Reading List
Reading is one of the ways I make sense of the world. Since 2012, I’ve tracked all the books I’ve read.
All books
2026
Outsider: An Old Man, a Mountain and the Search for a Hidden Past
Hot Lights, Cold Steel: Life, Death and Sleepless Nights in a Surgeon’s First Years
The Mountain Between Us
The Redemption of Time: A Three-Body Problem Novel
Blue Collar, Blue Scrubs: The Making of a Surgeon
Death’s End
The Dark Forest
Crazy Love: Overwhelmed by a Relentless God
The Good Life Method: Reasoning Through the Big Questions of Happiness, Faith, and Meaning
White Oleander
The Three-Body Problem
Spirit-Controlled Temperament
Leave the World Behind
Malibu Rising
The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness
No More Mr. Nice Guy: A Proven Plan For Getting What You Want In Love, Sex, And Life
Murder in Mesopotamia
The Darkest White: A Mountain Legend and the Avalanche That Took Him
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
2025
Player Piano
The Last Blue Mountain: The Great Karakoram Climbing Tragedy
Ready Player Two
Lolita
Fire Weather: The Making of a Beast
The Color of Everything: A Journey to Quiet the Chaos Within
Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones
Anxious for Nothing: Finding Calm in a Chaotic World
Try Softer: A Fresh Approach to Move Us out of Anxiety, Stress, and Survival Mode—and into a Life of Connection and Joy
How to Win Over Depression
Where the Crawdads Sing
Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win
12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos
God on Mute: Engaging the Silence of Unanswered Prayer
Brain Energy: A Revolutionary Breakthrough in Understanding Mental Health--and Improving Treatment for Anxiety, Depression, OCD, PTSD, and More
The Year of Less
Dream Big: Know What You Want, Why You Want It, and What You’re Going to Do About It
Eight Dates: Essential Conversations for a Lifetime of Love
2024
All the Light We Cannot See
An Unquiet Mind
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life
The Meaning of Marriage: Facing the Complexities of Commitment with the Wisdom of God
The Year of Living Biblically: One Man’s Humble Quest to follow the Bible as Literally as Possible
Love Does: Discover a Secretly Incredible Life in an Ordinary World
My Dark Vanessa
Undistracted: Capture Your Purpose. Rediscover Your Joy.
The Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness, And Greed
Scattered Minds: The Origins and Healing of Attention Deficit Disorder
Everybody, Always: Becoming Love in a World Full of Setbacks and Difficult People
The Essex Serpent
One Hundred Years of Solitude
The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry: How to Stay Emotionally Healthy and Spiritually Alive in the Chaos of the Modern World
I Don’t Want to Talk About It: Overcoming the Secret Legacy of Male Depression
Outlive: The Science & Art of Longevity
Ministries of Mercy: The Call of the Jericho Road
2023
It
Breathless
Structured Chaos: The unusual life of a climber
Prayer: Does It Make Any Difference?
The Dharma Bums
Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life
Where the Clouds Can Go
Native Air
The Metamorphosis
Human Traces
2022
The Secret Agent
Ridgerunner
What God Has to Say about Our Bodies: How the Gospel Is Good News for Our Physical Selves
Countdown to Zero Day: Stuxnet and the Launch of the World’s First Digital Weapon
The Death of Ivan Ilyich
One Green Bottle
Brave New World Revisited
Brave New World
2021
The Runaway Jury
Uncanny Valley
The Firm
The Mosquito Coast
Fearfully and Wonderfully Made
Carrie
The Stand: The Complete & Uncut Edition
50 Percent of Mountaineering is Uphill
The Pilgrim’s Progress
McTeague
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
The Body: A Guide for Occupants
2020
Anna Karenin
Reminiscences of a Stock Operator
At Home in Nature
This Is Depression: A Comprehensive, Compassionate Guide for Anyone Who Wants to Understand Depression
The Question of God: C.S. Lewis and Sigmund Freud Debate God, Love, Sex, and the Meaning of Life
Famous Last Words
2019
South
Little Fires Everywhere
Educated
Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
Beyond the Mountain
Echoes: One Climber’s Hard Road to Freedom
2018
Ready Player One
Crazy Rich Asians
China Rich Girlfriend
Rich People Problems
The Bold and Cold: A History of 25 Classic Climbs in the Canadian Rockies
Art of Freedom: The Life and Climbs of Voytek Kurtyka
Autonomy, Mastery and Purpose in the Avalanche Patch
Mountains in My Heart: A Passion for Climbing
A Purpose Ridden
Modern Romance
How to Win Friends and Influence People
Radical
The 10 Best Decisions a Man Can Make: The Adventure of living in God’s Plan
Soul Surviver: How my Faith Survived the Church
2017
The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism
Mere Christianity
The Case for a Creator
The Case for Faith
Disappointment with God
What’s So Amazing About Grace?
Who Moved the Stone?
The Real Face of Atheism
The Problem of God
Orthodoxy
2016
I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell
Sloppy Seconds
Hilarity Ensues
Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt
When Breath Becomes Air
Better: A Surgeon’s Notes on Performance
Being Mortal
The Checklist Manifesto
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
2015
Summit Fever. The Story of an Armchair Climber on the 1984 Mustagh Tower Expedition
2014
The Calling: A Life Rocked by Mountains
One Day as a Tiger: Alex Macintyre and the Birth of Light and Fast Alpinism
K2: Life and Death on the World’s Most Dangerous Mountain
Annapurna: First Conquest of an 8000-meter Peak
The Great Gatsby
2013
Doctor Sleep
The Will to Climb: Obsession and Commitment and the Quest to Climb Annapurna—the World’s Deadliest Peak
2012
No Shortcuts to the Top: Climbing the World’s 14 Highest Peaks
Sh*t My Dad Says
I Suck at Girls
Earlier
Chickenhawk
Dune
Ender’s Game
Nineteen Eighty-Four
Birdsong
Absolute Friends
The Guns of Navarone
Z for Zachariah
Dragonsbane
The Hunt for Red October
Rite of Passage
Fallen Angels
Deathwatch