After college, I wanted to resume reading for pleasure and track the books I read. I created a Goodreads account, which was an okay experience, but I also found myself organizing my reading lists manually. Below is most of what I’ve read since college, sorted by the author’s last name. A handful are childhood re-reads - though not Harry Potter, which I first read in 2022. I’m still not over it.

First, here are some notable mentions - books that have left a lasting impact on me:

• The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus
• The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
• Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World by René Girard
• Gödel, Escher, Bach by Douglas Hofstadter
• The Meritocracy Trap by Daniel Markovits
• Deep Work by Cal Newport
• The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch
• Discrimination and Disparities by Thomas Sowell
• The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
• Zero to One by Peter Thiel
• It's Kind of a Funny Story by Ned Vizzini

• Why Nations Fail by Daron Acemoglu & James Robinson
• The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
• The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom
• None Dare Call It Conspiracy by Gary Allen
• The Case for God by Karen Armstrong
• Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
• Simulacra and Simulation by Jean Baudrillard
• The European Philosophers from Descartes to Nietzsche by Monroe Beardsley
• The Denial of Death by Ernest Becker
• Seize the Day by Saul Bellow
• The Devil's Delusion by David Berlinski
• Against Empathy by Paul Bloom
• The Secret History of the World by Mark Booth
• The Admirals by Walter Borneman
• Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
• Coming Home by Lauren Brooke
• Angels & Demons by Dan Brown
• The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
• The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown
• Ordinary Men by Christopher Browning
• To Reign in Hell by Steven Brust
• A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
• The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
• Angel: How to Invest in Technology Startups by Jason Calacanis
• The Hero with a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell
• The Power of Myth by Joseph Campbell
• Reflections on the Art of Living by Joseph Campbell
• The Fall by Albert Camus
• Lyrical and Critical Essays by Albert Camus
• The Stranger by Albert Camus
• In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
• The Big Picture by Sean Carroll
• What We Talk About When We Talk About Love by Raymond Carver
• Where I'm Calling From by Raymond Carver
• The Ideas of René Girard by David Cayley
• Crazy Love by Francis Chan
• The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
• Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang
• Necessary Illusions by Noam Chomsky
• The Chomsky-Foucault Debate by Noam Chomsky & Michel Foucault
• And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
• The Hunt for Red October by Tom Clancy
• Atomic Habits by James Clear
• Ghost Wars by Steve Coll
• A Most Incomprehensible Thing by Peter Collier
• Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
• In Pursuit of the Traveling Salesman by William Cook
• Introduction to Algorithms by Thomas Cormen, Charles Leiserson, Ronald Rivest & Clifford Stein
• What Is Mathematics? by Richard Courant & Herbert Robbins
• No Longer Human by Osamu Dazai
• The Mind's I by Daniel Dennett & Douglas Hofstadter
• The Beginning of Infinity by David Deutsch
• The Challenger Sale by Matthew Dixon & Brent Adamson
• The Challenger Customer by Matthew Dixon & Brent Adamson
• Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
• Demons by Fyodor Dostoevsky
• Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky
• Mindhunter by John Douglas & Mark Olshaker
• Journey Through Genius by William Dunham
• Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco
• The Creation of Consciousness by Edward Edinger
• American Psycho by Bret Ellis
• The Number Devil by Hans Magnus Enzensberger
• Hacking: The Art of Exploitation by Jon Erickson
• Survival of the Prettiest by Nancy Etcoff
• Lost Christianities by Bart Ehrman
• As a Man Thinketh by Allen Evans
• The House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer
• The Square and the Tower by Niall Ferguson
• The Love of the Last Tycoon by Scott Fitzgerald
• Natural Goodness by Philippa Foot
• Discipline and Punish by Michel Foucault
• What If We Were Somewhere Else by Wendy Fox
• Franklin's Autobiography by Benjamin Franklin
• Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl
• Copenhagen by Michael Frayn
• Sophie's World by Jostein Gaarder
• A Billion Wicked Thoughts by Sai Gaddam
• The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
• One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Márquez
• The Ambidextrous Universe by Martin Gardner
• I See Satan Fall Like Lightning by René Girard
• The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell
• Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell
• A Man of Misconceptions by John Glassie
• Chaos: Making a New Science by James Gleick
• Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman by James Gleick
• The Information by James Gleick
• The Autobiography of Goethe by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
• Can't Hurt Me by David Goggins
• Never Finished by David Goggins
• Tied In: The Business, History and Craft of Media Tie-In Writing by Lee Goldberg
• Revolutions: A Very Short Introduction by Jack Goldstone
• How Rome Fell by Adrian Goldsworthy
• Bullshit Jobs by David Graeber
• The History of Philosophy by Anthony Grayling
• The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
• Quantum Physics and Ultimate Reality by Michael Green
• The 48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene
• After by Bruce Greyson
• The Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium by Martin Gurri
• Found by Margaret Haddix
• The Alchemy of Air by Thomas Hager
• The Righteous Mind by Jonathan Haidt
• Work by Thich Nhat Hanh
• Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari
• A Mathematician's Apology by Godfrey Hardy
• Making Sense by Sam Harris
• Waking Up by Sam Harris
• A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking
• The Theory of Everything by Stephen Hawking
• Evolution of Desire: A Life of René Girard by Cynthia Haven
• We Are All the Same in the Dark by Julia Heaberlin
• The Bell Curve by Richard Herrnstein & Charles Murray
• Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
• SilverFin by Charlie Higson
• Mr. Putin: Operative in the Kremlin by Fiona Hill & Clifford Gaddy
• The Outsiders by Susan Hinton
• Arguably: Essays by Christopher Hitchens
• Letters to a Young Contrarian by Christopher Hitchens
• The Four Horsemen by Christopher Hitchens, Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris & Daniel Dennett
• The Armageddon Conspiracy by Mike Hockney
• The Billion Dollar Spy by David Hoffman
• Stillness Is the Key by Ryan Holiday
• In Praise of Slowness by Carl Honore
• Existential Physics by Sabine Hossenfelder
• Too Big For a Single Mind by Tobias Hürter
• Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
• Agents of Innocence by David Ignatius
• Operation Napoleon by Arnaldur Indriðason
• Leonardo da Vinci by Walter Isaacson
• Company of One by Paul Jarvis
• The Orphan Master's Son by Adam Johnson
• The Eighth Day of Creation by Horace Judson
• The Essential Jung by Carl Jung
• Man and His Symbols by Carl Jung
• Memories, Dreams, Reflections by Carl Jung
• Modern Man in Search of a Soul by Carl Jung
• Atom and Archetype by Carl Jung & Wolfgang Pauli
• Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
• The Future of the Mind by Michio Kaku
• The God Equation by Michio Kaku
• Physics of the Impossible by Michio Kaku
• The Trial by Franz Kafka
• When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi
• Overload by Erin Kelly & Phyllis Moen
• It by Stephen King
• On Writing by Stephen King
• The Stand by Stephen King
• Rich Dad, Poor Dad by Robert Kiyosaki
• No Logo by Naomi Klein
• Corruptible by Brian Klaas
• Secrets of Sand Hill Road by Scott Kupor
• Rocket Men by Robert Kurson
• Not-God: A History of Alcoholics Anonymous by Ernest Kurtz
• Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
• The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
• To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
• Freakonomics by Steven Levitt & Stephen Dubner
• A Madman Dreams of Turing Machines by Janna Levin
• Black Hole Survival Guide by Janna Levin
• Mere Christianity by CS Lewis
• The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by CS Lewis
• A Thousand Years of Good Prayers by Yiyun Li
• Models of the Mind by Grace Lindsay
• The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu
• Buffett: The Making of an American Capitalist by Roger Lowenstein
• The Giver by Lois Lowry
• Hidden Talents by David Lubar
• True Talents by David Lubar
• Quadrivium: The Four Classical Liberal Arts of Number, Geometry, Music, & Cosmology by Miranda Lundy, Anthony Ashton, Jason Martineau, Daud Sutton
• Lone Survivor by Marcus Luttrell
• One Up On Wall Street by Peter Lynch
• The Spy and the Traitor by Ben Macintyre
• Miramar by Naguib Mahfouz
• Life of Pi by Yann Martel
• Sizing up Consciousness by Marcello Massimini & Giulio Tononi
• Born to Run by Christopher McDougall
• Born to Run 2 by Christopher McDougall
• Sea Stories by William McRaven
• A World Undone by Gerald Meyer
• Darwin's Doubt by Stephen Meyer
• The Return of the God Hypothesis by Stephen Meyer
• Signature in the Cell by Stephen Meyer
• Profit First by Mike Michalowicz
• Lincoln's Virtues by William Lee Miller
• Paradise Lost by John Milton
• Me Before You by Jojo Moyes
• Music of the Spheres by Guy Murchie
• Relentless Strike by Sean Naylor
• A World Without Email by Cal Newport
• Digital Minimalism by Cal Newport
• How to Become a Straight-A Student by Cal Newport
• How to Win at College by Cal Newport
• Slow Productivity by Cal Newport
• So Good They Can't Ignore You by Cal Newport
• Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche
• The Genealogy of Morals by Friedrich Nietzsche
• Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche
• Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell
• Chaos by Tom O'Neill & Dan Piepenbring
• 1984 by George Orwell
• Cycles of Time by Roger Penrose
• The Road to Reality by Roger Penrose
• 12 Rules for Life by Jordan Peterson
• Maps of Meaning by Jordan Peterson
• Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software by Charles Petzold
• The Price of Thirst by Karen Piper
• Knowledge and Christian Belief by Alvin Plantinga
• The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe
• A Problem from Hell by Samantha Power
• The Time of Our Singing by Richard Powers
• Ishmael by Daniel Quinn
• Long Walk by Slavomir Rawicz
• The Mass Psychology of Fascism by Wilhelm Reich
• The Rationalists by Rene Descartes, Benedict Spinoza & Gottfried Leibniz
• Finding Ultra by Rich Roll
• Sarah's Key by Tatiana de Rosnay
• The Harry Potter books by JK Rowling
• Green River, Running Red by Ann Rule
• The Stranger Beside Me by Ann Rule
• Contact by Carl Sagan
• The Demon-Haunted World by Carl Sagan
• Justice by Michael Sandel
• Behave by Robert Sapolsky
• Determined by Robert Sapolsky
• We Should Not Be Friends by Will Schwalbe
• The Art of Adaptation by Linda Seger
• How to Die by Seneca
• Being You by Anil Seth
• The Mathematical Theory of Communication by Claude Shannon & Warren Weaver
• How to Destroy America in Three Easy Steps by Ben Shapiro
• Thinking About Mathematics by Stewart Shapiro
• The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William Shirer
• The Code Book by Simon Singh
• Fermat's Enigma by Simon Singh
• The World's Religions by Huston Smith
• IQ: Independence Hall by Roland Smith
• Bloodlands by Timothy Snyder
• The Founders by Jimmy Soni
• A Mind at Play by Jimmy Soni & Rob Goodman
• Basic Economics by Thomas Sowell
• Black Rednecks & White Liberals by Thomas Sowell
• Charter Schools and Their Enemies by Thomas Sowell
• Running in Silence by Rachael Steil
• The Cuckoo's Egg by Clifford Stoll
• The Case for Christ by Lee Strobel
• Our Mathematical Universe by Max Tegmark
• The Soul of Shame by Curt Thompson
• Merchants of Culture by John Thompson
• Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
• The Death of Ivan Ilyich by Leo Tolstoy
• Phi: A Voyage from the Brain to the Soul by Giulio Tononi
• Eternity: God, Soul, New Physics by Trevelyan
• Cosmic Queries by Neil deGrasse Tyson
• Passport to Magonia by Jacques Vallee
• Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
• Never Split the Difference by Chris Voss & Tahl Raz
• The Double Helix by James Watson
• Become What You Are by Alan Watts
• Scale by Geoffrey West
• Extreme Ownership by Jocko Willink
• Giving the Devil His Due by Jessica Wilson
• The Perfectionists by Simon Winchester
• Trolling Euclid by Tom Wright
• The Essence of Shinto by Motohisa Yamakage
• Dead-End Memories by Banana Yoshimoto
• A World Without Time by Palle Yourgrau
• Spies, Lies, and Algorithms by Amy Zegart
• The Lucifer Effect by Philip Zimbardo