Date |
Title |
Author |
Rating |
Notes |
2024-04-05 |
Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World |
Jack Weatherford |
*** |
- |
2024-03-26 |
Feel Good Productivity |
Ali Abdaal |
*** |
- |
2024-03-24 |
Into the Wild |
Jon Krakauer |
**** |
- |
2024-03-22 |
No Longer Human |
Osamu Dazai |
*** |
- |
2024-03-18 |
Happy City |
Charles Montgomery |
** |
- |
2024-03-13 |
Zero to One |
Peter Thiel |
** |
- |
2024-03-13 |
Devil House |
John Darnielle |
** |
- |
2024-03-09 |
Amusing Ourselves to Death |
Neil Postman |
***** |
- |
2024-03-04 |
The Making of Prince of Persia |
Jordan Mechner |
***** |
- |
2024-02-24 |
Stoner |
John Wiliams |
***** |
- |
2024-02-21 |
Land is a Big Deal |
Lars Doucet |
**** |
- |
2024-02-03 |
Man's Search for Meaning |
Viktor Frankl |
*** |
- |
2024-01-27 |
A Swim in a Pond in the Rain |
George Saunders |
***** |
- |
2024-01-26 |
A Million Miles in a Thousand Years |
Donald Miller |
** |
- |
2024-01-17 |
Pastoralia |
George Saunders |
***** |
- |
2024-01-07 |
In Persuasion Nation |
George Saunders |
**** |
- |
2024-01-01 |
Doom Guy |
John Romero |
***** |
- |
2023 #34 |
Civilwarland in Bad Decline |
George Saunders |
Loved it |
- |
2023 #33 |
On Writing |
Stephen King |
OK |
- |
2023 #32 |
Attached |
Amir Levine |
Liked it |
- |
2023 #31 |
Working |
Robert Caro |
Loved it |
- |
2023 #30 |
Getting Things Done |
David Allen |
Liked it |
- |
2023 #29 |
The Lathe of Heaven |
Ursula K. Le Guin |
Loved it |
- |
2023 #28 |
Hillbilly Elegy |
J.D. Vance |
Liked it |
- |
2023 #27 |
Hackers |
Steven Levy |
Loved it |
- |
2023 #26 |
Our Band Could Be Your Life |
Michael Azerrad |
Loved it |
- |
2023 #25 |
Born to Run |
Christoper McDougall |
Liked it |
- |
2023 #24 |
Buffett: The Making of an American Capitalist |
Roger Lowenstein |
Liked it |
- |
2023 #23 |
The Death and Life of Great American Cities |
Jane Jacobs |
Loved it |
- |
2023 #22 |
The Defining Decade |
Meg Jay |
Liked it |
- |
2023 #21 |
A Short History of Nearly Everything |
Bill Bryson |
Liked it |
- |
2023 #20 |
Sun and Steel |
Yukio Mishima |
Loved it |
- |
2023 #19 |
How to Write One Song |
Jeff Tweedy |
Liked it |
- |
2023 #18 |
The Black Swan |
Nassim Taleb |
Liked it |
- |
2023 #17 |
REDACTED |
REDACTED |
Loved it |
- |
2023 #16 |
The Sound and the Fury |
William Faulkner |
Loved it |
- |
2023 #15 |
Slaughterhouse-Five |
Kurt Vonnegut |
Loved it |
- |
2023 #14 |
Tracking Personal Finances Using Python |
Siddhant Goel |
Liked it |
- |
2023 #13 |
Horizontal Rust |
Ned Russin |
Loved it |
Unexpectedly fantastic |
2023 #12 |
Four Thousand Weeks |
Oliver Burkeman |
Liked it |
- |
2023 #11 |
Nine Stories |
J.D. Salinger |
Liked it |
The Laughing Man, For Esme, Teddy |
2023 #10 |
The Catcher in the Rye |
J.D. Salinger |
Liked it |
- |
2023 #9 |
Sanshiro |
Natsume Soseki |
Meh |
- |
2023 #8 |
Where I'm Calling From |
Raymond Carver |
Loved it |
Nobody Said Anything, Why Don't You Dance?, So Much Water So Close To Home, Fever |
2023 #7 |
The Drama of the Gifted Child |
Alice Miller |
Liked it |
Less pretentious than it sounds |
2023 #6 |
Bowling Alone |
Robert Putnam |
Loved it |
A bit of a slog in the first half but worth it |
2023 #5 |
The Magic of Thinking Big |
David Schwartz |
Liked it |
Laugh out loud cheesy |
2023 #4 |
Stolen Focus |
Johann Hari |
Liked it |
- |
2023 #3 |
Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Many Years of Pilgrimage |
Haruki Murakami |
Liked it |
- |
2023 #2 |
John Adams |
David McCullough |
Loved it |
He's just like me |
2023 #1 |
The Soul of a New Machine |
Tracy Kidder |
Liked it |
- |
2022 |
Universal Harvester |
John Darnielle |
Meh |
Not terrible but disappointing after WiWV |
2022 |
Wolf in White Van |
John Darnielle |
Loved it |
Excellent |
2022 |
The WoW Diary |
John Staats |
Loved it |
Must-read for WoW dudes |
2022 |
Kitchen Confidential |
Anthony Bourdain |
Loved it |
- |
2022 |
Disrupted |
Dan Lyons |
Liked it |
- |
2022 |
Looking For Calvin & Hobbes |
Nevin Martell |
Liked it |
- |
2022 |
The Only Rule Is It Has to Work |
Ben Lindbergh, Sam Miller |
Loved it |
- |
2022 |
Anything You Want |
Derek Sivers |
Meh |
- |
2022 |
Phenthylamines I Have Known and Loved |
Alexander Shulgin, Ann Shulgin |
Loved it |
- |
2022 |
On the Road |
Jack Kerouac |
Loved it |
- |
2022 |
Snow Crash |
Neal Stephenson |
Liked it |
- |
2022 |
Vagabonding |
Rolf Potts |
Liked it |
- |
2021 |
Meditations |
Marcus Aurelius |
Meh |
- |
2021 |
The Crying of Lot 49 |
Thomas Pynchon |
Liked it |
- |
2021 |
The 4-Hour Work Week |
Tim Ferriss |
Liked it |
- |
2021 |
Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! |
Richard Feynman |
Loved it |
- |
2021 |
Masters of Doom |
David Kushner |
Loved it |
Reads like fiction |
2021 |
Blood Meridian |
Cormac McCarthy |
Loved it |
The Judge is right |
2021 |
Siddhartha |
Herman Hesse |
Loved it |
- |
2021 |
Metamorphosis |
Franz Kafka |
Liked it |
- |
2021 |
Platform |
Michel Houellebecq |
Meh |
Least favorite Houellebecq so far |
2021 |
Submission |
Michel Houellebecq |
Loved it |
- |
2021 |
Brave New World |
Aldous Huxley |
Liked it |
- |
2021 |
1984 |
George Orwell |
Liked it |
- |