Ian Dalmas About Writing Bookshelf Quotes

An unordered, non-exhaustive list of books I've read. Love recommendations!

  • The Lord of the Rings Trilogy
  • The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief
  • I See Satan Fall Like Lightning
  • Cloud Cuckoo Land
  • The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry: How to Stay Emotionally Healthy and Spiritually Alive in the Chaos of the Modern World
  • Garden City: Work, Rest, and the Art of Being Human
  • How to Win Friends and Influence People
  • Hinge Moments: Making the Most of Life's Transitions
  • The Scout Mindset: Why Some People See Things Clearly and Others Don't
  • The Secret Language of Maps: How to Tell Visual Stories with Data
  • Creative Acts for Curious People: How to Think, Create, and Lead in Unconventional Ways
  • The New York Times Manual of Style and Usage: The Official Style Guide Used by the Writers and Editors of the World's Most Authoritative News Organization
  • Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
  • A Thousand Splendid Suns
  • Crime and Punishment
  • East of Eden
  • The Ender Quintet (Speaker for the Dead is my favorite)
  • The Medium is the Massage: An Inventory of Effects
  • Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
  • Mere Christianity
  • End Times: Elites, Counter-Elites, and the Path of Political Disintegration
  • Educated: A Memoir
  • The Night Trilogy: Night, Dawn, Day
  • The Catcher in the Rye
  • Frankenstein
  • Dune (Books 1-3)
  • What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
  • We Have No Idea: A Guide to the Unknown Universe
  • Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard
  • Harry Potter
  • A bunch of Agatha Christie (Favorites: The Murder of Roger Ackroyd and And Then There Were None)
  • Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams
  • 80,000 Hours: Find a fulfilling career that does good
  • Outliers: The Story of Success
  • To Kill a Mockingbird
  • Fahrenheit 451
  • The Things They Carried
  • The Great Gatsby
  • Generations: The Real Differences Between Gen Z, Millennials, Gen X, Boomers, and Silents—and What They Mean for America's Future