βThe man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who canβt read themβ
β Mark Twain
2020
Lovecraft Country
Matt Ruff
(In Progress)
Code Complete
Steve McConnell
(In Progress)
Clean Code
Robert C. Martin
Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together In The Cafeteria
Beverly Daniel Tatum, PhD
The Swerve
Stephen Greenblatt
(In Progress)
Complete Guide To Money
Dave Ramsey
(In Progress)
The Sand Sea
Michael McClellan
The Mouse and His Child
Russell Hoban
Even In Our Darkness
Jack Deere
(Unfinished)
The Second Mountain
David Brooks
Growing Up Brave
Donna B. Pincus, PhD
Wild
Cheryl Strayed
2019
The Wild Robot
Peter Brown
Going Clear
Lawrence Wright
(Unfinished)
Stillness Is The Key
Ryan Holiday
Brief Answers to the Big Questions
Stephen Hawking
Codependent No More
Melody Beattie
Full Catastrophe Living
Jon Kabat-Zinn, PH.D.
Eloquent Javascript
Marijn Haverbeke
(Unfinished)
The Prophet
Kahlil Gibran
Hatchet
Gary Paulsen
Ego Is the Enemy
Ryan Holiday
The Nordic Theory of Everything
Anu Partanen
Just Sit
Sukey Novogratz
The Obstacle is the Way
Ryan Holiday
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Babbitt
Sinclair Lewis
(Unfinished)
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck
Mark Manson
Ghostopolis
Doug TenNapel
Paddle Your Own Canoe
Nick Offerman
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Man's Search for Meaning
Victor E. Frankl
Meditations
Marcus Aurelius
The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up
Marie Kondo
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The Dharma Bums
Jack Kerouac
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The Jungle
Upton Sinclair
Believe It
Nick Foles
Born To Run
Christopher McDougall
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The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald
2018
Into Thin Air
Jon Krakauer
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Treasure Island
Robert Louis Stevenson
The 5 Love Languages
Gary Chapman
7 Habits of Highly Effective People
Stephen R. Covey
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Deep Work
Cal Newport
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A Wizard of Earthsea
Ursula K. LeGuin
2017
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Slaughterhouse-Five
Kurt Vonnegut
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Odd and the Frost Giants
Neil Gaiman
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A Conferacy of Dunces
John Kennedy Toole
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Elric of Melnibone
Michael Moorcock
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The Swiss Family Robinson
Johann David Weiss
United
Corey Booker
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Unbroken
Laura Hillenbrand
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The Island of Dr. Moreau
H. G. Wells
Strangers in Their Own Land
Arlie Russell Hochschild
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The Last Lecture
Randy Pausch
The Slow Regard of Silent Things
Patrick Rothfuss
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Lincoln in the Bardo
George Saunders
American War
Omar El Akkad
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The Maze Runner
James Dashner
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Crime and Punishment
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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The Revenant
Michael Punke
What If?
Randall Munroe
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
C. S. Lewis
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Salem's Lot
Stephen King
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Dead Wake
Erik Larson
Quiet
Susan Cain
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The Great Hunt
Robert Jordan
Moonwalking with Einstein
Joshua Foer
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The Graveyard Book
Neil Gaiman
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How to Talk So Teens Will Listen
Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish
Credit where credit is due, I totally ripped off this pageβs idea and design from Dave Rupert