Organized annually. Bolded books are recommends. Otherwise unordered. Does not include abandoned books, so I suppose anything listed is a light recommend.

2020

• Masters of Doom by David Kushner
• Impro: Improvisation and the Theatre by Keith Johnstone
• One From Many by Dee Hock
• The Singapore Story: Memoirs of Lee Kuan Yew by Lee Kuan Yew
• Barbarian Days by William Finnegan
• The Art of the Good Life by Rolf Dobelli
• From Third World to First: 1965-2000 by Lee Kuan Yew
• (reread) Born a Crime by Trevor Noah
• Softwar by Matthew Symonds
• The Origins of Political Order by Francis Fukuyama
• How Asia Works by Joe Studwell
• Eleven Rings by Phil Jackson
• Malcolm X by Manning Marable
• The Man Who Solved the Market by Gregory Zuckerman
• The Ride of a Lifetime by Robert Iger
• Invested: Changing Forever the Way Americans Invest by Charles Schwab
• Inspired by Marty Cagan
• Range by David Epstein
• Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams by Tom DeMarco
• Indonesia, Etc. Exploring the Improbable Nation by Elizabeth Pisani
• The Paypal Wars by Eric Jackson

Fiction

• Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang
• The Ghost in the Shell by Masamune Shirow
• Rhythm of War by Brandon Sanderson
• Redshirts by John Scalzi
• The Last Emperox by John Scalzi
• The Secret Commonwealth by Philip Pullman
• (reread) The Wheel of Time series (skipped 11 and 12) by Robert Jordan and finished by Brandon Sanderson
• (reread) The Old Kingdom Chronicles by Garth Nix
• The Calculating Stars series by Mary Robinette Kowal
• Dagger and the Coin series by Daniel Abraham
• Children of Time series by Adrian Tchaikovsky
• (reread) His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman
• Bobiverse series (1st til most recent) by Dennis Taylor

2019

Note from Jan 2021: I suspect this list is incomplete. Maybe someday I’ll dig and investigate.

Nonfiction

• Finite and Infinite Games
• Thinking in Systems: A Primer
• Thinking in Bets
• Who Is Michael Ovitz?
• Walt Disney: The Triumph of the American Imagination
• Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
• Deep Simplicity
• The Phoenix Project
• Den of Thieves
• Certain to Win
• Unbroken
• Sam Walton: Made in America

Fiction

• Seveneves
• Fall, or Dodge in Hell
• The Light Fantastic
• The Color of Magic
• Expanse series 1-7
• Ancillary Justice, Sword, Mercy

2018

Note from Jan 2021: For some reason I didn’t list fiction in 2018. Maybe someday I’ll dig and investigate.

Nonfiction

• 7 Powers: The Foundations of Business Strategy
• Born a Crime
• SYSTEMANTICS. THE SYSTEMS BIBLE
• The Elephant in the Brain: Hidden Motives in Everyday Life
• Bad Blood
• Boyd: The Fighter Pilot who Changed the Art of War
• Between the World and Me
• Thinking in Bets
• Algorithms to Live By
• Poor Charlie’s Almanack
• How Not To Be Wrong
• Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco
• High Growth Handbook
• Atomic Habits
• Game Change
• Measure What Matters
• Only the Paranoid Survive
• Principles: Life and Work
• Reminisces of a Stock Operator
• Sam Walton: Made in America
• The Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can’t Stand Positive Thinking
• The Art of Being Unreasonable
• The Inner Game of Tennis
• The Smartest Guys in the Room
• Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.
• The House of Morgan
• Born Standing Up
• The Upside of Stress
• Getting it Done: How to Lead When You’re Not in Charge