Below are the 79 books I read in 2024 in the order in which I finished them. For my nine favorites from this list, check out my post here.
2024 Reading List
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius (Gregory Hays translation)
Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari
Knowing What We Know by Simon Winchester
The Immense Journey by Loren Eiseley
Alchemy by Rory Sutherland
Diaspora by Greg Egan
Hidden Potential by Adam Grant
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
The Mathematics of Poker by Bill Chen & Jerrod Ankenman
Theodore Rex by Edmund Morris
Colonel Roosevelt by Edmund Morris
Running Down a Dream by Tim Grahl
A Promised Land by Barack Obama
The Truth Detective by Alex O’Brien
The Complete Works of Epictetus by Epictetus (Robin Waterfield translation)
The Bitcoin Standard by Saifedean Ammous
PLO QuickPro Manual by Kasino Krime
Read Write Own by Chris Dixon
Elements of Poker by Tommy Angelo
Notes on Complexity by Neil Theise
Understanding Variation by Donald Wheeler
The Rational Optimist by Matt Ridley
On Grand Strategy by John Lewis Gaddis
Co-Intelligence by Ethan Mollick
Prisoners of Geography by Tim Marshall
Thinking in Systems by Donella Meadows
A-Game Poker by Elliott Roe
First Principles by Thomas Ricks
The Fractalist by Benoit Mandelbrot
The (Mis)Behavior of Markets by Benoit Mandelbrot
No Bad Parts by Richard Schwartz
How To by Randall Munroe
Supercommunicators by Charles Duhigg
Right Thing, Right Now by Ryan Holiday
Slow Productivity by Cal Newport
Short Stack Ninja by Chris “Fox” Wallace
Mastery by Robert Greene
On Writing Well by William Zinsser
Fooled By Randomness by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas Hofstadter
How to Invent Everything by Ryan North
The Sovereign Individual by James Dale Davidson
Million Dollar Weekend by Noah Kagan
Flatland by Edwin Abbott
Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
Sid Meier’s Memoir by Sid Meier
SPQR by Mary Beard
The Storm Before the Storm by Mike Duncan
The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
Living in Data by Jer Thorp
Grit by Angela Duckworth
Writing Useful Books by Rob Fitzpatrick
The Anxious Generation by Jonathan Haidt
Endurance by Alfred Lansing
Building a Second Brain by Tiago Forte
Man and His Symbols by Carl Jung
Getting Things Done by David Allen
Do Hard Things by Steve Magness
How to Listen by Oscar Trimboli
The Model Thinker by Scott Page
The Second Mountain by David Books
Nuclear War by Annie Jacobson
Creators, Conquerors, and Citizens by Robin Waterfield
The Iliad by Homer (Robert Fagles translation)
Reasons Not to Worry by Brigid Delaney
Invisible Rulers by Renee DiResta
On Writing by Stephen King
Elements of Style by William Strunk & E.B. White
The Odyssey by Homer (Robert Fagles translation)
The Algebra of Happiness by Scott Galloway
Think Faster, Talk Smarter by Matt Abrahams
The Cryptopians by Laura Shin
The Aeneid by Virgil (Robert Fagles translation)
Human Being by Graham Lee
The Wager by David Grann
A Calendar of Wisdom by Leo Tolstoy (daily book read throughout the year)
The Daily Pressfield by Steven Pressfield (daily book read throughout the year)
The Daily Dad by Ryan Holiday (daily book read throughout the year)
The Daily Stoic by Ryan Holiday (daily book read throughout the year)