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.
2025
! The City and Its Uncertain Walls
! The Secret Life of Groceries by Benjamin Lorr
What My Father and I Don't Talk About by Michele Filgate ⭐️
My Mother's Boyfriends by Samantha Schoech
Abundance by Ezra Klein and Derek Thomson
Future Sex by Emily Witt
2024
The Anxious Generation by Jonathan Haidt ⏏️
The Most by Jessica Anthony
The Rehearsal by Eleanor Catton ⭐️
Station Eleven
The Wild Birds by Wendell Berry
The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion ⭐️
The White Album by Joan Didion
Outline by Rachel Cusk
Knife by Salman Rushdie
Birnam Wood by Eleanor Catton ⭐️
Trust by Hernan Diaz ⭐️
How to Know a Person by David Brooks ⏏️
The Other Significant Others by Rhaina Cohen ⏏️
Nothing Good Can Come from This by Kristi Coulter
Good Material by Dolly Alderton
My Salinger Year by Joanna Rakoff ⭐️⭐️
How Should A Person Be by Sheila Heti
So Late in the Day by Claire Keegan
The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand ⭐️⭐️
Lessons in Chemistry buy Bonnie Garmus ⏏️
Day by Michael Cunningham
2023
Charleston Fancy
From Strength to Strength
The Art of Learning by Josh Waitzkin
The Technological Society ⏏️
Tools for Conviviality ⏏️
A Guide for the Perplexed ⏏️
Bewilderment by Richard Powers ⭐️
The Ministry For the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson
Case Study Houses ⏏️
Architect? — A Candid Guide to the Profession
Greenlights by Matthew McConaughey
XO by Sara Rauch
Truth & Beauty by Ann Patchett ⭐️
Bodies in Motion and at Rest by Thomas Lynch
Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger
Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger ⭐️
We All Fall Down by Nic Sheff
Tweak by Nic Sheff
Beautiful Boy by David Sheff ⭐️
New One by Mike Birbiglia
Lying by Sam Harris
The Tools by Phil Stutz and Barry Michels
Four Thousand Weeks by Oliver Burkeman
Please Report Your Bug Here by Josh Riedel
How Will You Measure Your Life? by Clayton Christensen
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 ⏏️
The Art of Gathering by Priya Parker ⏏️
Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari
2021
Drink? by David Nutt 🛑
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 ⭐️
The Meaning of Life by The School of Life
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