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My Elaborate Ranking System:
5/5 – I talked to my friends, parents, and other random people about the book this month.
4/5 – Great read, would recommend to others to borrow/buy.
3/5 – Enjoyable read for me but not a book I’d tell people to go out and buy.
2/5 – and below… Don’t waste your time or money.

* means I’ve gifted it to people.

2021
  1. [4/5] Keeping At It: The Quest for Sound Money and Good Government – Paul A. Volcker, Christine Harper
  2. [3/5] Debt Free Forever – Gail Vaz-Oxlade
  3. [5/5] The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956 – Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
  4. [3/5] 101 Essays That Will Change the Way You Think – Brianna Wiest
  5. [4/5] Meditations – Marcus Aurelius
  6. [4/5] An Elegant Puzzle: Systems of Engineering Management – Will Larson
  7. [4/5] A World Without Email – Cal Newport
  8. [4/5] A Thousand Brains – Jeff Hawkins
  9. [3/5] Stealing Fire: The Secret Revolution in Altered States – Steven Kotler
  10. [5/5] Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies – Jared Diamond
  11. [3/5] Blockchain: The Next Everything – Stephen P. Williams
  12. [3/5] Obfuscation: A User’s Guide for Privacy and Protest  – Finn Brunton
  13. [4/5] Why Zebras Don’t Get Ulcers – Robert M. Sapolsky
2020 (45 Books)
  1. [4/5] On Emotional Intelligence – Harvard Business Review
  2. [3/5] Battling the Gods: Atheism in the Ancient World – Tim Walsh
  3. [5/5]* The Blind Watchmaker – Richard Dawkins
  4. [3/5] The Unwritten Laws of Business – W. J. King
  5. [4/5] The Psychology of Selling – Brian Tracy
  6. [5/5] Indispensable – Joe Calloway
  7. [4/5] The Masked Rider – Neil Peart
  8. [4/5] Snow Crash – Neal Stephenson
  9. [5/5] The Choice: Escaping the Past and Embracing the Possible – Edith Eva Eger
  10. [3/5] Consider Phlebas – Ian M. Banks
  11. [5/5]* Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind – Yuval Noah Harari
  12. [3/5] My Thoughts Exactly – Lily Allen
  13. [5/5] Neuromancer – William Gibson
  14. [5/5]* Flourish – Martin Seligman
  15. [3/5] The Art of Showing Up – Miguel Ruiz Jr & Heather Ash Amara
  16. [5/5] Mein Kampf: The Ford Translation – Adolph Hitler, Narrated by Michael Ford
    Not because I agree with him, but because history has been known to repeat itself. 
  17. [4/5] Break Shot: My First 21 Years – James Taylor
  18. [4/5]* Love is Not Enough – Mark Manson
  19. [5/5] The Slow Regard of Silent Things – Patrick Rothfuss
  20. [3/5] Universal Principles of Design – W. Lidwell, K. Holden, J. Butler
  21. [4/5] How to Draw – Scott Robertson
  22. [3/5] A Study in Scarlet – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
  23. [4/5] Perfectly Reasonable Deviations From The Beaten Track – Richard Feynman
  24. [4/5] The Runaway Species: How Human Creativity Remakes the World – Anthony Grant, David Eagleman
  25. [5/5] The Design of Everyday Things – Don Norman
  26. [5/5] The Great Crash of 1929 – John Kenneth Galbraith
  27. [5/5] Hellgoing – Lynn Coady
  28. [5/5] Fifteen Dogs – André Alexis
  29. [4/5] The Sentimentalists – Johanna  Skibsrud
  30. [5/5] Sum: Forty Tales From The Afterlife – David Eagleman
  31. [3/5] Runaway – Alice Munro
  32. [4/5] The Embassy of Cambodia – Zadie Smith
  33. [4/5] Memories of my Melancholy Whores – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  34. [4/5] The Room Where it Happened  – John Bolton
  35. [5/5] Good Economics for Hard Times – Abhijit V. Banerjee, Esther Duflo
  36. [5/5] Economics: The User’s Guide – Ha-Joon Chang
  37. [4/5] The Illegal – Lawrence Hill
  38. [4/5] Leap First – Seth Godin
  39. [4/5] The Botany of Desire – Michael Pollan
  40. [3/5] Finding your Element – Ken Robinson, Lou Aronica
  41. [4/5] The Wind up Bird Chronicle – Haruki Murakami
  42. [5/5] Outlander – Diana Gabaldon
  43. [2/5] Actionable Gamification – Yu-kai Chou
  44. [4/5] If You Tell – Gregg Olsen
  45. [3/5] Ready Player Two – Ernest Cline
2019 (60 books)
  1. [4/5] Deep Work – Cal Newport
  2. [4/5] If I understood you would I still have this look on my face? – Alan Alda
  3. [5/5] Fall on Your Knees – Anne-Marie McDonald
  4. [5/5] Second Homegoing – Yaa Gyasi
  5. [3/5] The Education of a Coach (Amazon) – Bill Belichick
  6. [4/5] Three Day Road – Joseph Boyden
  7. [5/5] 1Q84 – Haruki Murakami
  8. [4/5] Digital Minimalism – Cal Newport
  9. [5/5] Name of the Wind – Patrick Rothfuss
  10. [5/5] Do Not Say We Have Nothing – Madeleine Thien
  11. [4/5] Never Have Your Dog Stuffed – Alan Alda
  12. [3/5] The Ideal Team Player: How to Recognize and Cultivate the Three Essential Virtues: A Leadership Fable – Patrick M. Lencioni
  13. [5/5] Finnegans Wake – James Joyce
  14. [3/5] The Drunken Botanist – Amy Stewart
  15. [5/5] Becoming – Michelle Obama
  16. [5/5] Fluent Forever: How to Learn Any Language Fast and Never Forget It – Gabriel Wyner
  17. [3/5] Social Intelligence: The New Science of Success – Karl Albrecht
  18. [5/5] Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom – David W. Blight
  19. [2/5] #Influencer – Britanny Hennessy
  20.  [5/5] Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar- Cheryl Strayed
  21.  [3/5] Ghost Talkers – Mary Robinette Kowal
  22.  [4/5] Come as You Are: The Surprising New Science That Will Improve Your Sex Life – Emily Nagoski
  23.  [5/5] Everything is F*cked: A Book About Hope – Mark Manson
  24.  [4/5] What Makes Love Last?: How to Build Trust and Avoid Betrayal – John M. Gottman
  25.  [5/5] The State of Affairs: Rethinking Infidelity – Esther Perel
  26. [5/5] 21 lessons for the 21st Century – Yuval Noah Harari
  27. [4/5] The Personal MBA: Master the Art of Business – Josh Kaufman
  28. [3/5] Cat’s Cradle – Kurt Vonnegut
  29. [5/5] This Is The Way The World Ends – Jeff Nesbit
  30. [5/5] Trust Me I’m Lying: Confessions of a Media Manipulator – Ryan Holiday
  31. [5/5] All Marketers Are Liars: The Power of Telling Authentic Stories in a Low-Trust World – Seth Godin
  32. [5/5] Flash Forward – Robert J. Sawyer
  33. [3/5] Dangerous Personalities: An FBI Profiler Shows You How to Identify and Protect Yourself from Harmful People – Joe Navaroo, Toni Sciarra Poynter
  34. [3/5] The Unwritten Laws of Engineering – W. J. King
  35. [4/5] Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal – Mary Roach
  36. [4/5] Cheshire Crossing – Andy Weir
  37. [5/5] Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence – max Tegmark
  38. [5/5] What is Life? – Erwin Schrödinger
  39. [4/5] Scythe – Neal Shusterman
  40. [5/5] The Critique of Pure Reason – Immanuel Kant
  41. [5/5] American Gods – Neil Gahman
  42. [4/5] The Memory Police: A Novel – Yoko Ogawa
  43. [5/5] War & Peace – Volume I – Leo Tolstoi
  44. [3/5] The Hitchikers Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
  45. [5/5] Steve Jobs – Walter Isaacson
  46. [4/5] Stillness is the Key – Ryan Holiday
  47. [3/5] Bluefishing: The Art of Making Things Happen – Steve Sims
  48. [4/5] The Testaments – Margaret Atwood
  49. [5/5] Calculating God – Robert J. Sawyer
  50. [4/5] The Talent Code – Daniel Coyle
  51. [5/5] I Wrote This Because I Love You – Tim Kreider
  52. [5/5] War and Peace – Volume II – Leo Tolstoy
  53. [5/5] The Wise Man’s Fear – Patrick Rothfuss
  54. [4/5] Tribes – Seth Godin
  55. [3/5] Prediction Machines: The Simple Economics of Artificial Intelligence – Avi Goldfarb, Ajay Agrawal, Joshua Gans
  56. [5/5] Indian Horse – Richard Wagamese
  57. [5/5] So You Want to Talk About Race – Ijeoma Ouo
  58. [4/5] Reproduction – Ian Williams
  59. [3/5] The Edible Woman – Margaret Atwood
  60. [4/5] Accidental Genius – Mark Levy
2018 (74 books)
  1. [3/5] On Bowie – Rob Sheffield
  2. [4/5]* The Secret Life of Fat – Slyvia Tara
  3. [4/5] Theft by Finding (diaries 1977-2002) – David Sedaris
  4. [4/5] Drinking with Miss Dutchie – Ed Breslin
  5. [4/5] Ghostwritten – David Mitchell
  6. [3/5] The Telomere Effect (A revolutionary approach to living younger, healthier, longer) – Elizabeth Blackburn
  7. [4/5] When Breath Becomes Air – Paul Kalanithi
  8. [5/5] The Namesake – Jhumpa Lahiri
  9. [3/5] Modern Romance – Aziz Ansari
  10. [3/5] Quantum Man: Richard Feynman’s Life in Science – Lawrence M. Krauss
  11. [4/5] The Undoing Project – Michael Lewis
  12. [5/5] How Emotions Are Made – Lisa Feldman Barrett
  13. [3/5] 8 Seconds of Courage – Flo Goldberg
  14.  [4/5] Artemis – Andy Weir
  15.  [3/5] When you are engulfed in flames – David Sedaris
  16.  [4/5] Permission Marketing – Seth Godin
  17.  [2/5] The Brain Game: the seven fatal flaws of thinking – Matthew E. May
  18.  [4/5] Istanbul: a tale of three cities – Bettany Hughes
  19.  [4/5] Breakfast of Champions – Kurt Vonnegut
  20.  [5/5] Plato’s Republic – Plato
  21.   [5/5] Man’s Search for Meaning – Viktor E. Frankl
  22.   [2/5] 12 Rules for Life – Jordan Peterson
  23.   [4/5] Less – Andrew Sean Greer
  24.  [5/5] The Rise and Fall of China – Richard Baum
  25.  [5/5] Fascism: A Warning – Madeline Albright
  26.  [4/5] And Odyssey (A Father, a Son and an Epic) – Daniel Mendelsohn
  27.  [3/5] Emma – Jane Austen
  28.  [3/5] The Power of Broke (How Empty Pockets, a Tight Budget, and a Hunger for Success Can Become Your Greatest Competitive Advantage) – Daymond John, Daniel Paisner
  29.  [2/5] Capital Gaines (Smart Things I Learned Doing Stupid Stuff) – Chip Gaines
  30.  [3/5] A History of the World in 6 Glasses – Tom Standage
  31.  [5/5] The Last Lion Winston Spencer Churchill, Volume I Visions of Glory 1874-1932 – William Manchester
  32.  [3/5] Your Best Brain: The Science of Brain Improvement – John Medina
  33.  [5/5] The Children of Time – Adrian Tchaikovsky
  34.  [4/5] The Order of Time – Carlo Rovelli
  35.  [4/5] Rescued from Isis – Dimitri Bontinck
  36.  [3/5] Broad Strokes: 15 women who made art (and history) in that order – Bridget Quinn
  37.  [4/5] Childhoods End – Sir Arthur C. Clarke
  38.  [3/5] Moby Dick – Herman Melville
  39.  [1/5] Get Over Your Damn Self: The no bs blueprint to building a life changing business – Romi Neustadt
  40.  [4/5] Conspiracy: Peter Thiel, Hulk Hogan, Gawker, and the anatomy of intrigue – Ryan Holiday
  41.  [4/5] Water for Elephants – Sara Gruen
  42.  [4/5] A Higher Loyalty – James Comey
  43.  [4/5] The Art of War – Sun Tzu
  44.  [4/5] Endurance – Scott Kelly
  45.  [5/5] Elon Musk – Tesla, Space X and the quest for a fantastic future – Ashlee Vance
  46.  [3/5] The Story of Human Language – John McWhorter
  47.  [4/5] The Alice Network – Kate Quinn
  48.  [4/5] Lost Connections: Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression – Johan Hari
  49.  [4/5] 10% Happier – Dan Harris
  50.  [5/5] Gravity’s Engines – Caleb Scharf
  51.  [4/5] The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Other Jazz Tales – F. Scott Fitzgerald
  52.  [4/5] Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck
  53.  [3/5] The Book of Five Rings – Miyamoto Musashi
  54.  [3/5] Culinary Reactions: The Everyday Chemistry of Cooking – Simon Quellen Field
  55.  [3/5] The Pearl – John Steinbeck
  56.  [4/5] What If? Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions – Randall Munroe
  57.  [4/5] Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
  58.  [4/5] Milk and Honey – Rupi Kaur
  59.  [4/5] The Sun and Her Flowers – Rupi Kaur
  60.  [5/5] The Book Thief – Markus Zusak
  61.  [4/5] How to Die: An Ancient Guide to the End of Life (Seneca)- James S. Romm
  62.  [4/5] Free Will – Sam Harris
  63.  [4/5] Seven Brief Lessons on Physics – Carlo Rovelli
  64.  [4/5]  The Hound of the Baskervilles – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
  65.  [5/5]  Never Split the Difference: Negotiate As If Your Life Depended On It – Chris Voss
  66.  [3/5] Lady Oracle – Margaret Atwood
  67.  [5/5] Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win – Jocko Willink and Leif Babin
  68.  [2/5] Fail Until You Don’t – Fight. Grind Repeat – Bobby Bones
  69.  [4/5] Accessory to War – Neil Tyson and Avis Lang
  70.  [5/5] I am Malala – Malala Yousafzai, Christina Lamb
  71.  [4/5] The 48 Laws of Power – Robert Greene
  72.  [4/5] A Clockwork Orange – Anthony Burgess
  73.  [4/5] Mastery – Robert Greene
  74.  [3/5] The Art of Seduction: An Indispensable Prime on the Ultimate Form of Power – Robert Greene

2017 (23)

  1. [5/5] The Alchemist – Paulo Cuello
  2. [3/5] Grendel – John Gardner
  3. [4/5] The Art of Learning – Josh Waitzkin
  4. [4/5] The Things They Carried – Tim O’Brien
  5. [5/5] The Denial of Death – Ernest Becker
  6. [3/5] A Wrinkle in Time – Madeleine L’Engle
  7. [3/5] Debriefing the President – The Interrogation of Saddam Hussein – John Nixon
  8. [3/5] The Giver – Lois Lowry
  9. [3/5] Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel – Rolf Potts
  10. [5/5] What is America: A Short History of the New World Order – Ronald Wright
  11. [5/5] Strategy: A History – Lawrence Freedman
  12. [4/5] The Butterfly Effect – Jon Ronson
  13. [5/5] The Death of Expertise – Tom Nichols
  14. [3/5] The Blind Assassin – Margaret Atwood
  15. [5/5] My Name is Red – Orhan Pamuk
  16. [4/5] Mating in Captivity – Esther Perel
  17. [5/5] Snowball – Warren Buffet and the Business of Life – Alice Schroeder
  18. [3/5] The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye – David Lagercrantz
  19. [4/5] Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll
  20. [4/5] Through the Looking Glass – Lewis Carroll
  21. [4/5] Seinfeldia – Jennifer Keishin Armstrong
  22. [4/5] The Handmaids Tale – Margaret Atwood
  23. [5/5] The Book of Negroes – Lawrence Hill

2016 (52)

  1. [3/5] One More Thing – Stories and Other Stories – B.J. Novak
  2. [3/5] 13 Hours – A Firsthand Account of What Really Happened in Benghazi – Mitchell Zuckoff
  3. [3/5] The Brain’s Way of Healing – Remarkable Discoveries and Recoveries from the Frontiers of Neuroplasticity – Norman Doidge, M.D.
  4. [4/5] Creativity, Inc. – Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration – Ed Catmull
  5. [4/5] Dark Matter and the Dinosaurs – The Astounding Interconnectedness of the Universe – Lisa Randall
  6. [3/5] Dreamers and Deceivers -True and Untold Stories of the Heroes and Villains Who Made America – Glenn Beck
  7. [4/5] The First 90 Days – Michael Watkins
  8. [3/5] Getting More – How You Can Negotiate to Succeed in Work and Life – Stuart Diamond
  9. [4/5] The Grand Design – Stephen Hawking
  10. [3/5] The Hidden Reality – Parallel Universes and the Deep Laws of the Cosmos – Brian Greene
  11. [3/5] Insanely Simple – The Obsession that Drives Apple’s Success – Ken Segall
  12. [3/5] The Investment Answer – Learn to Manage Your Money & Protect Your Financial Future – Daniel C. Goldie, CFA, CFP
  13. [4/5] The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up – The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing – Marie Kondo
  14. [3/5] Life’s Greatest Secret – The Race to Crack the Genetic Code – Matthew Cobb
  15. [3/5] Linchpin – Are You Indispensable? – Seth Godin
  16. [1/5] Mastering the Art of Quitting – Why It Matters in Life, Love, and Work – Peg Streep
  17. [3/5] Moonwalking with Einstein – the Art and Science of Remembering Everything – Joshua Foer
  18. [3/5] No Excuses – Growing Up Deaf and Achieving My Super Bowl Dreams – Marcus Brotherton
  19. [3/5] One Click – Jeff Bezos and the Rise of Amazon.com – Richard L. Brandt
  20. [4/5] The Pentagon’s Brain – An Uncensored History of DARPA, America’s Top-Secret Military Research Agency – Annie Jacobsen
  21. [4/5] Quantum – Einstein, Bohr, and the Great Debate about the Nature of Reality – Manjit Kumar
  22. [2/5] The Rational Optimist – How Prosperity Evolves – Matt Ridley
  23. [2/5] The Road to Character – David Brooks
  24. [1/5] Screw Business as Usual – Richard Branson
  25. [3/5] Where Good Ideas Come From – Steven Johnson
  26. [3/5] Tuesdays with Morrie: 10th Anniversary Edition – an old man, a young man, and life’s greatest lesson – Mitch Albom
  27. [3/5] Daily Rituals: How Artists Work – Mason Currey
  28. [4/5] The Tao of Seneca – Practical Letters from a Stoic Master – Volume 1 – Seneca
  29. [4/5] The Tao of Seneca – Practical Letters from a Stoic Master – Volume 2 – Seneca
  30. [3/5] On Intelligence – Jeff Hawkins, Sandra Blakeslee
  31. [3/5] The Clockwork Universe –  Isaac Newton, The Royal Society, and the Birth of the Modern World – Edward Dolnick
  32. [4/5] The Obstacle Is the Way –  The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph – Ryan Holiday
  33. [3/5] Ego Is the Enemy – Ryan Holiday
  34. [5/5] Ready Player One – Ernest Cline
  35. [3/5] Better and Faster – The Proven Path to Unstoppable Ideas – Jeremy Gutsche
  36. [3/5] Waking Up – A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion – Sam Harris
  37. [5/5] Seven Eves – Neal Stephenson
  38. [4/5] Oryx and Crake – MaddAddam Trilogy Book 1 – Margaret Atwood
  39. [4/5] I Contain Multitudes – The Microbes Within Us and the Grander View of Life – Ed Yong
  40. [2/5] The Only Pirate at the Party – Lindsey Sterling
  41. [5/5] Armada – Ernest Cline
  42. [3/5] The Lost Symbol – Robert Langdon Series Book 3 – Dan Brown
  43. [4/5] Brain Maker – The Power of Gut Microbes to Heal and Protect Your Brain  for Life –  David Perlmutter, Kristin Loberg
  44. [3/5] The Year of the Flood – Margaret Atwood
  45. [3/5] MaddAddam – Margaret Atwood
  46. [1/5] The Gray Rhino – How to Recognize and Act on the Obvious Dangers We Ignore – Michele Wucker
  47. [5/5]* The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck – Mark Manson
  48. [5/5] Aurora – Kim Stanley Robinson
  49. [4/5] The Girl with the Lower Back Tatoo – Amy Schumer
  50. [4/5] The Badass Librarians of Timbuktu – Joshua Hammer
  51. [3/5] Sex in the Museum – Sarah Forbes
  52. [3/5] The Chemist – Stephanie Meyer
2015 (10)
  1. [4/5] Crucial Conversations – Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High, 2nd Ed. – Kerry Patterson, et al.
  2. [5/5]* The Intelligent Investor – The Definitive Book on Value Investing  – Benjamin Graham
  3. [3/5] We Learn Nothing – Essays – Tim Kreider
  4. [3/5] The Girl on The Train – Paula Hawkins
  5. [5/5]* The Martian – Andy Weir
  6. [4/5] The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo – Stieg Larson
  7. [3/5] The Girl who Played with Fire – Stieg Larson
  8. [3/5] The Girl who Kicked the Hornets Nest – Stieg Larson
  9. [3/5] The Girl in the Spiders Web – David Lagercrantz
  10. [3/5] The Chimes  – Charles Dickens