Recently read
Short notes on books I’ve read recently. More focused on “what this book meant to me” than “is this book good?”
Napoleon by Andrew Roberts
★★★★★
April 4, 2025
A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
★★★
May 10, 2024
The Guns at Last Light by Rick Atkinson
★★★★★
March 7, 2024
Barbarian Days by William Finnegan
★★★
August 9, 2022
Skunk Works by Ben R. Rich
★★★★★
May 24, 2022
The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
★★★★★
January 31, 2022
The Wisdom of Insecurity by Alan Watts
★★★★
July 19, 2021
Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! by Richard Feynman
★★★★
March 11, 2021
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William Shirer
★★★★
January 4, 2021
My favorites
Books I will read again and again for years to come.
The Power Broker
Biography
Robert A. Caro
Man's Search for Meaning
Biography
Viktor E. Frankl
Benjamin Franklin
Biography
Walter Isaacson
The Lord of the Rings
Fantasy
J. R. R. Tolkien
The Complete Calvin and Hobbes
Fiction
Bill Watterson
Musashi
Fiction
Eiji Yoshikawa
Crime and Punishment
Fiction
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Brothers Karamazov
Fiction
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Iliad
Fiction
Homer (trans. Peter Green)
Labyrinths
Fiction
Jorge Luis Borges
Heart of Darkness
Fiction
Joseph Conrad
The Making of the Atomic Bomb
History
Richard Rhodes
The Design of Everyday Things
Non-fiction
Donald A. Norman
The Courage to Be Disliked
Non-fiction
Ichiro Kishimi
The Power of Myth
Non-fiction
Joseph Campbell
Meditations
Non-fiction
Marcus Aurelius
Zero to One
Non-fiction
Peter Thiel
Letters from a Stoic
Non-fiction
Seneca
Brave New World
ScienceFiction
Aldous Huxley
The Feynman Lectures on Physics Vol. I
Science
Richard P. Feynman
The Feynman Lectures on Physics Vol. II
Science
Richard P. Feynman