Reading

In the spirit of folks like Susan Rigetti, I keep a record of my yearly reading to motivate me to read more.

Titles that particularly stood out to me are in bold.

2026

Becoming Steve Jobs, by Brent Schlender and Rick Tetzeli
This is for Everyone, by Sir Tim Berners-Lee
Dream Chasing, by Bob Weis
Breakneck, by Dan Wang
Katabasis, by R. F. Kuang
The Colour of Magic, by Terry Pratchett
How to be Wrong, by Rowan Simpson
The Exploding Detective, by John Swartzwelder
Play Bigger, by Al Ramadan, Dave Peterson, Christopher Lochhead and Kevin Maney

2025

The One Device, by Brian Merchant
Why Fish Don’t Exist, by Lulu Miller
The Launchpad, by Randall Stross
Gambling Man, by Lionel Barber
Lords of Strategy, by Walter Kiechel III
Writing is Designing, by Michael Metts and Andy Welfe
Careless People, by Sarah Wynn-Williams
It’s Not TV, by Felix Gillette and John Koblin
The Final Hours of Portal 2, by Geoff Keighley
Uses for Obsession, by Ben Shewry
How the Internet Happened, by Brian McCullough
When the Going was Good, by Graydon Carter
Empire of AI, by Karen Hao
Apple in China, by Patrick McGee
Lessons from Gin, by Matt Jones
eBoys, by Randall Stross
It Came From Something Awful, by Dale Beran
AI Valley, by Gary Rivlin
Northern Lights, by Philip Pullman
The Unknown Unknown, by Mark Forsyth
The Nvidia Way, by Tae Kim
The Existing Market Trap: A Primer, by Category Pirates
Because Internet, by Gretchen McCulloch
Kraftwerk: Future Music From Germany, by Uwe Schütte
The Subtle Knife, by Philip Pullman
The Innovator’s Dilemma, by Clay Christensen
The Amber Spyglass, by Philip Pullman
Lyra’s Oxford, by Philip Pullman
Once Upon a Time in the North, by Philip Pullman
Daemon Voices, by Philip Pullman
The Collectors, by Philip Pullman
Serpentine, by Philip Pullman
The Imagination Chamber, by Philip Pullman
The Book of Dust Vol. 1: La Belle Sauvage, by Philip Pullman
The Book of Dust Vol. 2: The Secret Commonwealth, by Philip Pullman
The Mushroom Tapes; by Helen Garner, Chloe Hooper and Sarah Krasnostein
How They Get You, by Chris Kohler
The Book of Dust Vol. 3: The Rose Field, by Philip Pullman

2024

Storyworthy, by Matthew Dicks
Fire in the Valley, by Michael Swaine and Paul Freiberger
Insanely Great, by Steven Levy
Cable Cowboy, by Mark Robichaux
Extremely Hardcore, by Zoë Schiffer
Same as Ever, by Morgan Housel
Burn Book, by Kara Swisher
Sweating Bullets, by Robert Gaskins
Losing My Virginity, by Richard Branson
Finding My Virginity, by Richard Branson
Dot Bomb Australia, by Kate Askew
My Adventurous Life, by Dick Smith
Think Faster, Talk Smarter by Matt Abrahams
Disney’s Land, by Richard Snow
Politics and the English Language, by George Orwell
Creative Selection, by Ken Kocienda
Barbarians at the Gate, by John Helyar and Bryan Burrough
A Cook’s Tour, by Anthony Bourdain
The Burger King, by Jim McLamore
Co-Intelligence, by Ethan Mollick
Never Enough, by Andrew Wilkinson
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow; by Gabrielle Zevin

2023

Blitzed, by Norman Ohler
Beastie Boys Book, by Michael Diamond and Adam Horovitz
Drops of God Vol. 6-44, by Tadashi Agi
The Dealmaker, Guy Hands
Four Thousand Weeks, by Oliver Burkeman
Quit, by Annie Duke
Magic Words, by Jonah Berger
Attention Factory, by Matthew Brennan
The Power Law, by Sebastian Mallaby
Drive-Thru Dreams, by Adam Chandler
Traffic, by Ben Smith
The Creative Act, by Rick Rubin
Elixir, by Theresa Levitt
Small Fires, Rebecca May Johnson
The Fall, by Michael Wolff
Behind the Cloud, by Marc Benioff
MCU: The Reign of Marvel Studios, by Joanna Robinson, Dave Gonzales, Gavin Edwards
Drops of God: Mariage, by Tadashi Agi

2022

A History of the World in 6 Glasses, by Tom Standage
In the Plex, by Steven Levy
The Antisocial Network, by Ben Mezrich
Low Rates, High Returns, by Pete Wargent and Steve Moriarty
Drunk in China, by Derek Sandhaus
Free Country, by George Mahood
American Express, by Peter Z. Grossman
Almanack of Naval Ravikant, by Eric Jorgensen
How to Live, by Derek Sivers
Make, by Pieter Levels
Ogilvy on Advertising, by David Ogilvy
He Died With a Felafel In His Hand, by John Birmingham
Threadless, by Jake Nickell
The Cold Start Problem, by Andrew Chen
Exactly What to Say, by Phil Jones
Everything I Know About Life I Learned From PowerPoint, by Russell Davies
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck, by Mark Manson
Your Head is a Houseboat, by Campbell Walker
The Founders, by Jimmy Soni
Marissa Mayer and the Fight to Save Yahoo!, by Nicholas Carlson
Field Guide to the Haunted Forest, by Jarod K. Anderson
A System Apart, by Simon Cartledge
Atomic Habits, by James Clear
The Elements of Eloquence, by Mark Forsyth
The Nineties, by Chuck Klosterman
On Color, by David Scott Kastan and Stephen Farthing
How I Built This, by Guy Raz
Tranquillity and Ruin, by Danyl McLauchlin
The Maker Movement Manifesto, by Mark Hatch
On Disruption, by Katharine Murphy
The Etymologicon, by Mark Forsyth
Himalaya, by Michael Palin
The Entrepreneur Roller Coaster, by Darren Hardy
Big Magic, by Elizabeth Gilbert
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams
Binge Times, by Dade Hayes and Dawn Chmielewski
When Breath Becomes Air, by Paul Kalanithi
See What You Made Me Do, by Jess Hill
Free to Make, by Dale Dougherty
Money Men, by Dan McCrum
Axed, by Phil Barker
The Jungle, by Upton Sinclair
Bob Hawke, by Troy Bramston
Is this love or dopamine?, by Iona David
Audience-ology, by Kevin Goetz
The Late Shift, by Bill Carter
Money, by Jacob Goldstein
Smart Brevity, by Jim VandeHei
GPT-3, by Sandra Kublik and Shubham Saboo
The Office: The Untold Story, by Andy Greene
Drops of God Vol. 1-5, by Tadashi Agi
Like, Comment, Subscribe, by Mark Bergen
I’m Glad My Mom Died, by Jennette McCurdy
Obviously Awesome, by April Dunford
I’d like to play alone, please, by Tom Segura

2021

The Innovation Stack, by Jim McKelvey
The Psychology of Money, by Morgan Housel
The Catch of the Decade, by Gabby and Hezi Leibovich
Angel, by Jason Calacanis
Whistleblower, by Susan Rigetti
Get Together, by Bailey Richardson, Kevin Huynh, Kai Elmer Sotto
Turning the Flywheel, by Jim Collins
The Money Hackers, by Dan Simon
Stalin’s Wine Cellar, by John Baker and Nick Place
Strategic Writing for UX, by Torrey Podmajersky
Entangled Life, by Merlin Sheldrake
The Big Short, by Michael Lewis
This is Not Propaganda, by Peter Pomerantsev
MBS, by Ben Hubbard
Sum, by David Eagleman
The Currency Cold War, by David Birch
The Madness of Crowds, by Douglas Murray
Hitch 22, by Christopher Hitchens
How to Get Rich, by Felix Dennis
Identity is the New Money, by David Birch
The Design of Everyday Things, by Don Norman
Minecraft, by Linus Larsson and Daniel Goldberg
Amazon Unbound, by Brad Stone
The Infinite Machine, by Camila Russo
Baijiu: The Essential Guide to Chinese Spirits, by Derek Sandhaus
Generation Friends, by Saul Austerlitz
My Seinfeld Year, by Fred Stoller
World Travel, by Anthony Bourdain and Laurie Woolever
The 99% Invisible City, by Roman Mars and Kurt Kohlstedt
Freedom, by Sebastian Junger
Anything you want, by Derek Sivers
Ritz and Escoffier, by Luke Barr
Cosmos, by Carl Sagan
The Art of Travel, by Alain de Botton
Wanting, by Luke Burgis
The Adweek Copywriting Handbook, by Joseph Sugarman
Leonardo Da Vinci, by Walter Isaacson
On Writing, by Stephen King
How to be Black, by Baratunde Thurston
Buy now, Pay later, by James Eyers and Jonathan Shapiro
Invention: A life, by James Dyson
Reminiscences of a Stock Operator, by Edwin Lefèvre
The Victorian Internet, by Tom Standage
Taste, by Stanley Tucci
Hackers and Painters, by Paul Graham
Red Roulette, by Desmond Shum
The Contrarian, by Max Chafkin
Top Blokes, by Lech Blaine
The Socrates Express, by Eric Weiner
The Making of a Manager, by Julie Zhuo
Trillions, by Robin Wigglesworth
Bourdain in Stories, by Laurie Woolever
The Rape of Nanking, by Iris Chang

2020

The End is Always Near, by Dan Carlin
A Week at the Airport, by Alain de Botton
The Ride of a Lifetime, by Bob Iger
Perennial Seller, by Ryan Holiday
The Passion Economy, by Adam Davidson
Uncanny Valley, by Anna Wiener
Masters of Doom, by David Kushner
Nothing is True and Everything is Possible, by Peter Pomerantsev
Underland, by Robert Mcfarlane
Conscious, by Annaka Harris
That Will Never Work, by Marc Randolph
Facebook: The Inside Story, by Steven Levy
We were Yahoo! by Jeremy Ring
Reboot, by Jodie Fox
Tiny Moons, by Nina Mingya-Powles
No Filter, by Sarah Frier
The War of Art, by Steven Pressfield
Grinding it Out, by Ray Kroc
The Road to Wigan Pier, by George Orwell
7 Powers, by Hamilton Helmer
New Money, by Lana Swarz
How Innovation Works, by Matt Ridley
Ego is the Enemy, by Ryan Holiday
Mating in Captivity, by Esther Perel

2019

I Am Dynamite!: A Life of Nietzsche, by Sue Prideaux
Women & Power: A Manifesto, by Mary Beard
Dark Emu, by Bruce Pascoe
Lost and Founder, by Rand Fishkin
The Courage to Be Disliked, by Ichiro Kishimi
The Black Swan, by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Net Loss, by Sebastian Smee
Working, by Robert A. Caro
The Chapo Guide to Revolution, by Chapo Trap House
You Can Do Anything, by George Anders
The Book of Longing, by Leonard Cohen
Talking to My Daughter About the Economy, by Yanis Varoufakis
Liar’s Poker, by Michael Lewis
Future Histories, by Lizzie O’Shea
Can You Ever Forgive Me?, by Lee Israel
The Prosperity Gospel, by Erik Jensen
Bitcoin Billionaires, by Ben Mezrich
The Internet of Garbage, by Sarah Jeong
Range, by David Epstein
Propaganda, by Edward Bernays
The Man Who Lied to His Laptop, by Clifford Nass and Corina Yen
The Writers Map, edited by Huw Lewis-Jones
The Shanghai Free Taxi, by Frank Langfitt
The Billionaire’s Vinegar, by Benjamin Wallace
Microcopy, by Kinneret Yifrah
The Algebra of Happiness, by Scott Galloway
Educated, by Tara Westover
Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber, by Mike Isaac
Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion, by Jia Tolentino
The Long Tail, by Chris Anderson
The Book of Dust Vol. 2, by Philip Pullman
Trust Me I’m Lying, by Ryan Holiday
Conspiracy, by Ryan Holiday
The House that Jack Ma Built, by Duncan Clark
The Greatest Minds and Ideas of All Time, by Will Durant
Dr Space Junk Vs. The Universe, by Dr Alice Gorman
The Man Who Solved the Market, by Gregory Zuckerman
Catch and kill, by Ronan Farrow
The Power of Moments, by Dan Heath and Chip Heath
The Accidental Billionaires, by Ben Mezrich

2018

The New Education, by Cathy Davidson
Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House, by Michael Wolff
Hunger, by Roxane Gay
Radical Self-Acceptance, by Tara Brach
What She Ate, by Laura Shapiro
Hatching Twitter, by Nick Bilton
Brotopia: Breaking Up the Boys’ Club of Silicon Valley, by Emily Chang
Recovery: Freedom from Our Addictions, by Russell Brand
The Power, by Naomi Alderman
Boomerang: Travels in the New Third World, by Michael Lewis
No is Not Enough, by Naomi Klein
The Arsonist, by Chloe Hooper
Any Ordinary Day, by Leigh Sales
Bad Blood, by John Carreyrou
Medium Raw, by Anthony Bourdain
Thinking in Bets, by Annie Duke
Broad Band, by Claire Evans
A Life Less Throwaway, by Tara Button
Everything Happens for a Reason, by Kate Bowler
The Beach, by Alex Garland
Capitalism Without Capital, by Jonathan Haskel
The Million-Dollar, One-person Business, by Elaine Pofeldt
Help, by Simon Amstell
Bad Feminist, by Roxane Gay
Down and Out in Paris and London, by George Orwell
Zero to One, by Peter Thiel
The Fuzzy and the Techie, by Scott Hartley
Tribe, by Sebastian Junger
Gut, by Giulia Enders
Outliers, by Malcolm Gladwell
The Trauma Cleaner, by Sarah Krasnostein
American Kingpin, by Nick Bilton
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes, by Caitlin Doughty
Content Design, by Sarah Richards
Shoe Dog, by Phil Knight
Thinking in Systems, by Donella Meadows

2017

The Everything Store, by Brad Stone
Playing to the Gallery, by Grayson Perry
The Undoing Project, by Michael Lewis
Norse Mythology, by Neil Gaiman
Sapiens, by Yuval Noah Harari
Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency, by Douglas Adams
The Geography of Genius, by Eric Weiner
Modern Romance, by Aziz Ansari
Elon Musk, by Ashlee Vance
We Learn Nothing, by Tim Kreider
The Good Father, by Noah Hawley
Surely You’re Joking Mr. Feynman, by Richard Feynman
Becoming Facebook, by Mike Hoefflinger
Networks of New York, by Ingrid Burrington
The Innovators, by Walter Isaacson
The Idealist, by Justin Peters
Time Travel, by James Gleick
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry, by Neil Degrasse Tyson
Will Save the Galaxy for Food, by Yahtzee Croshaw
Chaos Monkeys, by Antonio Garcia Martinez
The Hard Thing About Hard Things, by Ben Horowitz
Homage to Catalonia, by George Orwell
Egghead, by Bo Burnham
Yes Please, by Amy Poehler
Quiet, by Susan Cain
Platform Revolution, by Sangeet Paul Choudary, Geoffrey Parker and Marshall Van Alstyne
Flash Boys, by Michael Lewis
The Art of War, by Sun Tzu
Men Explain Things to Me, by Rebecca Solnit
Art and Fear, by David Bayles and Ted Orland
Farenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury
Fight Like a Girl, by Clementine Ford
The Princess Diarist, by Carrie Fisher
Asshole Survival Guide, by Robert I. Sutton
Life On Air, by David Attenborough
Side Hustle, by Chris Guillebeau
Hit Refresh, by Satya Nadella
Difficult Women, by Roxane Gay
The Four, by Scott Galloway
The Book of Dust Vol. 1, by Philip Pullman
How Not to be a Boy, by Robert Webb
How to be a Woman, by Caitlin Moran
Soul Without Shame, by Byron Brown
Happy Money, by Elizabeth Cullen Dunn and Michael Norton
The Great Fragmentation, by Steve Sammartino