Reading List

This is where I track my reading progress, reflect on books that have impacted me, and plan my future reads. I use this space to capture insights and maintain momentum in my reading practice.

Currently Reading

• Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
  • Started: March 2024
  • Notes: Exploring themes of memory and what makes us human

Reading Goals 2024

• Read 24 books this year
• Focus on mix of:
  • Literary fiction for pleasure
  • Professional development
  • Psychology/behavioral science
  • One classic per quarter

More in Reading Goals 2024

Recently Completed

Fiction

• None of This Is True by Lisa Jewell (5/5)
  • Brilliant meta-commentary on true crime podcasts
  • Masterful use of unreliable narrators
• Yellowface by R.F. Kuang (5/5)
  • Sharp critique of publishing industry politics
  • Compulsively readable dark satire
• The Housemaid's Secret by Freida McFadden (4/5)
  • Strong domestic thriller with clever twists
• First Lie Wins by Ashley Elston (4/5)
  • Engaging mystery with complex plotting
• The Winner by Teddy Wayne (3/5)
  • Social commentary that doesn't quite land

Non-Fiction

• Presence by Amy Cuddy (5/5)
  • Key takeaways:
    • Power posing and embodied cognition
    • Authentic leadership presence
    • Strategies for managing impostor syndrome

Reading Practice

• Take notes while reading using Progressive Summarization
• Review highlights monthly
• Share key insights in Book Reviews
• Connect concepts across books using MOC Best Practices
• Synthesize learning through Book Learning Synthesis

Book Connections & Learning Paths

Personal Development Path

1. Start with Mindset: The New Psychology of Success - Build foundation of growth mindset
2. Then Atomic Habits - Create systems for change
3. Add Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance - Develop persistence and resilience
4. Embrace Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead - Practice vulnerability and courage

Technical Learning Path

1. Begin with Mindset: The New Psychology of Success - Believe in ability to learn
2. Apply Deliberate Practice principles
3. Study Deep Learning - Master complex topics
4. Use Atomic Habits - Build daily learning routines

Wellness & Healing Path

1. Read The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma - Understand mind-body connection
2. Practice Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead - Vulnerability in healing
3. Implement Atomic Habits - Build healing routines
4. Cultivate Mindset: The New Psychology of Success - Growth through challenges

See Book Learning Synthesis for how these books interconnect and reinforce each other.

To Read Next

1. Deep Work by Cal Newport
2. Atomic Habits by James Clear
3. The Psychology of Money by Morgan Housel

Books

• People We Meet on Vacation

• I'm Starting to Worry About This Black Box of Doom

• Sing, Unburied, Sing

• How to End a Love Story

• Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls

• Good Material

• Thinking, Fast and Slow

• Atomic Habits

• Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance

• Creation Lake

• Feel-Good Productivity: How to Do More of What Matters to You

• The Paris Apartment

• Hello Beautiful

• Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead

• Something in the Water

• Kill for Me Kill for You

• An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness

• The Housemaid

• Dark Matter

• Boy Parts

• Storyworthy: Engage, Teach, Persuade, and Change Your Life through the Power of Storytelling

• Deep Learning

• Skin Cleanse: The Simple, All-Natural Program for Clear, Calm, Happy Skin

• What the Hell Did I Just Read: A Novel of Cosmic Horror

• The Eight

• The Perfect Couple

• Him

• Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism

• Madwoman

• The Surrender Experiment: My Journey into Life's Perfection

• Funny Story

• This Book Is Full of Spiders: Seriously, Dude, Don't Touch It

• Klara and the Sun

• Someday Is Today: 22 Simple, Actionable Ways to Propel Your Creative Life

• The Housemaid's Secret

• The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma

• Happy: Why More or Less Everything is Absolutely Fine

• I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer

• The Courage to Be Disliked: The Japanese Philosophy That Will Transform Your Life

• Smart Brevity: The Power of Saying More with Less

• Cracking the PM Career: The Skills, Frameworks, and Practices to Become a Great Product Manager

• Books

• What We Owe the Future

• The Guest List

• The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

• The Winner Effect: The Neuroscience of Success and Failure

• Mindset: The New Psychology of Success