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.
