My Reading List
Sharing my reading list keeps me motivated to read even more so here it is. 2022-2023 was a reading list sabbatical for me but I am back and motivated in 2024. Books I especially liked are marked by an asterisk, *
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2024
- The System by Robert Reich
- Liv and Let Die by Alan Shipnuck
- Solaris by Stanislaw Lem*
- A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
- Democracy Awakening by Heather Cox Richardson
- Born a Crime by Trevor Noah*
- Putin’s People by Catherine Belton
- Younger Next Year by Chris Crowley & Henry S. Lodge
- Dune by Frank Herbert
2021
- Saudi America by Bethany McLean
- Shaky Ground by Bethany McLean
- The Queen’s Gambit by Walter Tevis
- Sandworm by Andy Greenberg
- Post Corona by Scott Galloway
- Billion Dollar Loser by Reeves Wiedeman
- Ten Lessons for a Post-Pandemic World by Fareed Zakaria
- Naked Economics by Charles Wheelan
- We Came, We Saw, We Left by Charles Wheelan
- Vacationland by John Hodgman
- Prisoners of Geography by Tim Marshall
- Show Your Work! by Austin Kleon
- Futureproof by Kevin Roose
- The Code Breaker by Walter Isaccson
- Amazon Unbound by Brad Stone
- The Weirdest People in the World by Joseph Henrich
- Strangers on a Train by Patricia Highsmith
- The Plague Year by Lawrence Wright
- This is How They Tell Me the World Ends by Nicole Perlroth
- Empire of Pain by Patrick Radden Keefe
- The Dog Stars by Peter Heller
- The Great Influenza by John M. Barry
2020
- I Feel Bad About My Neck by Nora Ephron
- The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
- A Writer’s Diary by Virginia Woolf
- Absolutely on Music by Haruki Murakami
- Exhalation by Ted Chiang
- Competing in the Age of AI by Marco Iansiti and Karim R. Lakhani
- AI Superpowers by Kai-Fu Lee*
- Goliath by Matt Stoller
- Rise and Kill First by Ronen Bergman
- Invisible Women by Caroline Criado Perez
- Moody Bitches by Julie Holland
- I Said Yes to Everything by Lee Grant
- Directorate S by Steve Coll
- A Very Stable Genius by Philip Rucker & Carol Leonnig
- Why We’re Polarized by Ezra Klein
- Why We Can’t Sleep by Ada Calhoun
- Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
- Say Nothing by Patrick Radden Keefe
- Dark Towers by David Enrich
- Lifespan by David A. Sinclair
- The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
- The Franchise Affair by Josephine Tey
- The Pearl by John Steinbeck
- No Hero by Mark Owen
- Giving up the Ghost by Hilary Mantel*
- The End of October by Lawrence Wright
- No Filter by Sarah Frier
- The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane by Kate DiCamillo
- Whistleblower by Susan Fowler
- Billion Dollar Brand Club by Lawrence Ingrassia
- The Red Circle by Brandon Webb
- Dark Mirror by Barton Gellman
- My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh
- The Simple Path to Wealth by JL Collins*
- It Was All a Lie by Stuart Stevens
- Everything You Need to Ace Computer Science and Coding in One Big Fat Notebook
- Working in Public by Nadia Eghbal* (review)
- But How Do It Know? by J. Clark Scott
- Code by Petzold Charles
- Tribe by Sebastian Junger
- Your Money or Your Life by Vicki Robin
- I’m Thinking of Ending Things by Iain Reid
- Here is New York by E.B. White
- The Mental Load by Emma
- Kleptopia by Tom Burgis
- The E-Myth Revisited by Michael E. Gerber
2019
- Company of One by Paul Jarvis
- Deskbound by Kelly Starrett
- The Ascent of Money by Niall Ferguson
- The House of God by Samuel Shem*
- Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl*
- Digital Minimalism by Cal Newport
- Behave by Robert Sapolsky
- The Four by Scott Galloway* (review)
- Countdown to Zero Day by Kim Zetter
- Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
- Confront and Conceal by David E. Sanger
- On the Move by Oliver Sacks*
- Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather
- The Algebra of Happiness by Scott Galloway
- I Will Teach You To Be Rich by Ramit Sethi
- The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
- 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami
- Losing the Signal by Jacquie McNish & Sean Silcoff
- Rocket Men by Robert Kurson*
- Good Omens by Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett
- CribSheet by Emily Oster
- Trillion Dollar Coach by Eric Schmidt, Jonathan Rosenberg, and Alan Eagle
- Rockonomics by Alan Krueger
- Black Box Thinking by Matthew Syed
- Infinite Powers: How Calculus Reveals the Secrets of the Universe by Steven Strogatz*
- The Dictator’s Handbook by Bruce Bueno de Mesquita & Alastair Smith*
- Obliquity by John Kay
- This is Marketing by Seth Godin
- Billion Dollar Whale by Tom Wright & Bradley Hope*
- Less Medicine, More Health by Dr H. Gilbert Welch
- The Grapes of Math by Alex Bellos
- Math with Bad Drawings by Ben Orlin*
- The Enlightened Capitalists by James O’Toole
- Permanent Record by Edward Snowden*
- Super Pumped by Mike Isaac*
- Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott*
- Before the Exit by Dan Andrews
- If You Lived Here You’d Be Home Now by Christopher Ingraham
- I’m Fine and Other Lies by Whitney Cummings
- The Player’s Ball by David Kushner
- Code by Charles Petzold
- The Dewsweepers by James Dodson
- Change is the Only Constant by Ben Orlin
- The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald*
- The Manager’s Path by Camille Fournier
- The Last Days of Night by Graham Moore*
- Circe by Madeline Miller
- Catch Me If You Can by Frank Abagnale
- Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C. Clarke
- Dear Girls by Ali Wong
- Hit Makers by Derek Thompson
2018
- The Chickenshit Club by Jesse Eisinger
- Seven Brief Lessons on Physics by Carlo Rovelli
- Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari
- The Gene by Siddhartha Mukherjee
- When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi*
- The Emperor of All Maladies by Siddhartha Mukherjee*
- Peak Performance by Brad Stulberg and Steve Magness
- The Upstarts by Brad Stone
- In Pursuit of the Unknown by Ian Stewart*
- Last Child in the Woods by Richard Louv
- How We Got to Now by Steven Johnson
- Deep Work by Cal Newport
- Stiff by Mary Roach
- Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer*
- Stories of Your Life by Ted Chiang*
- The Brain That Changes Itself by Norman Doidge
- Counting Backwards by Henry Jay Przyblo
- Rest by Alex Soojung-Kim Pang
- Tiger Woods by Jeff Benedict
- The View from Flyover Country by Sarah Kendzior
- Bad Blood by John Carreyrou
- How to Fly a Horse by Kevin Ashton
- One More Thing by B.J. Novak
- Being Mortal by Atul Gawande*
- Extreme Productivity by Robert Pozen
- Complications by Atul Gawande*
- The Checklist Manifesto by Atul Gawande
- The Plant Paradox by Steven Gundry
- Lost Connections by Johann Hari
- Great at Work by Morten Hansen
- Living and Dying in Brick City by Sampson Davis
- There’s No Such Thing as Bad Weather by Lina Akeson McGurk
- Take a nap! Change Your Life by Sara C. Mednick
- Idiot Brain by Dean Burnett
- Red Notice by Bill Browder*
- The Digital Doctor by Robert Wachter*
- You Are Not So Smart by David McRaney
- The Obesity Code by Jason Fung
- Something for the Pain by Paul Austin*
- First Man by James R. Hansen
- Thinking in Bets by Annie Duke
- Fear by Bob Woodward
- How to Break Up With Your Phone by Catherine Price
- The Fifth Risk by Michael Lewis
- The Ice Princess by Camilla Läckberg
- The World As It Is by Ben Rhodes
- It Doesn’t Have To be Crazy At Work by Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson
- Tailspin by Steven Brill
- Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now by Jaron Lanier
- The One Thing by Gary Keller
- Better by Atul Gawande*
2017
- The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo by Amy Schumer
- To Pixar and Beyond by Lawrence Levi*
- Messy: The Power of Disorder to Transform our Lives by Tim Harford
- The Speed of Sound by Thomas Dolby
- Shoe Dog by Phil Knight
- The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg
- Private Empire by Steve Coll
- World War Z by Max Brooks
- The Shining by Stephen King
- American Prometheus by Kai Bird
- Everybody Lies by Seth Stephens-Davidowitz
- A Darker Shade of Magic by V.E. Schwab
- I am Legend by Richard Matheson*
- The Undoing Project by Michael Lewis
- What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami
- Skyfaring by Mark Vanhoenacker
- The Book of Dust by Philip Pullman
- Why We Sleep by Matthew Walker*