Books
Running top five books
- With the Old Breed, Eugene B. Sledge
- Blood Meridian, Cormac McCarthy
- Empire of the Summer Moon, S. C. Gwynn
- Lonesome Dove, Larry McMurtry
- Shantaram, Gregory David Roberts
Full archive of completed reading
I've italicized books that I read in part but put down or come back to as reference. I've bolded books that I'd especially recommend.
2022
- Murderbot Diaries: Exit Strategy, Martha Wells
- Murderbot Diaries: Rogue Protocol, Martha Wells
- Murderbot Diaries: Artificial Condition, Martha Wells
- Murderbot Diaries: All Systems Red, Martha Wells
- The First 90 Days, Michael D. Watkins (50%)
- Mistborn, Brandon Sanderson
- Fairytale, Stephen King
- No Shortcuts to the Top, Ed Viesturs
- Training for the New Alpinism: A Manual for the Climber as Athlete, Steve House, Scott Johnston (Reference text)
- Mountaineering: The Freedom of the Hills 9th Ed. (This is a textbook and intended for ongoing reference. Apparently required reading for many aspiring mountain guides.)
- In the Shadow of Denali, Jonathan Waterman
- Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals, Oliver Burkeman
- The Paris Apartment, Lucy Foley
- The Guest List, Lucy Foley
- Endurance, Alfred Lansing
- Eiger Dreams, Jon Krakauer
- Where Men Win Glory, Jon Krakauer
- A Brief History of Time, Stephen Hawking (15%)
- Into Thin Air, Jon Krakauer
- Bunker: What it takes to survive the apocalypse, Bradley Garrett (48%)
2021
- 2034, Ackerman & Stavridis
- Lone Survivor, Marcus Luttrell
- Empire of the Summer Moon, S. C. Gwynn
- Bomber Mafia, Malcolm Gladwell
- With the Old Breed, Eugene B. Sledge
- Skunk Works, Ben R. Rich
- Under the Banner of Heaven, John Krakauer
- Eagle against the Sun, Ronald H Spector
- In the Woods, Tana French
- Memories, Jack Scrivener
- Manhunt, Peter L. Bergen
- Ghost Wars, Steve Coll
- Hogs in the Sand, Buck Wyndam
- Shantaram, Gregory David Roberts
- This is how you lose the time war, Max Gladstone
- Ghost Fleet, PW Singer
- Jurassic Park, Michael Crichton
- Devil in the White City, Erik Larson
- Rebel Yell, S.C. Gwynne
2020
- For the Soul of Mankind, Melvyn Leffler
- The Odyssey, Homer
- The Bhagavad Gita, Eknath Eswaran
- So Good They Can't Ignore You, Cal Newport
- How to Win Friends and Influence People, Dale Carnegie
- Shoe Dog, Phil Knight
- The End is Always Near, Dan Carlin
- Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety, Eric Schlosser
- The Bomb: Presidents, generals, and the secret history of nuclear war, Fred Kaplan
- Red Storm Rising, Tom Clancy
- On Writing, Stephen King
- The Elements of Style, Strunk and White
- The Stand, Stephen King
- The Cold War: A New History, John Lewis Gaddis
- Return with Honor, Scott O'Grady
- Tools of Titans, Tim Ferriss
- Principles, Ray Dalio
- The Art of War, Stephen Coonts
2019
- Men Explain Things to Me, Rebecca Solnit
- The Iliad, Homer
- The Madness of Crowds, Douglas Murray
- The Monster of Florence, Preston and Spezi
- Sapiens, Yuval Noah Harari
- Shape Up, Ryan Singer
- Amazing adventures of Kavalier and Clay, Michael Chabon
- Originals, Adam Grant
- 10 arguments for deleting your social media accounts right now, Jaron Lanier
- Deep Work, Cal Newport
- E-Myth, Michael Gerber
- Atomic Habits, James Clear
- 12 rules for Life, Jordan Peterson
- Waking Up, Sam Harris
- Life, Keith Richards
2018
- Make Time, Jake Knapp & John Zeratsky
- Blood Meridian, Cormac McCarthy
- The Hunt for Red October, Tom Clancy
- 40 ways of looking at Winston Churchill, Gretchen Rubin
- House of Leaves, Mark Danielewski
- Getting Things Done, David Allen
- The Thirst, Jo Nesbo
- The Snowman, Jo Nesbo
- Inferno: The World at War 1939-1945, Max Hastings
- The Happiness Project, Gretchen Rubin
- Make, Pieter Levels
- Ancillary Justice, Anne Leckie
Prior to 2018
This is the inventory of all books I've read prior to tracking them deliberately and a work in progress. Sometimes it takes seeing a book on a shelf in a bookstore or around the internet to recall that you've actually read it and so I'll update this list as that happens.
- Lonesome Dove, Larry McMurtry
- Ham on Rye, Charles Bukowski
- On the Road, Jack Kerouac (the original scroll edition)
- Looking Awry, Slavoj Zizek
- Taoism: The Watercourse Way, Alan Watts
- The Name of the Wind, Patrick Rothfuss
- To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
- The Alchemist, Paul Coelo
- Lord of the Flies, William Golding
- The Old Man and the Sea, Ernest Hemingway
- The Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger
- Siddartha, Herman Hesse
- Candide, Voltaire
- The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Stieg Larsson
- A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens
- The 48 Laws of Power, Robert Greene
- Free Will, Sam Harris
- Game of Thrones series, George R.R. Martin
- The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, C.S. Lewis
- The Hobbit, J.R.R. Tolkien
- The Lord of the Rings trilogy, J.R.R. Tolkein
- The Wizard of Earthsea, Ursula K. Le Guin
- The Harry Potter series, J.K. Rowling
- The Redwall Series, Brian Jacques (some of my favorite books as a kid)