Here’s what I’ve been reading lately, with a ⭐ for favorites:
2026
Learning (MCDP 7) United States Marine Corps
Competing (MCDP 1-4) United States Marine Corps
Warfighting (MCDP 1) United States Marine Corps
Purple Cow: Transform Your Business by Being Remarkable Seth Gordin
So Good They Can’t Ignore You: Why Skills Trump Passion in the Quest for Work You Love Cal Newport
⭐ Toxic Sludge Is Good for You!: Lies, Damn Lies and the Public Relations Industry John Stauber, Sheldon Rampton
The Nicomachean Ethics (Penguin Classics) Aristotle, Adam Beresford
Parade of Horribles (Dungeon Crawler Carl) Matt Dinniman
Standpoints: 10 Old Ideas In a New World Svend Brinkmann
⭐Stoner John Williams
“Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman!”: Adventures of a Curious Character Richard P. Feynman
The Essential Haiku: Versions of Basho, Buson, & Issa (Essential Poets) Robert Haas
Toyota Production System: Beyond Large-Scale Production Taiichi Ohno, Norman Bodek
Inspire 1 – Cahier d’activités (A1) Lucas Malcor, Claire Marchandeau
Inspire 1 – Livre de l’élève (A1) Jean-Thierry Le Bougnec, Marie-José Lopes
⭐⭐Addiction by Design: Machine Gambling in Las Vegas Natasha Schüll
The Millionaire Next Door: The Surprising Secrets of America’s Wealthy Thomas Stanley Ph.D., William Danko Ph.D.
⭐The Psychology of Money: Timeless Lessons on Greed, Wealth, and Happiness Morgan Housel (reread)
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York Robert A. Caro
⭐Norwegian Wood Haruki Murakami, Trans. Jay Rubin
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)
Life Ceremony: Stories Sayaka Murata
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
Earthlings: A Novel Sayaka Murata
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
Convenience Store Woman: A Novel Sayaka Murata
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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