29 Books in 2019 (Matt Mullenweg)

Why it’s on the list: Matt Mullenweg’s annual reading list — the 29 books he finished in 2019, with the ones he found himself discussing in bold.

Where I saw it: Kyle’s August 17th, 2020 Quick Capture, tagged #Books #books-to-read.

Link: https://ma.tt/2020/01/29-books-in-2019/

The list, verbatim order (Kindle links as Matt gave them):

• The Pilgrimage by Paulo Coehlo (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000JMKNZG/)
• 21 Lessons for the 21st Century by Yuval Noah Harari — bold on Matt’s list (particularly enjoyed) (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B079WM7KLS/)
• No Longer at Ease by Chinua Achebe (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B005MHHRQG/)
• Imagine it Forward by Beth Comstock (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B078LJW4G4/)
• The Great Mental Models Vol. 1 by Shane Parrish — bold on Matt’s list (particularly enjoyed) (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1999449002/)
• Why Buddhism is True by Robert Wright — bold on Matt’s list (particularly enjoyed) (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01MPZNG63/)
• There Will Be No Miracles Here by Casey Gerald (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B079WNQFZQ/)
• Less by Andrew Sean Greer (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01MSICPW3/)
• Bad Blood by John Carreyrou (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B078VW3VM7/)
• nejma by Nayyirah Waheed (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07TMKPD67/)
• Trust Exercise by Susan Choi (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07CRJB8WJ/)
• Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World by Jack Weatherford — bold on Matt’s list (particularly enjoyed) (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000FCK206/)
• The Way to Love by Anthony de Mello — bold on Matt’s list (particularly enjoyed) (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B005GFBNSW/)
• The Fifth Agreement by Don Miguel Ruiz, Don Jose Ruiz, and Janet Mills (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B005BRSFCC/)
• Empty Planet by Darrell Bricker — bold on Matt’s list (particularly enjoyed) (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07CWHYVW5/)
• Brave New World by Aldous Huxley (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00JTYQJ3K/)
• How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk by Adele Faber and Elian Mazlish (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005GG0MXI/)
• Make it Scream, Make it Burn by Leslie Jamison (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07MPXZYJ7/)
• A Short History of Progress by Ronald Wright — bold on Matt’s list (particularly enjoyed) (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B001JAHG98/)
• Conscious: A Brief Guide to the Fundamental Mystery of the Mind by Annaka Harris — bold on Matt’s list (particularly enjoyed) (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07G13W75M/)
• The World Is Sound: Nada Brahma: Music and the Landscape of Consciousness by Joachim-Ernst Berendt — bold on Matt’s list (particularly enjoyed) (https://www.amazon.com/dp/0892813180/)
• The 15 Commitments of Conscious Leadership by Jim Dethmer and Diana Chapman (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00R3MHWUE/)
• Finite and Infinite Games by James P. Carse — bold on Matt’s list (particularly enjoyed) (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B004W3FM4A/)
• Four Soldiers by Hubert Mingarelli (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B079G6KMVS/)
• Working by Robert Caro — bold on Matt’s list (particularly enjoyed) (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07L2F9S6H/)
• Attached by Amir Levine and Rachel Heller (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0049H9AVU/)
• Skin in the Game by Nassim Nicholas Taleb (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B075HYVP7C/)
• The Devil’s Financial Dictionary by Jason Zweig (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B012271Z5M/)
• How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy by Jenny Odell (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07FLNFRGK/)

Matt’s closing note: buying all 29 would run about $349; every one is free from a local library, even on a Kindle — and the money he spends on books is “by far and away the best investment I make every year.”

Every book on this list

4 books; ✓ marks the ones Kyle has read.

• Attached (Levine and Heller) — Amir Levine and Rachel Heller
• Less (Andrew Sean Greer) — Andrew Sean Greer
• nejma — Nayyirah Waheed
• Working (Robert Caro) — Robert Caro

Connections

• Matt Mullenweg
• Books
• Reading

Saved earlier — April 20th, 2020

• https://ma.tt/2020/01/29-books-in-2019/ - books-to-read

Kyle saved this list in April 2020 too. All 29 books were already split into anti-library cards on 2026-09-15 (from the August 2020 save), so no new cards.