Reading

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.

  • 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.