Reading
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My reading list, along with lists of books I've read and am currently reading. Some books will have links to my notes and/or thoughts on them.
I also keep a list of other people's reading lists .
Currently reading
- The Minimalist Entrepreneur by Sahil Lavingia
- The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones
Read
2026
- The War of Art - Steven Pressfield
- Show Your Work - Austin Kleon
- The Brutal Telling - Louise Penny
- The Second Mountain - David Brooks
- Beartown - Fredrik Backman
- Deep Work - Cal Newport
- Angel Down - Daniel Kraus
- The Little Friend - Donna Tartt
2025
- 5 Cheat Codes to Winning at Life - Mark Manson
- Ordinary Grace - William Kent Krueger
- Shape - Jordan Ellenberg
- Nexus - Yuval Noah Harari
- The Rider - Tim Krabbé
- The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King - J.R.R. Tolkien
- The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers - J.R.R. Tolkien
- Useful Not True - Derek Sivers
- How to Live - Derek Sivers
- Your Music and People - Derek Sivers
- Anything You Want - Derek Sivers
- Hell Yeah or No- Derek Sivers
- The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring - J.R.R. Tolkien
- Indistractable - Nir Eyal
- Test-Driven Development - Kent Beck
Want to read
- How to Win Friends and Influence People - Dale Carnegie
- Start Small, Stay Small - Rob Walling
- The Mom Test - Rob Fitzpatrick
- Mattering - Jennifer Breheny Wallace
- The Paradox of Choice - Barry Schwartz
- The Design of Everyday Things - Don Norman
- Don't Make Me Think - Steve Krug
- Code Complete - Steve McConnell
- Read Write Own - Chris Dixon
- The Mythical Man Month - Fred Brooks
- The Denial of Death - Ernest Becker
- The Startup of You - Reid Hoffman
- Slow Productivity - Cal Newport
- Turning Pro - Steven Pressfield
- Do the Work - Steven Pressfield
- Ego is the Enemy - Ryan Holiday
- You Can Negotiate Anything - Herb Cohen
- The Listening Book - W.A. Mathieu
- The Gardener and the Carpenter - Alison Gopnik
- Meditations - Marcus Aurelius
DNF
2025
- Playful Parenting - Lawrence J. Cohen
- Read about half of it. It wasn't bad, I just felt like I'd gotten what I wanted out of it. May revisit later.
- Bury Your Dead - Louise Penny
- Pure mysteries just aren't my thing.