
A Brief Introduction
Higher education gave me many things- a questionably useful degree, unsustainable levels of debt, depression- but these gifts did not come without a cost. Somewhere along the lines I became too busy learning to continue reading, and one of my greatest passions since childhood fizzled out. Over the past few years I have rediscovered this lost love, and now share what I read- the good and the bad- with you. I find that sharing my thoughts lead to better understanding of the subject matter, and perhaps can help someone else discover something new as well. If you happen to read any of the books I mention below please reach out and let me know your thoughts, and if you have any book recommendations, please send them to me.
- How to Think Like a Roman Emperor by Donald Robertson
- Designing the Mind by Ryan Bush
- Team Human by Douglas Rushkoff
- Siddharta by Herman Hesse
- Better Small Talk by Patrick King
- Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
- Discourses & Enchiridion by Epictetus
- On the Shortness of Life by Seneca the Younger
- The Art of Saying No by Damon Zahariades
- The Coddling of the American Mind by G. Lukianoff and J. Haidt
- The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
- The Accidental President by AJ Baime
- The Art of War by Sun Tzu
- Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
- Notes From Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
- The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
- Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
- In the Garden of Beasts by Erik Larson
- Meditation for Beginners by Jack Kornfield
- The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
- The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz
- Catch 22 by Joseph Heller
- The Ends of the World by Peter Brannen
- Resurrection Science by M.R. O'Connor
- About A Mountain by John D'agata
- Doors of Perception by Aldous Huxley
- One Day... of Ivan Denisovich by Solzhenitsyn
- The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus
- The Fall by Albert Camus
- The Lily of the Field and the Bird of the Air by Kierkegaard
- Ireland's Welcome to the Stranger by Asenath Nicholson
- Consider the Lobster by David Foster Wallace
- Chaos by Tom O'Neil & Dan Piepenbring
- The Sixth Mass Extinction by Elizabeth Kolbert
- End of the Megafauna by R. D. E. MacPhee
- Life Everlasting by Bernd Heinrich
- Intersexion by Cynthia Vacca Davis
- Chesapeake Requiem by Earl Swift
- The Rise and Reign of the Mammals by Stephen Brusatte
- The Stranger by Albert Camus
- Crito by Plato
- Apology by Plato
- The Allegory of the Cave by Plato
- Symposium by Plato
- Walden by Henry David Thoreau
- A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again by David F. Wallace
- Mother of God by Paul Rosolie
- Silent Spring by Rachel Carson
- The Seashell on the Mountaintop by Alan Cutler
- The End of Faith by Sam Harris
- No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy
- The Dawn of Everything by David Graeber & David Wengrow
- Platinum Rules for Enjoying Life by Dr. Lisa Spiller & Sylvia Craft
- Owls of the Eastern Ice by Jonathan C. Slaght
- The Hidden Lives of Owls by Leigh Calvez
- Another Appalachia by Neema Avashia
- A Life on Our Planet by David Attenborough
- When Humans Nearly Vanished by Donald R. Prothero
- The War on the West by Douglas Murray
- Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson
- The Will to Meaning by Victor Frankl
- Galileo's Error by Philip Goff
- How to Have Impossible Conversations by P. Boghossian
- Super Volcanoes by Robin George Andrews
- The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid
- The Righteous Mind by Jonathan Haidt
- The Genesis Enigma by Andrew Parker
- Botany of Desire by Michael Pollan
- I'm Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy
- The Monster's Bones by David K. Randall
- Voodoo Histories by David Aaronovitch
- God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater by Kurt Vonnegut
- Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer
- The Map That Changed the World by Simon Winchester
- Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
- In My Time of Dying by Sebastian Junger
- Freedom by Sebastian Junger
- Troubled by Rob Henderson
- Against Empathy by Paul Bloom
- Bowling Alone by Robert Putnam
- The Anthropocene Reviewed by John Green
- The In-Between by Hadley Vlahos
- Butler to the World by Oliver Bullough
- Original Sin by Jake Tapper
- How the Irish Saved Civilization by Thomas Cahill
- Dead Mountain by Donnie Eichar
- The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch
- The Order of TIme by Carlo Rovelli
- Voodoo Science by Robert L. Park
- What I Talk About When I talk About Running by Haruki Murakami
- Longitude by Dava Sobel
- In Cold Blood by Truman Capote

In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you.
