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 November 17th, 2025.
Currently Reading
The Rose Field by Phillip Pullman. I’ve waited 6 years for this to be published so I got the book the day it was released and moved it to the top of the queue. If you haven’t read His Dark Materials trilogy you definitely should start there. This book is the final book in the Book of Dust trilogy, which is the followup to the His Dark Materials trilogy and it’s the same story line through all 6 books. Awesomely creative world Phillip created in these books.
In Queue
- 1929 - Andrew Sorkin
- Heat 2 - Michael Mann and Meg Gardiner
- The Animal in Hollywood - John L. Smith (re-read)
- 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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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