Reading List 2016
“The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest people of the past centuries.” — Descartes
The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury
Tom Clancy Commander in Chief: A Jack Ryan Novel by Mark Greaney
The Golem and the Jinni by Helene Wecker
Aftermath: Journey to Star Wars: The Force Awakens by Chuck Wendig
Candide by Voltaire
Lights Out: A Cyber Attack, A Nation Unprepared, Surviving the Aftermath by Ted Koppel
The Alchemy of Air: A Jewish Genius, a Doomed Tycoon, and the Scientific Discovery That Fed the World but Fueled the Rise of Hitler by Thomas Hager
Not Impossible: The Art and Joy of Doing What Couldn’t Be Done by Mick Ebeling
Pirate Hunters: Treasure, Obsession, and the Search for a Legendary Pirate Ship by Robert Kurson
The Tools: 5 Tools to Help You Find Courage, Creativity, and Willpower — and Inspire You to Live Life in Forward Motion by by Phil Stutz, Barry Michels
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand
Starship Troopers by Robert A. Heinlein
How to Live: Or A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer by Sarah Bakewell
Ancillary Mercy (Imperial Radch) by Ann Leckie
Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World Paperback by Jack Weatherford
The School of Greatness: A Real-World Guide to Living Bigger, Loving Deeper, and Leaving a Legacy by Lewis Howes
The Truth: An Uncomfortable Book About Relationships by Neil Strauss
The Moral Animal: Why We Are, the Way We Are: The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology by Robert Wright
Windswept: Windswept Book One by Adam Rakunas
The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt’s Darkest Journey by Candice Millard
The Player of Games by Iain M. Banks
Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters by Matt Ridley
The Little Book of Talent: 52 Tips for Improving Your Skills by Daniel Coyle
The Monkey King’s Amazing Adventure: A Journey to the West in Search of Enlightenment by Wu Cheng’en
Dealing with China: An Insider Unmasks the New Economic Superpower by Henry M. Paulson
Measure of My Days by Florida Scott-Maxwell
Neuromancer by William Gibson
Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr. by Ron Chernow
Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened by Allie Brosh
Connectography: Mapping the Future of Global Civilization by Parag Khanna
Gates of Fire: An Epic Novel of the Battle of Thermopylae Paperback by Steven Pressfield
Armada: A novel by Ernest Cline
Independent People by Halldor Laxness
The Industries of the Future by Alec Ross
Legends of the Fall by Jim Harrison
The Plot Against America by Philip Roth
The Big Sleep: A Novel by Raymond Chandler and Richard Amsel
Originals: How Nonconformists Move the World by Adam Grant
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography by Booker T. Washington
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love by Raymond Carver
The Freelancer’s Bible: Everything You Need to Know to Have the Career of Your Dreams On Your Terms by Sara Horowitz and Toni Sciarra Poynter
Learning Virtual Reality: Developing Immersive Experiences and Applications for Desktop, Web, and Mobile by Tony Parisi
King Solomon’s Mines by Henry Rider Haggard
Theodore Boone: The Fugitive by John Grisham
The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival by John Vaillant
Tom Clancy’s Op-Center: Into the Fire by Dick Couch
Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future by Martin Ford
The Rise and Fall of Nations: Forces of Change in the Post-Crisis World by Ruchir Sharma
How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life by Scott Adams
Tom Clancy Duty and Honor by Grant Blackwood
Destinations of a Lifetime: 225 of the World’s Most Amazing Places by National Geographic
A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
Dune by Frank Herbert
Battlefront: Twilight Company (Star Wars) by Alexander Freed
The Force Awakens The Weapon of a Jedi: A Luke Skywalker Adventure by Jason Fry
The Force Awakens Smuggler’s Run: A Han Solo Adventure by Greg Rucka
Bloodline (Star Wars) by Claudia Gray
Life Debt: Aftermath (Star Wars) by Chuck Wendig
Before the Awakening (Star Wars) by Greg Rucka
Shattered Empire (Star Wars) by Greg Rucka
Life Debt: Aftermath (Star Wars) by Chuck Wendig
The Sandman Vol. 1: Preludes & Nocturnes by Neil Gaiman
The Sandman, Vol. 3: Dream Country by Neil Gaiman
The Sandman Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones by Neil Gaiman
The Sandman Vol. 10: The Wake by Neil Gaiman
The Sandman: Overture by Neil Gaiman
The Sandman: The Dream Hunters by Neil Gaiman
Death by Neil Gaiman
Anything You Want: 40 Lessons for a New Kind of Entrepreneur by Derek Sivers
Into the Void: Star Wars Legends by Tim Lebbon
Mercy Kill: Star Wars Legends by Aaron Allston
The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child by J.K. Rowling
Plutarch’s Roman Lives by Plutarch
This Boy’s Life: A Memoir by Tobias Wolff
The Book of Five Rings by Miyamoto Musashi
The Illuminated Rumi by Jalal Al-Din Rumi
History of the Jews by Abram Leon Sachar
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold by John le Carré
Born for This: How to Find the Work You Were Meant to Do by Chris Guillebeau
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World: A Novel by Haruki Murakami
The Habitual Hustler: Daily Habits of 50 Self-Employed Entrepreneurs by Corey Breier
#AskGaryVee: One Entrepreneur’s Take on Leadership, Social Media, and Self-Awareness by Gary Vaynerchuk
