logs/books

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 -