Reading Log
Books listed do not constitute endorsement and a high/low ranking does always mean they do or do not align with my beliefs—rankings reflect the value I got out of a book.
Hall of Fame
- The Bible1 (Man Upstairs)
- How to Win Friends and Influence People (Dale Carnegie)
- Just Mercy (Bryan Stevenson)
- Not All of Us Are Saints (David Hilfiker)
- The Power of Habit (Charles Duhigg)
2022
Ranked
- Between Two Kingdoms (Suleika Jaouad)
- Excellent Sheep (William Deresiewicz)
- Crying in H Mart (Michelle Zauner)
- This Is Water (David Foster Wallace)
- Permanent Record (Edward Snowden)
- The Art of Invisibility (Kevin Mitnick)
Unranked
- City of Glass (Paul Auster)
- Ready Player One (Ernest Cline)
- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain)
- The Fault in Our Stars (John Green)
2021
Ranked
- 1984 (George Orwell)
- Can’t Hurt Me (David Goggins)
- Deep Work (Cal Newport)
- Atomic Habits (James Clear)
- How to Take Smart Notes (Sönke Ahrens)
- The Scarlett Letter (Nathaniel Hawthorne)
- The Sports Gene (David Epstein)
- How to Live (Derek Sivers)
- A Burglar’s Guide to the City (Geoff Manaugh)
- Charlotte Temple (Susanna Rowson)
- A Tale of Two Cities (Charles Dickens)
- Building a StoryBrand (Donald Miller)
- Ivy Study Tips (Mac Singer)
- Things Fall Apart (Chinua Achebe)
- Think Like a Monk (Jay Shetty)
Unranked
- Allegiant (Veronica Roth)
- Catching Fire (Suzanne Collins)
- Crash Your 2k Erg Score (Brandy Mulligan)
- Divergent (Veronic Roth)
- Harry Potter and the Cursed Child (J. K. Rowling)
- Insurgent (Veronica Roth)
- Mockingjay (Suzanne Collins)
- The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (Suzanne Collins)
- The Hunger Games (Suzanne Collins)
- We Can Be Mended (Veronica Roth)
2020
Ranked
- The Bible (Man Upstairs)
- How to Win Friends and Influence People (Dale Carnegie)
- The Innovators (Walter Isaacson)
- The Power of Habit (Charles Duhigg)
- Subliminal (Leonard Mlodinow)
- Not All of Us Are Saints (David Hilfiker)
- Is God anti-gay? (Sam Allberry)
- Caste (Isabel Wilkerson)
- Becoming (Michelle Obama)
- Born a Crime (Trevor Noah)
- How to Be an Antiracist (Ibram X. Kendi)
- White Fragility Robin DiAngelo)
- Between the World and Me (Ta-Nehisi Coates)
- Dare to Lead (Brené Brown)
- The Third Door (Alex Banayan)
- Linchpin (Seth Godin)
2019
Ranked
- The Prodigal God (Timothy Keller)
- Factfulness (Hans Rosling)
- The 4-Hour Workweek (Tim Ferriss)
- The Tools of Titans (Tim Ferriss)
2018
Ranked
- Just Mercy (Bryan Stevenson)
- The Language of God (Francis Collins)
- Mountains Beyond Mountains (Tracy Kidder)
- Shoe Dog (Phil Knight)
David Perell (nonbeliever) wrote a great essay on [why one should read the Bible—even if you are not a Christian]. ↩︎