Matt: 39 Books in 2018

Matt: 39 Books in 2018

Here’s what I read in 2018, in chronological order of when I finished it, as promised in my birthday post. I’ve highlighted a few in bold but in general I was pretty satisfied with almost all of my book choices this year. I’ve put a lot more time into the “deciding what to read” phase of things, and have also had some great help from friends there, and have been trying to balance and alternate titles that have stood the test of time and newer au courant books.

1. Hot Seat: The Startup CEO Guidebook by Dan Shapiro
2. The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera (audio)
3. A Higher Standard by Ann E. Dunwoody
4. Extreme Ownership by Jocko Willink and Leif Babin (audio)
5. The Boat by Nam Le
6. Charlotte’s Web by E. B. White
7. Nonviolent Communication by Marshall B. Rosenberg
8. How to Say Goodbye by Wendy Macnaughton
9. When Things Fall Apart by Pema Chödrön
10. Soul of an Octopus by Sy Montgomery
11. Poor Charlie’s Almanack by Charlie Munger and Peter Kaufman
12. Sam the Cat by Matthew Klam
13. The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran
14. The Vegetarian by Han Kang
15. The Paper Menagerie by Ken Liu
16. After On: A Novel of Silicon Valley by Rob Reid
17. The Conquest of Happiness by Bertrand Russell
18. How to Write an Autobiographical Novel by Alexander Chee
19. Ficciones by Jorge Luis Borges
20. Black Box Thinking by Matthew Syed
21. Darkness Visible by William Styron
22. Tin Man by Sarah Winman
23. Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari
24. Let My People Go Surfing by Yvon Chouinard
25. Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
26. Homo Deus by Yuval Noah Harari
27. The Lessons of History by Will & Ariel Durant
28. Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang
29. So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
30. Three Body Problem by Cixin Liu
31. How to Fix a Broken Heart by Guy Winch
32. Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives by David Eagleman
33. Exit West by Mohsin Hamid
34. Tiny Beautiful Things by Cheryl Strayed
35. Farsighted: How We Make the Decisions That Matter the Most by Steven Johnson
36. Severance: A Novel
37. On the Shortness of Life by Seneca
38. It Doesn’t Have to Be Crazy at Work by Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson
39. Notes of a Native Son by James Baldwin

Here’s what I read in 2018, in chronological order of when I finished it, as promised in my birthday post. I’ve highlighted a few in bold but in general I was pretty satisfied with almost all of my book choices this year. I’ve put a lot more time into the “deciding what to read” phase of things, and have also had some great help from friends there, and have been trying to balance and alternate titles that have stood the test of time and newer au courant books. Hot Seat: The Startup CEO Guidebook by Dan ShapiroThe Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera (audio)A Higher Standard by Ann E. DunwoodyExtreme Ownership by Jocko Willink and Leif Babin (audio)The Boat by Nam LeCharlotte’s Web by E. B. WhiteNonviolent Communication by Marshall B. RosenbergHow to Say Goodbye by Wendy MacnaughtonWhen Things Fall Apart by Pema ChödrönSoul of an Octopus by Sy MontgomeryPoor Charlie’s Almanack by Charlie Munger and Peter KaufmanSam the Cat by Matthew KlamThe Prophet by Kahlil GibranThe Vegetarian by Han KangThe Paper Menagerie by Ken LiuAfter On: A Novel of Silicon Valley by Rob ReidThe Conquest of Happiness by Bertrand RussellHow to Write an Autobiographical Novel by Alexander CheeFicciones…

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