I remember more when I take notes. That’s why I started writing summaries of the books I’ve read. Perhaps you might find them helpful.
Daily Rituals: How Artists Work – Mason Currey
The Notebook: A History of Thinking On Paper – Roland Allen
1929: Inside The Greatest Crash In Wall Street History – Andrew Ross Sorkin
Age of Revolutions: Progress and Backlash from 1600 to the Present – Fareed Zakaria
Alaska’s History: the People, Land, and Events of the North Country – Harry Ritter
American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson – Joseph Ellis
Fodor’s Alaska – Fodor Travel Guides
Fighting Bob La Follette: The Righteous Reformer – Nancy Unger
History Matters – David McCollough, Dorie McCollough Lawson, Michael Hill
John Hancock: First to Sign, First To Invest in America’s Independence – William Sterne Randall
John Quincy Adams – Harlow Giles Unger
Life After Power: Seven Presidents and Their Search for Purpose Beyond the White House – Jared Cohen
The Federalist Papers – Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay
President Lincoln: The Duty of A President – William Lee Miller
President Reagan: The Role of Lifetime – Lou Cannon
The Last Founding Father: James Monroe and a Nation’s Call to Greatness – Harlow Giles Unger
The Sister: North Korea’s Kim Jo Jong, The Most Dangerous Woman In The World – Sung-Yoon Lee
Tunnel 29: A Story of Courage and Escape Beneath the Berlin Wall – Helena Merriman
Washington: A Life – Ron Chernow
Why Taiwan Matters: A Short History of a Small Island That Will Dictate Our Future – Kerry Brown
Frostbite: How Refrigeration Changed Our Food, Our Planet, and Ourselves – Nicolla Twilley
How The World Works – Vaclav Smil
Predictable Profits – Stu McLaren
Collision of Power: Trump, Bezos, and the Washington Post – Martin Baron
Funny Because It’s True: How The Onion Created Modern American News Satire – Christine Wenc
Show Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout – Cal Newport
Team: Getting Things Done with Others – David Allen & Edward Lamont
The Wisdom of the Bullfrog – William McRaven
Eat Move Sleep: How Small Choices Lead to Big Changes – Tom Rath
Everything Is Tuberculosis – John Green
Food Intelligence: The Science of How Food Both Nourishes and Harms Us – Julia Belluz and Kevin Hall
If It Sounds Like A Quack – Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling
Plucked: Chicken, Antibiotics, and How Big Business Changed The Way We Eat – Maryn McKenna
Replaceable You: Adventures in Human Anatomy – Mary Roach
Secrets from the Eating Lab – Traci Mann
Ultra-Processed People: The Science Behind Food That Isn’t Food – Chris van Tulleken
How To Be A Stoic (Penguin Great Idea Series)
On Character: Choices That Define A Life – Stanley McChrystal
On The Shortness of Life – Seneca
At War With Ourselves: My Tour of Duty In The Trump White House by HR McMaster
Finish What We Started: The MAGA Movement’s Ground War to End Democracy – Isaac Arnsdorf
James Madison: American Prophet – Duane Ostler
Mad House – Annie Karni and Luke Broadwater
Oath and Honor: A Memoir and a Warning – Liz Cheney
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons From the Twentieth Century – Timothy Snyder
The Situation Room: The Inside Story of Presidents In Crisis – George Stephanopoulos
War and Punishment: Putin, Zelensky, and the Path To Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine – Mikhail Zygar
White Rural Rage: The Threat to American Democracy – Tomorrow Schaller and Paul Waldman
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking – Malcolm Gladwell
Conscious: A Brief Guide to the Fundamental Mystery of the Mind – Annaka Harris
Feel-Good Productivity: How to Do More of What Matters to You – Ali Abdaal
In My Time of Dying: How I Came Face-to-Face With The Idea of An Afterlife – Sebastian Junger
Into the Impossible: How To Think Like A Nobel Prize Winner – Brian Keating
The Art of Exceptional Living – Jim Rohn
The Expectation Effect: How Your Mindset Can Change Your World – David Robson
The Next Conversation: Argue Less, Talk More – Jefferson Fisher
My Philosophy For Successful Living – Jim Rohn and Vic Johnson
Revenge of the Tipping Point – Malcolm Gladwell
Right Things, Right Now: Good Values, Good Character, Good Deeds – Ryan Holiday
Supercommunicators: How To Unlock The Secret Language of Connection – Charles Duhigg
The Almanack of Naval Ravikant – Eric Jorgenson
The Practice of the Presence of God in Modern English – Brother Lawrence and Marshall Davis
A City on Mars – Kelly and Zach Weinersmith
The Mission: A True Story – David Brown
How Minds Change: The Surprising Science of Belief, Opinion, and Persuasion – David McRaney
Mapping The Darkness: The Visionary Scientists Who Unlocked The Mysteries of Sleep – Kenneth Miller
Most Delicious Poison: The Story of Nature’s Toxins – From Spices to Vices – Noah Whiteman
Burn Book: A Tech Love Story – Kara Swisher
Bushido: The Samurai Code of Japan – Inazo Nitobe
Character Limit: How Elon Musk Destroyed Twitter – Kate Conger and Ryan Mac
Co-Intelligence: Living and Working With Artificial Intelligence – Ethan Malick
Death Is Our Business: Mercenaries and the New Era of Private Warfare – John Lechner
Educating Milwaukee – James Nelson
Nuclear War: A Scenario – Annie Jacobson
Number Go Up: Inside Crypto’s Wild Rise and Staggering Fall – Zeke Faux
Superagency: What Could Possibly Go Wrong With Our AI Future? – Reid Hoffman & Greg Beato
The Age of Grievance – Frank Bruni
The Sirens Call: How Attention Became The World’s Most Endangered Resource – Chris Hayes
Apple In China: The Capture of the World’s Greatest Company – Patrick McGee
Brave New Words: How AI will Revolutionize Education – Salman Khan
Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman’s Open AI – Karen Hao
Big Dumb Eyes: Stories From A Simpler Mind – Nate Bargatze
Carson The Magnificent – Bill Zehme
Deliver Me: The Making of Bruce Springsteen’s Nebraska – Warren Zanes
Lunkers, Keepers, and Ones That Got Away – Jerry Apps
On-Air: The Triumph and Tumult of NPR – Steve Oney
Tonight In Jungleland: The Making of Born To Run – Peter Ames Carlin
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