2023

24 books

Candle by John Barnes (2000)
Captivate by Vanessa Van Edwards (2017)
Never Split the Difference by Chris Voss (2016)
The Coaching Habit by Michael Bungay Stanier (2016)
Currency (Baroque Cycle book 7) by Neal Stephenson (2004)
Building a Second Brain by Tiago Forte (2022)
Unreasonable Hospitality by Will Guidara (2022)
Shores of Bohemia: A Cape Cod Story, 1910-1960 by John Taylor Williams (2022) ★
Simone by Eduardo Lalo (2011)
Cod by Mark Kurlansky (1997) ★
American Terroir by Rowan Jacobsen (2010) ★
Golden Son by Pierce Brown (2015)
Critical Mass by Daniel Suarez (2023)
Delta-v by Daniel Suarez (2019)
Dark Matter by Blake Crouch (2016)
Red Rising by Pierce Brown (2014)
Solomon’s Gold (Baroque Cycle book 6) by Neal Stephenson (2004)
Cannery Row by John Steinbeck (1945) ★
The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson (1995)
Freedom™️ by Daniel Suarez (2010)
Daemon by Daniel Suarez (2006) ★
Recursion by Blake Crouch (2019) ★
The Juncto (Baroque Cycle book 5) by Neal Stephenson (2004)
Salt: A World History by Mark Kurlansky (2002)

2022

26 books

Piranesi by Susanna Clarke (2020) ★
The Big Oyster: History on the Half Shell by Mark Kurlansky (2006)
Trust by Hernan Diaz (2022) ★
Woodswoman by Anne LaBastille (1976) ★
A Wild Idea: How the Environmental Movement Tamed the Adirondacks by Brad Edmondson (2021)
The Adirondack Reader by Paul F. Jamieson (1982) ★
Bonanza (Baroque Cycle book 4) by Neal Stephenson (2004)
This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone (2019) ★
Odalisque (Baroque Cycle book 3) by Neal Stephenson (2003)
English Creek by Ivan Doig (1984) ★
King of the Vagabonds (Baroque Cycle book 2) by Neal Stephenson (2003)
12 ways to be better to work with by Jaimee Finney (2021)
Quicksilver (Baroque Cycle book 1) by Neal Stephenson (2003)
A History of the World in 6 Glasses by Tom Standage (2005)
American Buffalo by Steven Rinella (2008)
Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel (2022)
The Android’s Dream by John Scalzi (2006)
Termination Shock by Neal Stephenson (2021)
The Valley of the Horses by Jean M. Auel (1980)
The Amish: A Concise Introduction by Steven M. Nolt (2016)
Eager: The Surprising, Secret Life of Beavers and Why They Matter by Ben Goldfarb (2018) ★
The Inimitable Jeeves by P. G. Wodehouse (1923)
Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie (1934) ★
Dust by Hugh Howey (2016)
The Clan of the Cave Bear by Jean M. Auel (1980)
Truffle Hound by Rowan Jacobsen (2021) ★

2021

36 books

Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit by P. G. Wodehouse (1954) ★
Very Important People by Ashley Mears (2020)
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold by John le Carré (1963) ★
The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson (2020)
Shift by Hugh Howey (2013)
Mexico by James A. Michener (1992)
The End of All Things by John Scalzi
Wool by Hugh Howey (2011)
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut (1969)
Smalltime by Russell Shorto (2021)
The Human Division by John Scalzi (2013)
Very Good, Jeeves! by P. G. Wodehouse ★
Apex by Ramez Naam (2015)
Zoe’s Tale by John Scalzi (2012)
The Last Colony by John Scalzi (2007)
The Birth Partner by Penny Simkin (2018) ★
The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett (1930) ★
The Tide: The Science and Stories Behind the Greatest Force on Earth by Hugh Aldersey-Williams (2016) ★
The Ghost Brigades by John Scalzi (2007) ★
The Gurkha and the Lord of Tuesday by Saad Z. Hossain (2019) ★
Looking for a Ship by John McPhee (1965) ★
Old Man’s War by John Scalzi (2005) ★
Friday by Robert Heinlein (1982)
Hail Mary by Andy Weir (2021)
The Relaxation Response by Herbert Benson (1975)
Outland by Dennis E. Taylor (2015)
The Singularity Trap by Dennis E. Taylor (2018)
The Gone World by Tom Sweterlitsch (2018) ★
Punch Escrow by Tal M. Klein (2017)
Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson (2002) ★
The Making of a Manager: What to Do When Everyone Looks to You by Julie Zhuo (2019)
Building an Adirondack Guideboat by John D. Michne (2018)
Powerful: Building a Culture of Freedom and Responsibility by Patty McCord (2018)
Intimations by Zadie Smith (2020)
Oranges by John McPhee (1967) ★
The Code of the Woosters by P. G. Wodehouse (1938) ★

2020

27 books

Sweetbitter by Stephanie Danler (2016)
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by Pearl Poet (Tolkien translation) (1925) ★
Turing’s Cathedral by George Dyson (2012)
Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art by James Nestor (2020) ★
Once Upon a Time in the North by Phillip Pullman (2008)
Psmith, Journalist by P. G. Wodehouse (1915) ★
Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel (2014)
Get Shorty by Elmore Leonard (1990)
Heaven’s River by Dennis E. Taylor (2020) ★
Homeland by Cory Doctorow (2013)
Dune by Frank Herbert (1965)
Goodbye to a River by John Graves (1959) ★
Survival of the Bark Canoe by John McPhee (1975) ★
The Amber Spyglass: His Dark Materials, Book 3 by Phillip Pullman (2000)
Crux by Ramez Naam (2013)
Nexus by Ramez Naam (2012)
Veil by Eliot Peper (2020)
The Glass Hotel by Emily St. John Mandel (2020)
Buffalo Girls by Larry McMurtry (1990)
The Powers of the Earth (Aristillus Book 1) by Travis J. I. Corcoran (2017)
Xenogenesis by Octavia Butler (1987) ★
Lovecraft Country by Matt Ruff (2016)
The Subtle Knife: His Dark Materials, Book 2 by Phillip Pullman (1997)
God’s Kingdom by Howard Frank Mosher (2015)
The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid (2007) ★
The Anarchist’s Tool Chest by Christopher Schwarz (2011) ★
Exhalation by Ted Chiang (2019) ★

2019

33 books

The Golden Compass: His Dark Materials, Book 1 by Phillip Pullman (1995)
Malagash by Joey Comeau (2017)
Basin and Range: Annals of the Former World, Book 1 by John McPhee (1981)
Traction: How Any Startup Can Achieve Explosive Customer Growth by Gabriel Weinberg (2014)
Uncommon Carriers by John McPhee (2006) ★
The Founding Fish by John McPhee (2002) ★
Atmosphaera Incognita by Neal Stephenson (2019)
Wolf Boys by Dan Slater (2016)
Stillness is the Key by Ryan Holiday (2019)
Masters at Work: Becoming a Sommelier by Rosie Schaap (2019)
Radicalized by Cory Doctorow (2019) ★
The Pine Barrens by John McPhee (1967)
The Summer Book by Tove Jansson (1972) ★
The Last Pirate of New York by Rich Cohen (2019) ★
Fall; or, Dodge in Hell by Neal Stephenson (2019) ★
The Boatbuilder by Daniel Gumbiner (2018)
The Mastermind by Evan Ratliff (2019)
Lost Connections: Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression by Johann Hari (2018) ★
The River of Kings by Taylor Brown (2017)
The New Right by Michael Malice (2019) ★
A River Runs Through It by Norman Maclean (1976)
Keep Going by Austin Kleon (2019)
The Starship and the Canoe by Kenneth Brower (1978) ★
When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing by Daniel H. Pink (2018)
Discontent and its Civilizations: Dispatches from Lahore, New York, and London by Mohsin Hamid (2014)
Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland by Patrick Radden Keefe (2018) ★
Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett (1990)
Stubborn Attachments by Tyler Cowen (2018)
Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World by Cal Newport (2019)
A Work in Progress: A Journal by René Redzepi (2019) ★
Winter’s Tale by Mark Helprin (1983) ★
The Fish That Ate the Whale: The Life and Times of America’s Banana King by Rich Cohen (2012) ★
Fortune’s Formula: The Untold Story of the Scientific Betting System That Beat the Casinos and Wall Street by William Poundstone (2006)

2018

38 books

The World is a Narrow Bridge by Aaron Thier (2018)
Cape Cod by Henry David Thoreau (1908)
The Outermost House by Henry Beston (1928) ★
Foundation by Isaac Asimov (1951)
Leonardo da Vinci by Walter Isaacson (2017)
Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence by Max Tegmark (2017)
Deep Thinking: Where Machine Intelligence Ends and Human Creativity Begins by Garry Kasparov, Mig Greengard (2017)
Never Split the Difference: Negotiating as if Your Life Depended on It by Chris Voss (2016)
Fashion Climbing by Bill Cunningham (2018)
Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry into the Value of Work by Matthew B. Crawford (2009)
Creative Selection: Inside Apple’s Design Process During the Golden Age of Steve Jobs by Ken Kocienda (2018)
Bobiverse Trilogy by Dennis E. Taylor (2016) ★
Niche Down by Christopher Lochhead & Heather Clancey (2018)
Island by Alistair MacLeod (2000) ★
The Great Halifax Explosion by John U. Bacon (2017)
Hooked by Nir Eyal (2014)
Hacking Growth by Sean Ellis & Morgan Brown (2017)
Lost and Founder: A Painfully Honest Field Guide to the Startup World by Rand Fishkin (2018)
Secret Sauce by Austen Allred (2017)
Luna: Wolf Moon by Ian McDonald (2017)
High Growth Handbook by Elad Gil (2018)
The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu (2014) ★
Exit West by Mohsin Hamid (2017) ★
Ghost in the Wires by Kevin Mitnick (2011)
Play Bigger: How Pirates, Dreamers, and Innovators Create and Dominate Markets by Al Ramadan, Dave Peterson, Christopher Lochhead, and Kevin Maney (2016) ★
Rise and Fall of the Dodo by Neal Stephenson and Nicole Galland (2017)
"What Do You Care What Other People Think?" by Richard Feynman (1988)
Conspiracy by Ryan Holiday (2018)
Prediction Machines by Ajay Agrawal, Joshua Gans, and Avi Goldfarb (2018)
Reamde by Neal Stephenson (2011) ★
Mr. Eternity by Aaron Thier (2016)
The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury (1950)
The Einstein Intersection by Samuel R. Delany (1967)
Growth Hacker Marketing by Ryan Holiday (2013)
Tricks of the Mind by Derren Brown (2007)
Building a StoryBrand: Clarify Your Message So Customers Will Listen by Donald Miller (2017)
Kindred by Octavia Butler (1979) ★
A Mind at Play: How Claude Shannon Invented the Information Age by Jimmy Soni and Rob Goodman (2017) ★

2017

22 books

Philip K. Dick’s Electric Dreams by Philip K. Dick (2017)
Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang (2002) ★
A Burglar’s Guide to the City by Geoff Manaugh (2015)
The Story of Sushi: An Unlikely Saga of Raw Fish and Rice by Trevor Corson (2006)
The Island at the Center of the World: The Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan and the Forgotten Colony That Shaped America by Russell Shorto (2004) ★
Boon Island: Including Contemporary Accounts of the Wreck of the Nottingham Galley by Kenneth Roberts (1956)
The Secret Life of Lobsters: How Fishermen and Scientists Are Unraveling the Mysteries of Our Favorite Crustacean by Trevor Corson (2004) ★
Show Your Work by Austin Kleon (2014) ★
Pulphead: Essays by John Jeremiah Sullivan (2011)
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick (1968)
The Gentle Giants of Ganymede by James P Hogan (1978)
Shoe Dog by Phil Knight (2016)
Inherit the Stars by James P Hogan (1977)
Giants’ Star by James P Hogan (1981) ★
On the Move: A Life by Oliver Sacks (2015)
The Magic of Thinking Big by David Schwartz (1959)
The E-Myth Revisited by Michael Gerber (1985)
‘Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman!’: Adventures of a Curious Character by Richard Feynman (1985) ★
The Art of Learning by Josh Waitzkin (2007)
The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers by Ben Horowitz (2014) ★
Forward Tilt: An Almanac for Personal Growth by Isaac Morehouse with Hannah Frankman (2017) ★
Luna: New Moon by Ian McDonald (2015)

2016

14 books

Tools of Titans by Tim Ferriss (2016)
Townie: A Memoir by Andre Dubus III (2011)
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis by J. D. Vance (2016) ★
Deep Work – Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World by Cal Newport (2016)
Seveneves by Neal Stephenson (2015) ★
Maus I – My Father Bleeds History by Art Spiegelman (1986) ★
Algorithms to Live By – The Computer Science of Human Decisions by Brian Christian and Tom Griffiths (2016)
Legends of the Fall by Jim Harrison (1979)
The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick (1962)
Pivot – The Only Move That Matters Is Your Next One by Jenny Blake (2016)
Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson (1992) ★
Rework by Jason Fried, David Heinemeier Hansson (2010)
My First Summer in the Sierra by John Muir (1911)
Touching the Wild by Joe Hutto (2014)

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