I aim to read at least 5 books per month. I am always interested in good book recommendations and in what others are reading. Below is my list of what I have been reading so far, beginning at the bottom in January 2024.
- Mattering: The Secret to a Life of Deep Connection and Purpose
- Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It
- Blitzed: Drugs in the Third Reich
- More Than Words: How Talking Sharpens the Mind and Shapes Our World
- Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain
- Foundations: A Year of Focused Renewal
- The Accidental President: Harry S. Truman and the Four Months That Changed the World
- 1929: Inside the Greatest Crash in Wall Street History–and How It Shattered a Nation
- The Optimist: Sam Altman, OpenAI, and the Race to Invent the Future
- The Comfort Crisis: Embrace Discomfort To Reclaim Your Wild, Happy, Healthy Self
- Outlive: The Science and Art of Longevity
- Good Energy: The Surprising Connection Between Metabolism and Limitless Health
- Doc Watson: A Life in Music
- Frankenstein
- The Algebra of Wealth: A Simple Formula for Financial Security
- Open Socrates: The Case for a Philosophical Life
- Excellent Advice for Living: Wisdom I Wish I’d Known Earlier
- Replaceable You: Adventures in Human Anatomy
- Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
- Poor Richard’s Almanack
- The Intellectual Life: Its Spirit, Conditions, Methods
- Benjamin Franklin: An American Life
- Benjamin Franklin
- In This Economy?: How Money & Markets Really Work
- Super Agers: An Evidence-Based Approach to Longevity
- David: The Divided Heart
- Cuba: An American History
- Believe: Why Everyone Should Be Religious
- Poor Charlie’s Almanack: The Essential Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger
- Why Faith Matters
- History Matters
- Too Much Information: Understanding What You Don’t Want to Know
- Miracles and Wonder: The Historical Mystery of Jesus
- We the People: A History of the U.S. Constitution
- John & Paul: A Love Story in Songs
- Richard Posner
- How to Become Famous: Lost Einsteins, Forgotten Superstars, and How the Beatles Came to Be
- Average Is Over: Powering America Beyond the Age of the Great Stagnation
- Breakneck: China’s Quest to Engineer the Future
- How to Live on 24 Hours a Day
- Look Again: The Power of Noticing What Was Always There
- How the World Eats: A Global Food Philosophy
- The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains
- Lost in Thought: The Hidden Pleasures of an Intellectual Life
- The Wealth Ladder: Proven Strategies for Every Step of Your Financial Life
- Thinking and Writing About Law
- The Mission: The CIA in the 21st Century
- Siddhartha
- Original Sin
- Notorious: Portraits of Stars from Hollywood, Culture, Fashion, and Tech
- The WEIRDest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous
- The Pardon: The Politics of Presidential Mercy
- The Secret of Our Success
- Discover Your Inner Economist
- Chatter
- Stubborn Attachments
- Fair Play: A Game-Changing Solution for When You Have Too Much to Do (and More Life to Live)
- The Founders: The Story of Paypal and the Entrepreneurs Who Shaped Silicon Valley
- Outer Order, Inner Calm: Declutter and Organize to Make More Room for Happiness
- The Contrarian: Peter Thiel and Silicon Valley’s Pursuit of Power
- Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
- Abundance
- The Art of Winning: Lessons from My Life in Football
- Nuclear War: A Scenario
- Gray Matters: A Biography of Brain Surgery
- Keep Going: 10 Ways to Stay Creative in Good Times and Bad
- Show Your Work
- Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection
- Of Boys and Men: Why the Modern Male Is Struggling, Why It Matters, and What to Do about It
- No More Tears: The Dark Secrets of Johnson & Johnson
- Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience
- The Life of Samuel Johnson
- Lorne: The Man Who Invented Saturday Night Live
- Edwards’ North Carolina Probate Handbook, 2025 ed.
- Economics in One Lesson
- The ONE Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth About Extraordinary Results
- A Gentleman in Moscow
- Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative
- The Ageless Brain: How to Sharpen and Protect Your Mind for a Lifetime
- Get Better at Anything: 12 Maxims for Mastery
- An Empire of Wealth: The Epic History of American Economic Power
- Your Brain on Art: How the Arts Transform Us
- Samuel Johnson: A Biography
- Second Act: What Late Bloomers Can Tell You About Success and Reinventing Your Life
- The Next Conversation: Argue Less, Talk More
- Carson the Magnificent
- Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
- The Hot Hand: The Mystery and Science of Streaks
- The Dichotomy of Leadership
- Mine!: How the Hidden Rules of Ownership Control Our Lives
- First Principles: What America’s Founders Learned from the Greeks and Romans and How That Shaped Our Country
- Subtract: The Untapped Science of Less
- Source Code: My Beginnings
- Magic Words
- Talk: The Science of Conversation and the Art of Being Ourselves
- Henry Friendly: Greatest Judge of His Era
- North Carolina Estate Planning
- The Highest Calling: Conversations on the American Presidency
- The New Retirement Savings Time Bomb
- Good Inside
- Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes: Law and the Inner Self
- The Great Dissenter: The Story of John Marshall Harlan
- Law of Wills
- Deep Work
- Expecting Better – 2025 revision
- Andy and Don: The Making of a Friendship and a Classic American TV Show
- The Most Powerful Court in the World: A History of the Supreme Court of the United States
- Blind Spots: When Medicine Gets It Wrong, and What It Means for Our Health
- American Heretics
- Holy Bible – NIV Version
- Revenge of the Tipping Point
- Jurisprudence (Legal Philosophy) in a Nutshell
- John Quincy Adams
- The Anxious Generation
- Learned Hand: The Man and the Judge
- On the Shortness of Life
- The Picture of Dorian Gray
- Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI
- Alibaba: The House That Jack Ma Built
- An Introduction to Law and Economics
- John Quincy Adams: A Man for the Whole People
- The Art of Laziness
- The Effective Executive
- On the Philosophy of Law
- Do Hard Things: Why We Get Resilience Wrong and the Surprising Science of Real Toughness
- Common Sense Economics
- Sonny Boy: A Memoir
- Mindset
- The 4-Hour Body
- How Judges Think
- Working Backwards: Insights, Stories, and Secrets from Inside Amazon
- Getting Along
- The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon
- Feel-Good Productivity: How to Do More of What Matters to You
- Wild Problems: A Guide to the Decisions That Define Us
- Back to the Future: How to Reignite American Innovation
- The 5 A.M. Miracle: Dominate Your Day Before Breakfast
- Reading the Constitution: Why I Chose Pragmatism, Not Textualism
- Elon Musk
- Focus: The Hidden Driver of Excellence
- The Complacent Class: The Self-Defeating Quest for the American Dream
- Self-Help Is Like a Vaccine: Essays on Living Better
- Scaling People: Tactics for Management and Company Building
- Right Thing, Right Now: Good Values. Good Character. Good Deeds
- The Revenge of Analog
- Meditations
- Leadership: In Turbulent Times
- You Can’t Screw This Up: Why Eating Takeout, Enjoying Dessert, and Taking the Stress out of Dieting Leads to Weight Loss That Lasts
- A Week in the White House with Theodore Roosevelt
- Smarter Faster Better: The Transformative Power of Real Productivity
- Ascent to Power: How Truman Emerged from Roosevelt’s Shadow and Remade the World
- Richard Posner
- Wild Bill: The Legend and Life of William O. Douglas
- Psych: The Story of the Human Mind
- The AI Revolution in Medicine: GPT-4 and Beyond
- Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
- The Startup of You (Revised and Updated): Adapt, Take Risks, Grow Your Network, and Transform Your Career
- Learning to Love Midlife: 12 Reasons Why Life Gets Better with Age
- Reading Genesis
- Life After Power: Seven Presidents and Their Search for Purpose Beyond the White House
- The Myth of Multitasking: How “Doing It All” Gets Nothing Done
- Excellent Advice for Living: Wisdom I Wish I’d Known Earlier
- Leadership Strategy and Tactics: Field Manual
- The Year of Living Constitutionally: One Man’s Humble Quest to Follow the Constitution’s Original Meaning
- Magic Pill: The Extraordinary Benefits and Disturbing Risks of the New Weight-Loss Drugs
- Catastrophe Ethics: How to Choose Well in a World of Tough Choices
- Work, Retire, Repeat: The Uncertainty of Retirement in the New Economy
- Tame the Digital Chaos – Distraction, Time, Task & Email Management in an Age of Information Overload
- Languishing: How to Feel Alive Again in a World That Wears Us Down
- Groucho and Me
- It’s Not You: Identifying and Healing from Narcissistic People
- The Gatekeepers: How the White House Chiefs of Staff Define Every Presidency
- Project UnLonely: Healing Our Crisis of Disconnection
- Native Nations: A Millennium in North America
- Dopamine Detox : A Short Guide to Remove Distractions and Get Your Brain to Do Hard Things
- We Learn Nothing: Essays and Cartoons
- How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen
- Learn To Love Reading: 365 Powerful Quotes That Will Inspire You To Read More Books
- Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
- Bad Therapy: Why the Kids Aren’t Growing Up
- Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection
- Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment
- Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
- Fight Right: How Successful Couples Turn Conflict Into Connection
- Endure: How to Work Hard, Outlast, and Keep Hammering
- Tools Of Titans: The Tactics, Routines, and Habits of Billionaires, Icons, and World-Class Performers
- How the Talmud Can Change Your Life: Surprisingly Modern Advice from a Very Old Book
- Play It Away: A Workaholic’s Cure for Anxiety
- Johnny Carson
- I, Human: AI, Automation, and the Quest to Reclaim What Makes Us Unique
- The Age of the Infovore: Succeeding in the Information Economy
- The Easy Way to Quit Caffeine: Live a healthier, happier life
- Discover Your Inner Economist
- Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions
- Jesus: A Biography from a Believer
- Emperor of Rome: Ruling the Ancient Roman World
- Food, We Need to Talk: The Science-Based, Humor-Laced Last Word on Eating, Diet, and Making Peace with Your Body
- Opposable Thumbs: How Siskel & Ebert Changed Movies Forever
