Bookshelf
Book Log & Notes to future-me.
What I'm reading right now, what I've finished, and the notes that came out of them. I keep notes selfishly; they exist so future-me can remember what past-me actually learned.
// READING_NOW.LOG
On the desk.
Open right now.
Man's Search for Meaning
by Viktor E. Frankl
Meditations
by Marcus Aurelius
// READ_NEXT.QUEUE
Read next.
Queued up after the current stack.
The Personal MBA
by Josh Kaufman
This Is Marketing
by Seth Godin
// ARCHIVE.MD
Finished.
Books I've read end-to-end, grouped by the year I read them. Read one twice and it shows up under both years.
// 2026
Can't Hurt Me
by David Goggins
Creativity, Inc.
by Ed Catmull
Mastery
by Robert Greene
Steve Jobs
by Walter Isaacson
The Art of War
by Sun Tzu
The Checklist Manifesto
by Atul Gawande
The Creative Act: A Way of Being
by Rick Rubin
Thinking, Fast and Slow
by Daniel Kahneman
// 2025
Anything You Want
by Derek Sivers
Clean Code
by Robert C. Martin
Game Programming Patterns
by Robert Nystrom
Keep Going
by Austin Kleon
Outliers
by Malcolm Gladwell
Supercommunicators
by Charles Duhigg
The War of Art
by Steven Pressfield
// 2024
101 Things I Learned in Architecture School
by Matthew Frederick
Architecture: Form, Space, and Order
by Francis D. K. Ching
Discipline Is Destiny
by Ryan Holiday
Ego Is the Enemy
by Ryan Holiday
Getting Things Done
by David Allen
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
by Benjamin Franklin
// 2023
Mastery
by Robert Greene
Metro 2033
by Dmitry Glukhovsky
Metro 2034
by Dmitry Glukhovsky
Metro 2035
by Dmitry Glukhovsky
Never Split the Difference
by Chris Voss
Take Your Shot
by Robin Waite
The 80/20 Principle
by Richard Koch
The Obstacle Is the Way
by Ryan Holiday
Zero to One
by Peter Thiel with Blake Masters
// 2022
Atomic Habits
by James Clear
Elon Musk
by Ashlee Vance
Make Time
by Jake Knapp & John Zeratsky
Show Your Work!
by Austin Kleon
Steal Like an Artist
by Austin Kleon
The 10X Rule
by Grant Cardone
The 1-Page Marketing Plan
by Allan Dib
The 360 Degree Leader
by John C. Maxwell
Tools of Titans
by Tim Ferriss
YouTube Secrets
by Sean Cannell & Benji Travis
// 2021
Motherless Brooklyn
by Jonathan Lethem
The 12 Week Year
by Brian Moran
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
by Stephen R. Covey
The One Thing
by Gary Keller & Jay Papasan
Think and Grow Rich
by Napoleon Hill
// 2020
How to Win Friends and Influence People
by Dale Carnegie
The Art of Learning
by Josh Waitzkin
Why We Sleep
by Matthew Walker
// 2019
One Hundred Years of Solitude
by Gabriel García Márquez
Zorba the Greek
by Nikos Kazantzakis
// WISHLIST.LST
Want to read.
On the wishlist. Recommendations welcome.
A Pattern Language
by Christopher Alexander
Bird by Bird
by Anne Lamott
Hell Yeah or No
by Derek Sivers
How to Live
by Derek Sivers
Neuromancer
by William Gibson
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
by Stephen King
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
by Susan Cain
The Lean Startup
by Eric Ries
The Practice
by Seth Godin
Useful Not True
by Derek Sivers
Working in Public
by Nadia Eghbal
Words That Work
by Frank Luntz
// PAUSED.LOG
Paused.
Started, set down. Might come back to.
Snow Crash
by Neal Stephenson
// RECOMMEND.IN
Recommend me a book you love.
Drop me a note with the title, the author, and the one line that made it stick.