Yoni’s Reading List 2018
“If you don’t like to read, you haven’t found the right book.” — J.K. Rowling
Marco Polo Didn’t Go There: Stories and Revelations from One Decade as a Postmodern Travel Writer by Rolf Potts
The Hero with a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell
As a Man Thinketh by James Allen
The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress by Robert A. Heinlein
Terminal Connection by Dan Needles
Tribe of Mentors: Short Life Advice from the Best in the World by Timothy Ferriss
Origin: A Novel by Dan Brown
The Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World: from Marathon to Waterloo by Edward Shepherd Creasy
The Master Key System by Charles F. Haanel and Anthony R. Michalski
Boomerang: Travels in the New Third World by Michael Lewis
The Power by Naomi Alderman
The Book of Strange New Things by Michael Faber
The VR Book: Human-Centered Design for Virtual Reality by Jason Jerald
Gunmetal Gray by Mark Greaney
The Lost City of the Monkey God: A True Story by Douglas Preston
Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress by Steven Pinker
Neverwhere: A Novel by Neil Gaiman
The Gene: An Intimate History by Siddhartha Mukherjee
The Arabs: A History by Eugene Rogan
A Legacy of Spies: A Novel by John le Carré
The Quantum Spy by David Ignatius
Borne: A Novel by Jeff VanderMeer
The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark by Carl Sagan
Artemis: A Novel by Andy Weir
Experience on Demand: What Virtual Reality Is, How It Works, and What It Can Do by Jeremy Bailenson
Red Sparrow: A Novel by Jason Matthews
What Color Is Your Parachute? 2017: A Practical Manual for Job-Hunters and Career-Changers by Richard N. Bolles
Homesick for Another World: Stories by Ottessa Moshfegh
Stumbling on Happiness by Daniel Gilbert
The Future of Humanity: Terraforming Mars, Interstellar Travel, Immortality, and Our Destiny Beyond Earth by Michio Kaku
Make — The Bootstrapper’s Handbook: Learn to Bootstrap Profitable Startups the Indie Way by Pieter Levels
Priceless: How I Went Undercover to Rescue the World’s Stolen Treasures by Robert K. Wittman and John Shiffman
Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative by Austin Kleon
Leonardo da Vinci by Walter Isaacson
Exit West: A Novel by Mohsin Hamid
A Burglar’s Guide to the City by Geoff Manaugh
The Lessons of History by Will Durant
Dawn of the New Everything: Encounters with Reality and Virtual Reality by Jaron Lanier
A History of Western Philosophy by Bertrand Russell
The Seventh Sense: Power, Fortune, and Survival in the Age of Networks by Joshua Cooper Ramo
The Choose Yourself Guide To Wealth by James Altucher
Universal Principles of Design by William Lidwell, Kritina Holden, and Jill Butler
Energy and Civilization: A History by Vaclav Smil
Journey to Star Wars: The Last Jedi The Legends of Luke Skywalker by Ken Liu
You Are Not So Smart: Why You Have Too Many Friends on Facebook, Why Your Memory Is Mostly Fiction, and 46 Other Ways You’re Deluding Yourself by David McRaney
Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice by Shunryu Suzuki
Escape from Camp 14: One Man’s Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West by Blaine Harden
Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives by David Eagleman
The Book of Joan: A Novel by Lidia Yuknavitch
Cockpit Confidential: Everything You Need to Know About Air Travel: Questions, Answers, and Reflections by Patrick Smith
The Beggar King and the Secret of Happiness: A True Story by Joel ben Izzy
Who’s Your City?: How the Creative Economy Is Making Where to Live the Most Important Decision of Your Life by Richard Florida
Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell
The Master & Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
Spy Secrets That Can Save Your Life: A Former CIA Officer Reveals Safety and Survival Techniques to Keep You and Your Family Protected by Jason Hanson
We Learn Nothing: Essays and Cartoons by Tim Kreider
The Bonfire of the Vanities: A Novel by Tom Wolfe
The Rise of the Creative Class — Revisited: Revised and Expanded by Richard Florida
The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu
Tell the Machine Goodnight: A Novel by Katie Williams
The Collapsing Empire (The Interdependency) by John Scalzi
Shadow Run by Michael Miller and AdriAnne Strickland
Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
How Will You Measure Your Life? by Clayton M. Christensen, James Allworth, Karen Dillon
Decisive: How to Make Better Choices in Life and Work by Chip Heath & Dan Heath
Infidel by Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah
Tom Clancy Line of Sight (A Jack Ryan Jr. Novel) by Mike Mad
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America by Erik Larson
Star Wars: Ahsoka by E. K. Johnston
Timeline: A Novel by Michael Crichton
Vanguard (The Genesis Fleet) by Jack Campbell
The Consuming Fire (The Interdependency) by John Scalzi
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann
The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
The ONE Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results by Gary Keller and Jay Papasan
The Art of Worldly Wisdom by Baltasar Gracián
Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration by Ed Catmull and Amy Wallace
Tom Clancy Oath of Office (A Jack Ryan Novel) by Marc Cameron
Smartcuts: How Hackers, Innovators, and Icons Accelerate Success by Shane Snow
The Oresteia: Agamemnon; The Libation Bearers; The Eumenides by Aeschylus
Joker One: A Marine Platoon’s Story of Courage, Leadership, and Brotherhood by Donovan Campbell
Ham on Rye: A Novel by Charles Bukowski
From a Certain Point of View (Star Wars) by Renée Ahdieh, Meg Cabot, John Jackson Miller, Nnedi Okorafor, and Sabaa Tahir
Thrawn: Alliances (Star Wars) by Timothy Zahn
Whiplash: How to Survive Our Faster Future by Joi Ito and Jeff Howe
The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster
The President Is Missing: A Novel by James Patterson and Bill Clinton
The Sea Wolves: A History of the Vikings by Lars Brownworth
Sea Power: The History and Geopolitics of the World’s Oceans by James Stavridis
The Road to learn React: Your journey to master plain yet pragmatic React.js by Robin Wieruch
The Bulletproof Diet: Lose up to a Pound a Day, Reclaim Energy and Focus, Upgrade Your Life by Dave Asprey
The World as It Is: A Memoir of the Obama White House by Ben Rhodes
Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence by Max Tegmark
Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman by Robert K. Massie
The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
The Red Circle: My Life in the Navy SEAL Sniper Corps and How I Trained America’s Deadliest Marksmen by Brandon Webb and John David Mann
A History of London in 100 Places by David Long
U.S. Taxes for Worldly Americans: The Traveling Expat’s Guide to Living, Working, and Staying Tax Compliant Abroad by Olivier Wagner
Crossing the Chasm: Marketing and Selling High-Tech Products to Mainstream Customers by Geoffrey A. Moore
The Outsider: My Life in Intrigue by Frederick Forsyth
The Travelers: A Novel by Chris Pavone
Then We Take Berlin: A Novel by John Lawton
The Fall of Gondolin by J.R.R. Tolkien
21 Lessons for the 21st Century by Yuval Noah Harari
Trespassing Across America: One Man’s Epic, Never-Done-Before (and Sort of Illegal) Hike Across the Heartland by Ken Ilgunas
Gone Bamboo by Anthony Bourdain
Hand to Mouth: Living in Bootstrap America by Linda Tirado
Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramhansa Yogananda
The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals by Michael Pollan
Star Wars and Philosophy: More Powerful than You Can Possibly Imagine by Kevin S. Decker and Jason T. Eberl
From Silk to Silicon: The Story of Globalization Through Ten Extraordinary Lives by Jeffrey E. Garten
Celtic Tales: Fairy Tales and Stories of Enchantment from Ireland, Scotland, Brittany, and Wales by Kate Forrester
The Leading Brain: Neuroscience Hacks to Work Smarter, Better, Happier by Friederike Fabritius and Hans W. Hagemann
The Sibley Guide to Trees by David Allen Sibley
Hypercapitalism: The Modern Economy, Its Values, and How to Change Them by Larry Gonick and Tim Kasser
