Reading List

My attempt to keep track of my reading list as it’s always changing. The queue is ordered in the current priority but will change on a whim.

Last updated January 30th, 2026.

Currently Reading

The Redemption of Time by Baoshu. This is a paraquel to the The Body Problem trilogy. Apparently this book started as some fan posts right after the trilogy’s final book release. It was so good that a publisher came calling and the original trilogy author gave full permission to publish it. Pretty neat actually! I’m just getting started with the book but I have very high hopes because the trilogy is one of the all time best science fiction stories I’ve ever read.

In Queue

The Redemption of Time - Baoshu
Supermob - Gus Russo
Killers of the Flower Moon The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI - David Grann
On Writing - Stephen King
Speak Like Churchill, Stand Like Lincoln - James C. Humes
Corporate Turnaround Artistry - Jeff Sands
The Family Corleone - Ed Falco and Mario Puzo
Under and Alone - William Queen

Read in 2026

1929 - Andrew Ross Sorkin

Read in 2025

The Wise Man’s Fear - Patrick Rothfuss
Hatching Twitter - Nick Bilton
Onassis - An Extravagant Life - Frank Brady
Hard Drive: Bill Gates and the Making of the Microsoft Empire - James Wallace
Useful Not True - Derek Sivers
American Kingpin - Nick Bilton
Digital Gold - Nathaniel Popper
Play Nice but Win - Michael Dell
Sanctioned: The Inside Story of the Sale of Chelsea FC - Nick Purewal
The Mafia and the Machine: The Story of the Kansas City Mob - Frank R. Hayde
L.A. Noir: the struggle for the soul of America’s most seductive city - John Buntin
The Inner Game of Tennis - W. Timothy Gallwey
The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing - Al Ries and Jack Trout
Born to be Wired - John Malone
The Time Machine - H.G. Wells
The Rose Field - Phillip Pullman
Heat 2 - Michael Mann, Meg Gardiner

Notes on 2025 books

Read in 2024

The Wager - David Grann
How To Get Rich - Felix Dennis
Carlos Slim - Diego Osorno
The Operator - Tom King
The Gambler - William C. Rempel
Buy Then Build - Walker Diebel
The Chief: The Life of William Randolph Hearst - David Nasaw
Iron Empires - Michael Hiltzik
Unscripted: The Epic Battle for a Media Empire and the Redstone Family Legacy - James B. Stewart, Rachel Abrams
The Name of the Wind - Patrick Rothfuss

Notes on 2024 books

Read in 2023

Dune - Chapterhouse (book 6) - Frank Wright
Slouching towards Bethlehem - Joan Didion
The Long Honduran Night - Dana Frank
Top of the Rock: Inside the Rise and Fall of Must See TV - Warren Littlefield
The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho
$100M Offers - Alex Hormozi
Fight Club - Chuck Palahniuk
The Man Who Owns The News - Michael Wolff
Lean Thinking - James P. Womack
The Fish Who Ate The Whale - Rich Cohen
The King of Content - Keach Hagey
Predictable Revenue - Aaron Ross and Marylou Tyler
Damaged Goods - Oliver Shah
Messy Middle - Scott Belsky

Notes on 2023 books

Read in 2022

Heretics of Dune - Frank Herbert
Guerrilla Marketing - Jay Conrad Levinson
Cable Cowboy - Mark Robichaux
God Emperor of Dune - Frank Herbert
Children of Dune - Frank Herbert
Dune Messiah - Frank Herbert
Moonwalking with Einstein - Joshua Foer
The Minimalist Entrepreneur - Sahil Lavingia
Creative Careers - Jeffrey Madoff
Anything You Want - Derek Sivers

Notes on 2022 books

Read in 2021

Dune - Frank Herbert
This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends - Nicole Perlroth
Profit First - Mike Michalowicz
Traction - Gino Wickman
Flying High - James Wynbrandt
How to Live - Derek Sivers
The 4-Hour Workweek - Timothy Ferriss
Vagabonding - Rolf Potts
Shoe Dog - Phil Knight
Your Music and People - Derek Sivers

Notes on 2021 books

Read in 2020

The Millionaire Fastlane - M.J. DeMarco
Deep Work - Cal Newport
Atomic Habits - James Clear
The Mind of the Strategist - Kenichi Ohmae
Draft No. 4 - John McPhee
The Story of the Lost Child - Elena Ferrante
Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay - Elena Ferrante
The Story of a New Name - Elena Ferrante
My Brilliant Friend - Elena Ferrante
Hell Yeah or No - Derek Sivers
Your Move - Ramit Sethi
How I Sold My Business - Alvin Alexander
Secrecy World - Jake Bernstein
The ONE Thing - Gary Keller
Death’s End - Liu Cixin
The Hard Thing About Hard Things - Ben Horowitz
On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous - Ocean Vuong
The Mom Test - Rob Fitzpatrick
Motherless Brooklyn - Jonathan Lethem

Notes on 2020 books

Read in 2019

The Courage to Be Disliked - Ichiro Kishimi
The Secret Commonwealth - Philip Pullman
Hack E-mail - Danny Flood
The Effective Executive - Peter F. Drucker
The Dark Forest - Cixin Liu
Bird by Bird - Anne Lamott
The Lessons of History - Will Durant
Company Of One - Paul Jarvis
Purple Cow, New Edition - Seth Godin
How Soccer Explains the World - Franklin Foer
At Play in the Fields of the Lord - Peter Matthiessen

Notes on 2019 books

Read in 2018

The Three-Body Problem - Cixin Liu
It Doesn’t Have to be Crazy at Work - Jason Fried
Benjamin Franklin - Walter Isaacson
City of Thieves - David Benioff
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck - Mark Manson
Forever Nomad - Tynan
The Seven-Day Weekend - Ricardo Semler
La Belle Sauvage - Philip Pullman
Freedom - Daniel Suarez
Daemon - Leinad Zeraus
The Million-Dollar, One-Person Business, Revised - Elaine Pofeldt
Siddhartha - Hermann Hesse
The Glass Castle - Jeannette Walls

Notes on 2018 books

Read in 2017

Sapiens - Yuval Noah Harari
Reinvent Yourself - James Altucher
Losing My Virginity - Richard Branson
Smartcuts - Shane Snow
The Game - Neil Strauss
Who Moved My Cheese? - Spencer Johnson
Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son - George Horace Lorimer
Built to Sell - John Warrillow
The Obstacle Is the Way - Ryan Holiday
The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho
Anything You Want - Derek Sivers
On Writing Well - William Zinsser
Between the World and Me - Ta-Nehisi Coates

Notes on 2017 books