Below is the exhaustive list of books I’ve read by year since 2020. If I greatly enjoyed the book, or highly suggest that you should read it then I’ll indicate so. I like most of the books I read, if there is no marker of recommendation, do not take it as I didn’t like the book – it just doesn’t make the cut in this arbitrary grading.
2025
- Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage by Alfred Lansing (Highly Recommend)
- Foundation by Isaac Asimov
- Foundation and Empire by Isaac Asimov
- Second Foundation by Isaac Asimov
- The Faithful Executioner by Joel F. Harrington
- The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin
- Outlive: The Science & Art of Longevity by Peter Attia (Highly Recommend)
- Outsider: An Old Man, a Mountain, and the Search for a Hidden Past by Brett Popplewell
- Of Mice & Men by John Steinbeck (Highly Recommend)
- The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones
- Blood Song by Anthony Ryan
- Tower Lord by Anthony Ryan
- Queen of Fire by Anthony Ryan
- A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
- Into the Silence: The Great War, Mallory, and the Conquest of Everest by Wade Davis (Highly Recommend)
- A River Runs Through It and other stories by Norman Maclean
- Alexander the Great by Philip Freeman
- Nuclear Power: A Very Short Introduction by Maxwell Irvine
- Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
2024
- The Creative Act: A Way of Being by Rick Rubin
- The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas (Highly Recommend)
- Tripwire by Lee Child
- Shōgun Pt 1 by James Clavell (Highly Recommend)
- Shōgun Pt 2 by James Clavell (Highly Recommend)
- Black Hawk Down by Mark Bowden
- One Man’s Wilderness by Dick Proenneke and Sam Keith
- What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami
- MeatEater by Steven Rinella
- Ghengis Khan & the Making of the Modern World by Jack Weatherford
- On the Move: A Life by Oliver Sacks
- East of Eden by John Steinbeck (Highly Recommend)
- The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography by Simon Singh
- Digital Fortress by Dan Brown
- No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy
2023
- The Changing World Order by Ray Dalio (Highly Recommend)
- A Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl (Highly Recommend)
- Brave New World by Aldous Huxley (Highly Recommend)
- Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
- Meditations by Marcus Aurelius and Gregory Hays
- A Cook’s Tour by Anthony Bourdain
- The God Equation: The Quest for a Theory of Everything by Michio Kaku (Highly Recommend)
- Murder Your Employer: The McMasters Guide to Homicide by Rupert Holmes
- Defining Decade: Why Your Twenties Matter by Meg Jay (Highly Recommend)
- Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie
- The Psychology of Money by Morgan Housel
- The Rum Diary by Hunter S. Thompson
- Among the Bros: A Fraternity Crime Story by Max Marshall
2022
- American Buffalo: In Search of a Lost Icon by Steven Rinella (Highly Recommend)
- Into Thin Air by John Krakauer (Highly Recommend)
- Circe by Madeline Miller
- How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie
- River out of Eden: A Darwinian View of Life by Richard Dawkins
- American Gods by Neil Gaiman
- Hell’s Angels: The Strange and Terrible Saga of the Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs by Hunter S. Thompson
- The Moon is Down by John Steinbeck (Highly Recommend)
- Shadow of the Gods by John Gwynne
- Hunger of the Gods by John Gwynne
- Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly by Anthony Bourdain
- The Cult of We: WeWork, Adam Neumann, and the Great Startup Delusion by Eliot Brown and Maureen Farrel
- The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie
- Do Hard Things: Why We Get Resilience Wrong and the Surprising Science of Real Toughness by Steve Magness
- Pierre Gervais, Au Coeur du Vestiaire by Mathias Brunet
- The Martian by Andy Weir
2021
- Factfulness: 10 Reasons We’re Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think by Hans Rosling (Highly Recommend)
- Atomic Habits by James Clear
- Die Trying by Lee Child
- Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen by Christopher McDougall
- Talking to GOATs: The Moments You Remember and the Stories You Never Heard by Jim Gray
- The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom by Don Miguel Ruiz
- The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
- All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque (Highly Recommend)
- Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie
2020
- The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
- Ruin by John Gwynne
- Wrath by John Gwynne
- Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond
- Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer (Highly Recommend)
- The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie (Highly Recommend)
- Superfreakonomics by Steven D. Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner
- The Empowered Investor: A Canadian Guide to Building a Better Investment Experience by Keith Matthews (Highly Recommend)
- Endure: Mind, Body, and the Curiously Elastic Limits of Human Performance by Alex Hutchinson (Highly Recommend)
- Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card
- Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
- An Astronaut’s Guide to Life on Earth by Chris Hadfield
- The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss
- Wise Man’s Fear by Patrick Rothfuss
- Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson
- Greenlights by Matthew McConaughey (Highly Recommend)
- Assassin’s Apprentice by Robin Hobb
- Royal Assassin by Robin Hobb
- Assassin’s Quest by Robin Hobb
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