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