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The Infinite Sadness of Small Appliances

Glenn Dixon

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What I've been reading — with the occasional review.

124 books

Build the Life You Want

Arthur C. Brooks and Oprah Winfrey

September 2, 2026
Hip-Hop is History

Questlove

August 15, 2026
Cutting for Stone

Abraham Verghese

June 29, 2026
The Covenant of Water

Abraham Verghese

May 14, 2026
1929

Andrew Ross Sorkin

January 21, 2026
Things Become Other Things

Craig Mod

July 12, 2025
Everything Is Tuberculosis

John Green

April 26, 2025
The Visual Display of Quantitative Information

Edward R. Tufte

March 18, 2025
A Swim in a Pond in the Rain

George Saunders

February 5, 2025
The Message

Ta-Nehisi Coates

November 4, 2024
Zikora

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

May 11, 2024
Fourteen Days

The Authors Guild, Margaret Atwood, and Douglas Preston

April 10, 2024
Poor Charlie’s Almanack

Charles T. Munger, Peter D. Kaufman, John Collison, and Warren Buffett

March 20, 2024
Marketing High Technology

William H. Davidow

October 30, 2023
Crossing the Chasm

Geoffrey A. Moore

October 20, 2023
Rage Becomes Her

Soraya Chemaly

October 10, 2023
The Righteous Mind

Jonathan Haidt

August 24, 2023
Joy Works

Alex Liu

August 23, 2023
The Listeners

Jordan Tannahill

August 22, 2023
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

Gabrielle Zevin

August 16, 2023
Freezing Order

Bill Browder

August 6, 2023
Clarity & Connection

Yung Pueblo

July 14, 2023
Good Book

David Plotz

March 19, 2023
The Tattooist of Auschwitz

Heather Morris

March 19, 2023
We Don't Need Roads

Caseen Gaines

March 19, 2023
My Evil Mother

Margaret Atwood

March 18, 2023
Salonica, City of Ghosts

Mark Mazower

March 17, 2023
Pastoral

André Alexis

March 16, 2023
Fifteen Dogs

Andre Alexis

March 13, 2023
As You Wish

Cary Elwes, Joe Layden, Rob Reiner

December 20, 2022
Lincoln in the Bardo

George Saunders

December 19, 2022
Lo Zingarelli Vocabolario Della Lingua Italiana

Lo Zingarelli

December 19, 2022
Oxford Paravia Italian - English Dictionary

Oxford Paravia

December 19, 2022
The Toyota Way

Jeffrey Liker

December 19, 2022
Unpossible

Daryl Gregory

December 18, 2022
Einstein's Dreams

Alan Lightman

December 15, 2022
Figuring

Maria Popova

December 15, 2022
The SPEED of Trust

Stephen M.R. Covey

October 29, 2022
No Rules Rules

Reed Hastings, Erin Meyer

June 24, 2022
The Lola Quartet

Emily St. John Mandel

April 24, 2022
The Singer's Gun

Emily St. John Mandel

April 21, 2022
Last Night in Montreal

Emily St. John Mandel

April 17, 2022
Sea of Tranquility

Emily St. John Mandel

April 11, 2022
Conspiracy

Ryan Holiday

March 20, 2022
Station Eleven

Emily St. John Mandel

March 5, 2022
The Actual Star

Monica Byrne

November 10, 2021
The Knowing

Hanna Noble

July 26, 2021
Between the World and Me

Ta-Nehisi Coates

May 25, 2021
The Book

Alan W. Watts

March 12, 2021
Bangkok Wakes to Rain

Pitchaya Sudbanthad

December 29, 2020
Co-Parenting With a Toxic Ex

Amy J. L. Baker, Paul R Fine

November 29, 2020
Humanocracy

Gary Hamel, Michele Zanini

November 26, 2020
Blitzed

Norman Ohler and Shaun Whiteside

October 26, 2020
Birdie

Tracey Lindberg

October 25, 2020
Accelerate

John P. Kotter

September 27, 2020
In the Plex

Steven Levy

September 13, 2020
The War I Finally Won

Kimberly Brubaker Bradley

June 28, 2020
Do the Work

Steven Pressfield

June 10, 2020
Stillness Is the Key

Ryan Holiday

June 6, 2020
The Power of Now

Eckhart Tolle

June 6, 2020
Red Notice

Bill Browder

June 5, 2020
Thoughts of Marcus Aurelius

Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius and George Long

May 28, 2020
The Living Mountain

Nan Shepherd

May 17, 2020
The Martian

Andy Weir

May 10, 2020
The Four Steps to the Epiphany

Steve Blank

April 24, 2020
Loonshots

Safi Bahcall

April 5, 2020
The Glass Hotel

Emily St. John Mandel

March 29, 2020
The Second Mountain

David Brooks

February 21, 2020
Vivid Vision

Cameron Herold

February 12, 2020
Blitzscaling

Reid Hoffman, Chris Yeh

December 31, 2019
Free Fall in Crimson

John D. MacDonald, Lee Child

December 30, 2019
Exhalation

Ted Chiang

October 13, 2019
The Girl in the Plain Brown Wrapper

John D. MacDonald

October 13, 2019
Man's Search for Meaning

Viktor E. Frankl

September 27, 2019
Why Brilliant People Believe Nonsense

J. Miller and Cherie Miller

September 27, 2019
Nightmare in Pink

John D. MacDonald and Lee Child

September 26, 2019
Last Tango in Cyberspace

Steven Kotler

June 9, 2019
The Beautiful Struggle

Ta-Nehisi Coates

May 30, 2019
The Way of the Superior Man

David Deida

May 16, 2019
Everyone's a Aliebn When Ur a Aliebn Too

Jomny Sun

April 3, 2019
The City of Ember

Jeanne DuPrau

April 3, 2019
Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World

Jack Weatherford

April 2, 2019
The 4 Disciplines of Execution

Chris McChesney, Sean Covey, Jim Huling

March 9, 2019
Daemon

Daniel Suarez

January 16, 2019
Mastering the VC Game

Jeffrey Bussgang

January 14, 2019
Team of Teams

General Stanley McChrystal, Tantum Collins, David Silverman, and Chris Fussell

January 12, 2019
The Underground Railroad (Pulitzer Prize Winner)

Colson Whitehead

January 12, 2019
The Future of Strategy

Johan Aurik, Martin Fabel, and Gillis Jonk

January 11, 2019
The Master Switch

Tim Wu

January 11, 2019
Why We Work

Barry Schwartz

January 11, 2019
House of Lies

Martin Kihn

November 17, 2018
Measure What Matters

John Doerr

October 2, 2018
The Phoenix Project

Gene Kim, Kevin Behr, and George Spafford

September 27, 2018
Radical Focus

Christina Wodtke

June 20, 2018
Borne

Jeff VanderMeer

March 24, 2018
Influx

Daniel Suarez

March 22, 2018
Thinking, Fast and Slow

Daniel Kahneman

March 5, 2018
After On

Rob Reid

January 29, 2018
Artemis

Andy Weir

January 29, 2018
The Handmaid's Tale

Margaret Atwood

November 13, 2017
The Dance of the Possible

Scott Berkun

July 21, 2017
Platform Scale

Sangeet Paul Choudary

March 13, 2016
What Matters Now

Gary Hamel

December 5, 2015
Work Rules!

Laszlo Bock

December 5, 2015
Zero to One

Peter Thiel, Blake Masters

June 22, 2015
Poke the Box

Seth Godin

May 30, 2015
The Blood Sugar Solution

Mark Hyman

May 30, 2015
The Future of Management

Gary Hamel, Bill Breen

May 28, 2015
Steve Jobs

Walter Isaacson

May 27, 2015
Flight 232

Laurence Gonzales

September 2, 2014
Pitch Anything

Oren Klaff

July 13, 2014
The Decline and Fall of IBM

Robert Cringely, Lars Foster, and Katy Gurley

July 13, 2014
Trust Me, I'm Lying

Ryan Holiday

May 29, 2014
The Goal

Eliyahu M. Goldratt, Jeff Cox, and David Whitford

March 14, 2014
Growth Hacker Marketing

Ryan Holiday

March 10, 2014
Behind the Cloud

Marc Benioff, Carlye Adler

March 2, 2014
The Circle

Dave Eggers

February 27, 2014
The Billionaire and the Mechanic

Julian Guthrie

October 14, 2013
Kill Decision

Daniel Suarez

August 8, 2013
Your First 1000 Copies

Tim Grahl

July 10, 2013
Freedom

Daniel Suarez

June 23, 2013
Reamde

Neal Stephenson

October 29, 2011
Alone Together

Sherry Turkle

October 23, 2011
Stiff

Mary Roach

October 3, 2011