- A list of books I’ve read since October 2016. For more on what I’m reading right now, check out my currently reading posts.
- Reverse chronological order of when I read them. Most recent is at the top.
- Books I strongly recommend are starred ★
- Inspired by Frank Chimero’s Reading page
What I’m Reading
2023
9 books
- Dark Matter (2016)
- Red Rising (2014)
- Solomon’s Gold (Baroque Cycle book 6) (2004)
- Cannery Row (1945) ★
- Freedom™️ (2010)
- Daemon (2006) ★
- Recursion (2019) ★
- The Juncto (Baroque Cycle book 5) (2004)
- Salt: A World History (2002)
2022
26 books
- Piranesi (2020) ★
- The Big Oyster: History on the Half Shell (2006)
- Trust (2022) ★
- Woodswoman (1976) ★
- A Wild Idea: How the Environmental Movement Tamed the Adirondacks (2021)
- The Adirondack Reader (1982) ★
- Bonanza (Baroque Cycle book 4) (2004)
- This Is How You Lose the Time War (2019) ★
- Odalisque (Baroque Cycle book 3) (2003)
- English Creek (1984) ★
- King of the Vagabonds (Baroque Cycle book 2) (2003)
- 12 ways to be better to work with (2021)
- Quicksilver (Baroque Cycle book 1) (2003)
- A History of the World in 6 Glasses (2005)
- American Buffalo (2008)
- Sea of Tranquility (2022)
- The Android’s Dream (2006)
- Termination Shock (2021)
- The Valley of the Horses (1980)
- The Amish: A Concise Introduction (2016)
- Eager: The Surprising, Secret Life of Beavers and Why They Matter (2018) ★
- The Inimitable Jeeves (1923)
- Murder on the Orient Express (1934) ★
- Dust (2016)
- The Clan of the Cave Bear (1980)
- Truffle Hound (2021) ★
2021
36 books
- Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit (1954) ★
- Very Important People (2020)
- The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1963) ★
- The Ministry for the Future (2020)
- Shift (2013)
- Mexico (1992)
- The End of All Things
- Wool (2011)
- Slaughterhouse-Five (1969)
- Smalltime (2021)
- The Human Division (2013)
- Very Good, Jeeves! ★
- Apex (2015)
- Zoe’s Tale (2012)
- The Last Colony (2007)
- The Birth Partner (2018) ★
- The Maltese Falcon (1930) ★
- The Tide: The Science and Stories Behind the Greatest Force on Earth (2016) ★
- The Ghost Brigades (2007) ★
- The Gurkha and the Lord of Tuesday (2019) ★
- Looking for a Ship (1965) ★
- Old Man’s War (2005) ★
- Friday (1982)
- Hail Mary (2021)
- The Relaxation Response (1975)
- Outland (2015)
- The Singularity Trap (2018)
- The Gone World (2018) ★
- Punch Escrow (2017)
- Cryptonomicon (2002) ★
- The Making of a Manager: What to Do When Everyone Looks to You (2019)
- Building an Adirondack Guideboat (2018)
- Powerful: Building a Culture of Freedom and Responsibility (2018)
- Intimations (2020)
- Oranges (1967) ★
- The Code of the Woosters (1938) ★
2020
27 books
- Sweetbitter (2016)
- Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (1925) ★
- Turing’s Cathedral (2012)
- Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art (2020) ★
- Once Upon a Time in the North (2008)
- Psmith, Journalist (1915) ★
- Station Eleven (2014)
- Get Shorty (1990)
- Heaven’s River (2020) ★
- Homeland (2013)
- Dune (1965)
- Goodbye to a River (1959) ★
- Survival of the Bark Canoe (1975) ★
- The Amber Spyglass: His Dark Materials, Book 3 (2000)
- Crux (2013)
- Nexus (2012)
- Veil (2020)
- The Glass Hotel (2020)
- Buffalo Girls (1990)
- The Powers of the Earth (Aristillus Book 1) (2017)
- Xenogenesis (1987) ★
- Lovecraft Country (2016)
- The Subtle Knife: His Dark Materials, Book 2 (1997)
- God’s Kingdom (2015)
- The Reluctant Fundamentalist (2007) ★
- The Anarchist’s Tool Chest (2011) ★
- Exhalation (2019) ★
2019
33 books
- The Golden Compass: His Dark Materials, Book 1 (1995)
- Malagash (2017)
- Basin and Range: Annals of the Former World, Book 1 (1981)
- Traction: How Any Startup Can Achieve Explosive Customer Growth (2014)
- Uncommon Carriers (2006) ★
- The Founding Fish (2002) ★
- Atmosphaera Incognita (2019)
- Wolf Boys (2016)
- Stillness is the Key (2019)
- Masters at Work: Becoming a Sommelier (2019)
- Radicalized (2019) ★
- The Pine Barrens (1967)
- The Summer Book (1972) ★
- The Last Pirate of New York (2019) ★
- Fall; or, Dodge in Hell (2019) ★
- The Boatbuilder (2018)
- The Mastermind (2019)
- The River of Kings (2017)
- Lost Connections: Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression (2018) ★
- A River Runs Through It (1976)
- The New Right (2019) ★
- Keep Going (2019)
- The Starship and the Canoe (1978) ★
- When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing (2018)
- Discontent and its Civilizations: Dispatches from Lahore, New York, and London (2014)
- Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland (2018) ★
- Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch (1990)
- Stubborn Attachments (2018)
- Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World (2019)
- A Work in Progress: A Journal (2019) ★
- Winter’s Tale (1983) ★
- The Fish That Ate the Whale: The Life and Times of America’s Banana King (2012) ★
- Fortune’s Formula: The Untold Story of the Scientific Betting System That Beat the Casinos and Wall Street (2006)
2018
38 books
- The World is a Narrow Bridge (2018)
- Cape Cod (1908)
- The Outermost House (1928) ★
- Foundation (1951)
- Leonardo da Vinci (2017)
- Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence (2017)
- Deep Thinking: Where Machine Intelligence Ends and Human Creativity Begins (2017)
- Never Split the Difference: Negotiating as if Your Life Depended on It (2016)
- Fashion Climbing (2018)
- Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry into the Value of Work (2009)
- Creative Selection: Inside Apple’s Design Process During the Golden Age of Steve Jobs (2018)
- Bobiverse Trilogy (2016) ★
- Niche Down (2018)
- Island (2000) ★
- The Great Halifax Explosion (2017)
- Hooked (2014)
- Hacking Growth (2017)
- Lost and Founder: A Painfully Honest Field Guide to the Startup World (2018)
- Secret Sauce (2017)
- Luna: Wolf Moon (2017)
- High Growth Handbook (2018)
- The Three-Body Problem (2014) ★
- Exit West (2017) ★
- Ghost in the Wires (2011)
- Play Bigger: How Pirates, Dreamers, and Innovators Create and Dominate Markets (2016) ★
- Rise and Fall of the Dodo (2017)
- "What Do You Care What Other People Think?" (1988)
- Conspiracy (2018)
- Prediction Machines (2018)
- Reamde (2011) ★
- Mr. Eternity (2016)
- The Martian Chronicles (1950)
- The Einstein Intersection (1967)
- Growth Hacker Marketing (2013)
- Tricks of the Mind (2007)
- Building a StoryBrand: Clarify Your Message So Customers Will Listen (2017)
- Kindred (1979) ★
- A Mind at Play: How Claude Shannon Invented the Information Age (2017) ★
2017
22 books
- Philip K. Dick’s Electric Dreams (2017)
- Stories of Your Life and Others (2002) ★
- A Burglar’s Guide to the City (2015)
- The Story of Sushi: An Unlikely Saga of Raw Fish and Rice (2006)
- The Island at the Center of the World: The Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan and the Forgotten Colony That Shaped America (2004) ★
- Boon Island: Including Contemporary Accounts of the Wreck of the Nottingham Galley (1956)
- The Secret Life of Lobsters: How Fishermen and Scientists Are Unraveling the Mysteries of Our Favorite Crustacean (2004) ★
- Show Your Work (2014) ★
- Pulphead: Essays (2011)
- Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (1968)
- The Gentle Giants of Ganymede (1978)
- Shoe Dog (2016)
- Inherit the Stars (1977)
- Giants’ Star (1981) ★
- On the Move: A Life (2015)
- The Magic of Thinking Big (1959)
- The E-Myth Revisited (1985)
- ‘Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman!’: Adventures of a Curious Character (1985) ★
- The Art of Learning (2007)
- The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers (2014) ★
- Forward Tilt: An Almanac for Personal Growth (2017) ★
- Luna: New Moon (2015)
2016
14 books
- Tools of Titans (2016)
- Townie: A Memoir (2011)
- Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis (2016) ★
- Deep Work – Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World (2016)
- Seveneves (2015) ★
- Maus I – My Father Bleeds History (1986) ★
- Algorithms to Live By – The Computer Science of Human Decisions (2016)
- Legends of the Fall (1979)
- The Man in the High Castle (1962)
- Pivot – The Only Move That Matters Is Your Next One (2016)
- Snow Crash (1992) ★
- Rework (2010)
- My First Summer in the Sierra (1911)
- Touching the Wild (2014)