I track all of my books on Goodreads, so feel free to follow me there. Books below with a star (⭐) are books I highly recommend. That doesn’t mean I didn’t like others, I just found a lot of value and/or enjoyment out of those I recommend.
2023
- “James Acaster’s Guide to Quitting Social Media” by James Acaster
- “Kaiju Preservation Society” by John Scalzi ⭐
- “168 Hours” by Laura Vanderkam
- “The Color of Magic” by Terry Pratchett
- “A Promised Land” by Barak Obama
- “The Book That Nobody Wanted to Read” by Richard Ayoade
- “Utopia Avenue” by David Mitchell
- “A Man With One of Those Faces” by Caimh McDonnell
- “Digital Minimalism” by Cal Newport ⭐
- “Securing the Cloud” by Curtis Franklin Jr.
- “Network Security” by Charlie Kaufman
- “Dare to Lead” by Brene Brown
- “Software Security” by Gary McGraw
- “The Storyteller” by Dave Grohl ⭐
2022
- “47 Ronin” by Mike Richardson ⭐
- “The 4-Hour Workweek” by Tim Ferriss ⭐
- “Binti” by Nnedi Okorafor
- “Introduction to Information Science and Technology” by Charles H. Davis
- “Mediocre” by Ijeoma Oluo
- “What Your Financial Advisor Isn’t Telling You” by Liz Davison
- “Algorithms” by Robert Sedgewick
- “Personal Socrates” by Marc Champagne
- “All About Me!” by Mel Brooks ⭐
- “Roger Up” by Brent Magnussen
- “Maus” by Art Spiegelman
- “Nimona” by N.D. Stevenson
- “HBR Guide to Being a Great Boss” by Harvard Business Review
- “Building a Second Brain” by Tiago Forte ⭐
- “The 99% Invisible City” by Roman Mars
- “The Bullet Journal Method” by Ryder Carroll ⭐
- “A Psalm for the Wild-Built” by Becky Chambers ⭐
- “A Field Guide to a Happy Life” by Massimo Pigliucci
- “The Psychology of Time Travel” by Kate Mascarenhas
- “Off the Clock” by Laura Vanderkam
- “Lost Horizon” by James Hilton
- “(ISC)² CISSP Certified Information Systems Security Professional Official Study Guide” by Mike Chapple, James Michael Stewart, and Darril Gibson
- “How to be Perfect” by Michael Schur
- “The One Minute Manager” by Kenneth H. Blanchard
2021
- “Let Them Eat Pancakes” by Craig Carlson
- “The 80/20 Principle” by Richard Koch
- “Before the Coffee Gets Cold” by Toshikazu Kawaguchi
- “Born a Crime” by Trevor Noah
- “You’ll Never Believe What Happened to Lacey” by Amber Ruffin ⭐
- “No One is Too Small to Make a Difference” by Greta Thunberg
- “Hamnet” by Maggie O’Farrell
- “Atomic Habits” by James Clear
- “Getting Things Done” by David Allen
- “Range” by David Epstein
- “Foundation” by Isaac Asimov ⭐
- “The Finnish Way” by Katja Pantzar
- “Leviathan Wakes” by James S.A. Corey
- “The Body” by Bill Bryson
- “How to Stop Time” by Matt Haig
- “Everything is Figureoutable” by Marie Forleo
- “Don’t Be a Jerk” by Brad Warner
- “Trixie and Katya’s Guide to Modern Womanhood” by Trixie Mattel and Katya
- “A World Without Email” by Cal Newport ⭐
- “All Systems Red” by Martha Wells ⭐
- “Snow Crash” by Neal Stephenson ⭐
- “The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet” by Becky Chambers ⭐
- “How To Do Nothing” by Jenny Odell
- “Genghis Khan” by Jack Weatherford ⭐
- “Earthlings” by Sayaka Murata
- “How to be a Stoic” by Massimo Pugliucci
- “Interior Chinatown” by Charles Yu
- “Creative Calling” by Chase Jarvis
- “Artificial Condition” by Martha Wells ⭐
- “People, Power, and Profits” by Josephs E. Stiglitz
- “Courage is Calling” by Ryan Holiday
- “A Princess of Mars” by Edgar Rice Burroughs
- “The Monk of Mokha” by Dave Eggers ⭐
- “Where the Deer and the Antelope Play” by Nick Offerman ⭐
2020
- “Utopia for Realists” by Rutger Bregman
- “Minimalist Living” by Genevieve Parker Hill
- “Thank You, Jeeves” by P.G. Wodehouse
- “The Captain and the Glory” by Dave Eggers
- “The 30-Day Money Cleanse” by Ashley Feinstein Gerstley
- “Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell” by Susanna Clarke ⭐
- “Strange Planet” by Nathan W. Pyle ⭐
- “The Checklist Manifesto” by Atul Gawande
- “One Word Kill” by Mark Lawrence
- “The Left Hand of Darkness” by Ursula K. Le Guin ⭐
- “Dune” by Frank Herbert ⭐
- “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People” by Stephen R. Covey
- “The 4-Hour Workweek” by Tim Ferriss ⭐
- “A Morbid Taste for Bones” by Ellis Peters
- “Radical Candor” by Kim Scott
- “God of Gnomes” by Demi Harper
- “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone” by J.K. Rowling
- “Tiny Habits” by B.J. Fogg
- “The Eye of the World” by Robert Jordan ⭐
- “White Fragility” by Robin DiAngelo ⭐
- “Starship Troopers” by Robert A. Heinlein
- “52 Times Britain was a Bellend” by James Felton
- “The Good Earth” by Pearl S. Buck
- “Meditations” by Marcus Aurelius
- “The Time Traveler’s Guide to Medieval England” by Ian Mortimer ⭐
- “The Murder of Roger Ackroyd” by Agatha Christie
- “Redshirts” by John Scalzi
- “Factfulness” by Hans Rosling ⭐
- “The Road to Little Dribbling” by Bill Bryson ⭐
- “The Shallows” by Nicholas Carr
- “The Road to Mars” by Eric Idle
- “How the Scots Invented the Modern World” by Arthur Herman ⭐
- “The Hippopotamus” by Stephen Fry
- “The 48 Laws of Power” by Robert Greene
- “Eat That Frog!” by Brian Tracy
- “How to Write a Book That Doesn’t Suck” by Michael Rogan
- “The Body in the Library” by Agatha Christie
- “Solutions and Other Problems” by Allie Brosh
- “Lives of the Stoics” by Ryan Holiday
- “The Three-Body Problem” by Liu Cixin
- “A Darker Shade of Magic” by V.E. Schwab ⭐
- “Declutter Your Life” by Kevin Garnett
- “Rage” by Bob Woodward
- “Essentialism” by Greg McKeown
- “Midnight Riot” by Ben Aaronovitch ⭐
- “The Daily Stoic” by Ryan Holiday ⭐
2019
- “The Path” by Michael Puett
- “Don’t Panic” by Neil Gaiman
- “The Productivityist Playbook” by Mike Vardy
- “Designing Your Life” by Bill Burnett
- “Digital Minimalism” by Cal Newport ⭐
- “The Productivity Project” by Chris Bailey
- “Always Look on the Bright Side of Life” by Eric Idle ⭐
- “Doughnut” by Tom Holt
- “Team Human” by Douglas Rushkoff
- “Free to Focus” by Michael Hyatt
- “Make Time” by Jake Knapp and John Zeratsky ⭐
- “Sapiens” by Yuval Noah Harari ⭐
- “Kill the Farm Boy” by Delilah S. Dawson
- “Wabi Sabi” by Beth Kempton
- “Sixteen Ways to Defend a Walled City” by K.J. Parker ⭐
- “The Latte Factor” by David Bach
- “To-Do List Formula” by Damon Zahariades
- “How to Break Up with Your Phone” by Catherine Price
- “The Morning Routine Blueprint” by Mike Fishbein
- “Catch-22” by Joseph Heller
- “Prisoners of Geography” by Tim Marshall ⭐
- “Will Save the Galaxy for Food” by Yahtzee Croshaw ⭐
- “Napoleon” by Paul Johnson
- “The Project Management Book” by Fergus O’Connell
- “Everything is F*cked” by Mark Manson
- “All the Birds in the Sky” by Charlie Jane Anders
- “The 30-Day Productivity Boost” by Damon Zahariades
- “The Time Chunking Method” by Damon Zahariades
- “Busy Entrepreneur’s Guide to Time Management” by Michael Clarke
- “10-Minute Mindfulness” by S.J. Scott
- “Starship Grifters” by Robert Kroese
- “Indistractable” by Nir Eyal
- “The Art of Noticing” by Rob Walker
- “Stillness is the Key” by Ryan Holiday ⭐
- “The 7-Day Self Discipline Blueprint” by Logan Hawkins
- “Control Your Day” by Jim McCullen
- “The P.R.I.M.E.R. Goal Setting Method” by Damon Zahariades
- “HBR 10 Must Reads on Managing Yourself” by Harvard Business Review
- “How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe” by Charles Yu
- “Ego is the Enemy” by Ryan Holiday
- “Tools of Titans” by Tim Ferriss
2018
- “The Book of Joy” by Dalai Lama XIV and Bishop Desmond Tutu
- “Armada” by Ernest Cline
- “Your Best Year Ever” by Michael Hyatt
- “The Princess Diarist” by Carrie Fisher
- “Getting Things Done” by David Allen
- “Artemis” by Andy Weir
- “The Life-Changing Magic of Not Giving a F*ck” by Sarah Knight
- “The Paper Magician” by Charlie N. Holmberg ⭐
- “The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up” by Marie Kondo
- “Essentialism” by Greg McKeown
- “The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared” by Jonas Jonasson
- “Manage Your Day-to-Day” by Jocelyn K. Glei
- “Off to Be the Wizard” by Scott Meyer ⭐
- “Dot Journaling” by Rachel Wilkerson Miller
- “Smarter Faster Better” by Charles Duhigg
- “SMART Goal Setting Made Simple” by S.J. Scott
- “As You Wish” by Cary Elwes
- “You Are a Badass” by Jen Sincero
- “The Bullet Journal Method” by Ryder Carroll ⭐
- “Ikigai” by Hector Garcia Puigcerver
2016
- “Good Omens” by Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman ⭐
- “The Princess Bride” by William Goldman ⭐
- “The Terrible and Wonderful Reasons Why I Run Long Distances” by Matthew Inman
- “The Martian” by Andy Weir ⭐
- “So, Anyway…” by John Cleese ⭐
- “A Stainless Steel Rat is Born” by Harry Harrison ⭐