Okay, this is going to come across like a flex.
Is it supposed to be that way? Maybe a little bit, yeah.
I spend my entire workday staring at a screen, so when I’m home I tend to not want to spend even more time looking at an even bigger screen. So I read.
Last year, I ended up reading 82 books. Some are short. Some are long. Some are good. Some are bad. Before I start sounding even more like Dr. Seuss, here’s the list:
** I recommend this book
- Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
- Great Book of Optical Illusions
- 99% Invisible City** (Maybe my favorite book of the year)
- Heads Up Psychology
- Willpower**
- Spain
- Worldly Philosophers
- Naked Money**
- Your First Novel
- How Things Work
- History of Ireland
- Guns, Germs and Steel
- Talking to Strangers
- Think Like a Freak**
- Theodore Roosevelt
- Them
- Don’t Be Evil
- Wright Brothers**
- Billion Dollar Brand Club
- Murder on the Orient Express
- Super Freakanomics**
- What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions**
- Digital Minimalism** (probably will read this every year)
- Invisible Influence
- Writing Tools: 55 Essential Strategies for Every Writer**(read this every year)
- Year Zero: A History of 1945
- Copywriter’s Handbook** (read this every year)
- Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World**
- The Minimalist Home
- The Shining
- Into the Wild**
- Gem of the Prairie: An Informal History of the Chicago Underworld
- Survivor
- Crazy Happy: Nine Surprising Ways to Live the Truly Beautiful Life
- Hey Whipple, Squeeze This** (read this every year)
- Secret Life of Groceries
- Japan
- In Defense of Food**
- Pappyland: A Story of Family, Fine Bourbon, and the Things That Last**
- Food Rules
- Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff
- Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die**
- Seven Brief Lessons on Physics
- Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life**
- How to Relax
- How to Eat
- Olgilvy on Advertising**
- Little Blue Book of Advertising** (read every year)
- Technically Food
- How Money Works
- How to Write a Good Advertisement
- The Omnivore’s Dilemma**
- Playing with FIRE
- On the Road
- American Pharaoh: Mayor Richard J. Daley – His Battle for Chicago and the Nation**
- But What If We’re Wrong?**
- Little Book of Lykke**
- War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles**
- Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media
- Turkey
- Dollars and Sense: How We Misthink Money and How to Spend Smarter**
- On Writing Well** (read every year)
- Goodbye Things**
- Hello Habits
- How to Thrive in the Virtual Workplace
- Tidying Up
- Tenth of December**
- How to Sit
- 30 Day Money Cleanse**
- The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail–but Some Don’t
- Outer Order, Inner Calm
- The Willpower Instinct
- The Four: The Hidden DNA of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google**
- The Clutter Remedy
- This Is Your Mind on Plants
- How to Love
- Essential Frank Lloyd Wright**
- Better Than Before: What I Learned About Making and Breaking Habits
- Greatest Stories Never Told**
- Where the Tour Buses Don’t Go: Chicago’s Hidden Sites of the Mysterious, Macabre, Ghostly & Glamorous**
- Frank Lloyd Wright: A Life
- Frequently Asked Questions About the Universe
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