Must Reads
- Thinking Fast and Slow
- The Dark Forest
- Being Mortal
- Bird by Bird
- The Psychology of Money
- A Little Life
- The Will of the Many
What I've read recently
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2024 (TBD)
- The Manager's Path
- Radical Candor
- The Stormlight Archive (series)
- Mistborn (series)
- Elantris
- Warbreaker
- Babel
- The Emperor's Soul
- The Will of the Many
- The Licanius Trilogy
- Red Rising (first trilogy)
- Red Rising (books 4-6)
- Jade War (trilogy)
2023 (14 books read)
- Conversations on Love
- Corrections in Ink
- I'm Glad My Mom Died
- Tomorrow, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
- A Higher Loyalty
- In the Dream House
- The Master: Roger Federer
- Going Infinite
- Never Let Me Go
2022 (25 books read)
- The Bomber Mafia
- The Making of Prince of Persia
- The Upside of Stress
- Different: Escaping the Competitive Herd
- Misery
- Our Missing Hearts
- Delivering Happiness
- Textbook Amy Krause Rosenthal
- The Anthropocene Reviewed
- Man's Search For Meaning
- The Plot
- Station Eleven
- Rules of Civility
- Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
- A Little Life
2021 (52 books read)
- Trick Mirror
- The Remains of the Day
- Crying in H Mart
- No Rules Rules: Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention
- A Thousand Splendid Suns
- Animal Farm
- On Writing
- Foundation Trilogy
- 1984
- Homeland Elegies
- The Coddling of the American Mind
- Hillbilly Elegy
- Homo Deus
- The Psychology of Money
- The Body: A Guide for Occupants
- Why We’re Polarized
- Uncanny Valley
- All the Light We Cannot See
- A Promised Land
2020 (53 books read)
- Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood
- Good Economics for Hard Times
- Invisible Monsters
- Hyperbole and a Half
- The Goldfinch
- Pet Sematary
- The Defining Decade: Why Your Twenties Matter
- Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
- Facebook: The Inside Story
- Flowers for Algernon
- Everything I Never Told You
- The Big Short
- The Kite Runner
- Dan Luu Essays: Dev Compensation, Hiring Lemons, Startup Tradeoffs
- Being Mortal
- Sh*t My Dad Says
2019 (37 books read)
- NYT Mag: Wealthy, Successful, and Miserable
- Super Pumped
- When Breath Becomes Air
- Bird by Bird
- Winners Take All
- The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon
- Thinking in Bets
- Educated
- The Butterfly Garden – The Collector Book 1
- The Making of a Manager
- Zero to One
- 21 Lessons for the 21st Century
- 12 Rules for Life
- True Places
- Becoming – Michelle Obama
- Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
- Why We Sleep
2018 (11 books read)
- Originals
- The Power of Habit
- Blink
- The Inheritance Cycle
2017 (5 books read)
- Thinking Fast and Slow
- Outliers
- The Three Body Problem Trilogy