Starting January 27th, 2013 I took up a challenge of reading 100 books. This page will be updated as I complete each book. Links are to summaries or reviews.
- Breakout Nations: In Pursuit of the Next Economic Miracles by Ruchir Sharma (292 pages)
- The Curious Incident of the Dog at the Night-time by Mark Haddon (226 pages)
- Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything by Joshua Foer (307 pages)
- QED: The strange theory of light and matter by Richard Feynman (172 pages)
- To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (284 pages)
- Flow: The psychology of optimal experience by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (320 pages)
- Deceived Wisdom: What what you thought was right is wrong by David Bradley (192 pages)
- The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson (424 pages)
- Big Data: A Revolution That Will Transform How We Live, Work and Think by Viktor Mayer-Schonberger and Kenneth Cukier (256 pages)
- Avoid Boring People by James Watson (368 pages)
- The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka (72 pages)
- Tuf Voyaging by George R. R. Martin (448 pages)
- The Boy Kings by Katherine Losse (284 pages)
- Hannibal and Me: What History’s Greatest Military Strategist Can Teach Us About Success and Failure by Andreas Kluth (338 pages)
- Submergence by JM Ledgard (221 pages)
PS: Here is a list of recommendations for this challenge that I got from friends.
PPS: Swastik Nigam has joined me in the #100bookschallenge with his own list here.
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