Reading List: 2017

Jon Nguyen
Jon’s Blog
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1 min readMar 24, 2017

This year, I’m trying to read a lot more.

Here is the list of books to track what I’ve been reading, inspired by the lists of others such as Shane Parrish, Ken Norton, and Susan Fowler.

Last updated: 1/7/2018

Currently Reading/Didn’t Finish

  • Inspired by Marty Cagan
  • The Obree Way by Graeme Obree
  • Deep Thinking by Garry Kasparov

2017

  • To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
  • How to Read a Book by Mortimer Adler and Charles Van Doren
  • Waypoint Kangaroo by Curtis C. Chen
  • Growth Hacker Marketing by Ryan Holiday
  • Spark Joy by Marie Kondo
  • Ghachar Ghochar by Viven Shanbhag
  • The Airbnb Story by Leigh Gallagher
  • Just Ride by Grant Petersen
  • The Confessions of Young Nero by Margaret George
  • Tragic Design by Jonathan Shariat and Cynthia Savard Saucier
  • The Art of Cycling by Robert Hurst
  • Managing Oneself by Peter F. Drucker
  • The Apprentice by Jacques Pépin
  • The First 90 Days by Michael D. Watkins
  • The Looking Glass War by John le Carré
  • Designing Together by Dan Brown
  • A Murder of Quality by John le Carré
  • Decode and Conquer by Lewis C. Lin
  • Cracking the PM Interview by Gayle Laakmann McDowell and Jackie Bavaro
  • Call for the Dead by John le Carré
  • The Death of Expertise by Tom Nichols
  • The Mask of Dimitrios by Eric Ambler
  • Jiro Philosophy by Jiro Ono and Masuhiro Yamamoto
  • Why We Fail: Learning from Experience Design Failures by Victor Lombardi [my review]
  • Designing for People by Henry Dreyfuss [my review]
  • The Spy Who Came in From the Cold by John le Carré
  • Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

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