Books Read in 2018

I read 104 books in 2020.

The 10 Best Books I Read in 2018:

  • East of Eden – John Steinbeck
  • How Will You Measure Your Life? – Clayton M. Christensen
  • Principles: Life and Work – Ray Dalio
  • String Theory: David Foster Wallace on Tennis – David Foster Wallace
  • The Brothers Karamazov – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  • The Log from the Sea of Cortez – John Steinbeck
  • The Moon is a Harsh Mistress – Robert A. Heinlein
  • The Sirens of Titan – Kurt Vonnegut
  • The Third Policeman – Flann O’Brian
  • Tune In (The Beatles: All These Years) – Mark Lewisohn

2018 Reading List:

A Sand County Almanac – Aldo Leopold

Angels & Demons – Dan Brown

Armchair Economist: Economics & Everyday Life – Steven E. Landsburg

Barefoot to Billionaire – Jon M. Huntsman

Being Nixon: A Man Divided – Evan Thomas

Beyond Belief – Jenna Misacvaige

Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking – Malcolm Gladwell

Brigham Young: Pioneer Prophet – John G. Turner

Cat’s Cradle – Kurt Vonnegut

Chess: Become a Chess Master – Beginners Guide – Henry Abott

Children of the Mind – Orson Scott Card

Christ and the New Covenant – Jeffrey R. Holland

Creativity, Inc. – Ed Catmull

Crucial Conversations – Various

David and Goliath – Malcolm Gladwell

East of Eden – John Steinbeck

Elon Musk – Ashlee Vance

Ender’s Game – Orson Scott Card

Essentialism – Greg McKeown

For Whom the Bell Tolls – Ernest Hemingway

Foundation – Isaac Asimov

Freemasons for Dummies – Christopher Hodapp

Golden Son – Pierce Brown

Guns, Germs, and Steel – James Diamond

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets – J.K. Rowling

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – J.K. Rowling

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire – J.K. Rowling

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince – J.K. Rowling

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix – J.K. Rowling

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban – J.K. Rowling

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone – J.K. Rowling

How Will You Measure Your Life? – Clayton M. Christensen

In Cold Blood – Truman Capote

Inferno – Dan Brown

Jack: Straight from the Gut – Jack Welch

Jailbird – Kurt Vonnegut

Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling – Richard Lyman Bushman

Larry H. Miller: Behind the Drive – Bryan Miller

Leonardo Da Vinci – Walter Isaacson

Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die – Chip Heath & Dan Heath

Morning Star – Pierce Brown

Nineteen Eighty-Four – George Orwell

No Country For Old Men – Cormac McCarthy

Option B – Sheryl Sandberg

Origin – Dan Brown

Outliers: The Story of Success – Malcolm Gladwell

Player Piano – Kurt Vonnegut

Principles: Life and Work – Ray Dalio

QB: My Life Behind the Spiral – Steve Young

Ready Player One – Ernest Cline

Red Rising – Pierce Brown

Ringworld – Larry Niven

Shoe Dog – Phil Knight

Silence – Shusaku Endo

Slapstick, or Lonesome No More! – Kurt Vonnegut

Some Fruits of Solitude – William Penn

Speaker for the Dead – Orson Scott Card

Starship Troopers – Robert A. Heinlein

Steve Jobs – Walter Isaacson

Stories of Your Life and Others – Ted Chiang

Stranger in a Strange Land – Robert A. Heinlein

Strengths-Based Leadership – Tom Rath/Gallup

String Theory: David Foster Wallace on Tennis – David Foster Wallace

“Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman!”: Adventures of a Curious Character – Richard P. Feynman

The 4-Hour Workweek – Timothy Ferris

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer – Mark Twain

The Alchemist – Paul Coelho

The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin – Benjamin Franklin

The Bogleheads’ Guide to Investing – Lindauer, Larimore, Leboeuf

The Brothers Karamazov – Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The Da Vinci Code – Dan Brown

The Death and Life of Great American Cities – Jane Jacobs

The Diary of a Young Girl – Anne Frank

The Gospel At 30,000 Feet – Dieter F. Uchtdorf

The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald

The History of Joseph Smith by His Mother – Luck Mack Smith

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams

The Journal of John Woolman – John Woolman

The Lessons of History – Will and Ariel Durant

The Log from the Sea of Cortez – John Steinbeck

The Long Walk – Stephen King

The Lost Symbol – Dan Brown

The Magic of Thinking Big – David Schwartz

The Martian – Andy Weir

The Moon is a Harsh Mistress – Robert A. Heinlein

The Rent Collector – Camron Wright

The Screwtape Letters – C.S. Lewis

The Sirens of Titan – Kurt Vonnegut (Read Twice)

The Smartest Guys in the Room – Bethany McLean & Peter Elkind

The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life – Alice Schroeder

The Third Policeman – Flann O’Brian

The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference – Malcolm Gladwell

The Wednesday Letters – Jason F. Wright

Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power – Jon Meacham

Timequake – Kurt Vonnegut

Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr. – Ron Chernow

Treasure Island – Robert Louis Stevenson

Tune In (The Beatles: All These Years) – Mark Lewisohn

Walt Disney: The Triumph of the American Imagination – Neal Gabler

We Have Always Lived in the Castle – Shirley Jackson

Without Reservations: How a Family Root Beer Stand Grew Into a Global Hotel Company – Bill Marriott

Xenocide – Orson Scott Card