Reading List

Background

I read a lot of books. Oftentimes, people ask me for recommendations on what to read. To help those people find a book to read, I have put together this list. Below are all the books I have read, grouped by the year in which I read them. I am working on creating a fancier method to display these books, but for now this simple list, which is generated from my yearly reading spreadsheets (script here), will have to do.

I also have a Goodreads account, but it's loosely maintained.

2024 · 2023

2024

Total Books: 68, Total Pages: 22,473

  • Breakfast with Seneca -- David Fideler -- 213 pages
  • Brothers Karamazov -- Fyodor Dostoevsky -- 846 pages
  • How to Win Friends & Influence People -- Dale Carnegie -- 248 pages
  • The Bullet Journal Method -- Ryder Carroll -- 296 pages
  • The Fourth Turning -- William Strauss, Neil Howe -- 400 pages
  • The Making of Prince of Persia -- Jordan Mechner -- 332 pages
  • The Changing World Order -- Ray Dalio -- 512 pages
  • Case in Point -- Marc P. Cosentino -- 232 pages
  • How Logic Works -- Hans Halvorson -- 229 pages
  • Deep Work -- Cal Newport -- 263 pages
  • Subway -- John E. Morris -- 229 pages
  • Skin in the Game -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb -- 236 pages
  • The 12 Week Year -- Brian P. Moran, Michael Lennington -- 188 pages
  • Thinking, Fast and Slow -- Daniel Kahneman -- 500 pages
  • Get Together -- Bailey Richardson -- 176 pages
  • Im Westen nichts Neues -- Erich Maria Remarque -- 278 pages
  • The 48 Laws of Power -- Robert Greene -- 430 pages
  • Critique of Pure Reason -- Immanuel Kant -- 774 pages
  • Architecture of Density - Hong Kong -- Michael Wolf -- 127 pages
  • The Fountainhead -- Ayn Rand -- 720 pages
  • Sapiens -- Yuval Noah Harari -- 416 pages
  • Every Tool's a Hammer -- Adam Savage -- 289 pages
  • Venture Meets Mission -- Arun Gupta, Gerard George, Thomas J. Fewer -- 211 pages
  • The Unfair Advantage -- Ash Ali & Hasan Kubba -- 242 pages
  • The Big Score -- Michael S. Malone -- 462 pages
  • Emily Post's Etiquette -- Lizzie Post -- 416 pages
  • Bitwise -- David Auerbach -- 259 pages
  • Slow Productivity -- Cal Newport -- 219 pages
  • Utilitarianism -- John Stuart Mill -- 65 pages
  • Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals -- Immanuel Kant -- 69 pages
  • Nicomachean Ethics -- Aristotle -- 204 pages
  • Essentialism -- Greg McKeown -- 246 pages
  • Measure of a Man -- Martin Greenfield -- 225 pages
  • The End of the World is Just the Beginning -- Peter Zeihan -- 475 pages
  • The Creative Act -- Rick Rubin -- 404 pages
  • American Prometheus -- Kai Bird & Martin J. Sherman -- 591 pages
  • Infectious Generosity -- Chris Anderson -- 220 pages
  • Catch-22 -- Joseph Heller -- 453 pages
  • Breakfast of Champions -- Kurt Vonnegut -- 302 pages
  • Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance -- Robert M. Pirsig -- 418 pages
  • Elon Musk -- Ashlee Vance -- 374 pages
  • New York Art Deco -- Andrew Garn -- 191 pages
  • The Worlds I See -- Dr. Fei-Fei Li -- 317 pages
  • Frank Lloyd Wright's Guggenheim Museum -- Stephen Robert Frankel -- 70 pages
  • Mastery -- Robert Greene -- 316 pages
  • Experiential Design Schemas -- Mark DeKay & Gail Brager -- 407 pages
  • Shoe Dog -- Phil Knight -- 383 pages
  • Move -- Parag Khanna -- 279 pages
  • Influence -- Robert B. Cialdini, PhD -- 446 pages
  • The Miracle Morning -- Hal Elrod -- 227 pages
  • Slapstick -- Kurt Vonnegut -- 274 pages
  • Critique of Practical Reason -- Immanuel Kant -- 205 pages
  • Man's Search for Meaning -- Viktor E. Frankl -- 124 pages
  • S,M,L,XL -- Rem Koolhaas and Bruce Mau -- 1,344 pages
  • The Case for Working with Your Hands -- Matthew B. Crawford -- 210 pages
  • Can't Hurt Me -- David Goggins -- 356 pages
  • Mindset -- Carol S. Dweck, Ph.D. -- 264 pages
  • A Whack on the Side of the Head -- Roger von Oech -- 335 pages
  • Grit -- Angela Duckworth -- 291 pages
  • Experiencing Design: The Innovator's Journey -- Jeanne Liedtka -- 243 pages
  • Closing Time -- Joseph Heller -- 462 pages
  • The Intimate City -- Michael Kimmelman -- 244 pages
  • Lair -- Chad Oppenheim -- 293 pages
  • On Law, Morality, and Politics -- St. Thomas Aquinas -- 210 pages
  • Five Dialogues -- Plato -- 154 pages
  • Tools of Titans -- Tim Ferriss -- 684 pages
  • Zero to One -- Peter Thiel -- 195 pages
  • Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts -- Jaron Lanier -- 160 pages
2023

Total Books: 33, Total Pages: 9,087

  • Infinite Powers -- Steven Strogatz -- 384 pages
  • From Insight to Innovation -- David P. Billington Jr. -- 336 pages
  • The Art of Doing Science and Engineering -- Richard W. Hamming -- 398 pages
  • Never Finished -- David Goggins -- 312 pages
  • Extreme Ownership -- Jocko Willink & Leif Babin -- 312 pages
  • The Dichotomy of Leadership -- Jocko Willink & Leif Babin -- 289 pages
  • Animal Farm -- George Orwell -- 105 pages
  • 7 Habits of Highly Effective People -- Stephen R. Covey -- 413 pages
  • Shop Class as Soulcraft -- Matthew B. Crawford -- 210 pages
  • What If? 2 -- Randall Munroe -- 334 pages
  • The Art of War -- Sun Tzu -- 193 pages
  • The 5 AM Club -- Robin Sharma -- 314 pages
  • 1984 -- George Orwell -- 292 pages
  • Atlas Shrugged -- Ayn Rand -- 1,188 pages
  • The Good Life -- Waldinger and Schulz -- 281 pages
  • Atomic Habits -- James Clear -- 320 pages
  • Start, Stay, or Leave -- Trey Gowdy -- 254 pages
  • Legacy -- James Kerr -- 189 pages
  • Digital Minimalism -- Cal Newport -- 254 pages
  • Candide -- Voltaire -- 144 pages
  • Around the World in Eighty Days -- Jules Verne -- 236 pages
  • Animal Farm -- George Orwell -- 105 pages
  • Brave New World -- Aldous Huxley -- 231 pages
  • Fahrenheit 451 -- Ray Bradbury -- 158 pages
  • Journey to the Center of the Earth -- Jules Verne -- 217 pages
  • Called -- Kevin Cotter -- 163 pages
  • The Joy of x -- Steven Strogatz -- 256 pages
  • Working in Public -- Nadia Eghbal -- 256 pages
  • Meditations -- Marcus Aurelius -- 170 pages
  • Ten Years to Midnight -- Blair H. Sheppard -- 178 pages
  • Physics from Finance -- Jakob Schwichtenberg -- 137 pages
  • Ways of Going Home -- Alejandro Zambra -- 139 pages
  • Why We Drive -- Matthew B. Crawford -- 319 pages