📚 I started reading books for fun about 4½ years ago. I thought 2021’s total of 83 books was absurdly high. In 2022 I read 138 books.
The vast majority of these have been audio books, with eBooks significantly behind, and paper books even further behind. I listen to audio books while running, walking, driving, and doing chores. Prior to books I listened to more podcasts and music (or in some cases nothing at all ?). I read eBooks and paper books before bed and on weekends. I don’t think I could possibly read more without making significant sacrifices in other areas of my life, which isn’t going to happen.
Here’s the complete 2022 list:
- The Genius of Birds by Jennifer Ackerman
- Brighton Rock by Graham Greene
- You Can Buy Happiness (and It's Cheap) by Tammy Strobel
- The Botany of Desire by Michael Pollan
- The 100 Thing Challenge by Dave Bruno
- Money by Jacob Goldstein
- Playing with FIRE (Financial Independence Retire Early) by Scott Rieckens
- Meet the Frugalwoods by Elizabeth Willard Thames
- The Minimalist Home by Joshua Becker
- Gratitude by Oliver Sacks
- Daring Greatly by Brené Brown
- Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
- 81 Days Below Zero by Brian Murphy
- Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
- The Paradox of Choice by Barry Schwartz
- Family Happiness by Leo Tolstoy
- How to Argue With a Racist by Adam Rutherford
- How to Be Perfect by Michael Schur
- Irresistible by Adam Alter
- Finding Everett Ruess by David Roberts
- The Body by Stephen King
- LaserWriter II by Tamara Shopsin
- Blitzed by Norman Ohler
- The Happiness Hypothesis by Jonathan Haidt
- Island by Aldous Huxley
- Gangsters of Capitalism by Jonathan M. Katz
- Spies, Lies, and Algorithms by Amy B. Zegart
- Thirst by Heather Anderson
- The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning by Margareta Magnusson
- Mud, Rocks, Blazes by Heather Anderson
- Wild by Cheryl Strayed
- Becoming Odyssa by Jennifer Pharr Davis
- Stolen Focus by Johann Hari
- Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now by Jaron Lanier
- The Checklist Manifesto by Atul Gawande
- The Simple Path to Wealth: Your road map to financial independence and a rich, free life by J. L. Collins
- A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived by Adam Rutherford & Siddhartha Mukherjee
- Things That Matter by Joshua Becker
- System Error by Rob Reich, Mehran Sahami & Jeremy M. Weinstein
- Stolen Focus by Johann Hari
- Soulful Simplicity by Courtney Carver
- Digital Minimalism by Cal Newport
- Alone Together by Sherry Turkle
- Chasing the Scream by Johann Hari
- Will by Will Smith & Mark Manson
- The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
- The Little Book of Common Sense Investing by John C. Bogle
- Why Social Media is Ruining Your Life by Katherine Ormerod
- Animal Farm by George Orwell
- The Millionaire Next Door by Thomas J. Stanley
- Children of the Fleet by Orson Scott Card
- A Runner's High by Dean Karnazes
- Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
- Juliet, Naked by Nick Hornby
- The Attention Merchants by Tim Wu
- A War of Gifts by Orson Scott Card
- The Four by Scott Galloway
- The Algebra of Happiness by Scott Galloway
- Earth Unaware by Orson Scott Card & Aaron Johnston
- Bigger than tiny, smaller than average by Sheri Koones
- Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick
- Meditation for Fidgety Skeptics by Dan Harris, Jeffrey Warren & Carlye Adler
- Ultramarathon Man by Dean Karnazes
- Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life by Nir Eyal
- Earth Afire by Orson Scott Card & Aaron Johnston
- How to Break Up with Your Phone by Catherine Price
- Earth Awakens by Orson Scott Card & Aaron Johnston
- The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
- Real Artists Don't Starve by Jeff Goins
- Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
- The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains by Nicholas Carr
- SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome by Mary Beard
- The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Mating in Captivity by Esther Perel
- The Power of Showing Up by Daniel J. Siegel & Tina Payne Bryson
- Cues by Vanessa Van Edwards
- The Teenage Brain by Frances E. Jensen & Amy Ellis Nutt
- The Perfect Mile by Neal Bascomb
- How to Focus by Thích Nhất Hạnh & Jason DeAntonis
- Courage Is Calling by Ryan Holiday
- Rubicon by Tom Holland
- I, Claudius by Robert Graves
- The Power of Fun by Catherine Price
- Claudius the God by Robert Graves
- How to Hide an Empire by Daniel Immerwahr
- Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
- Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne
- The Fate of Rome by Kyle Harper
- Moonraker by Ian Fleming
- Hero of Two Worlds by Mike Duncan
- Talking to Strangers by Malcolm Gladwell
- The Time Machine by H.G. Wells
- Breath by James Nestor
- Range by David Epstein
- Diamonds Are Forever by Ian Fleming
- How to Relax by Thích Nhất Hạnh & Jason DeAntonis
- Fair Play by Eve Rodsky
- America: The Farewell Tour by Chris Hedges
- The End Is Always Near by Dan Carlin
- Ben-Hur by Lew Wallace
- Doctor Zhivago by Borìs Pasternàk
- Born to Run by Christopher McDougall
- All Quiet on The Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
- The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
- From Russia With Love by Ian Fleming
- The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk, M.D.
- Life After Life by Kate Atkinson
- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
- Today We Die a Little! by Richard Askwith
- A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
- What We Owe the Future by William MacAskill
- Discipline Is Destiny by Ryan Holiday
- The Nova Incident by Dan Moren
- How Not to Die by Michael Greger, M.D., FACLM & Gene Stone
- The Running Man by Stephen King
- 24/6 by Tiffany Shlain
- Breath by James Nestor
- The Caledonian Gambit by Dan Moren
- The Bayern Agenda by Dan Moren
- The Aleph Extraction by Dan Moren
- Money by Jacob Goldstein
- Keep the Memories, Lose the Stuff by Matt Paxton & Jordan Michael Smith
- The Nova Incident by Dan Moren
- Wiseguy by Nicholas Pileggi
- A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
- How to Change by Katy Milkman
- To Have and Have Not by Ernest Hemingway
- Wintering by Katherine May
- For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
- Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
- In God We Trust by Jean Shepherd
- Show Your Work! by Austin Kleon
- Dark Matter by Blake Crouch
- The Caledonian Gambit by Dan Moren
- Keep Going by Austin Kleon
- Recursion by Blake Crouch
- What If? by Randall Munroe
- Focus by Daniel Goleman
