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The End
Karl Ove Knausgård
★★★
Good Calories, Bad Calories
Gary Taubes
★★★½
Carry On, Jeeves
P.G. Wodehouse
★★★★

2023

The Wager
David Grann
★★★★
The Secret Race
Daniel Coyle
★★★★
Dancing in the Dark
Karl Ove Knausgård
★★★★½
Boyhood Island
Karl Ove Knausgård
★★★★
Finding Ultra
Rich Roll
★★★
Momo
Michael Ende
★★★½
Endurance
Alfred Lansing
★★★★★
The Joy of X
Steven Strogatz
★★★★
How to Catch a Mole
Marc Hamer
★★★½
A Man in Love
Karl Ove Knausgård
★★★★★
Aunts Aren’t Gentlemen
P.G. Wodehouse
★★★★
The Shallows
Nicholas Carr
★★

2022

The Case Against The Sexual Revolution
Louise Perry
★★★★
This is Not the End of the Book
Umberto Eco
★★★
The Death of the Artist
William Deresiewicz
★★★★★
Bullshit Jobs
David Graeber
★★★
Back Story
David Mitchell
★★★★★
How to Live
Derek Sivers
★★
How to Do Nothing
Jenny Odell
★★★★
The Tyranny of Merit
Michael J. Sandel
★★★
Dreyer’s English
Benjamin Dreyer
★★★★
Thank You, Jeeves
P.G. Wodehouse
★★★★
Shutdown
Adam Tooze
★★★
Digital Zettelkasten
David Kadavy
★★★
Quack This Way
Bryan A. Garner
★★★
A World of My Own
Robin Knox-Johnston
★★★★
Feeling Good
David D. Burns
★★★
A Changing World Order
Ray Dalio
★★★★
Becoming a Supple Leopard
Kelly Starrett
★★★★
Summer Lightning
P.G. Wodehouse
★★★★
A Place of My Own
Michael Pollan
★★★★★
How to Take Smart Notes
Sönke Ahrens
★★★★
The Death of Ivan Ilych
Leo Tolstoy
★
The Inimitable Jeeves
P.G. Wodehouse
★★★★
The House of Silk
Anthony Horowitz
★★★★
Dune
Frank Herbert
★★★★★
Just Keep Buying
Nick Maggiulli
★★★
A Gentleman in Moscow
Amor Towles
★★★★
Joy in the Morning
P.G. Wodehouse
★★★★★
In Praise of Idleness and Other Essays
Bertrand Russell
★★★
The End of Solitude
William Deresiewicz
★★★★
Project Hail Mary
Andy Weir
★★★★
Termination Shock
Neal Stephenson
★★★★
The Omnivore’s Dilemma
Michael Pollan
★★★
Stolen Focus
Johann Hari
★★★
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism
Shoshana Zuboff
★★★★

2021

Four Thousand Weeks
Oliver Burkeman
★★★
Greenlights
Matthew McConaughey
★★★
A Hunter-Gatherer’s Guide to the 21st Century
Heather E. Heying
★★★
Blockchain Chicken Farm
Xiaowei Wang
★★★★
1984
George Orwell
★★
The Act of Creation
Arthur Koestler
★★★★
The Visual Display of Quantitative Information
Edward R. Tufte
★★★★★
The Beginning of Infinity
David Deutsch
★★★★
Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore
Robin Sloan
★★★
Infinite Powers
Steven H. Strogatz
★★★★
Moab Is My Washpot
Stephen Fry
★★★★
The Scout Mindset
Julia Galef
★★
Cryptonomicon
Neal Stephenson
★★★★★
Essentialism
Greg McKeown
★★
Genius (The Natural History of Creativity)
Hans Jürgen Eysenck
★★★★
Beyond Order
Jordan B. Peterson
★★★★
Liquid Modernity
Zygmunt Bauman
★★★★
The Portable Nietzsche
Friedrich Nietzsche
★★★
The Almanack of Naval Ravikant
Eric Jorgenson
★★★
The Creative Habit
Twyla Tharp
★★
Birth of a Theorem
Cédric Villani
★★★
How Not to Die
Michael Greger
★★★
How Not To Be a Boy
Robert Webb
★★★★
Confessions of a Teenage Gamer
Nicolas Cole
★★★

2020

The Wisdom of Life
Arthur Schopenhauer
★★★
The Obstacle Is the Way
Ryan Holiday
★★★
With the End in Mind
Kathryn Mannix
★★★★
Dishonesty Is the Second-Best Policy
David Mitchell
★★★★★
Essays in Idleness
Yoshida Kenkō
★★★
A Death in the Family
Karl Ove Knausgård
★★★★★
Zen in the Art of Writing
Ray Bradbury
★★★
The Upside of Stress
Kelly McGonigal
★★★
I Am Pilgrim
Terry Hayes
★★★★
Highfire
Eoin Colfer
★★
How to Be Bored
Eva Hoffman
★★★
Transcend
Scott Barry Kaufman
★★
The Fountainhead
Ayn Rand
★★★★
Man’s Search for Meaning
Viktor E. Frankl
★★★★
The Accidental Superpower
Peter Zeihan
★★★★
The River of Consciousness
Oliver Sacks
★★★★
On the Move
Oliver Sacks
★★★
The Making of Prince of Persia
Jordan Mechner
★★★★
The Vignelli Canon
Massimo Vignelli
★★★
The Timeless Way of Building
Christopher W. Alexander
★★★
The Little Prince
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
★★
The Precipice
Toby Ord
★★★★
The Courage to Be Disliked
Ichiro Kishimi
★★★★★
The Art of Doing Science and Engineering
Richard Hamming
★★★★
The Sovereign Individual
James Dale Davidson
★★★★★
Walden
Henry David Thoreau
★★
Lessons in Stoicism
John Sellars
★★
A Mathematician’s Apology
G.H. Hardy
★★★
Make Time for Creativity
Brandon Stosuy
★★★

2019

Digital Minimalism
Cal Newport
★★★★
Skin in the Game
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
★★
The Elements of Style
William Strunk Jr.
★★★★★
So Good They Can’t Ignore You
Cal Newport
★★★★
Goals!
Brian Tracy
★★★
The Defining Decade
Meg Jay
★★
Superforecasting
Philip E. Tetlock
★★★
Writing Tools
Roy Peter Clark
★★★
Value Proposition Design
Alexander Osterwalder
★★★
Alibaba
Duncan Clark
★★★
No Excuses!
Brian Tracy
★★★
Scarcity
Sendhil Mullainathan
★★★
The Utopia of Rules
David Graeber
★★★
The Laws of Simplicity
John Maeda
★★★
Eat That Frog!
Brian Tracy
★★★
Thinking in Systems
Donella H. Meadows
★★★★
On Grand Strategy
John Lewis Gaddis
★★★
Antifragile
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
★★
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Robert M. Pirsig
★★★
Good Strategy Bad Strategy
Richard P. Rumelt
★★★
High Growth Handbook
Elad Gil
★★★★
Relentless
Tim S. Grover
★★★★
An Elegant Puzzle
Will Larson
★★★★
Steal Like an Artist
Austin Kleon
★★★
How to Become a Straight-A Student
Cal Newport
★★★★
UX for Lean Startups
Laura Klein
★★★
Business Model Generation
Alexander Osterwalder
★★★★
12 Rules for Life
Jordan B. Peterson
★★★★★
The God Delusion
Richard Dawkins
★★★
The 50th Law
50 Cent
★★★★
Get Together
Bailey Richardson
★★
Ultralearning
Scott H. Young
★★★★
The Selfish Gene
Richard Dawkins
★★★
Tempo
Venkatesh G. Rao
★★★★
When I Stop Talking, You’ll Know I’m Dead
Jerry Weintraub
★★★

2018

Meditations
Marcus Aurelius
★★★
Good to Great
James C. Collins
★★
Creative Strategy Generation
Bob Caporale
★★★
Certain to Win
Chet Richards
★★★
Game Theory at Work
James D. Miller
★★★
Deep Work
Cal Newport
★★★★★
Ikigai
Sebastian Marshall
★★★★
Great Mambo Chicken
Ed Regis
★★★
Atomic Habits
James Clear
★★★
Grit
Angela Duckworth
★★★
On Writing
Stephen King
★★★★
Mastery
Robert Greene
★★★★★
Gateless
Sebastian Marshall
★★★★
Machina
Sebastian Marshall
★★★
Good Profit
Charles G. Koch
★★
Every Tool’s a Hammer
Adam Savage
★★★
Extreme Ownership
Jocko Willink
★★★★
Freakonomics
Steven D. Levitt
★★★
Elon Musk
Ashlee Vance
★★★★
Genius
James Gleick
★★★★
Godel, Escher, Bach
Douglas R. Hofstadter
★★★★
Indistractable
Nir Eyal
★★★
How to Win Friends and Influence People
Dale Carnegie
★★★
Measure What Matters
John E. Doerr
★★★★

2017

The One Thing
Gary Keller
★★★
Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman!
Richard P. Feynman
★★★★★
Roguelike
Sebastian Marshall
★★★★
Steve Jobs
Walter Isaacson
★★★
Progression
Sebastian Marshall
★★★★
Scaling Lean
Ash Maurya
★★★★★
The War of Art
Steven Pressfield
★★★★
The Tipping Point
Malcolm Gladwell
★★
Zero to One
Peter Thiel
★★
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
Stephen R. Covey
★★★
The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt
Edmund Morris
★★★★
Who Moved My Cheese?
Spencer Johnson
★
The Alchemist
Paulo Coelho
★★★
Traction
Gabriel Weinberg
★★★
The Ten-Day MBA
Steven Silbiger
★★★
Pragma
Sebastian Marshall
★★★★
Outliers
Malcolm Gladwell
★★
The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs
Stephen Brusatte
★★★
The 33 Strategies of War
Robert Greene
★★★★
Running Lean
Ash Maurya
★★★★
The Power of Habit
Charles Duhigg
★★★
The Lean Startup
Eric Ries
★★★★
Own the Day, Own Your Life
Aubrey Marcus
★★★★★
Sapiens
Yuval Noah Harari
★★★★★
The Shifts and the Shocks
Martin Wolf
★★★
The Art of War
Sun Tzu
★★★
The 48 Laws of Power
Robert Greene
★★★★
The Gervais Principle
Venkatesh G. Rao
★★★★★
The Snowball
Alice Schroeder
★★★
The Intelligent Investor
Benjamin Graham
★★★★