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.
I'm a big fan of Tom Critchlow's Library.json idea too. Here's my Library.json index.Favorites Of The Last Few Years
Things I'm Currently Reading
- The Master and Margarita- Mikhail Bulgakov
- The Beginning of Infinity- David Deutsch
Things I've Read So Far In 2023
- The War of Art- Steven Pressfield
- The Ancient City- Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges
- What's Our Problem?- Tim Urban
- Excellent Advice For Living- Kevin Kelly
- A Time To Build- Yuval Levin
- Waiting For Godot- Samuel Beckett
- The Alignment Problem- Brian Christian
- The Two Hour Cocktail Party- Nick Gray
- Burner- Mark Greaney
- The Kaiju Preservation Society- John Scalzi
- The White Pill- Michael Malice
- The Cabinet of Dr. Leng- Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child
- The Player of Games- Iain Banks
- Fossil Future- Alex Epstein
- Happy Go Lucky- David Sedaris
- Red Rising- Pierce Brown
- The Gray Lady Winked- Ashley Rindsberg
- Authority- Nathan Barry
- Old Man's War- John Scalzi
- Termination Shock- Neal Stephenson
- The Psychology of Money- Morgan Housel
- The Vanishing American Adult- Ben Sasse
- The Deficit Myth- Stephanie Kelton
- Die With Zero- Bill Perkins
Things I Read In 2022
- The Network State- Balaji Srinivasan
- Ten Arguments For Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now- Jaron Lanier
- How To Live- Derek Sivers
- Numbers Don't Lie- Vaclav Smil
- A Gentleman In Moscow- Amor Towles
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows- JK Rowling
- The Relevance of the Stars- Lorenzo Albacete
- Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince- JK Rowling
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix- JK Rowling
- One Minute Out- Mark Greaney
- Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to Long Term Travel- Rolf Potts
- Wild Problems- Russ Roberts
- Agent In Place- Mark Greaney
- Back Blast- Mark Greaney
- Dead Eye- Mark Greaney
- Ballistic- Mark Greaney
- On Target- Mark Greaney
- The Gray Man- Mark Greaney
- How The World Really Works- Vaclav Smil
- The Evolution of Beauty- Richard Prum
- The Man In The High Castle- Phillip Dick
- River God- Wilbur Smith
- The Price of Tomorrow- Jeff Booth
- Stone Fox- John Reynolds Gardiner
- A Minute To Midnight- David Baldacci
- The Changing World Order- Ray Dalio
- Story Genius- Lisa Cron
- The End of the World is Just the Beginning- Peter Zeihan
- Secrets of the Selling Writer- Dwight Swain
- On Writing- Stephen King
- Sanibel Flats- Randy Wayne White
- The Man From the Future- Ananyo Bhattacharya
- Old Man's War- John Scalzi
- The Skystone- Jack Whyte
- The End of All Things- John Scalzi
- The Age of AI- Henry Kissinger and Eric Schmidt and Daniel Huttenlocher
- Human Division- John Scalzi
- Buy then Build- Walker Deibel
- Make Me- Lee Child
- Killing Floor- Lee Child
- Congo- Michael Crichton
- Perennial Seller- Ryan Holiday
- A Memory Called Empire- Arkady Martine
- The Contrarian- Max Chafkin
- Thirty Six Stratagems- Ancient Chinese Writers
- Harry Potter and the Sorcerors Stone- JK Rowling
- Travels with Charley by Steinbeck- John Steinbeck
- Wanting- Luke Burgis
- A Little Hatred- Joe Abercrombie
- The Hundred Year Marathon- Michael Pillsbury
Things I Read In 2021
- Layered Money- Nik Bhatia
- Find Your Six- Patrick Kilner
- The Power of the Powerless- Vaclav Havel
- How To Do Nothing- Jenny Odell
- Microcosmographia Academia- Anonymous
- You Are A Badass- Jen Sincero
- Billy Summers- Stephen King
- Unsettled- Steven Koonin
- The Complacent Class- Tyler Cowen
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows- J.K. Rowling
- The Almanack of Naval Ravikant- Eric Jorgenson
- Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince- J.K. Rowling
- How to Day Trade- Andrew Aziz
- The Outsiders- William Thorndike
- Bloodless- Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child
- Life After Google- George Gilder
- Old Man's War- John Scalzi
- The Human Division- John Scalzi
- The End of All Things- John Scalzi
- The Pleasure of Finding Things Out- Richard Feynman
- Riptide- Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child
- Thinking in Bets- Annie Duke
- My Side of the Mountain- Jean Craighead George
- Zoe’s Tale- John Scalzi
- How to Hide an Empire- Danile Immerwahr
- The Quiet American- Graham Greene
- The Accidental Superpower- Peter Zeihan
- Galileo's Middle Finger- Alice Dreger
- Disunited Nations- Peter Zeihan
- Hyperobjects- Timothy Morton
- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban- J.K. Rowling
- On Writing Well- William Zinsser
- Super System- Doyle Brunson
- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets- J.K. Rowling
- The Infinite Machine- Camila Russo
- The Coddling of the American Mind- Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt
- Afterlives of the Saints- Colin Dickey
- Harry Potter and the Sorceror's Stone- J.K. Rowling
- The Circle- Dave Eggers
- Book of the Dead- Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child
- How to Get Rich- Felix Dennis
- Built To Sell- John Warrillow
- Write Useful Books- Rob Fitzpatrick
- The Scorpion's Tail- Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child
- The 100 Year Life- Lynda Gratton and Andrew Scott
- From Dead to Worse (Sookie Stackhouse, #8)- Charlaine Harris
- All Together Dead (Sookie Stackhouse, #7)- Charlaine Harris
- Definitely Dead (Sookie Stackhouse #6)- Charlaine Harris
- The Hidden Half- Michael Blastland
- Pappyland- Wright Thompson
- Why We Drive- Matthew Crawford
- Queen's Gambit- Walter Tevis