Some Fav Reads

My reading routine is going to bed with my Kindle Paper White and reading before I fall asleep. I’ve probably read pages 99.9% of the days in the last 15 years. Here are some of my favorites. Considering I’ve probably averaged about a book a week, this is a subset. I’m too lazy to review each, and I’ll add links when I have the time.

These are not in any order of preference.

Business

• Inside Apple - Adam Lashinsky
• Lights Out: The Pride, Delusion, and Fall of General Electric - Thomas Gryta
• Steve Jobs - Walter Isaacson
• The Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron - Bethany McLean
• Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System from Crisis — and Themselves - Andrew Ross Sorkin

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History

• Alexander the Great in India - Andrew Chugg
• Anarchy - The East India Company - by William Dalrymple
• Cleopatra: A Life - Stacy Schiff
• Plutarch’s Lives - Plutarch
• Spartacus - Barry Strauss
• Spartacus and the Slave Wars - Brent D. Shaw
• The Arthashastra - Kautilya
• The Conquest of Gaul - Julius Caesar
• The Court of the Red Tsar - Simon Sebag Montefiore
• The Ghost on the Throne: The Death of Alexander the Great and the War for Crown and Empire - James Romm
• The Histories - Herodotus
• The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich - William L. Shirer
• The Search for Nefertiti - Joann Fletcher
• The Woman Who Would Be King: Hatshepsut’s Rise to Power in Ancient Egypt - Kara Cooney
• Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth - Reza Aslan

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Science/Non-fiction

• A Brief History of Time - Stephen Hawking
• Cosmos - Carl Sagan
• Einstein - Walter Isaacson
• Endurance, Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage - Alfred Lansing
• Green River, Running Red - Ann Rule
• Lost Cities and Ancient Tombs - The National Geographic Society
• Manhunt: The Ten-Year Search for Bin Laden from 9/11 to Abbottabad - Peter L. Bergen
• The Biggest Ideas in the Universe: Space, Time, and Motion - Sean Carroll
• The Fabric of the Cosmos - Brian Greene
• The Hot Zone - Richard Preston
• The Lost City of the Monkey God - Douglas Preston
• The Science of Interstellar - Kip Thorne
• The Secret of the Great Pyramid - Bob Brier
• The Writing of the Gods: The Race to Decode the Rosetta Stone -Edward Dolnick
• What If - Randall Munroe

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Epics

I’ve read the entire volumes.

• The Mahabharata - Vyasa
• The Ramayana - Valmiki

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Fiction

• An Officer and a Spy - Robert Harris
• Cartel - Don Winslow
• Dark Places - Gillian Flynn
• Defending Jacob - William Landay
• Dictator - Robert Harris
• Gone Girl - Gillian Flynn
• Imperium - Robert Harris
• I Am Pilgrim - Terry Hayes
• Jaws - Peter Benchley
• Lustrum - Robert Harris
• Pompeii - Robert Harris
• Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir
• River God - Wilbur Smith
• Salem’s Lot - Stephen King
• The Bourne Identity Series - Robert Ludlum
• The Cartel - Don Winslow
• The Company - Robert Littell
• The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Series - Stieg Larsson
• The Harry Bosch Books - Michael Connelly
• The Lincoln Lawyer - Michael Connelly
• The Martian - Andy Weir
• The Neon Lawyer - Victor Methos
• The Power of the Dog - Don Winslow
• The Red Sparrow Series - Jason Matthews
• The Seventh scroll - Wilbur Smith
• The Wayward Pines Series - Blake Crouch