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Reading List

What I’m reading now

  • Sophie's World by Jonstein Garder

Some books I've read in 2024

  • Die With Zero by Bill Perkins (A)
  • Starry Messenger by Niel deGrasse Tyson (A)

2023

  • Dilla Time by Dan Charnas (B)
  • The 2-Hour Cocktail Party by Nick Gray (B)
  • The Carbon Alamanac Seth Godin (B)
  • The Creative Act: A Way of Being by Rick Rubin (B+)

2022

  • The 4-Hour Workweek by Tim Ferriss (B)
  • On Writing by Stephen King (A+)
  • The Ethical Slut by Dossie Easton and Janet Hardy (B+)
  • Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order by Ray Dalio (C)
  • Dance of Death: The Life of John Fahey by Steve Lowenthal (B+)
  • The Better Angels of Our Nature by Steven Pinker (A)
  • Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond (B+)

2021

  • The Bomber Mafia by Malcolm Gladwell
  • Carrie by Stephen King
  • The Checklist Manifesto by Atul Gawande
  • Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain
  • Nudge by Richard H. Thaler

2020

  • Thinking Fast & Slow by Daniel Kahneman
  • Fiber Fueled by Will Bulsiewicz

2019

  • Born a Crime by Trevor Noah
  • Talking to Strangers by Malcolm Gladwell
  • The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
  • Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari
  • Everything Is F*cked by Mark Manson

2018

  • The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck by Mark Manson
  • Vacationland by John Hodgman
  • Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts

2017

  • Models by Mark Manson
  • Post Office by Charles Bukowski

Long, long ago…

  • Tribal Leadership by Dave Logan, John King, Halee Fischer-Wright
  • Powers of Two by Joshua Wolf Shenk
  • I Will Teach You To Be Rich by Ramit Sethi
  • Blink by Malcolm Gladwell
  • Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell
  • Various Novels by Christopher Moore