Books Consumed in 2026 (will continue to update)
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2026:
Electromagnetic Theory by Mark Hedges
The Secret Lives of Color by Kassia St. Clair
Relentless Forward Progress: A Guide to Running Ultramarathons by Bryon Powell
Internal Strategies by Anita Feng
Poems & Prayers by Matthew McConaughey
On The Road by Jack Kerouac
Running with the Mind of Meditation by Sakyong Mipham
Notes on Being a Man by Scott Galloway
Navigating Life with Multiple Sclerosis by Kathleen Costello, MS, ANP-BC, MSCN, Ben W Thrower, MD, Barbara S Giesser
Story: Style, Structure, Substance, and the Principles of Screenwritng by Robert McKee
Rumi’s Little Book of Life: The Garden of the Soul, the Heart, and the Spirit by Rumi
The Feynman Lectures on Physics: A Comprehensive Introduction to the Principles of Physics by Mark Hedges
Blue Horses: Poems by Mary Oliver
Hope for the Flowers by Trina Paulus
Solo by Jenny Tough
The Crying Book by Heather Christle
Meditations in an Emergency by Frank O’ Hara
How to Hold a Cockroach by Matthew Maxwell
Haikus of an Addict by Brett C. Persson
Relativity: The Special and General Theory by Albert Einstein
Enough: Climbing Toward a True Self on Mount Everest by Melissa Arnot Reid
Quanta and Fields: The Biggest Ideas of the Universe by Sean Carroll
Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer
The Meritocracy Trap by Daniel Markovitz
Man and His Symbols by Carl G Jung
The Science of Enlightenment by Shinzen Young (re-read)
Eiger Dreams by Jon Krakauer
Custodians of Wonder: Ancient Customs, Profound Traditions, and the Last People Keeping them Alive by Eliot Stein
The Way of Bodhisattva by Shantideva & Padmakara Translation Group
Never Split the Difference: Negotiating as if Your Life Depended on It by Chris Voss
The Three Pillars of Zen by Roshi Philip Kapleau
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond
A Brief History of Black Holes by Dr. Becky Smethurst
Earth: Over 4 Billion Years in the Making by Chris Peckham and Andrew Cohen
The Songwriting Magic Formula by Paul Wright
The Gay Science ( The Joyful Wisdom) by Fiedrich Nietzsche
Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst by Robert M. Sapolsky
The Perfect Medicine: How Running Makes Us Healthier and Happier by Brodie Ramin, M.D.
The Theory of Everything by Stephen Hawking
Forces of Nature by Professor Brian Cox, Andrew Cohen
The Gift of Not Belonging by Rami Kaminski, MD
Journey to the Edge of Reason: The Life of Kurt Gödel by Stephen Budiansky
On the Shortness of Life by Seneca
Leaders Eat Last by Simon Sinek
Gödel, Escher, and Bach by Douglas Hofstadter
Endure: Mind, Body, and the Curiously Elastic Limits of Human Performance by Alexander Hutchinson
Strong Ground: The Lessons of Daring Leadership, The Tenacity of Paradox, and the Wisdom of the Human Spirit by Brene Brown
A Whole New Mind by Daniel H. Pink
The First Three Minutes: A Modern View of the Origin of the Universe by Steven Weinberg
Is Is Enough Poems by Lauren Camp
The Letters of Allen Ginsberg edited by Bill Morgan
The Rise: Creativity, the Gift of Failure, and the Search for Mastery by Sarah Lewis
Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error by Kathryn Schulz
There is No Finish: The Backyard Ultra Story by Stephen Parker
Running the Dream by Mat Fitzgerald
The Expanding Circle: Ethics, Evolution, and Moral Progress by Peter Singer
Do Hard Things: Why We Get Resilience Wrong and the Surprising Science of Real Toughness by Steve Magness
Shadow Country by Paula Gunn Allen
Time: 10 Things You Should Know by Colin Stuart
The Universe in a Nutshell by Stephen Hawking
Nonduality: in Buddhism and Beyond by David R. Loy
Introduction to General Relativity by Mark Hedges
Quantum Physics for Beginners by Oliver Graves
Bushcraft by Ray E Reeves
Simply Schrödinger by John Gribbin
The Art of Resilience by Ross Edgley
Design Thinking: Revolutionizing your Approach to Problem-Solving by B. Vincent
Time Explained: Exploring the World of Becoming by Tenzin C. Trepp
Dark Matter & Dark Energy: The Hidden 95% of the Universe by Brian Clegg
Smile or You’re Doing it Wrong by Andy Glaze
2025:
Becoming Nobody by Ram Dass
Grief is Love: Living with Loss by Marisa Renee Lee
The Rise of the Ultra Runners by Adharanand Finn
Finding Ultra by Rich Roll
Einstein’s Fridge: How the difference between hot and cold explains the universe by Paul Sen
Even the Sun will Die by Eckhart Tolle
The Tibetan Book of the Dead translated by Lama Kai Dara-Samdup
Braving the Wilderness by Brene Brown
The Science of Interstellar by Kip Thorne
Gender Magic by Rae McDaniel,LCPC, CST
The Physics of Consciousness by Ivan Antic
Never Finished by David Goggins
Radical Acceptance by Tara Brach, PhD
The Message for Black Women by Jonah Sanders
Astronomy 101: by Carolyn Collins Petersen
How to Be Compassionate by the Dalai Lama
The Art of War by Sun Tzu
The Bedwetter by Sarah Silverman
The Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin
Sacred in the Every Day Life by Ram Dass
Tao Te Ching by Laozi
The Art of Shralpinism: Lessons from the Mountains by Jeremy Jones
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pirsig
Self-made Man by Norah Vincent
The Razor’s Edge by W. Somerset Maugham
The Sun My Heart: The Companion to the Miracle of Mindfulness
Touching Peace by Thich Nhat Hanh
The Impossible Climb: Alex Honnold, El Capitan, and the Climbing Life
The End of Time: The Next Revolution in Physics by Julian Barbour
The Meaning of Happiness by Alan Watts
The Heart Sutra: Translation and Commentary by Red Pine
The Practice of the Presence of God by Brother Lawrence
How to Love by Thich Nhat Hanh
Unreasonable Hospitality by Will Guidara
Beyond Anxiety by Martha Beck
A General Theory of Love by Richard Lannon, MD, Fari Amini, MD, Thomas Lewis, MD
The Science of Enlightenment by Shinzen Young
My Stroke of Insight by Jill Bolte Taylor
2nd Flake by Anita Virgil
The Zen of Climbing by Francis Sanzaro
The Zen of Therapy by Mark Epstein, MD
A Taste of Freedom by Ven. Ajahn Chah
The Dichotomy of Leadership by Jacko Willink and Leif Babin
The Life and Zen Haiku Poetry of Santoka Taneda by Sumita Oyama
Three Simple Lines by Natalie Goldberg
Haiku Mind by Patricia Donegan
Howl and Other Poems by Allen Ginsberg
Silence: The Power of Quiet in a World full of Noise by Thich Nhat Hanh
The Hidden Reality: Parallel Universes and the Deep Laws of the Cosmos by Brian Greene
Crooked Cucumber: The Life and Zen Teaching of Shunryu Suzuki by David Chadwick
Sorry I’m Late, I Didn’t Want to Come: One Introvert’s Year of Saying Yes by Jessica Pan
Series 65 Exam Prep by Jareth Wyndemere
The Zen of Happiness by Chris Prentiss
Molecule of Emotion: Why you Feel the way you do by Candace B. Pert, PH.D
The Power of Vulnerability by Brene Brown
Educated by Tara Westover
Series 66 by Kaplan
The I Ching: The Book of Change by David Hinton
The Autistic Brain: Thinking Across the Spectrum by Temple Grandin and Richard Panek
The 4% Universe: Dark Matter, Dark Energy, and the Race to Discover the Rest of Reality by Richard Panek
Real Change: Mindfulness to Heal Ourself and the World by Sharon Salzberg
The Elements of Marie Curie by Dava Sobel
Becoming Yourself: Teachings on the Zen Way of Life by Shunryu Suzuki
Yes Please By Amy Poehler
Life As No One Knows It: The Physics of Life’s Emergence by Sara Imari Walker
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
The Relationship Cure by John M. Gottman, PhD
Echoes from an Arrow Pierced Heart by Faid
Anxiety in Relationships by Michelle Martin
Wild by Cheryl Strayed
The Physics of Everyday Things by James Kakalios
Training for the Uphill Athlete: A Manual for Mountain Runners & Ski Mountaineers by Steve House, Scott Johnston, and Kilian Jornet
Overtime: Selected Poems by Philip Whalen
Ultramarathon Man: Confessions of an All-Night Runner by Dean Karnazes
The House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer
You Are Here: Discovering the Magic of the Present Moment by Thich Nhat Hanh
Approaching the Buddhist Path ( The Library of Wisdom and Compassion) by the Dalai Lama and Thubten Chodron
How the Hippies Saved Physics by David Kaiser
Giftology by John Ruhlin
A Brief History of Mathematics by Marcus du Sautoy
The Next Day: Transitions, Change, and Moving Forward by Melinda French Gates
Tantra: Guide to Learning the Art of Tantric Sacred Sex by Barbara Hart
Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl
200 Haiku Love Poems by Adrian Tanase
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas S. Kuhn
Philosophy of Physics: A Very Short Introduction by David Wallace
The Art of Small Talk: Go Shallow to Go Deep by Casey Wilson and Jessica St. Clair
My Antonia by Willa Cather
One, Two, Three…Infinity: Facts and Speculations of Science by George Gamow
Why Does E=MC^2 and Why Should We Care by Brian Cox and Jeff Forshaw
Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest by Suzanne Simard
To Seek Without Finding by Kevin Sheetz
The Noble Eightfold Path: Way to the End of Suffering by Bhikkhu Bodhi
A Season in Hell by Arthur Rimbaud
My Life with the Chimpanzees by Jane Goodall
One Blade of Grass by Henry Shukman
The Serviceberry by Robin Wall Kimmerer
Carbon by Paul Hawken
The Way of Chuang Tzu by Thomas Merton
All the Way to the River by Elizabeth Gilbert
How to be Animal by Melanie Challenger
Do Not Go Gentle: Poems for Funerals by Neil Astley
Shot Ready by Stephen Curry
Addiction to Love: Overcoming a Obsession and Dependency in Relationships by Susan Peabody
The Power of Letting Go by John Purkiss
Letting Go: The Pathway of Surrender by David R. Hawkins Ph.D
A Poetry Handbook by Mary Oliver
Hal Koerner’s Field Guide to Ultrarunning by Hal Koerner
On the Heavens by Aristotle
Endure by Cameron Hanes
The End of Faith by Sam Harris
Ikigai by Hector Garcia and Francescs Miralles
How to Write Evocative Poetry by Zachary Phillips
Free Will by Sam Harris
The Inner Life of Animals by Peter Wohlleben
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft by Stephen King
The Elements of Style by William Strunk,E.B White
2024:
The Order of Time by Carlo Rovelli
I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life by Ed Yong
Something Deeply Hidden by Sean Carroll
How to Read Nature: An Expert’s Guide to Discovering the Outdoors You Never Noticed by Qarie Marshall
Helgoland: Making Sense of the Quantum Revolution by Carlo Rovelli
The World According to Physics by Jim Al-Khalili
How Not To Kill Yourself: A Portrait of the Suicidal Mind by Clancy Martin
How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures by Sabrina Imbler
A Series of Fortunate Events: Chance and the Making of the Planet by Sean B. Carroll
Listen: On Music, Sound and Us by Michel Faber
The Art of Communicating by Thich Nhat Hanh
I am a Strange Loop by Douglas R. Hofstadter
Transgender Warriors: Making History from Joan of Arc to Dennis Rodman by Leslie Feinberg
Spectrums: Autistic Transgender People in Their Own Words by Maxfield Sparrow
All the Flowers Kneeling by Paul Tran
Supporting Transgender Autistic Youth and Adults by Finn V. Gratton, LMFT, LPCC
Nisa by Marjorie Shostak
Determined: A Science of Life Without Free Will by Robert M. Sapolsky
21 Lessons for the 21st History by Yuval Harrari
The Book Of Secrets by Deepak Chopra
The Joy of Science by Jim Al-Khalili
The Rock Warriors Way by Arno IIgner
The Pursuit of Endurance by Jennifer Pharr Davis
Quantum Mechanics, Technology, Consciousness and the Multiverse by Martin Ettington
Born to Run by Christopher McDougall
Connecting with the Autism Spectrum by Casey “Remrov” Vormer
Light Falls: Space, Time, and an Obsession with Einstein by Brian Greene
A Walk In the Woods by Bill Bryson
10 Days in Physics that Shook the World by Brian Clegg
On Being a Therapist by Jeffrey Kottler
Atlas of the Heart: Mapping Meaningful Connection and the language of the human experience by Brene Brown
What do you really want? By Cayla Craft
The Peaceful Warrior by Dan Millman
How to Write an Autobiographical Novel by Alexander Chee
Chemistry for Breakfast by Dr. Mai Thi Nguyen-Kim
The Creative Act: A Way of Being by Rick Rubin
A Molecule Away from Madness by Sara Manning Peskin
Quantum Wonder: How the Tiny Drives Our Immense Reality by Carl AL-Khalili
Building a Life Worth Living by Marsha Linehan
How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply by David Brooks
Speed Reading by Kam Knight
Being You: A New Science of Consciousness by Anil Seth
You Are Not an Imposter by Coline Monsarrat
You are the Placebo by Dr. Joe Dispenza
Welcome to the O.C.: The Oral History by Alan Sepinwall
Heartbreak: A Personal and Scientific Journey by Florence Williams
DBT Made Simple: A Step-by-Step Guide to Dialectical Behavior Therapy by Sheri Van Dijk MSW
Move on Motherf*cker: Live, Laugh, and Let Sh*t Go by Jodie Eckleberry-Hunt, Emma Bryne PhD
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy: Real and proven strategies for managing anxiety by Charlie Norman
CBT Workbook: 7 Strategies to Overcome Anxiety, Depression, Anger, Panic, Worry, Intrusive Thoughts by Mind Change Academy
Dialectical Behavior Therapy: A comprehensive guide to DBT and using Behavior Therapy to Manage Borderline Personality Disorder by Christopher Rance
Somatic Psychotherapy: A Comprehensive Guide to Theoretical and Practical Considerations by Hale Boyd
Dialectical Behavior Therapy: Regulate Emotions, Panic, Anger. Guide for BPD by Dustin Drig
How Confidence Works: The new science of self belief by Ian Robertson
Fear: Essential Wisdom for Getting Through the Storm by Thich Nhat Hanh
The God Equation by Michio Kaku
Dialectical Behavior Therapy by Cindy Crosby
Brief Answers to the Big Questions by Stephen Hawking
Quantum: A Guide for the Perplexed by Jim Al-Khalili
Zen and the Art of Saving the Planet by Thich Nhat Hanh
Einstein in Time and Space: A Life in 99 Particles by Samuel Graydon
Reality is Not What It Seems by Carlo Rovelli
Resurrecting the Body, Reinventing the Soul by Deepak Chopra
A Brief History of Intelligence by Max Bennett
What the Future Looks like by Jim Al-Khalil
Retirement 101: From 401(k) Plans to Social Security Benefits to Asset Management by Michele Cagan
Still the Mind by Alan Watts
Anchor System Thinking by A.I. Shoukry
Finance Basics by Harvard Business Review
The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle
A Brief History of Earth by Andrew Knoll
The Physics Book by DK
Investing for Beginners by David Cohne
The 48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene
Drink? The New Science of Alcohol and your Health by Professor David Nutt
Unique: The New Science of Human Individuality by David Linden
Psychedelics by Professor David Nutt
What do you need? By Lauren Wesley Wilson
Can’t Hurt Me by David Goggins
Endure by Cameron Hanes
Being Peace by Thich Nhat Hanh
Die with Zero: Getting all you can with your money and your life by Bill Perkins
How Humans Evolved by Robert Boyd and Joan Silk
No Bad Parts by Richard C. Schwartz,PHD
The Matter of Everything: How Curiosity, Physics, and Improbable Experiments Changed the World by Suzie Sheehy
The Radium Girls by Kate Moore
Bumpin: A Modern Guide to Pregnancy by Leslie Schrock
Choose Strong by Sally McRae
Outgrowing God by Richard Dawkins
Can We Talk about Israel? By Daniel Sokatch
Black Holes and Baby Universes and Other Essays by Stephen Hawking
Hal Koerner’s Field Guide to Ultra Running by Hal Koerner
The Science and Art of Running by Cooper Barton
Eat and Run: My Unlikely Journey to Ultramarathon Greatness by Scott Jurek
North: Finding my Way While Running the Appalachian Trail by Scott Jurek & Jenny Jurek
7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey
Securities Industries Essentials by Kaplan
Above the Clouds by Kilian Jornet
What is Life? by Paul Nurse
What I Know For Sure by Oprah Winfrey
A New Earth by Eckhart Tolle
Mastering Logical Fallacies by Michael Withey
This is why you Dream by Rahul Jandial,MD,PHD
The Tao of Running by Gary Dudney
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry by Neil DeGrasse Tyson
The Magic of Reality by Richard Dawkins
Parallel Worlds: A Journey through Creation, Higher Dimensions and the Future of the Cosmos by Michio Kaku
Dance of the Photons by Anton Zelinger
Quantum Body by Deepak Chopra
The Heart of Understanding by Thich Nhat Hanh
Annuity 360 Learn All You Need to Know About Annuities by Ford Strokes
Quantum Entanglement by Jed Brody
Relationships by Ram Dass
The Way of Zen by Alan Watts
Ultimate Confidence by Ralf Aabot
101 Essays that will Change the Way You Think by Brianna Wiest
The Science of Happiness by Brendan Kelly
Fighting for our Friendships by Danielle Bayard Jackson
One Day My Soul Just Opened Up by Iyanla Vanzant
K2: Life and Death on the World’s Most Dangerous Mountain by Ed Viesturs and David Roberts
Know that I Am by Eckhart Tolle
Girls Like Us by Sheila Weller
Love Sense: The Revolutionary New Science of Romantic Relationships by Dr. Sue Johnson
Girls that Invest by Simran Kaur
Slow Productivity by Cal Newport
Greenlights by Matthew McConaughey
Stillness Speaks by Eckhart Tolle
Retroactive Jealousy by Vincenzo Venezia
Right Thing, Right Now by Ryan Holiday
The Best American Essays 2022 by Alexander Chee & Robert Atwan
Talking to Strangers by Malcolm Gladwell
Insecure in love by Leslie Becker-Phelps PHD
Codependent No More by Melody Beattie
Be Here Now by Ram Dass
Reality, Art, and Illusion by Alan Watts
Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
We Will be Jaguars by Nemonte Nenquimo
The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron
Rising Strong: How the Ability to Reset Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead by Brene Brown
Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott
The War of Art by Steven Pressfield
Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind by Shunryu Suzuki
The Secret Lives of Booksellers and Librarians by James Patterson and Matt Everymann
Gender Queer by Maia Kobabe
Series 7 by Kaplan
What Every Therapist Ought to Know: Attachment, Arousal Regulation, and Clinical Techniques in Clinical Therapy by Stan Tatkin, Psyd,MFT
Mating in Captivity by Esther Perel
Touching a Nerve: Our Brain, Our Selves by Patricia Churchland
Fundamentals: Ten Keys to Reality by Frank Wilczek
Creativity, Inc. ( The expanded edition)by Ed Catmull and Amy Wallace
Bang Crunch Stories by Neil Smith
There are places in the world where rules are less important than kindness and other thoughts in physics, philosophy, and the World by Carlo Rovelli
Let it go by chelene knight
Waters of the world: the stories of the scientists who unraveled the mysteries of the oceans, atmosphere, and Ice Sheets by Sarah Dry
2023:
The Last climb by David Breashears, Audrey Selkeld, and Audry Salkend
What is Life by Schrodinger
A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking
Beyond Feeling: A Guide to Critical Thinking by Vincent Ryan Ruggiero
Furniture by Kevin Sheetz
A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
Relativity by Albert Einstein
Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu
An Immense World by Ed Yong
Quantum Supremacy by Michio Kaku
White Holes by Carlo Rovelli
A Separate Reality by Carlos Castaneda
Outlive by Peter Attia
Until the End of Time by Brian Greene
Tribe by Sebastian Junger
Ghosts of Everest by Jochen Hemmleb
Attached by Amir Levine and Rachel Heller
Mind and Matter by Schrodinger
Wired for Love by Stan Tatkin
Grit by Angela Duckworth
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a fuck by Mark Manson
Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
The Ethical Slut by Janet Hardy and Dossie Easton
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
The Power of Myth by Joseph Campbell
The Fabric of the Cosmos by Brian Greene
The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel Van Der Kolk
Committed by Elizabeth Gilbert
Homo Deus Summary a Brief History of Tomorrow by Yuval Harari
Alone on the Wall by Alex Honnold
Why we Believe in God (s): A Concise Guide to the Science of Faith by J. Anderson Thomson
Physics and Philosophy: The Revolution of Modern Science by Werner Heisenberg
The Tao of Physics by Fritjof Chopra
Sacred Woman by Queen Afja
Everest: The West Ridge by Thomas Hornbein
Tracks by Robyn Davidson
The Ink Dark Moon by Ono no Komachi and Izumi Shikoku
Einstein by Walter Isaacson
Learned Optimism by Martin Seligman
