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What I've Been Reading

2025

  1. Sweat by Lynn Nottage
  2. In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens by Alice Walker
  3. Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
  4. The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X with Alex Haley
  5. The Stone Sky by N. K. Jemisin
  6. Stiff by Mary Roach
  7. Debt: The First 5,000 Years by David Graeber
  8. The Anthropocene Reviewed by John Green
  9. The Obelisk Gate by N. K. Jemisin
  10. When the Earth Was Green by Riley Black
  11. The Fifth Season by N. K. Jemisin
  12. Which country has the world's best health care? by Ezekiel J. Emanuel
  13. A Desolation Called Peace by Arkady Martine
  14. The Dawn of Everything by David Graeber and David Wengrow
  15. A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine
  16. An Indigenous People's History of the United States by Roxanne-Dunbar Ortiz
  17. Hunting by Stars by Cherie Dimaline
  18. AI Engineering by Chip Huyen
  19. The Will to Change by bell hooks
  20. Free Agent Nation by Daniel Pink

2024

  1. On Loyalty by Troy Jollimore
  2. How to Take Smart Notes by Sönke Ahrens
  3. Nexus by Yuval Noah Harari
  4. Confident Ruby by Avdi Grimm
  5. Noor by Nnedi Okorafor
  6. The AWK Programming Language by Alfred V. Aho, Peter J. Weinberger and Brian W. Kernighan
  7. Autocracy Inc. by Anne Applebaum
  8. Useful Not True by Derek Sivers
  9. Survival of the Friendliest by Brian Hare and Vanessa Woods
  10. The Most Good You Can Do by Peter Singer
  11. The Free People's Village by Sim Kern
  12. The Culture Code by Daniel Coyle

2023

  1. Refuse to Choose! by Barbara Sher
  2. Against the Loveless World by Susan Abulhawa
  3. The Next Millionaire Next Door by Sarah Stanley Fallaw
  4. Freedom Is a Constant Struggle by Angela Davis
  5. The Good Life for Wage Slaves by Robert Wringham
  6. Palestine by Joe Sacco
  7. How Minds Change: The Surprising Science of Belief, Opinion, and Persuasion by David McRaney
  8. A Prosperous Way Down by Howard T. Odom and Elizabeth C. Odom
  9. A Handmade life by William Coperthwaite
  10. 98.6 Degrees - The Art of Keeping your Ass Alive! by Cody Lundum
  11. Early Retirement Extreme by Jacob Lund Fisker (reread)
  12. Poverty, By America by Matthew Desmond
  13. Power to the Public by Tara Dawson McGuiness and Hana Schank
  14. A People's Guide to Capitalism by Hadas Their
  15. Wild Problems by Russ Roberts

2022

  1. The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson
  2. The Persuaders by Anand Giridharadas
  3. The Marrow Thieves by Cherie Dimaline
  4. Chokepoint Capitalism by Rebecca Giblin and Cory Doctorow
  5. Alfajiri by Michael LaBorn
  6. Persepolis 2 - The Story of a Return by Marjane Satrapi
  7. Persepolis - The Story of a Childhood by Marjane Satrapi
  8. All About Love - New Visions by bell hooks [4/5 stars]
  9. Termination Shock by Neal Stephenson [3/5 stars]
  10. Laziness Does Not Exist by Devon Price [5/5 stars]
  11. Unwinding Anxiety by Judson Brewer [3/5 stars]

2021

  1. The CRPG Book edited by Felipe Pepe
  2. On Desire: Why We Want What We Want by William B. Irvine
  3. Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle by Amelia Nagoski and Emily Nagoski
  4. The Secret Life of Groceries by Benjamin Lorr [4/5 stars]
  5. Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir [4/5 stars]
  6. How to Think Like a Roman Emperor: The Stoic Philosophy of Marcus Aurelius by Donald J. Robertson
  7. Skin in the Game by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  8. How to Live by Derek Sivers [4/5 stars]
  9. Clean Getaway by Nic Stone
  10. The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix [4/5 stars]

2020

  1. Hell Yeah or No: What's Worth Doing by Derek Sivers
  2. The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right by Atul Gawande
  3. The Obstacle Is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph by Ryan Holiday
  4. On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century by Timothy Snyder
  5. Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson
  6. The Great Mental Models: General Thinking Concepts by Shane Parrish
  7. How to Live: A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer by Sarah Bakewell
  8. The Half-life of Facts: Why Everything We Know Has an Expiration Date by Samuel Arbesman
  9. A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
  10. Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration by Ed Catmull
  11. How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
  12. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
  13. Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain by Maryanne Wolf
  14. Where Good Ideas Come From by Steven Johnson
  15. Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl
  16. Energy: A Human History by Richard Rhodes
  17. The Wright Brothers by David McCullough
  18. Wit and Wisdom from Poor Richard's Almanack by Benjamin Franklin
  19. Courage Under Fire: Testing Epictetus's Doctrines in a Laboratory of Human Behavior by James B. Stockdale
  20. Radical Candor: Be a Kick-Ass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity by Kim Malone Scott
  21. The Victorian Internet: The Remarkable Story of the Telegraph and the Nineteenth Century's On-line Pioneers by Tom Standage
  22. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
  23. Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  24. Micromastery: Learn Small, Learn Fast, and Find the Hidden Path to Happiness by Robert Twigger
  25. The War on Normal People: The Truth About America's Disappearing Jobs and Why Universal Basic Income Is Our Future by Andrew Yang
  26. Liar's Poker by Michael Lewis
  27. Aha!: The Moments of Insight that Shape Our World by William B. Irvine
  28. Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup by John Carreyrou
  29. When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing by Daniel H. Pink
  30. Food Rules: An Eater's Manual by Michael Pollan
  31. Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
  32. The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting up a Generation for Failure by Jonathan Haidt
  33. The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate — Discoveries from a Secret World by Peter Wohlleben
  34. The Second Mountain: The Quest for a Moral Life by David Brooks

2019

  1. Building a Better World in Your Backyard: Instead of Being Angry at Bad Guys by Paul Wheaton
  2. Permanent Record by Edward Snowden
  3. How to Live Well Without Owning a Car: Save Money, Breathe Easier, and Get More Mileage Out of Life by Chris Balish
  4. Ultralearning: Master Hard Skills, Outsmart the Competition, and Accelerate Your Career by Scott H. Young
  5. The Stoic Challenge: A Philosopher's Guide to Becoming Tougher, Calmer, and More Resilient by William B. Irvine
  6. Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World by David Epstein
  7. Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products by Nir Eyal
  8. Circe by Madeline Miller
  9. Every Tool's a Hammer: Life Is What You Make It by Adam Savage
  10. Billion Dollar Whale: The Man Who Fooled Wall Street, Hollywood, and the World by Tom Wright
  11. Obfuscation: A User's Guide for Privacy and Protest by Finn Brunton
  12. Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World by Cal Newport
  13. The Dark Forest by Liu Cixin
  14. Kissing Fish: christianity for people who don’t like christianity by Roger Wolsey
  15. Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
  16. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
  17. Transformative Experience by L.A. Paul
  18. Kindred by Octavia E. Butler
  19. Team Human by Douglas Rushkoff
  20. Educated by Tara Westover

2018 and before

Since I remember reading these, but not precisely when, they're ordered by publication date