Bookshelf
Table of Contents
Summaries / Notes:
- Superforecasting - The Art & Science of Prediction ★★★★★
- A Calendar of Wisdom - Daily Thoughts to Nourish the Soul ★★★★★
- 99 Bottles of OOP - A Practical Guide to Object Oriented Design ★★★★★
- The Art of Worldly Wisdom - A Pocket Oracle
- Made to Stick - Why some ideas take hold and others come unstuck ★★★★
All Completed:
(years far back are mostly estimates)
| Year Finished | Book | Author | Genre | Stars | Series |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | The Green Mile | Stephen King | Dark Fantasy | ||
| 2024 #8 | The Android’s Dream | John Scalzi | Science Fiction | ★★★★ | |
| 2024 #7 | God Emperor of Dune | Frank Herbert | Science Fiction | ★★★★ | Dune # 4 |
| 2024 #6 | Amp It Up | Frank Slootman | Self-Help | ★★★★★ | |
| 2024 #5 | The Culture Code: The Secrets of Highly Successful Groups | Daniel Coyle | Self-Help | ★★★★ | |
| 2024 #4 | The New One Minute Manager | Spencer Johnson | Self-Help | ★★★★★ | |
| 2024 #3 | Understanding Power | Noam Chomsky | Reference | ★★★★★ | |
| 2024 #2 | The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe | C. S. Lewis | Fantasy | ★★★★ | The Chronicles of Narnia #2 |
| 2024 #1 | Linchpin: Are You Indispensable? | Seth Godin | Self-Help | ★★★★ | |
| 2017 | My Favorite Universe | Neil deGrasse Tyson | Science | ★★★★★ | |
| 2016 | Scrum | Jeff Sutherland, J.J. Sutherland | Business | ★★★★★ | |
| 2017 | Elon Musk | Ashlee Vance | Biography | ★★★★★ | |
| 2023 #8 | Piranesi | Susanna Clarke | Fantasy | ★★★★★ | |
| 2023 #7 | The Chump to Champ Collection | Andrew Hudson | Sports | ★★★ | |
| 2023 #6 | Great Ideas of Philosophy | Daniel N. Robinson | Philosophy | ★★★★ | |
| 2002 | The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket | Edgar Allan Poe | Fiction | ★★★★ | |
| 2023 #5 | Why You Suck at Boxing | Andrew Hudson | Sports | ★★★★★ | |
| 2022 | The Life We Bury | Allen Esken | Fiction | ★★★★ | |
| 2021 | Non Violent Communication | Marshall Rosenberg | Self-Help | ★★★★ | |
| 2021 | Verbal Judo | George J. Thompson, Jerry B. Jenkins | Self-Help | ★★★★★ | |
| 2001 | The Old Man and the Sea | Ernest Hemingway | Fiction | ★★★★★ | |
| 1998 | The Late Mattia Pascal | Luigi Pirandello | Fiction | ★★★★ | |
| 2023 #4 | Influence: Mastering Life’s Most Powerful Skill | Kenneth G. Brown | Self-Help | ★★★★★ | |
| 2002 | A Simple Story | Leonardo Sciascia | Fiction | ★★★★★ | |
| 2003 | The Historian | Elizabeth Kostova | Fiction | ★★★★★ | |
| 2006 | Spirits | Stefano Benni | Fiction | ★★ | |
| 2022 #7 | No Country for Old Men | Cormac McCarthy | Fiction | ★★★★ | |
| 2006 | The Story of a Seagull and the Cat Who Taught Her to Fly | Luis Sepúlveda | Children | ★★★★ | |
| 2015 | Predictably Irrational | Dan Ariely | Popular Psychology | ★★★★★ | |
| 2007 | The Scapegoat | Daniel Pennac | Fiction | ★★★★ | Malaussène #1 |
| 2005 | The Dictator and the Hammock | Daniel Pennac | Fiction | ★★★★ | |
| 2001 | Veronika Decides to Die | Paulo Coelho | Fiction | ★★★★ | |
| 2006 | Oceano Mare | Alessandro Baricco | Fiction | ★★★★ | |
| 2001 | Cronache di Poveri Amanti | Vasco Pratolini | Fiction | ★★★★ | |
| 1998 | Metello | Vasco Pratolini | Fiction | ★★★★ | |
| 2018 #10 | Superforecasting | Philip Tetlock and Dan Gardner | Popular Science | ★★★★ | |
| 2023 #3 | Moby Dick | Herman Melville | Fiction | ★★★★★ | |
| 2022 #6 | Children of Dune | Frank Herbert | Science Fiction | ★★★★★ | Dune #3 |
| 2023 #2 | Flowers for Algernon | Daniel Keyes | Science Fiction | ★★★★★ | |
| 2023 #1 | Solaris | Stanisław Lem | Science Fiction | ★★★ | |
| 2022 #5 | Dune Messia | Frank Herbert | Science Fiction | ★★★★★ | Dune #2 |
| 2022 #4 | Dune | Frank Herbert | Science Fiction | ★★★★★ | Dune #1 |
| 2022 #3 | The Godfather | Mario Puzo | Crime | ★★★★ | |
| 2022 #2 | The Three Body Problem | Cixin Liu | Science Fiction | ★★★★ 1 | Remembrance of Earth’s Past Trilogy #1 |
| 2022 #1 | The Business of Platforms | Michael A. Cusumano, Annabelle Gawer, David B. Yoffie | Business | ★★★★ | |
| 2021 #5 | 21 Lessons for the 21st Century | Yuval Noah Harari | History | ★★★★★ | |
| 2021 #4 | Powerful | Patty McCord | Business | ★★★ | |
| 2021 #3 | Lolita | Vladimir Nabokov | Fiction | ★★★★★ | |
| 2020 #5 | Les Liaisons dangereuses | Pierre Choderlos de Laclos | Fiction | ★★★ | |
| 2021 #2 | The Dark Tower | Stephen King | Fantasy | ★★★★ | The Dark Tower #7 |
| 2021 #1 | Song of Susannah | Stephen King | Fantasy | ★★★ | The Dark Tower #6 |
| 2020 #4 | Wolves of the Calla | Stephen King | Fantasy | ★★★ | The Dark Tower #5 |
| 2020 #3 | Homo Deus | Yuval Noah Harari | History | ★★★★ | |
| 2020 #2 | Change Your Questions, Change Your Life | Marilee G. Adams PhD | Self-Help | ★★★★ | |
| 2020 #1 | Sapiens | Yuval Noah Harari | History | ★★★★ | |
| 2019 #7 | 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos | Jordan B. Peterson | Self-Help | ★★★★ | |
| 2019 #6 | A Short History of Nearly Everything | Bill Bryson | Science | ||
| 2019 #5 | Principles: Life and Work | Ray Dalio | Self-Help | ★★★★★ | |
| 2018 #5 | Enlightenment Now | Steven Pinker | Psychology | ★★★★★ | |
| 2018 #4 | Johannes Cabal The Necromancer | Jonathan L. Howard | Fantasy | ★★★ | Johannes Cabal #1 |
| 2019 #4 | Wizard and Glass | Stephen King | Fantasy | ★★★★★ | The Dark Tower #4 |
| 2018 #3 | Replay: The History of Video Games | Tristan Donovan, Richard Garriott | History | ★★★★★ | |
| 2018 #7 | It Doesn’t Have to Be Crazy at Work | Jason Fried, David Heinemeier Hansson | Business | ★★★★★ | |
| 2020 | The State of Play | Linus Larsson, Daniel Goldberg | Pop | ★★★★ | |
| 2020 | Astrophysics for People in a Hurry | Neil deGrasse Tyson | Science | ★★★★ | |
| 2019 | The Goal | Eliyahu M. Goldratt, Jeff Cox | Business | ★★★★ | |
| 2019 | Power Moves | Adam Grant | Business | ★★★★ | |
| 2018 #2 | Blood, Sweat, and Pixels | Jason Schreier | Gaming | ★★★★★ | |
| 2019 #3 | Slaughterhouse Five | Kurt Vonnegut | Fiction | ★★★★★ | |
| 2019 #2 | Meditations | Marcus Aurelius | Philosophy | ★★★★★ | |
| 2014 | The Neverending Story | Michael Ende | Fantasy | ★★★★ | |
| 2018 #6 | Siddhartha | Hermann Hesse | Fiction | ★★★ | |
| 2017 #5 | The Lean Startup | Eric Ries | Business | ★★★ | |
| 2019 #1 | The Waste Lands | Stephen King | Fantasy | ★★★★★ | The Dark Tower #3 |
| 2018 #1 | The Drawing of the Three | Stephen King | Fantasy | ★★★★★ | The Dark Tower #2 |
| 2017 #4 | The Gunslinger | Stephen King | Fantasy | ★★★★★ | The Dark Tower #1 |
| 2017 #3 | The Leopard | Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa | Fiction | ★★★★ | |
| 2010 | Foundation’s Edge | Isaac Asimov | Science Fiction | ★★★★ | Foundation #1 |
| 2010 | Second Foundation | Isaac Asimov | Science Fiction | ★★★★★ | Foundation #3 |
| 2010 | Foundation and Empire | Isaac Asimov | Science Fiction | ★★★★ | Foundation #2 |
| 2010 | Foundation | Isaac Asimov | Science Fiction | ★★★★★ | Foundation #1 |
| 2009 | The Robots of Dawn | Isaac Asimov | Science Fiction | ★★★★ | Robot #3 |
| 2009 | The Naked Sun | Isaac Asimov | Science Fiction | ★★★★★ | Robot #2 |
| 2009 | I, Robot | Isaac Asimov | Science Fiction | ★★★ | Robot #1 |
| 2016 #5 | A Little Life | Hanya Yanagihara | Fiction | ★★★★★ | |
| 2015 #6 | The Martian | Andy Weir | Science Fiction | ★★★★★ | |
| 2015 #5 | The Phoenix Project | Gene Kim, Kevin Behr, George Spafford | Business | ★★★★ | |
| 2018 #7 | The Master and Margarita | Mikhail Bulgakov | Fiction | ★★★ 3 | |
| 2016 #4 | Scar Tissue | Anthony Kiedis, Larry Sloman | Biography | ★★★★★ | |
| 2017 #2 | Good Omens | Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett | Fantasy | ★★★ | |
| 2016 #3 | Predictabily Irrational | Dan Ariely | Psychology | ★★★★★ | |
| 2006 | Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell | Susanna Clarke | Fantasy | ★★★★★ | |
| 2016 #2 | How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big | Scott Adams | Self-Help | ★★★★★ | |
| 2016 #1 | The Ocean at the End of the Lane | Neil Gaiman | Fantasy | ★★★★★ | |
| 2018 #8 | The Wise Man’s Fear | Patrick Rothfuss | Fantasy | ★★★★ | Kingkiller Chronicle #2 |
| 2018 #9 | The Name of the Wind | Patrick Rothfuss | Fantasy | ★★★★★ | Kingkiller Chronicle #1 |
| 2015 #4 | Too Bright to Hear, Too Loud to See | Juliann Garey | Fiction | ★★★★★ | |
| 2015 #3 | Les Liaisons Dangereuses | Pierre Choderlos de Laclos | Fiction | ★★★ | |
| 2015 #2 | The Five Keys to Mindful Communication | Susan Gillis Chapman | Self-Help | ★★★ | |
| 2014 | Neverwhere | Neil Gaiman | Fantasy | ★★★★★ | |
| 2017 #1 | What You Need to Know About: Project Management | Fergus O’Connell | Business | ★★★★★ | |
| 2015 #1 | Ready Player One | Ernest Cline | Science Fiction | ★★★★★ | |
| 2006 | Howl’s Moving Castle | Diana Wynne Jones | Fantasy | ★★★★ | |
| 2006 | American Gods | Neil Gaiman | Fantasy | ★★★★ | |
| 2007 | Survivor | Chuck Palahniuk | Fiction | ★★★★★ | |
| 2007 | Choke | Chuck Palahniuk | Fiction | ★★★★★ | |
| 2006 | Fight Club | Chuck Palahniuk | Fiction | ★★★★★ | |
| 2001 | The Church of Dead Girls | Stephen Dobyns | Mystery | ★★★ | |
| 2010 | The Great Gatsby | F. Scott Fitzgerald | Classic | ★★★★ | |
| 2008 | Equal Rites | Terry Pratchett | Fantasy | ★★★★★ | Discworld #3 |
| 2007 | The Light Fantastic | Terry Pratchett | Fantasy | ★★★★★ | Discworld #2 |
| 2006 | The Color of Magic | Terry Pratchett | Fantasy | ★★★★★ | Discworld #1 |
| 2008 | Q | Luther Blisset | Historical Fiction | ★★★★★ | |
| 2008 | The Complete Works of H.P. Lovecraft | H.P. Lovecraft | Horror | ★★★★★ | |
| 2007 | The Complete Tales & Poems | Edgar Allan Poe | Poetry, Fiction | ★★★★★ | |
| 2006 | The Island of Doctor Moreau | H.G. Wells | Science Fiction | ★★★★ | |
| 1997 | The Eyes of the Dragon | Stephen King | Fantasy | ★★★★★ | |
| 2002 | Lord of the Flies | William Golding | Classic | ★★★★★ | |
| 1999 | The Importance of Being Earnest | Oscar Wilde | Play | ★★★★★ | |
| 2000 | The Picture of Dorian Gray | Oscar Wilde | Classic | ★★★★ | |
| 2005 | The Return of the King | J. R. R. Tolkien | Fantasy | ★★★★★ | The Lord of the Rings #3 |
| 2004 | The Two Towers | J. R. R. Tolkien | Fantasy | ★★★★★ | The Lord of the Rings #2 |
| 2003 | The Fellowship of the Ring | J. R. R. Tolkien | Fantasy | ★★★★ | The Lord of the Rings #1 |
| 1998 | The Hobbit | J. R. R. Tolkien | Fantasy | ★★★★★ | The Lord of the Rings #0 |
| 2003 | Fahrenheit 451 | Ray Bradbury | Science Fiction | ★★★★★ | |
| 2004 | Brave New World | Aldous Huxley | Science Fiction | ★★★★ | |
| 2005 | The Gambler | Fyodor Dostoevsky | Classic | ★★★★★ | |
| 2005 | Crime and Punishment | Fyodor Dostoevsky | Classic | ★★★★★ | |
| 2003 | 1984 | George Orwell | Dystopian | ★★★★★ | |
| 2000 | Ivanhoe | Walter Scott | Historical Fiction | ★★★★★ | |
| 2001 | Animal Farm | George Orwell | Classic | ★★★★ | |
| 2006 | On the Road | Jack Kerouac | Fiction | ★★★★★ | |
| 2007 | The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo | Stieg Larsson | Mystery | ★★★★ | Millenium #1 |
| 2003 | Bridget Jones’s Diary | Helen Fielding | Fiction | ★★★★★ | |
| 2008 | The Da Vinci Code | Dan Brown | Mystery | ★★★★ | Robert Langdon #2 |
| 2007 | Angels & Demons | Dan Brown | Mystery | ★★★★★ | Robert Langdon #1 |
| 2008 | Dracula | Bram Stoker | Horror | ★★★★★ | |
| 1997 | Carmilla | Sheridan Le Fanu | Gothic | ★★★★ 2 | |
| 2022 | The Left Hand of Darkness | Ursula K. Le Guin | Fantasy | ★★★★ | Hainish Cycle #4 |
| 2004 | Tehanu | Ursula K. Le Guin | Fantasy | ★★★ | Earthsea Cycle #4 |
| 2001 | The Farthest Shore | Ursula K. Le Guin | Fantasy | ★★★★ | Earthsea Cycle #3 |
| 1999 | The Tombs of Atuan | Ursula K. Le Guin | Fantasy | ★★★★ | Earthsea Cycle #2 |
| 1998 | A Wizard of Earthsea | Ursula K. Le Guin | Fantasy | ★★★★★ | Earthsea Cycle #1 |
| 1995 | The Alchemist | Paulo Coelho | Fiction | ★★★★ | |
| 1994 | Robinson Crusoe | Daniel Defoe | Adventure | ★★★★★ | |
| 1994 | White Fang | Jack London | Adventure | ★★★★★ | |
| 1995 | Treasure Island | Robert Louis Stevenson | Adventure | ★★★★★ | |
| 1995 | The Last of the Mohicans | James Fenimore Cooper | Historical Fiction | ★★★★★ | |
| 1995 | Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas | Jules Verne | Science Fiction | ★★★★★ | |
| 1994 | The Little Prince | Antoine de Saint-Exupéry | Fantasy | ★★★★★ |