Starting around 2020, I began to wonder if I’ve read over 1,000 books in my lifetime. Unable to answer that directly, in 2022, I started tracking the specifics. In the first few years, it’s been slow going. But the last couple I’ve clearly picked up the pace.
2020-21 (11)
VC: An American History by Tom Nicholas
Undaunted by John Brennan
Strategy: A History by Lawrence Freedman
This is the Fire by Don Lemon
On Grand Strategy by John Lewis Gaddis
How to Win Friends… by Carnegie
The McKinsey Way
Anything for a Vote
Network Propaganda
The Prince by Machiavelli
Kochland by Leonard
In 2022 (13)
The World Is Flat
Option$
Macrowikinomics
Vox
The New Tsar
In Dubious Battle
Rules of Golf
Golf: The Mental Game
A Practical Guide to TPM 2.0
Five Lessons
Tales From Japan
Principles of Race Driving
The Official (ISC)^2 CISSP CBK Reference
In ’23 (2)
In Cold Blood by Capote
Spies in the Family
In ’24 (5)
The Design & Evaluation of Physical Protection Systems
Capture, Kill, Vanish: The Secret History of Paramilitary CIA…
How Big Tech Barons Smash Innovation
The Mutt: How to Skateboard and not Kill Yourself
What’s Next: The West Wing at its Smuggest
In ’25 (22)
Fraud Analytics – Using Descriptive, Predictive, and…
City Limits – Infrastructure, Inequality, and…
Coincidences, Chaos, and All That Math Jazz
Hoax: A History of Deception
Small-boat Sailing by Jack London
The Underground Railroad by Whitehead
The Grand Failure by Brzezinski
The Village by Mamet
Manufacturing Consent by Herman, Chomsky
Islands in the Stream by Hemingway
Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde and Other Stories by Stevenson
The Waltz of Reason by Sigmund
Chicago Loop by Theroux
The Language of Fear by Del James (lol)
Make-Believe Town by Mamet
A Farewell to Arms by Hemingway
The Barbary Coast by Herbert Asbury
On The Road by Kerouac
Heart of American Darkness by Robert Parkinson
Our Game by Le Carré
Different Seasons by King
Glengarry Glen Ross by Mamet
In ’26 (33)
Rebellion… Antiliberalism… by Robert Kagan
Bright Lights, Big City by McInerney
Less Than Zero by Easton Ellis
Game Theory and the Law by Picker, et al
Slaves of New York by Janowitz (meh)
Naked Lunch by Burroughs (ugh)
Sideshow by Shawcross
Heart of Darkness by Conrad
The Razor’s Edge by Maugham (!!!!!!!!!)
The Winter of Our Discontent by Steinbeck
American Dreams: Lost & Found by Studs Terkel
The Spy Who Loved Me by Ian Fleming
You Only Live Twice by Fleming
The Big Myth by Oreskes, Conway
Four Short Stories by Maugham
The Nickel Boys by Whitehead
The Grapes of Wrath by Steinbeck
Capitalism and Freedom by Milton Friedman
White Widow by Jim Lehrer
Republican Party Reptile by PJ O’Rourke (ugh)
If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin
The Coming Anarchy by Robert Kaplan
Call for the Dead by Le Carré
Up In The Air by Walter Kirin
The Line Becomes a River by Francisco Cantu
The Captain and the Glory by Dave Eggers
The Looking Glass War by Le Carré
The Rum Diary by Hunter S. Thompson
T is for Trespass by Sue Grafton
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand (ugh)
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson
The Cuckoo’s Egg by Clifford Stoll
Lord of the Flies by by William Golding
= 86, or an average of ~12.3 per year