For posterity and for keeping my readings on track.
This is my non- exhaustive and ever-growing list of to-read books:
- The Seventh Sense: Power, Fortune, and Survival in the Age of Networks — Joshua Cooper Ramo
2. Man’s Search for Meaning — 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 Schmidt & 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
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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
49. Powerful: Building a Culture of Freedom and Responsibility — Patty McCord
50. Importance of Living — Lin Yutang
51. How Inequality Looks Like — Teo You Yenn
52. My Country My People — Lin Yutang
53. Superintelligence — Nick Bostrom
54. The Master Algorithm — Pedro Domingos
55. Leonardo Da Vinci — Issac Walterson
56. Measure What Matters — John Doerr
57. Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
59. Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son–George Horace Lorimer
60. What I learnt Losing a Million Dollars — Jim Paul and Brendan Moynihan
61. The Score Takes Care of Itself — Bill Walsh
62. 12 Against the Gods: The Story of Adventure — William Bolitho
63. The Measure of My Days — Florida Scott Maxwell
64. The Straegemata — Frontinus
65. Boyd: The Fighter Pilot Who Changed The Art of War — Robert Coram
66. The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz — Mordecai Richler
67. Up From Slavery — Booker T. Washington
68. Bodyguard of Lies: The Extraordinary True Story of D-Day Vol 1 –Anthony Cave Brown
69. The Fish that Ate the Whale: The Life and Times of America’s Banana King — Rich Cohen
70. Rules for Radicals and Reveille of Radicals — Saul Alinsky
71. The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus: A Roman Slave — Publius Syrus
72. Cyropaedia by Xenophon (a more accessible “translation” can be found in Xenophon’s Cyrus The Great: The Arts of Leadership and War)
73. Letters from a Stoic : Epistulae Morales Ad Lucilium–Seneca
Finished (A non-exhaustive list)
- The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right — Atul Gawande
- 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 Vogelstein
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 Niffenegger
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)
60. Deep work — Cal Newport(2018)
61. The Ruling Elite of Singapore: Networks of Power and Influence –Michael D. Barr (2018)
62. Conspiracy: Peter Thiel, Hulk Hogan, Gawker, and the Anatomy of Intrigue –Ryan Holiday (2018)
63. The Obstacle is the way–Ryan Holiday (2018)
64. This Is Water Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life — David Foster Wallace (2018)
65. The Bet– Anton Chekhov (2018)
66. Powerful — Building a Culture of Freedom and Responsibility — Patty McCord (2018)
67. Growth Hacker Marketing: A Primer on the Future of PR, Marketing, and Advertising — Ryan Holiday (2018)
68. Growth Hacker Handbook — Jon Yongfook Cockle (2018)
69. Wee Kheng Chiang of Sarawak: Entrepreneur Extraordinaire (A short extract) — Lam Chee Kheung (2018)
70. Billion Dollar Whale: The Man Who Fooled Wall Street, Hollywood, and the World– Tom Wright and Bradley Hope (2018)
71. Meditations — Marcus Aurelius (2018)
72. Antifragile — Nicholas Nassim Taleb (2018)
