A list of books I’ve read in the past year or so since I started keeping track.

2026

  • The Way of Excellence by Brad Stulberg*
  • The Score by C. Thi Nguyen (audiobook)*
  • A Swim in a Pond and the Rain by George Saunders*
  • The Black Swan by Nassim Nicholas Taleb*

2025

  • Zen and The Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pirsig
  • How to Read a Book by Mortimer J Adler and Charles Van Doren
  • A Rulebook for Arguments by Anthony Weston
  • Abundance by Ezra Klein and Derek and Thompson (audiobook)
  • Meditations for Mortals by Oliver Burkeman
  • Genius by James Gleick*
  • The Extinction of Experience by Christine Rosen*
  • Atomic Habits by James Clear*
  • Deep Work by Cal Newport
  • Rapt by Winifred Gallagher
  • Master of Change by Brad Stulberg
  • Artemis Fowl by Eion Colfer*
  • Get Better at Anything by Scott Young*
  • Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
  • Awareness by Anthony de Mello
  • On Writing by Stephen King
  • Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders
  • Fledgling by Octavia E Butler (audiobook)*
  • Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut

* unfinished