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.