Books

A reading log with thoughts and highlights from books in my library. I've flagged my favorites in bold.

Currently Reading

Letters to a Young Poet Rainer Maria Rilke 1929
The Everlasting Man G.K. Chesterton 1925
The Fall of Hyperion Dan Simmons 1990
The Screwtape Letters C.S. Lewis 1942
Images of Organization Gareth Morgan 1986
The Making of the Atomic Bomb Richard Rhodes 1986
A Pattern Language Christopher Alexander 1977

Bookshelf

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