Consider this space a digital bookshelf. For those interested: below is a fairly complete catalog of the physical books I own. I always enjoy reading others' lists and browsing their bookshelves, so this is intended to be a digital version of that.

I flagged a few books that I thought were particularly great in bold font. To note, that designation is non-exhaustive, as it's hard to recommend books in the abstract. And I've no doubt missed some.

Since the stacks and shelves lack any particular order, so too does this list.

Based on a True Story: Not a Memoir— Norm Macdonald

Hiking with Nietzsche: On Becoming Who You Are— John Kaag

The Tangled Tree: A Radical New History of Life— David Quammen

Transaction Man: The Rise of the Deal and the Decline of the American Dream— Nicholas Lemann

The Organization Man— William H. Whyte, Jr.

Drug Use for Grown-Ups: Chasing Liberty in the Land of Fear— Dr. Carl L. Hart

The Lathe of Heaven— Ursula K. Le Guin

The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With The Sea— Yukio Mishima

Aspiration: The Agency of Becoming— Agnes Callard

Einstein’s Beach House: Stories— Jacob M. Appel

Unquiet: A Novel— Linn Ullmann

The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays— Esme Weijun Wang

Nudge— Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein

Happiness, As Such— Natalia Ginzburg

iGen: Why Today’s Super Connected Kids Are Growing Up Less Rebellious, More Tolerant, and Completely Unprepared for Adulthood"— Jean M Twenge

The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming— David Wallace-Wells

Narcissus and Goldmund— Hermann Hesse

Gratitude— Oliver Sacks

Chasing the Scream-- Johann Hari

Stubborn Attachments-- Tyler Cowen

Seeing Like a State-- James C. Scott

Go Tell it on the Mountain-- James Baldwin

How to Change Your Mind-- Michael Pollan

Economics in One Lesson-- Henry Hazlitt

The Economic Naturalist: In Search of Explanations for Everyday Enigmas-- Robert H. Frank

Elinor Ostrom: An Intellectual Biography-- Vlad Tarko

A Gentleman in Moscow-- Amor Towles

The Nix-- Nathan Hill

The Theory That Would Not Die-- Sharon Bartsch McGrayne

Meditations-- Marcus Aurelius

Scar Vegas-- Tom Paine

Surfing with Sartre: An Aquatic Inquiry into a Life of Meaning-- Aaron James

The Culture of Narcissism-- Christopher Lasch

Evicted-- Matthew Desmond

The End of Poverty-- Jeffrey Sachs

Zama-- Antonio de Benedetto

Corelli's Mandolin-- Louis de Bernieres

The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy-- Douglas Adams

The Rational Optimist-- Matt Ridley

Small is Beautiful-- E.F. Schumacher

What About Mozart? What About Murder?-- Howard Becker

The Elegant Universe-- Brian Greene

The Worst Hard Time-- Timothy Egan

The Prosperous Few and the Restless Many-- Noam Chomsky

The Magicians (Trilogy)-- Lev Grossman

Getting to Green-- Frederic Rich

Hillbilly Elegy-- J.D. Vance

Songs from Under the River-- Anis Mojgani

The Entrepreneurial State-- Maria Mazzucato

The Alchemist-- Pablo Coelho

Birds Without Wings-- Louis de Bernieres

How I Became Stupid-- Martin Page

Antic Hay-- Aldus Huxley

Allah Is Not Obliged-- Ahmadou Kourouma

Darkness at Noon-- Arthur Koestler

Diaspora-- Greg Egan

On the Road-- Jack Kerouac

Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience-- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

The Third Plate-- Dan Barber

In Defense of Food-- Michael Pollan

But Will the Planet Notice?-- Gernot Wagner

Axiomatic-- Greg Egan

To Kill a Mockingbird-- Harper Lee

Capitalism and Freedom-- Milton Friedman

A Guide for the Perplexed-- E.F. Schumacher

Time and the Art of Living-- Robert Grudin

The Urgency of Change-- J. Krishnamurti

The Second Sex-- Simone de Beauvoir

This Changes Everything-- Naomi Klein

The Swerve-- Stephen Greenblatt

The Tipping Point-- Malcolm Gladwell

When You Are Engulfed in Flames-- David Sedaris

Dark Reflections-- Samuel Delaney

The Queue-- Basma Abdel Aziz

Chaucer-- Edward Wagenknecht

The Ingenuity Gap-- Thomas Homer-Dixon

All The Light We Cannot See-- Anthony Doerr

Predictably Irrational-- Dan Ariely

Real Politics: At the Center of Everyday Life-- Jean Bethke Elshtain

Deep Economy-- Bill McKibben

Teachings from the Worldly Philosophy-- Robert Heilbroner

Capitalist Development and Democracy-- Dietrich Rueschmeyer

Panic-- Michael Lewis

Jonathan Livingston Seagull-- Richard Bach

Waking Up-- Sam Harris

What Environmentalists Need to Know About Economics-- Jason Scorce

23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism-- Ha-Joon Chang

Survivor-- Chuck Palahniuk

Slaughterhouse-Five/Bluebeard/The Sirens of Titan/Player Piano/Timequake-- Kurt Vonnegut