Reading list

I always enjoy hearing and seeing what other people are reading, so this is an ongoing list of books I have read.

“The purpose of reading a book is not to retain information, it is to refine your worldview just a little bit with each one.”

2025
  • The Alchemist – Paulo Coelho
  • Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly – Anthony Bourdain
  • The Bookbinder of Jericho – Pip Williams
  • Trust – Hernán Díaz
  • Greenlights – Matthew McConaughey
  • Beartown – Fredrik Backman
  • How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia – Mohsin Hamid
  • Perfume: The Story of a Murderer – Patrick Süskind
  • Normal People – Sally Rooney
  • The Wedding People – Alison Espach
  • House of Sticks – Ly Tran
  • Tai-Pan – James Clavell
  • Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World – Jack Weatherford
  • Good Inside: A Practical Guide to Becoming the Parent You Want to Be – Becky Kennedy
2024
  • New York – Edward Rutherfurd
  • A Gentleman in Moscow – Amor Towles
  • Paris – Edward Rutherfurd
  • The Way of the Superior Man – David Deida
  • Troubled – Robert Henderson
  • The WEIRDest People in the World – Joseph Henrich
  • Once a Runner – John L. Parker Jr.
2023
  • Leonardo da Vinci – Walter Isaacson
  • East of Eden – John Steinbeck
  • Rules of Civility – Amor Towles
  • Small Things Like These – Claire Keegan & Foster – Claire Keegan
  • Napoleon the Great – Andrew Roberts
2022
  • The Lessons of History – Ariel Durant and Will Durant
  • In My Dreams I Hold a Knife – Ashley Winstead
  • If We Were Villains – M. L. Rio
  • The Dictionary of Lost Words – Pip Williams
  • Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy
  • Pachinko – Min Jin Lee
  • Made in China: A Memoir of Love and Labor – Anna Qu
  • Guns, Germs, and Steel – Jared Diamond
  • Hold Me Tight – Sue Johnson
2021
  • The Secret History – Donna Tartt
  • 28 – Brandon Jack
  • Alexander Hamilton – Ron Chernow
  • Unconditional Parenting – Alfie Kohn
  • Complications: A Surgeon’s Notes on an Imperfect Science – Atul Gawande
  • The Rosie Project – Graeme Simsion
  • What I Learned Losing a Million Dollars – Brendan Moynihan and Jim Paul
  • 1Q84 (Book 1-3) – Haruki Murakami
  • The Courage to be Happy – Fumitake Koga and Ichiro Kishimi
  • Maybe You Should Talk to Someone – Lori Gottlieb
  • This Is Going to Hurt – Adam Kay
2020
  • Educated – Tara Westover
  • Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory – Caitlin Doughty
  • Can’t Hurt Me: Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds – David Goggins
  • Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives – David Eagleman
  • Churchill: Walking with Destiny – Andrew Roberts
  • Games People Play – Eric Berne
  • I’m OK – You’re OK – Thomas Anthony Harris
  • Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End – Atul Gawande
  • Meditations – Marcus Aurelius
  • Ego Is the Enemy – Ryan Holiday
2019
  • Quiet – Susan Cain
  • The Ride of a Lifetime: Lessons Learned from 15 Years as CEO of the Walt Disney Company – Robert Iger
  • What I Talk About When I Talk About Running – Haruki Murakami
  • The Courage to be Disliked – Fumitake Koga and Ichiro Kishimi
  • Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup – John Carreyrou
  • The Upside of Stress: Why Stress Is Good for You, and How to Get Good at It – Kelly McGonigal
  • Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
  • A Short History of Nearly Everything – Bill Bryson
  • The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life – Alice Schroeder
  • Rebirth: A Fable of Love, Forgiveness, and Following Your Heart – Kamal Ravikant
  • A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy – William Braxton Irvine
  • Superfreakonomics – Stephen Dubner
Notable 2018 and before
  • Sapiens – Yuval Noah Harari
  • Homo Deus – Yuval Noah Harari
  • Steve Jobs – Walter Isaacson
  • The Black Swan – Nassim Taleb
  • Tribe – Sebastian Junger
  • How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia – Mohsin Hamid
  • Shoe Dog – Phil Knight
  • How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big – Scott Adams
  • Rich Dad Poor Dad – Robert Kiyosaki
  • Siddartha – Hermann Hesse
  • When Breath Becomes Air – Paul Kalanithi
  • The Simple Path to Wealth – JL Collins
  • Elon Musk – Ashlee Vance
  • Open – Andre Agassi
  • Ian Thorpe – Greg Hunter
  • Age of Ambition – Evan Osnos
  • The Big Short – Michael Lewis
  • Boomerang – Michael Lewis
  • The Three Body Problem – Cixin Liu
  • The Dark Forest – Cixin Liu
  • Deaths End – Cixin Liu
  • Fooled by Randomness – Nassim Taleb
  • Freakonomics – Stephen Dubner