Reading List
What I’m reading now
- The Road Less Traveled by Scott Peck
2025
- Modern Poker Theory by Michael Acevedo (Didn't finish, interesting but too technical)
- The Blank Slate by Steven Pinker (Didn't finish, not bad just no longer groundbreaking ideas as the world has already adopted this viewpoint about human nature, and Pinker's arguments are long and exhausting)
- Happy Money by Ken Honda (Didn't finish, not interesting)
- Awareness by Anthony De Mello (A+)
- Things Become Other Things by Craig Mod (A-)
- Train Dreams by Denis Johnson (B)
- Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard (Didn't finish, not my style)
- Atomic Habits by James Clear (A)
- You Can Negotiate Anything by Herb Cohen (C)
- The Swerve by Stephen Greenblatt (B+)
- How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie (A)
2024
- Salt, Acid, Fat, Heat by Samin Nosrat (A)
- How to Get Rich by Felix Dennis (A+)
- Wool by Hugh Howey (Didn’t finish)
- Stumbling on Happiness by Daniel Gilbert (A)
- A Billion Wicked Thoughts by Ogi Ogas, Sai Gaddam (A)
- Your Brain on Porn by Gary Wilson (C)
- The Algebra of Wealth by Scott Galloway (A)
- Four Hour Body by Tim Ferriss (B)
- Models by Mark Manson (re-read)
- Sophie's World by Jostein Gaarder (A)
- Die With Zero by Bill Perkins (A)
- Starry Messenger by Niel deGrasse Tyson (A)
2023
- Dilla Time by Dan Charnas (B)
- The 2-Hour Cocktail Party by Nick Gray (B)
- The Carbon Alamanac (B)
- The Creative Act: A Way of Being by Rick Rubin (B+)
2022
- The 4-Hour Workweek by Tim Ferriss (B)
- On Writing by Stephen King (A+)
- The Ethical Slut by Dossie Easton and Janet Hardy (B+)
- Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order by Ray Dalio (C)
- Dance of Death: The Life of John Fahey by Steve Lowenthal (B+)
- The Better Angels of Our Nature by Steven Pinker (A)
- Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond (B+)
2021
- The Bomber Mafia by Malcolm Gladwell
- Carrie by Stephen King
- The Checklist Manifesto by Atul Gawande
- Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain
- Nudge by Richard H. Thaler
2020
- Thinking Fast & Slow by Daniel Kahneman (A+)
- Fiber Fueled by Will Bulsiewicz
2019
- Born a Crime by Trevor Noah
- Talking to Strangers by Malcolm Gladwell
- The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
- Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari
- Everything Is F*cked by Mark Manson
2018
- The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck by Mark Manson
- Vacationland by John Hodgman
- Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts
2017
- Models by Mark Manson
- Post Office by Charles Bukowski
Long, long ago…
- Mindless Eating by Brian Wansink
- Tribal Leadership by Dave Logan, et al
- A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking
- The Rules of Attraction by Bret Easton Ellis
- Powers of Two by Joshua Wolf Shenk
- The Quiet American by Graham Greene
- The Design of Everyday Things by Don Norman
- Wilderness Essays by Jon Muir
- The Best of H. P. Lovecraft: Bloodcurdling Tales of Horror and the Macabre by H. P Lovecraft
- I Will Teach You To Be Rich by Ramit Sethi
- Blink by Malcolm Gladwell
- Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell
- God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater by Kurt Vonnegut
- Breakfast of Champion by Kurt Vonnegut
- Bluebeard by Kurt Vonnegut
- Slapstick by Kurt Vonnegut
- Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
- Welcome to the Monkey House by Kurt Vonnegut
- You Suck by Christopher Moore
- Coyote Blue by Christopher Moore
- Lamb by Christopher Moore
- The Stupidest Angel by Christopher Moore
- Fluke by Christopher Moore
- A Dirty Job by Christopher Moore
