I figured since nobody uses Goodreads anymore, it is doomed ineffective to push me harder to read more. So, to make sure of the embarrassment I will endure if I don’t read more than single-digit number of titles in a year, here’s a list of my reads, currently reading, to-reads and to-re-reads:
2023
Total finished read: 22
Fictions: 5 | Non-Fictions: 9 | Psychology: 8 |
January: 3 | February: 4 | March: 1 | April: 0 | May: 0 | June: 0 |
July: 2 | August: 4 | September: 3 | October: 4 | November: 1 | December: |
Fictions
✿ Omerta (2000) by Mario Puzo. 384 pages. — FINISHED 7 January 2023.
✿ Wind/Pinball (2015) by Haruki Murakami. 256 pages. — FINISHED 18 January 2023.
✿ Notes from Underground (1864) by Fyodor Dostoevsky (Vintage Classic Edition). 136 pages. — FINISHED 10 February 2023.
✿ The Meaning of It All: Thoughts of A Citizen-Scientist (2009) by Richard P. Feynman. 146 pages. — FINISHED 2 July 2023.
✿ Motel of The Mysteries (1979) by David Macaulay. 96 pages. — FINISHED 4 July 2023.
Non-Fictions
✿ The Call of The Weird (2009) by Louis Theroux. 288 pages. — FINISHED 30 January 2023.
✿ The Year of Magical Thinking (2005) by Joan Didion. 241 pages. — FINISHED 2 February 2023.
✿ A Grief Observed (2009) by C. S. Lewis. 66 pages. — FINISHED 6 February 2023.
✿ We Should All Be Feminists (2014) by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. 65 pages. — FINISHED 9 February 2023.
✿ Why We Sleep: The New Science of Sleep and Dreams (2017) by Matthew Walker. 344 pages. — FINISHED 29 July 2023.
✿ Notes on Nationalism (1945) by George Orwell. 27 pages. — FINISHED 18 October 2023.
✿ Man’s Search for Meaning (2006) by Victor E. Frankl. 188 pages. — FINISHED 24 October 2023.
✿ Women & Power: A Manifesto (2017) by Mary Beard. 126 pages. — FINISHED 29 October 2023.
✿ On the Duty of Civil Obedience (1993) by Henry David Thoreau. 48 pages. — FINISHED 1 November 2023.
Psychology
✿ Getting to Yes (2011) by Roger Fisher and William Ury with Bruce Patton. 242 pages. — FINISHED 14 March 2023.
✿ The Human Magnet Syndrome: Why We Love People Who Hurt Us (2013) by Ross Rosenberg. 198 pages. — FINISHED 17 July 2023.
✿ The Obesity Code: Unlocking the Secrets of Weight Loss (2016) by Dr. Jason Fung. 308 pages. — FINISHED 27 August 2023.
✿ Radical Candor: Be a Kick-Ass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity (2017) by Kim Scott. 272 pages. — FINISHED 31 August 2023.
✿ I Hate You — Don’t Leave me: Understanding The Borderline Personality (Third Edition) (2021) by Jerold J. Kreisman, MD and Hal Straus. 334 pages. — FINISHED 16 September 2023.
✿ Sensitive: The Power of A Thoughtful Mind in An Overwhelming World (2023) by Jenn Granneman and Andre Sólo. 258 pages. — FINISHED 28 September 2023.
✿ Sizing People Up: A Veteran FBI Agent’s User Manual for Behavior Prediction (2020) by Cameron Stauth and Robin Dreeke. 267 pages. — FINISHED 30 September 2023.
✿ How to Argue: Powerfully, Persuasively, Positively (2012) by Jonathan Herring. 218 pages. — FINISHED 14 October 2023.
2022
Total finished read: 30
March: 8 | April: 5 | May: 3 | June: 4 |
July: 1 | August: 1 | September: 2 | October: 4 | November: 2 |
✿ A Brief Illustrated History of Life on Earth (Fact Finders: A Brief Illustrated History) (2017) by Steve Parker & David West. 32 pages. — FINISHED 30 June 2022.
✿ A Stolen Life: A Memoir (2011) by Jacyee Lee Dugard. 201 pages. — FINISHED 21 June 2022
✿ Adult ADHD: How to Succeed as a Hunter in a Farmer’s World (2016) by Thom Hartmann. 175 pages. — FINISHED 14 June 2022
✿ Adulthood is A Myth: A Sarah’s Scribbles Collection (2016) by Sarah Anderson. 112 pages. — FINISHED 13 March 2022
✿ Almost Adulting: All You Need to Know to Get It Together (Sort Of) (2017) by Arden Rose. 205 pages. — FINISHED 14 March 2022
✿ An Astronaut’s Guide to Life on Earth: What Going to Space Taught Me About Ingenuity, Determination, and Being Prepared for Anything (2013) by Chris Hadfield. 320 pages. — FINISHED 30 June 2022
✿ Doctor Who: TARDIS Type 40 Instruction Manual (2018) by Richard Atkinson and Mike Tucker. 160 pages. — FINISHED 7 September 2022
✿ Driven to Distraction (Revised): Recognizing and Coping with Attention Deficit Disorder (2011) by Edward M. Hallowell and John J. Ratey. 402 pages. — FINISHED 5 October 2022
✿ From Here to Eternity: Travelling the World to Find the Good Death (2017) by Caitlin Doughty & Landis Blair. 273 pages. — FINISHED 13 April 2022
✿ Heart and Brain: An Awkward Yeti Collection by The Awkward Yeti (2015) by The Awkward Yeti & Nick Seluk. 144 pages. — FINISHED 28 March 2022
✿ Heart and Brain: Body Language: An Awkward Yeti Collection (2017) by The Awkward Yeti & Nick Seluk. 144 pages. — FINISHED 18 March 2022
✿ Heart and Brain: Gut Instincts: An Awkward Yeti Collection (2016) by The Awkward Yeti & Nick Seluk. 144 pages. — FINISHED 13 April 2022
✿ Heroine (2019) by Mindy McGinnis. 421 pages. — FINISHED 20 May 2022
✿ How the Zebra Got Its Stripes: And Other Darwinian Just So Stories (2016) by Léo Grasset. 154 pages. — FINISHED 14 April 2022
✿ Life After Life (2001 Edition) by Raymond A. Moody. 211 pages. — FINISHED 24 October 2022
✿ Prisoners of Geography: Our World Explained in 12 Simple Maps (Illustrated Young Readers Edition) (2021) by Tim Marshall. 132 pages. — FINISHED 4 August 2022
✿ Reality Unveiled: The Hidden Keys of Existence That Will Transform Your Life (and the World) (2017) by Ziad Masri. 216 pages. — FINISHED 13 May 2022
PS: I needed so much time to finish this book because —holy cow— this is a way better sleeping aid than Xanax. One page down and I fell asleep, almost every night. Finally powered through the last 100 pages in 3 days time because this book made me lose appetite to read anything else and I knew it needs to get solved. In short, I recommend this if you’re having trouble sleeping at night; very effective.
✿ Running on Empty: Overcome Your Childhood Emotional Neglect (2012) by Dr. Jonice Webb & Christine Musello. 251 pages. — FINISHED 4 November 2022
✿ Rutherford and Fry’s Complete Guide to Absolutely Everything (Abridged): new from the stars of BBC Radio 4 (The Universe through a keyhole: 30 Ways Science Proves Your Intuition Wrong) (2020) by Adam Rutherford & Hannah Fry. 290 pages. — FINISHED 21 April 2022
✿ Sapiens: A Graphic History: The Birth of Humankind (Vol. 1) (2020) by Yuval Noah Harari. 248 pages. — FINISHED 13 November 2022
✿ Slaughterhouse-Five (1969) by Kurt Vonnegut. 231 pages. — FINISHED 13 September 2022.
✿ The Drug Users Bible (2019) by Dominic Milton Trott. 522 pages. — FINISHED 28 March 2022
✿ The Ethical Slut, Third Edition: A Practical Guide to Polyamory, Open Relationships, and Other Freedoms in Sex and Love (2017) by Janet W. Hardy & Dossie Easton. 320 pages. — FINISHED 31 July 2022.
✿ The End of American World Order, 2nd Edition (2018) by Amitav Acharya. 224 pages. — FINISHED 30 October 2022.
✿ The Female of the Species (2016) by Mindy McGinnis. 348 pages. — FINISHED 29 March 2022
✿ The Man-Eater (first published as a book in 1955) by Edgar Rice Burroughs. 98 pages. — FINISHED 22 April 2022
✿ The Rainbow Comes and Goes: A Mother and Son On Life, Love, and Loss (2017) by Anderson Cooper & Gloria Vanderbilt. 208 pages. — FINISHED 31 March 2022
✿ Unseen City: The Majesty of Pigeons, the Discreet Charm of Snails & Other Wonders of the Urban Wilderness (2016) by Nathanael Johnson. 258 pages. — FINISHED 18 May 2022
✿ What If? 2: Additional Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions (2022) by Randall Munroe. 366 pages. — FINISHED 29 October 2022
✿ Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?: And Other Questions About Dead Bodies (2019) by Caitlin Doughty. 242 pages. — FINISHED 24 March 2022