Book Hall of Fame

I read a lot of books. Here are several of my favorites of all time organized into broad categories. books worth reading>.

Productivity/Self-Improvement

• Deep Work
• Getting Things Done
• Four Thousand Weeks

Non-Fiction: Historical/Bibliographic

• The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt
• Means of Ascent

Non-Fiction: Memoir

• I Can't Make This Up
• I'm Glad my Mom Died
• Under and Alone
• Educated

Non-Fiction: Informative

• In Defense of Food
• Science Fictions
• How to be Perfect
• Bottle of Lies
• Just Mercy

Fiction

• Project Hail Mary
• The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
• Beneath a Scarlet Sky
• The Way of Kings
• A Long Way Down

Books by Year

2025

• The Abstienence Teacher
• Lights Out (Koppel)
• The Library at Mount Char
• High Conflict
• How to Fly a Horse
• Everyone in my Family Has Killed Someone
• Non-violent Communication
• A Ladder to the Sky

2024

• A Hisotry of Lonliness
• The Last Murder at the End of the World
• I'm Glad my Mom Died
• Fortune Smiles
• The Simple Path to Wealth
• Oona out of Order
• Under and Alone
• X+Y

2023

• Intuitive Eating
• Factfulness
• Horse
• Built to Move
• What's Our Problem
• Outlive
• Team of Rivals
• The Peacemaker: Ronald Reagan, the Cold War, and the World on the Brink
• An Unfinished Life: John F. Kennedy

2022

• Four Thousand Weeks
• Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream
• The Rose Code
• How to be Perfect
• The Three Lives of James Madison

2021

• Open
• Rising out of Hatred
• The Anthropocene Reviewed
• Station Eleven
• Project Hail Mary
• The Four Winds
• The Heart's Invisible Furies
• Breath
• Chasing the Scream
• The Lies that Bind
• The New Jim Crow
• Unsavory Truth
• Bottle of Lies
• The Invisible Life of Addie Larue
• The Wise Man's Fear

2020

• The Magicians
• Anxious People
• Slam (Hornby)
• Morality (Sacks)
• The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
• Beneath a Scarlet Sky
• The Oxygen Advantage
• Big Little Lies
• The Color of Water
• 11-22-63
• Mini Habits
• The Family Fang
• A Gentleman in Moscow
• Herbert Hoover
• Indistractable
• The Word is Murder
• Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
• The Power of Moments
• Talking to Strangers
• The Phantom Tollbooth
• One More Thing
• The Way of Kings
• Range
• A Long Way Down

2019

• Means of Ascent (and every other book in this series)
• Political Tribes
• Educated
• Can't Hurt Me
• Sufficiently Advanced Magic
• The Name of the Wind
• I Can't Make This Up (I particularly recommend the audiobook read by Kevin Hart himself)