{"id":3309,"date":"2024-01-21T22:44:06","date_gmt":"2024-01-21T22:44:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nehrlich.com\/linkedin\/uncategorized\/what-books-have-you-bought-but-not-read\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T21:29:49","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T21:29:49","slug":"what-books-have-you-bought-but-not-read","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nehrlich.com\/linkedin\/uncategorized\/what-books-have-you-bought-but-not-read\/","title":{"rendered":"<a href=https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/update\/urn%3Ali%3Ashare%3A7154966920692224000>What books have you bought but not read?<\/a>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What books have you bought but not read?<\/p>\n<p>I asked this question in my newsletter this weekend (link in comments), but I&#8217;m curious what is in your reading list.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the list of books I bought on Kindle in the last month but haven&#8217;t read (Amazon knows how to target me with Kindle sales, unsurprisingly):<br \/>\n&#8212; Black AF History: The Un-Whitewashed Story of America, by Michael Harriot. I&#8217;m in the process of reading this one, as Harriot tells the story of America centered on Black and African American protagonists. Definitely not the history I learned in school.<br \/>\n&#8212; What the Buddha Taught, by Walpola Rahula<br \/>\n&#8212; Unreasonable Hospitality: The Remarkable Power of Giving People More Than They Expect, by Will Guidara<br \/>\n&#8212; Why Zebras Don&#8217;t Get Ulcers: The Acclaimed Guide to Stress, Stress-Related Diseases, and Coping, by Robert M. Sapolsky<br \/>\n&#8212; How Long &#8217;til Black Future Month?,\u00a0by N. K. Jemisin<br \/>\n&#8212; The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories, by Ken Liu<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s hundreds more, of course, but those are the most recent impulse purchases. What about you?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What books have you bought but not read? I asked this question in my newsletter this weekend (link in comments), but I&#8217;m curious what is in your reading list. Here&#8217;s the list of books I bought on Kindle in the last month but haven&#8217;t read (Amazon knows how to target me with Kindle sales, unsurprisingly):&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nehrlich.com\/linkedin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nehrlich.com\/linkedin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nehrlich.com\/linkedin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nehrlich.com\/linkedin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nehrlich.com\/linkedin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3309"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nehrlich.com\/linkedin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4426,"href":"https:\/\/nehrlich.com\/linkedin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3309\/revisions\/4426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nehrlich.com\/linkedin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nehrlich.com\/linkedin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nehrlich.com\/linkedin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}