Recently read
Short reviews of books I’ve read recently. More focused on “what this book meant to me” than “is this book good?”
My favorites
Books I will read again and again for years to come.
Benjamin Franklin
Biography
Walter Isaacson
Man's Search for Meaning
Biography
Viktor E. Frankl
The Power Broker
Biography
Robert A. Caro
The Lord of the Rings
Fantasy
J. R. R. Tolkien
Crime and Punishment
Fiction
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Heart of Darkness
Fiction
Joseph Conrad
Labyrinths
Fiction
Jorge Luis Borges
The Complete Calvin and Hobbes
Fiction
Bill Watterson
Musashi
Fiction
Eiji Yoshikawa
The Brothers Karamazov
Fiction
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Making of the Atomic Bomb
History
Richard Rhodes
Letters from a Stoic
Non-fiction
Seneca
Zero to One
Non-fiction
Peter Thiel
The Design of Everyday Things
Non-fiction
Donald A. Norman
Meditations
Non-fiction
Marcus Aurelius
The Power of Myth
Non-fiction
Joseph Campbell
The Courage to Be Disliked
Non-fiction
Ichiro Kishimi
Brave New World
ScienceFiction
Aldous Huxley
The Feynman Lectures on Physics Vol. I
Science
Richard P. Feynman