2019 Book List
Here is the list of books I’ve read during the year 2019.
- A Feast of Science: Intriguing Morsels from the Science of Everyday Life by Dr. Joe Schwarcz
- How Not To Worry: The Remarkable Truth of How a Small Change Can Help You Stress Less and Enjoy Life by Paul McGee
- How Music Works by David Byrne
- Walden by Henry David Thoreau
- North Korea Undercover: Inside the World’s Most Secret State by John Sweeney
- The Angel: The Egyptian Spy Who Saved Israel by Uri Bar-Joseph
- Self Comes to Mind: Constructing the Conscious Brain by Antonio Damasio
- How Do We Look: The Body, the Divine, and the Question of Civilization by Mary Beard
- This Will Make You Smarter: New Scientific Concepts to Improve Your Thinking by John Brockman
- The Diary of a Young Girl Definitive Edition by Anne Frank
- The Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron by Bethany McLean, Peter Elkind
- Always Look on the Bright Side of Life: A Sortabiography by Eric Idle
- The Scientific American Book of Mathematical Puzzles by Martin Gardner
- The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil by Philip Zimbardo
- Getting Opera: A Guide for the Cultured but Confused by Matt Dobkin
- Beyond Boundaries: The New Neuroscience of Connecting Brains with Machines—and How It Will Change by Miguel Nicolelis
- The Odyssey by Homer
- Mao’s Great Famine: The History of China’s Most Devastating Catastrophe by Frank Dikötter
- Flirting with French: How a Language Charmed Me, Seduced Me, and Nearly Broke My Heart by William Alexander
- Nuremberg Trial by Ann Tusa, John Tusa
- Twelve Angry Men by Reginald Rose
- Stupid Sex by Ross Petras, Kathryn Petras
- The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution by Walter Isaacson
- The Consolations of Philosophy by Alain De Botton
- What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions by Randall Munroe
- An Armenian Sketchbook by Vasily Grossman
- Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right by Jane Mayer
- Faster, Higher, Farther: How One of the World’s Largest Automakers Committed a Massive and Stunning by Jack Ewing
- The Virgin Way: Everything I Know About Leadership by Richard Branson
- The Fifth Risk: Undoing Democracy by Michael Lewis
- In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
- Think Like a Freak: The Authors of Freakonomics Offer to Retrain Your Brain by Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J Dubner
- Heart of Darkness and Other Tales by Joseph Conrad
- Leaders Eat Last: Why Some Teams Pull Together and Others Don’t by Simon Sinek
- Slack: Getting Past Burnout, Busywork, and the Myth of Total Efficiency by Tom DeMarco
- Side Effects by Woody Allen
- Writing Great Short Stories by Margaret Lucke
- In Pursuit of the Traveling Salesman: Mathematics at the Limits of Computation by William J. Cook
- The Snowden Files: The Inside Story of the World’s Most Wanted Man by Luke Harding
- Blind Man’s Bluff: The Untold Story of American Submarine Espionage by Sherry Sontag, Christopher Drew
- Jesus Before the Gospels: How the Earliest Christians Remembered, Changed, and Invented Their Storie by Bart D. Ehrman
- The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia by Masha Gessen
- Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise by Anders Ericsson, Robert Pool
- The Road to Serfdom: Text and Documents by Hayek
- Elephants on Acid: And Other Bizarre Experiments by Alex Boese
- Warren Buffett’s Management Secrets: Proven Tools for Personal and Business Success by Mary Buffett, David Clark
- F*ck Whales: Also Families, Poetry, Folksy Wisdom and You by Maddox
- Fukushima: The Story of a Nuclear Disaster by David Lochbaum, Edwin Lyman, Susan Q. Stranahan
- A Random Walk Down Wall Street: The Time-Tested Strategy for Successful Investing by Burton G. Malkiel
- The Riddle of the Labyrinth: The Quest to Crack an Ancient Code by Margalit Fox
- Greek to Me: Adventures of the Comma Queen by Mary Norris