Books
Active Books
- Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
- Cancel Culture in Climate by Jenny Morgan
Up Next
- The Human Element by Loran Nordgren
- Earthly Order: How Natural Laws Define Human Life by Saleem H. Ali
- How to Measure Anything by Douglas W. Hubbard
- Build: An Unorthodox Guide to Making Things Worth Making by Tony Fadell
- A Gentleman In Moscow by Amor Towles
- Thinking in Systems by Donella Meadows
- Emergence: The connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software by Steven Johnson
- Debt: The First 5,000 Years by David Graeber
- Chaos Kings: How Wall Street Traders Make Billions in the New Age of Crisis by Scott Patterson
Books To Read List
- The Art of Community: Seven Principles for Belonging
- Being Mortal
- But What If We're Wrong?
- The First 20 Hours
- Future Ethics
- The Hunt for Vulcan
- Mismatch: How Inclusion Shapes Design
- The Organic Machine: The Remaking of the Columbia River
- The Organized Mind
- Overcomplicated
- Political Saavy: Systematic Approaches to Leadership Behind the Scenes
- Quiet: The Power of Introverts
- Range: Why generalists triumph in a specialized world
- The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion
- The Road To Character
- Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
- Tools and Weapons
- A Whole New Mind
Suggested Books
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Finished Books
2025
- We Need To Hang Out: A Memoir Of Making Friends by Billy Baker
- An Elegant Puzzle: Systems of Engineering Management by Will Larson 👍
- Lincoln's Melancholy: How Depression Challenged a President and Fueled His Greatness by Joshua Wolf Shenk 👍
2024
- Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values by Robert M. Pirsig
- Slow Burn: The Hidden Costs of a Warming World by R. Jisung Park 👍
- The Science of Storytelling by Will Storr (Issue with retrieving highlights, will update once that is resolved)
- Master of Change: How to Excel When Everything Is Changing – Including You by Brad Stulberg 👍⭐
2023
- Building Green Software by Anne Curie, Sara Hsu, and Sara Bergman 👍
- The Longest Race by Kara Goucher 👍
- The Diary of a Nobody by George Grossmith
- Reimagining Capitalism in a World on Fire by Rebecca Henderson
- The Infinite Game by Simon Sinek 👍
- The Civilized Engineer by Samuel C. Florman
- Do Hard Things by Steve Magness 👍⭐
2022
- The Great Offshore Grounds by Vanessa Veselka
- Assembly by Natasha Brown
- Thinking Fast & Slow by Daniel Kahneman
- Running Is a Kind of Dreaming: A Memoir by J. M. Thompson 👍⭐
- Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir 👍⭐
- Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler 👍⭐
- Disrupted: My Misadventure in the Start-Up Bubble by Dan Lyons
- Native Seattle: Histories from the Crossing-Over Place by Coll Thrush
- Endure: Mind, Body, and the Curiously Elastic Limits of Human Performance by Alex Hutchinson 👍⭐
- Station Eleven by Emily St. John Madel
2021
- Linked: How Everything is Connected to Everything Else by Albert-László Barabási
- Sustainable in a Circular World by Peggy Smedley
- The Midnight Library by Matt Haig 👍
- Begin Again: James Baldwin's America and Its Urgent Lessons For Our Own by Eddie S. Guade Jr. 👍⭐
- The 99% Invisible City: A Field Guide to the Hidden World of Everyday Design by Roman Mars and Kurt Kohlstedt 👍
- An Elegant Puzzle: Systems of Engineering Management by Will Larson 👍
- Switching To Solar: What We Can Learn from Germany's Success in Harnessing Clean Energy by Bob Johnstone
- News Of The World by Paulette Jiles
- Accelerate: The Science of Lean Software and DevOps by Nicole Forsgren, Jez Humble, and Gene Kim 👍⭐
2020
- Between The World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates 👍
- The Future Earth by Eric Holthaus 👍
- The Sixth Extinction by Elizabeth Kolbert 👍
- White Fragility by Robin Diangelo 👍⭐
- Why Are We Yelling by Buster Benson 👍
- 26 Marathons by Meb Keflezighi and Scott Douglas 👍
- Accelerate: The Science of Lean Software and DevOps 👍⭐
- Crucial Conversations by Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, Ron McMillan, Al Switzler
- Atomic Habits by James Clear 👍⭐
2019
- Digital Minimalism by Cal Newport 👍
- Rebel Talent by Francesca Gino
2018
- It Doesn't Have to Be Crazy at Work by Jason Fried, David Heinemeier Hansson 👍⭐
- The Hard Thing About Hard Things by Ben Horowitz 👍
- Hit Refresh by Satya Nadella
- Data-ism by Steve Lohr
- 4:09:43: Boston 2013 Through the Eyes of the Runners by Hal Higdon 👍⭐
- Proof: The Science of Booze by Adam Rogers
2017
- The Leap: The Science Of Trust And Why It Matters by Ulrich Boser 👍
- Cumulus by Eliot Peper
- The Advantage by Patrick Lencioni
- Ready Player One by Ernest Cline 👍
- Site Reliability Engineering: How Google Runs Production Systems by Betsy Beyer, Chris Jones, Jennifer Petoff, Niall Richard Murphy
- 4:09:43: Boston 2013 Through the Eyes of the Runners by Hal Higdon 👍⭐
- Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley by Antonio Garcia Martinez 👍
2016
- Gumption: Relighting the Torch of Freedom with America's Gutsiest Troublemakers by Nick Offerman
- Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams by Tom DeMarco 👍⭐
- Nudge by Richard H Thaler
- Ghost In The Wires by Kevin Mitnick
- Venture Deals by Brad Feld, Jason Medelson
- My Man Jeeves by P. G. Wodehouse
Pre-2015
- Startup Growth Engines by Sean Ellis, Morgan Brown 👍
- Endzone: The Rise, Fall, and Return of Michigan Football by John U. Bacon 👍
- The Martian by Andy Weir 👍
- Automate This by Christopher Steiner
- Creativity Inc by Ed Catmull, Amy Wallace 👍⭐
- Making It Right by Rian Van Der Merwe
- The Amazon Way by John Rossman
- Do Cool Sh*t by Miki Agrawal
- On Bullshit by Harry G. Frankfurt
- How To Win Friends And Influence People by Dale Carnegie
- Sounders FC: Authentic Masterpiece by Mike Gastineau 👍
- Hooked by Nir Eyal 👍
- Hatching Twitter by Nick Bilton 👍⭐
- Present Shock by Douglas Rushkoff
- The Signal And The Noise by Nate Silver 👍
- Three and Out by John U. Bacon 👍
- Startup Life by Brad Feld, Amy Batchelor 👍⭐
- The Wisdom of Crowds by James Surowiecki
- The Beckham Experiment by Grant Wahl 👍
- The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell 👍
- Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer 👍
- REWORK by Jason Fried, David Heinemeier Hansson 👍
- The Art Of The Start by Guy Kawasaki
- The Design Of Everyday Things by Donald A. Norman
- The Fabric of the Cosmos by Brian Greene
- A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson 👍⭐
- Ideas And Opinions by Albert Einstein
- A Brief History of Time by Stephen W. Hawking
- The World As I See It by Albert Einstein
- The Return Of The King by J. R. R. Tolkien
- The Two Towers by J. R. R. Tolkien
- The Fellowship Of The Ring by J. R. R. Tolkien
- Crossing The Chasm by Geoffery A. Moore
- Wikinomics by Don Tapscott
- Gump & Co. by Winston Groom
- Jurassic Park by Michael Creighton
- A Prayer For Owen Meany by John Irving 👍⭐
👍 - Recommended Books
⭐ - All-time favorite Books
Top 5
- Creativity Inc by Ed Catmull, Amy Wallace
- White Fragility by Robin Diangelo
- Begin Again by Eddie S. Glaude Jr.
- Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler
- Endure: Mind, Body, and the Curiously Elastic Limits of Human Performance by Alex Hutchinson