Here is a list of books I have read since 2017.
I am a slow reader,
so the only brownie points I should get here (if any) are for effort.
2022
Books read:
- Selected Works by Cicero
- Crossing the Chasm: Marketing and Selling High-Tech Products to Mainstream Customers by Geoffrey Moore
- [In progress] Hard Times by Charles Dickens
Books listened to:
- The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World by Niall Ferguson
- [In progress] Defeat Into Victory: Battling Japan in Burma and India, 1942-1945 by William Slim
2021
Books read:
- Influence by Robert Cialdini
- House of the Dead by Fyodor Dostoevsky
- The Double by Fyodor Dostoevsky
- The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Lectures on Dostoevsky by Joseph Frank
- The Dubliners by James Joyce
- All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy
- Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
- Predictable Revenue by Aaron Ross and Marylou Tyler
- American Pastoral by Philip Roth
- The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare
- Cannery Row by John Steinbeck
Books listened to:
- Dignity: Seeking Respect in Back Row America by Chris Arnade
- House of Morgan (Parts 1&2) by Ron Chernow
- The History of Jazz by Ted Gioia
- Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days by Jessica Livingston
- Rise of Theodore Roosevelt by Edmund Morris
- Andrew Carnegie by David Nasaw
- Amazon Unbound: Jeff Bezos and the Invention of a Global Empire by Brad Stone
- Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future by Ashlee Vance
2020
Books read:
- The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
- Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol
- Matterhorn by Karl Marlantes
- One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
- Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel García Márquez
- The General in His Labyrinth by Gabriel García Márquez
- War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
Books listened to:
- The Autobiography of Malcolm X
- Chaos Monkeys by Antonio Garcia-Martinez
- Delivering Happiness by Tony Hsieh
- Shoe Dog by Phil Knight
- Napoleon by Andrew Roberts
- Skin in the Game by Nassim Taleb
- The Score Takes Care of Itself by Bill Walsh, Stevie Jamison, Craig Walsh
- Son of the Wilderness: The Life of John Muir by Linnie Marsh Wolfe
2019
Books read:
- Journey to the End of the Night by Louis-Ferdinand Céline
- Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
- A House for Mr. Biswas by V. S. Naipaul
- Measure for Measure by William Shakespeare
- Kokoro by Natsume Sōseki
- Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Books listened to:
- The Boys in the Boat by Daniel Brown
- Grant by Ron Chernow
- Washington by Ron Chernow
- Barbarian Days by William Finnegan
2018
Books read:
- The Peregrine by J.A. Baker
- Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
- Absalom, Absalom by William Faulkner
- The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
- Sons and Lovers by D.H. Lawrence
- Essays by Michel de Montaigne
- Franny and Zooey by JD Sallinger
- Nine Stories by JD Sallinger
- Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction by JD Sallinger
Books listened to:
- Dereliction of Duty by H.R. McMaster
- Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson
- Hillbilly Elegy by J.D. Vance
- Consider the Lobster by David Foster Wallace
2017
Books read:
- Machine Learning: The New AI by Ethem Alpaydin
- Collected Fictions by Jorge Luis Borges
- Information and the Modern Corporation by James Cortada
- Against Everything: Essays by Mark Greif
- The Inner Citadel: The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius by Pierre Hadot
- An Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro
- Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
- Snow Country by Yasunari Kawabata
- An Introduction to Knowledge Engineering by Simon Kendal
- Long Day's Journey into Night by Eugene O'Neill
- The History of Western Philosophy by Bertrand Russell
- Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
Books listened to:
- Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
- My Share of the Task: A Memoir by Stanley McChrystal
- The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon by Brad Stone
- Benjamin Franklin by Walter Isaacson