A Reading List
This is my incomplete reading list. I hate to say it that I haven’t read much in the past decade. Very sporadically, a lot of essays online. 2025 is the year I decided to make all of that change. To continually have a book on the go.
My wife is a big reader and has encouraged me to not neglect fiction and I’m so glad she did. We so often, maybe men in particular, have a tendency to need something from the writing. We neeeed a book to give us tangible, actionable value-creating tools.
Being immersed in stories, poetry, abstract ideas has unintentional rebooted my imagination.
Currently Reading:
- Figuring Maria Popova
- Moby Dick Herman Melville I'm picking off a chapter at a time every few weeks. UPDATE: Chapter 71
2026
- Pattern Recognition William Gibson
- Kitchen Confidential Anthony Bourdain Tony is "voice". He wrote of so many of the thoughts I have all the time. Like, "who'd want to read this?". A really inspiring read for creative ppl.
- The Odyssey Homer Emily Wilson translation - A fantastic read. Like my kids' aversion to black and white films, i was weirdly worried about this. It was such a great read, and, dare i say, she was right about the film.
- In Praise of Shadows Jun'ichirō Tanizaki Poop with a view
- Train Dreams Denis Johnson
- The Sound and the Fury William Faulkner
- Meditations Marcus Aurelius
- Writing Down the Bones Natalie Goldberg
- The Road Cormac McCarthy The first book I've read that I literally couldn't put down. I read this over two sittings.
2025
- The War of Art Steven Pressfield
- The Practice Seth Godin
- Things Become Other Things Craig Mod
- Walden Henry David Thoreau
- MacBeth William Shakespeare
- On Writing Stephen King
- Big Magic Elizabeth Gilbert
- On Photography Susan Sontag
- Atomic Habits James Clear Small, hard to find book you may not have heard of.