READING·97 BOOKS·637 HIGHLIGHTS
Reading Collection
Books, highlights, and notes from my digital library.
UPDATED: Aug 18, 2025·SOURCES: Kindle sync metadata
Reading Activity by Year
201197 books total2025
Highlights Per Book Distribution
min: 1avg: 7max: 38
Recent Activity (Last 12 Months)
Jan 258 books in last yearDec 25
Be Here Now (Enhanced Edition)
Ram Dass
2 highlights Aug 18, 2025
Patriotic Treason: John Brown and the Soul of America
Evan Carton
12 highlights Aug 10, 2025
How We Got Here: Melville Plus Nietzsche Divided by the Square Root of (Allan) Bloom Times Žižek (Squared) Equals Bannon
David Shields
2 highlights Jul 12, 2025
The I Ching or Book of Changes (Bollingen Series 170)
C. G. Jung, Richard Wilhelm, Hellmut Wilhelm, and Cary F. Baynes
4 highlights Jul 11, 2025
Direct Action: An Ethnography
David Graeber
1 highlights Apr 7, 2025
On Trails: An Exploration
Robert Moor
25 highlights Mar 24, 2025
Existential Kink: Unmask Your Shadow and Embrace Your Power (A method for getting what you want by getting off on what you don't)
Carolyn Elliott PhD
17 highlights Feb 7, 2025
Savage Ecology: War and Geopolitics at the End of the World
Jairus Victor Grove
16 highlights Jan 9, 2025
Exhalation: Stories
Ted Chiang
1 highlights Dec 15, 2024
Engineering Management for the Rest of Us
Sarah Drasner
6 highlights Dec 15, 2024
Reality Hunger
David Shields
15 highlights Aug 30, 2024
Filterworld: How Algorithms Flattened Culture
Kyle Chayka
4 highlights Aug 3, 2024
The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy
David Graeber
3 highlights Jun 10, 2024
The Dispossessed (Hainish Cycle)
Ursula K. Le Guin and Karen Joy Fowler
1 highlights Feb 23, 2024
Anarchy Works (Annotated)
Peter Gelderloos and Vladimir Oleynik
20 highlights Jan 22, 2024
Why Marx Was Right
Terry Eagleton
11 highlights Jan 12, 2024
So Sad Today: Personal Essays
Melissa Broder
13 highlights Nov 9, 2023
How to Do the Work: Recognize Your Patterns, Heal from Your Past, and Create Your Self
Nicole LePera
17 highlights Oct 18, 2023
The 4-Hour Body: An Uncommon Guide to Rapid Fat-Loss, Incredible Sex, and Becoming Superhuman
Timothy Ferriss
6 highlights Oct 12, 2023
A Potter's Workbook
Clary Illian and Charles Metzger
3 highlights Oct 12, 2023
Lao Tzu: Tao Te Ching: A Book about the Way and the Power of the Way
Ursula K. Le Guin
24 highlights Aug 30, 2023
Thinking in Systems: International Bestseller
Donella H. Meadows and Diana Wright
5 highlights Aug 26, 2023
Women's Anatomy of Arousal: Secret Maps to Buried Pleasure
Sheri Winston CNM. RN. BSN. LMT
1 highlights Aug 11, 2023
The Head Trip: Adventures on the Wheel of Consciousness
Jeff Warren
2 highlights Jul 2, 2023
Tao Te Ching
Lao Tzu and Robert Brookes
6 highlights Jun 30, 2023
Overshoot: The Ecological Basis of Revolutionary Change
William R. Catton
4 highlights Jun 22, 2023
The Trouble with Men: Reflections on Sex, Love, Marriage, Porn, and Power (21st Century Essays)
David Shields
7 highlights May 27, 2023
The Pisces: A Novel
Melissa Broder
15 highlights Apr 29, 2023
The Fated Sky: Astrology in History
Benson Bobrick
13 highlights Dec 23, 2022
Mastermind: How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes
Maria Konnikova
3 highlights Dec 6, 2022
Silicon Values: The Future of Free Speech Under Surveillance Capitalism
Jillian C. York
1 highlights Dec 1, 2022
Futureproof: 9 Rules for Surviving in the Age of AI
Kevin Roose
3 highlights Oct 21, 2022
The Education of a Photographer
Charles H. Traub, Steven Heller, Adam B. Bell, and Charles Traub
2 highlights Aug 19, 2022
Notes of a Native Son
James Baldwin and Edward P. Jones
2 highlights Jun 20, 2022
Daily Rituals: How Artists Work
Mason Currey
2 highlights Jun 20, 2022
Walkaway: A Novel
Cory Doctorow
8 highlights Jun 20, 2022
Company Of One: Why Staying Small Is the Next Big Thing for Business
Paul Jarvis
4 highlights Jun 20, 2022
The Rebel's Apothecary: A Practical Guide to the Healing Magic of Cannabis, CBD, and Mushrooms
Jenny Sansouci and Frank Lipman Md
2 highlights Jun 20, 2022
Hell's Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga
Hunter S. Thompson
1 highlights Jun 20, 2022
She Comes First: The Thinking Man's Guide to Pleasuring a Woman (Kerner)
Ian Kerner
5 highlights Jan 13, 2022
Forest Bathing: How Trees Can Help You Find Health and Happiness
Dr Qing Li
2 highlights Jan 11, 2022
Calling Bullshit: The Art of Skepticism in a Data-Driven World
Carl T. Bergstrom and Jevin D. West
1 highlights Dec 3, 2021
The Fundamentals of Motorcycle Camping
Tim Collins and Amanda Zito
5 highlights Oct 30, 2021
American Indian Myths and Legends (The Pantheon Fairy Tale and Folklore Library)
Richard Erdoes and Alfonso Ortiz
13 highlights Oct 11, 2021
Antkind: A Novel
Charlie Kaufman
4 highlights Oct 11, 2021
The Dead Emcee Scrolls: The Lost Teachings of Hip-Hop
Saul Williams
9 highlights Aug 16, 2021
The Hero’s Journey: Joseph Campbell on His Life and Work (The Collected Works of Joseph Campbell)
Joseph Campbell, Phil Cousineau, David Kudler, and Stuart L. Brown
5 highlights Jul 8, 2021
America on Fire: The Untold History of Police Violence and Black Rebellion Since the 1960s
Elizabeth Hinton
4 highlights Jun 22, 2021
Data Feminism (Strong Ideas)
Catherine D'Ignazio and Lauren F. Klein
5 highlights May 25, 2021
What the Dormouse Said: How the Sixties Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer Industry
John Markoff
4 highlights Feb 23, 2021
Ultimate Price: The Value We Place on Life
Howard Steven Friedman
6 highlights Feb 7, 2021
Abolish Silicon Valley: How to Liberate Technology from Capitalism
Wendy Liu
4 highlights Feb 4, 2021
Congressional Procedure: A Practical Guide to the Legislative Process in the U.S. Congress: The House of Representatives and Senate Explained
Richard A. Arenberg and Alan S. Frumin
1 highlights Feb 3, 2021
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values
Robert M. Pirsig
8 highlights Feb 3, 2021
The Green Witch: Your Complete Guide to the Natural Magic of Herbs, Flowers, Essential Oils, and More (Green Witch Witchcraft Series)
Arin Murphy-Hiscock
9 highlights Jan 28, 2021
Designing Your Life: How to Build a Well-Lived, Joyful Life
Bill Burnett and Dave Evans
2 highlights Jan 18, 2021
Film Directing Shot by Shot: Visualizing from Concept to Screen (Michael Wiese Productions)
Steven Katz
1 highlights Jan 16, 2021
The War of Art
Steven Pressfield and Shawn Coyne
8 highlights Jan 5, 2021
Other People: Takes & Mistakes
David Shields
4 highlights Dec 23, 2020
Tools Of Titans: The Tactics, Routines, and Habits of Billionaires, Icons, and World-Class Performers
Timothy Ferriss and Arnold Schwarzenegger
8 highlights Nov 5, 2020
On Grand Strategy
John Lewis Gaddis
3 highlights Sep 2, 2020
Telling True Stories: A Nonfiction Writers' Guide from the Nieman Foundation at Harvard University
Mark Kramer and Wendy Call
7 highlights Sep 2, 2020
Hallucinations
Oliver Sacks
2 highlights Sep 2, 2020
Twitter and Tear Gas: The Power and Fragility of Networked Protest
Zeynep Tufekci
2 highlights Sep 2, 2020
The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O.: A Novel
Neal Stephenson and Nicole Galland
7 highlights Aug 6, 2020
The New York Nobody Knows: Walking 6,000 Miles in the City
William B. Helmreich
8 highlights Aug 25, 2019
Cult of the Dead Cow: How the Original Hacking Supergroup Might Just Save the World
Joseph Menn
34 highlights Jul 8, 2019
Kids These Days: Human Capital and the Making of Millennials
Malcolm Harris
38 highlights May 28, 2019
Women: A Novel
Charles Bukowski
15 highlights Apr 11, 2019
Riot. Strike. Riot: The New Era of Uprisings
Joshua Clover
1 highlights Apr 11, 2019
The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation
Jon Gertner
16 highlights Apr 11, 2019
Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier, and Happier
Edward Glaeser
1 highlights Apr 11, 2019
The Last Magazine: A Novel
Michael Hastings
6 highlights Apr 11, 2019
After the Prophet: The Epic Story of the Shia-Sunni Split in Islam
Lesley Hazleton
3 highlights Apr 11, 2019
Kasher in the Rye: The True Tale of a White Boy from Oakland Who Became a Drug Addict, Criminal, Mental Patient, and Then Turned 16
Moshe Kasher
1 highlights Apr 11, 2019
The Divide: American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap
Matt Taibbi and Molly Crabapple
11 highlights Apr 11, 2019
Reamde: A Novel
Neal Stephenson
1 highlights Mar 31, 2019
Israel: A Concise History of a Nation Reborn
Daniel Gordis
5 highlights Feb 15, 2019
How to Think Like an Anthropologist
Matthew Engelke
12 highlights Feb 13, 2019
Theft by Finding: Diaries (1977-2002)
David Sedaris
5 highlights Aug 13, 2018
Theory of Fun for Game Design
Raph Koster
2 highlights Aug 4, 2017
Blue Highways: A Journey into America
William Least Heat-Moon
4 highlights Jan 19, 2017
From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the Rise of Digital Utopianism
Fred Turner
5 highlights Sep 23, 2016
Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind
Shunryu Suzuki and David Chadwick
24 highlights Jul 28, 2016
ISIS: The State of Terror
Jessica Stern and J. M. Berger
1 highlights Apr 11, 2016
Darkest America: Black Minstrelsy from Slavery to Hip-Hop
Yuval Taylor, Jake Austen, and Mel Watkins
6 highlights Mar 8, 2016
In the Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives
Steven Levy
1 highlights Feb 15, 2016
No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State
Glenn Greenwald
2 highlights Feb 28, 2015
History's Greatest Generals: 10 Commanders Who Conquered Empires, Revolutionized Warfare, and Changed History Forever
Michael Rank
4 highlights Feb 28, 2015
American Babylon: Race and the Struggle for Postwar Oakland (Politics and Society in Modern America Book 37)
Robert O. Self
2 highlights Nov 1, 2014
Ideas in Food: Great Recipes and Why They Work: A Cookbook
Aki Kamozawa and Alexander H. Talbot
1 highlights Jun 25, 2014
Eleanor & Park
Rainbow Rowell
1 highlights Jan 19, 2014
The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution
Francis Fukuyama
3 highlights Nov 5, 2012
Just One Thing: Developing a Buddha Brain One Simple Practice at a Time
Rick Hanson PhD
4 highlights Oct 25, 2012
Emotional Design: Why We Love (or Hate) Everyday Things
Donald A. Norman
1 highlights Oct 16, 2012
The Joy of Less, A Minimalist Living Guide: How to Declutter, Organize, and Simplify Your Life
Francine Jay
4 highlights Oct 8, 2012
Visualize This: The FlowingData Guide to Design, Visualization, and Statistics
Nathan Yau
2 highlights Jul 24, 2011