All the books I've read by year, with my recommendation noted.
2025
This Inevitable Ruin by Matt Dinniman
The Eye of the Bedlam Bride by Matt Dinniman
The Butcher's Masquerade by Matt Dinniman
The Gate of the Feral Gods by Matt Dinniman
The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook by Matt Dinniman
Carl's Doomsday Scenario by Matt Dinniman
Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman
2024
Polostan by Neal Stephenson
Boom: Bubbles, Busts, and the End of Stagnation by Mark Blyth and Eric Lonergan
Critical Mass by Daniel Suarez
Delta-v by Daniel Suarez
The Boys by Katie Hafner
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck by Mark Manson
How to Fail at Almost Anything and Still Win Big by Scott Adams
When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi
Freedom by Daniel Suarez
Daemon by Daniel Suarez
Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
Dark Wire by Joseph Cox
Thinking in Bets by Annie Duke
Moonbound by Robin Sloan
Extreme Ownership by Jocko Willink and Leif Babin
Recursion by Blake Crouch
Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel
Starter Villain by John Scalzi
Glorious Exploits by Ferdia Lennon
The Bezzle by Cory Doctorow
Ready Player Two by Ernest Cline
Boomerang by Michael Lewis
The Bomber Mafia by Malcolm Gladwell
Head On by John Scalzi
Lock In by John Scalzi
Wellness by Nathan Hill
Things Become Other Things by Craig Mod
2023
The Push by Tommy Caldwell
Foundry by Eliot Peper
Stillness is the Key by Ryan Holiday
The Defector by Chris Hadfield
The Apollo Murders by Chris Hadfield
Red Team Blues by Cory Doctorow
Deep by James Nestor
Creativity, Inc. by Ed Catmull and Amy Wallace
How High We Go in the Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu
The Candy House by Jennifer Egan
Far from the Light of Heaven by Tade Thompson
This Time Tomorrow by Emma Straub
Rabbits by Terry Miles
Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata
The Kaiju Preservation Society by John Scalzi
The Mountain in the Sea by Ray Nayler
Outlive by Peter Attia
What Doesn't Kill Us by Scott Carney
Atomic Habits by James Clear
2022
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
The Suitcase Clone by Robin Sloan
Reap3r by Eliot Peper
Never Let Me Go by Kazou Ishiguro
Mr Penumbra's 24 Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan
First Person Singular by Haruki Murakami
Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro
Death's End by Cixin Liu
Creative Selection by Ken Kocienda
The Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan
Sam Walton - Made In America by Sam Walton
Radical Candor by Kim Scott
Skin in the Game by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Build by Tony Fadell
The Order of Time by Carlo Rovelli
Why We Sleep by Matthew Walker
Alone on the Wall by Alex Honnold
Digital Minimalism by Cal Newport
Seven Brief Lessons on Physics by Carlo Rovelli
Four Thousand Weeks by Oliver Burkeman
Breath by James Nestor
Ego is the Enemy by Ryan Holiday
Replacing Guilt - Minding Our Way by Nate Soares
2021
The Dark Forest by Cixin Liu
LaserWriter II - A Novel by Tamara Shopsin
The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu
The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
Dark Matter by Blake Crouch
Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
Artemis by Andy Weir
Heroes by Stephen Fry
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
Mythos by Stephen Fry
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
The Obstacle is the Way by Ryan Holiday
Fooled by Randomness by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Antifragile by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The Madness of Crowds by Douglas Murray
No Easy Day by Mark Owen
Red Notice by Bill Browder
Reality is Not What it Seems by Carlo Rovelli
An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth by Chris Hadfield
Beyond Order by Jordan B. Peterson
Nudge by Richard H. Thaler and Cass R. Sunstein
Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell
Blink by Malcolm Gladwell
Building a StoryBrand by Donald Miller
Black Box Thinking by Matthew Syed
2020
Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe by Douglas Adams
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
Annabel Scheme by Robin Sloan
Annabel Scheme and The Adventure of the New Golden Gate by Robin Sloan
Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki by Haruki Murakami
New Waves by Kevin Nguyen
The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin
Dune by Frank Herbert
The Trial by Franz Kafka
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami
Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Waking Up by Sam Harris
Shoe Dog by Phil Knight
In the Footsteps of the Band of Brothers by Larry Alexander
Close to the Machine by Ellen Ullman
The Courage to Be Disliked by Ichiro Kishimi and Fumitake Koga
I Contain Multitudes by Ed Yong
Kissa by Kissa by Craig Mod
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry by Neil deGrasse Tyson
Write to the Point by Sam Leith
The Strange Death of Europe by Douglas Murray
The Second Mountain by David Brooks
The Upstarts by Brad Stone
Disney U by Doug Lipp
Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond
No Filter: The Inside Story of Instagram by Sarah Frier
The Ride of a Lifetime by Bob Iger
2019
Killing Commendatore by Haruki Murakami
Watchmen by Alan Moore
China Dream by Ma Jian
Strange Weather in Tokyo by Hiromi Kawakami
Radicalized by Cory Doctorow
Exhalation by Ted Chiang
Desire by Haruki Murakami
Gnomon by Nick Harkaway
Tribes by Seth Godin
The Curse of Bigness - Antitrust in the New Gilded Age by Tim Wu
How to do Nothing by Jenny Odell
Ruined by Design by Mike Monteiro
Goodbye, Things by Fumio Sasaki
Think Again by Walter Sinnott-Armstrong
The Checklist Manifesto by Atul Gawande
Digital Minimalism by Cal Newport
12 Rules for Life by Jordan B. Peterson
Atomic Habits by James Clear
2018
Men Without Women by Haruki Murakami
These Days by Jack Cheng
Digital Transformation at Scale by Public.Digital
2017
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Sourdough by Robin Sloan
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Animal Farm by George Orwell
Modern Romance by Aziz Ansari
Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari
The Establishment by Owen Jones
Pre-2017
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
The Lifecycle of Software Objects by Ted Chiang
Division By Zero by Ted Chiang
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child by Jack Thorne
Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino
Mr Penumbra's 24 Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan
The Martian by Andy Weir
The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell
Liars Poker by Michael Lewis
Becoming Steve Jobs by Brent Schlender and Rick Tetzeli
Human Universe by Brian Cox
Originals by Adam Grant
Zero to One by Peter Thiel
How Will You Measure Your Life by Clayton M. Christensen
A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking
Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
Enough by Patrick Rhone
Minimal Mac by Patrick Rhone
The Communist Manifesto by Friedrich Engels and Karl Marx
Hatching Twitter by Nick Bilton
Things a Little Bird Told Me by Biz Stone
Without Their Permission by Alexis Ohanian
Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson
Age of Context by Robert Scoble and Shel Israel
Freakonomics by Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner
Think Like a Freak by Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner
Flash Boys by Michael Lewis