Here’s what I’ve been reading lately, with a ⭐ for favorites:
2026
Stand Firm: Resisting the Self-Improvement Craze Svend Brinkmann
The Joy of Missing Out: The Art of Self-Restraint in an Age of Excess Svend Brinkmann
The Lion Women of Tehran Marjan Kamali
The Selfish Gene: 40th Anniversary Edition Richard Dawkins
Seeking Wisdom From Darwin to Munger Peter Bevelin (reread)
The Wedding People: A Novel Alison Espach
Infinite Jest David Foster Wallace
Transitions: Making Sense of Life’s Changes William Bridges
On Old Age Cicero (free online)
West with the Night: A Memoir Beryl Markham
Educating Esmé: Diary of a Teacher’s First Year Esmé Codell
⭐ Love in the Time of Cholera Gabriel Garcia Marquez
2025
Flowers for Algernon Daniel Keyes
⭐ A Real Emergency: Stories from the Ambulance Joanna Sokol
Poor Richard’s Almanack Ben Franklin
Learning Go: An Idiomatic Approach to Real-World Go Programming Jon Bodner
⭐ The Pragmatic Programmer: Your Journey To Mastery David Thomas and Andrew Hunt
The Psychology of Money: Timeless Lessons on Greed, Wealth, and Happiness Morgan Housel
The Most Jessica Anthony
Designing Your Life: How to Build a Well-Lived, Joyful Life Bill Burnett and Dave Evans
The Gift of the Magi (Little Clothbound Classics) O. Henry
Cat’ s Cradle: A Novel Kurt Vonnegut
⭐ Letters of Note Shaun Usher
The Metamorphosis Franz Kafka
⭐ East of Eden John Steinbeck
Stay True: A Memoir (Pulitzer Prize Winner) Hua Hsu
Easy Weeknight Dinners: 100 Fast, Flavor-Packed Meals for Busy People Who Still Want Something Good to Eat [A Cookbook] NYTimes & Emily Weinstein
Atomic Habits James Clear
Days at the Morisaki Bookshop: A Novel Satoshi Yagisawa
Franny and Zooey J.D. Salinger
⭐ The Death of Ivan Ilych Lev Tolstoy
How To Be A Friend Cicero
⭐ Poor Charlie’s Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger Charles T. Munger, Warren E. Buffet, Ed Wexler, and Peter D. Kaufman (Can be hard to find)
⭐ Mind: Introduction to Cognitive Science Paul Thagard
White Nights Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Master and Margarita Mikhail Bulgakov
⭐ Dungeon Crawler Carl Matt Dinniman (the whole series, actually)
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