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My Reading List

I have always wanted to develop the habit of reading, however, every time I picked up a book I would leave it unfinished. On December 2017, while I was making my new year's resolution I decided that I will start reading at least one book/month. It took me one month to finish my first book. However, soon after I started enjoying reading and listening to books and it became a hobby. Here's my 2018 list so far, I have marked the ones I really liked with a *

  1. Turtles All the Way Down by John Green

  2. Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate *

  3. The Better Angels of our Nature by Steven Pinker*

  4. Homo Deus by Yuval Noah Harari*

  5. Enlightenment-Now by Steven Pinker*

  6. Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand*

  7. A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson*

  8. Bringing Up Girls by James Dobson*

  9. The Art of War by Sun Tzu*

  10. The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen*

  11. When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi*

  12. Factfullness by Hans Rosling*

  13. Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell*

  14. Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner*

  15. The Blank Slate by Steven Pinker* 

  16. Life 3.0 Being Human in the Age of AI by Max Tegmark *

  17. Everything Happens for a Reason by Kate Bowler*

  18. Blink by Malcolm Gladwell* 

  19. Origin Story by David Christian*

  20. The Profit by Khalil Gibran*

  21. Some Answered Questions*

  22. Measure What Matters by John Doerr*

  23. Superintelligence, Paths Dangers Strategy by Nick Bostrom*

  24. The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel Van Der Kolk* 

  25. Leonardo Da Vinci by Walter Isacson* 

  26. Seabiscuit by Laura Hillenbrand 

  27. Sapiens - A brief history of mankind by Yuval Noah Harari* 

  28. The Geography of Genius by Eric Weiner 

  29. David and Goliath by Malcolm Gladwell*

  30. The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg*

  31. 21 Lessons for the 21st Century by Yuval Noah Harari* 

  32. Educated_ A Memoir Tara by Westover*

  33. The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

  34. The Queen: Aretha Franklin by Mikal Gilmore

  35. Capitalism without Capital by Jonathan Haskel, and Stian Westlake*

  36. Prediction Machines The Simple Economics of Artificial Intelligence by Ajay Agrawal, Joshua Gans, and Avi Goldfarb

  37. On Intelligence by Jeff Hawkins

  38. AI Superpowers China Silicon Valley

  39. Capital in the 21st Century by Thomas Piketty

  40. Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman

  41. An American Marriage - A Novel

  42. Becoming by Michelle Obama

  43. The Audacity to Hope by Barak Obama

  44. The Black Swan by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  45. Atomic Marriage by Curtis Sittenfeld

  46. Power Moves: Lessons from Davos by Adam Grant

  47. Still Me by Jojo Moyes

  48. The Innovation of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd

  49. Bad Blood by John Carreyrou - A true story of a silicon valley startup.

  50. Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman

  51. Little Fires Everywhere

  52. Fooled by Randomness by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  53. The State of Affairs

  54. Every Breath

  55. Daring Greatly

  56. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night

  57. Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth and happiness

  58. Mala

  59. Dodge & Twist

  60. The Headspace Guide to Meditation and Mindfulness: How Mindfulness Can Change Your Life in Ten Minutes a Day By: Andy Puddicombe

  61. The Rain Watcher: A Novel, By: Tatiana de Rosnay

  62. The Advent of Divine Justice

  63. Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder By: Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  64. Skin in the Game by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  65. Dare to Lead by Brene Brown

  66. Radical Candor: Be a Kick-Ass Boss Without Losing your Humanity

  67. 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos by Jordan Peterson

  68. Reasonable Logic by Ludwig Wittgenstein

  69. The Power of Now By: Eckhart Tolle

  70. The Untethered Soul

  71. Maid - Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive By: Stephanie Land,

  72. Where the Crawdads Sing By: Delia Owens

  73. Born a Crime By: Trevor Noah

  74. The Seat of the Soul By: Gary Zukav

  75. Tablets of The Divine Plan By: 'Abdu'l-Bahá

  76. Paris Talks By: Abdul-Baha

  77. The Moment of Lift By: Melinda Gates

  78. The Power of Stoicism By: John Turner

  79. The Four Agreements By: don Miguel Ruiz

  80. Flow: Living at the Peak of Your Abilities

  81.  The Crowd - A Study of the Popular Mind By: Gustave Le Bon

  82.  How to Win Friends & Influence People

  83. The Liar in Your Life: The Way to Truthful Relationships

  84.  Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead

  85.  Permanent Record - Edward Snowden

  86. White Fragility: Why it's so hard for White People to Talk About Racism

  87. The boys in the boat

  88. Mayflower: A story of courage, community, and war

  89. the last stand: Custer, sitting bull, and the battle of little bighorn

  90. American Legends

  91. Between the World and Me

  92. The Five Love Languages: The Secret to Love that Lasts

  93. Wild Game: My mother, her secret, and me

  94. The Ride of a Lifetime: Lessons Learned from 15 Years as CEO of the Walt Disney Company

  95. The Choice: Escaping the Past and Embracing the Possible

  96. Writing my wrongs

  97. Night

  98. Regarding the Pain of Others

  99. Think like a monk:

  100. The New Jim Crow

  101. Tuesdays with Morrie

  102. Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World by David Epstein

  103. The Fire Next Time By James Baldwin

  104. The Spy and The Traitor

  105. Malcolm X

  106. Frederick Douglass

  107. Greenlights

  108. Happiness Advantage

 

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