Reading

Books I've read since 2023, plus some favorites from earlier years.
Books marked with 📝 have my notes.

A Brief History Of Time Stephen Hawking
★★★★★
Algorithms To Live By ◆ Brian Christian and Tom Griffiths
★★★★★
Atomic Habits ◆ James Clear
★★★★★
Ender's Game Orson Scott Card
★★★★★
Finite and Infinite Games James P. Carse
★★★★★
How To Avoid A Climate Disaster Bill Gates
★★★★★
Love Does Bob Goff
★★★★★
Radical Candor Kim Scott
★★★★★
Where Is My Flying Car? J. Storrs Hall
★★★★★
The Skeletons In God's Closet Josh Butler
★★★★★
How The World Really Works ◆ Vaclav Smil
★★★★★
The Party Crasher Josh Butler
★★★★★
The Order of Time Carlo Rovelli
★★★★★
Not The End Of The World ◆ Hannah Ritchie
★★★★★
The Anxious Generation ◆ Jonathan Haidt
★★★★★
King: A Life ◆ Jonathan Eig
★★★★★
The Righteous Mind ◆ Jonathan Haidt
★★★★★
Nuclear War ◆ Annie Jacobsen
★★★★★
There is No Antimemetics Division qntm
★★★★★

2025

The War That Made The Roman Empire Barry Strauss
Started: Nov 04
There is No Antimemetics Division qntm
★★★★★
Antimemetics Nadia Asparouhova
★★★★
Pontius Pilate Ann Wroe
★★★★
Abundance Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson
★★★
Bubbles and the End of Stagnation Byrne Hobart and Tobias Huber
★★★★
How to Feed the World Vaclav Smil
★★★
Dominion Tom Holland
★★★★
The Small and the Mighty Sharon McMahon
★★★
Superagency ◆ Reid Hoffman and Greg Beato
★★★
House of Huawei ◆ Eva Dou
★★★★

2024

The Devil's Highway Luis Alberto Urea
★★★
City Limits ◆ Megan Kimble
★★
Who We Are and How We Got Here David Reich
★★★★
Nuclear War ◆ Annie Jacobsen
★★★★★
The Widening of God's Mercy ◆ Christopher B. Hays and Richard B. Hays
★★★
The Righteous Mind ◆ Jonathan Haidt
★★★★★
The Rent Collector Cameron Wright
★★★
The Good Neighbor ◆ Maxwell King
★★★
Mastery Robert Greene
★★
The Everything Store ◆ Brad Stone
★★★
Jesus and the Powers ◆ N.T. Wright & Michael F. Bird
★★★
Unreasonable Hospitality ◆ Will Guidara
★★★★
How to Hide an Empire ◆ Daniel Immerwahr
★★★★
King: A Life ◆ Jonathan Eig
★★★★★
Entangled Life ◆ Merlin Sheldrake
★★★★
Co-Intelligence ◆ Ethan Mollick
★★★
The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory ◆ Tim Alberta
★★★★
When Everything's on Fire Brian Zahnd
★★★★
Poverty, By America Matthew Desmond
★★★★
Death to Deconstruction Joshua S. Porter
★★★
The Anxious Generation ◆ Jonathan Haidt
★★★★★
Listen Listen Speak Jay Y. Kim
★★
How God Became King N.T. Wright
★★★
The Revolt of the Public Martin Gurri
★★
The Dream Machine M. Mitchell Waldrop
★★★★
Why the Gospel? Matthew W. Bates
★★
Not The End Of The World ◆ Hannah Ritchie
★★★★★
Practicing The Way John Mark Comer
★★★★
supercommunicators ◆ Charles Duhigg
★★★★
Scaling People Claire Hughes Johnson
★★★★
Glad We Met Steven Rogleberg
★★
A City on Mars Kelly and Zach Weinersmith
★★★★
The Order of Time Carlo Rovelli
★★★★★
The Party Crasher Josh Butler
★★★★★
Learning Domain-Driven Design Vlad Khononov
★★★
Fancy Bear Goes Phishing Scott J. Shapiro
★★★
A New Kind of Christian Brian McLaren
★★★
Rationality Steven Pinker
★★★
Soonish Kelly and Zach Weinersmith
★★
something incredibly wonderful happens K.C. Cole
★★★★

2023

Size Vaclav Smil
★★★
How To Know a Person David Brooks
★★★★
Same As Ever Morgan Housel
★★★
Unclobber Colby Martin
★★★★
Poor Charlie's Almanack Peter D. Kaufman
★★★
Invention and Innovation Vaclav Smil
★★★
Going Infinite Michael Lewis
★★★★
How The World Really Works ◆ Vaclav Smil
★★★★★
Never Split The Difference Chris Voss
★★★★
An Elegant Puzzle Will Larson
★★★★
It's Okay To Be Angry About Capitalism Bernie Sanders
★★★
Elon Musk Walter Isaacson
★★★★
Subversive Witness Dominique Dubois Gilliard
★★★★
Beautiful Union Josh Butler
★★★★
The Skeletons In God's Closet Josh Butler
★★★★★
Remote Jason Fried and David Heinemeir Hansson
★
Why We're Polarized Ezra Klein
★★★★
Blitzed Norman Ohler
★★★
How To Drive a Nuclear Reactor Colin Tucker
★★★★
The Art of Doing Science and Engineering Richard W. Hamming
★★★
Stubborn Attachments Tyler Cowen
★★★★
Where Is My Flying Car? J. Storrs Hall
★★★★★

Previous Years

Radical Candor Kim Scott
★★★★★
Love Does Bob Goff
★★★★★
How To Avoid A Climate Disaster Bill Gates
★★★★★
Finite and Infinite Games James P. Carse
★★★★★
Ender's Game Orson Scott Card
★★★★★
Atomic Habits ◆ James Clear
★★★★★
Algorithms To Live By ◆ Brian Christian and Tom Griffiths
★★★★★
A Brief History Of Time Stephen Hawking
★★★★★

How The World Really Works ◆ Vaclav Smil
★★★★★
The Order of Time Carlo Rovelli
★★★★★
Algorithms To Live By ◆ Brian Christian and Tom Griffiths
★★★★★
Ender's Game Orson Scott Card
★★★★★
King: A Life ◆ Jonathan Eig
★★★★★
Finite and Infinite Games James P. Carse
★★★★★
A Brief History Of Time Stephen Hawking
★★★★★
There is No Antimemetics Division qntm
★★★★★
How To Avoid A Climate Disaster Bill Gates
★★★★★
Love Does Bob Goff
★★★★★
Not The End Of The World ◆ Hannah Ritchie
★★★★★
The Anxious Generation ◆ Jonathan Haidt
★★★★★
Atomic Habits ◆ James Clear
★★★★★
Nuclear War ◆ Annie Jacobsen
★★★★★
Radical Candor Kim Scott
★★★★★
The Righteous Mind ◆ Jonathan Haidt
★★★★★
Where Is My Flying Car? J. Storrs Hall
★★★★★
The Skeletons In God's Closet Josh Butler
★★★★★
The Party Crasher Josh Butler
★★★★★
Antimemetics Nadia Asparouhova
★★★★
Pontius Pilate Ann Wroe
★★★★
Bubbles and the End of Stagnation Byrne Hobart and Tobias Huber
★★★★
Dominion Tom Holland
★★★★
House of Huawei ◆ Eva Dou
★★★★
Who We Are and How We Got Here David Reich
★★★★
Unreasonable Hospitality ◆ Will Guidara
★★★★
How to Hide an Empire ◆ Daniel Immerwahr
★★★★
Entangled Life ◆ Merlin Sheldrake
★★★★
The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory ◆ Tim Alberta
★★★★
When Everything's on Fire Brian Zahnd
★★★★
Poverty, By America Matthew Desmond
★★★★
The Dream Machine M. Mitchell Waldrop
★★★★
Practicing The Way John Mark Comer
★★★★
supercommunicators ◆ Charles Duhigg
★★★★
A City on Mars Kelly and Zach Weinersmith
★★★★
something incredibly wonderful happens K.C. Cole
★★★★
How To Know a Person David Brooks
★★★★
Unclobber Colby Martin
★★★★
Going Infinite Michael Lewis
★★★★
Never Split The Difference Chris Voss
★★★★
An Elegant Puzzle Will Larson
★★★★
Elon Musk Walter Isaacson
★★★★
Subversive Witness Dominique Dubois Gilliard
★★★★
Beautiful Union Josh Butler
★★★★
Why We're Polarized Ezra Klein
★★★★
How To Drive a Nuclear Reactor Colin Tucker
★★★★
Stubborn Attachments Tyler Cowen
★★★★
Scaling People Claire Hughes Johnson
★★★★
Co-Intelligence ◆ Ethan Mollick
★★★
The Small and the Mighty Sharon McMahon
★★★
Jesus and the Powers ◆ N.T. Wright & Michael F. Bird
★★★
The Everything Store ◆ Brad Stone
★★★
Learning Domain-Driven Design Vlad Khononov
★★★
Fancy Bear Goes Phishing Scott J. Shapiro
★★★
Poor Charlie's Almanack Peter D. Kaufman
★★★
Invention and Innovation Vaclav Smil
★★★
Abundance Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson
★★★
Rationality Steven Pinker
★★★
The Rent Collector Cameron Wright
★★★
The Widening of God's Mercy ◆ Christopher B. Hays and Richard B. Hays
★★★
It's Okay To Be Angry About Capitalism Bernie Sanders
★★★
Blitzed Norman Ohler
★★★
The Devil's Highway Luis Alberto Urea
★★★
Size Vaclav Smil
★★★
How God Became King N.T. Wright
★★★
How to Feed the World Vaclav Smil
★★★
Superagency ◆ Reid Hoffman and Greg Beato
★★★
Same As Ever Morgan Housel
★★★
Death to Deconstruction Joshua S. Porter
★★★
The Good Neighbor ◆ Maxwell King
★★★
A New Kind of Christian Brian McLaren
★★★
The Art of Doing Science and Engineering Richard W. Hamming
★★★
Mastery Robert Greene
★★
City Limits ◆ Megan Kimble
★★
Listen Listen Speak Jay Y. Kim
★★
The Revolt of the Public Martin Gurri
★★
Why the Gospel? Matthew W. Bates
★★
Glad We Met Steven Rogleberg
★★
Soonish Kelly and Zach Weinersmith
★★
Remote Jason Fried and David Heinemeir Hansson
★
The War That Made The Roman Empire Barry Strauss
Unrated

A Brief History Of Time Stephen Hawking
★★★★★
A City on Mars Kelly and Zach Weinersmith
★★★★
A New Kind of Christian Brian McLaren
★★★
Abundance Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson
★★★
Algorithms To Live By ◆ Brian Christian and Tom Griffiths
★★★★★
An Elegant Puzzle Will Larson
★★★★
Antimemetics Nadia Asparouhova
★★★★
Atomic Habits ◆ James Clear
★★★★★
Beautiful Union Josh Butler
★★★★
Blitzed Norman Ohler
★★★
Bubbles and the End of Stagnation Byrne Hobart and Tobias Huber
★★★★
City Limits ◆ Megan Kimble
★★
Co-Intelligence ◆ Ethan Mollick
★★★
Death to Deconstruction Joshua S. Porter
★★★
Dominion Tom Holland
★★★★
Elon Musk Walter Isaacson
★★★★
Ender's Game Orson Scott Card
★★★★★
Entangled Life ◆ Merlin Sheldrake
★★★★
Fancy Bear Goes Phishing Scott J. Shapiro
★★★
Finite and Infinite Games James P. Carse
★★★★★
Glad We Met Steven Rogleberg
★★
Going Infinite Michael Lewis
★★★★
House of Huawei ◆ Eva Dou
★★★★
How God Became King N.T. Wright
★★★
How The World Really Works ◆ Vaclav Smil
★★★★★
How To Avoid A Climate Disaster Bill Gates
★★★★★
How To Drive a Nuclear Reactor Colin Tucker
★★★★
How To Know a Person David Brooks
★★★★
How to Feed the World Vaclav Smil
★★★
How to Hide an Empire ◆ Daniel Immerwahr
★★★★
Invention and Innovation Vaclav Smil
★★★
It's Okay To Be Angry About Capitalism Bernie Sanders
★★★
Jesus and the Powers ◆ N.T. Wright & Michael F. Bird
★★★
King: A Life ◆ Jonathan Eig
★★★★★
Learning Domain-Driven Design Vlad Khononov
★★★
Listen Listen Speak Jay Y. Kim
★★
Love Does Bob Goff
★★★★★
Mastery Robert Greene
★★
Never Split The Difference Chris Voss
★★★★
Not The End Of The World ◆ Hannah Ritchie
★★★★★
Nuclear War ◆ Annie Jacobsen
★★★★★
Pontius Pilate Ann Wroe
★★★★
Poor Charlie's Almanack Peter D. Kaufman
★★★
Poverty, By America Matthew Desmond
★★★★
Practicing The Way John Mark Comer
★★★★
Radical Candor Kim Scott
★★★★★
Rationality Steven Pinker
★★★
Remote Jason Fried and David Heinemeir Hansson
★
Same As Ever Morgan Housel
★★★
Scaling People Claire Hughes Johnson
★★★★
Size Vaclav Smil
★★★
Soonish Kelly and Zach Weinersmith
★★
Stubborn Attachments Tyler Cowen
★★★★
Subversive Witness Dominique Dubois Gilliard
★★★★
Superagency ◆ Reid Hoffman and Greg Beato
★★★
The Anxious Generation ◆ Jonathan Haidt
★★★★★
The Art of Doing Science and Engineering Richard W. Hamming
★★★
The Devil's Highway Luis Alberto Urea
★★★
The Dream Machine M. Mitchell Waldrop
★★★★
The Everything Store ◆ Brad Stone
★★★
The Good Neighbor ◆ Maxwell King
★★★
The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory ◆ Tim Alberta
★★★★
The Order of Time Carlo Rovelli
★★★★★
The Party Crasher Josh Butler
★★★★★
The Rent Collector Cameron Wright
★★★
The Revolt of the Public Martin Gurri
★★
The Righteous Mind ◆ Jonathan Haidt
★★★★★
The Skeletons In God's Closet Josh Butler
★★★★★
The Small and the Mighty Sharon McMahon
★★★
The War That Made The Roman Empire Barry Strauss
Started: Nov 04
The Widening of God's Mercy ◆ Christopher B. Hays and Richard B. Hays
★★★
There is No Antimemetics Division qntm
★★★★★
Unclobber Colby Martin
★★★★
Unreasonable Hospitality ◆ Will Guidara
★★★★
When Everything's on Fire Brian Zahnd
★★★★
Where Is My Flying Car? J. Storrs Hall
★★★★★
Who We Are and How We Got Here David Reich
★★★★
Why We're Polarized Ezra Klein
★★★★
Why the Gospel? Matthew W. Bates
★★
something incredibly wonderful happens K.C. Cole
★★★★
supercommunicators ◆ Charles Duhigg
★★★★

Pontius Pilate Ann Wroe
★★★★
Nuclear War ◆ Annie Jacobsen
★★★★★
The War That Made The Roman Empire Barry Strauss
Started: Nov 04
It's Okay To Be Angry About Capitalism Bernie Sanders
★★★
How To Avoid A Climate Disaster Bill Gates
★★★★★
Love Does Bob Goff
★★★★★
The Everything Store ◆ Brad Stone
★★★
Algorithms To Live By ◆ Brian Christian and Tom Griffiths
★★★★★
A New Kind of Christian Brian McLaren
★★★
When Everything's on Fire Brian Zahnd
★★★★
Bubbles and the End of Stagnation Byrne Hobart and Tobias Huber
★★★★
The Rent Collector Cameron Wright
★★★
The Order of Time Carlo Rovelli
★★★★★
supercommunicators ◆ Charles Duhigg
★★★★
Never Split The Difference Chris Voss
★★★★
The Widening of God's Mercy ◆ Christopher B. Hays and Richard B. Hays
★★★
Scaling People Claire Hughes Johnson
★★★★
Unclobber Colby Martin
★★★★
How To Drive a Nuclear Reactor Colin Tucker
★★★★
How to Hide an Empire ◆ Daniel Immerwahr
★★★★
How To Know a Person David Brooks
★★★★
Who We Are and How We Got Here David Reich
★★★★
Subversive Witness Dominique Dubois Gilliard
★★★★
Co-Intelligence ◆ Ethan Mollick
★★★
House of Huawei ◆ Eva Dou
★★★★
Why We're Polarized Ezra Klein
★★★★
Abundance Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson
★★★
Not The End Of The World ◆ Hannah Ritchie
★★★★★
Where Is My Flying Car? J. Storrs Hall
★★★★★
Atomic Habits ◆ James Clear
★★★★★
Finite and Infinite Games James P. Carse
★★★★★
Remote Jason Fried and David Heinemeir Hansson
★
Listen Listen Speak Jay Y. Kim
★★
Practicing The Way John Mark Comer
★★★★
King: A Life ◆ Jonathan Eig
★★★★★
The Anxious Generation ◆ Jonathan Haidt
★★★★★
The Righteous Mind ◆ Jonathan Haidt
★★★★★
The Party Crasher Josh Butler
★★★★★
Beautiful Union Josh Butler
★★★★
The Skeletons In God's Closet Josh Butler
★★★★★
Death to Deconstruction Joshua S. Porter
★★★
something incredibly wonderful happens K.C. Cole
★★★★
A City on Mars Kelly and Zach Weinersmith
★★★★
Soonish Kelly and Zach Weinersmith
★★
Radical Candor Kim Scott
★★★★★
The Devil's Highway Luis Alberto Urea
★★★
The Dream Machine M. Mitchell Waldrop
★★★★
The Revolt of the Public Martin Gurri
★★
Poverty, By America Matthew Desmond
★★★★
Why the Gospel? Matthew W. Bates
★★
The Good Neighbor ◆ Maxwell King
★★★
City Limits ◆ Megan Kimble
★★
Entangled Life ◆ Merlin Sheldrake
★★★★
Going Infinite Michael Lewis
★★★★
Same As Ever Morgan Housel
★★★
How God Became King N.T. Wright
★★★
Jesus and the Powers ◆ N.T. Wright & Michael F. Bird
★★★
Antimemetics Nadia Asparouhova
★★★★
Blitzed Norman Ohler
★★★
Ender's Game Orson Scott Card
★★★★★
Poor Charlie's Almanack Peter D. Kaufman
★★★
There is No Antimemetics Division qntm
★★★★★
Superagency ◆ Reid Hoffman and Greg Beato
★★★
The Art of Doing Science and Engineering Richard W. Hamming
★★★
Mastery Robert Greene
★★
Fancy Bear Goes Phishing Scott J. Shapiro
★★★
The Small and the Mighty Sharon McMahon
★★★
A Brief History Of Time Stephen Hawking
★★★★★
Rationality Steven Pinker
★★★
Glad We Met Steven Rogleberg
★★
The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory ◆ Tim Alberta
★★★★
Dominion Tom Holland
★★★★
Stubborn Attachments Tyler Cowen
★★★★
How The World Really Works ◆ Vaclav Smil
★★★★★
Invention and Innovation Vaclav Smil
★★★
Size Vaclav Smil
★★★
How to Feed the World Vaclav Smil
★★★
Learning Domain-Driven Design Vlad Khononov
★★★
Elon Musk Walter Isaacson
★★★★
Unreasonable Hospitality ◆ Will Guidara
★★★★
An Elegant Puzzle Will Larson
★★★★