Completed in 2022

Asterisks denote recommended reads.

  • The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870–1914, David McCullough* (or you can just watch this documentary)
  • Nothing is True and Everything is Possible, Peter Pomerantsev
  • The Summer Game, Roger Angell
  • Piranesi, Susanna Clarke*
  • Season Ticket, Roger Angell
  • A Pitcher’s Story: Innings with David Cone, Roger Angell
  • The Phoenix Project, Gene Kim
  • Artemis, Andy Weir
  • Project Hail Mary, Andy Weir
  • Ball Lightning, Liu Cixin
  • Amazon Unbound, Brad Stone
  • The Everything Store, Brad Stone
  • Becoming Trader Joe, Joe Coulombe
  • Ra, qntm
  • There Is No Antimemetics Division*, qntm

Completed in 2021

Asterisks denote recommended reads.

  • The Fighters, C. J. Chivers
  • Tanks Are Mighty Fine Things, Wesley W. Stout*
  • Gang Leader for a Day, Sudhir Venkatesh
  • This Is How They Tell Me The World Ends, Nicole Perlroth
  • 2034, Elliot Ackerman
  • Band of Brothers, Stephen E. Ambrose
  • Master and Commander, Patrick O’Brian

Completed in 2020

Asterisks denote recommended reads.

  • The Alienist and The Angel of Darkness, Caleb Carr*
  • In Cold Blood, Truman Capote
  • Red Rising trilogy
  • Longitude, Dava Sobel
  • Hamilton, Ron Chernow
  • Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln, Doris Kearns Goodwin
  • The Devil in the White City, Erik Larson
  • A Gentleman in Moscow, Amor Towles
  • Big Game: The NFL in Dangerous Times, Mark Leibovich
  • Coraline, Neil Gaiman

Completed in 2019

Asterisks denote recommended reads.

  • The Right Stuff, Tom Wolfe*
  • Boom Town, Sam Anderson*
  • Three Body Problem trilogy*
  • The Magicians, Lev Grossman
  • Bad Blood, John Carreyou
  • Winners Take All, Anand Giridharadas
  • Super Pumped, Mike Issac
  • Meet Me in the Bathroom, Lizzy Goodman