My Big Stupid Reading List
{2019}
{2018}
02 I am the Grand Canyon
01 A Curious Mind
{2017}
{2016}
{2015}
{2024}
06 Mother American Night
by John Perry Barlow
05 The Ministry for the Future
by Kim Stanley Robinson
04 The Devil You Know
by Charles M. Blow
03 Meditations
by Marcus Aurelius
02 To Kill a Mockingbird
by Harper Lee
01 Breaking Twitter: Elon Musk and the Most Controversial Corporate Takeover in History
by Ben Mezrich
{2023}
04 Done Deal: An Insider's Guide to Football Contracts, Multi-Million Pound Transfers and Premier League Big Business
Daniel Geey
03 It Never Ends
Tom Scharpling
02 Red Notice
Bill Browder
01 Riding the Elephant
Craig Ferguson
{2022}
01 Nickel and Dimed
by Barbara Ehrenreich
{2021}
03 The Music and Mythocracy of Col. Bruce Hampton
by Jerry Grillo
02 Talking to Strangers (Audio)
by Malcolm Gladwell
01 Between the Bridge and the River
by Craig Ferguson
{2020}
02 The Truth About Animals
by Lucy Cooke
01 Deal
by Bill Kreutzmann
01 Deep South
by Paul Theroux
03 Astrophysics for People in a Hurry
by Neil deGrasse Tyson
by Stephen Hirst
by Brian Grazer
01 Holy Smoke! It's Mezcal!
by John McEvoy
01 When I Say No, I Feel Guilty
by Manuel J. Smith
01 Butterfly in the Typewriter
by Cory MacLauchlin
02 The Metamorphosis
by Franz Kafka
03 Just Kids
by Patti Smith
{2014}
01 I Never Met a Story I Didn't Like
by Todd Snider
02 Attempting Normal
by Marc Maron
03 Creativity Inc.
by Edwin Catmull
{2013}
01 The Alchemist
by Paulo Coelho
02 Outliers
by Malcolm Gladwell
{2012}
01 Killing Yourself to Live
by Chuck Klosterman
02 A Long Way from Home
by Tom Brokaw
03 Comfortably Numb: The Inside Story of Pink Floyd
by Mark Blake
{2011}
01 A Short History of Nearly Everything
by Bill Bryson
02 Home Before Daylight
by Steve Parish
03 The Phantom Tollbooth
by Norton Juster
04 Life
by Keith Richards
05 Living With the Dead
by Rock Scully with David Dalton
{2010}
01 Oil!
by Upton Sinclair
02 Freakonomics
by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
03 No Angel
by Jay Dobyns (and Nils Johnson-Shelton)
04 Who Moved My Cheese?
by Spencer Johnson, M.D.
05 Happy Hour is for Amateurs
by The Philadelphia Lawyer
06 What is the What
by Dave Eggers
07 Garcia: An American Life
by Blair Jackson
08 Nam-A-Rama
by Phillip Jennings
{2009}
01 Crime Scene
by Mitch Gelman
02 Merle's Door
by Ted Kerasote
03 Heart of Darkness
by Joseph Conrad
04 Treasure Island
by Robert Louis Stevenson
05 The Big Necessity
by Rose George
06 Are YOU Dave Gorman?
by Dave Gorman & Danny Wallace
07 My Traitor's Heart
by Rian Malan
08 Where Men Win Glory
by Jon Krakauer
09 Chasing Lincoln's Killer
by James L. Swanson
{2008}
01 The Grapes of Wrath
by John Steinbeck
02 The Miracle of Castel di Sangro
by Joe McGinniss
03 Brave New World
by Aldous Huxley
04 Losing My Virginity
by Richard Branson
05 Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
by Douglas Adams
06 Slash
by Slash w/ Anthony Bozza
07 Them
by Nathan McCall
08 Brideshead Revisited
by Evelyn Waugh
09 Valley Boy
by Tom Perkins
10 How Wall Street Created a Nation
by Ovidio Diaz Espino
11 The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
by Douglas Adams
12 Keane
by Roy Keane
13 Waiter Rant
by 'The Waiter'
{2007}
01 Lucky You
by Carl Hiaasen
02 Round Ireland with a Fridge
by Tony Hawks
03 Full Time
by Tony Cascarino w/ Paul Kimmage
04 The Kite Runner
by Khaled Hosseini
05 Dry
by Augusten Burroughs
06 The Picture of Dorian Gray
by Oscar Wilde
07 A Good Walk Spoiled
by John Feinstein
08 Searching for the Sound
by Phil Lesh
09 A Thousand Splendid Suns
by Khaled Hosseini
10 Under the Banner of Heaven
by Jon Krakauer
{2006}
01 1984
by George Orwell
02 A Million Little Pieces
by James Frey
03 One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
04 A Walk Across America
by Peter Jenkins
05 How Soccer Explains the World
by Franklin Foer
06 Anna Karenina
by Leo Tolstoy
07 The Kingdom by the Sea
by Paul Theroux
08 The Glory Game
by Hunter Davies
09 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
by Mark Haddon
10 My Friend Leonard
by James Frey
11 Term Limits
by Vince Flynn
12 A Confederacy of Dunces
by John Kennedy Toole
13 Dude, Where's My Country?
by Michael Moore
{2005}
01 A Farewell to Arms
by Ernest Hemingway
02 Convention
by Richard Reeves
03 Naked
by David Sedaris
04 Fahrenheit 451
by Ray Bradbury
05 The Gringo Trail
by Mark Mann
06 Catch-22
by Joseph Heller
07 Animal Farm
by George Orwell
08 Eats, Shoots & Leaves
by Lynne Truss
09 On the Trail of the Assassins
by Jim Garrison
10 The Lord of the Rings
by J.R.R. Tolkien
11 A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
by Dave Eggers
12 The Death of Ivan Ilyich
by Leo Tolstoy
13 The Rise and Fall of Adolf Hitler
by William L. Shirer
14 Winesburg, Ohio
by Sherwood Anderson
15 A Beautiful Mind
by Sylvia Nasar
16 Lord of the Flies
by William Golding
17 Grown-A$$ Man
by Cedric the Entertainer
18 We the Living
Ayn Rand
19 The Art of Travel
by Alain de Botton
20 Skinny Dip
by Carl Hiaasen
21 Feel This Book
by Ben Stiller & Janeane Garofalo
22 Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
by Robert M. Pirsig
23 Turbulent Souls
by Stephen J. Dubner
24 Frankenstein
by Mary Shelley
{2004}
01 Running with Scissors
by Augusten Burrows
02 Atlas Shrugged
by Ayn Rand
03 The Da Vinci Code
by Dan Brown
04 The Great Gatsby
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
05 On the Road
by Jack Kerouac
06 Mayor
by Ed Koch
07 Following the Equator
by Mark Twain
08 Seabiscuit
by Laura Hillenbrand
09 Big Russ & Me
by Tim Russert
10 Among the Russians
by Colin Thubron
11 The Lost Continent
by Bill Bryson
12 Kidnapped
by Robert Louis Stevenson
13 Basket Case
by Carl Hiaasen