Bookshelf

Last updated on September 20th, 2025.

I love reading and enjoy seeing what other people read. After stumbling across Patrick Collison’s bookshelf, I thought I’d share mine here in case anyone would like to see the books I keep on my bookshelf.

Back in January I went through all of my books and purged the ones that I had no interest in reading again, so my book list is pretty short at the moment. I’ve also been pretty busy this year and reading less than usual, so I haven’t read many new books. Things are starting to stabilize though, so I’m hoping to get back to reading more books soon.

• 1984 by George Orwell
• A History of God by Karen Armstrong
• Algebra & Trigonometry by Sullivan, 7th Edition
• All That the Rain Promises and More by David Arora
• Atomic Habits by James Clear
• Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
• Book of Proof by Richard Hammack
• Botany in a Day by Thomas J. Elpel
• Calculus by James Stewart, 5th Edition
• Code by Charles Petzold, 2nd Edition
• Crucial Conversations by Patterson, Grenny, McMillan, and Switzler
• Deep Work by Cal Newport
• Essentialism by Greg McKeown
• Financial Intelligence by Berman, Knight, and Case
• Gardening When It Counts by Steve Solomon
• Good to Great by Jim Collins
• Henry David Thoreau Bundle: Walden, On the Duty of Civil Disobedience, and Walking by Henry David Thoreau
• How Computers Really Work by Matthew Justice
• Incredible Wild Edibles by Samuel Thayer
• It Doesn’t Have to be Crazy at Work by Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson
• Landrace Gardening by Joseph Lofthouse
• Making Ideas Happen by Scott Belsky
• Mushrooms Demystified by David Arora, 2nd Edition
• Mushrooms of Cascadia by Michael Beug, 2nd Edition
• Mushrooms of the Redwood Coast by Noah Siegel and Christian Schwarz
• Native California by Dolan H. Eargle, Jr.
• Nature’s Best Hope by Douglas W. Tallamy
• Nature’s Garden by Samuel Thayer
• Oathbringer by Brandon Sanderson
• On Writing Well by William Zinsser
• Outlive by Peter Attia
• Practical Object-Oriented Design by Sandi Metz, 2nd Edition
• Principles by Ray Dalio
• Remote by Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson
• Ruby on Rails Tutorial by Michael Hartl, 6th Edition
• Sam Thayer’s Field Guide to Edible Wild Plants by Samuel Thayer
• Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari
• Seed to Seed by Suzanne Ashworth
• Smarter Faster Better by Charles Dugigg
• So What? by Kurt Schick and Laura Schubert
• The 4-Hour Work-Week by Timothy Ferriss
• The 48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene
• The Bedford Handbook by Diana Hacker and Nancy Sommers, 10th Edition
• The Forager’s Harvest by Samuel Thayer
• The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie Kondo
• The Messy Middle by Scott Belsky
• The ONE Thing by Gary W. Keller and Jay Papasan
• The Organized Mind by Daniel J. Levitin
• The Personal MBA by Josh Kaufman
• The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg
• The Sea Forager’s Guide to the Northern California Coast by Kirk Lombard
• The Theoretical Minimum by Leonard Susskind and George Hrabovsky
• The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson
• Why We Sleep by Matthew Walker
• Words of Radiance by Brandon Sanderson
• Will Bonsal’s Essential Guide to Radical, Self-Reliant Gardening by Will Bonsall