Yoni’s Reading List 2021

Yoni Binstock
4 min readDec 27, 2021

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Reading List 2021

“The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.” — Dr. Seuss

If I Could Tell You Just One Thing: Encounters with Remarkable People and Their Most Valuable Advice by Richard Reed

The Evening and the Morning by Ken Follett

The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson

Star Wars: Thrawn Ascendancy: Greater Good by Timothy Zahn

The Bourne Evolution by Brian Freeman

I Got a Monster: The Rise and Fall of America’s Most Corrupt Police Squad by Baynard Woods and Brandon Soderberg

The 99% Invisible City: A Field Guide to the Hidden World of Everyday Design by Roman Mars and Kurt Kohlstedt

The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War by Ben Macintyre

Stuff You Should Know: An Incomplete Compendium of Mostly Interesting Things by Josh Clark and Chuck Bryant

To Sleep in a Sea of Stars by Christopher Paolini

Missionaries: A Novel by Phil Klay

A Shadow Intelligence by Oliver Harris

Star Wars: Light of the Jedi (The High Republic) by Charles Soule

The Future Is Faster Than You Think: How Converging Technologies Are Transforming Business, Industries, and Our Lives by Peter H. Diamandis and Steven Kotler

User Friendly- How the Hidden Rules of Design Are Changing the Way We Live, Work, and Play Paperback by Cliff Kuang and Robert Fabricant

On Fire: The (Burning) Case for a Green New Deal by Naomi Klein

A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam by Neil Sheehan

Delta-v by Daniel Suarez

The Moral Animal: Why We Are, the Way We Are: The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology by Robert Wright

The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living by Ryan Holiday

How Will You Measure Your Life? by Clayton M. Christensen, James Allworth, and Karen Dillon

Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear by Elizabeth Gilbert

Long Bright River by Liz Moore

Tom Clancy’s Op-Center: God of War by Jeff Rovin

Yes to Life: In Spite of Everything by Viktor E. Frankl

Star Wars: The High Republic: Into the Dark by Claudia Gray

Star Wars: The Rising Storm (The High Republic) by Cavan Scott

Agent Sonya: Moscow’s Most Daring Wartime Spy by Ben Macintyre

Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson

Strange Planet by Nathan W. Pyle

Of Wolves and Men by Barry Lopez

How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need by Bill Gates

Cribsheet: A Data-Driven Guide to Better, More Relaxed Parenting, from Birth to Preschool by Emily Oster

The Spymaster of Baghdad: A True Story of Bravery, Family, and Patriotism in the Battle against ISIS by Margaret Coker

Diaper Dude: The Ultimate Dad’s Guide to Surviving the First Two Years by Chris Pegula and Frank Meyer

Pogue’s Basics: Essential Tips and Shortcuts (That No One Bothers to Tell You) for Simplifying the Technology in Your Life by David Pogue

The Kid Stays in the Picture: A Notorious Life by Robert Evans

The Family Freedom Project: A Step-by-Step Guide to Living Abroad with Kids. From Dream to Plan to Reality.: Find Your Freedom by Liisa Vexler

Virtual Freedom: How to Work with Virtual Staff to Buy More Time, Become More Productive, and Build Your Dream Business by Chris C. Ducker

The Architecture of Happiness by Alain De Botton

The Whole-Brain Child: 12 Revolutionary Strategies to Nurture Your Child’s Developing Mind by Daniel J. Siegel and Tina Payne Bryson

World Travel: An Irreverent Guide by Anthony Bourdain and Laurie Woolever

The Peripheral by William Gibson

A Kiss Before Dying by Ira Levin

Termination Shock by Neal Stephenson

Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir

Fathoms: The World in the Whale by Rebecca Giggs

Musashi: An Epic Novel of the Samurai Era by Eiji Yoshikawa

To Hell and Back: The Classic Memoir of World War II by America’s Most Decorated Soldier by Audie Murphy

High Output Management by Andrew S. Grove

Super Thinking: The Big Book of Mental Models by Gabriel Weinberg & Lauren McCann

The Pragmatic Programmer: Your Journey To Mastery by David Thomas & Andrew Hunt

Robert Ludlum’s The Bourne Treachery by Brian Freeman

Working Backwards: Insights, Stories, and Secrets from Inside Amazon by Colin Bryar and Bill Carr

This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone

The Psychology of Money: Timeless lessons on wealth, greed, and happiness by Morgan Housel

Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future by Elizabeth Kolbert

Weird Parenting Wins: Bathtub Dining, Family Screams, and Other Hacks from the Parenting Trenches by Hillary Frank

The Art of the Good Life: 52 Surprising Shortcuts to Happiness, Wealth, and Success by Rolf Dobelli

The Art of Doing Science and Engineering: Learning to Learn by Richard W. Hamming

How I Found Freedom in an Unfree World: A Handbook for Personal Liberty by Harry Browne

Principles: Life and Work by Ray Dalio

Augmented Human: How Technology Is Shaping the New Reality by Helen Papagiannis

Cities That Shaped the Ancient World by John Julius Norwich

The Missing README: A Guide for the New Software Engineer by Chris Riccomini and Dmitriy Ryaboy

After the Fall: Being American in the World We’ve Made by Ben Rhodes

A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway

Star Wars: Thrawn Ascendancy Lesser Evil by Timothy Zahn

Seven Ages of Paris by Alistair Horne

Better Off Dead: A Jack Reacher Novel by Lee Child and Andrew Child

The Manager’s Path: A Guide for Tech Leaders Navigating Growth and Change by Camille Fournier

The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet by John Green

My reading list from 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014

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Yoni Binstock

I love to read, create projects with WebVR, and travel.