Books

My Favorites

Non-fiction

• On Writing by Stephen King
• The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Alex Haley
• The Tender Bar by JR Moehringer
• Passage of Power by Robert Caro
• Working by Robert Caro
• One Buck at a Time by Earl Swift and Macon Brock

Fiction

• Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
• Empire Falls by Richard Russo
• Clash of Kings by George R.R. Martin
• Foundation by Isaac Asimov
• The Dark Forest by Cixin Liu
• Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro

Books I’ve read so far

I wrote brief thoughts after each of these books. Looking back, that wasn’t a good idea. I don’t think you can truly judge a book until you’ve read it two to three times. I’m now retifying that mistake. I’ve written a full length blog post about my thoughts after reading On Writing by Stephen King.

• Art of Political Science - 5/10
• Circe - 8/10
• Permanent Record - 5/10
• Crime and Punishment - 8/10
• Killers of the Flower Moon - 5/10
• David and Goliath - 3/10
• Dune Messiah - 5/10
• The Autobiography of Malcolm X - 9/10
• Flowers for Algernon - 9/10
• The Kite Runner - 5/10
• The Everything Store - 6/10
• All the Light we Cannot See - 8/10
• Made in America - 7/10
• Memos from the Chairman - 5/10
• A Gentleman in Moscow - 7/10
• Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? - 5/10
• Open: An Autobiography - 9/10
• Barbarians at the Gate - 8/10
• Snow Crash - 4/10
• Catcher in the Rye - 7/10
• To Kill a Mockingbird - 9/10
• The Perfect Store - 8/10
• Something Incredibly Wonderful Happens - 8/10
• Out of Mao’s Shadow - 8/10
• No Country for Old Men - 7/10
• The Birth of Plenty - 8/10
• The Road - 7/10
• Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation - 6/10
• Softwar - 5/10
• Foundation - 10/10
• Foundation and Empire - 10/10
• Second Foundation - 10/10
• King Leopold’s Ghost - 6/10
• Seven Brief Lessons on Physics - 5/10
• What it Takes: Lessons in the Pursuit of Excellence - 6/10
• Hard Landing - 8/10
• With the Old Breed - 8/10
• Strong Towns - 7/10
• The Gunslinger - 6/10
• Path to Power - 10/10
• Means of Ascent - 10/10
• Man’s Search for Meaning - 6/10
• Moonglow - 5/10
• Kochland - 8/10
• The Dark Forest - 10/10
• Death’s End - 10/10
• Strangers in Ther Own Land - 7/10
• Becoming Steve Jobs - 7/10
• Pelosi - 8/10
• Master of the Senate - 9/10
• Passage of Power - 10/10
• Neuromancer - 6/10
• Private Empire - 8/10
• In Harm’s Way - 7/10
• Secrets of Sand Hill Road - 7/10
• Built from Scratch - 8/10
• Children of Dune - 8/10
• Tribes - 5/10
• Working - 9/10
• Foundation’s Edge - 10/10
• When Genius Fails - 6/10
• Creativity, Inc - 5/10
• The Outlaw Sea - 6/10
• The Gods Themselves - 9/10
• Empire Falls - 9/10
• Only the Paranoid Survive - 8/10
• The Dream Machine - 7/10
• Ender’s Game
• Speaker for the Dead
• Xenocide
• Children of the Mind
• Ender in Exile
• Ender’s Shadow
• Shadow of the Hegemon
• Shadow Puppets
• Shadow of the Giant
• Pachinko
• Writing that works
• The Snowball
• Buffetology
• Upheaval
• The End is Always Near
• One Buck at a Time
• Cryptonomicon
• Nightfall
• Nemesis
• Where the Crawdads Sing
• Remains of the Day
• The Signal and the Noise
• Invent and Wander
• Made in Japan
• McIlhenny’s Gold
• Ride of a lifetime
• The War of the Worlds
• Shadows in Flight