Books.
Everything I’ve read and rated since 2011 — 102 books and counting, heavy on sci-fi and endurance with the occasional business detour. This is tracked very loosely, so read the numbers as a vibe, not an audit. And they only start at 2011: from roughly 2000–2011 I averaged ~30 books a year, but no record of those survived.
by the numbers · loosely tracked
102
books read
4.10avg
average rating
33
five-star reads
Isaac Asimov
most read · 18 books
2011–25
years tracked
32%
rated 5 stars
books per year
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Journey to Ixtlan — Carlos Castaneda
Citizen in Space — Robert Sheckley
Endymion — Dan Simmons
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2025
Endure: How to Work Hard, Outlast, and Keep Hammering — Cameron R. Hanes
Living with the Monks: What Turning Off My Phone Taught Me about Happiness, Gratitude, and Focus — Jesse Itzler
Can't Hurt Me: Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds — David Goggins
The Comfort Crisis: Embrace Discomfort To Reclaim Your Wild, Happy, Healthy Self — Michael Easter
Kettlebell Simple & Sinister — Pavel Tsatsouline
2024
The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living — Ryan Holiday & Stephen Hanselman
Elon Musk — Walter Isaacson
2023
Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It — Chris Voss
Never Finished: Unshackle Your Mind and Win the War Within — David Goggins
Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art — James Nestor
The Daily Dad: 366 Meditations on Parenting, Love, and Raising Great Kids — Ryan Holiday
2021
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup — John Carreyrou
Project Hail Mary — Andy Weir
The Color of Magic — Terry Pratchett
2020
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life — Mark Manson
The Other Mars — Robert Sheckley
Operating Instructions — Robert Sheckley
The Hungry — Robert Sheckley
Suits — Steve Lewis
Let There Be Light — Robert A. Heinlein
Life Line: collection of stories — Robert A. Heinlein
Кредо — Sergei Lukyanenko
The Old Man and the Sea — Ernest Hemingway
Animal Farm — George Orwell
Deadly Force - Understanding Your Right To Self Defense — Massad Ayoob
2019
Metro 2033 — Dmitry Glukhovsky
It — Stephen King
Japan (Lonely Planet Guide) — Lonely Planet
Brief Answers to the Big Questions — Stephen W. Hawking
Не про бег — Yuri Strofilov
2018
Inferno — Dan Brown
The Lost Symbol — Dan Brown
Digital Fortress — Dan Brown
The Da Vinci Code — Dan Brown
Angels & Demons — Dan Brown
2017
Iron War: Dave Scott, Mark Allen, & the Greatest Race Ever Run — Matt Fitzgerald
The Path to Senior Product Designer: An Actionable Growth Plan for a UX Design Career — Artiom Dashinsky
UX Strategy: How to Devise Innovative Digital Products that People Want — Jaime Levy
By His Bootstraps — Robert A. Heinlein
Papillon — Henri Charrière
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? — Philip K. Dick
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running — Haruki Murakami
Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike — Phil Knight
Living with a SEAL: 31 Days Training with the Toughest Man on the Planet — Jesse Itzler
КВАZИ — Sergei Lukyanenko
The Call of the Wild — Jack London
The Triathlete's Training Bible — Joe Friel
Racing Weight: How to Get Lean for Peak Performance — Matt Fitzgerald
Daniels' Running Formula — Jack Daniels
Redshirts — John Scalzi
The Abominable — Dan Simmons
Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why — Laurence Gonzales
Hyperion — Dan Simmons
Der widerspenstige Planet: Erzählung — Robert Sheckley
A Ticket to Tranai — Robert Sheckley
2016
The Water Knife — Paolo Bacigalupi
2015
Darwin's Blade — Dan Simmons
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy — Douglas Adams
Old Man's War — John Scalzi
The Last Colony — John Scalzi
The Ghost Brigades — John Scalzi
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything — Steven D. Levitt
Superfreakonomics — Steven D. Levitt
Inspector Glebsky's Puzzle — Arkady Strugatsky
I'm Here To Win: A World Champion's Advice for Peak Performance — Chris McCormack
What Mad Universe — Fredric Brown
1984 — George Orwell
Flowers for Algernon — Daniel Keyes
2014
Dandelion Wine — Ray Bradbury
Rendezvous with Rama — Arthur C. Clarke
Blindsight — Peter Watts
Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen — Christopher McDougall
Eat & Run: My Unlikely Journey to Ultramarathon Greatness — Scott Jurek
The Martian — Andy Weir
Are You Experienced? — William Sutcliffe
A Sound of Thunder — Ray Bradbury
Spin — Robert Charles Wilson
Steve Jobs — Walter Isaacson
2013
The Door Into Summer — Robert A. Heinlein
David Starr, Space Ranger — Paul French
Stranger in a Strange Land — Robert A. Heinlein
The Stars, Like Dust — Isaac Asimov
The Currents of Space — Isaac Asimov
Pebble in the Sky — Isaac Asimov
Robots and Empire — Isaac Asimov
Have Space Suit—Will Travel — Robert A. Heinlein
Lucky Starr and the Oceans of Venus — Isaac Asimov
Lucky Starr and the Pirates of the Asteroids — Isaac Asimov
The Foundation Trilogy — Isaac Asimov
Second Foundation — Isaac Asimov
The Caves of Steel — Isaac Asimov
Foundation and Earth — Isaac Asimov
The Robots of Dawn — Isaac Asimov
Prelude to Foundation — Isaac Asimov
The Naked Sun — Isaac Asimov
Foundation and Empire — Isaac Asimov
Foundation's Edge — Isaac Asimov
Foundation — Isaac Asimov
I, Robot — Isaac Asimov
Forward the Foundation — Isaac Asimov
Ender’s Game — Orson Scott Card
2011
Ледокол — Viktor Suvorov
couldn’t finish
Books I started and put down — usually a sign they weren’t worth the time.
Main Street Millionaire: How to Make Extraordinary Wealth Buying Ordinary Businesses — Codie Sanchezgave up
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Origin — Dan Brown
Go One More: Find the Clarity to Make Intentional, Life-Changing Choices — Nick Bare
How to Win Friends & Influence People — Dale Carnegie
Blindness — José Saramago
Magic Spanner — Carlton Kirby
We Rode All Day: The Story of the 1919 Tour de France — Cartman Gareth
Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow — Yuval Noah Harari
Hitler: History in an Hour Unabridged — Rupert Colley
North: Finding My Way While Running the Appalachian Trail — Scott Jurek
The Man in the High Castle (Vintage) — Philip K. Dick
Starship Troopers — Robert A. Heinlein
The Martian Chronicles — Ray Bradbury
Leviathan Wakes — James S.A. Corey
2001: A Space Odyssey — Arthur C. Clarke
Neuromancer — William Gibson
The Time Machine — H.G. Wells
Runaway Comrade — Bob de la Motte
Story: Substance, Structure, Style, and the Principles of Screenwriting — Robert McKee
Inspired: How to Create Tech Products Customers Love — Marty Cagan
The 1-Page Marketing Plan: Get New Customers, Make More Money, And Stand out From The Crowd — Allan Dib
The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers―Straight Talk on the Challenges of Entrepreneurship — Ben Horowitz
"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character — Richard P. Feynman
The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution — Walter Isaacson
Einstein: His Life and Universe — Walter Isaacson
Graphic Design School: The Principles and Practice of Graphic Design — David Dabner
Run with Power: The Complete Guide for Power Meters for Running: The Complete Guide to Power Meters for Running — Jim Vance
The End of Eternity — Isaac Asimov
Graphic Style: From Victorian to Digital — Steven Heller
Training and Racing With a Power Meter — Hunter Allen
Winter World — A.G. Riddle
My Blog Traffic Sucks! 8 Simple Steps to Get 100,000 Blog Visitors without Working 8 Days a Week — Steve Scott
SNAFU: Future Warfare — Geoff Brown
Stumbling on Happiness — Daniel Todd Gilbert
Mind OS — Paul Dobransky
The Gods Themselves — Isaac Asimov
Isaac Asimov's Caliban — Roger MacBride Allen
Deception Point — Dan Brown
The Best American Sports Writing 2014: An Acclaimed Anthology Curated by Born to Run Author Christopher McDougall — Christopher McDougall
Artemis — Andy Weir
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry — Neil deGrasse Tyson
Sleeping Beauties — Stephen King
The Sea Wolf — Jack London
White Fang — Jack London
Advanced Marathoning — Pete Pfitzinger
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster — Jon Krakauer
The Fall of Hyperion — Dan Simmons
Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future — Ashlee Vance
Ilium — Dan Simmons
The Rise of Endymion — Dan Simmons
Meb For Mortals: How to Run, Think, and Eat like a Champion Marathoner — Meb Keflezighi
The Terror — Dan Simmons
Lock In — John Scalzi
Dune — Frank Patrick Herbert
How to become a better UX Designer: A practical guidebook for UX Designers working in the Scrum methodology — Michał Aleksander
The Human Division — John Scalzi
Zoe's Tale — John Scalzi
Runner: A short story about a long run — Lizzy Hawker
Finding Ultra: Rejecting Middle Age, Becoming One of the World's Fittest Men, and Discovering Myself — Rich Roll
A Life Without Limits: A World Champion's Journey — Chrissie Wellington
The Best of Fredric Brown — Fredric Brown
Nightmares and Geezenstacks — Fredric Brown
Once a Runner — John L. Parker Jr.
Echopraxia — Peter Watts
A Game of Thrones — George R.R. Martin
Foundation's Fear — Gregory Benford
The Great Dune Trilogy — Frank Patrick Herbert
The Past Through Tomorrow — Robert A. Heinlein