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:
- The Brothers Karamazov - Dostoyevski
- The Plague - Albert Camus
- Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
- The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Milan Kundera
- Northanger Abbey - Jane Austen
Top Philosophy:
- On the Suffering of the World – Schopenhauer
- Walden - Henry David Thoreau
- The Fastidious Assassins (The Rebel) - Albert Camus
- Beyond Religion - Dalai Lama
Top Buddhism:
- The Buddhist Path to Simplicity - Christina Feldman
- Becoming Enlightened - Dalai Lama
- Touching Peace - Thich Nhat Hanh
Top Happiness:
- Happiness: Developing Life's Most Important Skill - Mattieu Riccard
- Happiness: A Philosophers Guide - Frederic Lenoir
- The Art of Happiness - Dalai Lama
Books Read in 2016
- Zero to One - Peter Thiel
- The Republic - Plato
- Phaedrus - Plato
- How Proust Can Change your Life - Alain De Botton
- His Essential Wisdom - Dalai Lama
- Becoming Enlightened - Dalai Lama
- Stages of Meditation - Dalai Lama
- Beyond Religion - Dalai Lama
- The Art of Happiness - Dalai Lama
- The Buddhist Path to Simplicity - Christina Feldman
- Colorless - Haruki Murakami
- An Anthropologist on Mars - Oliver Sacks
- The Pilgrimage - Paulo Coelho
- The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho
- Life of Pi - Yann Martel
- The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Milan Kundera
- Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
- To the Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf
- Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
- The Stranger - Albert Camus
- The Fall - Albert Camus
- Northanger Abbey - Jane Austen
- Walden - Henry David Thoreau
- Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
- Useful Work vs Useless Toil - William Morris
- Nature - Ralph Waldo Emerson
- On Solitude - Michel de Montaigne
- The Lamp of Memory - John Ruskin
- The Fastidious Assassins (The Rebel) - Albert Camus
- The Plague - Albert Camus (re-read)
- The Communist Manifesto - Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels
- Predictably Irrational – Dan Ariely
- Outliers – Gladwell
- Tuesdays with Morrie – Albom
- The Brothers Karamazov – Dostoevsky
- Influence – Cialdini
- Essays – George Orwell
- 4 Hour Work Week – Tim Ferris
- Siddhartha – Herman Hesse
- Buddha - Deepak Chopra
- On the Suffering of the World – Schopenhauer
- The 1001 Arabian Nights (Book 1)
- The 1001 Arabian Nights (Book 2)
- The Little Prince - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
- Happiness: Life's most important skill - Mattieu Riccard
- Happiness: A Philosophers Guide - Frederic Lenoir
- Candide - Voltaire
- Fantastic Mr. Fox (Movie Script)
- North and South - Elizabeth Gaskell
- Anthem - Ayn Rand
- Little Book of Contentment - Leo Babauta
- Buddhism Without Beliefs - Stephen Batchelor
- Search Inside Yourself - Chade-Meng Tan
- Touching Peace - Thich Nhat Hanh
- Teachings on Love - Thich Nhat Hanh
- Unto This Last - John Ruskin
- The Enchiridion - Epictetus
- Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals - Kant
- Courage - Osho
- Unwritten - Jack Delosa