Reading

Updated for 2022: Adding the books I’m currently reading in 2022 to this list. The theme for this year is “Personalities and Places.” Last year I focused on politics and psychology, and this year I want to spend time thinking about the things I love and why I feel so strongly about them.


Currently Reading

Will
Will Smith and Mark Manson

Bourdain: The Definitive Oral Biography
Laurie Woolever

The Verge: Reformation, Renaissance, and the Forty Years that Shook the World
Patrick Wyman

2022 Reading List: The Rest

The Death and Life of Great American Cities
Jane Jacobs

The Book of Ichigo Ichie
Hector Garcia

St. Mark’s is Dead
Ada Calhoun

The Sword and the Shield – The Revolutionary Lives of Malcom X and MLK Jr.
Peniel E. Joseph

Favorite Books

Leonardo da Vinci
Walter Isaacson

On Emotional Intelligence
Harvard Business Review

Alchemy
Rory Sutherland

Stories I Only Tell My Friends
Rob Lowe

The Medici
Paul Strathern

Amusing Ourselves to Death
Neil Postman

The Moth Presents: Occasional Magic
Catherine Burns

The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters
Priya Parker

Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World
Anand Giridharadas

Joyful: The Surprising Power of Ordinary Things
Ingrid Fetell Lee

Live from New York: The Complete Uncensored History of SNL
James Andrew Miller

The Power of Habit
Charles Duhigg

Work Clean
Dan Charnas

Vanishing New York: How a Great City Lost Its Soul
Jeremiah Moss

Madison Avenue Manslaughter
Michael Farmer

Factfulness
Hans Rosling

The Hacking of the American Mind
Robert H. Lustig

Making Ideas Happen
Scott Belsky

Steal Like An Artist
Austin Kleon

Notes of a Native Son
James Baldwin

Here is New York
E.B. White

The Attention Merchants
Tim Wu

Setting the Table
Danny Meyer

The Island at the Center of the World
Russell Shorto

Irresistible
Adam Alter

The Last Great Game: Duke vs. Kentucky and the 2.1 Seconds that Changed College Basketball
Gene Wojciechowski

Creativity Inc.
Ed Catmull

I’m a Stranger Here Myself
Bill Bryson

Here is New York
E.B. White

Kitchen Confidential
Anthony Bourdain