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Books of 2023

This year totaled 56 books. To be clear, I’m less concerned about remembering everything; I love the cross-pollination of ideas much more. I’m going for quantity and listening at ~2.5X speed. The more ideas I gather from different disciplines, the more I draw parallels from seemingly unrelated fields. This is my sweet spot.

I’ve divided up all the books I read this year by the rating scale I use for my Book Notes page. Let me know if you want any of the notes I took for a particular book, and I’ll post it and share a hyperlink.

5 Stars: Loved It (17 books)

Non-Fiction

  • Expert Secrets by Russell Brunson
  • Crushing It! by Gary Vaynerchuk
  • At Your Best by Carey Nieuwhof
  • Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson
  • The Checklist Manifesto by Atul Gawande
  • Soldier Secretary by Christopher C. Miller
  • Sea Stories by William H. McRaven
  • Life Undercover by Amaryllis Fox
  • Chickenhawk by Robert Mason
  • Scars and Stripes by Tim Kennedy
  • Build by Tony Fadell
  • The Art of Clear Thinking by Hasard Lee
  • See, Solve, Scale by Danny Warshay
  • Buy Back Your Time by Dan Martell
  • The Power of Stillness by Jacob Z. Hess, Carrie L. Skarda, Kyle D. Anderson, and Ty R. Mansfield
  • Die with Zero by Bill Perkins

Fiction

  • Leviathan Wakes (The Expanse, #1) by James S.A. Corey

4 Stars: Liked It (16 books)

Non-Fiction

  • Influence by Robert B. Cialdini
  • You Need a Budget by Jesse Mecham
  • When to Jump by Mike Lewis
  • Outdoor Kids in an Inside World by Steven Rinella
  • Come Fly The World by Julia Cooke
  • The Opposite of Woe by John Hickenlooper
  • Make Life Beautiful by Syd & Shea McGee
  • Crisis of Command by Stuart Scheller
  • Venture Deals by Brad Feld
  • Gun Barons by John Bainbridge, Jr.
  • Be Useful by Arnold Schwarzenegger
  • The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch
  • Building by Mark Ellison
  • Winning the War in Your Mind by Craig Groeschel

Fiction

  • Invincible Iron Man: Ironheart, Vol. 1: Riri Williams by Brian Michael Bendis (Writer), Stefano Caselli (Illustrator), and Marte Garcia (Illustrator)
  • Star Wars: Rogue One Adaptation by Jody Houser (Writer), Emilio Laiso (Artist), Paolo Villanelli (Artist), and Rachelle Rosenberg (Artist)

3 Stars: It Was Okay (15 books)

Non-Fiction

  • The Total Money Makeover by Dave Ramsey
  • Rage Against the Minivan by Kristen Howerton
  • I Didn’t Do the Thing Today by Madeleine Dore
  • What If Love Is the Point? by Carlos & Alexa PenaVega
  • Inferno by Joe Pappalardo
  • Leadership by Henry Kissinger
  • The Hiltons by J. Randy Taraborrelli
  • The Next Millionaire Next Door by Thomas J. Stanley
  • The Monuments Men by Robert M. Edsel
  • The Way of the Knife by Mark Mazzetti
  • Mended Wings by Colin P. Cahoon
  • Confessions of a Recovering Engineer by Charles L. Marohn, Jr.
  • The Things We Make by Bill Hammack
  • The Psychology of Money by Morgan Housel

Fiction

  • Batman/Spawn: The Classic Collection by Frank Miller (Writer), Todd McFarlane (Writer), Doug Moench (Writer), Alan Grant (Writer), Chuck Dixon (Writer), and Klaus Janson (Illustrator)

2 Stars: Disliked It (7 books)

Non-Fiction

  • The Revolutionary by Stacy Schiff
  • David and Goliath by Malcolm Gladwell
  • Adventures in Opting Out by Cait Flanders
  • The Proximity Principle by Ken Coleman
  • Balkan Ghosts by Robert D. Kaplan

Fiction

  • The Three-Body Problem (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #1) by Cixin Liu
  • The Amazing Spider-Man: Renew Your Vows, Vol. 1: Brawl in the Family by Gerry Conway (Writer) and Ryan Stegman (Illustrator)

1 Star: Hated It (1 book)

Non-Fiction

  • Business Adventures by John Brooks

Fiction

  • N/A

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Non-Fiction

  • N/A

Fiction

  • N/A

Analysis

Here are the stats on the books I read this year. Next year, I hope to compare how that data has changed over the past few years as I started collecting it. Here’s my Google Sheet.

The categories I tracked were Format, Rating, Female Author, and Person of Color (POC) Author.

I’m merely curious about the format, and I’ve definitely shifted away from paper books over the years.

For rating, the goal is to read better since there are too many to even get to the best books in a lifetime. I’m not sure how to reconcile that with books that I didn’t enjoy yet changed my perspective on something.

For female and POC authors, I want to break away from the monotony of reading only white, male authors. That’s not to say one is better than the other, but diversity is to be applauded, and I am neither female nor a person of color. By reading from their perspectives, I can “level up” my thinking by taking on someone else’s viewpoint. POC authors is super difficult to gauge, however, and my data is skewed because this is entirely judged based off of looks and their Wikipedia page. Still, it’s better than nothing.

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Books of 2022

This year totaled 65 books. To be clear, I’m less concerned about remembering everything; I love the cross-pollination of ideas much more. I’m going for quantity and listening at ~2.5X speed. The more ideas I gather from different disciplines, the more I draw parallels from seemingly unrelated fields. This is my sweet spot.

I’ve divided up all the books I read this year by the rating scale I use for my Book Notes page. Let me know if you want any of the notes I took for a particular book, and I’ll post it and share a hyperlink.

5 Stars: Loved It (24 books)

Non-Fiction

  • Love Your Enemies: How Decent People Can Save America from the Culture of Contempt by Arthur C. Brooks
  • The Book of Mormon
  • It Worked for Me: In Life and Leadership by Colin Powell
  • Test Gods: Virgin Galactic and the Making of a Modern Astronaut by Nicholas Schmidle
  • On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft by Stephen King
  • The Chancellor: The Remarkable Odyssey of Angela Merkel by Kati Marton
  • Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don’t Know by Adam Grant
  • Master Your Time, Master Your Life: The Breakthrough System to Get More Results, Faster, in Every Area of Your Life by Brian Tracy
  • Highest Duty: My Search for What Really Matters by Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger
  • Joy at Work: Organizing Your Professional Life by Marie Kondō
  • Tough: My Journey to True Power by Terry Crews
  • About Face: Odyssey Of An American Warrior by COL (ret.) David H. Hackworth
  • Power Play: Tesla, Elon Musk, and the Bet of the Century by Tim Higgins
  • A Sacred Oath: Memoirs of a Secretary of Defense During Extraordinary Times by Mark T. Esper
  • Everyday Millionaires: How Ordinary People Built Extraordinary Wealth—And How You Can Too by Chris Hogan
  • The First 100 Days of Platoon Leadership Handbook: Lessons and Best Practices by U.S. Department of the Army
  • Dare to Lead by Brené Brown
  • My Life in Full: Work, Family, and Our Future by Indra Nooyi
  • Persuade: The 4-Step Process to Influence People and Decisions by Andres Lares
  • Leadership Strategy and Tactics: Field Manual by Jocko Willink

Fiction

  • Spider-Man: Blue by Jeph Loeb
  • Daredevil: Yellow by Jeph Loeb
  • From the Dead (Moon Knight, #1) by Warren Ellis
  • Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives by David Eagleman
    • Note: I have really enjoyed reading short stories

4 Stars: Liked It (21 books)

Non-Fiction

  • The Lego Story: How a Little Toy Sparked the World’s Imagination by Jens Andersen
  • The Folly and the Glory: America, Russia, and Political Warfare 1945–2020 by Tim Weiner
  • The Afghanistan Papers: A Secret History of the War by Craig Whitlock
  • Side Hustle: From Idea to Income in 27 Days by Chris Guillebeau
  • Made in China: A Memoir of Love and Labor by Anna Qu
  • The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America by Timothy Snyder
  • The Cult of We: WeWork, Adam Neumann, and the Great Startup Delusion by Eliot Brown
  • The Storm is Upon Us: How QAnon Became a Movement, Cult, and Conspiracy Theory of Everything by Mike Rothschild
  • The Biggest Bluff: How I Learned to Pay Attention, Master Myself, and Win by Maria Konnikova
  • Joker One: A Marine Platoon’s Story of Courage, Leadership, and Brotherhood by Donovan Campbell
  • Topgun: An American Story by Dan Pedersen
  • Disney’s Land: Walt Disney and the Invention of the Amusement Park That Changed the World by Richard Snow
  • Black Ops: The Life of a CIA Shadow Warrior by Ric Prado
  • The Power of Fun: How to Feel Alive Again by Catherine Price
  • Every Good Endeavor: Connecting Your Work to God’s Plan for the World by Timothy J. Keller
  • Amazon Unbound: Jeff Bezos and the Invention of a Global Empire by Brad Stone

Fiction

  • Shadowland by Andy Diggle
  • Batman: Death by Design by Chip Kidd
  • D’Aulaires’ Book of Greek Myths by Ingri d’Aulaire
    • Note: I’m not sure if I should capture myths as fiction or non-fiction
  • Star Wars: Doctor Aphra, vol. 1: Aphra by Kieron Gillen
  • Iron Man, Vol. 5: Rings of the Mandarin by Kieron Gillen

3 Stars: It Was Okay (14 books)

Non-Fiction

  • Becoming Trader Joe: How I Did Business My Way and Still Beat the Big Guys by Joe Coulombe
  • Is This Anything? by Jerry Seinfeld
  • Clarity in Crisis: Leadership Lessons from the CIA by Marc E. Polymeropoulos
  • The Hundred-Year Marathon: China’s Secret Strategy to Replace America as the Global Superpower by Michael Pillsbury
  • Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty by Anderson Cooper
  • How to Win Friends and Influence People in the Digital Age by Dale Carnegie
  • The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don’t Work and What to Do About It by Michael E. Gerber
  • There Is Nothing for You Here: Finding Opportunity in the Twenty-First Century by Fiona Hill
  • The Five Love Languages of Children by Gary Chapman
  • The Book You Wish Your Parents Had Read by Philippa Perry
  • First SEALs: The Untold Story of the Forging of America’s Most Elite Unit by Patrick K. O’Donnell
  • The Twelve Monotasks: Do One Thing at a Time to Do Everything Better by Thatcher Wine

Fiction

  • Freedom™ (Daemon #2) by Daniel Suarez
  • The Lone Drow (Forgotten Realms: Hunter’s Blades, #2; Legend of Drizzt, #15) by R.A. Salvatore

2 Stars: Disliked It (5 books)

Non-Fiction

  • Leadership in War: Essential Lessons from Those Who Made History by Andrew Roberts
  • The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life by Mark Manson

Fiction

  • The Thousand Orcs (Forgotten Realms: Hunter’s Blades, #1; Legend of Drizzt, #14) by R.A. Salvatore
  • Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values (Phaedrus, #1) by Robert M. Pirsig
  • Johnny the Homicidal Maniac: Director’s Cut by Jhonen Vásquez

1 Star: Hated It (1 book)

Non-Fiction

  • N/A

Fiction

  • Infinity (Avengers, #4) by Jonathan Hickman

Put On Pause or Quit

Non-Fiction

  • A Hero Born (Legends of the Condor Heroes, #1) by Jin Yong
  • Walden by Henry David Thoreau

Fiction

  • N/A

Analysis

Here are the stats on the books I read this year. Next year, I hope to compare how that data has changed over the past few years as I started collecting it. Here’s my Google Sheet.

The categories I tracked were Format, Rating, Female Author, and Person of Color (POC) Author.

I’m merely curious about the format, and I’ve definitely shifted away from paper books over the years.

For rating, the goal is to read better since there are too many to even get to the best books in a lifetime. I’m not sure how to reconcile that with books that I didn’t enjoy yet changed my perspective on something.

For female and POC authors, I want to break away from the monotony of reading only white, male authors. That’s not to say one is better than the other, but diversity is to be applauded, and I am neither female nor a person of color. By reading from their perspectives, I can “level up” my thinking by taking on someone else’s viewpoint.

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Books of 2021

I’ve previously used and stuck with the rating scale I use for my Book Notes page. Here are all the books I read or listened to in 2021!

5 Stars: Loved It

Non-Fiction

  • The American Story: Conversations with Master Historians by David M. Rubenstein
  • Super Mario: How Nintendo Conquered America by Jeff Ryan
  • Billion Dollar Brand Club: The Rebel Startups Disrupting Industry Empires by Lawrence Ingrassia
  • Get Out of Your Own Way: A Skeptic’s Guide to Growth and Fulfillment by Dave Hollis
  • Restoration: God’s Call to the 21st Century World by Patrick Q. Mason
  • The Magnolia Story by Chip Gaines
  • Dare to Fly by Martha McSally
  • The Energy Bus: 10 Rules to Fuel Your Life, Work, and Team with Positive Energy by Jon Gordon
  • Cribsheet: A Data-Driven Guide to Better, More Relaxed Parenting, from Birth to Preschool by Emily Oster
  • The Ride of a Lifetime: Lessons Learned from 15 Years as CEO of the Walt Disney Company by Robert Iger
  • Grant by Ron Chernow
  • Washington: A Life by Ron Chernow
  • Girl, Wash Your Face: Stop Believing the Lies about Who You Are So You Can Become Who You Were Meant to Be by Rachel Hollis

Fiction

  • Forever Home by Jenna Ayoub
  • Inheritance (The Inheritance Cycle, #4) by Christopher Paolini
  • Brisingr (The Inheritance Cycle, #3) by Christopher Paolini
  • Eldest (The Inheritance Cycle, #2) by Christopher Paolini
  • Eragon (The Inheritance Cycle, #1) by Christopher Paolini
  • Ready Player One (Ready Player One, #1) by Ernest Cline
  • Guardians of the Galaxy/All-New X-Men: The Trial of Jean Grey by Brian Michael Bendis
  • Star Wars: Thrawn by Jody Houser
  • House of M by Brian Michael Bendis
  • Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir

4 Stars: Liked It

Non-Fiction

  • Effortless: Make It Easier to Do What Matters Most by Greg McKeown
  • Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage by Alfred Lansing
  • Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World’s Greatest Nuclear Disaster by Adam Higginbotham
  • Green Metropolis: What the City Can Teach the Country About True Sustainability by David Owen
  • Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow
  • The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution by Walter Isaacson
  • Hidden Figures by Margot Leet Shetterly
  • Mating in Captivity: Reconciling the Erotic and the Domestic by Esther Perel
  • Titan by Ron Chernow

Fiction

  • Ms. Marvel, Vol. 1: No Normal by G. Willow Wilson
  • Star Wars: Darth Maul by Cullen Bunn
  • FF by Jonathan Hickman, Vol. 1 by Jonathan Hickman
  • Ultimate Spider-Man: Ultimate Collection Volume 1 by Brian Michael Bendis
  • Spawn Origins, Volume 1 by Todd McFarlane

3 Stars: It Was Okay

Non-Fiction

  • Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle by Emily Nagoski PhD and Amelia Nagoski DMA
  • The Way I Heard It by Mike Rowe
  • A Patriot’s Calling: My Life as an F-16 Fighter Pilot by Dan Rooney
  • The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business by Charles Duhigg
  • Option B: Facing Adversity, Building Resilience, and Finding Joy by Sheryl Sandberg
  • Kill Chain: Drones and The Rise of the High-Tech Assassins by Andrew Cockburn
  • Pale Horse: Hunting Terrorists and Commanding Heroes with the 101st Airborne Division by Jimmy Blackmon

Fiction

  • Star Wars: Darth Vader and the Ninth Assassin by Tim Siedell
  • Judge Dredd: The Cape and Cowl Crimes by John Wagner
  • Star Wars, Vol. 2: Showdown on the Smuggler’s Moon by Jason Aaron
  • Star Wars, Vol. 1: Skywalker Strikes by Jason Aaron
  • Spider-Man: Ends of the Earth by Dan Slott
  • Black Widow: The Name of the Rose (Black Widow (Black Widow (2010)) by Marjorie M. Liu
  • Spawn Origins, Volume 6 by Todd McFarlane
  • Road of the Patriarch (Forgotten Realms: The Sellswords, #3) by R.A. Salvatore
  • Promise of the Witch King (Forgotten Realms: The Sellswords, #2) by R.A. Salvatore
  • Once an Eagle by Anton Meyer

2 Stars: Disliked It

Non-Fiction

  • N/A

Fiction

  • Justice League, Vol. 1: The Extinction Machines by Bryan Hitch
  • Teen Titans, Vol. 1: Damian Knows Best by Benjamin Percy
  • Spider-Man & The X-Men by Elliott Kalan
  • 52, Vol. 1 by Geoff Johns
  • FF, Volume 2 by Jonathan Hickman

1 Star: Hated It

Non-Fiction

  • Ungodly Soul Ties: How to identify and Break Them (Spiritual Warfare Book 4) by Nellie Odhuno-Shani
    • Note: I actually enjoyed quite a bit of the book, but she started peddling blatantly false information

Fiction

  • Batman, Incorporated by Grant Morrison

Put On Pause or Quit

Non-Fiction

  • What You Do Is Who You Are: How to Create Your Business Culture by Ben Horowitz

Fiction

  • 1984 by George Orwell

2021 in Data

To continue last year’s simple data analysis of the types of books I read, I used a Google Sheet to review whether or not I’m branching out in my reading or staying the same. I’d say I’m largely keeping to my known genres of fantasy and sci-fi for fiction and self-help and (auto)biography for non-fiction.

Unfortunately, my go-to types of books tend to lean white and male. Please make recommendations for female and people-of-color authors and books you enjoy or books from another genre!

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Rating—My sum of 5-star and 4-star books decreased by 15%. I’m not sure if I should care or not. Part of me wants to only be reading good books, but at the same time, I value diverse perspectives, and I strayed out of my comfort zone in some aspects. Interesting to note, but I’m not hung up on it.

Format—I read way more comics this year, which I really enjoy. I’m glad to be getting back into a medium that meant a lot to me growing up. I hope to tie reading more comics to drawing more, too. My total percentage of physical reading (paper + digital) excluding comics decreased by 3.3%. Not bad.

Reading physical, non-fiction books reinvigorate me when I’m not in school already reading a bunch. Flight school is over, but I still feel compelled to study every day to keep up on it. My non-fiction reading suffers, but audio is still booming! I prefer reading hardcover paper books for fiction and Kindle for non-fiction (easier to take notes).

Female Author—My percentage of female authors increased by 4%, which is great. I didn’t consciously try to improve this as much as I thought I would, so I’m glad it increased, but I definitely need to find more female authors I love reading.

POC Author—I’m not sure if this is a good metric to track or not, because I find myself googling the author and having to make somewhat of a snap-judgement based on their Wikipedia picture. It also dawned on me that I members of other religions or of the LGBTQ community aren’t included. Maybe I just need to change this to “different from me” if the point is to get a variety of perspectives? I dunno. This one’s hard to track and find accurate information on. Two examples came to mind:

  • Esther Perel is a Jewish woman from Eastern Europe. Her parents survived the Holocaust. Does person of color just mean not of European descent? Under that definition, she wouldn’t qualify, but she still brings such a different worldview to the table.
  • G. Willow Wilson is an American convert to Islam. That is definitely a unique perspective, but wouldn’t be a POC.

Feedback is always welcome. Again, I’d love some recommendations for female and people-of-color authors.

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Ratings

I’ve divided up all the books I read this year by the rating scale I use for my Book Notes page.

Note: I only included subtitles where necessary for clarification.

5 Stars: Loved It

Non-Fiction

  • Tribe of Mentors by Timothy Ferriss
  • Deep Work by Cal Newport
  • Cribsheet by Emily Oster
  • The Ride of a Lifetime by Robert Iger
  • Leonardo da Vinci by Walter Isaacson
  • Grant by Ron Chernow
  • The 5 Love Languages by Gary Chapman
  • Washington by Ron Chernow
  • Inside the President’s Helicopter by Gene Boyer
  • Girl, Wash Your Face by Rachel Hollis
  • The Lean Startup by Eric Ries
  • Girl, Stop Apologizing by Rachel Hollis
  • The Moment of Lift by Melinda Gates
  • Stillness Is the Key by Ryan Holiday
  • Antarctic Tears by Aaron Linsday
  • Range by David Epstein
  • The Prodigal God by Timothy Keller
  • I Will Teach You to Be Rich by Ramit Sethi

Fiction

  • Strange Planet by Nathan W. Pyle
  • Adulthood Is a Myth by Sarah Andersen

4 Stars: Liked It

Non-Fiction

  • Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow
  • Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly
  • Moroni’s Guide to Surviving Turbulent Times by John Bytheway
  • The 4 Disciplines of Execution by Chris McChesney, Sean Covey, & Jim Huling
  • The Checklist Manifesto by Atul Gawande
    • Note: I’d like to re-read this one
  • Prepared by Diane Tavenner
  • Hughes by Richard Hack
  • The Infinite Game by Simon Sinek
  • Shoe Dog by Phil Knight
  • How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie
  • Educated by Tara Westover
  • Nine Lies About Work by Marcus Buckingham

Fiction

  • Servant of the Shard by R.A. Salvatore
  • Spawn Origins, Volume 1 by Todd McFarlane
  • Hellboy, Volume 1: Seed of Destruction by Mike Mignola
  • The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho

3 Stars: It Was Okay

Non-Fiction

  • Hit Refresh by Satya Nadella
  • Pale Horse by Jimmy Blackmon
  • Kill Chain by Andrew Cockburn
  • Crucial Conversations by Kerry Patterson
  • Antifragile by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
    • Note: I hated the tone of his voice (i.e. prideful) throughout the book, but I actually, to his creditt, think about the book’s principles all the time
  • The Like Switch by Jack Schafer
  • Getting Things Done by David Allen
  • Good to Great by James Collins

Fiction

  • Spawn Origins, Volume 6 by Todd McFarlane
  • Deathstroke, Volume 1: The Professional by Christopher Priest
  • Sword of God by Chris Kuzneski

2 Stars: Disliked It

Non-Fiction

  • A History of the United States in Five Crashes by Scott Nations

Fiction

  • N/A

1 Star: Hated It

Non-Fiction

  • N/A

Fiction

  • Dune by Frank Herbert

Put On Pause or Quit

Non-Fiction

  • Instructions for British Servicemen in Germany, 1944 by Library Bodleian
  • The Box by Marc Levinson

Fiction

  • N/A

Analysis

This year, I also paid attention to the types of books I was reading. The first step was data. I created a Google Sheet and plotted the data I felt were relevant, such as the gender of the author and whether or not the author was a minority. I hope to diversify my reading a bit more than the typical successful white male authors in business I gravitate toward. That has been at least one of the blessings of the 2020 chaos—an added attention on the benefits of diversity, inclusion, and equality.

So first, I go some data. Now I can readjust. Please make recommendations for female and people-of-color authors and books you enjoy!

I also realized that my list of authors I’d read anything by is entirely white dudes. I want to fix that.

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