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Book List

Books

Most recent books at the bottom of each respective list. Divided by when they were started and finished.

Read

Finished in 2017

  • The Pragmatic Programmer - Andrew Hunt & David Thomas
  • A Guide to the Good Life - William B. Irving
  • The Doors of Perception - Aldoux Huxley
  • Dark Matter - Blake Crouch
  • Government in the Future - Noam Chomsky
  • Flatland - Edwin A. Abbott
  • Oranges - John McPhee
  • How to Read a Book - Mortimer J. Adler
  • Flow - Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
  • The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin - Dover Edition
  • World War Z - Max Brooks
  • Man’s Search for Meaning - Viktor E. Frankl
  • The Stand - Stephen King
  • Speaker for the Dead - Orson Scott Card
  • Xenocide - Orson Scott Card
  • Children of the Mind - Orson Scott Card
  • Shadow Puppets - Orson Scott Card
  • Shadow of the Giant - Orson Scott Card
  • The Inevitable - Kevin Kelly
  • Thus Spoke Zarathustra - Friedrich Nietzsche

Reading

Started in 2017

  • Economics in One Lesson - Henry Hazlitt
  • Objective-C Programming - Aaron Hillegass & Mikey Ward
  • Tools of Titans - Tim Ferriss
  • A Twist of the Wrist II - Keith Codes
  • Code Complete (2nd Edition) - Steve Mcconnel
  • Practical Vim (2nd Edition) - Drew Neil
  • Forty Stories - Anton Chekhov (Translated by Robert Payne)
  • Antifragile - Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • A Brief History of Time - Stephen Hawkings
  • Programming in C - Stephen G. Kochan
  • The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
  • The Memory of Earth - Orson Scott Card

To Read

Added in 2017

  • Confessions of an Economic Hitman - John Perkins
  • The Richest Man in Babylon - George Clason
  • The Devotion of Suspect X - Keigo Higashino
  • Generation Wealth - Lauren Greenfield
  • As a Man Thinketh - James Allen
  • [Unconventional Books that Changed My Life - Susan Fowler ]
  • House of Leaves
  • Walden - Henry David Thorough
  • The Memory of Earth - Orson Scott Card
  • The Call of Earth - Orson Scott Card
  • The Wisdom Of Insecurity - Alan Watts
  • Blindside - Peter Watts
  • Structures - J.E. Gordon
  • Benjamin Franklin - Walter Isaacson
  • Einstein - Walter Isaacson
  • Superintelligence - Nick Bostrom
  • Merchants of Doubt - Erik M. Conway & Naomi Oreskes
  • Lord of the Flies - William Golding
  • Foundation Trilogy - Isaac Asimov
  • Kafka on the Shore - Haruki Murakami
  • Millionaire Next Door - Thomas J. Stanley
  • Maus - Art Spiegelman
  • Radical Acceptance - Tara Brach
  • The Yaqui Way of Knowledge - Carlos Castaneda
  • The Body Keeps The Score - Van Der Kolk
  • Sophie's World - Jostein Gaarder
  • Tribe - Sebastian Junger (Joe Rogan podcast)
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