This page serves as a repository for books that I have read. It is organized in reverse chronological order in yearly sections. As I finish reading books, they will be added to the top of the list. Where possible, I will make the book title a link to the Amazon.com page for the format in which the book was read.
I hope you find many enjoyable and useful books to read.
2024
2023
Confabulations by John Berger
A Deadly Wandering by Matt Richtel
When We Cease to Understand the World by Benjamin Labatut
Foster by Claire Keegan
Equal Rites by Terry Pratchett
The Manual: A Philosopher’s Guide to Life by Epictetus
Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan
Gift from the Sea by Anne Morrow Lindbergh
The Go-Giver: A Little Story about a Powerful Business Idea by Bob Burg
Ghosts of Ascalon by Matt Forbeck
George’s Marvelous Medicine by Roald Dahl
The Making of Guild Wars 2 by Doug Walsh
The Story of Kao Yu by Peter S. Beagle
Chains by Laurie Halse Anderson
Accelerate by Nicole Forsgren
Mumbai New York Scranton by Tamara Shopsin
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis
The Magician’s Nephew by C.S. Lewis
How to Live by Derek Sivers
Einstein’s Dreams by Alan Lightman
LaserWriter II by Tamara Shopsin
Put Your Ass Where Your Heart Wants to Be by Steven Pressfield
How to Eat by Thich Nhat Hanh
The Hummingbirds’ Gift by Sy Montgomery
Seven Empty Houses by Samanta Schweblin
2022
Radically Condensed Instructions for Being Just as You Are by J. Jennifer Matthews
The Trees by Percival Everett
Wonder and Other Survival Skills: A Selection of Essays from Orion Magazine by Orion Magazine
The Sense of Wonder: A Celebration of Nature for Parents and Children by Rachel Carson
The Hawk’s Way: Encounters with Fierce Beauty by Sy Montgomery
Warrior of the Light by Paulo Coelho
In Concrete by Anne Garréta
Beginner’s Mind by Yo-Yo Ma
Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie
How to Walk by Thich Nhat Hanh
Feline Philosophy: Cats and the Meaning of Life by John N. Gray
Beyond Ecophobia: Reclaiming the Heart in Nature Education by David Sobel
Get Up and Ride: a story of two friends and a cycling adventure on the Great Allegheny Passage and C&O Canal by Jim Shea
Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World by Rutger Bregman
Fox 8 by George Saunders
How to Relax by Thich Nhat Hanh
Principles for Success by Ray Dalio
You Are Special: Words of Wisdom for All Ages from a Beloved Neighbor by Fred Rogers
2021
Why Fish Don’t Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life by Lulu Miller
Make Your Bed: Little Things That Can Change Your Life…And Maybe the World by William H. McRaven
Down to Earth: Gardening Wisdom by Monty Don
Randomize by Andy Weir
Take Control of Notes by Josh Centers
Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones by James Clear
Numbers Don’t Lie: 71 Stories to Help Us Understand the Modern World by Vaclav Smil
The Guest Cat by Takashi Hiraide
How to Sit by Thich Nhat Hanh
The Mister Rogers Effect: 7 Secrets to Bringing Out the Best in Yourself and Others from America’s Beloved Neighbor by Anita Knight Kuhnley
The Most Beautiful Walk in the World: A Pedestrian in Paris by John Baxter
Interior Chinatown by Charles Yu
This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life by David Foster Wallace
2020
What Owen Didn’t Know by Laurence Endersen
Assume the Worst: The Graduation Speech You’ll Never Hear by Carl Hiaasen
It’s Not About You: A Brief Guide to a Meaningful Life by Tom Rath
Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
Get Together: How to build a community with your people by Bailey Richardson
Direct Truth: Uncompromising, non-prescriptive Truths to the enduring questions of life by Kapil Gupta
The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin
Dirty Pretty Things by Michael Faudet
How to Manage Your Home Without Losing Your Mind: Dealing with Your House’s Dirty Little Secrets by Dana K. White
Carnival Row: Tangle in the Dark by Stephanie K. Smith
Elizabeth II: Life of a Monarch by Ruth Cowen
Carmilla by J. Sheridan Le Fanu
Bilbo’s Last Song by J.R.R. Tolkien
Love & Misadventure by Lang Leav
To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis
2019
Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie
The Man Who Knew The Way to the Moon by Todd Zwillich
You’re Going to Mars! by Rob Dircks
The Obelisk Gate (The Broken Earth, #2) by N.K. Jemisin
The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth, #1) by N.K. Jemisin
A Little History of Philosophy by Nigel Warburton
Space Boy Volume 4 (Space Boy, #4) by Stephen McCranie
The Christmas Hirelings by Mary Elizabeth Braddon
How to Worry Less About Money by John Armstrong
What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions by Randall Munroe
Love Your Life, Not Theirs: 7 Money Habits for Living the Life You Want by Rachel Cruze
And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer by Fredrik Backman
How to Lie with Statistics by Darrell Huff
Why Your Life Sucks: And What You Can Do About It by Alan Cohen
The Art of Discarding: How to Get Rid of Clutter and Find Joy by Nagisa Tatsumi
Space Boy Volume 3 (Space Boy, #3) by Stephen McCranie
A Mind of Her Own by Paula McLain
Space Boy Volume 2 (Space Boy, #2) by Stephen McCranie
Space Boy Volume 1 (Space Boy, #1) by Stephen McCranie
Educated by Tara Westover
My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite
Alien: Out of the Shadows (Canonical Alien trilogy, #1) by Tim Lebbon
Harry Clarke With Bonus Performance: Lillian by David Cale
The Man on the Mountaintop: An Audible Original Drama by Susan Trott
Love, Lucy by Lucille Ball
The Princess Diarist by Carrie Fisher
The Mars Room by Rachel Kushner
2018
You Need a Budget by Jesse Mecham
Christmas Eve, 1914 by Charles Olivier
We Are Legion (We Are Bob) by Denis E. Taylor
How to Fight a Hydra by Josh Kaufman
The Whole-Brain Child by Daniel J. Siegel
Stephen Fry’s Victorian Secrets by Stephen Fry
My Twenty-Five Years in Provence by Peter Mayle
Zero to One by Peter Thiel
So Far So Good by Ursula K. Le Guin
The Little Book of Hygge by Meik Wiking
The Road to Little Dribbling by Bill Bryson
The Year of Less by Cait Flanders
The Way the World Ends by Jess Walter
At the Bottom of New Lake by Sonya Larson
Boca Raton by Lauren Groff
Controller by Jesse Kellerman
There’s No Place Like Home by Edan Lepucki
The Hillside by Jane Smiley
Falls the Shadow by Skip Horack
Have a Nice Day by Billy Crystal
The Coming Storm by Michael Lewis
The Dark Tower by Stephen King
Lullaby by Jonathan Maberry
Hi Bob! by Bob Newhart
Kahlil Gibran’s Little Book of Life by Neil Douglas-Klotz
Song of Susannah by Stephen King
The Lady Astronaut of Mars by Mary Robinette Kowal
My Dog: The Paradox by Matthew Inman
Hyperion by Dan Simmons
This is the Story of a Happy Marriage by Ann Patchett
Madame Tussaud by Michelle Moran
Discipline Equals Freedom by Jocko Willink
Wolves of the Calla by Stephen King
Wizard and Glass by Stephen King
Headhunters on My Doorstep by J. Maarten Troost
The Waste Lands by Stephen King
the sun and her flowers by rupi kaur
The Automatic Millionaire by David Bach
The Drawing of the Three by Stephen King
Autumn by Karl Ove Knausgaard
Conspiracy by Ryan Holiday
The Debt Consolidation Myth by Jesse Mecham
Flat Broke with Two Goats by Jennifer McGaha
All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten by Robert Fulghum
The Little Things by Andy Andrews
The New Raising Positive Kids in a Negative World by Zig Ziglar
The Green Ember by S.D. Smith
Fever Dream by Samantha Schweblin
The Painted Girls by Cathy Marie Buchanan
The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Breaking Night by Liz Murray
Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life by William Finnegan
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
Sudden Death by Alvaro Enrigue
2017
Migrating to Cloud-Native Application Architectures by Matt Stine
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
The Inexplicable Universe: Unsolved Mysteries by Neil deGrasse Tyson
A Farewell to Walmart by Carly J. Hallman
They Rule the World by Samuel Hazo
Lit by Mary Karr
Grief Is the Thing with Feathers by Max Porter
The Vegetarian by Han Kang
Milk and Honey by Rupi Kaur
The End of the Affair by Graham Greene
Einstein: His Life and Universe by Walter Isaacson
The Coaching Habit by Michael Bungay Stanier
The Throwback Special by Chris Bachelder
Sleeping Giants by Sylvain Neuvel
Slade House by David Mitchell
The Case Against Sugar by Gary Taubes
Walking by Henry David Thoreau
On Truth by Harry G. Frankfurt
2016
A Drive into the Gap by Kevin Guilfoile
The Tale of the Unknown Island by José Saramago
The Way to Wealth by Benjamin Franklin
Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis
Washington County Murder & Mayhem by A. Parker Burroughs
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
Behind the Beautiful Forevers by Katherine Boo
Ban en Banlieue by Bhanu Kapil
Dark Souls Design Works by Udon Entertainment
The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion
When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi
The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
My Name is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout
Unsinkable by Abby Sunderland
Dark Souls 2 Design Works by Caleb Cook
The Elephant in the Room by Jon Ronson
Creativity, Inc. by Ed Catmull
Everything but the Squeal by John Scalzi
Hello, Moto by Nnedi Okorafor
Reason for Hope by Jane Goodall
M Train by Patti Smith
The Last Wish by Andrzej Sapkowski
Rejection Proof by Jia Jiang
Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand
The Black Company by Glen Cook
Binti by Nnedi Okorafor
Keep Moving by Dick Van Dyke
The Turner House by Angela Flournoy
Lauren Ipsum by Carlos Bueno
Secrets of Simplicity by Mary Carlomagno
Find the Good by Heather Lende
Her Way by Jeff Gerth
Hyperbole and a Half by Allie Brosh
Hillbilly Elegy by J.D. Vance
The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman
Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain
The Danish Way of Parenting by Jessica Joelle Alexander
Birds and Blooms of the 50 States by Anna Branning
The Opposite of Loneliness by Marina Keegan
Seven Brief Lessons on Physics by Carlo Rovelli
Not My Father’s Son by Alan Cumming
The Revenant by Michael Punke
Easy Street (the Hard Way) by Ron Perlman
The Wisdom of the Shire by Noble Smith
My Ántonia by Willa Cather
A Spool of Blue Thread by Anne Tyler
Avenue of Mysteries by John Irving
The Tsar of Love and Techno by Anthony Marra
Fates and Furies by Lauren Groff
Oreo by Fran Ross
The Story of My Teeth by Valeria Luiselli
The Invaders by Karolina Waclawiak
The New World by Chris Adrian and Eli Horowitz
Our Souls at Night by Kent Haruf
An Amateur’s Guide to the Pursuit of Happiness by Britt Reints
Crawling by Elisha Cooper
The Journal of Best Practices by David Finch
A Sport and a Pastime by James Salter
Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins
2015
Off to Be the Wizard by Scott Meyer
The City & The City by China Miéville
Screamfree Parenting by Hal Edward Runkel
Me Before You by Jojo Moyes
My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante
Solaris by Stanislaw Lem
California by Edan Lepucki
How to Love by Thich Nhat Hanh
This Is How You Lose Her by Junot Díaz
H Is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald
Learning to Swim by Sara J. Henry
Paper Towns by John Green
An Abundance of Katherines by John Green
Looking for Alaska by John Green
As You Wish by Cary Elwes & Joe Layden
All the Birds, Singing by Evie Wyld
Authority by Jeff VanderMeer
The Gemini Effect by Chuck Grossart
Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer
The Final Note by Kevin Alan Milne
2014
10 Secrets for Success and Inner Peace by Wayne W. Dyer
The Art of Procrastination by John Perry
Words Like Coins by Robin Hobb
The Willful Princess and the Piebald Prince by Robin Hobb (kindle)
The Martian by Andy Weir (hardcover)
Home Game: An Accidental Guide to Fatherhood by Michael Lewis (kindle)
Broken Magic by Eric Sipple (kindle)
Paleo Diet Mistakes You Wish You Knew by Mirsad Hasic (kindle)
Wool by Hugh Howey (audio)
Under the Dome by Stephen King (audio)
Consider Phlebas by Iain M. Banks (trade paper)
Magnificent Vibration: A Novel by Rick Springfield (kindle)
The Bird Eater by Ania Ahlborn (kindle)
Lucky by Alice Sebold (kindle)
The Giver by Lois Lowry (kindle)
The Dirty Parts of the Bible by Sam Torode (kindle)
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens (kindle)
Floating Gold: A Natural (And Unnatural) History of Ambergris by Christopher Kemp (kindle)
Mindless Eating: Why We Eat More Than We Think by Brian Wansink (kindle)
An Astronaut’s Guide to Life on Earth by Chris Hadfield (hardcover)
2013
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien (audio)
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce (audio)
Down on the Farm by Charles Stross (kindle)
Divergent by Veronica Roth (kindle)
Beautiful Ruins by Jess Walter (audio)
The Fault in Our Stars by John Green (kindle)
Doomsday Book by Connie Willis (audio)
The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller (kindle)
The Human Division #1: The B-Team by John Scalzi (kindle)
The Blind Watchmaker by Richard Dawkins (audio)
The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (audio)
Listening is an Act of Love by Dave Isay (audio)
What the Most Successful People Do Before Breakfast by Laura Vanderkam (audio)
The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde (audio dramatization)
The Human Division #2: Walk the Plank by John Scalzi (kindle)
The Gifts of Imperfection by Brené Brown, Ph.D., L.M.S.W. (audio)
The Human Division #3: We Only Need the Heads by John Scalzi (kindle)
The Human Division #4: A Voice in the Wilderness by John Scalzi (kindle)
The Human Division #5: Tales from the Clarke by John Scalzi (kindle)
The Language Instinct by Steven Pinker (audio)
MOGWorld by Yahtzee Croshaw (audio)
The Human Division #6: The Back Channel by John Scalzi (kindle)
The Human Division #7: The Dog King by John Scalzi (kindle)
The Human Division #8: The Sound of Rebellion by John Scalzi (kindle)
The Human Division #9: The Observers by John Scalzi (kindle)
Delivering Happiness by Tony Hsieh (audio)
The Human Division #10: This Must Be The Place by John Scalzi (kindle)
After the Coup by John Scalzi (kindle)
The Autobiography of Black Hawk by Chief Black Hawk (audio)
A Tall Tale by Charles Stross (kindle)
The Human Division #11: A Problem of Proportion by John Scalzi (kindle)
The Magician King by Lev Grossman (audio)
The Human Division #12: The Gentle Art of Cracking Heads by John Scalzi (kindle)
The Human Division #13: Earth Below, Sky Above by John Scalzi (kindle)
Paladins of Shannara: Allanon’s Quest by Terry Brooks (kindle)
My Extraordinary Ordinary Life by Sissy Spacek (audio)
Opal Fire (A Stacy Justice Mystery - Book One) by Barbra Annino (kindle)
Insubordinate by Seth Godin (kindle)
Screw It, Let’s Do It by Richard Branson (kindle)
Paladins of Shannara: The Weapons Master’s Choice by Terry Brooks (kindle)
Paladins of Shannara: The Black Irix by Terry Brooks (kindle)
The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life by Alice Schroeder (audio)
Insurgent (Divergent) by Veronica Roth (kindle)
Open Minds by Susan Kaye Quinn (kindle)
Are You as Happy as Your Dog? by Alan Cohen (kindle)
The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris by David McCullough (audio)
Mistborn: The Final Empire by Brandon Sanderson (kindle & audio)
Have You Hugged a Monster Today? by Alan Cohen (kindle)
2012
The Information Diet by Clay Johnson
Make Love Not Porn by Cindy Gallop
The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes (excellent)
Simplify by Joshua Becker
Crush It! by Gary Vaynerchuk (audio)
This is the Story of a Happy Marriage by Ann Patchett (audio)
The Magicians by Lev Grossman (audio)
“What Money Can Buy” in The New Yorker (profiles Bill Gates and the fight to cure malaria) (audio)
Stuff by Randy Frost and Gail (audio)
Mile 81 by Stephen King (Kindle Single)
The Sex Lives of Cannibals by J. Maarten Troost (audio)
Let’s Pretend This Never Happened by Jenny Lawson (audio)
Running with Scissors by Augusten Burroughs (audio)
Jesus, Interrupted by Bart Ehrman (audio)
Johannes Cabal The Necromancer by Jonathan L. Howard (audio)
Destiny of the Republic by Candice Millard (audio)
The Mote in God’s Eye by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle (audio)
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey (audio, abridged)
Some Assembly Required by Anne Lamott with Sam Lamott (audio)
The Little Book of Talent by Daniel Coyle
Cooking Solves Everything by Mark Bittman
I Moved Your Cheese by Deepak Malhotra
Drive by Daniel H. Pink (audio)
Overtime by Charles Stross
The Gunslinger by Stephen King (audio)
2011
The $64 Tomato by William Alexander
Read This Before Our Next Meeting by Al Pittampalli
A Week at the Airport by Alain de Botton
Poke the Box by Seth Godin
Inside Apple by Adam Lashinsky
Keeping It Straight by Patrick Rhone
Guild Wars: Ghosts of Ascalon by Matt Forbeck and Jeff Grubb
Anything You Want by Derek Sivers
Zarrella’s Hierarchy of Contagiousness by Dan Zarrella
Beekeeping for Beginners by Laurie R. King
A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
A Stolen Life by Jaycee Dugard
Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
The Nine Lessons by Kevin Alan Milne
We The Animals by Justin Torres
Predators I Have Known by Alan Dean Foster
Heldenhammer by Graham McNeill
Hatter by Daniel Coleman