My Reading List

2020

• Hello World: How Algorithms will Define our Future and Why We Should Learn To Live With It by Hannah Fry - ****
• The Coming Storm by Michael Lewis - ***
• The Fox by Frederick Forsyth - **
• How To Be Right… in a World Gone Wrong by James O'Brien - ***
• Worth Dying For: The Power and Politics of Flags by Tim Marshall - ***
• Lies Sleeping by Ben Aaronovitch - ****
• The Moscow Rules: The Secret CIA Tactics That Helped America Win the Cold War by Antonio J. Méndez, Joanna Mendez, Matt Baglio - ****
• How Asia Works: Success and Failure in the World's Most Dynamic Region by Joe Studwell - abandoned
• Burned by Benedict Jacka
• To Pixar and Beyond: My Unlikely Journey with Steve Jobs to Make Entertainment History by Lawrence Levy - ***
• Humble Pi: When Math Goes Wrong in the Real World by Matt Parker - *****
• The Age of Walls: How Barriers Between Nations Are Changing Our World by Tim Marshall - ****
• Live Work Work Work Die: A Journey into the Savage Heart of Silicon Valley by Corey Pein - ***
• Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism: And Other Arguments for Economic Independence by Kristen R. Ghodsee - ****
• A Grown-Up Guide to Dinosaurs by Ben Garrod - ***

2019

• The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern - **
• Every Tool's a Hammer: Life Is What You Make It by Adam Savage - ****
• The View from Flyover Country: Dispatches from the Forgotten America by Sarah Kendzior - *****
• How To: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems by Randall Munroe - *****
• When Women Ruled the World: Six Queens of Egypt by Kara Cooney - ***
• The Weather Machine: A Journey Inside the Forecast by Andrew Blum - ***
• LikeWar: The Weaponization of Social Media by P.W. Singer - ***
• The Quants: How a New Breed of Math Whizzes Conquered Wall Street and Nearly Destroyed It by Scott Patterson - ***
• Army of None: Autonomous Weapons and the Future of War by Paul Scharre - ***
• The Perfect Weapon: How the Cyber Arms Race Set the World Afire by David E. Sanger - ***
• Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World by Cal Newport - ***
• AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order by Kai-Fu Lee - ****
• The Dark Web: Secrets from the Tech's Underworld by Geoff White - ***
• The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World by Stephen Brusatte - ***
• Crisis by Frank Gardner - ****
• It Doesn't Have to Be Crazy at Work by Jason Fried - ***
• Remote: Office Not Required by David Heinemeier Hansson - ***
• Meltdown: Why Our Systems Fail and What We Can Do about It by Chris Clearfield - ***
• The October Man by Ben Aaronovitch - ****
• The Age of Agile: How Smart Companies Are Transforming the Way Work Gets Done by Stephen Denning - **
• Leonardo da Vinci by Walter Isaacson - *****
• The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic - and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World by Steven Johnson - ****
• Already Dead by Charlie Huston - ***
• Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling - ***

2018

• So Good They Can't Ignore You: Why Skills Trump Passion in the Quest for Work You Love by Cal Newport
• Fool Moon by Jim Butcher
• Simply Brilliant: How Great Organizations Do Ordinary Things in Extraordinary Ways by William C. Taylor
• The Filter Bubble: What the Internet is Hiding From You by Eli Pariser
• The Talent Code: Unlocking the Secret of Skill in Sports, Art, Music, Math, and Just About Everything Else by Daniel Coyle
• Taken by Benedict Jacka
• Lab Girl by Hope Jahren
• Tooth and Nail by Ian Rankin
• How to Have a Good Day: Harness the Power of Behavioral Science to Transform Your Working Life by Caroline Webb
• The Tourist by Olen Steinhauer
• Cruel & Unusual by Patricia Cornwell
• The Furthest Station by Ben Aaronovitch
• Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari
• The 5 Elements of Effective Thinking by Edward B. Burger
• Your Brain on Porn: Internet Pornography and the Emerging Science of Addiction by Gary Wilson
• Artemis by Andy Weir
• The Productivity Project: Proven Ways to Become More Awesome by Chris Bailey
• The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right by Atul Gawande
• Brotopia: Breaking Up the Boys' Club of Silicon Valley by Emily Chang
• Work Rules!: Insights from Inside Google That Will Transform How You Live and Lead by Laszlo Bock
• Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness by Richard H. Thaler
• The Four: The Hidden DNA of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google by Scott Galloway
• Unbelievable: My Front-Row Seat to the Craziest Campaign in American History by Katy Tur
• Chosen by Benedict Jacka
• Scrum: The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time by Jeff Sutherland
• Blood, Sweat, and Pixels: The Triumphant, Turbulent Stories Behind How Video Games Are Made by Jason Schreier
• Destined for War: can America and China escape Thucydides‚Äôs Trap? by Graham Allison
• Trumpocracy: The Corruption of the American Republic by David Frum
• The Future of Humanity: Terraforming Mars, Interstellar Travel, Immortality, and Our Destiny Beyond Earth by Michio Kaku
• Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow by Yuval Noah Harari
• The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business by Charles Duhigg
• Support and Defend by Mark Greaney
• The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life by Mark Manson
• HBR's 10 Must Reads on Managing Yourself by Clayton M. Christensen
• Spymaster by Brad Thor
• Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction by Philip E. Tetlock
• Full Force and Effect by Mark Greaney
• The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing by Marie Kond≈ç
• A Spy by Nature by Charles Cumming
• Mort by Terry Pratchett
• Harry Potter: A History of Magic by Ben Davies
• Declutter Your Mind: How to Stop Worrying, Relieve Anxiety, and Eliminate Negative Thinking by S.J. Scott
• Quidditch Through the Ages Kennilworthy Whisp
• Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling
• A Rare Book of Cunning Device by Ben Aaronovitch
• Hidden by Benedict Jacka
• Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling
• Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones by James Clear
• Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K. Rowling
• How to Be Yourself: Quiet Your Inner Critic and Rise Above Social Anxiety by Ellen Hendriksen
• Smarter Faster Better: The Secrets of Being Productive in Life and Business by Charles Duhigg
• King of The Rats by Ben Aaronovitch
• Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling

2017

• The Trinity Six by Charles Cumming
• Testosterone Rex: Myths of Sex, Science, and Society by Cordelia Fine
• Origin by Dan Brown
• The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism by Naomi Klein
• Storm Front by Jim Butcher
• Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence by Max Tegmark
• In the Woods by Tana French
• Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are by Seth Stephens-Davidowitz
• Cursed by Benedict Jacka
• Hide and Seek by Ian Rankin
• Forces of Nature by Brian Cox
• The Establishment: And How They Get Away with It by Owen Jones
• This Machine Kills Secrets: Julian Assange, the Cypherpunks, and Their Fight to Empower Whistleblowers by Andy Greenberg
• Making It All Work: Winning at the Game of Work and Business of Life by David Allen
• Red Sparrow by Jason Matthews
• Grit by Angela Duckworth
• Rebel Rising by Beth Revis
• Trigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances by Neil Gaiman
• The Shadow Factory: The Ultra-Secret NSA from 9/11 to the Eavesdropping on America by James Bamford
• The Collapsing Empire by John Scalzi
• Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley by Antonio Garcia Martinez
• Astrophysics for People in a Hurry by Neil deGrasse Tyson
• Rabid: A Cultural History of the World's Most Diabolical Virus by Bill Wasik
• Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
• The Next Pandemic: On the Front Lines Against Humankind's Gravest Dangers by Ali S. Khan
• Empire's End by Chuck Wendig
• The Winner's Brain: 8 Strategies Great Minds Use to Achieve Success by Jeff Brown
• Rewire: Change Your Brain to Break Bad Habits, Overcome Addictions, Conquer Self-Destruc tive Behavior by Richard O'Connor
• Machine Learning: The New AI by Ethem Alpaydin
• Bit by Bit: How P2P Is Freeing the World by Jeffrey Tucker
• Digital Wars: Apple, Google, Microsoft and the Battle for the Internet by Charles Arthur
• Witches of Lychford by Paul Cornell
• The Lost City of the Monkey God: A True Story by Douglas Preston
• Thrawn by Timothy Zahn
• Talent is Overrated: What Really Separates World-Class Performers from Everybody Else by Geoff Colvin
• The Master Algorithm: How the Quest for the Ultimate Learning Machine Will Remake Our World by Pedro Domingos
• Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy by Cathy O'Neil
• The Hanging Tree by Ben Aaronovitch
• The Wolves of London by Mark Morris
• Thank You for Being Late: An Optimist's Guide to Thriving in the Age of Accelerations by Thomas L. Friedman
• Who Rules the World? by Noam Chomsky
• The Effective Executive: The Definitive Guide to Getting the Right Things Done by Peter F. Drucker
• DarkMarket: Cyberthieves, Cybercops and You by Misha Glenny
• Small Data: The Tiny Clues that Uncover Huge Trends by Martin Lindstrom
• Angels Flight by Michael Connelly
• The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo by Amy Schumer
• SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome by Mary Beard