Goal Summary: Books of 2019
I just finished my last book I’ll complete this year, making the final tally 54.
Here’s the full list of everything I read:
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The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion, Jonathan Haidt
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Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion, Sam Harris
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Meditations, Marcus Aurelius
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All Tomorrow’s Parties, William Gibson
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Globalhead, Bruce Sterling
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How the Internet Happened: From Netscape to the iPhone, Brian McCullough
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Coming Into the Country, John McPhee
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At the Mountains of Madness, H.P. Lovecraft
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Invisible Cities, Italo Calvino
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Pebble in the Sky, Isaac Asimov
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1776, David McCullough
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A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments, David Foster Wallace
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High Output Management, Andy Grove
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The Language Hoax: Why the World Looks the Same in Any Language, John McWhorter
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The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom, Jonathan Haidt
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The Breakthrough: Immunotherapy and the Race to Cure Cancer, Charles Graeber
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Loonshots: How to Nurture the Crazy Ideas That Win Wars, Cure Diseases, and Transform Industries, Safi Bahcall
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Ego is the Enemy, Ryan Holiday
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Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster, Jon Krakauer
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Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams, Matthew Walker
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Man’s Search for Meaning, Viktor E. Frankl
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The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable, Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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Crossing the Chasm: Marketing and Selling Disruptive Products to Mainstream Customers, Geoffrey A. Moore
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Blueprint: The Evolutionary Origins of a Good Society, Nicholas A. Christakis
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Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings, Jorge Luis Borges
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America Before: The Key to Earth’s Lost Civilization, Graham Hancock
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The Etymologicon: A Circular Stroll Through the Hidden Connections of the English Language, Mark Forsyth
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Wayfinding: The Science and Mystery of How Humans Navigate the World, M.R. O’Connor
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The Dark Forest, Cixin Liu
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The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories, H.P. Lovecraft
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Measure What Matters, John Doerr
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Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World, David Epstein
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Altered Traits: Science Reveals How Meditation Changes Your Mind, Brain, and Body, Daniel Goleman and Richard Davidson
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Abaddon’s Gate, James S.A. Corey
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Death’s End, Cixin Liu
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Pacific: The Once and Future Ocean, Simon Winchester
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The Vision of the Anointed: Self-Congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy, Thomas Sowell
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The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World, Niall Ferguson
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Exhalation: Stories, Ted Chiang
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Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness, Peter Godfrey-Smith
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The Fatal Conceit: The Errors of Socialism, F.A. Hayek
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On Intelligence, Jeff Hawkins
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The Federalist Papers, Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay
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The Soul of a New Machine, Tracy Kidder
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Stubborn Attachments: A Vision for a Society of Free, Prosperous, and Responsible Individuals, Tyler Cowen
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Shape Up: Stop Running in Circles and Ship Work that Matters, Ryan Singer
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The Madness of Crowds: Gender, Race, and Identity, Douglas Murray
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Discourses: And Selected Writings, Epictetus
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An Elegant Defense: The Extraordinary New Science of the Immune System, Matt Richtel
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The Quiet American, Graham Greene
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The End is Always Near: Apocalyptic Moments, from the Bronze Age Collapse to Nuclear Near Misses, Dan Carlin
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Mythology, Edith Hamilton
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Antifragile: Things That Gain From Disorder, Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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Alchemy: The Surprising Power of Ideas That Don’t Make Sense, Rory Sutherland
My library page has links to each book, including the occasional review.