Book Reading
Key: Reading, Read, Abandoned
Explanation of ratings.
2024
Rex Stout #39
Green Hills of Africa by Ernest Hemingway
No Worries by Jared Dillian (Kindle) (DNF - 10%, not for me)
Four Thousand Weeks by Oliver Burkeman (Kindle) (finished 2/15/24) [3 - philosophy]
Win Your Inner Battles by Darius Foroux (DNF - 50%, should be 80% shorter)
Secret Hours by Mick Herron (Kindle) (finished 1/14/24) [2 - spy fiction]
Building a StoryBrand by Donald Miller
2023
The Ocean and the Stars by Mark Helprin (Kindle) (finished 12/17/23) [2 - fiction]
Standing by the Wall by Mick Herron (Kindle) (finished 11/27/23) [2 - spy fiction]
Kitchens, or Sink by Matthew Ingle (finished 11/11/23) [2 - business]
Damascus Station by David McCloskey (Kindle) (finished 11/7/23) [2 - spy fiction]
The Exchange by John Grisham (Kindle) (finished 10/26/23) [0 - fiction]
Rocket Fuel by Gino Wickman (Kindle) (finished 11/7/23) [1 - business]
Get a Grip by Gino Wickman (finished 12/29/23) [1 - business]
Suttree by Cormac McCarthy (finished 10/23/23) [2 - literary fiction]
The Thursday Murder Club #1-#3 by Richard Osman (Kindle) (finished 9/19/23) [2 - detective fiction]
Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel (Kindle) (finished 6/17/23) [2 - science fiction]
Napoleon: A Concise Biography by David A. Bell (Kindle) (finished 9/21/23) [1 - history]
Life: The Movie by Neil Gabler (Kindle) (finished 5/28/23) [ 3 - philosophy]
Those Bastards by Jared Dillian (Kindle) (finished 5/8/23) [2 - memoir]
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J. K. Rowling (Audiobook) (finished 4/30/23) [3 - youth fiction]
The Passenger by Cormac McCarthy (Kindle) (finished 4/14/23) [1 - literary fiction]
Start With Why by Simon Sinek (Audiobook) (finished 3/16/23) [1 - self-help]
Wanting by Luke Burgis (Kindle) (finished 2/15/23) [3 - philosophy]
Traction by Gino Wickman (finished 8/29/23) [3 - business]
How to Write One Song by Jeff Tweedy (Kindle) (finished 3/28/23) [2 - how-to]
Bill Frisell, Beautiful Dreamer by Philip Watson (Kindle) (finished 2/20/23) [1 - biography]
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J. K. Rowling (Audiobook) (finished 3/19/23) [3 - youth fiction]
The Rum Diary by Hunter S. Thompson (Kindle) (finished 2/5/23) [1 - fiction]
Nero Wolfe #38 (Kindle) (finished 2/4/23) [2 - detective fiction]
Mossflower by Brian Jacques (Audiobook) (finished 2/1/23) [3 - youth fiction]
2022
Redwall by Brian Jacques (Audiobook) (finished 12/16/22) [3 - youth fiction]
Nero Wolfe #37 (Kindle) (finished 10/28/22) [2 - detective fiction]
The Final Game by Caimh McDonnell (Kindle) (finished 8/21/22) [2 - detective fiction]
Fiber Fueled by Will Bulsiewicz (Audiobook) (finished 7/30/22) [2 - nutrition / health]
Whole Earth by John Markoff (Kindle) (finished 10/7/22) [1 - biography]
The Perfect Sound by Garrett Hongo (Kindl) (finished 7/15/22) [1 - memoir / music]
The Terminal List (finished 6/9/22) [1 - thriller]
Stompbox by Eilon Paz (finished 5/29/22) [2 - photo history / music]
Bad Actor by Mick Herron (Kindle) (finished 5/28/22) [2 - spy thriller]
Nero Wolfe #36 (Kindle) (finished 4/23/22) [2 - detective fiction]
The Nineties by Chuck Klosterman (Kindle) (finished 3/20/22) [1 - history]
Jack Reacher #24 (Kindle) (finished 2/24/22) [1 - thriller]
Dead Man's Sins by Caimh McDonnell (Kindle) (finished 2/6/22) [1 - detective fiction]
The Dublin Trilogy Pt. 2 by Caimh McDonnell (Kindle) (finished 1/15/22) [2 - detective fiction]
2021
Dare to Lead by Brené Brown (finished 12/1/21) [2 - leadership]
The Dublin Trilogy Pt. 1 by Caimh McDonnell (Kindle) (finished 12/31/21) [2 - detective fiction]
Silverview by John LeCarre (Kindle) (finished 12/11/21) [1 - spy fiction]
Nero Wolfe #16-35 by Rex Stout (Kindle) (finished 12/8/21) [2 - detective fiction]
The Pentagon Wars by James G. Burton (Kindle)
Freedom by Sebastian Junger (Kindle) (finished 11/9/21) [2 - memoir/philosophy]
The World For Sale by Javier Blas & Jack Farchy (Kindle)
Storyteller by Dave Grohl (finished 10/20/21) [1 - biography]
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkein (Kindle) (finished 9/26/21) [3 - fantasy]
The Birth of Loud by Ian S. Port (Kindle) (finished 9/15/21) [2 - history]
The Five Dysfunctions of a Team by Patrick M. Lencioni (Kindle) (finished 9/3/21) [1 - business]
Sid Meier's Memoir! (Kindle) (finished 8/13/21) [1 - memoir]
Amplified: A Design History of the Electric Guitar by Paul Atkinson (finished 7/25/21)
Texas Flood by Alan Paul & Andy Aledort (Kindle) (finished 6/18/21) [1 - biography]
Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir (Kindle) (finished 5/25/21) [3 - science fiction]
Leave Only Footprints by Conor Knighton (Kindle) (finished 5/20/21) [1 - memoir + non-fiction]
The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene (finished 4/27/21) [2 - literary fiction]
The Gospel According to Luke by Steve Lukather (Kindle) (finished 4/15/21) [1 - memoir]
Best Practices for Operational Excellence by Luca Dell'anna (Kindle) (finished 4/6/21) [2 - business]
Jack Reacher #23 by Lee Child (Kindle) (finished 3/11/21) [1 - thriller]
Unknown Market Wizards by Jack D. Schwager (Kindle0 [DNF - 25%, didn't like it]
Resetting the Table by Robert Paarlberg (Kindle) [DNF - 15%, lost interest]
Slow Horses by Mick Herron (Kindle) (finished 2/18/21) [2 - spy]
Think Like a Rocket Scientist by Ozan Varol [DNF - 25%, didn't like it]
Let My People Go Surfing by Yvon Chouinard (finished 2/13/21) [1 - business]
Greenlights by Matthew McConaughey (Kindle) (finished 1/21/21) [2 - memoir]
Rhythm of War by Brandon Sanderson (Kindle) (finished 1/11/21) [2 - fantasy]
Understanding Michael Porter by Joan Magretta (Kindle) (finished 1/3/21) [3 - business]
2020
Ergodicity by Luca Dell'anna (Kindle) (finished 12/12/20) [2 - philosophy]
Nero Wolfe Books #1-15 by Rex Stout (Kindle) (finished 12/27/20) [2 - detective]
Memoirs and Misinformation by Jim Carrey (Kindle) [DNF - 15%, didn't like it]
Tape Sucks by Frank Slootman (Kindle) (finished 10/27/20) [2 - business]
Jack Reacher Books #8-22 by Lee Child (Kindle) (finished 10/18/20) [2 - thriller]
Barbarians at the Gate by Bryan Burrough & John Helyar (Kindle)
The Mom Test by Rob Fitzpatrick (Kindle) (finished 10/20/20) [2 - business communication]
Eat a Peach by David Chang (Kindle) (finished 9/13/20) [1 - memoir]
The Uncertainty Mindset by Vaughan Tan (Kindle) (finished 9/6/20) [1 - innovation/food]
Elements of Clojure by Zachary Tellman (Kindle) (finished 9/6/20) [2 - programming]
Unflattening by Nick Sousanis (finished 9/7/20) [3 - philosophy / graphic novel]
The Challenger Sale by Matthew Dixon & Brett Adamson (finished 10/20/20) [2 - sales]
Exhalation by Ted Chiang (Kindle) (finished 8/27/20) [3 - science fiction]
Master of the Senate by Robert Caro (Kindle)
Hell Yeah or No by Derek Sivers (Kindle) (finished 7/29/20) [2 - self-help]
Travels With Charley in Search of America by John Steinbeck (finished 7/11/20) [3 - literary ficion]
Chaos Monkeys by Antonio Garcia Martinez (Kindle) (finished 6/20/20) [2 - memoir/tech]
Speaker for the Dead by Orson Scott Card (Kindle) (finished 6/24/20) [3 - sci-fi]
The Making of Prince of Persia Journals 1985-1993 by Jordan Mechner (finished 6/10/20) [2 - journals/memoir]
The Art of Doing Science & Engineering by Richard Hamming (finished 8/4/20) [2 - tech / advice]
The Means of Ascent by Robert Caro (Kindle) (finished 7/17/20) [3 - biography]
The Timeless Way of Building by Christopher Alexander (finished 5/31/20) [3 - philosophy]
Living Clojure by Russ Olsen (finished 5/25/20) [3 - programming / how-to]
The Slight Edge by Jeff Olson (Kindle) (finished 5/5/20) [1 - self-help]
Understanding Comics by Scott McCloud (finished 5/18/20) [3 - art/comics/language]
The Code. The Evaluation. The Protocols by Jocko Willink (Kindle) (finished 4/27/20) [1 - self-help]
The Halfacre Homestead by Lloyd Kahn (finished 4/3/20) [2 - how to]
The 1-Page Marketing Plan by Allan Dib (finished 5/27/20) [3 - business]
Disunited Nations by Peter Zeihan (Kindle) [DNF - 25%, like the author but lost interest]
Loving What Is by Byron Katie (Kindle) [DNF - 25%, great concept, should be an article]
One Minute Out by Mark Greaney (Kindle) (finished 3/6/20) [1 - thriller]
Blue Ocean Strategy by W. Chan Kim & Renée Mauborgne (finished 2/10/20) [2 - business]
Seveneves by Neal Stephenson (Kindle) (finished 2/9/20) [3 - sci-fi]
Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson (Kindle) (finished 1/24/20) [3 - sci-fi / cyberpunk]
The Body by Bill Bryson (Kindle) (finished 4/13/20) [3 - physiology]
What You Do is Who You Are by Ben Horowitz (Kindle) (finished 1/20/20) [2 - business]
The Systems Bible by John Gall (finished 1/24/20) [3 - business]
Out of the Shadows: The New Merchants of Grain by Jonathan Kingman (finished 1/19/20) [2 - agribusiness]
2019
Vacationland by John Hodgman (Kindle) (finished 11/27/19) [1 - memoir/humor]
The Man Who Solved the Market by Gregory Zuckerman (Kindle) [DNF - 55%, bad writing & stretches available facts]
Talking to Strangers by Malcom Gladwell (Audiobook) (finished 12/25/19) [2 - psychology]
Jack Reacher Books #1-7 by Lee Child (Kindle) (finished 11/14/19) [2 - thriller]
The Price We Pay by Marty Makary (Kindle) (finished 12/26/19) [3 - current events / healthcare]
The Rainmaker by John Grisham (Kindle) (finished 9/15/19) [2 - thriller]
The Firm by John Grisham (Kindle) (finished 9/8/19) [2 - thriller]
Dignity by Chris Arnade (Kindle) (finished 9/3/19) [3 - current events]
Agents of Innocence by David Ignatius (Kindle) (finished 8/27/19) [3 - spy thriller]
Certain to Win by Chet Richards (Kindle) (finished 12/1/19) [3 - business]
Merchants of Grain by Dan Morgan (finished 9/8/19) [2 - history]
Pax by Sara Pennypacker (Kindle) (finished 8/16/19) [2 - children's fiction]
Walter Benjamin at the Dairy Queen by Larry McMurtry (Kindle) (finished 8/13/19) [1 - memoir]
Fire on the Mountain by Edward Abbey (Kindle) (finished 7/11/19) [2 - fiction]
In Search of Small Gods by Jim Harrison (Kindle) (finished 8/23/19) [2 - poetry]
Joe Country by Mick Herron (Kindle) (finished 7/5/19) [2 - spy thriller]
REAMDE by Neal Stephenson (Kindle) (finished 6/29/19) [2 - sci-fi]
Range by David Epstein (Kindle) (finished 8/10/19) [3 - non-fiction]
The Sheriff of Babylon by Tom King & Mitch Gerads (finished 6/8/19) [1 - graphic novel]
Modern Monopolies by Alex Moazad
Think Twice by Michael J. Mauboussin
Men at Work by George Will (Kindle) [DNF - read 25%, no interest]
K: A History of Baseball in Ten Pitches by Tyler Kepner (Kindle) (Finished 5/21/19) [2 - sports history]
Trillion Dollar Coach by Eric Schmidt, Jonathan Rosenberg & Alan Eagle (Kindle) [DNF - read 25%, no interest]
The Gray Man Series #2-8 by Mark Greaney (Kindle) (finished 5/16/19) [2 - thriller/fiction]
Seinfeldia: How a Show About Nothing Changed Everything by Jennifer Keishin Armstrong (Kindle) (finished 3/22/19) [1 - non-fiction]
London Rules by Mick Herron (Kindle) (finished 3/16/19) [2 - spy thriller]
The Effective Executive by Peter Drucker (Kindle) (finished 5/11/19) [3 - business]
Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging by Sebastian Junger (Kindle) (finished 3/3/19) [3 - philosophy]
The Path to Power (The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Vol. 1) by Robert Caro (Kindle) (finished 3/3/19) [3 - biography]
A Guide to The Logic of Scientific Discovery by Rafe Champion (Kindle) (finished 2/11/19) [1 - philosophy]
High Growth Handbook by Elad Gil (finished 3/21/19) [no rating - reference]
Billion Dollar Whale by Tom Wright & Bradley Hope (finished 1/26/19) [2 - current events]
End Game by David Baldacci (Kindle) (finished 1/20/19) [1 - thriller]
Long Haul: A Trucker's Tales of Life on the Road by Finn Murphy (Kindle) (finished 1/18/19) [2 - memoir]
Surely You're Joking Mr. Feynman by Richard Feynman (finished 1/12/19) [3 - autobiography]
The Hero With a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell (Audible) [DNF - listened to ~50%, little interest]
Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat by Samin Nosrat
The Razor's Edge by W. Somerset Maugham (Kindle) (finished 1/4/19) [3 - literary fiction]
The Little Book of Common Sense Investing by Jack Bogle (Kindle) (finished 1/4/19) [3 - investing]
2018
The Untethered Soul by Michael Singer (Audible) [DNF - not interesting/useful]
The Quiet American by Graham Greene (Kindle) (finished 12/23/18) [1 - fiction]
The Spy and the Traitor by Ben MacIntyre (Audible) (finished 12/10/18) [3 - history]
Oathbringer (Stormlight Archive #3) by Brandon Sanderson (Kindle) (finished 12/5/18) [2 - fantasy]
Do the Work by Steven Pressfield (Kindle) (finished 11/16/18) [1 - self-help]
Radical Candor by Kim Scott (Audible) (finished 11/30/18) [2 - business/management]
Letters to a Young Scientist by Edward O. Wilson (Audible) (finished 11/9/18) [2 - memoir]
Chop Wood Carry Water by Joshua Metcalf (Audible) (finished 11/7/18) [1 - self-help]
Stubborn Attachments by Tyler Cowen (finished 11/13/18) [3 - philosophy]
Measure What Matters by John Doerr (Audible) (finished 11/2/18) [2 - business]
Words of Radiance (Stormlight Archive #2) by Brandon Sanderson (Kindle) (finished 11/21/18) [2 - fantasy]
The Way of Kings (Stormlight Archive #1) by Brandon Sanderson (Kindle) (finished 10/20/18) [3 - fantasy]
Heretics by G. K. Chesterton (Kindle) (finished 10/17/18) [no rating - essays]
7 Powers: The Foundations of Business Strategy by Hamilton Helmer (Kindle) (finished 11/3/18) [3 - business]
The Law by Frederic Bastiat (finished 10/3/18) [3 - political philosophy]
The Fish That Ate The Whale: The Life and Times of America's Banana King by Rich Cohen (Kindle) (finished 10/10/18) [3 - biography/history]
The Gray Man by Mark Greaney (Kindle) (finished 9/29/18) [1 - thriller]
Off Speed: Baseball, Pitching and the Art of Deception by Terry McDermott (finished 9/22/18) [2 - sports non-fiction]
Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry (Kindle) (finished 9/4/18) [3 - fiction]
Men to Match My Mountains by Irving Stone (finished 8/15/18) [3 - history]
Skin in the Game by Nassim Taleb (Kindle) (finished 9/9/18) [3 - philosophy]
Astroball by Ben Reiter (Kindle) (finished 8/10/18) [2 - sports non-fiction]
The Courage to Be Disliked by Ichiro Kishimi and Fumitake Koga (Kindle) (finished 8/17/18) [3 - philosophy]
Legends of the Fall by Jim Harrison (Kindle) (finished 7/31/18) [3 - literary fiction]
Storm In A Teacup: The Physics of Everyday Life by Helen Czerski (Audible) (finished 10/10/18) [2 - science]
The Daily Stoic by Ryan Holiday and Stephen Handselman (Kindle) (finished 7/24/18) [2 - philosophy]
Dear Chairman by Jeff Gramm (Audible) (finished 7/2/18) [2 - history/finance]
On Grand Strategy by John Lewis Gaddis (Audible) (finished 4/27/18) [2 - history/philosophy]
The Kremlin's Candidate by Jason Matthews (Kindle) (finished 5/1/18) [3 - thriller]
The Prize by Daniel Yergin (Kindle) (finished 7/20/18) [3 - history]
What I Learned Losing A Million Dollars by Brendan Moynihan (Kindle) (finished 4/14/18) [2 - memoir/investing]
The Richest Man in Babylon by George S. Clason (finished 4/5/18) [1 - personal finance]
The Friendly Orange Glow by Brian Dear (Kindle) (finished 4/8/18) [2 - history]
The Art of Literature by Arthur Schopenhauer (Kindle) (finished 3/5/18) [no rating - philosophy]
Antifragile by Nassim Nicholas Taleb (Kindle) (finished 3/17/18) [3 - philosophy]
On Liberty by John Stuart Mill (Kindle) (finished 3/3/18) [no rating - philosophy]
The Might Have Been by Joseph Shuster (Kindle) (finished 2/24/18) [1 - sports/fiction]
Between The World And Me by Te-Nehisi Coates (Kindle) (finished 2/23/18) [2 - philosophy/memoir]
Thinking in Bets by Annie Duke (Kindle) (finished 3/3/18) [2 - business/psychology]
Discipline Equals Freedom: Field Manual by Jocko Willink (finished 2/16/18) [2 - life]
Basketball and Other Things by Shea Serrano (Kindle) (finished 2/18/18) [1 - sports/pop culture]
Fallen Leaves by Will Durant (Kindle) (finished 2/22/18) [2 - philosophy/memoir]
The Hard Thing About Hard Things by Ben Horowitz (Kindle) (finished 2/9/18) [3 - business/leadership]
Quantitative Value by Wesley Gray & Tobias Carlisle (finished 2/2/18) [2 - investing]
Adaptive Markets by Andrew Lo (Kindle) (finished 1/27/18) [2 - economics/psychology]
East of Eden by John Steinbeck (Kindle) (finished 1/5/18) [3 - literary fiction]
Seeking Wisdom - From Darwin to Munger by Peter Bevelin (finished 1/17/18) [3 - life]
A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy by William Irvine (Kindle) (finished 1/19/18) [2 - philosphy]
Value: The Four Cornerstones of Corporate Finance by Tim Koller, Richard Dobbs, & Bill Huyett (Kindle) (finished 1/13/18) [1 - business]
2017
Your Complete Guide to Factor-Based Investing by Andrew L. Berkin & Larry E. Swedroe (Kindle) (finished 12/22/17) [2 - investing]
Originals by Adam Grant (Audiobook) (finished 12/19/17) [2 - psychology]
Quantitative Momentum by Wesley Gray & Jack Vogel (Kindle) (finished 12/13/17) [2 - investing]
Margin of Safety by Seth Klarman (Kindle) (finished 12/13/17) [1 - investing]
Cryptoassets by Chris Burniske and Jack Tatar (Kindle) [DNF - not useful]
DIY Financial Advisor (Kindle) by Wesley Gray & Jack Vogel (finished 12/09/17) [2 - investing]
The Best We Could Do by Thi Bui (Kindle) (finished 12/8/17) [2 - graphic novel/memoir]
Troublemakers: Silicon Valley's Coming of Age by Leslie Berlin (Kindle) (finished 12/14/17) [2 - history]
Origin by Dan Brown (Kindle) (finished 11/17/17) [1 - thriller]
Extreme Ownership by Lief Babin & Jocko Willink (Kindle) (finished 11/25/17) [3 - leadership]
A Trader's First Book on Commodities by Carley Garner (Kindle)(finished 12/10/17) [2 - investing/reference]
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari (Kindle) (finished 11/23/17) [3 - history/philosophy]
Algorithms To Live By by Brian Christian & Tom Griffiths (Kindle) (finished 11/19/17) [2 - science]
Flash Boys by Michael Lewis (Kindle) (finished 11/12/17) [2 - finance]
Win Bigly by Scott Adams (Kindle) (finished 11/9/17) [1 - current events/psychology]
Sons of Wichita by Daniel Shulman (Kindle) (finished 11/5/17) [1 - biography]
Rivers Out of Eden by Richard Dawkins (finished 11/4/17) [2 - science]
Lessons of History by Will & Ariel Durant (finished 10/6/17) [3 - history/philosophy]
Principles by Ray Dalio (Kindle) (finished 11/12/17) [2 - business/philosophy]
Anything You Want by Derek Sivers (Kindle) (finished 9/13/17) [1 - business]
Never Split the Difference by Chris Voss (Kindle) (finished 9/13/17) [3 - business]
Nexus Trilogy (Nexus, Crux, Apex) by Ramez Naam (finished 9/8/17) [2 - scifi/thriller]
Shoe Dog by Phil Knight (Kindle) (finished 9/4/17) [2 - business/memoir]
Power Broker by Robert Caro (finished 10/24/17) [3 - biography]
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry by Neil DeGrasse Tyson (Kindle) (finished 8/26/17) [1 - science]
On Trails by Robert Moor (Kindle) (finished 7/24/17) [2 - history/nature/philosophy]
Business Adventures by John Brooks (Kindle) (finished 7/14/17) [1 - business]
Lost in the Cosmos: The Last Self-Help Book by Walker Percy (Kindle) [DNF - could not engage]
Retreat of Western Liberalism by Edward Luce (Kindle) (finished 6/24/17) [0 - current events]
Camino Island by John Grisham (Kindle) (finished 6/23/17) [1 - thriller]
Masters of Doom by David Kushner (Kindle) (finished 6/19/17) [2 - business]
Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life by William Finnegan (Kindle) (finished 6/15/17) [2 - memoir]
The Outsiders by William Thorndike (Kindle) (finished 5/30/17) [3 - business]
Slough House Series (Books 1-4) by Mick Herron (Kindle) (finished 5/24/17) [2 - thriller]
Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang (Kindle) (finished 4/10/17) [3 - literary fiction]
Shop Class as Soulcraft by Matthew Crawford (Kindle) (finished 3/31/17) [2 - philosophy]
Tools of Titans by Tim Ferris [DNF - lost interest]
Joy On Demand by Chade-Meng Tan (Kindle) [DNF - lost interest]
True Faith and Allegiance by Mark Greaney (Kindle) (finished 01/14/16) [1 - thriller]
2016
How To Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia by Mohsin Hamid (Kindle) (finished 12/26/16) *****
Berlin Game by Len Deighton (Kindle) (finished 12/25/16) *****
Death's End by Cixin Liu (Kindle) (finished 10/21/16) *****
I Am Pilgrim by Terry Hayes (Kindle) (finished 9/17/16) *****
Rules for a Knight by Ethan Hawke (Kindle) (finished 9/12/16) *****
Starship Troopers by Robert Heinlein (Kindle) (finished 8/22/16) *****
The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman (finished 8/21/16) *****
Palace of Treason by Jason Matthews (Kindle) (finished 7/7/16) *****
Mistborn: Secret History by Brandon Sanderson (Kindle) (finished 6/27/16) *****
Schulz and Peanuts: A Biography by David Michaelis (finished 6/25/16) *****
Red Sparrow by Jason Matthews (Kindle) (finished 5/8/16) *****
The Book of Five Rings by Miyamoto Musashi (finished 5/8/16) *****
The Dark Forest by Cixin Liu (Kindle) (finished 4/18/16) *****
The Three Body Problem by Cixin Liu (Kindle) (finished 4/9/16) *****
The Obstacle is the Way by Ryan Holiday (Kindle) (finished 3/11/16) *****
The Food Lab by J. Kenji López-Alt (finished 2/13/16) *****
Mistborn Trilogy (Books 1-3) by Brandon Sanderson (Kindle) (finished 1/25/16) *****
High Output Management by Andy Grove (finished 1/3/16) *****
2015
Tom Clancy's Commander-in-Chief by Mark Greaney (Kindle) (finished 12/28/15) *****
Mindset: The New Psychology of Success by Carol Dweck (finished 12/27/15) *****
Start Here Now: An Open-Hearted Guide to the Path and Practice of Meditation by Susan Piver (finished 12/27/15) *****
The Guilty by David Baldacci (Kindle) (finished 11/25/15) *****
The Forever War by Joe Haldeman (Kindle) (finished 10/26/15) *****
Old Man's War (Books 5-6) by John Scalzi (Kindle) (finished 9/22/15) *****
How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big (Kindle) (finished 9/3/15) *****
Thunderstruck by Erik Larson (finished 8/11/15) ****
A River Runs Through It and Other Stories by Norman Maclean (Kindle) (finished 8/4/15) *****
Ike's Bluff: President Eisenhower's Secret Battle to Save the World by Evan Thomas (Kindle) (finished 8/2/15) *****
Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future by Ashlee Vance (Kindle) (finished 7/5/15) *****
Exploring Calvin and Hobbes: An Exhibition Catalog by Bill Watterson (finished 7/4/15)
Declare by Tim Powers (Kindle) (finished 7/3/15) *****
The Monkey Wrench Gang by Edward Abbey (Kindle) (finished 4/9/15) *****
Desert Solitaire by Edward Abbey (Kindle) (finished 4/2/15) *****
Old Man's War (Books 1-4) by John Scalzi (Kindle) (finished 3/28/15) *****
Our Man in Havana by Graham Greene (finished 2/5/15) *****
The Target by David Baldacci (Kindle) (finished 1/17/15) *****
Full Force and Effect by Tom Clancy / Mark Greaney (Kindle) (finished 1/11/15) *****
2014
Support and Defend by Tom Clancy / Mark Greaney (Kindle) (finished 12/29/14) *****
The Wheel of Time (Complete Series 1-14) by Robert Jordan (Kindle) (finished 11/22/14) *****
Zero to One by Peter Thiel (Kindle) (finished 10/5/14) *****
The Hard Thing About Hard Things by Ben Horowitz (Kindle) (finished 4/17/14) *****
Empire Series 1-4 by Anthony Riches (Kindle) (finished 3/6/14) *****
2013
To Sell is Human by Daniel Pink (finished 12/29/13) *****
Command Authority by Tom Clancy (Kindle) (finished 12/24/13) *****
Peopleware by Tom DeMarco & Timothy Lister (finished 12/28/13) *****
Small Giants by Bo Burlingham (Kindle) (finished 12/22/13) *****
Oil 101 by Morgan Downey
Levels of the Game by John McPhee (finished 11/24/13) *****
Ready Player One by Ernest Cline (finished 10/4/13) *****
The Day of the Jackal by Frederick Forsyth (Kindle) (finished 9/29/13) *****
The Hit by David Baldacci (Kindle) (finished 9/1/13) *****
Inferno by Dan Brown (finished 8/27/13) *****
The Innocent by David Baldacci (finished 8/22/13) *****
The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates by Wes Moore (finished 8/1/13) *****
The Art of War by Sun Tzu (translated by Thomas Cleary) (finished 7/31/13) *****
Boyd: The Fighter Pilot Who Changed the Art of War by Robert Coram (finished 7/29/13) *****
Sometimes a Great Notion by Ken Kesey (finished 7/30/13) *****
Code of the Woosters by P.G. Wodehouse (finished 4/28/13) *****
The Inimitable Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse (Kindle) (finished 3/30/13) *****
The Art of Betrayal: The Secret History of MI6
This Will Make You Smarter: 150 Ways to Improve Your Thinking by John Brockman (Kindle) (abandoned @ 17%) *****
A Field Guide for the Hero's Journey by Jeff Sandefer & Rev. Robert A Sirico (finished 2/16/13) *****
2012
The 4 Hour Chef by Timothy Ferris (finished 1/5/13) *****
The Warrior Ethos by Steven Pressfield (finished 12/23/12) *****
Threat Vector by Tom Clancy (Kindle) (finished 12/28/12) *****
Virtually True by Adam L. Penenberg (Kindle) (finished 12/8/12) *****
How to Measure Anything by Douglas W. Hubbard (finished 11/11/12)*****
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkein (Kindle) (finished 9/26/12) *****
Dune by Frank Herbert (Kindle) (finished 9/14/12) *****
The Power Broker by Robert Caro
The Watchers by Jon Steele (Kindle) (finished 6/30/12) *****
How Will You Measure Your Life by Clayton M Christensen (Kindle) (finished 6/25/12) *****
Managing Humans by Michael Lopp (Kindle) (finished 6/3/12) *****
The Fourth Protocol by Frederick Forsyth (Kindle) (finished 5/26/12) *****
The Wise Man's Fear by Patrick Rothfuss (Kindle) (finished 3/27/12) *****
The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss (Kindle) (finished 3/24/12) *****
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking by Susan Cain (finished 3/11/12) *****
Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins (Kindle) (finished for second time 3/5/12) *****
Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins (Kindle) (finished for second time 3/3/12) *****
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins (Kindle) (finished for second time 3/2/12) *****
Great by Choice by Jim Collins (Kindle) (finished 2/10/12) *****
2011
Hemingway's Boat by Paul Hendrickson
Launching The Innovation Renaissance by Alex Tabarrok (Kindle) (finished 12/30/11) *****
Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman (Kindle)
Inheritance by Christopher Paolini (Kindle) (finished 12/11/11) *****
Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson (Kindle) (finished 11/16/11) *****
Willpower: Rediscovering the Greatest Human Strength by Roy F. Baumeister & John Tierney (Kindle) (finished 10/30/11) *****
Predictably Irrational by Dan Ariely (Kindle) (finished 10/20/11) *****
Smiley's People by John Le Carre (Kindle) (finished 8/16/11) *****
The Honourable Schoolboy by John Le Carre (Kindle) (finished 8/5/11) *****
The Great Stagnation by Tyler Cowen (Kindle) (finished 7/3/11)
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by John Le Carre (finished 7/2/11) *****
The Spy That Came in From the Cold by John Le Carre (finished 6/11/11) *****
Drive by Daniel Pink (finished 6/5/11) *****
Too Many Bosses, Too Few Leaders by Rajeev Peshawaria (finished 5/28/11) *****
Adapt by Tim Harford (finished 5/28/11) *****
In the Plex by Steven Levy (finished 4/24/11) *****
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand (finished 2/20/11) *****
The Facebook Effect by David Kirkpatrick (finished 1/8/11) *****
2010
Dead or Alive by Tom Clancy (finished 12/28/10) *****
Matterhorn: A Novel of the Vietnam War by Karl Malantes (Nook) (finished 1/5/11) *****
The Financial Lives of Poets by Jess Walter (finished 11/28/10) *****
New York: The Novel by Edward Rutherford (finished 12/5/10) *****
The Hunger Games Trilogy by Suzanne Collins (finished 9/23/10-9/25/10) *****
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway (finished 9/5/10) *****
Rework by Jason Fried & David Heinemeier Hansson (finished 9/4/10) ***** (Review)
Delivering Happiness by Tony Hsieh (finished 9/4/10) ***** (Review)
Eagle in the Snow by Wallace Breem (finished 9/14/10) *****
The Checklist Manifesto by Atul Gawande (finished 8/22/10) *****The Spy by Clive Cussler (Nook) (finished 7/9/10) *****
The Magicians by Lev Grossman (finished 7/6/10) *****
The Wrecker by Clive Cussler (Nook) (finished 6/30/10) *****
The Chase by Clive Cussler (Audiobook) (finished 6/22/10) *****
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest by Steig Larsson (Nook) (finished 5/31/10) *****
The Red Pyramid by Rick Riordan (Audiobook) (finished 5/22/10) *****
The Templars by Michael Haag (abandoned pg 80 august '10)
Lost to the West: The Forgotten Byzantine Empire That Rescued Western Civilization by Lars Brownworth (finished 5/15/10) *****
Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card (Audiobook & Nook) (finished 4/26/10) *****
Founders at Work by Jessica Livingston (finished 4/26/10) *****
The Noticer by Andy Andrews (finished 3/15/10) *****
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pirsig
The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein (Audiobook) (finished 3/6/10) *****
The Founding Brothers by Joseph J. Ellis (read to pg. 80 and abandoned) *****
Percy Jackson & The Olympians by Rick Riordan (whole series) (finished 2/22/10) *****
The Audacity to Win by David Plouffe (finished 2/7/10) *****
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Complete Set, Volume 1) (Nook)(read first 300 pgs out of 800, 3/1/10) *****
The Girl Who Played With Fire by Steig Larsson (Nook) (finished 1/11/10) *****
What the Dog Saw by Malcolm Gladwell (Audiobook) (finished 2/17) ****
2009
The Book of Basketball by Bill Simmons (Nook) (finished 1/5/10) *****
The Sign by Raymond Khoury (Audiobook) (finished 1/7/09) *****/p>
Up in the Air by Walter Kirn (finished 12/6/09) *****
Benjamin Franklin: An American Life by Walter Isaacson (Audiobook) (finished 11/15/09) *****
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand (finished 11/8/09) *****
The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown (Audiobook) (finished 10/2/09) *****
The Informant by Kurt Eichenwald (finished 10/7/09) *****
Your Money & Your Brain by Jason Zweig (finished 10/14/09) *****
American Lion by Jon Meacham (Audiobook) (finished 9/14/09) *****
How the Mighty Fall by Jim Collins (Audiobook) (finished 8/14/09) ****
Americana by Hampton Sides (finished 12/31/09) *****
The Big Sort: Why the Clustering of Like-Minded American is Tearing Us Apart by Bill Bishop ( read 1/3 and abandoned) *****
Liberation: Being the Adventures of the Slick Six After the Collapse of the United States of America by Brian Francis Slattery (finished 7/20/09) *****
The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo by Steig Larsson (finished 7/4/09) *****
Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr by Christopher Paoloini (finished 6/20/09) *****
The Yiddish Policeman's Union by Michael Chabon (finished 6/10/09) *****
The Sun Also Rises by Earnest Hemingway (finished 6/5/09) *****
Emergency by Neil Strauss (finished 4/30/09) *****
Armageddon in Retrospect by Kurt Vonnegut (finished 5/09) *****
On Writing Well by William K. Zinsser (abandoned, more useful as reference) *****
Churchill's Hour by Michael Dobbs (finished 4/23/09) *****
Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell (finished 3/6/09) *****
The Republic by Plato (Translated by Allan Bloom) (stars are inappropriate)
How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie (finished 2/14/09) *****
Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace (abandoned by page 180) ****
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz (abandoned by page 213) *****
2008
World Without End by Ken Follett (finished 12/1/08) *****
The English Major by Jim Harrison (finished 11/23/08) *****
The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life by Alice Schroeder (finished 11/2/08) *****The Closing of the American Mind by Allan Bloom (read half and abandoned) *****
Watchmen by Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons (finished 10/15/08) *****
Hot, Flat, & Crowded by Thomas Friedman (abandoned early November) *****
Irrational Exuberance by Robert J. Shiller (read half and abandoned) *****
Shooter by Jack Coughlin (finished mid-September) *****
Cities of the Plain by Cormac McCarthy (finished 8/18/08) *****
War & Peace by Leo Tolstoy (abandoned for now @ approx. pg. 200)
Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett (finished 8/10/08) *****
A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson (finished 7/24/08) *****
All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy (finished 7/15/08) *****