson
    8/10/21 - 8/14/21

  11. The Well of Ascension
    Brandon Sanderson
    8/17/21 - 9/7/21

  12. The Hero of ages
    Brandon Sanderson
    9/8/21 - 9/23/21

  13. Stubborn Attachments
    Tyler Cowen
    11/13/21 - 11/14/21

2020

  1. Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (Incerto)
    Nassim Nicholas Taleb
    1/01/20 - stopped reading

  2. Dignity: Seeking Respect in Back Row America
    Chris Arnade
    2/01/20 - 3/28/20

  3. How to Change Your Mind
    Michael Pollan
    2/18/20 - 3/26/20

  4. Where the Crawdads Sing
    Delia Owens
    5/23/20 - 5/24/20

  5. Mother American Night
    John Perry Barlow
    6/22/20 - 7/27/20

  6. Starfish
    Peter Watts
    7/31/20 - 8/2/20

  7. Dune Messiah
    Frank Herbert
    8/15/20 - 8/17/20

  8. Children of Dune
    Frank Herbert
    8/17/20 - 10/4/20

  9. The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World
    David Deutsch
    10/10/20 - stopped reading

  10. Beastie Boys Book (audiobook)
    Michael Diamond
    12/12/20 - 1/18/21

2019

  1. Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman
    Yvon Chouinard
    1/25/19 - 2/8/19

  2. Born to Run (audiobook)
    Bruce Springsteen
    12/5/18 - 2/10/19

  3. Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future (audiobook)
    Ashlee Vance
    2/26/19 - 2/27/19

  4. Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage (audiobook)
    Alfred Lansing
    2/28/19 - 3/2/19

  5. Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software
    Charles Petzold
    1/10/19 - 4/29/19

  6. Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead
    Sheryl Sandberg
    3/5/19 - 4/17/19

  7. 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

  8. The Fifth Season
    N. K. Jemisin
    5/2/19 - 5/12/19

  9. Between the World and Me
    Ta-Nehisi Coates
    5/12/19 - 5/13/19

  10. Benjamin Franklin: An American Life
    Walter Isaacson
    5/14/19 - stopped reading

  11. Fellowship of the Ring
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    5/19/19 - 7/7/19

  12. The Death and Life of Great American Cities
    Jane Jacobs
    7/8/19 - stopped reading

  13. Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption (audiobook)
    Laura Hillenbrand
    8/3/19 - 8/7/19

  14. Stories of Your Life and Others
    Ted Chiang
    9/1/19 - 10/6/19

  15. Desolation Angels
    Jack Kerouac
    10/7/19 - stopped reading

  16. Atomic Habits
    James Clear
    11/7/19 - 12/4/19

  17. Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life
    William Finnegan
    12/4/19 - 12/27/19

  18. The Call of the Wild
    Jack London
    12/28/19 - 12/30/19

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