Books I read in 2018
Of all the books I read in 2018, here are my favorites :
Fiction: Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is a heart-wrenching story of the horrors lived by the Igbo tribe during the Nigerian Civil War in the late 1960s.
Non-Fiction: Never Eat Alone by Keith Ferrazzi is probably the only book you need to read on networking and relationship-based leadership. It is both thought and action provoking.
Memoirs: What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami is a profound commentary on the habit of running. Every long-distance runner will find a deep connection with the experiences Murakami shares in this surreal autobiography.
Reflections
In 2018, reading books no longer remained a hobby for me — it has become a part of my identity.
Lego, ergo sum. I read, there I am.
In 2018, not only did I ramp up my reading goals to 35 books in a year, but also I started experimenting with books, genres, and writing styles. In 2017, I had decided to build a community around me who can help me with book selections. As a result, I have picked up books that I, probably, would not have read otherwise.
Reading in 2018 was a fulfilling experience. Here is the complete list of books I dated
- Born to Run by Christopher McDougall
- Prescription of Life by Medha Deshmukh Bhaskaran
- Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
- Dubliners by James Joyce
- Modernism: The Lure of Heresy — From Baudelaire to Beckett and Beyond by Peter Gay
- Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth and Happiness by Richard H Thaler and Cass R Sunstein
- Johnathon Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach
- Less by Andrew Sean Greer
- Never Eat Alone by Keith Ferrazzi
- All Quiet On The Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
- The Master Algorithm by Pedro Domingos
- Negotiating the Nonnegotiable by Daniel Shapiro
- The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
- Games People Play: The basic handbook of transactional analysis by Eric Berne MD
- Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind by Shunryu Suzuki
- Men Without Women by Ernest Hemingway
- Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions (by a Square) by Edwin A Abbott
- Dear Ijeawele or a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions by
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - Work Rules: Insights from Inside Google That Will Transform How You Live and lead by Lazlo Bock
- Animal Farm by George Orwell
- Thoughtfully Ruthless by Val Wright
- Only The Paranoid Survive by Andrew Grove
- His Bloody Project by Graeme Macrae Burnet
- The Richest Man in Babylon by George S. Clason
- Sprint by Jake Knapp
- Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari
- When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing by Daniel Pink
- A Monk’s Guide to a Clean House and Mind by Shoukei Matsumoto
- Blue Ocean Strategy, Expanded Edition: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make the Competition Irrelevant by W. Chan Kim and Renee Mauborgne
- 50 Greatest Short Stories by Terry O’Brien
- Civilization and Its Discontent by Sigmund Freud
- Logicomix: An epic search for truth by Apostolos Doxiadia and Christos H. Papadimitriou
- A Field Guide to Lies and Statistics by Daniel Levitin
- The Wanderer by Khalil Gibran
- What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami
