Book Feast 2006
Here’s a list of books I read in 2006. It doesn’t include some books I forgot and some books I didn’t finish. It also doesn’t include technical books, which I rarely read cover-to-cover.
Business, Management, and Entrepreneurship
- Guy Kawasaki - The Art of the Start
- Peter Drucker - The Effective Executive
- DeMarco & Lister - Peopleware
- Fred Brooks - The Mythical Man-Month
Classic literature
- Hermann Hesse - The Fairy Tales of Hermann Hesse
- Jorge Luis Borges - Ficciones
- Stendhal - The Red and the Black
- J.W. von Goethe - The Sorrows of Young Werther
- Yukio Mishima - The Temple of the Golden Pavilion
- Yukio Mishima - The Sound of Waves
- Hermann Hesse - Pictor’s Metamorpheses and Other Fantasies
Art and architecture
- Jane Jacobs - The Death and Life of American Cities
- Chuck Palahniuk - Fugitives and Refugees
Psychology and self-help
- Robert Cialdini - Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion
- Alain de Botton - Status Anxiety
- Viktor E. Frankl - Man’s Search for Meaning
Contemporary and genre fiction
- R.A. Heinlein - The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag
- H.P. Lovecraft - At the Mountains of Madness
- Orson Scott Card - Speaker for the Dead
- Susanna Clarke - Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell
- Philip K. Dick - The Man in the High Castle
- Clifford D. Simak - Way Station
- Irvine Welsh - The Bedroom Secrets of Master Chefs
- Mark Haddon - The Curious Incident of the Dog in Nighttime
- DBC Pierre - Vernon God Little
- Arturo Pérez-Reverte - Captain Alatriste
- Jonathan Safran Foer - Everything is Illuminated
- Jonathan Safran Foer - Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
- Banana Yoshimoto - Kitchen
- Jhumpa Lahiri - The Namesake