Book Log

2026

• Unlikely Animals - Annie Hartnett
• The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
• Auslander - Michael Moritz
• The Road to Tender Hearts - Annie Hartnett
• Anam Cara - John O’Donohue
• James - Percival Everett
• Devil in the White City - Erik Larson

2025

• Martyr - Kaveh Akbar
• House of Prayer No 2 - Mark Richard
• What My Bones Know - Stephanie Foo
• A Really Big Lunch - Jim Harrison
• I Regret Almost Everything - Keith McNally
• The City And Its Uncertain Walls - Haruki Murakami

2024

• Living Life Backwards - David Gibson
• The Celestine Prophecy - James Redfield
• The Happiest Man on Earth - Eddie Jaku
• Setting The Table / Our Playbook - Danny Meyer
• The Importance of Living - Lin Yutang
• Novelist as Vocation - Haruki Murakami
• White Noise - Don DeLillo
• Never Split the Difference - Chris Voss
• Wine & War - Donald Kladstrup and Petie Kladstrup

2023

• The Joke - Milan Kundera
• Unreasonable Hospitality - Will Guidara
• The Mom Test - Rob Fitzpatrick
• Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas - Hunter Thompson

2022

• The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
• Breath - James Nestor
• The Immortality Key - Brian Muraresku
• The Body Keeps the Score - Bessel van der Kolk
• Greenlight - Matthew McConaughey
• The Widow Clicquot - Tilar J. Mazzeo

2021

• Ready Player One - Ernest Cline
• 7 Powers - Hamilton Helmer
• Reinventing American Health Care - Ezekiel Emanuel
• The Apprentice - Jacques Pepin
• DeFi and the Future of Finance - Ashwin Ramachandran, Campbell Harvey, and Joey Santoro
• A Single Day of Peace - Steve D'Angelo
• The Spy & the Traitor - Ben Macintyre
• Built to Last - Jerry I. Porras and Jim Collins
• The Untethered Soul - Michael Alan Singer
• Killing Commendatore - Haruki Murakami
• Educated - Tara Westover
• The Coddling of the American Mind - Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt
• The Wisdom of Insecurity - Alan Watts

2020

• Inspired - Marty Cagan
• The Undertaking - Thomas Lynch
• The Effective Executive - Peter Drucker
• Can't Hurt Me - David Goggins
• The Power of Moments - Chip Heath & Dan Heath
• The Checklist Manifesto - Atul Gawande
• Among the Thugs - Bill Buford
• Adaptive Markets - Andrew Lo
• Red Notice - Bill Browder
• Clever Girl - Tessa Hadley
• Reading the Bible w/Rene Girard - Michael Hardin
• Principles - Ray Dalio

2019

• The Boys in the Boat - Daniel Brown
• A Little Life - Hanya Yanagihara
• Start-up Nation - Dan Senor & Saul Singer
• And the Weak Suffer What They Must - Yanis Varoufakis
• Who, The A Method for Hiring - Geoff Smart & Randy Street
• The Empire of Illusion - Chris Hedges
• Americanah - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
• The Souls of Black Folks - W. E. B. Du Bois

2018

• The Wallcreeper - Nell Zink
• Mislaid - Nell Zink
• Purity - Jonathan Franzen
• The Dip - Seth Godin
• Maidenhead - Tamara Faith Berger
• Wild Swans - Jung Chang

2017

• City of Lies - Ramita Navai
• Unbroken - Laura Hillenbrand
• Homicide - David Simon
• What I Talk about when I talk about Running - Haruki Murakami
• Kiss or Kill - Mark Twight

A collection of others I'd recommend from years gone by:

• Zero to One - Peter Thiel
• The Alliance - Reid Hoffman
• The Hard thing about hard things - Ben Horowitz
• The Art of Fielding - Chad Harbach
• War is a force that gives us meaning and why we need it - Chris Hedges
• The Corrections - Jonathan Franzen
• Hackney Child - Hope Daniels & Morag Livingstone
• American Pastoral - Philip Roth
• Lone Survivor - Marcus Luttrell
• The Language of God - Francis Collins
• Hackers & Painters - Paul Graham
• Infinite Jest - David Foster Wallace
• A possible Life - Sebastian Faulks
• The making of the President - Theodore White