I have started to maintain a list of books I have read. The books I enjoyed more are highlighted in yellow. Please do e-mail me if you have any suggestions.

2014

  • The Adventures of Tom Sawyer: Mark Twain

  • Unaccustomed Earth: Jhumpa Lahiri

2013

  • Slaughterhouse-Five: Kurt Vonnegut

  • Fahrenheit 451: Ray Bradbury

  • The Reason I Jump: Naoki Higashida

  • Eiger Dreams: Ventures Among Men and Mountains: Jon Krakauer

  • What We Talk About When We Talk About Love: Stories: Raymond Carver

  • Drown: Junot Diaz

  • Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea: Barbara Demick

  • Gang Leader for a Day: A Rogue Sociologist Takes to the Streets : Sudhir Venkatesh

  • Freakonomics: Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner

  • Liar's Poker: Michael Lewis

2012

  • Candide: Voltaire

  • The Big Short: Michael Lewis

  • Around the World in 80 Days: Jules Verne

  • No Easy Day: Mark Owen and Kevin Maurer

  • The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: William Kamkwamba and Bryan Mealer

  • The Last Lecture: Randy Pausch and Jeffrey Zaslow

  • Gulliver's Travels: Jonathan Swift

  • Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly: Anthony Bourdain

  • Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President: Candice Millard

  • 1776: David McCullough

  • Train Dreams: Denis Johnson

  • Interpreter of Maladies: Jhumpa Lahiri

  • A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather than Nothing: Lawrence M. Krauss

  • The Call of the Wild: Jack London

  • Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim: David Sedaris

  • Classic Feynman: All the Adventures of a Curious Character: Richard Feynman

  • Into the Wild: Jon Krakauer

  • Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster: Jon Krakauer

  • The Restaurant at the End of the Universe: Douglas Adams

  • The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Douglas Adams

  • Cannery Row: John Steinbeck

  • Lord of the Flies: William Golding

  • To Kill a Mockingbird: Harper Lee

  • Me Talk Pretty One Day: David Sedaris

2011 or Earlier

  • 1984: George Orwell

  • Animal Farm: George Orwell

  • The Alchemist: Paulo Coelho

  • Of Mice and Men: John Steinbeck

  • The Old Man and the Sea: Ernest Hemingway