All Books I have read

This list includes all ebook and audio books that I did finish (or majority of it). I also kept 2 much shorter lists of my:

1. Favorite fiction
2. Favorite non-fiction

🍀 represents a fiction book, and some description since titles from fiction books do not tell much.

2023

• The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood 🍀 A dystopian whereby women have only certain roles. Handmaid is to reproduce children for commanders. Now a TV drama.
• How to stop time by Matt Haig 🍀 A 41-year-old history teacher is actually 400. He was friends with Shakespeare, Captain Cook and more.
• Going Infinite by Michael Lewis - How golden boy Sam Bankman-Fried crashed FTX.

2022

• Little, Big by John Crowley 🍀 Hard to follow the 4 generations of a singular family. Unfortunately I cannot finish it.
• Men Without Women by Haruki Murakami 🍀 Intriguing short stories
• Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World by Haruki Murakami 🍀 A universe forked from his mind
• Reasons to Stay Alive by Matt Haig (Biography)
• Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson 🍀 Grandfather of Metaverse
• The Montessori Toddler by Simone Davies

2021

• Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami 🍀 A 15yo boy ran away, found his sister, and mother. An old man who can talk to cats and make fish rain.
• Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro 🍀 A mother’s love, a robot’s faithfulness, and how irreplaceable is our hearts.
• Midnight Library by Matt Haig 🍀 She killed herself, but has a chance to try out her other lives in the parallel universe. Which would she choose?
• Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami 🍀 Love story of a young college student in the 60s
• How to Get Rich by Felix Dennis
• Killing Commendatore by Haruki Murakami 🍀 Again, there is ‘little people’, this time a 2-feet man, an idea from a painting.
• The Overstory 🍀 A novel, that is better scientific journal, about trees.

2020

• Free food for millionaires by Min Jin Lee 🍀 About Koreans in America, struggles with work & love.
• 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami 🍀 It’s an alternate 1984, with little people
• Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert 🍀 on her post-breakup journey to Italy, India, and Bali
• Make Your Bed by a Navy Seal Admiral
• Fluent Forever by Gabriel Wyner
• How we learn by Benedict Carey
• Awareness by Anthony De Mello
• Golden Son by Pierce Brown 🍀 Part II of the trilogy, after Red Rising
• Exhalation by Ted Chiang 🍀 A few short stories to keep you wondering about tech in the future: always on camera, digi-pets with intelligence, multi-verse collaboration, etc
• It Doesn’t Have to Be Crazy at Work by Jason Fried & DHH (Basecamp)
• This is going to hurt: secret diaries of a junior doctor

2019

• Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn 🍀 Amazing Amy gone missing, and the husband is prime suspect
• This is Marketing by Seth Godin
• Elon Musk by Ashlee Vance
• Lifespan by David A.Sinclair
• Pachinko by Min Jin Lee 🍀 Life of Koreans in Japan during wartime
• Red Rising by Pierce Brown 🍀 Part I of the trilogy
• Miracle Morning by Hal Elrod
• The Rosie Result by Graeme Simsion 🍀 Book 3 of the trilogy of Professor Don Tillman

2018 and before

Refer to #books and goodreads.

Some notable ones I have to list:

• Neither Civil nor Servant: The Philip Yeo story
• How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia by Mohsin Hamid 🍀 A fiction book whose real objective is self-help.
• The Everything Store
• How to read a book
• The Devotion of Suspect X, Malice, Salvation of a Saint all by Keigo Higashino 🍀 After reading Naoko, I wanted more :)
• Naoko by Keigo Higashino 🍀 A mother and her child switched body after an accident
• Time Keeper by Mitch Albom 🍀 The first man on Earth to count the hours
• The Rosie Effect by Graeme Simsion 🍀 Prof Don Tillman handles the pregnancy
• The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion 🍀 About Prof Don Tillman (he is like Sheldon from BBT) finding a wife