- The 4-Hour Workweek by Timothy Ferriss
- Effective Java by Joshua Bloch
- Hamilton: The Revolution by Lin-Manuel Miranda
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The following are books I've read over the years. If I wrote a review or shared some thoughts and highlights from one, the date will link to the post.
2022
24 Jan
Turtles All the Way Down by John Green
13 Jan
Immune: a Journey into the Mysterious System that Keeps You Alive by Philipp Dettmer
2021
17 Dec
Mindset: The New Psychology of Success by Carol S. Dweck
6 Dec
Truth of the Divine by Lindsay Ellis
12 Nov
If Then: How the Simulmatics Corporation Invented the Future by Jill Lepore
5 Oct
The Comfort Book by Matt Haig
1 Oct
Anything You Want: 40 Lessons for a New Kind of Entrepreneur by Derek Sivers
29 Sep
Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
24 Sep
Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
7 Sep
The Pragmatic Programmer: Your Journey to Mastery by Andy Hunt
18 Aug
UNSCRIPTED: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Entrepreneurship by M.J. DeMarco
17 Jul
23 Jun
Somebody's Daughter by Ashley C. Ford
13 Jun
The Anthropocene Reviewed by John Green
30 May
22 May
Foundation by Isaac Asimov
8 May
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History by Elizabeth Kolbert
26 Apr
In a Sunburned Country by Bill Bryson
2 Apr
Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World by Rutger Bregman
23 Mar
Conditional Citizens: On Belonging in America by Laila Lalami
7 Mar
The End of Everything by Katie Mack
20 Feb
To Sleep in a Sea of Stars by Christopher Paolini
20 Jan
A Promised Land by Barack Obama
2020
18 Dec
Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning by Cathy Park Hong
11 Dec
Dune Messiah by Frank Herbert
2 Dec
7 Nov
The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
31 Oct
Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less by Greg McKeown
23 Oct
Letters from an Astrophysicist by Neil deGrasse Tyson
12 Oct
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
28 Sep
Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! Adventures of a Curious Character by Richard P. Feynman
19 Sep
Growth: From Microorganisms to Megacities by Vaclav Smil
7 Aug
Axiom's End by Lindsay Ellis
19 Jul
A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor by Hank Green
10 Jul
How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
29 May
16 May
Dune by Frank Herbert
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men by Caroline Criado Pérez
3 Apr
The Body: A Guide for Occupants by Bill Bryson
6 Mar
All Systems Red by Martha Wells
29 Feb
16 Feb
Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler
11 Feb
How To: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems by Randall Munroe
28 Jan
Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams by Matthew Walker
13 Jan
The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains by Nicholas Carr
2019
31 Dec
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
27 Dec
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond
26 Dec
Watchmen by Alan Moore
15 Dec
Looking for Alaska by John Green
4 Dec
Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom
14 Sep
The Call of the Wild by Jack London
5 Sep
Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language by Gretchen McCulloch
8 Aug
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah
American Wolf: A True Story of Survival and Obsession in the West by Nate Blakeslee
21 Jun
The Moment of Lift: How Empowering Women Changes the World by Melinda French Gates
24 May
American Journal: Fifty Poems for Our Time by Tracy K. Smith
20 May
How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy by Jenny Odell
7 May
The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton
18 Apr
The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right by Atul Gawande
4 Apr
Free Will by Sam Harris
2 Apr
25 Mar
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup by John Carreyrou
18 Feb
Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World by Cal Newport
26 Jan
An Absolutely Remarkable Thing by Hank Green
10 Jan
Educated by Tara Westover
2018
17 Dec
30 Nov
Brief Answers to the Big Questions by Stephen Hawking
23 Nov
The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch
18 Nov
21 Lessons for the 21st Century by Yuval Noah Harari
29 Oct
Isaac Newton by James Gleick
19 Oct
30 Sep
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling
3 Sep
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling
3 Sep
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K. Rowling
20 Aug
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling
11 Aug
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling
5 Aug
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling
2 Aug
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by J.K. Rowling
27 Jul
10 Jul
Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World by Cal Newport
29 Jun
Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl
21 Jun
The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined by Steven Pinker
23 Apr
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
8 Apr
Triggers: Creating Behavior That Lasts--Becoming the Person You Want to Be by Marshall Goldsmith
29 Mar
A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking
17 Mar
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
11 Mar
A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
10 Feb
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry by Neil deGrasse Tyson
24 Jan
The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx
20 Jan
1984 by George Orwell
2017
21 Oct
Origin by Dan Brown
2 Jul
Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow by Yuval Noah Harari
11 May
Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging by Sebastian Junger
7 May
Modern Romance: An Investigation by Aziz Ansari
30 Apr
10 Feb
The Bassoon King: My Life in Art, Faith, and Idiocy by Rainn Wilson
2016
9 Oct
Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari
24 Jun
The Power Of Habit: Why We Do What We Do In Life And Business by Charles Duhigg
11 Apr
Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies by Nick Bostrom
12 Mar
Elon Musk: Inventing the Future by Ashlee Vance