2017 Reading List

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

1. Consciousness – Koch
2. The Universe Next Door – Sire

Top Growth

1. The Art of Learning - Waitzkin
2. Rules for Radicals – Alinsky
3. Thinking Fast and Slow – Kahneman

Top Fiction

1. Mansfield Park – Austen
2. Picture of Dorian Gray – Wilde
3. 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