I originally posted my notes for each book, but I dreaded note-taking so much that I actually read fewer books.
Next, I tried to just record my favorite quotes… but apparently, I can’t handle that chore either.
Legend
📖 book
🏆 favorite book
🎧 audio-book
⏳ currently reading
🔴 unfinished
⏳ The Infidel and the Professor » Dennis Rasmussen
⏳ Relativity » Albert Einstein
⏳ Creation Rediscovered » Jeffrey Leonard
🏆 Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality » Less Wrong
📖 Free as in Freedom: Richard Stallman and the Free Software Revolution » Sam Williams
🎧 Foundation » Isaac Asimov
🎧 Foundation & Empire » Isaac Asimov
🎧 Second Foundation » Isaac Asimov
📖 The Three-Body Problem » Liu Cixin
📖 The Dark Forest » Liu Cixin
📖 Death’s End » Liu Cixin
📖 Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman » Richard Feynman
📖 The Diamond Age » Neal Stephenson
📖 Snow Crash » Neal Stephenson
📖 Cryptonomicon » Neal Stephenson
📖 Seveneves » Neal Stephenson
📖 Ender’s Game » Orson Scott Card
📖 Ender’s Shadow » Orson Scott Card
📖 Player of Games » Iain Banks
📖 Hydrogen Sonata » Iain Banks
📖 The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy » Douglas Adams
📖 God’s Debris » Scott Adams
🎧 Red Rising » Pierce Brown
🎧 Golden Son » Pierce Brown
📖 The Five Dysfunctions of a Team » Patrick Lencioni
📖 The Boys in the Boat » Daniel James Brown
📖 The Chronicles of Narnia (all of them) » C.S. Lewis
📖 Till We Have Faces » C.S. Lewis
📖 The Alchemist » Paulo Coelho
📖 Harry Potter (all of them) » J.K. Rowling
📖 Harry Potter and the Cursed Child » Rowling, Thorne, & Tiffany
📖 Ready Player One » Ernest Cline
📖 Zero to One » Peter Thiel
📖 Brave New World » Aldous Huxley
📖 The Principles of Scientific Management » Frederick Winslow Taylor
📖 More Than You Know » Michael J. Mauboussin
📖 Lord of the Flies » William Golding
📖 Dune » Frank Herbert
🔴 Dune: Messiah » Frank Herbert
📖 The Innovator’s Dilemma » Clayton Christensen
📖 The Lean Startup » Eric Ries
📖 Of Mice and Men » John Steinbeck
📖 1984 » George Orwell
📖 Einstein, his Life and his Universe » Walter Isaacson
📖 Steve Jobs » Walter Isaacson
📖 Outliers » Malcolm Gladwell
🔴 The Tipping Point » Malcom Gladwell
📖 Rework » Fried & Hansson
📖 Remote » Fried & Hansson
📖 iWoz » Wozniak & Smith
📖 The Mythical Man-Month » Frederick P Brooks, Jr.
📖 Founders at Work » Jessica Livingston
📖 Startup Playbook » Sam Altman
📖 Artemis Fowl (at least 3 of them) » Eoin Colfer
📖 Redwall (at least 5 of them) » Brian Jacques
📖 Young Jedi Knights (at least 5 of them) » Anderson & Moesta
📖 Mars Diaries (all 10 of them) » Sigmund Brouwer
📖 The Lod of the Rings (all 4) » J. R. R. Tolkien
📖 Johnny Tremain » Esther Forbes
Like, didn’t finish:
🔴 Barbarian Days, A Surfing Life » William Finnegan
🔴 Hackers & Painters » Paul Graham
🔴 Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire » Edward Gibbon
🔴 The Prince » Niccolò Machiavelli
🔴 Atlas Shrugged » Ayn Rand
🔴 Crossing the Chasm » Geoffrey Moore
🔴 John Adams » David McCullough
🔴 the Thoughts of Blaise Pascal » C. Kegan Paul
Lukewarm, didn’t finish:
🔴 Antifragile » Nassim Taleb
🔴 The Manager’s Path » Camille Fournier
🔴 Thinking, Fast and Slow » Robert Cialdini
🔴 The Machine that Changed the World » Womack, Jones, & Roos
🔴 Drive » Daniel Pink
🔴 The Score Takes Care of Itself » Bill Walsh
🔴 Will to Power » Frederich Nietzsche
🔴 App Savvy » Ken Yarmosh
🔴 The 4-Hour Work Week » Timothy Ferriss
Dislike, didn’t finish:
🔴 The Deepest Well » Nadine Burke Harris
🔴 The Art of Reading People » Ian Tuhovsky
🔴 Not Everyone Gets a Trophy » Bruce Tulgan
🔴 Sprint » Jake Knapp
🔴 Measure what Matters » John Doerr
🔴 Traction » Gino Wickman
🔴 Discipline Equals Freedom » Jocko Willink
🔴 Disciplined Entrepreneurship » Bill Aulet
🔴 The Art of the Start » Guy Kawasaki
🔴 The Meaning of Marriage » Timothy Keller
Dislike, did finish:
📖 Rich Dad, Poor Dad » Robert Kiyosaki
📖 Becoming a True Spiritual Community » Larry Crabb
I’ve skimmed some programming books:
🔴 The C Programming Language » Kernigham & Ritchie
🔴 Introduction to Algorithms » Thomas H Cormen
🔴 Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs » Abelson & Sussman
🔴 Clean Code » Robert C. Martin
🔴 Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software » Gamma & Helm & Johnson & Vlissides
🔴 Test-Driven iOS Development » Graham Lee
🔴 Code First: Programming Entity Framework » Lerman & Miller
🔴 Programming in Objective-C » Stephen Kochan
🔴 TypeScript Deep Dive » Basarat Ali Syed
🔴 Beginning Programming for Dummies » Wallace Wang
🔴 C++ for Dummies » Cogswell & Mueller
🔴 The Swift Programming Language » Apple
🔴 An Introduction to Programming in Go » Caleb Doxsey