Book Wishlist

Hey guys. I recently reread this post from Wait But Why about the ephemerality of life. Inspired, I'm going to list the books I've been meaning to read, because life is short, and there are so many books. I'll cross them off of the list as I finish them, and date them with times I finished them. Let's make it a goal to finish these in 2019!

Books I've started by never finished:

  1. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
  2. Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut 
  3. Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow
  4. Think Like A Freak by Levitt & Dubner
  5. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot

Recommendations from other people that are priorities:

  1. Born a Crime by Trevor Noah
  2. Gulp by Mary Roach
  3. Factfulness by Hans Kosling
  4. Moon of the Crusted Snow by Waubgeshig Rice
  5. The Intelligent Investor by Benjamin Graham
  6. The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life by Alice Schroeder

"Classics" I've got to check out:

  1. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
  2. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
  3. To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
  4. On The Road by Jack Kerouac
  5. A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking
  6. The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey
  7. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
  8. Moby-Dick by Herman Melville
  9. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
  10. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  11. The Picture of Dorian Grey by Oscar Wilde
  12. East of Eden by John Steinbeck

Books I plain want to just read:

  1. The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
  2. All The Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
  3. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
  4. The Color Purple by Alice Walker
  5. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
  6. Braving the Wilderness by Brene Brown
  7. I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
  8. You Are A Badass by Jen Sincero
  9. Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
  10. Sputnik Sweetheart by Haruki Murakami
  11. The Stand by Stephen King
  12. Swing Time by Zadie Smith
  13. Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
  14. The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer by Siddhartha Mukherjee
  15. The Compatibility Gene by Daniel M. Davis
  16. Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNA by Brenda Maddox
  17. Simon vs. The Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli
  18. Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson by Mitch Albom
  19. The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch

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