Here are the books I have read over the years, organized by year.
A profound family drama that explores faith, doubt, freedom, and moral responsibility through the conflict of three brothers and their father.
An elderly couple journeys across a misty post-Arthurian England where a collective amnesia has erased the past.
A mathematician engineers a program to preserve civilization across a thousand years of looming galactic dark age.
An economist's unconventional lens applied to everyday life, revealing surprising hidden truths through data.
The story of Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky, whose unlikely friendship revolutionized our understanding of human judgment and bias.
A lone astronaut wakes with no memory and must piece together a desperate mission to save the Earth from extinction.
A struggling writer in Barcelona makes a Faustian deal and descends into a gothic labyrinth of obsession and dark bargains.
A richly detailed portrait of America's first great self-made man—inventor, diplomat, satirist, and founding father.
A compelling argument that language is a biological adaptation—a unique instinct shaped by natural selection in every human.
A Tokyo adman's quiet life is shattered when a mysterious photo leads him into a surreal hunt for a sheep tied to dangerous power.
Kurzweil updates his singularity predictions, arguing that AI will soon merge with and amplify human intelligence.
Harry is unexpectedly entered in the perilous Triwizard Tournament, forcing him to face dangers far beyond his years.
Harry and Dumbledore probe Voldemort's hidden past as the darkest chapter of the war begins to unfold.
Phileas Fogg bets everything on circumnavigating the globe in just eighty days, with a detective hot on his heels.
A cross-country motorcycle trip becomes a philosophical inquiry into Quality and the roots of Western rationalism.
A teenager's candid, rebellious account of a few days adrift in New York after being expelled from prep school.
A teenage girl in Norway receives mysterious letters that take her through the entire history of Western philosophy.
A man's search for his missing cat pulls him deeper into a labyrinthine mystery touching on war, violence, and the self.
Linked stories spanning centuries after an ancient virus is unleashed in the Arctic, exploring grief, love, and resilience.
A data scientist makes the compelling case that humanity is already making measurable progress on its greatest environmental challenges.
Three friends raised at an idyllic English school gradually confront the disturbing truth about their existence.
A multigenerational saga follows a Korean family in Japan as they endure discrimination, sacrifice, and shifting ideas of identity and belonging.
Kahneman, Sibony, and Sunstein examine why equally qualified people make wildly different judgments and how to reduce that costly variability.
A concise introduction to lean thinking that focuses on flow efficiency, customer value, and practical ways to improve everyday work systems.
A novel about an IT manager who must rescue a failing project, uncovering the principles of DevOps along the way.
Humanity's final confrontation with cosmic forces stretches across eras as impossible choices determine whether civilization can survive.
An orphaned boy discovers he is a wizard and enters Hogwarts, where friendship and courage awaken him to a larger magical conflict.
A feverish literary portrait of scientific genius and moral peril centered on John von Neumann and the birth of modern computation.
Harry's second year at Hogwarts turns dangerous as a hidden chamber is opened and an old evil begins targeting students.
Thiel argues that real innovation comes from building unique products that create new markets instead of competing in crowded ones.
A modern web development guide that re-centers hypermedia, HTML-first architecture, and simpler interactive systems over heavy front-end complexity.
Harry discovers that a dangerous escaped prisoner may be connected to his parents' fate in ways he never imagined.
A hacker-swordsman and a teenage courier race through a fractured America and a virtual metaverse to stop a mind-infecting threat.
Tolstoy interweaves love, marriage, faith, and social pressure in imperial Russia through the tragic path of Anna and the search for meaning.
A terraforming experiment gone wrong gives rise to an intelligent spider civilization, forcing humanity into a tense first contact.
A fragile alliance of species explores a distant world and encounters an ancient intelligence that threatens them all.
The conclusion to the Children of Time trilogy probes the nature of memory and consciousness across diverse forms of evolved intelligence.
A medieval English orphan disguises himself as a Jew to study medicine under the legendary physician Ibn Sina in Persia.
A father and son walk through a burned America after an unexplained catastrophe, clinging to each other and to hope.
A sweeping history of how information networks have shaped human societies, from cave paintings to the age of AI.
Eight luminous, rigorous stories probing the limits of language, mathematics, religion, and what it means to be human.
A man with an intellectual disability undergoes an experimental procedure that rapidly increases his intelligence, transforming his life in unexpected and tragic ways.
Prince Myshkin returns to Russia with radical compassion and innocence, colliding with vanity, desire, and cruelty in a society unable to understand him.
After committing a murder he believes is morally justified, a destitute student spirals through paranoia, guilt, and a painful search for redemption.
A respected judge confronts terminal illness and realizes his carefully ordered life may have been built on shallow social conventions.
Six interlinked stories across centuries reveal how power, violence, and resistance echo through time in different forms.
Rumelt separates real strategy from empty slogans and explains how diagnosis, coherent choices, and focused action create competitive advantage.
A detailed portrait of Leonardo's relentless curiosity, connecting his notebooks, inventions, and art to the habits that fueled his genius.
Labatut blends fact and fiction to trace brilliant scientific minds whose discoveries open terrifying ethical and existential abysses.
A secret first-contact project during China's Cultural Revolution sets in motion a cosmic crisis that threatens humanity's future.
Facing an inevitable alien invasion, humanity builds desperate long-term plans while confronting the chilling logic of cosmic survival.
Through two families in California's Salinas Valley, Steinbeck retells themes of Cain and Abel, freedom, and moral choice across generations.
A nostalgic and intimate story of first love, grief, and emotional fragility in student-era Tokyo during the late 1960s.
Years after being abruptly rejected by his closest friends, Tsukuru returns to his past to understand the wound that shaped his life.
Two lonely lives move toward each other in an uncanny parallel Tokyo where memory, identity, and reality begin to fracture.
A runaway teenager and an aging man who can talk with cats follow intertwined paths through prophecy, dreams, and metaphysical mystery.
Over one sleepless night in Tokyo, strangers briefly connect as hidden traumas and quiet loneliness surface beneath neon light.
Six stories set after the Kobe earthquake explore emotional aftershocks, dislocation, and fragile attempts to reconnect with meaning.
As innovators disappear from a collapsing economy, a railroad executive and an inventor uncover a radical strike against mediocrity and coercion.
On the desert planet Arrakis, Paul Atreides is thrust into a struggle over power, prophecy, ecology, and the most valuable resource in the galaxy.
Thaler and Sunstein show how small design choices in policies and products can steer better decisions without removing freedom.
Years after seizing imperial power, Paul Atreides confronts conspiracy, fanaticism, and the terrible cost of seeing too far into the future.
Norman explains why products confuse users and how human-centered design principles can make everyday tools intuitive and safer.
An uncompromising architect battles conformity and corruption, defending creative independence at great personal cost.
Based on extensive interviews, this biography traces Jobs's intense personality and the design-driven vision behind Apple and Pixar.
In a future built on engineered happiness and social conditioning, dissent exposes the human cost of comfort without freedom.
Lukianoff and Haidt argue that certain cultural and educational trends are making younger generations less resilient and more polarized.
Stranded schoolboys attempt to govern themselves on a deserted island, only to descend into fear, tribalism, and violence.
A concise edition of Mill's defense of free speech, arguing that silencing dissent harms truth-seeking societies.
Through a child's eyes in the American South, a lawyer's defense of a Black man exposes the moral failures of a segregated town.
A cross-country motorcycle trip becomes a philosophical inquiry into Quality and the roots of Western rationalism.
Haidt maps the moral intuitions behind political and religious divides, explaining why good people so often disagree.
Kahneman presents two modes of thought and the systematic biases that shape decisions, from daily choices to major judgments.
A teacher travels to the past to stop JFK's assassination, but history resists every attempt to be rewritten.
