Whenever I visit someone’s home or personal website, looking through their favorite books is one of the first things I do. Below are some of my favorites. For now these are in no particular order or structure, but as I keep working on this page I’m planning on bringing more structure to this list, as well as curating links to some of my favorite booklists from other personal websites.

  • My Antonia by Willa Cather

  • Dune by Frank Herbert

  • Stoner by John Williams

  • Angle of Repose by Wallace Stenger

  • Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi

  • Shoe Dog by Phil Knight

  • Digital Minimalism by Cal Newport

  • The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen

  • Norms and Nobility by David Hicks

  • Meditations by Marcus Aurelius

  • East of Eden by John Steinbeck

  • A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr.

  • The Music of Failure by Bill Holm

  • Conspiracy by Ryan Holiday

  • The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt by Edmund Morris