What I read in 2022
An overview of my favorite books from 2022, as well as some old favorites.
Favorite new reads:
- How The Internet Happened – Brian McCullough
- The Founders – Jimmy Soni
- Pieces of the Action – Vannevar Bush
- The Gospels: A New Translation – Sarah Ruden
- A Short History Of Nearly Everything – Bill Bryson
- Revolution in the Valley – Andy Hertzfeld
- Skunk Works – Ben Rich
Honorable mentions:
- Walden - Henry David Thoreau
- Adventures of a Young Naturalist – David Attenborough
- The Diversity Myth – Peter Thiel
- The Obstacle is the Way – Ryan Holiday
- The Bed of Procrustes – Nassim Nicolas Taleb
- 1776 – David McCullough
- Autobiography – John Stuart Mill
- The Design of Everyday Things – Don Norman
- An Elegant Puzzle – Will Larson
- Talent – Tyler Cowen
- The Dream Machine – M. Mitchell Waldrop
- All Things Are Possible – Lev Shestov
- Conspiracy – Ryan Holiday
- How To Actually Change Your Mind – Eliezer Yudkowsky
- The World of Yesterday – Stefan Zweig
- High Growth Handbook – Elad Gil
- The Big Score – Michael S. Malone
- Infamous Scribblers – Eric Burns
- The Craft – John Dickie
- Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order – Ray Dalio
- Albion's Seed – David Hackett Fischer
- When Money Dies – Adam Fergusson
- Essays After Eighty – Donald Hall
- The Mind Body Problem – Rebecca Goldstein
- How Asia Works – Joe Studwell
- Greenlights – Matthew McConaughey
- The Dispossessed – Ursula K. Le Guin
Rereads:
- Atlas Shrugged – Ayn Rand
- The Fountainhead – Ayn Rand
- Barbarian Days – William Finnegan
- Zero to One – Peter Thiel
- On Writing – Stephen King
Full list here. Recommendations always welcome.