The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge
David McCullough
4.6 on Amazon
3 HN comments
Area 51: An Uncensored History of America's Top Secret Military Base
Annie Jacobsen and Hachette Audio
4.5 on Amazon
3 HN comments
Dear Reader: The Unauthorized Autobiography of Kim Jong Il
Michael Malice, Marcus Freeman, et al.
4.5 on Amazon
3 HN comments
Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community? (King Legacy)
Martin Luther Dr. King Jr., Vincent Harding, et al.
4.9 on Amazon
3 HN comments
The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War
Malcolm Gladwell and Pushkin Industries
4.4 on Amazon
3 HN comments
Left of Bang: How the Marine Corps' Combat Hunter Program Can Save Your Life
Patrick Van Horne , Jason A. Riley , et al.
4.7 on Amazon
3 HN comments
Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania
Erik Larson, Scott Brick, et al.
4.6 on Amazon
3 HN comments
A History of the World in 6 Glasses
Tom Standage
4.6 on Amazon
3 HN comments
Fifth Sun: A New History of the Aztecs
Camilla Townsend
4.7 on Amazon
2 HN comments
Shattered Sword: The Untold Story of the Battle of Midway
Jonathan Parshall, Anthony Tully, et al.
4.8 on Amazon
2 HN comments
The Origins and History of Consciousness: Bollingen Series
Erich Neumann, R. F. C. Hull - translator, et al.
4.8 on Amazon
2 HN comments
Billion Dollar Loser: The Epic Rise and Spectacular Fall of Adam Neumann and WeWork
Reeves Wiedeman
4.4 on Amazon
2 HN comments
Hiroshima
John Hersey
4.4 on Amazon
2 HN comments
Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation
Silvia Federici
4.8 on Amazon
2 HN comments
Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers of World War II
Liza Mundy
4.5 on Amazon
2 HN comments
aalhouronJuly 10, 2017
- Left of Bang.
- The Obstacle is the way.
- The Daily Stoic.
- High-Output Management.
- The Effective Engineer.
- Managing Humans.
- Introducing Go.
Currently going through "Designing Data Intensive Applications" and some other data-related free ebooks from O'Reilly.
Up next on my list for the rest of the year:
- Hadoop: The Definitive Guide.
- The Manager's Path.
- Anti-Fragile.
- A Guide to the Good Life.
- The Denial of Death.
- Man's Search for Meaning.
EDIT: list formatting.
aalhouronDec 28, 2017
* Siddhartha, Herman Hesse
* Man's Search for Meaning, Viktor Frankl
* The Obstacle is the Way, Ryan Holiday
* The Daily Stoic, Ryan Holiday
* The Effective Engineer, Edmund Lau
* The Lean Startup, Eric Ries
* The Personal MBA, Josh Kaufman
* Certain to Win, Chet Richards
* Left of Bang, Patrick Van Horn & Jason A. Riley
* Native Set Theory, Paul R. Halmos
EDIT: list formatting
aalhouronJan 2, 2018
* The Obstacle is the Way, Ryan Holiday
* The Daily Stoic, Ryan Holiday
* Man's Search for Meaning, Viktor Frankl
* Siddhartha, Herman Hesse
* The Personal MBA, Josh Kaufman
* The Effective Engineer, Edmund Lau
* The Lean Startup, Eric Ries
* Certain to Win, Chet Richards
* Left of Bang, Patrick Van Horn & Jason A. Riley
* Native Set Theory, Paul R. Halmos
* Introducing Go, by Caleb Doxsey.
If you'd like to read what I think of these books, you can read my blog post about them here: http://aalhour.com/blog/2018/01/02/review-of-my-2017-reading...