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Dec 31, 20159 min read

List of books that I have read, re-read, started to read, heard a lot about and want to read. In no particular order. Hoping to find time to write notes on all the books I’ve read.

If you want to see a list of book lists, go to Book Lists.

My Reading Journey is a short recollection of what I read when.

Philosophy / Psychology

Biographies/Memoirs

  • Walter Isaacson
    • Steve Jobs
    • Einstein: His Life and Universe
    • Leonardo da Vinci
    • Benjamin Franklin: An American Life
  • My Experiments with Truth by M.K. Gandhi
  • The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
  • The Story of My Life by Helen Keller
  • Man’s Search For Meaning by Victor Frankl
  • The Man Who Knew Infinity: A Life of The Genius Ramanujan by Robert Kanigel
  • Wings of Fire by APJ Abdul Kalam
  • Playing It My Way by Sachin Tendulkar
  • John Adams by David McCullough
  • Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman! by Richard P. Feynman
  • When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi
  • Hit Refresh by Satya Nadella

Self-Help

Leadership/Management

  • Iger - The Ride of a Lifetime by Bob Iger
  • Fox - How to Become CEO by Jeffrey J. Fox
  • Rosling - Factfulness by Hans Rosling
  • Management: Revised Edition by Peter Drucker
  • The Effective Executive - The Definitive Guide to Getting the Right Things Done by Peter Drucker
  • Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap and Others Don’t by Jim Collins
  • Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies by Jim Collins
  • Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action by Simon Sinek
  • The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership by John C. Maxwell
  • Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done by Larry Bossidy & Ram Charan
  • Principles: Life and Work by Ray Dalio
  • The One Minute Manager by Kenneth Blanchard and Spencer Johnson
  • High Output Management by Andy Grove
  • The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers by Ben Horowitz
  • Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead by Sheryl Sandberg
  • The Innovator’s Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail by Clayton Christensen
  • Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win by Jocko Willink & Leif Babin
  • The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable by Patrick Lencioni
  • Multipliers: How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter by Liz Wiseman
  • Radical Candor: Be a Kick-Ass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity by Kim Scott
  • The Leadership Challenge: How to Make Extraordinary Things Happen in Organizations by James Kouzes and Posner

Sci-fi/Fantasy

  • Herbert - Dune by Frank Herbert
  • Asimov - Foundation by Isaac Asimov
  • Simmons - Hyperion by Dan Simmons
  • The Lord of the Rings Series by JRR Tolkien
  • The Harry Potter Series by JK Rowling
  • A Song of Ice and Fire by George RR Martin
  • The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Series by Douglas Adams
  • I, Robot by Isaac Asimov
  • 2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke
  • Rendezvous With Rama by Arthur C. Clarke
  • Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne
  • Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne
  • The Dark Tower Series by Stephen King
  • The Chronicles of Narnia by CS Lewis
  • Divergent series by Veronica Roth
  • The Hunger Games Series by Suzanne Collins
  • Twilight Series by Stephenie Meyer
  • The Wheel of Time Series by Robert Jordan
  • The Dark Tower by Stephen King
  • The Time Machine by H.G. Wells
  • Dune by Frank Herbert
  • The Martian by Andy Weir
  • 1984 by George Orwell
  • Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
  • Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
  • Neuromancer by William Gibson
  • Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
  • The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
  • The War Of The Worlds by H.G. Wells
  • Contact by Carl Sagan
  • The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
  • Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick
  • Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
  • Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson
  • Stroud - The Bartimaeus Trilogy by Jonathan Stroud
  • Leviathan Wakes (The Expanse Series) by James S. A. Corey
  • The Outlander Series by Diana Gabaldon
  • The Witcher by Andrzej Sapkowski
  • His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman

Literature/Classics

  • Charles Dickens
  • Thomas Hardy
    • The Return of the Native, The Mayor of Casterbridge, Far from the Madding Crowd, Tess of the d’Urbervilles, Under the Greenwood Tree,A Pair of Blue Eye
  • Leo Tolstoy
    • Anna Karenina, War and Peace
  • Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
  • Jane Austen
    • Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Northanger Abbey, Emma, Mansfield Park, Persuasion
  • Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
  • Fyodor Dostoevsky
    • Crime and Punishment, Notes from Underground, The Brothers Karamazov
  • Homer - The Iliad by Homer
  • The Odyssey by Homer (Emily Wilson)
  • The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
  • The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexander Dumas
  • The Three Musketeers by Alexander Dumas
  • George Eliot
    • The Mill on the Floss, Adam Bede, Silas Marner, Middlemarch
  • Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
  • The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Somerset Maugham
    • Of Human Bondage, The Razor’s Edge, The Moon and Sixpence
  • Sophocles

Technology

Other Fiction

  • Hardy Boys series by Franklin W. Dixon
  • Agatha Christie
    • Murder on the Orient Express, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, The Secret Adversary, Hercule Poirot’s Christmas, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, The ABC Murders, And Then There Were None, Five Little Pigs, Crooked House, Endless Night, Death on the Nile
  • Jeffrey Archer
    • Kane and Abel, Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less, Shall We Tell the President?, The Prodigal Daughter, First Among Equals, A Matter of Honour, As the Crow Flies, Honour Among Thieves, The Fourth Estate,The Eleventh Commandment
  • Sidney Sheldon
    • Rage of Angels, Bloodline, If Tomorrow Comes, Nothing Lasts Forever, Windmills of the Gods, The Sands of Time, A Stranger in the Mirror, The Doomsday Conspiracy, Tell Me your dreams, Master of the Game, The Stars Shine Down, The Other Side of Midnight, Memories of Midnight, Morning, Noon and Night, Are you afraid of the Dark
  • Robert Ludlum
    • The Bourne Identity, The Bourne Supremacy, The Bourne Ultimatum, The Holcroft Covenant, The Osterman Weekend, The Scarlatti Inheritance, The Matlock Paper, Trevayne, The Matarese Circle, The Icarus Agenda, The Scorpio Illusion
  • Harold Robbins
    • The Carpetbaggers, Goodbye Janette, Never Love a Stranger, A Stone for Danny Fisher, The Dream Merchants, Dreams die first, The storyteller, Memories of another day
  • Alistair MacLean
    • The Guns of Navarone, Where Eagles Dare, Ice Station Zebra, Caravan to Vaccares
  • Jack Higgins
    • The Eagle Has Landed, The Eagle Has Flown, To Catch a King, Night of the Fox, Eye of the Storm
  • Daphne du Maurier
  • Dan Brown
    • The Da Vinci Code, Angels and Demons, Inferno, Digital Fortress, Deception Point, Origin
  • Michael Crichton
    • Jurassic Park, The Andromeda Strain, Disclosure, Sphere, Congo, Timeline, The Terminal Man, Rising Sun, The Lost World , Westworld
  • Perry Mason novels by Erle Stanley Gardner
  • James Patterson
    • Along Came a Spider, Kiss the Girls, Pop Goes the Weasel, Gone
  • John Grisham
    • The Firm, A Time to Kill, The Pelican Brief, The Rainmaker, The Testament, The Street Lawyer, The Runaway Jury, The Client, The Partner, The Last Juror, The Chamber
  • Robin Cook
    • Coma, Outbreak, Contagion, Seizure
  • Nicholas Sparks
    • The Notebook, Message in a Bottle, A Walk to Remember, Safe Haven,The Rescue, Dear John,The Guardian, Nights in Rodanthe
  • Clive Cussler
    • Inca Gold, Pacific Vortex, Treasure, Valhalla Rising, Sahara
  • Paulo Coelho
    • The Alchemist, Eleven Minutes, Brida, The Winner Stands Alone, By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept, The Zahir, The Witch of Portobello
  • The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
  • The God of the Small Things by Arundhati Roy
  • Atonement by Ian McEwan
  • Gorky - Makar Chudra by Maxim Gorky
  • Marquez - Of Love and Other Demons by Gabriel García Márquez
  • To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
  • The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
  • The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
  • Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
  • Jeanine Cummins - American Dirt by Jeannine Cummins

Other Non-Fiction

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