When I’m not hiking, one thing I love to do is read. Here are some of the books I’ve enjoyed reading over the years.
| Cover | Title | Author | Main Takeaway | Subject |
 | Die With Zero | Bill Perkins | Remember that –since life experiences require a mix of time, money, and health – you shouldn’t save all of your life goals for after retirement. | Non-Fiction: Personal Finance |
 | Big Friendship | Aminatou Sou & Ann Friedman | A common regret from older people is not maintaining their cherished friendships. | Non-Fiction: Relationships |
 | All Boys Aren’t Blue | George M. Johnson | A hero can be a person that cares for another person in their everyday acts. | Non-Fiction: Memoir |
 | A Single Man | Christopher Isherwood | The moments of clarity that come from being in the moment. | Fiction |
 | Frankenstein | Mary Shelley | How lonely it must be to be the only of your kind. | Fiction |
 | A Promised Land | Barack Obama | Where would we be if the president had listened to his own dreams over the recommendations of experts? | Non-Fiction: Memoir |
 | 100 Selected Poems | e.e. cummings | I still struggle to read cummings, but I can enjoy bits and pieces. | Poetry |
 | The Joy Luck Club | Amy Tan | The gap of understanding between mothers and daughters, especially so when immigration is thrown into the mix. | Fiction |
 | Coders | Clive Thompson | Women were the first programmers. | Non-Fiction: Sociology |
 | The Deep | Rivers Soloman | Holding painful history of our communities cannot be left to the few – it is a burden and treasure that should be shared by all. | Fiction |
 | Work Rules! | Laszlo Bock | Simplifying the peer review process to a single question and 1-2 sentence limits can benefit the reviewer and person being reviewed with time spent and value gained from feedback. | Non-Fiction: Business |
 | Permanent Record | Snowden | The right to privacy is the least respected. | Non-Fiction: Memoir |
 | Devotions | Mary Oliver | I can enjoy poetry. | Poetry |
 | The Giver of Stars | Jojo Moyes | Spoiler: I disdain when court cases are written in fiction books. They are always so unbelievable. | Fiction |
 | The Boys in the Boat | Daniel James Brown | Rowing is a gorgeous sport. | Non-Fiction: Sports |
 | Solutions and Other Problems | Allie Brosh | It’s nice to read a funny book. | Non-Fiction: Memoir |
 | Kindred | Octavia E. Butler | This book made me feel the same can’t-put-down-this-book-energy that I thought I had lost from childhood. | Fiction |
 | Python Programming | John Zelle | First, make sure you understand the prompt and spend plenty of time breaking it into chunks. It’s okay to start on the easy stuff first. | Non-Fiction: Textbook |
 | Dear Girls | Ali Wong | Listen to audiobooks written by comedians. | Non-Fiction: Memoir |
 | Dopesick | Beth Macy | The pharmaceutical industry grossly understated the addictiveness of opioids in the name of profit. | Non-Fiction: History |
 | The Gift of Fear | Gavin de Becker | Listen to your intuition. It has been fine-tuned for thousands of years. | Non-Fiction: Self-help |
 | The Richest Man in Babylon | George S. Clason | This book is wildly overrated. | Fiction |
 | Normal People | Sally Rooney | Authors can get away with not including quotation marks in their books for stylistic purposes, I guess. | Fiction |
 | Miracle in the Andes | Nando Parrado | Humans can withstand unimaginable horrors. | Non-Fiction: Survival |
 | Pizza Girl | Jean Kyoung Frazier | Self-love unlocks the ability to feel love from others. | Fiction |
 | The End of Policing | Alex S. Vitale | Police forces used to be private services used by wealthy elite. Also, a lot of what police does can be done by unarmed workers. | Non-Fiction: Sociology |
 | Elon Musk | Ashlee Vance | Space exploration is the only technology industry that has not followed Moore’s law. | Non-Fiction: Biography |
 | It’s About Damn Time | Arlan Hamilton | You can learn how to do anything. | Non-Fiction: Memoir |
 | Small Great Things | Jodi Picoult | Court room dramas are too cringey for me. | Fiction |
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