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