# Title Author Rating
1 The Great Railway Bazaar Paul Theroux ⭑⭑⭑½
2 How to Win Friends and Influence People Dale Carnegie ⭑⭑⭑⭑
3 Klara and the Sun Kazuo Ishiguro ⭑⭑⭑⭑½
4 How to Live on 24 Hours a Day Arnold Bennett ⭑⭑⭑½
5 The Road Cormac McCarthy ⭑⭑⭑⭑⭑
6 The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet Becky Chambers ⭑⭑⭑⭑½
7 So Good They Can’t Ignore You Cal Newport ⭑⭑⭑½
8 The Rise Theodore Roosevelt Edmund Morris ⭑⭑⭑⭑½
9 Hatchet Gary Paulsen ⭑⭑⭑½
10 Make Your Bed William H. McRaven ⭑⭑⭑⭑
11 How to Write a Sentence Stanley Fish ⭑⭑
12 What I Talk About When I Talk About Running Haruki Murakami ⭑⭑½
13 The Kaiju Preservation Society John Scalzi ⭑⭑⭑⭑
14 100 Ways to Improve Your Writing Gary Provost ⭑⭑⭑⭑
15 Moonwalking with Einstein Joshua Foer ⭑⭑⭑½
16 Personal Kanban Jim Benson and Tonianne DeMaria Barry ⭑⭑⭑
17 Masters of Doom David Kushner ⭑⭑⭑⭑
18 Looking for Alaska John Green ⭑⭑⭑⭑
19 Modern Technical Writing Andrew Etter
20 The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck Mark Manson
21 Breath James Nestor ⭑⭑⭑½
22 Snow Crash Neal Stephenson ⭑⭑⭑½
23 An Elegant Puzzle Will Larson ⭑⭑⭑⭑
24 Show Your Work! Austin Kleon ⭑⭑⭑⭑½
25 Ghost Jason Reynolds ⭑⭑⭑⭑⭑
26 The Sense of Style Steven Pinker ⭑⭑⭑⭑
27 Into the Wild Jon Krakauer ⭑⭑⭑½
28 Ultramarathon Man Dean Karnazes ⭑⭑⭑
29 Goosebumps: Welcome to Dead House R.L. Stine ⭑⭑½
30 Draft No. 4 John McPhee ⭑⭑⭑⭑
31 Little House in the Big Woods Laura Ingalls Wilder ⭑⭑⭑⭑
32 Killing Floor (Jack Reacher, Book 1) Lee Child ⭑⭑⭑
33 Run Like a Pro (Even If You’re Slow) Matt Fitzgerald ⭑⭑⭑⭑⭑
34 John Adams David McCullough ⭑⭑⭑⭑½
35 Happy-Go-Lucky David Sedaris ⭑⭑⭑⭑
36 Just Keep Buying Nick Maggiulli ⭑⭑⭑⭑
37 All Systems Red (Murderbot, Book 1) Martha Wells ⭑⭑⭑⭑
38 Artificial Condition (Murderbot, Book 2) Martha Wells ⭑⭑⭑⭑
39 Rouge Protocol (Murderbot, Book 3) Martha Wells ⭑⭑⭑⭑
40 Exit Strategy (Murderbot, Book 4) Martha Wells ⭑⭑⭑½
41 Network Effect (Murderbot, Book 5) Martha Wells ⭑⭑⭑
42 Writing That Works Kenneth Roman ⭑⭑⭑½
43 Treasure Island Robert Louis Stevenson ⭑⭑⭑⭑
44 The Twisted Ones T. Kingfisher ⭑⭑⭑⭑½
45 Style: The Basics of Clarity and Grace Williams and Colomb ⭑⭑⭑⭑½
46 Lincoln in the Bardo George Saunders ⭑⭑⭑⭑⭑
47 The Obstacle Is the Way Ryan Holiday ⭑⭑⭑½
48 Congo Michael Crichton ⭑⭑⭑½
49 The Spy Who Came in From the Cold John le Carré ⭑⭑⭑⭑
50 The Passenger Cormac McCarthy ⭑⭑⭑⭑
51 A Psalm for the Wild-Built Becky Chambers ⭑⭑⭑⭑