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, 2021, and 2022 as well as an index of my reading notes.
- What You Are Looking For Is in the Library by Michiko Aoyama.
- Narcissus and Goldmund by Hermann Hesse.
- Diaspora by Greg Egan.
- Memoirs of Hadrian by Marguerite Yourcenar.
- The School of Life: An Emotional Education by Alain de Botton.
- The End of the Third Age by J.R.R. Tolkien.
- The War of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien.
- A Guide to the Good Life by William B. Irvine.
- Lost Horizon by James Hilton.
- On the Shortness of Life by Seneca.
- Buddhism Without Beliefs by Stephen Batchelor.
- The Library: A Fragile History by Andrew Pettegree and Arthur der Weduwen.
- A Croft in the Hills by Katharine Stewart.
- Strange News from Another Star by Hermann Hesse.
- The Private Library by Reid Byers.
- The Treason of Isengard by J.R.R. Tolkien.
- The Return of the Shadow by J.R.R. Tolkien.
- The Alchemy of Air by Thomas Hager.
- The Time Travelling Economist by Charlie Robertson.
- The Creative Act by Rick Rubin.
- The Book of Eels by Patrik Svensson.
- The Half Known Life by Pico Iyer.
- The Return of the King by J.R.R. Tolkien.
- The Two Towers by J.R.R. Tolkien.
- The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien.
- The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien.
- Going Solo by Roald Dahl.
- Boy by Roald Dahl.
- Danny, the Champion of the World by Roald Dahl.
- Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator by Roald Dahl.
- Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl.
- James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl.
- The BFG by Roald Dahl.
- Black Box Thinking by Matthew Syed.
- Night of the Grizzlies by Jack Olsen.
- Tales of the North by Jack London.
- White Fang by Jack London.
- The Daily Stoic by Ryan Holiday.