what i'm reading

May 2024


nature
This Explains Everything
John Brockman • 7

fantasy
Mort
Terry Pratchett • 1

foreign-languages
Veni Vidi Didici
Jason Talley • 4

education
The Elements of Style, Fourth Edition
William Strunk, Jr. & E.B. White • 1

philosophy
Story of Philosophy
Will Durant • 111

fantasy
Small Gods
Terry Pratchett • 21

memoirs
Dyscalculia
Camonghne Felix • 18
started 7 books / created 211 bookmarks

Apr 2024


economics
The Armchair Economist
Steven E. Landsburg • 5

social-science
Mythology 101
Kathleen Sears • 4

ancient-history
Nero
Anthony Everitt & Roddy Ashworth • 27

literary-criticism
Pandora's Jar
Natalie Haynes • 10

games
Slaying the Dragon
Ben Riggs • 6

kids
Words That Built a Nation
Marilyn Miller, Ellen Scordato, Dan Tucker & Mary Kate McDevitt • 11

romance
Midnight Sun
Stephenie Meyer • 3

writing-reference
Write Your First Ghost Story
D.G. Mayes • 2

memoirs
The Journal of Best Practices
David Finch • 1
started 9 books / created 113 bookmarks

Mar 2024


leadership
Stats and Curiosities
Harvard Business Review • 5

education
How Math Explains the World
James D. Stein • 1

economics
A People's Guide to Capitalism
Hadas Thier • 4

leadership
Super Thinking
Gabriel Weinberg & Lauren McCann • 8

language-arts
I Is an Other
James Geary • 115

social-science
Not That Bad
Roxane Gay • 1

music
The NPR Curious Listener's Guide to Classical Music
Timothy K. Smith • 2

nature
Octopus, Squid & Cuttlefish
Roger Hanlon, Michael Vecchione & Louise Allcock • 3

history
Ask A Historian
Greg Jenner • 26

memoirs
Not Pretty Enough
Gerri Hirshey • 1

social-science
Planet Funny
Ken Jennings • 56

biology
The Genius of Birds
Jennifer Ackerman • 46

life-sciences
Entangled Life
Merlin Sheldrake • 5

social-science
Poverty, by America
Matthew Desmond • 70

performing-arts
Comedy Book
Jesse David Fox • 5

social-science
The Curious Journalist's Guide to Data
Jonathan Stray • 34

memoirs
Monster, She Wrote
Lisa Kroger & Melanie R. Anderson • 3

psychology
Conformity
Cass R. Sunstein & Robert H Frank • 53
started 18 books / created 451 bookmarks

Feb 2024


relationships
The Mathematics of Love
Hannah Fry • 15

fairy-tales
Chinese Fairy Tales and Fantasies
Moss Roberts • 4

language-arts
The Elements of Eloquence
Mark Forsyth • 101

language-arts
Winning Arguments
Stanley Fish • 6

personal-finance
Get to the Point!
Joel Schwartzberg • 24

small-business
The Practice
Seth Godin • 2

personal-finance
Sell with a Story
Paul Smith • 10

world-history
Seven Games: A Human History
Oliver Roeder • 14

psychology
The Secret Life of Secrets
Michael Slepian • 5

physics
The Perfect Theory
Pedro G. Ferreira • 5

social-science
The Second Sex
Simone de Beauvoir, Constance Borde & Sheila Malovany-Chevallier • 19

nature
Heartbreak: A Personal and Scientific Journey
Florence Williams • 7

outdoors
The Big Time
Michael MacCambridge • 23

psychology
What We Believe but Cannot Prove
John Brockman • 1

fantasy-short-stories
Selections from Fragile Things, Volume Six
Neil Gaiman • 1

contemporary
American Gods: The Tenth Anniversary Edition
Neil Gaiman • 3

life-sciences
Immune
Philipp Dettmer • 14
started 17 books / created 269 bookmarks

Jan 2024


relationships
How to Fall in Love with Anyone
Mandy Len Catron • 27

nature
The Art of Explanation
Ros Atkins • 10

language-arts
Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes
Daniel L. Everett • 1

personal-finance
Salt Sugar Fat
Michael Moss • 12

leadership
The Strategist
Cynthia Montgomery • 4

essays
If This Isn't Nice, What Is?
Kurt Vonnegut • 6

life-sciences
Moonwalking with Einstein
Joshua Foer • 5

life-sciences
Kluge
Gary Marcus • 39

history
The Restaurant
William Sitwell • 2

language-arts
Verbal Judo, Second Edition
George J. Thompson, PhD • 2

literature
A Tale of Two Cities
Charles Dickens • 1

nature
An Immense World
Ed Yong • 5
started 12 books / created 122 bookmarks

Dec 2023


language-arts
The Art of Brevity
Grant Faulkner • 18

outdoors
Intangibles
Joan Ryan • 104

humor
Word Perfect
Susie Dent • 6

literary-criticism
The Literature Book
DK • 1

language-arts
The Language Hoax
John H. McWhorter • 1

nutrition
How We Eat With Our Eyes and Think With Our Stomach
Melanie Mühl & Diana von Kopp • 48

true-crime
The Secret Poisoner
Linda Stratmann • 1

nature
The Restless Clock
Jessica Riskin • 6

language-arts
Interesting Stories about Curious Words
Susie Dent • 25

life-sciences
Other Minds
Peter Godfrey-Smith • 5

true-crime
Catch and Kill
Ronan Farrow • 3

theater
The Comedies
Oscar Wilde • 2

mathematics
50 Math Tricks That Will Change Your Life
Tanya Zakowich • 1

life-sciences
Sex on Six Legs
Marlene Zuk • 18
started 14 books / created 371 bookmarks

Nov 2023


performing-arts
How to Tell a Story
The Moth, Meg Bowles, Catherine Burns, Jenifer Hixson, Sarah Austin Jenness, Kate Tellers & Chenjerai Kumanyika • 9

writing
Show, Don't Tell
Sandra Gerth • 32

language-arts
Write Great Beginnings
Sandra Gerth • 4

philosophy
Language and Silence
George Steiner • 2

political-science
Keywords
John Patrick Leary • 29

life-sciences
How the Mind Works
Steven Pinker • 1

language-arts
45 Master Characters, Revised Edition
Victoria Lynn Schmidt • 1

language-arts
The Secret Life of Pronouns
James W. Pennebaker • 45

language-arts
The Occupation Thesaurus: A Writer's Guide to Jobs, Vocations, and Careers
Becca Puglisi • 1

language-arts
Story Genius
Lisa Cron • 81

humor
Dent's Modern Tribes
Susie Dent • 31

language-arts
An Emotional Dictionary
Susie Dent • 24

language-arts
On Language
Noam Chomsky • 1

language-arts
The Chicago Guide to Grammar, Usage, and Punctuation
Bryan A. Garner • 6

language-arts
The Science of Storytelling
Will Storr • 39

nature
Crows
Candace Savage • 1
started 16 books / created 298 bookmarks

Oct 2023


leadership
Who
Geoff Smart & Randy Street • 4

thesauruses
The American Heritage Dictionary of Idioms
Christine Ammer • 20

nature
Plastic
Susan Freinkel • 4

investing
Antifragile
Nassim Nicholas Taleb • 56

education
Critical Thinking
Jonathan Haber • 12

mathematics
The New York Times Book of Mathematics
Gina Kolata • 1

world-history
Origin Story
David Christian • 32

tv
Welcome to Dunder Mifflin
Brian Baumgartner & Ben Silverman • 3
started 8 books / created 172 bookmarks

Sep 2023


language-arts
It Was the Best of Sentences, It Was the Worst of Sentences
June Casagrande • 21

language-arts
Wired for Story
Lisa Cron • 81

psychology
David and Goliath
Malcolm Gladwell • 36

history
The Bomber Mafia
Malcolm Gladwell • 5

life-sciences
The Social Conquest of Earth
Edward O. Wilson • 3

ecology
Biomimicry
Janine M Benyus • 18

true-crime
Forensics
Val McDermid • 6

social-science
Empire of Illusion
Chris Hedges • 3

sociology
The Road to Character
David Brooks • 1

philosophy
The Conquest of Happiness
Bertrand Russell • 1

public-administration
Biopiracy
Vandana Shiva • 42

literature
Quantum Shorts: Collected Flash Fiction Inspired by Quantum Physics
Michael Brooks, Jenny Hogan & Puah Xin Yi • 1

social-science
Fame
Tom Payne • 37

self-improvement
How to Be Miserable
Randy J. Paterson • 2

public-administration
Weapons of Math Destruction
Cathy O'Neil • 3
started 15 books / created 252 bookmarks

Aug 2023


philosophy
The Socrates Express
Eric Weiner • 4

design
Elements of Design
Gail Greet Hannah • 2

social-science
A Woman Looking at Men Looking at Women
Siri Hustvedt • 4

literature
Essays and Lectures
Oscar Wilde • 3

biology
Sex in the Sea
Marah J. Hardt • 12

language-arts
Story or Die
Lisa Cron • 111

memoirs
Hype
Gabrielle Bluestone • 8

nature
How Animals Grieve
Barbara J. King • 21

language-arts
All the Knowledge in the World
Simon Garfield • 11

social-science
Love and Sex in Prison
Gini Graham Scott, Ph.D. • 1

graphic-novels
The Legion of Regrettable Supervillains
Jon Morris • 2

life-sciences
Your Brain on Art
Susan Magsamen & Ivy Ross • 2

history
The Disappearing Spoon
Sam Kean • 4

language-arts
The Sense of Style
Steven Pinker • 35

life-sciences
Sleights of Mind
Stephen Macknik, Susana Martinez-Conde & Sandra Blakeslee • 16

life-sciences
Evolution in Four Dimensions, revised edition
Eva Jablonka, Marion J. Lamb & Anna Zeligowski • 4

nature
Denial
Ajit Varki & Danny Brower • 1

language-arts
Word Play
Peter Farb • 12

nature
The Field Guide to Citizen Science
Darlene Cavalier, Catherine Hoffman & Caren Cooper • 1

life-sciences
Becoming Wild
Carl Safina • 2

nature
No Beast So Fierce
Dane Huckelbridge • 1
started 21 books / created 205 bookmarks

Jul 2023


nature
The Soul of an Octopus
Sy Montgomery • 7

nature
Crow Planet
Lyanda Lynn Haupt • 11

language-arts
The Plot Machine
Dale Kutzera • 8

psychology
50 Psychology Classics Second Edition
Tom Butler-Bowdon • 1

life-sciences
The Liars of Nature and the Nature of Liars
Lixing Sun • 6

language-arts
An Illustrated Book of Loaded Language
Ali Almossawi & Alejandro Giraldo • 2

political-science
A Libertarian Walks Into a Bear
Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling • 2

philosophy
An Illustrated Book of Bad Arguments
Ali Almossawi & Alejandro Giraldo • 3

world
Accidental Gods
Anna Della Subin • 2

internet
You Look Like a Thing and I Love You
Janelle Shane • 2

mathematics
Statistics 101
David Borman • 1

paranormal
Shadowfever
Karen Marie Moning • 3

psychology
The Stuff of Thought
Steven Pinker • 24
started 13 books / created 70 bookmarks

Jun 2023


language-arts
Writing to Persuade: How to Bring People Over to Your Side
Trish Hall • 29

humor
The Peter Principle
Dr. Laurence J. Peter & Raymond Hull • 2

world-affairs
Why the Germans Do it Better
John Kampfner • 2

small-business
Your Next Five Moves
Patrick Bet-David • 5

physics
Complexity
M. Mitchell Waldrop • 9

sales
Predictably Irrational, Revised and Expanded Edition
Dr. Dan Ariely • 2

world-history
The Little Book of History
DK • 1

philosophy
Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar . . .
Thomas Cathcart & Daniel Klein • 7
started 8 books / created 119 bookmarks

May 2023


reference
Screenplay
Syd Field • 62

language-arts
Rewrite Right!
Jan Venolia & Ellen Sasaki • 59

gardening
Botanical Shakespeare
Gerit Quealy & Sumie Hasegawa Collins • 1

writing
The Conflict Thesaurus: A Writer's Guide to Obstacles, Adversaries, and Inner Struggles (Volume 1)
Becca Puglisi • 6

quotations
Only Dull People Are Brilliant at Breakfast
Oscar Wilde • 3

fiction
The Importance of Being Earnest
Oscar Wilde • 1

theater
Lady Windermere’s Fan
Oscar Wilde • 1

memoirs
Sometimes I Trip On How Happy We Could Be
Nichole Perkins • 1

nature
The Secret Life of Lobsters
Trevor Corson • 1

memoirs
The Story of Alice
Robert Douglas-Fairhurst • 5
started 10 books / created 94 bookmarks

Apr 2023


sociology
The Sociology Book
Sarah Tomley, Mitchell Hobbs, Megan Todd, Marcus Weeks & DK • 13

biology
Behave
Robert M. Sapolsky • 9
started 2 books / created 34 bookmarks

Mar 2023


life-sciences
Mousy Cats and Sheepish Coyotes
John Shivik • 2

writing
The Conflict Thesaurus: A Writer's Guide to Obstacles, Adversaries, and Inner Struggles (Volume 2)
Becca Puglisi • 12

leadership
Change by Design, Revised and Updated
Tim Brown • 8

reference
It's Raining Cats and Dogs and Other Beastly Expressions
Christine Ammer • 17

thesauruses
Word by Word
Kory Stamper • 5

sales
Alchemy
Rory Sutherland • 150

finance
Fooled by Randomness
Nassim Nicholas Taleb • 12

careers
What Got You Here Won't Get You There
Marshall Goldsmith & Mark Reiter • 71

philosophy
The Pig That Wants to Be Eaten
Julian Baggini • 2

philosophy
The Philosophy Book
DK • 10
started 10 books / created 180 bookmarks

Feb 2023


language-arts
Thank You for Arguing, Fourth Edition
Jay Heinrichs • 16

careers
How Would You Move Mount Fuji?
William Poundstone • 1

history
On Grand Strategy
John Lewis Gaddis • 8

self-improvement
Great TED Talks: Creativity
Tom May • 5

mathematics
Math with Bad Drawings
Ben Orlin • 8

mathematics
Math Games with Bad Drawings
Ben Orlin • 6

classics
Brave New World
Aldous Huxley • 13

social-science
Amusing Ourselves to Death
Neil Postman & Andrew Postman • 17

leadership
HBR's 10 Must Reads on Change Management
Harvard Business Review, John P. Kotter, W. Chan Kim & Renée A. Mauborgne • 13

self-improvement
Happiness
Harvard Business Review, Daniel Gilbert, Annie McKee, Gretchen Spreitzer & Teresa Amabile • 1

finance
The Bogle Effect
Eric Balchunas • 10

social-science
The Address Book
Deirdre Mask • 1

self-improvement
Good Self, Bad Self
Judy Smith • 10

language-arts
The Positive Trait Thesaurus: A Writer's Guide to Character Attributes
Angela Ackerman & Becca Puglisi • 42
started 14 books / created 192 bookmarks

Jan 2023


thesauruses
How to Tell Fate from Destiny
Charles Harrington Elster • 16

personal-finance
Superforecasting
Philip E. Tetlock & Dan Gardner • 19

psychology
Meeting the Shadow
Connie Zweig & Jeremiah Abrams • 5

social-science
The Power of Myth
Joseph Campbell & Bill Moyers • 5

design
Dark Matter and Trojan Horses. A Strategic Design Vocabulary.
Dan Hill • 33

leadership
Talent
Tyler Cowen & Daniel Gross • 15

political-science
A Generation of Sociopaths
Bruce Cannon Gibney • 1

psychology
Rationality
Steven Pinker • 13

self-improvement
The Expectation Effect
David Robson • 2

memoirs
Spark
Claudia Kalb • 1

history
Stranger Than We Can Imagine
John Higgs • 4

memoirs
The Code Breaker
Walter Isaacson • 2
started 12 books / created 76 bookmarks

Dec 2022


humor
If Nietzsche Were a Narwhal
Justin Gregg • 1

memoirs
From the Corner of the Oval
Beck Dorey-Stein • 2

theater
A Practical Handbook for the Actor
Melissa Bruder, Lee Michael Cohn, Madeleine Olnek, Nathaniel Pollack, Robert Previto, Scott Zigler & David Mamet • 4

social-science
Mythology
Edith Hamilton, Aphrodite Trust & Apollo Trust • 12

fiction
Lemonade Mouth
Mark Peter Hughes • 1

self-improvement
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck
Mark Manson • 3

psychology
A General Theory of Love
Thomas Lewis, Fari Amini & Richard Lannon • 1

thrillers
Gone Girl
Gillian Flynn • 3

psychology
The Lucifer Effect
Philip Zimbardo • 2

memoirs
Steve Jobs
Walter Isaacson • 4

leadership
The Storyteller's Secret
Carmine Gallo • 8

psychology
What Makes Your Brain Happy and Why You Should Do the Opposite
David DiSalvo • 2

memoirs
Bookmarked
Wendy W. Fairey • 1

mathematics
Change Is the Only Constant
Ben Orlin • 35
started 14 books / created 78 bookmarks

Nov 2022


memoirs
Maybe You Should Talk to Someone
Lori Gottlieb • 12

true-crime
The Anatomy Of Motive
John E. Douglas • 1

biology
The Red Queen
Matt Ridley • 4

mathematics
Shape
Jordan Ellenberg • 3

physics
A Beautiful Question
Frank Wilczek • 1

psychology
The Mind of the Mathematician
Michael Fitzgerald & Ioan James • 1

political-science
The Candidate's 7 Deadly Sins
Dr. Peter A. Wish • 1
started 7 books / created 36 bookmarks

Oct 2022


history
How to Speak Science
Bruce Benamran • 2

humor
Poe for Your Problems
Catherine Baab-Muguira • 3

nature-essays
The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe
Dr. Steven Novella, Bob Novella, Cara Santa Maria, Jay Novella & Evan Bernstein • 1

language-arts
The Emotion Thesaurus: A Writer's Guide to Character Expression
Becca Puglisi • 2

essays
Monkeys, Myths, and Molecules
Joe Schwarcz • 3

physics
What Is Relativity?
Jeffrey Bennett • 1
started 6 books / created 48 bookmarks

Sep 2022


anthropology
Cracking Complexity Now
David Komlos & David Benjamin • 44

life-sciences
The Spark of Life: Electricity in the Human Body
Frances Ashcroft • 5

psychology
The Confidence Game
Maria Konnikova • 10

leadership
Smarter Faster Better
Charles Duhigg • 1

leadership
Nudge
Richard H. Thaler & Cass R. Sunstein • 11

psychology
The Psychology of the Simpsons
Alan S. Brown & Chris Logan • 7

leadership
Originals
Adam Grant • 16

reference
A Stubbornly Persistent Illusion
Stephen Hawking • 1

science-history
Lost in Math
Sabine Hossenfelder • 2

language-arts
Do I Make Myself Clear?
Harold Evans • 8

life-sciences
Blueprint
Nicholas A. Christakis • 1

nature
Reading in the Brain
Stanislas Dehaene • 1

psychology
Connected
Nicholas A. Christakis & James H. Fowler • 7
started 13 books / created 90 bookmarks

Aug 2022


leadership
Blink
Malcolm Gladwell • 11

leadership
Give and Take
Adam Grant • 10

language-arts
The Emotional Wound Thesaurus: A Writer's Guide to Psychological Trauma
Becca Puglisi & Angela Ackerman • 22

language-arts
Endangered Phrases
Steven D. Price • 1

thesauruses
The Well-Spoken Thesaurus
Tom Heehler • 23
started 5 books / created 49 bookmarks

Jul 2022


language
The Dictionary of Clichés
Christine Ammer • 3

self-improvement
Handwriting Analysis
Karen Kristin Amend & Mary Stanbury Ruiz • 1

language-arts
The Negative Trait Thesaurus: A Writer's Guide to Character Flaws
Angela Ackerman & Becca Puglisi • 13
started 3 books / created 20 bookmarks

Jun 2022


language-arts
Writing to Be Understood
Anne Janzer • 7

astronomy
You Are the Universe
Deepak Chopra & Menas C. Kafatos, Ph.D. • 1

professions
High-Impact Interview Questions
Victoria Hoevemeyer • 1

psychology
Scripts People Live
Claude Steiner • 43
started 4 books / created 52 bookmarks

May 2022


economics
The Data Detective
Tim Harford • 2

relationships
Love Sense
Dr. Sue Johnson • 60

psychology
Stumbling on Happiness
Daniel Gilbert • 61

nature
The Moral Landscape
Sam Harris • 1
started 4 books / created 48 bookmarks

Apr 2022


system-administration
Taming the Terminal
Bart Busschots • 4

language-arts
Dreyer's English
Benjamin Dreyer • 9

memoirs
Genius
James Gleick • 20

memoirs
Fooling Houdini
Alex Stone • 6
started 4 books / created 38 bookmarks

Mar 2022


political-science
How to Win Friends and Influence Enemies
Will Witt • 1

relationships
Date-onomics
Jon Birger • 8

nature
Algorithms to Live By
Brian Christian & Tom Griffiths • 13

relationships
Models: Attract Women Through Honesty
Mark Manson • 5

self-improvement
Remembering the Presidents of the USA
Kevin Horsley, Eloise Cooper & Sophie Pretorius • 2

life-sciences
Neurogastronomy
Gordon M. Shepherd • 6

memoirs
Yearbook
Seth Rogen • 1

psychology
Games People Play
Eric Berne • 13

nutrition
Blood Type O Food, Beverage and Supplement Lists
Dr. Peter J. D'Adamo & Catherine Whitney • 21

self-improvement
F*ck Love
Michael Bennett, MD & Sarah Bennett • 5

education
Dictionary of English Idioms: Vocabulary Building
Manik Joshi • 4

relationships
He's Just Not That Into You
Greg Behrendt & Liz Tuccillo • 3
started 12 books / created 125 bookmarks

Feb 2022


social-science
Invisible Women
Caroline Criado Perez • 60

memoirs
Year of Yes
Shonda Rhimes • 1

memoirs
Option B
Sheryl Sandberg & Adam Grant • 4

leadership
Think Again
Adam Grant • 61
started 4 books / created 50 bookmarks

Dec 2021


coming-of-age
Looking For Alaska
John Green • 5

self-improvement
It's Called a Breakup Because It's Broken
Greg Behrendt & Amiira Ruotola-Behrendt • 5

relationships
Creating Emotional Attraction
Alex Altman • 9
started 3 books / created 16 bookmarks

Nov 2021


sales
Wanting
Luke Burgis • 87
started 1 book / created 59 bookmarks

Oct 2021


classics
The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald • 1
started 1 book / created 1 bookmark

Jul 2021


spirituality
101 Essays That Will Change the Way You Think
Brianna Wiest • 42

military-history
The Art of War
Sun Tzu • 2
started 2 books / created 33 bookmarks

Mar 2017


self-improvement
The Mastery of Love
Don Miguel Ruiz • 53
started 1 book / created 4 bookmarks

Mar 2014


self-improvement
The Happiness Advantage
Shawn Achor • 13
started 1 book / created 12 bookmarks

Jan 2014


self-improvement
The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success
Deepak Chopra • 5
started 1 book / created 5 bookmarks

Oct 2012


history
Monoculture
F.S. Michaels • 34
started 1 book / created 9 bookmarks