Books

I’ve curated this list of books by cross-referencing other “best books” lists online and asking my friends for recommendations. I’ve organized the list by books I’ve read each year and books I plan to read soon.

Finished in 2021:

A New Earth by Eckhart Tolle
A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
In Our Time by Ernest Hemingway
A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf by John Muir
Lord of Light by Roger Zelazny
Burning in Water, Drowning in Flame by Charles Bukowski
The Last Night of the Earth Poems by Charles Bukowski
The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle

Finished in 2020:

Enchanters’ End Game (The Belgariad #5) by David Eddings
Castle of Wizardry (The Belgariad #4)
Magician’s Gambit (The Belgariad #3)
Queen of Sorcery (The Belgariad #2)
Pawn of Prophecy (The Belgariad #1)
The Return of the King by J. R. R. Tolkien
Children of Dune by Frank Herbert
The Wise Man’s Fear by Patrick Rothfuss
The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss
Dune Messiah by Frank Herbert
Ishmael by Daniel Quinn
Dune by Frank Herbert
The Two Towers by J. R. R. Tolkien
The Fellowship of the Ring by J. R. R. Tolkien
Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse (for the 2nd time)
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway (for the 2nd time)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey

Finished in 2019:

2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke
The Rum Diary by Hunter S. Thompson
A Farewell To Arms by Ernest Hemingway
The Chosen by Chaim Potok
Gertrude by Hermann Hesse
Flow by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway

Finished in 2018:

Foundation by Isaac Asimov
The Secret History by Donna Tartt
Bhagavad Gita by Vyasa
Island by Aldous Huxley
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
Zen in the Art of Writing by Ray Bradbury
Drive by Dan Pink
On the Road by Jack Kerouac
Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
Way of the Wolf by Jordan Belfort
Invisible Cities by John Calvino
Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw
The Awakening by Kate Chopin
Mindfulness in Plain English by Bhante Henepola Gunaratana
Orthodoxy by G.K. Chesterton
Flowers for Algernon by Danie Keyes

Finished in 2017:

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
The Zahir by Paulo Coelho
The Seventh Sense by Joshua Cooper Ramo
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre
Walden by Henry David Thoreau
Naive. Super by Erlend Loe
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
How To Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie
The Power of Positive Thinking by Norman Vincent Peale
Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
Milk and Honey by Rupi Kaur
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran
This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi
The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx
Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
The Dhammapada by Buddha
Candide by Voltaire
An Enemy of the People by Henrik Ibsen
Sex at Dawn by Christopher Ryan and Cacilda Jethá

Up next:

Connected: The Surprising Power of Our Social Networks by James H. Fowler and Nicholas A. Christakis
Social Physics: How Social Networks Can Make Us Smarter by Alex Pentland
The Social Animal by David Brooks
The Road to Character by David Brooks
Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less by Barry Schwartz
Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond
A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
The World is Flat by Thomas Friedman
A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking
Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
Mindset: The New Psychology of Success by Dr. Carol Dweck
Principles by Ray Dalio
In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
Paradise Lost by John Milton
Kama Sutra by Vātsyāyana
A Theory of Justice by John Rawls
The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith
The Intelligent Investor by Ben Graham
The Interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund Freud
The Republic by Plato
The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli
Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson
The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X
The Elements of Style by William Strunk and E. B. White
Gates of Fire by Stephen Pressfield
Avid Reader: A Life by Robert Gottlieb
The Meaning of Human Existence by Edward Wilson
Mountains Beyond Mountains by Tracy Kidder
Black Elk Speaks by John Neihardt
Walk In The Woods by Bill Bryson
The Rise of Superman by Steven Kotler
Made to Stick by Chip Heath & Dan Heath
Shoe Dog by Phil Knight
The Second Machine Age by Andrew McAfee and Erik Brynjolfsson
The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon by Brad Stone
Alchemy of Finance by George Soros
The End of Alchemy by Mervyn King
Makers and Takers: The Rise of Finance and the Fall of American Business by Rana Foroohar
Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions by Brian Christian and Tom Griffiths
Big Data: A Revolution That Will Transform How We Live, Work, and Think by Kenneth Cukier and Viktor Mayer-Schönberger
Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap…and Others Don’t by James C. Collins
How Google Works by Eric Schmidt and Jonathan Rosenberg

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