Here’s a list of the books I’ve finished over the past couple of years. All links are to Amazon and I’ve included longer reviews when I’ve felt compelled to.
2019
- Circe by Madeline Miller
2018
- Never Eat Alone by Keith Ferrazzi
- Great at Work by Morten Hansen
- Turn the Ship Around! by L. David Marquet
- The Elephant in the Brain by Kevin Simler
- Thinking in Bets by Annie Duke
- Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann
- The Checklist Manifesto by Atul Gawande
- The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck by Mark Manson
- When by Daniel H. Pink
- The Kremlin’s Candidate by Jason Matthews
- Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer
- Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat by Samin Nosrat
- Triggers by Marshall Goldsmith
- Robopocalypse by Daniel H. Wilson
- The Gone World by Tom Sweterlitsch
- Seeking Wisdom by Peter Bevelin
- Built by Roma Agrawal
- Hope Never Dies by Andrew Shaffer
- Storm in a Teacup by Helen Czerski
- The Culture Code by Daniel Coyle
- Setting the Table by Danny Meyer
- Arbitrary Stupid Goal by Tamara Shopsin
- Creative Selection by Ken Kocienda
- The Fifth Risk by Michael Lewis
- Gridiron Genius by Michael Lombardi
- Power of the Dog by Don Winslow
- Measure What Matters by John Doerr
- It Doesn’t Have to be Crazy at Work by Jason Fried
- The Captain Class by Sam Walker
- The Cartel by Don Winslow
2017
- Who Thought This Was a Good Idea? by Alyssa Mastromonaco
- Tribe of Mentors by Tim Ferriss
- Non-Violent Communication by Marshall Rosenberg
- 50 Inventions that Shaped the Modern Economy by Tim Harford
- High Output Management by Andrew Grove
- A Mind at Play: How Claude Shannon Invented the Information Age by Jimmy Soni and Rob Goodman
- Extreme You by Sarah Robb O’Hagan
- The Alliance by Reid Hoffman, Ben Casnocha, and Chris Yeh
- Rebirth by Kamal Ravikant
- Captivate by Vanessa Van Edwards
- The Coaching Habit by Michael Bungay Stanier
- Change Agent by Daniel Suarez
- Exit Strategy by Steve Hamilton
- Dark Matter by Blake Crouch
- The Second Life of Nick Mason by Steve Hamilton
- Radical Candor by Kim Scott
- Learn Better by Ulrich Boser
- It’s Your Ship by D. Michael Abrashoff
- Hit Makers by Derek Thompson
- The Effective Executive by Peter Drucker
- The Little Book of Hygge by Meik Wiking
- How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia by Mohsin Hamid
- Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang
- Never Split the Difference by Chris Voss with Tahl Raz
- Stretch by Scott Sonenshein
- How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie
- Designing Your Life by Bill Burnett and Dave Evans
- The Year Without Pants by Scott Berkun
- Tools of Titans by Tim Ferriss
- Shoe Dog by Phil Knight
- Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging by Sebastian Junger
2016
- Mr. Eternity by Aaron Thier
- Intuition Pumps by Daniel C. Dennett
- Brain Rules by John Medina
- Creativity Inc. by Ed Catmull with Amy Wallace
- Boyd: The Fighter Pilot Who Changed the Art of War by Robert Coram
- Pre-Suasion by Robert Cialdini
- Inferno by Dan Brown
- The Atlantis Gene by A.G. Riddle
- The Inevitable by Kevin Kelly
- The Travelers by Chris Pavone
- Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott
- Invisible Influence by Jonah Berger
- Ego is the Enemy by Ryan Holiday
- Seven Brief Lessons in Physics by Carlo Rovelli
- How Not to Be Wrong by Jordan Ellenberg
- Grit by Angela Duckworth
- Born for This by Chris Guillebeau
- Algorithms to Live By by Brian Christian
- Wait but Why Elon Musk Series by Tim Urban
- The Signal and The Noise by Nate Silver
- Peak by Anders Ericsson
- Mindware by Richard E. Nisbett
- I Am Pilgrim by Terry Hayes
- Smarter, Faster, Better by Charles Duhigg
- The Willpower Instinct by Kelly McGonigal
- Originals by Adam Grant
- Three Signs of a Miserable Job by Patrick Lencioni
- Superbosses by Sydney Finkelstein
- Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari
- Deep Work by Cal Newport
- The Good Gut by Justin Sonnenburg
- Smokejumpers by Jason A. Ramos
- Mindwise by Nicholas Epley
- Fluent Forever by Gabriel Wyner