2022
What I read in 2022
36 books, 11,016 pages across 12 months. Most recent read first.
December 2022
6 books · 1,753 pages
Discipline Is Destiny: The Power of Self-Control
Ryan Holiday · 2022 · read Dec 2022Self-control sounds like being hard on yourself, and Ryan Holiday does want you seeking out discomfort.
Ejaculate Responsibly: A Whole New Way to Think About Abortion
Gabrielle Stanley Blair · 2022 · read Dec 2022Gabrielle Stanley Blair's argument is that unwanted pregnancies, and so abortions, are caused by irresponsible ejaculation.
American Kingpin: The Epic Hunt for the Criminal Mastermind Behind the Silk Road
Nick Bilton · 2017 · read Dec 2022A San Francisco library, 2013, and the FBI finally has the man behind the Silk Road.
Losing the Signal: The Untold Story Behind the Extraordinary Rise and Spectacular Fall of BlackBerry
Jacquie McNish · 2015 · read Dec 2022An engineer who grew up building radios in Windsor, Ontario, and an aggressive dealmaker from Seaforth.
Blowout
Rachel Maddow · 2019 · read Dec 2022What is Vladimir Putin doing at the 2003 opening of a Russian-owned gas station in New York City, next to Chuck Schumer?
For a Dollar and a Dream: State Lotteries in Modern America
Jonathan D. Cohen · 2022 · read Dec 2022State lotteries let politicians raise money without raising your taxes.
November 2022
1 book · 356 pages
October 2022
8 books · 2,633 pages
Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism
Anne Applebaum · 2020 · read Oct 2022Why do educated, often prosperous people who once championed liberal democracy end up backing nationalists and would-be autocrats?
Not in It to Win It: Why Choosing Sides Sidelines The Church
Andy Stanley · 2022 · read Oct 2022Churches that tie themselves to a party trade their mission for partisan wins, in Andy Stanley's view.
The Trump Tapes: Bob Woodward's Twenty Interviews with President Donald Trump
Bob Woodward · 2022 · read Oct 2022Twenty interviews, one from the 2016 campaign and the rest from the presidency, in Donald Trump's own voice.
Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity
David Allen · 2001 · read Oct 2022Get every open commitment out of your head and into a system you trust.
The Divider: Trump in the White House, 2017 - 2021
Peter Baker · 2022 · read Oct 2022Four years, told as one story, from the inauguration to January 6.
Building a Second Brain: A Proven Method to Organize Your Digital Life and Unlock Your Creative Potential
Tiago Forte · 2022 · read Oct 2022Capture, Organize, Distill, Express.
A Theory of Everything: An Integral Vision for Business, Politics, Science & Spirituality
Ken Wilber · 1996 · read Oct 2022Every major worldview gets some real part of reality right, and none of them gets all of it.
American Carnage: On the Front Lines of the Republican Civil War and the Rise of President Trump
Tim Alberta · 2019 · read Oct 2022Trump didn't cause the Republican civil war.
September 2022
2 books · 859 pages
Evil Geniuses: The Unmaking of America
Kurt Andersen · 2020 · read Sep 2022In 1971 about 175 companies had lobbyists in Washington, and by the Reagan years nearly 2,500 did.
Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire: A 500-Year History
Kurt Andersen · 2017 · read Sep 2022Gold-seekers and religious zealots, both betting on extraordinary outcomes, made the colonies in Kurt Andersen's telling, and his…
August 2022
3 books · 932 pages
A Short History of Reconstruction, 1863-1877
Eric Foner · 1990 · read Aug 2022Reconstruction was a real chance to remake American society, with Black citizenship, political equality and land for the…
The Infinite Game
Simon Sinek · 2017 · read Aug 2022Chess and football end with a winner.
Torn Apart: How the Child Welfare System Destroys Black Families—and How Abolition Can Build a Safer World
Dorothy Roberts · 2022 · read Aug 2022The child welfare system is, in Dorothy Roberts's account, a family policing system that works alongside police and prisons to…
July 2022
6 books · 1,807 pages
The Obstacle Is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph
Ryan Holiday · 2014 · read Jul 2022What do you do with the thing standing in your way?
Republic of Lies: American Conspiracy Theorists and Their Surprising Rise to Power
Anna Merlan · 2019 · read Jul 2022Some suspicion of government is earned, since COINTELPRO, the Tuskegee syphilis study and MKUltra were real.
21 Lessons for the 21st Century
Yuval Noah Harari · 2018 · read Jul 2022After Sapiens on the past and Homo Deus on the future, Yuval Noah Harari turns to the present you're living in.
Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow
Yuval Noah Harari · 2015 · read Jul 2022Obesity now kills more people than starvation, old age more than disease, and suicide more than murder.
The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap
Mehrsa Baradaran · 2017 · read Jul 2022Black banks were promoted as a way to close the racial wealth gap.
The Tragedy of Rudy Giuliani
Michael Wolff · 2020 · read Jul 2022From reviving New York City in the 1990s and leading the country after 9/11 to serving as Trump's personal lawyer, Rudy…
June 2022
3 books · 682 pages
The 12 Week Year
Brian P. Moran · 2009 · read Jun 2022Brian P.
The Original Watergate Stories
The Washington Post · 2012 · read Jun 2022This collection opens with the Washington Post's 18 June 1972 story on burglars arrested at the Democratic National Committee…
The Membership Economy
Robbie Kellman Baxter · 2015 · read Jun 2022More of what you pay for now buys access rather than ownership.
May 2022
2 books · 637 pages
The Republican Brain: The Science of Why They Deny Science—and Reality
Chris C. Mooney · 2007 · read May 2022Why do American conservatives more often reject mainstream findings on climate change, evolution, economics and history?
Atlas of the Heart: Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience
Brené Brown · 2021 · read May 2022Naming what you feel doesn't hand the feeling more power.
April 2022
1 book · 207 pages
March 2022
2 books · 534 pages
Yoga and the Quest for the True Self
Stephen Cope · 1999 · read Mar 2022Yoga is a practical path of liberation roughly 4,000 years old, in Stephen Cope's telling, and it works on your psyche, not just…
Ditch the Pitch: The Art of Improvised Persuasion
Steve Yastrow · 2014 · read Mar 2022Throw out the script, because your customers don't want the pitch.
