Book Log
I’ve been keeping a running log of books over the past few years or so. I’ll link to my thoughts on them (if any). I’ve rated them each from 1 to 5.
Here’s a visualization of this reading:
| Title | Author | Start Date | End Date | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| American Pastoral | Phillip Roth | 2024-08-19 | 2024-08-28 | ⭐️⭐️⭐️ |
| Red River to Appomattox | Shelby Foote | 2024-07-29 | 2024-08-17 | ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ |
| Late Admissions | Glenn Loury | 2024-06-20 | 2024-07-14 | ⭐️⭐️⭐️ |
| Fredericksburg to Meridian | Shelby Foote | 2024-05-27 | 2024-06-29 | ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ |
| Achilles, Aeneas, Rustam and the Koran | Bill Smyth | 2024-05-22 | 2024-05-25 | ⭐️⭐️⭐️ |
| Freedom’s Forge | Arthur Herman | 2024-04-30 | 2024-05-17 | ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ |
| Fort Sumter to Perryville | Shelby Foote | 2024-04-21 | 2024-05-17 | ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ |
| Journey to the End of the Night | Louis-Ferdinand Celine | 2024-03-08 | 2024-05-15 | ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ |
| The Tycoons | Charles Morris | 2024-04-04 | 2024-04-22 | ⭐️⭐️⭐️ |
| On the Soul | Plato | 2024-03-10 | 2024-04-19 | ⭐️⭐️⭐️ |
| His Very Best — Jimmy Carter, A Life | Jonathan Alter | 2024-02-29 | 2024-04-18 | ⭐️⭐️⭐️ |
| How to Win Friends and Influence People | Dale Carnegie | 2024-04-10 | 2024-04-17 | ⭐️⭐️⭐️ |
| The Path Between the Seas | David McCullough | 2024-03-19 | 2024-03-25 | ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ |
| The Nineties | Chuck Klosterman | 2024-02-26 | 2024-03-15 | ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ |
| Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty | Anderson Cooper | 2024-03-11 | 2024-03-15 | ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ |
| The House of Morgan | Ron Chernow | 2024-01-21 | 2024-02-23 | ⭐️⭐️⭐️ |
| Flowers for Algernon | Daniel Keyes | 2024-02-04 | 2024-02-10 | ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ |
| Titan | Ron Chernow | 2023-12-29 | 2024-01-18 | ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ |
| Ender’s Game | Orson Scott Card | 2024-01-13 | 2024-01-15 | ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ |
| Destiny and Power: The American Odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush | John Meachem | 2023-12-14 | 2023-12-28 | ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ |
| G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century | Beverly Gage | 2023-10-22 | 2023-12-18 | ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ |
| The Magic Mountain | Thomas Mann | 2023-09-04 | 2023-12-13 | ⭐️⭐️⭐️ |
| The Project Phoenix | Gene Kim | 2023-11-04 | 2023-11-06 | ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ |
| Truman | David McCullough | 2023-09-22 | 2023-10-20 | ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ |
| The Poppy War | R.F. Kuang | 2023-10-04 | 2023-10-06 | ⭐️⭐️⭐️ |
| Dracula | Bram Stoker | 2023-08-27 | 2023-09-05 | ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ |
| About Face | David Hackworth | 2023-08-10 | 2023-08-27 | ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ |
| The Heart of Darkness | Joseph Conrad | 2023-08-01 | 2023-08-02 | ⭐️⭐️⭐️ |
| King Leopold’s Ghost | Adam Hochschild | 2023-07-27 | 2023-07-31 | ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ |
| Blood Meridian | Cormac McCarthy | 2023-06-25 | 2023-07-17 | ⭐️⭐️⭐️ |
| Dark Matter | Blake Crouch | 2023-07-13 | 2023-07-15 | ⭐️⭐️⭐️ |
| The Glass Hotel | Emily St. John Mandel | 2023-07-10 | 2023-07-13 | ⭐️⭐️ |
| The Master and Margarita | Mikhail Bulgakov | 2023-05-03 | 2023-06-24 | ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ |
| Wild Problems | Russ Roberts | 2023-06-12 | 2023-06-17 | ⭐️⭐️⭐️ |
| The Man from the Future | Ananyo Bhattarcharya | 2023-03-02 | 2023-06-03 | ⭐️⭐️⭐️ |
| The Case Against the Sexual Revolution | Louise Perry | 2023-06-01 | 2023-06-02 | ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ |
| Doctor Zhivago | Boris Pasternak | 2023-04-10 | 2023-04-24 | ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ |
| Half the Way Home: A Memoir of Father and Son | Adam Hochschild | 2023-03-16 | 2023-03-16 | ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ |
| Daniel Deronda | George Eliot | 2023-01-10 | 2023-03-05 | ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ |
| The Disappearance of Josef Mengele | Olivier Guez | 2023-02-15 | 2023-02-15 | ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ |
| Moby Dick | Herman Mellville | 2022-08-26 | 2022-12-11 | ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ |
| Stolen Focus | Johann Hari | 2022-07-29 | 2022-08-15 | ⭐️⭐️ |
| Greenlights | Matthew McConaughey | 2022-07-10 | 2022-07-13 | ⭐️⭐️⭐️ |
| The Books of Jacob | Olga Tokarczuk | 2022-04-26 | 2022-05-18 | ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ |
| Democracy in America | Alexis de Tocqueville | 2022-02-02 | 2022-04-19 | ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ |
| Robinson Crusoe | Daniel Defoe | 2022-03-31 | 2022-04-07 | ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ |
| The Boys in the Boat | Daniel James Brown | 2022-03-23 | 2022-03-30 | ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ |
| Sense and Sensibility | Jane Austen | 2022-01-26 | 2022-02-26 | ⭐️⭐️⭐️ |
| Money Magic | Laurence Kotlikoff | 2022-02-02 | 2022-02-03 | ⭐️⭐️ |
| The Catcher in the Rye | J.D. Salinger | 2022-01-15 | 2022-01-19 | ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ |
| The Sweet Spot | Paul Bloom | 2022-01-07 | 2022-01-17 | ⭐️⭐️ |
| Being Mortal | Atul Gawande | 2022-01-03 | 2022-01-10 | ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ |
| The Splendid and the Vile | Erik Larson | 2021-12-04 | 2021-12-25 | ⭐️⭐️⭐️ |
| Paul Simon | Robert Hilburn | 2021-12-18 | 2021-12-22 | ⭐️⭐️ |
| Where is my Flying Car? | J. Storrs Hall | 2021-12-13 | 2021-12-17 | ⭐️⭐️⭐️ |
| American Judaism | Jonathan Sarna | 2021-10-07 | 2021-11-28 | ⭐️⭐️ |
| Dune | Frank Herbert | 2021-11-05 | 2021-11-11 | ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ |
| Gulliver’s Travels | Jonathan Swift | 2021-09-01 | 2021-09-13 | ⭐️⭐️⭐️ |
| Churchill: Walking With Destiny | Andrew Roberts | 2021-06-27 | 2021-08-01 | ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ |
| Mere Christianity | C.S. Lewis | 2021-06-21 | 2021-06-24 | ⭐️⭐️⭐️ |
| Guns, Germs, and Steel | Jared Diamond | 2021-03-24 | 2021-04-03 | ⭐️⭐️⭐️ |
| Complacent Class | Tyler Cowen | 2021-03-14 | 2021-03-17 | ⭐️⭐️ |
| Once an Eagle | Anton Myer | 2021-02-24 | 2021-03-13 | ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ |
| A History of the Jews | Paul Johnson | 2021-01-18 | 2021-02-24 | ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ |
| A Gentleman in Moscow | Amor Towles | 2021-01-22 | 2021-01-26 | ⭐️⭐️⭐️ |
| The Fountainhead | Ayn Rand | 2021-01-08 | 2021-01-16 | ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ |
| Portnoy’s Complaint | Phillip Roth | 2020-11-21 | 2020-11-30 | ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ |
| Get Together | Bailey Richardson | 2020-11-22 | 2020-11-23 | ⭐️ |
| Jump-Starting America | Jonathan Gruber | 2020-11-08 | 2020-11-14 | ⭐️⭐️⭐️ |
| Bullshit Jobs: A Theory | David Graeber | 2020-10-08 | 2020-11-10 | ⭐️⭐️ |
| Dreamland | Sam Quinones | 2020-10-30 | 2020-11-07 | ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ |
| Stubborn Attachments | Tyler Cowen | 2020-10-27 | 2020-10-30 | ⭐️⭐️ |
| The Three Languages of Politics | Arnold Kling | 2020-10-19 | 2020-10-22 | ⭐️⭐️⭐️ |
| The Cult of Smart | Fredrik deBoer | 2020-09-22 | 2020-10-09 | ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ |
| Very Important People | Ashley Mears | 2020-09-18 | 2020-10-01 | ⭐️⭐️⭐️ |
| Americanah | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | 2020-08-29 | 2020-09-07 | ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ |
| I and Thou | Martin Buber | 2020-08-09 | 2020-08-26 | ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ |
| Winning the Next War | Stephen Rosen | 2020-08-09 | 2020-08-25 | ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ |
| The Devil in the White City | Erik Larson | 2020-08-14 | 2020-08-17 | ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ |
| Working in Public: The Making and Maintenance of Open Source Software | Nadia Eghbal | 2020-08-09 | 2020-08-12 | ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ |
| Treasure Island | Robert Louis Stevenson | 2020-08-03 | 2020-08-06 | ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ |
| Revolt of the Public | Martin Gurri | 2020-07-29 | 2020-08-02 | ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ |
| The Second Machine Age | Erik Brynjolfsson | 2020-07-22 | 2020-08-01 | ⭐️⭐️ |
| Martin Buber’s I and Thou: Practicing Living Dialogue | Kenneth Kramer | 2020-07-20 | 2020-07-29 | ⭐️⭐️⭐️ |
| Pornography and Silence | Susan Griffin | 2020-07-13 | 2020-07-17 | ⭐️⭐️ |
| The Decadent Society | Ross Douthat | 2020-07-10 | 2020-07-14 | ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ |
| How Innovation Works | Matt Ridley | 2020-06-22 | 2020-07-08 | ⭐️⭐️⭐️ |
| Bad Religion | Ross Douthat | 2020-06-02 | 2020-07-07 | ⭐️⭐️⭐️ |
| The Innovator’s Dilemma | Clayton Christensen | 2020-06-13 | 2020-06-21 | ⭐️⭐️⭐️ |
| The Art of Doing Science and Engineering | Richard Hamming | 2020-06-02 | 2020-06-08 | ⭐️⭐️⭐️ |
| Range | David Epstein | 2020-05-26 | 2020-05-31 | ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ |
| The Power Broker | Robert Caro | 2020-05-18 | 2020-05-31 | ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ |
| The Last Man Who Knew Everything | David Schwartz | 2020-05-04 | 2020-05-22 | ⭐️⭐️⭐️ |
| Beloved | Toni Morrison | 2020-05-13 | 2020-05-16 | ⭐️⭐️ |
| The Idiot | Fyodor Dostoevsky | 2020-05-06 | 2020-05-12 | ⭐️⭐️⭐️ |
| History of the Pelopponesian War | Thucidydes | 2020-04-27 | 2020-05-05 | ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ |
| The Adventures of Don Quixote | Miguel de Cervantes | 2020-04-20 | 2020-04-26 | ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ |
| Tortilla Flat | John Steinbeck | 2020-04-18 | 2020-04-19 | ⭐️⭐️ |
| Losing Ground | Charles Murray | 2020-04-16 | 2020-04-17 | ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ |
| The Count of Monte Cristo | Alexandre Dumas | 2020-04-09 | 2020-04-14 | ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ |
| Love in the Time of Cholera | Gabriel Garcia Marquez | 2020-04-04 | 2020-04-07 | ⭐️⭐️⭐️ |
| Candide | Voltaire | 2020-04-02 | 2020-04-02 | ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ |
| The Innovators | Walter Isaacson | 2020-03-29 | 2020-03-31 | ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ |
| Fathers and Sons | Ivan Turganev | 2020-03-23 | 2020-03-24 | ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ |
| World Without Mind | Franklin Foer | 2020-03-21 | 2020-03-22 | ⭐️⭐️ |
| The Plague | Albert Camus | 2020-03-18 | 2020-03-20 | ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ |
| #Republic | Cass Sunstein | 2020-03-15 | 2020-03-17 | ⭐️⭐️ |
| Uncle Tom’s Cabin | Harriet Beecher Stowe | 2020-01-23 | 2020-03-14 | ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ |
| Bobos in Paradise | David Brooks | 2020-02-24 | 2020-03-12 | ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ |
| Tribe | Sebastian Junger | 2020-02-22 | 2020-02-24 | ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ |
| How to Hide an Empire | Daniel Immewahr | 2020-01-10 | 2020-01-22 | ⭐️⭐️ |
| Pachinko | Min Jin Lee | 2019-12-26 | 2020-01-03 | ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ |
| The Plot Against America | Phillip Roth | 2019-12-19 | 2019-12-26 | ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ |
| The Right Stuff | Tom Wolfe | 2019-11-11 | 2019-12-19 | ⭐️⭐️⭐️ |
| Dead Souls | Nikolay Gogol | 2019-10-18 | 2019-10-25 | ⭐️⭐️⭐️ |
| The Assault on American Excellence | Anthony Kronman | 2019-10-15 | 2019-10-18 | ⭐️⭐️ |
| Stillness is the Key | Ryan Holiday | 2019-10-11 | 2019-10-14 | ⭐️⭐️⭐️ |
| Super Pumped | Mike Isaac | 2019-10-06 | 2019-10-10 | ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ |
| The Meritocracy Trap | Daniel Markovits | 2019-09-23 | 2019-10-05 | ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ |
| Dignity | Chris Arnade | 2019-09-10 | 2019-09-10 | ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ |
| A Man Called Ove | Fredrik Backman | 2019-09-05 | 2019-09-08 | ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ |
| The Rational Optimist | Matt Ridley | 2019-08-30 | 2019-09-03 | ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ |
| One Hundred Years of Solitude | Gabriel Garcia Marquez | 2019-08-22 | 2019-08-30 | ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ |
| Meditations | Marcus Aurelius | 2019-08-18 | 2019-08-21 | ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ |
| Catch-22 | Joseph Heller | 2019-08-11 | 2019-08-17 | ⭐️⭐️⭐️ |
| Average is Over | Tyler Cowen | 2019-08-05 | 2019-08-09 | ⭐️⭐️⭐️ |
| Lolita | Vladimir Nabokov | 2019-07-29 | 2019-08-01 | ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ |
| The 48 Laws of Power | Robert Greene | 2019-07-20 | 2019-07-28 | ⭐️⭐️⭐️ |
| Journey to the End of the Night | Louis-Ferdinand Celine | 2019-06-01 | 2019-06-28 | ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ |
| The Castle | Franz Kafka | 2019-05-01 | 2019-05-08 | ⭐️⭐️ |
| The Sun Also Rises | Ernest Hemingway | 2019-04-29 | 2019-05-03 | ⭐️⭐️ |
| Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother | Amy Chua | 2019-04-25 | 2019-04-29 | ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ |
| The Road to Serfdom | F.A. Hayek | 2019-03-28 | 2019-04-25 | ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ |
| Homage to Catalonia | George Orwell | 2019-04-10 | 2019-04-23 | ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ |
| Endurance | Alfred Lansing | 2019-04-09 | 2019-04-10 | ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ |
| Black Hearts | Jim Frederick | 2019-03-25 | 2019-04-10 | ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ |
| The Diversity Delusion | Amy McDonald | 2019-03-25 | 2019-04-01 | ⭐️⭐️⭐️ |
| One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich | Alexander Solzhenitsyn | 2019-03-21 | 2019-03-28 | ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ |
| Like War | Emerson T. Brooking | 2019-03-03 | 2019-03-21 | ⭐️⭐️ |
| In The First Circle | Alexander Solzhenitsyn | 2019-02-11 | 2019-03-02 | ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ |
| Platoon Leader | James McDonough | 2019-02-12 | 2019-02-21 | ⭐️⭐️⭐️ |
| The Industries of the Future | Alec Ross | 2019-01-20 | 2019-02-04 | ⭐️⭐️ |
| The Return of Tarzan | Edgar Rice Borroughs | 2019-01-14 | 2019-01-16 | ⭐️⭐️ |
| Tarzan of the Apes | Edgar Rice Borroughs | 2019-01-12 | 2019-01-14 | ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ |
| Anna Karenina | Leo Tolstoy | 2018-12-23 | 2019-01-11 | ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ |
| The Adventures of Augie March | Saul Bellow | 2018-10-15 | 2018-11-06 | ⭐️⭐️⭐️ |
| Excellent Sheep | William Deresiewicz | 2018-10-08 | 2018-10-12 | ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ |
| Young Washington | Peter Stark | 2018-07-23 | 2018-07-31 | ⭐️⭐️⭐️ |
| The Road to Wigan Pier | George Orwell | 2018-07-22 | 2018-07-23 | ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ |
| Dataclysm | Christian Rudder | 2018-07-18 | 2018-07-22 | ⭐️⭐️ |
| Ordinary Men | Christopher Browning | 2018-07-15 | 2018-07-18 | ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ |
| Fahrenheight 451 | Ray Bradbury | 2018-07-14 | 2018-07-15 | ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ |
| Weapons of Math Destruction | Cathy O’Neill | 2018-07-11 | 2018-07-13 | ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ |
| For Whom the Bell Tolls | Ernest Hemingway | 2018-07-04 | 2018-07-11 | ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ |
| Country Dark | Chris Offutt | 2018-06-20 | 2018-07-04 | ⭐️⭐️⭐️ |
| To Save Everything, Click Here | Evgeny Morozov | 2018-06-30 | 2018-07-03 | ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ |
| The Goldfinch | Donna Tartt | 2018-06-19 | 2018-06-30 | ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ |
Past book list (prior to JUN2018 but starting in 2016), before I started freakishly recording things:
- The Sympathizer - Viet Thanh Nguyen
- Hillbilly Elegy - J.D. Vance
- Freedom - Jonathon Franzenc
- Purity - Jonathon Franzen
- The Circle - Dave Eggers
- Hashish: A Smuggler’s Tale - Henry de Monfreid
- The Zookeeper’s Wife - Diane Ackerman
- The Rational Optimist - Matt Ridley
- Alexander Hamilton - Ron Chernow
- A Grief Observed - C.S. Lewis
- The Rape of Nanking - Iris Chang
- Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
- The Sound and the Fury - William Faulkner (Partial, how could anyone finish this book?)
- One Bullet Away - Nathaniel Fick
- Undaunted Courage - Stephen Ambrose
- Gates of Fire- Steven Pressfield
- Explaining Postmodernism - Stephen Hicks
- The Metamorphosis - Franz Kafka
- Churchill and Orwell - Thomas Ricks
- Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky
- The Trial - Franz Kafka
- 1984 - George Orwell
- Animal Farm - George Orwell
- The Spy Who Came in from the Cold - John le Carre
- I Am Charlotte Simmons - Tom Wolfe
- The Stranger - Albert Camus
- Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
- The Vanishing American Adult - Ben Sasse
- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
- A Farewell to Arms - Ernest Hemingway
- Emile - Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- The Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Slaughterhouse 5 - Kurt Vonagut
- Between the World and Me - Ta-Nahesi Coates
- 12 Rules for Life - Jordan Peterson
- Everybody Lies - Seth Stephens-Davidowitz
- The Shallows - Nicholas Carr
- Irresistible - Adam Alter
- The 10 Laws of Trust - Joel Peterson
- Conspiracy - Ryan Holiday