2011 in books

My 2011 reading list.

• Herman Melville – Moby Dick
• George Orwell – 1984
• Sun Tzu – The Art of War
• Gabriel Garcia Marquez – One Hundred Years of Solitude
• Friedrich Nietzsche - Beyond Good and  Evil (partially – to be revisited),
• Vladimir Nabokov – Lolita
• Ernest Hemingway – The Great Gatsby
• Jonathan Haidt – The Happiness Hypothesis
• Albert Camus – The Stranger
• Christopher Hitchens – Hitch 22: A Memoir
• Bill Bryson – Short History of Nearly Everything
• Timothy Ferris – The 4-Hour Body
• William Faulkner – Collected Stories (partially – to be revisited)
• Stephen Hawking – The Grand Design
• Charles Dickens – A Tale of Two Cities

Abandoned:

• Henry James – Daisy Miller and Other Stories (perhaps try later)
• Michael Crichton – Airframe (never again)
• Stanley Fish – How to Write a Sentence (trivial)
• Kazuo Ishiguro – Never Let Me Go (trivial, cliché)
• George W. Bush – Decision Points (misguided, fake, trivial)

In 2012, I will stick to the basics and stick to the classics. More Nietzsche, Dickens, Dostoevsky to keep me grounded. Edge questions to keep me up to speed. And develop my French.