Reading List

I don’t expect to ever get through all of them. It’s more like my personal library. Every now and again I can browse and borrow one, happy to let others flow past me in the river of time.

A strikethrough means I have read it. Some of these books I have read once but I woud like to read again. There is a mixture of fiction and non-fiction.

I might organise them better at some point.

• Art of Manliness reading lists
  • The Best of the Marine Corps’ Reading Lists
  • 36 books for wildly ambitious young men
  • The Libraries of Famous Men: Bruce Lee
  • 20 Classic Poems Every Man Should Read
  • The Best Books to Read in Uncertain Times
• Confessions of the Pricing Man: How Price Affects Everything
• The Boron Letters
• Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me): Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions, and Hurtful Acts
• Anna Karenina
• Atlas Shrugged
• Magician
• The checklist manifesto: how to get things right
• Heart of darkness
• Influence: the psychology of persuasion
• Middlemarch
• Middlesex
• Neuromancer
  • Very interesting book. I can see a lot of the influence this has on the Matrix and the Android cyberpunk setting by Fantasy Flight Games. Written at a frenetic pace but I enjoyed it.
• The Red Badge of Courage
  • Didn’t end up finishing it. I’m not that interested in American Civil War books
• Sapiens: a brief history of humankind
• Siddhartha: an Indian tale
• Slaughterhouse-five
• Stumbling on happiness
• The sun also rises
• Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies
• To kill a mockingbird
• The War of Art: Winning the Inner Creative Battle
• White teeth
• Why we get sick: the hidden epidemic at the root of most chronic disease – and how to fight it
• Zero to one: notes on startups, or how to build the future
• The musician’s way: a guide to practice, performance, and wellness
• Be Unstoppable: The 8 Essential Actions to Succeed at Anything
• Master Japanese: How to Learn Japanese Through Anywhere Immersion
• I Will Teach You to be Rich
• Bilingual: Life and Reality
• Tactics: A Game Plan for Discussing Your Christian Convictions
• I Am Legend
• Out of the Silent Planet
• The Screwtape Letters
• A confederacy of Dunces
• Essential Manners for Men: What to Do, When to Do It, and Why
• The Prince
• The Young Man’s Guide: Classic Wisdom for Improving Mind, Manners, and Morals
• Brave New World
• The Hobbit
• Deep Work
• The De-Textbook: The Stuff You Didn’t Know About the Stuff You Thought You Knew
• You might be a Zombie and Other Bad News
• How to be a Man: A Guide to Style and Behaviour for the Modern Gentleman
• John Wesley
• Jim Elliot: Missionary Martyr
• D.L. Moody: The American Evangelist
• The Autobiography of Hudson Taylor: Missionary to China
• The Power of Habit
• So Good They Can’t Ignore You
• The Art of Learning: A Journey in the Pursuit of Excellence
• The Bogleheads Guide to Investing
• The Millionaire Next Door
• Talent is Overrated
• Think Like Great Investors
• Think Like a Freak
• Stocks for the Long Run
• Secrets of a Millionaire Mind
• Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.
• The 48 Laws of Power
• The Art of War
• Revan (Star Wars: The Old Republic)
• 15 Secrets Successful People Know About Time Management
• Star Wars: Darth Plaguis
• The Story of William of Orange
• Be Bilingual - Practical Ideas for Multilingual Families
• Ready Player One
• Status Anxiety
• Cyrus The Great: The Arts of Leadership and War
• What I Learned Losing a Million Dollars
• The Book of Five Rings
• This Boy’s Life
• Totto-Chan: The Little Girl at the Window
• Four Shades of Black: The Traditional Path to Building the Complete Fighter
• Mansfield’s Book of Manly Men: An Utterly Invigorating Guide to Being Your Most Masculine Self
• A Well-Educated Mind
• A Well-Trained Mind
• The Hard Thing about Hard Things
• Tap Dancing to Work
• Making the Modern World
• The Bully Pulpit
• The Rosie Project
• How Asia Works
• How to Lie With Statistics
• Family Inc.
• The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing
• Bogle on Mutual Funds
• A Random Walk Down Wall Street
  • An interesting enough read. Very similar to many I’ve already read, but with a little more maths behind it. I don’t think I’ll change much of what I’m doing after reading it. Very US-centric, as usual, so I could skip a few sections.
• Play Anything: The Pleasure of Limits, the Uses of Boredom, and the Secret of Games
• Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It
• Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration
• Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams
• Constellation Games
• Clutterfree with Kids
• The Effective Executive
• For Men Only
• Love and Respect
• His Needs, Her Needs
• Sacred Marriage
• Thinking, Fast and Slow
• Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything
• Gut: The Inside Story of Our Body’s Most Underrated Organ
• Theory of Financial Risk and Derivative Pricing: From Statistical Physics to Risk Management
• Probability and Random Processes
• Money, Greed, and God: Why Capitalism Is the Solution and Not the Problem
• Economics for Everybody: Applying Biblical Principles to Work, Wealth, and the World
• On Poetry in General
• Aurora Leigh
• Still Alice

Have read but want to read again:

• Lord Foul’s Bane
• The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change
• How to Win Friends and Influence People
• Lord of the Rings