2017 Book List
Here is the list of books I’ve read during the year 2017.
- The Ode Less Travelled: Unlocking the Poet Within by Stephen Fry
- The Book of General Ignorance by John Mitchinson, John Lloyd
- Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
- Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand
- Empire: A Very Short Introduction by Stephen Howe
- Capital: A Critique of Political Economy by Karl Marx
- Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Piketty
- I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up For Education And Was Shot By The Taliban by Malala Yousafzai
- Quantum Theory: A Very Short Introduction by John Polkinghorne
- Reality Is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World by Jane McGonigal
- Cosmology: A Very Short Introduction by Peter Coles
- Denialism: How Irrational Thinking Hinders Scientific Progress, Harms the Planet, and Threa tens Our by Michael Specter
- On the Historicity of Jesus: Why We Might Have Reason for Doubt by Richard Carrier
- Philosophy of Science: A Very Short Introduction by Samir Okasha
- The Moral Animal: Why We Are, the Way We Are: The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology by Robert Wright
- Did Jesus Exist?: The Historical Argument for Jesus of Nazareth by Bart D. Ehrman
- Being and Nothingness by Jean-Paul Sartre
- Druids: A Very Short Introduction by Barry Cunliffe
- The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language (P.S.) by Steven Pinker
- Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
- Storms of My Grandchildren: The Truth About the Coming Climate Catastrophe and Our Last Chance to Sa by James Hansen
- Discourse on the Method of Rightly Conducting One’s Reason and of Seeking Truth in the Sciences by René Descartes
- Radical Honesty: How to Transform Your Life by Telling the Truth by Brad Blanton
- Feminism: A Very Short Introduction by Margaret Walters
- Newton: A Very Short Introduction by Robert Iliffe
- The Age of Empathy: Nature’s Lessons for a Kinder Society by Frans de Waal
- Skyfaring: A Journey with a Pilot by Mark Vanhoenacker
- Postcolonialism: A Very Short Introduction by Robert J. C. Young
- The Talent Code: Greatness Isn’t Born. It’s Grown. Here’s How. by Daniel Coyle
- Darwin: A Very Short Introduction by Jonathan Howard
- Contact by Carl Sagan
- D-Day: June 6, 1944: The Climactic Battle of World War by Stephen E. Ambrose
- Failure Is Not an Option: Mission Control From Mercury to Apollo 13 and Beyond by Gene Kranz
- The Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness and Greed by John Vaillant
- The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri
- The Long Walk: The True Story Of A Trek To Freedom by Slavomir Rawicz
- Who Wrote the Bible? by Richard Friedman
- By Robert A. Heinlein: Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein
- The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right by Atul Gawande
- When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi
- Liar’s Poker: Rising Through the Wreckage on Wall Street by Michael Lewis
- Lone Survivor: The Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing and the Lost Heroes of SEAL Team 10 by Marcus Luttrell
- The Little Book of Trading: Trend Following Strategy for Big Winnings by Michael W. Covel
- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer: Original Illustrations by Mark Twain
- Brief Candle in the Dark: My Life in Science by Richard Dawkins
- Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Man’s Search for Ultimate Meaning by Viktor E Frankl
- Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell
- No One Would Listen: A True Financial Thriller by Harry Markopolos
- Caesar and Christ: A History of Roman Civilization and of Christianity from Their Beginnings to A.D. by Will Durant
- The Power of Babel: A Natural History of Language by John McWhorter
- Archaeology: A Very Short Introduction by Paul Bahn
- Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy by Cathy O’Neil
- Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege: 1942-1943 by Antony Beevor
- Big Bang: The Origin of the Universe by Simon Singh
- The Celts: A Very Short Introduction by Barry Cunliffe
- Excuse Me, But I Was Next: How to Handle the Top 100 Manners Dilemmas by Peggy Post
- Nine Parts of Desire: The Hidden World of Islamic Women by Geraldine Brooks
- The Gulag Archipelago Volume 1: An Experiment in Literary Investigation by Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
- Armenians in Egypt: Contribution of Armenians to Medieval and Modern Egypt by Sona Zeitlian
- The Gulag Archipelago Volume 2: An Experiment in Literary Investigation by Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
- The Gulag Archipelago Volume 3: An Experiment in Literary Investigation by Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
- The Crisis of Islam: Holy War and Unholy Terror by Bernard Lewis
- Adios, America by Ann Coulter
- Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande
- Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster by Jon Krakauer
- Mein Kampf (Uncensored Edition) by Adolf Hitler
- Ambassador Morgenthau’s Story by Henry Morgenthau III
- The Greatest Story Ever Told–So Far: Why Are We Here? by Lawrence M. Krauss
- Austerity by Unknown
- Das Kapital by Karl Marx
- God: The Most Unpleasant Character in All Fiction by Dan Barker
- They Can Live in the Desert but Nowhere Else: A History of the Armenian Genocide by Ronald Grigor Suny
- Blitzed: Drugs in the Third Reich by Norman Ohler
- Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions by Edwin A. Abbott
- Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die by Chip Heath, Dan Heath
- Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media by Edward S. Herman, Noam Chomsky
- The Science of Fear: How the Culture of Fear Manipulates Your Brain by Daniel Gardner
- Subliminal: How Your Unconscious Mind Rules Your Behavior by Leonard Mlodinow
- We Are Anonymous: Inside the Hacker World of LulzSec, Anonymous, and the Global Cyber Insurgency by Parmy Olson
- Everybody Is Wrong About God by James Lindsay
- How to Change Minds: The Art of Influence without Manipulation by Robert Jolles
- The Logic of Life: The Rational Economics of an Irrational World by Tim Harford
- The Compass of Pleasure: How Our Brains Make Fatty Foods, Orgasm, Exercise, Marijuana, Generosity, V by David J. Linden
- The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World by David Deutsch
- Code Warriors: NSA’s Codebreakers and the Secret Intelligence War Against the Soviet Union by Stephen Budiansky
- White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide by Carol Anderson
- Trotsky: A Biography by Robert Service