2024

Sweating Bullets: Notes about Inventing PowerPoint By Robert Gaskins (in progress)

The Infernal Machine: A True Story of Dynamite, Terror, and the Rise of the Modern Detective by Steven Johnson (in progress)

Unforgettable: The Art and Science of Creating Memorable Experiences by Phil Mershon (in progress)

Meditations for Mortals: Four Weeks to Embrace Your Limitations and Make Time for What Counts by Oliver Burkeman (in progress)

The Youngest Science: Notes of a Medicine-Watcher by Lewis Thomas

March By Geraldine Brooks

Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues By Jonathan Kennedy

The Algebra of Wealth: A Simple Formula for Financial Security By Scott Galloway

Opposable Thumbs: How Siskel & Ebert Changed Movies Forever By Matt Singer

Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space By Adam Higginbotham

Booth By Karen Joy Fowler

Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout By Cal Newport

Burn Book: A Tech Love Story By Kara Swisher

Deep Water By Patricia Highsmith

The Lost World by Michael Crichton

The Little Book of Exoplanets By Joshua N. Winn

The Story of the Tour de France, Volume 1: 1903-1975: How a Newspaper Promotion Became the Greatest Sporting Event in the World By Bill and Carol McGann

Coma by Robin Cook

Heartburn by Nora Ephron

The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War By Malcolm Gladwell

Ours Was the Shining Future: The Story of the American Dream By David Leonhardt

Night Mother: A Personal and Cultural History of the Exorcist by Marlena Williams

Happy-Go-Lucky By David Sedaris

A Kim Jong-Il Production: The Extraordinary True Story of a Kidnapped Filmmaker, His Star Actress, and a Young Dictator's Rise to Power By Paul Fischer

2023

60 Songs That Explain the '90s By Rob Harvilla

The Four: The Hidden DNA of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google By Scott Galloway

Walden: Life in the Woods By Henry David Thoreau

The Equations of Life: How Physics Shapes Evolution By Charles S. Cockell

Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World By Henry Grabar

The secret to superhuman strength by Allison Bechdel

Better: a surgeon's notes on performance by Atul Gawande (re-read)

Park Tool Big Blue Book of Bike Repair

The 12 Week Year: Get More Done in 12 Weeks Than Others Do in 12 Months by brian p. Moran and michael lennington

Goodbye, Vitamin by Rachel Khong

The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder By David Grann

A Midnight Clear By William Wharton

Sickening: How Big Pharma Broke American Health Care and How We Can Repair It By John Abramson

The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follet

The Alchemy of Air: A Jewish Genius, a Doomed Tycoon, and the Scientific Discovery That Fed the World but Fueled the Rise of Hitler By Thomas Hager

2022

Transformer: The Deep Chemistry of Life and Death by Nick Lane

The Sweet Season: A Sportswriter Rediscovers Football, Family, and a Bit of Faith at Minnesota's St. John's University by Austin Murphy

Adrift: America in 100 Charts by Scott Galloway

The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon by David Grann

Sea of Tranquility: A novel by Emily St. John Mandel

Typeset in the Future: Typography and Design in Science Fiction Movies by Dave Addey and Matt Zoller Seitz

Horrorstor: A Novel by Grady Hendrix

The Book of Eels: Our Enduring Fascination with the Most Mysterious Creature in the Natural World by Patrik Svensson

The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race by Walter Isaacson

Alien: The Original Screenplay by Cris Seixas, Guilherme Balbi (Illustrator), Candice Han (Illustrator)

The Apollo Murders by Chris Hadfield

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy: A George Smiley Novel by John le Carré

Keep Going: 10 Ways to Stay Creative in Good Times and Bad by Austin Kleon

Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry into the Value of Work by Matthew B. Crawford

Nightbitch by Rachel Yoder

World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments, by Aimee Nezhukumatathil and Fumi Nakamura (Illustrator)

2021

Crossroads by Jonathan Franzen

shirley jackson: a rather haUnted life by ruth franklin

Never pay the First Bill and other ways to fight the health care system and win by Marshall Allen

Freedom by Sebastian Junger

Spitting in the Soup: Inside the Dirty Game of Doping in Sports by Mark Johnson

Moonglow: A Novel by Michael chabon

The Moth and the Mountain: A True Story of Love, War, and Everest by Ed Caesar

Extra Life: A Short History of Living Longer by Steven Johnson

The Long Ships By Frans G. Bengtsson

Ceo's Guide to Restoring the American Dream: How to Deliver World Class Health Care to Your Employees at Half the Cost By Dave Chase

How to Become a Straight-A Student: The Unconventional Strategies Real College Students Use to Score High While Studying Less by Cal Newport

How to Be a High School Superstar: A Revolutionary Plan to Get into College by Standing Out (Without Burning Out) by cal newport

If Then: How the Simulmatics Corporation Invented the Future by Jill Lepore

Small Spaces by Katherine Arden

Beginners: The Joy and Transformative Power of Lifelong Learning by tom vanderbilt

The Cold Millions: A Novel by Jess Walter

Running with Sherman: How a Rescue Donkey Inspired a Rag-tag Gang of Runners to Enter the Craziest Race in America By Christopher McDougall

2020

Gold by Chris Cleave

Which Country Has the World's Best Health Care? by ezekiel j. emanuel

Gilead: A Novel by Marilynne Robinson

Fleishman is in Trouble by Taffy Brodesser-Akner

Freeman by Leonard Pitts

Crossing to Safety by Wallace Stegner

A Sport and a Pastime by James Salter

The Cold Vanish: Seeking the Missing in North America's Wildlands by jon Billman

Mycroft Holmes by Kareem Abdul-jabbar and anna waterhouse

Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History by S. C. Gwynne

Scrum: The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time by Jeff Sutherland and JJ Sutherland

Raven Rock: The Story of the U.S. Government's Secret Plan to Save Itself--While the Rest of Us Die by Garrett M. Graff

Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West by cormack mccarthy

Endure: Mind, Body, and the Curiously Elastic Limits of Human Performance by Alex Hutchinson, Robert G. Slade, et al

The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming by David Wallace-Wells

The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz by Erik Larson

Archaeology from Space: How the Future Shapes Our Past by Sarah Parcak

The Testaments: The Sequel to The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood

Lab Girl by Hope Jahren

The Body: A Guide for Occupants by Bill Bryson

Infinite powers: how calculus reveals the secrets of the universe by Steven Strogatz

Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors by Susan Sontag

The Last Picture Show by Larry mcmurtry

This Could Be Our Future: A Manifesto for a More Generous World by Yancey Strickler

2019

Tampa: A Novel by Alissa Nutting

The Price We Pay: What Broke American Health Care--and How to Fix It by Marty Makary

The Grip of it by jac jemc

See what I have done by sarah schmidt

The Library Book by Susan Orlean

The Transformative Years at Kansas State by Jon Wefald

The Devil in the White City: A Saga of Magic and Murder at the Fair that Changed America by Erik Larson

Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion by Jia Tolentino

The Shakespeare Requirement: A Novel by Julie Schumacher

And Yet...: Essays by Christopher Hitchens

A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving

The Crofter and the Laird: Life on an Hebridean Island by John McPhee

Dear Committee Members: A Novel by Julie Schumacher

This Is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a junior doctor by Adam Kay

In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin by Eric Larson

Deep Medicine: How Artificial Intelligence Can Make Healthcare Human Again by Eric Topol

Everything Happens for a Reason: And Other Lies I've Loved by Kate bowler

The Girl in the Blue Beret: A Novel by Bobbie Ann Mason

The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure by Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt

No Impact Man: The Adventures of a Guilty Liberal Who Attempts to Save the Planet, and the Discoveries He Makes About Himself and Our Way of Life in the Process by Colin Beavan

Arrowsmith by Sinclair Lewis

Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World by Cal Newport

The wizard and the prophet : two remarkable scientists and their dueling visions to shape tomorrow's world by Charles Mann

Flight behavior: a novel by barbara Kingsolver

The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing by Melissa Bank

2018

Farsighted: How we made the decisions that matter the most by Steven Johnson

Tenth of December: Stories by George Saunders

Wildlife by Richard Ford

Beautiful Evidence by Edward Tufte

Lincoln in the Bardo: a Novel by George Saunders

The gene: An Intimate History by Siddhartha Mukherjee

The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson

The Terror by Dan Simmons

The witches of eastwick by john Updike

Convenience Store Woman by sayaka murata

Station Eleven by emily st. john mandel

Tinkers by Paul Harding

The Destiny Thief: Essays on Writing, Writers and Life by Richard Russo

A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles

Spying on whales by Nick Pyenson

Look Alive Out There: Essays by Sloane Crosley

My year of rest and relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh

Revolution Song by Russell Shorto

Calypso by david sedaris

Draft Animals: Living the Pro Cycling Dream (Once in a While) by Phil Gaimon

The Sports Gene: Inside the Science of Extraordinary Athletic Performance by David Epstein

The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World by Steve Brusatte

Educated: A memoir by tara westover

Major: A Black Athlete, a White Era, and the Fight to Be the World's Fastest Human Being by Todd Balf

The Futilitarians: Our Year of Thinking, Drinking, Grieving, and Reading by Anne Gisleson

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari

When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing by Daniel Pink

We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live: Collected Nonfiction by joan didion

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer

How to Break Up with Your Phone: The 30-Day Plan to Take Back Your Life by Catherine Price

Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah

Purity by Jonathan Franzen

The Bad Food Bible: How and Why to Eat Sinfully by Aaron Carroll

I'm having so much fun here without you by Courtney Maum

2017

Six sigma for dummies by craig gygi

Annals of the Former World by john mcphee

From a Certain Point of View (Star Wars)

We Seven By the Astronauts Themselves [M. Scott Carpenter,‎ Gordon L. Cooper,‎ John H. Glenn,‎ Virgil I. Grissom,‎ Walter M. Schirra,‎ Alan B. Shepard,‎ Donald K. Slayton]

the graveyard book by neil gaimon

Side Hustle: From Idea to Income in 27 Days by Chris Guillebeau

Commonwealth by Ann Patchett

IT by Stephen King

The handmaid's tale by margaret atwood

Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen by Christopher mcdougall

We have always lived in the castle by shirley jackson

Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann

The dispossessed by Ursula LeGuin

Blogging for dummies by Amy Lupold Bair

Move your bus: an extraordinary new approach to accelerating success in work and life by Ron Clark

Giants in the earth by O.E. Rolvaag

The year of living Danishly: uncovering the secrets of the world's happiest country by Helen Russell

Me and Earl and the dying girl: [a novel] by Jesse Andrews

The laws of medicine: field notes from an uncertain science by Siddhartha Mukherjee

Smile by Raina Telgemeier

Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

Just write: the art of personal correspondence by Molly O'Shaughnessy

Hillbilly elegy by JD Vance

The sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen

The perks of being a wallflower by Stephen Chbosky

The unsettlers: in search of the good life in today's America by Mark Sundeen

PrairyErth: (a deep map) by William Least Heat Moon

The nature fix: why nature makes us happier, healthier, and more creative by Florence Williams

You are not a gadget: a manifesto by Jaron Lanier

Deep work by Cal Newport

The mezzanine: a novel by Nicholson Baker

Absalom, absalom by William Faulkner

Portnoy's complaint by Philip Roth

Killing the rising sun: how America vanquished world war II Japan by Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard

Grit by Angela Duckworth

Ready player one by Ernest Cline

The underground railroad: a novel by Colson Whitehead

2016

Beasts & Children by Amy Parker

The round house by Louise Erdrich

The abstinence teacher by Tom Perrotta

The clasp by Sloane Crosley

Better than before by Gretchen Rubin

Love, dishonor, marry, die, cherish, perish a novel by David Rakoff

The world according to Garp by John Irving

Assassination vacation by Sarah Vowell

Genius: the life and science of Richard Feynman by James Gleick

The amazing adventures of Kavalier & Clay a novel by Michael Chabon

Rise of the robots: technology and the threat of a jobless future by Martin Ford

The Martian: a novel by Andy Weir

Modern romance by Aziz Ansari

The Lone Ranger and Tonto fistfight in heaven by Sherman Alexie

Pride and prejudice by Jane Austen

I was told there'd be cake: essays by Sloane Crosley

The art of the personal letter: a guide to connecting through the written word by Margaret Shepherd

How did you get this number: essays by Sloane Crosley

Walden: and, Civil disobedience by Henry David Thoreau

Dietland by Sarai Walker

The sixth extinction: an unnatural history by Elizabeth Kolbert

The girl with the dragon tattoo by Stieg Larsson

The call of the wild, and selected stories by Jack London

From a Buick 8 by Stephen King

Zero K by Don DeLillo

Room: a novel by Emma Donoghue

Then we came to the end: a novel by Joshua Ferris

Watership Down by Richard Adams

The plot against America by Philip Roth

The absolutely true diary of a part-time Indian by Sherman Alexie

The ghost map: the story of London's most terrifying epidemic--and how it changed science, cities, and the modern world by Steven Johnson

When breath becomes air by Paul Kalanithi

Wetlands by Charlotte Roche

Smarter faster better: the secrets of being productive in life and business by Charles Duhigg

2015 and earlier (books that I can think of that I liked before I started cataloguing):

Doctored: the disillusionment of an American physician by Sandeep Jauhar

Being mortal by Atul Gawande

Salt, sugar, fat by Michael Moss

A short history of nearly everything by Bill Bryson

Guns, germs, and steel : the fates of human societies by Jared Diamond

The checklist manifesto: how to get things right by Atul Gawande

An abundance of Katherines by John Green 

Outliers : the story of success by Malcolm Gladwell

Complications: a surgeon's notes on an imperfect science by Atul Gawande

Good calories, bad calories: challenging the conventional wisdom on diet, weight control, and disease by Gary Taubes

Gironimo! riding the very terrible 1914 tour of Italy by Tim Moore

Better: a surgeon's notes on performance by Atul Gawande

A visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan

On writing: a memoir of the craft by Stephen King

Collapse: how societies choose to fail or succeed by Jared Diamond

The worst hard time: the untold story of those who survived the great American dust bowl by Timothy Egan

Slaying the Badger: Greg LeMond, Bernard Hinault, and the Greatest Tour de France by Richard Moore

The great Gatsby  by F. Scott Fitzgerald

The meaning of human existence by Edward O. Wilson

The adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

Shiloh and other stories by Bobbie Ann Mason

The last well person: how to stay well despite the health-care system by Nortin Hadler

The time traveler's wife: a novel by Audrey Niffenegger

Waking beauty by Elyse Friedman

Consider the lobster and other essays by David Foster Wallace

The wordy shipmates by Sarah Vowell

Freakonomics: a rogue economist explores the hidden side of everything by Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner

Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides

America's bitter pill: money, politics, backroom deals, and the fight to fix our broken healthcare system by Steven Brill

The discovery of insulin by Michael Bliss

At home: a short history of private life by Bill Bryson

The big short: inside the doomsday machine by Michael Lewis

Nudge: improving decisions about health, wealth, and happiness by Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein

Home game: an accidental guide to fatherhood by Michael Lewis

Mindless eating: why we eat more than we think by Brian Wansink

The fault in our stars by John Green

The end of faith: religion, terror, and the future of reason by Sam Harris

Fat girl: a true story by Judith Moore

4B goes wild by Jamie Gilson

The autobiography of Malcolm X as told to Alex Haley

The Blue Zones: Lessons for Living Longer From the People Who've Lived the Longest by dan buettner

The House of God by Samuel Shem

'Salem's Lot by Stephen King

Oyster by John Biguenet

Pet Sematary by Stephen King

The Secret Race: Inside the Hidden World of the Tour de France by Tyler hamilton and daniel coyle

The Dark Tower I: The Gunslinger by Stephen King

Misery by Stephen King

The Greatest Generation by Tom Brokaw

Skipping Christmas By John Grisham