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List of Books Read

2025

81. No One Goes Alone - Erik Larson

80. Cellar Rat - Hannah Selinger

79. The Way of Zen - Alan Watts

78. Raising Mentally Strong Kids - Daniel Amen, Charles Fay

77. The Great Transformation - Odd Arne Westad, Chen Jian

76. The Beast in the Clouds - Nathalia Holt

75. Sunrise on the Reaping - Suzanne Collins

74. Zen and the Art of Archery -

73. Strange Pictures - Uketsu

72. The Compound - Aisling Rawle

71. No More Tears - Gardiner Harris

70. October 1964 - David Halberstam

69. Far from the Tree - Andrew Soloman

68. Flesh - David Szalay

67. The Devil’s Chessboard - David Talbot

66. Polostan - Neil Stephenson

65. Gambling Man - Lionel Barber

64. The Lion Tracker’s Guide to Life - Boyd Varty

63. Impossible Creatures - Katherine Rundell

62. Noble House - James Clavell

61. The Family Dynamic - Susan Dominus

60. The Genius of Athletes - Noel Brick, Scott Douglass

59. The Containment - Michelle Adams

58. Precipice - Robert Harris

57. Legacy - James Kerr

56. Hidden Valley Road - Robert Kolker

55. Things Become Other Things - Craig Mod

54. USA 94 - Matthew Evans

53. Emotion by Design - Greg Hoffman

52. There are Rivers in the Sky - Elif Shafak

51. History in the House - Richard Dvenport-Hines

50. Saudi, Inc. - Ellen Wald

49. Lost in Austin - Alex Hannaford

48. Time Anxiety - Chris Guillebeau

47. Careless People - Sarah Wynn-Williams

46. The Fourth Turning - William Strauss and Neil Howe

45. Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop - Hwang Bo-reum

44. Covenant of Water - Abraham Verghese

43. The Accomplice - Joseph Kanon

42. Who is Government - Michael Lewis

41. Tokyo Vice - Jake Adelstein

40. The Explorers Gene - Alex Hutchinson

39. Bookshops & Bonedust - Travis Baldree

38. Believe - Jeremy

37. High Conflict - Amanda Ripley

36. Come Together - Emily Nagoski

35. The Story Behind -

34. Paris Diversion - Chris Pavone

33. Copenhagen Trilogy - Tove Dittlevsen

32. The Great Alone - Kristen Hannah

31. The Hidden Globe - Atossa Araxia

30. Everything is Tuberculosis - John Green

29. American Zion - Benjamin E. Park

28. How the World Ran Out of Everything - Peter S. Goodman

27. Stay Sane - Greg Harden

26. Beirut - Jack Carr

25. Gai Jin - James Clavell

24. Three Kings - Todd Balf

23. The Coin - Yasmin Zaher

22. Modigliani Scandal - Ken Follet

21. Atonement - Ian McEwan

20. The Henna Artist - Alka Joshi

19. The House on the Cerulean Sea - T.J. Klune

18. All Fours - Miranda July

17. Tai-Pan - James Clavell

16. Thunder & Sunshine - Alastair Humphreys

15. Moods of Future Joys - Alastair Humphreys

14. Other Rivers - Peter Hessler

13. The Wednesday Wars - Gary Schmidt

12. A Bear Called Paddington - Michael Bond

11. Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant - Curtis Chin

10. When the Clock Broke - John Ganz

9. The Women - Kristin Hannah

8. Warming Up - Madelein Orr

7. Small Things Like These - Claire Keegan

6. Swimming Pool - Deborah Levy

5. The Labors of Hercules Beal - Schmidt

4. Gabriel’s Moon - William Boyd

3. The CIA: An Imperial History - Hugh Wilford

2. Memory Police - Yoko Ogawa

1. Creation Lake - Rachel Kushner

2024
  1. Remarkably Bright Creatures -  Shelby Van Pelt

  2. Gonzo Capitalism - Chris Guillebeau

  3. Upstairs Delicatessen - Dwight Garner

  4. Demon Copperhead - Barbara Kingslover

  5. Championship Behaviors - Hugh McCutcheon

  6. Lyndon Johnson - Master of the Senate - Robert Caro

  7. Drops of God 9 - Shu Okimoto

  8. Biography of X - 

  9. I Have Some Questions for You - Rebecca Makai

  10. Palo Alto - Malcolm Harris

  11. Small Worlds - Caleb 

  12. How I Won a Nobel Prize - 

  13. The Future - Naomi Alderman

  14. Up to Speed - Christine Yu

  15. Inclusify - Stefanie Johnson

  16. For the Culture - Marcus Collins

  17. Kitchen Confidential - Anthony Bourdain

  18. The Nutmeg’s Curse - Amitav Ghosh

  19. Lyndon Johnson - The Passage of Power - Robert Caro

  20. The Man from St. Petersburg - Ken Follett

  21. Children’s Bible - Lydia Millet

  22. Legends & Latte’s - Travis Baldree

  23. Same as Ever - Morgan Housel

  24. The Intellectual Toolkit of Geniuses - I.C. Robledo 

  25. Fire Weather - John Vaillant

  26. The State of Affairs - Esther Perel

  27. Smoke and Ashes - Amit Ghosh

  28. Evening and Morning - Ken Follet

  29. Drops of God 10 - Shu Okimoto

  30. Good Inside - Dr. Karen

  31. Sea of Tranquility - Emily St. John Mandel

  32. Great Divide - Christina Henriques

  33. Knowing What we Know - Simon Winchester

  34. How to Think Like a Lawyer - 

  35. The Big Rich - Bryan Burrough

  36. The Formula - Joshua Robinson

  37. Never Split the Difference - Chris Voss & 

  38. The Overstory - Richard Powers

  39. The Trading Game - Gary Stevenson

  40. Bluefishing - Steve Sims

  41. 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership - John C. Maxwell

  42. Arabs - Tim Mackintosh-Smith

  43. On Power - Robert Caro

  44. Power of One - Bryce Courtenay

  45. Great Expectations - Vince Cunningham

  46. An American Brothel - Amanda  Boczar

  47. Gnar Country - Steven Kotler

  48. Magic Words - Jonah Berger

  49. The Reckoning - David Halberstrom

  50. 2054 - Elliot Ackerman

  51. What you Do is Who You Are - Ben Horowitz

  52. The Swerve - Stephen Greenblatt

  53. There’s Always This Year - Hanif Abdurraqib

  54. Chasing Greatness - Karch Kiraly

  55. The Year of Living Constitutionally - AJ Jacobs

  56. The Collected Regrets of Clover - Mikki Brammer

  57. Charlie Hustle - Keith O’Brien

  58. Challenger - Adam Higginbotham

  59. 1919 - Wve Ewing

  60. Sofia Valdez and the Vanishing Vote - Andrea Beaty

  61. Ada Twist and the Perilous Pants - Andrea Beaty

  62. Shanghailanders - Julie Min

  63. Uncomfortable Conversations with a Jewish -

  64. Sex and Girls - Peggy Orenstein

  65. The Fifth Season - N.K. Jemison

  66. Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden

  67. Weddings and Lies - Kevin Kwan

  68. How to Build and Sustain a Championship Culture - Jeff Janssen

  69. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street - Karina Yan Glaser

  70. Reading the Room - Paul Yamazaki

  71. The Team Captain’s Culture Manual - Jeff Janssen

  72. Rowing Against the Current - Harry Strauss

  73. Tiananmen 1989: Our Shattered Hopes - Lun Zhang

  74. Foundry - Eliot Pepper

  75. Call You When I Land - Nikki Vargas

  76. Brands Win Championships - Jeremy Darlow

  77. The Demon of Unrest - Erik Larson

  78. Exodus: The Shanghai Jews - Kate McAll

  79. City Spies - 

  80. Lessons - Ian McEwan

  81. The First Rule of Mastery - Michael Gervais

  82. Drops of God 11 - 

  83. Circe - Madeline Miller

  84. Ministry of Time - 

  85. Quicksilver - Neal Stephenson

  86. Fast Girls - Elise Hooper

  87. Just Add Water - Katie Ledecky

  88. The Shift from Me to Team - Fritz Seyferth

  89. Shanghai - Joseph Kanon 

  90. Boys and Sex - Peggy Orenstein

  91. The Measure - Nikki Erlick

  92. Running to the Edge - Matthew Futterman

  93. Running the Dream - Matt Fitzgerald

  94. Quiet Americans - Scott Anderson

  95. University of Nike - Joshua Hunt

  96. Godwin - Jospeh O’Neill

  97. The Lincoln Highway - Amor Towles

  98. A River Runs Through It - Norman Maclean

  99. A God of the Woods - Liz Moore

  100. We the Animals - Jessie Torres

  101. Selling Sexy - 

  102. What’s Next - 

  103. The Silent Patient - Alex Michaelides

  104. Saturday Night Supper Club - J Ryan Stradal

  105. The Man Who Quit Money - Mark Sundeen

  106. The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Milan Kundera 

  107. The Boys from Riverside - Thomas Fuller

  108. Swim, Bike, Bonk - Will McGough

  109. The Last Samurai - Helen Dewitt

  110. Want - Edited by Gillian Anderson

  111. Players - Matthew Futterman

  112. Be Ready When the Luck Happens - Ina Garten

  113. Night Watch - Jayne Anne Phillips

  114. The Striker and the Clock - Georgia Cloepfil

  115. Revenge of the Tipping Point - Malcolm Gladwell

  116. Billionaire, Nerd, Savior, King - Anupreeta Das

  117. Arriving Today - Christopher Mims

  118. How to Win the Premier League - Ian Graham

  119. My Brilliant Friend - Elena Ferrante

  120. Light from Uncommon Stars - 

  121. Three Women - Lisa Taddeo

  122. The Last Rose of Shanghai -  

  123. Ashenden - W. Somerset Maugham

  124. The Lego Story - Jens Andersen

  125. The Men Who United the States - Simon Winchester

  126. Private Equity - 

  127. Wild Robot - Peter Brown

  128. The Mysterious Case of Rudolf Diesel - Douglas Brunt

  129. Question 7 - Richard Flanagan

  130. James - Percival Everett

2023
  1. No One is Talking About This - Patricia Lockwood

  2. The Cartographers - Peng Shepherd

  3. Ducks - Two Years in the Oil Sands - Kate Beaton

  4. The Sassoons - Joseph Sassoon

  5. The Violin Conspiracy - Brendan Slocumb

  6. Move Your Bus - Ron Clark

  7. Do Hard Things - Steve Magness

  8. A Wizard of Earthsea -Ursula de Guin

  9. Discipline is Destiny- Ryan Holiday

  10. Americans in Paris - David McCullough

  11. Good for a Girl - Lauren Fleshman

  12. The World We Make - N.K. Jemisin

  13. Titan - Ron Chernow

  14. Your Table is Ready - Michael Cecchi-Azzolina

  15. Chip War - Chip Miller

  16. The Hot Seat - Ben Mathis - Lilley 

  17. Hero of the Empire - Candice Millard

  18. Obstacle is the Way - Ryan Holiday

  19. How High We Go in the Dark - Sequoia Nagamatsu

  20. Carrie Soto is Back - Taylor Jennings

  21. The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and The Horse - Charley Mackesie

  22. Be the Sun, Not the Salt - Dr. Harry Cohen

  23. Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows

  24. Strengths Switch - Lia Waters

  25. The Gold in the Rings - Stephen Wenn

  26. The Art of the Impossible - Steven Kotler

  27. The Anarchy - William Dalyrample

  28. A Global Playbook - Nick Deforest

  29. The Power of Ritual - Casper ter Kuile

  30. In the Enemy's House - Howard Blum

  31. Unreasonable Hospitality - Will Guidera

  32. Termination Shock - Neil Stephenson

  33. Above the Line - Urban Meyer

  34. China - Edward Rutherford

  35. Raise Your Game - Alan Stein

  36. The Power of Agency - Dr. Paul Napper

  37. The Boy Crisis - Warren Farrel

  38. The Teachers - Alexandra Robbins

  39. The Last Guru - Daniel Pinkwater

  40. Happy Go Lucky - David Sedaris

  41. All the Beauty in the World - Patrick Bringley

  42. Counter Intelligence - Jonathan Gold

  43. Scary Close - Donald Miller

  44. City of Djinns - William Dalyrample

  45. Super Sushi Ramen Express - Michael Booth 

  46. Fear and Trembling - Amélie Nothomb

  47. Secondhand Time - Svetlana Alexievich

  48. My Year Abroad - Chang Rae Lee

  49. Take Back the Game - Linda Flanagan

  50. Dopamine Nation - Dr. Anne Lembke

  51. Start at the end - Dan Bigham

  52. Steal like an Artist - Austin Kleon

  53. The Advantage - Patrick Lencioni

  54. Show your Work - Austin Kleon

  55. The Miracle of Castel de Sangro - Joe McGinniss

  56. A Column of Fire - Ken Follett

  57. We Share the Sun - Sarah Gearhart

  58. Outlive - Peter Attia

  59. Keep Focus - Austin Kleon

  60. The Next Big Thing - Ryan Baldi

  61. We Came, We Saw, We Left - Charles Wheelen

  62. It Takes What It Takes - Trever Moawad

  63. The Latinist - Mark Prins

  64. Hamnet - Maggie O’Farrell

  65. The Secret Language of Maps - Carissa Carter

  66. Exteriors - Annie Ernaux

  67. Run like a pro (even if you are slow) - Matt Fitzgerald

  68. Banana Ball - Jesse Cole

  69. The Culture Playbook - Daniel Coyle

  70. Atlas Six - Olivia Blake

  71. Protocol - Capricia Penavic Marshall

  72. Immortal King Rao - Vauhini Vara

  73. Putin's People - Catherine Belton

  74. Leadership - Doris Kearns Goodwin

  75. Acts of Service -  Lillian Fishman

  76. And Then What - Catherine Ashton

  77. Legacy of Ashes - Tim Weiner

  78. The Promise - Damon Galgut

  79. On Juneteenth - Annette Gordon-Reed

  80. Excellent Advice for Living - Kevin Kelly

  81. Fast Girl - Suzy Favor Hamilton

  82. The End is Always Near - Dan Carlin

  83. Age of Vice - Deepti Kapoor

  84. The Final Revival of Opal and Nev - Dannie Walton

  85. the Culture Map - Erin Meyer

  86. The First 90 Days - Michael D. Watkins

  87. Two Nights in Lisbon - Chris Pavone

  88. Drops of God 1 - Shu Okimoto

  89. The Once and Future King - T.H. White

  90. Burglars Guide to the City - Geoff Manaugh

  91. World Travel - Anthony Bourdain

  92. Hello Beautiful - Ann Napolitano

  93. The 6 Types of Working Genius - Patrick Lencioni

  94. Radical Candor - Kim Scott 

  95. Ministry for the Future - Kim Stanley Robinson

  96. The Right Call - Sally Jenkins

  97. Lessons in Chemistry - Bonnie Garmus

  98. Fortune's Bazaar - Vaudine England

  99. Counterfeit - Kirstin Chen

  100. American Prometheus - Kai Bird

  101. The End of the World is Just the Beginning - Peter Zeihan

  102. Annihilation - Jeff Vandermeer

  103. Drops of God 2 - Shu Okimoto

  104. Perfect Sound Whatever - James Acaster

  105. Boss - Mike Royko

  106. Stories That Stick - 

  107. How to Work with Almost Anyone - 

  108. Now You See Us - Balli Kaur Jaswal

  109. Tabula Rasa - John McPhee 

  110. Believe - 

  111. The Romantics - William Boyd

  112. Mobility - Lydia Kiesling

  113. Dickens and Prince - Nick Hornby

  114. The Company of Women - Khishurwant Singh

  115. Track in the Forest - Bob Burns

  116. Drops of God 3 - Shu Okimoto

  117. Multipliers - Liz Wiseman

  118. When the Game was War - Rich Cohen

  119. Going Infinite - Michael Lewis

  120. Susan, Linda, Nina & Cokie - Lisa Napoli

  121. The Key Man - Simon Clark

  122. Democracy Awakening - Heather Cox Richardson

  123. Drops of God 4 - Shu Okimoto

  124. The Sense of Wonder - 

  125. Fans First - Jesse Cole

  126. How To Do Nothing - Jenny Odell

  127. Drops of God 5 - Shu Okimoto

  128. What Would Ted Lasso Do - Lucy Broadbent

  129. Barbarians at the Gate - Bryan Burrough & John Helyar

  130. The Guest - Emma Cline

  131. Any Given Tuesday - Lis Smith

  132. An Ordinary Man - Richard Norton-Smith

  133. Drops of God 6 - Shu Okimoto

  134. Fan Mail - Nick Hornby

  135. The Exchange - John Grisham

  136. Yellowface - RF Kuang

  137. 1% Better

  138. Drops of God 7 - Shu Okimoto

  139. Astor - Anderson Cooper

  140. Random Acts of Medicine - Anupam Jena & Christopher Worsham

  141.  the Black Line Blues - George Tsakumis

  142. Drops of God 8 - Shu Okimoto

  143. The Ted Lasso Guide 

  144. The Trial of Henry Kissinger - Christopher Hitchens

  145. A Line in the World - Dorthe Nors

  146. The Torqued Man - Peter Mann

  147. The Adventures of Amina Al -Sirafi - Shannon Chakraborty

  148. Hidden Potential - Adam Grant

  149. Land of Milk and Honey - C Pam Giang

  150. Victory in the Pool - Bill George

  151. The Book Tour - Andi Watson

  152. The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store - James McBride

2022
  1. Man’s Search for Meaning - Victor Frankel

  2. Boomerang - Michael Lewis 

  3. Letters to a Young Athlete - Chris Bosh

  4. Dead Lions - Mick Herron

  5. China Mirage - James Bradley

  6. Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir

  7. Caste - Isabel Wilkerson

  8. The Chosen and the Beautiful - Nghi Vo

  9. The Power of Regret - Dan Heath

  10. The Good American - Robert Kaplan

  11. Ideal Team Player - Patrick Lencioni

  12. Fair Play - Eve Rodsky

  13. Finding Ultra - Rich Roll

  14. Iron War - Matt Fitzgerald

  15. The Widow Cliquot- Tilar Mazzeo 

  16. Total Competition - Ross Braun

  17. EQ Applied - Justin Bariso

  18. The Gloaming - Melanie Flynn

  19. Psychology of Money - Morgan Housel

  20. Dessert Can Save the World - Christina Tosi

  21. Shelf Life: Chronicles of a Cairo Bookseller - Nadia Wassef

  22. Champions' Day - James Carter

  23. Thank You Mr. Nixon - Gish Jen

  24. Innovator's Dilemma - Clayton Christensen

  25. Song of Achilles - Madeline Miller

  26. Indelible City - Louisa Lim

  27. Crossing - Kai Bird

  28. Compete to Create - Michael Gervais

  29. There is never Anything But The Present - Alan Watts

  30. The Puzzler - AJ Jacobs

  31. Bourdain - Laurie Whitehead

  32. Lords of Finance - 

  33. The Nineties - Chuck Klosterman

  34. Annoying People - Fredrick Backmann

  35. I Hate Running and You Can Too - 

  36. Tokyo Ueno Station - 

  37. Less - Andrew Sean Greer

  38. My Father's Dragon - Ruth Stiles Gannett

  39. Splendid and the Vile - Erik Larson

  40. Lonesome Dove - Larry McMurtry

  41. The Committed - Viet Nguyen

  42. Interior Chinatown -

  43. Nazi Billionaires - David de Jong

  44. The Swimmers - Julie Otsuka

  45. My Turn - Johan Cruyff

  46. The Party - Richard McGregor

  47. Three Body Problem - Cixin Liu

  48. Trust - Hernan Diaz

  49. River of the Gods - Candice Millard

  50. Rosie Revere and the Raucous Riveters - Andrea Beaty

  51. Eleven Rings - Phil Jackson

  52. Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow - 

  53. Building a Second Brain - Tiago Forte

  54. All the Birds in the Sky -  Charlie Jane Anders

  55. On Java Road - Laurence Osborne

  56. Diddly Squat Farm - Jeremy Clarkson

  57. Winners - Frederik Bachman

  58. Cues - Vanessa Van Edwards

  59. How to Stay Sane in an Age of Division - Elif Shafak

  60. Born in Blackness - Howard French

  61. Path Lit by Lightning - David Maraniss

  62. The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo - Taylor Jennings 

  63. The Vanishing Half - Brit Bennett

  64. A Dangerous Business - Jane Smiley

  65. Open Water - Caleb Azumah Nelson

  66. Messi v. Ronaldo - One Rivalry, Two GOATs, and the Era that Remade the Worlds Game - Jonathan Clegg

  67. Imagine a City - Mark Vanhoenacker

  68. Babel - R.F. Kuang

  69. Down and Out in Paradise - Charles Leehsen

  70. The Mirage Factory - Gary Krist

  71. Less is Lost - Andrew Sean Greer

  72. Ali - Jonathan Eig

  73. Confidence Man - Maggie Haberman

  74. The Last Folk Hero - Jeff Peralman

  75. Molecule of More - Daniel Lieberman

  76. Where the Crawdads Sing - Delia Owens

2021
  1. Cloud Cuckoo Land - Anthony Doerr

  2. Cryptonomicon - Neal Stephenson

  3. Utopia Avenue - David Mitchell

  4. The Master 

  5. Great Circle - Maddie Shipstead

  6. The Plague Year - Lawrence Wright

  7. Glory Days - L Jon Wertheim

  8. Think Again - Adam Grant

  9. The Nightingale - Kristin Hannah

  10. Federer and Me - William Skidelsky

  11. Deep State - Chris Hauty

  12. Leading Without Authority - Keith Ferrazi

  13. The Cold Millions - Jess Walter

  14. Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir

  15. The Premonition - Michael Lewis

  16. The Secret Lives of Color - Kassia St. Clair

  17. Last Boat Out of Shanghai

  18. Come Fly the World

  19. Flight of the Diamond Smugglers

  20. The Lager Queen of Minnesota

  21. On the Wings if Eagles - Ken Follet

  22. Shibumi - Trevanian

  23. The Victory Machine

  24. How Much of These Hills is Gold

  25. Piranesi - Susanna Clarke

  26. Pappyland - Wright Thompson

  27. The Organized Mind

  28. Midnight Library - Matt Haig

  29. The Invisible Life of Addie La Rue

  30. 2034: A Novel of the Next World War - Elliot Ackerman

  31. Upstream - Dan Heath

  32. You Can’t Be Serious - Kal Penn

  33. A Promised Land - Barack Obama

  34. In the Weeds - Tom Vitale

  35. The Anthropocene Reviewed - John Green

  36. The Barcelona Complex - Simon Kuper

  37. Falling - TJ Newman

  38. The Data Detective - TIm Harford

  39. Reborn in the USA - Roger Bennett

  40. Jackpot - Michael Mechanic

  41. Hoover - Kenneth Whyte

  42. Door to Door - Edward Humes

  43. Eat a Peach - David Chang

  44. We Ride Upon Sticks - Quan Berry

  45. This is Chance - Jon Mooallem

  46. Long Peace Street - Jonathan Chatwin

  47. Slough House - Mick Herron

  48. The Best - Mark Williams and Tim Wigmore

  49. One Day - Gene Weingarten

  50. The Power of Moments - Chip & Dan Heath

  51. The Border

  52. American Dirt

  53. Wine for Normal People

  54. Life Undercover - Amarylis Fox

  55. Bomber Mafia - Malcolm Gladwell

  56. Crying in H Mart - Michelle Zauner

  57. End of the Affair - Graham Greene 

  58. Climbing with Mollie - William Finnegan

  59. Clear Coaching - Todd Bean

  60. Flourishing - Martin Seligman

  61. The Unquiet Englishman: The Life of Graham Greene - Richard Greene

  62. Passport - Sophia Glock

  63. Boyd - Robert Coram

  64. The Every - Dave Eggers

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