Trying to keep track of my “favorite” books is next to impossible. However, this list is a pretty good record of books that I would put into that category. It’s definitely nowhere near complete, but I will try and keep it updated with new entries that I consider my “favorites” on a semi-regular basis.
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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 Peoples History of the United States – Howard Zinn
- A Tale of Two Cities – Charles Dickens
- A Wrinkle In Time – Madeleine LEngle
- 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
- Midnights 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 Cant 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 Innovators 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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