Books

2022 Books -

1. Empire Falls - 9/10
2. Only the Paranoid Survive - 8/10
3. The Dream Machine - 7/10
4. Ender’s Game
5. Speaker for the Dead
6. Xenocide
7. Children of the Mind
8. Ender in Exile
9. Ender’s Shadow
10. Shadow of the Hegemon
11. Shadow Puppets
12. Shadow of the Giant
13. Pachinko
14. Writing that works
15. The Snowball
16. Buffetology
17. Upheaval
18. The End is Always Near
19. One Buck at a Time
20. Cryptonomicon
21. Nightfall
22. Nemesis
23. Where the Crawdads Sing
24. Remains of the Day
25. The Signal and the Noise
26. Invent and Wander
27. Made in Japan
28. McIlhenny’s Gold
29. Ride of a lifetime
30. The War of the Worlds
31. Shadows in Flight
32. So I stopped keeping track of books I read after Shadows in Flight. I’ll be restarting the booklist in 2023 and also reorganizing this page into recommendations rather than a chronological ordering of books I’ve read.

2021 Book List

Books I’ve read so far -

• Art of Political Science - 5/10
• Circe - 8/10
• Permanent Record - 5/10
• Crime and Punishment - 8/10
• Killers of the Flower Moon - 5/10
• David and Goliath - 3/10
• Dune Messiah - 5/10
• The Autobiography of Malcolm X - 9/10
• Flowers for Algernon - 9/10
• The Kite Runner - 5/10
• The Everything Store - 6/10
• All the Light we Cannot See - 8/10
• Made in America - 7/10
• Memos from the Chairman - 5/10
• A Gentleman in Moscow - 7/10
• Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? - 5/10
• Open: An Autobiography - 9/10
• Barbarians at the Gate - 8/10
• Snow Crash - 4/10
• Catcher in the Rye - 7/10
• To Kill a Mockingbird - 9/10
• The Perfect Store - 8/10
• Something Incredibly Wonderful Happens - 8/10
• Out of Mao’s Shadow - 8/10
• No Country for Old Men - 7/10
• The Birth of Plenty - 8/10
• The Road - 7/10
• Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation - 6/10
• Softwar - 5/10
• Foundation - 10/10
• Foundation and Empire - 10/10
• Second Foundation - 10/10
• King Leopold’s Ghost - 6/10
• Seven Brief Lessons on Physics - 5/10
• What it Takes: Lessons in the Pursuit of Excellence - 6/10
• Hard Landing - 8/10
• With the Old Breed - 8/10
• Strong Towns - 7/10
• The Gunslinger - 6/10
• Path to Power - 10/10
• Means of Ascent - 10/10
• Man’s Search for Meaning - 6/10
• Moonglow - 5/10
• Kochland - 8/10
• The Dark Forest - 10/10
• Death’s End - 10/10
• Strangers in Ther Own Land - 7/10
• Becoming Steve Jobs - 7/10
• Pelosi - 8/10
• Master of the Senate - 9/10
• Passage of Power - 10/10
• Neuromancer - 6/10
• Private Empire - 8/10
• In Harm’s Way - 7/10
• Secrets of Sand Hill Road - 7/10
• Built from Scratch - 8/10
• Children of Dune - 8/10
• Tribes - 5/10
• Working - 9/10
• Foundation’s Edge - 10/10
• When Genius Fails - 6/10
• Creativity, Inc - 5/10
• The Outlaw Sea - 6/10
• The Gods Themselves - 9/10