bookshelf

An ongoing list of books I have read: in bold are the notable mentions.
This is to help remember the books, and to track progress.

The key idea is not to forget the ideas taken from what you have read, document, comment on the good, bad and interesting. Also it is a great conversation starter.

In chronological order?

• The Millennium Trilogy, Larsson
• His Dark Materials Trilogy, Pullman
• The Trial, Kafka
• The Metamorphoses, Kafka
• Kakfa on the Shore, Murakami
• The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, Murakami
• Norwegian Wood, Murakami
• Sanshiro, Soseki
• Kokoro, Soseki
• A Thousand Splendid Suns, Hosseini
• Outliers, Gladwell
• Cats Cradle, Vonnegut
• The Catcher in The Rye, Salinger
• Catch 22, Heller
• Siddartha, Hesse
• On Solitude, Montaigne
• Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Pirsig
• Goodbye Things, Sasaki
• Letters from a Stoic, Seneca
• Meditations, Aurelius
• The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
• How to Lie with Statistics, Huff
• Fermat's Last theorem, Singh
• The Code Book, Singh
• Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea, Seife
• Maus, Spiegelman
• Watchmen, Moore
• V for Vendetta, Moore
• Logicomix: An Epic Search for Truth, Doxiadis
• Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Stevenson
• Godel Escher Bach, Hofstadter
• How Not to Be Wrong, Ellenberg
• The Book of Tea, Okakura Kazuko
• Short Stories, Roald Dahl
• Sophie's World, Gaarder
• Thinking Fast and Slow, Kahneman
• David and Goliath,
• Either/Or, Kierkegaard
• Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage, Murakami
• Vagabonding, Rolf Potts
• Mans Search for Meaning, Frankl
• Lost Japan, Kerr
• Shogun, Clavell
• Fahrenheit 451, Bradbury
• 1984, Orwell
• Politics and the English Language, Orwell
• Books vs Cigarettes, Orwell
• Brave New World, Huxley
• The Myth of Sisyphus, Camus
• The Stranger, Camus
• The Tao Te Ching, Lao Tzu
• The Tao of Pooh, Hoff
• A Man without a Country, Vonnegut
• Mother Night, Vonnegut
• Breakfast of Champions, Vonnegut
• Flowers For Algernon, Keyes
• The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Kundera
• Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, P.K. Dick
• Slaughterhouse-Five, Vonnegut
• Sirens of Titan, Vonnegut
• What We Talk About When We Talk About Love, Carver
• Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?, Carver
• The Pearl, Steinbeck
• Down and Out in Paris and London, Orwell
• Story of your Life, Chiang
• The Little Prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
• Exhalation, Chiang
• What I Talk About When I Talk About Running, Murakami
• Antifragile, Taleb
• Masters of Doom, Kushner
• Fooled by Randomness, Taleb
• Metamorphoses, Ovid
• The Little Schemer,
• The Lessons of History, Will and Ariel Durant
• Economics in One Lesson, Hazlitt
• The Glass Bead Game, Hesse
• The Three Body Problem, Liu Cixin
• The Dark Forest, Liu Cixin
• The Master and Margarita, Bulgakov
• Popper, Magee
• Zorba the Greek, Kanzantzakis
• How Will You Measure Your Life, Christensen
• The Graveyard Book, Gaiman
• The Paris Review Interviews vol. 3
• Essays and Aphorisms, Schopenhauer
• Foucault's Pendulum, Eco
• Pale Fire, Nabokov
• How to Win Friends, Carnegie
• Keep the Aspidistra Flying, Orwell
• The Paris Review Interviews vol. 2
• Narcissus and Goldmund, Hesse
• Collected Fictions, Borges
• Art as Experience, Dewey
• Born to Run, Christopher McDougall
• If on a winter's night a traveler, Italo Calvino
• Invisible Cities, Calvino
• James Joyce Dubliners
• Cloud Atlas, David Mitchell
• Letters to a Young Poet, Rainer Maria Rilke
• Apprenticeship Patterns, Dave Hoover
• Principles (PDF), Ray Dalio
• The War of Art, Stephen Pressfield
• The Charisma Myth
• Head First Design Patterns
• The Phoenix Project
• The Pragmatic Programmer
• The Enchiridion

Queued

• Designing Data Intensive Applications
• Impro
• The Beak of the Finch, Story of Evolution in Our Time