A friend of mine shares every book she reads. I dug through her list and even used AI to analyze it. She’s a professional tastemaker—the kind of reader I once wanted to be: deeply literate, reading for love and insight. I’m jealous.

It made me pull together the books I’ve bought over the past decade. About 40 % are physical copies, 40 % are audiobooks, and the rest are Blinkist summaries I listen to while biking.

Only one is contemporary fiction. I adored Ready Player One, so of course I read Ready Player Two. Aside from Stephen Fry’s mythology audiobooks (highly recommended), everything else is geared toward sharpening my mind for business and tech.

I do pick up the occasional “get-rich bro” title, but rarely make it past ten pages—they’re awful.

I pulled the whole list out of this post and gave it a proper home. Every book now has its own page, and the shelf makes the imbalance impossible to miss.

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