What I've Been Reading

2024

  • The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway
  • The Arsenal of Democracy: FDR, Detroit, and an Epic Quest to Arm an America at War - A. J. Baime
  • The Accidental President: Harry S. Truman and the Four Months That Changed the World - A. J. Baime
  • Snow Falling on Cedars - David Guterson
  • Stubborn Attachments - Tyler Cowen
  • What Do You Care What Other People Think? - Richard Feynman

2023

  • For Whom the Bell Tolls - Ernest Hemingway
  • The Great Depression: A Diary - Benjamin Roth
  • In the Heart of the Sea The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex - Nathaniel Philbrick
  • The Tycoons: How Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, Jay Gould, and J. P. Morgan Invented the American Supereconomy - Charles R. Morris
  • Mountains Beyond Mountains - Tracy Kidder
  • Wind, Sand and Stars - Antoine de Saint-ExupĂ©ry
  • Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass - Frederick Douglass
  • On the Far Side of the Mountain - Jean Craighead George
  • Unbroken - Laura Hillenbrand
  • Seven Years in Tibet - Heinrich Harrer
  • My Side of the Mountain - Jean Craighead George
  • Creativity - John Cleese
  • The Book Thief - Markus Zusak
  • Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH - Robert C. O'Brien
  • The Great Conversation: A Historical Introduction to Philosophy - Normal Melchert

2022

  • The Federalist Papers - Hamilton, Madison, Jay
  • Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes
  • Pippi Longstocking - Astrid Lindgren
  • Six Easy Pieces - Richard Feynman
  • The Evolution of Everything - Matt Ridley
  • The Scientists - John Gribbin
  • Sapiens - Yuval Noah Harari
  • Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space - Carl Sagan
  • The Fabric of Civilization - Virginia Postrel
  • How Innovation Works - Matt Ridley
  • Zero to One - Peter Thiel
  • Shoe Dog - Phil Knight
  • One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • Shop Class as Soulcraft - Matthew Crawford
  • Tribe - Sebastian Junger
  • Erosion: Essays of Undoing - Terry Tempest Williams
  • The Republic - Plato
  • Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
  • The Prince - Niccolo Machiavelli
  • Candide - Voltaire
  • Meditations - Marcus Aurelius
  • Prometheus Bound - Asechylus
  • The Epic of Gilgamesh - -unknown-
  • The Lincoln Highway - Amor Towles
  • The Odyssey - Homer

2021

  • 1776 - David McCullough
  • Edison - Edmund Morris
  • The Fate of Rome: Climate, Disease, and the End of an Empire - Kyle Harper
  • Freedom - Sebastian Junger
  • Sprinting Through No Man's Land: Endurance, Tragedy, and Rebirth in the 1919 Tour de France - Adin Dobkin
  • Stuart Little - E. B. White
  • The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • The Overstory: A Novel - Richard Powers
  • The Road - Cormack McCarthy
  • The Pegan Diet - Dr. Mark Hyman
  • Love in the Time of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • The Brothers Karamozov - Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll

2020

  • Last Bus to Wisdom - Ivan Doig
  • Born Standing Up - Steve Martin
  • Why We Sleep - Matthew Walker
  • Lexicon - Max Barry
  • James and the Giant Peach - Roald Dahl
  • Where the Sidewalk Ends - Shel Silverstein
  • Vagabonding - Rolf Potts
  • Stories of Your Life and Others - Ted Chiang
  • Sula - Toni Morrison
  • Enlightenment Now - Steven Pinker
  • Educated - Tara Westover
  • The Complacent Class - Tyler Cowen
  • The Rational Optimist - Matt Ridley
  • Hatchet - Gary Paulsen
  • A Man Called Ove - Fredrik Backman
  • The Long Ships - Frans Bengtsson
  • The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
  • Einstein: His Life and Universe - Walter Isaacson
  • Lusitania - Erik Larson
  • The Call of the Wild - Jack London

2019

  • The Little Book of Gratitude - Robert Emmons
  • All Quiet on the Western Front - Erich Maria Remarque
  • Dead Wake - Erik Larson
  • A World Undone: The Story of the Great War, 1914 to 1918 - G.J. Meyer
  • In the Garden of Beasts - Erik Larson
  • Man's Search for Meaning - Viktor Frankl
  • Rules of Civility - Amor Towles
  • Where the Crawdads Sing - Delia Owens
  • Awareness - Anthony De Mello
  • Show Your Work! - Austin Kleon
  • Steal Like an Artist - Austin Kleon
  • Outer Order, Inner Calm - Gretchen Rubin
  • The Feather Thief - Kirk Wallace Johnson
  • Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage - Alfred Lansing
  • Levels of the Game - John McPhee
  • The Courage to be Disliked - Ichiro Kishimi
  • Zorba the Greek - Nikos Kazantzakis
  • Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less - Greg McKeown

2018

2017

  • Eat and Run: My Unlikely Journey to Ultramarathon Greatness -Scott Jurek
  • The Way of Tea: Reflections on a Life with Tea - Aaron Fisher
  • Principles: Life and Work - Ray Dalio
  • Benjamin Franklin: An American Life - Walter Isaacson
  • The Second World War - Antony Beevor
  • The Ocean at the End of the Lane - Neil Gaiman
  • Running with the Buffaloes - Chris Lear
  • Natural Born Heros - Christopher McDougall
  • The Way of the Runner: A Journey into the Fabled World of Japanese Running - Adharanand Finn
  • The Lessons of History - Will Durant
  • Poor Charlie's Almanack - Peter D. Kaufman
  • Ego is the Enemy - Ryan Holiday
  • Rebirth - Kamal Ravikant
  • Deep Work - Cal Newport
  • The Obstacle is the Way - Ryan Holiday

2016

  • The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up - Marie Kondo
  • Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! - Richard Feynman
  • The Sun Also Rises - Ernest Hemingway
  • Pebbles of Perception - Laurence Endersen
  • Tools of Titans - Tim Ferriss
  • The Story of the Tour De France - Bill McGann, Carol McGann

2015

  • Steve Jobs - Walter Isaacson
  • The Art of Learning - Josh Waitzkin
  • Bold - Peter Diamandis
  • Siddhartha - Hermann Hesse

2014

  • All the Light We Cannot See - Anthony Doerr
  • Creativity, Inc - Ed Catmull
  • So Good They Can't Ignore You - Cal Newport