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