2018 Reading List
My 2018 reading list consisted of 26 books suggested by guests on the Tim Ferriss Show podcast (see full list here) and 26 books I just had an inkling to read.
Final Rankings
I kept a running ranking as I read each of the 48 books from the 2018 Books of Titans reading list. Here is my final list. This is the list in order of most to least-enjoyable to me. It doesn’t necessarily reflect the overall quality of the book or its importance. Rather, these are the books that moved me, challenged me, or created great joy in me as I read them.
| # | Book | Author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Thinking, Fast and Slow | Daniel Kahneman |
| 2 | Guns, Germs, and Steel | Jared Diamond |
| 3 | War & Peace | Leo Tolstoy |
| 4 | Bandersnatch | Diana Pavlac Glyer |
| 5 | Jerusalem: The Biography | Simon Sebag Montefiore |
| 6 | Fooled by Randomness | Nassim Taleb |
| 7 | Quiet | Susan Cain |
| 8 | Homo Deus | Yuval Harari |
| 9 | Benjamin Franklin | Walter Isaacson |
| 10 | A Short History of Nearly Everything | Bill Bryson |
| 11 | Leonardo da Vinci | Walter Isaacson |
| 12 | Walt Disney | Neal Gabler |
| 13 | A Mind at Play | Jimmy Soni |
| 14 | Where We Want to Live | Ryan Gravel |
| 15 | WTF?: What’s the Future and Why It’s Up to Us | Tim O’Reilly |
| 16 | Thank You For Being Late | Thomas Friedman |
| 17 | Genes, Climate, and Consumption Culture | Jagdish Sheth |
| 18 | Paul Among the People | Sarah Ruden |
| 19 | What I Talk About When I Talk About Running | Haruki Murakami |
| 20 | Finding Ultra | Rich Roll |
| 21 | JFK and the Reagan Revolution | Lawrence Kudlow and Brian Domitrovic |
| 22 | How Adam Smith can Change Your Life | Russ Roberts |
| 23 | Robot-Proof | Joseph Aoun |
| 24 | Extreme Ownership | Jocko Willink |
| 25 | Once a Runner | John L. Parker |
| 26 | Killing England | Bill O’Reilly |
| 27 | Economix: How and Why Our Economy Works | Michael Goodwin |
| 28 | Mastery | George Leonard |
| 29 | Creativity Inc | Ed Catmull |
| 30 | The Undoing Project | Michael Lewis |
| 31 | Real Artists Don’t Starve | Jeff Goins |
| 32 | Poor Charlie’s Almanack | Charlie Munger |
| 33 | Tribe of Mentors | Tim Ferriss |
| 34 | Road to Sparta | Dean Karnazes |
| 35 | Lou Gehrig, a Quiet Hero | Frank Graham |
| 36 | The Black Swan | Nassim Taleb |
| 37 | Sleeping with the Devil | Robert Baer |
| 38 | Principles | Ray Dalio |
| 39 | Fortunes, Fiddles & Fried Chicken | Bill Carey |
| 40 | Edward Van Halen | Kevin Dodds |
| 41 | Runnin’ with the Devil | Noel Monk |
| 42 | Norse Mythology | Neil Gaiman |
| 43 | Tao Te Ching | Lao Tzu |
| 44 | Blockchain Revolution | Don Tapscott |
| 45 | The Mythical Man-Month | Frederick P. Brooks, Jr. |
| 46 | Van Halen Rising | Greg Renoff |
| 47 | Sammy Hagar: Uncensored Life in Rock | Sammy Hagar |
| 48 | On the Road | Jack Kerouac |