Bookshelf
An archive of reading history encompassing nearly two decades.
History
2023
– 25 books read- The World's Worst Assistant by Sona Movsesian
- The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit by Michael Finkel
- Working Stiff: Two Years, 262 Bodies, and the Making of a Medical Examiner by Judy Melinek, M.D., T.J. Mitchell
- Outlive: The Science & Art of Longevity by Peter Attia, M.D.
- All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me by Patrick Bringley
- The Tao of Pooh by Benjamin Hoff
- Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire: A 500-Year History by Kurt Andersen
- Tangled Up in Blue: Policing the American City by Rosa Brooks
- Beyond Measure: The Hidden History of Measurement from Cubits to Quantum Constants by James Vincent
- Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock by Jenny Odell
- The Creative Act: A Way of Being by Rick Rubin
- The Spear Cuts Through Water: A Novel by Simon Jimenez
- Cinema Speculation by Quentin Tarantino
- The Candy House: A novel by Jennifer Egan
- Lighter: Let Go of the Past, Connect with the Present, and Expand the Future by Yung Pueblo
- A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
- Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology by Chris Miller
- The Holocaust: A New History by Laurence Rees
- The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race by Walter Isaacson
- Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us by Rachel Aviv
- Mickey7: A Novel by Edward Ashton
- Ring by Koji Suzuki
- The Invincible by Stanislaw Lem
- Heat 2: A Novel by Michael Mann, Meg Gardiner
2022
– 67 books read- Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
- The Night Watchman: A Novel by Louis Eldrich
- Eyes in the Sky: The Secret Rise of Gorgon Stare and How It Will Watch Us All by Arthur Holland Michel
- How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States by Daniel Immerwahr
- Leave the World Behind: A Novel by Rumaan Alam
- I'm Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy
- How to Blow Up a Pipeline by Andreas Malm
- Luckiest Girl Alive: A Novel by Jessica Knoll
- Like, Comment, Subscribe: Inside YouTube's Chaotic Rise to World Domination by Mark Bergen
- She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement by Jodi Kantor, Megan Twohey 🎧
- Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie
- Hokuloa Road: A Novel by Elizabeth Hand
- A Burning: A Novel by Megha Majumdar 🎧
- Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow: A novel by Gabrielle Zevin
- The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion 🎧
- The Cabin at the End of the World: A Novel by Paul Tremblay
- The Premonition: A Pandemic Story by Michael Lewis
- Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Emotions by Brian Christian, Tom Griffiths
- Dracula by Bram Stoker 🎧
- The Comfort Crisis: Embrace Discomfort To Reclaim Your Wild, Happy, Healthy Self by Michael Easter
- White Noise by Don Delillo
- Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention—and How to Think Deeply Again by Johann Hari 🎧
- The Friend: A Novel by Sigrid Nunez
- Upgrade: A Novel by Blake Crouch
- Ninety Percent of Everything: Inside Shipping, the Invisible Industry That Puts Clothes on Your Back, Gas in Your Car, and Food on Your Plate by Rose George
- Bewilderment: A Novel by Richard Powers
- Gone: A Girl, a Violin, a Life Unstrung by Min Kym
- The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains by Nicholas Carr
- Eileen: A Novel by Ottessa Moshfegh
- The Grid: The Fraying Wires Between Americans and Our Energy Future by Gretchen Bakke
- Energy: A Human History by Richard Rhodes
- Storm in a Teacup: The Physics of Everyday Life by Helen Czerski
- Craft in the Real World: Rethinking Fiction Writing and Workshopping by Matthew Salesses
- The Factory by Hiroko Oyamada
- There Are No Accidents: The Deadly Rise of Injury and Disaster―Who Profits and Who Pays the Price by Jessie Singer
- The Idiot: A Novel by Elif Batuman
- Blood, Sweat & Chrome: The Wild and True Story of Mad Max: Fury Road by Kyle Buchanan
- Bullet Train: A Novel by Kotaro Isaka
- Sea of Tranquility: A Novel by Emily St. John Mandel
- The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity by David Graeber, David Wengrow
- Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole by Susan Cain
- The Method: How the Twentieth Century Learned to Act by Isaac Butler
- The Glass Hotel: A Novel by Emily St. John Mandel
- American Kleptocracy: How the U.S. Created the World's Greatest Money Laundering Scheme in History by Casey Michel
- Matrix: A Novel by Lauren Groff
- Brain Meets World: Print Edition #2 by Behavioral Scientist
- Immune: A Journey Into the Mysterious System That Keeps You Alive by Philipp Dettmer
- American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer by Kai Bird, Martin J. Sherwin
- Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know by Adam Grant
- This is the Behavioral Scientist: Print Edition #1 by Behavioral Scientist
- When We Cease to Understand the World by Labatut Benjamin
- Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgement by Daniel Kahneman, Olivier Sibony, Cass R. Sunstein
- Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
- Slow Horses by Mick Herron
- No One Is Talking About This: A Novel by Patricia Lockwood
- All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days: The True Story of the American Woman at the Heart of the German Resistance to Hitler by Rebecca Donner
- Four Thousand Weeks: Four Thousand Weeks by Oliver Burkeman
- The Nordic Theory of Everything: In Search of a Better Life by Anu Partanen
- Eating to Extinction: The World's Rarest Foods and Why We Need to Save Them by Dan Saladino
- Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic by Sam Quinones
- 1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows: A Memoir by Ai Weiwei
- The Day the World Stops Shopping: How Ending Consumerism Saves the Environment and Ourselves by J.B. MacKinnon
- Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C. Clarke
- My Body by Emily Ratajkowski
- Laziness Does Not Exist by Devon Price
- Out of Office: The Big Problem and Bigger Promise of Working from Home by Charlie Warzel, Anne Helen Peteren
- On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous: A Novel by Ocean Vuong
2021
– 64 books read- How Do You Live? by Genzaburō Yoshino
- A Thousand Ships: A Novel by Natalie Haynes
- The History of Photography: From 1839 to the Present by Beaumont Newhall
- Crying in H Mart: A Memoir by Michelle Zauner
- Can't Even: How Millenials Became the Burnout Generation by Anne Helen Petersen
- Peak Performance: Elevate Your Game, Avoid Burnout, and Thrive with the New Science of Success by Brad Stulberg, Steve Magness
- Beautiful World, Where Are You by Sally Rooney
- Things from the Flood by Simon Stålenhag
- Maybe This Will Help: How to Feel Better When Things Stay the Same by Michelle Rial
- Tales from the Loop by Simon Stålenhag
- This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyberweapons Arms Race by Nicole Perlroth
- The Electric State by Simon Stålenhag
- Test Gods: Virgin Galactic and the Making of a Modern Astronaut by Nicholas Schmidle
- Lao Tzu: Tao Te Ching: A Book About the Way and the Power of the Way by Ursula K. Le Guin
- This Is What Democracy Looked Like: A Visual History of the Printed Ballot by Alicia Yin Cheng
- Drink?: The New Science of Alcohol and Your Health by David Nutt
- Damascus Station: A Novel by David McCloskey
- The City We Became: A Novel by N. K. Jemisin
- Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex by Mary Roach
- A Man Called Ove: A Novel by Fredrik Backman 🎧
- Meg: A Novel of Deep Terror by Steve Alten
- Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine: A Novel by Gail Honeyman
- The Dogs of War by Frederick Forsyth
- Am I Overthinking This?: Over-answering life's questions in 101 charts by Michelle Rial
- The Tattooist of Auschwitz: A Novel by Heather Morris 🎧
- The Odessa File by Frederick Forsyth 🎧
- The Day Of The Jackal by Frederick Forsyth
- The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse by Charlie Mackesy
- The Sound of the Sea: Seashells and the Fate of the Oceans by Cynthia Barnett
- Project Hail Mary: A Novel by Andy Weir
- The Cult of We: WeWork, Adam Neumann, and the Great Startup Delusion by Eliot Brown, Maureen Farrell
- How Life Imitates Chess: Making the Right Moves, from the Board to the Boardroom by Garry Kasparov
- I Am Not A Serial Killer by Dan Wells
- The Ministry for the Future: A Novel by Kim Stanley Robinson
- Work Won't Love You Back: How Devotion to Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited, Exhausted, and Alone by Sarah Jaffe
- Loonshots: How to Nurture the Crazy Ideas That Win Wars, Cure Diseases, and Transform Industries by Safi Bahcall
- Klara and the Sun: A Novel by Kazuo Ishiguro
- The Last Duel: A True Story of Crime, Scandal, and Trial by Combat by Eric Jager
- The Wizard and the Prophet: Two Remarkable Scientists and Their Dueling Visions to Shape Tomorrow's World by Charles C. Mann
- The Martian by Andy Weir
- A World Without Email: Reimagining Work in an Age of Communication Overload by Cal Newport
- The Golem and the Jinni: A Novel by Helene Wecker
- Bullshit Jobs: A Theory by David Graeber
- The Overstory: A Novel by Richard Powers
- The Tao of Pooh by Benjamin Hoff
- The Glass Castle: A Memoir by Jeannette Walls
- Everything in Its Place: First Loves and Last Tales by Oliver Sacks
- Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
- The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus by Richard Preston
- Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia by Christina Thompson
- 1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created by Charles C. Mann
- The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming by David Wallace-Wells
- The 99% Invisible City: A Field Guide to the Hidden World of Everyday Design by Roman Mars, Kurt Kohlstedt
- Mistakes Were Made (but Not by Me): Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions, and Hurtful Acts by Carol Tavris, Elliot Aronson
- You're Not Listening: What You're Missing and Why It Matters by Kate Murphy
- Architecture: Art by Philip Jodidio
- The Art of Walt Disney: From Mickey Mouse to the Magic Kingdoms and Beyond by Christopher Finch
- Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy by Cathy O'Neil
- Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson
- Envisioning Information by Edward R. Tufte
- The Visual Display of Quantitative Information: 2nd Edition by Edward R. Tufte
- The Dutch House: A Novel by Ann Patchett 🎧
- How Charts Lie: Getting Smarter about Visual Information by Alberto Cairo
2020
– 82 books read- 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos by Jordan B. Peterson 🎧
- Eat A Peach: A Memoir by David Chang, Gabe Ulla
- Solutions and Other Problems by Allie Brosh
- Recursion: A Novel by Blake Crouch 🎧
- Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art by James Nestor 🎧
- I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us And A Grander View Of Life by Ed Yong 🎧
- Ready Player Two: A Novel by Ernest Cline
- Untamed by Glennon Doyle 🎧
- The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War by Ben Macintyre 🎧
- The Testaments: The Sequel to The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood 🎧
- Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster by Jon Krakauer
- Armada by Ernest Cline
- Ready Player One by Ernest Cline 🎧
- Endure: Mind, Body, and the Curiously Elastic Limits of Human Performance by Alex Hutchinson
- Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language by Gretchen McCulloch
- The Year of the Dogs by Vincent J. Musi
- Underwater Ghost Towns of North Georgia by Lisa M. Russell
- Together: The Healing Power of Human Connection in a Sometimes Lonely World by Vivek H Murthy M.D.
- Heroes: The Greek Myths Reimagined by Stephen Fry
- The Restaurant at the End of the Universe by Douglas Adams 🎧
- Mythos by Stephen Fry
- The Plot Against America: A Novel by Philip Roth
- Cat Tale: The Wild, Weird Battle to Save the Florida Panther by Craig Pittman
- Hello I Want to Die Please Fix Me: Depression in the First Person by Anna Mehler Paperny
- How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy by Jenny Oddell 🎧
- Fever Dream: A Novel by Samanta Schweblin
- The Story of More: How We Got to Climate Change and Where to Go from Here by Hope Jahren
- Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief by Lawrence Wright 🎧
- Weird: The Power of Being an Outsider in an Insider World by Olga Khazan 🎧
- Devolution: A Firsthand Account of the Rainier Sasquatch Massacre by Max Brooks
- The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
- Why Fish Don't Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life by Lulu Miller
- Acceptance: A Novel by Jeff VanderMeer 🎧
- Annihilation: A Novel by Jeff VanderMeer 🎧
- Elevation by Stephen King 🎧
- Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang 🎧
- Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams 🎧
- Fates and Furies: A novel by Lauren Groff 🎧
- Enemy of All Mankind by Steven Johnson
- Yes to Life by Viktor E. Frankl 🎧
- Lifespan: Why We Age―and Why We Don't Have To by David A. Sinclair
- The End of October: A Novel by Lawrence Wright 🎧
- Circe by Madeline Miller 🎧
- The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
- A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking 🎧
- Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman by Jon Krakauer 🎧
- High School by Sara Quin, Tegan Quin
- The Water Dancer: A Novel by Ta-Nehisi Coates 🎧
- The Hero with a Thousand Faces: (The Collected Works of Joseph Campbell) by Joseph Campbell
- Small Fry: A Memoir by Lisa Brennan-Jobs 🎧
- The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 by Lawrence Wright 🎧
- The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming by David Wallace-Wells
- Normal People: A Novel by Sally Rooney 🎧
- Lonesome Dove: A Novel by Larry McMurtry 🎧
- Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World--and Why Things Are Better Than You Think by Hans Rosling, Anna Rosling Rönnlund, Ola Rosling
- The Dark Forest by Cixin Liu 🎧
- Severance: A Novel by Ling Ma
- The Road to Character by David Brooks
- In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex by Nathaniel Philbrick
- Outer Order, Inner Calm: Declutter and Organize to Make More Room for Happiness by Gretchen Rubin
- Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character by Richard P. Feynman
- How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe: A Novel by Charles Yu
- The Song of Achilles: A Novel by Madeline Miller
- The Adventurer's Son: A Memoir by Roman Dial
- The Body: A Guide for Occupants by Bill Bryson
- The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz by Erik Larson
- Whistleblower: My Journey to Silicon Valley and Fight for Justice at Uber by Susan J. Fowler
- Uncanny Valley: A Memoir by Anna Wiener
- These Truths: A History of the United States by Jill Lepore
- The Bear by Andrew Krivak
- Tribe of Mentors: Short Life Advice from the Best in the World by Tim Ferriss
- The Blue Zones Solution: Eating and Living Like the World's Healthiest People by Dan Buettner
- Mengele: Unmasking the 'Angel of Death' by David G. Marwell
- Bill Cunningham: On the Street: Five Decades of Iconic Photography by New York Times
- An American Marriage: A Novel by Tayari Jones
- A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing by Eimear McBride
- Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Ownes
- This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar, Max Gladstone
- Movies (And Other Things) by Shea Serrano
- Wanderers: A Novel by Chuck Wendig
- This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate by Naomi Klein
2019
– 75 books read- Primitive Technology: A Survivalist's Guide to Building Tools, Shelters, and More in the Wild by John Plant
- Dreyer's English: An Utterly Correct Guide to Clarity and Style by Benjamin Dreyer
- Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness by Susannah Cahalan
- Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup by John Carreyrou
- Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber by Mike Isaac
- Letters from an Astrophysicist by Neil deGrasse Tyson
- The Raven Tower by Ann Leckie
- Uncommon Type: Some Stories by Tom Hanks
- Dark Matter by Blake Crouch
- Exhalation: Stories by Ted Chiang
- Lab Girl by Hope Jahren
- We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy by ,
- Man's Search for Meaning by ,
- The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin
- Being Mortal by Atul Gawande
- Between the World and Me by ,
- The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology by Ray Kurzweil
- Love in the Time of Cholera by ,
- Those Who Wander: America's Street Kids by Vivian Ho
- American Sketches: Great Leaders, Creative Thinkers, and Heroes of a Hurricane by Walter Isaacson
- The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of 9/11 by Garrett M. Graff
- Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know about the People We Don't Know by Malcolm Gladwell
- Superfoods: The Healthiest Foods on the Planet by Tonia Reinhard
- Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game by Michael Lewis
- The Simple Faith of Mister Rogers by Amy Hollingsworth
- Option B: Facing Adversity, Building Resilience, and Finding Joy by Sheryl Sandberg, Adam Grant
- The Death of Truth: Notes on Falsehood in the Age of Trump by Michiko Kakutani
- The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution by Walter Isaacson
- Overview: A New Perspective on Earth by Benjamin Grant
- Origin by Dan Brown
- Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann
- Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World by David J. Epstein
- The Mother Tongue: English and How it Got that Way by Bill Bryson
- 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus by Charles C. Mann
- A Well-Read Woman by Kate Stewart
- Island Time: An Illustrated History of St. Simons Island, Georgia by Jingle Davis
- Dispatches by Michael Herr
- Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams by Matthew Walker
- St. Simons Island: A Summary of Its History by R. Edwin Green
- The Wild Trees: A Story of Passion and Daring by Richard Preston
- Shoe Dog by Phil Knight
- Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness by Richard H. Thaler, Cass R. Sunstein
- The Moment of Lift: How Empowering Women Changes the World by Melinda Gates
- Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics by Richard H. Thaler
- A General Theory of Love by Thomas Lewis, Fari Amini, Richard Lannon
- The Radium Girls by Kate Moore
- The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu
- The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein
- Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry into the Value of Work by Matthew B. Crawford
- The Death of Expertise by Thomas M. Nichols
- Warlight: A Novel by Michael Ondaatje
- The Checklist Manifesto by Atul Gawande
- Rocket Boys by Homer Hickham
- Invisible Women by Caroline Criado Perez
- The Liberty Amendments: Restoring the American Republic by Mark R. Levin
- Figuring by Maria Popova
- Horizon by Barry Lopez
- Zoo Nebraska: The Dismantling of an American Dream by Carson Vaughan
- The Sports Gene: Inside the Science of Extraordinary Athletic Performance by David Epstein
- Digital Minimalism by Cal Newport
- The Te of Piglet by Benjamin Hoff
- The Underground Railroad: A Novel by Colson Whitehead
- A Mother's Reckoning: Living in the Aftermath of Tragedy by Sue Klebold
- How to Be a Friend to a Friend Who's Sick by Letty Cottin Pogrebin
- Leonardo da Vinci by Walter Isaacson
- Future Perfect: A Skeptic’s Search for an Honest Mystic by Victoria Loustalot
- AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order by Kai-Fu Lee
- A More Beautiful and Terrible History by Jeanne Theoharis
- The Tao of Pooh by Benjamin Hoff
- Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It by Chris Voss
- Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- Becoming by Michelle Obama
- Dracula by Bram Stoker
- The Mindbody Prescription: Healing the Body, Healing the Pain by John E. Sarno
2018
– 33 books read- Bird Box: A Novel by ,
- Border: A Journey to the Edge of Europe by ,
- The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change by ,
- When Breath Becomes Air by ,
- The Warner Boys: Our Family’s Story of Autism and Hope by Curt Warner, Ana Warner
- Everything Bad is Good for You: How Today's Popular Culture Is Actually Making Us Smarter by ,
- Crazy Rich Asians by ,
- Educated: A Memoir by ,
- 21 Lessons for the 21st Century by ,
- Principles: Life and Work by ,
- Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook by ,
- Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years of Lockheed by Ben R. Rich, Leo Janos
- Aussie Grit: My Formula One Journey by ,
- Artemis: A Novel by ,
- Total Competition: Lessons in Strategy from Formula One by Ross Brawn, Adam Parr
- The Mechanic's Tale by ,
- Moon Shot: The Inside Story of America's Apollo Moon Landings by Jay Barbree, Alan Shepard, Deke Slayton
- Seveneves by ,
- Lies My Teacher Told Me by ,
- A Short History of Nearly Everything by ,
- It's Kind of a Funny Story by ,
- The Little Book of Hygge: Danish Secrets to Happy Living by ,
- Hell's Princess: The Mystery of Belle Gunness, Butcher of Men by ,
- A Farewell to Arms by ,
- Come as You Are by ,
- The Copywriter's Handbook: Edition 3 by ,
- Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow by ,
- How Democracies Die by Stephen Levitsky, Daniel Ziblatt
- Citizen Soldiers by ,
- Astrophysics for People in a Hurry by ,
- The Asshole Survival Guide: How to Deal with People Who Treat You Like Dirt by ,
- Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House by ,
- The Bell Jar by ,
2017
– 45 books read- A River in Darkness: One Man's Escape from North Korea by Masaji Ishikawa
- All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
- Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion by Robert B. Cialdini
- The Rainmaker by John Grisham
- Enemy at the Gates: The Battle for Stalingrad by William Craig
- Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari
- Healing Back Pain: The Mind-Body Connection by John E. Sarno
- You're Never Weird on the Internet (Almost) by Felicia Day
- You Are a Badass by Jen Sincero
- The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown
- A Mind at Play: How Claude Shannon Invented the Information Age by Jimmy Soni, Rob Goodman
- Hyperbole and a Half by Allie Brosh
- The Miracle of Dunkirk: The True Story of Operation Dynamo by Walter Lord
- Every Man in This Village Is a Liar: An Education in War by Megan K. Stack
- The Return of the King by J. R. R. Tolkien
- The Two Towers by J. R. R. Tolkien
- The Fellowship of the Ring by J. R. R. Tolkien
- Vagabonding by Rolf Potts
- The Art of Happiness by Dalai Lama
- The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell
- One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- A Short History of Myth by Karen Armstrong
- All Over The Place by Geraldine DeRuiter
- All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
- Barking Up The Wrong Tree by Eric Barker
- Guantánamo Diary by Mohamedou Ould Slahi, Larry Siems
- The Lost City of Z by David Grann
- Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World by Adam Grant
- The Great Passage by Shion Miura
- Tools of Titans by Tim Ferris
- Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
- Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
- Proficient Motorcycling: The Ultimate Guide to Riding Well by David L. Hough
- The Road by Cormac McCarthy
- 40 Chances: Finding Hope in a Hungry World by Howard G. Buffet
- Locked Down, Locked Out by Maya Schenwar
- The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower by Stephen King
- The Dark Tower VI: Song of Susannah by Stephen King
- This Changes Everything: Occupy Wall Street and the 99% Movement by Sarah van Gelder
- The Dark Tower V: Wolves of the Calla by Stephen King
- Deep Work by Cal Newport
- The Dark Tower: The Wind Through the Keyhole by Stephen King
- The Denial of Death by Ernest Becker
- The Dark Tower IV: Wizard and Glass by Stephen King
- The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck by Mark Manson
2016
– 58 books read- The ONE Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results by Gary Keller, Jay Papasan
- The Dark Tower III: The Waste Lands by Stephen King
- The Dark Tower II: The Drawing of the Three by Stephen King
- Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
- Screwed by Thom Hartmann
- Gumption by Nick Offerman
- The Heart of Haiku by Jane Hirshfield
- D DAY Through German Eyes by Holger Eckhertz
- The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger by Stephen King
- The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien
- The Long Run by Mishka Shubaly
- Alan Turing: Unlocking the Enigma by David Boyle
- The Gift of Anger by John Solmonese
- The New Confessions of an Economic Hit Man by John Perkins
- The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
- The User Experience Guide Book For Product Managers by Marcin Treder
- Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital by Sheri Fink
- The 1-Page Marketing Plan by Allan Dib
- The Paradox of Choice by Barry Schwartz
- Helmet for my Pillow by Robert Leckie
- Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. Pirsig
- After Disasters by Viet Dinh
- Hell Island by Matthew Reilly
- The Age of Daredevils by Michael Clarkson
- A Fork in the Road: Tales of Food, Pleasure and Discovery on the Road by James Oseland, Lonely Planet
- Bitcoin for the Befuddled by Conrad Barski, Chris Wilmer
- Terms of Use by Scott Allan Morrison
- The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
- The Smartest Kids in the World: And How They Got That Way by Amanda Ripley
- How to stop worrying and start living by Dale Carnegie
- Why Nations Fail by Daron Acemoğlu, James A. Robinson
- The Temporary Agent by Daniel Judson
- Emotional Rescue: Essays on Love, Loss, and Life by Ben Greenman
- Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking by Susan Cain
- Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain by David Eagleman
- The Tao of Pooh by Benjamin Hoff
- The Animal Manifesto by Marc Bekoff
- The Light Between Oceans by M. L. Stedman
- We're All Damaged by Matthew Norman
- Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
- All My Friends Are Still Dead by Avery Monsen
- Sprint: How to Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days by Jake Knapp
- The Man in the White Suit by Ben Collins
- The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick
- Okinawa: The Last Battle of World War II by Robert Leckie
- The Big Fear by Andrew Case
- Mo' Meta Blues: The World According to Questlove by Ben Greenman, Questlove
- Lullaby by Chuck Palahniuk
- Homeland by Cory Doctorow
- Winter Men by Jesper Bugge Kold
- Confessions of a Long-Distance Sailor by Paul Lutus
- Black Hawk Down by Mark Bowden
- Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking by Malcom Gladwell
- Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest by Stephen E. Ambrose
- Captain Riley by Fernando Gamboa
- Slipstream Time Hacking: How to Cheat Time, Live More, And Enhance Happiness by Benjamin P. Hardy
- Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future by Ashlee Vance
- What the Dog Saw and Other Adventures by Malcolm Gladwell
2015
– 27 books read- The Short Drop by Matthew FitzSimmons
- Killing Patton: The Strange Death of World War II's Most Audacious General by Bill O'Reilly, Martin Dugard
- An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth by Chris Hadfield
- Under the Dome by Stephen King
- The Stranger by Albert Camus
- Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell
- Bossypants by Tina Fey
- Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
- Challenger Deep by Neal Shusterman
- Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
- The Chessmen of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
- Thuvia, Maid of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
- The Warlord of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
- The Gods of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
- A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
- A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail by Bill Bryson
- The New Rules of Marketing & PR: How to Use Social Media, Online Video, Mobile Applications, Blogs, News Releases, & Viral Marketing to Reach Buyers Directly by David Meerman Scott
- Modern Romance by Aziz Ansari, Eric Klinenberg
- Jalopnik's Book Of Car Facts And History Even Gearheads Don't Know by JalopnikMatt Hardigree
- Schiit Happened: The Story of the World's Most Improbable Start-Up by Jason Stoddard
- HTML and CSS: Design and Build Websites by Jon Duckett
- Star Wars: Darth Plagueis by James Luceno
- Little Brother by Cory Doctorow
- Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
- The Barefoot Bandit: The True Tale of Colton Harris-Moore, New American Outlaw by Bob Friel
- Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl Strayed
- Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration by Ed Catmull, Amy Wallace
2014
– 22 books read- Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter by Seth Grahame-Smith
- I Am Legend by Richard Matheson
- Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
- Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
- The Pilgrimage by Paulo Coelho
- The Science of Interstellar by Kip S. Thorne, Christopher J. Nolan
- The Martian by Andy Weir
- Catch Me If You Can: The True Story of a Real Fake by Frank W. Abagnale, Stan Redding
- Knowledge Is Beautiful: Impossible Ideas, Invisible Patterns, Hidden Connections--Visualized by David McCandless
- A Dance with Dragons by George R.R. Martin
- A Feast for Crows by George R.R. Martin
- A Storm of Swords by George R.R. Martin
- A Clash of Kings by George R.R. Martin
- A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin
- Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson
- And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini
- The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook: Life by Joshua Piven, David Borgenicht
- American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History by Chris Kyle, Scott McEwen, Jim DeFelice
- The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein
- Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand
- The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves, and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History by Robert M. Edsel, Bret Witter
- The Wolf of Wall Street by Jordan Belfort
2013
– 21 books read- The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
- Lone Survivor: The Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing and the Lost Heroes of SEAL Team 10 by Marcus Luttrell
- Paddle Your Own Canoe: One Man's Fundamentals for Delicious Living by Nick Offerman
- Leviathan Wakes by James S.A. Corey
- Inferno by Dan Brown
- Layer Cake by J.J. Connolly
- Tubes: A Journey to the Center of the Internet by Andrew Blum
- A Quest of Heroes by Morgan Rice
- Dog Is My Copilot: Rescue Tales of Flying Dogs, Second Chances, and the Hero Who Might Live Next Door by Patrick T. Regan
- Running on Faith: The Principles, Passion, and Pursuit of a Winning Life by Jason Lester, Tim Vandehey
- Abundance: The Future Is Better Than You Think by Peter H. Diamandis, Steven Kotler
- HHhH: A Novel by Laurent Binet
- Child 44 by Tom Rob Smith
- Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
- An Abundance of Katherines by John Green
- Turn Right at Machu Picchu: Rediscovering the Lost City One Step at a Time by Mark Adams
- 11/22/63 by Stephen King
- The Last Question by Isaac Asimov
- Naked Pictures of Famous People by Jon Stewart
- James Bond: Omnibus Volume 001 by Ian Fleming, John McLucsky
- Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
2012
– 33 books read- Zeitoun by Dave Eggers
- The Forever War by Joe Haldeman
- The Magicians by Lev Grossman
- The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine by Michael Lewis
- The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
- Day by Day Armageddon by J.L. Bourne
- Fire Season: Field Notes from a Wilderness Lookout by Philip Connors
- The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Robert A. Heinlein
- Decoded by Jay-Z
- The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
- Sh*t My Dad Says by Justin Halpern
- Less Than Zero by Bret Easton Ellis
- In the Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives by Steven Levy
- Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
- The Bourne Dominion by Robert Ludlum, Eric Van Lustbader
- The Sign of Four by Arthur Conan Doyle
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling
- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K. Rowling
- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling
- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling
- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling
- Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling
- The Heroin Diaries: A Year In The Life Of A Shattered Rock Star by Nikki Sixx
- Across the Universe by Beth Revis
- The Untouchables by Eliot Ness
- Talking to Girls About Duran Duran: One Young Man's Quest for True Love and a Cooler Haircut by Rob Sheffield
- Scar Tissue by Anthony Kiedis, Larry Sloman
- Love Is a Mix Tape by Rob Sheffield
- Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void by Mary Roach
- Zone One by Colson Whitehead
- In the Hot Zone: One Man, One Year, Twenty Wars by Kevin Sites
- The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
2011
– 12 books read- Magical Thinking by Augusten Burroughs
- Running with Scissors by Augusten Burroughs
- The CTS Collection: Training Tips for Cyclists and Triathletes by Chris Carmichael
- The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea by Sebastian Junger
- Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything by Joshua Foer
- Father Knows Less: One Dad's Quest to Answer His Son's Most Baffling Questions by Wendell Jamieson
- 1984 by George Orwell
- The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection from the Living Dead by Max Brooks
- World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War by Max Brooks
- The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown
- War by Sebastian Junger
- A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Future...: Twists and Turns and Lessons Learned by Michael J. Fox
2010
– 13 books read- Flight by Sherman Alexie
- All My Friends Are Dead by Avery Monsen
- The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
- The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling
- A Captain's Duty: Somali Pirates, Navy SEALs, and Dangerous Days at Sea by Richard Phillips
- Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
- The Invisible Man: A Grotesque Romance by H.G. Wells
- The Napoleonic Revolution by Robert B Holtman
- The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
- Go Like Hell: Ford, Ferrari, and Their Battle for Speed and Glory at Le Mans by A.J. Baime
- Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
- Angels & Demons by Dan Brown
2009
– 8 books read- That Was Then, This Is Now by S.E. Hinton
- Looking for Alaska by John Green
- The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
- The Big Sky by A.B. Guthrie Jr.
- Sniper by Theodore Taylor
- Rule of the Bone by Russell Banks
- The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
- Choke by Chuck Palahniuk
2008
– 4 books read- The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
- The Original Illustrated Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
- How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie
- Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi
2007
– 5 books read*- The Driver by Alexander Roy
- Toly's Ghost by B.S. Levy
- The Fabulous Trashwagon by B.S. Levy
- Montezuma's Ferrari by B.S. Levy
- The Last Open Road by B.S. Levy
2004
– 3 books read*- Halo: First Strike by Eric Nylund
- Halo: The Flood by Eric Nylund
- Halo: The Fall of Reach by Eric Nylund
*Some untracked books missing from year.
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