
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

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.
