What I've Been Reading

2021 (10)

Man's Search for Meaning Viktor E. Frankl

The Master Switch Tim Wu

The Divide Matt Taibbi

Narconomics Tom Wainwright

Foundation Isaac Asimov

Bartleby, the Scrivener Herman Melville

Every Tool's a Hammer Adam Savage

Side Hustle Chris guillebeau

The Lean Startup Eric Ries

Stranger in a Strange Land Robert A. Heinlein

2020 (21)

Treasure Island Robert Louis Stevenson

American Kingpin Nick Bilton

Frankenstein Mary Shelley

Company of One Paul Jarvis

The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Robert Louis Stevenson

The Demon-Haunted World Carl Sagan

1Q84 Haruki Murakami

Masters of Doom David Kushner

Golden Gates Conor Dougherty

Dune Frank Herbert

Civilized to Death Christopher Ryan

The Myth of Sisyphus Albert Camus

Between the World and Me Ta-Nehisi Coates

The Boys in the Boat Daniel James Brown

The Quest for Cosmic Justice Thomas Sewell

Mythos Stephen Fry

Bad Blood John Carreyrou

Fortune's Formula William Poundstone

Understanding Power Noam Chomsky

Strong Towns Charles L. Marohn Jr.

1491 Charles C. Mann

2019 (17)

In Calabria Peter S. Beagle

The Master and Margarita Mikhail Bulgakov

Brave New World Aldous Huxley

Elbow Room Daniel C. Dennett

The Dictator's Handbook Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, Alastair Smith

Exhalation: Stories Ted Chiang

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

All the Lights We Cannot See Anthony Doerr

I Am a Strange Loop Douglas R. Hofstadter

Ballad of the Whiskey Robber Julian Rubinstein

Blood, Sweat, and Pixels Jason Schreier

Tribe Sebastian Junger

Brain on Fire Susannah Cahalan

Infinite Jeremy Robinson

The Satyricon Petronius

No Surrender: My Thirty-Year War Hiroo Onoda

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Ken Kesey

2018 (27)

Ham on Rye: A Novel Charles Bukowski

Shogun James Clavell

Hard Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World Haruki Murakami

Computer Networks and Internets Douglas E. Comer

Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury

So Good They Can't Ignore You Cal Newport

The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress Robert A. Heinlein

The Color of Law: A Forgotten History Richard Rothstein

Practical Common Lisp Peter Seibel

Theft by Finding: Diaries David Sedaris

Starman Jones Robert A. Heinlein

Red Notice Bill Browder

The Lathe of Heaven Ursula Le Guin

The Case Against Education Bryan Caplan

Flowers for Algernon Daniel Keyes

Operating System Design: The XINU Approach Douglas E. Comer

Blood Meridian Cormac McCarthy

All Systems Red Martha Wells

Interview with the Vampire Anne Rice

A Gentle Intro to Symbolic Computation David S. Touretzky

Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City Matthew Desmond

Pimp: The Story of My Life Iceberg Slim

Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold C. S. Lewis

Up From Slavery Booker T. Washington

The Three Body Problem Cixin Liu

Lolita Vladimir Nabokov

God Reza Aslan

2017 (32)

Ready Player One Ernest Cline

The Call of the Wild Jack London

Never Let Me Go Kazuo Ishiguro

Attempting Normal Marc Maron

Essential of Computer Architecture Douglas E. Comer

Junkie William S. Burroughs

The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History Elizabeth Kolbert

The Art of Invisibility Kevin Mitnick

It Stephen King

The Persistence of Vision John Varley

The Remains of the Day Kazuo Ishiguro

The Righteous Mind Jonathan Haidt

Norwegian Wood Haruki Murakami

The Brothers Karamazov Fyodor Dostoyevsky

American Gods Neil Gaiman

Homo Deus Yuval Noah Harari

Norse Mythology Neil Gaiman

Neuromancer William Gibson

Why We Hate the Oil Companies John Hofmeister

Discrete Mathematics and Its Applications Kenneth H. Rosen

The Soul of a New Machine Tracy Kidder

The Great Unknown Marcus du Sautoy

1984 George Orwell

When You Are Engulfed in Flames David Sedaris

A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms George R. R. Martin

C Programming Language Brian W. Kernighan, Dennis M. Ritchie

Soul of An Octopus Sy Montgomery

A Farewell to Arms Ernest Hemingway

Consider the Lobster and Other Essays David Foster Wallace

Born a Crime Trevor Noah

Hillbilly Elegy J. D. Vance

Sundown Towns James Loewen

2016 (24)

The Alchemist Paulo Coelho

Infinite Jest David Foster Wallace

A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again David Foster Wallace

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee Dee Brown

Code: The Hidden Language Charles Petzold

Postcapitalism Paul Mason

A Short History of Nearly Everything Bill Bryson

Ego is the Enemy Ryan Holiday

Meditations Marcus Aurelius

Murder in the Bayou Ethan Brown

Crime and Punishment Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Cat's Cradle Kurt Vonnegut

Under the Banner of Heaven John Krakauer

The Girl on the Train Paula Hawkins

You Can't Win Jack Black

But How Do It Know? John C. Scott

Sapiens Yuval Noah Harari

Season of the Witch David Talbot

Slaughterhouse-Five Kurt Vonnegut

Creativity, Inc. Ed Catmull, Amy Wallace

The Count of Monte Cristo Alexandre Dumas

A Confederacy of Dunces John Kennedy Toole

Atlas Shrugged Ayn Rand

Elon Musk Ashlee Vance