Books Read

2025

1. The Sympathizer | Viet Thanh Nguyen
2. American Anarchy | Michael Willrich
3. The Return | Hisham Matar
4. An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States | Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
5. Eat Stop Eat | Brad Pilon
6. This Is Paradise | Kristiana Kahakauwila
7. From a Native Daughter | Haunani-Kay Trask
8. City of Thieves | David Benioff
9. What an Owl Knows | Jennifer Ackerman
10. Every Drop is a Man's Nightmare | Megan Kamalei Kakimoto
11. AI Snake Oil | Arvind Narayanan and Sayash Kapoor
12. Nuclear Family | Joseph Han
13. James | Percival Everett

2024

1. Up to Speed | Christine Yu
2. Hawaii: Islands Under the Influence | Noel J. Kent
3. The Code Breaker | Walter Isaacson
4. Code Talker | Chester Nez
5. The Tiger | John Vaillant
6. The Fund | Rob Copeland
7. Cobalt Red | Siddharth Kara
8. Fire Weather | John Vaillant
9. Billion Dollar Whale | Tom Wright and Bradley Hope
10. A Day in the Life of Abed Salama | Nathan Thrall
11. Station Eleven | Emily St. John Mandel
12. Kingdom of Characters | Jing Tsu
13. In the Distance | Hernan Diaz
14. Under the Skin | Linda Villarosa
15. The Human Stain | Philip Roth
16. Tree of Smoke | Denis Johnson

2023

1. Cuba | Ada Ferrer
2. Empire of Pain | Patrick Radden Keefe
3. The Seeds We Planted | Noelani Goodyear-Ka’opua
4. Kitchen Confidential | Anthony Bourdain
5. The Quiet American | Graham Greene
6. Down and Out in Paris and London | George Orwell
7. Deep Learning | John Kelleher
8. Watergate | Garrett M. Graff
9. Home, Land, Security | Carla Power
10. Contact | Carl Sagan
11. All the King's Men | Robert Penn Warren
12. Trust | Hernan Diaz
13. Empire Falls | Richard Russo
14. The Color of Law | Richard Rothstein
15. Rogues | Patrick Radden Keefe
16. The Snakehead | Patrick Radden Keefe
17. Number Go Up | Zeke Faux
18. The Right Stuff | Tom Wolfe

2022

1. Command and Control | Eric Schlosser
2. Forget The Alamo | Bryan Burrough, Chris Tomlinson, Jason Stanford
3. Draft Animals | Phil Gaimon
4. Race for Profit | Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
5. The Rise of Wolf 8 | Rick McIntyre
6. Say Nothing | Patrick Radden Keene
7. Yellow Bird | Sierra Crane Murdoch
8. Caste | Isabel Wilkerson
9. Volcanoes, Palm Trees & Privelege | Liz Prato
10. The Injustice Never Leaves You | Monica Muñoz Martinez
11. Covered with Night | Nicole Eustace
12. How the World Really Works | Vaclav Smil
13. The Workshop Survival Guide | Rob Fitzpatrick & Devin Hunt
14. Broken Trust | Samuel P. King & Randall W. Roth
15. The Pentagon's Brain | Annie Jacobsen
16. Brave New World | Aldous Huxley
17. Like, Comment, Subscribe | Mark Bergen
18. Behind the Beautiful Forevers | Katherine Boo
19. Project Hail Mary | Andy Weir
20. Pauahi | George Huʻeu Sanford Kanahele
21. Snow Crash | Neal Stephenson

2021

1. Pandemic | Sonia Shah
2. Civilizing Torture | W. Fitzhugh Brundage
3. What Tech Calls Thinking | Adrian Daub
4. Making the Unequal Metropolis | Ansley T. Erickson
5. Vision or Mirage | David Rundell
6. A Promised Land | Barack Obama
7. The Premonition | Michael Lewis
8. Ghosts in the Schoolyard | Eve L. Ewing
9. Franchise | Marcia Chatelain
10. Three-Cornered War | Megan Kate Nelson

2020

1. The Genius of Birds | Jennifer Ackerman
2. The Lost City of the Monkey God | Douglas Preston
3. Limits of the Known | David Roberts
4. There There | Tommy Orange
5. How to be an Antiracist | Ibram X. Kendi
6. The End of the Myth | Greg Grandin
7. Solitary | Albert Woodfox
8. Sweet Taste of Liberty | W. Caleb McDaniel
9. Factfulness | Hans Rosling

2019

1. ~ The Gulf | Jack E. Davis
2. Continental Divide | Maurice Isserman
3. The Martian Chronicles | Ray Bradbury
4. Innumeracy | John Allen Paulos
5. Strangers in Their Own Land | Arlie Russell Hochschild
6. What Doesn't Kill Us | Scott Carney
7. Eiger Dreams | Jon Krakauer
8. The Other Slavery | Andrés Reséndez
9. Sprawlball | Kirk Goldsberry
10. Survival Math | Michell S. Jackson
11. Cribsheet | Emily Oster
12. The MVP Machine | Ben Lindbergh & Travis Sawchik
13. The Line Becomes a River | Francisco Cantú
14. Amity and Prosperity | Eliza Griswold
15. Redeployment | Phil Klay
16. Leadership | Doris Kearns Goodwin
17. Quick and the Dead | Pavel Tsatsouline
18. The Nature Fix | Florence Williams
19. This Republic of Suffering | Drew Gilpin Faust
20. Waterman | David Davis
21. Ratio | Michael Ruhlman
22. Eruption | Steve Olson
23. Dopesick | Beth Macy

2018

1. In a Different Key | John Donvan and Caren Zucker
2. Mindset | Carol Dweck
3. Weapons of Math Destruction | Cathy O’Neil
4. The Generals | Thomas Ricks
5. Negotiating Opportunities | Jessica McCrory Calarco
6. Promise Me, Dad | Joe Biden
7. Deep | James Nestor
8. Evicted | Matthew Desmond
9. On the Fire Line | Matthew Desmond
10. No Good Men Among the Living | Anand Gopal
11. Locking Up Our Own | James Forman Jr.
12. On Trails | Robert Moor
13. Custer's Trials | T.J. Stiles
14. Tides | Jonathan White
15. Left for Dead | Beck Weathers
16. Educational Goods | Harry Brighouse, et al.
17. Paradise of the Pacific | Susanna Moore
18. Superforecasting | Dan Gardner and Philip E. Tetlock
19. Ghosts of K2 | Mick Conefrey
20. The Fifth Risk | Michael Lewis
21. Endure | Alex Hutchinson
22. Fire Season | Phillip Connors
23. The Evolution of Beauty | Richard O. Prum

2017

1. Between the World and Me | Ta-Nehisi Coates
2. The Undoing Project | MIchael Lewis
3. Barbarian Days | William Finnegan
4. The Checklist Manifesto | Atul Gawande
5. Hillbilly Elegy | J.D. Vance
6. Quiet | Susan Cain
7. Sapiens | Yuval Noah Harari
8. There Are No Children Here | Alex Kotlowitz
9. The Sports Gene | David Epstein
10. ~The Maroons of Jamaica | Mavis Campbell
11. Natural Born Heroes | Christopher McDougall
12. Tribe | Sebastian Junger
13. Pacific | Simon Winchester
14. Churchill & Orwell | Thomas Ricks
15. Black Flags | Joby Warrick
16. Age of Ambition | Evan Osnos
17. Encounters at the Heart of the World | Elizabeth Fenn
18. Grit | Angela Duckworth