Reading
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Here I list books I have read, not including those I've abandoned or simply skimmed. Please send me recommendations.
2025
- The Invention of Good and Evil by Hanno Sauer
- ADHD is Awesome by Penn Holderness
- Total Defense by Andrew Preston
- The 2-Hour Cocktail Party by Nick Gray
- The ADHD Effect on Marriage by
- Steak by Mark Schatzker
- The End of Craving by Mark Schatzker
- The Dorito Effect by Mark Schatzker
- Ultra-Processed People by Chris van Tulleken
- Early Retirement Extreme by Jacob Lund Fisker
- Believe by Ross Douthat
- The Cynic Philosophers edited by Robert Dobbin
- Greek Buddha by Christopher I. Beckwith
- The Unaccountability Machine by Dan Davies
- The Art of Happiness by Epicurus
- Huey Long by T. Harry Williams
- Photo Breakdowns by Greg Williams
- Blueprint by Robert Plomin
- A Generation of Sociopaths by Bruce Cannon Gibney
- Kaiser! by Rob Smyth
- Fat Leonard by Craig Whitlock
2024
- How to Win the Premier League by Ian Graham
- Heart of a Dog by Mikhail Bulgakov
- The Image by Daniel J. Boorstin
- The Theological Origins of Modernity by Michael Allen Gillespie
- Prophets of Doom by Neema Parvini
- Smart Money: The Fall and Rise of Brentford FC by Alex Duff
- Why Buddhism is True by Robert Wright
- What Went Wrong with Capitalism by Ruchir Sharma
- The Case Against Reality by Donald Hoffman
- The Mixer by Michael Cox
- Losing the Long Game by Philip H. Gordon
- The Notebook: A History of Thinking on Paper by Roland Allen
- The World That Wasn't by Benn Steil
- The World Beyond Your Head by Matthew B. Crawford
- United States of Paranoia by Jesse Walker
- The Trolls of Wall Street by Nathaniel Popper
- The Populist Delusion by Neema Parvini
- Company of One by Paul Jarvis
- Ronaldo vs. Messi by Joshua Robinson, Jonathan Clegg
- Lessons in Stoicism by John Sellars
- At the Existentialist Cafe by Sarah Bakewell
- Late Admissions by Glenn Loury
- On Duties by Cicero
- The Formula by Joshua Robinson, Jonathan Clegg
- Virtue Hoarders by Catherine Liu
- The Collapse of Complex Societies by Joseph A. Tainter
- Forever Strong by Gabrielle Lyon
- Slow Productivity by Cal Newport
- Technopoly by Neil Postman
- How the World Really Works by Vaclav Smil
- A City on Mars by Kelly & Zach Weinersmith
- Digital Future in the Rearview Mirror by Andrey Mir
2023
- Die With Zero by Bill Perkins
- There is a God by Anthony Flew
- Surprised by Joy by C.S. Lewis
- The Rise and Decline of Nations by Mancur Olson
- In Defense of Civilization by Michael RJ Bonner
- Submission by Michel Houellebecq
- Offside: Soccer and American Exceptionalism by Andrei Markovits and Steven L. Hellerman
- The Practicing Stoic by Ward Farnsworth
- The Origins of Woke by Richard Hanania
- First Things First by Stephen Covey
- Seven Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey
- Breath by James Nestor
- Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman
- Transformative Experience by L. A. Paul
- Man's Search for Meaning by Victor Frankl
- Four Thousand Weeks by Oliver Burkeman
- The World Behind the World by Erik Hoel
- The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg
- The One Thing by Gary Keller
- Up from Conservatism by Michael Lind
- Atomic Habits by James Clear
- The Bullet Journal Method by Ryder Carroll
- End Times by Peter Turchin
- Miami by Joan Didion
- The White Album by Joan Didion
- The Closing of the American Mind by Allan Bloom
- After Liberalism by Paul Gottfried
- The Progressive Calisthenics Program for Everyone by Steve Rader
- The Comfort Crisis by Michael Easter
- Outlive: The Science and Art of Longevity by Peter Attia
- The End of Equality by Mickey Kaus
- The Myth of the Eternal Return by Mircea Eliade
- Beauty: A Very Short Introduction by Roger Scrutton
- The Mind and the Market by Jerry Z. Mueller
- By the People by Charles Murray
- Obedience is Freedom by Jacob Phillips
- The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism by Daniel Bell
- That One Should Disdain Hardships by Musonius Rufus
- Zonal Marking by Michael Cox
2022
- Red Roulette by Desmond Sham
- Western Self-Contempt by Benedict Beckeld
- The Authenticity Hoax by Andrew Potter
- Soccernomics by Simon Kuper and Stefan Szymanski
- Liberalism and Its Discontents by Francis Fukuyama
- Expected Goals by Rory Smith
- Nostalgia for the Absolute by George Steiner
- Red Card by Ken Bensinger
- Telluria by Vladimir Sorokin
- The Nineties: A Book by Chuck Klosterman
- The True Believer by Eric Hoffer
- The United States of Anonymous by Jeff Kosseff
- Building a Second Brain by Tiago Forte
- The Network State by @BalajiSrinivasan
- Digital Zettelkasten by David Kadavy
- The End of the World is Just the Beginning by Peter Zeihan
- The Machiavellians by James Burnham
- Bad Religion by Ross Douthat
- Among the Thugs by Bill Buford
- Ludicrous: The Story of Tesla Motors by Edward Niedermayer
- The Club by Joshua Robinson
- War and the Liberal Conscience
- Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche
- The Dollar Trap by Eswar Prasad
- Central Banking 101 by Joseph Wang
- Dark Pools by Scott Patterson
- End of History and the Last Man by Francis Fukuyama
- This Is Not Propaganda by Peter Pomerantsev
- Not Born Yesterday by Hugo Mercier
- Cryptocurrencies: Money, Trust and Regulation by Oonagh McDonald
- Musonius Rufus: Lectures and Saying by Musonious Rufus
- Against Everything: Essays by Mark Greif
- Nothing is True and Everything is Possible by Peter Pomerantsev
- Daido Moriyama: How I Take Photographs by Takeshi Nakamoto
2021
- Wanting by Luke Burgis
- The Blocksize War by Jonathan Bier
- The Sum of Small Things by Elizabeth Currid-Halkett
- Uncontrollability of the world by Hartmut Rosa
- The Evolution of God by Robert Wright
- ADHD & Us by Anita Robertson
- On Having no Head by Douglas Harding
- The Aristocracy of Talent
- Waking Up by Sam Harris
- Stoicism and Western Buddhism by Patrick Ussher
- Kings of Crypto by Jeff John Roberts
- The Benedict Option by Rod Dreher
- Based on a True Story: A Memoir by Norm McDonald
- On Decline by Andrew Potter
- After Nationalism by Samuel Goldman
- The Cult of We by Eliot Brown
- Facing Reality by Charles Murray
- Isolationism by Charles A. Kupchan
- Great Founder Theory by Samo Burja
- Private Truths, Public Lies by Timur Kuran
- The Revolt of the Masses by José Ortega y Gasset
- Chaos Under Heave by Josh Rogin
- Unrivaled: Why America Will Remain the World's Sole Superpower by Michael Beckley
- Unsettled by Steven E. Koonin
- Why It's OK to Speak Your Mind by Hrishikesh Joshi
- Crypto Anarchy, Cyberstates, and Pirate Utopias by Peter Ludlow
- A Time to Build by Yuval Levin
- The Storm Before the Calm by George Friedman
- The Final Pagan Generation by Edward J. Watts
- Are Vitae by Elisabeth Lasch-Quinn
- Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari
- On Desire by William B. Irvine
- Nation of Rebels by Joseph Heath and Andrew Potter
- Self-Portrait in Black and White by Thomas Chatterton Williams
- Cynical Theories by Helen Plouckrose & James Lindsay
- The Culture of Narcissism by Christopher Lasch
- True Names by Vernor Vinge
- This Machine Kills Secrets by Andy Greenberg
- Whiteshift by Eric Kaufmann
- Nine Nasty Words by John McWhorter
2020
- Conspiracy by Ryan Holiday
- Postjournalism by Andrey Mir
- China: The Bubble that Never Pops by Thomas Orlik
- Enlightenment's Wake by John Gray
- Dying Every Day: Seneca at the Court of Nero by James Romm
- History Has Begun by Bruno Maçães
- The Jungle Grows Back by Robert Kagan
- How to Take Smart Notes by Sönke Ahrens
- The Accidental Superpower by Peter Zeihan
- On Desire: Why We Want What We Want by William Irving
- Dialogues and Letters by Seneca
- Xi Jinping: The Backlash by Richard McGregor
- Inside the Mind of Xi Jinping by François Bougon
- The End of the Asian Century by Michael Austin
- The One Thing by Gary Keller
- The Curse of Cash by Kenneth Rogoff
- SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome by Mary Beard
- Disunited Nations by Peter Zeihan
- Discourses and Selected Writings by Epictetus
- Lurking: How a Person Became a User by Joanne McNeil
- The Righteous Mind by Jonathan Haidt
- Human Diversity by Charles Murray
- The Decadent Society by Ross Douthat
- Responsible Parties by Frances McCall Rosenbluth
- The New Class War by Michael Lind
- Money: The Unauthorised Biography by Felix Martin
- Red Flags: Why Xi's China Is in Jeopardy by George Magnus
- The Manual (Enchyhidron) by Epictetus
- Super Pumped by Mike Isaac
- Atomic Habits by James Clear
- Moneyland by Oliver Bullough
- Hatching Twitter by Nick Bilton
- Remote: Office Not Required by David Heinemeier Hansson
2019
- Free Will by Sam Harris
- The Twilight of Sovereignty by Walter Wriston
- Letters from a Stoic by Seneca
- In Hoffa's Shadow by Jack Goldsmith
- The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus
- The Moral Animal by Robert Wright
- At the Existentialist Cafe by Sarah Bakewell
- The Madness of Crowds by Douglas Murray
- Identity is the New Money by David Birch
- Notes from the Fog: Stories by Ben Marcus
- The Smallest Minority by Kevin Williamson
- The Taking of MH370 by Jeff Wise
- Notes on Democracy by H.L. Mencken
- Stoic Serenity by Keith Seddon
- Days of Rage by Bryan Burrough
- China's Great Wall of Debt by Dinny McMahon
- Churchill: Walking with Destiny by Andrew Roberts
- The Souls of Yellow Folk by Wesley Yang
- Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
- Arguments for Liberty by Aaron Ross Powell
- Civilization: A New History of the Western World by Roger Osborne
- Sea Power by James Stavridis
- Artemis by Andy Weir
- American Carnage by Tim Alberta
- The Case for Trump by Victor Davis Hanson
- Digital Minimalism by Cal Newport
- Bad Blood by John Carreyrou
- The Big Game by Mark Leibovich
- Destined for War by Graham Allison
- Chaos Monkeys by Antonio Garcia Martinez
- Cypherpunks by Julian Assange
- Understanding Montessori by Maren Schmidt
- Dune by Frank Herbert
- Liberal Fascism by Jonah Goldberg
- The Sovereign Individual by James Dale Davidson & William Rees-Mogg
- World War Z by Max Brooks
Last updated October 20, 2025