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