Here
are my ratings for the 52 books I read in the past 12 months. In case
you've forgotten, the scale goes like this: 1 - pass, 2 - some good some bad, 3
- recommended, 4 - can't stop raving about it, 5 - fundamentally changed my
worldview.
Please
weigh in with recommendations. Especially seeking to diversify into more
fiction and more non-white and female authors. Also trying to sprinkle in
longer reads and classics (I've italicized the really hefty books from 2025). Tell me your must-reads!
Divine Comedy: Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso (Alighieri) 4
Tale
of Genji: The Authentic First Translation of the World’s Earliest Novel
(Shikibu) 3
The
Aeneid (Vergil) 3
The
Complete Poetry (Angelou) 3
Evicted:
Poverty and Profit in the American City (Desmond) 4
Native
Nations: A Millennium in North America (DuVal) 4
Dante:
A Life (Barbero) 3
The
Twelve Tribes of Hattie (Mathis) 3
Collected Stories of Willa Cather (Cather) 2
Covenant
of Water (Verghese) 4
Hard Is Not the Same Thing as Bad: The Perspective Shift That Could Completely Change the Way You Mother (Halberstadt) 3
The Saint of Bright Doors (Chandrasekera) 3
Foreign
Bodies: Pandemics, Vaccines, and the Health of Nations (Schama) 3
Traffic:
Genius, Rivalry, and Delusion in the Billion-Dollar Race to Go Viral (Smith) 3
Palaces
for the People: How Social Infrastructure Can Help Fight Inequality,
Polarization, and the Decline of Civic Life (Klinenberg) 4
Tools
Of Titans: The Tactics, Routines, and Habits of Billionaires, Icons, and
World-Class Performers (Ferriss) 4
The
Phenomenon: Pressure, the Yips, and the Pitch that Changed My Life (Ankiel) 4
Moonwalking
with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything (Foer) 4
Water
Dancer (Coates) 4
We Learn Nothing: Essays and Cartoons (Kreider) 4
Pachinko
(Lee) 4
The
Art of Asking: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Let People Help (Palmer) 3
Bleak
House (Dickens) 3
Zig (Ziglar) 3
City
of God (Augustine) 4
Mindset:
The New Psychology of Success (Dweck) 4
Determined:
A Science of Life without Free Will (Sapolsky) 4
Blue
Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make the Competition
Irrelevant (Kim) 3
Daily Rituals: How Artists Work (Currey) 3
Passage to India (Forster) 3
Democracy
Awakening: Notes on the State of America (Richardson) 4
Billions
and Billions: Thoughts on Life and Death at the Brink of the Millennium (Sagan)
4
Roots:
The Saga of an American Family (Haley) 5
Driving
the Green Book: A Road Trip Through the Living History of Black Resistance (Hall)
4
Opinions
(Gay) 3
Infinite
Jest (Wallace) 3
Long
Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela (Mandela) 4
Democracy
in America (de Tocqueville) 4
Last Team Standing: How the Steelers and the Eagles—"The Steagles"—Saved Pro Football During World War II (Algeo) 4
Harry
Truman's Excellent Adventure: The True Story of a Great American Road Trip (Algeo)
4
His
Very Best: Jimmy Carter, a Life (Alter) 4
The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store (McBride) 3
Count
of Monte Cristo (Dumas) 4
Abundance
(Klein, Thompson) 4
The
President Is a Sick Man: Wherein the Supposedly Virtuous Grover Cleveland
Survives a Secret Surgery at Sea and Vilifies the Courageous Newspaperman Who
Dared Expose the Truth (Algeo) 4
I
Wear the Black Hat: Grappling with Villains (Real and Imagined) (Klosterman) 3
Finding
the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Fores (Simard) 3
The
Infinite Game (Sinek) 3
Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life (Taleb) 3
Sapiens:
A Brief History of Humankind (Harari) 4
Rationality:
What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters (Pinker) 3
The
Minimalist Home: A Room-by-Room Guide to a Decluttered, Refocused Life (Becker)
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