Here is a running list of books I’ve read. I’ve left an asterisk next to my favorites.
2025 🔗
The Belan Deck by Matt Bucher
Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott
2024 🔗
True Grit by Charles Portis
North by Scott Jurek
Poor Charlie’s Almanack by Charles T. Munger, edited by Peter D. Kaufman
Character Limit by Kate Conger & Ryan Mac
My Struggle: Book 4 by Karl Ove Knausgaard
The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson *
The Black Swan by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Wanderlust by Reid Mitenbuler
The Way of Zen by Alan Watts (abandoned)
Factfulness by Hans Rosling *
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by John Le Carré
Why Should Anyone be Led by You? by Rob Goffee
Franklin Barbecue by Aaron Franklin
Boiling Off by John Hodgkins
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami
Walden by Henry D. Thoreau (abandoned)
The Lessons of History by Will & Ariel Durant
That One Should Disdain Hardships by Musonius Rufus
No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy
Built to Move by Kelly & Juliet Starrett
Stillness is the Key by Ryan Holiday
We Are What We Eat by Alice Waters
The Oregon Trail by Rinker Buck *
Pappyland by Wright Thompson
Sea of Tranquility by Emily St John Mandel
But What if We’re Wrong? by Chuck Klosterman
Lessons in Stoicism by John Sellars
Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt
How to Work with Almost Anyone by Michael Bungay Stanier
My Struggle Book 3 by Karl Ove Knausegaard
2023 🔗
The Power of Keeping Your Mouth Shut by Dan Lyons
Pillow Thoughts by Courtney Peppernell
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. Pirsig
The Little Book of Buddhism by Georgiana-Kate Adams
Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Slowing Down to Run Faster by Edward Yu
Radical Acceptance by Tara Brach
The Quiet American by Graham Greene
The World-Ending Fire by Wendell Berry & Paul Kingsnorth *
Running on Empty by Jonice Webb
The Man From the Future by Ananyo Bhattacharya
Essentialism by Greg McKeown
Shape Up by Ryan Singer
The Godfather by Mario Puzo
Genghis Khan by Jack Weatherford (abandoned)
The Long Way Home by Ryan Van Duzer
The Revenge of Analog by David Sax *
The Creative Act by Rick Rubin
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
From Strength to Strength by Arthur Brooks
Future Ethics by Cennydd Bowles
100 Things We’ve Lost to the Internet by Pamela Paul
You by Carroll Kepnes
Adrift by Scott Galloway
Analog by Robert Hasson
My Struggle Book 2 by Karl Ove Knausegaard
The Comfort Crisis by Michael Easter
2022 🔗
Why I Am Not Going to Buy a Computer by Wendell Berry
My Struggle Book 1 by Karl Ove Knausegaard
The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing by Al Ries & Jack Trout
Crossing the Chasm by Geoffrey Moore
The Splendid and the Vile by Erik Larson *
Roman Honor by Carlin Barton
The Book On The Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are by Alan Watts
The Storyteller by Dave Grohl
The Glass Hotel by Emily St John Mandel
Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
The Nineties by Chuck Klosterman
Four Thousand Weeks by Oliver Burkeman *
The Omnivore’s Dilemma by Michael Pollan
Station Eleven by Emily St John Mandel *
Stolen Focus by Johann Hari
Taste: My Life Through Food by Stanley Tucci
Essentialism by Greg McKeown
Good Strategy, Bad Strategy by Richard Rumelt
Maus by Art Spiegelman
Men Without Women by Haruki Murakami
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky (abandoned)
The One Thing by Gary Keller
Broken Horses by Brandi Carlile
The Hidden Life of Trees by Peter Wohlleben
2021 🔗
Educated by Tara Westover
The Mosquito Coast by Paul Theroux
Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott *
To Have or to Be by Ericc Fromm
Finding Freedom by Erin French
The Overstory by Richard Powell
Rise by Patty Azzarello
Life Undercover by Amaryllis Fox
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami *
Team Topologies by Matthew Skelton, Manuel Pais (abandoned)
The Ride of a Lifetime by Robert Iger
The Fourth Turning by William Strauss and Neil Howe (abandoned)
Born to Run by Christopher McDougall
The Big Road by Earl Swift
The Sugar Detox Solution by Monica Harris
A Carnival of Losses by Donald Hall
In the Distance by Hernan Diaz
Daily Rituals by Mason Currey
How Will You Measure Your Life? by Clayton M. Christensen, James Allworth, and Karen Dillon
Tribe by Sebastian Junger
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey
Finding Ultra by Rich Roll
How to Do Nothing by Jenny Odell *
Slack by Tom DeMarco (abandoned)
The Insider’s Guide to Culture Change by Siobhan McHale
The 48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene (abandoned)
What Got You Here Won’t Get You There by Marshall Goldsmith
168 Hours by Laura Vanderkam
The Hard Thing About Hard Things by Ben Horowitz
Tasting Whiskey by Lew Bryson
Range by David Epstein
Free to Focus by Michael Hyatt
Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson (abandoned)
2020 🔗
The Right Kind of Crazy by Clint Emerson
Crucial Conversations by Kerry Patterson
Dog Sense by John Bradshaw
Maybe It’s You by Lauren Zander *
Never Split the Difference by Chris Voss
Lead Yourself First by Kethledge, Erwin
Essays After Eighty by Donald Hall *
Grit by Angela Duckworth
Multipliers by Liz Wiseman
Lean Software Development by Mary Poppendieck, Tom Poppendieck
Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
The Stranger in the Woods by Micheal Finkel
Braving the Wilderness by Brene Brown
Decisive by Dan Heath, Chip Heath (abandoned)
Why We Sleep by Matthew Walker
Accelerate by Ferguson, Humble, Kim (abandoned)
On Tyranny by Timothy Snyder
Exodus by Leon Uris
2019 🔗
Minka: My Farmhouse in Japan by John Roderick
Verbal Judo by George Thompson
12 Rules for Life by Jordan Peterson
Turn the Ship Around by L. David Marquet
Org Design for Design Orgs by Peter Merholz
A Spy’s Guide to Thinking by John Braddock
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky (abandoned)
The House of Morgan by Ron Chernow
Confessions of an Advertising Man by David Ogilvy
The Coaching Habit by Michael Bungay Stainer *
Radical Candor by Kim Scott
The Managers Path by Camille Fournier
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Digital Minimalism by Cal Newport
Deep Work by Cal Newport *
Barking up the Wrong Tree by Eric Barker
Detroit: An American Autopsy by Charlie LeDuff
The 12 Week Year by Brian P. Moran
EARLY BOOKS 🔗
Extreme Ownership by Jacko Willink
Be a People Person by John Maxwell
Unlocking Potential by Michael Simpson
Managing Humans by Michael Lopp
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates *
One Small Step Can Change Your Life by Robert Maurer
Demystifying Public Speaking by Lara Hogan
So Good They Can’t Ignore You by Cal Newport *
Tent Life in Siberia by George Kennan
Bike Snob by BikeSnobNYC
Brain Rules by John Medina
A History of the World in 6 Glasses by Tom Standage
AWOL on the Appalachian Trail by David Miller
Eat That Frog! by Brian Tracy
The Five Love Languages by Gary Chapman
The Flinch by Julien Smith
Anything You Want by Derek Sivers
The Wednesday Wars by Gary Schmidt
Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain
A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle
Night by Elie Wiesel *
The Diary of Anne Frank by Anne Frank
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt
The War of Art by Steven Pressfield *
Act Accordingly by Colin Wright
18 Minutes: Find your Focus by Peter Bregman
Love Does by Bob Goff
Provenance by Laney Salsibury
Everything is Perfect When You’re a Liar by Kelly Oxford
Mud, Sweat, and Tears by Bear Grylls
Legends of the Fall by Jim Harrison
Continuous Delivery by David Farley
An Introduction to Programming Go by Caleb Doxsey
Embrace the Suck by Stephen Madden
A Million Miles in a Thousand Years by Donald Miller
Shop Class as Soulcraft by Matthew Crawford *
Wild by Cheryl Strayed
Start with Why by Simon Sinek
The Man in the High Castle by Philip K Dick
Systemantics by John Gall
How Google Works by Eric Schmidt
Site Reliability Engineering by Betsy Beyer
Tools of Titans by Timothy Ferris
Life at the Dakota by Stephen Birmingham
The Little Things by Andy Andrews
The Art of Manliness by Brett McKay
The Rough Riders by Theodore Roosevelt (abandoned)
Strong Fathers, Strong Daughters by Meg Meeker (abandoned)
Boys Should be Boys by Meg Meeker (abandoned)
48 Days to the Work You Love by Dan Miller (abandoned)
How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk by Adele Faber (abandoned)
Coders At Work by Peter Seibel (abandoned)
Scientific Advertising by Claude Hopkins (abandoned)
Grain Brain by David Perlmutter (abandoned)
Give and Take by Adam Grant (abandoned)
Gorilla Mindset by Mike Cernovich (abandoned)
Less is More by Jason Jennings