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Every Book I've Read
All 454 books across both stages of the project, newest first.
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2026
· 21 books
#1
The Intertextual Tanakh
★★★★★
Jan 25, 2026
#2
Bibliotheca Vol II: The Latter Prophets
★★★★★
Feb 2, 2026
#3
Bibliotheca Vol III: The Writings
★★★★★
Feb 18, 2026
#4
Working on a Song: The Lyrics of Hadestown
Anaïs Mitchell
Feb 13, 2026
#5
Bibliotheca Vol V: The New Testament
★★★★★
Feb 28, 2026
#6
Our Name is Dare
Kev Coleman
★★★★★
Mar 2, 2026
#7
Heraclitus Fragments
Heraclitus
★★★★★
Mar 3, 2026
#8
The First Philosophers: The Presocratics and the Sophists
★★★★★
May 6, 2026
#9
Early Greek Philosophy
★★★★★
Apr 11, 2026
#10
The Logos of Heraclitus
The Logos of Heraclitus
Eva Brann
Mar 10, 2026
#11
Nero & Paul
Nero & Paul
KLG w/ Brian M. Litfin
Mar 24, 2026
#12
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Apr 6, 2026
#13
The Greek Sophists
★★★★★
Apr 29, 2026
#14
The Flowering Hawthorn
Hugh Ross Williamson
May 6, 2026
#15
Plato: Complete Works
Plato
#16
Philebus
Plato
May 19, 2026
#17
Le Morte Darthur
Sir Thomas Malory
#18
Galahad and the Grail
Malcolm Guite
★★★★★
Jun 8, 2026
#19
King Arthur and His Knights of The Round Table
Roger Lancelyn Green
★★★★★
Jun 14, 2026
#20
The Fall of Arthur
J.R.R. Tolkien
★★★★★
Jun 20, 2026
#21
Till We Have Faces
C.S. Lewis
Jun 23, 2026
2025
· 41 books
#1
The Barry Moser Bible
Feb 26, 2025
#2
God’s Secretaries: The Making of the King James Bible
Adam Nicolson
★★★★★
Mar 1, 2025
#3
The Analects
Confucius
★★★★★
Mar 10, 2025
#4
The Analects
Confucius
Mar 20, 2025
#5
The Authentic Confucius
Annping Chin
★★★★
Mar 27, 2025
#6
Phoenician Women, Orestes, The Bacchae, Iphigenia at Aulis
Euripides
★★★★★
May 4, 2025
#7
Free Speech
Jacob Mchangama
★★★★★
Apr 11, 2025
#8
The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald
★★★★★
Apr 13, 2025
#9
There’s Nothing Like This
There’s Nothing Like This
Kevin Evers
Apr 23, 2025
#10
Suppliants
Euripides
★★★★
May 9, 2025
#11
Ion, Helen
Euripides
★★★★★
May 14, 2025
#12
Philoctetes
Hanna M. Roisman
★★★★
May 17, 2025
#13
Bacchae
Euripides
★★★★★
May 22, 2025
#14
Euripides Fragments: Aegeus - Meleager
Euripides
★★★★★
May 27, 2025
#15
Euripides Fragments: Oedipus - Chrysippus, Other Fragments
Euripides
★★★★★
May 31, 2025
#16
Clouds, Birds, Lysistrata, Women of the Assembly
Aristophanes
★★★★
Jun 8, 2025
#17
The Frogs
Aristophanes
★★★★★
Jun 9, 2025
#18
Anabasis
Xenophon
★★★★★
Jun 26, 2025
#19
Cyropaedia (The Education of Cyrus)
Xenophon
★★★★★
Jul 3, 2025
#20
The Library of Ancient Wisdom
Selena Wisnom
★★★★★
Jul 13, 2025
#21
The Idea Machine
Joel J. Miller
★★★★★
Jul 17, 2025
#22
The Picture of Dorian Grey
Oscar Wilde
★★★★★
Jul 21, 2025
#23
An Odyssey: A Father, A Son, and an Epic
Daniel Mendelsohn
★★★★★
Jul 27, 2025
#24
Bryce and the Lost Pearl
Derek Holser, Zach Fay
★★★★★
Aug 1, 2025
#25
Tambika and the Shield of Wisdom
Derek Holser, Zach Fay
★★★★★
Aug 3, 2025
#26
Theo of Golden
Allen Levi
★★★★★
Aug 10, 2025
#27
The Last Sweet Mile
Allen Levi
★★★★★
Aug 13, 2025
#28
Your Hidden Genius
Betsy Mills
★★★★★
Aug 14, 2025
#29
Plato: Complete Works
Plato
#30
Poetics
Aristotle
★★★★★
Sep 8, 2025
#31
Man’s Search for Meaning
Viktor Frankl
Oct 7, 2025
#32
Plato Sophist: The Professor of Wisdom
Eva Brann, Peter Kalkavage, Eric Salem
Oct 27, 2025
#33
A Nasty Business, The Meek One, White Nights
A Nasty Business, The Meek One, White Nights
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Nov 8, 2025
#34
Plato of Athens: A Life in Philosophy
Robin Waterfield
★★★★★
Nov 18, 2025
#35
The First Philosophers: The Presocratics and the Sophists
★★★★★
#36
A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Books
Charles Dickens
Dec 5, 2025
#37
Rhetorica Ad Herennium
Cicero
★★★★★
Dec 6, 2025
#38
The Real Environmentalists
Jim Beach
★★★★
Dec 9, 2025
#39
The Secret Society of Success
Tim Schurrer
★★★★★
Dec 15, 2025
#40
Living the Braveheart Life
Randall Wallace
★★★★★
Dec 18, 2025
#41
Maria’s Scarf
Zoro
Dec 26, 2025
2024
· 41 books
#1
The Hebrew Bible: The Five Books of Moses
★★★★★
Jan 22, 2024
#2
The Hebrew Bible: Prophets
★★★★★
Feb 10, 2024
#3
The Hebrew Bible: The Writings
★★★★★
Feb 19, 2024
#4
The New Testament
★★★★★
Feb 29, 2024
#5
The Iliad
Homer
★★★★★
Mar 25, 2024
#6
A Companion to The Iliad
Malcolm M. Willcock
★★★★★
Mar 25, 2024
#7
Aesop’s Fables
Aesop
★★★★
Mar 29, 2024
#8
Greek Epic Fragments (Cypria, Little Iliad, and The Sack of Ilion)
Greek Epic Fragments (Cypria, Little Iliad, and The Sack of Ilion)
Apr 1, 2024
#9
Pindar
The Odes
★★★
Apr 6, 2024
#10
The Oresteia (Agamemnon, Libation Bearers, Eumenides)
Aeschylus
Apr 9, 2024
#11
The Oresteia (Agamemnon, Libation Bearers, Eumenides)
Aeschylus
Apr 21, 2024
#12
Prometheus Bound, The Suppliants, Seven Against Thebes, The Persians
Aeschylus
★★★★★
May 5, 2024
#13
The Theban Plays (Antigone, Oedipus Rex, Oedipus Colonus)
Sophocles
May 7, 2024
#14
Theban Plays
Sophocles
★★★★★
May 28, 2024
#15
The Three Theban Plays
Sophocles
★★★★★
May 24, 2024
#16
Antigone
Jean Anouilh
★★★★
May 26, 2024
#17
Ajax, Women of Trachis, Electra, Philoctetes
Sophocles
★★★★★
Jun 16, 2024
#18
The Abolition of Man
C.S. Lewis
★★★★★
Jun 18, 2024
#19
Epic
John Eldredge
★★★★★
Jun 18, 2024
#20
The Anxious Generation
Jonathan Haidt
★★★★★
Jun 26, 2024
#21
Day Trading Attention
Gary Vaynerchuk
★★★★
Jul 1, 2024
#22
Authenticity is Your Now
Alex J. Hughes
★★★★★
Jul 1, 2024
#23
Gravedigger’s Daughter: Growing up Rural
Debra Raye King
★★★★★
Jul 6, 2024
#24
All Over but the Shoutin’
Rick Bragg
★★★★★
Jul 13, 2024
#25
The Evangelical Imagination
Karen Swallow Prior
★★★★
Jul 17, 2024
#26
Sophocles Fragments
Sophocles
★★★★★
Jul 29, 2024
#27
Babrius and Phaedrus Fables
Babrius & Phaedrus
★★★★
Aug 14, 2024
#28
Jason and the Golden Fleece
Apollonius of Rhodes
★★★★★
Aug 23, 2024
#29
The Bookshop
Evan Friss
★★★★★
Aug 28, 2024
#30
The Iliad
Homer
★★★★★
Oct 6, 2024
#31
Medea, Hecabe, Electra, Heracles
Euripides
★★★★★
Sep 10, 2024
#32
Alcestis, Children of Heracles, Cyclops
Euripides
★★★★★
Sep 17, 2024
#33
Hippolytus, Iphigenia in Tauris
Euripides
Sep 24, 2024
#34
The Trojan Women, Andromache
Euripides
★★★★★
Nov 14, 2024
#35
The Peloponnesian War
Thucydides
★★★★
Nov 12, 2024
#36
Hellenika
Xenophon
★★★★★
Nov 30, 2024
#37
Theo of Golden
Allen Levi
★★★★★
Dec 4, 2024
#38
The Art of Teaching
Gilbert Highet
★★★★★
Dec 13, 2024
#39
Van Gogh Has a Broken Heart
Russ Ramsey
★★★★★
Dec 20, 2024
#40
Piranesi
Susanna Clarke
★★★★★
Dec 25, 2024
#41
The Intellectual Life
A. G. Sertillanges
★★★★★
Dec 29, 2024
2023
· 57 books
#1
Bible Vol 1: The Five Books & The Former Prophets
Jan 18, 2023
#2
Gilgamesh
★★★★★
Mar 3, 2023
#3
The Epic of Gilgamesh
★★★★★
Mar 17, 2023
#4
Civilizations of Ancient Iraq
Benjamin & Karen Foster
★★★★★
Mar 15, 2023
#5
Gilgamesh
★★★★★
Mar 19, 2023
#6
Writings from Ancient Egypt
★★★★
Mar 25, 2023
#7
Taschen: Egyptian Art
Émile Prisse D’Avennes
★★★★★
Apr 12, 2023
#8
The Rise and Fall of Ancient Egypt
Toby Wilkinson
★★★★★
Apr 10, 2023
#9
Tutankhamun
Sandro Vannini
Apr 16, 2023
#10
Akhenaten and the Religion of Light
Erik Hornung
★★★
Apr 18, 2023
#11
The Tale of Sinuhe and Other Ancient Egyptian Poems 1940-1640 BC
Apr 19, 2023
#12
The Stories of Setne Khamwas
★★★★
Apr 19, 2023
#13
Poems
Enheduana
Apr 23, 2023
#14
The Rig Veda
★★★
May 13, 2023
#15
The Hindus: An Alternate History
Wendy Doniger
★★★★★
May 7, 2023
#16
Enuma Elish
★★★★
May 15, 2023
#17
Moses Among the Idols
Amy Balogh
★★★★★
May 23, 2023
#18
Assyria
Eckart Frahm
★★★★★
May 30, 2023
#19
Babylon
Paul Kriwaczek
★★★★★
Jun 10, 2023
#20
Persians
Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones
★★★★★
Jun 24, 2023
#21
Ea’s Duplicity in the Gilgamesh Flood Story
Martin Worthington
★★★★★
Jun 30, 2023
#22
Gilead
Marilynne Robinson
★★★★★
Jul 2, 2023
#23
Reimagining Apologetics
Justin Ariel Bailey
★★★★
Jul 6, 2023
#24
In Praise of Good Bookstores
Jeff Deutsch
★★★★★
Jul 8, 2023
#25
On Writing (and Writers)
C.S. Lewis
★★★★★
Jul 9, 2023
#26
Dead Fall
Brad Thor
★★★★
Jul 12, 2023
#27
Black Ice
Brad Thor
★★★★
Jul 16, 2023
#28
Everything Sad is Untrue
Daniel Nayeri
★★★★★
Jul 19, 2023
#29
Something You Once Knew
Joshua Luke Smith
★★★★
Jul 21, 2023
#30
Murder in Mesopotamia
Agatha Christie
★★★★★
Jul 25, 2023
#31
The Histories
Herodotus
★★★★★
Sep 11, 2023
#32
Theogony & Works and Days
Hesiod
★★★★★
Aug 16, 2023
#33
Sappho: Stung with Love: Poems and Fragments
Sappho
★★★★
Aug 22, 2023
#34
Sappho: If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho
Sappho
★★★★
Aug 23, 2023
#35
The Scythians: Nomad Warriors of the Steppe
Barry Cunliffe
Dec 23, 2023
#36
Mythology
Edith Hamilton
★★★★
Sep 17, 2023
#37
The Greek Way
Edith Hamilton
★★★★★
Oct 2, 2023
#38
The Iliad
Homer
★★★★★
Oct 23, 2023
#39
How to Save the West
Spencer Klavan
Sep 26, 2023
#40
The War That Killed Achilles
Caroline Alexander
★★★★★
Nov 1, 2023
#41
The Odyssey
Homer
★★★★★
Nov 15, 2023
#42
The Homeric Hymns
Homer
★★★★
Nov 18, 2023
#43
On Greek Literature
Basil
★★★★★
Nov 19, 2023
#44
The Odyssey
Homer
Nov 30, 2023
#45
A Companion to Homer's Odyssey
James Morrison
★★★★
Nov 30, 2023
#46
The Angel Knew Papa and the Dog
Doug McKelvey
★★★★★
Dec 1, 2023
#47
The Book of the Dun Cow
Walter Wangerin Jr.
★★★★
Dec 5, 2023
#48
A Ranger’s Guide to Glipwood Forest
Andrew Peterson
Dec 6, 2023
#49
Elon Musk
Walter Isaacson
★★★★★
Dec 15, 2023
#50
Ransom
David Malouf
★★★★★
Dec 17, 2023
#50
Gilgamesh Among Us
Theodore Ziolkowsk
★★★★
Dec 22, 2023
#51
Gilgamesh’s Snake
Ghareeb Iskander
Dec 22, 2023
#52
Paul and the Resurrection of Israel: Jews, Former Gentiles, Israelites
Dr. Jason A. Staples
Dec 31, 2023
Bible Vol II: The Latter Prophets
★★★★★
Jan 27, 2023
Bible Vol III: The Writings
★★★★★
Feb 7, 2023
Bible Vol IV: The Apocrypha
Feb 17, 2023
Bible Vol V: The New Testament
★★★★★
Feb 28, 2023
2022
· 52 books
#1
On Reading Well
Karen Prior
★★★★★
Jan 4, 2022
#2
The Black Count
Tom Reiss
Jan 14, 2022
#3
In Cold Blood
Truman Capote
★★★★★
Jan 18, 2022
#4
The David Story (I & II Samuel)
Robert Alter
Apr 7, 2022
#5
Amusing Ourselves to Death
Neil Postman
★★★★★
Jan 24, 2022
#6
The Origin of the Family, Private Property, and the State
Friedrich Engels
Jan 30, 2022
#7
The Long Ships
Frans G. Bengtsson
★★★★
Feb 14, 2022
#8
The Bookseller of Florence
Ross King
★★★★
Feb 28, 2022
#9
Rembrandt Is in the Wind
Russ Ramsey
★★★★★
Mar 6, 2022
#10
Marriage of Figaro
Beaumarchais/Da Ponte/Mozart
★★★★★
Mar 20, 2022
#11
Sapiens
Yuval Noah Harari
★★★★
Apr 3, 2022
#12
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
Douglas Adams
★★★★
Apr 9, 2022
#13
Nothing to See Here
Kevin Wilson
★★★★★
Apr 12, 2022
#14
The Code Breaker
Walter Isaacson
Apr 25, 2022
#15
The Seven Storey Mountain
Thomas Merton
★★★★★
May 10, 2022
#16
Notre-Dame: A Short History of the Meaning of Cathedrals
Ken Follett
★★★★
May 10, 2022
#17
Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton
Edward Rice
★★★★★
May 21, 2022
#18
Industrial Society and Its Future
Theodore John Kaczynski
May 22, 2022
#19
Radical Hope: Ethics in the Face of Cultural Devastation
Jonathan Lear
★★★★★
May 25, 2022
#20
Scotland 2070
Ian & Dorothy Godden
★★★★★
May 30, 2022
#21
The Apocrypha
Jun 14, 2022
#22
Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail ‘72
Hunter Thompson
★★★★★
Jun 21, 2022
#23
The Spy that Came In From the Cold
John le Carré
Jun 23, 2022
#24
Rising Tiger
Brad Thor
★★★★
Jun 24, 2022
#25
A History of the World in 6 Glasses
Tom Standage
★★★★
Jun 28, 2022
#26
Galapagos
Kurt Vonnegut
★★★★
Jun 30, 2022
#27
Jack Hinson’s One-Man War
Tom McKenney
★★★★
Jul 6, 2022
#28
Invisible Man
Ralph Ellison
★★★★★
Jul 16, 2022
#29
The Psychology of Money
Morgan Housel
★★★★
Jul 18, 2022
#30
Present Concerns Essays
C.S. Lewis
★★★★
Jul 19, 2022
#31
The Road
Cormac McCarthy
★★★★★
Jul 23, 2022
#32
The Truth and Beauty
Andrew Klavan
★★★★★
Jul 26, 2022
#33
Jayber Crow
Wendell Berry
★★★★★
Aug 6, 2022
#34
Sir Gibbie
George MacDonald
★★★★★
Aug 21, 2022
#35
From the Holy Mountain
William Dalrymple
★★★★★
Sep 7, 2022
#36
Oranges
John McPhee
★★★★★
Sep 10, 2022
#37
Reading While Black
Esau McCaulley
★★★★★
Sep 14, 2022
#38
The Mind of the Maker
Dorothy Sayers
★★★★
Sep 21, 2022
#39
The Fire Next Time
James Baldwin
★★★★
Sep 21, 2022
#40
The Secret History
Donna Tartt
★★★★★
Oct 1, 2022
#41
Wild Problems
Russ Roberts
Oct 3, 2022
#42
The Body
Bill Bryson
★★★★★
Oct 13, 2022
#43
Why Art Matters: A Call for Christians to Create
Alastair Gordon
★★★★
Oct 16, 2022
#44
Wingfeather 1: On the Edge of the Dark Sea of Darkness
Andrew Peterson
★★★★★
Oct 21, 2022
#45
Wingfeather 2: North! Or Be Eaten
Andrew Peterson
★★★★★
Oct 26, 2022
#46
Wingfeather 3: The Monster in the Hollows
Andrew Peterson
★★★★★
Oct 30, 2022
#47
Wingfeather 4: The Warden and the Wolf King
Andrew Peterson
★★★★★
Nov 7, 2022
#48
Wingfeather Tales
Andrew Peterson
★★★★★
Nov 16, 2022
#49
The Viking Heart: How Scandinavians Conquered the World
Arthur Herman
★★★★
Nov 29, 2022
#50
The Splendid and the Vile
Erik Larson
★★★★★
Dec 13, 2022
#51
Shoe Dog
Phil Knight
★★★★
Dec 17, 2022
#52
The Dawn
Yoram Hazony
★★★★★
Dec 23, 2022
2021
· 45 books
#1
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
C.S. Lewis
★★★★★
Jan 2, 2021
#2
Prince Caspian
C.S. Lewis
★★★★★
Jan 5, 2021
#3
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
C.S. Lewis
★★★★★
Jan 9, 2021
#4
The Silver Chair
C.S. Lewis
★★★★★
Jan 12, 2021
#5
The Horse and His Boy
C.S. Lewis
★★★★★
Jan 16, 2021
#6
The Magician’s Nephew
C.S. Lewis
★★★★★
Jan 17, 2021
#7
The Last Battle
C.S. Lewis
★★★★★
Jan 19, 2021
#8
The Path to Power (1982)
Robert Caro
★★★★★
Feb 14, 2021
#9
Means of Ascent (1990)
Robert Caro
★★★★★
Feb 26, 2021
#10
Master of the Senate (2002)
Robert Caro
★★★★★
Mar 23, 2021
#11
The Passage of Power (2012)
Robert Caro
★★★★★
Apr 6, 2021
#12
The Hobbit
J.R.R. Tolkien
★★★
Apr 11, 2021
#13
The Fellowship of the Ring
J.R.R. Tolkien
★★★★★
Apr 22, 2021
#14
The Two Towers
J.R.R. Tolkien
★★★★★
Apr 30, 2021
#15
The Return of the King
J.R.R. Tolkien
★★★★★
May 5, 2021
#16
The Advent of the Lamb of God
Russ Ramsey
★★★★★
May 9, 2021
#17
The Passion of the King of Glory
Russ Ramsey
★★★★★
May 13, 2021
#18
The Mission of the Body of Christ
Russ Ramsey
★★★★★
May 16, 2021
#19
The Invisible Heart
Russ Roberts
★★★
May 20, 2021
#20
The Choice
Russ Roberts
★★★★
May 23, 2021
#21
The Price of Everything
Russ Roberts
★★★★★
May 25, 2021
#22
How Adam Smith Can Change Your Life
Russ Roberts
★★★★★
May 27, 2021
#23
Gambling With Other People’s Money
Russ Roberts
★★★★
May 29, 2021
#24
Working
Robert Caro
★★★★★
May 31, 2021
#25
New Testament
★★★★★
Jun 11, 2021
#26
The Power Broker
Robert Caro
★★★★★
Jul 8, 2021
#27
The Idea of Israel in Second Temple Judaism
Jason Staples
★★★★★
Jul 15, 2021
#28
The Civil War Vol 1 - Fort Sumter to Perryville
Shelby Foote
★★★★
Aug 15, 2021
#29
The Civil War Vol 2 - Fredericksburg to Meridian
Shelby Foote
#30
Lost in Thought
Zena Hitz
★★★★
Aug 31, 2021
#31
The Second Mountain
David Brooks
★★★★
Sep 7, 2021
#32
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
J. K. Rowling
★★★★★
Sep 12, 2021
#33
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
J. K. Rowling
★★★★★
Sep 16, 2021
#34
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
J. K. Rowling
★★★★★
Sep 22, 2021
#35
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
J. K. Rowling
★★★★★
Oct 3, 2021
#36
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
J. K. Rowling
★★★★★
Oct 16, 2021
#37
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
J. K. Rowling
★★★★★
Oct 28, 2021
#38
Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows
J. K. Rowling
★★★★★
Nov 3, 2021
#39
Dangerous Liaisons
Choderlos de Laclos
★★★★★
Nov 14, 2021
#40
The Theory of Moral Sentiments
Adam Smith
★★★★★
Nov 22, 2021
#41
Essays: Moral, Political, and Literary
David Hume
#42
The Fable of the Bees: Part I
Bernard Mandeville
★★★★★
Dec 12, 2021
#43
Atomic Habits
James Clear
★★★★★
Dec 14, 2021
#44
The God of the Garden
Andrew Peterson
★★★★★
Dec 18, 2021
#45
Watermark
Joseph Brodsky
★★★★
Dec 19, 2021
2020
· 45 books
#1
The Bible
★★★★★
Feb 29, 2020
#2
Non Obvious Megatrends
Rohit Bhargava
★★★★
Mar 5, 2020
#3
The Sacred Romance
John Eldredge
★★★★
Mar 9, 2020
#4
Teaching a Stone to Talk
Annie Dillard
★★★★
Mar 12, 2020
#5
Bel Canto
Ann Patchett
★★★★
Mar 20, 2020
#6
Letters from an Astrophysicist
Neil deGrasse Tyson
★★★★
Mar 22, 2020
#7
The Great Divorce
C.S. Lewis
★★★★★
Mar 25, 2020
#8
The Power and the Glory
Graham Greene
★★★★
Apr 5, 2020
#9
Peace Like a River
Leif Enger
★★★★
Apr 15, 2020
#10
Brave New World
Aldous Huxley
★★★★★
Apr 22, 2020
#11
The Orphan Mother
Robert Hicks
★★★★
May 1, 2020
#12
Hamlet
Shakespeare
★★★★★
Jun 9, 2020
#13
Furious Hours
Casey Cep
★★★★★
May 11, 2020
#14
Between the World and Me
Ta Nehesi Coates
★★★★
May 13, 2020
#15
Destiny Disrupted
Mir Tamim Ansary
★★★★★
May 24, 2020
#16
Crime & Punishment
Fyodor Dostoevsky
★★★★★
Jun 7, 2020
#17
The Highlander’s Last Song
George MacDonald
★★★★★
Jun 16, 2020
#18
Range
David Epstein
★★★★
Jun 22, 2020
#19
The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald
★★★★★
Jun 25, 2020
#20
The Aeneid
Virgil
★★★★
Jul 5, 2020
#21
And Then There Were None
Agatha Christie
★★★★★
Jul 8, 2020
#22
Permanent Record
Edward Snowden
★★★★★
Jul 12, 2020
#23
The Storm-Tossed Family
Russell Moore
★★★★
Jul 24, 2020
#24
The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes
Suzanne Collins
★★★
Aug 7, 2020
#25
The Romanovs
Simon Sebag Montefiore
★★★★★
Aug 26, 2020
#26
Antifragile
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
★★★★★
Sep 6, 2020
#27
News of the World
Paulette Jiles
★★★
Sep 8, 2020
#28
The Quick Adios
Tom Corcoran
★★
Sep 13, 2020
#29
The Handmaid’s Tale
Margaret Atwood
★★★★
Sep 18, 2020
#30
Struck
Russ Ramsey
★★★★★
Sep 19, 2020
#31
Draft No. 4
John McPhee
★★★★★
Sep 22, 2020
#32
David Crockett
Michael Wallis
★★★
Sep 27, 2020
#33
Bach
Greg Wilbur
★★★★
Sep 30, 2020
#34
The Truths We Hold
Kamala Harris
★★★
Oct 5, 2020
#35
Crippled America
Donald Trump
★★★
Oct 9, 2020
#36
Promises to Keep
Joe Biden
★★★
Oct 16, 2020
#37
Where You Go
Charlotte Pence
★★★
Oct 18, 2020
#38
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Haruki Murakami
★★★
Oct 31, 2020
#39
Blood Meridian
Cormac McCarthy
★★★★
Nov 8, 2020
#40
Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom
David W. Blight
★★★★★
Dec 6, 2020
#41
Where the Crawdads Sing
Delia Owens
★★★★
Dec 11, 2020
#42
Survivor’s Obligation
Joel Thor Neeb
★★★★
Dec 14, 2020
#43
Life of Wallace
James Paterson
★★★★
Dec 20, 2020
#44
Our Hope
Dmitrii Dudko
★★★★★
Dec 26, 2020
#45
Maus
Art Spiegelman
★★★★
Dec 28, 2020
2019
· 52 books
#1
Non-Obvious 2019
Rohit Bhargava
★★★★
Jan 13, 2019
#2
Building a Story Brand
Donald Miller
★★★★
Jan 4, 2019
#3
Never Split the Difference
Chris Voss
★★★★
Jan 9, 2019
#4
The Art of X-Ray Reading
Roy Peter Clark
★★★★★
Jan 17, 2019
#5
All the King’s Men
Robert Penn
★★★★★
Jan 29, 2019
#6
Man in the Mirror
Patrick Morley
★★★
Feb 4, 2019
#7
Sog
John L. Plaster
★★★
Feb 14, 2019
#8
The Hero with a Thousand Faces
Joseph Campbell
★
Feb 23, 2019
#9
How to Lead When You’re Not in Charge
Clay Scroggins
★★★
Feb 25, 2019
#10
Finding Franklin
Katie Shands
★★★★
Mar 1, 2019
#11
Don Quixote
Miguel De Cervantes
★★★★
Mar 25, 2019
#12
AI Superpowers
Kai-Fu Lee
★★★★
Apr 6, 2019
#13
The Union (Treaty of 1707)
Michael Fry
★★★
Apr 7, 2019
#14
A Higher World (1707 - 1815)
Michael Fry
★★★
Apr 20, 2019
#15
The Coddling of the American Mind
Greg Lukianoff & Jonathan Haidt
★★★★★
Apr 23, 2019
#16
A New Race of Men (1815 - 1914)
Michael Fry
★★★
May 5, 2019
#17
The Widow of the South
Robert Hicks
★★★★
May 14, 2019
#18
Lords of the Desert
James Barr
★★★★
May 29, 2019
#19
Warnings Unheeded
Andy Brown
★★★★
Jun 2, 2019
#20
The Fifth Risk
Michael Lewis
★★★
Jun 6, 2019
#21
Twilight
William Gay
★★
Jun 9, 2019
#22
Splendor of God
Honoré Willsie Morrow
★★★★★
Jun 18, 2019
#23
Faust
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
★★★
Jun 22, 2019
#24
Killing Commendatore
Haruki Murakami
★★★★★
Jul 2, 2019
#25
Murder on the Orient Express
Agatha Christie
★★★
Jul 6, 2019
#26
Phantastes
George MacDonald
★★
Jul 10, 2019
#27
Mere Christianity
C.S. Lewis
★★★★★
Jul 14, 2019
#28
This is Marketing
Seth Godin
★★
Jul 16, 2019
#29
City of Thieves
David Benioff
★★★
Jul 20, 2019
#30
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass
★★★★★
Jul 22, 2019
#31
Devil in the White City
Erik Larson
★★★★
Jul 26, 2019
#32
Einstein
Walter Issacson
★★★★★
Aug 8, 2019
#33
What Every Body Is Saying
Joe Navarro
★★★★
Aug 11, 2019
#34
Factfulness
Hans Rosling
★★★★★
Aug 14, 2019
#35
Endure
Alex Hutchinson
★★★★
Aug 18, 2019
#36
Skin in the Game
Nassim Taleb
★★★★
Aug 24, 2019
#37
The President is Missing
Bill Clinton and James Patterson
★★★
Aug 28, 2019
#38
The Half-Drowned King
Linnea Hartsuyker
★★★
Sep 11, 2019
#39
Small Fry
Lisa Brennan-Jobs
★★★★★
Sep 17, 2019
#40
Fit for Life
Harvey Diamond
★★★★
Sep 21, 2019
#41
The Monk of Mokha
Dave Eggers
★★★★★
Sep 25, 2019
#42
Franklin: Tennessee's Handsomest Town
James A. Crutchfield, Robert Holladay
★★★★
Oct 5, 2019
#43
The Marathon Monks of Mount Hiei
John Stevens
★★
Oct 6, 2019
#44
21 Lessons for the 21st Century
Yuval Noah Harari
★★★★
Oct 15, 2019
#45
Educated
Tara Westover
★★★★★
Oct 20, 2019
#46
Can’t Hurt Me
David Goggins
★★★★★
Oct 24, 2019
#47
In Xanadu
William Dalrymple
★★★★
Oct 29, 2019
#48
Musicophilia
Oliver Sacks
★★★★
Nov 3, 2019
#49
The Lessons of History
Will & Ariel Durant
★★★★
Nov 4, 2019
#50
Guantánamo Diary
Momamedou Ould Slahi
★★★★★
Nov 10, 2019
#51
The Prophets
Abraham Heschel
★★★★★
Nov 28, 2019
#52
The Gulag Archipeligo
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
★★★★★
Dec 10, 2019
2018
· 49 books
#1
Tribe of Mentors
Tim Ferriss
★★★
Jan 16, 2018
#2
Economix: How and Why Our Economy Works
Michael Goodwin
★★★★
Jan 24, 2018
#3
Runnin’ with the Devil
Noel Monk
★★★
Jan 26, 2018
#4
Norse Mythology
Neil Gaiman
★★★
Feb 1, 2018
#5
Walt Disney
Neal Gabler
★★★★
Feb 17, 2018
#6
Van Halen Rising
Greg Renoff
★★★
Feb 22, 2018
#7
Thinking, Fast and Slow
Daniel Kahneman
★★★★★
Mar 6, 2018
#8
Principles
Ray Dalio
★★
Mar 17, 2018
#9
Sleeping with the Devil
Robert Baer
★★★
Mar 23, 2018
#10
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
Haruki Murakami
★★★★
Mar 25, 2018
#11
Creativity Inc
Ed Catmull
★★★★
Apr 6, 2018
#12
Fooled by Randomness
Nassim Taleb
★★★★★
Apr 13, 2018
#13
Killing England
Bill O’Reilly
★★★★
Apr 21, 2018
#14
Extreme Ownership
Jocko Willink
★★★★
Apr 27, 2018
#15
Blockchain Revolution: How the Technology Behind Bitcoin Is Changing Money, Business, and the World
Don Tapscott
★★★
May 5, 2018
#16
Road to Sparta
Dean Karnazes
★★★
May 9, 2018
#17
Edward Van Halen
Kevin Dodds
★★★
May 20, 2018
#18
Poor Charlie's Almanack
Charlie Munger
★★★
Jun 5, 2018
#19
How Adam Smith Can Change Your Life
Russ Roberts
★★★★
Jun 8, 2018
#20
On the Road
Jack Kerouac
★
Jun 17, 2018
#21
Tao Te Ching
Lao Tzu
★★★
Feb 28, 2018
#22
Homo Deus
Yuval Harari
★★★★★
Jun 26, 2018
#23
JFK and the Reagan Revolution: A Secret History of American Prosperity
Lawrence Kudlow and Brian Domitrovic
★★★★
Jul 2, 2018
#24
Mastery
George Leonard
★★★★
Jul 4, 2018
#25
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
Jared Diamond
★★★★★
Jul 19, 2018
#26
Lou Gehrig, a Quiet Hero
Frank Graham
★★★
Jul 20, 2018
#27
The Mythical Man-Month
Frederick P. Brooks, Jr.
★★★
Jul 27, 2018
#28
Finding Ultra
Rich Roll
★★★★
Jul 31, 2018
#29
Jerusalem: The Biography
Simon Sebag Montefiore
★★★★★
Aug 19, 2018
#30
Fortunes, Fiddles & Fried Chicken
Bill Carey
★★★
Sep 1, 2018
#31
Leonardo da Vinci
Walter Isaacson
★★★★
Sep 11, 2018
#32
The Black Swan
Nassim Taleb
★★★
Sep 26, 2018
#33
Once a Runner
John L. Parker
★★★★
Sep 29, 2018
#34
War & Peace
Leo Tolstoy
★★★★★
Nov 27, 2018
#35
Thank You For Being Late
Thomas Friedman
★★★★
Sep 30, 2018
#36
Genes, Climate, and Consumption Culture
Jagdish Sheth
★★★★
Oct 16, 2018
#37
Sammy Hagar: Uncensored Life in Rock
Sammy Hagar
★★★
Dec 4, 2018
#38
Robot-Proof
Joseph Aoun
★★★★
Dec 9, 2018
#39
A Short History of Nearly Everything
Bill Bryson
★★★★★
Nov 8, 2018
#40
WTF?: What's the Future and Why It's Up to Us
Tim O’Reilly
★★★★
Nov 14, 2018
#41
Benjamin Franklin
Walter Isaacson
★★★★★
Nov 23, 2018
#42
Paul Among the People
Sarah Ruden
★★★★
Dec 14, 2018
#43
Sog
John L. Plaster
★★★
#44
A Mind at Play: How Claude Shannon Invented the Information Age
Jimmy Soni
★★★★
Dec 30, 2018
#45
Quiet
Susan Cain
★★★★★
Oct 29, 2018
#46
Real Artists Don't Starve
Jeff Goins
★★★
Dec 16, 2018
#47
The Undoing Project
Michael Lewis
★★★★
Nov 29, 2018
#48
Bandersnatch: C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, and the Creative Collaboration of the Inklings
Diana Pavlac Glyer
★★★★★
Dec 20, 2018
#49
Where We Want to Live: Reclaiming Infrastructure for a New Generation of Cities
Ryan Gravel
★★★★
Dec 25, 2018
2017
· 51 books
#1
The Inevitable
Kevin Kelly
★★★★
Jan 7, 2017
#2
The Old Man and the Sea
Ernest Hemingway
★★★★
Jan 9, 2017
#3
The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing
Al Ries, Jack Trout
★★★★
Jan 12, 2017
#4
Natural Born Heroes
Christopher McDougall
★★★★
Jan 21, 2017
#5
Vagabonding
Rolf Potts
★
Jan 28, 2017
#6
Stone Soup
Marcia Brown
★
Jan 29, 2017
#7
Outliers
Malcolm Gladwell
★★★
Feb 4, 2017
#8
Born Standing Up: A Comic’s Life
Steve Martin
★★★
Feb 7, 2017
#9
Show Your Work
Austin Kleon
★★★
Feb 8, 2017
#10
Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman!
Richard Feynman
★★★★
Feb 16, 2017
#11
Buck Up, Suck Up...Foul Up
James Carville / Paul Begala
★
Feb 18, 2017
#12
The Things they Carried
Tim O'Brien
★★★★★
Feb 21, 2017
#13
Iacocca: An Autobiography
Lee Iacocca, William Novak
★★★★
Mar 1, 2017
#14
The Effective Executive
Peter Drucker
★★★★★
Mar 7, 2017
#15
Who
Geoff Smart, Randy Street
★★★
Mar 13, 2017
#16
Start with Why
Simon Sinek
★★★★★
Mar 19, 2017
#17
Bird by Bird
Anne Lamott
★★★★
Mar 27, 2017
#18
Walden
Henry David Thoreau
★★★★
Apr 10, 2017
#19
Dune
Frank Herbert
★★★
Apr 26, 2017
#20
Heraclitean Fire
Erwin Chargaff
★★★★★
Apr 30, 2017
#21
Once an Eagle
Anton Myrer
★★★★★
May 21, 2017
#22
Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
Jack Weatherford
May 28, 2017
#23
Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me)
Carol Tavris and Elliot Aronson
★★★★
Jun 2, 2017
#24
Ogilvy on Advertising
David Ogilvy
★★★★
Jun 6, 2017
#25
The Artist’s Way: Morning Pages Journal
Julia Cameron
★★★★
Jun 14, 2017
#26
The Autobiography of Malcom X
Malcom X
★★★★★
Jun 28, 2017
#27
Deep Survival
Laurence Gonzales
★★★★
Jul 6, 2017
#28
The Art of Learning
Josh Waitzkin
★★★★
Jul 11, 2017
#29
Blood Meridian
Cormac McCarthy
★
Aug 4, 2017
#30
Generations
William Strauss
★★★★★
Aug 19, 2017
#31
The Republic
Plato
★★★
Aug 29, 2017
#32
About Face
Colonel David H. Hackworth
★★★★★
Sep 18, 2017
#33
Gates of Fire
Steven Pressfield
★★★★
Sep 23, 2017
#34
Hooked
Nir Eyal
★★★
Sep 25, 2017
#35
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
★★★★
Oct 15, 2017
#36
The Power of Persuasion
Robert Levine
★★★
Oct 22, 2017
#37
The Graveyard Book
Neil Gaiman
★★★★
Oct 25, 2017
#38
Maxims and Reflections
Goethe
★★★
Oct 26, 2017
#39
Leaves of Grass
Walt Whitman
★★★
Oct 29, 2017
#40
The Right Stuff
Tom Wolfe
★★★★★
Nov 7, 2017
#41
Touching the Rock
John Hull
★★★
Nov 14, 2017
#42
Open
Andre Agassi
★★★★★
Nov 19, 2017
#43
On the Shortness of Life
Seneca
★★★
Nov 20, 2017
#44
Debt
David Graeber
★★★★★
Nov 27, 2017
#45
Age of Propaganda
Anthony Pratkanis, Elliot Aronson
★★★
Dec 6, 2017
#46
How Proust Can Change Your Life
Alain de Botton
★★★★
Dec 13, 2017
#47
The War of Art
Steven Pressfield
★★★★
Dec 14, 2017
#48
Think Twice
Michael Mauboussin
★★★
Dec 20, 2017
#49
The Fourth Turning
William Strauss
★★★★★
Dec 30, 2017
#50
Man’s Search for Meaning
Viktor Frankl
★★★★★
Dec 31, 2017
West with the Night
Beryl Markham
★★★★
Dec 30, 2017
