Books I've Read

I read for fun and to understand the world. These notes help me to remember more of what I read, and you might find them interesting or useful too.

2026

TitleAuthorPagesHighlights
Blood Meridian Cormac McCarthy 349 7
It Doesn’t Have to Be Crazy at Work Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson 147 2
Endurance Alfred Lansing 314 0
The Book You Wish Your Parents Had Read Philippa Perry 241 8
War Is a Racket Smedley Darlington Butler 72 6
Pregnancy, Babies & Toddlers for Men Mark Woods 556 0
The Less You Know, the Better You Sleep David Satter 199 25
Against the Machine Paul Kingsnorth 234 34
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich William L. Shirer 1249 0

2025

TitleAuthorPagesHighlights
Food for Life Tim Spector 289 54
Sales Pitch April Dunford 236 22
The Fall Albert Camus 120 8
Training for the Uphill Athlete Steve House, Scott Johnston, Kilian Jornet 368 50
Crucial Conversations Joseph Grenny, Kerry Patterson, Ron McMillan, Al Switzler, and Emily Gregory 272 6
Feed Zone Portables Biju Thomas, Allen Lim 298 22
A Simpler Life The School of Life 192 16
At the Mountains of Madness H.P. Lovecraft 192 1
The Drinking Game Guyon Espiner 229 6
Slaughterhouse-Five Kurt Vonnegut 205 10
Sports Science Simon Rea 331 49
The Time-Crunched Cyclist Chris Carmichael & Jim Rutberg 455 18
Eat and Run Scott Jurek 274 19
The Secret Race Tyler Hamilton & Daniel Coyle 303 17
Keep the Aspidistra Flying George Orwell 228 6
The Cyclist's Training Bible Joe Friel 306 38
Finding Ultra Rich Roll 290 1
The Endurance Diet Matt Fitzgerald 292 13

2024

TitleAuthorPagesHighlights
Lying Sam Harris 113 3
Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays Albert Camus 178 2
Propaganda Edward Bernays 172 22
Books v. Cigarettes George Orwell 102 13
Conspicuous Consumption Thorstein Veblen 83 6
The Missing Billionaires Victor Haghani & James White 420 43
The New Zealand Economy Ralph Lattimore & Shamubeel Eaqub 192 40
Nature Ralph Waldo Emerson 64 2
Malcolm McDonald on Key Account Management Malcolm McDonald, Beth Rogers 249 3
Dopamine Nation Anna Lembke 305 13
Economics Partha Dasgupta 172 12
Merchants of Doubt Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway 401 14
Leonardo Da Vinci Walter Isaacson 624 14
Writing to Learn William Zinsser 270 16
The Algebra of Wealth Scott Galloway 305 38
Daily Rituals Mason Currey 278 30
The New New Zealand Paul Spoonley 316 20
The Treaty of Waitangi Claudia Orange 312 9
Slow Productivity Cal Newport 216 40
What's Our Problem? Tim Urban 391 31
Project Management for the Unofficial Project Manager Kory Kogon, Suzette Blakemore, James Wood 224 37
The Trial Franz Kafka 236 2
Thinking Musically Uri Bram, Anupama Pattabiraman 158 1
Write Useful Books Rob Fitzpatrick 152 22
Clear Thinking Shane Parrish 289 35
Show Your Work! Austin Kleon 228 2
Fortune's Formula William Poundstone 412 19
Keep Your People Cedric Chin — 18
Make It Stick Peter C. Brown, Henry L. Roediger III, Mark A. McDaniel 330 43
Modern Warfare Lawrence Freedman 135 8
Parkinson's Law, and Other Studies in Administration C. Northcote Parkinson 109 7
The Effective Executive Peter F. Drucker 197 47
The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect Roger Williams 177 3
Wealth Plan Andrew Nicol, Ed McKnight 412 0

2023

TitleAuthorPagesHighlights
The Case of Charles Dexter Ward H. P. Lovecraft 127 1
The Manual Epictetus, Ancient Renewal, Sam Torode 102 10
A Planet Named Shayol Cordwainer Smith — 2
Cows, Pigs, Wars, and Witches Marvin Harris 290 19
Freezing Order Bill Browder 241 3
Great Thinkers The School of Life 476 53
How to Live Derek Sivers 130 30
The Land Where Lemons Grow Helena Attlee 270 11
The Psychology of Money Morgan Housel 256 14
The Sixth Extinction Elizabeth Kolbert 337 7

2022

TitleAuthorPagesHighlights
The Goal Eliyahu M. Goldratt, Jeff Cox, and David Whitford 471 15
Pebbles of Perception Laurence Endersen 184 2

2021

TitleAuthorPagesHighlights
Competing Against Luck Clayton M. Christensen, Taddy Hall, Karen Dillon, David S. Duncan 259 41
Demand-Side Sales 101 Bob Moesta 224 24
The Almanack of Naval Ravikant Eric Jorgenson, Jack Butcher, and Tim Ferriss 190 29
What the CEO Wants You to Know Ram Charan 146 5
Walden Henry David Thoreau 203 41
Essentialism Greg McKeown 274 27
Self-Reliance Ralph Waldo Emerson 61 16
TED Talks Chris Anderson 192 32
The Little Book of Common Sense Investing John C. Bogle 311 28
High Output Management Andrew S. Grove 270 28