Reading List: 2018
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2 min readJan 7, 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