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
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Normal People – Sally Rooney
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Educated – Tara Westover
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How to Change Your Mind – Michael Pollan
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Keep Going – Austin Kleon
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Deep Medicine – Eric Topol
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Team Human – Douglas Rushkoff
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How to Fix the Future – Andrew Keen
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Blueprint – Nicholas Christakis
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Furious Hours – Casey Cep
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Don’t Unplug – Chris Dancy
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The Last Leonardo – Ben Lewis
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Picnic Comma Lightening – Laurence Scott
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The Alarming Palsy of James Orr – Tom Lee
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Machines Like Me– Ian McEwan