📚 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