Find below my reading list from 2014. For each book, I write a brief summary, highlight some key takeaways and what I got out of reading it.
- The Bible
- The God Delusion - Richard Dawkins
- What Every Body is Saying - Joe Navarro
- The Last Question - Isaac Asimov
- 1776 - David McCullough
- The Quest - Daniel Yergin
- Flowers for Algernon - Daniel Keyes
- The Autobiography of Black Hawk - Black Hawk
- The Denial of Death - Ernest Becker
- Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World - Jack Weatherford
- Moonwalking with Einstein - Joshua Foer
- Einstein: His Life and His Universe - Walter Isaacson
- Aleph - Paulo Coelho
- How We Decide - Jonah Lehrer
- The Metamorphosis - Franz Kafka
- Onward: Starbucks Revival - Howard Schultz
- Animal Farm - George Orwell
- The Sports Gene - David Epstein
- Love Wins - Rob Bell
- The Little Book that Still Beats the Market - Joel Greenblatt
- Born to Run - Christopher McDougall
- The Alchemist - Paulo Coehlo
- Emotional Intelligence - Daniel Goleman
- Titan - Ron Chernow
- The Little Book of Bull's Eye Investing - John Mauldin
- The Power of Positive Thinking - Norman Vincent Peale
- Free to Choose - Milton Friedman
- Moby Dick - Herman Melville
- Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking - Daniel Dennet
- The Sun Also Rises - Ernest Hemingway
- The 4 Hour Work Week - Tim Ferriss
- Siddhartha - Herman Hesse
- The Year Without Pants - Scott Berkun
- Fooling Some of the People All of the Time - David Einhorn
- Super Brain - Deepak Chopra and Rudolph Tanzi
- Rise of Superman - Steven Kotler
- An Autobiography: My Experiments with Truth - Mohandas Ghandi
- Vagabonding - Rolf Potts
- The Happiness Hypothesis - Jonathan Haidt
- Walden - Henry David Thoreau
- The Omnivore's Dilemma - Michael Pollan
- Thinking Fast and Slow - Daniel Kahneman
- Letters from a Stoic - Lucius Seneca
- On the Shortness of Life - Lucius Seneca
- Power vs. Force - David Hawkins
- Cat's Cradle - Kurt Vonnegut
- The Social Animal - David Brooks
- Aristotle in Outline - Timothy A. Robinson
- Slaughterhouse Five - Kurt Vonnegut
- On the Road - Jack Kerouac
- The Art of War - Sun Tzu
- Cool Tools - Kevin Kelly
- The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
- The Charisma Myth - Olivia Fox Cabane
- Lila - Robert Pirsig
- Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Berkshire Annual Shareholders Letters - Warren Buffett
- Transcending the Levels of Consciousness - David Hawkins
- Meditations - Marcus Aurelius
- Unbroken - Laura Hillenbrand
- The Intelligent Investor - Benjamin Graham
- The Swerve: How the World Became Modern - Stephen Greenblatt
- Cooked - Michael Pollan
- The Psychedelic Explorer - James Fadiman
- The Botany of Desire - Michael Pollan
- The Laws of Simplicity - John Maeda
- Conversations with God - Neale Donald Walsch
- Man's Search for Meaning - Viktor Frankl
- Zorba the Greek - Nikos Kazantzakis
- The Bulletproof Diet - Dave Asprey
- Jesus - James Martin
- The Stranger - Albert Camus
- Money: Master the Game - Tony Robbins
- Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! - Richard Feynman
- Getting to Yes - William Ury and Roger Fisher
- Flatland - Edwin A. Abbott
- Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury