Trying to keep track of my “favorite” books is next to impossible. However, this is a quick list of books that I would put into that category. It’s nowhere near complete. You can follow me on Goodreads for a running list and ratings of the books I read.
Favorite Books
- ’1984′ – George Orwell
- ’A Confederacy of Dunces’ – John Kennedy Toole
- ’A Drink Before The War’ – Dennis Lehane
- ’A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius’ – Dave Eggers
- ’A People’s History of the United States’ – Howard Zinn
- ’A Tale of Two Cities’ – Charles Dickens
- ’A Wrinkle In Time’ – Madeleine L’Engle
- ’Batman: The Long Halloween’ – Jeph Loeb
- ’Becoming Steve Jobs’ – Brent Scheldner
- ’Calvin and Hobbes’ – Bill Watterson
- ’Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats’ – W. B. Yeats
- ’Creativity, Inc.’ – Ed Catmull
- ’Far Side’ – Gary Larson
- ’FDR’ – Jean Edward Smith
- ’Getting Things Done’ – David Allen
- ’Good to Great’ – James Collins
- ’Great Expectations’ – Charles Dickens
- ’Hamlet’ – William Shakespeare
- ’Hawkeye’ – Matt Fraction
- ’High Fidelity’ – Nick Hornby
- ’Hyperbole and a Half’ – Allie Brosh
- ’Infinite Jest’ – David Foster Wallace
- ’Leaves of Grass’ – Walt Whitman
- ’Lord of the Rings’ – J. R. R. Tolkien
- ’Meditations’ – Marcus Aurelius
- ’Midnight’s Children’ – Salman Rushdie
- ’Of Mice and Men’ – John Steinbeck
- ’On Writing Well’ – William Zinsser
- ’One Hundred Years of Solitude’ – Gabriel Garcia Marquez\
- ’Poems of Emily Dickinson’ – Emily Dickinson
- ’Rabbit, Run’ – John Updike
- ’Ready Player One’ – Ernest Cline
- ’Sherlock Holmes’ – Arthur Conan Doyle
- ’Shoe Dog’ – Phil Knight
- ’Slaughterhouse-Five’ – Kurt Vonnegut
- ’So Good They Can’t Ignore You’ – Cal Newport
- ’The 48 Laws of Power’ – Robert Greene
- ’The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn’ – Mark Twain
- ’The Art of Fielding’ – Chad Harbach
- ’The Catcher in the Rye’ – J.D. Salinger
- ’The Four Agreements’ – Miguel Ruiz
- ’The Four Hour Work Week’ – Tim Ferriss
- ’The Great Gatsby’ – F. Scott Fitzgerald
- ’The Innovator’s Dilemma’ – Clayton Christensen
- ’The Old Man and the Sea’ – Ernest Hemingway
- ’The Poetry of Pablo Neruda’ – Pablo Neruda
- ’The Snowball: Warren Buffett’ – Alice Schroeder
- ’The Sun Also Rises’ – Ernest Hemingway
- ’To Kill a Mockingbird’ – Harper Lee
- ’Watchmen’ – Alan Moore
- ’Winnie the Pooh’ – A. A. Milne
- ’Y: The Last Man’ – Brian Vaughan
- ’Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance’ – Robert Pirsig
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