I don’t read actual physical, paper books anywhere near as much as I used to, or as much as I’d like to. In any case, here’s a list of the books I’ve been reading.
2019
- Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies
- The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O.: A Novel
- Atmosphæra Incognita
- The World Without Us
- Rust: The Longest War
- The Pleasure of Finding Things Out: The Best Short Works of Richard P. Feynman
- What I Talk About When I Talk About Running: A Memoir
- Time Travel: A History
- The Psychology of Zelda: Linking Our World to the Legend of Zelda Series
- Endure: Mind, Body, and the Curiously Elastic Limits of Human Performance
Older
- Spy Dust: Two Masters of Disguise Reveal the Tools and Operations That Helped Win the Cold War
- Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike
- An Astronaut’s Guide to Life on Earth: What Going to Space Taught Me About Ingenuity, Determination, and Being Prepared for Anything
- War Plan Red: The United States’ Secret Plan to Invade Canada and Canada’s Secret Plan to Invade the United States
- Lifelong Kindergarten: Cultivating Creativity through Projects, Passion, Peers, and Play
- Two Hours: The Quest to Run the Impossible Marathon
- Company Man: Thirty Years of Controversy and Crisis in the CIA
- Life, the Universe and Everything
- The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
- The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
- A Burglar’s Guide to the City
- Creative Confidence: Unleashing the Creative Potential Within Us All
- Thinking, Fast and Slow
- Thrilling Cities
- Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
- Stuff Matters: Exploring the Marvelous Materials That Shape Our Man-Made World
- Structures: Or Why Things Don’t Fall Down
- Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation
- Just My Type: A Book About Fonts
- Empire State of Mind: How Jay Z Went from Street Corner to Corner Office
- Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future
- The Cluetrain Manifesto: 10th Anniversary Edition
- The Innovator’s Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail
- Creativity, Inc: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration
- Rework
- Churchill: An Unruly Life
- On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction
- Cryptonomicon