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Books I've Read
Last updated Nov 3, 2026
2026 — 30 books
Q4'26 (5)
Q3'26 (11)
Q2'26 (5)
Q1'26 (9)
2025 — 30 books
Q4'25 (2)
Q3'25 (3)
Q2'25 (12)
Q1'25 (13)
2024 — 40 books
Q4'24 (10)
Q3'24 (10)
Q2'24 (12)
Q1'24 (8)
2023 — 40 books
Q4'23 (12)
Q3'23 (10)
Q2'23 (10)
Q1'23 (8)
2022 — 79 books
Q4'22 (12)
Q3'22 (15)
Q2'22 (20)
- Punch Me Up To The Gods: A Memoir — Brian Broome, Yona Harvey
- The Urge: Our History of Addiction — Carl Erik Fisher
- Dilettante: True Tales of Excess, Triumph, and Disaster — Dana Brown
- The History of Bones: A Memoir — John Lurie
- Pachinko (National Book Award Finalist) — Min Jin Lee
- Pour Me, A Life — A. A Gill
- Never Let Me Go — Kazuo Ishiguro
- Outline: A Novel (Outline Trilogy Book 1) — Rachel Cusk
- A Life's Work: On Becoming a Mother — Rachel Cusk
- The Business Secrets of Drug Dealing: An Almost True Account — Matt Taibbi
- Calvinism: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions) — Jon Balserak
- Bad Sex — Clancy Martin
- White Out: The Secret Life of Heroin — Michael W Clune
- Tim – The Official Biography of Avicii — Måns Mosesson
- The Palace Papers: Inside the House of Windsor--the Truth and the Turmoil — Tina Brown
- The Dirtbag's Guide to Life: Eternal Truth for Hiker Trash, Ski Bums, and Vagabonds — Tim Mathis
- Pain, Parties, Work: Sylvia Plath in New York, Summer 1953 — Elizabeth Winder
- Walking Through Clear Water in a Pool Painted Black, new edition: Collected Stories (Semiotext(e) / Native Agents) — Cookie Mueller
- Strange Rites: New Religions for a Godless World — Tara Isabella Burton
- Dealers — Peter Madsen
Q1'22 (32)
2021 — 120 books
Top 10 Books 2021
Q4'21 (22)
- Blacktop Wasteland: A Novel — S. A. Cosby
- The Picture of Dorian Gray — Oscar Wilde
- Dancing with the Gods: Reflections on Life & Art — Kent Nerburn
- The Caesars Palace Coup: How a Billionaire Brawl Over the Famous Casino Exposed the Power and Greed of Wall Street — Max Frumes
- Cable Cowboy: John Malone and the Rise of the Modern Cable Business — Mark Robichaux
- Trip: Psychedelics, Alienation, and Change — Tao Lin
- Eeeee Eee Eeee: A Novel — Tao Lin
- Leave Society: A Novel — Tao Lin
- Great Gatsby — F. Scott Fitzgerald [reread]
- Enemy of All Mankind: A True Story of Piracy, Power, and History's First Global Manhunt — Steven Johnson
- Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption — Bryan Stevenson
- New York, New York, New York: Four Decades of Success, Excess, and Transformation — Thomas Dyja
- Faggots — Larry Kramer [cofounder Gay Men’s Health Crisis, ACTUP, etc.]
- The Least of Us: True Tales of America and Hope in the Time of Fentanyl and Meth — Sam Quinones
- No Rules: A Memoir — Sharon Dukett
- Red Roulette: An Insider's Story of Wealth, Power, Corruption, and Vengeance in Today's China — Desmond Shum
- Outlaw Culture: Resisting Representations (Routledge Classics) — bell hooks
- Capote's Women: A True Story of Love, Betrayal, and a Swan Song for an Era — Laurence Leamer
- Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty — Anderson Cooper, Katherine Howe
- Surprise, Kill, Vanish: The Secret History of CIA Paramilitary Armies, Operators, and Assassins — Annie Jacobsen
- Emotion: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions) — Dylan Evans
- The Places In Between — Rory Stewart
Q3'21 (30)
- Confessions of a Yakuza — Junichi Saga, John Bester
- Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Therapies (Theories of Psychotherapy Series®) — Jeremy D. Safran, Jennifer Hunter
- The Family Romanov: Murder, Rebellion, and the Fall of Imperial Russia — Candace Fleming
- Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind — Shunryu Suzuki, David Chadwick [reread]
- Solitary: A Biography (National Book Award Finalist; Pulitzer Prize Finalist) — Albert Woodfox
- Wanting: The Power of Mimetic Desire in Everyday Life — Luke Burgis
- Darkest Web : Drugs, death and destroyed lives ... the inside story of the internet's evil twin — Eileen Ormsby
- Dignity: Seeking Respect in Back Row America — Chris Arnade
- Dead End Gene Pool: A Memoir — Wendy Burden
- Zero Fail: The Rise and Fall of the Secret Service — Carol Leonnig
- Last Call: A True Story of Love, Lust, and Murder in Queer New York — Elon Green
- How to Be Yourself: Life-Changing Advice from a Reckless Contrarian — Simon Doonan
- The Big House: A Century in the Life of an American Summer Home — George Howe Colt
- Why People Die by Suicide — Thomas Joiner
- A First-Rate Madness: Uncovering the Links Between Leadership and Mental Illness — S. Nassir Ghaemi
- Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman — Yvon Chouinard
- Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania — Erik Larson
- The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz — Erik Larson
- The Sovereign Individual: Mastering the Transition to the Information Age — James Dale Davidson, Lord William Rees-Mogg
- The Emperor of Scent: A Story of Perfume, Obsession, and the Last Mystery of the Senses — Chandler Burr
- The Cult of We: WeWork, Adam Neumann, and the Great Startup Delusion — Eliot Brown, Maureen Farrell
- Upper Bohemia: A Memoir — Hayden Herrera
- Golden Boy: A Murder Among the Manhattan Elite — John Glatt
- Eleven Rings: The Soul of Success — Phil Jackson, Hugh Delehanty
- How I Found Freedom in an Unfree World: A Handbook for Personal Liberty — Harry Browne
- Anything But a Wasted Life — Sita Kaylin
- Group: How One Therapist and a Circle of Strangers Saved My Life — Christie Tate
- This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyberweapons Arms Race — Nicole Perlroth
- Widow Basquiat: A Love Story — Jennifer Clement
- The Rise and Fall of Osama bin Laden — Peter L. Bergen
Q2'21 (36)
- Jung: A Very Short Introduction — Anthony Stevens
- Confessions of an English Opium-Eater — Thomas De Quincey
- Slouching Towards Bethlehem: Essays — Joan Didion
- The House of Gucci: A Sensational Story of Murder, Madness, Glamour, and Greed — Sara Gay Forden
- Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry into the Value of Work — Matthew B. Crawford
- Are Prisons Obsolete? — Angela Y. Davis
- The Long Weekend: Life in the English Country House, 1918-1939 — Adrian Tinniswood
- Snow Crash: A Novel — Neal Stephenson
- Walk Through Walls: A Memoir — Marina Abramovic
- Confessions Of an Art Addict — Peggy Guggenheim
- Infinity Net: The Autobiography of Yayoi Kusama — Yayoi Kusama, Ralph McCarthy
- E.A.R.L.: The Autobiography of DMX — DMX
- Never Enough: The Neuroscience and Experience of Addiction — Judith Grisel
- Fascism: A Very Short Introduction — Kevin Passmore
- Outrageous Fortune: Growing Up at Leeds Castle — Anthony Russell
- An Embarrassment of Mangoes: A Caribbean Interlude — Ann Vanderhoof
- Walking in Circles: Finding Happiness in Lost Japan — Todd Wassel
- The Palestinian-Israeli Conflict: A Very Short Introduction — Martin Bunton
- Liftoff: Elon Musk and the Desperate Early Days That Launched SpaceX — Eric Berger
- Freedom — Sebastian Junger
- The Journalist and the Murderer — Janet Malcolm
- The Operator: Firing the Shots that Killed Osama bin Laden and My Years as a SEAL Team Warrior — Robert O'Neill
- The Marquis de Sade: A Very Short Introduction — John Phillips
- Psychoanalysis: The Impossible Profession — Janet Malcolm
- The Courage to Be Disliked — Ichiro Kishimi, Fumitake Koga [reread]
- Socialism: A Very Short Introduction — Michael Newman
- Speedboat (NYRB Classics) — Renata Adler
- The Elementary Particles — Michel Houellebecq
- F*ck It, I'll Start Tomorrow: A True Story — Action Bronson, Bonnie Stephens
- Ecce Homo (The Autobiography of Friedrich Nietzsche) — Friedrich Nietzsche, Anthony M. Ludovici
- Anarchism: A Very Short Introduction — Colin Ward
- Good Morning, Monster: A Therapist Shares Five Heroic Stories of Emotional Recovery — Catherine Gildiner
- One of Them: An Eton College Memoir — Musa Okwonga
- The Pale-Faced Lie: A True Story — David Crow
- Twelve Cases: A Psychiatrist’s True Stories of Mental Illness and Addiction [and Other Human Predispositions] — Daniel Mierlak
- Industrial Society and Its Future: The Unabomber Manifesto — Theodore John Kaczynski
Q1'21 (32)
- Red Pill: A novel — Hari Kunzru
- Deacon King Kong: A Novel — James McBride
- The Beneficiary: Fortune, Misfortune, and the Story of My Father — Janny Scott
- Beautiful Shadow: A Life of Patricia Highsmith — Andrew Wilson
- Marx: A Very Short Introduction — Peter Singer
- Privacy: A Very Short Introduction — Raymond Wacks
- Cheerful Money: Me, My Family, and the Last Days of Wasp Splendor — Tad Friend
- Lunar Park: A Novel — Bret Easton Ellis
- Aristocracy: A Very Short Introduction — William Doyle
- Hourglass: Time, Memory, Marriage — Dani Shapiro
- Successful Traders Size Their Positions - Why and How? — Tom Basso, Brenda K. Russell-Basso, Laurens Bensdorp
- How to DeFi — CoinGecko
- Fake Accounts: A Novel — Lauren Oyler
- Shuggie Bain: A Novel (Booker Prize Winner) — Douglas Stuart
- The Code of Capital: How the Law Creates Wealth and Inequality — Katharina Pistor
- Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream — Hunter S. Thompson, Ralph Steadman [reread]
- Under and Alone: The True Story of the Undercover Agent Who Infiltrated America's Most Violent Outlaw Motorcycle Gang — William Queen
- Memoirs of a Geisha — Arthur Golden
- Detransition, Baby: A Novel — Torrey Peters
- Building a Life Worth Living: A Memoir — Marsha M. Linehan PhD
- The Rules of Attraction: A Novel — Bret Easton Ellis
- Cryptography: A Very Short Introduction — Sean Murphy, Fred Piper
- Serotonin: A Novel — Michel Houellebecq
- The Glossy Years: Magazines, Museums and Selective Memoirs — Nicholas Coleridge
- On Violence — Hannah Arendt
- Working in Public: The Making and Maintenance of Open Source Software — Nadia Eghbal
- Luster: A Novel — Raven Leilani
- The End of Alchemy: Money, Banking, and the Future of the Global Economy — Mervyn King
- Rules for Modern Life: A Connoisseur's Survival Guide — Sir David Tang
- Who Can You Trust?: How Technology Brought Us Together and Why It Might Drive Us Apart — Rachel Botsman
- Eat a Peach: A Memoir — David Chang, Gabe Ulla
- Minor Characters: A Beat Memoir — Joyce Johnson, Ann Douglas
2020 — 64 books
Q4'20 (19)
Q3'20 (25)
- Fortune's Children: The Fall of the House of Vanderbilt — Arthur T. Vanderbilt
- Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man — Mary L. Trump
- Professional Idiot: A Memoir — Stephen "Steve-O" Glover, David Peisner
- Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, HER Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed — Lori Gottlieb
- The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War — Ben Macintyre
- The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit — Michael Finkel
- Cherry: A novel — Nico Walker [Guy fights in Afghanistan then comes back to US]
- Lady in Waiting: My Extraordinary Life in the Shadow of the Crown — Anne Glenconner
- White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America — Nancy Isenberg
- Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family — Robert Kolker [Midcentury family with 12 children, 6 of whom are schizophrenic]
- The Long Hard Road Out of Hell — Marilyn Manson, Neil Strauss, et al.
- The Greatest Trade Ever: The Behind-the-Scenes Story of How John Paulson Defied Wall Street and Made Financial History — Gregory Zuckerman
- The Infinite Machine: How an Army of Crypto-hackers Is Building the Next Internet with Ethereum — Camila Russo
- A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier — Ishmael Beah
- Daddy: Stories — Emma Cline
- Rich Dad Poor Dad: What the Rich Teach Their Kids About Money That the Poor and Middle Class Do Not! — Robert T. Kiyosaki
- The Lessons of History — Will Durant, Ariel Durant
- What It Takes: Lessons in the Pursuit of Excellence — Stephen A. Schwarzman
- Class: A Guide through the American Status System — Paul Fussell
- Street Poison: The Biography of Iceberg Slim — Justin Gifford
- Fentanyl, Inc.: How Rogue Chemists Are Creating the Deadliest Wave of the Opioid Epidemic — Ben Westhoff
- Filthy Beasts: A Memoir — Kirkland Hamill
- Gatecrasher: How I Helped the Rich Become Famous and Ruin the World — Ben Widdicombe
- Identity is the New Money (Perspectives) — David Birch, Ed Conway
- Awareness: Conversations with the Masters — Fr. Anthony de Mello, SJ
Q2'20 (8)
Q1'20 (12)
- MBS: The Rise to Power of Mohammed bin Salman — Ben Hubbard
- The Operator: David Geffen Builds, Buys, and Sells the New Hollywood — Thomas R. King
- The Bitcoin Standard: The Decentralized Alternative to Central Banking — Saifedean Ammous, James Fouhey, Audible Studios
- Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams — Matthew Walker
- Kaiser Karl: The Life of Karl Lagerfeld — Raphaelle Bacque
- Alexander McQueen: Blood Beneath the Skin — Andrew Wilson
- The Castle on Sunset: Life, Death, Love, Art, and Scandal at Hollywood's Chateau Marmont — Shawn Levy
- Acid for the Children: A Memoir — Flea
- Smacked: A Story of White-Collar Ambition, Addiction, and Tragedy — Eilene Zimmerman
- As Needed for Pain: A Memoir of Addiction — Dan Peres
- House of Outrageous Fortune: Fifteen Central Park West, the World's Most Powerful Address — Michael Gross
- The Mastermind: Drugs. Empire. Murder. Betrayal. — Evan Ratliff
2019 — 28 books
- Renewable Energy: A Primer for the Twenty-First Century — Bruce Usher
- Risk Game: Self Portrait of an Entrepreneur — Francis J. Greenburger
- The Outlaw Ocean: Journeys Across the Last Untamed Frontier — Ian Urbina
- The Russian Court at Sea: The Last Days of a Great Dynasty: The Romanov’s Voyage into Exile — Frances Welch
- Four Friends: Promising Lives Cut Short — William D. Cohan
- American Predator: The Hunt for the Most Meticulous Serial Killer of the 21st Century — Maureen Callahan
- Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators — Ronan Farrow
- Filthy Rich: A Powerful Billionaire, the Sex Scandal That Undid Him, and All the Justice That Money Can Buy: The Shocking True Story of Jeffrey Epstein — James Patterson
- Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster — Adam Higginbotham
- Practical Statistics for Data Scientists: 50 Essential Concepts — Peter Bruce, Andrew Bruce
- The Man Who Solved the Market: How Jim Simons Launched the Quant Revolution — Gregory Zuckerman
- Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business — Neil Postman, Andrew Postman
- When the Astors Owned New York: Blue Bloods and Grand Hotels in a Gilded Age — Justin Kaplan
- Convenience Store Woman: A Novel — Sayaka Murata, Ginny Tapley Takemori
- Hurricanes: A Memoir — Rick Ross, Neil Martinez-Belkin
- As a Man Thinketh — James Allen, Luke Cardy
- Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber — Mike Isaac
- Practical Tableau: 100 Tips, Tutorials, and Strategies from a Tableau Zen Master — Ryan Sleeper
- Out East: Memoir of a Montauk Summer — John Glynn
- Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage — Alfred Lansing
- Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World — Rutger Bregman
- The Courage to Be Disliked: The Japanese Phenomenon That Shows You How to Change Your Life and Achieve Real Happiness — Ichiro Kishimi, Fumitake Koga
- Bunny Mellon: The Life of an American Style Legend — Meryl Gordon
- Leadership and Self-Deception: Getting out of the Box — The Arbinger Institute
- Learning SQL: Master SQL Fundamentals — Alan Beaulieu
- King of Capital: The Remarkable Rise, Fall, and Rise Again of Steve Schwarzman and Blackstone — David Carey, John E. Morris
- Mastering the Market Cycle: Getting the Odds on Your Side — Howard Marks
- Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup — John Carreyrou
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