- 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
2021
29 books
- Wool
- Slaughterhouse-Five
- Smalltime
- The Human Division
- Very Good, Jeeves! ★
- Apex
- Zoe’s Tale
- The Last Colony
- The Birth Partner ★
- The Maltese Falcon ★
- The Tide: The Science and Stories Behind the Greatest Force on Earth ★
- The Ghost Brigades ★
- The Gurkha and the Lord of Tuesday ★
- Looking for a Ship ★
- Old Man’s War ★
- Friday
- Hail Mary
- The Relaxation Response
- Outland
- The Singularity Trap
- The Gone World ★
- Punch Escrow
- Cryptonomicon ★
- The Making of a Manager: What to Do When Everyone Looks to You
- Building an Adirondack Guideboat
- Powerful: Building a Culture of Freedom and Responsibility
- Intimations
- Oranges ★
- The Code of the Woosters
2020
27 books
- Sweetbitter
- Sir Gawain and the Green Knight ★
- Turing’s Cathedral
- Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art ★
- Once Upon a Time in the North
- Psmith, Journalist ★
- Station Eleven
- Get Shorty
- Heaven’s River ★
- Homeland
- Dune
- Goodbye to a River ★
- Survival of the Bark Canoe ★
- The Amber Spyglass: His Dark Materials, Book 3
- Crux
- Nexus
- Veil
- The Glass Hotel
- Buffalo Girls
- The Powers of the Earth (Aristillus Book 1)
- Xenogenesis ★
- Lovecraft Country
- The Subtle Knife: His Dark Materials, Book 2
- God’s Kingdom
- The Reluctant Fundamentalist ★
- The Anarchist’s Tool Chest ★
- Exhalation ★
2019
33 books
- The Golden Compass: His Dark Materials, Book 1
- Malagash
- Basin and Range: Annals of the Former World, Book 1
- Traction: How Any Startup Can Achieve Explosive Customer Growth
- Uncommon Carriers ★
- The Founding Fish ★
- Atmosphaera Incognita
- Wolf Boys
- Stillness is the Key
- Masters at Work: Becoming a Sommelier
- Radicalized ★
- The Pine Barrens
- The Summer Book ★
- The Last Pirate of New York ★
- Fall; or, Dodge in Hell ★
- The Boatbuilder
- The Mastermind
- The River of Kings
- Lost Connections: Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression
- A River Runs Through It
- The New Right ★
- Keep Going
- The Starship and the Canoe ★
- When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing
- Discontent and its Civilizations: Dispatches from Lahore, New York, and London
- Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland ★
- Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
- Stubborn Attachments
- Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World
- A Work in Progress: A Journal ★
- Winter’s Tale ★
- The Fish That Ate the Whale: The Life and Times of America’s Banana King ★
- Fortune’s Formula: The Untold Story of the Scientific Betting System That Beat the Casinos and Wall Street
2018
38 books
- The World is a Narrow Bridge
- Cape Cod
- The Outermost House ★
- Foundation
- Leonardo da Vinci
- Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
- Deep Thinking: Where Machine Intelligence Ends and Human Creativity Begins
- Never Split the Difference: Negotiating as if Your Life Depended on It
- Fashion Climbing
- Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry into the Value of Work
- Creative Selection: Inside Apple’s Design Process During the Golden Age of Steve Jobs
- Bobiverse Trilogy ★
- Niche Down
- Island ★
- The Great Halifax Explosion
- Hooked
- Hacking Growth
- Lost and Founder: A Painfully Honest Field Guide to the Startup World
- Secret Sauce
- Luna: Wolf Moon
- High Growth Handbook
- The Three-Body Problem ★
- Exit West ★
- Ghost in the Wires
- Play Bigger: How Pirates, Dreamers, and Innovators Create and Dominate Markets ★
- Rise and Fall of the Dodo
- "What Do You Care What Other People Think?"
- Conspiracy
- Prediction Machines
- Reamde ★
- Mr. Eternity
- The Martian Chronicles
- The Einstein Intersection
- Growth Hacker Marketing
- Tricks of the Mind
- Building a StoryBrand: Clarify Your Message So Customers Will Listen
- Kindred ★
- A Mind at Play: How Claude Shannon Invented the Information Age ★
2017
22 books
- Philip K. Dick’s Electric Dreams
- Stories of Your Life and Others ★
- A Burglar’s Guide to the City
- The Story of Sushi: An Unlikely Saga of Raw Fish and Rice
- The Island at the Center of the World: The Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan and the Forgotten Colony That Shaped America ★
- Boon Island: Including Contemporary Accounts of the Wreck of the Nottingham Galley
- The Secret Life of Lobsters: How Fishermen and Scientists Are Unraveling the Mysteries of Our Favorite Crustacean ★
- Show Your Work ★
- Pulphead: Essays
- Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
- The Gentle Giants of Ganymede
- Shoe Dog
- Inherit the Stars
- Giants’ Star ★
- On the Move: A Life
- The Magic of Thinking Big
- The E-Myth Revisited
- ‘Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman!’: Adventures of a Curious Character ★
- The Art of Learning
- The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers ★
- Forward Tilt: An Almanac for Personal Growth ★
- Luna: New Moon
2016
14 books
- Tools of Titans
- Townie: A Memoir
- Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis ★
- Deep Work – Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World
- Seveneves ★
- Maus I – My Father Bleeds History ★
- Algorithms to Live By – The Computer Science of Human Decisions
- Legends of the Fall
- The Man in the High Castle
- Pivot – The Only Move That Matters Is Your Next One
- Snow Crash ★
- Rework
- My First Summer in the Sierra
- Touching the Wild