2017 Reading List
Lessons Learned from the 2016 Reading List Project
See last year’s reading list project page for more details.
For 2017, I hoped to select a list of books with more complex content, still with the aim of covering as wide a range of categories as I can, but a smaller total number.
I am carrying over 3 books from 2016 - No Ordinary Time, Sapiens and Open by Andre Agassi. Usually, if I haven’t finished a book in one continuous session, it gets less and less likely that I will finish the book. That said, I do plan to make another serious attempt at finishing the books. Stay tuned!
Index
History:
- Published: Mar 11, 2017
Books Read in 2017
Nothing to see here yet…
Books I'm still reading, carried over from 2016
No ordinary time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt : the home front in World War II by Doris Kearns Goodwin (1994)
Category: Biographies & Memoirs > Presidents
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari (2011)
Category: Anthropology
Open by Andre Agassi (2009)
Category: Biographies & Memoirs > Modern
Reading List for 2017
1. Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion by Robert B. Cialdini (1984)
Category: Business & Money > Consumer Behavior
2. Overwatch: A Thriller (The Logan West Thrillers) by Matthew Betley (2016)
Category: Literary Fiction > Action & Adventure
3. Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin (2005)
Category: Politics & Social Sciences > Civil War
4. Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt by Michael Lewis (2014)
Category: Business & Money > Fiction
5. The Art of Language Invention: From Horse-Lords to Dark Elves, the Words Behind World-Building by David J. Peterson (2015)
Category: Foreign Languages
6. Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson (2014)
Category: Law
7. Data Smart: Using Data Science to Transform Information into Insight by John W. Foreman (2013)
Category: Computers & Technology > Databases & Big Data > Data Mining
8. The Underground Railroad: A Novel by Colson Whitehead (2016)
Category: Literary Fiction > African American
9. Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman (2010)
Category: Cognitive Psychology
10. Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time by Dava Sobel (2010)
Category: Engineering & Transportation
Barack Obama's Recommended Books
See full article here
11. The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu et al. (2007)
Category: Science Fiction > Hard Science Fiction
12. All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr (2014)
Category: Literature & Fiction > Genre Fiction > Historical
13. Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001 by Steve Coll (2004)
Category: Politics & Government > Specific Topics > Terrorism
Bill Gates's Favorite Books of 2016
See full article here
14. The Gene: An Intimate History by Siddhartha Mukherjee (2016)
Category: Medicine > Basic Sciences > Genetics
Bill Gates’s review of The Gene: An Intimate History
15. The Grid: The Fraying Wires Between Americans and Our Energy Future by Gretchen Bakke (2016)
Category: Engineering > Energy Production & Extraction > Electric
Read the main My Favorite Books of 2016 article for a short note from Bill Gates about the book.
ZHOU Yunxiu
Not so smart a girl