Reading

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

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2025

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

2024

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

2023

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

Previous Years

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