Bookshelf

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