I try to read a variety of books. In the past the local library was down the street from where I lived, but now I prefer reading ebooks (either purchased or borrowed.)

There is a large gap where no books were recorded while the site was offline: a regret as I know I read during those periods.

(If you’re a programmer or developer, check out my collection of programming books.)

January 2024

• The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk M.D.

December 2023

• The Mysteries by Bill Watterson and John Kascht

November 2023

• Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus: How Growth Became the Enemy of Prosperity by Douglas Rushkoff

October 2023

• Learning to See: A Photographer’s Guide from Zero to Your First Paid Gigs by David Molnar

September 2023

• Digital Minimalism: On Living Better with Less Technology by Cal Newport
• How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
• Manifesto of the Communist Party by Karl Marx
• Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered by Austin Kleon

July 2023

• Steal Like an Artist by Austin Kleon

April 2023

• Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits by James Clear
• Beyond Mars and Venus: Relationship Skills for Today's Complex World by John Gray
• The Psychology of Money by Morgan Housel

February 2023

• Proofiness: How You're Being Fooled by the Numbers by Charles Seife

January 2023

• Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions by Brian Christian and Tom Griffiths
• Searching for Bobby Fischer by Fred Waitzkin

December 2022

• Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America by Beth Macy
• Run Towards the Danger: Confrontations with a Body of Memory by Sarah Polley
• Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari
• The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses by Eric Ries

November 2022

• Exit Strategy: The Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells

October 2022

• Artificial Condition: The Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells
• Rogue Protocol: The Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells
• Writing Hard Stories: Celebrated Memoirists Who Shaped Art from Trauma by Melanie Brooks

September 2022

• All Systems Red: The Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells
• Extra Lives: Why Video Games Matter by Tom Bissell
• Nonviolence: The History of a Dangerous Idea by Mark Kurlansky

August 2022

• Sophie Go's Lonely Hearts Club by Roselle Lim

June 2022

• American Girls: Social Media and the Secret Lives of Teenagers by Nancy Jo Sales
• Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation by Lynne Truss
• How We Learn: The Surprising Truth About When, Where, and Why It Happens by Benedict Carey
• The $100 Startup by Chris Guillebeau

May 2022

• How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy by Jenny Odell
• The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music by Dave Grohl

December 2021

• Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
• Beyond Belief by Jenna Miscavige Hill and Lisa Pulitzer
• Black Klansman by Ron Stallworth
• Originals by Adam Grant
• Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang
• So You've Been Publicly Shamed by Jon Ronson
• Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth by Reza Aslan
• Zen in the Art of Writing by Ray Bradbury

September 2021

• The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine by Michael Lewis
• The Signal and the Noise by Nate Silver
• White Rage by Carol Anderson

August 2021

• Pity the Reader: On Writing With Style by Kurt Vonnegut and Suzanne McConnell

May 2021

• How to Think: A Survival Guide for a World at Odds by Alan Jacobs
• The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins

April 2021

• Blood, Sweat, and Pixels: The Triumphant, Turbulent Stories Behind How Video Games Are Made by Jason Schreier

March 2021

• Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup by John Carreyrou
• Brotopia: Breaking Up the Boys' Club of Silicon Valley by Emily Chang
• Craft in the Real World: Rethinking Fiction Writing and Workshopping by Matthew Salesses
• Drama by Raina Telgemeier
• The Fifth Risk: Undoing Democracy by Michael Lewis
• The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing by Marie Kondō
• The Never-Ending Present: The Story of Gord Downie and the Tragically Hip by Michael Barclay
• The Reality Bubble: How Science Reveals the Hidden Truths that Shape Our World by Ziya Tong
• White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo

February 2021

• Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators by Ronan Farrow
• Dear Girls: Intimate Tales, Untold Secrets & Advice for Living Your Best Life by Ali Wong
• No Time to Spare: Thinking About What Matters by Ursula K. Le Guin
• The Martian by Andy Weir

January 2021

• We the North: 25 Years of the Toronto Raptors by Doug Smith

August 2020

• Vanessa Yu's Magical Paris Tea Shop by Roselle Lim

May 2020

• Creating Character Arcs: The Masterful Author's Guide to Uniting Story Structure by K. M. Weiland
• What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions by Randall Munroe

August 2019

• Elements of Fiction Writing - Conflict and Suspense by James Scott Bell
• Getting Into Character: Seven Secrets A Novelist Can Learn From Actors by Brandilyn Collins

June 2019

• Natalie Tan's Book of Luck and Fortune by Roselle Lim

February 2019

• Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life by Anne Lamott
• Bossypants by Tina Fey
• How to Write a Damn Good Novel, II by James N. Frey
• On Writing Well by William Zinsser
• Save the Cat: The Last book on Screenwriting You'll Ever Need by Blake Snyder
• The Elements of Style (4th Edition) by William Strunk and E. B. White
• Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within by Natalie Goldberg
• Writing Tools: 55 Essential Strategies for Every Writer by Roy Peter Clark

January 2019

• A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again by David Foster Wallace
• Big Data: A Revolution That Will Transform How We Live, Work, and Think by Viktor Mayer-Schönberger and Kenneth Cukier
• How We Got to Now by Steven Johnson

October 2018

• Messy: The Power of Disorder to Transform Our Lives by Tim Harford

September 2018

• The Internet of Garbage by Sarah Jeong

August 2018

• The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life by Mark Manson

July 2018

• Angela's Ashes: A Memoir by Frank McCourt
• Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson

June 2018

• The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch
• Neuromancer by William Gibson
• The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood

May 2018

• Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret. by Judy Blume

April 2018

• Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values by Robert M. Pirsig

March 2018

• Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
• Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela by Nelson Mandela
• Microserfs by Douglas Coupland
• The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein
• The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism Paperback by Naomi Klein
• Think Like a Freak: The Authors of Freakonomics Offer to Retrain Your Brain by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J Dubner

September 2017

• How to Be Miserable: 40 Strategies You Already Use by Randy J. Paterson

August 2017

• The Dictator's Handbook: Why Bad Behavior is Almost Always Good Politics by Bruce Bueno de Mesquita and Alastair Smith

July 2017

• 59 Seconds: Change Your Life in Under a Minute by Richard Wiseman

December 2016

• The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

November 2016

• Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

July 2016

• The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right by Atul Gawande
• Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration by Ed Catmull

December 2009

• The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich by Timothy Ferriss

May 2009

• On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft by Stephen King

February 2007

• Getting Things Done by David Allen

September 2006

• The Old Man and The Sea by Ernest Hemingway
• Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

June 2006

• Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond
• The Ingenuity Gap by Thomas Homer-Dixon
• "Yes" or "No" by Spencer Johnson

February 2006

• Iron John: A Book About Men by Robert Bly
• The On-Time, On-Target Manager by Ken Blanchard and Steve Gottry

January 2006

• The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell
• Naked Pictures of Famous People by Jon Stewart
• Retiring Wealthy in the 21st Century by Gordon Pape
• Building Wealth: The New Rules for Individuals, Companies and Nations by Lester C. Thurow

December 2005

• Lion Taming: Working Successfully with Leaders, Bosses and Other Tough Customers by Steven L. Katz
• Confidence: How Winning Streaks and Losing Streaks Begin and End by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
• Love Is The Killer App by Tim Sanders
• Time Trap, The by Alec MacKenzie
• Trump: The Art of the Deal by Donald J. Trump and Tony Schwartz

November 2005

• Liberating Everyday Genius: A Revolutionary Guide for Identifying and Mastering Your Exceptional Gifts by Mary-Elaine Jacobsen
• Discover Your Genius : How to Think Like History's Ten Most Revolutionary Minds by Michael J. Gelb
• Improving Your Memory for Dummies by John B. Arden