All the Books
I really like books. Like, a lot. I've kept a list of everything I've read over the years. I'm missing a bunch in the distant past, but I've been keeping this list consistently since around 2018.
Favorites Of The Last Few Years
Things I'm Currently Reading
- Breakneck — Dan Wang
- Timeless Way of Building — Christopher Alexander
Things I've Read So Far In 2026
- Born Standing Up — Steve Martin
- Accelerando — Charles Stross
- Lee Kuan Yew — Lee Kuan Yew
- The Bible Says So — Dan McClellan
- The Teammates — David Halberstam
- Building a Storybrand — Donald Miller
- The Will of the Many — James Islington
Things I Read In 2025
- Genesis — Henry Kissinger, Eric Schmidt, Craig Mundie
- A Man With One Of Those Faces — Caimh McDonnell
- Vibecoding — Steve Yegge & Gene Kim
- American Kingpin — Nick Bilton
- The Scaling Era — Dwarkesh Patel
- The Shattering Peace — John Scalzi
- The Last Colony — John Scalzi
- The End of All Things — John Scalzi
- The Human Division — John Scalzi
- The Haves and Have-Yachts — Evan Osnons
- Zoes Tale — John Scalzi
- Co-intelligence — Ethan Mollick
- Endurance — Alfred Lansing
- Apple In China — Patrick McGee
- Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? — Phillip Dick
- Midnight Black — Mark Greaney
- Who We Are and How We Got Here — David Reich
- The Religious Sense — Luigi Giusanni
- What is Life? — Erwin Schrodinger
- The Strategy of Denial — Colby Eldridge
- Kitchen Confidential — Anthony Bourdain
- The Technological Republic — Alex Karp and Nicholas Zamiska
- The Last Emperox — John Scalzi
- The Consuming Fire — John Scalzi
- The Collapsing Empire — John Scalzi
- The Spirituality of Fundraising — Henry Nouwen
- How To Live An Extraordinary Life — Anthony Pompliano
- The Last Emperox — John Scalzi
- The Collapsing Empire — John Scalzi
- Ever Life Is On Fire — Jeremy England
- Think like a Super-GM — Michael Adams and Philip Hurtado
- Poor Charlie's Almanack — Charlie Munger
- The Mole of Vatican Council II — Richard Zmuda
- The Blade Itself — Joe Abercrombie
- Hillbilly Elegy — JD Vance
- A Subversive History of Music — Ted Gioia
Things I Read In 2024
- Meditations — Marcus Aurelius
- On The Edge — Nate Silver
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows — JK Rowling
- The New Map — Daniel Yergin
- Old Man's War — John Scalzi
- 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing — Al Ries and Jack Trout
- Killers of the Flower Moon — David Grann
- Save the Cat! — Blake Snyder
- The Extinction of Experience — Christine Rosen
- A Man For All Markets — Edward Thorp
- Starter Villain — John Scalzi
- Guilty Creatures — Mikita Brottman
- Elements of Eloquence — Mark Forsyth
- Angel of Vengeance — Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child
- WTF: An Economic Tour of the Weird — Peter Leeson
- Five Decembers — James Kestrel
- On Peter Singer — Hyun Hochsmann
- Trust Me, I'm Lying — Ryan Holiday
- Project Hail Mary — Andy Weir
- 1984 — George Orwell
- Graphs, Maps, Trees — Franco Moretti
- Time Surfing — Paul Loomans
- Submission — Michael Houellebecq
- Brimstone — Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child
- The Burnout Society — Byung-Chul Han
- The Worlds I See — Fei Fei Li
- The Present Age — Soren Kierkegaard
- Black Dahlia — James Ellroy
- Bad Therapy — Abigail Shrier
- Storm of Swords — GRR Martin
- Under The Banner of Heaven — Jon Krakauer
- Death Comes For The Archbishop — Willa Cather
- Age of Revolutions — Fareed Zakaria
- Family Unfriendly — Tim Carney
- Things A Computer Scientist Rarely Talks About — Donald Knuth
- The Chaos Agent — Mark Greaney
- Comfort Crisis — Michael Easter
- What Do You Care What Other People Think? — Richard Feynman
- Strange Rites — Tara Isabella Burton
- Year of the Locust — Terry Hayes
- Thoughts on the Common Toad — George Orwell
- Read Write Own — Chris Dixon
- Novacene — James Lovelock
- Two Parent Privilege — Melissa Kearney
- Same As Ever — Morgan Housel
- Think And Grow Rich — Napoleon Hill
- Mistborn — Brandon Sanderson
- Man's Search For Meaning — Viktor Frankl
- GOAT: Greatest Economist Of All Time — Tyler Cowen
Everything before that..
- Fully Automated Luxury Communism by Aaron Bastani
- Warehouse H by Dominic Guglielmi
- Generations by Jean Twenge
- Hemingway On Writing by Larry W. Phillips
- Paper Belt On Fire by Michael Gibson
- The New Atlantis by Francis Bacon
- Israel by Noa Tishby
- The Three Body Problem by Cixin Liu
- Indeterminate Inflorescence by Lee Seong-bok
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by JK Rowling
- Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince by JK Rowling
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by JK Rowling
- Tomorrow 3.0 by Michael Munger
- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by JK Rowling
- Embedded Entrepreneur by Arvid Kahl
- How To Fail At Almost Everything by Scott Adams
- The Son Also Rises by Gregory Clark
- Excession by Iain Banks
- London In A Weekend With Two Kids by Hassan Osman
- Personal by Lee Child
- The Epic of Gilgamesh by Sin-Leqi-Unninni
- Elon Musk by Walter Isaacson
- The Bitcoin Standard by Saifedean Ammous
- The Legend Of Bagger Vance by Steven Pressfield
- Skin in the Game by Nassim Taleb
- Delta-V by Daniel Suarez
- Shop Class As Soulcraft by Matthew Crawford
- Socialism Sucks by Robert Lawson and Benjamin Powel
- Holy Fire by Bruce Sterling
- Seven Types of Atheism by John Gray
- Impromptu by Reid Hoffman and GPT4
- Searching For The Catastrophe Signal by Bernie Lewin
- Deep Work by Cal Newport
- Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk
- Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino
- The Creative Act: A Way of Being by Rick Rubin
- Surface Detail by Iain Banks
- Write Useful Books by Rob Fitzpatrick
- The Clock of the Long Now: Time and Responsibility by Stewart Brand
- The War of Art by Steven Pressfield
- Excellent Advice For Living by Kevin Kelly
- The Ancient City by Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges
- The Beginning of Infinity by David Deutsch
- A Time To Build by Yuval Levin
- Waiting For Godot by Samuel Beckett
- The Two Hour Cocktail Party by Nick Gray
- Burner by Mark Greaney
- The Alignment Problem by Brian Christian
- The Kaiju Preservation Society by John Scalzi
- The Cabinet of Dr. Leng by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child
- What's Our Problem? by Tim Urban
- The Player of Games by Iain Banks
- The White Pill by Michael Malice
- Fossil Future by Alex Epstein
- Red Rising by Pierce Brown
- Old Man's War by John Scalzi
- Authority by Nathan Barry
- The Gray Lady Winked by Ashley Rindsberg
- Happy Go Lucky by David Sedaris
- The Psychology of Money by Morgan Housel
- The Vanishing American Adult by Ben Sasse
- Termination Shock by Neal Stephenson
- Die With Zero by Bill Perkins
- Ten Arguments For Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now by Jaron Lanier
- How To Live by Derek Sivers
- Numbers Don't Lie by Vaclav Smil
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by JK Rowling
- A Gentleman In Moscow by Amor Towles
- The Relevance of the Stars by Lorenzo Albacete
- Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince by JK Rowling
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by JK Rowling
- The Deficit Myth by Stephanie Kelton
- The Network State by Balaji Srinivasan
- One Minute Out by Mark Greaney
- Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to Long Term Travel by Rolf Potts
- Agent In Place by Mark Greaney
- Back Blast by Mark Greaney
- Wild Problems by Russ Roberts
- Dead Eye by Mark Greaney
- Ballistic by Mark Greaney
- On Target by Mark Greaney
- The Gray Man by Mark Greaney
- How The World Really Works by Vaclav Smil
- The Evolution of Beauty by Richard Prum
- Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
- The Man In The High Castle by Phillip Dick
- River God by Wilbur Smith
- The Price of Tomorrow by Jeff Booth
- Stone Fox by John Reynolds Gardiner
- A Minute To Midnight by David Baldacci
- The Changing World Order by Ray Dalio
- Story Genius by Lisa Cron
- The End of the World is Just the Beginning by Peter Zeihan
- Secrets of the Selling Writer by Dwight Swain
- On Writing by Stephen King
- Sanibel Flats by Randy Wayne White
- The Man From the Future by Ananyo Bhattacharya
- Old Man's War by John Scalzi
- The Skystone by Jack Whyte
- The End of All Things by John Scalzi
- The Age of AI by Henry Kissinger and Eric Schmidt and Daniel Huttenlocher
- Human Division by John Scalzi
- Buy then Build by Walker Deibel
- Make Me by Lee Child
- Killing Floor by Lee Child
- Congo by Michael Crichton
- Perennial Seller by Ryan Holiday
- A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine
- The Contrarian by Max Chafkin
- Thirty Six Stratagems by Ancient Chinese Writers
- Harry Potter and the Sorcerors Stone by JK Rowling
- Travels with Charley by Steinbeck by John Steinbeck
- Wanting by Luke Burgis
- A Little Hatred by Joe Abercrombie
- The Hundred Year Marathon by Michael Pillsbury
- Layered Money by Nik Bhatia
- Find Your Six by Patrick Kilner
- The Power of the Powerless by Vaclav Havel
- How To Do Nothing by Jenny Odell
- Microcosmographia Academia by Anonymous
- You Are A Badass by Jen Sincero
- Billy Summers by Stephen King
- Unsettled by Steven Koonin
- The Complacent Class by Tyler Cowen
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling
- The Almanack of Naval Ravikant by Eric Jorgenson
- Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling
- How to Day Trade by Andrew Aziz
- The Outsiders by William Thorndike
- Bloodless by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child
- Life After Google by George Gilder
- Old Man's War by John Scalzi
- The Human Division by John Scalzi
- The End of All Things by John Scalzi
- The Pleasure of Finding Things Out by Richard Feynman
- Riptide by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child
- Thinking in Bets by Annie Duke
- My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George
- Zoe’s Tale by John Scalzi
- How to Hide an Empire by Danile Immerwahr
- The Quiet American by Graham Greene
- The Accidental Superpower by Peter Zeihan
- Galileo's Middle Finger by Alice Dreger
- Disunited Nations by Peter Zeihan
- Hyperobjects by Timothy Morton
- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling
- On Writing Well by William Zinsser
- Super System by Doyle Brunson
- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling
- The Infinite Machine by Camila Russo
- The Coddling of the American Mind by Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt
- Afterlives of the Saints by Colin Dickey
- Harry Potter and the Sorceror's Stone by J.K. Rowling
- The Circle by Dave Eggers
- Book of the Dead by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child
- How to Get Rich by Felix Dennis
- Built To Sell by John Warrillow
- Write Useful Books by Rob Fitzpatrick
- The Scorpion's Tail by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child
- The 100 Year Life by Lynda Gratton and Andrew Scott
- From Dead to Worse (Sookie Stackhouse, #8) by Charlaine Harris
- All Together Dead (Sookie Stackhouse, #7) by Charlaine Harris
- Definitely Dead (Sookie Stackhouse #6) by Charlaine Harris
- The Hidden Half by Michael Blastland
- Pappyland by Wright Thompson
- Why We Drive by Matthew Crawford
- Queen's Gambit by Walter Tevis
- Night School by Lee Child
- Little Book of Hygge by Meik Wiking
- Beneath the Scarlet Sky by Mark Sullivan
- The Silence by Don DeLillo
- Letters to a Young Contrarian by Christopher Hitchens
- A Mathematicians Apology by GH Hardy
- The Hard Thing About Hard Things by Ben Horowitz
- Surreal Numbers by Donald Knuth
- River God by Wilbur Smith
- Red Sparrow by Jason Matthews
- Legend of Bagger Vance by Steven Pressfield
- Black Rednecks and White Liberals by Thomas Sowell
- Loonshots by Safi Bachall
- I Will Teach You To Be Rich by Ramit Sethi
- The Skystone by Jack Whyte
- The Problem of Socialism by Thomas DiLorenzo
- Secret Sanction by Brian Haig
- Cynical Theories by Helen Pluckrose and James Lindsay
- How To Destroy America In Three Easy Steps by Ben Shapiro
- Consider Phlebas by Iain Banks
- Foundation by Isaac Asimov
- How Innovation Works by Matt Ridley
- The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie
- Running Blind by Lee Child
- How To Win An Election by Cicero
- The New Girl by Daniel Silva
- Homo Deus by Yuval Harari
- The Last Emperox by John Scalzi
- The Deep Blue Good-By by John D. McDonald
- The Revolt of the Public by Martin Gurri
- Casino Royale by Ian Fleming
- Persuader by Lee Child
- Make by Pieter Levels
- The Fabric of Reality by David Deutsch
- I am Pilgrim by Terry Hayes
- The Man Who Solved The Market by Gregory Zuckerman
- The Mom Test by Rob Fitzpatrick
- The Bell Curve Wars by Steven Fraser
- Agents of Innocence by David Ignatius
- Socialism Sucks by Robert Lawson and Benjamin Powel
- Green Philosophy by Roger Scruton
- The Spy Who Came In From The Cold by John LeCarre
- Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan
- Discipline Equals Freedom by Jocko Willink
- The Madness of Crowds by Douglas Murray
- Old Man’s War by John Scalzi
- The Case Against Education by Bryan Caplan
- Crooked River by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child
- Leviathan Wakes by James S.A. Corey
- Dignity by Chris Arnade
- On The Shortness of Life by Seneca
- Astrophysics for People In A Hurry by Neil DeGrasse Tyson
- Agent to the Stars by John Scalzi
- Stubborn Attachments by Tyler Cowen
- Gone Tomorrow by Lee Child
- Energy and Civilization: A History by Vaclav Smil
- More From Less by Andrew McAfee
- Weapons of Math Destruction by Cathy O’Neil
- The Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World: From Marathon to Waterloo by Edward Shepherd Creasy
- Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones by James Clear
- The Conundrum: How Scientific Innovation, Increased Efficiency, and Good Intentions Can Make Our Energy and Climate Problems Worse by David Owen
- Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions by Brian Christian
- A Many-Colored Glass (Page-Barbour Lectures) by Freeman Dyson
- Infinite in All Directions by Freeman Dyson
- Once Upon A Dinkelsbühl by Patricia Lee Gauch
- Vixen 03 (Dirk Pitt, #5) by Clive Cussler
- Empire of Unreason (Age of Unreason, #3) by Greg Keyes
- The Shadows of God (Age of Unreason, #4) by Greg Keyes
- The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova
- The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon by Brad Stone
- In the Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives by Steven Levy
- Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari
- Why Beautiful People Have More Daughters: From Dating, Shopping, and Praying to Going to War and Becoming a Billionaire-- Two Evolutionary Psychologists Explain Why We Do What We Do by Alan S. Miller
- Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences by John Allen Paulos
- The Personal MBA: Master the Art of Business by Josh Kaufman
- Brief Answers to the Big Questions by Stephen Hawking
- The Emperor's New Mind: Concerning Computers, Minds and the Laws of Physics by Roger Penrose
- Plato at the Googleplex: Why Philosophy Won't Go Away by Rebecca Goldstein
- The Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane Jacobs
- The Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America's Man-Made Landscape by James Howard Kunstler
- Collected Poems by W.H. Auden
- Poems of Akhmatova by Anna Akhmatova
- The Medusa Stone (Philip Mercer, #3) by Jack Du Brul
- Faith of a Physicist by John C. Polkinghorne
- Don't Know Much About Geography: Everything You Need to Know About the World but Never Learned by Kenneth C. Davis
- Body and Soul by Frank Conroy
- Journey through Genius: The Great Theorems of Mathematics by William Dunham
- The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man by James Weldon Johnson
- The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery
- The Alternative by Mauricio Miller
- The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
- Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days by Jessica Livingston
- Coders at Work: Reflections on the Craft of Programming by Peter Seibel
- The Lost Symbol (Robert Langdon, #3) by Dan Brown
- Angels & Demons (Robert Langdon, #1) by Dan Brown
- The Third Gate (Jeremy Logan, #3) by Lincoln Child
- The Pharaoh Key (Gideon Crew #5) by Douglas Preston
- Beyond the Ice Limit (Gideon Crew, #4; Ice Limit #2) by Douglas Preston
- Verses for the Dead (Pendergast, #18) by Douglas Preston
- The Obsidian Chamber (Pendergast, #16) by Douglas Preston
- City of Endless Night (Pendergast, #17) by Douglas Preston
- The Lost City of the Monkey God by Douglas Preston
- Techniques of the Selling Writer by Dwight V. Swain
- Managing Humans: Biting and Humorous Tales of a Software Engineering Manager by Michael Lopp
- Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future by Peter Thiel
- The Best Software Writing I: Selected and Introduced by Joel Spolsky by Joel Spolsky
- Shadows in the Vineyard: The True Story of the Plot to Poison the World's Greatest Wine by Maximillian Potter
- On Truth by Harry G. Frankfurt
- On Bullshit by Harry G. Frankfurt
- Night Probe! (Dirk Pitt, #6) by Clive Cussler
- The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life by Mark Manson
- The Scientist as Rebel by Freeman Dyson
- The Creature from Jekyll Island: A Second Look at the Federal Reserve by G. Edward Griffin
- Tomorrow 3.0 by Michael C. Munger
- The Consuming Fire (The Interdependency, #2) by John Scalzi
- The Collapsing Empire (The Interdependency, #1) by John Scalzi
- Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World by David Epstein
- Head On by John Scalzi
- Lock-In by John Scalzi
- 7 Day Startup by Dan Norris and Rob Walling
- The Big Necessity by Rose George
- The New Global Student: Skip the SAT, Save Thousands on Tuition, and Get a Truly International Education by Maya Frost
- Cool It: The Skeptical Environmentalist's Guide to Global Warming by Bjørn Lomborg
- Oil: A Beginner's Guide by Vaclav Smil
- Thorium: energy cheaper than coal by Robert Hargraves
- The End of All Things (Old Man's War, #6) by John Scalzi
- The Human Division (Old Man's War, #5) by John Scalzi
- Zoe's Tale (Old Man's War, #4) by John Scalzi
- Crimson Shore (Pendergast, #15) by Douglas Preston
- Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies by Nick Bostrom
- Bad Religion: How We Became a Nation of Heretics by Ross Douthat
- The Last Colony (Old Man's War, #3) by John Scalzi
- The Ghost Brigades (Old Man's War, #2) by John Scalzi
- Old Man's War (Old Man's War, #1) by John Scalzi
- The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves by Matt Ridley
- Dead to the World (Sookie Stackhouse, #4) by Charlaine Harris
- All Together Dead (Sookie Stackhouse, #7) by Charlaine Harris
- Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics by Tim Marshall
- From Dead to Worse (Sookie Stackhouse, #8) by Charlaine Harris
- How Adam Smith Can Change Your Life: An Unexpected Guide to Human Nature and Happiness by Russ Roberts
- I Am Pilgrim by Terry Hayes
- The Fifth Gospel by Ian Caldwell
- The Heist (Gabriel Allon, #14) by Daniel Silva
- Godless: How an Evangelical Preacher Became One of America's Leading Atheists by Dan Barker
- The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined by Steven Pinker
- Selected Poems of Langston Hughes (Vintage Classics) by Langston Hughes
- Qed: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter by Richard P. Feynman
- Rumi: Bridge to the Soul by Rumi
- The Cuckoo's Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage by Clifford Stoll
- True Names: and the Opening of the Cyberspace Frontier by Vernor Vinge
- A Calculus of Angels (Age of Unreason, #2) by Greg Keyes
- The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein
- Sideways by Rex Pickett
- Selected Poems by Anna Akhmatova
- The Religious Sense by Luigi Giussani
- Seeking Wisdom: From Darwin To Munger by Peter Bevelin
- The Story of My Life by Giacomo Casanova
- The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
- The Mystery of the Aleph by Amir D. Aczel
- Sophie's World by Jostein Gaarder
- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1) by Douglas Adams
- Orthodoxy by G.K. Chesterton
- Full House: The Spread of Excellence from Plato to Darwin by Stephen Jay Gould
- Dinosaur in a Haystack by Stephen Jay Gould
- The Skeptical Environmentalist: Measuring the Real State of the World by Bjørn Lomborg
- Amazonia by James Rollins
- Confessions of a Mask by Yukio Mishima
- Notes from a Small Island by Bill Bryson
- How to Win an Election: An Ancient Guide for Modern Politicians by Quintus Tullius Cicero
- The Swiss Family Robinson by Johann David Wyss
- The Once and Future King (The Once and Future King, #1-4) by T.H. White
- Love and Responsibility by Pope John Paul II
- The Cathedral & the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary by Eric S. Raymond
- My Side of the Mountain (Mountain, #1) by Jean Craighead George
- Breakfast at Tiffany's and Three Stories by Truman Capote
- Greenwitch (The Dark is Rising, #3) by Susan Cooper
- Silver on the Tree (The Dark is Rising, #5) by Susan Cooper
- The Grey King (The Dark is Rising, #4) by Susan Cooper
- The Dark Is Rising (The Dark is Rising, #2) by Susan Cooper
- Over Sea, Under Stone (The Dark is Rising, #1) by Susan Cooper
- Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
- The Rule of Four by Ian Caldwell
- The First National Bank of Dad: The Best Way to Teach Kids About Money by David Owen
- Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids: Why Being a Great Parent is Less Work and More Fun Than You Think by Bryan Caplan
- The Companions (Dragonlance: Meetings Sextet, #6) by Tina Daniell
- Steel and Stone (Dragonlance: Meetings Sextet, #5) by Ellen Porath
- Kindred Spirits (Dragonlance: Meetings Sextet, #1) by Mark Anthony
- Wanderlust (Dragonlance: Meetings Sextet, #2) by Mary L. Kirchoff
- The Celestine Prophecy (Celestine Prophecy, #1) by James Redfield
- How to Grow a Novel: The Most Common Mistakes Writers Make and How to Overcome Them by Sol Stein
- Stein on Writing: A Master Editor of Some of the Most Successful Writers of Our Century Shares His Craft Techniques and Strategies by Sol Stein
- The Prometheus Deception by Robert Ludlum
- The Matarese Circle (Matarese #1) by Robert Ludlum
- The $100 Startup: Reinvent the Way You Make a Living, Do What You Love, and Create a New Future by Chris Guillebeau
- Warlock (Ancient Egypt, #3) by Wilbur Smith
- The Seventh Scroll (Ancient Egypt, #2) by Wilbur Smith
- River God (Ancient Egypt, #1) by Wilbur Smith
- Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt
- White Noise by Don DeLillo
- Out of Our Minds: Learning to Be Creative by Ken Robinson
- The 10,000 Year Explosion: How Civilization Accelerated Human Evolution by Gregory Cochran
- Dead Ever After (Sookie Stackhouse, #13) by Charlaine Harris
- Dead in the Family (Sookie Stackhouse, #10) by Charlaine Harris
- Dead and Gone (Sookie Stackhouse #9) by Charlaine Harris
- Dead as a Doornail (Sookie Stackhouse, #5) by Charlaine Harris
- Living Dead in Dallas (Sookie Stackhouse, #2) by Charlaine Harris
- Dead Until Dark (Sookie Stackhouse, #1) by Charlaine Harris
- Dead Reckoning (Sookie Stackhouse, #11) by Charlaine Harris
- Definitely Dead (Sookie Stackhouse #6) by Charlaine Harris
- Club Dead (Sookie Stackhouse, #3) by Charlaine Harris
- Deadlocked (Sookie Stackhouse, #12) by Charlaine Harris
- Treasure of Khan (Dirk Pitt, #19) by Clive Cussler
- Dragon (Dirk Pitt, #10) by Clive Cussler
- Cyclops (Dirk Pitt, #8) by Clive Cussler
- Treasure (Dirk Pitt, #9) by Clive Cussler
- Flood Tide (Dirk Pitt, #14) by Clive Cussler
- Deep Six (Dirk Pitt, #7) by Clive Cussler
- Trojan Odyssey (Dirk Pitt, #17) by Clive Cussler
- Iceberg (Dirk Pitt, #3) by Clive Cussler
- Valhalla Rising (Dirk Pitt, #16) by Clive Cussler
- Atlantis Found (Dirk Pitt, #15) by Clive Cussler
- Inca Gold (Dirk Pitt, #12) by Clive Cussler
- Sahara (Dirk Pitt, #11) by Clive Cussler
- Fevre Dream by George R.R. Martin
- A Dance with Dragons (A Song of Ice and Fire, #5) by George R.R. Martin
- A Feast for Crows (A Song of Ice and Fire, #4) by George R.R. Martin
- A Storm of Swords (A Song of Ice and Fire, #3) by George R.R. Martin
- A Clash of Kings (A Song of Ice and Fire, #2) by George R.R. Martin
- A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1) by George R.R. Martin
- Basilica: The Splendor and the Scandal: Building St. Peter's by R.A. Scotti
- Micro by Michael Crichton
- Pirate Latitudes by Michael Crichton
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Harry Potter, #5) by J.K. Rowling
- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Harry Potter, #2) by J.K. Rowling
- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Harry Potter, #6) by J.K. Rowling
- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Harry Potter, #4) by J.K. Rowling
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Harry Potter, #7) by J.K. Rowling
- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Harry Potter, #3) by J.K. Rowling
- Dragons of Winter Night (Dragonlance: Chronicles, #2) by Margaret Weis
- Dragons of Spring Dawning (Dragonlance: Chronicles, #3) by Margaret Weis
- Dragons of Autumn Twilight (Dragonlance: Chronicles, #1) by Margaret Weis
- The Next 100 Years: A Forecast for the 21st Century by George Friedman
- The Kraken Project (Wyman Ford, #4) by Douglas Preston
- The Lost Island (Gideon Crew, #3) by Douglas Preston
- Gideon's Corpse (Gideon Crew #2) by Douglas Preston
- Impact (Wyman Ford #3) by Douglas Preston
- White Fire (Pendergast, #13) by Douglas Preston
- Gideon's Sword (Gideon Crew, #1) by Douglas Preston
- Two Graves (Pendergast, #12) by Douglas Preston
- Cold Vengeance (Pendergast, #11) by Douglas Preston
- Fever Dream (Pendergast, #10) by Douglas Preston
- Subterranean by James Rollins
- A Simple Plan by Scott Smith
- Blue Labyrinth (Pendergast, #14) by Douglas Preston
- Newton's Cannon (Age of Unreason, #1) by Greg Keyes
- Paradoxes of Faith by Henri de Lubac
- A Book of Five Rings: The Classic Guide to Strategy by Miyamoto Musashi
- Shock Wave (Dirk Pitt, #13) by Clive Cussler
- Turing's Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe by George Dyson
- The Gargoyle by Andrew Davidson
- Sin and Syntax: How to Craft Wickedly Effective Prose by Constance Hale
- Crossing the Threshold of Hope by Pope John Paul II
- What the Best College Teachers Do by Ken Bain
- Maxims and Reflections by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- The Wealthy Barber: Everyone's Commonsense Guide to Becoming Financially Independent by David H. Chilton
- Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
- The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering by Frederick P. Brooks Jr.
- The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives by Leonard Mlodinow
- The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals by Michael Pollan
- Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia by Elizabeth Gilbert
- The Fire (The Eight, #2) by Katherine Neville
- Cemetery Dance (Pendergast, #9) by Douglas Preston
- The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
- Uther (Camulod Chronicles, #7) by Jack Whyte
- The Sorcerer: Metamorphosis (Camulod Chronicles, #6) by Jack Whyte
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