Reading List: 2018

Here are the books that I’m reading, or have read, in 2018. Last year, I did end up reading more than I have in the past, and I’d like to continue building on that this year. For the 2017 one, see Reading List: 2017.

You’ll find links for the books for which I’ve typed up some notes or other thoughts.

Currently Reading

• A House for Mr. Biswas by V. S. Naipaul
• Streetfight: Handbook for an Urban Revolution by Janette Sadik-Khan
• Mindset by Carol S. Dweck

Finished

• Why I Write by George Orwell
• Thinking in Bets by Annie Duke
• Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
• India: A Wounded Civilization by V. S. Naipaul
• Keep the Aspidistra Flying by George Orwell
• How to Speak, How to Listen by Mortimer J. Adler
• On Composition and Improvisation by Larry Fink
• When Coffee and Kale Compete by Alan Klement
• American Witness by R. J. Smith
• literally show me a healthy person by Darcie Wilder
• Camera Lucida by Roland Barthes
• The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli
• Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
• On Grand Strategy by John Lewis Gaddis
• Bad Blood by John Carreyrou
• Talking to Humans by Giff Constable
• The Paradox of Choice by Barry Schwartz
• The Elements of Style by William Strunk Jr. and E.B. White [reread]
• Jobs-to-be-Done: The Handbook by Chris Spiek and Bob Moesta
• Pretentiousness: Why it Matters by Dan Fox
• Jobs to Be Done by Stephen Wunker, Jessica Wattman, David Farber
• The Innovator’s Solution by Clayton Christensen and Michael E. Raynor (recommended)
• Christopher Hitchens: The Last Interview by Christopher Hitchens, Stephen Fry
• Hidden in Plain Sight by Jan Chipchase
• Intercom on Jobs-to-Be-Done by Des Traynor
• Meeting Design by Kevin M. Hoffman (recommended)
• Jobs to Be Done: Theory to Practice by Tony M. Ulwick
• Do the Work! by Steven Pressfield
• A Higher Loyalty by James Comey
• In Praise of Slowness by Carl Honoré
• Good Strategy, Bad Strategy by Richard Rumelt (recommended)
• An Area of Darkness by V. S. Naipaul
• Project Future by Chad Denver Emerson
• The People vs. Democracy by Yascha Mounk
• Eat Bacon, Don’t Jog by Grant Petersen
• Inherit the Wind by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee
• The Checklist Manifesto by Atul Gawande
• A Truck Full of Money by Tracy Kidder
• India: A Million Mutinies Now by V.S. Naipaul