Despite feeling like I lost my focus in 2017, I actually ended up reading 50 books over the year.
I'll be writing a post about how I manage to read so much despite being a slow reader.
Top Philosophy
- Consciousness – Koch
- The Universe Next Door – Sire
Top Growth
- The Art of Learning - Waitzkin
- Rules for Radicals – Alinsky
- Thinking Fast and Slow – Kahneman
Top Fiction
- Mansfield Park – Austen
- Picture of Dorian Gray – Wilde
- Narcissus and Goldmund – Hesse
Happiness
- The Joy of Living: Unlocking the Secret and Science of Happiness
- The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching
- Happiness: The Science Behind Your Smile
- Happiness: Lessons from a New Science
- Stumbling on Happiness
- The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck
- The heart of buddhist meditation - Thera
- Living Happiness - Kade
Success/Self Mastery
- Rich Rad, Poor Dad
- Rules for Radicals – Alinsky
- *The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
- *Think and grow rich
- To sell is human - Pink
- Drive - Pink
- The 4 Hour Work Week
- Thinking, Fast and Slow - Kahneman
- Outliers
- The Art of Learning - Waitzkin
Human Experience
- Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion
- Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions
- The little prince
- Consciousness: Confessions of a romantic reductionist - Koch
Writing
- On Writing Well: The classic guide to writing nonfiction
Philosophy
- Existentialism is a humanism - Sartre
- Utilitarianism – Mill
- Free will - Harris
- To have or to be - Fromm
- The art of being - Fromm
- In defence of history - Evans
Religion/Spirituality
- The universe next door
- The portable atheist
- Toa Te Ching
- Toa of Nature
- The Prophet - Gibran
Classic Fiction
- Lord of the flies (reread)
- Moby Dick
- The castle - Kafka
- Picture of Dorian grey
- Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
- Persuasion - Jane Austen
- Mansfield Park - Austen
- Brave New World - Huxley
- *Alice Adventure in Wonderland - Carroll
Fiction
- Immorality - Kundera
- Slaughterhouse five
- Fahrenheit 451 - Bradbury
- Steppenwolf - Hesse
- Narcissus and Goldmund - Hesse
- Journey to the East - Hesse
- Indicates books that I started, got at least halfway, but didn't finish
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