Here's a bunch of books I have read or listened to. I generally enjoyed all of them, otherwise I wouldn't have finished them. I bolded a few I read more recently/enjoy discussing.
Currently and recently read (as of August 2024)
Currently:
- Travels with Charley by John Steinbeck
- The Undoing Project by Michael Lewis
Recently:
- The Wise Man's Fear by Patrick Rothfuss
- The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss
- Empire of Pain by Patrick Radden Keefe
- Under the Banner of Heaven by Jon Krakauer
- Say Nothing by Patrick Radden Keefe
Non-Fiction and Popular Science
- The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
- Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann
- The Power Broker by Robert A. Caro
- Dreamland by Sam Quinones
- The Looming Tower by Lawrence Wright
- The Scout Mindset by Julia Galef
- The Quick Fix by Jesse Singal
- Bad Blood by John Carreyrou
- Why We Sleep by Matthew Walker
- How to Change Your Mind by Michael Pollan
- Going Clear by Lawrence Wright
- The Know-It-All by A. J. Jacobs
- Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari
- Homo Deus by Yuval Noah Harari
- Because Internet by Gretchen McCulloch
- The Doors of Perception by Aldous Huxley
- Conscious by Annaka Harris
- Inadequate Equilibria by Eliezer Yudkowsky
- What Do You Care What Other People Think by Richard P. Feynman
- Rationality: From AI to Zombies by Eliezer Yudkowsky
- Under the Banner of Heaven by Jon Krakauer
- Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer
- Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
- Lost at Sea: The Jon Ronson Mysteries by Jon Ronson
- American Kingpin by Nick Bilton
- Lost in Shangri-La by Mitchell Zuckoff
- The Snow Leopard by Peter Matthiessen
- 116 Days on the Road by Ben Kaplan
- So You've Been Publicly Shamed by Jon Ronson
- Recoding America by Jennifer Pahlka
- Meet Me in the Bathroom by Lizzy Goodman
- The War for Late Night by Bill Carter
- The Debutante by Jon Ronson
- Frank by Jon Ronson
- The Men Who Stare at Goats by Jon Ronson
- David Foster Wallace: In His Own Words by David Foster Wallace
- The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
- Them: Adventures with Extremists by Jon Ronson
- Islam and the Future of Tolerance by Sam Harris
- Last Chance to See by Douglas Adams
- The Psychopath Test by Jon Ronson
Memoir and Biography
- A Life in Parts by Bryan Cranston
- Comedy Comedy Comedy Drama by Bob Odenkirk
- All About Me! by Mel Brooks
- Based on a True Story by Norm Macdonald
- Yearbook by Seth Rogen
- Barbarian Days by William Finnegan
- Born to Run by Christopher McDougall
- Hitch-22 by Christopher Hitchens
- Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain
- Beastie Boys Book by Michael Diamond
- The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown
- I'll Be Gone in the Dark by Michelle McNamara
- Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! by Richard Feynman
- Everything Is Horrible and Wonderful by Stephanie Wittels Wachs
- The Disaster Artist: My Life Inside the Room, the Greatest Bad Movie Ever Made by Greg Sestero
Meditation and Mindfulness
- The Art of Living by Thích Nhất Hạnh
- A Guide to the Good Life by William B. Irvine
- Say What You Mean by Oren Jay Sofer
- The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie Kondo
- Waking Up by Sam Harris
- Wherever You Go There You Are by Jon Kabat-Zinn
- After the Ecstasy, the Laundry by Jack Kornfield
- Relax and Be Aware by Sayadaw U Tejaniya
- When Awareness Becomes Natural by Sayadaw U Tejaniya
- Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind by Shunryu Suzuki
- Insight Meditation by Joseph Goldstein
- The Untethered Soul by Michael A. Singer
- Zen and the Art of Happiness by Chris Prentiss
- A Path with Heart by Jack Kornfield
- The First Free Women by Matty Weingast
- The Issue at Hand by Gil Fronsdal
- Still, Flowing Water: Eight Dhamma Talks by Ajahn Chah
History
- Say Nothing by Patrick Radden Keefe
- Act of Oblivion by Robert Harris
- An Officer and a Spy by Robert Harris
- The Republic of Pirates by Colin Woodard
Humor and Essays
- Someone Who Will Love You in All Your Damaged Glory by Raphael Bob-Waksberg
- Medallion Status by John Hodgman
- Hits and Misses by Simon Rich
- Vacationland by John Hodgman
- Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs by Chuck Klosterman
- But What If We're Wrong? by Chuck Klosterman
- Consider the Lobster by David Foster Wallace
Mythology
- Heroes by Stephen Fry
- Mythos by Stephen Fry
Philosophy and Psychology
- Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl
- The Examined Life by Stephen Grosz
- Free Will by Sam Harris
Science Fiction/Fantasy
- The Martian by Andy Weir
- Artemis by Andy Weir
- Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
- 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami
- Foundation series by Isaac Asimov
- The Expanse series by James S. A. Corey
- The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K. Le Guin
- The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin
- Vorkosigan Saga by Lois McMaster Bujold
- The Forever War by Joe Haldeman
- The Dark Tower I: The Gunslinger by Stephen King
- Neuromancer by William Gibson
- The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick
- Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
- Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
- Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson
- Starship Troopers by Robert A. Heinlein
- Speaker for the Dead by Orson Scott Card
- Ubik by Philip K Dick
- The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress by Robert Heinlein
- Light Bringer by Pierce Brown
- Iron Gold by Pierce Brown
- Morning Star by Pierce Brown
- Golden Son by Pierce Brown
- Red Rising by Pierce Brown
- Tuf Voyaging by George R. R. Martin
- After On by Rob Reid
- The Wise Man's Fear by Patrick Rothfuss
- The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss
- A Scanner Darkly by Phillip K Dick
- Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Phillip K Dick
- Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said by Phillip K Dick
- Mother of Learning by Domagoj Kurmaic
- The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson
- Foundation by Isaac Asimov
- worm by John McCrae
- Dune by Frank Herbert
- Mort by Terry Pratchett
- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
- The Restaurant at the End of the Universe by Douglas Adams
- Life, the Universe and Everything by Douglas Adams
- Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency by Douglas Adams
- Exhalation by Ted Chiang
- Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang
- The Hike by Drew Magary
- The Rover by Drew Magary
- Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality by Eliezer Yudkowsky
- Unsong by Scott Alexander
- Point B by Drew Magary
- Miracle Workers by Simon Rich
Various Fiction
- The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
- The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
- Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
- Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
- Dance Dance Dance by Haruki Murakami
- Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World by Haruki Murakami
- Walden; Or, Life in the Woods by Henry David Thoreau
- Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
- The Mysterious Stranger by Mark Twain
- Notes from the Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
- The Stranger by Albert Camus
- The Myth of Sisyphus and other essays by Albert Camus
- Cannery Row by John Steinbeck
- Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
- Raised in Captivity by Chuck Klosterman
- The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
- The Rum Diary by Hunter S. Thompson
- The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon
- Animal Farm by George Orwell
- 1984 by George Orwell
- A Delicate Truth by John le Carré
- Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie
- Franz Kafka - Collected Works by Franz Kafka
- The Philip K. Dick MEGAPACK by Philip K. Dick
- Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson
- Antkind by Charlie Kaufman
- Jeeves & Wooster: The Collected Radio Dramas by P. G. Wodehouse
- The Twenty-One Balloons by William Pene du Bois
- The Death of Ivan Ilyich by Leo Tolstoy