Coleman McCormick

Books

A reading log with thoughts and highlights from books in my library. I've flagged my favorites with a β˜….

Currently Reading

The Shadow of the Torturer Gene Wolfe 1980
Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World RenΓ© Girard 1978
Anathem Neal Stephenson 2008
After Humanity Michael Ward 2021
Shift Hugh Howey 2013
The Will of the Many James Islington 2023
The Timeless Way of Building Christopher Alexander 1979
Crime and Punishment Fyodor Dostoevsky 1866
The Everlasting Man G.K. Chesterton 1925
Images of Organization Gareth Morgan 1986
A Pattern Language Christopher Alexander 1977

Bookshelf

The Voyage of the Dawn Treader C.S. Lewis Oct 2025 1952
Mere Christianity β˜… C.S. Lewis Sep 2025 1952
The Roots of American Order β˜… Russell Kirk Aug 2025 1974
The Conservative Mind Russell Kirk Aug 2025 1953
Works and Days Hesiod Jul 2025 700 BC
Theogony Hesiod May 2025 700 BC
The Screwtape Letters C.S. Lewis May 2025 1942
Prince Caspian C.S. Lewis May 2025 1951
The Great Debate β˜… Yuval Levin Apr 2025 2013
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe C.S. Lewis Apr 2025 1950
Believe Ross Douthat Mar 2025 2025
American Covenant β˜… Yuval Levin Mar 2025 2024
Notes Towards the Definition of Culture T.S. Eliot Mar 2025 1948
Turning Pro Steven Pressfield Feb 2025 2012
The Fall of Hyperion Dan Simmons Feb 2025 1990
Letters to a Young Poet Rainer Maria Rilke Nov 2024 1929
The Pathless Path Paul Millerd Nov 2024 2022
Beauty Roger Scruton Nov 2024 2011
The War of Art β˜… Steven Pressfield Nov 2024 2002
The Mom Test Rob Fitzpatrick Nov 2024 2019
Valuable Humans in Transit qntm Oct 2024 2022
The Clock of the Long Now Stewart Brand Oct 2024 1999
Make to Know Lorne Buchman Oct 2024 2021
Orthodoxy β˜… G.K. Chesterton Sep 2024 1908
The Iliad Homer Sep 2024 800 BC
Heretics G.K. Chesterton Aug 2024 1905
Informed Common Sense Albert Jay Nock Aug 2024 2013
Filterworld Kyle Chayka Aug 2024 2024
How to Listen to Jazz Ted Gioia πŸ“ Aug 2024 2016
Hyperion β˜… Dan Simmons Jul 2024 1989
The Creative Act Rick Rubin Jun 2024 2023
Metazoa Peter Godfrey-Smith Jun 2024 2020
The Abolition of Man β˜… C.S. Lewis Jun 2024 1943
What Technology Wants Kevin Kelly May 2024 2011
The Beginning of Infinity β˜… David Deutsch Apr 2024 2011
The Origins of Totalitarianism β˜… Hannah Arendt Mar 2024 1951
Foundry Eliot Peper Feb 2024 2023
How Buildings Learn β˜… Stewart Brand πŸ“ Jan 2024 1994
Wool Hugh Howey Jan 2024 2011
Dominion β˜… Tom Holland Dec 2023 2019
Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned Kenneth O. Stanley and Joel Lehman Oct 2023 2015
Homage to Catalonia β˜… George Orwell Oct 2023 1938
The Wright Brothers David McCullough Sep 2023 2015
Solaris StanisΕ‚aw Lem Aug 2023 1961
Outlive Peter Attia Aug 2023 2023
Blood Meridian β˜… Cormac McCarthy Jul 2023 1985
Reap3r Eliot Peper Jun 2023 2022
The Network State Balaji Srinivasan May 2023 2022
Learning to Build Bob Moesta Apr 2023 2022
The WEIRDest People in the World β˜… Joseph Henrich Apr 2023 2020
The Pioneers David McCullough Jan 2023 2019
Liberal Fascism Jonah Goldberg Jan 2023 2007
Where Is My Flying Car? β˜… J. Storrs Hall Dec 2022 2021
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich β˜… William L. Shirer Oct 2022 1960
Helgoland β˜… Carlo Rovelli Oct 2022 2020
The Captured Economy Brink Lindsey, Steven Teles Oct 2022 2017
Scene and Structure Jack M. Bickham Aug 2022 1999
Underland β˜… Robert Macfarlane Aug 2022 2019
Childhood's End Arthur C. Clarke Aug 2022 1953
The Tacit Dimension Michael Polanyi Jul 2022 1966
The Law β˜… FrΓ©dΓ©ric Bastiat πŸ“ Jun 2022 1850
The Future and Its Enemies Virginia Postrel May 2022 1998
Knowledge and Decisions Thomas Sowell May 2022 1979
The Conservative Sensibility George Will Mar 2022 2019
The Five Dysfunctions of a Team Patrick Lencioni Feb 2022 2002
The Nature of Technology β˜… W. Brian Arthur πŸ“ Nov 2021 2009
Systemantics John Gall Nov 2021 1977
Dune β˜… Frank Herbert Oct 2021 1965
There Is No Antimemetics Division qntm Oct 2021 2020
Preludes & Nocturnes Neil Gaiman Oct 2021 1989
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Sep 2021 1962
Atomic Habits James Clear Sep 2021 2018
Intellectuals and Society Thomas Sowell Jul 2021 2009
The Infinite Machine Camila Russo Jul 2021 2020
The Open Society and its Enemies β˜… Karl Popper Jul 2021 1945
The Strategy of Conflict Thomas C. Schelling Jun 2021 1981
Working Backwards Colin Bryar and Bill Carr May 2021 2021
The Road to Serfdom β˜… F.A. Hayek May 2021 1944
The Tyranny of Cliches Jonah Goldberg Mar 2021 2012
The Lessons of History β˜… Will and Ariel Durant Feb 2021 1968
The Evolution of Everything Matt Ridley Feb 2021 2015
Demand-Side Sales 101 Bob Moesta πŸ“ Feb 2021 2020
Cibola Burn James S.A. Corey Jan 2021 2014
Kindly Inquisitors β˜… Jonathan Rauch πŸ“ Jan 2021 1993
Mirrorshades Bruce Sterling Jan 2021 1986
Sid Meier's Memoir! Sid Meier Dec 2020 2020
Thinking in Systems β˜… Donella Meadows πŸ“ Dec 2020 2008
Murder on the Orient Express Agatha Christie Dec 2020 1934
Kim Rudyard Kipling Dec 2020 1901
Competing Against Luck Clayton Christensen Dec 2020 2016
Seeing Like a State β˜… James C. Scott πŸ“ Dec 2020 1998
The Splendid and the Vile Erik Larson Nov 2020 2020
Gut Feelings Gerd Gigerenzer Oct 2020 2007
The Decadent Society Ross Douthat Oct 2020 2020
The Psychology of Money Morgan Housel Oct 2020 2020
Mythos Stephen Fry Oct 2020 2017
Inspired Marty Cagan πŸ“ Aug 2020 2008
The Remains of the Day Kazuo Ishiguro Aug 2020 1989
The Gervais Principle Venkatesh Rao Jul 2020 2013
The Lean Startup Eric Ries Jul 2020 2011
How Innovation Works β˜… Matt Ridley πŸ“ Jun 2020 2020
Ra qntm Jun 2020 2014
Beastie Boys Book Adam Horivitz, Michael Diamond May 2020 2018
How to Take Smart Notes SΓΆnke Ahrens πŸ“ May 2020 2017
A Time to Build Yuval Levin Apr 2020 2020
Darkness at Noon β˜… Arthur Koestler Apr 2020 1940
The Three Languages of Politics Arnold Kling Apr 2020 2013
Ubik Philip K. Dick Apr 2020 1969
The Revolt of the Public β˜… Martin Gurri Apr 2020 2014
The Dream Machine β˜… M. Mitchell Waldrop Mar 2020 2001
The Phoenix Project Gene Kim, Kevin Behr, and George Spafford Mar 2020 2013
Where Wizards Stay Up Late Katie Hafner Feb 2020 1996
Deep Medicine Eric Topol Feb 2020 2019
Mastering the Market Cycle Howard Marks Jan 2020 2018
Zero to One Peter Thiel πŸ“ Jan 2020 2014
Brave New World Aldous Huxley Jan 2020 1932
Alchemy β˜… Rory Sutherland Dec 2019 2019
Antifragile β˜… Nassim Nicholas Taleb Dec 2019 2012
Mythology Edith Hamilton Dec 2019 1942
The End is Always Near Dan Carlin Nov 2019 2019
The Quiet American Graham Greene Review Nov 2019 1955
An Elegant Defense Matt Richtel Review Nov 2019 2019
Discourses Epictetus Nov 2019 108
The Madness of Crowds Douglas Murray Oct 2019 2019
Shape Up β˜… Ryan Singer Oct 2019 2019
Stubborn Attachments Tyler Cowen Oct 2019 2018
The Soul of a New Machine β˜… Tracy Kidder Review Oct 2019 1981
The Federalist Papers β˜… Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay Oct 2019 1787
On Intelligence β˜… Jeff Hawkins Oct 2019 2004
The Fatal Conceit F.A. Hayek Sep 2019 1988
Other Minds Peter Godfrey-Smith Sep 2019 2016
The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories Ken Liu Sep 2019 2016
Exhalation β˜… Ted Chiang Sep 2019 2019
The Ascent of Money Niall Ferguson Sep 2019 2007
The Vision of the Anointed β˜… Thomas Sowell Sep 2019 1995
Pacific Simon Winchester Aug 2019 2015
Death's End β˜… Cixin Liu Aug 2019 2010
Abaddon's Gate James S.A. Corey Aug 2019 2013
Altered Traits Daniel Goleman and Richard Davidson Jul 2019 2017
Range David Epstein Jul 2019 2019
Measure What Matters John Doerr Jul 2019 2018
The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories H.P. Lovecraft Jul 2019 1926
The Dark Forest β˜… Cixin Liu Jul 2019 2008
Wayfinding M.R. O'Connor Jun 2019 2019
The Etymologicon Mark Forsyth Jun 2019 2011
America Before Graham Hancock Jun 2019 2019
Labyrinths β˜… Jorge Luis Borges Jun 2019 1962
Blueprint Nicholas A. Christakis Jun 2019 2019
Crossing the Chasm Geoffrey A. Moore Review Jun 2019 2006
The Black Swan Nassim Nicholas Taleb May 2019 2007
Man's Search for Meaning Viktor E. Frankl May 2019 1946
Why We Sleep Matthew Walker May 2019 2017
Into Thin Air Jon Krakauer Apr 2019 1997
Ego is the Enemy Ryan Holiday Apr 2019 2016
Loonshots Safi Bahcall Apr 2019 2019
The Breakthrough β˜… Charles Graeber Apr 2019 2018
The Happiness Hypothesis Jonathan Haidt Mar 2019 2005
The Language Hoax John McWhorter Review Mar 2019 2014
High Output Management β˜… Andy Grove Review Mar 2019 1983
A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again β˜… David Foster Wallace Mar 2019 1996
1776 David McCullough Mar 2019 2005
Pebble in the Sky Isaac Asimov Feb 2019 1950
Invisible Cities Italo Calvino Feb 2019 1972
At the Mountains of Madness H.P. Lovecraft Feb 2019 1937
Coming Into the Country β˜… John McPhee Feb 2019 1977
How the Internet Happened Brian McCullough Feb 2019 2018
Globalhead Bruce Sterling Review Jan 2019 1992
All Tomorrow's Parties William Gibson Jan 2019 1999
Meditations Marcus Aurelius Review Jan 2019 180
Waking Up Sam Harris Review Jan 2019 2014
The Righteous Mind β˜… Jonathan Haidt Jan 2019 2012
Words on the Move John McWhorter Dec 2018 2016
The Tangled Tree David Quammen Review Dec 2018 2018
Reality is Not What it Seems Carlo Rovelli Review Dec 2018 2016
The Story of Maps Lloyd A. Brown Review Nov 2018 1949
Team of Rivals Doris Kearns Goodwin Nov 2018 2005
The Coddling of the American Mind Jonathan Haidt, Greg Lukianoff Nov 2018 2018
21 Lessons for the 21st Century Yuval Noah Harari Nov 2018 2018
The Quest for Cosmic Justice Thomas Sowell Nov 2018 1999
The Map That Changed the World Simon Winchester Oct 2018 2001
Basic Economics β˜… Thomas Sowell Oct 2018 2000
Energy Richard Rhodes Sep 2018 2018
Chaos James Gleick Sep 2018 1987
Suicide of the West Jonah Goldberg Sep 2018 2018
The Elegant Universe Brian Greene Aug 2018 1999
The Order of Time Carlo Rovelli Aug 2018 2018
The Hero With a Thousand Faces Joseph Campbell Aug 2018 1949
Cosmos Carl Sagan Aug 2018 1980
A Conflict of Visions β˜… Thomas Sowell Aug 2018 1986
Enlightenment Now Steven Pinker Aug 2018 2018
Jurassic Park Michael Chrichton Jul 2018 1990
Factfulness Hans Rosling Jun 2018 2018
CaldΓ© of the Long Sun Gene Wolfe Jun 2018 1994
Seveneves Neal Stephenson Jun 2018 2015
Deep Work Cal Newport May 2018 2016
Leonardo da Vinci Walter Isaacson May 2018 2017
Acceptance Jeff VanderMeer May 2018 2014
Skin in the Game Nassim Nicholas Taleb May 2018 2018
The Name of the Wind Patrick Rothfuss May 2018 2007
Norse Mythology Neil Gaiman May 2018 2017
Who Geoff Smart May 2018 2008
Authority Jeff VanderMeer Apr 2018 2014
The Innovator's Dilemma Clayton M. Christensen Apr 2018 1997
Stranger in a Strange Land Robert Heinlein Apr 2018 1961
Annihilation β˜… Jeff VanderMeer Mar 2018 2014
The Three-Body Problem β˜… Cixin Liu Mar 2018 2007
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry Neil DeGrasse-Tyson Feb 2018 2017
Scale Geoffrey West Feb 2018 2017
Artemis Andy Weir Feb 2018 2017
Robot Visions Isaac Asimov Feb 2018 1990
The Elements of Eloquence Mark Forsyth Jan 2018 2013
Intercom on Marketing Des Traynor Jan 2018 2018
The Stone Sky β˜… N.K. Jemisin Jan 2018 2017
Homo Deus Yuval Noah Harari Jan 2018 2015
Connectography Parag Khanna Review Dec 2017 2016
The Stranger Albert Camus Dec 2017 1942
The Obelisk Gate N.K. Jemisin Nov 2017 2016
The Fifth Season N.K. Jemisin Oct 2017 2015
Idoru William Gibson Oct 2017 1996
Political Order and Political Decay β˜… Francis Fukuyama Oct 2017 2014
Lake of the Long Sun Gene Wolfe Oct 2017 1994
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Philip K. Dick Oct 2017 1968
Extreme Ownership Jocko Willink Sep 2017 2015
Nightside the Long Sun Gene Wolfe Sep 2017 1993
Product Leadership Richard Banfield, Martin Eriksson, Nate Walkingshaw Sep 2017 2017
Ready Player One Ernest Cline Sep 2017 2011
The Box Marc Levinson Sep 2017 2006
Caliban's War James S.A. Corey Sep 2017 2012
The Grid Gretchen Bakke Jun 2017 2016
Leviathan Wakes James S.A. Corey Jun 2017 2011
The Upstarts Brad Stone Jun 2017 2017
Pattern Recognition William Gibson Jun 2017 2003
Sapiens Yuval Noah Harari May 2017 2014
Virtual Light William Gibson May 2017 1993
Alexander Hamilton β˜… Ron Chernow May 2017 2004
Woken Furies Richard K. Morgan May 2017 2005
From Impossible to Inevitable Aaron Ross Mar 2017 2016
The Gene β˜… Siddhartha Mukherjee Feb 2017 2016
The Game Jon Pessah Jan 2017 2015
Mastering the VC Game Jeffrey Bussgang Jan 2017 2010
Thinking, Fast and Slow β˜… Daniel Kahneman Jan 2017 2011
Broken Angels Richard K. Morgan Dec 2016 2003
A Deepness in the Sky Vernor Vinge Dec 2016 1999
The Everything Store Brad Stone Dec 2016 2013
The Pine Barrens β˜… John McPhee Nov 2016 1967
Altered Carbon β˜… Richard K. Morgan Nov 2016 2002
Elon Musk Ashlee Vance Oct 2016 2015
Stories of Your Life and Others β˜… Ted Chiang Sep 2016 2002
Reamde Neal Stephenson Aug 2016 2011
Smarter Faster Better Charles Duhigg Jun 2016 2016
Countdown to Zero Day Kim Zetter May 2016 2014
The Second World Parag Khanna May 2016 2008
The Signal and the Noise Nate Silver Apr 2016 2012
The Exile Kiss George Alec Effinger Apr 2016 1991
Predictable Revenue Aaron Ross Mar 2016 2011
The Origins of Political Order β˜… Francis Fukuyama Mar 2016 2011
Nicely Said Nicole Fenton, Kate Kiefer Lee Mar 2016 2014
A Fire Upon the Deep Vernor Vinge Feb 2016 1992
Annals of the Former World β˜… John McPhee Review Jan 2016 1998
Pricing With Confidence Reed Holden Nov 2015 2008
The Now Habit Neil Fiore Nov 2015 1988
The Long Goodbye Raymond Chandler Nov 2015 1953
The Ball is Round David Goldblatt Oct 2015 2006
American Assassin Vince Flynn Oct 2015 2010
The Currents of Space Isaac Asimov Sep 2015 1952
The Summer Game Roger Angell Aug 2015 1972
The Water Knife Paolo Bacigalupi Aug 2015 2015
The Way of the Knife Mark Mazzetti Jun 2015 2013
The Extra 2% Jonah Keri May 2015 2011
Men at Work George Will Review May 2015 1990
Moneyball Michael Lewis May 2015 2003
The Hard Thing About Hard Things Ben Horowitz May 2015 2014
A Nice Little Place on the North Side George Will Apr 2015 2014
Creativity, Inc. Ed Catmull Apr 2015 2009
Scrum Jeff Sutherland Apr 2015 2014
A Fire in the Sun George Alec Effinger Apr 2015 1990
The Martian Andy Weir Jan 2015 2012
The Stars, Like Dust Isaac Asimov Jan 2015 1983
The Control of Nature β˜… John McPhee Nov 2014 1990
The Citadel of the Autarch Gene Wolfe Oct 2014 1983
The Caves of Steel Isaac Asimov Review Jan 2014 1954
Consider the Lobster β˜… David Foster Wallace Dec 2013 2005
The Last Refuge Gregory D. Johnsen Dec 2013 2012
The End of Eternity Isaac Asimov Review Nov 2013 1955
Steve Jobs Walter Isaacson Nov 2011 2011
A Dance with Dragons George R.R. Martin Oct 2011 2011
How Soccer Explains the World Franklin Foer Sep 2011 2004
Snow Crash β˜… Neal Stephenson Jul 2011 1992
Connected Nicholas Christakis and James Fowler Jul 2011 2008
In the Plex Steven Levy Jun 2011 2011
The Wise Man's Fear Patrick Rothfuss May 2011 2011
Debt of Honor Tom Clancy Mar 2011 1994
Count Zero β˜… William Gibson Mar 2011 1986
Soccernomics Simon Kuper Jan 2011 2009
HTML5 for Web Designers Jeremy Keith Dec 2010 2010
The Hunger Games Suzanne Collins Dec 2010 2008
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Stieg Larsson Nov 2010 2005
Ghost Wars β˜… Steve Coll Nov 2010 2004
Inbound Marketing Brian Halligan, Dharmesh Shah Nov 2010 2009
Operation Mincemeat Ben MacIntyre Oct 2010 2010
Outer Dark β˜… Cormac McCarthy Sep 2010 1968
See No Evil Robert Baer Aug 2010 2002
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets J.K. Rowling Jul 2010 1998
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone J.K. Rowling Jul 2010 1997
Spying With Maps Mark Monmonier Jul 2010 2002
War Sebastian Junger Jul 2010 2010
American Gods Neil Gaiman Jun 2010 2001
In Defense of Food Michael Pollan Jun 2010 2007
The Big Short Michael Lewis Jun 2010 2009
A Feast for Crows George R.R. Martin Jun 2010 2005
The Man Who Was Thursday β˜… G.K. Chesterton May 2010 1908
Purple Cow Seth Godin May 2010 2003
Rework Jason Fried Apr 2010 2010
A Storm of Swords β˜… George R.R. Martin Apr 2010 2000
The Botany of Desire Michael Pollan Dec 2009 2001
The Omnivore's Dilemma Michael Pollan Dec 2009 2006
A Clash of Kings George R.R. Martin Oct 2009 1998
A Game of Thrones George R.R. Martin Sep 2009 1996
The Forever War Joe Haldeman Sep 2009 1974
The Lost Symbol Dan Brown Sep 2009 2009
The Man in the High Castle Philip K. Dick Aug 2009 1962
Red Harvest Dashiell Hammett Jun 2009 1929