Books
My Favorites
Non-fiction
- On Writing by Stephen King
- The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Alex Haley
- The Tender Bar by JR Moehringer
- Passage of Power by Robert Caro
- Working by Robert Caro
- One Buck at a Time by Earl Swift and Macon Brock
Fiction
- Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
- Empire Falls by Richard Russo
- Clash of Kings by George R.R. Martin
- Foundation by Isaac Asimov
- The Dark Forest by Cixin Liu
- Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
Books I’ve read so far
I wrote brief thoughts after each of these books. Looking back, that wasn’t a good idea. I don’t think you can truly judge a book until you’ve read it two to three times. I’m now retifying that mistake. I’ve written a full length blog post about my thoughts after reading On Writing by Stephen King.
- Art of Political Science - 5/10
- Circe - 8/10
- Permanent Record - 5/10
- Crime and Punishment - 8/10
- Killers of the Flower Moon - 5/10
- David and Goliath - 3/10
- Dune Messiah - 5/10
- The Autobiography of Malcolm X - 9/10
- Flowers for Algernon - 9/10
- The Kite Runner - 5/10
- The Everything Store - 6/10
- All the Light we Cannot See - 8/10
- Made in America - 7/10
- Memos from the Chairman - 5/10
- A Gentleman in Moscow - 7/10
- Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? - 5/10
- Open: An Autobiography - 9/10
- Barbarians at the Gate - 8/10
- Snow Crash - 4/10
- Catcher in the Rye - 7/10
- To Kill a Mockingbird - 9/10
- The Perfect Store - 8/10
- Something Incredibly Wonderful Happens - 8/10
- Out of Mao’s Shadow - 8/10
- No Country for Old Men - 7/10
- The Birth of Plenty - 8/10
- The Road - 7/10
- Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation - 6/10
- Softwar - 5/10
- Foundation - 10/10
- Foundation and Empire - 10/10
- Second Foundation - 10/10
- King Leopold’s Ghost - 6/10
- Seven Brief Lessons on Physics - 5/10
- What it Takes: Lessons in the Pursuit of Excellence - 6/10
- Hard Landing - 8/10
- With the Old Breed - 8/10
- Strong Towns - 7/10
- The Gunslinger - 6/10
- Path to Power - 10/10
- Means of Ascent - 10/10
- Man’s Search for Meaning - 6/10
- Moonglow - 5/10
- Kochland - 8/10
- The Dark Forest - 10/10
- Death’s End - 10/10
- Strangers in Ther Own Land - 7/10
- Becoming Steve Jobs - 7/10
- Pelosi - 8/10
- Master of the Senate - 9/10
- Passage of Power - 10/10
- Neuromancer - 6/10
- Private Empire - 8/10
- In Harm’s Way - 7/10
- Secrets of Sand Hill Road - 7/10
- Built from Scratch - 8/10
- Children of Dune - 8/10
- Tribes - 5/10
- Working - 9/10
- Foundation’s Edge - 10/10
- When Genius Fails - 6/10
- Creativity, Inc - 5/10
- The Outlaw Sea - 6/10
- The Gods Themselves - 9/10
- Empire Falls - 9/10
- Only the Paranoid Survive - 8/10
- The Dream Machine - 7/10
- Ender’s Game
- Speaker for the Dead
- Xenocide
- Children of the Mind
- Ender in Exile
- Ender’s Shadow
- Shadow of the Hegemon
- Shadow Puppets
- Shadow of the Giant
- Pachinko
- Writing that works
- The Snowball
- Buffetology
- Upheaval
- The End is Always Near
- One Buck at a Time
- Cryptonomicon
- Nightfall
- Nemesis
- Where the Crawdads Sing
- Remains of the Day
- The Signal and the Noise
- Invent and Wander
- Made in Japan
- McIlhenny’s Gold
- Ride of a lifetime
- The War of the Worlds
- Shadows in Flight