Reading list

This is an incomplete list of books that I’ve read and that I want to keep a record of reading. I read mostly what I enjoy which is: classic fiction/novels and science fiction. From time to time I attempt a challenging book. Almost never a business book. I used to take notes on books I read. I don’t do that anymore. Some books below have notes. Most don’t. May you find what you enjoy reading.

Book	Author	Notable	Greatest Books Rank	Notes
Why Nations Fail	Acemoglu and Robinson	🔭		Summary
Fooled By Randomness	Taleb	🔭		Summary
Metamorphosis	Kafka	🔭	79	Review
Letters from a Stoic	Seneca			Summary
Poor Charlie’s Almanack	Charlie Munger			Summary
7 Powers	Helmer	🔭		Summary
How will you measure your life	Christensen			Summary
Range	Epstein	🔭		Summary
Cribsheet	Oster			Summary
The Art of Statistics	Spiegelhalter			Summary
East of Eden	Steinbeck	⭐️⭐️	204 (?)	Beautiful book. Earth shaking, mountain moving, wonderful book. Meaning for parents and children.
Grapes of Wrath	Steinbeck	⭐️	25	Hard, difficult book to endure but easy to read
Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance	Pirsig
The Little Book of Common Sense Investing	Bogle
Benjamin Franklin: An American Life	Isaacson		If you had to read one book about investing
Brave New World	Huxley	⭐️	49
The Count of Monte Cristo	Dumas	⭐️	85	One of the greatest stories ever written
War and Peace	Tolstoy	⭐️	14	colossal and great
The Adversary	Carrère	⭐️
Seven Brief Lessons on Physics	Rovelli
Flatland	Abbott	🔭
How to Take Smart Notes	Ahrens
The Myth of Sisyphus	Camus
The Stranger	Camus	⭐️	21
Crime And Punishment	Dostoevsky	⭐️	11
Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life	Finnegan	🔭	a joyful book, well written
Radical Candor	Scott	🔭
Never Split the Difference	Voss	🔭
The Hard Thing About Hard Things	Horowitz	🔭
Stoner	John Williams	⭐️		a perfect novel, life is often unremarkable and there’s meaning in it
Dune	Frank Herbert		103	read all 6 books, couldn’t stop reading them
Hyperion	Dan Simmons
Slaughterhouse-Five	Kurt Vonnegut		81
Things Fall Apart	Chinua Achebe		62
The Great Gatsby	F. Scott Fitzgerald	⭐️	2
Buddenbrooks	Thomas Mann		92	life is captured frightening well
The Pearl	John Steinbeck
The Brothers Karamazov	Fyodor Dostoevsky	⭐️	19
Endurance	Alfred Lansing
Lonesome Dove	Larry McMurtry	⭐️		if you like stories and Westerns
Blood Meridian	Cormac McCarthy		215

_{Notable books will have either a 🔭, which means they added new perspective, or a ⭐️, which means that I find the book a work of art worth experiencing or I just really enjoyed reading it.}