Books

2025

• Stay True by Hua Hsu
• The Philosopher of Palo Alto by John Tinnell
• The Overstory by Richard Powers
• Greenlights by Matthew McConaughey

2024

• Everything Is Obvious: Why Common Sense Is Nonsense by Duncan J. Watts
• Slow Productivity by Cal Newport
• The Empathy Diaries by Sherry Turkle
• What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami *
• Pushing Limits by Ted Hill
• Hell Yeah or No by Derek Sivers
• When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing by Daniel Pink
• Living History by Hillary Clinton
• The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories by Ken Liu
• Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking by Susan Cain
• Awe: The New Science of Everyday Wonder and How It Can Transform Your Life by Dacher Keltner
• Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead by Sheryl Sandberg
• Tools for Thought by Howard Rheingold

2023

• The Worlds I See: Curiosity, Exploration, and Discovery at the Dawn of AI by Fei-Fei Li *
• Wild Problems: A Guide to Decisions That Define Us by Russell Roberts *
• Mastering ‘Metrics: The Path from Cause to Effect by Joshua D. Angrist & Jörn-Steffen Pischke
• Steve Jobs by Walter Issacson *
• The Passion Paradox by Brad Stulberg and Steve Magness *
• Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
• Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know by Adam Grant
• Trillion Dollar Coach: The Leadership Playbook of Silicon Valley’s Bill Campbell by Eric Schmidt
• The Difference: How the Power of Diversity Creates Better Groups, Firms, Schools, and Societies by Scott E. Page
• Can’t Hurt Me by David Goggins
• Happy City by Charles Montgomery
• The Pathless Path by Paul Millerd
• Discipline is Destiny by Ryan Holiday
• The Stranger by Albert Camus

2022

• How to Take Smart Notes by Sönke Ahrens *
• Deep Work by Cal Newport *
• The Structure of Scientific Revolution by Thomas Kuhn *
• Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl *
• Exhalation by Ted Chiang *
• A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy by William Irvine
• The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness by Eric Jorgenson *
• Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl Strayed
• The Magic of Thinking Big by David Schwartz
• The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid
• The 4-Hour Workweek by Tim Ferris
• The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon
• Neuromancer by William Gibson
• The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion

2021

• The Ride of a Lifetime by Bob Igor *
• The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
• Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
• The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath *
• Beloved by Toni Morrison *
• Circe by Madeline Miller
• The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V. E. Schwab
• The Kiss Quotient by Helen Hoang
• I Think Therefore I Draw: Understanding Philosophy Through Cartoons by Thomas Cathcart
• Big Data: A Very Short Introduction by Dawn Holmes
• The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
• Lore by Alexandra Bracken

2020

• Educated by Tara Westover *
• How to Read Literature Like a Professor by Thomas Foster *
• The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
• The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
• Creativity, Inc. by Edwin Catmull and Amy Wallace *
• The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
• Hamlet by William Shakespeare
• One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
• The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
• The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald