To Read List 2017

Jack Sng
4 min readDec 3, 2016

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For posterity and for keeping my readings on track.
This is my non- exhaustive and ever-growing list of to-read books:

  1. The Seventh Sense: Power, Fortune, and Survival in the Age of Networks — Joshua Cooper Ramo

2. Man’s Search for Meaining — Viktor Frankl

3. The Black Swan — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

4. The Hare with Amber Eyes — Edmund De Waal

5. To Change the World — James Davison Hunter

6. The Kingdom of God — Martyn Lloyd-Jones

7. The Clash of Civilizations — Samuel Huntington

8. The Hedgehog and the Fox — Isaiah Berlin

9. The Hobbit — J. R. R. Tolkien

10. The Age of the Unthinkable — Joshua Cooper Ram0

11. Only the Paranoid Survives — Andrew Grove

12. The New Digital Age — Eric Schmidt and Jared Cohen

13. How Google Works — Eric Schimidt & Jonathan Rosenberg

14. Start-up Nation: The Story of Israel’s Economic Miracle — Dan Senor and Saul Singer

15. Studies in the Sermon on the Mount — Martyn Llyod-Jones

16. Mobilizing Gay Singapore — Lynette J Chua

17. King’s Cross — Tim Keller

18. Generous Justice — Tim Keller

19. Walking with God Through Pain and Suffering — Tim Keller

20. Pilgrim at Tinker Creek — Annie Dillard

21. On China — Henry Kissinger

22. The Leader The Teacher and You — Lim Siong Guan

23. Anna Karenina — Leo Tolstoy

24. Air-Conditioned Nation — Cherian George

25. The One World School House — Sal Khan

26. On Bonsai, Banyan and the Tao — George Yeo

27. 京華 煙雲 - 林語堂

28. 吾國與吾民 - 林語堂

29. Roberto Calasso — The Art of the Publisher

30. Liem Sioe Liong’s Salim Group — Borsuk and Chng

31. Catcher in the Rye — J.D. Salinger

32. Goh Keng Swee: A Portrait — Tan Siok Sun

33. The Prophet — Kahlil Gibran

34. The Language of Things — Deyan Sudjic

35. Wealth of Nations — Adam Smith

36. The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York — Robert A. Caro

37. Asian Godfather — Joe Studwell

38. The Industries of the Future — Alec ross

39. Deep WorkCal Newport

40. Wonderland — Steven Johnson

41. So Good They Can’t Ignore You — Cal Newport

42. Niccolò Machiavelli — The Prince

43. Winning with Honour — Lim Siong Guan

44. Dealing with an Ambiguous World — Bilahari Kausikan

45. Singapore is not an Island — Bilahari Kausikan

46. Satya Nadella—Hit Refresh

47. Whiplash: How to Survive Our Faster Future — Joi Ito

48. Robert Kuok Memoir

Finished (A non-exhaustive list)

  1. The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right — Atul Gawande
  2. The Defining Decade : Why Your Twenty Something Matters — Meg Jay

3. Hatching Twitter: A True Story of Money, Power, Friendship, and Betrayal — Nick Bilton

4. Whatever You Think, Think Opposite — Paul Arden

5. Dogfight: How Apple and Google Went to War and Started a Revolution— Fred Vogeistein

6. Elon Musk — Ashlee Vance

7. Zero to One — Peter Thiel

8. The Message of the Sermon on the Mount — John Stott

9. Growing Deep in God — Edmund Chan

10. Discipleship Missions — Edmund Chan

11. Growing Deep in Faith — Edmund Chan

12. Mentoring Paradigms — Edmund Chan

13. Cultivating Your Inner Life — Edmund Chan

14. Radical Discipleship — Edmund Chan

15. A Certain Kind — Edmund Chan

16. Reasons for God — Tim Keller

17. 出走是為了回家 — 劉安婷

18. Inside Out Singapore

19. Hard Truth — Lee Kuan Yew

20. One Man’s View of the World— Lee Kuan Yew

21. Jubilee and the Destiny of Nations — Thio Li-Ann

22. Every Good Endeavor — Tim Keller

23. Crazy Rich Asians — Kevin Kwan

24. Crazy Rich Girlfriend — Kevin Kwan

25. Tempted and Tried: Temptation and the Triumph of Christ — Russell D. Moore

26. One More Chance — Benny Se To

27. 王永慶給年輕人的八堂課 - 郭泰

28. 王永慶 全传 - 双根

29. 那些年我们一起追的女孩 — 九把刀

30. Harry Potter (Full Collection) — J. k. Rowling

31. Crazy Love — Francis Chan

32. Walking the Tycoon’s Rope — Robert Wang

33. The Time Traveler’s Wife — Audrey Niffengger

34. Kisses from Katie — Katie Davis

35. Sophie’s World — Jostein Gaarder

36. Power Through Prayer — E.M. Bound

37. Walking from East to West — Ravi Zacharias

38. I Isacc, Take Thee Rebekah — Ravi Zacharias

39. Mere Christianity — C.S. Lewis

40. Kenya Hara — Designing Design

41. 話說海外華商 - 方雄普

42. The Alchemist — Paulo Coelho

43. Veronika Decides to Die— Paulo Coelho

44. Eleven Minutes— Paulo Coelho

45. The Little Prince — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

46. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory — Roald Dahl

47. Witches — Roald Dahl

48. Fantastic Mr Fox — Roald Dahl

49. Kisses from Katie — Katie Davis

50. The Davinci Code —Dan Brown

51. Air-Conditioned Nation — Cherian George (2017)

52. Neither Civil nor Servant: The Philip Yeo Story — Peh Shing Huei (2017)

53. The Road to Character — David Brooks(2017)

54. When Breath Becomes Air — Paul Kalanithi (2017)

55. Being Mortal — Atul Gawande (2017)

56. Rich People’s Problem — Kevin Kwan (2017)

57. the art of charlie chan hock chye — Sonny Liew (2017)

58. Shoe Dog — Phil Knight (2017)

59. Singapore Incomplete–Cherian George (2017)

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Jack Sng
Jack Sng

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