Books I read

Hello there!

Welcome to my humble little library. I dedicate this place to the books I read. I wrote an article recently describing my journey on how I got back to reading. I had taken a 10 years hiatus on the written word. Now I can’t help but read anything that fall in my lap.

On this page, I would like to share with you the books that I have read since I got back on track. Note that some will contain affiliate links. I won’t necessarily recommend books, but I will share my insights about them. Let’s get started.

2024

Difficult Conversations by Douglas Stone, Sheila Heen, Bruce Patton

2022

10% Happier by Dan Harris

2021

Empire of Illusions by Chris Hedges

Greenlights by Matthew McConaughey

Design For Real Life by Eric A. Meyer

AI Superpowers by Kai-Fu Lee

The Diary of a Madman and other stories by Nikolai Gogol

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S Thompson

One Minute Manager by Ken Blanchard and Spencer Johnson

2020

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell

Talking to Strangers by Malcolm Gladwell

How to win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie

The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg

The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell

Trust Me, I'm lying by Ryan Holiday

The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck by Mark Manson

Dante's Inferno by Dante Alighieri

This is Marketing by Seth Godin

On the Shortness of Life by Seneca

Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson

On Anger by Seneca

Status Anxiety by Alain de Botton

Hooked by Nir Ewal

The System by Robert Reich

Post Office by Charles Bukowski

Powerful by Patty McCord

We by Yevgeny Zamyatin

Gilgamesh by Stephen Mitchell

2019

Amusing ourselves to Death by Neil Postman

Manufacturing Consent by Noam Chomsky and Edward S. Herman

The Machine Stops by E. M. Forster

Lab Rats by Dan Lyons

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

The Last Question by Isaac Asimov

Think, fast and slow by Daniel Kahneman

Heart of a dog by Mikhael Bulgakov

The Prophet by Khalil Gibran

Start with Why by Simon Sinek

12 Rules to Life by Jordan Perterson

The Handmaid's tale by Margaret Atwood

Perfume by Patrick Suskind

Permanent Record by Edward Snowden

Winners take All by Anand Giridharadas

A brief history of time by Stephen Hawkins

Island by Aldous Huxley

The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz

2018

The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka

The Trial by Franz Kafka

In The Penal Colony by Franz Kafka

The Hunger Artist by Franz Kafka

The Old man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway

The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov

Born a Crime by Trevor Noah

Disrupted by Dan Lyons

The Silmarillion by J. R. R. Tolkien

2017

The Alchemist by Paolo Coelho

The Assistant by Bernard Malamud

The Life of Pi by Yann Martell

A song of Ice and Fire - Game of Thrones by George R. R. Martin

A song of Ice and Fire - A Clash of Kings by George R. R. Martin

A song of Ice and Fire - A Storm of Swords by George R. R. Martin

A song of Ice and Fire - A Feast of Crow by George R. R. Martin

A song of Ice and Fire - A Dance with Dragons by George R. R. Martin

The Lord of the Rings - The Fellowship of the Ring by J. R. R. Tolkien

The Lord of the Rings - The Two Towers by J. R. R. Tolkien

The Lord of the Rings - The Return of the King by J. R. R. Tolkien

The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien

Catch 22 by Joseph Heller

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

1984 by George Orwell

The Story of your life by Ted Chiang

Rich Dad Poor Dad by Robert Kiyosaki

Le Petit Prince (The little Prince) by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Animal Farm by George Orwell

Moby Dick by Herman Melville