Reading List

2024

• A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine
• Lying by Sam Harris
• The Road by Cormac McCarthy (reread)
• The Motive by Patrick Lencioni
• Going Infinite by Michael Lewis
• The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny, and Murder by David Grann
• The Longest Race by Kara Goucher
• Deep Work by Cal Newport
• So Good They Can't Ignore You by Cal Newport
• Leviathan Wakes by James S.A. Corey
• Caliban's War by James S.A. Corey
• Choosing to Run by Des Linden
• The Algebra of Wealth by Scott Galloway
• Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann
• Build the Life You Want by Arthur C. Brooks
• The Anxious Generation by Jonathan Haidt
• Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
• Love Yourself Like Your Life Depends On It by Kamal Ravikant
• The Barn by Wright Thompson
• Red Sky Mourning by Jack Carr
• Revenge of the Tipping point by Malcolm Gladwell
• In My Time of Dying by Sebastian Junger
• The Pearl by John Steinbeck

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2023

• Nasty, Brutish, and Short: Adventures in Philosophy with My Kids by Scott Hershovitz
• Sapiens: A Graphic History, Volume 1: The Birth of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari by
• Do Hard Things: Why We Get Resilience Wrong and the Surprising Science of Real Toughness by Steve Magness
• The Glass Hotel by Emily St. Johns Mandel
• Never Finished by David Goggins
• The First to Die at the End by Adam Silvera
• Merchants of Doubt by Erik M. Conway and Naomi Oreskes
• Free Will by Sam Harris
• Don't Trust Your Gut by Seth Stephen-Davidowitz
• Meditations on Violence by Rory Miller
• The End of Faith by Sam Harris
• Home Game by Michael Lewis (reread)
• Scrum: The Art of Doing Twice as Much in Half the Time by Jeff Sutherland
• She Who Becomes the Sun by Shelby Parker-Chan
• Fatal Conveniences by Darin Olien
• Only the Dead by Jack Carr
• The Good Enough Job by Simone Stolzoff
• The Passenger by Cormac McCarthy
• Choose Strong by Sally Mcrae
• Conundrum by Jan Morris
• The Samurai's Garden by Gail Tsukiyama
• Outlive by Peter Attia
• Scarcity Brain by Michael Easter
• How to Stop Losing Your Sh*t With Your Kids by Carla Naumburg
• Ultralearning by Scott H. Young
• Same As Ever by Morgan Housel
• The Swedish Art of Aging Exuberantly by Margareta Magnusson
• No Easy Day by Mark Owen
• The Golden Spruce by John Vaillant

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2022

• Meditations by Marcus Aurelius, translated by Gregory Hays
• Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl
• Gates of Fire by Steven Pressfield
• Surprise, Kill, Vanish: The Secret History of the CIA Paramilitary Armies, Operators, and Assassins by Anna Jacobson
• essentialism by Greg McKeown
• Deep Survival by Laurence Gonzales
• Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson
• Run Faster from the 5K to the Marathon: How to Be Your Own Best Coach by
• Outdoor Kids in an Inside World by Steven Rinella
• Never Split the Difference by Chris Voss
• Endure by Cameron Hanes
• In the Blood by Jack Carr
• Finding Ultra by Rich Roll
• The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey by Candice Millard
• What Made Maddy Run: The Secret Struggles and Tragic Death of an All-American Teen by Kate Fagan
• Four-thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals by Oliver Burkeman
• Expectations by David Robson
• Lone Survivor by Marcus Luttrell with Patrick Robinson
• Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
• Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel
• Self Made Man by Norah Vincent

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2021

• The Seven Decisions by Andy Andrews
• Generation Kill by Evan Wright
• Empire of the Summer Moon by S.C. Gwynne
• Burn-In by August Cole and P.W. Singer
• The War of Art by Steven Pressfield
• Savage Son by Jack Carr
• Turning Pro by Steve Pressfield
• Own the Day, Own Your Life by Aubrey Marcus
• The Queen's Gambit by Walter Tevis
• Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy Seals Lead and Win by Jocko Willink and Leif Babin
• The Laws of Wealth by David Crosby
• Greenlights by Matthew McConaughey
• The Devil's Hand by Jack Carr
• The Premonition by Michael Lewis
• The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
• The Bomber Mafia by Malcolm Gladwell
• Freedom by Sebastian Junger
• Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand
• Emdure by Alex Hutchinson
• Count Down by Shanna H. Swan, PhD with Stacey Collins
• The Comfort Crisis by Michael Easter
• The Psychology of Money by Morgan Housel
• Lives of the Stoics by Ryan Holiday
• The Obstacle is the Way by Ryan Holiday
• Atomic Habits by James Clear
• The Code Breaker by Walter Isaacson
• Courage is Calling by Ryan Holiday

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2020

• Born a Crime by Trevor Noah
• The War on Normal People by Andrew Yang
• Civilized to Death by Christopher Ryan
• Contact by Carl Sagan
• Disappearing Earth by Julia Phillips
• Range by David Epstein
• American Assassin by Vince Flynn
• The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
• A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin
• Stattion Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
• Path of the Assassin by Brad Thor
• Kill Shot by Vince Flynn
• Blind Man's Bluff by Annette Lawrence Drew, Christopher Drew, and Sherry Sontag
• The Third Door by Alex Banayan
• Tuskegee Airman: The Biography of Charles E. McGee by Charlene E. McGee Smith
• Band of Brothers by Stephen E. Ambrose
• How We Fight For Our Lives by Saeed Jones
• Can't Hurt Me by David Goggins
• Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
• The Terminal List by Jack Carr
• They Both Die at the End by Adam Silvera
• War by Sebastian Junger
• Tribe by Sebastian Junger
• Breath by James Nestor
• The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder
• Geek Love by Katherine Dunn
• True Believer by Jack Carr
• The Street Lawyer by John Grisham
• Shoe Dog by Phil Knight
• Permanent Record by Edward Snowden

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2019

• Where Men Win Glory by Jon Krakauer
• Foundation by Isaac Asimov
• Living with a SEAL by Jesse Itzler
• To Shake the Sleeping Self by Jedidiah Jenkins
• Eiger Dreams by Jon Krakauer
• Millenial Money by Patrick O'Shaughnessy
• The Fifth Risk by Michael Lewis
• The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Robert A. Heinlein
• Educated by Tara Westover
• Casino Royale by Ian Fleming
• Measure What Matters by John Doerr
• Deep by James Nestor
• The Lost City of the Monkey God by Douglas Preston
• Shadow Divers by Robert Kurson
• The Razor's Edge by W Somerset Maugham
• American Gods by Neil Gaiman
• Sway by Ori Bratman and Rom Brafman
• Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
• Forever Free by Joe Haldeman
• Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman
• 13 Hours by Mitchell Zuckoff
• Mindset: The New Psychology of Success by Carol S. Dweck, PhD
• The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
• Area 51: An Uncensored History of America's Top Secret Military Base by Annie Jacobson
• A Separate Peace by John Knowles
• The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
• And The Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini
• Talkking to Strangers by Malcolm Gladwell
• The Testaments by Margaret Atwood

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2018

• The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
• Four Fish by Paul Greenberg
• Cosmos by Carl Sagan
• Astrophysics for People in a Hurry by Neil deGrasse Tyson
• Dune by Frank Herbert
• Dune Messiah by Frank Herbert
• Soldier Boy by Keely Hutton
• The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
• Artemis by Andy Weir
• Blankets by Craig Thompson
• Habibi by Craig Thompson
• Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
• Mindhunter by John Douglas and Mark Olshaker
• The North Water by Ian McGuire
• The Self-Driven Child by William Sixrad and Ned Johnson
• The Yellow Birds by Kevin Powers
• Born Standing Up by Steve Martin
• The Orchardist by Amanda Coplin
• A Grief Observed by C.S. Lewis
• Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain
• The Power of Broke by Daymond John
• A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
• Rocket Men by Robert Kurson
• The Alienist by Caleb Carr
• My Abandonment by Peter Rock
• The Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan
• Ghost Fleet by P,W, Singer and August Cole
• Act of War by Brad Thor
• Killing Floor by Lee Child
• Everybody Lies by Seth Stephens-Davidowitz

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2017

• Napoleon: A Concise Biography by David Bell
• The Undoing Project by Michael Lewis
• minimalism: live a meaningful life by Joshua Fields Millburn and Ryan Nicodemus
• Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert
• The Accidental Superpower by Peter Zeihan
• Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
• The Buyside by Turney Duff
• The Other Side of Wall Street by Todd A. Harrison
• Smart Money, Smart Kids by Dave Ramsey and Rachel Cruze
• Rastafari: A Very Short Introduction by Ennis B. Edmonds
• You Don't Have to be a Shark by Robert Herjavec
• The Tao of Pooh by Benjamin Huff
• Home Game by Michael Lewis
• The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck by Mark Manson
• Dreamland by David K. Randall
• Blitzed: Drugs in the Third Reich by Norman Ohler
• Storm in a Teacup by Helen Czerski
• The Golden Ocean by Patrick O'Brian
• Post Captain by Patrick O'Brian
• The China Study by T. Collin Campbell and Thomas M. Campbell
• The Stranger in the Woods by Michael Finkel
• The Son by Philipp Meyer
• The Last American Man by Elizabeth Gilbert
• American Rust by Philipp Meyer
• Sapiens by Yuuval Noah Harari
• Oregon: Myths and Legends by Jim Yuskavitch
• Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehsi Coates
• All The Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
• The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown