Overview and notes from books I’ve read. I want to be the type of person who re-reads books I enjoy, but there’s always something new that is too interesting to go back to something I’ve already read. That said, there are a lot of important idea worth reviewing later to see how they continue to resonate with me. This is an attempt to compile all those snippets in one place for easy review. Not necessarily for public consumption… but not necessarily private either. Inspired by Derek Sivers. (Current reads and audiobooks link to pages to get the book; others link to my notes)
2025
- Life After Cars (Currently Reading)
- Practical Lock Picking
- Hell Yeah or No
- 99% Invisible City
- Potholes and Pavements
- Picks and Shovels
- Lost Subways of North America
- The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet
- Growing a Farmer
- A Study in Scarlet
- The F-Word
- The Bezzle
- The Mechanic and the Luddite
- Why Don’t Students Like School
- Red Team Blues
- Everything is Tuberculosis
- The Things We Make
- The High Cost of Free Parking
- Movement
- Everything to Play For
- New World Sourdough – Quick read that encouraged me to further explore the use of sourdough when baking. My technique has changed a lot since I wrote it up for bake club and it’s probably time to update it
- It’s Never Just About the Behaviour
2024
- The Memory Palace
- Mine!
- Seattle from the Margins
- Tress of the Emerald Sea (Audiobook, listened with Avery. An enjoyable story recommended by a friend)
- The Infernal Machine
- Skid Road
- Rules for My Unborn Son (Too Short for notes, just read the whole thing. It take ~20 minutes)
- When Driving is not an Option
- Get the Picture
- Shielded
- Drunk
- Biking Uphill in the Rain
- Nuts and Bolts
2023
- Onward
- Blood in the Machine
- The Art of Relevance
- Religious Literacy
- A (Very) Short History of Life on Earth
- A Prayer for the Crown-Shy
- The Rules We Break
- A Complaint Free World
- If I Understood You, Would I Have This Look on My Face?
- In Search of Deeper Learning
- Excellent Advice for Living
- Seattle Walk Report
- Born to Run 2
- Humor, Seriously
- Bears Don’t Care About Your Problems
- Running While Black
- American Sirens
- Leadership and Self-Deception
2022
- Four Lost Cities
- What Is Anarchism? An Introduction
- Seattle Mystic Alfred M. Hubbard
- What If? 2
- Beginners
- Open Borders
- Two Wheels Good
- Early Seattle Profiles
- The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck
- Your Move
- A Psalm for the Wild-Built
- Mediocre
- Have Fun Out There Or Not – Thanks Matty for the book
- Conquest of Bread (audiobook) – An introduction to anarchist ideology of the 19th century
- Relax, It’s Just God
- Too High & Too Steep
- 1493
- What if? – (Reread when I heard Vol 2 is coming. Fun look at ridiculous hypotheticals using science)
- Entangled Life
- Wilding
2021
- A Brief History of Motion
- Force and Freedom
- Hurts So Good
- Content (audiobook) – Clear look at the recent evolution of copyright
- The Singularity is Near (audiobook) – Not worth the time
- Strong Towns
- The Anthropocene Reviewed (audiobook) – Fun review of the podcast
- Until Proven Save
- Eat Like a Fish
- Hard Times Require Furious Dancing – Poetry
- The Sum of Us
- Comfort Crisis
- Seattle Prohibition
- 1491
- We Want to Do More Than Survive
- Reprogramming the American Dream
- Death’s End
2020
- How to Be an Antiracist
- The Body
- Capital in the Twenty-First Century
- White Bread
- Invisible Women
- Palaces for the People
- White Fragility
- Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
- 21 Lessons for the 21st Century
- The Dark Forest
2019
- We’re Doing It Wrong
- The Lines that Make Us
- Innovators (incomplete, sporadically reading)
- Little Book of Hygge
- So You Want to Talk About Race
- The Gift of Failure
- The Nature Fix
- Play Anything
- The Three Body Problem
Pre-2019
- A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy
- A History of the World in 6 Glasses
- A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There
- A Short History of Nearly Everything
- A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail
- Abundance
- Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex
- Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen
- Brain Rules
- Chaos: Making a New Science
- Clouds in a Glass of Beer: Simple Experiments in Atmospheric Physics
- Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World
- Dr. Tatiana’s Sex Advice to All Creation
- Eat and Run: My Unlikely Journey to Ultramarathon Greatness
- Food Rules: An Eater’s Manual
- Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
- Incomplete Books
- Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition
- Living by the Numbers – Wired 20.10 Oct 2012
- Messy: The Power of Disorder to Transform Our Lives
- Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything
- Other books
- Rabid
- Reality is Broken
- Run or Die
- Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us
- Salt: A World History
- Sapiens
- Something Incredibly Wonderful Happens
- Stuff Matters: Exploring the Marvelous Materials That Shape Our Man-Made World
- Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character
- The Drunken Botanist: The Plants That Create the World’s Great Drinks
- The Ghost Map: The Story of London’s Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World
- The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus
- The Martian
- The Poisoner’s Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York
- Three Cups of Tea: One Man’s Mission to Promote Peace … One School at a Time
- Tribe
- Unseen City
- Yeast: The Practical Guide to Beer Fermentation
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