Reading List

“My alma mater was books, a good library… I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity” – Malcolm X

Currently reading

1. Peter the Great, by Robert K. Massie
2. The Fifth Discipline, by Peter M. Senge
3. The Phoenix Project, by Gene Kim, Kevin Behr, and George Spafford
4. Get Better at Anything, by Scott Young
5. Data-Driven Marketing, by Mark Jeffrey
6. Inside the Nudge Unit, by David Halpern

2024

1. A Big Life in Advertising, by Mary Wells Lawrence
2. A Passion for Leadership, by Robert M. Gates
3. Alexander Hamilton, by Ron Chernow
4. Corruptible, by Brian Klaas
5. Farewell, My Lovely, by Raymond Chandler
6. Fluent Forever, by Gabriel Wyner
7. How to Be a Stoic, by Massimo Pigliucci
8. How to Know a Person, by David Brooks
9. How to Think Like a Roman Emperor, by Donald Robertson
10. In a Flight of Starlings, by Giorgio Parisi
11. Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore, by Robin Sloan
12. My Turn, by Johan Cruyff
13. No Country for Old Men, by Cormac McCarthy
14. One Up, by Joost van Dreunen
15. Pachinko, by Min Jin Lee
16. Rejection Proof, by Jia Jiang
17. Remarkably Bright Creatures, by Shelby Van Pelt
18. Right Kind of Wrong, by Amy Edmondson
19. Sid Meier’s Memoir!, by Sid Meier
20. Some Desperate Glory, by Emily Tesh
21. Superfandom, by Zoe Fraade-Blanar and Aaron M. Glazer
22. The Art of Logic in an Illogical World, by Eugenia Cheng
23. The Art of Power, by Nancy Pelosi
24. The Gifts of Imperfection, by Brené Brown
25. The Landmark Xenophon’s Anabasis, by Shane Brennan, David Thomas, and Robert B. Strasser (Editors)
26. The Light of Battle, by Michel Paradis
27. The Power of Now, by Eckhart Tolle
28. The Practice of Not Thinking, by Ryunosuke Koike
29. The President’s Book of Secrets, by David Priess
30. The Psychology of Intelligence Analysis, by Richards J. Heuer
31. Upstream, by Dan Heath
32. Wired for Love, by Stephanie Cacioppo
33. Yellowface, by R. F. Kuang
34. You Have More Influence Than You Think, by Vanessa Bohns

2023

1. 101 Essays That Will Change the Way You Think, by Brianna Wiest
2. A Modern Man, by George Carlin
3. American Icon, by Bryce G. Hoffman
4. American Prometheus, by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin
5. Attached, by Amir Levine and Rachel S. F. Heller
6. Can You Learn to Be Lucky?, by Karla Starr
7. Clear Thinking, by Shane Parrish
8. Dangerous Personalities, by Joe Navarro
9. Don’t Think of an Elephant, by George Lakoff
10. I, Claudius, by Robert Graves
11. Making Hope Happen, by Shane J. Lopez
12. Making Work Visible, by Dominica DeGrandis
13. Range, by David Epstein
14. Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen
15. Start With Why, by Simon Sinek
16. Team of Teams, by Stanley McChrystal
17. The 15 Commitments of Conscious Leadership, by Jim Dethmer, Diana Chapman, and Kaley Klemp
18. The Choice Factory, by Richard Shotton
19. The Doorstep Mile, by Alastair Humphreys
20. The Greatest Invention, by Silvia Ferrara
21. The Infinite Game, by Simon Sinek
22. The Longest Way Home, by Andrew McCarthy
23. The Medium is the Massage, by Marshall McLuhan and Quentin Fiore
24. The Name of the Rose, by Umberto Eco
25. The Rise of Superman, by Steven Kohler
26. The Untethered Soul, by Michael A. Singer
27. The Wisdom of the Bullfrog, by William H. McRaven
28. The World at Night, by Alan Furst
29. Time and How to Spend It, by James Wallman
30. Toyota Production System, by Taiichi Ohno
31. What Got You Here Won’t Get You There, by Marshall Goldsmith
32. Yes Man, by Danny Wallace
33. 大道至拙, 宮玉振 著
34. 絕世名將的榮耀與哀歌, 薛易 著
35. 善戰者說, 宮玉振 著
36. 王陽明的心學, 廖春紅 著
37. 武林正史, 古人很潮 編著

2022

1. All Systems Red, by Martha Wells
2. Almost Everything, by Anne Lamott
3. Anxious People, by Fredrik Backman
4. Babel No More, by Michael Erard
5. Be Exceptional, by Joe Navarro
6. Blood, Sweat, and Pixels, by Jason Schreier
7. Boyd, by Robert Coram
8. Building a Second Brain, by Tiago Forte
9. Certain to Win, by Chet Richards
10. Cochrane the Dauntless, by David Cordingly
11. Ego, Authority, Failure, by Derek Gaunt
12. Eisenhower in War and Peace, by Jean Edward Smith
13. Every Tool’s a Hammer, by Adam Savage
14. How Ike Led, by Susan Eisenhower
15. Inner Engineering, by Sadhguru
16. Nonviolent Communication, by Marshall B. Rosenberg
17. Press Reset, by Jason Schreier
18. Shackleton, by Ranulph Fiennes
19. Shibumi, by Trevanian
20. Switch, by Chip Heath and Dan Heath
21. Take More Vacations, by Scott Keyes
22. Ten Caesars, by Barry Strauss
23. The Art of Innovation, by Tom Kelley and Jonathan Littman
24. The Creative Gene, by Hideo Kojima
25. The Effective Executive, by Peter F. Drucker
26. The FBI Way, by Frank Figliuzzi
27. The Hero Code, by William H. McRaven
28. The Long Ships, by Frans G. Bengtsson
29. The Making of a Manager, by Julie Zhuo
30. The Making of Prince of Persia, by Jordan Mechner
31. The Man Without a Face, by Masha Gessen
32. The Psychology of Money, by Morgan Housel
33. The Runaway Species, by David Eagleman and Anthony Brandt
34. The Score Takes Care of Itself, by Bill Walsh, Steve Jamison, and Craig Walsh
35. Think Again, by Adam Grant
36. When We Cease to Understand the World, by Benjamín Labatut
37. Who Gets What — and Why, by Alvin E. Roth
38. 明朝那些事兒 第貳部：萬國來朝, 當年明月 著
39. 明朝那些事兒 第參部：妖孽宮廷, 當年明月 著

2021

1. A Gentleman in Moscow, by Amor Towles
2. A Mathematician’s Apology, by G. H. Hardy
3. A Mathematician’s Lament, by Paul Lockhart
4. Before the Coffee Gets Cold, by Toshikazu Kawaguchi
5. Cold Mountain, by Charles Frazier
6. Crying in H Mart, by Michelle Zauner
7. Cyrano de Bergerac, by Edmond Rostand (Author) and Carol Clark (Translator)
8. Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency, by Douglas Adams
9. Dune, by Frank Herbert
10. Flirtology, by Jean Smith
11. Foundation and Empire, by Isaac Asimov
12. How to Not Die Alone, by Logan Ury
13. Kindred, by Octavia E. Butler
14. Masters of Doom, by David Kushner
15. Operation Mincemeat, by Ben MacIntyre
16. Rainy Brain, Sunny Brain, by Elaine Fox
17. Rebel Buddha, by Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche
18. Second Foundation, by Isaac Asimov
19. The Algebra of Happiness, by Scott Galloway
20. The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity, by Carlo M. Cipolla
21. The Book of Merlyn, by T. H. White
22. The Dark Side of the Light Chasers, by Debbie Ford
23. The Elements of Eloquence, by Mark Forsyth
24. The Inner Game of Tennis, by W. Timothy Gallwey
25. The Ministry for the Future, by Kim Stanley Robinson
26. The Once and Future King, by T. H. White
27. The Only Woman in the Room, by Marie Benedict
28. The Science of Breaking Bad, by Dave Trumbore and Donna J. Nelson
29. The Swerve, by Stephen Greenblatt
30. This Year You Write Your Novel, by Walter Mosley
31. Why Fish Don’t Exist, by Lulu Miller
32. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, by Robert M. Pirsig

2020

1. A Hero of France, by Alan Furst
2. Atomic Habits, by James Clear
3. Between the World and Me, by Ta-Nehisi Coates
4. Circe, by Madeline Miller
5. Coach, by Michael Lewis
6. Creativity, Inc., by Ed Catmull and Amy Wallace
7. Everything is F*cked, by Mark Manson
8. Extreme Ownership, by Jocko Willink and Leif Babin
9. Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury
10. Fifty Inventions That Shaped the Modern Economy, Tim Harford
11. Football Hackers, by Christoph Biermann
12. Get Together, by Bailey Richardson, Kevin Huynh, and Kai Elmer Sotto
13. In the Garden of Beasts, by Erik Larson
14. Jurgen Klopp, by Elmar Neveling
15. Life of Pi, Yann Martel
16. Love Yourself Like Your Life Depends on It, by Kamal Ravikant
17. Master and Commander, by Patrick O’Brian
18. Modern Love, by Daniel Jones (Editor)
19. On Writing, by Stephen King
20. Piranesi, by Susanna Clarke
21. Poor Charlie’s Almanack, by Peter D. Kaufman (Editor)
22. Principles, by Ray Dalio
23. Ready Player One, by Ernest Cline
24. Sapiens, by Yuval Noah Harari
25. Stillness is the Key, by Ryan Holiday
26. Sword of Destiny, by Andrzej Sapkowski
27. The Alchemist, by Paulo Coelho
28. The Biggest Bluff, by Maria Konnikova
29. The Blind Side, by Michael Lewis
30. The Count of Monte Cristo, by Alexandre Dumas (Author) and Robin Buss (Translator)
31. The Courage to Be Disliked, by Ichiro Kishimi and Fumitake Koga
32. The Death of Truth, Michiko Kakutani
33. The Design of Everyday Things, by Donald A. Norman
34. The First 90 Days, by Michael Watkins
35. The Four, by Scott Galloway
36. The Goal, by Eliyahu M. Goldratt and Jeff Cox
37. The Golden Compass, Philip Pullman
38. The Last Wish, by Andrzej Sapkowski
39. The Liberator, by Alex Kershaw
40. The Read Aloud Cloud, by Forrest Brazeal
41. The Remains of the Day, by Kazuo Ishiguro
42. The Revolt of the Public, by Martin Gurri
43. The Splendid and the Vile, by Erik Larson
44. What Would Jurgen Klopp Do?, by Tom Victor
45. Wolf Hall, by Hilary Mantel
46. Zen in the Art of Writing, by Ray Bradbury

2019

1. A Collection of Essays, by George Orwell
2. Anything You Want, by Derek Sivers
3. Battle Leadership, by Adolf von Schell
4. Can’t Hurt Me, by David Goggins
5. Chaos Monkeys, by Antonio Garcia Martinez
6. Decisive, by Chip Heath and Dan Heath
7. Doing Justice, by Preet Bharara
8. Endurance, by Alfred Lansing
9. Filters Against Folly, by Garrett Hardin
10. Friend of a Friend…, by David Burkus
11. Get Smart!, by Brian Tracy
12. Growth Hacker Marketing, by Ryan Holiday
13. How Proust Can Change Your Life, by Alain de Botton
14. How to Fight a Hydra, by Josh Kaufman
15. How to Find Love, by The School of Life
16. Hyperfocus, by Chris Bailey
17. Indistractable, by Nir Eyal
18. In the Beginning… Was the Command Line, by Neal Stephenson
19. It’s Not All About “Me”, by Robin K. Dreeke
20. Nudge, by Richard H. Thaler and Cass R. Sunstein
21. Ogilvy on Advertising, by David Ogilvy
22. Ogilvy on Advertising in the Digital Age, by Miles Young
23. On Being Nice, by The School of Life
24. On Confidence, by The School of Life
25. Pebbles of Perception, by Laurence Endersen
26. Pygmalion in Management, by J. Sterling Livingston
27. Resilience, by Eric Greitens
28. Rules for Radicals, by Saul Alinsky
29. Shackleton’s Way, by Margot Morrell and Stephanie Capparell
30. Shantaram, by Gregory David Roberts
31. Six Thinking Hats, by Edward de Bono
32. Stronger, by George Everly Jr., Douglas Strouse, and Dennis McCormack
33. The Big Sleep, by Raymond Chandler
34. The Captain Class, by Sam Walker
35. The Coaching Habit, by Michael Bungay Stanier
36. The Consolations of Philosophy, by Alain de Botton
37. The Culture Code, by Daniel Coyle
38. The Fish That Ate the Whale, by Rich Cohen
39. The Formula, by Albert-László Barabási
40. The Grid, by Gretchen Bakke
41. The Little Book of Talent, by Daniel Coyle
42. The Mathematics of Love, by Hannah Fry
43. The Mind of War, by Grant Hammond
44. The Most Important Thing Illuminated, by Howard Marks
45. The Productivity Project, by Chris Bailey
46. The Spies of Warsaw, by Alan Furst
47. The Talent Code, by Daniel Coyle
48. The Three Musketeers, by Alexandre Dumas (Author) and Jacques Le Clercq (Translator)
49. The Tiger, by John Vaillant
50. The War of Art, by Steven Pressfield
51. The Warrior Ethos, by Steven Pressfield
52. Ultralearning, by Scott Young
53. Weapons of Math Destruction, by Cathy O’Neil
54. We Need to Talk, by Celeste Headlee
55. When Strangers Meet, by Kio Stark
56. Xenophon’s Cyrus the Great, by Xenophon (Author) and Larry Hedrick (Editor)
57. 道濟天下諸葛亮, 秦濤 著
58. 老子．莊子．孫子, 陳文德 著
59. 歷史上的不倒翁, 秦濤 著

2018

1. An Illustrated Book of Bad Arguments, by Ali Almossawi (Author) and Alejandro Giraldo (Illustrator)
2. Astrophysics for People in a Hurry, by Neil deGrasse Tyson
3. Bad Blood, John Carreyrou
4. Blueprint for Revolution, by Srdja Popovic and Matthew Miller
5. Churchill and Orwell, by Thomas E. Ricks
6. Drive, by Daniel H. Pink
7. Eichmann in Jerusalem, by Hannah Arendt
8. Fascism, by Madeline Albright
9. For Whom the Bell Tolls, by Ernest Hemingway
10. How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big, by Scott Adams
11. Lays of Ancient Rome, by Thomas Babington Macaulay
12. Linchpin, by Seth Godin
13. Little Bets, by Peter Sims
14. Longitude, by Dava Sobel
15. Made to Stick, by Chip Heath and Dan Heath
16. Make Your Bed, by William H. McRaven
17. Mastering Fear, by Brandon Webb and John David Mann
18. Messy, by Tim Harford
19. On Love, by Alain de Botton
20. Patriot Games, by Tom Clancy
21. Purple Cow, by Seth Godin
22. Relentless, by Tim S. Grover
23. Seven Brief Lessons on Physics, by Carlo Rovelli
24. Solaris, by Stanislaw Lem (Author) and Bill Johnston (Translator)
25. Spies of the Balkans, by Alan Furst
26. The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, by Stephen R. Covey
27. The Art of Learning, by Josh Waitzkin
28. The Charisma Myth, by Olivia Fox Cabane
29. The Course of Love, by Alain de Botton
30. The Fifth Risk, by Michael Lewis
31. The Fire Next Time, by James Baldwin
32. The Handmaid’s Tale, by Margaret Atwood
33. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Abridged), by Edward Gibbon (Author) and David Womersley (Editor)
34. The Lathe of Heaven, by Ursula K. Le Guin
35. The Like Switch, by Jack Schafer and Marvin Karlins
36. The Luck Factor, by Richard Wiseman
37. The Power of Habit, by Charles Duhigg
38. The Power of Moments, by Chip Heath and Dan Heath
39. The Time Traveler’s Wife, by Audrey Niffenegger
40. Thinking in Bets, by Annie Duke
41. Visual Intelligence, Amy E. Herman
42. Watership Down, by Richard Adams
43. What Do You Care What Other People Think?, by Richard P. Feynman
44. When, by Daniel H. Pink
45. 成大事者不糾結, 羅振宇 著
46. 關於跑步，我說的其實是……, 村上春樹 著, 賴明珠 譯
47. 明朝那些事兒 第壹部：洪武大帝, 當年明月 著
48. 權謀至尊司馬懿, 秦濤 著
49. 西潮, 蔣夢麟 著

2017

1. A Guide to the Good Life, by William B. Irvine
2. Barking Up the Wrong Tree, by Eric Barker
3. Blockchain Basics, by Daniel Drescher
4. Brunelleschi’s Dome, by Ross King
5. Daring Greatly, by Brené Brown
6. Deep Work, by Cal Newport
7. Digital Gold, by Nathaniel Popper
8. Flash Boys, by Michael Lewis
9. Foundation, by Isaac Asimov
10. Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World, by Jack Weatherford
11. Hackers & Painters, by Paul Graham
12. How to Live, by Sarah Bakewell
13. Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, by Susanna Clarke
14. Leonardo da Vinci, by Walter Isaacson
15. Man’s Search for Meaning, by Viktor E. Frankl
16. Meditations, by Marcus Aurelius (Author) and Gregory Hays (Translator)
17. Modern Romance, by Aziz Ansari
18. Moneyball, by Michael Lewis
19. Never Split the Difference, by Chris Voss and Tahl Raz
20. Only the Paranoid Survive, by Andrew S. Grove
21. Pastoralia, by George Saunders
22. Predictably Irrational, by Dan Ariely
23. Rogue Heroes, by Ben MacIntyre
24. ‘Salem’s Lot, by Stephen King
25. Siddhartha, by Herman Hesse
26. So Good They Can’t Ignore You, by Cal Newport
27. Stories of Your Life and Others, by Ted Chiang
28. Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman!, by Richard P. Feynman
29. The Age of Wonder, by Richard Holmes
30. The Attention Merchants, by Tim Wu
31. The Big Short, by Michael Lewis
32. The Cathedral & the Bazaar, by Eric S. Raymond
33. The Checklist Manifesto, by Atul Gawande
34. The Everything Store, by Brad Stone
35. The Little Prince, by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (Author) and Richard Howard (Translator)
36. The Logic of Life, by Tim Harford
37. The Martian, by Andy Weir
38. The Prophet, by Kahlil Gibran
39. The Right Stuff, by Tom Wolfe
40. The Sense of Style, by Steven Pinker
41. The True Believer, by Eric Hoffer
42. The Ultimate Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams
43. The Undoing Project, by Michael Lewis
44. The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, by Edward Tufte
45. Tiny Beautiful Things, by Cheryl Strayed
46. Where Good Ideas Come From, by Steven Johnson
47. Whose Freedom?, by George Lakoff
48. Writing on the Wall, by Tom Standage
49. 霸王之夢, 呂世浩 著
50. 塞外奇俠傳, 梁羽生 著
51. 三體, 劉慈欣 著
52. 俠客行, 金庸 著

2016

1. Alibaba, by Duncan Clark
2. Dreaming in Code, by Scott Rosenberg
3. Ego Is the Enemy, by Ryan Holiday
4. Originals, by Adam Grant
5. Presence, by Amy Cuddy
6. Smarter Faster Better, by Charles Duhigg
7. Superforecasting, by Philip E. Tetlock and Dan Gardner
8. The Churchill Factor, by Boris Johnson
9. The Lean Startup, by Eric Ries
10. The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck, by Mark Manson
11. 北京法源寺, 李敖 著
12. 道士下山, 徐皓峰 著
13. 國父 ‘們’, 金哲毅 著
14. 連城訣, 金庸 著
15. 書劍恩仇錄, 金庸 著
16. 孫子兵法：不朽的戰爭藝術, 徐瑜 著

2015

1. Elon Musk, by Ashlee Vance
2. Work Rules, by Laszlo Bock
3. 盜墓筆記 第一季 卷一, 南派三叔 著
4. 帝國崛起, 呂世浩 著
5. 敵我之間, 呂世浩 著
6. 飛狐外傳, 金庸 著
7. 秦始皇, 呂世浩 著
8. 天龍八部, 金庸 著