One of my personal resolutions in 2018 was to read at least one book each month. To track my progress, I started an evolving list of books that I was reading or had finished reading.
With 2018 wrapped up, here’s the final list:
- The Girl On The Train, Paula Hawkins
- Barking Up The Wrong Tree, Ric Barker
- A Thousand Splendid Suns, Khaled Hosseini
- Seven Brief Lessons on Physics, Carlo Rovelli
- Outliers: The Story of Success, Malcolm Gladwell
- Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore, Robert Sloan
- 21 Lessons for the 21st Century, Yuval Noah Harari
- Brief Answers to the Big Questions, Stephen Hawking
- Mindset: The New Psychology of Success, Carol S. Dweck, Ph.D.
- What Do You Care What Other People Think?, Richard P. Feynman
- How To Lie with Statistics, Darrell Huff (author), Irving Geis (illustrator)
- Naked Statistics: Stripping the Dread from the Data, Charles Wheelan
- Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup, John Carreyrou
- Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction, Philip E. Tetlock, Dan Gardner
The only unfinished book that would go on to my next year’s list is “The Capital Markets: Evolution of the Financial Ecosystem” by Gary Strumeyer and Sarah Swammy, Ph.D. Given that this book is also quite informative and also quite relevant to my current job role, I expect to keep referencing this book for some time to come and build domain knowledge in Capital Markets. Maybe, textbooks and reference books should also get a special mention on the future reading lists!
That said, with 2018 coming to a wrap, I want to say that I thoroughly enjoyed and benefited greatly from reading this assortment of books. Happy new year to all of you. I already have a few good books lined up for the next year but your recommendations are welcome
Stay tuned for the 2019 reading list!
