2021 Reading List

Check out my 2020 reading list

Spirituality

• Awareness - Anthony De Mello
• Mere Christanity - CS Lewis
• When Things Fall Apart - Pema Chodron

Science Fiction

• Foundation - Isaac Asimov
• The Three Body Problem - Cixin Liu
• The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood

Art and Creativity

• Understanding Comics - Scott McCloud
• Impro - Keith Johnston
• Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid - Douglas Holfstadter
• The Design of Everyday Things - Donald Norman
• Nobody Wants to Read Your Sh*t - Steven Pressfield

Psychology

• Man and His Symbols - Carl Jung
• The Power of Myth - Joseph Campbell
• The Elephant in the Brain - Kevin Simler and Robin Hanson
• The Psychology of Money - Morgan Housel

Philosophy

• Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind - Shunryu Suzuki

History

• Uncle Tom’s Cabin - Harriet Beecher Stowe
• Common Sense - Thomas Paine
• American Moonshot - Douglas Brinkley
• Why Nations Fail - Daron Acemoğlu and James A. Robinson

Memoirs and Biographies

• Swimming Across - Andy Grove
• The Singapore Story - Lee Kuan Yew
• Eat a Peach - David Chang
• Leonardo Da Vinci - Walter Isaacson

Science and Technology

• The First 3 Minutes - Steven Weinberg
• Faraday, Maxwell, and the Electromagnetic Field: How Two Men Revolutionized Physics - Nancy Forbes and Basil Mahon
• Man-Computer Symbiosis - J.C.R. Licklider

Fiction

• The Sandman - Neil Gaiman
• Beloved - Toni Morrison
• Einstein’s Dreams - Alan Lightman
• The Paper Menagerie and Other Short Stories - Ken Liu

Poetry

• The Essential Rumi
• Leaves of Grass - Walt Whitman
• Collected Poems - Sylvia Plath

Other

• Vagabonding - Rolf Potts
• Instead of Education - John Holt
• A Field Guide to Getting Lost - Rebecca Solnit