My lifetime goal is to read all the books.
Haha, just kidding, of course I can’t do that. *sob*
- Reading notes are here
- Completed reading 2020 and 2019 below
- The to-read list is below completed reading
Completed reading 2020
2020 Reading goals: read more (in general); read more fiction; quit reading books I don’t love; remember more of what I read (to this end, I’m taking–and sharing, via newsletter–more reading notes).
Fiction
| Andrews, Loren | City of Husks |
| Andrews, Loren | Family of Ruin |
| Andrews, Loren | Champion of Sin |
| Andrews, Loren | Isle of Before |
| Arden, Katherine | The Bear and the Nightingale |
| Banks, Iain M. | Consider Phlebas |
| Bukowski, Charles | Ham on Rye |
| Bukowski, Charles | Factotum |
| Dick, Phillip K. | The Man in the High Castle |
| Egan, Jennifer | A Visit from the Goon Squad |
| Gaiman, Neil | American Gods |
| Gaiman, Neil | Neverwhere |
| Jemisin, N.K. | The Stone Sky |
| Kingsolver, Barbara | The Poisonwood Bible |
| Liu, Cixin | The Three-Body Problem |
| Pullman, Phillip | The Book of Dust |
| Rand, Ayn | Anthem |
| Saunders, George | Lincoln on the Bardo |
| Steinbeck, John | East of Eden |
| Tremblay, Paul | The Cabin at the End of the World |
| Wells, Martha | The Cloud Roads |
Nonfiction
| Brown, Brene | Dare to Lead |
| Bukowski, Charles | Essential Bukowski: Poetry |
| Cardone, Grant | Be Obsessed or Be Average |
| Cloud, Henry | The Power of the Other |
| Dass, Ram | Grist for the Mill |
| Ginsberg, Scott | Stick Yourself Out There |
| Krishnamurti | Total Freedom (partial) |
Completed reading 2019
Fiction
The Diamond Age is one of my all-time favorite books, but N.K. Jemisin’s trilogy is amazing. The Bone Clocks is also excellent.
| Yancey, Rick | The 5th Wave |
| Cline, Ernest | Ready Player One |
| Abe, Kobo | The Woman in the Dunes |
| Buck, Pearl S. | East Wind, West Wind |
| Jemisin, N.K. | The Fifth Season |
| Jemisin, N.K. | The Obelisk Gate |
| Kadish, Rachel | The Weight of Ink |
| L’Engle, Madeleine | The Small Rain |
| Malerman, Josh | Bird Box |
| Mitchell, David | The Bone Clocks |
| Stephenson, Neal | The Diamond Age |
Nonfiction
If I were going to recommend one book from this list, it would be James Carse’s Finite and Infinite Games.
| Andersen, U.S. | The Magic in Your Mind |
| Newport, Cal | Deep Work |
| brown, adrienne maree | Emergent Strategy |
| Clear, James | Atomic Habits |
| Dweck, Carol. S. | Mindset |
| Ferris, Tim | The 4-Hour Body |
| Ferrini, Paul | Love Without Conditions | Notes |
| Finkel, David | Build a Business, Not a Job |
| Foroux, Darius | Think Straight |
| Gall, John | Systemantics: The Systems Bible | Notes |
| Gray, Kyle | The Story Engine |
| Greene, Robert* | Mastery | Notes |
| Hardy, Benjamin P. | Slipstream Time Hacking |Notes |
| McKeown, Greg | Essentialism |
| Norris, Dan | The 7-Day Startup |
| Pearce, Joseph Chilton | The Crack in the Cosmic Egg | Notes |
| Waitzkin, Josh | The Art of Learning |
| Willink, Jocko | Discipline Equals Freedom |
| Cameron, Julia | The Artist’s Way |
| Campbell, Joseph | Myths to Live By | Notes |
| Carse, James | Finite and Infinite Games | Notes |
| Ferris, Tim | Tools of Titans | Notes |
| Ferris, Tim | The 4-Hour Workweek | Notes |
| Ferris, Tim | Tribe of Mentors | Notes |
| Greene, Robert | 48 Laws of Power |
| Hill, Napoleon | Truthful Living: The First Writings of Napoleon Hill |
| Jerzak vel Dobosz, Konrad | The Secrets of Polyglots |
| Moran, Brian P. | The 12-Week Year |
| Pirsig, Robert M. | Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance | Notes |
| Sowell, Thomas | A Conflict of Visions |
| Sunzi | The Art of War |
| Tadd, Ellen | The Infinite View |
| Watts, Alan W. | The Wisdom of Insecurity | Notes |
| Yudkowsky, Eliezer | Map and Territory | Notes |
The ever-expanding list of books I want to read
Fiction
| Asimov, Isaac | The Foundation Trilogy |
| Bradbury, Ray | Fahrenheit 451 |
| Burgess, Anthony | A Clockwork Orange |
| Busby, F.M. | Rissa Kerguelen |
| Clarke, Susanna | Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell |
| Dick, Phillip K. | Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? |
| Eddings, David | The Belgariad |
| Erikson, Steven | The Malazan Book of the Fallen series |
| Gaiman, Neil | The Sandman Series |
| Gibson, William | Neuromancer |
| Haldeman, John | The Forever War |
| Heinlein, Robert A. | The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress |
| Heinlein, Robert A. | Starship Troopers |
| Herbert, Frank | Dune: Messiah |
| Jemisin, N.K. | The Inheritance Trilogy |
| King, Stephen | The Stand |
| Le Guin, Ursula K. | The Left Hand of Darkness |
| Matheson, Richard | I Am Legend |
| Miller, Walter M. Jr. | A Canticle for Leibowitz |
| Niven, Larry | Ringworld |
| Rand, Ayn | The Fountainhead |
| Sagan, Carl | Contact |
| Scalzi, John | Old Man’s War |
| Shepherd, Peng | The Book of M |
| Stephenson, Neal | Cryptonomicon |
| Stephenson, Neal | Seveneves |
| Stephenson, Neal | Snow Crash |
| Thomas, Angie | The Hate U Give |
| Vonnegut, Kurt | Cat’s Cradle |
| Vonnegut, Kurt | Slaughterhouse-Five |
Nonfiction
| Adler, Alfred | What Life could Mean to You |
| Arendt, Hannah | The Life of the Mind |
| Bach, Richard | Illusions |
| Campbell, Joseph | The Hero with a Thousand Faces |
| Dalio, Ray | Principles: Life and Work |
| Damasio, Antonio | The Strange Order of Things |
| Davidson, James Dale | The Sovereign Individual |
| Deutsch, David | The Beginning of Infinity |
| Dyson, Freeman | Disturbing the Universe |
| Edwards, Betty | Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain |
| Feynman, Richard P. | Six Easy Pieces |
| Gardner, Martin | Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science |
| Gleick, James | Chaos: Making a New Science |
| Gornick, Vivian | The Situation and the Story |
| Harari, Yuval Noah | Sapiens |
| Hartley, Nina | Nina Hartley’s Guide to Total Sex |
| Herrigel, Eugen | Zen in the Art of Archery |
| Jaynes, Julian | The Origin of Consciousness
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| Klosterman, Chuck | But What If We’re Wrong? |
| Koestler, Arthur | The Act of Creation |
| Leonard, George | Mastery |
| Miller, John H. | A Crude Look at the Whole |
| Murdoch, Iris | Existentialists and Mystics |
| Musashi, Miyamoto | The Book of Five Rings |
| Nietzsche, Friedrich | Ecce Homo: How One Becomes What One Is |
| Palmer, Amanda | The Art of Asking |
| Peterson, Jordan B. | 12 Rules for Life |
| Pinker, Steven | The Better Angels of Our Nature |
| Pollan, Michael | How to Change Your Mind |
| Powys, John Cowper | The Meaning of Culture |
| Ridley, Matt | The Rational Optimist |
| Smith, Adam | The Wealth of Nations |
| Sowell, Thomas | Economic Facts and Fallacies |
| Spinoza, Benedictus | Ethics |
| Stone, Hal and Sidra | Partnering |
| Taleb, Nassim Nicholas | Antifragile or Fooled by Randomness |
| Watts, Alan W. | Become What You Are |
| West, Geoffrey | Scale |