Lit Review

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)

2023

• In Search of Deeper Learning (Currently Reading)
• 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