Year of Books

Inspired by Aaron Swartz’s Year of Books.

2018-2019
2020
2021
2022

2018-2019

List of books that I’ve read so far. Most of the books were read during the bad phase (2018/2019) of my life, so I’d like to re-read them again and write a summary.

All Quiet on the Western Front ― Erich Maria Remarque
The Forty Rules of Love ― Elif Shafak
Infidel: My Life ― Ayaan Hirsi Ali
The Strange Death of Europe: Immigration, Identity, Islam. ― Douglas Murray
Emma ― Jane Austen
Train to Pakistan ― Khushwant Singh
Memories, Dreams, Reflections ― Carl Jung
Islam and the Future of Tolerance ― Sam Harris
Man and His Symbols ― Carl Jung
Goodbye to All That ― Robert Graves
Gifts of Imperfection ― Brene Brown
In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto ― Michael Pollan
The Art of War ― Sun Tzu
Education and the Significance of Life ― Krishnamurti
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption ― Laura Hillenbrand
Steve Jobs ― Walter Issacson
The Nazi Doctors: Medical Killing and the Psychology of Genocide ― Robert Jay Lifton
Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime ― John Heilemann, Mark Halperin
All the Light We Cannot See ― Anthony Doerr
The Paypal Wars ― Eric M. Jackson
A Tale Of The Christ ― Ben Hur
Beyond Good and Evil ― Friedrich Nietzsche
The Good Soldier ― Ford Madox Ford*
The Interesting Narrative Of The Life Of Olaudah Equiano ― OEquiano
Siddhartha ― Hermann Hesse*
Tess Of The D’Urbervilles ― Thomas Hardy
The Pilgrim’s Progress ― John Bunyan
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists ― Robert Tressell
The Great Shark Hunt ~ Strange Tales From A Strange Time ― Hunter S. Thompson
Ulysses ― James Joyce

2020

This year has been good if I talk about books. I’ve been extremely curious about various sorts of topics that I’ve interest in, and this curiosity made me read a lot of good books.

Read more ~ A Year of Books - 2020

History

The Last Jew of Treblinka ― Chil Rajchman
Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World ― Jack Weatherford
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus ― Charles C. Mann
The Wonder That Was India ― Arthur Llewellyn Basham
Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics ― Tim Marshall

Classics / Non Fiction

Night ― Elie Wiesel

Philosophy

The Myth of Sisyphus__ ― Albert Camus
Nausea ― Jean-Paul Sartre
Steppenwolf ― Hermann Hesse
What is Called Thinking? ― Martin Heidegger
The Stranger ― Albert Camus
The Wisdom of Insecurity ― Alan Watts
The Book of Disquiet ― Fernando Pessoa
Meditations ― Marcus Aurelius
Critique of Pure Reason ― Immanuel Kant
Who am I? ― Sri Ramana Maharshi
Mortality ― Christopher Hitchens
At the Existentialist Café: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails ― Sarah Bakewell
On Love ― Alain De Botton
The Plague ― Albert Camus
Tao Te Ching ― Lao Tzu
A History of Western Philosophy ― Bertrand Russell
Poetry, Language, Thought ― Martin Heidegger
Being and Time ― Martin Heidegger
On Violence ― Hannah Arendt
Cloud-hidden, Whereabouts Unknown ― Alan W. Watts

Science / Philosophy

The Demon-Haunted World ― Carl Sagan
A Universe From Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing ― Lawrence M. Krauss
The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God ― Carl Sagan
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions ― Thomas S. Kuhn

Religion

God Is Not Great ― Christopher Hitchens
God Delusion ― Richard Dawkins
Outgrowing God ― Richard Dawkins
Muhammad: His Life Based on the Earliest Sources ― Martin Lings
History of God ― Karen Armstrong
The Great Divorce ― C.S. Lewis
God: The Failed Hypothesis: How Science Shows That God Does Not Exist ― Victor J. Stenger
Atheism: The Case Against God ― George H. Smith
Why I am Not a Muslim ― Ibn Warraq
Islam: A Short History ― Karen Armstrong
The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason ― Sam Harris
Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith ― Jon Krakauer

Spirituality / Philosophy

A Search In Secret India ― Paul Brunton
The Dhammapada ― Ananda Maitreya
The Way of Zen ― Alan W. Watts
The Spiritual Teaching of Ramana Maharshi ― Ramana Maharshi

Politics

Manufacturing Consent ― Edward S. Herman, Noam Chomsky
Fascism: A Warning ― Madeleine K. Albright

Classics / Literature / Fiction / Contemporary

Persuasion ― Jane Austen
Something Wicked This Way Comes ― Ray Bradbury
The Sirens of Titan ― Kurt Vonnegut
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close ― Jonathan Safran Foer
Dandelion Wine ― Ray Bradbury
A Passage to India ― E.M. Forster

Psychology

The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion ― Jonathan Haidt
Personality: What Makes You the Way You Are ― Daniel Nettle
Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions ― Dan Ariely
The Science of Evil: On Empathy and the Origins of Cruelty ― Simon Baron-Cohen