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Books

These are most of the books i've read since i started keeping track, plus some from the time before that.

Recomendations are marked with *
Favorites are marked with **

2024

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring - J.R.R. Tolkien

2023

The Comedians - Graham Greene
Dune: Messiah - Frank Herbert
*Lost City of the Monkey God - Douglas Preston (audio)
Slapstick or Lonesome No More - Kurt Vonnegut
*When the Body Says No - Dr Gabor Maté. (Audio)
**Tales of a Shaman’s Apprentice - Mark Plotkin
**Braiding Sweetgrass - Robin Wall Kimmerer (audio)
Island - Aldous Huxley
Parable of the Sower - Octavia Butler
Create Dangerously - Albert Camus
Artist’s Way - Julia Cameron
Insecurity of Wisdom - Alan Watts (Didn’t finish)
Parable of the Sower -Octavia Butler
***Breath - James Nestor (audio)
*Kindred - Octavia Butler
***Breath - James Nestor (audio)(again)
*Dawn - Octavia Butler
*Adulthood Rites - Octavia Butler
*Imago - Octavia Butler
This is How You Lose the Time War - Amal El-Mohar & Max Gladstone The first 15 lives of Harry August - Claire Nort *Mythos - Stephen Fry (audio) *The Hobbit - J. R. R. Tolkien

2022

The Deep Places - Ross Douthat (audio)
Ayurveda - Idiots Guides
15 Ways to Stay Alive - Daphne Gottlieb
Information Doesn’t Want to be Free - Cory Doctorow (audio)
How to Do the Work -Nicole lePera
*The Confidence Game - Maria konnikova (audio)
*The Body: A Guide for Occupants - Bill Bryson
**The Body Keeps the Score - Bessel Van der Kolk (audio)
*The Lion Trackers Guide to Life - Boyd Varty
*Three Body Problem - Cixin Liu
**The Dark Forest - Cixin Liu
Fooled by Randomness - Nassim Taleb (audio)
*Death’s End - Cixin Liu
Night School - Richard Wiseman
How to Keep your Cool - Seneca (audio)
*The Hero with a Thousand Faces - Joseph Campbell
Snow Crash - Neal Stephenson
*The Martian Chronicles - Ray Bradbury
A Wizard of EarthSea- Ursula K Le Guin (audio)
59 Seconds - Richard Wiseman
*Labyrinths - Jorge Luis Borges
Tools of Titans - Tim Ferriss
***Jitterbug Perfume - Tom Robbins

2021

The Life Changing Cagic of Tidying Up - Marie Kondo (audio)
Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald (audio, read by Planet Money)
Sex at Dawn - Christopher Ryan and Cacilda Jethá
**The Biggest Bluff - Maria Konnikova (audio)
Steppenwolf - Herman Hesse
Tribe of Mentors - Tim Ferriss
Anansi Boys - Neil Gaiman (audio)
A Field Guide to Getting Lost - Rebecca Solnit
*The Lessons of History - Ariel & Will Durant
Letter to a Young Scientist - E. O. Wilson
Principles - Ray Dalio (audio)
On the Road - Jack Kerouac
*The Graveyard Book - Neil Gaiman (audio)
*Makers: The New Industrial Revolution - Crhis Anderson
Greenlights - Matthew McConaughey (audio)
Makers - Cory Doctorow
*How to Win Friends and Influence People (in the digital age)(again) -Dale Carnegie
**Dune - Frank Herbert
6 Easy Pieces -Richard Feynman
Zen in the Art of Archery- Eugen Herrigel
Devil in the White City - Erik Larson
**Woke Racism - John McWhorter
*Food Rules - Michael Pollan
A Study in Emerald – Neil Gaiman (audio)
*The Psychedelic Explorer’s Guide - James Fadiman

2020

On Having No Head - Douglas Harding
*Outliers - Gladwell (audio)
*Blink - Gladwell (audio)
**Waking Up - Sam Harris
**Atomic Habits- James Clear (audio)
*What the Dog Saw - Maclom Gladwell (audio)
The Power of Habit - Charles Duhigg (audio)
*S. (The Ship of Thesus) - Doug Dorst & J.j. Abrams
*Grit - Angela Duckworth (audio)
**At Home - Bill Bryson
**4Hr Chef - Tim Ferriss
**Rational Optimist - Matt Ridely(audio)
*Alice in Wonderland and Looking Glass - Lewis Carroll
**Your Money or Your Life (audio) - Vicki Robin
**Sapiens (audio)
Started and quit: Steppenwolf
How to Change Your Mind - Pollan (audio)
*House of Leaves
Food of the Gods- McKenna(audio)
Around the World in 80 Days- Verne
How to Fight- Thich Nat Hahn
**Righteous Mind- Johnathan Haidt (audio)
Four Hour Body - Tim Ferriss
Free Will - Sam Harris
*Thinking Fast and Slow - Daniel Kahneman (audio)
The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
**Essentialism - Greg McKeown (audio)
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck - Mark Manson (audio)
**The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy- Douglas Adams (audio)
How to be Anti Racist - Ibrahim X Kendi (audio)
**A Short History of Nearly Everything- Bill Bryson
**Non-violent Communication - Marshal Rosenberg (audio)
On Writing Well - William Zinsser
**Non-violent communication - Marshal Rosenberg (audio) (again)
The Fermata - Nicholson Baker
The Art of Mindful Living - Thich Nat Hahn (audio)
*A Brief History of Time Travel - Alex Buda

2019

If Upon a Winters Night a Traveler - Ítalo Covilo
Down Under - Bill Byrson
Heart of Darkness- Joseph Conrad
**Frankenstein (1818 texts) - Mary Shelley
—Forgot—
--May on the Farm. No reading done.--
*Money: Master the Game - Tony Robbins
Slouching Towards Bethlehem - Joan Didion
*The Fall of the House of Usher - Edgar Allan Poe
*Mother Night - Vonnegut
*Armageddon in Retrospect- Vonnegut
*Eight Tales of Terror - Edgar Allan Po
*David and Goliath - Gladwell (Audio)
**Talking to Strangers - Gladwell (audio)
**Waking Up - Sam Harris

And beyond...
**Prisoners of Geography by Tim Marshall
The Metamorphosis and other stories by Franz Kafka
**Don Quijote by Miguel Cervantes.
*Man's search for meaning victor Frankel.
The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman.
Nine Stories by JD Salinger
1984 by George Orwell
Animal Farm by George Orwell
Keep the Aspidistra Flying by George or well
Burmese Days by George Orwell
Brave New World by Elder's Huxley
**Slaughterhouse five by Kurt Vonnegut
**Jitterbug Perfume by Tom Robbins
*Ishmael by Daniel Quinn
Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking
The Tao of Pooh by Benjamin Hoff
Of mice and men by John Steinbeck
Tales of Burma by James Patton of Paisley
Socrates, Budha, Confucius, Jesus (4 Greatest Philosophers) by Karl jaspers
Last Night I Dreamed of Peace by Dang Thuy Tram
Our Man in Havana by Graham Greene
**Flatland: a romance of many dimensions by Edwin a Abbot
*How to Win friends and influence people by Dale Carnegie
In the Blink of an Eye by Murch
Rebel without a crew by Robert Rodriguez
Rich dad Poor dad by Robert T Kiyosaki
The Alchemist by paolo coelho
Walden by Henry David throw
Fahrenheit 451 by ray Bradbury
Hollywood by Charles Bukowski
The brief wondrous life of Oscar wow by Junot Diaz
Fidel Castro: the declarations of Havana by Tariq Alley
Salt: A Worldd History by Mark Kurlansky?
Vietnam: the 10,000 day war by Michael Maclear
The sun also rises by Ernest Hemingway
Stalking the elephant kings Christopher Kramer
Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
Zen and the Art of motorcycle maintenance by Robert M person
Artist's Way by Julia Cameron.

That's (mostly) it!