
Top Three
I read a lot of good books this year. It was hard to decide which were the top three. But number one was easily the best I read all year.
- A Man in Full – Tom Wolfe
- The Idiot – Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Another Country – James Baldwin
Full List
- Jung: The Key Ideas – Ruth Snowden
- Timequake – Kurt Vonnegut
- Don Quixote – Miguel Cervantes
- Determined – Robert M. Sapolsky
- A Problem From Hell – Samantha Power
- Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said – Philip K. Dick
- Speed the Plow – David Mamet – Play
- The City and Its Uncertain Walls – Haruki Murakami
- State of Siege – Albert Camus – Play
- Another Country – James Baldwin
- The Ghost Writer – Philip Roth
- The Stonemason – Cormac McCarthy – Play
- Down and Out in Paris and London – George Orwell
- A Happy Death – Albert Camus
- Much Ado About Nothing – William Shakespeare – Play
- Notes from Underground – Fyodor Dostoevsky
- The Idiot – Fyodor Dostoevsky
- The Dangerous Summer _ Ernest Hemingway
- The Book of Five Rings – Miyamoto Musashi
- The Counterlife – Philip Roth
- Kindness, Clarity, and Insight – The Dalai Lama
- Camino Real – Tennessee Williams – Play
- Vineland – Thomas Pynchon
- Meditations – Marcus Aurelius
- The Cherry Orchard – Anton Chekov – Play
- The Gardener’s Son – Cormac McCarthy -Screenplay
- The Seagull – Anton Chekov – Play
- The Art of Living – Epictetus – Interpreted by Sharon Lebell
- Uncle Vanya – Anton Chekov – Play
- A Man in Full – Tom Wolfe
- Cinema Speculation – Quentin Tarantino
- Philip Roth – Blake Bailey
- Stoicism and the Art of Happiness – Donald Robertson
Wow Ben, you’ve read a solid number of books this year. I envy you. I’ve heard about A Man in Full but haven’t read it. Though, I think its theme of ego feels almost everywhere in life.
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