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This is a list of books I’ve completely read. They are listed by the order I read them (reverse chronological). If I don’t enjoy a book I won’t finish it. So given that a book is on this reading list is a kind of recommendation. Some of these books are re-reads!

Updated September 6, 2021

2021
  • God Human Animal Machine – Meghan O’Gieblyn
  • Stillness is the Key – Ryan Holiday
  • The Practice – Seth Godin
  • The Anthropocene Reviewed – John Green
  • The Comfort Book – Matt Haig
  • Poke the Box – Seth Godin
  • The Splendid and the Vile – Erik Larson
  • The Alignment Problem – Brian Christian
  • Trick Mirror – Jia Tolentino

2020
  • To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
  • VRx – Brennan Spiegel
  • Range – David Epstein
  • Because Internet – Gretchen McCullock
  • The Sun Also Rises – Ernest Hemingway
  • Calling Bullshit – Carl Bergstrom, Jevin West
  • A Gentleman in Moscow – Amor Towles
  • All the Light We Cannot See – Anthony Doerr
  • When Breath Becomes Air – Paul Kalanithi
  • In Cold Blood – Truman Capote
  • Noir – Christopher Moore
  • Blue Nights – Joan Didion
  • Dept. of Speculation – Jenny Offill
  • South and West – Joan Didion
  • The Lost Family – Libby Copeland
  • Lurking – Joanne McNeil
  • Notes From an Apocalypse – Mark O’Connell
  • Time Pieces | A Dublin Memoir – John Banville
  • The Captain and the Glory – Dave Eggers
  • Surveillance Capitalism – Shoshana Zuboff
  • Metahuman – Deepak Chopra
  • The Red Parts – Maggie Nelson

2019
  • Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now – Jaron Lanier
  • Midnight in Chernobyl – Adam Higginbotham
  • Stillness is the Key – Ryan Holiday
  • The Infinite Game – Simon Sinek
  • How to Speak Machine – John Maeda
  • Civilized to Death – Christopher Ryan
  • Face to Face – Brian Grazer
  • Talking to Strangers – Malcolm Gladwell
  • Angela’s Ashes – Frank McCourt
  • The Power of Human – Adam Waytz
  • Atomic Habits – James Clear
  • The Signals are Talking – Amy Webb
  • Everyday Chaos – David Weinberger
  • Normal People – Sally Rooney
  • Educated – Tara Westover
  • How to Change Your Mind – Michael Pollan
  • Keep Going – Austin Kleon
  • Deep Medicine – Eric Topol
  • Team Human – Douglas Rushkoff
  • How to Fix the Future – Andrew Keen
  • Blueprint – Nicholas Christakis
  • Furious Hours – Casey Cep
  • Don’t Unplug – Chris Dancy
  • The Last Leonardo – Ben Lewis
  • Picnic Comma Lightening – Laurence Scott
  • The Alarming Palsy of James Orr – Tom Lee
  • Machines Like Me– Ian McEwan

Links on this reading list are Amazon affiliate links.
Image via Patrick Tomaso on Unsplash.

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