Book log

I like reading. This is what I've read over the past few years. You can see what I’m reading right now on Goodreads.

2019

• Conversations with Friends — Sally Rooney

• Brother — David Chariandy

• Man Alive — Thomas Page McBee

• Lost Connections — Johann Hari

• Pedro and Me — Judd Winick

• Silence — Erling Kagge

• Educated — Tara Westover

• The Vegetarian — Han Kang

• Keep Going — Austin Kleon

• Home — Marilynne Robinson

• Sabrina — Nick Drnaso

• Lila — Marilynne Robinson

• Waiting for the Last Bus — Richard Holloway

• Eat and Run — Scott Jurek

• Notes on a Nervous Planet — Matt Haig

• Good Trouble — Joseph O’Neill

• The Plotters — Un-Su Kim

• A Dream About Lightning Bugs — Ben Folds

• Trick Mirror — Jia Tolentino

• State of Wonder — Ann Patchett

• The Handmaid’s Tale — Margaret Atwood

• The Testaments — Margaret Atwood

• This Could Be Our Future — Yancey Strickler

• The Overstory — Richard Powers

• Bad Blood — John Carreyrou

• Amateur — Thomas Page McBee

2018

• A Dull Roar – Henry Rollins

• The Bluest Eye – Toni Morrison

• Hallelujah Anyway – Anne Lamott

• Fire On All Sides – James Rhodes

• How to Think – Alan Jacobs

• Hope in the Dark – Rebecca Solnit

• Bored and Brilliant – Manoush Zomorodi

• Reservoir 13 – Jon McGregor

• Golden Hill – Francis Spufford

• Just Kids – Patti Smith

• Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race – Reni Eddo-Lodge

• We Should All Be Feminists – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

• What Belongs to You – Garth Greenwell

• Connect – Julian Gough

• Housekeeping – Marilynne Robinson

• Commonwealth – Ann Patchett

• The Power – Naomi Alderman

• Less – Andrew Sean Greer

• Let Your Life Speak – Parker J. Palmer

• Priestdaddy – Patricia Lockwood

• This Really Isn't About You – Jean Hannah Edelstein

• Rest – Alexander Soojung-Kim Pang

• I Am, I Am, I Am – Maggie O’Farrell

• The Writing Life – Annie Dillard

• A Spool of Blue Thread – Anne Tyler

• Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine – Gail Honeyman

• The Leavers – Lisa Ko

• Normal People – Sally Rooney

• Crudo – Olivia Laing

• Mothers – Chris Power

2017

• The Humans – Matt Haig

• Deep Work – Cal Newport

• Status Anxiety – Alain de Botton

• On Beauty – Zadie Smith

• Gilead – Marilynne Robinson

• Black Sheep and Prodigals – Dave Tomlinson

• The Hate U Give – Angie Thomas

• Shoe Dog – Phil Knight

• When Breath Becomes Air – Paul Kalanithi

• A Really Good Day – Ayelet Waldman

• The Descent of Man – Grayson Perry

• No is Not Enough – Naomi Klein

• How to Stop Time – Matt Haig

• The Second Curve – Charles Handy

• My Absolute Darling – Gabriel Tallent

• Carpe Diem – Roman Krznaric

• Better Than Before – Gretchen Rubin

• The State of Affairs – Esther Perel

• Bit of a Blur – Alex James

2016

• The Hundred-year-old man who climbed out of the window and disappeared - Jonas Jonasson

• Black Coffee Blues – Henry Rollins

• How to be a Bad Christian – Dave Tomlinson

• In Praise of Slow – Carl Honoré

• The Obstacle is the Way – Ryan Holiday

• The Concise 48 Laws of Power – Robert Greene

• Bird by Bird – Anne Lamott

• The Hidden Pleasures of Life – Theodore Zeldin

• Hyperbole and a Half – Allie Brosh

• The Return of the Prodigal Son – Henri Nouwen

• Carrying Albert Home – Homer Hickam

• How to be Here – Rob Bell

• Pure – Rose Bretécher

• On Writing – Stephen King

• Brave Enough – Cheryl Strayed

• Good Trouble – Joe Biel

• So Good They Can't Ignore You – Cal Newport

• Letters to a Young Poet – Rainer Maria Rilke

• Big Magic – Elizabeth Gilbert

• Information Doesn't Want to Be Free – Cory Doctorow

• A Little Life – Hanya Yanagihara

• It's Okay to Laugh (Crying is Cool Too) – Nora McInerney Purmort

• Footnotes: How Running Makes Us Human – Vybarr Cregan-Reid

• Becoming Wise – Krista Tippett

• The Way of the Runner – Adharanand Finn

• Grief is the Thing with Feathers – Max Porter

• We Don’t Know What We’re Doing – Thomas Morris

• The Examined Life – Stephen Grosz

• Fathomless Riches – Richard Coles

• A Whole Life – Robert Seethaler

• The Zimzum of Love – Rob and Kristen Bell

• The Sense of an Ending – Julian Barnes

• Let My People Go Surfing – Yvon Chouinard

• The Course of Love – Alain de Botton

• Silence and Honey Cakes – Rowan Williams

2015

• A Sense of Direction – Gideon Lewis-Kraus

• Play it Again – Alan Rusbridger

• Hegarty on Creativity – John Hegarty

• The Art of Stillness – Pico Iyer

• Emotional Intelligence – Daniel Goleman

• Happiness by Design – Paul Dolan

• Zeitoun – Dave Eggers

• Do Story – Bobette Buster

• No One Belongs Here More Than You – Miranda July

• Mr. Penumbra's 24 Hour Bookstore - Robin Sloan

• So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed – Jon Ronson

• Essentialism – Greg McKeown

• We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves – Karen Joy Fowler

• Ajax Penumbra 1969 – Robin Sloan

• Growth Hacker Marketing – Ryan Holiday

• Contagious – Jonah Berger

• Ringside! – Adam Gnade

• The Element – Ken Robinson

• The Versions of Us – Laura Barnett

• Dreams from My Father – Barack Obama

• The Rosie Project – Graeme Simsion

• The Rosie Effect – Graeme Simsion

• Improv Wisdom – Patricia Ryan Madson

• Tiny Beautiful Things – Cheryl Strayed

• All My Friends are Superheroes – Andrew Kaufman

• The Achievement Habit – Bernie Roth

• The Fly Trap – Fredrik Sjöberg

• Small Victories – Anne Lamott

• Born to Run – Christopher McDougall

• Beautiful Ruins – Jess Walter

• The Game – Neil Strauss

• The Magic of Tidying – Marie Kondo

• Reasons to Stay Alive – Matt Haig

• Spark for the Fire – Ian Wharton

• Doing Good Better – Will MacAskill

• The Miniaturist – Jessie Burton

• The Next Next Level – Leon Neyfakh

• Wild – Cheryl Strayed

• Yes Please – Amy Poehler

• On the Shortness of Life – Seneca

• Instrumental – James Rhodes

• The Almost Nearly Perfect People – Michael Booth

2014

• A Visit from the Goon Squad – Jennifer Egan

• David & Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants – Malcolm Gladwell

• A Farewell to Arms – Ernest Hemingway

• The Case for Working With Your Hands – Matthew Crawford

• The Road – Cormac McCarthy

• Choose Yourself – James Altucher

• Predatory Thinking: A Masterclass in Out-Thinking the Competition – Dave Trott

• Tender is the Night – F. Scott Fitzgerald

• The Brand Handbook – Wally Olins

• Ogilvy on Advertising – David Ogilvy

• Copywriting – Mark Shaw

• The Book Thief – Markus Zusak

• The Aftermath of Forever – Natalye Childress

• The Pursuit of God – A. W. Tozer

• How to Stay Sane – Philippa Perry

• Jab, Jab, Jab, Right Hook – Gary Vaynerchuk

• Steal Like an Artist – Austin Kleon

• The Fault in Our Stars – John Green

• Help, Thanks, Wow – Anne Lamott

• Stuffocation – James Wallman

• Confessions of an Advertising Man – David Ogilvy

• Show Your Work! – Austin Kleon

• Give and Take – Adam Grant

• The Goldfinch – Donna Tartt

• An Altar in the World – Barbara Brown Taylor

• The Circle – Dave Eggers

• The Gospel According to Everyone, vol. II – Martin Wroe

• The Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafón

• Do Purpose – David Hieatt

• Cranky, Beautiful Faith – Nadia Bolz-Weber

• Take This Bread – Sara Miles

• The God of Small Things – Arundhati Roy

• Wild Geese – Mary Oliver

• Leaving Church – Barbara Brown Taylor

• American Psycho – Bret Easton Ellis

• The Challenger’s Almanac – Various

• What Matters Most? – Brian Draper

• Falling Upward – Richard Rohr

• Firmin – Sam Savage

• Traveling Mercies – Anne Lamott

• Long Walk to Freedom – Nelson Mandela

• It’s Not How Good You Are, It’s How Good You Want to Be – Paul Arden

• The Do-It-Yourself Guide to Fighting the Big Motherfuckin’ Sad – Adam Gnade

• Life Lessons from Bergson – Michael Foley

• The Four Loves – C.S. Lewis

• No Country for Old Men – Cormac McCarthy

• Life Lessons from Kierkegaard – Robert Ferguson

• The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time – Mark Haddon

• Damn Good Advice (for people with talent!) – George Lois

• Life Lessons from Freud – Brett Kahr

• Whatever You Think, Think the Opposite – Paul Arden

• Simple Steps to a Life Less Shitty – Adam Gnade