Introduction

Below I maintain a few different types of information. First, I start with a historical record of the books I’ve read. For each book I read, I provide the date I started my reading, the date I end my reading, and sometimes the person that recommended that book to me. Whenever possible, I provide links to the author’s personal website and the website for the book project itself. I organize my reading based on the year that I started each book. This helps me track how many books I read each year.

I started tracking the list in this form on September 9, 2019. Prior to that date, there are hundreds of books that I read but did not track my start and end dates methodically. At the bottom of this page, I list some of those books without any time stamps.

For anyone interested, please check out my blog post titled Deep Reading Systems. In that article, I highlight some of the ways I think about reading. One of my favorite habits is focuses on trying to read every day of my life. I am currently working to include information on the type of reading I am doing for each book I list here. My goal for 2023 is to exploratory read 24+ books, filter read 6+ book, and deep read at least 2 books. I also want to be more intentional about tracking teach type of reading I am doing on this list.

Finally, at the very bottom of this page I have a list of books that I am interested in learning more about. I call this my queue, though I’m not committed to reading every book on that list nor do I have any strong feeling that I will read those books in any order.

2024 Reading List

Here are my reading goals for 2024:

2023 Reading List

Here are my reading goals for 2023:

Deep reading: finish at least 2 books (average of 1 book per 6 months)

Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die by Chip and Dan Heath

Suggested by: Jonah Berger

Type of Reading : Deep Reading for Sustaining

Start date: Friday 9/1/2023
End date: Sunday 12/31/2023
Contagious: Why Things Catch On by Jonah Berger

Type of Reading : Deep Reading for Sustaining

Start date: Saturday 7/1/2023
End date: Thursday 8/31/2023
Ungrading: Why Rating Students Undermines Learning (and What to Do Instead) Edited by Susan D. Blum

Type of Reading : Deep Reading for Sustaining

Start date: Sunday 1/1/20223
End date: Friday 6/30/2023

Filter reading: finish at least 4 books (average of 1 book per 3 months)

No Short Cuts: Organizing for Power in the New Gilded Age by Jane McAlevey

Type of Reading : Filter Reading for Understanding

Start date: Friday 9/29/2023
End date: Friday 12/29/2023
A Collective Bargain: Unions, Organizing, and the Fight for Democracy by Jane McAlevey

Type of Reading : Filter Reading for Understanding

Start date: Monday 7/31/2023
End date: Sunday 9/24/2023
Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise by Anders Ericsson

Type of Reading : Filter Reading for Understanding

Start date: Thursday 5/4/2023
End date: Friday 7/21/2023
Ultralearning: Master Hard Skills, Outsmart the Competition, and Accelerate Your Career by Scott Young

Type of Reading : Filter Reading for Understanding

Start date: Sunday 1/15/20223
End date: Wednesday 5/3/2023

Exploratory reading: finish at least 24 books (average of 2 books per month)

Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement by Angela Y. Davis

Suggested by: Rolando Robles Ramirez

Type of Reading : Exploratory Reading for Discovery

Start date: Wednesday 11/29/2023
End date: Tuesday 12/5/2023
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari

Suggested by: Eli Moore

Type of Reading : Exploratory Reading for Discovery

Start date: Monday 10/23/2024
End date: Tuesday 11/28/2023
Hunt, Gather, Parent: What Ancient Cultures Can Teach Us About the Lost Art of Raising Happy, Helpful, Little Humans by Michaeleen Doucleff

Type of Reading : Exploratory Reading for Discovery

Start date: Monday 9/18/2023
End date: Sunday 10/22/2023
Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling by John Taylor Gatto

Type of Reading : Exploratory Reading for Discovery

Start date: Monday 9/11/2023
End date: Sunday 9/17/2023
Beaten Down, Worked Up: The Past, Present, and Future of American Labor by Steven Greenhouse

Type of Reading : Exploratory Reading for Discovery

Start date: Friday 9/1/2023
End date: Sunday 9/10/2023
A Collective Bargain: Unions, Organizing, and the Fight for Democracy by Jane McAlevey

Type of Reading : Exploratory Reading for Discovery

Start date: Sunday 8/27/2023
End date: Friday 9/1/2023
No Short Cuts: Organizing for Power in the New Gilded Age by Jane McAlevey

Type of Reading : Exploratory Reading for Discovery

Start date: Friday 8/11/2023
End date: Sunday 8/27/2023
Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die by Chip and Dan Heath

Suggested by: Jonah Berger

Type of Reading : Exploratory Reading for Discovery

Start date: Wednesday 5/24/2023
End date: Friday 6/30/2023
Contagious: Why Things Catch On by Jonah Berger

Type of Reading : Exploratory Reading for Discovery

Start date: Tuesday 5/16/2023
End date: Wednesday 5/24/2024
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond

Suggested by: Patrick Morriss

Type of Reading : Exploratory Reading for Discovery

Start date: Thursday 5/11/2023
End date: Tuesday 5/16/2023
Free to Learn: Why Unleashing the Instinct to Play Will Make Our Children Happier, More Self-Reliant, and Better Students for Life by Peter Gray

Suggested by: Julie Lythcott-Haims

Type of Reading : Exploratory Reading for Discovery

Start date: Wednesday 4/26/2023
End date: Thursday 5/11/2023
Poverty by America by Matthew Desmond

Suggested by: Julie Lythcott-Haims

Type of Reading : Exploratory Reading for Discovery

Start date: Tuesday 4/11/2023
End date: Tuesday 4/25/2023
Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children From Nature-Deficit Disorder by Richard Louv

Suggested by: Julie Lythcott-Haims

Type of Reading : Exploratory Reading for Discovery

Start date: Tuesday 4/11/2023
End date: Tuesday 4/25/2023
A Mathematician's Lament: How School Cheats Us Out of Our Most Fascinating and Imaginative Art Form by Paul Lockhart

Suggested by: Patrick Morriss

Type of Reading : Exploratory Reading for Discovery

Start date: Tuesday 3/28/2023
End date: Monday 4/10/2023
How to Raise an Adult: Break Free of the Overparenting Trap and Prepare Your Kid for Success by Julie Lythcott-Haims

Suggested by: Noah Tull

Type of Reading : Exploratory Reading for Discovery

Start date: Tuesday 2/21/2023
End date: Monday 3/27/2023
Freedom: The Story ofthe Black Panther Party by Jette Grace Martin, Joshua Bloom , and Waldo Martin Jr.

Suggested by: Sam White

Type of Reading : Exploratory Reading for Discovery

Start date: Saturday 2/18/2023
End date: Tuesday 2/21/2023
The Persuaders: At the Front Lines of the Fight for Hearts, Minds, and Democracy by Anand Giridharadas

Type of Reading : Exploratory Reading for Discovery

Start date: Saturday 2/11/2023
End date: Friday 2/17/2023
The Fearless Organization: Creating Psychologica Safety in the Workplace for Learning, Innovation, and Growth by Amy C. Edmondson

Suggested by: Henry Fan

Type of Reading : Exploratory Reading for Discovery

Start date: Thursday 2/2/2023
End date: Saturday 2/11/2023
The Culture Playbook : 60 Highly Effective Actions to Help Your Group Succeed by Dan Coyle

Suggested by: Checked Dan Coyle's Website

Type of Reading : Exploratory Reading for Discovery

Start date: Sunday 1/29/2023
End date: Wednesday 2/1/2023

2022 Reading List

My goal for exploratory reading in 2022 is to finish at least 24 books. That is an average of 2 books per month. I am still figuring out how to track my deep reading and that work is not tracked on these lists.

Crusade for Justice: The Autobiography of Ida B. Wells by Ida B. Wells

Suggested by: Nikole Hannah-Jones

Type of Reading : Exploratory Reading for Discovery

Start date: Wednesday 12/28/2022
End date: Sunday 1/29/2023
My Face is Black is True: Callie House and the Struggle for Ex-Slave Reparations by Mary Frances Berry

Suggested by: Nikole Hannah-Jones

Type of Reading : Exploratory Reading for Discovery

Start date: Monday 11/28/2022
End date: Wednesday 12/28/2022
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates

Suggested by: Richard Anderson

Type of Reading : Exploratory Reading for Discovery

Start date: Saturday 11/26/2022
End date: Monday 11/28/2022
100% Democracy: The Case for Universal Voting by E.J. Dionne Jr and Miles Rapoport

Type of Reading : Exploratory Reading for Discovery

Start date: Thursday 11/24/2022
End date:
Psycho-Cybernetics by Maxwell Malt

Suggested by: Richard Anderson

Type of Reading : Exploratory Reading for Discovery

Start date: Monday 10/17/2022
End date: Thursday 11/24/2022
Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise by Anders Ericsson

Type of Reading : Exploratory Reading for Discovery

Start date: Saturday 10/1/2022
End date: Friday 10/14/2022
Ultralearning: Master Hard Skills, Outsmart the Competition, and Accelerate Your Career by Scott Young

Suggested by: Saul He

Type of Reading : Exploratory Reading for Discovery

Start date: Friday 9/23/2022
End date: Saturday 10/1/2022
Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl

Suggested by: Josh Hardwood

Start date: 9/15/2022
End date: Tuesday 9/20/2022
Talking About Leaving Revisited: Persistence, Relocation, and Loss in Undergraduate STEM Education edited by Elaine Seymour and Anne-Barrie Hunter

Filter read for NSF 21-579

Start date: 8/15/2022
End date: 9/5/2022
Can't Hurt Me by David Goggins

Suggested by: Josh Hardwood

Start date: 9/6/2022
End date: 9/14/2022
Punished by Rewards: The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A's, Praise, and Other Bribes by Alfie Kohn

Type of Reading : Filter Reading for Understanding

Start date: 8/6/2022
End date:
Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom by bell hooks

Filter read with Laney College Grading Team

Start date: 7/1/2022
End date: 8/5/2022
Elastic: Flexible Thinking in a Time of Change by Leonard Mlodinow

Start date: Wednesday 6/29/2022
End date: 9/5/2022
Tiny Habits: The Small Changes That Change Everything by BJ Fogg

Suggested by: Mo Aljuboori

Start date: Thursday 6/9/2022
End date: Wednesday 6/29/2022
The Bullet Journal Method: Track the Past, Order the Present, Design the Future by Ryder Carroll

Suggested by: Joy "Demi" Chang

Start date: Thursday 6/2/2022
End date: Thursday 6/9/2022
Die with Zero: Getting All You Can from Your Money and Your Life by Bill Perkins

Suggested by: Eli Moore

Start date: Monday 5/23/2022
End date: Thursday 6/2/2022
Atomic Habits: An Easy and Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones by James Clear

Start date: Thursday 5/20/2022
End date: Monday 5/23/2022
How the Word is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America by Clint Smith

Suggested by: Patrick Tull

Start date: Tuesday 5/3/2022
End date: Wednesday 5/19/2022
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson

Start date: Friday 4/22/2022
End date: Tuesday 5/3/2022
Give Use the Ballot: A Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America by Ari Berman

Start date: Wednesday 4/6/2022
End date: Friday 4/22/2022
The Purpose of Power: How We Come Together When We Fall Apart by Alicia Garza

Start date: Sunday 3/20/2022
End date: Tuesday 4/5/2022
White Like Me: Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son by Tim Wise

Suggested by: Postoria Aguirre (aka PA)

Start date: Sunday 3/13/2022
End date: Sunday 3/20/2022
The 1619 Project : A New Origin Story (the book) created `by Nikole Hannah-Jones

Start date: Friday 2/25/2022
End date: Sunday 3/13/2022
Davos Man: How the Billionaires Devoured the World by Peter S. Goodman

Start date: Friday 2/18/2022
End date: Thursday 2/24/2022
Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World by Anand Giridharadas

Start date: Monday 2/14/2022
End date: Friday 2/18/2022
A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction by Christopher Alexander et al.

Suggested by: Kevin Anderson

Start date: Thursday 1/13/2022
End date: Sunday 2/13/2022
Unconditional Parenting: Moving from Rewards and Punishment to Love and Reason by Alfie Kohn

Start date: Sunday 1/2/2022
End date: Thursday 1/13/2022

2021 Reading List

Punished by Rewards: The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A's, Praise, and Other Bribes by Alfie Kohn

Start date: Saturday 12/18/2021
End date: Sunday 1/2/2022
Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us by Daniel Pink

Start date: Wednesday 12/1/2021
End date: Saturday 12/18/2021
Hacking Assessment: 10 Ways to Go Gradeless in a Traditional School by Starr Sackstein

Start date: Sunday 11/21/2021
End date: Wednesday 12/1/2021
Ungrading: Why Rating Students Undermines Learning (and What to Do Instead) Edited by Susan D. Blum

Start date: Saturday 10/16/2021
End date: Saturday 11/20/2021
For White Folks Who Teach in the Hood and the Rest of Y'all Too by Christopher Edmin

Suggested by: Henry Fan

Start date: Sunday 8/22/2021
End date: Saturday 10/16/2021
Indebted: How Families Make College Work at Any Cost by Caitlin Zaloom

Start date: Thursday 7/15/2021
End date: Saturday 8/21/2021
The Mathematics of Human Flourishing by Francis Su

Suggested by: John Sawka and Patrick Morriss

Start date: Wednesday 7/7/2021
End date: Thursday 7/15/2021
Mathematical Mindsets: Unleashing Students' Potential Through Creative Math, Inspiring Messages and Innovative Teaching by Jo Boaler

Suggested by: Nicole Gray

Start date: Saturday 6/19/2021
End date: Wednesday 7/7/2021
Relationship-Rich Education: How Human Connections Drive Success in College by Peter Felten and Leo Lambert

Start date: Sunday 5/31/2021
End date: Thursday 6/17/2021
The Fifth Risk by Michael Lewis

Start date: Sunday 5/16/2021
End date: Monday 5/24/2021
Liar's Poker by Michael Lewis

Start date: Saturday 5/15/2021
End date: Sunday 5/16/2021
The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together by Heather McGhee

Start date: Sunday 4/25/2021
End date: Saturday 5/15/2021
The Catalyst: How to Change Anyone's Mind by Jonah Berger

Start date: Monday 3/22/2021
End date: Tuesday 4/20/2021
Grading for Equity: What It Is, Why It Matters, and How It Can Transform Schools and Classrooms by Joe Feldman

Suggested by: Myra Snell and Summer Serpas from the California Acceleration Project

Start date: Wednesday 3/3/2021
End date: Sunday 3/21/2021
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson

Start date: Sunday 2/21/2021
End date: Wednesday 3/3/2021
Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience by Mihály Csíkszentmihályi

Suggested by: Steve Silva

Start date: Sunday 2/14/2021
End date:
Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom by bell hooks

Start date: Friday 2/12/2021
End date: Saturday 2/20/2021
My Beloved World by Sonia Sotomayor

Suggested by: Calvin Zhang-Molina

Start date: Friday 1/22/2021
End date: Friday 2/12/2021

2020 Reading List

Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

Start date: Friday 11/27/2020
End date: Friday 1/22/2021
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein

Start date: Tuesday 11/10/2020
End date: Thursday 11/26/2020
YouTube Secrets by Sean Cannel and Benji Travis

Start date: Wednesday 9/7/2020
End date: Monday 11/9/2020
How to Shoot Video That Doesn't Suck by Steve Stockman

Start date: Wednesday 8/5/2020
End date: Tuesday 9/8/2020
From Here to Equality: Reparations for Black Americans in the Twenty-First Century by William A. Darity Jr. and A. Kirsten Mullen

Start date: Thursday 7/9/2020
End date: Tuesday 8/4/2020
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander

Start date: Thursday 6/25/2020
End date: Wednesday 7/8/2020
From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

Start date: Monday 6/1/2020
End date: Thursday 6/25/2020
Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria by Beverly Daniel Tatum

Start date: Sunday 5/3/2020
End date: Monday 6/1/2020
Why we need to rehumanize mathematics by Rochelle Gutierrez
1st read on Saturday 3/21/2020
Culturally Responsive Teaching and the Brain: Promoting Authentic Engagement and Rigor Amond Culturally and Linguisticaslly Diverse Students by Zaretta Hammond

Start date: Saturday 3/7/2020
End date: Sunday 5/3/2020
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America by Ibram X. Kendi

Start date: Thursday 2/6/2020
End date: Saturday 3/7/2020
The Culture Code: The Secrets of Highly Successful Groups by Daniel Coyle

Start date: Friday 1/24/2020
End date: Thursday 2/6/2020
Limitless Mind: Learn, Lead, and Live without Barriers by Jo Boaler

Start date: Thursday 1/16/2020
End date: Thursday 1/23/2020
How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi

Start date: Monday 1/6/2020
End date: Thursday 1/16/2020
What Does it Mean to be White: Developing White Racial Literacy by Robin DiAngelo

Start date: Monday 1/3/2020
End date: Sunday 3/29/2020

2019 Reading List (Sept - Dec)

Courageous Conversations About Race: A Field Guide for Archiving Equity in Schools by Glenn E. Singleton

Start date: 9/22/2019
End date:
Purple Cow: Transform Your Business by Being Remarkable by Seth Godin

Start date: 11/25/2019
End date: Sunday 1/5/2020
The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable by Nassim Talib

Start date: Friday 11/1/2019
End date: Sunday 11/23/2019
The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right by Atul Gawande

Start date: Monday 10/28/2019
End date: Friday 11/1/2019
When: The Science of Timing by Daniel Pink

Start date: Saturday 9/21/2019
End date: Monday 9/30/2019
Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life by Anne Lamott

Start date: Thursday 8/8/2019
End date: Monday 9/9/2019

Pre-Sept 2019 Reading List

Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire
Grit: The Power of Passion and Perserverence by Angela Duckworth
Decisive: How to Make Better Choices in Life and at Work by Chip Heath and Dan Heath
Willpower: Rediscovering the Greatest Human Strength by Roy F. Baumeister and John Tierney
Getting Things Done: the art of stress-free productivity by David Allen
Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World by Cal Newport
The Culture Code: The Secrets of Highly Successful Groups by Daniel Coyle
The Little Book of Talent: 52 Tips for Improving Skills by Daniel Coyle
The Talent Code: Greatness is Not Born. It's Grown by Daniel Coyle
Talent is Overrated: What Really Separates World-Class Performers from Everybody Else by Geoff Clovin
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft by Steven King
So Good They Can't Ignore You: Why Skills Trump Passion in the Quest for Work You Love by Cal Newport
David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants by Malcolm Gladwell
Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell
Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt by Michael Lewis
The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine by Michael Lewis
Handbook of Writing for the Mathematical Sciences by Nicholas J. Higham
How Learning Works: 7 Researched-Based Principles for Smart Teaching by Susan Ambrose, Michael Bridges, Michele DiPietro, Marsha Lovett, and Marie Norman
Turing's Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe by George Dyson
The Information: A History, A Theory, A Flood by James Gleck
The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation by Jon Gertner
13 Bankers: Wall Street Takeover and the Next Financial Meltdown by Simon Johnson and James Kwak
The 7 Powers of Questions: Secrets to Successful Communication in Life and at Work by Dorthy Leeds
Getting What You Came For: The Smart Student's Guide to Earning a Master's or Ph.D. by Robert L. Peters
The Power of Full Engagement: Managing Energy, Not Time, Is the Key to High Performance and Personal Renewal by Jim Loehr and Tony Schwartz
The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Alex Haley and Attallah Shabazz Malcolm X

My Reading Queue

Below are a list of books that I’m interested in learning more about in the coming weeks, months, and years. This is list is not all-inclusive. There are many other books I want to read that are not listed here. I use this list as a repository for ideas. As I go about my life, I often hear titles and books that sound very interesting. I write these down in my daily logs and then, during my migration processes, collect those titles in the list below. This list helps me make decisions as I figure out what books I want to read next.

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Harari
White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide by Daria Roithmayr
Portraits of White Racism by David T. Wellman
The God Part of the Brain: A Scientifci Interpretation of Human Sprituality and God by Matthew Alper (Recommended: Ophelia Willis)
On Tyranny by Timothy Snyder (Recommended: Jennifer Sinclair)
The Hidden Wound by Wendell Berry
Ethnic Identity: The Transformation of White America by Richard D. Alba
The Ethics of Living Jim Crow by Richard Wright
I Won'te Learn from You by Herbert R. Kohl
Toward a New Psychology of Women by Jean Baker Miller
Crusade for Justice: The Autobiography of Ida B. Wells by Ida B. Wells and Alfreda M. Duster
Embedded Formative Assessment: Strategies for Classroom Formative Assessment That Drives Student Engagement and Learning, 2E by Dylan Wiliam
Bullshit Jobs: A Theory by David Graeber
Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder by Nassim Taleb
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life by Mark Manson
Woke Racism: How a New Religion Has Betrayed Black America by John McWhorter
Freedom to Discriminate: How Realtors Conspired to Segregate Housing and Divide America by Gene Slater
Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment is Killing America's Heartland by Jonathan M. Metzl
Brown is the New White: How the Demographic Revolution Has Created a New American Majority by Stephen Phillips
Reproducing Racism: How Everyday Choices Lock in White Advantage by Daria Roithmayr

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2024 Reading List

Deep reading: finish at least 2 books

Filter reading: finish at least 4 books

Exploratory reading: finish at least 20 books

2023 Reading List

Deep reading: finish at least 2 books (average of 1 book per 6 months)

Filter reading: finish at least 4 books (average of 1 book per 3 months)

Exploratory reading: finish at least 24 books (average of 2 books per month)

2022 Reading List

2021 Reading List

2020 Reading List

2019 Reading List (Sept - Dec)

Pre-Sept 2019 Reading List

My Reading Queue

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