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.

2024

• 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

• The Crane Wife by CJ Hauser (book)

• 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

• Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow ⭐️

2022

• Electrify by Saul Griffith

• 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 Second Mountain by David Brooks

• Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari

2021

• Drink? by David Nutt 🛑

• Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir ⭐️

• 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

• Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer ⭐️

• Marry Him by Lori Gottlieb

• Principles by Ray Dalio

• How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie

• The Defining Decade by Meg Jay

• When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi

• Educated by Tara Westover

• Born a Crime by Trevor Noah ⭐️

• Eat a Peach by David Chang

• The Shallows by Nicholas Carr ⭐️

• 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