Behold, notice, observe: a list of books that I have read.
These are not recommendations, as some of these books are… not good.
But many are amazing.
Because reading is fun!
Currently reading
2024 reading list
Jurassic Park, Micheal Chrichton
3:10 to Yuma and Other Stories, Elmore Leonard
Same as Ever, Morgan Housel
Tao Te Ching, Lao-Tzu/ Translator: John Minford
Creativity , John Cleese
Hidden Potential, Adam Grant
The Good Life, Robert Waldinger & Marc Shulz
Save The Cat!, Blake Snyder
The Company: The Rise and Fall of the Hudson Bay Empire, Stephen R. Brown
2023 reading list
Like Brothers, Mark & Jay Duplass
Excellent Advice For Living, Kevin Kelly
The Ride of Her Life, Elizabeth Letts
It’s Beginning To Look a Lot Like Hallmark, Heather Hughes & Kate Wharton
The Librarianist, Patrick deWitt
The History of Sketch Comedy, Elle & Keegan-Michael Keele
The Kingdom of Prep, Maggie Bullock
Playing Dead, Elizabeth Greenwood
Scarcity Brain, Micheal Easter
Ducks, Kate Beaton
Beach Read, Emily Henry
The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying, Sogyal Rinpoche
The Artist’s Way, Julia Cameron
Your Money or Your Life, Vicki Robin
Novelist As A Vocation: Haruki Murakami
Based On A True Story: Not A Memoir, Norm Macdonald
French Exit, Patrick Dewitt
Every Summer After, Carley Fortune
Living For pleasure: An Epicurean Guide to Life: Emily Austin
The Tenant Class, Ricardo Tranjan
Outlive: The Science and Art of Longevity, Peter Attia
Slaughterhouse Five, Kurt Vonnegut
Project Hail Mary, Andy Weir
Die With Zero, Bill Perkins
Rum Punch, Elmore Leonard
The Anatomy of Story, John Truby
Cinema Speculation, Quentin Tarantino
The Future is Analog, David Sax
Factory Summers, Guy Delisle
I’m Glad My Mom Died, Jennette Mccurdy
Into The Woods, John Yorke
Wind, Sand and Stars, Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Deadwood, Peter Dexter
Writing Movies For Fun And Profit, Tomas Lennon & Robert Ben Garant
The Comfort Crises, Micheal Easter
Writing a TV Movie, Roslyn Muir
The Art of Dramatic Writing, Lajos Egri
Gone: A Girl, A Violin, A Life Unstrung, Min Kym
2022 reading list
Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life , Anne Lamott
Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole, Susan Cain
Chatter, Ethan Kross
The Poetics Of Space, Gaston Bachelard
Screenplay: The Foundations of Screenwriting, Syd Field
Hello, Molly!: A Memoir, Molly Shannon
Story: Substance, Structure, Style, and the Principles of Screenwriting, Robert Mckee
Drunk: How We Sipped, Danced, and Stumbled Our Way to Civilization, Edward Slingerland
Ten Arguments for Deleting your Social Media Accounts Right Now, Jaron Lanier
Self-Compassion, Kristin Neff
Comedy Comedy Comedy Drama, Bob Odenkirk
Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience, Mihaly Csikszentimihalyi
Ikigai, Hector Garcia & Frances Miralles
Bedroom Rapper, Rollie Pemberton
The Little Book of Lykke, Meik Wiking
Lagom, Linnea Dunne
Millionaire Teacher, Andrew Hallam
Origin: A Genetic History of the Americas, Jennifer Raff
TROUBLEMAKER, John Cho
Four Thousand Weeks, Oliver Burkeman
The Power of Regret, Daniel H. Pink
The Sound Book, Trevor Cox
The Courage to be Disliked, Ichiro Kishimi and Fumitake Koga
Field Recording- From Research to Wrap , Paul Virostek
The $12 Million Stuffed Shark, Don Thompson
The Miracles of The Namiya General Store, Keigo Higashino
Keep the memories Lose the Stuff, Matt Paxton
Freedom is a Constant Struggle, Angela Y. Davis
Bossy Pants, Tina Fey
Che, My Brother, Juan Martin Guevara
Mine!: How the Hidden Rules of Ownership Control Our Lives, Michael A. Heller & James Salzman
One Day In December Celia Sánchez and the Cuban Revolution, Nancy Stout
Dilla Time, Dan Charnas
I Might regret This, Abbi Jacobson
2021 Reading List
Myth of Sisyphus, Albert Camus
Disarmament, John Terpstra
Special Sound: The Creation and Legacy of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, Louis Niebur
Women of the Beat Generation: The Writers, Artists, and Muses at The Heart of a Revolution, Brenda Knight
Let’s Start a Riot, Bruce Mcculloch
Norwegian Wood, Haruki Murakimi
Hanna Coulter, Wendell Berry
2020 Reading List
Jayber Crow, Wendell Berry
The Road, Jack Kerouac
Collected Poems of Bob Kaufman, Bob Kaufman
2019 Reading List
On Tyranny, Timothy Snyder
The Flame, Leonard Cohen
History's People: Personalities and the Past, Margaret MacMillan
Obviously I have only been reading since 2019.