Library
I used to read a lot. As a child, and then as a teenager, I almost always had my face in a book. If my personal habits over the last decade are of any indication, my appetite for literature was fueled by the lack of portable technology available to me in the 90’s and early aughts—and as 2020 has taught all of us, what we need these days is less tech, not more.
So, in support of my single 2021 resolution to “slow the fuck down,” I’m going to replace my doomscrolling habit with a book-reading one, and what better way to do that than to hold myself accountable with a rolling log of books I have read? A book-logbook, if you will.
I should probably note that some of these books will be ones I’ve read dozens of times, while others will be one-and-dones (ones-and-done?). I’m sure there will be a few I don’t even bother to finish, but it’s my list and I’ll do what I want with it. Also, it’s important to acknowledge that some authors are great writers, but less-than-great people. It shouldn’t need to be said, but my choosing to read a book does not constitute support of an author’s personal beliefs (or even the contents of the book itself).
Currently Reading
- The Art of Happiness by Dalai Lama XIV and Howard C. Cutler
- The Shining (The Shining #1) by Stephen King
- Peace Is Every Step by Thich Nhat Hanh
- A Promised Land by Barack Obama
- Rework by Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson
Books Read in 2021
Goal: 12 of 20
- Goodbye Phone, Hello World by Paul Greenberg
- Ready Player Two (Ready Player One #2) by Ernest Cline
- Magician: Apprentice (Riftwar Saga #1) by Raymond E. Feist
- The Punch Escrow by Tal M. Klein
- The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck by Mark Manson
- The Cuckoo's Egg by Clifford Stoll
- Mage Against the Machine by Shaun Barger
- Origin (Robert Langdon #5) by Dan Brown
- The Forever War (The Forever War #1) by Joe Haldeman
- Gumption by Nick Offerman
- Astrophysics for People in a Hurry by Neil deGrasse Tyson
- Another Turn of the Crank by Wendell Berry
Books Read in 2020
Goal: 8 of 0
- Dragon Wing (Death Gate Cycle #1) by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman
- Ghost in the Wires by Kevin D. Mitnick
- Ender's Game (Ender's Saga #1) by Orson Scott Card
- Outland (World Lines #1) by Dennis E. Taylor
- Off to Be the Wizard (Magic 2.0 #1) by Scott Meyer
- The Vexed Generation (Magic 2.0 #6) by Scott Meyer
- Beacon 23 by Hugh Howey
- Armada by Ernest Cline
Book Backlog
- The Making of a Manager by Julie Zhuo
- When to Rob a Bank by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
- Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson
- Small Fry by Lisa Brennan-Jobs
- Blood, Sweat, and Pixels by Jason Schreier
- Permanent Record by Edward Snowden
- The Obstacle Is the Way by Ryan Holiday
- Click Here to Kill Everybody by Bruce Schneier
- Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
- A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire #1) by George R.R. Martin
- Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman
- 1984 by George Orwell
- Ego Is the Enemy by Ryan Holiday
- REAMDE by Neal Stephenson
- Band of Brothers by Stephen E. Ambrose
- The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
- Gates by Stephen Manes and Paul Andrews
- Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari
- Casino Royale (James Bond #1) by Ian Fleming
- Neuromancer (Sprawl 0.5 #1) by William Gibson
- Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson
- A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
- Artemis by Andy Weir
- I Am America (And So Can You!) by Stephen Colbert
- The Phoenix Project by Gene Kim, Kevin Behr, and George Spafford
- Quit Like a Millionaire by Bryce Leung and Kristy Shen
- The Five Thieves of Happiness by John Izzo
- Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
- Good to Great by Jim Collins
- Essentialism by Greg McKeown
- Apple by Jim Carlton
- Indistractable by Nir Eyal
- Tribe of Mentors by Timothy Ferriss