I read a bunch too. Here are some of the books I've read (and recently, with dates).
2025
- Peter Frankopan, The Earth Transformed: An Untold History (June 2025)
- Patrick McGee, Apple in China: The Capture of the World's Greatest Company (June 2025)
- William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch (May 2025)
- Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson, Abundance (May 2025)
- Robert Greene, The Laws of Human Nature (May 2025)
- Rick Rubin, The Creative Act: A Way of Being (April 2025)
- Simon Stålenhag, The Electric State (March 2025)
- Joseph Stiglitz, Making Globalization Work (March 2025)
- John Seabrook, The Song
Machine: Inside the Hit Factory (March 2024)
- Michael Lewis, Liar's
Poker: Rising Through the Wreckage of Wall Street (February 2025)
- Alex Capri, Techno-Nationalism:
How It's Reshaping Trade, Geopolitics and Society (February 2025)
- Hanno Sauer, The Invention
of Good and Evil: A World History of Morality (January 2025)
2024
- Malcolm Gladwell, Talking
to Strangers:
What We Should Know about the People We Don't Know (December 2024)
- Henry A. Kissinger, Eric Schmidt, Craig Mundie,
Genesis:
Artificial Intelligence, Hope, and the Human Spirit (December 2024)
- Blair Jackson, David Gans, This Is
All a Dream We Dreamed: An Oral History of the Grateful Dead (November 2024)
- Robert Greene, 48 Laws of
Power (November 2024)
- Michael Shellenberger, San
Fransicko: Why
Progressives Ruin Cities (October 2024)
- Liv Albert, Greek
Mythology: The Gods, Goddesses, and Heroes Handbook (September 2024)
- Andrew Zimbalist, Circling the
Bases: Essays on the Challenges and Prospects of the Sports Industry (September 2024)
- Ruy Teixeira, John B. Judis, Where
Have All the Democrats
Gone? The Soul of the Party in the Age of Extremes (September 2024)
- Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An
Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States: ReVisioning History (August 2024)
- Ben Horowitz, The Hard Thing
About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers (August 2024)
- John Hagel III, The
Journey Beyond Fear: Leverage the Three Pillars of Positivity to Build Your Success (July 2024)
- James Lovelock, Novacene: The
Coming Age of Hyperintelligence (July 2024)
- Ben Horowitz, The Hard
Things About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers (June 2024)
- Renee DiResta, Invisible
Rulers: The
People Who Turn Lies into Reality (June 2024)
- Fred Turner, From
Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the Rise of Digital
Utopianism (May 2024)
- David Epstien, Range: Why
Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World (May 2024)
- Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein, Nudge:
The Final Edition: Improving
Decisions About Money, Health, and the Environment (April 2024)
- Yascha Mounk, The Identity
Trap: A Story of Ideas and Power in Our Time (April 2024)
- Hunter S. Thompson, Fear
and Loathing in Las Vegas (April 2024)
- Kim Stanley Robinson, Ministry of the
Future (March 2024)
- Neil MacGregor, History of the
World in 100 Objects (February 2024)
- Ed Conway, Material
World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization (January 2024)
2023
- Primo Levi, The Periodic Table
(January 2024)
- Julie Hirschfeld Davis and Michael Shear, Border Wars: Inside
Trump's Assault on Immigration (December 2023)
- Jesse Jarnow, Heads: A
Biography
of Psychedelic America (December 2023)
- Daniel Oberhaus, Extraterrestrial
Languages (December 2023)
- Chris Miller, Chip War:
The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology (December 2023)
- Curtis Chin, Everything I
Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant: A Memoir (December 2023)
- Tom Standage, Uncommon
Knowledge: The Economist Explains (November 2023)
- Gary Kamiya, Cool Gray City of
Love: 49 Views of San Francisco (November 2023)
- Eric Weiner, The
Geography of Genius: A Search for the World's Most Creative Places from Ancient Athens to Silicon
Valley (October 2023)
- John Doe, More Fun in the New
World: The Unmaking and Legacy of L.A. Punk (October 2023)
- Shery Turkle, Alone
Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other (September 2023)
- William Golding, Lord of the
Flies (September 2023)
- Jonathan Taplin, The
End of
Reality: How Four Billionaires Are Selling a Fantasy Future of the Metaverse, Mars, and Crypto
(September 2023)
- Dan Charnas, The Big
Payback: The History of the Business of Hip-Hop (August 2023)
- Malcolm Harris, Palo
Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World (July 2023)
- John Markoff, Whole Earth:
The Many Lives of Stewart Brand (June 2023)
- David Brion Davis, Inhuman
Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World (June 2023)
- Paul Collier, Exodus: How
Migration is Changing Our World (May 2023)
- Tom Wolfe, The Electric Kool-Aid
Acid Test (March 2023)
- Lincoln Mitchell, San
Francisco Year Zero: Political Upheaval, Punk Rock and a Third-Place Baseball Team (February 2023)
- Patti Smith, Just Kids (February
2023)
- Karen Bakker, The
Sounds of Life (January 2023)
2022
2021
- Jonathan Tapli, The Magic Years:
Scenes from a Rock-and-Roll Life (December 2021)
- Henry A. Kissinger, Eric Schmidt, and Daniel Huttenlocher, The Age of AI and our Human
Future (November 2021)
- Bru Srinivasan, Americana:
A 400-Year History of American Capitalism (October 2021)
- Michael Shellenberger, Apocalypse
Never: Why Environmental Alarmism Hurts Us All (September 2021)
- David Wallace-Wells, The Uninhabitable
Earth: Life After Warming (August 2021)
- Bruce Sterling, Schismatrix
(August 2021)
- J. D. Vance, Hillbilly
Elegy: A
Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis (July 2021)
- James Lovelock, Novacene: The
Coming Age of Hyperintelligence (June 2021)
- Kevin Scott, Reprogramming
the American Dream: From Rural America to Silicon Valley - Making AI Serve Us All (June 2021)
- Heather McGhee, The Sum of
Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together (May 2021)
- Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Antifragile:
Things That Gain from Disorder (May 2021)
- Phil Lesh, Searching for
the Sound: My Life with the Grateful Dead (April 2021)
- Geoffrey C. Ward and Ken Burns, Jazz: A History of America's
Music (January 2021)
- George Orwell, 1984 (January 2021)
- Nick Bostrom, Superintelligence:
Paths, Dangers, Strategies (January 2021)
2020
- Alan Krueger, Rockonomics
(December 2020)
- Douglas Coupland, Microserfs
(December 2020)
- Binyamin Appelbaum, The Economists'
Hour: False Prophets, Free Markets, and the Fracture of Society (December 2020)
- John Tusa, On Board:
The Insider's Guide to Surviving Life in the Boardroom (December 2020)
- Nathalia Holt, Rise of
the Rocket Girls: The Women Who Propelled Us, from Missiles to the Moon to Mars (November 2020)
- Paul Brest and Hal Harvey, Money Well Spent: A
Strategic Plan for Smart Philanthropy (November 2020)
- E. O. Wilson, Tales from the Ant World (October
2020)
- Rebecca Henderson, Reimagining
Capitalism in a World on Fire (September 2020)
- Seth Shostak, Confessions
of an Alien Hunter: A Scientist's Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (September 2020)
- Aldous Huxley, Brave New
World (August 2020)
- David Byrne, How Music Works
(August 2020)
- Ed Ward, The History of
Rock & Roll, Volume 2: 1964–1977: The Beatles, the Stones, and the Rise of Classic Rock (August
2020)
- Glen Weyl and Eric Posner, Radical
Markets: Uprooting Capitalism and Democracy for a Just Society (July 2020)
- Andy Greenberg, Sandworm: A New
Era of Cyberwar and the Hunt for the Kremlin's Most Dangerous Hackers (July 2020)
- Condoleezza Rice and Amy Zegart, Political
Risk: How Businesses and Organizations Can Anticipate Global Insecurity (June 2020)
- Douglas Adams, The
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (May 2020)
- David Callahan, The
Givers: Money, Power, and Philanthropy in a New Gilded Age (April 2020)
2019
- Brad Smith and Carol Ann Browne, Tools and Weapons: The
Promise and the Peril of the Digital Age (December 2019)
- E.M. Forster, The Machine Stops
(October 2019)
- William Gibson and Bruce Sterling, The Difference Engine
(July 2019)
- Tracy Kidder, The Soul of a
New Machine (June 2019)
- Ken Auletta, World War 3.0 :
Microsoft and Its Enemies (May 2019)
- Rob Reich, Just
Giving: Why Philanthropy Is Failing Democracy and How It Can Do Better (April 2019)
- Anand Giridharadasm, Winners
Take All: The
Elite Charade of Changing the World (March 2019)
- Kai-Fu Lee, AI
Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order (March 2019)
- Jaron Lanier, Dawn of
the New Everything: Encounters with Reality and Virtual Reality (March 2019)
- Richard Florida, The
New Urban Crisis: How Our Cities Are Increasing Inequality, Deepening Segregation, and Failing the
Middle Class-and What We Can Do About It (March 2019)
- Joel Selvin, Altamont: The
Rolling Stones, the Hells Angels, and the Inside Story of Rock's Darkest Day (February 2019)
- Michael Lewis, The Fifth Risk
(February 2019)
- Elizabeth Kolbert, The
Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History (February 2019)
- P.D. James, The Children of
Men (January 2019)
2018
- Douglas R. Hofstadter, I
Am a Strange Loop December 2018)
- Kevin Mitnick, Ghost
in the
Wires: My Adventures as the World's Most Wanted Hacker (November 2018)
- Gene Kim, Kevin Behr, and George Spafford, The Phoenix Project:
A Novel about IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win (August 2018)
- Michael Lewis, The
Undoing Project: A Friendship that Changed the World (August 2018)
- Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit
451
(July 2018)
- Tim O'Reilly, WTF?: What's the
Future and Why It's Up to Us (July 2018)
- Jeffrey Toobin, American Heiress:
The Wild Saga of the Kidnapping, Crimes and Trial of Patty Hearst (June 2018)
- Ed Ward, The History of Rock
& Roll, Volume 1: 1920-1963(June 2018)
- Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow:
Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (April 2018)
- Yuval Noah Harari, Homo
Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow (March 2018)
- John Doe, Under the Big Black
Sun: A Personal History of L.A. Punk (March 2018)
- Richard Florida, The
Rise of the Creative Class (March 2018)
Older
- Chris Anderson, The Long Tail
- Anonymous (Joe Klein), Primary Colors: A Novel
of Politics
- Dan Ariely, Predictably Irrational
- Ryan Avent, The
Wealth of Humans: Work, Power, and Status in the Twenty-first Century
- Nicholson Baker, Vox
- James Bamford, Body
of Secrets:
Anatomy of the Ultra-Secret National Security Agency
- James Bamford, The Puzzle Palace:
A Report on NSA, America's Most Secret Agency
- Mahzarin R. Banaji, Blindspot: Hidden
Biases of Good People
- John Battelle, The
Search: How
Google and Its Rivals Rewrote the Rules of Business and Transformed Our Culture
- Sharon Begley, Train Your Mind, Change Your Brain
- Lewis Black, Me of LIttle Faith
- Bill Bradley, Time Present, Time
Past: A Memoir
- Erik Brynjolfsson, The
Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies
- Bart Ehrman, Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why
- Carl Bernstein, A Woman In Charge
- Bryan Burrough and John Helyar, Barbarians at the Gate: The
Fall of RJR Nabisco
- Thomas Cahill, Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea: Why the Greeks Matter
- Stephen Carmichael and Susan Stoddard, Climbing Mount Kilimanjaro
- Nicholas Carr, The Big
Switch: Rewiring the World, from Edison to Google
- Nicholas Carr, The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains
- Lewis Carroll, Alice's
Adventures in Wonderland
- Graydon Carter, What We've Lost
- Ram Charan, Know-How
- Brian Christian, Algorithms
to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions
- Brian Christian, Most
Human Human
- Noam Chomsky, Hegemony or
Survival: America's Quest for Global Dominance
- Richard Clarke, Against
All Enemies: Inside America's War on Terror
- Richard Clarke and Robert Knake, Cyber War: The Next
Threat to National Security and What to Do About It
- Thurston Clarke, The Last Campaign
- Jim Collins, Good to Great
- Jim Collins, How the Mighty Fall
- Wilkie Collins, The Woman
in White
- Geoff Colvin, Talent is Overrated
- Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness
- Tyler Cowen, The
Great
Stagnation: How America Ate All The Low-Hanging Fruit of Modern History, Got Sick, and Will (Eventually)
Feel Better
- George Crile, Charlie Wilson's War
- Lanny Davis, Truth To
Tell: Tell It Early, Tell It All, Tell It Yourself: Notes from My White House Education
- John Dean, Conservatives Without Conscience
- John Dean, Worse than Watergate
- Ronald V. Dellums and H. Lee Halterman, Lying Down With the
Lions
- Jared Diamond, Guns, Germs, and Steel
- Jared Diamond, Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
- Richard Dobbs, James Manyika, and Jonathan Woetzel, No Ordinary
Disruption: The Four Global Forces Breaking All the Trend
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The
Sign of the Four
- Arthur Conan Doyle, Memoirs
of Sherlock
Holmes
- Carol S. Dweck, Mindset:
The New
Psychology of Success
- William Fleckenstein, Greenspan's Bubbles: The Age of Ignorance at the Federal Reserve
- James Fallows, The Obama
Presidency, Explained
- John Fialka, War by Other
Means: Economic Espionage in America
- Dave Foreman, Confessions of
an
Eco-Warrior
- Thomas Friedman, Hot, Flat, and Crowded
- Thomas Friedman, The
World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century
- Malcolm Gladwell, Blink: The
Power of Thinking Without Thinking
- Malcolm Gladwell, Outliers: The Story of Success
- Malcolm Gladwell, The
Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
- Sharna Goldseker, Generation
Impact: How Next Gen Donors Are Revolutionizing Giving
- Stephen Goldsmith and Susan Crawford, The
Responsive City: Engaging Communities Through Data-Smart Governance
- Laurence Gonzales, Deep
Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why
- Brian Greene, The
Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory
- The Brothers Grimm, Grimm's Fairy Tales
- Michael Hammer and James A. Champy,
Reengineering the Corporation: A Manifesto for Business Revolution
- Robert Harris, Fatherland
- Sam Harris, The End of Faith
- Chip Heath and Dan Heath, Made to Stick
- John Heilemann and Mark Halperin, Game Change
- Peter Hershberg, Dale Dougherty, and Marcia Kadanoff, Maker City: A Practical Guide for Reinventing Our
Cities
- Michael Hiltzik, Dealers of
Lightning:
Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age
- Christopher Hitchins, God Is Not Great
- Christopher Hitchins, No One Left to Lie to
- Bryce G. Hoffman, American
Icon: Alan
Mulally and the Fight to Save Ford Motor Company
- Robert Kagan, The Return of History and the End of Dreams
- Kenneth Kamler, Surviving the
Extremes: A Doctor's Journey to the Limits of Human Endurance
- Guy Kawasaki, Reality Check
- Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow
- Kevin Kelly, Out Of
Control: The Rise Of Neo-biological Civilization
- Kevin Kelly, What Technology Wants
- Mahan Khalsa, Let's Get Real
- Jon Krakauer, Eiger Dreams:
Ventures Among Men and Mountains
- Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild
- Jon Krakauer, Into Thin Air:
A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster
- Bill Kreutzmann, Deal: My Three
Decades of Drumming, Dreams, and Drugs with the Grateful Dead
- Paul Krugman, The Conscience of a Liberal
- Paul Krugman, The Great
Unraveling: Losing Our Way in the New Century
- Paul Krugman, Peddling
Prosperity: Economic Sense and Nonsense in the Age of Diminished Expectations
- Paul Krugman, The
Return of Depression Economics and the Crisis of 2008
- Jaron Lanier, Who Owns the
Future?
- Jaron Lanier, You are not a Gadget
- Edward Lazarus, Closed
Chambers: The First Eyewitness Account of the Epic Struggles Inside the Supreme Court
- Lawrence Lessig, Code:
And Other Laws Of Cyberspace
- Lawrence Lessig, The
Future of Ideas: The Fate of the Commons in a Connected World
- Steven D. Levitt and Stephen Dubner, Freakonomics
- Steven Levy, Crypto: How
the Code Rebels Beat the Government--Saving Privacy in the Digital Age
- Michael Lewis, The Big Short
- Michael Lewis, Flash Boys
- Charelele Li and Josh Bernoff, Groundswell
- Martin Lindstorm, Brandwashed:
Tricks Companies Use to Manipulate Our Minds and Persuade Us to Buy
- Roger Lowenstein, When
Genius Failed:
The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital Management
- Edward Lucas, The
Snowden Operation: Inside the West’s Greatest Intelligence Disaster
- Frank Luntz, Words That Work
- Marcus Luttrell, Lone Survivor
- Charles Mann, 1493
- John Markoff, What
the
Dormouse Said: How the 60s Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer
- Harry Markopolos, No One Would Listen
- Robert McNamara, In
Retrospect: The Tragedy and Lessons of Vietnam
- Robyn Meredith, The Elephant and the Dragon
- Gabriel Metcalf, Democratic
by Design: How Carsharing, Co-ops, and Community Land Trusts Are Reinventing America
- Jack Miles, God: A Biography
- Kevin Mitnick, The Art of Deception
- Kevin Mitnick, Ghost in the Wires
- Enrico Moretti, The
Geography of Jobs
- Ian Morris, Why the West Rules - For Now
- Annalee Newitz, Autonomous
- Joseph Nye, The
Paradox of American Power: Why the World's Only Superpower Can't Go It Alone
- George Orwell, Animal Farm
- Kerry Patterson, Influencer: The Power to Change Anything
- Kevin Phillips, American
Theocracy: The Peril and Politics of Radical Religion, Oil, and Borrowed Money in the 21st Century
- Kevin Phillips, The
Politics of Rich and Poor: Wealth and the American Electorate in the Reagan Aftermath
- Gregory Phister, In Search of Clusters: The Ongoing Battle in Lowly Parallel Computing
- Thomas Piketty, Capital
in the 21st Century
- Kevin Phillips, Bad Money
- Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead
- Howard Rheingold, Virtual Communities
- James Risen, State of War
- Richard Rhodes, Dark Sun: The
Making of the Hydrogen Bomb
- Randall Robinson, The Debt :
What America Owes to Blacks
- Douglas Rushkoff, Coercion:
Why We Listen to What "They" Say
- Tsutomo Shimomura and John Markoff, Takedown: The
Pursuit and Capture of Kevin Mitnick by the Man Who Did It
- Clay Shirky, Cognitive Surplus
- Steve Silberman, NeuroTribes:
The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity
- Joe Simpson, Touching the Void
- Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash
- Robert Louis Stevenson, The
Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
- Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island
- James Surowiecki, The Wisdom of the Crowds
- Ron Suskind, The One Percent Doctrine
- Ron Suskind, The Price
of Loyalty: George W. Bush, the White House, and the Education of Paul O'Neil
- David Talbot, Season of
the Witch: Enchantment, Terror and Deliverance in the City of Love
- Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Fooled by Randomness
- Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Black Swan
- Don Tapscott and Anthony Williams, Wikinomics
- Jeffrey Toobin, The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court
- Linus Torvalds and David Diamond, Just for Fun: The
Story of an Accidental Revolutionary
- Tim Weiner, Legacy Of Ashes
- H. G. Wells, The Time
Machine
- H. G. Wells, The War of the
Worlds
- Jack Weatherford, The History
of Money
- Simon Winchester, Pacific:
Silicon Chips and Surfboards, Coral Reefs and Atom Bombs, Brutal Dictators, Fading Empires, and the
Coming Collision of the World's Superpowers
- Simon Winthrop, How to
Be a Mentalist: Master the Secrets Behind the Hit TV Show
- Bob Woodward, The Agenda:
Inside the Clinton White House
- Bob Woodward, Maestro:
Greenspans Fed and The American Boom
- Bob Woodward, Plan of Attack
- Bob Woodward, State of Denial:
Bush at War, Part III
- Bob Woodward, The War
Within: A Secret White House History 2006-2008
- Steve Wozniak and Gina Smith, iWoz: Computer
Geek to Cult Icon: How I Invented the Personal Computer, Co-Founded Apple, and Had Fun Doing It
- Lawrence Wright, The Looming Tower
- Daniel Yergin and Joseph Stanislaw, The
Commanding Heights: The Battle Between Government and the Marketplace That Is Remaking the Modern
World
- Fareed Zakaria, The Post-American World
- Howard Zinn, A People's History of the United States