Books I've read
Here's a list of books I've read. For some, I've written a detailed review. ⭐️ indicates a strong recommendation, ⏏️ means I chose not to finish, and 🛑 means I really didn't like it.
2023
Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow ⭐️
2022
Whole Earth: The Many Lives of Stewart Brand by John Markoff 🛑
The Overstory by Richard Powers ⭐️
Eight Dates by Gottman & Abrams
The Ministry For the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson ⏏️
Shop Class as Soulcraft by Matthew Crawford (book) ⏏️
Read the original article instead ⭐️
Winners Take All by Anand Gridharadas ⏏️
2021
Drink? by David Nutt 🛑
Four Thousand Weeks by Oliver Burkeman 🛑
The Planet Remade by Oliver Morton
Dedicated by Pete Davis
The Happiness Hypothesis by Jonathan Haidt
Die with Zero by Bill Perkins 🛑
Farm (and Other F Words) by Sarah Mock
Principles by Ray Dalio
How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie
Educated by Tara Westover
Born a Crime by Trevor Noah ⭐️
Eat a Peach by David Chang
How to Do Nothing by Jenny Odell
Mating in Captivity by Esther Perel ⭐️
Why We Sleep by Matthew Walker
2020
Willpower Doesn't Work by Benjamin Hardy
Caffeine by Michael Pollan ⭐️
Atomic Habits by James Clear ⭐️
Losing Earth by Nathaniel Rich
Designing Your Life by Bill Burnett & Dave Evans
Grit by Angela Duckworth
Daring Greatly by Brene Brown ⭐️
Maybe You Should Talk to Someone by Lori Gottlieb ⭐️
Open by Andre Agassi ⭐️
Age of Ambition by Evan Osnos ⏏️
The Tender Bar by J. R. Moehringer ⭐️
Bad Blood by John Carreyrou
The Big Short by Michael Lewis
Shoe Dog by Phil Knight ⭐️
Know My Name by Chanel Miller ⭐️
2019
I have America Surrounded by John Higgs ⭐️
Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain ⭐️
Earlier
How to Change Your Mind by Michael Pollan ⭐️
Barbarian Days by William Finnegan
A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara ⭐️
Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand ⭐️
The Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe
Born to Run by Christopher McDougall
Once a Runner by John L. Parker Jr. ⭐️
The Fountains of Paradise by Arthur C. Clarke
Night by Elie Wiesel
Rama by Arthur C. Clarke