Back in 2016, a friend convinced me to get on Goodreads and I’ve been keeping careful track of my books ever since. Growing up, I’d keep track of the books I read over the summer, writing titles and authors in notebooks with rainbow gel pens. Times change. The lists below are in alphabetical order by title and grouped into nonfiction and fiction categories.
Nonfiction
21 Lessons for the 21st Century
Yuval Noah Harari
The Art of Living: The Classical Manual on Virtue, Happiness and Effectiveness
Epictetus
The Art of Loving (I admit, this was a re-read)
Erich Fromm
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
Atul Gawande
Beyond Religion: Ethics for a Whole World
The Dalai Lama
Building Peace: Living and Learning for a Better World
Rebecca M. Stein
The Case Against Education: Why the Education System Is a Waste of Time and Money
Bryan Caplan
Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human
Richard W. Wrangham
Cheap Sex: The Transformation of Men, Marriage, and Monogamy
Mark Regnerus
The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure
Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt
Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers Who Helped Win World War II
Liza Mundy
The Death of Expertise: The Campaign Against Established Knowledge and Why it Matters
Thomas M. Nichols
The Elephant in the Brain: Hidden Motives in Everyday Life
Kevin Simler and Robin Hanson
The End of Epidemics: The Looming Threat to Humanity and How to Stop It
Jonathan D. Quick
The Ethics of Identity
Kwame Anthony Appiah
Factfulness: Ten Reasons We’re Wrong About the World–and Why Things Are Better Than You Think
Hans Rosling, Anna Rosling Rönnlund, Ola Rosling
The Fear Factor: How One Emotion Connects Altruists, Psychopaths, and Everyone In-Between
Abigail Marsh
The Five Invitations: Discovering What Death Can Teach Us About Living Fully
Frank Ostaseski
Future Sex: A New Kind of Free Love
Emily Witt
The Geography of Morals: Varieties of Moral Possibility
Owen J. Flanagan
Getting Better: Why Global Development Is Succeeding–And How We Can Improve the World Even More
Charles Kenny
The Great Escape: Health, Wealth, and the Origins of Inequality
Angus Deaton
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
J.D. Vance
The Honor Code: How Moral Revolutions Happen
Kwame Anthony Appiah
How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain
Lisa Feldman Barrett
How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking
Jordan Ellenberg
How We Talk: The Inner Workings of Conversation
N.J. Enfield
I Will Survive: Personal gay, lesbian, bisexual & transgender stories in Singapore
Leow Yangfa
Identity: The Demand for Dignity and the Politics of Resentment
Francis Fukuyama
Inventing Human Rights: A History
Lynn Hunt
Is Shame Necessary?: New Uses for an Old Tool
Jennifer Jacquet
The Jew in Lotus: A Poet’s Rediscovery of Jewish Identity in Buddhist India
Rodger Kamenetz
The Jews of Islam
Bernard Lewis
The Lies That Bind: Rethinking Identity
Kwame Anthony Appiah
Meditations
Marcus Aurelius
Mindwise: Why We Misunderstand What Others Think, Believe, Feel, and Want
Nicholas Epley
The Monarchy of Fear: A Philosopher Looks at Our Political Crisis
Martha C. Nussbaum
Mothers and Others
Sarah Blaffer Hrdy
NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity
Steve Silberman
Planetwalker: 22 Years of Walking. 17 Years of Silence.
John Francis
Political Tribes: Group Instinct and the Fate of Nations
Amy Chua
The Power Paradox: How We Gain and Lose Influence
Dacher Keltner
The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women
Kate Moore
The Really Hard Problem: Meaning in a Material World
Owen J. Flanagan
Regenesis: How Synthetic Biology Will Reinvent Nature and Ourselves
George M. Church and Ed Regis
Scale: The Universal Laws of Growth, Innovation, Sustainability, and the Pace of Life in Organisms, Cities, Economies, and Companies
Geoffrey B. West
Sustainable Energy – Without the Hot Air
David J.C. MacKay
Theft by Finding: Diaries 1977-2002
David Sedaris
Triumph of the Heart: Forgiveness in an Unforgiving World
Megan Feldman Bettencourt
Unbroken Brain: A Revolutionary New Way of Understanding Addiction
Maia Szalavitz
Us vs. Them: The Failure of Globalism
Ian Bremmer
Vanishing New York: How a Great City Lost Its Soul
Jeremiah Moss
The Way of the Bodhisattva
Santideva
Wiser: Getting Beyond Groupthink to Make Groups Smarter
Cass Sunstein and Reid Hastie
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values
Robert M. Pirsig
Fiction
China Rich Girlfriend – Kevin Kwan
A Clockwork Orange – Anthony Burgess
Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki – Haruki Murakami
Corridor – Alifan Sa’at
The Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas
Crazy Rich Asians – Kevin Kwan
Dance Dance Dance – Haruki Murakami
A Horse Walks into a Bar – David Grossman
A House Without Windows – Nadia Hashimi
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings – Maya Angelou
Kafka on the Shore – Haruki Murakami
LaRose – Louise Erdrich
Luncheon of the Boating Party – Susan Vreeland
The Night Circus – Erin Morgenstern
Norwegian Wood – Haruki Murakami
A Prayer for Owen Meany – John Irving
The Round House – Louise Erdrich
South of the Border, West of the Sun – Haruki Murakami
Sputnik Sweetheart – Haruki Murakami
Strange Pilgrims – Gabriel García Márquez
Things Fall Apart – Chinua Achebe
Nothing tickling your fancy? Take a look at my lists from 2016 and 2017.
Wishing you peace this new year, in your mind and in your heart. Happy reading!

AWESOME list… I don’t recognize all these titles, but I’ll have to look into them. Thanks for sharing!
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Thanks for reading! I’m glad you found it useful!
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