This is where we keep track of the books we’ve read, discussed, and tried to wrestle with.
Some are timeless classics, others more modern reflections. All of them stirred something in us — a question, an idea, a sense of awe — and we hope they’ve done the same for you.
Below, you’ll find the titles in the order we covered them. If any of these sparked your interest or helped you think a little deeper, then this little project is doing its job.
Feel free to browse, revisit, or dive into something new.
Storm of Steel by Ernst Junger https://amzn.to/3F59HYk
Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer https://amzn.to/3Faeact
Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl https://amzn.to/3T2SDbh
When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi https://amzn.to/3IZBLxv
A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking https://amzn.to/41WfyJc
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky https://amzn.to/3YsPyCx
The Red Book by Carl Jung https://amzn.to/3F4IbtR
Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy https://amzn.to/3FaBAhP
Endurance by Alfred Lansing https://amzn.to/3ZPYW3X
Iron John by Robert Bly https://amzn.to/3J5v24W
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius https://amzn.to/3YyMbd5
Tribe by Sebastian Junger https://amzn.to/3ZJ6pC2
Fear and Trembling by Soren Kierkegaard https://amzn.to/3mxALsN
Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer https://amzn.to/41YbKqX
Man’s Search For Ultimate Meaning Viktor Frankl https://amzn.to/3T8N6Qr
Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari https://amzn.to/3kSlmmF
Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton https://amzn.to/3SZAPxy
Hero of the Empire by Candice Millard https://amzn.to/3YGaXIA
Principles by Ray Dalio https://amzn.to/421htfU
Einstein: His Life and Universe by Walter Isaacson https://amzn.to/3ZyKii2
The Storm Before the Storm by Mike Duncan https://amzn.to/3Zy02Sm
Cosmos by Carl Sagan https://amzn.to/3F8HL66
12 Rules for Life by Jordan Peterson https://amzn.to/3F8QftD
With the Old Breed by E.B. Sledge https://amzn.to/3kSmdDT
Letters from a Stoic by Seneca https://amzn.to/3YsJFFr
The Big Picture by Sean Carroll https://amzn.to/3mGWzT6
ESV Study Bible https://amzn.to/41Rhpzb
Waking Up by Sam Harris https://amzn.to/3ZBqM4y
Rebel Yell by S.C. Gwynne https://amzn.to/3F87YBw
Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzche https://amzn.to/3J3pRTf
East of Eden by John Steinbeck https://amzn.to/3ZzrrmL
The Dragons of Eden by Carl Sagan https://amzn.to/3J2hkjB
The Emperor of All Maladies by Siddhartha Mukherjee https://amzn.to/3ZDzbnV
Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power by Jon Meacham https://amzn.to/3ZTNAvQ
Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow by Yuval Harari https://amzn.to/3Ywukn9
The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn https://amzn.to/41Z5Ea0
The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut https://amzn.to/3ZJ8nlU
The 48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene https://amzn.to/41VRd6s
At the Existentialist Cafe by Sarah Bakewell https://amzn.to/3J224TF
The Hero with a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell https://amzn.to/3F5jQ7y
Can’t Hurt Me by David Goggins https://amzn.to/3kUkUnV
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner https://amzn.to/3yozOWt
The Denial of Death by Ernest Becker https://amzn.to/41PcezA
Dune by Frank Herbert https://amzn.to/3ZzsP8X
The Impossible First by Colin O’Brady https://amzn.to/3ZwWpft
Greenlights by Matthew McConaughey https://amzn.to/3T432Ug
The Secret History by Donna Tartt https://amzn.to/3Jskyyk
The Last Viking by Stephen R. Bown https://amzn.to/3Jn8e2a
A River Runs Through It by Norman Maclean https://amzn.to/3mDoJyc
The Long Slide by Tucker Carlson https://amzn.to/3ZMOHxo
A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway https://amzn.to/3ZyN32S
About Face by Col. David H. Hackworth https://amzn.to/3mEPGBL
The Road by Cormac McCarthy https://amzn.to/3L5aV9S
The Confessions by St. Augustine https://amzn.to/3JzMccN
Undaunted Courage by Stephen Ambrose https://amzn.to/3SYn2HH
Either/Or by Soren Kierkegaard https://amzn.to/41UrFXk
The Passenger / Stella Maris (Box Set) by Cormac McCarthy https://amzn.to/3J23IVl
The Conquest of Gaul by Julius Caesar https://amzn.to/3ZN1tMg
History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides https://amzn.to/3F8OHji
The Stranger by Albert Camus https://amzn.to/3mFQuWI
Stalingrad by Antony Beevor https://amzn.to/3Joj72H
Blood and Treasure: Daniel Boone and the Fight for America’s First Frontier by Bob Drury https://amzn.to/3JAp5hW
Empire of the Summer Moon by S.C. Gwynne https://amzn.to/3LezT6O
D-Day: The Battle for Normandy by Antony Beevor https://amzn.to/41jPiHT
The Battle of Arnhem: The Deadliest Airborne Operation of World War II by Antony Beevor https://amzn.to/42IG6xP
Ardennes 1944: The Battle of the Bulge by Antony Beevor https://amzn.to/4366rWq
The Plague by Albert Camus: https://amzn.to/45T3BG6
Pacific Crucible: War at Sea in the Pacific, 1941-1942 by Ian Toll: https://amzn.to/45hyL9f
Conquering Tide: War in the Pacific Islands, 1942-1944 by Ian Toll: https://amzn.to/3WbEyhW
Twilight of the Gods: War in the Western Pacific, 1944-1945 by Ian Toll: https://amzn.to/3Wg0uik
A Confession by Leo Tolstoy: https://amzn.to/3W9Xt1g
Follow Me to Hell: McNelly’s Texas Rangers and the Rise of Frontier Justice by Tom Clavin: https://amzn.to/3W7Wc1I
The Civil War: A Narrative – 3 Volume Box Set by Shelby Foote: https://amzn.to/3WfRVwT
The Iliad by Homer (Translated by Robert Fagles or preferred edition): https://amzn.to/3WfsX68
War on the Waters: The Union and Confederate Navies, 1861–1865 by James M. McPherson: https://amzn.to/3yjkHtB
Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era by James M. McPherson: https://amzn.to/3WbRylI
Nathan Bedford Forrest: A Biography by Jack Hurst: https://amzn.to/3W9x7fC
Gods and Generals: A Novel of the Civil War (Civil War Trilogy) by Jeff Shaara: https://amzn.to/3W9wPzN
The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War by Michael Shaara: https://amzn.to/3WgKcbE
The Last Full Measure: A Novel of the Civil War (Civil War Trilogy) by Jeff Shaara: https://amzn.to/3WgKBTb
Bayonet! Forward: My Civil War Reminiscences by Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain: https://amzn.to/3WbR3Tk
On Great Fields: The Life and Unlikely Heroism of Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain by Ronald C. White: https://amzn.to/3WgCKA5
Lord of the Flies by William Golding: https://amzn.to/3W9TyyA
Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin: https://amzn.to/3W9kU5C
Grant by Ron Chernow: https://amzn.to/3Wc0OpX
1776 by David McCullough: https://amzn.to/3WbT5Ni
Washington: A Life by Ron Chernow: https://amzn.to/3W9xVuf
Bolivar: American Liberator by Marie Arana: https://amzn.to/3WgOdQg
Bunker Hill: A City, a Siege, a Revolution by Nathaniel Philbrick: https://amzn.to/3WfCEZd
The British Are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775–1777 by Rick Atkinson: https://amzn.to/3WgZRp7
Washington’s Immortals: The Untold Story of an Elite Regiment Who Changed the Course of the Revolution by Patrick K. O’Donnell: https://amzn.to/3Wgjrwr
Valiant Ambition: George Washington, Benedict Arnold, and the Fate of the American Revolution by Nathaniel Philbrick: https://amzn.to/3WcZ6Gr
Brains and Brawn 