Books
Something else here?
This collection of books is kind of a holdout from the previous site. I'm less interested in maintaining a Goodreads-style list, but might still add entries here from time to time.
(I'm also reading less than I used to.)In 2025, I'm taking reading a little less seriously and bought the full collection of Agatha Christie's books. I've also been reading the Red Rising series, which is very much a John-Wick-but-a-book kind of experience. Hopefully I'll fit in some more serious reads at the end of the year, but I won't hold myself hostage on that.
A note on ratings, with the understanding that recency bias is strong:
- Bad read that I wouldn't recommend generally, even for entertainment
- Perhaps entertaining, but has limited depth to its world or characters
- Something that I'm satisfied having read, but might not recommend to everyone
- An incredible book that I would eagerly recommend to anyone
- A great book that also changes the way I live or think about a subject to some notable degree
| Title | Author | Rating | Read | Post |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wuthering Heights | Emily Brontë | ★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆ | 2025-12-15 | |
| Golden Son | Pierce Brown | ★ ★ ☆ ☆ ☆ | 2025-09-30 | |
| Red Rising | Pierce Brown | ★ ★ ☆ ☆ ☆ | 2025-09-21 | |
| Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future | Peter Thiel, Blake Masters | ★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆ | 2025-08-01 | |
| A Prayer for Owen Meany | John Irving | ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ | 2025-07-26 | |
| Exhalation | Ted Chiang | ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ | 2025-01-01 | |
| Ra | qntm | ★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆ | 2024-09-01 | |
| Stories of Your Life and Others | Ted Chiang | ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ | 2024-08-01 | |
| Magpie Murders | Anthony Horowitz | ★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆ | 2024-03-24 | |
| The Murder of Roger Ackroyd | Agatha Christie | ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ | 2024-03-02 | |
| Crime and Punishment | Fyodor Dostoevsky | ★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆ | 2022-12-01 | --> |
| Developer Hegemony: The Future of Labor | Erik Dietrich | ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ | 2022-06-23 | |
| The Coddling of the American Mind | Greg Lukianoff & Jonathan Haidt | ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ | 2022-06-01 | |
| Great Short Short Stories | Multiple | ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ | 2022-05-05 | --> |
| Anna Karenina | Leo Tolstoy | ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ | 2022-02-01 | --> |
| Animal Farm | George Orwell | ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ | 2022-01-01 | |
| There is No Antimemetics Division | qntm | ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ | 2021-12-01 | --> |
| The Sound and the Fury | William Faulkner | ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ | 2021-11-01 | --> |
| The 10X Rule | Grant Cardone | ★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆ | 2021-11-01 | |
| In Search of Schrödinger's Cat | John Gribbin | ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ | 2021-09-01 | --> |
| Pimp | Iceberg Slim | ★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆ | 2021-05-01 | |
| Anxious People | Fredrik Backman | ★ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ | 2021-03-01 | --> |
| The Picture of Dorian Gray | Oscar Wilde | ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ | 2021-02-01 | |
| The Bell Jar | Sylvia Plath | ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ | 2021-02-01 | --> |
| A Farewell to Arms | Earnest Hemingway | ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ | 2021-01-01 | |
| Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine | Gail Honeyman | ★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆ | 2021-01-01 | |
| Cold Sassy Tree | Olive Ann Burns | ★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆ | 2020-12-01 | --> |
| The Alchemist | Paulo Coelho | ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ | 2020-11-01 | |
| The Book on Rental Property Investing: How to Create Wealth with Intelligent Buy and Hold Real Estate Investing | Brandon Turner | ★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆ | 2020-11-01 | |
| The Grapes of Wrath | John Steinbeck | ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ | 2020-10-01 | --> |
| Of Mice and Men | John Steinbeck | ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ | 2020-10-01 | --> |
| The Good Earth | Pearl S. Buck | ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ | 2020-09-01 | --> |
| Brave New World | Aldous Huxley | ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ | 2020-08-01 | |
| Catcher in the Rye | J. D. Salinger | ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ | 2020-08-01 | |
| Their Eyes Were Watching God | Zora Neale Hurston | ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ | 2020-07-01 | |
| Ohio | Stephen Markley | ★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆ | 2020-07-01 | |
| Parable of the Sower | Octavia E. Butler | ★ ★ ☆ ☆ ☆ | 2020-07-01 | |
| The Stand | Stephen King | ★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆ | 2020-06-01 | --> |
| Never Split the Difference | Chris Voss | ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ | 2020-04-01 | --> |
| Why We Sleep | Matthew Walker | ★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆ | 2020-03-01 | --> |
| The Scarlet Letter | Nathaniel Hathaway | ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ | 2020-02-01 | |
| How to Read a Book | Charles Van Doren; Mortimer J. Adler | ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ | 2019-12-01 | --> |
| To Kill a Mockingbird | Harper Lee | ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ | 2019-12-01 | --> |
| The Da Vinci Code | Dan Brown | ★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆ | 2019-12-01 | --> |
| The Rosie Project | Graeme Simsion | ★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆ | 2019-12-01 | --> |
| It | Stephen King | ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ | 2019-11-01 | --> |
| All Over but the Shoutin' | Rick Bragg | ★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆ | 2019-10-01 | |
| One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest | Ken Kesey | ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ | 2019-09-01 | |
| Salem's Lot | Stephen King | ★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆ | 2019-09-01 | |
| Catch-22 | Joseph Heller | ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ | 2019-08-01 | |
| Fahrenheit 451 | Ray Bradbury | ★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆ | 2019-06-01 | |
| Lord of the Flies | William Golding | ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ | 2019-06-01 | |
| 1984 | George Orwell | ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ | 2019-05-01 | |
| And Then There Were None | Agatha Christie | ★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆ | 2019-05-01 | |
| The Mysterious Affair at Styles | Agatha Christie | ★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆ | ||
| The Secret Adversary | Agatha Christie | ★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆ | ||
| The Murder on the Links | Agatha Christie | ★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆ | ||
| The Man in the Brown Suit | Agatha Christie | ★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆ | ||
| The Secret of Chimneys | Agatha Christie | ★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆ | ||
| The Big Four | Agatha Christie | ★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆ | ||
| The Mystery of the Blue Train | Agatha Christie | ★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆ |