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
The Verge: Reformation, Renaissance, and the Forty Years that Shook the World
Patrick Wyman
Will
Will Smith and Mark Manson
2024 Reading List: The Rest
The Death and Life of Great American Cities
Jane Jacobs
Favorite Books
Bourdain: The Definitive Oral Biography
Laurie Woolever
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
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