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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 (re-reads are conveniently marked with an asterisk), 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 (and a bunch that aren't even technically books... comics, audiobooks, or essays, anyone?), 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 Sword of Shannara by Terry Brooks
[# ] 5%
The Anxious Generation by Jonathan Haidt
[#### ] 24%
Same as Ever by Morgan Housel
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Books Read in 2024

Good Inside by Dr. Becky Kennedy
Managing Humans by Michael Lopp
* The Dhammapada by Thomas Byrom
An Open Heart by The Dalai Lama
The Bhagavad-Gita by Barbara Stoler Miller
On Bullshit by Harry G. Frankfurt
Please Unsubscribe, Thanks! by Julio Vincent Gambuto
Good Fucking Manners by Simon Griffin
Be Useful by Arnold Schwarzenegger
The Nineties by Chuck Klosterman
The Craft by John Dickie
The Celestine Prophecy (Celestine Prophecy #1) by James Redfield
Just One Damned Thing After Another (Chronicles of St. Mary's #1) by Jodi Taylor
Letters to a Starseed by Rebecca Campbell
* The Art of Deception by Kevin Mitnick
Die With Zero by Bill Perkins
The Way of the Boddhisattva by Shantideva
Every Tool's a Hammer by Adam Savage
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin
The Lost Keys of Freemasonry by Manly P. Hall

Recommended

Good Inside by Dr. Becky Kennedy
Managing Humans by Michael Lopp
* The Dhammapada by Thomas Byrom
An Open Heart by The Dalai Lama
The Bhagavad-Gita by Barbara Stoler Miller
On Bullshit by Harry G. Frankfurt
Please Unsubscribe, Thanks! by Julio Vincent Gambuto
Just One Damned Thing After Another (Chronicles of St. Mary's #1) by Jodi Taylor
* The Art of Deception by Kevin Mitnick
Every Tool's a Hammer by Adam Savage
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin

Abandoned

The Compassionate Samurai by Brian Klemmer
Six Questions of Socrates by Christopher Phillips

Books Read in 2023

Destructive Reasoning (The Authorities #2) by Scott Meyer
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
* Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
The Mister Rogers Effect by Anita Knight Kuhnley
No Cure for Being Human by Kate Bowler
No Rules Rules by Reed Hastings and Erin Meyer
This Is How We Do It: A Pep Talk by Kevin Hart
Measure What Matters by John Doerr
The Ride of a Lifetime by Robert Iger
Playing with Fire by Gordon Ramsay
Letters from a Stoic by Lucius Seneca
Ted Talks by Chris Anderson
* The Complete Book of Five Rings by Miyamoto Musashi
The Comfort Book by Matt Haig
The Psychology of Money by Morgan Housel
We Are In This Together by Beth Kempton
The Tattooist of Auschwitz (The Tattooist of Auschwitz #1) by Heather Morris
Slaying the Dragon by Ben Riggs
Shoe Dog by Phil Knight
Discipline is Destiny by Ryan Holiday
* Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Harry Potter #1) by J.K. Rowling
Leaders Eat Last by Simon Sinek
Multiplier by Liz Wiseman
The Woods Out Back by R. A. Salvatore
Starry Messenger by Neil deGrasse Tyson
Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind by Shunryu Suzuki
The Grip of It by Jac Jemc
Joel on Software by Joel Spolsky
Iron John by Robert Bly
The Dhammapada by Thomas Byrom
Barbarians Led by Bill Gates by Jennifer Edstrom and Marlin Eller
No Mud, No Lotus by Thich Nhat Hanh
Dare to Lead by Brené Brown
Tao Teh Ching by Lao Tzu
* The 4-Hour Workweek by Timothy Ferriss
The Nerdist Way by Chris Hardwick
Tools of Titans by Timothy Ferriss
Soul Boom by Rainn Wilson
The $100 Startup by Chris Guillebeau
The Terminal List by Jack Carr

Recommended

* Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
No Cure for Being Human by Kate Bowler
No Rules Rules by Reed Hastings and Erin Meyer
Measure What Matters by John Doerr
The Ride of a Lifetime by Robert Iger
Letters from a Stoic by Lucius Seneca
Ted Talks by Chris Anderson
* The Complete Book of Five Rings by Miyamoto Musashi
The Comfort Book by Matt Haig
The Psychology of Money by Morgan Housel
Slaying the Dragon by Ben Riggs
Shoe Dog by Phil Knight
Discipline is Destiny by Ryan Holiday
* Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Harry Potter #1) by J.K. Rowling
Leaders Eat Last by Simon Sinek
Starry Messenger by Neil deGrasse Tyson
The Grip of It by Jac Jemc
Joel on Software by Joel Spolsky
Iron John by Robert Bly
The Dhammapada by Thomas Byrom
No Mud, No Lotus by Thich Nhat Hanh
Tao Teh Ching by Lao Tzu
* The 4-Hour Workweek by Timothy Ferriss
The Nerdist Way by Chris Hardwick
Tools of Titans by Timothy Ferriss

Abandoned

The Magic (The Secret #3) by Rhonda Byrne

Books Read in 2022

Goal: 85 of 50

Atomic Habits by James Clear
Everything Is F*cked by Mark Manson
Verses from the Center by Stephen Batchelor
Blood, Sweat, and Pixels by Jason Schreier
Quit Like a Millionaire by Kristy Shen and Bryce Leung
The Chaos Protocols by Gordon White
The Bullet Journal Method by Ryder Carroll
Casino Royale (James Bond #1) by Ian Fleming
Illusions by Richard Bach
How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie
* Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
Superconnector by Scott Gerber and Ryan Paugh
How the Mighty Fall by Jim Collins
* Timeline by Michael Crichton
Emergency by Neil Strauss
How to Be Comfortable with Being Uncomfortable by Ben Aldridge
Breath by James Nestor
Freemasons for Dummies by Christopher Hodapp
Peace Is Every Breath by Thich Nhat Hanh
Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman
Radical Candor by Kim Scott
Call of Cthulhu by H.P. Lovecraft
Ikigai by Hector Garcia & Francesc Miralles
Raising Good Humans by Hunter Clarke-Fields
Practical Doomsday by Michal Zalewski
Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl
Where the Deer and the Antelope Play by Nick Offerman
The Second Mountain by David Brooks
Narconomics by Tom Wainwright
Deep Work by Cal Newport
The 10x Rule by Grant Cardone
The Magicians by Lev Grossman
The Last Shadow (Ender's Saga #6) by Orson Scott Card
In the Beginning was the Command Line by Neal Stephenson
The Art of War by Sun Tzu
As a Man Thinketh by James Allen
How to Kill a City by P.E. Moskowitz
Amp It Up by Frank Slootman
The Dilbert Principle by Scott Adams
The Happiness Advantage by Shawn Achor
* The 4-Hour Body by Timothy Ferriss
The Little Book of Stoicism by Jonas Salzgeber
On Writing by Stephen King
The Complete Fables by Aesop
* The Essential Guide to Freelance Writing by Zachary Petit
X-Men: God Loves, Man Kills by Chris Claremont and Brent Anderson
Afterlife with Archie: Escape from Riverdale by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa and Francesco Francavilla
Lacero by Andy Weir
Rich Dad, Poor Dad by Robert Kiyosaki
The Automatic Millionaire by David Bach
The Call of the Wild by Jack London
2BR02B by Kurt Vonnegut
The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
How to Do Nothing by Jenny Odell
Randomize (Forward Collection #6) by Andy Weir
Ark (Forward Collection #1) by Veronica Roth
Summer Frost (Forward Collection #2) by Blake Crouch
Emergency Skin (Forward Collection #3) by N.K. Jemisin
You Have Arrived at Your Destination (Forward Collection #4) by Amor Towles
The Last Conversation (Forward Collection #5) by Paul Tremblay
Start with Why by Simon Sinek
Constance (Constance #1) by Matthew FitzSimmons
The Professor and the Madman by Simon Winchester
My Evil Mother by Margaret Atwood
Happier at Home by Gretchen Rubin
On the Shortness of Life by Seneca
Animal Farm by George Orwell
The Safety Trap by Spencer Coursen
Paganism for Prisoners by Awyn Dawn
The Checklist Manifesto by Atul Gawande
The Kybalion by Three Initiates
Asatru by Erin Lale
The Final Empire (Mistborn #1) by Brandon Sanderson
A Change of Plans by Dennis E. Taylor
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy #1) by Douglas Adams
The Emerald Tablets of Thoth The Atlantean by M. Doreal
The Male Pagan by John Simone
Low Magick by Lon Milo DuQuette
Bullshit Jobs by David Graeber
* A Wrinkle in Time (Time Quintet #1) by Madeleine L'Engle
* Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Harry Potter #1) by J.K. Rowling
Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals by Oliver Burkeman
Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George
The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
The Authorities (The Authorities #1) by Scott Meyer

Recommended

Atomic Habits by James Clear
Everything Is F*cked by Mark Manson
Illusions by Richard Bach
* Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
Emergency by Neil Strauss
Breath by James Nestor
Radical Candor by Kim Scott
Practical Doomsday by Michal Zalewski
Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl
Deep Work by Cal Newport
As a Man Thinketh by James Allen
The Happiness Advantage by Shawn Achor
On Writing by Stephen King
X-Men: God Loves, Man Kills by Chris Claremont and Brent Anderson
The Call of the Wild by Jack London
How to Do Nothing by Jenny Odell
Summer Frost (Forward Collection #2) by Blake Crouch
Emergency Skin (Forward Collection #3) by N.K. Jemisin
The Professor and the Madman by Simon Winchester
On the Shortness of Life by Seneca
Animal Farm by George Orwell
The Safety Trap by Spencer Coursen
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy #1) by Douglas Adams
Low Magick by Lon Milo DuQuette
Bullshit Jobs by David Graeber
* A Wrinkle in Time (Time Quintet #1) by Madeleine L'Engle
* Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Harry Potter #1) by J.K. Rowling
Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals by Oliver Burkeman
Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George
The Authorities (The Authorities #1) by Scott Meyer

Abandoned

* I Will Teach You to Be Rich by Ramit Sethi
The Gnostic Gospels by Elaine Pagels
* Unauthorized Access by Wil Allsopp
Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman
The Way of Qigong by Kenneth S. Cohen
Along Came a Spider (Alex Cross #1) by James Patterson

Books Read in 2021

Goal: 86 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
Rework by Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson
Essentialism by Greg McKeown
Peace Is Every Step by Thich Nhat Hanh
The Making of a Manager by Julie Zhuo
* The Art of Happiness by Dalai Lama XIV and Howard C. Cutler
Indistractable by Nir Eyal
Invisible Influence by Jonah Berger
* Enchantment by Guy Kawasaki
* Growth Hacker Marketing by Ryan Holiday
Killing Sacred Cows by Garrett B. Gunderson
Nurture Shock by Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman
A Promised Land by Barack Obama
Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer
The Shining (The Shining #1) by Stephen King
Coding Democracy by Maureen Webb
Permanent Record by Edward Snowden
How to Avoid a Climate Disaster by Bill Gates
The 80/80 Marriage by Nate Klemp and Kaley Klemp
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
When to Rob a Bank by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
The Obstacle Is the Way by Ryan Holiday
The Soul of Discipline by Kim John Payne
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
Ego Is the Enemy by Ryan Holiday
* The 4-Hour Chef by Timothy Ferriss
The Stoic Challenge by William B. Irvine
Stillness Is the Key by Ryan Holiday
* The 4-Hour Workweek by Timothy Ferriss
Incredible Doom by Matthew Bogart and Jesse Holden
How to be a Modern Samurai by Antony Cummins
Dancing with Dragons by D.J. Conway
Kill It with Fire by Marianne Bellotti
Leadership Strategy and Tactics by Jocko Willink
Zen in the Martial Arts by Joe Hyams
* Magician: Master (Riftwar Saga #2) by Raymond E. Feist
Otherworld (Last Reality #1) by Jason Segel and Kirsten Miller
My Best Friend's Exorcism by Grady Hendrix
Dark Matter by Blake Crouch
Digital Minimalism by Cal Newport
Futureproof by Kevin Roose
Why Be Happy? by Scott Haas
Zero to One by Peter Thiel
Your Fully Charged Life by Meaghan B. Murphy
What If? by Randall Munroe
Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
Heaven's River (Bobiverse #4) by Dennis E. Taylor
hello, habits by Fumio Sasaki
The Complete Book of Five Rings by Miyamoto Musashi
Small Fry by Lisa Brennan-Jobs
The Boy Who Would Be King by Ryan Holiday
Darkly Dreaming Dexter (Dexter #1) by Jeff Lindsay
All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries #1) by Martha Wells
The Manual (Stoic Philosophy #1) by Epictetus
Carrie by Stephen King
Meditations (Stoic Philosophy #2) by Marcus Aurelius
The Paper Magician (The Paper Magician #1) by Charlie N. Holmberg
How to Think Like a Roman Emperor by Donald Robertson
Dissolving Classroom by Junji Ito
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V. E. Schwab
Why Buddhism is True by Robert Wright
Traction by Gino Wickman
The Exorcist (The Exorcist #1) by William Peter Blatty
Start. by Jon Acuff
The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse by Charlie Mackesy
Rapture for the Geeks by Richard Dooling
Neuromancer (Sprawl #1) by William Gibson
Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson
* Becoming a Better Programmer by Pete Goodliffe
Be More Yoda by Christian Blauvelt
Courage Is Calling by Ryan Holiday
Gates of Fire by Steven Pressfield
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami
The Road by Cormac McCarthy

Recommended

Goodbye Phone, Hello World by Paul Greenberg
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck by Mark Manson
The Cuckoo's Egg by Clifford Stoll
Gumption by Nick Offerman
Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer
The Obstacle Is the Way by Ryan Holiday
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
* The 4-Hour Workweek by Timothy Ferriss
How to be a Modern Samurai by Antony Cummins
Kill It with Fire by Marianne Bellotti
Zen in the Martial Arts by Joe Hyams
Digital Minimalism by Cal Newport
How to Think Like a Roman Emperor by Donald Robertson
Why Buddhism is True by Robert Wright
The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse by Charlie Mackesy
* Becoming a Better Programmer by Pete Goodliffe
Gates of Fire by Steven Pressfield
The Road by Cormac McCarthy

Abandoned

Apple by Jim Carlton
How to Be Human by Paula Cocozza
The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings #1) by J.R.R. Tolkien
Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Philosophy by James B. South
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. Pirsig
Click Here to Kill Everybody by Bruce Schneier

Books Read in 2020

* 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

Recommended

* Ender's Game (Ender's Saga #1) by Orson Scott Card
* Off to Be the Wizard (Magic 2.0 #1) by Scott Meyer