Books I’ve read.

Notable authors.

2026

  1. The Complete Fables — Aesop, Temple translation (pre-500 BCE / 1998)
  2. Tao Te Ching — Laozi (~300 BCE / 1988)
  3. The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano — Olaudah Equiano (1789)
  4. Heart of Darkness — Joseph Conrad (1899)
  5. Siddhartha — Hermann Hesse (1922)
  6. The Sound and the Fury — William Faulkner (1929)
  7. In Praise of Idleness — Bertrand Russell (1935)
  8. Ask the Dust — John Fante (1939)
  9. On Writing — Charles Bukowski (1945-93)
  10. 1984 — George Orwell (1949)
  11. Casino Royale — Ian Fleming (1953)
  12. The World’s Religions — Huston Smith (1955)
  13. Giovanni’s Room — James Baldwin (1956)
  14. Nobody Knows My Name — James Baldwin (1961)
  15. The Fire Next Time — James Baldwin (1963)
  16. Going To Meet The Man — James Baldwin (1965)
  17. The Autobiography of Malcolm X — Malcolm X as told to Alex Haley
  18. The Eye You See With — Robert Stone (1971-2013 / 2020)
  19. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas — Hunter S. Thompson (1971)
  20. Open Veins of Latin America — Eduardo Galeano
  21. No Name in the Street — James Baldwin (1972)
  22. If Beale Street Could Talk — James Baldwin (1974)
  23. Cointelpro — Nelson Blackstock (1975)
  24. The Devil Finds Work — James Baldwin (1976)
  25. The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind — Julian Jaynes
  26. Just Above My Head — James Baldwin (1979)
  27. Heartburn — Nora Ephron (1983)
  28. Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media — Edward Herman, Noam Chomsky
  29. Blood Meridian — Cormac McCarthy (1985)
  30. Bird by Bird — Anne Lamott (1994)
  31. Infinite Jest — (1996)
  32. Boyhood: Scenes from Provincial Life I — J. M. Coetzee (1997)
  33. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies — Jared Diamond (1997)
  34. Youth: Scenes from Provincial Life II — J. M. Coetzee (2002)
  35. Are Prisons Obsolete? — Angela Davis (2003)
  36. Everything and More — David Foster Wallace
  37. The Ancient Olympics: A History — Nigel Spivey (2004)
  38. Rwanda Means The Universe — Louise Mushikiwabo (2006)
  39. Joseph Conrad: A Life — Zdzisław Najder (2007)
  40. Nothing to Envy — Barbara Demick (2009)
  41. Summertime: Scenes from Provincial Life III — J. M. Coetzee
  42. The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness — Michelle Alexander
  43. Undiluted Hocus-Pocus: The Autobiography of Martin Gardner — Martin Gardner (2013)
  44. Creativity Inc — Ed Catmull (2014/23)
  45. Yes Please — Amy Poehler
  46. Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow — Yuval Noah Harari (2015)
  47. The Great Beanie Baby Bubble: Mass Delusion and the Dark Side of Cute — Zac Bissonnette
  48. Blood, Sweat, and Pixels … Stories Behind How Video Games Are Made — Jason Schreier (2017)
  49. The Color of Law: … How Our Government Segregated America — Richard Rothstein
  50. There Is No Antimemetics Division (2020)
  51. Press Reset: Ruin and Recovery in the Video Game Industry — Jason Schreier (2021)
  52. The Man from the Future: The Visionary Life of John Von Neumann — Ananyo Bhattacharya
  53. Yearbook — Seth Rogan
  54. An African History of Africa: From the Dawn of Humanity to Independence — Zeinab Badawi (2024)
  55. Play Nice: The Rise, Fall, and Future of Blizzard Entertainment — Jason Schreier
  56. The Invention of Design — Maggie Gram (2025)
  57. The Sirens’ Call: How Attention Became the World’s Most Endangered Resource — Chris Hayes

2025

  1. Candide — Voltaire (1759)
  2. The Double — Fyodor Dostoevsky (1846)
  3. Moby Dick — Herman Melville (1851)
  4. The House of the Dead — Fyodor Dostoevsky (1862)
  5. Notes From Underground — Fyodor Dostoevsky (1864)
  6. Crime and Punishment — Fyodor Dostoevsky (1866)
  7. The Idiot — Fyodor Dostoevsky (1869)
  8. The Eternal Husband — Fyodor Dostoevsky (1870)
  9. Devils — Fyodor Dostoevsky (1872)
  10. The Adolescent — Fyodor Dostoevsky (1875)
  11. A Gentle Creature — Fyodor Dostoevsky (1876)
  12. The Brothers Karamazov — Fyodor Dostoevsky (1880)
  13. Life on the Mississippi — Mark Twain (1883)
  14. Thus Spoke Zarathustra — Friedrich Nietzsche
  15. John Brown — W. E. B. Du Bois (1909)
  16. Go Tell It On the Mountain — James Baldwin (1952)
  17. Notes of a Native Son — James Baldwin (1955)
  18. Memories, Dreams, Reflections — Carl Jung (1961)
  19. Another Country — James Baldwin (1962)
  20. The Left Hand of Darkness — Ursula K. Le Guin (1969)
  21. Zen Mind Beginner’s Mind — Shunryu Suzuki (1970)
  22. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance — Robert M. Pirsig (1974)
  23. A People’s History of the United States — Howard Zinn (1980)
  24. Dostoevsky Vol 3: The Stir of Liberation — Joseph Frank (1986)
  25. Dostoevsky Vol 4: The Miraculous Years — Joseph Frank (1995)
  26. Nonviolent Communication — Marshall B. Rosenberg, PhD (1999)
  27. Dostoevsky Vol 5: The Mantle of the Prophet — Joseph Frank (2002)
  28. Tinkers — Paul Harding (2008)
  29. The Years of Lyndon Johnson Vol 4: The Passage of Power — Robert A. Caro (2012)
  30. Quack This Way — David Foster Wallace (2013)
  31. String Theory — David Foster Wallace (2014)
  32. Based on a True Story: Not A Memoir — Norm MacDonald (2016)
  33. Hillbilly Elegy — JD Vance (2016)
  34. Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women — Kate Moore
  35. How to Write An Autobiographical Novel — Alexander Chee (2018)
  36. Lost in Math — Sabine Hossenfelder (2018)
  37. Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex — Angela Chen (2020)
  38. The Gambler Wife — Andrew Kaufman (2021)
  39. Cinema Speculation — Quentin Tarantino (2022)
  40. Patriot: A Memoir — Alexei Navalny (2024)
  41. The Trading Game — Gary Stevenson
  42. The Singularity is Nearer — Ray Kurzweil
  43. Everything is Tuberculosis — John Green (2025)

2024

2024 Books Read

  1. The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin — Benjamin Franklin (1791)
  2. Poor Folk — Fyodor Dostoevsky (1846)
  3. The Communist Manifesto — Friedrich Engels, Karl Marx (1848)
  4. The Village of Stepanchikovo — (1859)
  5. Humiliated and Insulted — Fyodor Dostoevsky (1861)
  6. The Gambler — Fyodor Dostoevsky (1866)
  7. The Great Gatsby — F. Scott Fitzgerald (1925)
  8. On Writing — Ernest Hemingway (1925-59 / 1984)
  9. Why I Write — George Orwell (1931-46)
  10. The World As I See It — Albert Einstein (1934)
  11. Murder in Mesopotamia — Agatha Christie (1936)
  12. The Martian Chronicles — (1950)
  13. The Complete Stories Volume I — Isaac Asimov (1953-56)
  14. Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits and Other Writings — Philip Arthur Fisher (1957)
  15. Hell’s Angels — Hunter S. Thompson (1966)
  16. Dostoevsky Vol. 1: The Seeds of Revolt — Joseph Frank (1976)
  17. Women, Race and Class — Angela Davis (1981)
  18. Dostoevsky Vol 2: The Years of Ordeal — Joseph Frank (1983)
  19. One Up On Wall Street — Peter Lynch (1989)
  20. The Oxford History of the French Revolution — William Doyle
  21. The Things They Carried — Tim O’Brien (1990)
  22. Zen and the Art of Writing — Ray Bradbury
  23. Beating the Street — Peter Lynch (1993)
  24. Long Walk to Freedom — Nelson Mandela (1994)
  25. All About Love — Bell Hooks (1999)
  26. On Writing — Stephen King (2000)
  27. The Medici — Paul Strathern (2003)
  28. Delivered from Distraction — Edward M. Hallowell and John J. Ratey (2004)
  29. Consider the Lobster — David Foster Wallace (2005)
  30. Mao: The Unknown Story — Jung Chang, Jon Halliday (2004)
  31. Havana Nocturne: How the Mob Owned Cuba and Then Lost It to the Revolution — T. J. English (2007)
  32. The History of White People — Nell Irvin Painter (2010)
  33. Debt: The First 5000 Years — David Graeber (2011)
  34. Killing Lincoln — Bill O’Reilly
  35. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind — Yuval Noah Harari
  36. Roll the Bones — David G. Schwartz (2013)
  37. Novelist as a Vocation — Haruki Murakami (2015)
  38. Inglorious Empire: What the British did to India — Shashi Tharoor (2017)
  39. On Tyranny — Timothy D. Snyder
  40. So You Want to Talk About Race — Ijeoma Oluo (2018)
  41. Working — Robert Caro (2019)
  42. Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America — Ijeoma Oluo (2020)
  43. The Psychology of Money — Morgan Housel (2020)
  44. Why We’re Polarized — Ezra Klein
  45. About Time — David Rooney (2021)
  46. Dopamine Nation — Anna Lembke, MD
  47. High Conflict: Why We Get Trapped and How We Get Out — Amanda Ripley
  48. Laziness Does Not Exist — Devon Price
  49. No Bad Parts — Richard C. Schwartz, PHD
  50. Richer Wiser Happier —William Green (2021)
  51. Unwell Women — Elinor Cleghorn

2020-2023

  1. The Sun Also Rises — Ernest Hemingway (1926)
  2. Security Analysis — Benjamin Graham and David Dodd (1934)
  3. How to Win Friends and Influence People — Dale Carnegie (1936)
  4. A Mathematician’s Apology — G. H. Hardy (1940)
  5. On the Road — Jack Kerouac (1957)
  6. Dune — Frank Herbert (1965)
  7. The Peregrine — J. A. Baker (1967)
  8. Pimp: The Story of My Life — (1967)
  9. Slaughterhouse-Five, or The Children’s Crusade: A Duty_Dance with Death — Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (1969)
  10. Post Office — Charles Bukowski (1971)
  11. The Stand — Stephen King (1978)
  12. Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid — Douglas Hofstadter (1979)
  13. Critical Path — Buckmister Fuller (1981)
  14. The Years of Lyndon Johnson Vol 1: The Path to Power — Robert A Caro (1982)
  15. Grunch of Giants — Buckminster Fuller (1983)
  16. Emergence — Temple Grandin (1986)
  17. The Years of Lyndon Johnson Vol 2: Means of Ascent — Robert A Caro (1990)
  18. The Last Night of the Earth Poems — Charles Bukowski (1992)
  19. Leading with the Heart: Coach K’s Successful Strategies … — Mike Krzyzewski (2000)
  20. The Years of Lyndon Johnson Vol 3: Master of the Senate — Robert A Caro (2002)
  21. The Singularity is Near — Ray Kurzweil (2005)
  22. Born On a Blue Day — Daniel Tammet (2006)
  23. Mozart and the Whale: An Asperger’s Love Story — Jerry Newport and Mary Newport
  24. The Strangest Man — Graham Farmelo (2009)
  25. Secrets of Professional Tournament Poker: The Essential Guide — Jonathan Little (2011)
  26. Drawing on the Power of Resonance in Writing — David Farland (2012)
  27. The Fault in Our Stars — John Green
  28. Expert Heads Up No Limit Hold’em Play: Strategies for Multiple Streets — (2014)
  29. The Murderbot Diaries — Martha Wells (2017-2023)
  30. The Order of Time — Carlo Rovelli (2017)
  31. An Absolutely Remarkable Thing — Hank Green (2018)
  32. Modern Poker Theory: … based on GTO principles — Michael Acevedo (2019)
  33. Play Optimal Poker: Practical Game Theory for Every Poker Player — Andrew Brokos
  34. Play Optimal Poker 2: Range Construction — Andrew Brokos (2020)
  35. The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet — John Green (2021)
  36. Unmasking Autism — Dr. Devon Price (2022)
  37. What I Mean When I Say I’m Autistic: Unpuzzling a Life on the Autism Spectrum — Annie Kotowicz
  38. The Internet Con: How To Seize the Means of Computation — Cory Doctorow (2023)
  39. The Nineties: A Book — Chuck Klosterman