Bookshelf

With ratings of overall quality, how well it aligns to what I like, and how interesting the content alone is.

2025.07 Apple in China: The Capture of the World's Greatest Company by Patrick McGee
2025.06 The Optimist: Sam Altman, OpenAI, and the Race to Invent the Future by Keach Hagey
2025.05 Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman’s OpenAI by Karen Hao
2025.05 Full Tilt: Ireland to India with a Bicycle by Dervla Murphy
2025.05 Dust (Silo #3) by Hugh Howey
2025.04 Shift (Silo #2) by Hugh Howey
2025.04 Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism by Sarah Wynn-Williams
2025.03 Abundance by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson
2025.03 Zero Days by Ruth Ware
2025.02 Travels with Charley: In Search of America by John Steinbeck
2025.02 The Creative Act: A Way of Being by Rick Rubin
2025.02 Boom: Mad Money, Mega Dealers, and the Rise of Contemporary Art by Michael Shnayerson
2025.01 A Song of Ice and Fire, Books 1 – 3 by George R. R. Martin
2025.01 The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas S. Kuhn
2024.12 The Nvidia Way: Jensen Huang and the Making of a Tech Giant by Tae Kim
2024.12 Outlive: The Science & Art of Longevity by Peter Attia with Bill Gifford
2024.08 The Anxious Generation by Jonathan Haidt: 4 / 4 / 4
2024.08 The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War by Erik Larson: 4 / 4 / 4
2024.08 Burn Book by Kara Swisher: 5 / 5 / 5
2024.07 The Road by Cormac McCarthy: 4 / 3 / 4
2024.07 The Women by Kristin Hannah
2024.05 Death's End by Cixin Liu
2024.04 The Dark Forest by Cixin Liu
2024.06 Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann: 5 / 4 / 5
2024.05 Going Infinite by Michael Lewis
2024.03 Trust by Hernan Diaz
2024.01 American Gun by Cameron McWhirter and Zusha Elinson
2024.01 Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson
2024.01 The Worlds I See by Fei-Fei Li
2024.01 Recursion by Blake Crouch
2023.12 A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
2023.10 The Storyteller by Dave Grohl
2023.09 American Prometheus by Kai Bird and Martin Sherwin: 4 / 4 / 5
2023.09 The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown: 4 / 5 / 5
2023.08 Open by Andre Agassi: 5 / 5 / 5
2023.07 Once there were Wolves by Charlotte McConaghy: 4 / 4 / 4
2023.06 All the Dangerous Things by Stacy Willingham: 3 / 3 / 4
2023.06 The Signal and the Noise by Nate Silver: 4 / 5 / 5
2023.04 The Creative Act: A Way of Being by Rick Rubin: 3 / 3 / 4
2023.03 A Flicker in the Dark by Stacy Willingham: 4 / 3 / 4
2023.03 Dune Messiah by Frank Herbert: 3 / 4 / 4
2023.03 Two Wheels Good: The History and Mystery of the Bicycle by Jody Rosen: 4 / 5 / 4
2023.02 Travels with Charley: In Search of America by John Steinbeck: 4 / 4 / 4
2023.01 Fire & Blood by George R. R. Martin: 4 / 4 / 4
2023.01 The Dragons of Eden by Carl Sagan: 5 / 5 / 5
2023.01 The Nightingdale by Kristin Hannah: 4 / 4 / 4
2023.01 The Wise Heart: A Guide to the Universal Teachings of Buddhist Psychology by Jack Kornfield: 4 / 4 / 4
2022.12 The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah: 5 / 4 / 5
2022.11 The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles: 4 / 4 / 4
2022.09 Four Winds by Kristin Hannah: 4 / 4 / 4
2022.09 Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut: 4 / 3 / 4
2022.07 Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip. K. Dick: 4 / 4 / 4
2022.07 Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest by Suzanne Simard: 4 / 5 / 4
2022.07 The Invention of Nature: Alexander Von Humboldt's New World by Andrea Wulf: 5 / 5 / 5
2022.07 ck by Mark Manson: 3 / 3 / 4
2022.05 Ready Player One by Ernest Cline: 2 / 4 / 2
2022.05 Revolutionary Power: An Activist's Guide to the Energy Transition by Shalanda Baker: 3 / 4 / 3
2022.05 Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson: 4 / 4 / 4
2022.05 The Alignment Problem: Machine Learning and Human Values by Brian Christian: 4 / 5 / 4
2022.04 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J. K. Rowling: 4 / 4 / 5
2022.04 Project Hail Marry by Andy Weir: 5 / 5 / 5
2022.04 The Overstory by Richard Powers: 5 / 5 / 5
2022.03 Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones by James Clear: 4 / 5 / 5
2022.03 Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage by Alfred Lansing: 5 / 5 / 5
2022.03 Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince by J. K. Rowling: 4 / 3 / 4
2022.03 Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J. K. Rowling: 5 / 4 / 5
2022.02 Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J. K. Rowling: 4 / 4 / 4
2022.02 Lewis Hamilton: Five-Time World Champion: The Biography by Frank Worrall: 3 / 3 / 4
2022.01 Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J. K. Rowling: 5 / 3 / 5
2022.01 Termination Shock by Neal Stephenson: 2 / 4 / 3
2021.12 Bewilderment by Richard Powers: 5 / 4 / 4
2021.12 Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J. K. Rowling: 3 / 3 / 3
2021.12 The Source by James A. Michener: 5 / 4 / 5
2021.11 Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J. K. Rowling: 4 / 3 / 4
2021.11 What Happened to You?: Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing by Oprah Winfrey and Bruce D Perry: 5 / 4 / 5
2021.09 Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence by Kate Crawford: 5 / 5 / 5
2021.09 Stealth War by Robert Spalding: 3 / 3 / 4
2021.09 The Friend by Sigrid Nunez: 4 / 3 / 5
2021.08 Scientific Models in Philosophy of Science by Daniela M. Bailer-Jones: 5 / 5 / 5
2021.08 The Wild Robot by Peter Brown: 4 / 3 / 5
2021.07 Infinite Powers: How Calculus Reveals the Secrets of the Universe by Steven Strogatz: 5 / 5 / 5
2021.07 The Bomber Mafia by Malcolm Gladwell: 5 / 5 / 5
2021.07 The Splendid and the Vile by Erik Larson: 4 / 4 / 5
2021.07 This Is Your Mind on Plants by Michael Pollan: 4 / 4 / 3
2021.07 Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future by Elizabeth Kolbert: 5 / 5 / 5
2021.06 The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller: 3 / 2 / 3
2021.05 Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life by William Finnegan: 5 / 4 / 5
2021.05 Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer: 3 / 3 / 4
2021.04 Genius Makers: The Mavericks Who Brought AI to Google, Facebook, and the World by Cade Metz: 5 / 5 / 4
2021.04 "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character by Richard P. Feynman: 5 / 5 / 5
2021.04 The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany by William L. Shirer: 5 / 4 / 5
2021.03 Alone on the Wall by Alex Honnold: 3 / 4 / 5
2021.03 How to Avoid a Climate Disaster by Bill Gates: 3 / 5 / 4
2021.03 Rossumovi Univerzální Roboti (R.U.R.) by Karel Čapek: 5 / 5 / 5
2021.02 Artemis by Andy Weir: 4 / 3 / 4
2021.02 Untamed by Glennon Doyle: 5 / 5 / 5
2021.01 Mythos by Stephen Fry: 4 / 3 / 4
2021.01 Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages by Guy Deutscher: 4 / 4 / 5
2021.01 The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu: 4 / 4 / 5
2020.12 Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art by James Nestor: 2 / 4 / 3
2020.12 Greenlights by Matthew McConaughey: 5 / 5 / 5
2020.12 New Laws of Robotics: Defending Human Expertise in the Age of AI by Frank Pasquale: 3 / 5 / 3
2020.11 A Promised Land by Barack Obama: 4 / 2 / 4
2020.08 The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage: The (Mostly) True Story of the First Computer by Sydney Padua: 4 / 3 / 4
2020.07 Race After Technology by Ruha Benjamin: 3 / 3 / 3
2020.06 Human Compatible: Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Control by Stuart Russell: 4 / 5 / 5
2020.06 The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett: 5 / 5 / 5
2020.05 The Gatekeepers: How the White House Chiefs of Staff Define Every Presidency by Chris Whipple: 5 / 3 / 5
2020.05 The Most Dangerous Branch: Inside the Supreme Court in the Age of Trump by David A. Kaplan: 3 / 2 / 4
2020.05 The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion by Jonathan Haidt: 5 / 3 / 5
2020.03 Conscious: A Brief Guide to the Fundamental Mystery of the Mind by Annaka Harris: 4 / 5 / 3
2020.03 Free Will by Sam Harris: 3 / 3 / 4
2020.02 Draft Animals: Living the Pro Cycling Dream (Once in a While) by Phil Gaimon: 5 / 5 / 5
2020.01 What I Talk about When I Talk about Running: A Memoir by Haruki Murakami: 4 / 3 / 4
2020.00 10% Happier: How I Tamed the Voice in My Head, Reduced Stress Without Losing My Edge, and Found Self-Help That Actually Works - A T by Dan Harris: 4 / 4 / 4
2020.00 Becoming by Michelle Obama: 5 / 4 / 5
2020.00 Bruce Lee: A Life by Matthew Polly: 5 / 4 / 5
2020.00 Caffeine: How Caffeine Created the Modern World by Michael Pollan: 4 / 4 / 4
2020.00 Elon Musk: Tesla, Spacex, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future by Ashlee Vance: 4 / 5 / 4
2020.00 How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi: 4 / 3 / 4
2020.00 How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us about Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence by Michael Pollan: 5 / 3 / 5
2020.00 Rising out of Hatred: The Awakening of a Former White Nationalist by Eli Saslow: 5 / 3 / 5
2020.00 Superintelligence by Nick Bostrom: 3 / 4 / 5
2020.00 The Botany of Desire by Michael Pollan: 5 / 5 / 5
2020.00 The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien: 5 / 5 / 5
2020.00 The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon by David Grann: 4 / 4 / 5
2020.00 The Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollen: 4 / 5 / 4
2020.00 White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo: 4 / 3 / 4
2019.00 Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco by Bryan Burrough and John Helyar: 5 / 3 / 5
2019.00 Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas R. Hofstadter: 5 / 5 / 5
2019.00 Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow by Yuval Noah Harari: 3 / 4 / 3
2019.00 The Visual Display of Quantitative Information by Edward Tufte: 5 / 5 / 5
2018.06 Deep Nutrition: Why Your Genes Need Traditional Food by Catherine Shanahan: 5 / 5 / 5
2018.04 A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking: 5 / 5 / 5
2018.00 Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me): Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions, and Hurtful Acts by Carol Tavris & Elliot Aronson: 4 / 4 / 4
2018.00 Society of Mind by Marvin Minsky: 4 / 5 / 5
2018.00 Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams by Matthew Walker: 5 / 5 / 5
2017.09 Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging by Sebastian Junger: 5 / 5 / 5
2017.05 Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari: 4 / 3 / 5
2017.00 Beyond Training: Mastering Endurance, Health & Life by Ben Greenfield: 4 / 5 / 4
2017.00 Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions by Dan Ariely: 3 / 5 / 4
2017.00 Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike by Phil Knight: 4 / 4 / 4
2016.00 Becoming a Supple Leopard by Kelly Starrett: 5 / 5 / 5
2016.00 Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen by Christopher McDougall: 5 / 4 / 5
2016.00 How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie: 4 / 3 / 5