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last updated November 16th, 2023

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. Debt: The First 5,000 Years
    David Graeber
    4/1/23 - stopped reading
  6. Leviathan Wakes
    S. A. Corey
    6/22/23 - 7/12/23
  7. 1 Billion Americans (audiobook)
    Matthew Yglesias
    7/8/23 - 7/9/23
  8. How the World Really Works
    Vaclav Smil
    7/8/23 - 7/21/23
  9. Chip War (audiobook)
    Chris Miller
    7/28/23 - 9/19/23
  10. Where’s My Flying Car
    J. Storrs Hall
    7/30/23 - 8/3/23
  11. Caliban’s War
    S. A. Corey
    8/4/23 - 8/10/23
  12. Where the Water Goes (audiobook)
    David Owen
    8/11/23 - 8/21/23
  13. Atomic Awakening
    James Mahaffey
    8/11/23 - 8/21/23
  14. Cheap Land Colorado (audiobook)
    Ted Conover
    8/21/23 - 8/23/23
  15. Factory Girls: From Village to City in a Changing China (audiobook)
    Leslie T. Chang
    9/5/23 - 9/19/23
  16. The Bastard Brigade (audiobook)
    Sam Kean
    9/6/23 - 9/20/23
  17. Energy (audiobook)
    Richard Rhodes
    9/8/23 - 9/28/23
  18. Elon Musk
    Walter Isaacson
    10/2/23 - 10/22/23
  19. A Short History of Nearly Everything (audiobook)
    Bill Bryson
    10/10/23 - currently reading
  20. 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus (audiobook)
    Charles C. Mann
    10/12/23 - 10/30/23
  21. The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
    Robert A. Heinlein
    10/22/23 - 11/12/23
  22. The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag (audiobook)
    Robert A. Heinlein
    10/30/23 - 10/31/23
  23. The Wizard and the Prophet (audiobook)
    Charles C. Mann
    11/7/23 - currently reading
  24. The Upcycled Self (audiobook)
    Tariq Trotter
    11/14/23 - 11/15/23

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