2016 Reading List

Listing out all the books I read this year makes me very proud, however to paraphrase Michelangelo:

If you knew how long this took me, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all. 

I'm actually a slower than average reader (I measure it regularly), so this achievement of reading 60 books in a year, is more a reflection of time management and introverted social life.

Instead of giving a blurb about each book for an unknown number of readers, I thought my time would be better spent grouping them and highlighting a few best.

Top Fiction:

1. The Brothers Karamazov - Dostoyevski
2. The Plague - Albert Camus
3. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4. The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Milan Kundera
5. Northanger Abbey - Jane Austen

Top Philosophy:

1. On the Suffering of the World – Schopenhauer
2. Walden - Henry David Thoreau
3. The Fastidious Assassins (The Rebel) - Albert Camus
4. Beyond Religion - Dalai Lama

Top Buddhism:

1. The Buddhist Path to Simplicity - Christina Feldman
2. Becoming Enlightened - Dalai Lama
3. Touching Peace - Thich Nhat Hanh

Top Happiness:

1. Happiness: Developing Life's Most Important Skill - Mattieu Riccard
2. Happiness: A Philosophers Guide - Frederic Lenoir
3. The Art of Happiness - Dalai Lama

Books Read in 2016

1. Zero to One - Peter Thiel
2. The Republic - Plato
3. Phaedrus - Plato
4. How Proust Can Change your Life - Alain De Botton
5. His Essential Wisdom - Dalai Lama
6. Becoming Enlightened - Dalai Lama
7. Stages of Meditation - Dalai Lama
8. Beyond Religion - Dalai Lama
9. The Art of Happiness - Dalai Lama
10. The Buddhist Path to Simplicity - Christina Feldman
11. Colorless - Haruki Murakami
12. An Anthropologist on Mars - Oliver Sacks
13. The Pilgrimage - Paulo Coelho
14. The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho
15. Life of Pi - Yann Martel
16. The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Milan Kundera
17. Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
18. To the Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf
19. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
20. The Stranger - Albert Camus
21. The Fall - Albert Camus
22. Northanger Abbey - Jane Austen
23. Walden - Henry David Thoreau
24. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
25. Useful Work vs Useless Toil - William Morris
26. Nature - Ralph Waldo Emerson
27. On Solitude - Michel de Montaigne
28. The Lamp of Memory - John Ruskin
29. The Fastidious Assassins (The Rebel) - Albert Camus
30. The Plague - Albert Camus (re-read)
31. The Communist Manifesto - Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels
32. Predictably Irrational – Dan Ariely
33. Outliers – Gladwell
34. Tuesdays with Morrie – Albom
35. The Brothers Karamazov – Dostoevsky
36. Influence – Cialdini
37. Essays – George Orwell
38. 4 Hour Work Week – Tim Ferris
39. Siddhartha – Herman Hesse
40. Buddha - Deepak Chopra
41. On the Suffering of the World – Schopenhauer
42. The 1001 Arabian Nights (Book 1)
43. The 1001 Arabian Nights (Book 2)
44. The Little Prince - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
45. Happiness: Life's most important skill - Mattieu Riccard
46. Happiness: A Philosophers Guide - Frederic Lenoir
47. Candide - Voltaire
48. Fantastic Mr. Fox (Movie Script)
49. North and South - Elizabeth Gaskell
50. Anthem - Ayn Rand
51. Little Book of Contentment - Leo Babauta
52. Buddhism Without Beliefs -  Stephen Batchelor
53. Search Inside Yourself - Chade-Meng Tan
54. Touching Peace - Thich Nhat Hanh
55. Teachings on Love - Thich Nhat Hanh
56. Unto This Last - John Ruskin
57. The Enchiridion - Epictetus
58. Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals - Kant
59. Courage - Osho
60. Unwritten - Jack Delosa