Timothy Birmingham

Reading List

Reading List: The following books are part of a larger collection of books I plan on reading. I will continue to add to this list of books, which I am hoping to read (and in some cases re-read) once substantial progress has been made. There are currently 45 books listed below, ranging from classics and philosophy to science.

Motivation for Sharing: I usually keep my reading goals private, but I decided to share it publicly so that people who are interested might join me on some of the books. That is why I set a schedule for it, with a target day to finish by, so people may coordinate their involvement.

Here is the list as it currently stands, with goal dates of when to finish the book by:

Finished Reading

Reading Soon

Listed is a loose goal to finish the book by:

  • Sunday, November 29th - On the Road by Jack Kerouac
  • Sunday, December 6th - The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
  • Sunday, December 13th - For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway

Shorter-Term Reads I am Considering

  • The Stranger by Albert Camus
  • The Fall by Albert Camus
  • The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus
  • 1984 by George Orwell
  • Animal Farm by George Orwell
  • Lord of the Flies by William Golding
  • Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
  • Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl
  • Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk
  • The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
  • Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
  • The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
  • The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
  • Never Split the Difference by Chris Voss
  • Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
  • Surrounded by Idiots by Thomas Erikson
  • The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey
  • How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie

Longer-Term Reads I am Considering

  • War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
  • Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Ulysses by James Joyce
  • Finnegans Wake by James Joyce
  • Why Nations Fail by Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson
  • Memory, Dreams, Reflections by Carl Jung
  • Blue Ocean Strategy by W. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne
  • High Output Management by Andrew Grove
  • The Innovator's Dilemma by Clayton Christensen
  • Principles: Life and Work by Ray Dalio
  • The Double Helix by James Watson
  • Relativity by Albert Einstein
  • Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pirsig
  • Walt Disney: The Triumph of the American Imagination by Neal Gabler
  • Zero to One by Peter Thiel
  • Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson
  • The Intelligent Investor by Benjamin Graham
  • The Way of the Shepherd by Dr. Kevin Leman and William Pentak
  • The Case for Christ by Lee Strobel
  • Projections by Karl Deisseroth
  • The Technological Republic by Andrew Karp