Books I've read

A bunch of books I read over the last few years since I started keeping track. I'm not a book reviewer, and I have a strong don't-force-it policy. So if I'm not enjoying a book I'm very unlikely to make it through to the end.

Therefore, this list contains books I at least somewhat enjoyed. This is also why I avoided the 5-star ladder and instead using the 3-dot ladder where 1 dot is a nice book, and 3 dots is a really good one.

Piranesi | Susanna Clarke

Cold Mountain | Charles Frazier

A Heart so White | Javier Marías

A Prayer for the Crown Shy | Becky Chambers

The Advantage: Why Organizational Health Trumps Everything Else In Business | Patrick Lencioni

Psalm for the wild built | Becky Chambers

Disappearing Earth | Julia Phillips

Boyd: The Fighter Pilot Who Changed the Art of War | Robert Coram

Hard by a great forest | Leo Vardiashvili

The Five Dysfunctions of a Team | Patrick Lencioni

Normal People | Sally Rooney

Islands in the Stream | Ernest Hemingway

The Mom Test | Rob Fitzpatrick

Orbital | Samantha Harvey

The Idea Factory: Bell Labs | Jon Gertner

Demon Copperhead | Barbara Kingsolver

The Trackers | Charles Frazier

Good Strategy Bad Strategy | Richard Rumelt

The Book of Eeels | Patrik Svensson

Deacon King Kong | James McBride

To Siberia | Per Petterson

Volokolamsk Highway | Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Grit | Angela Duckworth

Superforecasting | Philip E. Tetlock and Dan Gardner

Breathe | James Nestor

The Goal | Eliyahu M. Goldratt

Trust | Hernan Diaz

The Scout Mindset | Julia Galef

The Queen's Gambit | Walter Tevis

Project Hail Mary | Andy Weir

On The Road | Jack Kerouac

Sea of Tranquility | Emily St. John Mandel

Stoner | John Williams

The World According to Garp | John Irving

Kitchen Confidential | Anthony Bourdain

Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow | Gabrielle Zevin

The Martian | Andy Weir

Do The Work | Steven Pressfield

Once upon a time in Hollywood | Quentin Tarantino

Dopamine Nation | Anna Lembke

The Glass Hotel | Emily St. John Mandel

Where the Crowdads Sing | Delia Owens

High Output Management | Andrew S. Grove

City of Thieves | David Benioff

Children of Time | Adrian Tchaikovsky

Thinking in Systems: A Primer | Donella H. Meadows

The Children's Bible | Lydia Millet

Conversations With Friends | Sally Rooney

Atomic Habits | James Clear

Delivering Happiness | Tony Hsieh

Machines like me | Ian McEwan

Cat's Cradle | Kurt Vonnegut

The Three Body Problem | Cixin Liu

Inspired | Marty Cagan

How Music Works | David Byrne

What You Do Is Who You Are | Ben Horowitz