Reading

I'm aiming to read at least 18 books this year.

🎧 = audiobook

2025
La Florida Kevin Kokomoor 09-01-2025 ★★★★
Meditations for Mortals Oliver Burkeman 04-27-2025 ★★★
Careless People Sarah Wynn-Williams 04-21-2025 ★★★★
A Wizard of Earthsea Ursula K. Le Guin 03-01-2025 ★★★★
The Blue Machine: How the Ocean Shapes Our World Helen Czerski 02-25-2025 ★★
Project Hail Mary 🎧 Andy Weir 01-29-2025 ★★★
Seven Myths of the Spanish Conquest Matthew Restall 01-08-2025 ★★★★

2024
Steve Jobs Walter Isaacson 12-10-2024 ★★★★★
The Invention of Nature Andrea Wulf 09-12-2024 ★★★
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry Neil deGrasse Tyson 07-07-2024 ★★
Blind Ambition: The White House Years John W. Dean 06-11-2024 ★★★★
Entangled Life Merlin Sheldrake 05-14-2024 ★★★★
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King J.R.R. Tolkien 04-30-2024 ★★★★★
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers J.R.R. Tolkien 03-16-2024 ★★★★
Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals Oliver Burkeman 03-06-2023 ★★★★★
The Wayfinders Wade Davis 02-09-2024 ★★★
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring J.R.R. Tolkien 01-07-2024 ★★★★

2023
Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage Alfred Lansing 12-10-2023 ★★★
The Sirens of Titan Kurt Vonnegut 12-07-2023 ★★★
The Anthropocene Reviewed John Green 11-23-2023 ★★★★
The Hobbit J.R.R. Tolkien 10-07-2023 ★★★★
The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald 09-13-2023 ★★★
Cannery Row John Steinbeck 08-31-2023 ★★★
American Prometheus Kai Bird 08-26-2023 ★★★★
Hallucinations Oliver Sacks 07-31-2023 ★★
The Alchemist Paulo Coelho 07-06-2023 ★★★
Children of Dune Frank Herbert 06-26-2023 ★★★★
Dune Messiah Frank Herbert 06-20-2023 ★★
East of Eden John Steinbeck 06-16-2023 ★★★★★
Stolen Focus Johann Kari 06-15-2023 ★★★
The Body Bill Bryson 05-09-2023 ★★★
The Hidden Life of Trees Peter Wohlleben 04-21-2023 ★★
A People's History of the United States Howard Zinn 03-30-2023 ★★★★
Into the Wild Jon Krakauer 02-24-2023 ★★★★
Dune Frank Herbert 02-12-2023 ★★★★★
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus Charles C. Mann 02-05-2023 ★★★

Meditations for Mortals

Selected Clippings

"As soon as any experience can be completely controlled, it feels cold and dead; a work of art you fully understand or a person whose behavior you can predict with total accuracy is no fun at all."

Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals

Selected Clippings

"Time is a river that sweeps me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger which destroys me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire which consumes me, but I am the fire."

The Sirens of Titan

Selected Clippings

"Unk, the big trouble with dumb bastards is that they are too dumb to believe there is such a thing as being smart."

"It took us that long to realize that a purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved."

The Anthropocene Reviewed

Selected Clippings

"But until then: What an astonishment to breathe on this breathing planet. What a blessing to be Earth loving Earth."

"'PAY ATTENTION TO WHAT YOU PAY ATTENTION TO. That’s pretty much all the info u need.' My attention had become so fractured, and my world had become so loud, that I wasn’t paying attention to what I was paying attention to."

The Hobbit

Selected Clippings

“'I will answer the second question first,' he said, '—but bless me! this is a splendid place for smoke rings!'”