In order of recency and preference, here are all the books I've read or am currently reading. Within each year, I present the books by the rough order in which I most enjoyed them.
When linking to a book, I attempt to avoid any particular seller (especially Amazon). If this isn't feasible, I'll default to an independent bookseller or no link at all. In addition, I try to reflect -- in varying degrees of detail -- on every book I read. I link to these reflections when they're available.
Books I'm currently reading are highlighted in light blue.
2024
- The Denial of Death by Ernest Becker
- The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli
- All About Love by bell hooks
2023
- Where Is My Flying Car? by J. Storrs Hall (notes)
- Man's Search for Meaning by Victor Frankl
- Recoding America by Jennifer Pahlka
- Internet For The People by Ben Tarnoff
- How to Read a Book by Mortimer J. Adler and Charles Van Doren
- Nichomachean Ethics by Aristotle
- Surviving Inside Congress by Mark Strand, Michael S. Johnson, and Jerome F. Climer
- Five Dialogues: Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Meno, Phaedo by Plato
- A New History of Modern Computing by Thomas Haigh and Paul E. Ceruzzi
- You Are Not Expected To Understand This edited by Torie Bosch
- The Waxman Report by Henry Waxman (former U.S. House Rep)
- Freedom by Daniel Suarez
- The Defining Decade by Meg Jay
2022
- The Idea Factory by Jon Gertner (notes)
- The Human Condition by Hannah Arendt
- Daemon by Daniel Suarez
- Democracy's Data by Dan Bouk (notes)
- Domain Modeling Made Functional by Scott Wlaschin (notes)
- Animal Farm by George Orwell
- The Art of Doing Science And Engineering by Richard Hamming
- Accessible America by Bess Williamson
- Weapons of Math Destruction by Cathy O'Neil
- Working in Public by Nadia Eghbal
- Refactoring by Martin Fowler
- Blockchain Chicken Farm by Xiaowei Wang (notes)
2021
- Stoner by John Williams
- There Are No Children Here by Alex Kotlowitz
- The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas Kuhn
- 1984 by George Orwell
- Weaving the Web by Tim Berners-Lee
- A Civic Technologist's Practice Guide by Cyd Harrell
- Caste by Isabel Wilkerson
- Power to the Public by Tara Dawson McGuinness and Hana Schank
- Algorithms of Oppression by Safiya Umoja Noble