I always like reading others' book lists when looking for my next read. Here is an incomplete list of books I've read, in no particular order. Most of these (as they're the ones I finish) are pretty good, but I've bolded ones I think are particularly great.

Nonfiction

  • Crafting Interpreters
    • a delightful intro to compilers
  • Ultralearning
  • Thinking, Fast and Slow
  • Mindwise
  • The Productivity Project
  • Atomic Habits
  • The Power of Habit
  • The Happiness Advantage
  • Elon Musk, Vance
  • The Obstacle is the Way
  • What doesn't kill us
  • Decisive
  • A Guide to the Good Life
  • Plays Well With Others
  • Essentialism
  • Peak
  • Enlightenment Now
  • Outliers
  • Seeing like a State
  • Guns, Germs, and Steel
  • The Selfish Gene
  • The Motivation Hacker
  • Doing Good Better
  • Freakonomics
  • 10% Happier
  • Nudge
  • Steve Jobs, Isaacson
  • Stolen Focus
  • So Good They Can't Ignore You
  • Poor Economics
  • Salt, A World History
  • Algorithms to Live By
  • Sapiens
  • History of the World in 6 Glasses
  • Genome
  • Shoe Dog
  • Rich Dad, Poor Dad
  • The Compound Effect
  • Alan Turing: The Enigma
  • Oppenheimer
  • Moonwalking with Einstein
  • Seven Games
  • The Big Short
  • Range

Fiction

(very incomplete, but has my favorites)

  • Both Percy Jackson series
    • fun fact: I've re-read the first series 6 times (I generally don't re-read things)
  • The Red pyramid
  • The Martian
  • Hail Mary
  • Ender's Game
  • Red Rising
  • Frankenstein
  • Throne of Glass series
  • Flowers for Algernon
  • Ashes series