This is a running list of the books I’ve read this year. Anything I near-universally recommend is marked with a star and I linked to any reading notes I published.
You can also find lists from 2018, 2019, 2020, and 2021 as well as an index of my reading notes.
- Building a Second Brain by Tiago Forte.
- Red Pill by Hari Kunzru.
- LaserWriter II by Tamara Shopsin.
- Ajax Penumbra by Robin Sloan.
- When We Cease to Understand the World by Benjamín Labatut.
- The Monkey Wrench Gang by Edward Abbey.
- Encircling 3: Aftermath by Carl Frode Tiller.
- The Finishers by Aurélien Delfosse and Alexis Berg.
- The Invention of Nature by Andrea Wulf. ★
- Flower Diary by Molly Peacock.
- Encircling 2: Origins by Carl Frode Tiller.
- The Wisdom of Insecurity by Alan Watts.
- In Pursuit of Silence by George Prochnik.
- Encircling by Carl Frode Tiller.
- For Fukui’s Sake by Sam Baldwin.
- Free Speech by Jacob Mchangama.
- Nine Nasty Words by John McWhorter.
- The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson. ★
- Memoirs of Hadrian by Marguerite Yourcenar.
- The Last Emperor of Mexico by Edward Shawcross.
- Stolen Focus by Johann Hari.
- Making Numbers Count by Chip Heath and Karla Starr. ★
- Dune by Frank Herbert.
- Principles for Dealing with The Changing World Order by Ray Dalio.
- Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke.