Books I've Read

Currently on: Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville

2026

He Leadeth Me Walter Ciszek
The Trial Franz Kafka
The Emperor of all Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee
The Seven Storey Mountain Thomas Merton
The Emperor of Gladness Ocean Vuong
The Cuckoo’s Egg Clifford Stoll
Run for Your Life Mark Cucuzzella

2025

Born to Run Christopher McDougall
Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury
Catch-22 Joseph Heller
Neuromancer William Gibson
Black Swan Green David Mitchell
The Swerve Stephen Greenblatt
Those Mysterious Priests Fulton Sheen
The Undoing Project Michael Lewis
The Name of the Rose Umberto Eco
Story of a Soul St. Therese of Lisieux
The Left Hand of Darkness Ursula K. Le Guin
Orbital Samantha Harvey
A Wizard of Earthsea Ursula K. Le Guin
I am a Strange Loop Douglas Hofstadter
Little Women Louisa May Alcott
The Lord of the Rings J. R. R. Tolkien
Pnin Vladimir Nabokov
The Dictionary People Sarah Ogilvie
The Last Battle C. S. Lewis
The Magician’s Nephew C. S. Lewis
The Horse and his Boy C. S. Lewis
The Silver Chair C. S. Lewis
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader C. S. Lewis
Prince Caspian C. S. Lewis

2024

The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe C. S. Lewis
Piranesi Susanna Clarke
Cabin Patrick Hutchison
Lucky Jim Kingsley Amis
Endurance Alfred Lansing
Lolita Vladimir Nabokov
Reminiscences of a Stock Operator Edwin Lefevre
Cheaper, Faster, Better Tom Steyer
Annals of the Former World John McPhee
Good Birders Still Don’t Wear White Pete Dunne
Never Split the Difference Chris Voss
Zero to One Peter Thiel
A Severe Mercy Sheldon Vanauen
The Imitation of Christ Thomas à Kempis, trans. Ronald Knox
Into Thin Air Jon Krakauer
Wuthering Heights Emily Brontë
The Man Who Mistook his Wife for a Hat Oliver Sacks
Gödel, Escher, Bach Douglas Hofstadter

2023

Bartleby, the Scrivener Herman Melville
On the Road Jack Kerouac
Hamlet William Shakespeare
College: What it was, is, and should be Andrew Delbanco
Masters of Doom David Kushner
The Last Three Miles Steven Hart
The Kite Runner Khaled Hosseini
Money Changes Everything William N. Goetzmann
The Metamorphosis Franz Kafka
Desire and Ice David Brill
The History of Philosophy A. C. Grayling
Man’s Search for Meaning Viktor Frankl
Hunt, Gather, Parent Michaeleen Doucleff
White Noise Don DeLillo
Index, a History of the Dennis Duncan
Shantaram Gregory David Roberts
Confessions Saint Augustine
Cod Mark Kurlansky

2022

The Design of Everyday Things Don Norman
My Life as a Quant Emanuel Derman
The Magic Mountain Thomas Mann
Flowers of Evil Charles Baudelaire
Adrift Steven Callahan
American Prometheus Martin Sherwin and Kai Bird
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Stieg Larsson
The Index of Self-Destructive Acts Christopher Beha
The Shepherd’s Life James Rebanks
Lost in the Valley of Death Harley Rustad
A Confederacy of Dunces John Kennedy Toole
The Apprentice: My Life in the Kitchen Jacques Pépin

2021

The Sacred Search Gary Thomas
Manhattan Transfer John dos Passos
Revolutionary Road Richard Yates
The Nickel Boys Colson Whitehead
Infinitely Full of Hope Tom Whyman
No Country for Old Men Cormac McCarthy
The Last Days of Night Graham Moore
The Last Homily Mary Eberstadt
Mother Night Kurt Vonnegut
Where the Crawdads Sing Delia Owens
Misbehaving Richard Thaler
The Sympathizer Viet Thanh Nguyen
The Bonfire of the Vanities Tom Wolfe
The Revenge of Geography Robert Kaplan

2020

War and Peace Leo Tolstoy
The Omnivore’s Dilemma Michael Pollan
Life of St. Benedict by Gregory the Great Terrence G. Kardong
The Alienist Caleb Carr
Setting the Table Danny Meyer
Brideshead Revisited Evelyn Waugh
Extreme Ownership Jocko Willink and Leif Babin
Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen
The Tempest William Shakespeare
King Lear William Shakespeare
Heart of Darkness Joseph Conrad
Inventing Human Rights Lynn Hunt
Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe
The Secret History Donna Tartt
Old School Tobias Wolff
Rabbit, Run John Updike
Fundamentals of the Faith Peter Kreeft
A Gun for Hire Graham Greene
Guns, Germs, and Steel Jared Diamond
The Power and the Glory Graham Greene